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MILTON, Ont., Sept. 25, 2017 – When Honey, a seven-year-old golden retriever was adopted, her new family knew she hadn’t been properly cared for. But when they took the rescue dog to their veterinarian for a check-up, they received frightening news: Honey was suffering from a life-threatening infection and required immediate surgery. But for Honey’s adoptive family, who rely on government assistance income, paying for the treatment was an obstacle.
Their veterinarian turned to the Farley Foundation, and applied for funding to help cover Honey’s veterinary care.
“The Farley Foundation helped save Honey. We can’t stress our gratitude enough,” says Honey’s family. “Our prayers were for her to live the happy, healthy life she deserves, and thanks to the Farley funding, she’s able to do that.”
On Oct. 1, the Farley Foundation kicks off its largest annual fundraising campaign to help low-income pet owners in Ontario. More than 300 veterinary practices across the province will organize events for Bravecto Fundraise for Farley Month. Funds raised will help pet owners in financial need — including seniors, disabled individuals, women at risk of abuse and others receiving government assistance — by subsidizing the cost of veterinary care for their sick or injured pets.
Last year the campaign set a record, raising $273,000.
To support the campaign, pet owners can visit a local veterinary clinic to donate, and in return they will receive a Farley Foundation bandana for their pet. Donations can also be made online at farleyfoundation.org.
Since its establishment in 2001 by the Ontario Veterinary Medical Association, the Farley Foundation has disbursed $3.4 million to assist more than 8,000 pets in need.
It subsidizes up to 100 per cent of the cost of care to a maximum $1,000 per pet or pet owner per year for vital treatments, including diagnostics, surgery, hospitalization and medications. Pet owners demonstrating financial need can apply for funding through their veterinarian.
The foundation’s success is due in part to partnerships with companies like Merck Animal Health — the 2017 campaign sponsor — that share its passion for pets and supporting the people who care for them.
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CRUELTY-FREE AND VEGAN BEAUTY - THE ULTIMATE GUIDE
THE SAD TRUTH ABOUT MOST "CRUELTY-FREE" BRANDS
The word Cruelty-free is used a lot when talking beauty.
It is easy to see brands using it to let you think they do not test on animals, to convince you to purchase their products. The word is, in fact, often misused, causing people to think it is as easy as trusting what a brand say.
As a result there is so much confusion about the topic and we feel the urge to inform you about what you should know when purchasing cosmetics and what cruelty-free and vegan beauty really means.
We often see brands, which we know are not cruelty-free, stating they do not perfom any animal testing. We often see brands stating they are cruelty-free without holding any kind of certification. We often see brands holding some type of certification which is not trustworthy.
We have written this detailed guide to clarify essential aspects and key elements of this delicate topic to let you know about what it is happening behind the scenes of the beauty industry.
This guide takes into account what the European legislation about animal testing states and does not cover in such details other continents legislations.
LET´S GO DEEPER INTO IT: CURRENT EUROPEAN LEGISLATION AND THE BAN ON ANIMAL TESTING
Europe is currently one of the best continent when it comes to banning animal testing, yet also here there is a lot to consider.
In Europe, it is illegal to test on animals the finished product as well as its ingredients since 2013. The ban on animal testing on the single ingredients had already been put into force since 2009 for all companies manufacturing their products in Europe.
Since 2013 also companies not manufacturing in Europe, wishing to sell their cosmetic products in the European market must not conduct any animal testing (on ingredients as well as on the finished product) starting from the 11th March 2013.
This was a huge step ahead. Unfortunately, the legislation only covers the cosmetic industry and does not include other industries, such as the pharmaceutical one, manufacturing of household products, food industry (testing of food additives) and many more. For these industries animal testing is still allowed and this big exception may cause ingredients tested on animals in other industries to still end up on beauty products.
THE CHINA ISSUE
Another aspect to consider is selling to China, where animal testing is required by law for all imported cosmetics not manufactured in the country, even on the finished product. A company may sell its products in Europe without testing on animals but does it when selling to China. Even if this sounds like a paradox, it happens all the time.
There are some exceptions when it comes to online selling directly to Chinese consumers, but even in this case there is no big guarantee that it will never be required to re-test the products if required by the authorities. Our advice? Stay away from it, unless certified by a trustworthy organization which knows Chinese regulations very well.
DARLING, LOOK FOR THE RIGHT CERTIFICATION!
It is easy to see that the reality is way more complicated than just a company stating that it is cruelty-free. Also, since the manufacturing of a cosmetic product often involves several parties with suppliers of suppliers mostly distributed all over the world, it is hard for a company to tell whether or not animal testing is occurring at some stages of the supply chain.
As you can see, a company which does not have a certification and states its products are cruelty-free is not being entirely honest with you. We do not believe that such companies do bad or aim to support animal cruelty, but you should be aware that just having good intentions is not enough.
But be careful: not all certifications have the same evaluating standards and if a certification does not impose companies to have a fixed cut-off date, it is not a reliable one, since companies must make sure they will not use any new ingredient tested after 2013 for their products. This will avoid the chances of an ingredient ending up in cosmetics, which might have been tested on animals in other industries.
Also, reliable certifications make sure all the required documentation is provided by companies and strictly research, evaluate and monitor them carrying out audits.
The only organizations with strict policies in Europe are the Leaping Bunny Program, Naturewatch Foundation, ICEA and a few more.
This is why Realness of Beauty only offers brands which are certified by these organizations.
You might already know what this means in cosmetics: no animal-derived ingredients are contained in that specific product.
It is crazy to think that so many ingredients commonly used in cosmetics are derived from animals and are not easy to be recognized in the ingredient list. From snail slime, to collagen, animal-derived stearic acid, lanolin, elastin, sodium tallowate and much more.
The only way to be sure you are purchasing a vegan product is looking for the Vegan label or asking the manufacturer when this is not present.
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The Heavy component of the Italian Army urgently needs to replace the DARDO IFVs, as it is an obsolete vehicle, not suitable to face the new operational scenarios, characterized by highly lethal threats.
As exposed in the Chamber's Defense Commission, on 13 January, Rheinmetall Italia, a subsidiary of the German company of the same name, undertook to identify the operational requirements for a combat vehicle for infantry (a requirement of at least 400 vehicles) to be able to line in the decade 2025-2035.
Specifically, the German company proposed the creation of an Italian pole of excellence through the consolidation of the national land sector. In other words, the “Transfer of technology and Know how in the tracked sector from Germany to Italy to the benefit of the national industry ".
Rheinmetall proposes the armored vehicle to the Italian Army Lynx, in IFV KF41 configuration.
"The central theme we are talking about is the creation of an Italian pole of excellence through the consolidation of the national terrestrial sector, with the creation of national assets and European cooperations". This was reported by the CEO of Rheinmetall Italia, Alessandro Ercolani at a hearing in the Chamber. “The starting point of this strategic collaboration is the replacement program, to be implemented in a short time, of the Dardo. Where Rheinmetall and Italian industries can work on the Lynx platform. We can involve the entire national industrial sector, the Italian production quota can exceed 70% of the order value ".
Il Lynx it has been designed to offer a high degree of protection (it can carry 6/8 infantry plus three crew), even in non-permissive contexts. The mass of the vehicle can vary from 40 to 50 tons, depending on the degree of additional armor installed above the main one. Furthermore the interior of the Lynx it has an anti-crush coating to protect the crew, while the hull structure has been designed in such a way as to disperse the shock wave generated by the IEDs. Industrial collaboration with Leonardo could also lead to the installation of active protections type trophy.
As for the armament, the Lynx can be equipped with a 30 mm (30x30 mm) Rheinmetall Mk-173 cannon, or with a cannon wotan 35 mm (35x228 mm).
The mobility of the Lynx it is ensured by a diesel engine, capable of delivering over 1.100 hp.
The Army focuses heavily on the Heavy Brigades (Ariete, Garibaldi and perhaps Sassari), as a leading unit for high-intensity scenarios. However, these brigades suffer from the obsolescence of their main vehicles, such as the ARIES tank.
The partnership with Rheinmetall could also open up a new scenario in the future that could allow Italy to enter the program of the new Franco-German MBT.
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Water is essential to any home – but it should be inside a pipe, tub, sink, or an appliance like a washing machine. When water starts to get into places where it shouldn’t be, that can cause issues fast.
Unfortunately, plumbing leaks are common, even in newer homes. That’s why you should know leak detection methods to keep your home in great shape.
Pay Attention to the Water Bill
Most water bills stay about the same from one month to the next. If you notice you’re suddenly paying much more, that could be an indication of a leak. Those who aren’t monitoring their bills could end up with a leak for a long time without knowing it. During this period, damage could occur that leads to costly repairs.
The first part of leak detection is being aware of what is going on around you.
Watch the Water Meter
Another part of leak detection is watching your home water meter. To do so, turn off the faucets and any appliances that use water. Next, check the meter and write down the reading on it. Go back an hour later and check again to see if the numbers change. If they have, there is likely a leak.
Turn off your main water supply shut-off valve to find out where the leak is. Check the meter, write down the number, and wait an hour again. If the numbers have changed, the leak is in a buried line. For identical numbers, the leak is in the home.
Dye Test Your Toilet
Check around the house for puddles that might tell you where a leak is. If there are none, you should check the toilet. Take some food colouring and add it to the tank of each toilet in your home. If there is a leak, it will colour the bowl. If this occurs, you will want to bring in a plumber.
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Average age of first credit report check is 39
MoneySupermarket used anonymised data from 200,000 people who have checked their credit score on the site’s Credit Monitor app and website to find out at what age people started to explore their credit health.
If found that despite an individual’s credit history being available from the age of 18, only 12 per cent of credit checks on MoneySupermarket are made by 18 to 24-year-olds. This means young people may be putting their credit scores at risk by leaving it so long before checking.
The site warns that the financial decisions you make as a young person can have a big impact on your financial future. Subscriptions and contracts, such as phone bills and gym memberships, are all factored into your credit history and building good credit early is key to ensuring you have the stability to apply for products such as credit cards, loans and mortgages further down the line.
MoneySupermarket analysed average credit scores across the UK, as well as credit card uptake and the proportion of credit checks made by young people.
As well as the credit considerations, factors including the local cost of living, employment rate of young people and average salary were used to find the locations where 18 to 24-year-olds are in the best financial position.
It found young people living in Leicester are in the best financial position in terms of their credit situation, income and cost of living. The city benefits from a low cost of living at only £1,053 a month, while Derby’s second place ranking can be attributed to a high employment rate of 65.5 per cent among 18 to 24-year-olds.
Despite having the highest average salary countrywide, London’s young people have a comparatively low employment rate at only 51.8 per cent, but this is still significantly higher than Birmingham, where it is 41.8 per cent.
Young people in the South East have an average credit score of 557.2, while those in the East Midlands are seven points lower, at 550.1. People aged 18 to 24-years-old in the North East have the lowest average credit score at 541.1 – nearly 13 points lower than the national average of 554.
Regionally, while the highest level of credit card uptake is in the East Midlands, where 10 per cent of the 18 to 24-year-old population are applying for cards, the highest average credit score is in the South East.
Rachel Wait, consumer affairs expert at MoneySupermarket, said: “When it comes to your credit score, it’s well worth reviewing at the earliest possible age. Being in the dark about your credit score could mean you don’t have the full story when it comes to your finances.
“Your credit score, worked out from your credit report, is a general interpretation of how much of a ‘risk’ lenders might think you are. The higher your score, the more likely you are to be offered cards and loans with cheaper rates and better offers, and the more you’re likely to be able to borrow.” | <urn:uuid:f432301b-09da-4f71-9aac-ff4c963ac700> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.yourmoney.com/credit-cards-loans/average-age-of-first-credit-report-check-is-39/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573540.20/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819005802-20220819035802-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.971005 | 646 | 2.140625 | 2 |
10 Simple Solutions for Building Self-Esteem
by Glenn R. Schiraldi
Learn to appreciate yourself with these ten simple solutions for building self-esteem.
A Good Friend
Ron Herron and Val J. Peter
This book advises children in such areas as the basics of conversation and friendship do's and don'ts.
A Practical Guide to Building Self-Esteem
Christine Maguth Nezu, Arthur M. Nezu
This is the first book to integrate research-based psychological coping strategies with spiritual practices to improve self-esteem.
Beating the Senior Blues
Leslie Eckford & Amanda Lambert
If you are an older adult who suffers from bouts of depression, use this book to learn how to set goals for feeling better physically with good nutrition and exercise habits.
Beyond the Blues
The forty exercises in this book show teens how to overcome feelings of hopelessness and isolation that often go along with depression.
Building Self-Esteem First - A Practical Solution
This programme consists of a series of twelve stages, which helps pupils come to a point where they can begin to believe in themselves again.
Conquer Your Critical Inner Voice
Robert W. Firestone, Lisa Firestone, Joyce Catlett
This book takes you through the step-by-step process of learning how to keep track of your negative thoughts, analyze their reality, and recognize how they impact your life.
Coping with Cliques
Coping with Cliques helps girls overcome feelings of isolation and rejection and develop the self-esteem that will make being left out of a clique seem not so tragic after all.
Crossing the Bridge: A Journey in Self-Esteem, Relationships and Life Balance
This interactive guide in selfdiscovery
uses a cognitive-behavioral approach for
developing self-esteem, improving relationships
and achieving life balance.
Dealing with Emotions
This is an opportunity for all young people to delve into the fascinating world of emotions, and in doing so find new ways to deal with their own and the emotions of others.
Dinosaurs Journey To High Self-Esteem
The Dinosaur's Journey takes children through the Valley of Values, the Cave of Acceptance, and the Land of Courage.
Enhancing Self Esteem Third Edition
C. Jesse Carlock, Ph.D.
This resources offers a balance of current theory and research on the topic of self-esteem as well as an array of practical exercises for each topic presented.
Enhancing Self-Esteem A Self-Esteem Training Package for Individuals with Disabilities
Nick Hagiliassis and Hrepsime Gulbenkoglu
It is a comprehensive resource that provides relevant, cognitively-suitable and age-appropriate information and exercises to aid trainers working with adults with physical and multiple disabilities, and is suitable for people with mild intellectual disability and severe communication impairment.
Helping Adolescents and Adults to Build Self-Esteem
Deborah M. Plummer
Based on the author's clinical experience, the easy-to-use photocopiable activity sheets encourage participants to draw on existing skills and to develop new approaches to building confidence and feelings of self-worth.
Helping Children to Build Self-Esteem
This fully photocopiable resource is invaluable for anyone looking for creative, practical ways of nurturing self-esteem in children.
How to Stop Backing Down and Start Talking Back
by Lisa Frankfort, Patrick Fanning
Here's a book for all those times you said "yes" but really meant "no."
Increasing Self-Esteem The QuietMind Series Volume Four
Increasing Self-Esteem is based on the premise that
low self-esteem can be unlearned.
It's OK to be Me
This practical workbook aimed at raising self awareness and self esteem for children aged 9-12.
Mind Matters - Self Esteem
Focusing on self-esteem this title is designed to raise awareness among young people of caring for their own mental health and encouraging them to support others experiencing mental health problems.
My Lifebook Journal
By Therese Accinelli
The simple The simple activities in this resource offer children the tools they need to adjust to their new situation in a healthy way.
Practical Techniques for Enhancing Self Esteem
Diane Frey, Ph.D. and C. Jesse Carlock, Ph.D.
This manual is divided into phases of intervention. The goal of each phase are to help individuals to develop positive self-esteem in a systematic, sequential approach.
Self-Esteem Games for Children
Deborah M. Plummer
In this practical handbook, self-esteem expert Deborah Plummer offers a wealth of familiar and easy-to-learn games carefully chosen to build and maintain self-esteem in children aged 5–11.
Self-Esteem Program Book with CD
By John Liptak, Ed. D., Kathy L. Khalsa OTR/L, & Estelle A. Leutenburg
This book focuses on such essential topics as body-image, effective decision-making, personal responsibility and values, and self-esteem. Each section has a self-assessment and pre-and post-tests with scoring directions.
Glenn R. Schiraldi, Ph.D.
The Self-Esteem Workbook is based on the author's original new research, which has shown that self-esteem can be significantly improved through the use of self-help materials. Now psychologist and health educator Glenn Schiraldi has shaped these tested resources into a comprehensive, self-directed program that guides readers through twenty essential skill-building activities, each focused on developing a crucial component of healthy self-esteem.
Self-Esteem, 3rd Edition
Matthew McKay, Ph.D. and Patrick Fanning
The third edition of this best-selling title on building and maintaining a healthy level of self-esteem benefits from a new chapter on setting and achieving those goals that will enrich our lives and nourish our belief in ourselves. Proven cognitive techniques help you talk back to the self-critical voice inside you and change the way you think and feel about yourself.
Shyness & Social Anxiety Workbook
Martin Anthony, Ph.D. & Richard Swinson, M.D.
This workbook provides cognitive-behavioral therapy in an intensive, self-directed program that helps readers conquer their fears and live lives no longer controlled by fear and anxiety.
Sisters: Self-Esteem Pack for Girls
A facilitator's pack of materials, resources and activities to help motivate and increase self-esteem and self-image in teenage girls.
Strategies for Motivation: Learning Ways to Get Unstuck! Book with CD
By Nancy Day, OT Reg. (Ont.) and illustrated by Amy L. Brodsky, LISW
Whether it's unearthing the motivation to study, find a job, change an unhealthy social situation or confront a problem, this book is filled with activities that will get teens thinking and talking about getting motivated.
Teen Self-Esteem Workbook
Dr. John J. Liptak and Ester A. Leutenberg
The Teen Self-Esteem Workbook is designed to help teens engage in self-reflection, examine their thoughts and feelings that either enhance or detract from healthy self-esteem, and learn effective tools and techniques for building feelings of self-esteem and self-worth.
The Compassionate-Mind Guide to Building Social Confidence
Lynne Henderson Ph.D.
The Compassionate-Mind Guide to Building Social Confidence helps readers overcome shyness using compassion-focused therapy (CFT), which has been proven to reduce feelings of depression, anxiety, self-criticism, shame, and inferiority.
The Power of Self-Compassion
Mary Welford DClinPsy, Paul Gilbert PhD
With compassion-focused therapy, you will adopt an accepting attitude about your strengths and weaknesses, and a commitment to change that doesn't depend on being overly critical of yourself or comparing yourself with others. In addition, you will learn how the concept of self-confidence fits in the context of our evolution, biology, and life experiences.
Think Confident, Be Confident for Teens
Marci G. Fox Ph.D., Leslie Sokol Ph.D.
What's Right for Me?
Ron Herron and Val J. Peter
This book addresses many of them: jealousy, prejudice, teen sex, anger and aggression, teasing, sexual harassment, harmful or violent relationships.
Who's In the Mirror?
Ron Herron and Val J. Peter
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yantra, (Sanskrit: “instrument”) in Tantric Hinduism and Vajrayana, or Tantric Buddhism, a linear diagram used as a support for ritual. In its more elaborate and pictorial form it is called a mandala. Yantras range from those traced on the ground or on paper and disposed of after the rite, to those etched in stone and metal, such as are found in temples.
One characteristic yantra employed in the ritual worship of the goddess Shakti is the shriyantra (also called shrichakra, “wheel of Shri”). It is composed of nine triangles: five pointing downward, said to represent the yoni, or vulva, and four pointing upward, said to represent the lingam, or phallus. The dynamic interplay is understood to be an expression of all the cosmic manifestations, beginning and ending with union at the centre, visualized as a dot (bindu). | <urn:uuid:2d9d7175-3b84-4807-9a8b-3c955a9383a0> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/yantra | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573540.20/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819005802-20220819035802-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.954503 | 202 | 3.515625 | 4 |
I love Paris in the Springtime sang the legendary Ella Fitzgerald. And, if you’ve ever visited on a typical spring day when the sun bursts through the clouds to be followed by a downpour you truly get why though it’s certainly a cliché, Paris in the spring really is quite wonderful.
It’s a time to stroll in a park and enjoy the flowers in colourful bloom. Wipe a chair clear of rain drops and survey the sight of Parisians enjoying a spring day. And take some Paris in spring pictures.
Sip a hot chocolate, coffee or a glass of wine at a quaint café and watch the world go by.
Monuments seem cleansed after the seasonal rain and almost glow when the sky is covered with dark spring clouds, and yet somehow a beam of sunlight manages to get through.
Flower beds surround many of the Paris landmarks and in spring they burst forth into brilliant blossom managing to highlight the beauty of the architecture.
Early in Spring, some trees are just showing green tips, others are in full gorgeous spring bloom. Later Paris is awash with colourful flower beds, window boxes and tubs outside homes, shops and businesses.
Rain, sun, rain – it washes and cleanses and makes everything seem to sparkle, Paris in Spring is simply sublime…
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I know this is a stupid question, but is there any reason why switches
for outlets can't have neutral wires? I'm currently building a house,
and I requested a neutral wire at all the switches. The light switches
do have neutrals, but the switched outlets don't. Most of those are in a
box with a light switch, so there is neutral in the box, but a few
aren't. Does each switch in a multiswitch box need a neutral coming in?
Any help for this newbie would be appreciated. Thanks!
ANY switch can have a neutral but most don't need them as wired (for no
As long as you are paying for the work, you can insist on them so that you
will have them available for future automation uses.
The preferred method of wiring is to bring power (hot and neutral) into the
switch box, interrupt the hot leg with a switch, then carry the power (hot
and neutral) on to the load, be it switch or outlet.
Sometimes, though, it's quicker, easier, and saves a lot of Romex to run
power to the load, then use a piece of romex to extend the hot into the
switch box. The white wire then becomes a switched hot, and is marked with
black tape or marker. This results in no neutral.
If they wired a box without a neutral even after you asked them to, it is
their responsiblity to fix it. You need to get your GC on your side in terms
of cost: the electricians almost certainly WILL try to bill you for their
I have a somewhat related question:
In my home, there is a 3-way circuit which controls a group of outlets and a
group of lights. In the process of stripping the outlets out of the
circuit, I discovered that the circuit hot comes from the breaker, but the
neutral comes from another (unswitched) circuit of outlets.
By my thinking -- the neutrals are all common at the breaker anyway, so it
shouldn't make a difference. Is there any reason for me to be concerned
Yes, I second this notion. Best to bring the hot/neutral/ground to the wall
plate and then run a four-wire (hot/neutral/switched/ground) to the ceiling
or other switched fixture. That way if at some point in the future you
install a fixture that needs it's own power you'll have it there already.
Things like ceiling fans operated by remote often their own power full time,
in addition to that controlled by a wall switch. Outside motion sensors
also. But basically it's your house, get it the way you want it. Wire is
cheap and the labor to do this is no different than any other method.
Granted, it will require having 3 conductor romex in addition to the regular
2 conductor but that's a negligble difference.
Just specify to the electrician that you want a neutral at each switch and
he can do it. I did that in my home and even if it wasn't used for anything
else, I have a neutral tail available at every switch.
Close, but one problem...
The white wire in these "switch leg" or "switch loop" circuits is the
always hot wire and the white wire is the switched hot wire. This makes
identification of a unknown white wire easier since it is always hot not
just hot when the switch is on.
This is covered in 200-7(c) of the National Electrical Code where the
"conductor with white or natural gray insulation or a marking of three
continuous whit stripes is used to supply the switch." The requirement
to remark the white wire with black came in the 1999 NEC.
Yes. There are a few cases where this is legal but it is a bad practice
even then and can pose a safety risk.
The theory about them all being equal because they are connected at the
breaker is only valid if there is no resistance in the wire or connections
and all connections are 100% reliable.
If the neutral is connected to a 2nd circuit and ANYTHING is on (including
night lights, or AV equipment that has a remote) they are putting a voltage
on the neutral for that circuit.
Depending on where your branch of the neutral is connected to the circuit,
the voltage on it will vary but will not be 0.
I can't speak for the US regs, but that's not allowed in UK regs.
Only the earth/ground wire is allowed to be cross-connected
between different circuits. Cross-connecting a neutral like this
could result in circuit which has been isolated for work to be
carried out on it actually being live due to the cross-connect.
Yes, you should be concerned, at least from my UK perspective. Here it's
normal to disconnect one circuit to work on it, leaving the rest of the
circuits live. If you disconnect one live and one neutral, your safety
depends on that neutral *not* being connected to any other live though
an appliance. So it's not permitted to mix the neutrals.
You said "the neutrals are all common anyway" and that is true normally,
but not always.
Can you try that again? You've confused me, now. :)
My way of thinking (in the US) is that an unknown white wire is going to be
assumed neutral. An unknown black wire is going to be assumed hot. If I'm
wrong, I'm wrong.. but I've always seen white with a black mark as the
switched leg, black as the always hot leg.
Went to dinner, came back, re-read, and understood. Though I do believe you
meant "black is switched." That way, there's no way to assume the white is
neutral... it's always hot. If it were switched, and off, you might think it
Got it. Thanks!
"E. Lee Dickinson" wrote in
Answer: It depends.
I believe that this is permitted in the U.S.A. as long as:
1) The two circuits are on opposite phases of a split phase service.
2) The two circuit breakers have equal limits and are mechanically tied
together so that tripping or turning off one breaker shuts off both.
Rule 1 is important because two circuits sharing a neutral on the same
phase could potentially double the current in the wire. Being on opposite
phases, the current is the difference between what the two circuits are
using (leaving out reactive loads).
Rule 2 is important because it prevents shocks during servicing.
Otherwise, with one circuit shut off, the other circuit can make the
neutral hot through any lights or appliances that are left on. I have been
shocked (*) by such a circuit that did not have tied breakers because it
was wired before this rule was made part of the NEC.
(*) I was shaken and greatly surprised but learned a valuable lesson: Use
a meter to verify prior to touching!
In the cases that I have seen, the wiring from the circuit breaker panel to
the loads used Romex with four wires in this case: Ground (bare), Neutral
(white), Line 1 (black), Line 2 (red).
Other countries may be different. Particular locations within the U.S.A.
may be different. Older wiring may be different. Mistakes can cause
While all the above is true, my experience with piped (conduit) wiring in
residential new construction is that shared neutrals are the norm for 15 and
20 amp circuits, not the exception. Each pipe leaving the service panel
will have several hot wires and at most two neutral wires, unless the
associated breakers are ground or arc faults. In these cases the neutral
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Reality is a cast; reality is the negative. This is the reason why all our photographs come out looking like positive images. And if reality is the negative, then all our thoughts and dreams now, that we think and dream we thought and dreamt then, are necessarily positive because all we retain from reality is its positive as memory, just like photographs retain in their imaging the positive of a negated and vacated reality. Reality is a chimera; so are now our thoughts and dreams that we think we thought and dreamt then. Evidence comes too late; all we know is that things die. The content of that non-phenomenal phenomenon we call memory is truistically no more; hence the reason why one remembers. Positive memory, somewhat like positive photographs made from negatives, is capable of negating and positivising itself repeatedly. Photographs and memories, as records of, are lodged in an antecedent futurity. If I have been photographed, I am already dead. Photography and memory devoid of death?… that might be the subject of a new [blog post], but our present [post] is ended. | <urn:uuid:0e0dde87-c744-438c-9749-17388a1b3fda> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://montaltomarco.com/2021/03/07/if-i-have-been-photographed-i-am-already-dead/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570879.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809003642-20220809033642-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.954833 | 229 | 1.859375 | 2 |
For the first time in the history of the country, the government has decided that the celebrations of this year’s Independence anniversary should be celebrated in the Northern Regional capital of Tamale.
This is also the first time that the celebration would be held outside the national capital, Accra, since Ghana gained independence from Great Britain.
The significance of this year’s celebration, according to the Deputy Minister of Information, Enam Pius Hadzide, is to consolidate the success in achieving peace and unity among the people of Northern Region and the entire country.
“It reiterates the fact that Ghana will continue to be the beacon of hope, while remaining peaceful and also protecting its enviable record of being one of the most peaceful countries in Africa”, he said.
The Ghanaian Times supports the government’s decision to shift the celebration for the first time to the Northern Region of Ghana, particularly when the idea is to consolidate peace in that part of the country.
By now, every Ghanaian is aware of the many trouble spots in the Northern part of the country and the efforts successive governments have made to bring about peace and development in that area.
If one of the ways to nurture and consolidate peace in the area is to celebrate the Independence anniversary over there, then we support the government 100 per cent in that regard.
According to the government the idea behind celebrating the day in Tamale is not only to boost the local economy but also serve as an opportunity for the region to showcase its rich and diverse cultural heritage and promote local content and tourism.
We laud the government for the decision and hope that all Ghanaians would support the government to celebrate one of the grandest Independence anniversaries in the annals of the country.
Already we are told feverish preparations are underway for the series of activities to take place in Tamale.
While encouraging everyone to embrace the occasion, we would like to caution all the people to ensure that the anniversary becomes one never to be forgotten.
It is important for those in the area to recognise that a lot of visitors, including the diplomatic corps would descend on Tamale and it is, therefore necessary for them to ensure that the celebration comes off peaceful.
We are hopeful that once the Tamale celebration ends successfully, other parts of the country would be given the opportunity to celebrate the Independence Day in turns.
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Single nucleotide polymorphisms, frequently called SNPs (pronounced “snips”), are the most common type of genetic variation among people. Each SNP represents a difference in a single DNA building block, called a nucleotide. For example, a SNP may replace the nucleotide cytosine (C) with the nucleotide thymine (T) in a certain stretch of DNA.
SNPs occur normally throughout a person’s DNA. They occur once in every 300 nucleotides on average, which means there are roughly 10 million SNPs in the human genome. Most commonly, these variations are found in the DNA between genes. They can act as biological markers, helping scientists locate genes that are associated with disease. When SNPs occur within a gene or in a regulatory region near a gene, they may play a more direct role in disease by affecting the gene’s function.
Most SNPs have no effect on health or development. Some of these genetic differences, however, have proven to be very important in the study of human health. Researchers have found SNPs that may help predict an individual’s response to certain drugs, susceptibility to environmental factors such as toxins, and risk of developing particular diseases. SNPs can also be used to track the inheritance of disease genes within families. Future studies will work to identify SNPs associated with complex diseases such as heart disease, diabetes, and cancer.
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Last Updated on January 23, 2022
What is Composition in Photography?
So far, we’ve been more on the technical side of the photography spectrum, and the only reason why is because it is necessary to learn how to use the tool before creating something with it.
This is just like driving after you learn how to control and maneuver the car; you can start having fun and going places. With photography, the exact thing happens; first, you need to learn how to use a camera and learn the basics about light behavior and how to capture it. Then you can start trying to create meaningful shots, and here is where composition comes into play.
Earlier before, we mentioned that depth of field and white balance are compositional elements, but there are also some guidelines (or rules) that you need to understand about composition. The composition is the soul of a photograph, always remind that. In technical terms, a picture can be perfect, but it could lack of soul.
And composition has a lot to do with that soul beyond the concept or the topic behind your photos. It is better to have a sloppy yet meaningful and aesthetic shot, than a sterile but extremely perfect photo.
The Elements of Composition
The composition can be divided into two big worlds, the elements of composition, and the good practices or rules of composition. Let’s talk about the elements first.
The line is the most basic element in the composition, and they can be horizontal, vertical diagonal, organic, and implied. Each of them has its own purpose as structural elements in the composition. Therefore, they shouldn’t be treated as main subjects but just visual guidelines that make the image reading a pleasing task.
Read more: Photography 101: How to Use Focal Length and Crop Factor?
Horizontal lines are usually good for achieving a sense of balance and calmness in a shot. While vertical and diagonal lines are more useful for tension and dynamism. Organic lines are those found in nature and are extremely useful to compose aesthetically.
Last but not least, implied lines are those lines that you simply can’t see but can feel (or imagine), like the implied line you can get from two people crossing looks on the street, for example.
Forms and Shapes
Since photography is about capturing the three-dimensional world via a two-dimensional image rendition, studying how forms and shapes behave will give you a better idea about how they can be used as composition elements.
Discover more: Photography 101: What are Shooting Modes?
This is something very hard for painting and drawing to achieve, but for photography, they are quite easy to achieve.
Learn more: Photography 101: Metering Modes and Histogram?
Empty and Negative Space
In many things, less can be more but it is not that easy to achieve. One of the best ways of doing it is by using negative or empty space.
See more: Photography 101: Shooting RAW vs JPEG
This is usually a neutral colored background as opposed to a very much smaller element, making it immediately pop-out from the scene in a protagonist way.
This is considered to be hard to handle composition elements and is usually built of a smaller frame (a window, a mirror, or a phone’s screen) within a larger frame.
Further reading: Photography 101: What is ISO?
There is a vast literature related to composition, but those are the main elements that you need to consider when taking photographs.
How To Arrange Them
Now that you know about the existence of specific elements that could build a photograph, it is necessary for you to learn about how to arrange them in order to make your photographs a pleasing visual experience. For this, there are some “grammatical” guidelines or rules that need to be taken into account.
The Rule of Thirds
There is a high chance that you have already heard of this composition rule, and it is important for you to know that despite its importance, it isn’t a synonym for composition. It is just a guideline that helps us out into placing things in a way that viewers could feel more interested in beyond centered shots.
This rule is easy to follow and could take a lifetime to master correctly. You simply need to imagine two horizontal and two vertical lines crossing the frame in the same way you’ll make a tic-tac-toe grid. Now you’ll notice that there are 4 points in which lines cross each other.
Learn more: Photography 101: What is Shutter Speed?
Those are called interest points, and you simply need to place the most important element of your frame near that spot. We highly suggest that you avoid using virtual grids in your camera, otherwise you’ll always rely on them. It is important that you train your eye with time so you can start seeing it in an aesthetic way.
The Rule of Odds
Whenever capturing a group of elements, try to arrange them in odd numbers like 3 or 5, further from that is just complicated to see as a whole group. The main purpose behind this compositional rule is to take advantage of a psychological condition we human beings have.
We tend to instinctively order things into groups for an easier to “digest” experience. Pair numbered groups will eventually be decomposed into smaller groups, but that doesn’t happen with odd numbers (especially 3 and 5) since the human brain perceives that as a unitary group. This is perfect to use when you want to transmit a sense of unity among people or elements.
Oh, and don’t forget that this group can be placed in the frame following the logic of the rule of thirds too! Learning to compose in a consistent way is the baseline for style, a major concern for any creative that takes its craft seriously. In order to practice composition related exercises, we highly suggest you first to start aiming for the elements solely, if as they were meant to be the main subjects.
This will teach you more than you think about how these elements are able to structure the frame in a way that enhances the reading experience of it. While doing that, try to blend your daily visual routines with both the rule of thirds and odds so you can start seeing the world in a different and more pleasing way. | <urn:uuid:2b81fde5-9849-464c-977a-ec458129fe20> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://photoandtips.com/photography-101-what-is-composition/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570692.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20220807181008-20220807211008-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.954351 | 1,307 | 3.265625 | 3 |
Each year, America’s 55 poison centers receive more than 2 million exposure calls. Most of these are accidental and preventable which is why public education is so important.
If you will be teaching others about poison prevention, please take our FREE online training course! Once you complete all of the training modules, you will have access to our Resource Center which contains lesson plans for various ages and helpful handouts.
Educators play a key role in providing information to parents, grandparents, caretakers, and others to prevent or minimize accidental injury in children. Check out the activity sheets and games below for fun ways to learn about poison prevention! Also, visit our Child Safety Tips page for more safety information.
Helpful Videos for Young Children
STOP! Ask First.
Spike’s Poison Prevention Adventure
Activity Sheets for Kids
This section provides information specific to teaching children. It includes poison prevention programs, games, and activity sheets that may be used. All of the following documents are in PDF format.
- Find the poison
- Find the safe path
- Hidden hazards
- Kitchen patrol
- Mixed up mess
- Poison search
- Venom crossing
Educational Resource for 5th through 8th Graders
- Over-The-Counter (OTC) Medicine Literacy Program: A critical approach to educating fifth through eighth grade students about medication safety. Find more information and resources on the OTC website.
- Older adults have increased risk of food poisoning, medication error, drug interactions, and adverse effects. These all can be reduced through education so please go to our Senior Safety Tips page to learn more.
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Complete collection of all 3 How To Train Your Dragon films.
How to Train Your Dragon
Hiccup is a young Viking who defies tradition when he befriends one of his deadliest foes — a ferocious dragon he calls Toothless. Together, the unlikely heroes must fight against all odds to save both their worlds in this “wonderful good-time hit!” (Gene Shalit, Today)
How to Train Your Dragon 2
When Hiccup and Toothless discover a secret ice cave filled with hundreds of wild dragons and a mysterious dragon rider, the two friends find themselves at the center of an epic battle to save the future of men and dragons!
How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World
Now chief and ruler of Berk alongside Astrid, Hiccup has created a gloriously chaotic dragon utopia. When the sudden appearance of a female Light Fury coincides with the darkest threat their village has ever faced, Hiccup and Toothless must leave the only home they’ve known and journey to a hidden world thought only to exist in myth. As their true destines are revealed, dragon and rider will fight together—to the very ends of the Earth—to protect everything they’ve grown to treasure. | <urn:uuid:ada64bd6-5424-43a7-a1f5-57489a6f60a5> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://amazingpurchase.co.uk/product/how-to-train-your-dragon-3-movie-collection-dvd-2019/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570879.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809003642-20220809033642-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.91685 | 255 | 1.757813 | 2 |
Did you know that there is no legal definition for “Sourdough”? That means that practically any old loaf can be called a sourdough. Unfortunately there’s so many bogus claims in the food industry, it can be difficult for the public to work out what’s truly authentic. To help, the Real Bread Campaign has been calling on Defra for Sourdough to be formally defined & the name restricted to real Sourdough.
While we wait, here’s some “pseudough” examples to recognise & even avoid:
- Supermarket plastic wrapped “sourdough” can even be a loaf with added “sourdough flavour”. Artificially recreating the taste doesn’t make real Sourdough!!
- Sourdough with long life ingredients that’s frozen & delivered part baked to be browned off, often just refers to the rustic look of the bread in appearance.
- “Artisan bread brands” that aren’t what they seem. Some are owned by private equity firms, and one famous name sourdough specialist is even financed by Warburton’s, the big bagged sliced bread brand. This can mean a long corporate supply chain between production & delivery to outlets like markets – we’ve bought a 2 day old sourdough this way, too dry to enjoy
- Even many traditional bakers choose to add commercial yeast, citric acid or “improver” (even called “organic improver” sometimes!) to their Sourdough recipe, or buy flour with artificial “improver” in it to speed up their bread development pace & size. They don’t have to declare this in the labelling, even though 71% of the British public think they should. We know this is common practice because
- A well known local craft bakery approached us asking us to loan them some “improver” as their stocks were running low. We don’t use it so couldn’t help J
- If you use anything artificial like that, you can’t use the phrase “Real Bread”. We challenged that the local chain bakery brand was using flour with improver & as this was confirmed in correspondence, by the Advertising Standards Authority, so that they’re no longer allowed to use that phrase.
- Last month EAT (the sandwich firm) was challenged via the Advertising Standards Authority for adding commercial yeast to its sourdough toastie mix. It turns out they can still call these sourdough, as there’s no legal definition…
- These breads often fail the press-back test that the Rex Baker described on the BBC – the construction is so poor that the crumb stays compressed & tacky if pushed hard. Real Bread will bounce back because the structure is so strong.
When we opened Rex, our best selling breads were our white tin breads & baguettes (that’s still true with the Rex children btw J) but today, Sourdoughs are bringing Friends to Rex from far & wide.
What is Real Sourdough?:
- Made with Sourdough starter or natural leaven. In Rex, this is a non-commercial mix that we made ourselves from Misbourne honey originally, and nurture every day. This is mixed with our organic flour, salt & water to make Rex Sourdough breads.
- Allow time to ferment the dough & rise naturally. The sourdough starter works naturally, over time, to ferment all our organic flour wheats & grains and is thought to denature the gluten they contain during this process. A side benefit is that over time, the leaven causes the bread dough to naturally rise. In Rex, we allow at least 24 hours for all breads & a full 3 days for Sourdoughs to mature.
Why should you seek out authentic Sourdough?
Well first, most of our loyal Friends will tell you that Sourdough is delicious. It shouldn’t taste sour, but it should be more complex & interesting than tinned bread loaves. If it’s not real sourdough… you’ve been seduced by the marketing, not the real taste.
Next, some of you tell us that carbohydrates bloat you. We always recommend to try a slice of Rex Sourdough because our organic flour, natural leaven & time to ferment means the bread is highly tolerable & easy to digest. Many people think they’re wheat or gluten-intolerant – when in fact they are intolerant of poorly fermented wheat & gluten. They can enjoy Rex Sourdough with comfort.
So if you have tried something that you thought was sourdough, and tasted & looked ok to you – can you be sure that it took 3 days to make naturally with an organic leaven? If not, you may face the digestion & bloating difficulties of fast bread. Anyways, why pay artisan skills prices for yet another fast food bread?
So even though the law doesn’t yet define & protect Real “sourdough”, we do in Rex!! Every single one of our breads complies with all Read Bread Campaign criteria for Real Bread … and you can trust our pure approach & provenance. If you have any questions, we love to answer them….
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“Let it go.” Wise words indeed, from no less than the heroine of Frozen 2 in the franchise’s previous installment. And yet they seem not to have struck a chord with the writers and directors of the current outing. Frozen 2 strangely shifts the focus from familial and specifically sisterly love to the utterly divergent theme of anti-colonialism. While discordant with the major motifs of the first Frozen, it’s of a kind with many other recent movies made by the Mouse, leaning leftward in the calculation that the extra enthusiasm from one half of the political divide will translate into profit margins that more than make up for the money lost by alienating the other side.
Anti-colonialism might be misconstrued as an anachronistic message in the post-colonial era we’ve long lived in, but the film knows who it’s talking to. The intended takeaway is not that the children watching it should – when they like Olaf grow up and understand everything – refrain from territorial expansion at the expense of indigenous populations. Rather, two far more radical anti-colonial arguments are being put forward.
The first is found is the film’s fixation on memory. The claim is oft made throughout and eventually verified that water contains memories. This is demonstrated through the evolution of Elsa’s powers, going from fairly standard cryokinesis a la Bobby Drake to the ability to physically manifest the events of the past as fully animated ice-sculptures. It is through such sleeted simulacra that she learns her grandfather Runeard was deceitful in his dealings with the indigenous Northuldra and that her mother was originally a member of that tribe. Moreover, the catalyst for the plot comes about when Elsa audibly hears echoes from the past. Like the ice-golems, memories of her mother singing are given physicality in the here and now.
Elsa is gifted these genetic memories of her ancestor’s actions in order to prompt her and her sister Anna to assume a moral culpability for them. While not quite saying that the sins of the father are passed down to the son (or in this case, of the grandfather to the granddaughters), the film certainly presumes upon Elsa and Anna a duty to pay for said sins at the price of their own civilization. In order to break the curse that had befallen the Northuldra’s Enchanted Forest, Anna effects the destruction of a damn knowing that the resulting flood would destroy the kingdom of Arendelle (which, presuming Elsa had passed at that point, Anna was acting regentess of). Though the deus ex machina of magic both restores Elsa and in turn allows her to save Arendelle, Anna was of course ignorant that this eucatastrophic outcome would come about. What the film valorizes as heroic, therefore, is the descendants of those who did engage in colonialism fixating on the inequities of their ancestors and sacrificing the wealth and welfare of their own society in reparation to the descendents of aggrieved peoples. And it’s not exactly subtle in saying such.
The other, even more radical, anti-colonialist claim is that more primitive peoples in no way benefited from contact with more technologically advanced civilizations, not even from the access to new technologies. King Runeard built for the Northuldra a damn. This itself is seen as an act of aggression according to the logic of the film. Frozen 2 is so Luddite in its disposition that even this common means by which mankind has for centuries shaped the Natural world to suit its needs is regarded as beyond the pall. Past Disney films such as Pocahantas have similarly fetishized Nature, but I can’t recall any apart from the Jungle Book remake which vilify technology and mankind’s inherent unnaturalness to the same extent. Olaf opines early on that emerging technologies will prove humanity’s salvation and then destruction. It’s a funny moment that the audience doesn’t realize until later is not a joke.
Given that Mickey & co. aren’t likely to relocate to Europe in order to gift the swampland on which Walt Disney World sits back to the Seminole, nor are they likely to abandon cutting-edge, carbon-fueled, computer-generated animation techniques, let alone damns, the anti-colonialist criticisms leveled in Frozen 2 come across as somewhat less than sincere. The same can surely be said of most of the audiences Disney is attempting to appeal to, even those for whom anti-colonialism is an animating principle in their thinking. To both filmmakers and filmgoers, regarding those parts of the past that no one alive today was party to, take Elsa’s advice: “Let it go.”
It’s a shame that so much criticism needed to be levelled against the film’s message, because there’s otherwise so much praise to heep upon it for the story’s structure and the imaginative worldbuilding. As for the former, Frozen 2 is a perfect panacea to the bitter aftertaste still lingering from the Game of Thrones finale. It’s an apt comparison. Both stories are set in fantasy realms wherein the catalyst for all the conflict to follow was two warring peoples and a set of star-crossed lovers bridging the divide. With Thrones, the song of Targaryen fire and Stark ice and all the wars which that entailed was entirely precipitated by Rhaegar Targaryan absconding away with Lyanna Stark following the fateful Tourney at Harrenhal. With Frozen, the curse which comes upon the Enchanted Forest is equally tied up with the sudden conflict between Arendelle and the Northuldra and the ensuing escape of Agnarr and Iduna. Jon Snow, being the result of the union between Rhaegar and Lyanna, should have been central to resolving the conflict created by their union and healing the land of Westros. His sidelining for his cousin Bran was a wholly dissatisfying narrative non sequitur. Frozen 2, in contrast, is narratively (if not politically) satisfying for having Elsa, as the scion of Agnarr and Iduna, reconcile Arendelle and the Northuldra to one another and heal the wound upon the land.
With respect to world-building, Frozen 2 succeeds – surprisingly – because of its lack of novelty. The motif of the five classical elements finds its genesis in classical antiquity, and was surely well worn by the time I was first exposed to such via Captain Planet. The creatures chosen to embody those elements in the film are equally classic choices, such as a salamander for fire or a kelpie as a water spirit. In his book The Discarded Image, C.S. Lewis noted of Medieval writers,
Far from feigning originality, as a modern plagiarist would, they are apt to conceal it… the originality which we see as a sign of wealth might have seemed to them a confession of poverty.”
In pulling so heavily from classic sources, in finding riches in the literature of the past from which to pull, Frozen 2 shows it still bears some semblance to fairy stories as they were written once upon a time, not merely sharing a genre, but through a shared desire to offer a new take on an old tale.
Ironically, Hans Christian Andersen was being far more original when he first penned “The Snow Queen,” upon which Frozen takes its inspiration. This sequel even cheekily implies that Anderson authored the tale in that world as well, presumably as a record of the events of the first film (despite the enormous differences in Disney’s “adaptation” from the fairy tale). If there are parts of the past which we should fixate our memory on and not “let it go,” surely our literary heritage seems a more deserving candidate than a record of wrongs going back to the first time a Capulet slighted a Montague. Disney has not been the best custodian of that literary heritage of late, as Frozen 2 is itself evidence enough, but there’s much to enjoy in this film as well. Among which is a particularly catchy musical number with the lyrics “Some things never change, and I’m still holding on to you.” Hopefully, some things about the old fairy stories of Andersen, Perrault, and the brothers Grimm never do change, and Disney holds on to whatever remaining respect they once had for the works on which the Mouse built his house. | <urn:uuid:53cedada-2a7e-4831-949b-82a164dc619b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://hubcityreview.com/2019/11/26/frozen-2/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570879.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809003642-20220809033642-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.960734 | 1,769 | 1.78125 | 2 |
Not being able to hire people with the required skills is an obvious impediment to the productivity and prosperity of any organisation and, ultimately, to a country’s economy. An equally important concern for employers is how to keep skilled employees and how to use their skills fully.
This report, To have and to hold: Retaining and utilising skilled people by Andy Smith, Eddie Oczkowski and Chris Selby Smith, examines the ways in which Australian employers retain skilled staff at a time of low unemployment and skills shortages. It also considers the ways in which employers enhance their ability to use the skills of their people. The study analysed retention and utilisation at the organisation level. Its focus is on the role of human resource management practices, including training and high-performance work practices, in enabling employers to retain and utilise the skills of their staff.
ß The key driver for both skills retention and utilisation is the presence of a learning orientation in the organisation. People stay in organisations if they feel they are learning and progressing in their careers.
ß Retention or utilisation of skilled people is not necessarily improved through strategies such as increasing wages, adopting family-friendly working policies, and the use of non-monetary rewards. These things help make people feel satisfied, but they are not sufficient to retain skilled people in a tight labour market.
ß What does facilitate retention is the application of high-performance work practices such as a commitment to learning, open-mindedness and shared vision. More widespread adoption of these practices would benefit employers and workers alike.
ß Training as part of an overall learning culture, particularly nationally recognised training, is also important in retaining skilled people and making better use of their skills. This also offers opportunities for registered training organisations to work with employers to improve retention and utilisation strategies for employees.
Managing Director, NCVER
To read this rather interesting report, click here…
What I wanted to highlight to you in this report is this, developing your people is key (and that actually includes yourself also). Regardless of the size of operation you either own, or are a part of, the message is the same. Whilst this report is worded to address corporate speak and size, make no mistake… the message is just as important to a 2-person operation as it is to a 20,000-strong one.
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The Boy Who Wanted to Rock
Written by music industry veteran David Weiser for his five-year-old son, The Boy Who Wanted to Rock takes readers on a musical journey that encourages children to learn the ropes...and swing from the ceiling! Guided by a cast of helpful and unlikely creatures, a young boy discovers that his inner monster is the key to learning -- and enjoying -- music. Beautifully illustrated by longtime friend and fellow musician Derek Lavoie, the story is a tribute to the inner child that sustains every rock 'n roller.
"...playful and motivating..."
"With lively and emotive illustrations...the book underlines the importance of practice without being preachy or dogmatic about it."
~ The Boston Globe
The Story Behind the Rock
When our son Arlen was born, we started playing music for him pretty much straight away. From the outset, my wife and I were struck by his strong reactions to certain music, and by how swiftly those reactions solidified into strong preferences. As we fed him a steady diet of Bowie, Prince, The Kinks, Buddy Guy, assorted Broadway, and film music, all of which he loves to this day, we noticed a funny thing: any time a bit of harder rock happened to
seep in, like the odd AC/DC tune in the midst of a mostly-Queen playlist, he would drop his toys, plant himself directly in front of the speakers, and he'd dance and shriek with delight. When the song ended, we were often faced with tears and pleas for more. Nature was ready to upstage nurture from the beginning!
The idea for the book came about while I was working abroad on a theater show, with a fair bit of downtime. Before leaving, I'd been helping Arlen as he made first contact with a few instruments: keyboards and synthesizers, guitar, and a variety of tuned percussion instruments. It did not always go well. His intense love of music was matched by an equally intense desire for immediate results. This combination often led to an oversized helping of frustration.
I came up with two strategies to help cope with that frustration. The first was to invent over-the-top stories, tall tales of the anguish and vexation felt by some of his musical heroes when they first tried learning an instrument. To this day, Arlen still plays along and feigns belief that Freddie King's first guitar is on the moon, hurled there in a fit of rage. And he still loves to ask, "Daddy, how angry did [insert rock star] get when they were a kid learning to play music?" (One of our companion songs expands on this theme.)
The second strategy was to write a short rhyming story that would be similar in many ways to his favorite picture books. My initial vision was for the book to encourage practice and stick-to-it-iveness, enshrining the many virtues of delayed gratification.
Mercifully, I came to my senses and abandoned that idea as utter nonsense. It dawned on me that our boy's innocence and earnestness fueled a kind of rock power, that unnamed spark of creative joy that many of us in the music industry have chased in practice spaces and recording studios for decades. He is Thoreau's "childlike mirthfulness" come to life. He dances like there's no one watching; he doesn't know any other way. He sings with abandon, and sometimes, he roars. In the end, I thought that if he learns something from the book, wonderful, but above all else, I wanted this book to help ensure that he never forgets how to roar.
About The Author
David Weiser has worked as a keyboard programmer with numerous Broadway, West End, touring and televised musicals, including NBC's 2018 Jesus Christ Superstar, Phantom of the Opera, Cats, and Les Misérables. His credits also include work with artists like David Bowie, The Who, and Brian Wilson. David lives outside of Boston with his wife, son, and a few goblins hanging about in the basement.
About The Illustrator
Derek Lavoie is a freelance illustrator and graphic designer whose work has appeared in a variety of places, from fine art magazines to the Team USA Olympic Luge race suit. He studied illustration at Mass College of Art in Boston, and now resides with his wife and son in upstate New York. When he's not drawing or painting, Derek can often be found tearing up local club gigs on bass! | <urn:uuid:69311c11-2f5a-408c-915d-b453cc9b8891> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.theboywhowantedtorock.com/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573540.20/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819005802-20220819035802-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.975497 | 928 | 2.015625 | 2 |
What’s wrong with in-browser cryptography?
Above image taken from Douglas Crockford’s Principles of Security talk
You may have read about WebCrypto and what it hopes to bring to the browser ecosystem. This particular development may make you feel that it’s okay to start moving various forms of cryptography into the browser.
Why not put cryptography in the browser? Isn’t it inevitable? This is a perpetual refrain from various encryption products which target the browser (names and addresses intentionally omitted). While the smarter ones try to mitigate certain classes of attacks by shipping as browser extensions rather than just a web site that a user types into their address bar, there is definitely a push to a model where you can get the latest greatest crypto code by typing a friendly address into your URL bar.
What’s wrong with this? And will WebCrypto fix it? I don’t think so. Let’s look at the good, the bad, and the ugly of in-browser cryptography and the WebCrypto API.
The Good: The Normative Parts #
Like many W3C standards, the normative parts of the specification are agnostic to specific algorithms. This is described in section 24.1 of the WebCrypto specification:
This section is non-normative
As the API is meant to be extensible in order to keep up with future developments within cryptography and to provide flexibility, there are no strictly required algorithms. Thus users of this API should check to see what algorithms are currently recommended and supported by implementations.
So, in fact, the W3C is not telling us what algorithms to use at all. Instead, the normative parts of the specification cover abstract APIs for things like generating secure random numbers, managing keys, encrypting/decrypting, backgrounding computation inside workers, and abstract types that can be used with a variety of algorithms.
In that regard, the normative parts of the specification are totally fine. While the spec doesn’t cover it, the APIs seem sufficiently abstract to allow them to easily map onto future encryption algorithms and trusted platform modules (TPMs) which could provide secure storage for encryption keys.
The Bad: Failure to Provide Normative Advice on Algorithms #
The W3C has elected to make advice on algorithms a non-normative part of the specification. This leaves browser vendors without any specific standards upon which we can build an interoperable cryptographic ecosystem for the web. Instead, the section on algorithms lists a bunch of examples of common algorithms and how they can be mapped onto WebCrypto’s APIs.
Browsers already ship portable versions of a large number of cryptographic algorithms as part of their TLS stacks. Without normative guidance from the WebCrypto specification itself, what is likely to happen is that browsers will expose the algorithms in their TLS stacks directly to the browser.
Some of them are fairly good (e.g. AES-GCM), but many of them are dangerous if used improperly, like pretty much any other symmetric cipher they list which is not AES-GCM, as these are not authenticated encryption modes and in the hands of amateurs are akin to handling plutonium.
Without someone providing normative advice that all browser vendors can adhere to, my worry is that the WebCrypto ecosystem will fragment and fail to agree on particular standards. My advice to the W3C is to listen to cryptography expert Matt Green’s advice and provide a normative list of authenticated encryption algorithms (and only authenticated encryption algorithms) that all browsers should support. AES-GCM would be a good start.
The Ugly: We’re Still In a Browser #
“The browser knows that the program does not represent the user” - Douglas Crockford
There is no beating around the bush: the browser is a sandbox that attempts to let you dynamically download and run potentially malicious code from a server on-the-fly. Web browsers are a deliberately designed engine for remote code execution, a term which strikes fear into the hearts of information security professionals worldwide.
If ample precautions are taken (which includes a large laundry list of things like TLS, CSP, CORS, proper HTTP headers, JS strict mode, and more), this can allow for the successful development of cryptographic applications that attempt to enforce the interests of the web application creator. But what about the user?
Do programs in the browser represent the interests of the user? According to Commander Douglas Crockford (image at the top of this post) the answer is a resounding NO. This is not the traditional threat model of the browser.
Where installation of native code is increasingly restrained through the use of cryptographic signatures and software update systems which check multiple digital signatures to prevent compromise (not to mention the browser extension ecosystems which provide similar features), the web itself just grabs and implicitly trusts whatever files it happens to find on a given server at a given time.
The threat model of native code is now well-understood and increasingly addressed through more sophisticated software installation and update systems. Native code releases are artifacts at a point in time, don’t change dynamically, and can therefore be audited and given approval by experts (who ideally have access to the source code and can match the official binaries). This is not the case for the web platform.
Before I keep talking about where in-browser cryptography is inappropriate, let me talk about where I think it might work: I think it has great potential uses for encrypting messages sent between a user and the web site they are accessing. For example, my former employer LivingSocial used in-browser crypto to encrypt credit card numbers in-browser with their payment processor’s public key before sending them over the wire (via an HTTPS connection which effectively double-encrypted them). This provided end-to-end encryption between a user’s browser and the LivingSocial’s upstream payment gateway, even after HTTPS has been terminated by LivingSocial (i.e. all cardholder data seen by LivingSocial was encrypted).
In this approach, there’s an implicit trust relationship between the user and the site they’re accessing. What we see happening here is cryptography being used to protect the web site’s interests, not the user’s. For this purpose, in-browser crypto is great!
Where the web encryption model fails is when we want to provide a “Trust No One” service which protects the user’s interests, for example the MEGA storage service which uses in-browser crypto. In this sort of scenario, we have MEGA wanting to act as a sort of dumb store for encrypted data, and have them never see plaintexts or encryption keys. Such a service would, ideally, pass what cryptography expert Matt Green calls the “mud puddle test”, where a person who has a particularly bad run-in with a mud puddle and loses their personal copies of encryption keys can’t ask the service to give them back, since the service itself doesn’t hold onto them.
The potential attacks are numerous: hackers (or governments) could compromise MEGA’s servers and change the file. A MEGA insider could place a malicious payload inside this file. Governments could coerce MEGA into placing a malicious payload inside the file. Or MEGA could just decide they want to grab everyone’s keys. If any of these things were to happen, the security of the entire system has been lost.
The web’s dynamic nature precludes our only defense against these sorts of attacks: audits by security experts. Even if crypto experts were to audit MEGA’s SecureBoot.js and give it a clean bill of health, there’s nothing to stop anyone who has sufficient access from injecting a malicious payload into it at any point in time. They could even selectively target users, so the rest of the world would still think it’s fine, but a particular victim would receive the malicious payload.
One way to mitigate this is to use browser extensions, which provide cryptographically signed software updates in a way more akin to traditional native code applications, helping mitigate the “just grab the latest code off the server any time I access the site” problem. Browser extensions have problems of their own, but they do move the security bar forward over a traditional web page.
HTTPS Doesn’t Solve This Problem #
Some of you might be thinking “if I use HTTPS, isn’t the content signed by the server?” It’s true that, after years of resolving mistakes and design flaws, and when the certificate you’re trusting hasn’t been compromised, HTTPS will ensure the integrity of the content between the remote web server and your web browser. Modern browsers support AES-GCM, which is particularly good at this.
However, HTTPS was designed to protect what’s known as “data-in-motion”. This means that HTTPS servers use online keys which are not only easily compromised, but they’re specifically designed to make it easy to send back data to users.
Better software update systems are specifically designed to encrypt “data-at-rest”, which is how build artifacts of native applications or even a web site’s static assets should be thought of. The advantage of data-at-rest is it can be signed by offline keys (or a combination of offline and online keys) which are much more difficult to compromise.
For more information on the problems of using HTTPS alone in the hopes of building a secure software delivery system, see section 4.1 “PKI Vulnerabilities” in the Survivable Key Compromise In Software Update Systems paper.
Cryptography is a systems problem, and the web is not a secure platform for application delivery. The web is a way to easily run untrusted code fetched from remote servers on-the-fly. Building security software inside of web browsers only makes the problem harder.
In-browser crypto is best utilized to help web sites protect their own interests. Sites attempting to build “Trust No One” cryptosystems inside of browsers (especially when not using browser extensions) have vast attack surface and are fundamentally attempting to use the browser for something it wasn’t designed for: creating software that respects the user’s interests, not the web site provider’s.
Instead, prefer either browser extensions or open source native tools. Look in particular for tools that have been audited by security professionals, and in the case of native code apps look for tools with binaries that can be reproduced from the original source code. Scrutiny by experts in paramount in making sure software is secure, and the web, as it exists today, makes this sort of scrutiny impossible. | <urn:uuid:34dd58f4-db85-4855-a5c4-5f4c55e49fb1> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://tonyarcieri.com/whats-wrong-with-webcrypto | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570879.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809003642-20220809033642-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.926528 | 2,792 | 2.546875 | 3 |
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07 April 2015
Nixon and Hoover
President Nixon celebrating FBI Director Hoover's birthday on Air Force One with Secretary of State William P. Rogers and Mrs. Rogers, 12/31/1971 National Archives Identifier: 194400 Local Identifier: NLRN-WHPO-C8156-2 Creator(s): General Services Administration. National Archives and Records Service. Office of Presidential Libraries. Office of Presidential Papers. (01/20/1969 - ca. 12/1974) https://www.flickr.com/photos/nleomf/8466362812/sizes/l/in/photostream/
It was a great pleasure last month to hear Alexander Butterfield in conversation with Professor Iwan Morgan at the Library. Butterfield was a trusted member of the Nixon's inner circle since the President's inauguration in 1969. By February 1971, Butterfield was instructed to oversee the installation of the now infamous White House taping system. In 1973, he revealed its existence to the Senate Select Committee and the Watergate investigation was transformed.
Now in his late eighties Butterfield provided clear and humorous insight into life in the Nixon White House. For me, the talk reminded me of a long shadow that hung over the U.S. Executive until 1972, that of J. Edgar Hoover. Hoover was brought to mind, not because he was mentioned directly, but in 1937, a Richard Milhous Nixon applied to join the FBI. From the documents available in the FBI online Records, it appears that Nixon passed all the various tests required. Nor did the extensive background checks flag up anything untoward. Nevertheless Nixon was not appointed a FBI field agent, though no explicit reason was given. However, a memorandum to Hoover, on the 18th March 1954, stated that:
“[T]he reason for the cancellation of the appointment is not reflected in the file. It may be assumed that the view of the fact that Mr Nixon was not immediately available for appointment, and based on our needs in August of 1937, that the appointment was cancelled.”
It is no coincidence that this memo was written at this juncture. By 1954 Nixon was in his second year as Vice- President in the Eisenhower administration. Indeed, from November 1946 when Nixon was elected as Representative for California, along with John F. Kennedy for Massachusetts and a Senator Joseph R. McCarthy for Wisconsin, all of the aforementioned would have received a fresh FBI file as newly elected legislators. Clearly in the subsequent years of Congressional service, Nixon and Hoover’s relationship must have developed, not least because Nixon’s anti-communist views were closely aligned to those of Joseph McCarthy’s who courted Hoover’s friendship from his arrival at the Capitol.
As McCarthy’s recklessness “threatened to the respectability of Republican anti-Communism”, Eisenhower used Nixon as a go-between in an effort to restrain the maverick Wisconsin Senator. Nevertheless, the closeness of the Nixon/Hoover relationship over the years was possibly best illustrated by Hoover’s bragging in FBI circles that he had created Nixon. This would have been reinforced in Hoover’s own mind when as President–elect Nixon met with Hoover early on at his transition headquarters in New York, promising him, 'Edgar, you are one of the few people who is to have direct access to me at all times.'
Inevitably Hoover held the whip hand in their relationship since on the two occasions when Nixon came under pressure to force Hoover to resign and summoned him to the Oval Office, he always left with his position as Director of the FBI intact. It was heart disease and not the Executive which ended J. Edger Hoover’s tenure.
Ironically, it was at that meeting in the Hotel Pierre in New York where Hoover planted the seed that would ultimately result in Nixon’s downfall.
Hoover warned Nixon, who as President-elect would attend the White House as the guest of the incumbent, then President Johnson, that he should be careful what he said, because 'Johnson had installed elaborate electronic equipment which enabled him secretly to record conversations in the Oval Office.'
On Nixon’s orders his deputy assistant Alexander Butterfield instructed the Secret Service to install recording devices in various locations around the White House, including five microphones fitted into the fabric of the Oval Office desk.
- Jerry Jenkins
A collection of Nixon’s recordings are freely available online: http://www.nixontapes.org/index.html
Presidential Campaign Activities of 1972, S. Res. 60. Watergate and Related Activities Phase 1: Watergate Investigation. Book 5. Accessible via the Congressional Hearings Digital Collection, 1824-1979
Morgan, Iwan, Nixon Arnold. London 2002 BL.Shelkmark : YC.2002.a.23723
Gentry, Curt, J. Edgar Hoover: the Man and the Secrets. WW. Norton: London 2001 BL Shelfmark : YA.1992.b.4224
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Okay, just for the sake of this exercise, let’s say that I have a philanthropic billionaire who wants to give you – yes YOU – $20 million.
Of course, there’s a catch.
The billionaire wants to see that his $20 million goes to a good cause and will help to make the world a better place.
There are no educational or experience requirements to receive the money, just a good heart and a good idea.
You are not allowed to simply donate it to an existing organization. You must create a new non-profit organization that will help the make the world a better place.
This is not a contest, and there is not simply one block of $20 million, there are hundreds of blocks that he and his friends want to donate to regular people, just like you, who are in the trenches of everyday life.
So, you – if you decide to participate in his generous offer – must submit a simple one page description of how you would use his monetary gift to help make the world a better place.
The question is:
What Would You Do with $20 Million Dollars?
To help make the world a better place?
You might ask what how you will be compensated for your efforts of managing his financial gift?
What do I get?
You may hire yourself to work for your organization, if you like – but if you do – you will have to perform specific job duties from the office of your organization and you must work a 40-hour week, without benefits and/or vacation for a modest wage of no more than $1,200.00 a month. The salary limit applies to everyone in your organization; no one may ever be paid more than $1,200-a-month.
What’s in it for me?
The satisfaction that comes from doing a great service for both this philanthropist and the world at large by creating something amazing, that someone else may not have been able to accomplish without the combination of his money and your heart-centered vision… not much else.
So, to recap:
- You submit your idea.
- You get $20 million to manage.
- You can choose to hire yourself (or not) to manage the $20 million. If you do, you may only receive a $1,200 monthly stipend and you must work a 40-hour week without benefits or vacation time.
Would You Do It?
What Would Your Project Be?
With my clients, every one of them immediately has an idea already in mind and enthusiastically produces a one-page description of their project… Just in case there is a philanthropist (and there may be) that wants to support their efforts to help make a better world, both in the now and for future generations.
I have also offered the scenario to strangers – people I don’t know and who don’t know me – and their reaction is very different indeed.
For all they know, I could be the philanthropist with a $20,000,000 check in my pocket (and when asked, I’ve neither confirmed, nor denied, such an idea).
Most of them shrug off the offer as a ridiculous proposition.
Many say, “I wouldn’t even waste my time thinking about it for that!” (referring to the $1,200 a month.)
Also, a very large percentage, have a response, like:
“I can’t think of anything that could help make the world a better place.”
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As I looked up at the sky at 06:30 hours this morning I could clearly see the moon. A subsequent review of the radar images show that we are set for some clear spells this morning.
With the wind deriving from the warmer SW sand the sun being able to break through a little more; we will see the thermometer reach a maximum of around 10c today. As the afternoon passes the cloud cover will increase and there is a 30% risk of some light showers in the early to mid evening period. Overnight the minimum temperature will be around 4c.
Overall it has been a dry start to the year with our rain level only at 57% of the level we had received by this time last year.
The wind will have an average wind speed of around 7-8 mph today. The wind will be bringing it with it warmer (and moist air particularly from the WSW) from the SW-WSW. This later wind direction is the reason that we will see increased cloud cover in the early evening.
Summary for today : A bright start becoming cloudier later. A mild day with temperatures potentially touching double figures.
Observations made on 16/2/2017 at 06:30 hours Hammerwich, Staffordshire.
Temperature : 5.5c; Air pressure : 1027.1mb; Relative humidity 91%; Wind : 7mph SW; Rain this month : 21.4mm; Rain this year : 72.2mm
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This issue occurs because of different issues including incompatibility driver, hardware or system issues. Also, this issue occurs on the different operating system from Windows XP to Windows 10 and different notebooks models.
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- Windows automates the process, so you don’t have to download and update mouse drivers manually.
- 4) Do not connect your graphic input device to the computer before the driver is installed.Otherwise, you may come across a delay or error issue in system identification when you install the driver.
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Select Update Driver Software but select Browse my computer for driver software option on the screen prompted this time. The drivers are always needed to be updated on time as per the requirement of the situation. Here are a few simple steps that ought to be followed to update the drivers manually. Some Nvidia users have reported “graphics card not detected” issue.
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The above troubleshooting methods should fix this problem. Try the Rocketdrivers above solutions in various combinations and read and execute them carefully. Feel free to share your thoughts on this article in the comment section below. Open the Device Manager again and right-click on the NVIDIA graphics card driver in the Display adapters section . After you have uninstalled all the NVIDIA programs and the driver, make sure to restart your computer. Locate the NVIDIA graphics card driver which will be in the Display adapters and right-click on it. Choose Custom install and check Perform a clean install.
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Pet rescue missions give shelter animals and retired pilots a new leash on life
By Judith Reitman-Texier for Next Avenue
Caption: Volunteer pilots fly thousands of animals to safety each year.
I am belted into the cockpit of a Cessna 182, a four-seater single-engine plane, flying 5,000 feet above the North Carolina/Virginia border. The pilot, Thomas Hendrickson, points to the silhouette of the Appalachians and the blue-gray rivers fanning through miles of farmland. The flight from Horace Williams airport in Chapel Hill, N.C., to Tappahannock-Essex Airport in Virginia is an hour and a half, much quicker than what would have been a four-hour car ride, meaning less stress for our passenger. Heather, a fawn-colored collie rescued from a kill shelter, is normally skittish, but as we fly over those rivers, she is sprawled Zen-like in the Cessna’s back seat.
When we land in Tappahannock, a rat terrier with a surgically wired jaw is waiting to board Heather’s connecting flight. Pilot Bernie Frankowiak, 50, CFO of a car dealership, will take Rocky, the terrier, to Redding, Penn., where another pilot will fly the dog to his adoptive home in New Hampshire. Meanwhile, Frankowiak will continue with Heather to Brandywine airport. There, a representative of Rescue Express will take her to her foster home.
Hendrickson and Frankowiak are part of a network of thousands of volunteers who fly dogs and cats—and sometimes hamsters, snakes and birds — thousands of miles for organizations with names like Paws N Pilots, Flying Fur Rescue, Dog Is My Co Pilot, and Animal Rescue Flights (ARF). The animals are on the euthanasia list at kill shelters located mostly in the South. In Idaho, Montana, New Jersey, New York, Utah and other states that enforce spay neuter laws, rescue groups and adopters await them.
Who’s Saving Who?
The pilots receive no pay and, in fact, dig into their own pockets to fund flights. Victor Girgenti, a Long Island businessman in his 50s, has flown his Piper Meridian on 750 “missions” for Animal Rescue Flights; he spends about $1,000 in jet fuel per flight.
For these animal-loving flying buffs, mission trumps cost.
“We bring animals from places they will die to places that want them, where they will live,” says Dr. Peter Rork. The 62-year-old retired orthopedic surgeon founded Dog Is My Co-Pilot
shortly after the death of his wife in 2012. Three times a week, he flies upwards of 50 dogs from western kill shelters to safe havens. “You save animals, but I feel they save me,” he says.
Businessman and amateur pilot Jon Wehrenberg found himself languishing in retirement when an animal rescuer asked him to fly a dog interstate, fast. At 64, he co-founded Pilots N Paws
, which now has over 5,000 pilots flying 15,000 animals to rescue each year.
Flying for rescues provides a renewed sense of purpose to these hobbyist pilots who, like their passengers, are moving into a new stage of life.
“I feel useful and appreciated,” says retired lab technician Frank Walters, 62. Jerry Perleman, a retired music teacher from Roslyn, N.Y., values the camaraderie: “You’re stepping up to the plate as part of a team.”
A Need for Speed
Each day, 10,000 animals are euthanized in shelters across the county; that’s about 4 million dogs and cats every year. In many cases, the otherwise healthy dogs and cats could have found adopters in other states, but transportation is the challenge. Animal rescue groups network with ground transporters, but long hauls are stressful on crated animals and animals in kill shelters don’t have time to wait for scheduled transport. Pilots, on the other hand, can fly with little advance notice.
“It’s terrible to think an animal is going to die because he has no transportation,” says Jeff Bennett. The retired Florida businessman has flown more than 4,000 animals in the past four years on Pilots N Paws missions. Twice a month, he loads up his Cirrus SR22 with dogs and cats from the South and brings them to Florida rescues.
For Bennett, 56, the most poignant moments are on landing, when adopters first greet their new companions. “Especially the military personnel with PTSD, when they first meet their dogs, it brings tears to your eyes,” says Bennett.
Pilots N Paws and similar networks do not arrange the flights; they simply post a rescue group’s need for transport:
Blind lab needs ride from Lake City, FL to Franklin, MA. Distance 1039 miles.
Transport PTSD Service Dog to FL from Rochester, MN. Distance 925 miles.
Within a day, several pilots responded to the request to fly Heather, each offering a leg of the journey; within two days, the schedule was set.
Most of the time, the dogs and cats are crated. Sometimes they are tethered to a seat or get a first-class ride with the pilot.
Rork flies his Cessna 206 with the largest dog in the passenger seat. Victor Girgenti recalls flying a nervous 175-pound mastiff/Great Dane named Sam who was too big for a crate. The dog occupied himself in the back of the jet with a bag of dog food…until he found his way to the passenger seat where he settled in, calmly gazing out the window. Layla, a rescued black lab on her way from North Carolina to service training in Ohio, sat on the lap of Pilot.dog
’s co-founder Pam Rhodes, while her husband piloted.
“The animals know you are saving them,” says retired international airlines pilot Keith Becker, 69. Becker has flown 107 missions and over 450 dogs and cats for Pilots N Paws over the past few years. On one trip, he had tethered a large Doberman behind his seat. “When we landed, that dog gave me a big wet kiss on the back of my neck,” he recalls. “You can’t find a more grateful — or affectionate, passenger.”
Most of the pilots are men. But several women have been among the trailblazers. Debi Boies, an animal rescuer, founded Pilots N Paws in 2008 with Jon Wehrenberg in 2008. Pat Picornell, 55, a wealth adviser, began a Bahama route for that organization when shelters there began closing. She herself has flown more than 1,000 island dogs to mainland rescue groups.
“It’s something to look forward to,” Picornell says. “When the weather is beautiful, why not make a flight and pick up some dogs?”
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Part One: Champagne & Sparkling Wines
Here we shall look at the various types of sparkling wine produced from two major methods (the traditional and tank methods) and match them with simple food. Of course we’ll taste Champagne, but we’ll compare an inexpensive (for Champagne) style against a vintage style. In addition we find very decent and affordable fizz in the new world which is extremely worth factoring in as a comparison. And what about English sparkling wine which is made exactly the same way as Champagne? Tank method sparklers include the underrated Asti and the ever-popular Prosecco - both worth investigating.
Part Two: Sweet Wines
Dessert wines are created from a myriad of various methods ultimately producing a complex range of styles. We’ll learn about the classic noble-rot style with plenty of examples to select from such as Sauternes, Chaume and the Hungarian regal classic, Tokaji. In addition we'll taste the full-bodied Port style and to cap it all off the ultra-sweet Sherry, Pedro-Ximenez, tasted then poured over vanilla ice-cream… delicious!
All tastings include: minimum of 6 wines sourced locally so you can find them easily if you like them, full tasting notes, tasting sheet, use of professional tastings glasses and nibbles.
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Aloe Vera is a plant you definitely want to make room for in your garden. It not only adds interest to yards or indoor spaces, it has wonderful healing and medicinal properties.
The gel produced inside the aloe vera plant can soothe sunburns and skin irritations, which is why it’s such a popular succulent. It also helps to purify the air, just as other houseplants do!
If properly cared for, a single aloe vera plant can grow for years and even decades.
Aloe vera grows very well outdoors but it can also be grown indoors, as long as it gets enough sunlight.
A fast grower, aloe vera is a low-maintenance plant that is perfect for gardening beginners, those with a succulent garden, or those who want access to fresh aloe vera gel.
Keep reading to learn about the most important steps to planting and caring for an aloe vera plant!
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How to Plant an Aloe Vera Plant
Aloe vera plants can be purchased in a variety of sizes at garden nurseries and through online retailers.
You can find a tiny aloe vera plant in a four-inch pot, or a very large one that is perfect for a sprawling outdoor space. Choose the best size for your needs, and consider how much space you have in your home or in your outdoor garden.
Also consider how often you think you’ll use the aloe vera gel – if you plant to use aloe for its medicinal properties, you might want to purchase an aloe vera plant that has already grown large leaves.
TIP: Always be careful when observing and planting aloe vera. As with other cacti, aloe vera features spiky stems that can prick your skin if handled without protective gardening gloves.
When planting your aloe vera plant, be mindful that the pot you use contains a drainage hole because proper water drainage is key for growing this plant successfully.
If planting directly into the ground, it’s best to plant in a well-draining cactus mix, to ensure proper drainage.
As with other succulents, aloe vera does not do well in soggy soil, so keeping the soil overly moist is a sure way to kill your plant!
You can grow aloe vera in any pot, but I recommend using terra cotta pots when growing succulents because it ensures better airflow and also wicks water away from the pot instead of holding it in.
Plus, plastic pots can retain too much heat, especially if placed outdoors in full sun.
If you’re repotting your aloe vera pot after purchasing it, make sure to choose a pot that can accommodate the root ball plus a few inches for the roots to continue growing.
Place your plant inside the pot and fill it with cactus mix aka succulents soil.
Since aloe vera needs good soil drainage, opt for cactus soil over regular potting soil.
A good cactus mix will contain particles such as pumice and sand to ensure that excess water is able to quickly travel through the soil.
How Often to Water an Aloe Vera Plant
Knowing how often to water an aloe vera plant depends on a number of factors including climate, humidity, and whether it’s being grown indoors or outdoors.
Generally speaking, you should water aloe vera about every few days to once a week.
Aloe vera is a very drought-tolerant plant that stores water in its leaves, so you should only water it when the soil is dry to the touch.
An easy way to test whether your plant needs water is to touch its soil. Simply stick your finger into the soil about an inch deep. If it feels dry, then it’s time to water!
If it feels moist, test again in a few more days.
When it’s time to water, take your watering can or watering hose, and gently water the soil, not the actual plant or leaves.
Once you see water drain from the drainage hole, it’s time to stop watering – your plant has received enough moisture.
To learn more about watering succulents, read my post about How to Water Succulents – the Right Way!
Your Aloe Vera Plant Needs Full Sun
Aloe vera needs plenty of sunlight to grow optimally.
If you’re growing aloe vera indoors, try to place your plant near a south-facing window that gets a few hours of sunlight each day.
If growing aloe vera outdoors, make sure to place in a spot that gets full to part sun through the day.
You can keep your potted aloe vera indoors during the colder months, and move the pot outdoors during spring and summer so the plant gets the light it needs during its growing season.
If you notice that your plant’s leaves are looking sunburnt, however, move your pot to an area of your yard that gets more filtered shade, such as on a porch or under a tree or shrub.
How to Fertilize an Aloe Vera Plant
Fertilizing aloe vera plants can help them grow, but it’s not a necessary step since they can thrive without it.
If you opt to fertilize, always use organic fertilizer because they’re more gentle on plants. I personally use a liquid kelp fertilizer for my plants, and I love it.
It’s important to get the timing right: fertilize during the active growing season and never during fall and winter because that’s the plant’s dormant period.
During Spring and Summer, you can add liquid fertilizer to your plant once a month, according to instructions on the label, or at half strength.
Always make sure, however, that the soil is moist before applying fertilizer because fertilizing when the soil is dry can shock the plant.
Dealing with Plant Pests and Diseases on Your Aloe Vera Plant
Luckily, growing aloe vera doesn’t present too many problems in the way of insects and plant diseases.
However, it’s always best to be proactive. As with other succulents, aloe vera can fall prey to mealybugs. What are mealybugs?
Mealybugs are fast-spreading insects that feed off the sap of succulents. If not dealt with quickly, they can ruin your plant and spread from plant to plant.
If you see white, cotton-like mounds on the leaves and base of your aloe vera plant, you most likely have a mealybug problem. Don’t worry!
There’s a simple solution for getting rid of the problem, as long as you have rubbing alcohol on hand!
If you only see a few little white mounds on your aloe vera plant, simply dip a Q-tip in rubbing alcohol and swab away the mealybugs until they are no longer visible; this should resolve your bug problem.
However, if you plant is covered in mealybugs, you can try to salvage it but mixing alcohol and water.
Using a watering can or spray bottle, drench your entire plant, including the leaves and the soil, with the alcohol solution.
Do this for a few days until you no longer see the mealybugs; this will give your plant a good chance of surviving this insect infestation.
While you deal with your mealybug problem, make sure to isolate the infected plant to shield your other plants from succumbing to this fast-spreading insect.
For more about mealybugs, read my How to Get Rid of Mealybugs post.
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This paper reviews the establishment, development and present day of the Pauls Stradins Museum of the History of Medicine in Rīga, Latvia. The museum initially represented the hopes of one very excited enthusiast, and what was decisive was that he was able to fill the vacuum of knowledge and information, expand on it, and legalise it as an institution protected by the state. No less important, however, has been the approach taken by government structures and the public at large in support of Pauls Stradins' hopes. This comparatively liberal approach toward what could be seen as a private museum can be attributed to the fact that health care had been declared a priority in the Soviet Union at that time, and in ideological terms, the history of medicine was a fairly neutral issue. The museum celebrated its 50th anniversary in 2007. This paper reviews the basic functions and structures of the museum, as well as the changes which have occurred in the complex era of the 20th century. Some areas of activity are reviewed in greater detail, and there are statistics to offer a look at the museum today.
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|Publication status||Published - 2009|
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- 3.5 Other medical sciences
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To understand why website maintenance is so important, consider the regular maintenance needed in your home.
It’s a continuous process of cleaning, updating, and servicing. For example, you might have your gutters cleaned before the rainy season hits.
When your sink isn’t draining correctly, you call a plumber. If your heat or A/C would happen to go out, your first instinct would likely be to call an HVAC technician.
Regular maintenance is an essential part of homeownership.
The same applies to owning a business and operating a website. Optimising your web presence is crucial to keeping your business running well. Your original design may need updating. Bug fixes and potential crashes need attention.
Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) details to boost traffic and increase returns will need to be adjusted based on the services, specials, etc., that you offer. While running the business itself is important, how people reach your website and what they see is what will drive revenue.
Your business website is the first impression that many customers will get. Your website is your image. If your image is poorly maintained, how do you expect to generate traffic, increase revenue, and retain a solid customer base?
Knowing the importance of your business image and regular website maintenance will help keep you in line with the competition within your industry. In this article, we will look at what website maintenance is, what it does for your business and the ways you can keep your business website up to date.
What is Website Maintenance?
Website maintenance refers to any and all of the tasks that are crucial to keeping your website functioning properly and ensuring that it is up to date. It is an ongoing process that checks your site for issues, makes updates to plugins and content, and much more. It can seem like a full-time job keeping your site up to date, and it often is! That’s why website maintenance and design firms spend years honing their craft with best practices and ongoing education to stay on top of the ever-changing web.
Top 3 Benefits of Website Maintenance
1. Maintaining Your Security
One of the primary concerns for any website owner/operator, especially with online traffic growth, is how to keep the website secure. How do you protect your landing page from hackers? Is there a security plan in place to recover lost data if a security breach does occur? When your website lacks stability in the cybersecurity side of things, your visitors won’t feel comfortable clicking ahead to see what your business offers.
If you work through a third-party operator, such as Drupal, system releases frequently occur to fix bugs, patch software and update internal security.
Why is maintaining security important?
If you don’t keep up with routine website maintenance and updates, you will be running on outdated security and opening the door for hackers to get in. Not only is this a risk for your business’ data and finances, but for that of your clients, customers, or employees as well.
2. Maintaining Your Site Traffic
To increase revenue, you need to bring in more customers and solidify your existing customer base. To do that, you need to engage customers with a strong web presence, i.e., your website. Boosting site traffic will give business returns that you likely wouldn’t see otherwise.
Why is maintaining site traffic important?
When you update your website regularly, the website may rank higher when mass search engines such as Google. When your site ranks higher, it will be more visible to people searching your industry for products and services. This is also where using SEO keywords comes into play.
When potential customers search an industry keyword, content appears that most closely matches that keyword (and according to search rankings). The more you update your website to exclude excess/duplicate information, include more precise keywords, and present other valuable information, the more likely people will be to click ahead and see what your business is all about.
3. Maintaining Your Visitor Experience
When you consider the design and function of your business website, step into the visitor’s shoes. If you’re looking for a particular product or service and click on an industry website, you want to be able to find what you need in the least amount of time possible. You expect something easy to use and easy to find.
This is where UI/UX comes into play. While many modern platforms do the job for you as far as web design and function, ensuring that your choices within these platforms keep the user at the forefront is crucial in how people will interact with your business.
Why is maintaining the visitor experience important?
Engaging your audience with regular updates, including blog posts, images, business updates, events, and more, will enhance the visitor experience and help promote your brand in a way that others in your industry may not be doing yet.
Make sure you don’t have excessive or duplicate information on your website that would appear as clutter. In the same way, remove any outdated information (so that you don’t lose credibility/professionalism in your client interactions). Providing existing and potential customers with the best experience possible when visiting your website will increase site traffic and, in turn, revenue.
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Victory Day greetings of the President of the Republic of Belarus
Dear fellow countrymen,
I cordially congratulate you on Victory Day.
“This holiday, which is an embodiment of fortitude and courage of the Soviet people, takes a special place in the life of every Belarusian.
The Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945 claimed millions of lives and became an appalling tragedy for all Soviet people. We bow our heads honoring the fallen.
In times of severe hardships the Belarusians together with the brotherly nations of the Soviet Union, allies of the anti-Hitler coalition stopped the spread of fascism, kept faith that the good would prevail over the evil, and victory over the aggressor was inevitable and gave every nation an opportunity to choose its own path of development.
Blizzards of that horrible war hammered away long time ago. The decades of peace and creation let us rebuild destroyed cities and villages, turn our wounded Belarusian land into bloomy fields and gardens, build a prosperous state where one can live, learn and work without fear, be confident about the future.
The greatness of this Victory and the immortal exploit of the victors’ generation will never dwindle. Eternal glory to the heroes.
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Do Admissions Interviews Matter? While admissions interviews are powerful informational tools, they can be deeply flawed. (The New York Times)
How Colleges Punish Families Who Choose to Save Schools and the government should focus on income, not savings, when awarding financial aid assistance. (The Atlantic)
America's revolution in business school education U.S. business school reformers of the 1950s and '60s had high aspirations they didn't quite meet. The country, and the world, is still living with the consequences. Business schools are under the microscope again, their relevance and value questioned in many quarters. The financial crisis has triggered a self-examination of their raison d'etre.
(Los Angeles Times)
Social Media Skills a Must for M.B.A.s, Survey Says Most potential students say they use sites like Facebook and Twitter to research school choices. (U.S. News & World Report)
Facebook puts a damper on class reunions' status Facebook makes it easier to find classmates and spread the word about a reunion, but also takes away the lure, some say. (USA Today)
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As far as holidays go, Thanksgiving is one of the best. It gives us the perfect excuse to get together with friends and family and devour turkeys, casseroles, and other fixings – and it provides us with an opportunity to step back, reflect, and be thankful for the blessings in our lives.
If you’re celebrating Thanksgiving with little ones, you can use the holiday as an excellent opportunity to help them understand what it means to be grateful and thankful. Depending on how young – or old – your children are, here are a handful of ways you can teach your kids gratitude this Thanksgiving:
VOLUNTEER AS A FAMILY. See if you can find a local food bank, soup kitchen, or donation center that will allow kids to help out. It’s important to give kids the opportunity to help out and support their community, and by giving back to those less fortunate than themselves, your kids may realize just how lucky they are to have everything that they do – things like clean clothes, shelter, safety, and a home-cooked meal.
LET THEM HELP COOK! Regardless of how old your kiddos are, letting them get involved in the kitchen can be a great way to help them understand the labor of love that goes into preparing any meal. Once they start to realize how much work goes into putting dinner on the table, they might be a little bit more grateful when the time comes to eat – both on Thanksgiving day and for any family meal.
SHARE YOUR GRATITUDE. When it’s time to sit down for dinner, don’t just dive in. Instead, take a moment to express your thanks for the food on your plates, the people at your table, and the blessings in your life. Go around the table and share the things you’re grateful for. You and your little ones will realize you have more working in your favor than you understand.
RUN A RACE FOR A GREAT CAUSE. Many families participate in an annual Turkey Trot race before diving into Thanksgiving turkey. While these races are great healthy traditions to embrace as a family, the real reason to run is to support a great cause. Proceeds from these races typically go toward a food bank or other organization on a mission to feed those in need during the holiday season, and you can use this as an opportunity to teach your little ones about the reason you’re running – and the people you’re supporting.
MAKE GRATITUDE A GAME. There are plenty of ways you can make expressing gratitude a little more fun for your younger Thanksgiving guests. Gamify gratitude by finding different colored pieces – these can be candies, straws, stickers, or anything else that can be divided into four or five color groups. Assign each color a category – person, place, thing, event, or wildcard. Then, take turns drawing colors and coming up with something you’re grateful for that fits the category.
Aside from a great excuse to get together with loved ones and indulge in your favorite holiday treats, Thanksgiving is the perfect time to embrace gratitude – and to teach your kids how to do the same. See what you can do to infuse your Thanksgiving with a little more appreciation, and watch how your little ones will grow from the experience. | <urn:uuid:2dcfc5ea-c4d4-47ba-a34c-b1b4a1feb2fa> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.annmariejohn.com/five-ways-to-teach-kids-gratitude-this-thanksgiving | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573540.20/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819005802-20220819035802-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.93687 | 681 | 2.640625 | 3 |
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IN THIS EPISODE OF THE HUMAN UPGRADE™...
… you’ll learn why every breath you take makes a difference in how your entire body functions. The way you breathe affects the quality of your life and every one of your body systems. Full stop. This goes for adults and kids alike.
In this special edition, breathing experts Patrick McKeown (“THE BREATHING CURE: Develop New Habits for a Healthier, Happier, and Longer Life”) and James Nestor (“Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art”) approach the topic from diverse perspectives, but agree on a lot. Especially the benefits of nose breathing and the detriment of mouth breathing.
They explain the biochemical, biomechanics and psychological components of how you breathe. They also present exciting new research in pulmonology, psychology, biochemistry and human physiology that shows how making even slight adjustments to the way you inhale dramatically influences things like:
- sleep and snoring
- fitness and athletic performance
- brain function
- focus and concentration
- oxygen intake
- heart rate and blood pressure
- blood sugar
- internal organ function
- nervous system
- respiratory health
- asthma and allergies
- autoimmune disease
- female hormones
- stress and anxiety
That's just the start of what you can change when you change your breathing. Big claims, yes. All true. And even bigger benefits for you.
Breathing can nurture your body, center you, and rebalance you. When you start harnessing the power of your breath, you're going to feel incredibly better than you do right now.
Patrick McKeown, an author, educator and one of the world’s leading breathing re-education experts, has researched breathing for more than two decades. Listen to more: Shut Your Mouth! Nose Breathing Improves All Your Body Systems – Patrick McKeown – #835
James Nestor, a San Francisco-based science journalist, author, surfer, free diver, adventurer, and speaker, set out on a decade-long quest to find out where our breathing went wrong—and how to fix it. Listen to more: Breathing Essentials That Will Change Your Life – James Nestor – #751
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A Virtual Business Phone System is one of the best ways to remain in touch with your customers. Not only is it easy to set up (usually through the web or a mobile app), but they can work with numerous devices. Virtual phones, for example, work with office phones, cell phones, laptops, computers, tablets, etc. This technology has allowed employees to telework from anywhere.
How do Virtual Business Phone Systems Work?
A Virtual Business Phone System, simply put, takes your traditional phone system and places it in the cloud. It doesn’t require any new hardware either. As mentioned earlier, you can use your existing mobile phone to simply add the required app. Virtual phones typically don’t necessitate a lot of technical knowledge either, and they can be set up in minutes.
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Since you don’t have to invest a lot of time or money into purchasing new hardware, Virtual Business Phone Systems can prove very cost efficient. You also don’t need to hire an IT staff solely for your phones. Additionally, if you find that you need to scale your business up or down, you can do so without unexpected costs.
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Our desire to see every child at Bluecoat Primary Academy STRIVE for life in its fullness (John 10:10) has led us to develop a curriculum which aims to provide pupils with a coherent, knowledge rich and cumulative education that will develop their cultural literacy and ensure every child fulfils their potential. Our curriculum vision embraces the spiritual, physical, intellectual, emotional, moral and social development of children. It is engaging, exciting and innovative, encompassing and celebrating all curriculum areas, helping to ensure that our children develop the knowledge and skills they need to excel, and become creative and curious citizens.
To ensure we do everything in our power to enable this to happen, the design of our curriculum places our vision at its centre and is:
Influenced by our context
Our curriculum is shaped and influenced by the specific context of our school. As a multi-faith school based in the centre of Nottingham and home to a focus provision unit, we welcome a variety of children from many different walks of life. The design of our curriculum takes the different starting points of our children into account and educates all individuals, regardless of their ability, to fulfil their potential academically, socially, morally, spiritually and physically.
Based on research of best practice and how children learn
At Bluecoat Primary, we understand that knowledge is generative and connected in webs rather than isolated and therefore, curricula have been developed within year groups and subjects that complement and build on one another with clear progression and links to promote the success of children not only in their year groups, but in subsequent year groups. This gives a broad knowledge base within each year group which informs the next stage of learning. Each year group’s curriculum content is structured to build progressively over time in what we refer to as a ‘curriculum narrative’ and our curriculum is designed within year groups to take learning at a steadier pace in order to bring about deeper learning, ensuring that no child is left behind, as well as providing deepening tasks and richer experiences for children who are exceeding.
Pays attention to raising cultural capital.
Because of the value we place on our vision of equipping our children to believe in themselves (Luke 10:27) we aim to raise pupils’ aspirations and offer them opportunities to experience new things. We are aware that our children start with us with varied life experiences and we therefore believe that it is our responsibility to open up as much of the world to them as possible. As a consequence of this, each topic within our curriculum includes enrichment opportunities – this may be a visit out of school, an experience within school or an opportunity to showcase their learning for others. These activities are not only planned to allow children to apply their learning or to engage in a shared experience to build learning on in the future but to develop pupil’s character and give them the best opportunities to find their own interests and skills and start to think about what they might aspire to in the future
It is also underpinned by four main principals:
To support our children in building strong knowledge within and across subjects, we distinguish between two types of connections being made in the planning process; Vertical links (links within a particular subject from year to year) and Bridging links (those links between different subjects). We often teach through overarching themes to draw connections between related subjects and concepts. These have been designed to build upon one another year on year so that children explore concepts deeper, applying their knowledge in different contexts.
Some subjects are less related than others, and therefore making contrived links would water down the effectiveness of the learning. When this is the case, the integrity of the individual subject is maintained and is taught outside of the overarching theme. Individual subject content is progressively mapped out (click this link to our progression documents) to ensure new knowledge is built on prior learning as well as ensuring progression in each subject across the curriculum. This approach enables children to add new information and recognise its place within a discipline.
Each year group’s curriculum content is structured to build progressively over time; we aim to teach content that is fundamental to future learning at the beginning of the year and build on this knowledge as the year progresses. We refer to this as a ‘curriculum narrative’. The aim of this approach is for learning that has taken place in the earlier stages of the year stays warm in the memory so that it forms part of the understanding, to be used and applied in the later stages.
We plan and deliver longer units on a theme, rather than short blocks of teaching. We have based this on a ‘mastery approach,’ which means that children spend more time studying a subject or particular concept in depth, opposed to simply ‘covering’ the objectives they should know. Every new unit of learning incorporates elements from the previous unit. This means earlier stages of learning stay ‘warm in memory’. Learning is also retained by revisiting content using deliberate spaced retrieval through low stakes questioning, daily dashes and subject based retrieval which is incorporated into every lesson.
For more information about our approach to curriculum design, please download our Curriculum Statement of Practice below.
Please click on the links below to see each year group’s Curriculum Maps.
Our Curriculum in action
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- Date :May 24, 2021
- Category : Service Mesh
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Istio was named by Tetrate founder Varun Talwar and Google lead engineer Louis Ryan in 2017 and was open sourced on May 24, 2017. Today is the fourth anniversary of Istio’s open source arrival. Let’s take a look back at Istio’s four years of development — and look forward to Istio’s future.
Istio’s open source history
In 2017, the year Kubernetes ended the container orchestration battle, Google took the opportunity to consolidate its dominance in the cloud native space and compensate for Kubernetes’ disadvantage in service-to-service traffic management by open-sourcing Istio. Istio released its 1.10 last week — but here are some of the most important releases in Istio’s history to date.
|May 24, 2017||0.1||Officially open source; established the architectural foundation of Control Plane, Data Plane and sidecar proxy.|
|October 10, 2017||0.2||Started to support multiple runtime environments, such as virtual machines.|
|June 1, 2018||0.8||API refactoring|
|July 31, 2018||1.0||Production-ready, after which the Istio team underwent a massive reorganization.|
|March 19, 2019||1.1||Enterprise-ready. Support for multiple Kubernetes clusters, with performance optimizations.|
|March 3, 2020||1.5||Back to monolith, with microservice components merged into istiod, making Istio’s architecture cleaner and easier to maintain. Support for WebAssembly extension, making Istio’s ecology much stronger.|
|November 18, 2020||1.8||Officially deprecated Mixer and focused on adding support for virtual machines.|
A year after its inception– and two months before the 1.0 release, version 0.8 was released with a massive refactoring of the API. In late July 2018, when 1.0 was released, Istio reached a production-ready tipping point. Since then, Google has massively reorganized the Istio team and several Istio-based service mesh startups were born, making 2018 the booming year of the service mesh industry.
Istio 1.1 was released in March 2019, almost 9 months after 1.0 was released, which is far beyond the average release cycle of an open-source project. We know that the speed of iteration and evolution is a core competency of basic software. Since then, Istio has started a regular release cadence of one version per quarter and has become the #4 fastest growing project in GitHub’s top 10 in 2019 !
The Istio community
In 2020, Istio’s project management began to mature and its governance reached a stage of evolution. We saw the first election of a steering committee for the Istio community and the transfer of the trademark to Open Usage Commons . The first IstioCon was successfully held in February 2021, with thousands of people attending the online conference. There is also a large Istio community in China , and face-to-face Istio community meetups will be held there in 2021. Stay tuned for more.
According to the CNCF 2020 Survey, 46% of organizations were either using a service mesh in production or planning to use it in the next 12 months. Istio was the top used mesh among those using a mesh in production.
After 4 years of development, there is not only a large user base around Istio, but also several Istio vendors, as you can see on the homepage of the recently revamped Istio website. In the last few releases, Istio has shifted its development focus to improving the Day 2 Operation experience. We also expect to see more Istio adoption path recommendations, case studies, learning materials, training, and certifications (such as the industry’s first Certified Istio Administrator from Tetrate) that will facilitate the adoption of Istio. | <urn:uuid:9d52d883-f381-47b5-924f-f1303bdee955> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://jimmysong.io/en/blog/istio-4-year-birthday/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570692.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20220807181008-20220807211008-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.946111 | 899 | 1.578125 | 2 |
born on 9/1/1928 in Helsinki, Uusimaa, Finland
died on 27/7/2016 in Helsinki, Finland
Einojuhani Rautavaara (; born 9 October 1928) is a Finnish composer of contemporary classical music, and is one of the most notable Finnish composers after Jean Sibelius.
Rautavaara was born in Helsinki in 1928 and studied at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki under Aarre Merikanto from 1948 to 1952 before he was recommended for a scholarship to study at the Juilliard School in New York City. There he was taught by Vincent Persichetti, and he also took lessons from Roger Sessions and Aaron Copland at Tanglewood. He first came to international attention when he won the Thor Johnson Contest for his composition A Requiem in Our Time in 1954.
Rautavaara served as a non-tenured teacher at the Sibelius Academy from 1957 to 1959, music archivist of the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra from 1959 to 1961, rector of the Käpylä Music Institute in Helsinki from 1965 to 1966, tenured teacher at the Sibelius Academy from 1966 to 1976, artist professor (appointed by the Arts Council of Finland) from 1971 to 1976, and professor of composition at the Sibelius Academy from 1976 to 1990.
Rautavaara suffered an aortic dissection in January 2004. He had to spend almost half a year in intensive care but has since recovered and managed to continue his work.
Rautavaara is a prolific composer and has written in a variety of forms and styles. He experimented with serial techniques in his early career but left them behind in the 1960s and even his serial works are not obviously serial. His third symphony, for example, uses such techniques, but sounds more like Anton Bruckner than it does a more traditional serialist such as Pierre Boulez. His later works often have a mystical element (such as in several works with titles making reference to angels). A characteristic 'Rautavaara sound' might be a rhapsodic string theme of austere beauty, with whirling flute lines, gently dissonant bells, and perhaps the suggestion of a pastoral horn.
His compositions include eight symphonies, twelve concertos, choral works (several for unaccompanied choir, including Vigilia (1971-1972)), sonatas for various instruments, string quartets and other chamber music, and a number of biographical operas including Vincent (1986-1987, based on the life of Vincent van Gogh), Aleksis Kivi (1995-1996) and Rasputin (2001-2003). A number of his works have parts for magnetic tape, including Cantus Arcticus (1972, also known as Concerto for Birds & Orchestra) for taped bird song and orchestra, and True and False Unicorn (1971, second version 1974, revised 200102), the final version of which is for three reciters, choir, orchestra and tape.
His latest works include orchestral works Book of Visions (2003-2005), Manhattan Trilogy (2003-2005) and Before the Icons (2005) which is an expanded version of his early piano work Icons. In 2005 he finished a work for violin and piano called Lost Landscapes, commissioned by the violinist Midori Goto. A new orchestral work, A Tapestry of Life, was premiered by the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra in April 2008, directed by Pietari Inkinen.
Many of Rautavaara's works have been recorded, with a performance of his 7th symphony, Angel of Light (1995), by the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Leif Segerstam on the Ondine label, being a particular critical and popular success - it was nominated for several awards, including a Grammy. Rautavaara's Symphony No. 8 has, so far, been recorded four times.
Almost all of Rautavaara's works have been recorded by Ondine. Some of his major works have also been recorded by Naxos. An album called "Rautavaara songs" was recorded by the Swedish label BIS Records.
Rautavaara has recently completed a percussion concerto (subtitled Incantations) for Colin Currie and his second cello concerto (for Truls Mork). He is currently working on a large-scale opera based on texts by Federico García Lorca.
In 2010, Rautavaara's "Christmas Carol" was commissioned and performed by the men and boys choir of King's College, Cambridge (UK) for their annual Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols.
In 2011 Rautavaara completed two larger-scale compositions: Missa a capella (premiered in the Netherlands, November 2011) and a work for string orchestra, "Into the Heart of Light", to be premiered in September 2012.
- List of compositions by Einojuhani Rautavaara
- Kennedy, Michael (2006): The Oxford Dictionary of Music. ISBN 0-19-861459-4
- Stpie, Wojciech (2010): Signifying Angels: Analyses and Interpretations of Rautavaaras Instrumental Compositions. Ph.D. thesis. Studia musicologica Universitatis Helsingiensis, 20. Helsinki. ISBN 978-952-10-6399-2 ISSN 0787-4294 (Abstract.)
- Stpie, Wojciech (2011): The Sound of Finnish Angels: Musical Signification in Five Instrumental Compositions by Einojuhani Rautavaara. Pendragon Press. ISBN 978-1-57647-171-5
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- CV and list of works from the Finnish Music Information Centre
- Home page at Fennica Gehrman (publisher)
- Home page at Boosey & Hawkes
- Home page at Ondine Records
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There can be nothing as frustrating as having to get your over-the-top hyper child to calm down, or to motivate your tired child to his/her homework. When we need to get our child moving on to the next part of the day, it can be a challenge.
Using Rhythm, as we mentioned in last week’s vlog, is a great tool to help anchor a child, to be able to move at your desired pace.
Your child may be energized and running around, and our words just flow past them. Or your child may be groggy from sleep, and hears your instructions in a daze.
Here is a specific method for wording your instructions, and also for meeting the energy level of your child. That way, your child will find your instructions easier to listen to and to follow.
Key points from this video:
- Giving effective instructions, the wording. 0.41
- Example, at bedtime 0.54
- How not to give instructions 1.00
- Giving effective instructions, pacing your flow of words. 1.08
- Pace of instructions to an energetic child. 1.30
- Pace for a sleepy or slow-moving child. 2.06
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Antigua and Barbuda were one of the countries that challenged the United States in 2004 over its laws on online gambling. The Caribbean island claimed that online gambling provided thousands of jobs and was damaging the economy of the country. The World Trade Organization found in favor of Antigua and Barbuda, but the United States refused to change its stance. So what happened? Well, as you can see, the world trade organization is a tough group to deal with.
Online gambling sites require you to have an internet connection and a computer with a web browser. Initially, they supported PCs running Windows, but gradually introduced Mac compatibility. Nowadays, they’re compatible with most laptops, computers, and smartphones. To get started, you need to sign up and create an account. Once you’ve completed the registration process, you’ll be presented with a number of options for making deposits. Some gambling sites also accept wire transfers.
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This paper examines the time‐series behaviour of house prices for the four Asian markets, namely, Hong Kong, Singapore, Tokyo and Taipei, by using structural time‐series methodology. The paper assumes two types of trend models to characterise and compare the long‐run movement of house prices. It also examines the cyclical pattern hidden in the series. The long‐run trend rate in these markets ranged between approximately 1.6 and 3.2 per cent per annum. Hong Kong, Singapore and Taipei have relatively higher figures, which could be expected in light of the rapidly growing economies. Surprisingly, their cyclical patterns were fairly similar, although causes of the cycles differed. The markets were found to have stochastic cycles of around one year, two to four years and seven to ten years, which were consistent with previous findings on real business cycles commonly observed internationally in other macroeconomic time series. However, the found stochastic nature suggests all these markets are not in a steady state and is still changing.
Chen, M., Kawaguchi, Y. and Patel, K. (2004), "An analysis of the trends and cyclical behaviours of house prices in the Asian markets", Journal of Property Investment & Finance, Vol. 22 No. 1, pp. 55-75. https://doi.org/10.1108/14635780410525144
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This webinar will connect higher-level policy debates on the securitization of the youth peacebuilding agenda to debates on youth engagement with local-level armed conflict, insecurity, and destruction of heritage. Speakers will discuss global policies and give focused case studies of Syria and Mozambique.
The webinar will be relevant for academics, policy makers, and practitioners working in settings affected by violent, armed conflict, outlining key research questions and findings, and implications for future policy and practice.
The webinar is the fourth in our webinar series on youth in Africa and MENA region, which is linked to the IDS Strategic Research Initiative ‘Ensuring decent work and inclusive politics for youth’ and is also part of IDS’ European Engagement Initiative.
- Dr. Salvador Forquilha, researcher, Institute for Social and Economic Studies (IESE) and a senior lecturer at the Department of Political Science and Public Administration, Eduardo Mondlane University in Maputo, Mozambique. He holds a PhD in Political Science from the University of Bordeaux, France. His research focuses on state building dynamics and political violence. He is leading a research project on state, violence and development challenges in northern Mozambique.
- Dr Sofya Shabab, Research Officer, Institute for Development Studies (IDS). Sofya is a Social Anthropologist specialising in fragile and conflict affected contexts. Her most recent research explores community-based responses to the physical and existential displacements resulting from heritage destruction among ethno-religious minority groups in Iraq and Syria.
- Ali Altiok, Youth, Peace and Security Project Officer, Interpeace. Ali co-authored a global policy paper on youth participation in peace processes for the Office of the UN Secretary General’s Envoy on Youth. He worked as a researcher at the joint UN Secretariat Peacebuilding Support Office and United Nations Population Fund), supporting research, data analysis and narrative development of The Missing Peace: Independent Progress Study on Youth, Peace and Security, mandated by the United Nations Security Council under Resolution (UNSCR) 2250.
Cecile Mazzacurati, Head, Secretariat on Youth, Peace & Security, United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA)
Shadi Rouhshahbaz, PeaceMentors
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A Gorgeous Kathak Dance in Khudito Pashan (1960, Bengali)
The story is about a tax collector, Srijut, who is sent to a small town and stays at a khuvito palace which is believed to be haunted. Bhanusimha Thakurer Padabali Gitanjali Journey of Indian dance by Gauri Jog. His mother has already found a suitable match for him but he convinces her to arrange an alliance with Mrinmoyee. Based on popular Indian stories of khucito writer Rabindra Nath Tagore, these short films reveal definitive moments in the lives of three young girls.
This hour-long performance of dance theatre is directed by Kunal Padhy, who also plays the narrator-protagonist of the story.
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. – This Memorial Day weekend, public land visitors will be heading outdoors for recreational opportunities like fishing, swimming, camping, rockhounding, backpacking, hiking, boating and off-highway vehicle use.
In California, the Bureau of Land Management oversees 15 million acres of public lands that support the agency’s multiple-use mission, which includes 1,735 miles of nationally designated trails and 356 miles of rivers.
Enjoy public lands and rivers safely this summer With that said, the public is encouraged to keep a few things in mind:
Trails and Rivers
When out on a trail, consider the trail’s level of difficulty and the hiker’s physical condition. Hydrate often, take breaks and dress appropriately for local weather and temperature. The public can help the BLM keep public lands beautiful and clean for everyone’s enjoyment by following “Leave No Trace” principles to minimize impacts to public lands and wildlife.
During summer months, water-related rescues become common occurrences. Whether near or on a river, it is best to be mindful and stay alert of fast-moving currents, water temperature fluctuations and other potential hazards. Please keep in mind that although the air temperature may be hot, the water temperature below a river’s surface can be much colder and can cause hypothermia quickly. Identifying the signs of hypothermia can save someone’s life. Look around for signage posted on public lands warning the public of dangerous river conditions or fast-moving water currents.
When boating, swimming, whitewater rafting or kayaking it is advised to wear a U.S. Coast Guard approved personal flotation device and to follow California State boating laws and regulations. Additional protective items can include wearing a helmet to avoid impact injuries and wearing water shoes to protect feet from floating debris, sharp rocks or slipping hazards.
Camping and Backpacking
When camping on BLM-managed public lands, never leave a campfire unattended; carry a shovel and water at all times; and check weather forecasts and possible fire danger restrictions before leaving home. Nearly 90 percent of wildfires that occur in the United States are human caused. To obtain training on campfire safety or to obtain a California campfire permit, visit preventwildfireca.org/campfire-Permit.
While exploring the California desert or any other hot region, be mindful of extreme temperature changes; it is not uncommon to see more injuries and fatalities in the summer months due to heat stroke or dehydration, since temperatures often soar above 100 degrees Fahrenheit. Be sure to bring extra water – and remember to sip often. To find out information about any known safety hazards or public lands closures, contact the local BLM field office, or stop by a visitor center before departure. And, no matter what, never leave children or pets alone in a hot car for any amount of time.
Always dress appropriately for the weather, wear sunscreen and bring plenty of water to stay hydrated. Check with local weather reports on the day of a hike and continue to check weather reports regularly when backpacking, especially in a slot canyon. And finally, keep in mind that campsites or backpacking with food can attract wildlife. As such, secure food and other odorous items such as garbage in a “bear box,” or in an approved bear-resistant food canister.
Hunting and Recreational Shooting
Before heading out to hunt on BLM-managed public lands, take a hunter safety training course and follow required safety measures for hunting and recreational target shooting. Also, check weather conditions and red flag warnings; avoid shooting in hot, dry and windy weather; and follow local guidance relating to shooting and fire restrictions. Hunting and fishing are regulated by the California Department of Fish and Wildlife.
The BLM California website offers information on current fire restrictions at blm.gov/programs/public-safety-and-fire/fire-and-aviation/regional-info/california/fire-restrictions.
Upon arrival, be aware of dry vegetation, dead trees and avoid driving or parking vehicles in tall grass. Park and camp away from dead trees and branches that can blow down and fall, and use appropriate trailer pins and hitches to keep the chains from dragging and creating sparks. Remember, one less spark means one less wildfire. Finally, be mindful to avoid shooting on or across roads, waterways or trails.
Off-highway vehicle routes provide great opportunities for all-terrain and utility-task vehicles throughout California, including dirt bikes, side-by-sides and four-wheelers.
Vehicle safety should always be a top priority. As such, pre-planning should include leaving a trip itinerary behind with a friend or family member, including the trip location and time expected to be back.
Also, be sure off-highway vehicles are registered and in good operating condition. Make sure tires are in good shape and suitable for the terrain being encountered. If riding a motorcycle, ATV or UTV, wear a helmet and protective clothing, stay on designated routes and trails and make sure the spark arrester (if required for the type of vehicle) is in good working order.
Use a map or GPS unit when possible as they can be a helpful tool to avoid getting lost.
Before trekking on BLM-managed trails, do some pre-planning and check online resources, such as blm.gov/visit and Recreational.gov, which can help plan a trip, camping and day use, tours and tickets, permits and trail information including closures and hazards.
For information on how to obtain an “America the Beautiful – National Parks and Federal Recreational Lands Pass” for access to federal lands and waters across the country, visit blm.gov/programs/recreation/passes.
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What happens when gold reacts with acid?
Gold is unaffected by air, water, alkalis and all acids except aqua regia (a mixture of hydrochloric acid and nitric acid) which can dissolve gold. It will, for example, react very slowly with chlorine gas at room temperature to form gold chloride, AuCl3.
What acid is used in gold recovery?
Aqua regia is a mixture of nitric acid and hydrochloric acid, optimally in a molar ratio of 1:3. Aqua regia is a yellow-orange (sometimes red) fuming liquid, so named by alchemists because it can dissolve the noble metals gold and platinum, though not all metals.
Is sulphuric acid used for dissolution of gold?
Gold is a noble metal that will not react even with strong acids, hence aqua regia, which is a mixture of Nitric and Hydrochloric acid in the ratio of 1:3 is used for the dissolution of gold.
Does nitric acid etch gold?
Gold Etching with HCl/HNO3 Mixtures of nitric acid and hydrochloric acid (in a mixing ration of 1 : 3 also called aqua regia are able to etch gold at room temperature.
What is used to dissolve gold?
The most useful and important vehicle for dissolving gold is aqua regia, (royal water), composed of two parts of hydrochloric (muriatic) acid, and one part of nitric (aquafortis).
Which is used to dissolution of gold?
Aqua regia is a yellow-orange (sometimes red) fuming liquid, so named by alchemists because it can dissolve the noble metals gold and platinum, though not all metals.
Can you use sulphuric acid to dissolve gold?
Gold is not soluble in sulphuric acid except when nitric acid or some other oxidising agent is present. In this case it is again precipitated on dilution with water. Neither platinum nor palladium are dissolved when these are present in a silver alloy.
Which is more soluble in sulphuric acid silver or gold?
Pure silver is readily attacked by strong hot sulphuric acid of SG 1.815, or about 90 per cent, strength. The reaction which takes place may be represented as follows: Silver sulphate so produced is very soluble in the strong acid, when it is hot, as little as one-fourth of its weight of sulphuric acid being sufficient.
How much does sulphuric acid weigh in grain?
On washing with water a voluminous precipitate of tellurous acid separated out. This was readily soluble in dilute sulphuric acid. The gold remaining was dried, and weighed 12.245grs. It was then parted in the usual way, and the parted gold weighed 12.005 grains.
What happens to gold when it is dissolved in water?
Metallic gold dissolves in hot strong sulphuric acid, especially if a little nitric acid is added (the precipitated metal dissolving most readily), forming a yellow liquid, which, when diluted with water, deposits the metal as a violet or brown powder. The solution also becomes covered with a shining film of reduced metal on exposure to moist air. | <urn:uuid:9da204f5-b275-4fda-8861-7574b13ad3d6> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.roadlesstraveledstore.com/what-happens-when-gold-reacts-with-acid/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570692.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20220807181008-20220807211008-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.945364 | 690 | 3.203125 | 3 |
Stories of Home
Place, Identity, Exile
Devika Chawla (Redaktør) ; Stacy Holman Jones (Redaktør) ; Jennifer L. Adams (Innledning) ; Myrdene Anderson (Innledning) ; Timothy Baird (Innledning) ; Tessa W. Carr (Innledning) ; Devika Chawla (Innledning) ; Erik Garrett (Innledning) ; Craig S. Gingrich-Philbrook (Innledning) ; Sean Gleason (Innledning) ; Anne M. Harris (Innledning) ; Stacy Holman Jones (Innledning) ; Caryn Medved (Innledning) ; Amardo Rodriguez (Innledning) ; Rebecca Mercado Thornton (Innledning) ; Jonathon Wyatt (Innledning) ; Tessa Wyatt (Innledning)
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In this book, we offer a window into the distinct ways that home is theorized and conceptualized across disciplines. The essays in this volume pose and answer the following critical and communicative questions about home:
1) How do people “speak” and “story” home in their everyday lives? And why?
2) Why and how is home—as a material presence, as a sense and feeling, or as an absence—central to our notion of who we are, or who we want to become as individuals, and in relation to others?
3) What is the theoretical purchase in making home as a “unit of analysis” in our fields of study?
This collection engages home from diverse contexts and disparate philosophical underpinnings; at the same time the essays converse with each other by centering their foci on the relationship between home, place, identity, and exile. Home—how we experience it and what it that says about the “selves” we come to occupy—is an exigent question of our contemporary moment. Place, Identity, Exile: Storying Home Spaces delivers timely and critical perspectives on these important questions.
Forlag: Lexington Books
Format: 23 x 15 cm
«Communication scholars Devika Chawla and Stacy Holman Jones have gathered writings that examine the meaning of home. Most of the contributors are communication scholars, but anthropology, art, education, and counseling are also represented. The collection is full of captivating, rich personal stories providing insight into the authors’ lives and the connection between personal experience and their perspectives of the meaning of home. For example, home can be a physical place in which banal chores and habits are performed or an integral part of the self that is constructed, to mention just two of many possibilities. The contributors' varied backgrounds lead to a variety of perspectives that span economic, ethnic, and regional boundaries. Taken together, these musings about home and the diversity of views of what home means to different people offer a coherent and engaging account of home from philosophical and personal perspectives. A valuable resource for those interested in the elusive nature of home. Summing Up: Recommended. Graduate students, researchers, faculty. General readers.»
«We often struggle with the meaning of diversity and inclusion, but in Stories of Home, differences across experience, age, race, geography, and sexuality converge and co-exist. The many voices of home speak, sometimes softly and at other times with traces of anger, frustration, tenderness, and longing. This is a beautiful read.»
«Complicating and interrogating the meanings of home, this text heightens our awareness of the diverse context- and culture-based stories of home. Each chapter invites reflection about the ways we construct home and carry it with us in our bodies. We resist, embrace, and question what we know, learn, and remember about home, across time, space, and place. mChawla and Holman Jones encourage us to feel the with and withoutness of home—to sense the nostalgia of making home anew in places we travel and to question the disembodying environments where home never was, never will be. The stories remind us of our desire to craft our home in unexpected ways, in unanticipated places.»
Chapter 2: Musing on Nomadism: Being and Becoming at Home on the Reindeer Range, Myrdene Anderson
Chapter 3: Be(Coming) Home, Jonathan Wyatt and Tessa Wyatt
Chapter 4: Childhood Homelessness: A Phenomenologial Reflection, Erik Garrett
Chapter 5: Home/less in Appalachia, Timothy Baird
Chapter 6: Motown Magic and Haunted Hollers: From One Othered America to Another, Rebecca Mercado Thornton
Chapter 7: The Exile Narratives, Amarado Rodriguez
Chapter 8: Men Making Home, Caryn Medved
Chapter 9: Scott and Helen Nearing and the Narrative of the American Homestead as Retreat, Jennifer Adams
Chapter 10: Trashing Home, Sean Gleason
Chapter 11: A Kind of Hush: Adoptee Diasporas and the Impossibility of Home, Anne M. Harris
Chapter 12: Bodies of Working Class Knowledge, Imaginative Mobilities, and Kinesthetic Homes, Stacy Holman Jones
Chapter 13: Finding the Backroads Home, Tessa W. Carr
Chapter 14: Becoming Home (Elsewhere): Patriarchy Du Jour and the Resilience of Privilege, Craig Gingrich-Philbrook
Conclusion: Home, Again, Stacy Holman Jones and Devika Chawla
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The most beautiful place on the Slovenian coast has grown on salt. Piran saltpans, where today, according to the old procedures, the top salt water flower is created. The old port city with the remnants of the medieval wall is completely protected as a cultural and historical monument. Piran has a medieval design with narrow streets and tightly compacted houses. On the hill there is a very beautiful Baroque church of St. George. Piran attracts numerous visitors with its sights such as: a maritime museum, an aquarium, numerous events on the Tartini Square dedicated to the great violin virtuoso and composer Giuseppe Tartini, painting colony, etc. | <urn:uuid:a7089d95-42ca-4ba8-832b-e0184a39fd77> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://virily.com/travel/piran-beautiful-city-mediterranean-slovenia/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570879.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809003642-20220809033642-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.938537 | 136 | 1.601563 | 2 |
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The Portuguese Podengo comes in three different sizes and 2 different coat types. The three sizes are small (pequeno), medium (medio) and large (grande) with the two different coats being smooth and wirehaired. The smooth coat is hard and long, with the wirehaired being medium-long and shaggy.
Colors may include yellow, fawn, or black with white markings
This dog makes a great watch dog, or hunting dog with its intelligent, lively spirit. These dogs make great companions for any family as well with its funny behaviors, but should not be let out alone.
The Portuguese Podengo originated from Portugal and was bred as a multi sensory hound for sight, sound and scent. They were known to hunt deer, rabbit and other small game. Today they make wonderful family pets and guard dogs. | <urn:uuid:ac75a753-9128-46da-a4ca-f52a172eee27> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://petkey.org/Breeds/2140/Portuguese_Podengo | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570879.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809003642-20220809033642-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.954606 | 202 | 1.929688 | 2 |
What are they?
The Federal Aviation Authority defines a light-sport aircraft as a plane with a maximum gross takeoff weight of less than 1,320 pounds for aircraft designed to operate from land or 1,430 pounds for seaplanes.
Ultralight aircraft typically weigh less than 254 pounds if powered or 155 pounds if unpowered.
The United States Ultralight Association, a non-profit group formed in 1985, is “dedicated to the representation of ultralight pilots and enthusiasts,” says its Web site, which adds, “A staff, board of directors, and members share a commitment to protect, promote, and represent their sport. USUA staff and directors interact with representatives of various federal, state, and national organizations to ensure that ultralighting will continue for years to come.” | <urn:uuid:4fb327cd-86d3-4575-ad38-78ee2c44f2d5> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.sj-r.com/story/news/2008/08/24/what-are-they/42937775007/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570692.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20220807181008-20220807211008-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.944289 | 168 | 3.140625 | 3 |
📌 PROJECT DESCRIPTION:
The PSONI in Gdansk is a local institution. Our aims are focused on working for equaling the chances of intellectually disabled people. The association leads institutions designed for disabled persons in every age and with every level of disorder. One of them is the Workshops of Therapeutic Occupations (WTZ) for adult people who are trained to work, Environmental House of Self-assistance (SDS) which is responsible for self-developing of adults with severe disabilities, PSONI special school – school for children and youth with severe disabilities, Supported housing for people with intellectual disabilities, Orchestra Vita Activa, Music School, Remont Pomp music band, Theatre Razem and Best Buddies voluntary project. Volunteers work not in one but in a few places and they always suggest to us where they want to work. After the arrival, all volunteers spend 2 weeks as a training period. Video of Remont Pomp.
📌 ACCOMMODATION, FOOD AND TRANSPORT ARRANGEMENTS
Volunteers are living in 1 flat that is owned by the association and two flats are rented close to the association. In each volunteer has his/her own room. Flats are very close to most of PSONI centres so it's not a big distance to work. Flats are located in Gdańsk Przymorze very close to the Baltic Sea and 30 min by tram to the Gdańsk old town. Volunteers also get food money and they are responsible for organizing it by themselves. All volunteers have free transport for trams and buses in Gdańsk for work and private time.
📌 TRAINING DURING THE ACTIVITY
After the arrival volunteers spend 2 weeks as a training period. We are visiting all the centres, discuss tasks in them and have general training about work and the project. Then, the coordinator asks volunteers where they want to work. We are meeting and creating individual schedules for every volunteer. Volunteers have also training on how to work with intellectually disabled people. Training will be organized also for Polish volunteers who are part of the "Best Buddies" program.
📌 The volunteer will work in Association for people with intellectual disability PSONI Gdańsk in one of their centres:
• school for children and youth,
• occupational therapy workshop,
• daily centre,
• sheltered housing facilities.
There he will support workers and can create his own activities e.g. English lessons, art class, cooking class...
📌 PARTICIPANT PROFILE
PSONI Gdansk is open to working with everyone who is motivated to work on a project that meets her/his expectation. We always try to find a volunteer specifically for the project, but if a volunteer finds the project by himself we will host him. We are also open to host volunteers who have some difficulties with language and support them before the project. We are happy if the volunteer has previous experience in voluntary work with intellectually disabled people but that's not necessary. It also if volunteer can organize activities for disabled people by him/her self.
✔️ willing to work and learn
✔️ ready to work with people with intellectual disabilities
✔️ likes to takes initiative when is possible, independent and responsible
📌 AGE OF PARTICIPANTS: 18 - 30 years old.
📌 The volunteer will be a part of a music band or a theatre group or an orchestra and take a part in a summer festival
📌 The volunteer will be a part of the Best Buddies project that aims to create friendship between a volunteer and one person with a disability.
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Received date March 19, 2013; Accepted date June 14, 2013; Published date June 20, 2013
Citation: Soundarapandian P, Sivasubramanian C, Varadharajan D (2013) Fattening of the Ridged Swimming Crab, Charybdis Natator Herbst. J Marine Sci Res Dev 3:125. doi: 10.4172/2155-9910.1000125
Copyright: © 2013 Soundarapandian P, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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For fattening three different salinities were tried (20, 25 and 30 ppt). The weight gain of the crabs cultured in 30 ppt was (58.0 g) significantly higher than 20 (46.7 g) and 25 (50.4 g) ppt. The shell was becoming harder in shorter duration (10.6 days) when the water crabs were cultured in 30 ppt rather than other salinities (20 and 25 ppt). Hence 30 ppt was selected as optimum salinity for the culture of water crabs as evidenced by higher weight gain and shorter duration for shell hardening.The water crabs offered with trash fish showed a significantly higher weight gain (50.40 g). The crabs were hardened significantly in very shorter duration when they were fed with trash fish (14 days). However, the animals were taking longer duration when fed with clam (17.6 days) and oyster (16.6 days). The survival of the crabs was 100% irrespective of the feeds used. So trash feed is recommended as a best feed for fattening of C. natator.
Crabs cultured; Fattening; Trash fish; Clam meat; Oyster meat
In Indian scenario, the consumers mostly prefer bigger crabs viz., S. serrata and S.tranquebarica. But as far as Parangipettai coast is concerned the availability of these bigger crabs are restricted only in summer seasons [1-3]. In recent times the small and medium sized crabs are processed and finally sold as a processed food . So the demand for these crabs is increasing day-by-day. Although resources are available for crab fattening from Nagappattinam to Cuddalore coastal areas of Tamil Nadu [2,3]. But farmers are not concerned about crab fattening due to lack of awareness and proper technology. The fattening of crabs may be economically viable and it will give additional income for the fisherman. It provides alternative sources of income especially during fishing holidays imposed somewhere in April-May and also create employment opportunities for the unemployed youth. To create awareness among the farmers and fisher folk, fattening experiment was tried in the crab C. natator.
Selection of water crabs
The water crabs of C. natator were collected from the Parangipettai landing center and the size ranged from 61-65 g. Healthy, live, disease free water crabs were selected and checked for any loss of appendages. They were brought to the laboratory by using bucket. When reached to the laboratory they were acclimatized to laboratory conditions (Temperature 26-31°C; pH 7.5-8.2; dissolved oxygen 5 ppm).
Before entering into the actual fattening experiment, the animals were exposed to different salinities to know the optimum salinity. For this experiment 100 litre fibre glass tanks (Plate 1) were selected and introduced the animal in each salinity. The experimental salinities were ranging from 25-35 ppt . The experimental crabs were fed with trash fed at 10% of their body weight. Feeding was done twice in a day in the morning (6.00 am) and evening (6.00 pm). Weekly sampling was done to assess the healthy condition and weight gain of crabs. Fifty percent of the water was changed regularly in the morning and replaced with respective salinities. The crabs were harvested once the shell becomes hard . The environmental parameters viz., salinity, dissolved oxygen, pH and temperature were regularly checked by using refrectometer (Erma), Do meter (Deepvision Model 811E), pH meter (Eutech) and thermometer, respectively.
After knowing the optimum environmental conditions for fattening they were stocked in tanks and exposed to optimum environmental parameters (salinity 30 ppt; temperature 26-31°C; pH 7.5-8.2 and dissolved oxygen 5ppm). The experimental crabs were fed with locally available low cost feed. The animals were offered with three different live feeds (clam meat, oyster meat and trash fish) (Plate 2). Clam meat and trash were purchased from the fisher folk. Oyster meat was collected from Vellar estuary. The crabs were fed at the rate of 10% of their body weight daily at dawn and dush. 40% of daily ration were given during morning and remaining 60% during the evening. Proximate analysis of feeds was determined. The protein, carbohydrates, lipid moisture and ash were estimated as earlier.
The gross energy of the feed was calculated from the biochemical constituents by using the conversion factors i.e., 4.18 kcal/g of carbohydrate, 9.46 kcal/g for lipid and 4.32 kcal/g for protein .
Sampling of crabs was done once in two days to ascertain the healthy condition, weight gain and hardening of the crabs. 50% of the water was changed regularly in the morning and unconsumed feed settle at the bottom was removed while water exchange. The crabs were harvested once the shell becomes hard .
To know the statistical significance the data were treated with one way analysis of variance. Differences in treatment means were determined by Duncan’s multiple range test (P<0.05) using SPSS/PC + package version 17.0.
The results of salinity experiment are presented in (Table 1 and Figure 1). For fattening three different salinities were tried (20, 25 and 30 ppt). The weight gain of the crabs cultured in 30 ppt was (58.0 g) significantly higher than 20 (46.7 g) and 25 (50.4 g) ppt. The shell was becoming harder in shorter duration (10.6 days) when the water crabs were cultured in 30 ppt rather than other salinities (20 and 25 ppt). The survival of crabs was 100% irrespective of the salinities. From the result 30 ppt was selected as optimum salinity for the culture of water crabs as evidenced by higher weight gain and shorter duration for shell hardening.
|S.No||Salinity (ppt)||Initial weight (g)||Final weight (g)||Days||Weight gain||Survival rate|
|1||20||65.6 ± 1.52||112.3 ± 2.8b||15.0 ± 1.0a||46.7 ± 1.20c||100|
|2||25||61.6 ± 2.05||112.0 ± 2.62b||14.6 ± 0.58a||50.4 ± 2.18b||100|
|3||30||63.0 ± 4.02||121.0 ± 3.00a||10.6 ± 0.59b||58.0 ± 3.62a||100|
Means with different superscript are statistically different (p<0.05; Duncan’s multiple range test)
Table 1: Weight gain and survival of C.natator reared in different salinities (Values are mean of three values ± SE).
Proximate composition of feeds
The biochemical composition of live feeds used for C. natator fattening is given in (Table 2 and Figure 2). Between 4 feeds used in the present study, oyster showed the highest percentage of protein (48.71%) followed by trash fish (48.05%) and clam (46.08%). The percentage of carbohydrate was highest in the trash fish (6.08%) and lowest in clam (5.89%). The percentage of lipid was highest in trash fish (5.89%) and lowest in oyster (4.01%). Regarding ash content, clam meat showed the maximum of 15.98% and the minimum of 15.06% was in the oyster. The gross energy content was higher in trash fish (3.01 Kcal/g) followed by clam (2.78 Kcal/g)) and oyster (2.75 Kcal/g).
|S.No||Feed||Protein (%)||Carbohydrate (%)||Lipid(%)||Ash(%)||Moisture (%)||Gross energy K(cal)|
Table 2: Proximate composition of test diets.
Fattening experiment: The results of water crabs cultured in different feeds are displayed in (Table 3 and Figure 3).
|S:No||Feed||Initial weight (g)||Final weight (g)||Weight gain(g)||Days||Feed consumed(g)||Survival (%)|
|1||Oyster||64.0 ± 2.00||117.0 ± 2.06a||49.00 ± 2.04||16.6 ± 2.58a||18.0 ± 1.21a||100|
|2||Clam||65.6 ± 2.34||115.3 ± 1.51b||47.70 ± 1.06b||17.6 ± 1.57a||19.0 ± 2.34a||100|
|3||Trash fish||61.6 ± 2.07||114.0 ± 1.64b||50.40 ± 2.06a||14.0 ± 2.016||18.0 ± 1.58a||100|
Means with different superscript are statistically different (p<0.05; Duncan’s multiple range test)
Table 3: Fattening of C.natator offered with different feeds (Values are mean of three values ± SE).
Weight gain: The water crabs offered with trash fish showed a significantly higher weight gain (50.40 g). However weight gain did not show significant difference between oyster and clam offered crabs.
Duration: The crabs were hardened significantly in very short duration when they were fed with trash fish (14 days). However, the animals were taken long duration when fed with clam (17.6 days) and oyster (16.6 days). The duration of the clam and oyster fed animals did not show significant difference.
Survival: The survival of the crabs was 100% irrespective of the feeds used.
Salinity is important parameters to control the growth and survival of the crabs. Each and every aquatic organism requires particular salinity for normal growth and survival. If it is exposed higher and lower from the optimum will affect growth and survival. In higher and lower salinities, the animals are under stress so it delays the deposition of calcium on the exoskeleton. In the present study the water crabs were taking more time for hardening of the exoskeleton when kept in 20 and 25 pp salinities. Whereas it was shorter when the crabs were exposed to 30 ppt. Soundarapandian et al. conducted similar experiment for S. tranquebarica. They confirm that 25 ppt were optimum salinity for S.tranquebarica. Even though they have exposed the crabs with 20 and 30 ppt.
In most of the studies in crustaceans, weight gain was mainly dependent on the nutritional quality of feeds . Hence the weight gain was assumed to be improved by offering high quality feeds to the water crabs. The average weight gain of C. natator noticed in the present study was directly related to the levels of protein in the diet. Variations in weight gain were found to be associated with differences in chemical composition of diets. Water crabs are known to mobilize greater amount of protein for energy metabolism. Consequently the protein requirement in the water crabs might be high. The dietary protein content in the present study was 48.71% in oyster, 46.08% in clam and 48. 05% in trash fish. The weight gain of water crabs fed with oyster and clam meat did not differ significantly. The water crabs fed with trash fish showed the highest weight gain. Similar result was reported when the trash fish offered with P. pelagicus . Kanazawa et al. reported that the fresh diets of short neck calm (Tapes philippinaruum) gave superior growth compared to the compounded diet for P. japonicus. Similar results were obtained from Forster . Frequent moulting was observed during feeding with fresh clam meat . One major nutritional difference between live food organisms and compound feed is the presence of digestive enzymes in the live food organisms. These enzymes of dietary origin play important role in promoting the digestion and growth of crustacean .
Feed consumption is not always related to weight gain. In the present study C. natator consumed more or less same amounts of oyster, clam and trash fish individually. But weight gain was more when trash fish feed animals than other feeds. Similar result was already reported by Soundarapandian et al. in P. sanguinolentus. Senthilkumar used three types of live feeds viz., clam meat, fish meat and beef meat for the water crabs of S. serrata. Growth, survival and production rate was maximized when the water crabs were fed with combined feeds rather than fed individually. Williams also suggested that the mixed diets support superior growth. No significant change was observed in the total weight of S. serrata fed with trash fish, slaughter house waste and clam meat during fattening . The survival was 100% irrespective of the feeds used in the present study. The environmental conditions used in the present study were optimum (Salinity 30 ppt; Temperature 26–31°C; pH 7.5–8.2; Dissolved oxygen 5ppm) and the water crabs used in the present study was mostly the same size (61–65 g) with the same degree of shell hardness were stocked to reduce cannibalism and facilitate easy harvest. This may be one of the reasons for higher survival in the present study.
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The new president lasted less than a year in office. Amid mass protests, he was ousted in a military coup led by Gen. Abdel Fattah al-Sisi.
Gen. Sisi went on to win two presidential elections. Morsi died in prison in 2019.
In 2012, Mubarak was sentenced to life imprisonment over the deaths of some of the 900 protesters who were killed by security forces during the uprising a year earlier.
Both he and his two sons were also convicted of corruption.
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The body seems to use hangovers as a warning mechanism to warn us about the dangers of overindulgence.
Because drinking disrupts brain function while you sleep, a hangover might be considered a sort of sleep deprivation. The hormones that control our biological clocks are thrown off by alcohol, which may be why a hangover can feel like jet lag and vice versa.
Check out these 5 cures for a hangover to help you get some relief from the symptoms.
Apple Cider Vinegar
Pour 1 to 2 ounces of Purely into 6 to 8 ounces of warm water to start your morning. In addition to helping to normalize blood sugar levels, which can be erratic after a night of drinking, vinegar has a natural diuretic action that can assist fight morning fluid retention.
This is a good source of cysteine, an amino acid that aids in the breakdown of some of the harmful byproducts of alcohol metabolism that are known to be a factor in hangovers. Eggs are a far healthier way to start the day than sugary cereal or pancakes with syrup since they are a fantastic source of protein and lipids that can assist to balance blood sugar levels.
Although it's probably the second-to-last thing on your list of priorities after drinking beet juice, exercise will help. Even a brisk stroll will help to improve circulation, which will send more blood and oxygen to the brain and muscles, reducing the effects of a hangover including headaches and sore muscles. And one of the most all-natural methods to detoxify our bodies is to work up a sweat.
Consider combining green tea (instead of water) and apple cider vinegar to obtain the advantages of both, which may help reduce headache symptoms. Additionally, you can use flavored green tea, such as berry mix or ginger mint green tea, to at least somewhat mask the flavor of the apple cider vinegar.
Smoothies made with unsweetened almond milk, fresh or frozen fruit, and protein will provide you with fluids, electrolytes, and protein all in one. By adding Purely into your preferred smoothie mix, you may get all of the health benefits of ACV while on the go. Only a tiny amount—perhaps a tablespoon—is required. A range of smoothie tastes will go well with our fresh fruit infusions.
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You will prepare and submit a term paper on Contemporary Food Issues. Your paper should be a minimum of 2250 words in length. The important aims of organic agriculture are pointed out by the IFOAM Basic Standards for Organic Agriculture and Food Processing. They are. to produce food that is rich in nutritional quality and that too, insufficient quality, to ensure that natural systems and cycles are not harmed seriously, to promote biological cycles within the farming system that takes into account micro-organisms, soil, plants, and animals, to ensure long-term fertility of soil, to use renewable energy sources as far as possible, to use organic, reusable and recyclable materials, to ensure basic life conditions to all livestock, to create as less pollution as possible, to reduce the loss of biodiversity as much as possible, and to ensure long-term survival of agricultural practices and producers (Geier et al, n.d.).
According to the Soil Association, there are four reasons for which people should select organic food. The first point they put forward is that in organic food, hydrogenated fats and additives like aspartame, tartrazine, and MSG are not allowed. Secondly, organic farming results in a reduction in the emission of greenhouse gases as compared to non-organic farming. In addition, selecting local, and seasonal food means reducing the carbon footprint. Another point is that organic farming promotes animal welfare as it provides them a lot of fresh air and space to enjoy a free-range life. Another significant benefit is that organic farming practices promote wildlife. For example, it is found that the presence of insects and birds in organic farms is 50% higher as compared to non-organic farms. Another point is that organic food is not genetically modified (Five reasons to choose organic, n.d.).
According to Heater, the best thing one can do to improve one’s health is to eat organic food. According to him, modern food is full of artificial ingredients, preservatives, and chemicals. In addition, there are herbicides and pesticides. It is found that the mainstream diet contains significant amounts of refined sugar, refined and hydrogenated oils, preservatives, chemicals, and additives. Undoubtedly, these items are unhealthy for people. . | <urn:uuid:85017c09-5021-453b-b2e0-150c3076d7ca> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://ukbestessays.net/you-will-prepare-and-submit-a-term-paper-on-contemporary-food-issues-your-paper-should-be-a-minimum-of-2250-words-in-length/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570879.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809003642-20220809033642-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.95865 | 453 | 3.40625 | 3 |
The Noticing Function of Output in Acquisition of Rhetorical Structure of Contrast Paragraphs of Iranian EFL University Students
AbstractThis article is an attempt to contribute to the growing body of research investigating the noticing function of output (cf. Swain 1995 in Izumi/Bigelow 2000: 239), and more specifically the use of output-fronted activities that might prompt FL learners to notice their linguistic problems to facilitate their gain of rhetorical structure of contrast paragraphs in English. Three groups of EFL learners participated in the study. Two groups (the experimental group and comparison group 1) were required to initially produce a paragraph (output 1), then they received a model contrast paragraph to underline, and finally they were asked to produce a contrast paragraph (output 2). For the experimental group, the topic to write was a contrast topic; whereas, the comparison group were to write on a non-contrast topic. The third group (the preemptive comparison group 2) received the teacher's deductive instruction and explanation of contrast paragraphs in English followed by an output to produce a contrast-related paragraph. The results indicated considerable effect of output-fronted activities on learners' noticing the targeted structures and forms. In addition, the output-first-then-input activities were found to be much more effective than pre-emptive input activities.
Soleimani, H., Ketabi, S., & Talebinejad, M. R. (2008). The Noticing Function of Output in Acquisition of Rhetorical Structure of Contrast Paragraphs of Iranian EFL University Students. Linguistik Online, 34(2). https://doi.org/10.13092/lo.34.527
Copyright (c) 2013 Hassan Soleimani, Saeed Ketabi, Mohammad Reza Talebinejad
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The suspension of the reforms under Donald trump, the fear of weak growth in the United States, as well as the strong economic data of Europe, weaken the dollar and stimulate the Euro. In the night of Thursday the single European currency temporarily rose to the level of 1.1780 U.S. dollars, the highest level since the beginning of 2015.
Previously, the Federal reserve announced that it will not raise interest rates. If the Euro is so quick to grow, it can destroy the economic recovery in some European countries.
In recent months, the mood on the currency market against the us dollar has changed completely. If, after the victory trump the Euro-the dollar was close to par, since the beginning of the year, the dollar has lost about 12% of its value.
If this continues, then in the export industries of Europe will have problems. Because the stronger the Euro, the more expensive it will export products in the Euro area. For example, a car worth 20 000 euros in the beginning of the year 20 cost of $ 800, and now — 23 $ 400. “If the Euro for a long time will be above $ 1,20, this can leave traces,” warns Marco Bargel (Marco Bargel), chief economist at Postbank. The southern European crisis countries, such as Italy, over the last two years benefited from a weak Euro.
“Trump creates chaos that makes markets nervous,” says Dirk Gojny, chief analyst of the National Bank. After the unexpected victory of the Republican candidate announced the program “phenomenal” tax reforms and investment in infrastructure of historic proportions. Still the President did not implemented. Wednesday in Congress, he again failed in an attempt to develop health care reform.
“Many of our clients say that they feel uncomfortable with the stock”
“The markets are losing hope to hear from trump anything constructive,” says Sebastian sax (Sebastian Sachs), currency strategist at Metzler Bank. “Health care reform was the simplest of his large projects. Hardly now will be a serious tax reform,” he said. And investment program of US will have to increase the already huge national debt. In principle, the country may need the economic boost. The growth rate in the first quarter of 2017, was the lowest level for three years; recently the IMF slightly downgraded its growth forecast for the United States.
Proof is the fact that on Wednesday the guarantors of the Federal reserve system unanimously opposed further rate increase and kept the main rate at the level of 1,0-1,25%. Higher interest rates can increase borrowing costs and thereby slow down the economy.
According to many market experts, the rejection of the rate increase is the main reason for the supposed paradox: in spite of moderate growth, the US stock market still chasing records. “Many of our customers say that they feel uncomfortable with stocks,” says Sachs of Metzler. “But they don’t see alternatives at such low interest rates”. Each month institutional investors such as pension funds and insurers have to invest billions in the promotion.
“Obviously, international investors reallocate large amounts”
Much better mood in the Euro zone. The economy grew up there in 2016 for the first time in many years, and more than in the US. To record high rose the German Ifo business climate index. First of all, in many European crisis countries had positive headlines: Spain is on the rise in Portugal, business is booming, Greece is moving to a new tourist record, rose slightly even Italy’s economy. And the election of Emmanuel Macron and his movements are “En Marche” is fueling hopes that the new President will be able to overcome the barriers to reform in France. “Obviously, in a few weeks, international investors reallocate large amounts of money in the Euro area”, — said the expert.
But premature joy can be dangerous for some States. “Italy and France have benefited from the recent weakness of the Euro. But in the structure of Italian and the French economy has been no material change,” says Bargel, chief economist at Postbank. The rise in these countries may be unstable and will terminate if the Euro will continue to grow. “In the short term with this rate of the Euro can be overcome. But if the course is longer it will remain at $ 1.20 or above, it will be a problem for the German economy in particular,” — said the sacks of Bank Metzler. | <urn:uuid:5ef56d1d-ab3d-4d2c-ab4b-732b4834498c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://intmassmedia.com/2017/07/31/the-weak-dollar-the-threat-to-europe/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573540.20/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819005802-20220819035802-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.952129 | 939 | 1.539063 | 2 |
William K. Black
October 9, 2019 Kansas City, MO
The most betrayed people in the world are likely the Kurds. They have the misfortune to live in a particularly violent region dispersed among five nation states – Iraq, Iran, Turkey, Syria, and Armenia. They are a large ethnic group (the fourth largest in their region). They are overwhelmingly Sunni. Kurds have tried to be a nation, and the West betrayed them. Kurds have tried to develop ‘home rule’ within the nation states they inhabit, and everyone betrayed them. The majority population of each of the nation states they inhabit tends to despise Kurds as non-Arabs or fake Turks. Turkey pretends they do not exist and calls them “mountain Turks.”
The Kurds are generally proficient fighters, and that includes many of their young women. The U.S. allied with Syrian Kurds in the fight against ISIS. There are many criticisms one can make about civilian deaths, but the success of the Kurd/American alliance in Syria from the American perspective rates a word such as “astonishing.” The Kurds did almost all the dying in this alliance, and their losses were severe. Naturally, our betrayer in chief, Donald Trump, decided to betray the Kurds. This would hand a strategic victory to three tyrants – the autocrats ruling Syria, Turkey, and Russia. It would also remove the alliance ISIS fears most. Trump’s betrayal thrilled four entities hostile to America (and Israel) and demonstrated that America’s promises to those who shed substantial blood in our alliances are worthless.
This is Trump’s second attempt to betray the Kurds that has become public. General Mattis took credit for reversing the first public betrayal. In retrospect, the word ‘delaying’ may be more accurate. President Erdogan reportedly induced Trump’s most recent betrayal. Turkey’s autocratic leader exposed again how craven and weak Trump is when he bullied and bluffed Trump into betraying the Kurds.
The Republican Party is now so bizarre and pathetic that its House and Senate ‘leaders’ are overjoyed to be able to ‘prove their independence from Trump’ by opposing Trump’s betrayal of the Kurds and his gift to ISIS and the trio of autocrats running Turkey, Syria, and Russia. The Republican ‘leaders’ have been silent, cowardly sycophants on Trump’s indefensible use of government power to attack his political rivals and whistleblowers. While Trump betrays the Kurds, the Republican ‘leaders’ betray America and their oaths of office. Now, Trump’s betrayal of the Kurds gives them a chance to ‘prove’ they are not toadies. Republican Representatives and Senators are tripping over each other in their eagerness to express their love for the Kurds.
Trump, meanwhile, is acting as the “Dark Triad” theorists predict. The Dark Triad of toxic personality traits combines psychopathy, Machiavellianism, and Narcissism. Trump is the poster boy for the Dark Triad. When people with these toxic traits gain great power, they spiral out of control. Trump’s tweets trying to excuse his betrayal of the Kurds contained Trump’s self-promotion from his former self-awarded title of “very stable genius.” Trump pandered to Trump by self-praising “my great and unmatched wisdom.” Trump’s mission includes recurrently proving the truth of our family rule – it is impossible to compete with unintentional self-parody.
Postscript: Pat Robertson also exemplifies our family rule. He warns that Trump’s betrayal of the Kurds means Trump “is in great danger of losing the mandate of Heaven.” Like you, I missed the ceremony in which G-d awarded Trump “the mandate of Heaven” to rule the ‘Middle Kingdom.’ Perhaps we can see the ceremony soon on Netflix. It will be interesting to hear G-d speaking Mandarin Chinese to Trump. I hope there are subtitles. Who knew Robertson converted to Confucian precepts? | <urn:uuid:50f24845-c18e-4fd1-888d-bbb5cf4e6301> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://neweconomicperspectives.org/2019/10/the-kurds-the-most-frequently-betrayed-group-experience-trumps-betrayal.html?shared=email&msg=fail | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570879.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809003642-20220809033642-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.956391 | 854 | 1.835938 | 2 |
Common Name (Plants): Fig Trees
- A.K.A.: Genus Ficus
Common Name (Wasps): Fig Wasps
- A.K.A.: Family Agaonidae
- Approximately 800 species of figs
- Most are trees, but some are shrubs and vines
- Approximately 640 species (20 genera) of fig wasps
- All are obligate pollinators of figs
Found: Throughout the Tropics
It Does What?!
Snacked on any Fig Newtons lately? Tasty, right? Like the ad says, “A cookie is just a cookie, but a Newton is fruit and cake.” …And wasps.
They must have run out of space on the package for that last part.
Before you toss out your favourite teatime treat, I should point out that without those wasps, the figs themselves wouldn’t exist. [Personally, I love Fig Newtons and will eat them regardless of any insects present.] This plant-insect pairing actually represents one of the most stable symbioses out there, with evidence suggesting it has existed for over 65 million years.
While it’s not entirely clear how this arrangement evolved in the first place, fig trees produce a unique structure called a synconium, in which the flowers are actually inside the part we think of as the fruit. This synconium, which can contain up to 7000 flowers, depending on the fig species, has a tiny hole at the tip called an ostiole. In order for the flowers to be pollinated and the fruit to grow, a female wasp must squeeze through that hole, often losing her wings and antennae in the process, and distribute pollen that she carries in a sac on her abdomen. As she does so, she also uses her ovipositor to reach down into some of the female flowers and lay her eggs in their ovaries, where a gall is formed and the larvae can develop. Then she dies and ends up in a cookie. The End.
But hold on, let’s remove humans from the equation for a moment. She dies, but her eggs hatch into little moth larvae which use the growing fig for nutrition. Once they’re old enough, the young wasps mate with one another inside the fig (another nice mental image for snacktime), and the females gather pollen from the male flowers and store it inside their abdominal pollen baskets (yes, that’s actually what they’re called). The wingless male wasps have a simple, three step life: 1) mate with females, 2) chew a hole through the fig so they can leave, 3) die. That’s pretty much it for them. They may escape the nursery with the females, but they’ll die shortly thereafter, regardless. In fact, even the females have a pretty rough deal; from the time they’re old enough to mate, they have about forty-eight hours to get their eggs fertilized, gather pollen, find a new synconium, distribute the pollen, and lay their eggs. Two days, and their life is over. No pursuit of happiness for the fig wasp, I’m afraid.
As with any long-standing mutualism, there are, of course, parasites ready and waiting to take advantage of it. These parasites are wasps which are able to enter the synconium and lay their eggs, but which do not pollinate the fig. Although their eggs will crowd out those of the fig wasps, decreasing the number of fig wasp larvae born, they are kept in check by the fact that any unpollinated synconium will be aborted by the tree and drop to the ground, taking the parasite eggs with it. The nonpollinating wasps are therefore kept from being a serious threat to the tree’s pollinators.
So there you have it, another of evolution’s great matches. The wasps get an edible nursery, the trees get pollinated, and we get tasty fruits with suspicious crunchy bits that probably aren’t dead wasp bodies, so just try not to think about it too much…
[Fun Fact: The symbiosis between fig species and their corresponding wasp partners is so specific (often 1:1), that the shape of the ostiole actually matches the shape of the head of the wasp species which will pollinate it.]
[For those who would like to read about figs and fig wasps in much greater detail (such as how this works when the male and female flowers are in different figs), check out this excellent site for all you could ever want to know.]
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The entertainment industry has always had a fascination with that bizarre genre niche that sits at the cross-section of action-adventure and archaeology. To really get to grips with where this entire micro-genre comes from, one needs to understand how significant the 1920s and 30s were for this field. During this short window of time, a range of stunning archeological finds was unearthed, from the Ancient lost Sumerian city of Ur to the uncovering of the tomb of Tutankhamun.
Suddenly, the likes of Leonard Woolley and Howard Carter were global celebrities, and archeology was briefly incredibly popular and exciting. This period of time, often called Egyptomania, led to the rise of popular fashion and design trends such as oriental beadwork, Cleopatra-Esque make-up, and mystical iconography. What’s more, the colonial desert khaki and sun-hat took on a popular appeal.
Suddenly, seeking out hidden tombs in far-flung lands was the peak of cool, and Hollywood was more than happy to feed this appetite for exotic adventure tales. Gunga Din (1939), The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948), The Secret of the Incas (1954), and Valley of the Kings (1954) are all core examples of this genre as it concretized and took on familiar tropes in popular cinema.
Of course, nowadays, when one thinks of this type of film one thinks of the blockbuster trilogy that was directly inspired by these 30s and 40s popcorn flicks – Steven Spielberg’s Indiana Jones films. It’s undeniable that any film with these themes made since can’t help but take some inspiration and influence from these iconic thrill rides. More recent examples, such as National Treasure and The Mummy, have kept the Archaeological-Adventure trope alive and well.
Yet these films have also inspired a whole other sector, that of video games. Below we’re going to take a look at some of the best examples of this genre as it has shown up in the world of the games industry, a medium that is a perfect fit for the high-stakes adventure and mystery this genre has always promised to deliver.
Still regarded as the Greatest of All Time by many, Tomb Raider and its legendary lead Lara Croft were among the first true breakthrough video games targeting a more mature audience when the first 3 games launched back on the original PlayStation in the late 90s. Since then, Croft and the Tomb Raider series have gone through several reboots and multiple story arcs, all while keeping the captivating core gameplay of the originals intact. That’s no mean feat, and the latest game in the series, 2018’s Shadow of the Tomb Raider, is considered by many to be the best yet.
Rich Wilde and the Book of Dead
This next one belongs to the thriving online slots genre, demonstrating just how adaptable this aesthetic can be. Rich Wilde and the Book of Dead serves up a compelling gameplay experience over its 5-reel, 10 pay-line formats replete with all the mystical symbols and iconography you’d expect from a game based on the tombs of the Egyptian Pharaohs and their sacred text, The Book of the Dead. Join Rich Wilde, a hero cut from the same cloth as Jones himself, as you embark on this journey into the inner sanctum of the great pyramids.
From the outset, developer Naughty Dog’s intention with the Uncharted games was to deliver the kind of action and thrills that were more commonplace in summer blockbuster movies than games. For that reason, it must be quite fitting for them to have witnessed Uncharted make the leap onto the silver screen in 2022’s adaptation of the franchise. The Uncharted games center on the character of Nathan Drake, a happy-go-lucky treasure hunter conceived of as a blend between Harrison Ford and Johnny Knoxville. The games are well-loved for their dynamic gameplay, stunning visuals, and captivating storylines, and still, hold up today as some of the best games made across any platform over the past 15 years. | <urn:uuid:fdcfce54-4ae3-4317-a927-57a0633fb886> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://gadgetfreeks.com/adventure-games-to-explore/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570879.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809003642-20220809033642-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.953793 | 856 | 1.992188 | 2 |
Recent research led by Mayo Clinic showed the findings of the international clinical trial — Early Treatment of Atrial Fibrillation for Stroke Prevention Trial, or EAST‐AFNET 4 — are generalizable to routine clinical practice. The new findings are published online in the Journal of the American Heart Association.
The original clinical trial included 2,789 patients diagnosed with new onset atrial fibrillation, or AFib, randomized to receive either early rhythm control or usual care. A study report in the New England Journal of Medicine describes the interventions, as well as primary and secondary endpoints, thus:
“Early rhythm control included treatment with antiarrhythmic drugs or atrial fibrillation ablation after randomization. Usual care limited rhythm control to the management of atrial fibrillation–related symptoms. The first primary outcome was a composite of death from cardiovascular causes, stroke, or hospitalization with worsening of heart failure or acute coronary syndrome; the second primary outcome was the number of nights spent in the hospital per year.”
EAST-AFNET 4 was stopped earlier than planned, due to clear efficacy of the interventions. However, the results of one clinical trial do not typically lead to widespread practice change or the development of new or updated guidelines.
“Paradigms in the therapy of AFib have shifted and the role of rhythm control therapy is becoming increasingly relevant in reducing the risk of cardiovascular events,” says Jannis Dickow, M.D., a cardiologist and the current study’s first author. “Therefore, more data and randomized clinical trials are needed to update guidelines.”
Using real-world data to determine generalizability
In their study, Dr. Dickow and his colleagues used the OptumLabs Data Warehouse (OLDW) to identify nearly 110,000 patients who were newly diagnosed with atrial fibrillation during the enrollment period of EAST-AFNET 4. Of this diverse group of U.S. patients, 27,106 received early rhythm control through ablation or antiarrhythmic drug therapy. The remaining 82,633 patients did not.
Of the total cohort, 72.9% of patients would have been eligible to participate in EAST-AFNET 4. To participate in the original trial, people were older than 75, had a previous stroke, or had two other stroke risk factors.
“When clinicians make decisions, they might ask themselves, ‘do the trial results apply to my patients?’ says Xiaoxi Yao, Ph.D., a cardiology-focused health services researcher and the study’s senior author. “In our study we found three in four patients would have been eligible to participate in this pivotal trial, suggesting good generalizability of the trial findings.”
As in the clinical trial, this study showed the same clinical benefits of early rhythm control in patients with new onset atrial fibrillation. This was true for virtually all patients — whether or not they would have been eligible to participate in the trial.
“Another major contribution of our study is that we examined the treatment effect among patients who would have been excluded from the trial,” says Dr. Yao. “Clinical trials often have strict inclusion and exclusion criteria, and thus, there are evidence gaps for patients who would not have met the criteria to participate.”
“Real-world evidence leveraging big data collected as part of routine care delivery can fill these evidence gaps,” she says.
Advancing evidence-based transformation
The researchers believe it is necessary to change routine care practices for patients with new onset AFib.
“Patients with AFib are at risk to experience serious cardiovascular complications, such as an ischemic stroke,” says Dr. Dickow. “Our study confirms the findings of EAST-AFNET 4 and indicates that patients who are newly diagnosed with AFib should receive rhythm control therapy within the first year after the diagnosis.”
Drs. Dickow and Yao hope their study will accelerate a change to practice guidelines.
“There are no standards establishing early rhythm control as routine care for patients newly diagnosed with AFib,” says Dr. Yao. “The most recent guidelines for management of AFib were published just as the results of EAST-AFNET 4 were being shared — and thus did not incorporate the trial findings.”
“Furthermore, guidelines are unlikely to be updated based on the results of one clinical trial, no matter how beneficial the study intervention appears,” continues Dr. Yao. “Our findings strongly support action to update existing practice guidance — sooner rather than later, and formally adding early rhythm control to the clinician toolbox.”
Dr. Yao and her Mayo colleagues continue to delve into the data on patients with new onset AFib. Currently they are working on an artificial intelligence tool to help determine which patients might be more suitable for ablation than antiarrhythmic medications.
Behind the collaborations that build the evidence
At Mayo Clinic, research drives patient care, and education provides the critical thread weaving together research and practice. Teams comprised of diverse experts work together to investigate ways to improve patient outcomes and the way people experience health care. Often, as in this study, the multidisciplinary collaborations stretch beyond Mayo Clinic, linking other national or international colleagues.
Dr. Dickow is currently finishing his physician residency in Germany, at the University Heart and Vascular Center Hamburg. He helped conceive this project during his time as a Cardiovascular Medicine research fellow in the Translational Interventional Electrophysiology Laboratory at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. This laboratory is directed by Douglas Packer, M.D., a Mayo cardiologist and study co-author.
Dr. Dickow’s primary mentor is Paulus Kirchhof, M.D., director of the Department of Cardiology at the University Heart and Vascular Center Hamburg, Germany. Professor Kirchhof led the EAST-AFNET 4 clinical trial, which included patients at 135 sites in 11 different countries. He and another Hamburg-based colleague, Leon H. W. Dinshaw, M.D., also are co-authors on the current study.
Dr. Yao is an associate professor of health services research in the Mayo Clinic Robert D. and Patricia E. Kern Center for the Science of Health Care Delivery, with a dual appointment in Cardiovascular Medicine. This study joins a growing body of work led by Dr. Yao and Mayo cardiologist Peter Noseworthy, M.D., demonstrating real-world efficacy and generalizability of specific clinical trials. Dr. Noseworthy directs the Heart Rhythm and Physiologic Monitoring Laboratory at Mayo Clinic, which includes the externally available Cardiac Monitoring Program. He also is an alumnus of the Kern Health Care Delivery Scholars Program.
The center leads the relationship with OptumLabs for Mayo Clinic, and center scientists have published nearly 200 studies identifying areas for potential improvements in health care delivery using the OLDW. This vast data collection contains de-identified data from a large U.S. health plan with claims from commercial and Medicare Advantage enrollees, as well as de-identified electronic health record data from a nationwide network of provider groups.
The other Mayo co-authors are cardiologist Paul Friedman, M.D., and data scientists Holly Van Houten and Lindsey Sangaralingham. The latter two are staff in the Mayo Clinic Kern Center for the Science of Health Care Delivery. Sangaralingham is an assistant professor of health services research, and among other activities, manages the OptumLabs relationship and Mayo scientists’ use of the OLDW.
The full study report is available for free on PubMed Central. More information about the researchers, source data, research methodology, funding, individual disclosures, references and other supplemental materials are included.
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What is the difference between a Chiropodist/Podiatrist and a Foot Health Practitioner?
The titles Chiropodist/Podiatrist (and Chiropody/Podiatry) are protected by law and may only be used by those who have completed a BSc degree in Podiatry or grand-parented in 2005 by the HCPC (Health & Care Professions Council) which is the governing body for healthcare professionals.
ALL Chiropodists/Podiatrists will display their HCPC registration number which begins with CH.
A Foot Health Practitioner listed on this site has attained a standard of proficiency recognised by the Institute.
All Foot Health Practitioners will appear without a CH number.
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The NAO is traditionally defined as the normalized pressure difference between a station on the Azores and one on Iceland. An extended version of the index can be derived for the winter half of the year by using a station in the southwestern part of the Iberian Peninsula (Hurrell, 1995). Here we give data for SW Iceland (Reykjavik), Gibraltar and Ponta Delgada (Azores). The NAO calculated from Gibraltar and SW Iceland is also given (Jones et al., 1997).
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February 15 – November 8, 2020
John Singleton Copley, Paul Revere, 1768, Oil on canvas, Gift of Joseph W. Revere, William B. Revere and Edward H. R. Revere, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 30.781, photograph © 2019 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
We know him as a revolutionary war hero, but Paul Revere was also an artisan, entrepreneur, master networker, and inventor. Drawing on the American Antiquarian Society’s unparalleled collection, as well as loans from other collections, Beyond Midnight: Paul Revere reveals the man behind the legend—bringing to life his creative spirit, tremendous capacity to adapt to changing times, and his lasting impact on the social, economic, and political life in America.
Jointly presented at the Worcester Art Museum and the Concord Museum, Beyond Midnight is structured around four themes, embracing both the figure of Revere (1735-1818) that is well known—that of the Revolutionary War hero—and the wider range of his artistic and commercial experiences that have often received less attention. In doing so, it charts the development of the mythology around Revere, which ultimately diminished his recognition as an inventive artisan who was adept at “technology transfer,” applying the concepts and tools from one area of work to another. The exhibition also places Revere within the larger context of class, consumption, and production in the 18th-century American Colonies, and explores the incredible network of commercial relationships—on both sides of the Revolution—that helped foster his business. The exhibition includes more than 100 exceptional objects across the two venues. Two of the four themes of the exhibition will be presented principally at the Concord Museum: “Revolutionary Revere” and “Revere the Legend.” The other two themes, “Revere the Maker” and “Revere’s Network,” will be explored primarily at the Worcester Art Museum.
To see the full exhibition—and learn the full story of this legendary American patriot—visitors are encouraged to visit both museums. When paying admission at one museum, visitors will receive a “two for one” voucher to use at the other location.
This exhibition is organized by American Antiquarian Society.
Generous support is provided by CHAViC, Center for Historic American Visual Culture, AAS; Henry Luce Foundation; and Richard C. von Hess Foundation. Additional support is provided by Jim and Carol Donnelly and Dr. and Mrs. Glenn A. Meltzer.
Sponsored by: The Berry Group and Cole Contracting, Inc.
Thursday, February 20, 6pm
Speaker: Ethan Lasser, PhD, John Moors Cabot Chair, Art of the Americas at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
Art Talk: Paul Revere and John Singleton Copley: Making an American Icon
Presented with support from the Bernard and Louise Palitz Fund and the Amelia and Robert H. Haley Memorial Lecture Fund.
Master Series is sponsored by Abbvie.
Museum Open House – Beyond Midnight: Paul Revere
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As a Paramedic, Jim Wood has treated thousands of patients during his forty-year career with Habersham EMS. Jim’s job has always been to transport patients to an Emergency Room (ER). But, today his job has taken a different twist and his new focus is to keep patients at home and out of the ER.
Along with Hope Adams, a Registered Nurse at Habersham Medical Center, Jim is part of a new program called Community Paramedicine. Their primary role is to provide home visits to the underserved who have chronic illnesses such as congestive heart failure, mental disorders, lung disease, and diabetes to help them comply with their prescribed treatment plans.
Many of the patients they treat are “frequent filers” or regulars in the Habersham Medical Center ER or have been hospitalized repeatedly for the same chronic condition because of noncompliance. Thus, the program is also a hands-on approach to reduce misuse of valuable and expensive emergency room resources and reduce unnecessary hospital readmissions. “Most rural hospitals like Habersham Medical Center are losing millions of dollars from bad debt and charity care from misuse of the ER or readmits that hospitals are financially penalized for,” Jim says. “So, our focus is on keeping these patients well.”
Currently, there are 27 patients enrolled in the Community Paramedicine program. “When we first pulled the list of frequent users, it was overwhelming,” adds Jim. “We had to narrow down the list considerably. Program participation is by selection only, and our current patients range in age from 30-93, and we try to visit each patient at least once a week.”
At each visit, Hope and Jim assess the patients’ vital signs and provide preventative care. According to Hope, “We also assess their home environment to see if they have any fall hazards; check to see if they have heat and air; inspect their food supply and help them comply with discharge instructions and follow-up appointments. We really try to get to know each one of our patients. We’ve become like family. We know their life stories and ask lots of questions. We are finding that the best way to “treat” most of these patients is to take care of the underlying social needs or financial barriers to taking care of themselves.”
Many do not have transportation or cannot afford public transportation and often call an ambulance to transport them to the ER for mostly non-emergent conditions. “One of our patients used to call EMS every morning! Now, we drop by to visit her in the comfort of her own home at least twice a week and she hasn’t had to be transported in a while. She loves our visits and is always excited to see Jim. Older women just love Jim,” laughs Hope.
Most have been very receptive to the home visits. “One sweet lady had to warm up to me but now she will welcome me at the door with a big hug,” Hope adds. “During a recent visit, she talked for more than an hour! Sadly, most of our patients are lonely and just need someone to show them they care. A little attention goes a long way.”
Hope and Jim also work closely with many local healthcare and social service organizations like free clinics and food banks. “Many do not know what community resources are available to them, don’t have access, or can’t complete the paperwork,” Jim says. “It is overwhelming to them. And, many of them just need someone to help them wade through the paperwork needed to apply for financial assistance.”
“Today, we dropped in on an elderly man who was very short on food and had a water leak that needed immediate attention, so we are in the process of trying to contact his landlord. We also had to pick up a prescription for a patient at the pharmacy because she had no transportation. And, we helped a family get $50 to turn their power back on, and we are working with an elderly gentleman to get him moved into government housing.”
Hope adds, “A diabetic patient we saw today had a blood sugar level over 400 during our first home visit. Today, her level was down to 100; a significant improvement! All she needed was regular doctor’s appointments and education on diabetes management.”
Another patient on the schedule today needed help organizing her medications. When asked if she was pleased with the Community Paramedicine program, she quickly exclaimed, “Lord, yes! I love them!” I am so forgetful. I could not keep track of my medications and when filling up my pillbox, I would always end up with extra pills or would forget to take them.”
Jim is quick to point out, “These are not people who just refuse or cannot work; many of these are retired senior citizens who can’t live on their meager social security checks. It’s sad when a Korean War Veteran has to choose between buying food or his medications,” Jim adds. “Yes, people could argue that most people need to make better life choices. Yes, some are there by choice, but most are dealing with the cards they have been dealt. We don’t judge, we treat.”
“Our goal is to graduate the patients after a few visits,” says Hope. “We provide them with resources and education and then once they can take control of their own health, we will release them from the program and select additional patients.”
The new Community Paramedicine home visits began in April 2017 and it is being funded by the $1 million grant Habersham Medical Center received from the Georgia Rural Hospital Stabilization Committee. In addition to Habersham Medical Center’s other new business models to reduce misuse of the ER – the new ER screening process and extending Prime Care’s hours of operation to seven days a week – the Community Paramedicine program will be evaluated for its effectiveness and may be used by other rural hospitals across the state to help improve their financial hardships.
“There is no way to charge for this program,” says Tyler Williams, HMC Project Manager. “While hospitals across the nation have similar programs, this is still an emerging field. Maybe one day we can receive additional government funding for this program. But, right now, if we can keep these patients out of the ER or from calling an ambulance for a non-emergent issue, then we are saving lots of money. So, in a way this program more than pays for itself.”
Nevertheless, to Hope and Jim, the program is a win-win. “It’s a very humbling experience,” says Hope. “We’ve seen a lot in a few short weeks. The needs are heartbreaking, but at each visit, we see improvement in these patients’ health and quality of life, and we call that a major success.” | <urn:uuid:3abbf9ff-9926-4bab-9557-0b6263dffb72> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.habershammedical.com/news-events/upcoming-events/new-community-paramedicine-program-gives-hope/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570692.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20220807181008-20220807211008-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.975694 | 1,472 | 2.328125 | 2 |
Key Concepts of
Ojas: The Substance That Maintains
Ojas is the by-product of a healthy, efficient, contented
physiology. It is the "juice" that remains after food has been properly digested
and assimilated. When you are producing ojas, it means all your organs have integrated
vitality and you are receiving the nourishment your mind and body need. Your whole being
hums with good vibrations because you are producing and feeling bliss, not pain. However,
when your agni isn't working properly, you don't produce ojas. Instead food, thoughts, and
feelings turn into ama.
Ojas is the subtle glue that cements the body, mind and
spirit together, integrating them into a functioning individual. | <urn:uuid:5629080e-cedc-4e44-9a79-e05a1c4eb9a8> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://holisticonline.com/ayurveda/ayv-key-ojas.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573540.20/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819005802-20220819035802-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.932357 | 175 | 2.28125 | 2 |
$2,000 Builders Tax Credit
Homebuilders are eligible for a $2,000 tax credit for each new energy efficient home that achieves 50% energy savings for heating and cooling over the 2004 International Energy Conservation Code (IECC). The same HERS rating that is used to meet the energy code or earn the ENERGY STAR, is also used to qualify the home for the $2,000 energy efficient home builder tax credit. A HERS rating is used to determine if the existing home (or a set of plans and specs) meets the criteria.
These tax credits apply to new homes located in the United States whose construction is substantially completed after August 8, 2005 and that are acquired from the eligible contractor for use as a residence from January 1, 2006 through December 31, 2009. (Renewal in 2010 is expected)
IRS Notice 2006–27 provides guidance for the credit for building energy efficient homes other than manufactured homes.
Home Efficiency Improvements
Builders and remodelers can take advantage of stimulus legislation that Congress passed in February 2009 that does much to promote energy efficiency. Energy efficiency incentives to upgrade existing homes have been extended and are now available for 2009 and 2010. Incentives are available for many energy improvements such as air sealing, insulation, heating, cooling and water heating equipment. Most of these incentives are for 30% of the total cost, up to a cap of $1,500. For more information regarding the federal incentives, please visit www.energytaxincentives.org.
Michigan Home Improvement Tax Credit
Households with adjusted gross income less than $75,000 are eligible for a tax credit up to $150 for insulation, furnaces, water heaters, windows, refrigerators, clothes washers and dishwashers for the years 2009, 2010 and 2011. For more information, go to www.legislature.michigan.gov.
Michigan Property Improvement Program
Households with incomes of up to $74,750 may borrow up to $50,000 from the State of Michigan to make energy-efficiency improvements. There is no home equity requirement for loans up to $25,000. Interest rates range from 4% to 8%. For more information, go to www.michigan.gov/mshda.
DTE and MichCon are offering rebates on various energy efficiency improvements, as well as on the cost of the energy audit. For more information, go to www.yourenergysavings.com.
Benefits of owning an ENERGY STAR qualified new home include:
- A Nationally Recognized Symbol of Quality and Performance
All ENERGY STAR qualified new homes are certified to meet EPA’s strict guidelines for energy efficiency. This exemplary performance is verified by an independent third party.
- Lower Utility Costs
Compared with standard homes, ENERGY STAR qualified new homes use substantially less energy for heating, cooling, and hot water heating. Homeowners can expect to save about $200–$400 annually on their utility bills.
- More Comfortable/Quieter Homes
The energy-efficient features of ENERGY STAR qualified new homes keep out excessive heat, cold, and noise, and ensure consistent temperatures between and across rooms-making these homes more comfortable to live in.
- Helping to Create a Better Future
When your customers purchase an ENERGY STAR qualified new home, they are joining millions of consumers who have changed to ENERGY STAR, helping our nation reduce our energy needs and building a cleaner environment for the future. | <urn:uuid:7a0faf09-41c0-47a9-90c8-e68d8d0df479> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.evergreenenergysavers.com/incentives-rebates/builders-remodelers | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570692.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20220807181008-20220807211008-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.930859 | 745 | 1.539063 | 2 |
Star Trek: Final Voyages, abbreviated Final Voyages or FVOY, is a fan fiction story by CaptFredricks, published on 7 May 2014. The story is comprised of three chapters within one volume and is ongoing.
The story of Final Voyages is set starting in 2380, beginning shortly after the events of Star Trek Nemesis. It follows the adventures of Captain Jean-Luc Picard and the crew of the USS Enterprise-E. It is meant to encompass the timespan between Nemesis and Star Trek: Federation Legacy, which begins in 2409.
- Main article: FVOY Volume 1
|1||"Zenith"||56950.3||7 May 2014|
|The USS Enterprise-E is sent to the Denab system for a routine exploratory survey. Unbeknownst to the crew, a dangerous foe lies in wait.|
|2||"Zenith, Part II"||56959.7||29 September 2014|
|Desperate to save his crew, as well as the Federation, from the Zenith Alliance, Captain Picard attempts to reason with his captor, a rogue Klingon captain named Kardok.|
|3||"Zenith, Part III"||56970.25||15 January 2015|
|Jean-Luc Picard comes face-to-face with Xolor, an alien intent on conquering and enslaving the various species of the galaxy. Meanwhile, Starfleet sends its three best ships to the Zenith homeworld to stop their forces from completing their mission.|
|The crew of the USS Voyager readjusts to life in the Alpha Quadrant after their seven-year adventure in the Delta Quadrant.|
|?||"Much A-Q About Nothing"||Unknown||TBD|
|Q returns with high praises of the USS Enterprise crew's accomplishments, particularly Lieutenant Commander Data's. Captain Picard suspects he is up to something more, though Q denies it.|
|?||"Resistance Is Qtile"||Unknown||TBD|
|The Borg Queen returns, vowing revenge on the Federation and specifically, Jean-Luc Picard.|
Background and trivia
- Star Trek: Final Voyages was originally intended to be called These Are the Voyages..., but CaptFredricks decided against it, being that Star Trek: Enterprise's finale shares the same name.
- Final Voyages is rated Fiction T (age 13+) for minor adult themes, including language and minor non-explicit sexual content. | <urn:uuid:d3eea4f9-1785-482f-93d5-5f2c1f584db9> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://federationlegacy.fandom.com/wiki/Star_Trek:_Final_Voyages | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570879.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809003642-20220809033642-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.896964 | 556 | 1.507813 | 2 |
According to Wikipedia: An invasive species is a plant, fungus, or animal species that is not native to a specific location (an introduced species), and which has a tendency to spread to a degree believed to cause damage to the environment, human economy or human health.
What's The Big Deal?
Invasive species can harm both the natural resources in an ecosystem as well as threaten human use of these resources.
Invasive species are capable of causing extinctions of native plants and animals, reducing biodiversity, competing with native organisms for limited resources, and altering habitats.
Ornamental pear trees, most commonly known as Bradford pears, have been a popular landscaping tree in Indiana for decades.
So popular that they are crowding out native Indiana trees.
Cooperative Invasive Management
If you're looking to help address the problems of invasive species beyond your own property, consider joining or forming a local Cooperative Invasive Species Management Area (CISMA) or as they used to be called, a CWMA, Cooperative Weed Management Area. CISMAs are partnerships that can include federal, state, and local government agencies, tribes, individuals, and other interested groups that manage noxious weeds or invasive plants in a specific area (such as county). Marshall County SWCD, as a member of the Arrow Head Country RC&D, has an Invasive Species Resource Specialist, Erica Luchik, based in the Rensselaer Service Center.
CISMAs include local citizens, city, county, state, tribal and federal leaders, and both nonprofit organizations and for-profit corporations to more effectively control invasive plants across property lines. Some CISMAs have been started by government agencies taking a larger, region-wide approach to invasive plant management, while others have been formed by concerned citizens partnering with agencies, organizations, and corporations that can provide additional resources.
No matter where the impetus comes from to start a CISMA, the goal is the same: to work together with all interested parties in the area for more effective invasive plant management. Currently, there is no CISMA in Marshall County. If you would like to see a CISMA started, please contact the Marshall County SWCD office at 574-936-2024 x 3 or send an email.
For more information, visit this CISMA Resources Page.
What Can I Do?
You can help by reporting invasive plants when you find them! Indiana has partnered with EddMaps to allow Hoosiers to report invasives online or via their smartphone. You can also browse their website or app to view distribution maps, photos, and other information on area invasives.
Clean ~ Drain ~ Dry
“The best way for boaters to help protect our waters is by following the ‘Clean-Drain-Dry’ message,” said Eric Fischer, aquatic invasive species coordinator for the DNR Division of Fish & Wildlife.
Clean: When leaving the water, clean all equipment that touched the water. This includes watercraft hulls, trailers, shoes, waders, life vests, engines and other gear. Remove all visible plants, algae, animals and mud.
Drain: Drain accumulated water from watercraft or gear, including live wells and transom wells, before leaving the ramp or public access point.
Dry: Once home, let all gear dry for five days or more before using it in a different water body.
Dumping bait or unwanted aquarium or terrarium pets can introduce invasive species to waterways.
Dispose of all unused bait in a trash can instead of dumping it into the water or on the shore.
Monarch butterflies will lay eggs on black swallowwort, but the larvae will die.
New infestation confirmed in Allen County, IN
INVASIVE BOUNTY PROGRAM
MCSWCD is offering a bounty on Pretty Invasive Pears in 2021. This cost share program will reimburse you up to $500 to remove this aggressive and troublesome tree and replace it with an acceptable native tree and will run thrugh November '21. You must live in Marshall County to take advantage of this program. Download this form for details. The bounty will be offered on a first come/first serve basis and until designated funds are used. Applications will be subject to approval. | <urn:uuid:189f0e18-09b7-4ab4-8887-b501114cfd8e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.marshallcountyswcd.org/invasive-species | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570692.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20220807181008-20220807211008-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.920339 | 896 | 3.328125 | 3 |
This piece was first published in The Australian on 28 May 2016.
Defence is all about risk management.
Because it is impossible to predict the future accurately, defence planning needs to have contingency plans against the more credible threats.
Contrary to the opinion of some commentators, this does not mean preparing for worst case contingencies.
If it did, we would have given the Australian Defence Force the capability to defend Australia against invasion or nuclear attack.
Serious threats of that nature are unlikely to develop without preceding indicators.
However, there is little evidence in the 2016 Defence White Paper of these sort of risk management considerations.
This might in part be because of the need to protect classified, sensitive contingencies.
But it is also because the Defence organisation has been preoccupied with supporting military operations in the Middle East for the last 15 years.
This has resulted in a mindset that all future operations for Defence will be "come as you are" contingencies.
As a result, the 2016 Defence White Paper shows no evidence of understanding such concepts as strategic warning time and the expansion base.
What happens if the white paper's predictions out to 2035 are wrong?
The future might bring us into conflict with China on such a scale that we need to have a Defence Force able to expand from a carefully planned expansion base.
As the 1976 Defence White Paper so cogently argued: insurance against uncertainty is a basic principle of defence planning, which includes the maintenance of a substantial force-inbeing that is also "capable of timely expansion to deal with any unfavourable developments".
It described this as insurance against uncertainty. Further, there is the disturbing issue that the 2016 Defence White Paper for the first time gives priority to "three equally-weighted" strategic objectives to guide the development of the future Defence Force.
These three strategic defence objectives are: 1) the defence of Australia and its northern approaches; 2) a secure nearer region including Southeast Asia; and 3) a stable Indo-Pacific region and support for a rules-based global order.
This implies that our strategic geography no longer matters and having the capability to fight in the Middle East is to be given the same strategic weight for force structure planning as defending Australia or mounting major maritime operations in Southeast Asia.
If that is the case, then we will have ditched the long-established defence planning concept that credible threats nearer to home will always be more important than distant operations because the latter will allow us a discretionary choice whereas the former will be compulsory.
The 2009 Defence White Paper had it right when it said "all other things being equal, our capacity for action are going to be a function of proximity".
It would be more likely that we would be able to do something decisive about contingencies that require military responses close to home.
The current government's lurch back to forward defence, as well as former defence minister Robert Hill's ill-fated pronouncement that geography no longer matters, is to be condemned as imposing unsupportable expectations on a Defence Force of less than 60,000.
There is an associated problem with the idea in the White Paper that Australia is powerful enough to "make meaningful contributions to global security operations".
While it is true that we should have a capacity to deploy forces at significant distance from Australia where our core strategic interests are at stake, it is a pipe dream to believe that we could "make a difference in the world wherever our strategic defence interests are engaged".
Do we really believe Australia could make a difference to military outcomes in high-intensity theatres such as the Korean peninsula?
This brings me to what I fear may turn out to be an unrealistic force-planning timescale.
The White Paper implies that China's looming threat as a potential adversary means that we need to prepare ourselves for serious maritime contingencies closer to home, including in Southeast Asia.
But the long lead times for capability acquisition in this White Paper may mean that it will be well into the 2030s - or even later - before we have what the White Paper boasts will be "a regionally superior ADF with the highest levels of military capability".
The central defence planning time frame with regard to realistic threats from China rapidly compresses.
Those senior military and civilian officers who have grown intellectually lazy by pretending that we must rely upon a "come as you are" ADF may face a strategic catastrophe where we would be unprepared to rapidly expand the Defence Force.
That would be particularly the case if a future American administration suddenly expected us to do much more with ramping up military operations to support them.
This brings me back to the central question of why is there is no evidence in this White Paper of even casual attention to the defence planning concepts of mobilisation and the expansion base?
These defence planning concepts should include, for example, considerations of stockholding policy for potentially high-usage missiles and ammunition, and the ability of Australian industry to supply the ADF with substitutes for overseas supply should this be denied us in the event of high-intensity conflict in Northeast Asia involving the US and China.
All this suggests the minister, Marise Payne, needs to direct the Defence organisation to develop a prudent planning basis for realistic ADF expansion. This may well be the most comprehensive Defence White Paper in Australia's history, but it has a serious shortcoming.
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Eliminating third-party cookies will not stop companies from tracking web users, says DuckDuckGo, which claims it can help with its desktop browser extensions and mobile apps.
In a blog post on Tuesday, the privacy-focused search biz explains that the much discussed plan by Google to eliminate third-party cookies in Chrome by the end of 2022, and related restrictions already implemented in browsers like Brave, Firefox, and Safari, will have a limited effect on marketers’ online tracking efforts.
You have to actually block their trackers from loading in your browser when visiting other sites
“To really stop Google and Facebook from tracking you on other websites, you have to actually block their trackers from loading in your browser when visiting other sites,” said Gabriel Weinberg, CEO of DuckDuckGo, via Twitter. “Just restricting them after they load (like preventing them from using third-party cookies) isn’t enough.”
Two of the most widely distributed trackers, Google Analytics tags and the Facebook pixel, for example, can be implemented using first-party cookies, so they’re not blocked by third-party cookie limitations.
Weinberg argues that merely the act of loading a tracker – a webpage script, an asset like an image, or a cookie file – is itself a major tracking event. “The tracker can get a lot up front including your device info (IP address, user agent, HTTP headers, etc.) as well as your info the site chooses to send with it (e.g., from first-party cookies).”
Essentially, there are a lot of ways to track web users that don’t rely on third-party cookies, like IP addresses in combination with other network data that can be used to calculate a browser fingerprint or identifier.
As we recently reported, third-party marketing firms have increased in the use of CNAME DNS records to borrow subdomains from publishers so their cookies appear to originate from a first-party domain and don’t get blocked.
And app developers in China have been testing an identifier called the China Anonymization ID, or CAID, as a way to recover the tracking capabilities that will be lost once Apple finally implements the App Tracking Transparency framework that has so alarmed Facebook, Google, and other marketers.
Weinberg notes that the technology Google has in mind to replace the third-party cookie, like its Federated Learning of Cohorts (FLoC) scheme and related supposedly privacy-preserving ad delivery techniques, may still be useful for tracking. He argues that FLoC – which aims to assign interest group identifiers to users – can be combined with an IP address to become a unique identifier.
Apple’s app transparency rules: Google’s privacy labels for Chrome and Search on iOS highlighted by DuckDuckGo
“So any tracker that gets both [a FLoC cohort identifier and an IP address] can easily uniquely track and behaviorally target exceptionally well without third-party cookies or anything else,” he said.
The DuckDuckGo tracker blocking app for mobile devices and desktop browser extensions can prevent trackers from loading, which not only serves to improve privacy but also speeds up page load times considerably.
In a page load time test of WebMD.com, the DuckDuckGo extension cut page load times for Chrome, Firefox, and Safari (with default settings) from 20.2, 15.3, and 13.1 seconds to 9.9, 9.1, and 7.5 respectively, or 46 per cent on average.
The extension reduced browsing data transferred by an average of 34 per cent and cut the number of browser requests for files per page load in Chrome, Firefox, and Safari respectively from 567, 602, and 411 to 164, 198, and 181, an average file count reduction of 66 per cent.
Enhanced web performance has long been a selling point for content blocking, ad blocking, and privacy extensions, many of which like uBlock Origin also prevent trackers from loading. But Weinberg points out that DuckDuckGo’s software only blocks trackers and doesn’t interfere with “non-creepy ads.”
“DuckDuckGo is highly profitable based just on serving non-creepy contextual ads,” he said. “We believe in a future where these types of ads are normal again, and think this future can be similarly profitable for publishers.” ® | <urn:uuid:724ea877-11de-4396-aa3b-be3dd3a4d0ad> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://blog.gajdekgraphics.com/blog/2021/03/30/browser-tracking-protections-wont-stop-tracking-warns-duckduckgo-the-register/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570879.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809003642-20220809033642-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.910325 | 936 | 1.84375 | 2 |
The gut-brain connection is no joke; it can link anxiety to stomach problems and vice versa. Have you ever had a "gut-wrenching" experience? Do certain situations make you "feel nauseous"? Have you ever felt "butterflies" in your stomach? We use these expressions for a reason. The gastrointestinal tract is sensitive to emotion. Anger, anxiety, sadness, elation — all of these feelings (and others) can trigger symptoms in the gut.
The brain has a direct effect on the stomach and intestines. For example, the very thought of eating can release the stomach's juices before food gets there. This connection goes both ways. A troubled intestine can send signals to the brain, just as a troubled brain can send signals to the gut. Therefore, a person's stomach or intestinal distress can be the cause or the product of anxiety, stress, or depression. That's because the brain and the gastrointestinal (GI) system are intimately connected.
This is especially true in cases where a person experiences gastrointestinal upset with no obvious physical cause. For such functional GI disorders, it is difficult to try to heal a distressed gut without considering the role of stress and emotion.
Gut health and anxiety
Given how closely the gut and brain interact, it becomes easier to understand why you might feel nauseated before giving a presentation, or feel intestinal pain during times of stress. That doesn't mean, however, that functional gastrointestinal conditions are imagined or "all in your head." Psychology combines with physical factors to cause pain and other bowel symptoms. Psychosocial factors influence the actual physiology of the gut, as well as symptoms. In other words, stress (or depression or other psychological factors) can affect movement and contractions of the GI tract.
In addition, many people with functional GI disorders perceive pain more acutely than other people do because their brains are more responsive to pain signals from the GI tract. Stress can make the existing pain seem even worse.
Based on these observations, you might expect that at least some patients with functional GI conditions might improve with therapy to reduce stress or treat anxiety or depression. Multiple studies have found that psychologically based approaches lead to greater improvement in digestive symptoms compared with only conventional medical treatment.
Gut-brain connection, anxiety and digestion
Are your stomach or intestinal problems — such as heartburn, abdominal cramps, or loose stools — related to stress? Watch for these and other common symptoms of stress and discuss them with your doctor. Together you can come up with strategies to help you deal with the stressors in your life, and also ease your digestive discomforts.
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01 May The Performance of Community Water Management Systems
Posted at 12:10h in UncategorizedBack
|Authors||Jonathan L. Lee|
|Theme||Natural Resource Management|
|Date of Publication||May 01, 2007|
This case study was undertaken as part of the AREU’s applied thematic research project “Water Management, Livestock and the Opium Economy” (WOL). This is the second report on community and social water management and builds on the initial survey work carried out in November and December 2005. The first report, Water Management, Livestock and the Opium Economy: Social Water Management, was published in May 2006. | <urn:uuid:863ff3e2-3306-4a41-b2b1-e5bc79cf8209> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://areu.org.af/publication/705/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570692.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20220807181008-20220807211008-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.866786 | 177 | 1.679688 | 2 |
Germany was Offered to Leave the EU and Make Friends with Russia
The politician criticized the confrontation between the occidental and Russia, which, in his opinion, is part of Europe and should enter that very new economic space.
As Chrupalla pointed out, the national identity of the Germans was strongly influenced by the "psychological war of the allies" at the end of the Second World War. The United States continues to conduct it to this day, which is an excellent example of Washington's actions with regard to Nord Stream 2. As the politician noted, this is a disinformation strategy that the United States is pursuing for its own interests.
By the way, earlier the AfD co-chairman has repeatedly criticized the EU and US sanctions policy towards the Russian Federation, stressing the negative consequences of the imposed restrictive measures. | <urn:uuid:a00f6d5b-f542-4d30-9d0b-6dbd5bfb1262> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.oreanda.ru/en/v_mire/germany-was-offered-to-leave-the-eu-and-make-friends-with-russia/article1380467/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570692.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20220807181008-20220807211008-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.976226 | 166 | 2.046875 | 2 |
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The NFSv4 protocol includes integrated support for ACLs which appear to be similar to those used by Windows. These are different from the ACLs supported by earlier NFS versions, which are based on POSIX draft ACLs and which use a separate rpc program (instead of being a part of the NFS protocol itself).
- rfc3530 (especially section 5.11)]
- POSIX draft ACLs: POSIX ACLs aren't really POSIX--they were never accepted--but some variation of them is implemented on many operating systems, including Linux.
- The Linux man pages, specifically, acl(5), setfacl(1), getfacl(1), and setxattr(2).
- The POSIX<->NFSv4 mapping draft, which explains how we map between POSIX and NFSv4 ACLs.
- The CITI NFSv4 project page, which has links to modified linux acl utilities with preliminary NFSv4 support | <urn:uuid:b2b5c3ac-4924-4500-856c-85c40dbbe73d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://wiki.linux-nfs.org/wiki/index.php?title=ACLs&diff=prev&oldid=1449 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570879.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809003642-20220809033642-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.897095 | 264 | 2.015625 | 2 |
Salmonellosis in experimental dogs
Keywords:Salmonellosis, Salmonella, Dogs
AbstractThe occurrence of salmonellosis in dogs maintained in kennels destinated to scientific experiments was described. The isolates were characterized as Salmonella Typhimurium, Salmonella Agona and Salmonella enterica subsp. Enterica. The public health aspect and epidemiology were evaluated.
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Megid, J., Assis, M. Z. de, Brito, C. de J., & Lara, V. M. (2001). Salmonellosis in experimental dogs. Brazilian Journal of Veterinary Research and Animal Science, 38(1), 44-45. https://doi.org/10.1590/S1413-95962001000100009
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We welcome you to this public seminar at the Peace Research Institute Oslo launching the PRIO Paper on Women's Participation in Peace and Reconciliation Processes in Mali.
The report was commissioned by the Folke Bernadotte Academy (FBA) and has been published by PRIO in collaboration with Malian partners.
The report presents findings from a study about the participation of women in peace and reconciliation processes currently underway in Mali. The findings are based primarily on focus group discussions with men and women carried out in Segou and Mopti in central Mali, and Tombouctou in northern Mali, in December 2018.
The objective of these discussions was to identify concrete factors that contribute to and/or hamper the possibilities for women's meaningful participation in peace and reconciliation processes in Mali. The findings highlight the need to consider both the specifics of the peace and reconciliation processes taking place in Mali and the more fundamental conditions related to gender inequality in the country.
An important finding is that women play crucial roles in local conflict resolution and management, but they are almost absent in the mechanisms for the implementation of the peace agreement. It is therefore crucial that structures are established to make sure that the concerns and expertise of women at the local level is represented and informs discussions at the national level.
Read the report here.
- Welcome, Torunn L. Tryggestad, Deputy Director of PRIO, and Director of the PRIO Centre on Gender, Peace and Security
- Presentation of the report: Jenny Lorentzen, PRIO Doctoral Researcher
- Riborg Knudsen, Senior Advisor, Department of International Programmes, Norwegian Church Aid (Former Country Director NCA Mali 2013-2018).
- Rigmor Elianne Koti, Deputy Director, Section for the Horn of Africa and West Africa, Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Questions from the audience. | <urn:uuid:4273321e-05b9-45b2-b6d4-1f968e122f28> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.prio.org/events/8739 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573540.20/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819005802-20220819035802-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.930772 | 387 | 1.773438 | 2 |
The main mission of Play and Train’s Sports Section is to organise inclusive activities for people with a disability, also allowing non-disabled people to participate. It focuses on sports in the natural environment, looking for a format in which participants can enjoy sports in a group.
To belong to it and benefit from all the programmes, an annual fee (from October to October) of 30€ must be paid.
The Sports Section is divided into three sections or groups of activities:
The Play and Surf section uses the sports of surfing and paddle surfing as tools to improve the social relations, physical conditions and autonomy of young people with disabilities, through days and camps where young people with disabilities have to develop in sports and in the social environment.
We differentiate two blocks of activities according to their location. In El Prat de Llobregat we offer adapted surfing days on a regular basis on weekends during the spring and autumn months. On the other hand, we organise adapted surf camps for children, teenagers and adults in our Adapted Sports Centre located on the island of Fuerteventura. During one week the participants live together with each other and with the instructors while they learn surfing in the mornings and do different recreational and educational activities in the afternoons.
SURF CLUB AT PRAT DE LLOBREGAT
PRE-SUMMER AND POST-SUMMER CLUB
The Club is organised in two separate blocks according to the season of the year. The Pre-Summer Club takes place from April to June and offers a total of four days of surfing. The Post-Summer Club takes place from September to November and also consists of four days. You can participate in one or both of the two blocks as they are independent.
Each day consists of one hour of private surfing lessons with two qualified instructors specialised in the field of disability in the water. The registration fee includes the one hour lesson, insurance and surfing equipment. The wetsuit must be worn by each participant.
OPEN SURF DAY
The Open Surf Day is a fun and sporting day for all those who want to try this sport. This day is open to everyone so it is not necessary to be a member of the Sports Section to participate.
Adapted surf camps
The adapted surf camps are of an educational nature, which is why they seek to stimulate learning that favours the knowledge of other areas, such as emotional-affective, social and strengthening the link with nature, visiting different places on our coast.
The camps take place in Fuerteventura, in the Canary Islands, between June and September, and last eight days. They are aimed at children, young people and adults with and without disabilities. Throughout the week of coexistence, an atmosphere conducive to learning is created, where spaces for reflection, self-criticism and awareness of oneself and respect for nature are generated.
In the morning, surfing lessons, in the afternoon, recreational, sporting and educational activities such as beach cleaning, batucada, dance therapy or awareness of the environment.
Become a member!
Become a member of Play and Train’s Sports Section and enjoy inclusive sports activities all year round. During spring and autumn we surf in El Prat de Llobregat while in summer we get on a plane to live and learn surfing all together through camps. With the Sports Section, you can also enjoy the mountains all year round with snow and adventure activities.
If you are looking for a tailor-made surf trip with your family or friends, you can visit the section Adapted Sports Centre of Fuerteventura where you will find everything you need to know about surfing and about the island. Contact us for more information.
Adapted Sports Center Fuerteventura
Calle Alcaudón, 14 – Vivienda 1
35660 Corralejo (La Oliva)
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21 Feb Understanding Adwords
Adwords can be a powerful marketing platform for many small businesses because it has the potential to put your business front and centre when people are searching for your product or service offering.
However, it is not suitable for all businesses.
Google tries to make it as easy as possible for Small Businesses to get up and going with regular offers for account credits, seemingly helpful staff who will offer to setup and optimise accounts and Adwords Express, stripping away the bells and whistles and keeping it simple and easy to get started.
The first thing you have to understand is that Google makes almost all of it’s money from Adwords , and it is in their interests for you to spend money with them and many businesses have found this out the hard way and lost alot of money in the process.
This step is essential as it will help you understand what Google Adwords is and whether it is a good fit for your business. | <urn:uuid:ea6889ac-a4d5-45c3-9bfb-86944fd632f7> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://bettersmallbusiness.com.au/understanding-adwords/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570879.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809003642-20220809033642-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.970568 | 195 | 1.539063 | 2 |
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On this page you can find news and how-to videos about life in the galaxy.
Check out how damage can be inflicted:
Learn more about your faithful companions in space, spaceships:
Check out how Starbase's programming language works:
Gunfights and Weapons
Learn more about fighting and weapons:
Find out how to build your very own star base:
Learn more about your first job in space, asteroid mining:
Footage from a recent battle between the Empire and the Kingdom:
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Particulate matter is associated with increased morbidity and mortality; its effects depend on particle size and chemical content. It is important to understand the composition and resultant toxicological profile of particulate organic compounds, the largest and most complex fraction of particulate matter. The objective of the study was to delineate the nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectral fingerprint of the biologically relevant water-soluble organic carbon (WSOC) fraction of size fractionated urban aerosol. A combination of one and two-dimensional NMR spectroscopy methods was used. The size distribution of particle mass, water-soluble extract, non-exchangeable organic hydrogen functional types and specific biomarkers such as levoglucosan, methane sulfonate, ammonium and saccharides indicated the contribution of fresh and aged wood burning emissions, anthropogenic and biogenic secondary aerosol for fine particles and primary traffic exhausts and pollen for large particles. Humic-like macromolecules in the fine particle size range included branched carbon structures containing aromatic, olefinic, keto and nitrile groups and terminal carboxylic and hydroxyl groups such as terpenoid-like polycarboxylic acids and polyols. Our study show that 2D-NMR spectroscopy can be applied to study the chemical composition of size fractionated aerosols. | <urn:uuid:340076fc-5239-481a-b3af-0e649c7c4f4b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://dgivan.dental.uab.edu/display/pub2415318 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572304.13/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816120802-20220816150802-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.896858 | 279 | 1.945313 | 2 |
A small shrub that grows to 1 metre tall x 1 metre wide. It is a form of Grevillea rosmarinifolia.
It has mid green narrow and stiff-prickly linear leaves, to about 3 cm long by only 0.1 cm wide.
A grevillea inflorescence is technically a cluster of paired flowers, termed a conflorescence with the overall structure forming a raceme-like appearance.
Grevillea species exhibit 3 main inflorescence structures:
1. A cylindrical to ovoid raceme (with flowers emerging around a 360° radius)
2. A single-sided raceme (with flowers produced on only one side, resembling a tooth-brush)
3. A condensed or clustered raceme (usually as long as it is wide, with species referred to as the spider-flowers)
Grevillea mostly produce the inflorescences at the terminals, beyond the foliage, which differs to the closely related Hakea.
This cultivar is a form of one of the spider-flowers, with inflorescences to about 3 cm long and wide. They are scarlet-red / pink-red and can be produced profusely, over most of the year.
Individual flowers are composed of 1 carpel (female part) where the style and stigma protrude out; 4 stamens hidden away in the perianth; and the perianth (petals and sepals collectively) which connects to a pedicel. Proteaceae flowers do not have any discernible petals or sepals (having only one whorl) and so these are referred to as “tepals” of which there are 4. The carpels are to 30 mm long, pink-red with yellow-green tips.
This is a popular cultivar due to its hardiness and profuse flowering over most of the year. It is very drought and frost tolerant and will grow in many areas of Australia, on a variety of soils. It is reportedly fast growing and can be pruned lightly into a dense shape which will promote flowering.
It can cope without supplementary watering, although plants will flower much more heavily if watered. It can flower very heavily, creating a spectacular show (albeit on a small shrub), and is great for attracting birds.
Plant at the front edges of gardens for best effect.
Grevilleas are propagated by three principal methods; seed, cuttings and grafting. To maintain desirable characteristics of a particular plant, vegetative propagation (e.g. cuttings or grafting) must be used. This also applies to propagation of named cultivars.
Grevillea flowers were a traditional favourite among First Nations Peoples for their sweet nectar. This could be shaken onto the hand to enjoy, or into a coolamon with a little water to make a sweet drink. They might be referred to as the original “bush lollies”.
Grevillea – was named in honour of Charles Francis Greville
(1749-1809), an 18th century patron of botany and co-founder of the Royal Horticultural Society. He was also a British antiquarian, collector and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1774 to 1790.
‘Scarlet Sprite’ – named for the scarlet-coloured inflorescences. | <urn:uuid:eabfc594-2929-465d-b027-a9e666d4717a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://resources.austplants.com.au/plant/grevillea-scarlet-sprite/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570692.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20220807181008-20220807211008-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.944083 | 701 | 3.15625 | 3 |
I am trying to implement a simple logistic regression algorithm from scratch in python (for learning purposes). Every article I've seen online so far presents the following expression for $z$ (argument of the sigmoid function):
$$z = \theta^T\cdot x$$
However when they implement it in code they always use
np.dot(X, theta) which is not the same thing. I have carefully tried to trace the dimensions of all the arrays as follows:
Dot product property: $\theta^T\cdot x = x^T\cdot\theta$
$x$ is of dimension $l\times (d+1)$ where $l$ is the number of records and $d+1$ the number of features (including the $x_0$ ones vector).
$\theta$ is of dimensions $1 \times (d+1)$ (every column in $x$ gets a weight, including the ones vector).
- $z$ is the dot product of $\theta^T$ and $x$, it will have dimensions $((d+1)\times 1)\cdot(l \times 1) = ??$ --> DOES NOT WORK!
There appears to be no way to arrange the last statement such that it remains mathematically correct and yielding an array of dimension $l\times1$ or $1\times l$ without fundamentally changing either:
- the shape of $x$
- the equation itself (as they do in the code)
So which is correct? The code or the mathematical statement? Why are they contradictory? Please help. Thanks. | <urn:uuid:e77e9811-5a1b-46b8-8de7-5e99890eb7b6> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://scicomp.stackexchange.com/questions/31210/want-to-make-sense-of-array-dimensions-in-logistic-regression-algorithms | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572304.13/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816120802-20220816150802-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.880014 | 346 | 2.03125 | 2 |
Roses are red
Violets are blue
Are good for you 🙂
Have some, won’t you? 🙂
Take two if you want because we have a full schedule today and you will need your strength! 🙂
First, here is Straight From The Editor for Wendy’s winning pitch from January. You will recall her pitch:
Five seventh graders are thrust into a secret time-traveling society and are soon fighting for their lives in the bloody battlefields of Gettysburg. The sensitive jock, popular cheerleader, African transfer student, feared social outcast, and 9-year-old technical genius had better work fast: Their own world is becoming increasingly dystopian and their own school hallways increasingly dangerous.
And here are Erin Molta’s comments:
Sounds intriguing but a little too harsh for middle grade. Are they actually on the battlefield and fighting with bayonet’s and guns or have they just arrived and are trying to escape before they get caught up in the battle? That is an important distinction to make when dealing with a middle grade topic.
Also, you might want to allude to the actual problem they have to solve. It’s a bit confusing trying to figure out what exactly is going on –were they sent to Gettysburg by accident and they have to get back to their own world which is deteriorating fast and their school is becoming dangerous? What links it all together? Their dystopian world and their dangerous school hallways are related to Gettysburg (or the time travelling) how?
Once you can pinpoint that, I think you’ll have a pitch that will draw an editor in.
As always, I find Erin’s insight very educational. I hope it’s helpful to you too!
Next up, we have the February Pitch Pick. Below are the 4 pitches from February. Please read them over and then vote for the one you think is best and deserves a read by Erin!
Just Call Me The Kid (PB ages 4-7)
Pip the mouse longs to be a cowboy, and does his best to rustle up some skills. His mother gets kinda ornery though, as Pip’s attempts turn the household on its head. But that doesn’t sour his milk, and neither does the neighbor’s cat!
How Many Shoes Does A Princess Need? (PB ages 4-8)
Cindy’s dad always called her “princess” but now, living with great-aunt Prue, Cindy feels more like a kitchen slave. When she asks for a new pair of Mary Janes for the County Spelling Bee, great-aunt
Prue snaps, “How many shoes does a princess need?” Cindy decides to investigate “must have” footwear, from frog boots to glass slippers, and learns just how much is enough.
Why Fireflies Should NEVER Drink Soda (PB ages 3-7)
Oakley’s Keys (PB ages 3-6)
It’s a tough decision, I know!, but the poll will be open until Friday, March 8 at 11:59 PM for you to cast your vote.
Today’s pitch comes to us from Linda, whom you may remember from her pitch for Alpha Bitty in October and The Good For Plenty Bibs in January. Linda is a former gifted and talented teacher and the author of a number of books including the multi-award winning picture book, The Blue Roses. Please take a moment to visit her website at www.lindaboyden.com. Here is her pitch:
Working Title: Twitch
The Pitch: After Twitch Taylor turns twelve, his world flips over. Uncle Dell’s wife, Jewel, is killed in a freak accident. His father, Eldon, disappears but leaves a note that forces Twitch to live with Uncle, an old-time Cherokee custom where uncles teach nephews the ways of men. Twitch quickly learns there’s more to life than cell phones: an ancient curse is attacking his family, something only he can stop. Can he learn enough, fast enough to become a Cherokee warrior? Can a kid save the world?
So what do you think? Would You Read It? YES, MAYBE or NO?
Linda is looking forward to your thoughts on her pitch! I am looking forward to Spring. But that’s not news 🙂
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Forget crowbars and hotwiring – the only equipment that a modern day car thief needs to take off in your vehicle is an iPad, according to a new report by Senator Edward Markey. The Massachusetts politician found that almost all cars on the market today are vulnerable to “hacking or privacy intrusions.” Top car manufacturers including General Motors, Ford, Chrysler, Hyundai, Jaguar Land Rover, Mazda, Mercedes-Benz, Mitsubishi, Nissan, Porsche, Subaru, Toyota, Volkswagen Audi and Volvo, found that their protection of potentially sensitive technology was “alarmingly inconsistent and incomplete.”
According to Markey, nearly 100% of cars on the market today include wireless technologies that could be vulnerable to hacking. “It raises questions of safety, it raises questions of privacy, because no longer do you need a crowbar in order to break into a car, now you can do it with an iPad,” Markey said Monday (February 9) on CBS’ This Morning.
Markey is now calling on the National Highway Safety Agency and the Federal Trade Commission to create a new set of guidelines that would protect vehicles with wireless access. He said individuals could, and should complain to the government to call for more protections against data collection.“We now need a rating system for security, for safety, for that vehicle from it being hacked by an outsider that could cause an accident, cause real danger to a family,” he said. Most cars include some wireless entry points to on-board computers, such as Bluetooth, internet access, wi-fi, keyless entry, anti-theft systems, cellular-telematics remote start, navigation systems and tire pressure monitoring. In fact, only three car manufacturers still have models without wireless entry, and the number of those models is declining quickly. “Americans are basically driving around in computers,” Markey said. | <urn:uuid:f3db9653-0bab-46f1-b837-a380b12ed920> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.hypermotor.co.uk/hackers-only-require-an-ipad-to-break-into-your-car/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570692.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20220807181008-20220807211008-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.955986 | 391 | 1.765625 | 2 |
How does the view of school acoustics vary between five European countries?
Working across several countries, it’s interesting to reflect on the differences we see in terms of the role of acoustics. In some countries the sound environment barely gets a mention in a building process, in others only in certain types of specialist spaces and in a few, acoustic awareness is fairly high and part of the project from the start.
We took the opportunity to ask five of the experts at the ILETC Transitions seminar in London how school acoustics is considered in their home countries.
- Mariagrazia Marcarini, PhD researcher and trained teacher, Bergamo University, Italy Follow @MariMarcarini
- Karolina Szynalska, PhD candidate and trained architect, University of Cambridge, UK Follow @KSzynalska
- Silvia Sasot Ibanez, Architect and researcher, Ramon Llull University, Spain Follow @silsasot
- Mie Guldbaek Broens, trained teacher and Educational Anthropologist, LOOP.bz, the Netherlands Follow @LOOPbz
- Siv Stavem, School Planner and PhD researcher, Norconsult AS/ Oslo University, Norway Follow @123sista
-Find out more of what the experts have to say about innovative learning environments (ILEs) in this blog post.
Acoustics can be tricky in ILEs
When we asked these experts about the role of acoustics in so-called Innovative Learning Environments compared to traditional classrooms, three of the five believed it is more of an issue than cellular classrooms.
“Certainly. And not only because of the spatial complexity of the innovative learning environments but also due to different, often more interactive, pedagogical activities that take place inside them,” said Karolina Szynalska, a trained architect and researcher in the UK.
Educational anthropologist based in the Netherlands, Mie Guldbaek Broens, agreed;
“Yes, the demands are higher because of multiple speakers and activities taking place. It’s a new and more difficult situation to manage so those helping to provide acoustic solutions have to be open to experiment in order to succeed.”
Two of the researchers were quick to point out that many traditional classrooms have severe problems with acoustics. Even though it may seem more straightforward, this doesn’t mean that it’s automatically managed the way it ought to.
Lack of awareness – the common denominator
So what is being done in their respective countries in order to improve acoustics in educational buildings? Well, the researchers confirm our view; that it varies from country to country. Although, the common thread that they all share is a lack of awareness; in one way or another, spreading knowledge and talking about acoustics is key.
In Spain, it seems as though architects and building managers are unaware or simply not interested in focussing on acoustics. Silvia Sasot Ibanez, architect and researcher based in Barcelona, Spain says;
“The Spanish culture is noisy, so we place a noisy people inside buildings with high reverberation. We need more awareness about how the sound impacts our life; we are used to the noise.”
Mariagrazia Marcarini, ex-teacher and PhD researcher in Italy says it’s only now that schools are being developed with a clear focus on the sound environment. The developments are encouraging but slow to propagate throughout the country.
In northern Europe, Norway and Denmark, it seems as though the awareness is slightly higher and that several different partners are working to include acoustics in school projects; architects, teachers and municipalities.
Unfortunately, this hasn’t made it across the North Sea to the UK where Karolina says that “the body of research is growing, but it does not currently influence policy.” The UK has good acoustic design guidance but the mandatory criteria are not that high.
Do you agree?
This was the second and last part of the series where we spoke to European experts about learning environments and acoustics (find the first part about ILEs here). What’s your experience, do you agree with the researchers? Or if you’re based in another country, what initiatives are happening there which could be shared and which other countries can learn from? | <urn:uuid:1d231c49-c525-4a97-ba40-fea2662e93cf> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.acousticbulletin.com/school-acoustics-5-countries | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573540.20/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819005802-20220819035802-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.954383 | 915 | 2.40625 | 2 |
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American persimmons are as their name suggests, native to North America. The small fruits are most often orange but can be golden yellow to red in color. Unripe fruits are hard and contain high levels of tannins and produce a very astringent taste. Ripe fruits are one to 2 inches in diameter and are very soft, the sugars fully developed resulting in a sweet flesh.
American persimmons are available in the fall and winter months.
American persimmons are botanically known as Diospyros virginiana, with a hint of their country of origin embedded in the species name. American persimmon trees are semi-wild and are often used as “edible landscaping” for both fruit and appearance as well as an attractor for wildlife, like deer and birds. Commercially, the Asian persimmon varieties are more well-known in the United States though some efforts are being made in Indiana to commercialize the American variety. It is known in the south as simmon, possumwood, and Florida persimmon.
American persimmons are high in tannins and low in both protein and fat.
American persimmons are most often eaten fresh, when ripe or used in recipes for candies, baked goods and beverages. Dried American persimmons can be used in baked goods and have also been fermented with hops and whole grains to make a kind of beer. To store, refrigerate unripe fruit until ready for use. Once ripe, American persimmons are quite perishable.
A permanent ink can be made from the flesh of the American persimmon.
The American persimmon tree is native to Kentucky and has a growing range that spans the Mississippi river basin and much of the Midwest and Southeastern United States and can grow as far north as Connecticut. The tree thrives in areas of isolation and low water supply. The cultivation of American persimmons was a task undertaken by a name named Jim Claypool, of St. Elmo, Illinois. He is cited with being the first to try to improve various growing characteristics in order to make the variety easier to grow and more marketable. It was believed that persimmons require a frost in order to develop its sweet taste and soft texture. Persimmons merely require more ripening time on the tree; most fruits will fall from the tree when ripe. One set-back to the commercialization of the American persimmon is the fact that the fruits must be harvested by hand due to their fragility and potential for bruising. Generally available through specialty tree sellers, American persimmon trees are hardy in USDA zones 5-9.
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Those without dogs who happen upon this article may recoil at the scatological content, but getting to know your pooch’s poo schedules is actually an essential part of dog ownership.
As guardians of these fluffy friends, we need to allow them time to relieve themselves when they need it most, and that means orchestrating walkies during their intestine’s office hours. When you think about it, our whole day is structured around this core principle.
Whether you’re crate training an adorable pup or working on your majestic house wolf’s diet, and you need them to take care of business before you leave for work, a little research into how long doggy digestion takes can go a long way.
Doggy Digestion at a Glance
Before we elaborate on the details, let’s take a look at some general answers to our question: how long after eating does it take a dog to poop?
For the most part, it takes those fluffy tums between six and eight hours to work their magic, soaking up all the healthy nutrients from food, so excretion tends to happen between seven and nine hours after they’ve licked their doggy bowl clean.
As you can imagine, it’s a much shorter process for puppies on account of them being so dang adorable and small – mostly the small part. The whole bowl to bowels process for these little darlings takes roughly four hours.
It all seems simple enough, doesn’t it? You’re not exactly going to have to break out the chalkboard full of equations to plan your day around a single digit, but hold that thought. Things are about to get way more complicated.
Some dogs aren’t all that food-oriented and will only require that single meal a day, but other more active or larger dogs will need two meals a day – one in the morning and one in the evening. Throw some midday treats into the mix, and your single-poop diary is shot!
You’ll have to juggle multiple poops (not literally) from the previous day, while also keeping their morning meal in mind. Ultimately, you could be dealing with three poops a day, and that, my friends, isn’t so easy to navigate, especially considering you’re not supposed to walk dogs directly after before or after a meal. That means you need to account for pre-and post-meal buffer durations too.
That’s about enough of these generalizations, I think – let’s get into some specifics of doggo digestion…
Dog Food Type and Ingredients
Much like our own toilet schedules will change depending on our fiber intake and the sort of food we eat, so will a dog’s. The first distinction we should make is between wet and dry food.
As we can surmise by the name, wet food has a much larger water content, and typically, lubricated foods are easier to digest.
Wet dog food from a tin is usually made up of between 75-80% water, whereas dry food contains only 10%. We can thank muscle meat for this moisture, a super nutritious ingredient with a 75% water content. If you’re unsure how to work out the moisture content in your dog’s food, it’ll be listed on the back of the tin, box, or bag.
Don’t worry if your dog’s on a dry-only diet, though. You can simply add some aftermarket lubrication to boost water content. Why not try mixing their dry snacks in with a hearty splash of filtered water. It doesn’t sound too appetizing, but your pooch will lap it up with glee, and it will help to improve the digestibility of the food.
Speaking of, it’s important to note that the digestibility of dog food shouldn’t just be used as a measure of how long it will take our fluffy children to pass their dinner. If we’re being smart about it, we can actually use it to keep doggy waste to a minimum.
The digestibility of food refers to both the physical processing of food, but it also refers to how easily its nutrients can be absorbed. This means that your dog doesn’t need as much highly digestible food for a balanced diet, and thus, won’t need the toilet as much.
The consensus is that food with a digestibility rating of 82% and above is a healthy, high-quality option for your fluffy family members. Between 76 and 81% is okay, but not great, and anything with a digestibility rating of 75% or below has poor-quality ingredients and is best avoided.
However, it’s not just the quality of ingredients that affects our dog’s digestive process. Each ingredient has an inherent digestibility ceiling that cannot be topped no matter the quality. Take fish for example; it’s 87% digestibility limit, but lamb, on the other hand, has a digestibility peak of 71.5%, no matter how great the cuts are.
Descending from gray wolves, dogs can handle plenty of protein in their diet. Their short intestines are built for the job, but grains are a different story. It’s not that grains aren’t good for our doggos, on the contrary, they’re great, but they can slow down the digestive process. You can use this to your advantage if you need a bit of extra time to make it home from work to walk your dog.
Ingredients are normally listed by volume on dog food containers, which makes strategizing their diet to compliment your schedule way easier.
It’s not just our dog’s diet that affects when the bells chime for poop O’clock, but their genetic makeup too. Some dogs such as Scottish Terriers, Great Danes, Shih Tzus, and Doberman Pinschers naturally have sensitive stomachs, which can lead to a rather volatile poop schedule.
But a sensitive stomach isn’t the only contributing factor. It’s just a fact of life that some dogs pass waste quicker than others. Remember when we said the average passing time was between 7-9 hours after a meal? Well, depending on the breed of your dog, that figure could drop to as little as four hours or increase to twelve hours.
From Pooping Pups to Squatting Seniors – Does Age Affect the Digestive System?
Another factor that contributes to the time it takes for a dog to pass their meal is what stage they are at in their life. Puppies tend to need the toilet far more frequently because their insides are still adjusting to food and life in general. They have very little control over their bowel movements, so their toilet times can be quite sporadic. This poop premium is also compounded by the fact that puppies eat more meals than grownup dogs throughout the day.
If you’ve got a pooch that’s getting on in years, you may also notice that they too need to pass stools more frequently than they did in their heyday. If this is the case, it’s nothing to worry about. Just as when we get older and make more trips to the toilet, so too do our fluffy friends.
Exercise – Does it Get Things Moving?
One of the most commonly asked questions about the digestive systems of dogs is whether they need the toilet after a walk. The truth is yes, they do.
After significant zoomies, all the blood and oxygen is pumping around your dog’s bod at breakneck speed, stimulating their muscles – intestines included. Intestinal contractions are kicked into hyperdrive, helping to move the stool along to its final location.
So, it’s a good idea not to cut that walk short. A nice long walk will ensure they take care of all their business before you return home.
Can Dogs Hold in Their Poop and Pee?
As we’ve already discussed, puppies are yet to develop a mastery of their digestive system, so even if they understood the concept of holding in their fecal matter, they couldn’t do it.
On the other hand, older dogs with years of training will understand when it’s appropriate to void their bowels, and thus they’ll try to hold it until then. That said, a dog should never have to hold in their waste; it’s just not healthy.
If they really need to go, they will almost always try and communicate that something’s wrong, so make sure you’re receptive when your dog speaks to you.
Exactly how long a dog can hold their baggage, so to speak, will differ not only from breed to breed, but dog to dog.
What if Your Dog Isn’t Pooping at All?
If you’re just cottoning on to the fact that you haven’t had to don a poop bag for a while, there’s a good chance that your hound is a little backed-up.
When a dog becomes constipated, it’s not unusual for it to go without passing a stool for more than 48 hours, which is obviously a problem.
A backed-up pup can be caused by any number of things including dehydration, lack of exercise, or a low fiber intake. There’s also a chance that it’s symptomatic of a much more serious health issue, so if your dog isn’t going to the toilet, your first port of call should be to make an appointment with your veterinarian.
Here’s hoping there’s nothing more insidious at play. Then it’s just a matter of diagnosing the issue, but once that’s done, you’ll be able to remedy the situation in no time.
Portion Sizes – Supersize It or Keep it Lean?
Contrary to popular belief, feeding a dog more won’t necessarily speed up the digestive process. It will only amount to your dog needing to go to the toilet more, as it may not be able to get it all out in one sitting.
You should always try to keep it lean with your dog’s diet, but there are times when a proper schedule goes by the wayside, namely, the festive season. It’s a lovely treat to feed your special little family member some delicious scraps, but only in moderation, and prepare yourself for at least one extra walk the next day.
Fiber Content – What Does it Actually Do?
As you’re probably aware, high fiber diets encourage the passage of waste, so if you boost your dog’s fiber intake, be prepared to hit the park more often than usual. You may also want to brace yourself for an influx of furry toots too. This smelly side effect of a high fiber diet will pass eventually as their digestive ecosystem adjusts, but before it does, it’s toot town, baby!
You should always be careful not to increase the fiber in your dog’s diet by too much as this can create quite a bit of gastric discomfort. You won’t be able to get a single thing done on account of the number of walks you’ll have to take your dog on.
Fiber works by encouraging the build-up of bulky stools, but whilst it’s working on its poop de résistance, it’s also absorbing water, which helps to soften the stool. Ultimately, a large yet soft poop is much easier to pass.
Stress – Will it Affect a Dog’s Digestive System?
The last thing we’d like to mention on the topic is a matter of mental wellbeing. It’s not just dogs; we experience deviations from our normal digestive habits when we’re nervous or under a lot of pressure too.
Although it seems like they have a cushy life, dogs can become stressed for a number of reasons, and when they do, it can cause havoc on their bodily functions.
When stressed, a hormone known as norepinephrine is released in their system. This is essentially a shot of adrenalin that dilates the pupils and increases heart rate, prepping them for fight or flight situations, but those aren’t the only body parts it kicks into hyperdrive. It also gets those intestines working post-haste.
If you really want to get to grips with your dog’s digestive cycle, we recommend timing it from meal to mess.
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Before committing to buying a home, it’s a good idea to understand your income and spending habits. Understanding your spending habits can help you identify problem areas, plan a realistic budget, and make the buying process much easier. Here are some basic tips for tracking.
Track your spending for several consecutive months. A few weeks is usually not enough time to see the larger patterns in your spending. Recording your spending for at least three consecutive months will show the larger trends in your spending habits, and give you a good baseline.
Write everything down, even little things like soda and fast food. It’s important to know exactly where your money goes. Small purchases can add up quickly, and have a major impact on your budget.
Once you’ve tracked your spending, examine it carefully. There may be some places in which you can cut back or eliminate spending on luxuries. Small impulse purchases can become a significant portion of your spending, and are one of the easiest items to reduce or cut from your spending. Trimming down your spending can help create a larger budget for buying a house.
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Four teenagers with severe aplastic anemia, initially diagnosed and evaluated over a seven-year period at The Johns Hopkins Bone Marrow Transplant Unit, Baltimore, were residents of the same small town in South Carolina. Estimated annual incidence for that age group in the town, based on the four cases, was 100 times the expected rate. All four of the teenagers had attended one of two junior high schools. An exploratory survey of all high-school students, comparing risk factors of those who had attended the “affected” junior high school with those who had attended the “unaffected” junior high school, showed no associations with exposure to glue, paint or varnishes, pesticides, history of hepatitis or infectious mononucleosis, or use of chloramphenicol or other suspected drugs. Weak associations were found between the affected junior high school and employment in the textile industry and in agriculture (specifically peach orchards).
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No matter what you do, you'll never run away from you.— Barry Mann
Simplistic happy metaphor quotes that are about butterfly metaphor
Helvetica is the jeans, and Univers the dinner jacket. Helvetica is here to stay.
Never be afraid to be a poppy in a field of daffodils.
Everything has seasons, and we have to be able to recognize when something's time has passed and be able to move into the next season. Everything that is alive requires pruning as well, which is a great metaphor for endings.
My initial thoughts about what a title can do was to set mood and the prime underlying core of the film's story, to express the story in some metaphorical way. I saw the title as a way of conditioning the audience, so that when the film actually began, viewers would already have an emotional resonance with it.
Life is like an elevator. On your way up, sometimes you have to stop and let some people off.
When we become hollow bones there is no limit to what the Higher Powers can do in and through us in spiritual things.
Your body is the ground and metaphor of your life, the expression of your existence. It is your Bible, your encyclopedia, your life story. Everything that happens to you is stored and reflected in your body. In the marriage of flesh and spirit divorce is impossible.
Hope is a song in a weary throat.
Tell the image makers and magazine sellers and the plastic surgeons that you are not afraid. That what you fear the most is the death of imagination and originality and metaphor and passion. Then be bold and LOVE YOUR BODY. STOP FIXING IT. It was never broken.
Running is the greatest metaphor for life, because you get out of it what you put into it.
The metaphor of the king as the shepherd of his people goes back to ancient Egypt. Perhaps the use of this particular convention is due to the fact that, being stupid, affectionate, gregarious, and easily stampeded, the societies formed by sheep are most like human ones.
Our tools are extensions of our purposes, and so we find it natural to make metaphorical attributions of intentionality to them; but I take it no philosophical ice is cut by such examples.
Pain is the best instructor, but no one wants to go to his class.
The passed Pawn is a criminal, who should be kept under lock and key.
Mild measures, such as police surveillance, are not sufficient
Hundreds of years ago, Indian artists created visual images of dancing Shivas in a beautiful series of bronzes. In our time, physicists have used the most advanced technology to portray the patterns of the cosmic dance. The metaphor of the cosmic dance thus unifies ancient mythology, religious art and modern physics.
An image is a bridge between evoked emotion and conscious knowledge;
words are the cables that hold up the bridge. Images are more direct, more immediate than words, and closer to the unconscious. Picture language precedes thinking in words; the metaphorical mind precedes analytical consciousness.
Art has always been the raft onto which we climb to save our sanity.
I don't see a different purpose for it now.
Life is like a beautiful melody, only the lyrics are messed up.
If your life were a book, and you were the author, how would you want your story to go?
Fear is the disease. Hustle is the antidote.
Birds born in a cage think flying is an illness.
People who speak in metaphors should shampoo my crotch.
Kurds are like fire, if approached kindly they will warm you, if approached badly they will burn you
I'm a little pencil in the hand of a writing God, who is sending a love letter to the world.
If these United States can be called a body, then Kentucky can be called its heart.
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A bodybuilder is a sculptor who carries with him his own material.
The metaphor is so obvious. Easter Island isolated in the Pacific Ocean — once the island got into trouble, there was no way they could get free. There was no other people from whom they could get help. In the same way that we on Planet Earth, if we ruin our own [world], we won't be able to get help.
God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought.
It's as simple as that.
Poetry teaches us music, metaphor, condensation and specificity.
Movement is my medicine, my meditation, my metaphor and my method, a living language we can rely upon to tell us the truth about who we are, who we are with, and where we are going. There is no dogma in the dance.
Somebody is waiting on the other side of your obedience.
I don't go into the studio with the idea of 'saying' something.
What I do is face the blank canvas and put a few arbitrary marks on it that start me on some sort of dialogue.
Today is the child of yesterday and the parent of tomorrow.
The work you produce today will create your future.
A great brand is a story that’s never completely told.
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X, 203 pp.
1 map, 6 colour photos, 3 genealogies and graphs, numerous tables and charts
Text language: English
This book on the agro-pastoralist Suri of Southwest Ethiopia is a pioneering collection on a relatively under-documented people, containing historical and linguistic overviews as well as a first selection of Suri oral texts. Several genres of the orature of the Suri are presented in an annotated form. The book thus provides new context information and oral source material of possible wider use to scholars and the wider public as well as to the Suri themselves.
Over the past two decades the Suri (approx. 27,000 speakers) – with their spectacular body painting and other customs of decorative culture – have become known as a prime object of the tourist gaze, and were projected in countless modern travel accounts, photo books, magazine pictures, advertisements, and films. These media, primarily being geared to attractive visual imagery and travel literature hyperboles, do not always depict them in an informative or responsible way.
This book has the more modest aim of presenting the Suri as a contemporary people in a process of survival and change, presenting elements of their social organization, historical background and way of life, and provides the best introduction to a better understanding of this fascinating group. The authors also indicate some of the problems faced by the Suri in this historically crucial time of change, where many new economic, social and cultural challenges face Southwest Ethiopia and its peoples.
Jon Abbink / Michael Bryant: Introduction and Acknowledgements
Part 1 Suri Society
Jon Abbink: Introduction to the Society and History of the Suri People
Part 2 Suri Language
Michael Bryant: The Suri Language – A Condensed Description
Part 3 Orature – Samples from the ‘Literature’ of an Oral Culture
Introduction / Folk Tales / Public Meetings / Traditional Suri Songs (Favourite Bull Song and Age-initiation Ritual Song)
Part 4 A Suri View on Suri Life and Society – Daniel Bambu’s Accounts
Daniel Bambu: From my Perspective as a Suri – Narratives on Suri Life
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Another advantage of using an electric toothbrush is that it’s nearly impossible to brush too hard as you only hold the brush and let its moving bristles do the work. In manual brushing, you tend to apply pressure and vigorous motion that can cause damage to the gums or remove the protective enamel on the tooth surface.
Electric toothbrushes come in a variety of models some with features that encourages proper brushing. Most modern electric toothbrushes come with timers that only beep when two minutes (the recommended brushing time) are already up, so you tend to keep brushing until you hear the beep. Some models even have sensors that will automatically reduce the power if you start brushing too hard!
One of the major drawbacks of electric toothbrushes is the cost but in the long run, they may be more economical than manual brushes as they need to be replaced far less often.
Electric toothbrushes are usually available in starter sets which include the handle, spare brush heads and the charging base. When shipping, it is best to pack an electric tooth brush in its original box or case and then double boxed in a sturdy shipping box. Here are tips on how to properly pack and ship an electric toothbrush.
Make sure that every component snugly fits inside the original packaging. You may use pieces of bubble wrap to fill any gaps, if any, to prevent movement. Close the box and seal with tape. Place the original box inside a slightly larger box with packing materials on the bottom. Fill sides and top with more packaging material until there is no more space for movement. Close the outer box and seal with packaging tape.
When shipping an electric toothbrush without the original packaging, wrap every component in generous layers of bubble wrap. Secure wrap with clear tape. Arrange the wrapped components inside a sturdy box with packing materials on the bottom. Fill sides of the box and spaces in between items with more packaging until box is full. There should be no movement when the box is closed. Seal all openings with tape. Double box the package as described above.
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The Ghana Tourism Authority (GTA) yesterday launched the Emancipation Day 2020 celebration and “Do Ghana” Travel Festival in Accra.
The programme which was organised under the auspices of Ministry of Tourism, Arts and Culture was in collaboration with the Graphic Communications Group Limited (GCGL).
The Emancipation Day 2020 celebration which was launched virtually via Zoom was on the theme, “Our Heritage, Our Strength; Leveraging Our Resilience, Black Lives Matters.”
Speaking at the launch, Chief Executive Officer of GTA, Akwasi Agyeman, said this year’s event was aimed at “rekindling the flame of unity among blacks and highlight the inter-connected nature of their struggles here on the mother continent and in Europe and America.”
He said the celebration would open to see domestic arrivals performing insight from various industries and interact with each other in a meaningful way.
The Director of Marketing and Sales of the GCGL, Mr Franklin Sowa explained that, the “Do Ghana” Travel Festival was intended to be a follow up to the ‘Year of Return’ which opened Ghana up to Africans in the Diaspora.
He said the event was also to afford businesses in the tourism and food industry the opportunity to boost business and recover after being hit by the COVID-19.
Mr Sowa was optimistic that the initiative would contribute substantially to the economy of Ghana and would help encourage industries to promote made in Ghana products.
“We believe that together we would revive our sector and create a new acceptance in domestic tourism and travel to improve our tourism system in the country,” he added.
Dr Diblim Iddi Barri, Deputy Minister of Tourism, Arts and Culture on his part called on Ghanaians to rekindle their commitment to the total emancipation and progress of Africa.
“Emancipation Day should remind us once again that, the African family has been separated and that the different factions of the family both on the mother continent and in the Diaspora have suffered from this brutal and traumatic separation.”
“The persistent police brutalities and the criminalisation of the judicial system against African American males and the recent killing of George Floyd, an African American, all point to an enduring, pervasive and bigoted world view fuelled by feelings of racial superiority among sections of the Caucasian population,” he added.
He, therefore, called for a shared heritage as we use the vehicle of tourism and the creative arts to strengthen the bonds of brotherhood between our brothers and sisters in the Diaspora.
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