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The euro area has come to a critical point. Failure to act will lead to disintegration with non-calculable costs for all member state economies, massive increases in unemployment and a large drop in well-fare. Why has no viable solution been found so far in face of such massive cost? The main reason is a classic coordination problem. In the absence of trust or a strong supra-national institution, individual countries will negotiate based on narrowly defined national interest, despite the fact that the final result will be worse for everybody.
From a technical point of view, three things need to be addressed. First, a lender of last resort needs to be created in order to stop self-fulfilling sovereign crises. Interest rates paid on sovereign bonds in a number of countries are clearly the result of self-fulfilling crisis, which will ultimately force default even on a country like Italy with devastating consequences for the euro area as a whole. This lender of last resort needs to have significant firing power to be credible. In principle, such liquidity crises can most easily addressed with the Central Bank and in the short term there may be little other option. However, often liquidity and solvency crises are difficult to distinguish thereby risking a monetary financing of insolvencies. It may therefore be preferable in the long run to rely on a fiscal lender of last resort. Second, the very real and dangerous problem of moral hazard needs to be addressed. Unfortunately, the experience of this summer has documented this risk. The help provided by the ECB for Italy has led to less not more reforms. Third, the integrated euro area banking system needs an integrated and powerful banking supervision and resolution authority backed by enough means to prevent bank runs. The current system centered around national supervisors and national fiscal resources is clearly fragile and bank runs have started in a number of countries.
At the heart of these problems is the absence of a supranational authority. The euro area needs a strong euro area authority that can fulfill these three functions by being able to raise taxes, being strong to veto countries’ economic policies and having enough power and resources to backstop and close banks if necessary. The crisis resolution strategy so far has failed to deliver that. Even worse, by relying on intergovernmental approaches such as the EFSF it has aggravated the situation and increased the veto power of any member state. Thus, the strengthening of an intergovernmental approach has prevented effective solutions by increasing the coordination failure in the euro area.
More and more commentators and even the Polish foreign minister Radoslaw Sikorski are calling for German leadership. The expressed hope is that Germany as the largest and most powerful economy will act in almost a supranational manner to save the euro. The historic dimension of these calls is breath-taking. However, Germany does not have the economic and political ability to save the euro by itself. Economically, German resources are insufficient to back up euro area debt and banks. Politically, German leadership will not be strong and balanced enough to come to an outcome that prevents moral hazard and ensures prosperity in the euro area.
20th century history points to one exclusive possibility of how Germany can exercise leadership: it is within the EU. German leadership therefore now calls for the creation of a strong supra-national euro area authority within the EU. This euro area authority will need to have true federal powers and accordingly national powers will have to be reduced. This will have to include a reduction in the power of national parliaments, including that of the Bundestag. Such a supra-national structure would require treaty changes but it would have the benefit of creating a true coordinator of European policy making. This supra-national authority will also need to derive its legitimacy from a supra-national level. In other words, more democratic legitimacy at the EU level will be important. Ultimately, more Europe will be to the benefit of France, Germany and all the countries of the EU by creating a stable and prosperous economic area that can act on the global scene. Let us hope that our leaders understand the historic dimension of their decisions: releasing power will ultimately increase it.
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Best Man Corner
Directed by Jaremey McMullin
Documentary | 19 minutes | UK | 2019 | English
Over 175,000 motorcycle taxi drivers operate across Liberia. Most of them are either former child soldiers or conflict-affected youth who lost out on economic and educational opportunities because of the war. Best Man Corner profiles the young riders of one of Monrovia’s motorcycle taxi ranks, exploring how the ‘motorbike hustle’ is a means of survival but also a form of building peace.
Director Statement & Bio
“You can never get what you want in life if you’re not able to hustle.” Best Man Corner opens with these words from Edwin, a long-time motorcycle taxi driver and former child soldier. His experiences in the ‘motorbike hustle’ contrast the opportunities and constraints of post-war life in Liberia. If peacebuilding is always unfinished, then to whom does the unfinished work of building peace fall? Best Man Corner ethnographically situates answers to this question at a busy motorcycle taxi rank in central Monrovia.
Ex-combatant and conflict-affected youth make up the vast majority of Liberia’s 175,000 motorcycle taxi drivers. Motorcycling emerged after Liberia’s civil war as a critical economic sector. It provides cyclists with economic livelihood opportunities and constitutes a space of socio-political youth mobilization. Motorcycling offers a unique vantage point to understand the long-term post-war challenges facing youth and the multiple roles that young people play after war.
The motorbike riders at Best Man Corner ride to survive, but also make clear that, through motorcycling, they establish themselves as active peacebuilding subjects, enacting their own ideas to counter the insecurity and marginalisation of post-war life. Their experiences raise critical questions: Where is peace built? Who builds peace, and whose peacebuilding contributions are seen and recognized? How is peacebuilding understood and evaluated? And, how does film make otherwise hidden aspects of the research process visible? These questions underscore how the long-term trajectories of youth are too often neglected in academic and policy approaches to post-war transition.
Jaremey McMullin is an academic, writer, and new filmmaker. He is a Senior Lecturer in the School of International Relations at the University of St Andrews in Scotland. He has published extensively on ex-combatant reintegration and post-conflict transition after civil war. His 2013 book, Ex-Combatants and the Post-Conflict State: Challenges of Reintegration, is a widely-cited critical ethnography about international efforts to help former fighters transition back to civilian life in four African states, and he has written reports on ex-combatant reintegration in Liberia and Burundi for the United Nations Department of Peace Operations. Now residing in Edinburgh, he is a Marshal Scholar and received his doctorate in International Relations from the University of Oxford.
'Best Man Corner' is one of five films that comprise a documentary short series, 'Liberia: Legacies of Peace.' The series, funded by the Scottish Funding Council's Global Challenges Research Fund, looks at the everyday challenges and opportunities of peacebuilding in post-war Liberia.
Edwin Nyankoon, Moses Fahnbulleh, Trokon G. Gray, Alieu Bamba, Harrison G. Barh, Emmanuel Karmu, Maurife Konneh, Bacchus Saydee, Jr.
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February 27, 2013
Researchers at Texas Tech University and Yale University have discovered a way to predict and control the properties of metallic glasses, yielding a highly versatile material that looks like metal, is moldable like plastic, but stronger than steel.
The study, “Critical fictive temperature for plasticity in metallic glasses,” is published in the journal Nature Communications and reveals that there is a critical fictive temperature to obtain a glassy state capable of plastic deformation. The study shows there is a critical cooling rate, based on the critical fictive temperature, for pliability in metallic glasses. If the glass is cooled more slowly than the critical cooling rate, it will be brittle.
Golden Kumar, assistant professor of mechanical engineering at Texas Tech, and Jan Schroers, professor of mechanical engineering and materials science at Yale University, have developed a model that can explain why some metallic glasses are always ductile or brittle, whereas others are sensitive to processing and aging. The model is based on the metallic glass’ fictive temperature.
Metallic glasses are unique because they combine traits of metals, plastics and glasses in one material. These materials conduct heat and electricity like metals, but their glassy structure makes them moldable like plastics, but hard like glasses. In the process of creating these metallic glasses, it has been difficult to predict the exact properties of the end product, as the materials can be ductile or brittle depending on their composition, sample size and preparation conditions. Despite numerous efforts in the past, no single theory could explain the effect of all of these factors on the properties of metallic glasses.
“By comparing the critical fictive temperature values for different metallic glasses, we can now tell which one will be ductile or brittle under typical conditions,” Kumar said. “This can explain why some metallic glasses were always brittle; their critical fictive temperature is beyond experimentally accessible fictive temperature.”
Metallic glasses typically contain four or five elements, such as zirconium, titanium, copper, nickel, aluminum, platinum, iron and others. However, it is the main element that determines the cost and application. Zirconium-based metallic glasses, for example, exhibit high strength and elasticity, and may be used in sporting goods or military applications, while titanium-based metallic glasses may be considered for precision medical tools because of their biocompatibility.
“The model will help to develop an alloy-specific preparation recipe for obtaining plasticity in metallic glasses,” Schroers said. “This is a crucial step toward predictive models for plastic deformation of metallic glasses.”
Other co-authors who contributed to the study are Pascal Neibecker and Yanhui Liu at Yale.
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Sunningwell Women’s Institute
In 2020, the Sunningwell & Bayworth Women’s Institute celebrated its centenary. In order to commemorate the many women of the parish (and beyond) who had been members during the previous 100 years, it was decided to plant trees. Knowing that Sunningwell was previously known for its elms (now sadly gone: but see here), they decided to plant disease-resistant elms in the hope that they will still be on the Village Green in another 100 years. The elms planted also commemorate the Sunningwell Garden Club, which closed in 2020 after many years. A portion of their remaining funds were donated to the WI to be spent on trees.
The Women’s Institute movement was founded in Canada at the end of the 19th century. It arrived in Britain during World War I, the first branch being located, quaintly enough, far afield on the Isle of Anglesey.
The initial purpose was to help rural women cope with wartime stringencies and produce more food, but its activities were and remained non-military as well as non-political. The idea of a body which not only promoted the interests of countrywomen, but represented all of them equally, regardless of social background, proved immensely popular, many branches being founded around the same time as Sunningwell & Bayworth. Soon they were grouped into county associations – our own being then part of Berkshire ‒ all under the umbrella of a National Federation (NFWI). They thus became, through the next hundred years and beyond, the largest and most important organization campaigning on women’s issues, as well as providing instruction, entertainment and friendship for their members (currently more than 200 000 of them) at a local level.
We know very little about the history of our Sunningwell & Bayworth branch of the WI. It evidently thrived in the inter-war period, as is shown by this oldest picture which we have of its members, displaying their motto ‘God Speed the Plough’.
The one significant feminist who lived in the village, Una Duval, settled here long after her suffragette youth and seems to have taken no interest in the WI. Yet the village lay close to important personalities and developments in the movement, such as Grace Hadow in the city of Oxford, Lady (Elizabeth) Brunner in the county of Oxfordshire, and Denman College at Marcham, which served for decades as the focus for the educational work of the NFWI as a whole. Perhaps some reader of this can help us piece together some of the branch’s past?
You can find out about its current activities at https://sunningwellwi.wordpress.com .
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Ancestral Puebloan Artist
Jar: Duck Effigy, c. 1150-1300
Earthenware and paint
2 9/16 in. x 5 1/8 in. (6.51 cm x 13.02 cm)
clay, slip and paint
In the Kayenta area of northern Arizona and Southern Utah, vessels were often painted in a unique negative style. In negative painting, the lighter color (in this case the white slip) carries the design, while the background is formed by darker painting. Many of these vessels have net-like motifs incorporated into the main portion of the design, imparting a rich textural appearance to the surface.
-from the Native American Art from the Permanent Collection catalog, 1979
Kay Koeninger and Joanne M. Mack, "Native American Art from the Permanent Collection" (Claremont: Galleries of the Claremont Colleges, 1979), 59, fig. 152.
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There are lots of good reasons to create brief stories. They might be your preferred innovative writing outlet. If you like the thought of a novel but the speed and quickness of a brief story, you might enjoy writing short stories. These are excellent to rehearse, as well, even should you do wish to write and publish a novel ultimately. While there are numerous great top reasons to write brief stories, occasionally you can find yourself in trouble once you do sit down down to publish it. Here are a few ways to starting your brief story, achieving your short story, and making it worth reading through.
Before you begin writing anything, you have to have an understanding. You can search for suggestions for writing nearly anywhere. Search surrounding you for personality ideas or else you can even use ideas out of your very own experiences. Once you have an understanding, you can start creating your brief story. Usually the concept is definitely the hard component. If you always have something to state, you are lucky.
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When you complete creating, modify your work. You may desire to take a moment away from your story to recharge your self before modifying. Be critical with your work as if you certainly are a expert editor looking to post an excellent piece. In the event you aren’t certain about any lxetao or ideas inside your story, change it till it really works. It really is your tale and there is absolutely no cause why you should have to compose just an alright story. You should always love what you write. Should you hate it, your reader will, too.
When you are done modifying, check out your work one more time. Be sure you use a starting, middle, plus an finishing. Ensure that you can find no inconsistencies and you have dialogue, descriptive creating, and any other parts of any story which fit well along with your individual work. Have other people read your work and provide their viewpoint. Once it really is refined for your preference, send it to publications, add it to your collection of short tales to post, or do whatever you decide to like with it. | <urn:uuid:6c1b2e54-20a6-47a8-8c26-54eac2014e23> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://blogmium.com/4893/french-short-stories-with-english-translation-keep-this-in-mind/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570879.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809003642-20220809033642-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.958759 | 643 | 2.484375 | 2 |
Sellers work hard for many years to build a business or increase the value of their real estate. When they contemplate a sale, they suddenly learn that they have a silent partner…Uncle Sam. Uncle Sam wants his cut when the asset is sold which is often 15-25% of the Selling Price. When Sellers learn about the tax ramifications of selling, they get angry. They look for creative ways to defer taxes and pay less taxes, but quickly learn that there are few solutions to their tax problems. Fortunately, there is one important and useful tool for deferring taxes (paying taxes at a future time). The CAPS Trust is not tax avoidance, it is tax deferral. Tax deferral means you can pay the taxes in the future for a sale that occurs now. Sellers get the use of their money and only pay taxes as they receive the installment payments. It is not uncommon for Sellers to be able to defer millions of dollars in taxes with a CAPS Trust.
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|Drama in the Time of Covid—An Anthology
Close to 8 million people worldwide have contracted Covid-19. 1 million have died. In the United States alone, over 200,000 have succumbed to this deadly virus, and counting. With no end to the pandemic in sight, the "new normal" involves lockdowns, social distancing, face masks, fear, and political strife.
More than any other creative genre, drama has suffered the hardest during the Covid-19 pandemic. With the closure of theaters worldwide as in plagues of the past, playhouses have been forced to find new ways to reproduce the magic of live theater by going virtual. For smaller venues lacking the resources, many have closed temporarily or permanently shuttered. For playwrights, this reality translates to fewer opportunities to showcase their work, and the virus places in peril the future of live theater and new works.
We seek an anthology to showcase works by playwrights examining Covid-19 in all its permutations. We are looking for short plays and monologues from diverse playwrights worldwide who have something to say about the current pandemic. The anthology will be published by FlowerSong Press in Spring 2022.
To submit, send new and un-produced scripts as attachments of no more than 25 pages to firstname.lastname@example.org by August 1, 2021. Include a 50-75 word 3rd-person bio in the body of your email. Plays that have had readings or workshops are acceptable. Format scripts as Microsoft Word or PDF documents only, and include a title page with contact information. Simultaneous submissions are okay but please notify us asap if accepted elsewhere. All accepted playwrights will receive a copy of the anthology upon publication.
Meet the editors: Robert Paul Moreira, Lecturer in the Creative Writing Program at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, earned his M.F.A. in Creative Writing from the University of Texas-Pan American, and his Ph.D. in Literature from the University of Texas at San Antonio. He is the editor of ¡Arriba Baseball!: A Collection of Latina/o Baseball Fiction (2013). His award-winning short fiction, plays, and criticism can be found in Southwest American Literature, Aethlon, Azahares, Langdon Review of the Arts in Texas, Cobalt Review, Los Angeles Review of Books, and the anthologies SOL: English Writing From Mexico (2010); Along the River 2 (2012); and New Border Writing (2013). He is the recipient of two fiction awards from the Texas Association of Creative Writing Teachers, a Pushcart Prize nomination, the 2011 Wendy Barker Award, and the 2016 NACCS Tejas FOCO Fiction Award for his short story collection, Scores. As a dramatist, Robert's plays include Roses From Castile, Miriam's Song, Proxima b, Dick Tea, and Kiki. Malinalli, a musical in collaboration with Josiah Esquivel, will be published by FlowerSong Press in 2021.
Philip Zwerling, formerly Associate Professor of Creative Writing and Director of the Creative Writing Program at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, earned his M.F.A. in Creative Writing from the University of New Orleans, and his Ph.D. in Theatre from the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is the author of two monographs: After School Theatre Programs for At Risk Teenagers, 2007, and The Theatre of Lee Blessing: A Critical Study of 44 Plays, 2016, coauthor of two books: Nicaragua: A New Kind of Revolution, 1985, and Eyes on Havana: The Memoir of An American Spy Betrayed by the CIA, 2018, and editor of one: The CIA on Campus: Academic Freedom and the National Security State 2012. Scenes from his plays are anthologized in One on One: The Best Women’s Monologues for the Twentieth First Century, One on One: The Best Men’s Monologues for the Twenty-First Century, and Duo: The Best Scenes for the Twenty First Century, all by Applause Books. His coauthored full length play Locked will be published by Lamar University Press in 2021.
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This is a type of literature that presents the message through words of mouth. This is the oldest type of literature since it was practised before the invention of writings. Its forms include; Folk tale, tall tale, legends, myths, fables, anecdote, ballads, epics, riddles, sayings (proverbs and idioms). Let us discuss some of them in details.
Anecdote –is a brief story about an interesting, amusing or strange event. Writers tell anecdote or include them in a larger work, to entertain the readers or to make a point.
Epic –is a long narrative poem, about the adventures of a hero, whose actions reflect the ideals and values of a nation or a group. Epics address universal concerns such as good and evil, life and death, and other serious subjects. One of the famous epics in African literature is “The Epic of Sundiata”
Fable- is a brief story or poem usually with animal characters that teaches a lesson or a moral about life. Or is a very brief story in prose or verse that teaches a moral, or a practical lesson about how to get along in life. The moral is usually stated at the end of the fable. E.g. what goes around comes around’ or ‘do unto others what you would have them do unto you.’
Folk tale – is a story composed orally and then passed from person to person by word of mouth. Or it is a simple story that has been passed down from generation to generation by word of mouth. Folk tales are usually about ordinary people, animals, or occurrences in nature and are usually set in time long past.
They originated from people who could neither read nor write. These people entertained one another by telling stories aloud – often dealing with heroes, adventure, magic, or romance. E.g. “why monkeys live in Trees”
Legend – is a widely told story about the past – one that may or may not have a foundation in fact. Or is a story that is handled down from the past and may tell about something that really happened, or someone who really lived. Legends usually mix facts and fictions. Every culture has its own legends that mean its familiar traditional stories.
Myths – is a fictional tale that explains the actions of gods, or heroes, or the cause of natural phenomena (i.e. the origin of elements of nature). Or it is a traditional story about the origins or workings of the world. Some myths explain how certain things came into being; others explain elements of nature or social customs. Myths that explain the origin of earthly life are known as origin myths.
They are composed orally and then passed from generation to generation through word of mouth. Because myths have been handled down from generation to generation for a long time their original authors are usually unknown. The characters in myths are usually supernatural beings. Every ancient culture has its own mythology.
Parables – a short story that teaches a moral or spiritual lesson, especially one of those told by Jesus as recorded in the Bible. E.g. the ‘Prodigal son’, ‘the sower’, ‘The Rich man and Lazarus’ etc.
Ballad – is a song-like narrative poem that tells a story, often one dealing with adventure and romance. Most ballads are written in four – six – line stanzas and have regular rhythms and rhyme scheme. A ballad often features a refrain – a regularly repeated line or group of lines at the end of each stanza as in “A freedom Song by M. O Macgoye”.
Originally ballads were not written down. They were composed orally and then sung. As these early folk ballads passed from singer to singer they often changed dramatically. Even today modern ballads do not necessarily have four – six – line stanzas and regular rhythms and rhyme scheme. As in The Ballad of the Landlord by Lungston Hughes. A person who sings or writes ballads is called a balladeer
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There are other ways to reduce your hot water consumption as well, like replacing your shower head with a more water-efficient model. If there are any leaks, they should be repaired immediately as well.
These devices, also known as an advanced meter or 'type 4' meter, monitor how much energy you are using and how you use electricity in your home. The data is fed to your smart device (phone or tablet), so you can discover where you can find greater efficiencies in your home.
A smart meter will allow you to take control of your household's power usage by giving detailed information about what appliances are using the most energy for homeowners to make changes accordingly. You might be surprised which appliances are costing you the most money.
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The Downside of Tech and Utilities
- Jun 20, 2022 5:46 pm GMT
Digital platforms have made management of utilities far easier. People do not have to worry about their check making it to the utilities company on time, since they can just pay online and have the bill resolved within a few minutes. People can even schedule payments so they do not have to even think about utilities. If someone needs to set up utilities at their residence, they can often submit a request online and it will be taken care of pretty seamlessly.
Despite all of these vast improvements made by digital platforms for utilities, there can still be some drawbacks. Perhaps the biggest issue is that the increased use of tech has made it far easier to scam people using utilities. By this point most people have heard about phone scams to one degree or another. Speaking broadly, how phone scams work is that people get a call from someone claiming that the person owes money and that it is urgent. The victim pays the money and is either just scammed out of the money they paid or the scammer also gets access to the victim’s bank account and withdraws even more money. Often the scammer is someone claiming to be from the government, such as a tax collector or an officer requesting bail money for the victim’s family member.
Outside of government officials, another significant group that scammers impersonate are utilities companies. Typically a victim gets a call from someone claiming to be a utility provider and they say the victim owes them money. Often the scammer claims that the utility bill needs to be paid right away or their utility will be shut off. Given how disruptive the loss of gas, water, electricity, or another utility, could be in general, but particularly in extreme temperatures, some people are inclined to pay the bill promptly, without doing research or thinking through how the call could be a scam. Many people who are behind on bills often get legitimate communications from a utility company that say they owe money, so it is easy to see how people could get fooled.
The ramifications of these scams can vary, but all can be grave. In cases where someone is just losing say 50 dollars, if the person is short on cash, then that losing that money could cause serious problems. In other situations, these scams can wipe out someone’s lifesavings. Additionally, the more these scams are successful, the more that they will occur. These scams have occurred nationally and locally, and various government agencies are trying to figure out the best way to stop them.
Examples of Scams
In San Diego, there is a scam where people pretend to be from San Diego Gas & Electric and claim that the customers must pay or their electricity will be shutdown. The victims are instructed to typically pay in cryptocurrency. This scam has targeted the elderly, small business owners, and people with limited English comprehension. One business owner lost $25,000 from this scam. San Diego Gas & Electric has announced that they do not make such calls and have instructed to never provide login credentials or other sensitive information over the phone.
In Seattle, a similar scam has occurred through the local utility organizations City Light and Seattle Public Utilities. The latter is actually a government utilities arm. Seattle Public Utilities has put information warning people of these scams, and has even provided a number for Seattle residents to call to report it, so the city can catch these scammers.
In Clearwater, which is a city in Florida, there has been a scam through people impersonating Clearwater Public Utilities. The city government of Clearwater has partnered with the state government to establish a number and site to reach out to the Attorney General’s office.
Interestingly in Charlotte, North Carolina, Duke Energy is spearheading an initiative to fight scammers. They have released information discussing the severity of these scams, and how Covid-19 has made these scams more prevalent. Duke Energy is partnering with other utilities companies.
The US is not alone with dealing with these scams, Canada has faced similar ones. These scam organizations have the ability to relentlessly target individuals and they only have to get it right once to successfully scam someone. Governments and companies at all levels will need to do more to stop these scams.
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Molnupiravir has been approved by the MHRA for early treatment of mild-moderate covid-19 in vulnerable adults, it was announced on 4th November.
It is good news that at last the Government and the pharma industry have recognised the need for early treatment of covid-19. Health care practitioners will doubtless be having to answer questions about this so IMI has prepared this short briefing.
Molnupiravir is an orally-active prodrug for N4-hydroxycytidine (NHC) – an antiviral ribonucleoside analogue that acts as a competitive substrate for virally encoded RNA-dependent RNA polymerase (RdRp). The ribonucleoside form of NHC (rNHC) has the ability to pair as either cytidine or uridine, thereby introducing mutations.
Basically, this means that when RNA is being assembled NHC is substituted in place of cytidine. This is sufficiently close to the correct nucleoside that the viral proof-reading enzyme does not remove it, but it results in a nonsense version of the RNA and slows or stops viral replication. This process is described as ‘lethal mutagenesis’ or ‘error catastrophe’.
NHC has powerful in vitro and in vivo activity against a number of RNA viruses. It is more than 100-fold more active than ribavirin or favipiravir against severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), with antiviral activity
correlated to the level of mutagenesis in virion RNA.1
So far so good.
What could possibly go wrong?
Due to their mechanism of action, there is a possibility that mutagenic ribonucleoside analogues could be metabolised by the host cell and then incorporated into DNA, leading to mutagenesis of the host.1 It follows that the mutagenic activity of rNHC in vivo would be limited to dividing cells where the synthesis of DNA precursors is ongoing.
Others have expressed concern about the possibility of the emergence of supercharged variants – viable, mutated viruses as a result of molnupiravir treatment. They argue that the companies behind the drug must provide data on the effects of mutagenesis at suboptimal doses in primate and rodent models.
On 1st October 2021 Merck (MSD) and Ridgeback Biotherapeutics announced that early treatment with molnupiravir reduced the relative risk of hospitalization or death by approximately 50% in at-risk, non-hospitalized adult patients with mild-to-moderate COVID-19, according to the interim analysis of the Phase 3 MOVe-OUT trial (NCT04575597). The results showed that 7.3% of patients who received molnupiravir (800mg, 12-hourly for five days) were either hospitalized or died by Day 29 following randomization (28/385), compared with 14.1% of placebo-treated patients (53/377); p=0.0012. There were no deaths in the molnupiravir group compared to eight deaths in the placebo group. At the recommendation of an independent Data Monitoring Committee and in consultation with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), recruitment into the study was stopped.
Women who were pregnant, breastfeeding, or anticipating becoming pregnant were excluded from the trial. Men who enrolled in the trial were instructed not to have unprotected sex with women for at least four days after the last dose of drug.
Other commentators noted that, “From a methodological perspective, a trial with a small number of events that is stopped early for apparent treatment effects might be prone to the risk of overestimation”.2 In this trial the total number of outcome events was 81.
The UK Government has been quick to seize the initiative here. On 4th November it announced that molnupiravir had been approved by the MHRA for use in people who have mild to moderate COVID-19 and at least one risk factor for developing severe illness. Such risk factors include obesity, older age (>60 years), diabetes mellitus, or heart disease.
Dr June Raine, MHRA Chief Executive, said:
“Following a rigorous review of the data by our expert scientists and clinicians, we are satisfied that Lagevrio (molnupiravir) is safe and effective for those at risk of developing severe COVID-19 disease and have granted its approval.
“Lagevrio is another therapeutic to add to our armoury against COVID-19. It is also the world’s first approved antiviral for this disease that can be taken by mouth rather than administered intravenously. This is important, because it means it can be administered outside of a hospital setting, before COVID-19 has progressed to a severe stage.
“With no compromises on quality, safety and effectiveness, the public can trust that the MHRA has conducted a robust and thorough assessment of the data.”
The MHRA points out that Lagevrio is not intended to be used as a substitute for vaccination against COVID-19.
The Government and the NHS will confirm how this COVID-19 treatment will be deployed to patients in due course.
There is no information on the cost of molnupiravir in the UK. However, the United States has agreed to purchase 1.7 million courses of molnupiravir for US$1.2 billion, which works out to about $700 per 5-day course. That is far less than the price of remdesivir or monoclonal antibodies, but still many times more than the cost of other drugs that have been successful in early treatment of covid-19. Drugs such as ivermectin, indomethacin and fluvoxamine have all proved highly effective in early treatment of covid-19 and have the advantage of good safety profiles and low acquisition costs.3,4,5 It would seem prudent to weigh the costs, benefits and risks of molnupiravir against these drugs before the purchasing decisions are made.
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The feasibility of distinguishing multiple type components of exo-atmospheric targets is demonstrated by applying the Time Delay Neural Network (TDNN) and the Adaptive Time-Delay Neural Network (ATNN). Exo-atmospheric ...
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Lists are a cognitive resource for speakers and have a wide range of semantic and pragmatic functions. One of the main objectives of this talk is to further clarify the links between lists and language proficiency. To do so, we focused on lists produced by native and non-native Italian speakers during a lexical search in the context of spontaneous spoken language. The study is based on a corpus of oral productions elicited through a task. As the talk will show, some elements usually considered in the literature as completely disparate can be considered together within the framework of lists. Furthermore, it will show the gradual emergence as construction of a particular subset of lists of lexical searches.
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NOAA’s Climate Variability and Predictability (CVP) Program is funding eight new projects (10 academic awards, four NOAA Lab, Center or CI awards) for a two-year total of $3.961 million in FY18 intended to contribute to the goals of TPOS 2020.
CVP supports research that enhances our process-level understanding of the climate system through observation, modeling, analysis, and field studies. The CVP Program is a critical component of the integrated research enterprise at the NOAA Climate Program Office (CPO), and maintains important connections to the other CPO program areas. In order to improve understanding of the climate system and its representation in models we need high-quality, consistent, long-term observations of the many parameters of the climate system. The Ocean Observing and Monitoring Division (OOMD) of CPO provides high-quality long-term global observations, climate information, and products that are used by CVP-supported scientists to build improved theories for the complex dynamics of the many components of the climate system, and in turn OOMD is informed by the needs of the process modeling and climate variability community.
Eight new modeling studies have recently been funded by the Climate Variability and Predictability Program (CVP). The fundamental overarching goal of the Tropical Pacific Observing System 2020 (TPOS) effort is to enhance and redesign international observations of the tropical Pacific. In the First Report of TPOS 2020 (Tropical Pacific Observing System 2020, tpos2020.org), many recommendations and proposed actions were identified. These projects are pre-field modeling studies in support of the two proposed TPOS process studies, Pacific Upwelling and Mixing Physics (PUMP) and Air‐sea interaction at the eastern edge of the Warm Pool.
Motivation behind the Pacific Upwelling and Mixing Physics (PUMP) study is that equatorial upwelling is a poorly observed aspect of the climate system, however, that upwelling is a principal initiating tool for the strong ocean-atmosphere coupling of the equatorial Pacific. Wit the most consequential equatorial upwelling occurring in the Eastern and Central Pacific Ocean, cold water with high concentrations of nutrients and carbon dioxide are brought to within 100m of the surface. This equatorial upwelling process remains poorly understood and poorly constrained in climate models.
The western Pacific is identified by a warm and fresh pool - this is the result of the warm water accumulation by heavy rainfall and the equatorial trade winds in the central Pacific. Inspiration for this project is to understand the air-sea interaction processes and the role of upper ocean salinity in maintaining the warm sea surface temperatures at the eastern edge of the west Pacific warm pool. Air-sea interaction at the eastern edge of the warm pool studies will involve using a mix of fixed platforms and mobile observing systems that would follow the evolving warm pool ledge.
The eight new projects supported by CVP in FY18 include:
- “Pre-Field Modeling Studies/TPOS Process Studies, a Component of TPOS 2020” - PI: Frank Bryan, University Corporation for Atmospheric Research; LuAnne Thompson, University of Washington; William Kessler, PMEL
- "Understanding Coupled Ocean-Atmosphere Processes at the Eastern Edge of the Warm Pool in Support of TPOS 2020” - PI: Shuyi Chen, University of Washington
- "Understanding Processes Controlling Near-Surface Salinity in the Tropical Ocean Using Multiscale Coupled Modeling and Analysis” - PI: Carol Anne Clayson, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
- "State estimates for the tropical Pacific: a reanalysis for evaluating the model, observations, and mass, heat, and salt fluxes” - PI: Bruce Cornuelle, University of California, San Diego
- "Use of high resolution ocean model to assess sampling strategies for TPOS 2020 process studies” - PI: Kelvin Richards, University of Hawaii
- "Improved Understanding of air-sea interaction processes and biases in the Tropical Western Pacific using observation sensitivity experiments and global forecast models” - PI: Aneesh Subramanian, University of California, San Diego; Kris Karnauskas, University of Colorado; Charlotte DeMott, Colorado State University
- "Simulations and analysis of mesoscale to turbulence scale process models to facilitate observational process deployments in the Equatorial Pacific Cold Tongue” - PI: Daniel Whitt, University Corporation for Atmospheric Research; Ren-Chieh, University of Washington
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There are many strategies to pricing, but we will pick two divergent ones that are based on actual self-storage companies. We pick two companies’ website pricing activity for an entire year of 2018, which is not too far back, yet not too recent. Both companies have over 100 stores.
We will look at unit groups displayed on their websites for at least 300 days in the year, which means these unit groups were rarely sold out and rarely unavailable for rent. Let’s further focus on unit types between 25 and 300 square feet in size. A specific unit type may be, for example, 5’ x 10’ in size, 2nd floor with climate control. All the stores averaged six or more different unit types.
Pricing Tactics: The Data
Let’s look at the following aspects of pricing comparing the two companies, company A and B:
|For all price changes, what was the average change, in percent, up or down?||11%||4%|
|How many times, on average for all its unit types, did a company change its prices in the year?||79.8||17.8|
|What’s the maximum number of price changes made for any unit type in the year?||135||69|
|Percentage of all the price changes that were “mini”—3% or less?||22%||55%|
|Percentage of all the price changes that were “micro”—1% or less?||3%||18%|
Big Moves versus Small Moves
Clearly, Company A was the bigger price mover. When A changed its price (up or down), it changes 11% on average. B’s average was just 4%.
Now, some might think if A made bigger, perhaps more consequential, price changes, it might do so less times. On the contrary, company A did so more times. Across all its unit types, A changed almost 80 times on average over the year. To give an idea, that means roughly 1 ½ times per week, assuming changes were distributed evenly throughout the year (which may not be the case).
Company B’s average number of changes across unit types was only 17.8 times. For a perspective only, that is roughly once every three weeks. (Again, this is assuming changes were done evenly throughout the year.)
Even company B’s highest number of price changes across all its unit types, 69, is lower than A’s average. A’s highest number at 135 is almost double that of B.
Ever More Mini Price Moves
Even more interesting, the few move that company B did make, it made it small. In fact, very small. Over half of all its price moves were less than 3%. Almost one-fifth of company B’s moves were micro moves, less than 1%. That means $1 or less for a $100/month rent! Company A, on the other hand, appears to have a completely opposite strategy. Only one-fifth or so of its price moves were mini at 3% or less.
Differing Pricing Tactics, Differing Reasons
We can only surmise the reasons for these tactical differences.
Company B’s pricing strategy looks almost like a surgical, precision-strike one. It makes proportionally more mini price adjustments. Possibly, B has the goal of pricing just under the competition. Or, the company may simply tend to change its prices by a little bit every time there is a move-in or out of a unit type.
Company A’s more aggressive strategy might be in response to a more competitive environment. Or A might be supporting a “low price leader” branding effort with a disciplined promotions strategy. It aggressively lowers its prices during “slow” days of the week, with equally aggressively increases during busy days of the week.
Whatever the pricing strategy, the important thing is to have the right strategy for you.
There are many factors that go into a pricing strategy and decision. Some may be competitor driven, some marketing/branding driven, while others may also be internally and operationally driven, such as from company philosophy to occupancy rates.
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When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice; but when a wicked man rules, the people groan. - Proverbs 29:2.
In Brazil, a former manager of a McDonald's franchise has sued McDonald's. The court did not reveal the identity of the 32-year-old man. The former manager is suing because he gained 65 pounds during his employment. He claims it is because the franchise offers free food to employees, and he felt compelled to sample the food to maintain quality. The former manager is seeking $17,500 in compensation for damages.
There are some things that we are responsible for, and we should take responsibility for them. If we choose to overeat, and to eat foods high in fat content, we ought to be prepared to accept the consequences of those choices.
If we live in a country where we have the freedom to vote for our leaders, it is a civic responsibility to do so. The result of the failure to exercise our freedom, and civic responsibility by voting, may be our having to endure bad leadership.
In the United States, we are having an election on Tuesday and it will determine the course of the country for at least the next two years. We have the freedom to vote, and we have little to fear by going to the polls, and voting. In some places, as in Iraq, voting in the past has meant that you must risk your life. Not so, in the United States. Why then is voter turn out so low? According to the Federal Election Commission, turnout for the 2008 election was only 56.8%.
There are a wide variety of reasons given for a lack of voter participation. The number one reason appears to be cluelessness, or a failure understand the need to participate in the process. Another reason given is the failure to register to vote. It does take some effort to register, and it does take some effort to actually vote. So, the underlying reason for this reason for not voting is laziness. Others avoid registering to vote so that they will not have to participate in other civic responsibilities; such as, jury duty. Then there is the feeling that many express, that their vote will not make any difference. So, why make the effort, when it is thought that it will not matter any way?
Why is it that we pay our bills, make a living, obey the laws, pay our taxes and all those other things that we are expected to do? It is called being responsible. It is expected as responsible human beings that we do those things. Voting ought to be on that list of things we do in order to fulfill our responsibilities as well. Not only should we vote to fulfill our civic responsibility, but we should vote to fulfill our moral responsibility. If there were only two people voting in an election; and you failed to vote resulting in a terrible leader being elected, it is obvious that would be a moral failure to fulfill your responsibility. Even though there are millions of people voting, just because there are more people making the decision, that does not lessen your responsibility before God.
Tomorrow is an important day in the United States. If we want to have righteous leaders who will make decisions that will be pleasing to God, it is critical that we vote. I hope that you will not only vote, but also that you will search your heart as to how God would want you to vote, prior to marking your ballot.
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The Ripple vs. SEC case has lingered for nearly two years now. Following the litigation introduced towards Ripple Labs by the SEC, the 2 entities have had one of many longest authorized battles within the crypto area to date. As we strategy the tip, John E. Deaton, founding father of American authorized firm, Deaton Legislation Agency, has revealed how vital the ultimate ruling is to crypto normally.
Deaton notes that if the ultimate ruling goes towards XRP, it may spell doom for different altcoins
In a reply to a tweet by American entrepreneur and recognized Bitcoiner, Jason A. Williams, Deaton identified that the SEC’s case towards XRP makes XRP by far essentially the most vital altcoin within the crypto area at this second. Jason’s tweet reads, “why is XRP vital?” You will need to notice that Deaton can be concerned within the XRP case.
The SEC argues that XRP (Ripple’s native coin) is classed as a safety, alleging that Ripple Labs and two executives from the agency profited from the gross sales of the token with out fulfilling the necessities crucial, and taking the satisfactory steps to register it as a safety.
Deaton famous that if the ultimate ruling on the case goes towards Ripple Labs, it will spell doom for all different altcoins as they may be categorised as “unregistered securities” by the SEC and any subsequent ruling by an American courtroom, seeing because the judgments created from some instances are influenced by previous rulings on related points.
Deaton says this can be a nightmare most altcoins will possible face supposing Congress doesn’t present regulatory readability on crypto that spells out the place of the asset class within the normal monetary market.
The SEC not too long ago requested to restrict professional testimony by Ripple
In December of 2020, the Securities and Alternate Fee filed a lawsuit against Ripple Labs and two of its executives. Oftentimes, when the SEC recordsdata a lawsuit towards crypto entities, the corporations succumb to the calls for of the regulatory physique and pay the fines imposed. Ripple Labs has chosen to go to trial as a substitute.
The trial has been on for nearly two years now with new proof and clearer arguments periodically offered by each events concerned. The lawsuit has had some hostile results on XRP: Main crypto exchanges delisted the coin as a result of lawsuit.
Recently, the SEC requested to expunge the testimony of as much as ten personalities introduced ahead by Ripple Labs – a transfer the crypto group believes is geared toward pressuring the protection workforce. Regardless of the battle, XRP has retained its place as a ‘top-10’ crypto by market valuation. It at the moment trades at $0.34, gaining by 7% previously 7 days. | <urn:uuid:811b1f5f-4d19-4e9a-b29e-a3c87f683b88> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.bitsmart.us/altcoin/legal-expert-reveals-why-xrp-is-the-most-important-altcoin-in-the-crypto-space-%E2%8B%86-zycrypto/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570692.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20220807181008-20220807211008-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.957637 | 580 | 1.609375 | 2 |
FORT WASHINGTON, Pa.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–A pizza crust here, a chicken nugget there, can eating leftovers off your child’s plate really add up? The answer is yes. A new survey conducted online in April by Harris Poll on behalf of Nutrisystem found that 81% of moms with kids under 18 admit to eating off their kids’ plates either before, during or after a meal. What’s more, more than 1 in 3 (36%) say they eat less healthfully now than they did before they became a parent.
Some of the top foods moms are guilty of eating off their kids’ plates are:
French Fries – 62%
Pizza Crust – 53%
Potato Chips – 46%
Chicken Nuggets – 41%
Cake/Cupcakes – 35%
Mac & Cheese –34%
Pancakes – 28%
“While the leftover foods that are on your child’s plate may seem small, the calories in those extra few bites really can add up over time,” says Courtney McCormick, Corporate Dietitian at Nutrisystem. “And those extra calories can really put your calorie needs out of balance and may be detrimental to your weight loss efforts.”
“As ‘The Grown-Up Consequences of Cleaning Kids’ Plates’ infographic depicts, what many moms don’t realize is that, on average, eating leftovers once a day for one week can add up to more than 400 additional calories. Snacking at that rate weekly equals nearly 6 pounds per year. The more you pick off your kid’s plate, the more the calories go up,” adds McCormick.
To help moms everywhere make healthier choices and avoid reaching for that leftover pizza crust, McCormick provides the following tips:
- Be Aware of How Much You Are Eating. The first thing to do is be aware of just how much food you are picking from your child’s plate. If you are doing it every so often, say once a week, then it probably isn’t a big deal. But if you are cleaning their plate every day, you may need to cut back.
- Reassess Your Child’s Portion Sizes. If your child consistently has food left over on their plate, reassess the portion size you are giving them. Similar to how we often overdo our own portion sizes, we often put more on our child’s plate than they can eat at one time. One way to know the right portion size is to look at your child’s hands – protein (like meats, fish, chicken) should be the size of their palm; fruits and veggies should be the size of 2 palms; healthy fats (cheese, nut butters, avocado) should be the size of their thumb (from knuckle to tip); and grains (pasta, rice) should be the size of their fist. Using their hand to judge portion size is great because as they age their hands get larger so you can increase their portion sizes.
- Be Picky About What You Eat. If you find yourself grabbing leftovers, go for the less caloric choices – choose to eat the leftover blueberries or carrots on their plate instead of the chicken nuggets or mac & cheese.
- Save It for Another Day. If you feel the urge to eat leftovers because you can’t stand to see food wasted, save your child’s leftovers and serve them later as a snack or the next day’s meal choice.
- Eat While They Eat: If you are picking leftovers from your child’s plate because you are hungry, then try to have your own healthy, lower-calorie snack or meal to eat while your child is eating. Make sure the food you choose fits into your diet rather than just eating the food your child is eating.
- Rethink Your Day: If you do end up eating the food from your child’s plate, then rethink your eating throughout the rest of the day – maybe forgo a snack or eat less at a meal. Take into account the calories you ate off your child’s plate and include them in your daily calorie count.
This survey was conducted online within the United States by Harris Poll on behalf of Nutrisystem from April 3-5, 2017 among 342 women ages 18+ who are the parent of a child under 18. This online survey is not based on a probability sample and therefore no estimate of theoretical sampling error can be calculated. For complete survey methodology, including weighting variables, please contact Deanna Every, email@example.com.
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About Nutrisystem, Inc.
Nutrisystem, Inc. (NASDAQ: NTRI) is a leader in the weight loss industry, having helped millions of people lose weight over the course of 45 years. The Company’s multi-brand approach to weight loss includes two distinct programs for 2017. From the flagship Nutrisystem® brand comes the clinically-tested Nutrisystem® Lean13 program, designed to deliver weight loss of up to 13 pounds and seven inches in the first month. In 2017, South Beach Diet® becomes an all-new structured meal delivery weight-loss program following the acquisition of the brand in December 2015. Additional Nutrisystem branded weight-loss products include Fast 5 and Turbo 10, as well as multi-day kits and individual products at select retail outlets. | <urn:uuid:af50c41c-eea5-42a8-abfa-1478a77f109a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://newsroom.nutrisystem.com/new-poll-finds-81-of-moms-with-kids-under-18-admit-to-eating-off-their-kids-plates-either-before-during-or-after-a-meal/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573540.20/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819005802-20220819035802-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.946501 | 1,217 | 2.34375 | 2 |
This weakness occurs, when the attacker uploads or transfers files of dangerous types that can be automatically processed within the product's environment. Uploaded files represent a significant risk to applications.
The consequences of unrestricted file upload can vary, including complete system takeover, an overloaded file system or database.
This weakness mostly occurs in applications written in ASP and PHP. Using of code received as a recepient's one attackers can easily control the system and cause arbitrary code execution.
The weakness is introduced during Architecture and Design, Implementation stages.
Latest vulnerabilities for CWE-434
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I’m starting to realise this is true more and more. Not only does this apply to my own ideas about applying minimalism in relationships (keep the ones that spark joy perhaps?), but also to what sort of person I want to be.
I will be a part of hundreds of lives during my time, some shortly for a dinner or a smile in a store, some deeply, it’s worth really thinking deeply about what sort of person I want to be in those lives.
I’ve witnessed and anguished over the decline of my favorite social media, Twitter, for years. Now it seems everyone is talking about the implosion of Facebook and all the algorithmic feed platforms like Instagram.
Today I realized just how much people crave chronological feeds of what people wish to say. I’m sure you’ve seen stories like this:
It turns out that while social media is dying. The reason it exists in the first place is still just as valid:
“Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation…” — Oscar Wilde
Whatever made these companies think it was ever about anything else?
Life is not a chance eventYou make choices – spend your time –
to create substance. Instead of just dreaming
about what might be.
But once in a while, you need a time-out.
Peace and relaxation that give you time to think.
To define substance…
As in all things the truth is very rarely important. The perception something is much more important. In UX design this boils down to what the user feels and thinks about what they are using.
(Talking about the Gamecube controller) the greatest videogame controller ever designed, mainly because it had a really big button on it.
– the RexBox blog
Simplicity was created, not by actually removing buttons, but by showing the user a primary button. Subsequently most design focused on that big green button. How we perceive an object, function or service is a lot more important than how that object, function or service actually works. Most companies get this wrong again and again.
“Web users will have to pay for what they watch and use, or else we will have to stop making content in the costly and complex way we have grown accustomed to making it. And we don’t know how to do that.”
This is quoted, out of context, from developer magazine. Just to be fair. “I don’t think the majority of people really care about being number one in the world.”
No?´Really? That might be because only a couple of hundred even have a chance to make that list. Leaderboards where you’re way of down around the millionth place seem to loose their charm don’t you think?
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Most parents are aware that physical activity is good for children as it can help to improve their sense of self and have a positive impact on their mental health and well-being. But it’s less well known that being fit and active can also help to boost children’s academic performance. Our recent review of primary school children from Stoke-on-Trent, England, shows that children who are more active perform better in key stage one results in reading, writing and mathematics than less active children achieving grades that were either average or above average for each subject.
Weight and height change
We also looked at how the children’s weight and height change over the school year in our review. All the children gain weight; but less active children appeared to gain weight at a steeper rate than active children. This may mean these children who currently have a normal weight and body mass may be at risk of becoming overweight or obese in the future.
A report from Sport England shows that children who enjoy exercise; have confidence in their physical abilities and understand why exercise is important, are more likely to be active regularly. The same report also shows that these children do, on average, twice as much physical activity compare with children who don’t enjoy sport and exercise.
The Department of Health recommends children do at least 60 minutes of physical activity every day; but many children fail to meet these recommendations. This is in keeping with national figures that show only 17.5% of English, 38% of Scottish, 51% of Welsh and 12% of Northern Irish children meet the recommend minimum exercise levels.
Childhood physical activity
But inactivity is not just a problem in the UK. Levels of childhood physical activity have recently describe as a global crisis by the World Health Organisation. Increasing urbanisation; changing patterns in transport; increase use of technology and high levels of poverty are considered to be reasons for the decline. Of course, not all children naturally love exercise and many dread PE lessons. Indeed, research shows that children who get regular encouragement; also who have access to affordable facilities are more likely to be and stay active.
Given that our research shows the impact physical activity can have on academic performance and growth; it’s clear that children need to be encourage to be active and give time to play regularly at home; in school and in the local community. Children should walk more, run, cycle, use their scooter; go to their local playgrounds, dance, swim and play sports. Children should also be encourage to travel to school on foot or by bike where possible; also sit less often and for shorter periods of time.
Importantly, children also need to have positive role models. They need to see parents, family members, teachers; also members of the community; enjoying being physically active on a regular basis. This is important because children who are active regularly during childhood are more likely to develop into adults who are active and exercise. And adults who exercise regularly are more likely to live happier and healthier lives than those who do not. | <urn:uuid:a6b5f447-5004-4cd9-b24d-49475f1687f9> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://news.medsbla.com/medical-news/physical-medicine-rehabilitation/daily-physical-activity-can-boost-childrens-exam-grades/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570879.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809003642-20220809033642-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.972876 | 617 | 3.703125 | 4 |
It is not the responsibility of the school or its employees to prescribe drugs, medications, or home remedies. Medications should be administered at home under the supervision of the parent/guardian when possible. However, some students require administration of medications to be performed during the regular school day. In those situations, our School Medication Policy will be followed.
The school requires written consent for both prescription and non-prescription medications. This includes over-the-counter medications and remedies.
Consent for Administration of Medication is to be completed, signed, and turned into the Health Office before medications can be administered. This form is to be completed for all prescription and non-prescription medications unless the student has an action plan for anaphylaxis, asthma, seizures, or diabetes (these health concerns require an action plan instead of a Consent for Administration of Medication/Treatment form).
Secondary students, grades 7-12 only, may possess and use non-prescription pain relief medication (Tylenol, Acetaminophen, Ibuprofen) in a manner consistent with the labeling once a parent has completed the Consent for Secondary Students to Self-Carry/Administer Over-the-Counter Pain Relief Medications form and turned it into the Health Office. | <urn:uuid:bfa4a832-7d35-4520-a752-66784be2712f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.stcroixprep.org/health-service/medications/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573104.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817183340-20220817213340-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.912922 | 277 | 2.3125 | 2 |
Ophiocordyceps species infecting ants – the so-called zombie-ant fungi – comprise one of the most intriguing and fascinating relationships between microbes and animals. They are widespread within tropical forests worldwide, with relatively few reports from temperate ecosystems. These pathogens possess the ability to manipulate host behaviour in order to increase their own fitness. Depending on the fungal species involved the infected ants are manipulated either to leave the nest to ascend understorey shrubs, to die biting onto vegetation, or descend from the canopy to die at the base of trees. Experimental evidence has demonstrated that the behavioural change aids spore dispersal and thus increases the chances of infection, because of the existing behavioural immunity expressed inside ant colonies that limits fungal development and transmission. Despite their undoubted importance for ecosystem functioning, these fungal pathogens are still poorly documented, especially regarding their diversity, ecology and evolutionary relationships. Here, we describe 15 new species of Ophiocordyceps with hirsutella-like asexual morphs that exclusively infect ants. These form a monophyletic group that we identified in this study as myrmecophilous hirsutelloid species. We also propose new combinations for species previously described as varieties and provide for the first time important morphological and ecological information. The species proposed herein were collected in Brazil, Colombia, USA, Australia and Japan. All species could readily be separated using classic taxonomic criteria, in particular ascospore and asexual morphology.
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- Agricultural and Biological Sciences (miscellaneous) | <urn:uuid:4d31034d-0063-4f18-bc1a-e6d2bc8f962c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://pennstate.pure.elsevier.com/en/publications/zombie-ant-fungi-across-continents-15-new-species-and-new-combina | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570879.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809003642-20220809033642-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.907049 | 324 | 3 | 3 |
The US leads in AI research, but China is not far behind
Artificial intelligence (AI) has grown by leaps and bounds within a few short years from science fiction probability to ubiquitous technology. AI research has yielded many invigorating applications, from the futuristic such as self-driving vehicles, to the everyday, like powering many of the smartphone apps we use daily without too much of a second thought.
These are powerful, yet functional roles that can be easily comprehended. What’s perhaps more exciting is AI’s growing potential in sourcing and producing new creations and ideas, from writing news articles to discovering new drugs — in some cases, far quicker than teams of human scientists would have been able to do.
New discoveries and understanding of AI capabilities are ever-evolving, much like the technology itself. Hence many national and private interests are charging ahead with AI research and development in a dizzying assortment of fields, from intelligent automation and robotics to AI-powered databases and systems of national importance.
On a national level, the United States has distinguished itself as the foremost nation in AI research, leading other technology opinion leaders in the development and use of artificial intelligence, according to a new research paper examining the top AI research programs globally.
The study by the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation (ITIF) assessed AI using 30 separate metrics including human talent, research activity, commercial development, and investment in hardware and software – with a score assigned to each metric for each region, on a 100-point scale.
The non-profit researchers relied on 2020 data on the topic and discovered that the US is blazing new territory in key areas such as investment in startups and research and development funding, scoring an overall score of 44.6 points.
The US has been pioneering research into AI and its associated disciplines such as machine learning and neuro-linguistic programming, with its findings from both public- and privately-funded research being used to power a wealth of applications, from autonomous vehicles to educational modules.
But according to the ITIF study, China has made major strides over the past few years, and the government has already made AI a growth priority for the country in the wake of its coronavirus response, along with 5G telecommunications capabilities.
By focusing its considerable resources on an AI game plan, China is not too far behind the US in the ITIF paper with a score of 32 points, while the European Union as a whole brings up the rear with 23.3 points on the 100-point scale.
“The Chinese government has made AI a top priority and the results are showing,” noted Daniel Castro, director of the think tank’s Center for Data Innovation, and the lead author of the report. “The United States and European Union need to pay attention to what China is doing and respond, because nations that lead in the development and use of AI will shape its future and significantly improve their economic competitiveness, while those that fall behind risk losing competitiveness in key industries.”
The report found China published some 24,929 AI research papers in 2018, the latest year for which data was available, to 20,418 for the European Union and 16,233 for the United States. The EU lagged notably in venture capital and private equity funding, but fared better than the industry leader in terms of research papers published.
However, the report highlighted how the “average US research quality is still higher than that of China and the European Union”, concluding that the US “is still the world leader in designing chips for AI systems.”
To remain competitive, the ITIF research highlighted that Europe needs to boost research tax incentives, and expand public research institutes working on AI. | <urn:uuid:11b93be1-1500-4e0d-9d15-3a81c15ac445> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://techhq.com/2021/01/the-us-leads-in-ai-research-but-china-is-not-far-behind/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570879.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809003642-20220809033642-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.960155 | 759 | 2.46875 | 2 |
5 Effective Ways To Implement Risk Management In Your Business
Every business, large and small, needs to think about potential risks that could affect business outcomes or lead to potential injury to employees, customers and visitors. There are ways to minimise risks and in this article, we’ll take a look at some key things you can implement to help ensure your business is successful and as risk-free as possible.
Before we get started, if you haven’t really considered risk management practices before, let’s quickly look at what risk management is all about.
The idea of adopting risk management is to have the capacity to identify problem areas in your business operations before they can become a major issue. Every business faces a variety of risks, and it’s always better to stop something from happening in the first place, rather than having to go into damage control mode after a problem has escalated. This can come in the form of your marketing, sales, operations, or even finances. For example, in the construction industry, many entrepreneurs search lead generation for contractors to plan ahead for future business stability.
Effective risk management is essentially about identifying problems and finding solutions so catastrophe doesn’t strike.
Table of Contents
#1 – Gather a General Consensus From All Your Workers
As different people are involved in different business tasks, people from various areas of your operation might be able to pinpoint potential trouble zones or problems. The most important task when it comes to risk management is being able to identify (or even forecast) potential hazards and issues.
No one person can possibly think of everything, so gather your staff together for a team meeting that’s all about risk identification. This will provide you with a good cross-section of things to look at when formulating a risk management plan.
#2 – Draw Up a Risk Management Plan
It’s very hard to plan for potential future risks if you don’t actually draw up and implement a risk management plan.
This plan should document all potential risks, then prioritise them regarding how likely they are to occur, what the level of fallout would be if they did occur, and what measures can be put in place to prevent them from occurring.
Just as most businesses will have some form of business plan, it’s vital to have a risk management plan as well, as this leads to a higher level of alertness and awareness.
#3 – Research Your Competitors
One advantage of having competitors in your industry is that you can learn from them, learn from their mistakes.
Assign someone the task of researching your competition. As these businesses are in the same industry as yours, they’ll basically be facing the same or similar risks. You might be able to uncover problems your competitors have faced and think of ways to avoid having the same issues affecting your own business.
The internet provides a wealth of information that you and your staff can research, and there are also the websites of governing bodies where you can study the risks associated with certain industries.
#4 – Hire a Risk Management Professional
To really get a handle on risk management on a regular basis, if your business has the budget for it, hire a risk management professional full-time. This way, business operations and any associated risks can be monitored constantly.
Your risk manager can regularly liaise with employees, management and everyone else associated with the business, ensuring potential problems are identified early on and that measures are put in place to counteract them.
Even if it doesn’t make financial sense to hire a full-time professional, the task of risk manager needs to be assigned to someone, even if it’s just on a part-time basis.
#5 – Purchase Enterprise Risk Management Software
ERM software, or Enterprise Risk Management software, is a tool that you should seriously consider if you have a budget for ongoing risk management. This specialised software can alert your risk manager to potential problems by monitoring your business data and business processes.
The software also offers reporting, analysis of your business, and enables your risk manager to do their job without feeling overwhelmed by the process.
You can have ERM software tailored to your specific business for even more effective results. It’s an investment in your business’s future that should be on your radar.
Recognising and minimising risks in your business requires focus and diligence. It’s well worth the effort, as preventing potential problems will leave your business in a position where it can be successful well into the future. | <urn:uuid:5b146d3d-088b-4caf-b809-35609ebbbb63> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://technonguide.com/5-effective-ways-to-implement-risk-management-in-your-business/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570879.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809003642-20220809033642-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.953897 | 933 | 1.804688 | 2 |
Michael A.V. Cruz Has Passion for Mentoring
Hispanic Heritage Month: 2012 Honoree
Michael A. V. Cruz is not used to being thanked for the work he does. Being the humble man he is, he’s never asked for it nor expected it. Besides, he's not in it for the glory.
Cruz, a San Diego native, is a down-to-earth, genuine guy who has been giving of himself, to the community, for decades. And the reason, plain and simple, is this:
He can’t move forward without helping those who've come after him get ahead, too.
"I just had a feeling if you’re successful, you need to look at the young faces behind you and encourage them to do what you do," he said in a recent interview. "I tell them about my experience and how I got here, and what they need to expect. For me, it’s been a long ride.”
A long ride, indeed. Cruz, who is the 2012 Local Hero honoree for Hispanic Heritage Month, has devoted his 30-plus-year career to his passion, engineering. He is the former Director of the Navy Primary Standards Laboratory at North Island and the Naval Air System Command’s (NAVAIR) Chief Metrologist. He is also the first Latino at North Island to hold the highest engineering position at the Navy’s Metrology Laboratory.
But, these achievements didn’t happen overnight. Cruz remembers a time when, as a Mexican-American in the sciences, the odds weren’t in his favor, and discrimination loomed large. Despite this, when he remembers the past, he holds no grudges.
“There were no Hispanics in Engineering in 1970,” recalls Cruz. “Just me and one other. The Navy hired us through a training program, at the lowest possible level and we had to sign a waiver that we were accepting a pay cut to get this promotion. We were brought in at the GS-5 level. White people that came in after us were brought in at the GS-9 level.”
That was then, and today Cruz is grateful for the opportunities that did come his way, and for the changes the Navy has made over the years.
“You couldn’t have disparity like that today,” he observes. “The Navy has made strides in hiring minorities, and I have high praise for them, in doing what they do today. I just happened to be at the tip of the spear, but all my experience after that was very positive. I stuck my nose to the grindstone and eventually became lab director.”
In 1980, the San Diego chapter of the Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers (SHPE) was founded. The organization mentors youth in the fields of science, engineering and math, and Cruz became one of its founding members. Through his involvement, he has been able to motivate countless Hispanic students to pursue careers in science.
Mentoring is very important to Cruz, who owes a lot to one of his mentors, Jesse Macias, another SHPE founding member.
“Jesse Macias taught me his love for working with young people," explains Cruz. “He also taught me how to give without any strings, financially, and through the heart, helping young men and women. When Jesse talked to these kids, he shared his stories and hardships, of picking cantaloupes in the valley, when Mexicans couldn’t go to the swimming pool. He was my mentor and I looked up to him like a second father. He passed away two years ago, and I’m trying to keep his legacy alive, working with the kids. 'You can do it,' I tell them. 'You can be successful like we were.'”
Macias may have sparked Cruz’ interest in helping students, but the commitment to SHPE and the students, comes from within. “I think my motivation comes from being successful in my career and knowing that there are many more young people that can benefit from my experience. In the 1980’s, when I first joined SHPE, minorities were just getting involved in science. I value every opportunity to share my career in the education system, as that has the advantage to make this a better world and society.”
So, how does someone as humble as Cruz feel about being honored with the Local Hero Award? “It was nice to have someone recognize me,” he said. “I appreciate the award, for it allows me to continue to tell my story of how we need to get young people involved in science, engineering and mathematics. That’s the value of the award, and it’s snowballing. I’m getting more recognition each day, as a result.”
Cruz, who is retired, is not ready to slow down. Not anytime soon, anyway. For starters, he is a bike riding enthusiast, with his own website that documents the thousands of miles he’s been clocking riding all across the country. And, he also remains involved with SHPE. He is helping to plan their national conference in November, and is assisting with the development of the website for the local chapter. For him, staying involved with SHPE is a way of giving back for all the opportunities the organization has afforded him in reaching out to youth.
“SHPE is still an integral part of my routine,” he says. “I’m still engaged, mentoring the new leaders of our professional chapter. The SHPE will always be part of my family and I will stay with it as long as I feel useful.”
Which should be a long time by any estimation. For working with youth has made it all worthwhile for Cruz. “The feedback I get from the students that I have worked with is, ‘Hey Mr. Cruz, glad that you nurtured me.’ I recently met a young woman I’d mentored, who's now working for the University of San Diego. Seeing young people become successful, you can’t describe that feeling. You just feel good inside.”
Looking back at all he’s been able to accomplish for his community, Cruz feels good about himself. “A lot of people ask me, 'Why do you do this?'” For Cruz, the answer can be summed up in six words. “Every moment is a teaching moment,” he says.
For a man who is a strong believer in these words, Cruz continues to make good use of all his teaching moments. | <urn:uuid:53f014e5-d50d-4814-95d0-3143f77efc5e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.kpbs.org/news/living/2012/11/02/michael-v-cruz | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570692.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20220807181008-20220807211008-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.982131 | 1,386 | 1.546875 | 2 |
Cool Exercise for Houston Seniors
Exercise can be a challenge for older adults due to age-related issues such as joint pain, back problems or imbalance concerns. However, we all know how important exercise is for our body and our minds. And, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) notes that staying physically active can help prevent or delay many diseases and disabilities.
Water aerobics and aquatic therapy offers an excellent exercise option for seniors. These exercises not only provide a total body workout, building strength, endurance and flexibility, but also are low-impact activities, making them ideal for people with joint or back pain. Water buoys and supports the body, taking the pressure off muscles and joints. In addition to being easy on the joints, here are some other benefits of working out in water:
Build and tone muscles.
Water is approximately 12 times denser than air, so when you move through water, you’re performing a resistance exercise, which builds and tones muscles. And, according to the NIH, resistance exercises appear to have the greatest positive effect on bone mineral density, lowering your risk for osteoporosis.
Increase your flexibility.
Being in water (especially warm water) may lessen joint stiffness and pain, making it easier to move and increasing joint flexibility. Swimming is particularly helpful for increasing flexibility in the hips, arms, and legs. This increased flexibility reduces the likelihood of injury.
Improve your mind.
Seniors who might avoid other types of exercise are more likely to keep up with a water exercise program. This is good news! In addition to improving the body, physical activity also is important for brain health. According to the Alzheimer’s Research & Prevention Foundation, physical exercise reduces the risk of developing Alzheimer’s by 50 percent. Other studies show that regular exercise can reduce stress and improve your mood.
Decrease your risk of falls.
One of the reason seniors often avoid exercising is their fear of falling or injuring themselves. Water’s natural buoyancy supports the body, making falling virtually impossible and reducing the risk of injury. Additionally, the strength and flexibility you gain from working out in water also help prevent your risk of falling.
Exercise keeps your heart healthy.
Swimming and water aerobics are great exercises for the heart, making it stronger and more efficient. According to the NIH, not only does regular aerobic exercise reduce the risk of coronary disease, but it also lowers inflammation by preventing fatty deposits in the arteries.
Finally, taking a water aerobics class or swimming in a public pool offers socialization opportunities for seniors, reducing their risk of isolation and loneliness.
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New aspects of breast cancerPersonal
Ana Luisa Villanueva
Chief Medical Officer Life, Health & Accidents
Madrid - Spain
Our body is made up of many different types of cells. They grow and divide in a controlled way to maintain vital functions and the normal functioning of the body. Sometimes, this orderly process goes wrong. The genetic material, or DNA, of a cell can become damaged, producing mutations or changes that affect normal cell growth. When this happens, cells do not die when they should and new cells and structures appear, creating blood vessels for nutrition and developing a mass of tissue called tumour or cancer.
Breast cancer is one of the most important diseases present in the population of Western countries. It is the most frequent malignant tumour in females as well as the first cause of death, although its incidence varies depending on geographical areas. Differences are attributed to different lifestyles, environmental factors and diagnostic methods. The incidence of this type of cancer increases with the economic status, more than half of the worldwide cases come from developed countries.
According to the International Agency for Cancer Research, IACR, the incidence of this disease is higher after the age of 40, increasing after the fifties. While adjusted mortality rate is 18.5%, a clear downward trend has been observed. It is rarely present in males, accounting for less than 1% of all breast cancers. In these cases, there is often a delay in diagnosis since this possibility is not usually considered and progression of disease is faster than in women due to the lower volume of the breast.
Thanks to population based screening programmes, the incidence rate has increased and improvements in diagnosis and treatment have placed women survival rate above 80% in Spain, according to EUROCARE-4 study.
Biological aspects of the disease
Biological aspects define those processes and changes characteristic of tumour cells. It is important to know them to understand the development of the disease and the diagnostic methods used.
Breast cancers frequently display heterogeneity in phenotypic features such as:
- Cell morphology.
- Gene expression.
- Cell surface markers.
- Growth factors.
- Hormone Receptors.
- Metastatic potential.
- Metabolic reprogramming
Tumour cells have a different glucose metabolism than those of other tissues due to multiple cellular and environmental factors. This results in energy inefficiency and a higher flow of glucose. This feature is used in imaging diagnosis with a positron emission tomography scan (PET scan - Positron Emission Tomography).
This disorder results in a stimulus to cell growth, avoidance of apoptosis or programmed cell death, endless replication potential, increase in blood vessel growth or revascularization, tumour invasion, metastasis and escape from immune system.
- Hypoxia or lack of oxygen
This feature is closely related to aggressiveness, progression and resistance to certain chemotherapeutical drugs, besides induction of various gene expressions through transcription factors.
This is the physiological process of developing new blood vessels from preexisting ones. While this situation occurs in normal conditions such as healing, it is an important phenomenon for tumour to develop and grow, not only in their original place but also in metastasis.
Tumours stimulate angiogenesis by releasing vascular endothelial growth factor.
- Senescence – telomerase activity
Cellular senescence is defined as the limited capacity of cells to divide over a certain number of times. When cells avoid this process, they become immortal. This fact is related to chromosomal telomeres or specialised structures placed at the ends of the chromosome, which shorten with each cell division so that they reach a point where they cannot divide any longer.
- Presence of associated macrophages
Until recently, the presence of macrophages in tumours was considered as a host response to the tumour. Now, we know they play an important role in tumour progression and invasion since their function is to phagocyte foreign bodies penetrating the body.
Among the functions of the tumour-associated macrophages there is the release of stimulating and activating factors to enhance vessel growth, migration and tumour invasion, immune suppression and protection against treatment.
- Stem Cells
These cells account for less than 0.1% of tumour cells and are characterised by their self-renewal and production of stem cells able to differentiate into mature and differentiated cells. These cells are more resistant to the action of drugs, including chemotherapy and radiation therapy. They are currently used as therapeutic targets.
- Metastatic potential – Bone metastases
83 per cent of patients with breast tumours have bone metastases, most often osteolytic (bone destruction), although 15 to 20% are osteoblastic (bone formation). Bone is involved by the interaction of the tumour with the bone environment by realising stimulating factors, which facilitates cell migration, adhesion of tumour cells to bone matrix, bone development and survival and proliferation of tumour cells in the bone.
Histopathological assessment of breast cancer remains the main source of prognosis and most powerful predictive information and the main discriminating factor for specific adjuvant therapy.
Histological type and size of tumour, number of nodes involved and presence of metastases are key factor for tumour staging.
Current personalised management of breast cancer mainly combines a constellation of histopathological characteristics (tumour size, histological type and grade, number of lymphatic nodes involved and metastases) with other biological factors such as sensitivity to endocrine therapy, using biological parameters as the expression of hormone receptors for estrogens (ER), progesterone (PR) and HER2 (Human Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor 2), an important marker and cancer therapeutic target, especially for breast cancer.
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New classification – molecular classification
In recent years, several sophisticated genetic analysis techniques have been used to study breast tumour cells.
The relevance of this molecular classification is essentially based on improving treatment outcome, either by saving patients with good prognosis from side effects of unnecessary treatment or by choosing a subtype of patients with high chance of response to specific therapy.
Screening and diagnostic tests
According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), screening is the presumptive identification of unrecognized disease or defects by means of tests, examinations, or other procedures that can be applied rapidly. In breast cancer, these tests are vital for early detection, diagnosis and treatment of disease. Let us go through them.
Mammography is the ultimate test in the diagnosis of breast cancer.
Before having a mammography, medical history and clinical findings should be analysed. This will help looking for images of any symptoms patients may refer or the reason of medical consultation. Therefore, imaging techniques should adjust to medical and clinical findings. The reading of a mammography requires a skilled professional, capable of correlating image data with that provided by the patient.
It is the most common and reliable method with a sensitivity close to 80 per cent that changes according to several factors: internal structure of the breast, type of lesion, morphology, place, breast volume and the quality of image.
Between 10 to 15 per cent of cancers with histological (tissue) analysis, have no radiological findings. Based on this fact, we need to have updated imaging techniques and if possible, complete the study with an ultrasound to increase sensitivity.
Mammography has achieved great technical developments, leading to improvements in diagnosis. New digital equipment and imaging manipulation techniques show us that the real warhorse is subclinical cancer, which early diagnosis and treatment ensure higher survival rates and a better plastic effect.
Imaging signs in breast cancer
New imaging techniques
Digital mammography or digital mammograph
This technique eliminates the need for film, taking advantage of digital technology for screen display, printing or filing. It optimises the image, providing a uniform thickness of the gland thanks to a better view of the subcutaneous tissue. It allows image manipulation, resizing, rotation, changes in brightness and contrast, storage in a CD or an electronic file or even printing in a high definition laser printer. Radiation from exposure is reduced, as there is no need to repeat projections.
Do not forget that a conventional mammography performed in optimal conditions can provide high diagnostic information even if printed on a film and the image cannot be manipulated.This digital technique is especially useful in microcalcifications. These are the most common radiological diagnosis in carcinoma in situ, and very important in early detention. It gives a clear view of the shape and distribution of deposits, which are the most accurate determining parameters when malignancy is suspected.
Digital Breast Tomosynthesis (DBT)
This revolutionary three-dimensional technique let us have multi-slice individual projections, which later on are reconstructed in the different space axis, providing high resolution images. This implies a better reading of the tissue as it avoids image overlapping. It is especially useful in nodular lesions and unstructured areas.
In a few years, this technique has gone from just being used to differentiate solid from cystic images to be an essential complement to determine the degree of suspicion of a radiological undetermined breast lesion. Among its advantages, the ability to evaluate the internal structure, orientation, morphology and margins of the lesion, both in fatty breasts as well as in dense ones where mammography is more limited.
- As initial diagnostic technique, it is used in young women under the age of thirty with symptomatic dense breast as well as in breast feeding or pregnant women.
- As a complement to mammography, it has an important role in breast with prosthesis, milk ducts study in patients with nipple discharge, negative mammography with palpable lump, women with risk factors and dense breast and in confirmed malignant cases with information on tumour size, skin and chest involvement, multifocality and multicentricity.
- Ultrasound is also a guiding tool in interventional procedures and pre-operative marking.
The implementation of a specific software to ultrasound technique provides a three-dimensional view of the tumour lesion to study its morphology and environment. This sophisticated software makes projections in several planes in space to assess, in terms of volume, the infiltration and deeper / superficial extension processing. It also helps placing the biopsy needle in the right position regarding the lesion.
This recent technique is based on the principle of palpation of breast, providing an estimation of tissue strain and hardness.
There are currently two types of elastosonography:
Strain imaging, which identifies tissue stiffness and supersonic shear wave imaging, which identifies parameters such as maximum, mean or minimum elasticity (stiffness) of the studied structure.
This technique should be considered as a benefit to ultrasound, allowing confirming the ultrasound benign hypothesis thus reducing the number of unnecessary biopsies and providing guidance to low-risk patients for a better follow-up.
Positron Emission Tomography, better known as PET, traces metabolic process, which anticipates anatomical abnormalities. Tomography or Computerized Tomography, also known as CT scan, produces multiple images of crosssections of the body. The hybrid technique PET/ CT shows abnormalities in metabolic activity, providing qualitative and quantitative information for diagnosis, treatment and prognosis. In breast cancer, the spatial resolution is limited since it does not visualize lesions with a diameter less than 10 millimetres.
PEM or Positron Emission Mamography comes in use thanks to the limitations mentioned above. Although currently under clinical study, it is already giving better results than magnetic resonance.
This technique is used for surgical planning and monitoring of neo-adjuvant treatment response and relapse. The main disadvantages are cost and technical difficulty in handling the radiopharmaceutical.
Molecular imaging is defined by the American Society of Nuclear Medicine as the visualization, characterization and measurement of biological processes at the molecular and cellular level in humans and other living systems. This technique enables real-time monitoring, no tissue destruction and can be used in all phases of cancer management, from screening to most advanced situations. It is associated with all imaging techniques, from simple to complex ones such as computerised tomography, magnetic resonance, ultrasound and PET, as well as non-ionizing electromagnetic imaging.
How to treat Breast Cancer
Improved understanding of the mechanism of dissemination of the disease and the set up of population based screening programmes have resulted in an increase of early stage diagnosis and a very important development in treatment.
Oncoplastic surgery provides surgical solutions to aesthetic breast reconstruction after mastectomy or during conservative surgery, as well as correction of any other sequelae from other treatments. It includes several mammoplasty techniques, breast reconstruction and risk-reducing surgery.
Breast reconstruction usually requires more than one surgery to get the proper aesthetic outcome. It may be indicated as prophylactic surgery in cases of high risk as well as in early or advances stages of disease, which will condition reconstruction to be performed in the surgical act or later on.
From studies to identify hormonal receptors we know that patients who are positive for both estrogens and progesterone receptors response to therapy in more than 50 per cent of cases. The greater the number of positive cells with a higher concentration of receptors, the better the chances of response. Depending on the case, it also helps reduce the presence of contralateral breast cancer.
Chemotherapy together with targeted therapy and hormone therapy are the current systemic therapy approach for breast cancer. The success of the treatment is based on reduction or ideal final elimination of any chance of relapse, which likelihood is directly related to therapy efficiency and inversely proportional to inherent tumour risk of relapse, determined by prognostic factors.
Elements in Therapeutic decision-making
Prognostic factors are those that provide information on the clinical outcome at time of diagnosis, regardless of the therapy to apply.
Prognostic factors require a series of features to be accepted as such. Their use should be simple, low resource consumption, reproducible, easily accessed and interpreted by clinicians. The only markers available meeting all requirements are: TNM classification, histological grade, menopause state, hormone receptor HR (expression), histological type and age.
The most well known current prognostic factors are:
- TNM classification.
- Tumour phenotype: tumour grade, hormone receptor status, lymphovascular invasion or HER2 expression.
- Age < 35.
At the XI Conference of the International Breast Cancer Group (IBCG) in 2009, it was agreed that decision-making based on predictive factors of treatment response was more appropriate than that based on risk prognosis factors. This way risk categories were eliminated to give way to therapeutic recommendations according to chance of response to treatment, hormone receptors (HR) and HER2 expression, as the only known predicting factors.
It is advisable to choose a medical centre with the latest technology and a multidisciplinary team for a personalised therapeutic decision.
For more than thirty years, the usual standard therapy for patients with breast cancer, after conservative surgery, was external radiation therapy, involving daily radiation doses for a period of six weeks.
In the last ten years, two new techniques have developed; one related to duration of treatment, implying fewer fractions with higher doses, the other related to the amount of breast tissue exposed to ionizing radiation.
All this brings two new approaches:
- Partial Breast Irradiation (PBI)
PBI limits treatment to tumour bed and adjacent breast tissue, giving a margin of 1 to 2 cm, not including the whole breast.
- Intraoperative Radiation Therapy (IORT)
This technique delivers an external single dose to different types of tumours.
Since the beginning of this century, a combined technique with the above mentioned has just started to be used: the Electron Intraoperative Therapy or ELIOT, which delivers a single radiation dose equivalent to the total fractioned external doses, after a wide resection or quadrantectomy, by using a mobile linear accelerator at the operating room.
Perspectives for Insurance
Continuous scientific developments, both diagnostic and therapeutic, involve not only an increase in life expectancy but also a better quality of life. For insurance purposes, this implies a constant update, not only in developing new products but also in the use of this new technology in the services provided in the policy.
Including in Health Care Insurance new tests such as screening, prognostic factors, genetics, all very useful for proper treatment, involve a significant increase in cost as well as an improvement in the quality of the offered services. This leads to a better position for the insurance company at the time of decision-making for the potential insured, a positive change in consumer’s perception and, in some cases, a rise in premium.
The crisis we are going through does not help investing in more sophisticated equipment but it is generating new products with more specific benefits, such as critical illness for specific types of cancer or screening testing related to other elements in preventive medicine.
For risk assessment in personal insurance, these developments imply a new approach for health questionnaires and test requirements. Early diagnosis together with therapy for advances diseases are providing a better risk classification, implying the acceptance of a higher number of cases with a premium adjusted to the real situation of the applicant.
The input of more accurate information to claims assessment will speed up the decision-making process and update the risk assessment process to make such decision easier.
The introduction of these scientific developments has brought a change in legislation. The predictive value of some of these new tests has made regulators to limit the use of the provided information, preserve the right to privacy and avoid discrimination.
Personal insurance has the challenge to integrate these changes to improve products and service and redefine risk classification.
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The Philosophy of Collecting and the International Market
The Yearbook is to provide those in the heritage management world with summaries of notable court cases, settlements and other dispositions, legislation, government regulations, policies and agency decisions that affect their work. Interviews with key figures, refereed research articles, think pieces, and a substantial resources section will round out each volume. Thoughtful analyses and useful information from leading practitioners in the diverse field of cultural property law will assist government land managers, state, tribal and museum officials, attorneys, anthropologists, archaeologists, public historians, and others to better preserve, protect and manage cultural property in domestic and international venues.
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We are deeply involved in the nutrient cycle. Agricultural by-products, crops and biomass, forestry-based products, the food industry and municipal waste create raw materials that form the basis both for the ECO3 area’s new industrial activities and its overarching systems.
We are especially focused on developing nutrient cycles in the agricultural and food industry. We’re looking for companies that could benefit each other in related industrial activities.
Tampere Regional Solid Waste Management Ltd., which will open a new biogas plant to the ECO3 area in 2020, handles the biowaste of 17 municipalities alongside the city of Nokia’s sewage. Biowaste and sludge are handled separately within the facility, enabling the further processing of biowaste into organic fertiliser containing high levels of nitrogen and phosphorous.
We can scale our cooperative models and added value production to an industrial scale in Finland and globally.
An innovative, industrial-scale, multidisciplinary bio- and circular economy business area, ECO3, is being built on the excellently located Kolmenkulma Eco-Industrial Park, situated in the Finnish growth corridor. This nationally important competence centre is also a demonstration and piloting environment, developed by the City of Nokia and Verte Ltd., the City of Nokia’s development company, in cooperation with companies and universities.
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Kantipur Engineering College, Dhapakhel, Lalitpur, is organizing one day international “4th International Conference On Engineering And Technology”. The vision of the event is the involvement of both Students and Faculty Members in the Research- Research, Training, and Consultancy Division (RTCD). The event is subtitled "3rd International Conference on Engineering and Technology".
Kantipur Engineering College, Nepal has been organizing international KEC Conferences on Engineering and Technology since 2018 to provide a global platform for sharing new ideas and knowledge where students and researchers could discuss their research outcomes.
The research process impacts valuable learning objectives that have lasting influence as undergraduates prepare for professional services. Faculty members can enhance the learning experience for students. Students would benefit from competition and exposure to scientific society regardless of the research idea being self-generated or adapted.
Conference Paper would be accepted from undergraduate/ graduate students and national/ international researchers under the following streams:
Note: ONLINE presentation is encouraged considering safety against the spread of COVID-19.
KEC Conference Working Committee:
Chief: Dr. Surendra Bahadur Tamrakar
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|Registration & Camera-Ready Paper submission Deadline||3rd March 2022 (19th Falgun, 2078)|
|Conference Date||28th April 2022 (15th Baishakh, 2079)|
Registration Fee* per paper:
NRs. 500 (Students)
NRs. 1000 (Others)
International Participants: NRS. 3000
Kantipur Engineering College (KEC)
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The recent rise of LED, which refers to Light-Emitting Diodes, has caused a significant shift in the signage industry. With LEDs lasting much longer than CFLs, it’s no wonder that they’ve quickly become the most popular choice of visible signage. In this article, we’ll be answering to question “What are the best reasons behind going with red neon signs”.
What is a Red Neon Sign?
A red neon sign is a sign that is lit by red neon lights. Neon signs are used for a variety of purposes, including advertising, decorative displays, and even emergency lighting. Red neon signs are especially popular for businesses that want to portray a fun, vibrant image.
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Why Do They Seem So Attractive?
There’s something about red neon signs that just draws us in. They’re colourful, eye-catching, and often remind us of our favourite places or memories. But why are they so attractive to us?
One reason may be that red is such a powerful colour. It’s associated with energy, passion, and excitement, which can make seeing a red neon sign a thrilling experience. Additionally, neon signs are often used to advertise businesses or products that we love, which can make us even more drawn to them. Whatever the reason, there’s no denying that red neon signs have a certain allure. So next time you see one, take a moment to appreciate it – and maybe even snap a photo!
Effects of Red Neon Signs on Human Brain
There is something about red neon lights that just seems to grab our attention. Maybe it’s because they are often associated with excitement and danger, or maybe it’s because they are simply so visually striking. Whatever the reason, there is no denying that red neon signs can have a powerful effect on the human brain.
Studies have shown that exposure to red light can increase heart rate and blood pressure, as well as cause feelings of agitation and anxiety. In some cases, this can even lead to headaches and migraines. So if you’re looking for a way to get people’s attention, a red neon sign is certainly one way to do it! Just be aware of the potential side effects before you start flashing those lights.
Red Light Stimulus vs. Blue Light Stimulus
It’s well known that red light has a stimulating effect on the human body, while blue light has a calming effect. But what’s the science behind this? Let’s take a look at the different effects of red and blue light on the human body.
Red light is a long wavelength, which means it produces a lower frequency than blue light. This lower frequency stimulates the release of hormones like cortisol and adrenaline, which can increase heart rate and blood pressure. Red light also increases brain activity and makes us more alert.
Blue light, on the other hand, is a short wavelength with a higher frequency. This has a calming effect on the body, as it reduces cortisol and adrenaline levels. Blue light also decreases brain activity and makes us feel more relaxed. So, if you’re looking to energize yourself, reach for a red light source. If you’re looking to wind down, go for blue.
Red Neon Signs – Science Behind Their Attraction
The mesmerizing appeal of red neon signs is undeniable. From the simple lit-up lettering to the vibrant colours, these signs are sure to turn heads. In recent years, scientists have been studying the effects of neon signs on people and their behaviour. While it’s long been known that neon signs can be quite hypnotic, the science behind this phenomenon has only recently been explored. Here are five fascinating facts about red neon signs you may not have known.
1. Neon lights emit a specific wavelength of light that affects the human brain in a unique way.
Neon signs use a particular kind of neon light called red phosphor. Red phosphor emits shorter waves of light than other colours, which is why it looks brighter and more intense when used in neon signage. When looking at red neon signs, our eyes naturally process these shorter waves of light more quickly than other colours and as a result, we are more likely to become absorbed by the sign’s message.
2. Neon signs have been shown to increase business efficiency and sales.
Not only do red neon signs attract attention and make a statement, but they also tend to be very efficient in advertising.
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, Teenager Coaching focus on adolescent self discovery, regulate emotions, teenager coaching aims to setting goals for education, choosing his or her higher education plans that covers university, college and major selections. teen coaching in Dubai and Egypt aims to work with adolescent teen to find his or her passion, challenge negative thoughts pattern, reach greater self awareness understand life obstacles.
As a parent are you;
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Let’s admit the reality, you love your adolescent more than anything, yet you face conflict with him (her). During the teenage years, both parents and children feel overwhelmed. Parents want to see their child strong, focused, organized, plan his life ahead, etc.; on the other hand, the child seeks freedom, and wants to make their own decisions, as they are going into a critical transformation stage from childhood to adulthood where they face lots of challenges and may not feel confident enough to discuss this with you.
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How a Teenager Coaching work?
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28 Aug When Apologies Matter
Have you ever given or received an apology that had a powerful and transformative impact? Of late we’ve been working with organisations committed to making full and wholehearted apologies.
A heartfelt apology can be relieving for all concerned. Acknowledging mistakes and wrongdoings supports healing and the restoration of relationships. When Australia’s Prime Minister Kevin Rudd formally apologised in 2008 to Australian Aboriginals and members of the stolen generation, for the forced removal of children from their families and culture, his words held significance for the whole nation. Rudd spoke at the time about ‘removing a stain from the nation’s soul’.
The apology to the stolen generation was a long time coming – far too long. The trauma of many individuals and their families was prolonged by a lack of acknowledgement of their suffering. Events such as this and the mixed messages sent by many institutions in response to allegations of child sex abuse have been painful to witness.
As we watch institutions and leaders, struggle with the question of whether or not to take responsibility, we are afforded a powerful lesson in what is really needed to right the wrongs, not just of the past, but of the present.
In my role as a mediator and conciliator I see evidence that individuals and companies are learning from some of the appalling institutional behaviour we see played out in the public spotlight. Organisations are recognising the cost, not just to complainants but to their own reputations, when they dodge responsibility or engage with injured parties poorly.
As people understand more about what doesn’t work, they’re keen to understand what does. Recently we have been applying our skills as CINERGY Conflict Management Coaches to support many individuals and organisations in the preparation of formal apologies. For most people, offering a meaningful apology is a thought provoking and challenging experience. For an organisation it requires significant soul searching, collective dialogue and a commitment to change.
The reluctance to apologise
Unless willingly given, an apology is rarely effective, so it’s important to recognise any reluctance to apologise and to find out what underpins your reservation. Otherwise people will pick up on your double signals. The apology will come across as half-hearted or tokenistic.
Some people are ambivalent about apologising because they feel a sense of righteousness. This is common in interpersonal conflicts. Perhaps you are still defending their own position. Usually they’ve not yet taken full responsibility for their actions or come to terms with the impact on others. Does this sound like you? If so, the work lies in reflecting on your contribution to the situation; what you want in your working or business relationship and what is truly needed to move forward.
Intention and impact
In earlier posts, I’ve spoken about the value of separating one’s intent from the impact of one’s actions. Often hurt or injury is inflicted without a conscious desire to do so, but through lack of care or awareness. If you are able to differentiate your motives from the impact of your actions, you will find it easier to hear and understand the experience of the other person.
Attempts to protect reputation, identity and self-image often present a stumbling block to reconciliation. Sometimes people confuse apologising with being a ‘bad’ or weak person. That’s not the case, it merely means you are accountable and want to redress the harm done.
When we are able to say sorry we usually gain respect. When we are stuck and unable to apologise for our actions or inactions we ironically damage ourselves. We come across as small, mean-spirit or focused on our own self-interests. Unknowingly, we diminish ourselves.
Sometimes organisations are worried that an apology represents an admission of guilt. If you have any concerns about the legal implications of your apology, seek advice. As a mediator and conciliator, I’ve seen genuine and heartful apologies avert many legal proceedings.
A question of how
Many people do want to apologise either personally or on behalf of their organisation for systemic failings. The pressure to get it right, can freeze them, especially if they are making a written apology. They want to make sure their apology has the desired outcome for the person receiving it.
Here are a few things we’ve found important when an apology is called for.
Apologies generally aren’t well received if they are delivered too quickly or used as a ‘get out of jail card’. So develop an understanding of the situation before you apologise. If it doesn’t quite make sense to you, discuss the matter with a coach or trusted advisor.
Most recipients want to know that you’ve learnt through the experience and that the incident won’t be repeated. It’s hard to promise this when you don’t understand what has taken place, the distress that others have experienced and the consequences that have resulted.
Square up and accept full responsibility for your actions (or lack of them). The use of weasel words or attempting to justify your actions, just won’t cut it. While avenues such as mediation allow for all parties’ perspectives to be heard and explored, the focus of the apology should be on the recipient, not on presenting your case.
Interestingly, many people describe taking responsibility for their actions as a liberating experience.
Acknowledge the impact
The full impact of behaviour on the other party needs to be acknowledged. For many individuals knowing that their hurt or suffering is recognised and understood is an important part of the healing process. It reduces the chance that the offence will be committed again.
Both immediate and long term impacts should be recognised. For example, in the case of institutional abuse the immediate trauma of the event and the lasting legacies of anxiety, fear and mistrust should be acknowledged. On occasions these impacts extend to the family members. If so, recognise the ripple effects.
Choose your language
The language you use for an apology is important. It will convey your genuineness. Are you able to speak directly about what happened or do you hedge around the issue?
Make sure that your expression of regret goes far enough. It’s important to use language that matches the severity of the event. When apologising for experiences that resulted in deep trauma your language should reflect the pain and agony experienced.
Sometimes actions can be taken that help to make things right. Think creatively about the options. Ask the other person, either personally or through an intermediary, what might be meaningful to them. Is there anything you can do to redress your actions or failure to act? Are there actions you can take that will ameliorate the ongoing impact for the individual, such as paying health costs, reinstating leave?
On other occasions, it’s hard to undo the damage that has occurred. In these cases committing yourself to personal and systemic change to ensure that others don’t suffer in the same way may be called for.
Be sure any offer you make is within your sphere of influence. Be careful about creating expectations that might result in people being let down or hurt again.
Commit to change
An effective apology is a powerful experience, both for the person who gives it and the one who receives it.
Above all, an apology is a commitment to change, a promise to do things differently in the future and to learn from the pain and suffering of the current circumstances.
When you know in your own heart that you have made this commitment, in all likelihood, that will come across in the apology itself.
If you would like to support others to prepare for meaningful conversations, why not check out our forthcoming CINERGY Conflict Management Coach Practitioner programs.
Think of a time that an apology was called for, but you struggled to offer it.
What informed your decision to apologise or not apologise?
What aspects of the apology were most difficult? Where did you get stuck? What were you holding onto or defending?
Where was your focus at the time – on yourself or the other party? Were you able to see them clearly?
Which of the principles outlined in this piece, might have helped you at the time?
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2002. India. vo Hindi. s English, Spanish. 52’
Nats - the traditional street entertainers of India - are Jack's of all performing trades. Follow their children down the chaotic streets of Kolkata as they act, sing and dance to pay off their parents' debts. Filmed over a six year period, this poignant documentary explores a poor family's desperate efforts to support themselves in the midst of a rapidly changing India.
Nats - the traditional street entertainers of India - are Jack's of all performing trades. Follow their children down the chaotic streets of Kolkata as they act, sing and dance to pay off their parents' debts. Filmed over a six year period, this poignant documentary explores a poor family's desperate efforts to support themselves in the midst of a rapidly changing India. "We've been doing this for generations" Ratan says defensively, explaining that the Nats have existed for over 2000 years. On the colourful streets of Kolkata, his children negotiate chaotic traffic, perform with painted faces on street corners and rattle their trays for rupees. Ratan and his wife would like their children to be educated, but without any government support, they've become dependent on them for survival. "What do we get if we put them in school' We will die of starvation!" Radha cries. The word ‘entertaining' was instilled in the Singh children from birth. On a ritual family trip to the cinema, Radha explains the importance of Bollywood to her children. "They are all named after Bollywood films" she declares proudly. Her children can name all of the Bollywood stars of the age. Yet traditional education is almost non-existent. "I don't know my age" the oldest Julie admits sadly. This is a world where childhood has no place. "We have lots of debts" Ratan complains. Even though his family lives in a tent in squalid conditions, he depends on the rupees that his offspring bring home. But this income is transient, his children are growing up. "Jyotsna will get married after two-three years. After two-four years it will be Reshma. And then Raja…" Ratan says sadly. His daughter Julie is already preparing to leave home for a husband. Without the children, his future is uncertain. "The government has all kinds of schemes for the poor," he sighs, "But our village official says that we earn good money so we don't need any help." When Radha leaves Ratan, taking two of their daughters with her, his world is thrown into turmoil. "Even one's own enemies should not get such a woman!" he cries, his emotional loss rivalled by the rupees his daughters will no longer bring home from the street. "We are not enjoying it anymore" his children say "How long can this body keep performing?". Not knowing whether to turn to father or mother, the children are at least used to depending on themselves. "I feel angry when I see my mother. Why should I care for her if she doesn't bother about me?" Reshma declares. Gradually each girl grows into a young woman and finds a husband. Leaving Ratan with only regret to keep him company. "If our debts were paid I'd have put them in school", he sighs, reflecting on a world where he has to rely on his children to survive. An unforgettable, lyrical glimpse of the true victims of globalisation.http://www.journeyman.tv/59779/documentaries/king-of-india.html | <urn:uuid:447e91dc-1f1a-489b-a48b-84e6284cb147> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://desorg.org/titols/king-of-india/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570692.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20220807181008-20220807211008-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.974379 | 744 | 1.742188 | 2 |
In Friend of Science, Friend of Faith, geologist Gregg Davidson explains how he maintains a simultaneous commitment to the Christian church and the academic science community. If those overlapping fellowships seem unremarkable to you, you may not find anything particularly new here although you may appreciate the opportunity to get to know Davidson and his take on the matters at hand. Although wide-ranging, the book is not a survey of the entire landscape of Christian approaches to science. Rather, Davidson gives his answers to typical questions about how and why a Christian can affirm Big Bang cosmology, an ancient Earth and common ancestry of all living organisms–questions he has evidently fielded many times from students and presumably colleagues and fellow believers as well. If you or someone you know is coming to such questions for the first time or curious about the perspective of a scientist with a career in a relevant field and experience in the broader conversation, this is a reasonable introduction with a couple of caveats.
Davidson organizes his thoughts in five parts. Part 1 provides contemporary and historical context. A student anecdote drives home that there are real stakes and real needs for greater information. The case of Galileo reminds us that ours is not the first era in which new scientific findings raised questions about Biblical interpretation. This sets up Part 2 for delving into how we read and understand the Bible. There is no explicit goal of making scripture work with science no matter what, but Davidson keeps an eye towards having to confront questions of apparent conflict. Other hermaneutics are of course available, but Davidson’s is respectful of the text and tradition and his conclusions lean conservative relative to others in this conversation who draw similar scientific conclusions. I imagine that will be appealing, perhaps even reassuring to some readers.
Parts 3 and 4 are the most substantial and probably address the questions most people start with. Part 3 tackles common points of perceived conflict between what the Bible claims and what science currently claims, including the timing & mechanisms of creation, sin & the fall, and the extent of Noah’s flood. Davidson discusses each topic by looking at the Bible first: what it claims, what it doesn’t and where there is ambiguity. Then he gives the view from science before summarizing why he thinks there are no significant points of clear disagreement, at least in some cases by noting significant uncertainty from both directions. Here Davidson walks a tricky line, having already rejected the possibility that the ancient writers were expressing scientific concepts ahead of their time but still desiring to grant as much historically and scientifically to the texts as feasible.
Only after dealing with the Biblical matters does Davidson get into the scientific evidence in Part 4. He highlights illustrative findings which lead many scientists to conclude the Earth and the universe are billions of years old, all life is descended from a common ancestral population, and humans share ancestry with apes. The geological evidence for an old Earth and the fossil evidence for common ancestry are covered in most detail, befitting a geologist, but some cosmology and molecular biology is covered as well. I spotted a few places here and there to quibble with the details (e.g. when discussing the origin of life, he describes the simplest cells has having “complex organelles” (p 186); while all eukaryotes and some bacteria do have organelles, most bacteria do not) but none would change the strength of the evidence or conclusions if corrected. Appropriately, his goal is to be accessible to a wide audience rather than comprehensively technical, and I think he is successful.
Most challenging for me was Part 5 which directly confronts the topics of Young Earth Creationism and Intelligent Design (ID). Up to this point, Davidson has largely been making a positive case for his own perspective. Along the way, he reasonably devotes some space to engaging with other perspectives by responding to common responses or objections to his points; even here the approach is largely constructive. In Part 5, he pivots to critiquing alternative positions, and I’m of two minds about the results. To the extent that some individuals have, for example, quoted scientists out of context or elided significant facts, correction seems reasonable. At the same time, the fairly strong language and comparatively brief discussion seem likely to come across to many young Earth and ID folks as stacking the deck.
For example, in Chapter 12 he discusses the recent development that some young Earth advocates now allow for a limited version of common ancestry within groups that just about everyone could identify. So, for example, all cats–lions, tigers, panthers, ocelots, etc.–are descendants of an ur-cat pair from Noah’s ark. If the prototype pairs disembarked around 4,000 years ago, rapid diversification is necessary. Davidson says this model could mean “a sheep might well give birth to a goat,” (p 248) but in my reading of the cited article I see no such claim. So I’m not sure it is any more fair of a summary of this young Earth post-flood diversification model than the half-whale, half-cow notion Davidson criticized in the previous chapter as a misconception of evolutionary biology. (Update: Davidson contacted me with an additional reference Step-down saltational intrabaraminic diversification which does speak generally of taxa within a kind arising without morphological intermediates.) I appreciate that brevity is worthwhile and some charity of reading will always be required when discussing challenging topics like these. Still, some comments read as more dismissive than I expected, although perhaps he knows better than I how these kinds of comments will be received. And he does, for example, defend research into ID on the grounds of academic freedom, so there is an effort to be even-handed.
I also noted that when discussing topics like whether carnivory is a consequence of sin, in addition to citing relevant passages Davidson also appeals to the idea that we cannot fully comprehend God’s ways and purposes. Then later, when discussing the evidence for evolution, he references vestigial organs and inactivated developmental genes as evidence for common descent in part because no designer would make those choices if starting from scratch. While I agree that such features are consistent with the contingent, historical nature of the common descent model, I think we can also allow that God may have design criteria which we do not appreciate. But again, I think even without that sort of counter-design reasoning the overall conclusions are warranted.
Overall, I expect this book will be fruitful in helping readers understand how it is possible to be part of Christian and scientific communities, especially students and those curious about Christianity or new to the tradition. If you are using the book in a class or discussion setting where folks are invested in a young Earth or ID perspective, or if you are planning on giving the book to someone like that, perhaps give a little extra attention to how Part 5 might be received and how to navigate reactions and questions.
I was provided a copy of the book by the publisher without any restriction on the content of this review.
About the author:
Andy has worn many hats in his life. He knows this is a dreadfully clichéd notion, but since it is also literally true he uses it anyway. Among his current metaphorical hats: husband of one wife, father of two teenagers, reader of science fiction and science fact, enthusiast of contemporary symphonic music, and chief science officer. Previous metaphorical hats include: comp bio postdoc, molecular biology grad student, InterVarsity chapter president (that one came with a literal hat), music store clerk, house painter, and mosquito trapper. Among his more unique literal hats: British bobby, captain's hats (of varying levels of authenticity) of several specific vessels, a deerstalker from 221B Baker St, and a railroad engineer's cap. His monthly Science in Review is drawn from his weekly Science Corner posts -- Wednesdays, 8am (Eastern) on the Emerging Scholars Network Blog. His book Faith across the Multiverse is available from Hendrickson. | <urn:uuid:f0a4f703-f92a-44d3-a2c9-2f6a95617360> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://blog.emergingscholars.org/2020/01/science-book-review-friend-of-science-friend-of-faith/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570879.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809003642-20220809033642-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.956997 | 1,637 | 2.390625 | 2 |
The Rainbow Room of Hood & Somervell Counties is a nonprofit organization whose mission is dedicated to restoring dignity and hope to abused and neglected children under the care of Child Protective Services.
The Rainbow Room is an emergency resource center in a store-like setting that distributes new items to Child Protective Services (CPS) caseworkers for their clients and foster children.
Children who are removed from abusive situations can go into foster or kinship care with the dignity of having new possessions they can call their own.
HOOD COUNTY STAMPEDE PAST BENEFICIARIES
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Rancho Brazos Community Center
Paluxy River Children's Advocacy Center
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A "C" Corporation is the standard form of a corporate entity; it is a separate legally taxable organization, which generally protects the shareholders from being personally responsible for the business’s liabilities. The board of directors is elected by the corporation’s shareholders to oversee the business. While the board does not manage the day-to-day operations, it is responsible for establishing the overall strategy for the business. The directors are fiduciaries of the shareholders, which mean that any actions they are authorized to take are subject to certain standards.
Duty of Loyalty
Board members of a corporation are required to stay loyal to their corporation. This means that a director cannot use her position to receive improper personal benefits from the corporation, steal opportunities from the corporation, or enter into an outside financial relationship with the business. For example, if a director used her position to make her personal business the sole supplier of an asset to the corporation, that would be self-dealing and might violate the director’s duty of loyalty.
Duty of Care
Corporate directors must exercise discretion when they act. The board must consider all the facts available and truly believe that its decision is in the best interest of the corporation. If the board makes a decision that ultimately results in significant losses, the shareholders might want to sue the board under the argument that it violated its duty of care. The business judgment rule is a device that is used to protect directors from being sued by their corporate shareholders, which in turn defines a board’s duty of care. Under the BJR, if the directors acted in good faith and in the same manner as a reasonable person, they cannot be held liable for any decision they make regardless of the outcome.
Appoint Corporate Officers
Corporate officers are the individuals who are responsible for managing the corporation’s business on a daily basis. The officers are generally the ones who have the legal authority to act on the corporation’s behalf when entering into legal agreements. It is generally the responsibility of the board to choose these representatives and to closely monitor them to ensure that the officers are meeting their fiduciary duties and are promoting business growth.
Read More: Corporation vs. Officer vs. Owner
The corporate bylaws are the rules of the business and define specific tasks and obligations that the board is supposed to undertake. In addition to appointing officers, corporate boards are often required to oversee annual audits of financial statements provided to the shareholders, consider significant acquisitions, and approve the corporate budget. The board is also generally required to monitor the corporation’s public relations.
- Consulting and Independent Contracting Special Interest Group: Types of Corporations
- FindLaw: Corporate Structure: Directors to Shareholders
- American Bar Association: Fiduciary Duties and Potential Liabilities of Directors and Officers of Financially Distressed Corporations
- FindLaw: Writing Corporate Bylaws
- Free Management Library: Overview of Roles and Responsibilities of Corporate Board of Directors
- DYP Advisors: Fiduciary Duties of the Board of Directors: The Basics
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Finally, most readers will acknowledge, with a chuckle, that when they leaf through the hard copy of a journal, they look at only the titles of the contained papers.
Think of the abstract as describing the most information using the fewest necessary words in complete sentences. Therefore, enough key information [e. An abstract is a stand-alone piece of writing that briefly summarizes the paper.
In most cases, however, a longer background section means that less space remains for the presentation of the results. If you still can't find the article after doing this, contact a librarian or you can request it from our free i nterlibrary loan and document delivery service.
In that a highlight abstract cannot stand independent of its associated article, it is not a true abstract and, therefore, rarely used in academic writing. But, if your paper appears in a somewhat un-traditional venue, be sure to include in the problem statement the domain or topic area that it is really applicable to.
Thus, for the vast majority of readers, the paper does not exist beyond its abstract. They are used to facilitate keyword index searches, which are greatly reduced in importance now that on-line abstract text searching is commonly used.
Before you learn how to write an abstract for a research paper, make sure your abstract should comprise of the following: As we know, we begin the paper with an introduction. These are listed in Table 1.
What problem are you trying to solve. What is the scope of your work a generalized approach, or for a specific situation.
What important variables did you control, ignore, or measure. Here are some other formatting tips for all abstract examples that may prove handy in the process: Table 3 Open in a separate window Carelessly written methods sections lack information about important issues such as sample size, numbers of patients in different groups, doses of medications, and duration of the study.
Conclusion Writing an efficient abstract is hard work, but will repay you with increased impact on the world by enticing people to read your publications. Does it tell the whole story about your study?. This paper provides detailed suggestions, with examples, for writing the background, methods, results, and conclusions sections of a good abstract.
The primary target of this paper is the young researcher; however, authors with all levels of experience may find useful ideas in the paper.
Writing an efficient abstract is hard work, but will repay you with increased impact on the world by enticing people to read your publications.
Make sure that all the components of a good abstract are included in the next one you write. Further Reading. Michaelson, Herbert, How to Write & Publish Engineering Papers and Reports, Oryx Press, Chapter 6 discusses abstracts.
Some (like Benjamin Herman’s history abstract and Diana Dewi and Jennifer Kittleson’s apparel and textile design abstract) include nearly final results, while others (like Laura Silberman’s curriculum & instruction abstract) include preliminary and projected results.
First, write your paper. While the abstract will be at the beginning of your paper, it should be the last section that you write.
Once you have completed the final draft of your psychology paper, use it as a guide for writing your abstract. An abstract is a stand-alone piece of writing that briefly summarizes the paper. It is made for the convenience of others who intend to read your paper, as a short overview thereof and a description of what you did in the paper, e.g.
whether in was a field study or a literature analysis. Abstracts of scientific papers are sometimes poorly written, often lack important information, and occasionally convey a biased picture.
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Farmer Spotlight: Avrom Farms
To say that Hayden Holbert of Avrom Farms uses sustainable farming practices is an understatement. He speaks of his farm as an agro-ecosystem, each living thing an instrument playing its piece in the harmonious song of the land as Holbert orchestrates.
“Every organism here has a job,” Hayden explains. “We move our chickens across pasture daily so they may take advantage of the nutrients provided by the land, and also fertilize the pasture for future growth. By moving the chickens to new pasture every day and encouraging them to forage amongst the diverse polyculture of plants and insects, the result is a fundamentally different chicken.”
Holbert raises Freedom Rangers, a heritage breed of chicken known for its ability to utilize pasture and succulent flavor. These breeds tend to be higher in yellow omega 3 fat and contain less saturated fat than faster growing commercial breeds.
Freedom Rangers were initially bred out of protest of the fast-growing, industrialized breed of chicken, the Cornish Cross. They come from Northern France as part of the Label Rouge movement, which is similar to the USDA Organic Standards, but has much more stringent regulations on animal welfare with a focus on small, diversified farms. In addition to their superior flavor, Freedom Rangers are equipped to thrive in the outdoors and transform grasses, bugs, and grain into highly nutritious food.
“Choosing chicken breeds that are slow-growing is an important part of producing chicken with extraordinary flavor,” Holbert explains. “A chicken that has taken longer to grow will have more complex proteins, antioxidants, and vitamins than the 5 week old turbo-charged chickens common throughout nearly every grocery store in the United States.”
Hayden has been raising his Freedom Rangers chickens, heritage pork and even vegetables and mushrooms since he took over the family farm a few years ago. The land has been in Holbert’s family since his grandfather purchased the property in the 1950s.
“I’ve known since the age of six that I wanted to be a farmer,” Hayden says. “I grew up in Chicago but spent many summers enjoying the country life. Driving tractors, taking care of livestock – so agriculture has always been a big part of my world.”
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Recorded in several forms including Mallon, Mellon, Mellon, and Malan, this interesting name is of Irish origin. It is a development of the popular O' Malone, from the pre 10th century Gaelic surname O' maoil Eoin. This translates as 'The descendant of the devotee or follower of St. John'. The Malone's are an ancient sept, closely associated with the O'Connors of Connacht, and as such the principle family connected with the abbey of Clonmacnois, to which they provided many abbots and bishops. Unlike most old Irish septs, modern namebearers are not numerous in the territory of their origin, and Counties Clare and Wexford now have more Malones than in other areas.In the list of Famine Immigrants from 1846 - 1848 is that of James Mellon, aged twenty-two years, who sailed aboard the 'Cornelia', out of Liverpool, on November 23rd 1846, bound for the Port of New York. The first recorded spelling of the family name is shown to be that of Anthony Malone. This was dated (1700-1776), in Edward MacLysaght's 'Irish Families', during the reign of King George 11nd of England, and known to history as 'The Last Warrior King', 1727-1760. Surnames became necessary when governments introduced personal taxation. Throughout the centuries, surnames in every country have continued to "develop" often leading to astonishing variants of the original spelling.
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Why mindfulness and behavioural economics in politics?
“Research at Aberystwyth University has used a radical combination of training in mindfulness and behavioural insights to help us see how public servants can become more effective leaders, better decision-makers, and provide better advice. And I want to see all of these insights contribute to the kind of leadership I want to see in our public services in Wales”
Mark Drakeford, Wales First Minister, Mindfulness in Wales conference, November 2019
Dr Rachel Lilley combines extensive academic research with many years practical experience working with teams and senior leaders to offer unique and practical insights into attention, emotions, consciousness and decision making and behaviour change.
Everyone uses their embodied mind to make decisions and collaborate with others. Few people understand how their mind works. Too often we learn about our mental world when we are struggling,. We need to build capacities of mind that will support us to work better together, prevent mental health issues, and enable us to address the wicked challenges of our time such as inequalities and climate change.
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A little known fact is that the locksmith industry is not governed at all any established regulatory body, Police or by the Government. However which means that anybody could work as being a locksmith no matter instruction, talent or their capacity.
Getting a fully trained and competent locksmith might be tough if you don’t know what you are trying to find which is crucial to be sure that the locksmith you employ is knowledgeable and able to performing the task or enterprise he or she has been issued with.
A competent locksmith will more often than not need a decent mobile optimised website which will have their address at perhaps a spot map displaying their site or even the areas they cover and the lowest. You will often look for a list of solutions most locksmiths offer an emergency call-out support for home and they feature /company lockouts however not all provide automotive services thus be sure to check that they’re suitable for the job.
Without formal legislation to fall back on wish do you do? Well, first off my assistance is always to keep away from significant call centres as they will more often than not permit anyone onto their textbooks with little or no vetting and many of the time that you do not possibly understand what company in fact turned-up and whether they were in fact a sunnyvale locksmith in any way. Bear in mind, that is somebody you’re permitting into your home, someone you are placing lots of confidence into, you do not need a thirdparty merely sending out everyone for you.
So what is really a locksmith call centre? There are certainly a variety of these contact centres up throughout the region at attempting to cash in on the price comparison trend. Are not locksmiths themselves, although they are ostensibly a company providing locksmith companies. These centres consider themselves as having 1000’s of calls a week for little independent locksmiths and locksmith companies are cold called and convinced to join up with all the guarantee of work.
My advice is to generally employ an independent locksmith that you have found yourself for emergency call out companies, expenses will soon be less as there’s no middleman going for a slice and lots of don’t actually impose a call out fee, they will simply bill you for the task. A lot of people switch for the internet to search for a locksmith specially after having a lock out where you stand merely equipped with a smart phone.
A nearby locksmith with typically have a local range, this is actually the simplest way to spot a local independent locksmith, some might have a nationwide low-rate number should they include quiet a large region, if this is actually the event a quick visit to their site must expose their location, if your locksmith doesn’t always have at least an address on the site stay away from them as there is something not quiet right.
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In 2010–2011, a total of 11,000 hectares was cultivated with hemp in the EU, a decline compared with previous year. The world-leading producer of hemp is China, which produces more than 70% of the world output. France ranks second with about a quarter of the world production. Smaller production occurs in the rest of Europe, Chile, and North Korea. Hemp plants can be vulnerable to various pathogens, including bacteria, fungi, nematodes, viruses and other miscellaneous pathogens. Such diseases often lead to reduced fiber quality, stunted growth, and death of the plant.
Those that can bring solution-based tech to the table in 2022 and 2023 can change the course of the industry. Challenges for the industry still include unfettered obstruction by the FDA in regards to cannabinoids as well as the need for large investments into industrial hemp processing infrastructure. Marijuana and hemp plants are both part of the cannabis sativa species and they both contain active ingredients called cannabinoids. The major difference when it comes to marijuana vs hemp is that marijuana contains significant amounts of psychoactive THC, while hemp contains 0.3% or less of the compound. While the modern version of hempcrete emerged from France in the 1980s, versions of the material have been found in ancient structures in western Europe and Japan.
The fullness of hemp plants that prevents weed growth also means that the crop can be very efficient in its use of land, and that it can grow in a range of different soils very well. Land use efficiency is critical to sustainability because the more land we use for agriculture, the less land we have to support a biodiverse array of plant and animal life. Before we get into the details of how hemp is made, and what that means for the planet, where are we likely to see hemp fiber? Hemp is a more coarse fiber than one like cotton, so often we see the two fibers blended together as one material. For example, it’s very common to see hemp and organic cotton blend t-shirts and underwear made by more sustainably minded brands.
The potential health benefits of hemp, therefore, come mainly from its seeds. Hemp, however, contains only trace amounts of THC, the main chemical in the marijuana plant that makes people get “high.” Because hemp contains little THC, it is grown for non-drug use. The rapid growth-cycle of hemp presents a unique and much needed environmental perk with quick carbon sequestering capabilities. By the time it is ready to harvest, one ton of hemp will have sequestered an average of 1.62 tons of CO2. Carbon is then stored for the entire lifecycle of the material. Given that it usually takes personal financing and risk to enter the hemp industry, Bisogno didn’t want to see people lose their life savings by not understanding hemp.
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Hemp has an R-value of 3.5 per inch of thickness, which is about the industry standard. The ability of hemp to be compressed is where its installation becomes an advantage. A 5.5″ piece of hemp insulation can be installed between 3.5″ studs to provide an R-value of 19.25, which is more than the requirement of even the coldest zone in the United States . Hemp insulation is a dense product too, on average 3.5″ to 5.5″ thick but available up to 7.5″, which adds acoustic absorption properties. Hemp insulation comes in 4′ long batts, which will stay firm when stood up between wall studs. Rolled fiberglass or even blown-in insulation will slouch or compress over the years.
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It should be noted that due to COVID-19, tour buses are not currently running but the store has become incredibly active due to COVID-19. Advocates say Oregon has a uniquely suited climate, politically and agriculturally, to dominate the fast-growing industry. Given that Oregon farmers have demonstrated the ability to grow world-renowned products, it makes sense that they would be able to produce some of the best hemp buds in the world.
Production facilities and infrastructure are in their infancy. One of the biggest issues are the bad players who care about themselves and who promise everything and deliver nothing. As for the best way to consume hemp, whole hemp seeds can be toasted in a dry skillet and tossed with a bit of olive oil, salt, pepper, and any sort of herbs or sauce to add flavor. Many people enjoy putting the toasted seeds in a bowl or baggie and eating them as a snack.
This investigation brought about the bill which proposed a ban on the use of welfare cards at cannabis stores. In fact, a 1938 article in Popular Mechanics even stated that hemp could be used to create 25,000 different products. But in this article we’ll take a look at a few of the most economical and practical uses for hemp today. She has written countless articles on ethics, sustainability, and fashion, and has two books due out over the next two years. If you’re looking for sustainable hemp sheets, Delilah Home is a great choice—they’re actually the first company in North America to have GOTS organic hemp bedsheets!
Women suffering from PMS could benefit from the gamma-linolenic acid in hemp seeds, as studies have shown that it can help reduce symptoms of PMS and menopause. Much in the same way that hemp rolling papers don’t get you higher, CBD is only contained within the leaves and flowers of the hemp plants, while the papers are coming from the baste fibres of the stalk. The last crop was grown in Wisconsin in 1958, and by 1970 the Controlled Substances Act formally prohibited cultivation .
We want you to sleep, dream, and fall love your sheets before making up your mind. If you are purchasing buds from a dispensary, ask the seller to explain which buds are hemp and which buds are marijuana. Along with a low amount of THC, hemp buds also usually have a high CBD content. If there’s 20% or more CBD in the buds, they’re probably hemp buds. Hemp plants usually reach their peak height in early to mid August.
Ben Franklin was not innocent either; he owned a mill that made hemp paper. Thomas Jefferson drafted the Declaration of independence on hemp paper. While much is still to be debated on the issue, I believe it’s safe to say that some political historians had no problem with it. I gurantee there were more political historians that had something to do with hemp, but were just not pointed out to the world. As you can tell, hemp played a key role in modern history’s greatest moments.
You can also blend the powder into yogurt or smoothie bowls. The decision to do something for the very first time is a crucial moment in anybody’s life. Rei added that the New Zealand brand will also be very beneficial for the firm when it comes to exporting, as many overseas consumers are keen on products with this brand. Our customers can achieve 25%-100% reduction in plastic use by switching to our more sustainable Hemp Plastics.
Hemp, Inc.’s Industrial Hemp and Medical Marijuana Consulting Company was restructured as its ninth division and is now “Division Nine – Industrial Hemp Consulting”. In most cases, the states pursuing this agricultural endeavor are those that have also legalized the use of recreational marijuana. Image Credit – technologydesigner.comSome household products, such as bamboo floors, are very environmentally friendly but scratch easily and have a short lifespan overall. Hemp insulation, on the other hand, stacks up just as much in the performance field as it does in the ‘green’ department. Some certification programs even extend to hemp farming by demanding cannabinoid ingredients are hemp-derived . In these programs, the country where biomass is grown is also required to be clearly printed on the label.
When huge swaths of forests are cut down to make paper, the environment suffers. Deforestation adversely affects the world’s biodiversity, killing off wildlife and causing many species to become endangered. Claire A switch to industrial hemp as a resource for paper products would help slow the destruction of the world’s remaining forests. Hemp plants grow incredibly fast, maturing at between 8 to 12 weeks.
From then on hemp was used in everything from 19th century clipper ship sails to the covers of pioneer wagons. The Declaration of Independence was drafted on hemp paper, and even the finest Bible paper today remains hemp-based. Hemp as a biomass crop — its stems are high in cellulose — or hemp oil as biofuel, could compliment other renewable energy sources.
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Henry shares with us his journey into industrial hemp, beginning with his founding of the Texas chapter of the Hemp Industries Association. Something of an environmental wonder, hemp is naturally resistant to pests, so farmers don’t need to use pesticides or irrigation. It’s also an overachieving air purifier, breathing in four times more CO2 than trees. ] that his extensive timber holdings were threatened by the invention of the decorticator that he feared would allow hemp to become a cheap substitute for the paper pulp used for newspaper. Further, decorticators did not perform satisfactorily in commercial production.
Plus, it’s likely hemp will be just one of several natural cotton alternatives. “Initiatives with the potential to create meaningful change and environmental value often take time and patience to bring to life,” he said. Industrial hemp is legal in dozens of countries across the globe.
Valles is leading the charge for the USHBA’s regional leadership program, due to roll out early next month with a digital webinar to introduce the program and the area leaders in your area. They will also have a pair of guest speakers from the Parsons Healthy Materials Lab, Jonsara Ruth and Allison Mears, to present their case for Healthy Building materials like hemp. It hydrates for up to 24 hours, so it fits hard-working hands like a glove. This is a product that really needs no introduction, but we love talking about it. No matter what level of hassle your hands get, it works hard to soften up even the toughest palms and pinkies, with a few not-so-secret ingredients helping along the way.
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They may vary in qualities like color, moisture, and texture because each farmer and harvest can be treated a little differently. Our hemp flower contains less than 0.3% delta-9-THC content and does not produce psychoactive effects. The reason is the connection of the Cannabis Sativa plant with recreational drugs. Even though the only high that the production and use of industrial hemp generates is the knowledge of doing something for the environment, cultivation has been severely hampered, especially in the western world.
Other than that, hemp toilet paper isn’t super available yet, but that’s not because it’s not a great sustainable alternative. Contain BPA, all of which are toxins you don’t want leaching into the ground. Hemp toilet paper, on the other hand, goes through a far less chemically intensive (or chemical-free) production process, so it’s way safer as it breaks down.
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Hemp oil also comes from hemp seeds, and you’ll find it being used to make fuel, different types of lubricants, cosmetics, varnish, ink, oil-based paint, as well as food products like dressings and margarine. Modern day building materials are either mined from the earth or harvested from centuries old forests. One acre of hemp provides as much paper as 4.1 acres of trees.
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A big reason to buy hemp toilet paper is to offset the high demand for conventional toilet paper, which generates heavy waste. Hemp tissue paper production is possible with little to no chemical processing. In some parts of the world, squatting toilets and water instead of toilet paper are still found, and I can attest to this from uncomfortable first-hand experience while traveling through places like Vietnam, Thailand, and Iran.
If harvesting is delayed, then grain losses can increase from shattering, bird damage, and grain quality. There is also a greater problem with the fiber in the stalks wrapping in the combine. Avoiding taller varieties can help reduce the amount of material going through the combine.
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With a similar texture to linen, some bedding can be made of hemp, too. Hemp is also able to be woven into thicker materials that make up sturdy canvas bags and rugs, or lighter tweed and plaid styled skirts. For the winter months, hemp can be knitted into yarn – also often blended with other plant fibers – for scarves, sweaters and beanies. Careless agricultural practices can extract nutrients without allowing the soil to replenish itself. This can result in soil degradation, which threatens the productivity and overall health of our food crops.
Thanks to the hemp seeds, they’ve got just a little extra plant-based protein to offer you. But it’s wrapped in a package that tastes like an authentic bakery treat. They’re a very wonderful way to start the day—especially with a little vegan butter or nut butter. There is no \”requirement\” for law enforcement to brutalize Delta-8 Edible Dosing and imprison peaceful folks for the simple act of choosing how they wish to think. If the powers that be were interested in building communities over standardized human work units of \’productivity\’ we\’d be able to look out for and after each other without taxes, giant corporate subsidies, and the like.
A couple of tea towels are also placed over the trays to exclude light. We are harvesting peat moss faster than it is forming, regardless of what the Canadian Sphagnum Peat Moss Association says. Storing grow mats takes up much less space than pallets of soil. People don’t want to deal with soil; they want an alternative. Hemp seed shells are high in fibre, and a great addition to your diet but if you want to remove the hard outer shell and just enjoy the nutty creamy inner hemp hearts then there are a few ways to achieve this.
Since the legalization in the U.S. with the hemp farming act, its practical uses, and benefits to society are becoming more evident. Hemp is more sustainable and affordable than most alternatives. I feel that it is important to make clear that we are not talking about CBD oil in this article.
Being the most common clothing fabric worldwide, demand is huge and cotton producers often have to rely on chemical fertilizers and pesticides to grow cotton faster in order to meet that demand. Firstly, the amount of water required to grow the cotton plant is tremendous when compared to the amount of usable cotton produced by the plant. As more farmers, from Aberdeen to Devon, turn to the hemp crops, they are hoping for just such a sea-change in the UK’s policy. Some countries have gone further by decriminalising all cannabis plants. Last month, in a “fundamental reorientation of Luxembourg’s drug policy”, the government announced that adults will be able to grow up to four cannabis plants per household for personal use. Italy is on the verge of a similar move, with a referendum set for next year.
In the EU, they are used for animal bedding , or for horticultural mulch. Industrial hemp is much more profitable if both fibers and shives can be used. Hemp paper can be recycled up to 8 times, compared to just 3 times for paper made from wood pulp. CBD Cream Its flexibility and toughness during compression allows for easier implementation within structural framing systems. The insulation material could also be easily adjusted to different sizes and shapes by being cut during the installation process.
Hemp does not require insecticides or pesticides to protect it from insects in the field, and it is also a plant that consumes very little water. This journey has paved the way for hemp to be used in a growing number of construction applications. One aspect that has been proven to be the most beneficial thus far is the use of hemp in insulation.
Its most common use can be seen in wood framing construction, one of the most common construction methods in the world. Because of its low UV-resistant rating, the finish is most often used indoors, on surfaces such as flooring and wood paneling. The hemp market was at its largest during the 17th century.
This provides extended product quality and safety assurance — from seed to shelf or farm to factory — while creating a demand for hemp inputs or ingredients derived from crops grown with best farming practices. Fagon also cautioned against pinning too much hope on the promise of industrial hemp in New York once the market begins to take off more and other states start to get High Strength CBD Gummies vs. Low Strength CBD Gummies involved in growing, manufacturing and processing. “Industrial hemp will be subject to the same push and pull factors that pushed the dairy industry out of New York,” Fagon said. He doesn’t want to see farmers fall into the same trap as with CBD, which promised big payouts but turned into a bust for many. Strong stalk growth and fibers, as well as hemp seeds and oils.
But hemp and CBD buyers and sellers should also beware of what’s actually in the certification programs themselves. Indeed, while these programs can help boost consumer trust in the products they’re buying, some threaten the integrity of the hemp industry and undermine consumer confidence in hemp products. When it comes to why people grow hemp, whether it be for personal or industrial use, there are a wide variety of reasons to consider. Many farmers report it’s an incredibly rewarding crop to grow.
Essential to make that happen is the first step of raising the definition of hemp to 1% THC. A big opportunity could be CBD being approved as a dietary supplement ingredient as well as a food and beverage additive. A continued challenge is the lack of separation in cannabinoids and fiber / grain. Hopefully we can get that figured out in 2022 where there is a clear difference between delta-8 and hemp hearts both educationally and legally.
This might be a disadvantage for making hemp paper and cardboard, which need to be less flexible, but you’ll struggle to find a more suitable fiber for creating a softer tissue. Ferris was founded and began operations in 2005 and has been the CBD Devices manufacturer of theKing of Hemp® smokable product line for Hemp, Inc. The ownership of Ferris has agreed to allow their management team to stay on for at least one year, assuring a smooth transition to the management team at Hemp, Inc.
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CBD skincare also heavily relies on hemp extracts in its formulations. Hemp can be utilised for a variety of applications, both externally and internally, due to its adaptability. Industrial hemp (Cannabis sativa L.) has a long history with human civilization and was often found near early nomadic settlements close to streams in well-manured areas. Hemp was traditionally cultivated as a fiber source and most genotypes in temperate climates had very low tetrahydrocannabinol content. Hemp came to North America in the early 1600s, played an important role in Pennsylvania agriculture during the 1700s and 1800s, and was widely grown in many parts of the state.
First of all, it contains three times more cellulose fibers than wood pulp, which means that pound for pound, it provides a lot more usable fibers. People often think that we need to use regular wood for toilet paper because anything else would be too hard. The Securities and Exchange Commission requires issuers to provide “adequate current information”. More information can also be found out the Hemp, Inc. website by visiting/hemp-financial-disclosures/. Material contains statements about expected future events and/or financial results that are forward-looking in nature and subject to risks and uncertainties.
Plant-based food innovation is accelerating in Asia Pacific, driving the transition of the plant-based segment from generation 1.0 to 2.0. Our customers can choose hemp plastic that uses 100% bio-based resin, and many of our polymers can be biodegradable or compostable. But finally, after decades of struggle, the US President— Donald Trump— signed a farm bill act in 1918 announcing hemp legality at the federal level.
The crops grow close to one another so they take up less space, and the hemp plant grows without the use of pesticides, herbicides, fungicides. Hemp uses about 5% the amount of water it takes to grow cotton and can often be rain-fed. Hemp can grow in almost all soil conditions, and unlike cotton hemp’s deep-reaching roots preserve the topsoil and subsoil. Hemp grows densely as well, leaving no room for weeds and competing plants and is less vulnerable to insects, which means little to no use of pesticides. Lastly, hemp grows extremely fast, only needing 120-days to be ready for harvest.
So I’ll give them that, but fuel and fertilizer are still needed to grow a field of hemp. This potting mix has outperformed all of the professional grower mixes and potting mixes sold in garden centers we have tested so far. This article and video embedded below shows how well two microgreen grow mats grow microgreens compared to our best soil.
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Hempy’s has been a pioneering force in hemp clothing for over twenty five years. What started as a simple idea for a reusable hemp bag for surfboard wax in San Diego California has grown into one of the oldest and most well known hemp clothing brands in the country. This amazing plant is only a small part of a larger movement for social and environmental justice. We hope to use our voice to draw attention to other companies, projects, and movements that are fighting for a better world.
Yes, the same plant that is used to produce marijuana and hashish. Yet, the psychoactive effects of the plant are not the reason behind that coronation. Organic cotton takes more time than traditional cotton to grow, to harvest and to manufacture. Which means that the demand for cotton couldn’t possibly be met with organic cotton. Organic cotton has been created as an eco-friendly alternative to traditional cotton.
This was largely because hemp was potential competition to the paper/nylon production of the Hearst and Dupont corporations – close friends of Secretary of the Treasury Andre Mellon. When talking about hemp vs marijuana, d’acheter du CBD many people don’t understand the differences. Here are some of the questions that commonly arise regarding hemp, its uses, and its legal status. Over time, many countries lifted their bans on industrial hemp.
The fiber crop Cannabis sativa, also known as industrial hemp, has long been considered the “one stone” that could possibly hit the “two birds” in this daunting global scenario and change its outcome. However, the shadow of cannabis’s former illegal status and other concerns of ecological nature have so far confined hemp’s potential for becoming the biofuel of the future within the hypothetical realm. Finally the 2018 Farm Bill opened the doors to U.S. hemp cultivation once again, though companies like Envirotextiles were permitted to import hemp fiber grown in other countries for industrial purposes. The company has long offered a wide range of hemp fabrics and hemp blends for the fashion and home furnishings industries that pass its Sustainable Biodegradable Products Certification process. Due to the easy and simple processing of hemp into the fabric, there is minimal damage to the environment when making rope, clothes, and more. From cultivation to creating products, there is little manual labor needed to make hemp fabric, which makes it a better option for the health of the environment.
The leaves can be used to make tea, but most of the nutrients are in the seeds. In fact, hemp seeds are over 30% fat, including essential fatty acids. Hemp (Cannabis sativa L.) is grown for use in many different products.
It’s natural to be wary of a new product like hemp wood flooring. But there’s nothing new about using hemp as a building material. And there’s certainly nothing new about using fake wood flooring to increase durability and lower price!
Like any product, consumers need to read the labels and know what type of hemp lotion they’re getting. This hemp infused CBD cream contains 750mg of hemp extract in a tube of 2.5 fl oz, and features natural skin benefiting ingredients like vitamin B5, aloe, arnica and shea butter that work to nourish and soothe the skin. Not all hemp lotions contain CBD, but it may be used in some topicals to offer additional benefits. Our mission is to arm you with complete and understandable information about medical cannabis so you can make better decisions about your health. We help get you back to really living and doing what you love.
On the positive side, the bamboo microgreen grow mats are clean, easy to cut to size. The hemp mat is an excellent alternative to soil if you use a liquid fertilizer. You can see the difference in using a fertilizer with hemp in this two-part article. But the HM potting mix outperformed the other two microgreen grow mats. The three left trays are up on lids to bring the plants closer to the light. A bit higher than the soil tray, but closer to the same height.
For sportswear and other high-performance garments, naturally produced hemp fabric has been used in increasing numbers. As we have already mentioned, hemp can produce 600% greater fiber than flax with the same amount of land. Hemp fabrics are stronger, more absorbent, more durable, and better insulating than cotton. This property makes hemp a perfect upholstery fabric because it can be pulled taut and remain taut throughout the life of the furniture.
On the other hand, it’s been indicated that producing hemp may require more nitrogen than growing cotton. As a crop, hemp grows well in mild climates with high humidity, and Cannabis sativa plants are ready usually ready for harvest in mid-August in North America. Most plants used for hemp fabric are harvested with a special machine, and these plants are then allowed to rett in the field for 4-6 weeks, which naturally facilitates pectin removal via exposure to the elements. Hemp fabric is a type of textile that is made using fibers from the stalks of the Cannabis sativa plant. Your source for the latest products and trends within the architecture, construction, interior design, and building materials industry. Once the hemp building revolution does start to come to light, contractors will be thankful.
In my April 10th, interview with Agricultural Extensive Professor at the University of Kentucky, he said that industrial hemp was an agricultural commodity in Kentucky 100 years ago. If getting industrial hemp legalized is something people really want to do, then its going to have to become a commodity in todays society also. Tobacco farmers in Kentucky, are apprehensive about the future and not all growers depend on just tobacco for their income, they depend on other crops as well. Some farmers are turning to organic vegetable farming-such as corn and soybeans as alternatives. And with tobacco not up to par in the state of Kentucky, Industrial hemp could be a tremendous benefit to the state-but the option of legalizing it in the state still remains uncertain. Kentuckys weather would be a perfect fit for industrial hemp growth.
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Consider the same examples. If you have additional questions, you may want to visit Ali Partovi. Promoting online store exposure meter can be the most high-demand for a given direction, because it is narrow specialization and competition here is very small. Promotion of internet store that sells phones, will depend on the budget. Promoting e-shop on vysokochastotnikam will be very expensive, using a set nizkochastotnikov can get out of position. In addition, most visitors come for the bass, is best quality audience. Using nizkochastotniki, you get more customers! Contextual advertising. Key words. Choosing keywords is less important for search engine advertising, when properly organized campaign, you can lose considerable amount of money and not getting results. Contextual advertising must comply with the request entered into the search engine. So you define your target audience, choosing keywords for your ad. For example, if you sell phones, you will not need visitors who are looking for programs to Fight the phone. From the above it follows that drawing up a semantic prfessionalnom yadranuzhdayutsya and promotion of Internet shopping and contextual advertising. This will allow you not only save money, but also bring in your own online store directly your target audience, not random people. Which subsequently must be repaid, and not only pay for advertising. | <urn:uuid:94c3374a-97dd-4f3a-9f59-8fd0b0b489a7> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.software-innovators.com/contextual-ad-and-keywords/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573540.20/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819005802-20220819035802-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.917471 | 486 | 1.945313 | 2 |
gravity, gravitation, gravitational attraction, gravitational forcenoun
(physics) the force of attraction between all masses in the universe; especially the attraction of the earth's mass for bodies near its surface
"the more remote the body the less the gravity"; "the gravitation between two bodies is proportional to the product of their masses and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between them"; "gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love"--Albert Einstein
graveness, gravity, sobriety, soberness, somberness, sombrenessnoun
a manner that is serious and solemn
a solemn and dignified feeling
Resultant force on Earth's surface, of the attraction by the Earth's masses, and the centrifugal pseudo-force caused by the Earth's rotation.
Gravitation, universal force exercised by two bodies onto each other (In casual discussion, gravity and gravitation are often used interchangeably).
The state or condition of having weight; weight; heaviness.
The state or condition of being grave (graveness).
Etymology: 16th century, from gravitas, from gravis, from گران.
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
Etymology: gravitas, Latin; gravité, French.
That quality by which all heavy bodies tend towards the centre of the earth, accelerating their motion the nearer they approach towards it, true philosophy has shewn to be unsolveable by any hypothesis, and resolved it into the immediate will of the Creator. Of all bodies, considered within the confines of any fluid, there is a twofold gravity, true and absolute, and apparent, vulgar or comparative: absolute gravity is the whole force by which any body tends downwards; but the relative or vulgar is the excess of gravity in one body above the specifick gravity of the fluid, whereby it tends downwards more than the ambient fluid doth. John Quincy.
Bodies do swim or sink in different liquors, according to the tenacity or gravity of those liquors which are to support them. Thomas Browne, Vulgar Errours, b. vii. c. 15.
Though this increase of density may at great distances be exceeding slow, yet if the elastick tone of this medium be exceeding great, it may suffice to impel bodies from the denser parts of the medium towards the rarer, with all that power which we call gravity. Isaac Newton, Opt.
No man could ever have thought this reasonable, that had intended thereby only to punish the injury committed, according to the gravity of the fact. Richard Hooker, b. i. s. 10.
There is not a white hair on your face but should have his effect of gravity. William Shakespeare, Henry IV. p. i.
Our youths and wildness shall no whit appear,
But all be buried in his gravity. William Shakespeare, Jul. Cæsar.
For the advocates and council that plead, patience and gravity of hearing is an essential part of justice. Francis Bacon, Essay 57.
Great Cato there, for gravity renown’d. John Dryden, Æn.
The emperors often jested on their rivals or predecessors, but their mints still maintained their gravity. Addison.
the state of having weight; beaviness; as, the gravity of lead
sobriety of character or demeanor
importance, significance, dignity, etc; hence, seriousness; enormity; as, the gravity of an offense
the tendency of a mass of matter toward a center of attraction; esp., the tendency of a body toward the center of the earth; terrestrial gravitation
lowness of tone; -- opposed to acuteness
Etymology: [L. gravitas, fr. gravis heavy; cf. F. gravit. See Grave, a., Grief.]
"Gravity" is a song by American singer-songwriter guitarist John Mayer and is featured on three of his releases: the 2005 live album Try! by the John Mayer Trio, his 2006 studio album Continuum, and his 2008 live album Where the Light Is: John Mayer Live in Los Angeles. In 2007, the song was released as the third single from Continuum.
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
grav′i-ti, n. weightiness: that attraction between bodies, or acceleration of one toward another, of which the fall of a body to the ground is an example: state of being grave or sober: relative importance: (mus.) lowness of a note.—n. Gravim′eter, an instrument for determining specific gravities.—v.i. Grav′itāte, to be acted on by gravity: to tend towards the earth: to be strongly attracted towards anything.—n. Gravitā′tion, act of gravitating: the tendency of all bodies to attract each other.—adj. Grav′itātive.—Specific gravity (see Specific). [Fr. gravité—L. gravitat-em—gravis, heavy.]
Gravity is the world's most advanced personalization company. When you use a website or application powered by Gravity, it adapts to create a better experience just for you. Using its proprietary Interest Graph, Gravity semantically understands each user's individual interests, calculates the strength of those attachments over time and returns recommendations designed to optimize engagement and user experience.
Military Dictionary and Gazetteer
Is the tendency of all bodies towards the centre of the earth. The force of gravity is in the inverse proportion to the square of the body’s distance from the centre of the earth. The specific gravity of a body is the ratio of the weight of a body to that of an equal volume of some other body assumed as a standard, usually pure distilled water at a certain temperature for solids and liquids, and air for gases.
British National Corpus
Rank popularity for the word 'gravity' in Nouns Frequency: #2662
The numerical value of gravity in Chaldean Numerology is: 9
The numerical value of gravity in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3
There is no gravity in the Planet of Love; everything floats in the air.
The changes in canal shape are better suited to life in the oceans, where buoyancy can hold up an animal, as compared to land, where animals need a highly sensitive sense of balance to cope with gravity and complex landscapes.
To be able under all circumstances to practice five things constitutes perfect virtue; these five things are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness and kindness.
I actually don't think those people have power, but the reality is that they're loud and it hurts. I'm not going to lie( and say that) it doesn't hurt. But I think that we can create a new model of a center of gravity.
Mitch is a strong conservative. Those who criticize his leadership must remember he has a tough job, The positions he takes as leader, which might be of concern to some conservatives, often reflect where the center of gravity is in our conference - and not reflect where he is.
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- gravetatCatalan, Valencian
- Ernst, Bedenklichkeit, Schwerkraft, Erdanziehung, GravitationGerman
- σοβαρότητα, βαρύτηταGreek
- gravito, seriozeco, gravecoEsperanto
- گرانش, جاذبهPersian
- painovoima, vakavuus, gravitaatioFinnish
- gravité, pesanteurFrench
- swiertekrêftWestern Frisian
- tömegvonzás, gravitáció, súly, nehézségi erőHungarian
- gravitation, gravitateInterlingua
- gravitasi, gaya tarik bumiIndonesian
- gravito, gravitadoIdo
- 重力, 引力Japanese
- 중력, 引力, 重力, 인력Korean
- тежина, земјина тежа, гравитација, сериозност, важностMacedonian
- przyciąganie, powaga, grawitacja, ciążeniePolish
- gravitação, gravidadePortuguese
- тяготение, важность, серьёзность, гравитация, притяжение, весRussian
- ciddiyet, ağırbaşlılık, kütle çekimiTurkish
- کشش ثقلUrdu
- 重力, trọng lựcVietnamese
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If you’re considering Botox injections, here are some great tips for Botox aftercare to ensure a safe and effective treatment.
Botox relaxes muscles under the skin for up to four months. This helps prevent future muscle activity and reduces wrinkling at those sites.
When injected into these specific areas, it may also help to soften crow’s feet around your eyes and reduce forehead wrinkles and vertical creases from the nose to mouth (nasolabial folds). You must consult with your doctor before getting this procedure done. They’ll be able to assess your skin and the appearance of your wrinkles to determine whether or not Botox is right for you.
Why are tips for aftercare so important? Recovery is usually quick from this type of treatment. However, that doesn’t mean you can ignore proper aftercare. It’s essential to know how to protect your skin from infection and other risks while these botox effects kick in. Here are what to do after botox?
- What does Botox mean, and how does it function?
Botox is a purified protein that’s made from bacteria that are naturally found in the environment. The most common way to get botox is by injection. You can also apply it topically for a treatment known as botulinum toxin type A (BTA) skin rejuvenation and for temporary improvement of facial lines and wrinkles, such as those around the eyes and forehead.
Horizontal wrinkles in this area, hand wrinkles, and crow’s feet lines. The FDA has also approved Botox to treat excessive underarm sweating (hyperhidrosis) in adults who are 18 and older.
One of the unique aspects of botox, compared to other injectables, is that it lasts longer than many other wrinkle-softening procedures. It can smooth your skin for up to four months. That’s partly because botox injections work by paralyzing specific muscles, which means your face won’t move the way it usually does.
Another unique aspect of Botox is that it can last a lot longer than other wrinkle softening procedures. Injecting too much can cause your glands to swell, which will eventually result in fluid retention and a swollen face. The amount released into your bloodstream depends mainly on what part of the body you’re treating. For example, more is released when injecting the forehead.
- Avoid contact with others during the first 24 hours
The botox effects start to occur within a day of the treatment, but it takes about two to three days for full results. During this time, you should avoid touching your face as much as possible and wash your hands often to avoid contact with others. If you feel that others have come in contact with your face, be sure to wash your hands thoroughly before touching any other part of your body.
- Leave facial tissues at home during the first 24 hours
Leave the facial tissues at home while you’re going through the first 24 hours. You can use a clean washcloth or hand towel to dab your face instead of using tissues. This will help prevent the spread of germs and infections among family members, co-workers, friends, and children who may want to touch your face or hug you during this time.
- Avoid sunlight on treated areas for seven days
You should also avoid sunlight on these areas for the first seven days after your treatment. You can follow this up with SPF 50 sun protection while you’re outside during this time. If you plan to go out, but don’t want to wear a hat or heavy clothes, then consider using sunscreen with UVA and UVB protection every two hours during the day.
- Be prepared for dry skin and itching during botox effects
The botox injections will weaken your muscles and cause them to relax. This can lead to excessive sweating, which can leave your skin a bit dry, itchy, or even flaky for up to two weeks. It would help if you always kept facial moisturizer on hand during this time. What to do after botox will also depend on the preparation of your skin.
Other Tips for Botox
Avoid acetaminophen and alcohol during treatment
Avoid strenuous exercise during treatments. These can increase the risk of side effects, including skin rash, swelling, or hives. It’s also recommended that you avoid alcohol during this time since it may increase the risk of headaches and other side effects after botox treatments.
It’s important to avoid strenuous exercise or activities that can lead to excessive sweating for at least 24 hours after your botox treatment. This is recommended because it might leave the face with extra swelling and may increase the risk of complications during this time.
Avoid carrying heavy objects during the treatment period
It’s also recommended that you avoid having heavier objects or lifting anything more than 10 pounds during this time to prevent any nerve damage in your face. This can also lead to other complications or side effects.
Avoid spending a lot of time in air-conditioned rooms
It’s also essential to avoid spending too much time in air conditioning during this period, as it may lead to dry skin and nasal irritation from the cold air. This is especially recommended if you’re experiencing some level of itching or swelling after the botox injections.
Apply ice packs to treated areas if needed
This may help reduce swelling and prevent other complications later on down the line. You can also try taking over-the-counter antihistamine medications such as Benadryl (diphenhydramine).
Use ice packs to keep discomfort at bay.
If you have excessive swelling after your botox treatment, then apply some ice packs to the treated areas every few hours for up to 24 hours to reduce inflammation. These may help prevent serious complications later on down the line. You can also try taking non-steroidal anti-inflammatory medications such as Ibuprofen for swelling and discomfort. However, you should always consult with a doctor before attempting to treat swelling.
cream or lotion for dryness
If the botox injections cause dry skin and itching after treatment, regularly apply a moisturizer to calm the symptoms. Dermatologists recommend Cetaphil Daily Facial Moisturizer SPF 15 or Estee Lauder Extra Comfort Body Lotion. You should also try using a humidifier in your home if you’re experiencing dryness and irritation from the cold air. This may help reduce any potential complications during recovery.
Take care of hygiene by washing your face regularly
It’s essential to take good care of your skin after having botox treatment. Keep your face clean by washing it with mild soap and water regularly, especially if you’re experiencing any dryness or irritation after the botox injections. Also, try taking some warm baths to soothe painful neck muscles.
Avoid shaving during the recovery period.
As it can lead to bleeding and infection in the treated areas, avoid shaving your face for at least 48 hours after getting botox injections. It’s also recommended to prevent waxing or chemical hair removers during this period because it can dry skin out and cause other complications in the treated area.
Avoid crying if possible.
If you cry too much, excessive tears may cause complications or side effects after botox treatment. It would be best if you tried keeping yourself. It is occupied during this period instead of crying excessively or being stressed out about the result because it may lead to complications down the line, even though Botox is considered to be safe and effective for mild muscle pain.
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p53:The Gene that Cracked the Cancer Code by Sue Armstrong
Synopsis: All of us have lurking in our DNA a most remarkable gene, which has a crucial job – it protects us from cancer. Known simply as p53, this gene constantly scans our cells to ensure that they grow and divide without mishap, as part of the routine maintenance of our bodies. If a cell makes a mistake in copying its DNA during the process of division, p53 stops it in its tracks, summoning a repair team before allowing the cell to carry on dividing. If the mistake is irreparable and the rogue cell threatens to grow out of control, p53 commands the cell to commit suicide. Cancer cannot develop unless p53 itself is damaged or prevented from functioning normally.
Perhaps unsurprisingly, p53 is the most studied single gene in history.
This book tells the story of medical science’s mission to unravel the mysteries of this crucial gene, and to get to the heart of what happens in our cells when they turn cancerous. Through the personal accounts of key researchers, p53: The Gene that Cracked the Cancer Code reveals the fascination of the quest for scientific understanding, as well as the huge excitement of the chase for new cures – the hype, the enthusiasm, the lost opportunities, the blind alleys, and the thrilling breakthroughs. And as the long-anticipated revolution in cancer treatment tailored to each individual patient’s symptoms begins to take off at last, p53 remains at the cutting edge.
This timely tale of scientific discovery highlights the tremendous recent advances made in our understanding of cancer, a disease that affects more than one in three of us at some point in our lives.
Published: November 2014 | ISBN: 978-1472910523
Mini-bio: Sue Armstrong is a science writer and broadcaster. As a foreign correspondent based in Brussels and then South Africa, she worked for (among others) New Scientist magazine and BBC World Service radio. – Mosaic
Author’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/armstrong_sue
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My birthright, my cup is Yahweh; you, you alone, hold my lot secure. I bless Yahweh who is my counsellor, even at night my heart instructs me.Psalm 16: 5, 7
In today’s reflection, the Psalmist writes about a truth that if we deeply ponder upon, has the power to change our perspective on life.
He says that God is his birthright. Another rendition states, “God is my portion and my cup, He alone mainteneth my lot. The lines have fallen for me in pleasant places delightful indeed is my inheritance.”
Wow! So what does this mean?
Simply put, it means that before God formed me in my mother’s womb, He already had a plan for my salvation and not only that, He already made provision for the life that I need to live on earth.
God is my eternal inheritance.
Yahweh is my Saviour and Redeemer Who counsels and instructs my heart even when I sleep.
The question is whether I am able to hear Him when He speaks to me.
How do I listen for His voice and recognise Him when He speaks?
How can I relax and trust in His loving kindness towards me?
It is only by grace and perfect docility to the Holy Spirit that all this is possible.
Dear LORD Jesus, I come before You with praise and thanksgiving for Your eternal love and compassion towards me.
Thank You for Your abundant provision which You made available to me even before You sent me into this world.
Oh, how I worship You Holy Father.
Please pour out Your Spirit upon me, to confirm me perfectly into the image of Your Son, my LORD and Saviour, Jesus Christ.
Thank You for Your peace, power and protection.
Thank You for Your Holy Anointing that breaks every yoke and unties every knit/knot of evil in our lives.
Through Mary Most Holy, I praise You God – now and forever! Amen!
Always & Forever,
To the Lamb,
With all my ❤
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Acts 1:8 says, “But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes upon you. And you will be my witnesses, telling people about me everywhere—in Jerusalem, throughout Judea, in Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.” This power that comes from the Holy Spirit allows you to stand strong for the things of God.
The seven gifts of the Holy Spirit are wisdom, understanding, counsel, fortitude, knowledge, piety, and fear of the Lord. While some Christans accept these as a definitive list of specific attributes, others understand them merely as examples of the Holy Spirit's work through the faithful.
For them, the Holy Ghost may produce a subtle feeling of gratitude, peace, reverence, or love (see Galatians 5:22–23). The scriptures also describe the Holy Ghost as a “burning” in the bosom (see Doctrine and Covenants 9:8–9). But the intensity or degree of that “burning” can be different for everyone.
Nephi explained it this way: “Angels speak by the power of the Holy Ghost; wherefore, they speak the words of Christ. Wherefore, I said unto you, feast upon the words of Christ; for behold, the words of Christ will tell you all things what ye should do” (2 Nephi 32:3).
The path to receiving the Holy Ghost is to exercise faith in Christ unto repentance. We can become clean through qualifying for the effects of the Savior's Atonement. The covenants offered in baptism by authorized servants of God bring that cleansing.
The power that the Holy Spirit gives us is something that reflects in the natural as well as the supernatural. He gives us power, love, and self-discipline. Power can be many things backed up by the Holy Spirit, such as boldness to preach the gospel and power to perform healing miracles.
Certainly the Spirit of the Lord can bring strong emotional feelings, including tears, but that outward manifestation ought not to be confused with the presence of the Spirit itself” (in Preach My Gospel: A Guide to Missionary Service , 99).
The symbols of the Holy Spirit are: Dove, Fire, Oil, Wind and Water. The Dove: This can be seen in the description of the baptism of Christ (Matt. 3:16; Mark 1:10; Luke 3:22; John 1:30-34). A dove symbolises peace (Psalms 55:6; Song of Songs 2:12); purity (Song of Songs 5:2; 6:9); innocence (Matt.
He is the source of personal testimony and revelation. He can guide us in our decisions and protect us from physical and spiritual danger. He is known as the Comforter, and He can calm our fears and fill us with hope. Through His power, we are sanctified as we repent, receive saving ordinances, and keep our covenants.
Come, Holy Spirit, fill the hearts of Thy faithful and kindle in them the fire of Thy love. Send forth Thy Spirit and they shall be created. And Thou shalt renew the face of the earth. Let us pray.
It is a sacrament through which the believer, through the laying on of hands and the prayer of an apostle, receives the gift of the Holy Spirit. The death out of water and spirit, which was begun in the Holy Baptism with Water, is completed through the Holy Sealing.
If we have fear of the Lord, we don't forget to worship him and thank him to the things he gave to us, our family friends, shelter, clothes and many more. The gifts of the Holy Spirit, counsel helps us to change things to the way they should be. Counsel help us to make good judgements and giving good advice.
Crying may help lift people's spirits and make them feel better. As well as relieving pain, oxytocin and endorphins can help improve mood. This is why they are often known as “feel good” chemicals.
The Holy Ghost is the third member of the Godhead. He is a personage of spirit, without a body of flesh and bones. He is often referred to as the Spirit, the Holy Spirit, the Spirit of God, the Spirit of the Lord, or the Comforter.
In the context of the Gospels of Matthew and Mark, blasphemy against the Spirit is the sin of attributing to Satan what is the work of the Spirit of God, such as when the Pharisees earlier accused Jesus of driving out demons only by the power of Beelzebul, the prince of demons.
The Bible more often portrays God's voice as sounding ordinary and meek than as booming and thunderous. The critics who are deriding Scott's decision as heretical, blasphemous, or somehow unfaithful to Scripture seem to be overlooking Scripture's actual descriptions of God's voice.
So, instead of abandoning us or retaliating against us, he offers us a gift, the best gift that has ever been given: his Son, crucified and raised to life again. And he promises he will reign over us in an eternal kingdom that is far better than any of us could ever ask for or imagine.
Spiritual Calling, Work, and Family: A Review of the Literature. Calling is a word that has been used to name a deep attraction to a particular vocation, type of work, course of action, or life path.
It is possible to be sinfully careless or indifferent and not use the gifts God has given us. The gift (ability) may still be present, but lack of use may hinder its development, as well as its usefulness and productivity.
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Ernst der Eiserne
Duke Ernst of Iron (der Eiserne) with his sons Friedrich, Albrecht and Ernst, glass painting, between 1418 and 1424 (Austrian Museum of Applied Art, Vienna)
Ernst (the Iron), Habsburg, Duke of Inner Austria, b. Bruck an der Mur, 1377, d. Bruck an der Mur, June 10, 1424, son of Leopold III (Leopoldinian line). Until 1411 was dominated by his brother Leopold IV, then after his brother's death ruled Inner Austria (Styria, carinthia, Carniola) where he commissioned considerable construction projects (e.g. the castle chapel in Wiener Neustadt). On March 18, 1414 had himself appointed (last) Duke of Carinthia and from then on called himself Archduke. Cimburgis von Masowien Friedrich IIIHis grave in the chapel of the Rein Monastery depicts him in full armour and in the (Arch-)Duke's hat. The epithet did not originate until after his death. | <urn:uuid:54e2942d-2c58-4eae-b132-48d0ca47b801> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.aeiou.at/aeiou.encyclop.e/e758985.htm;internal&action=_setlanguage.action?LANGUAGE=en | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570692.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20220807181008-20220807211008-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.943822 | 236 | 2.734375 | 3 |
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The question of nature-culture and music is approached in the text from several perspectives as points of gravity and profiles, as the ‘tenors’ of considerations of the nature-culture relationship within the context of musical behaviours: 1) the biological tenor - culture as the simulation or imitation of nature (the dominant feature of the art of the Palaeolithic and the rituals of the Neolithic; derivatives in agrarian cultures); in this context, all musical behaviours, the kinetic, verbal, social and symbolic were centred around obtaining and celebrating crops - the results of purposeful activity, patient waiting and the benevolence of supernatural powers. The joy from a powerful hope in the survival of a community through abundant harvests seems to have been the source of the synergy (mutual stimulation) of all the components of socio-musical events, collective rituals and free individual expression. 2) the social tenor, where verbal-dance-musical behaviours (generally speaking - amusement) serve to ‘hew off and distinguish an individual within a group (‘nature’). Thus the nature-culture relationship is translated or reflected in the interplay between the collective and the individual. The dance itself is a play between the (‘natural’) group action and the (‘cultural’) individualised performance. The oscillation between the action of a group and the display of an individual also occur in whirling dances of couples interspersed with individual sung ditties. The social tenor, the transition from collective nature to a culture that is also individual, also concerns the practising of song repertoire, and it is an important factor in understanding cultural change. 3) the conscious-psychological tenor, in which music and musical behaviour are conscious manifestations of culture within historical processes, without necessary references to nature. The fundamental question in this aspect of discussion is the relative extent to which culture is given or created. There is no doubt that nature is given to man, whilst culture needs time. Reflection on the link between music and the social environment leads to the conclusion that nature tightens, while culture loosens, music’s bond with the situational-social context that is strictly ascribed to it. 4) the structural tenor of the musical work/behaviour, which highlights the microworld of nature-culture, particularly the oscillation of openness/change and closedness/ constancy of musical works or behaviours. The nature-culture model can be referred to the logic of development or stylistic change in musical output itself. Following that quartet of tenors, it is worth posing the question as to whether there exists a fifth, linking all the previous four, a ‘cosmic’, theological tenor in the symphony of nature-culture; in other words, whether there exists a ‘school’ of tenors. | <urn:uuid:c6fa82af-132f-449e-b66c-e2e3bda6bf99> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/ism/article/view/14877 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570879.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809003642-20220809033642-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.918078 | 595 | 3.15625 | 3 |
You’ve waited your whole life for your wedding day, and now a virus bigger than the love you and your partner share is threatening the day of your dreams. As brides and grooms make the hard decisions to postpone or pivot to virtual options, grief is a normal and expected response … and labeling your experience as grief is the first step to processing that grief.
What is grief?
Grief is often characterized by five stages: denial, anger, bargaining, despair, and acceptance. The five stages provide a useful framework for labeling your reactions to crisis and loss, but it’s important to realize that the five stages are not linear. Instead, people often cycle through the stages many times in many ways.
While the stages of grief may seem to oversimplify a complex process, they do highlight some core truths about the human condition:
- In general, humans don’t accept sadness, harsh realities, or change quickly or easily.
- We often meet change and sadness with our feet dragging and clinging to what once was, but no longer is.
- Instead of quick acceptance and adaptation when faced with change or loss, we accept these changes and losses gradually, over time, and with difficulty.
In other words, accepting the changes to your wedding plans isn’t (and shouldn’t be) a walk in the park. It’s okay that you’re struggling and grieving. It’s an appropriate, expected response, but it still isn’t easy.
Tips for navigating grief:
- Acknowledge that what you’re feeling is grief … the first step to processing an emotion is to name it; that act alone can start to reduce the intensity of the emotion.
- Prioritize self-care … heap on the self compassion, breathe deeply, and nurture your mind, body, and spirit in a way that is restorative for you.
- Work towards acceptance … focus on what you can control, rather than what you can’t control.
- Avoid comparative suffering, which is the all-too-tired mantra of, ‘how can I complain when others have it so much worse?’ … you may be thinking, “who am I to grieve postponing a wedding when people’s loved ones are dying?” … here’s the thing: both are painful experiences, and both deserve to be met with self-compassion, kindness, and empathy.
- Reach out for support … know that you don’t have to pretend it’s all okay. Lean on friends and family, and if you find you’re struggling to cope, know that counseling can help.
How The 5 Stages of Grief may Manifest for Brides & Grooms:
- Denial – manifests in thoughts like, This virus isn’t that big of a deal. We can reschedule for July 2020.
- Anger – How could this whole year of wedding planning be for nothing?!
- Bargaining – Okay, if all 150+ guests social distance for two weeks before the wedding, maybe it can still happen?
- Sadness/Despair – I feel hopeless and powerless. I don’t know when this will end. All of the unmet expectations and missed celebrations are hard.
- Acceptance – This isn’t going to be over any time soon. Let’s figure out how to proceed.
David Kessler, an expert in grief, says “acceptance, as you might imagine, is where the power lies. We find control in acceptance.” Acceptance occurs when we acknowledge the facts and surrender to the implications of those facts. In acceptance, we can start dealing as effectively as we can with the changes and loss.
Acceptance allows us to focus on what we can control and move past the hyper focus on what we can’t control. I can wash my hands more. I can connect with loved ones using technology. I can
What might acceptance look like for you as you grieve the postponement of your wedding day?
We start adapting, and hopefully, we move into a 6th stage of grief: making meaning.
Kessler adds a 6th stage of grief: finding meaning. When he was in his own grief, he discovered he didn’t want to stop at acceptance. He needed to find the light in the darkness, even if it was just a flicker.
As you’re grieving the postponement of your wedding, how can you find meaning in this situation? Perhaps this extra year can be spent strengthening your relationship, getting to know your future in-laws better, attending premarital counseling, or saving up for a well-deserved honeymoon. Whatever way you can, work to make meaning out of this time, be kind to yourself, and know that if the only meaning you get out of this is that patience has never been your strong suit, that’s okay too. | <urn:uuid:3d568177-51e7-4b28-8306-0cca906f1acb> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://kindred-counseling.com/coping-with-covid-19/postponed/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570879.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809003642-20220809033642-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.930138 | 1,040 | 2.171875 | 2 |
The IR method of measuring gas concentration is based on the absorption of IR radiation at certain wavelengths as the radiation passes through a volume of the gas.
IR hydrocarbon gas detectors can be classified into two types known as point detectors and open path detectors.
For point detectors, the absorption path length is fixed, and is determined by the instrument design to be a few inches.
For the open path IR detectors, the absorption path length can be as long as 130 meters as opposed to the few inches of the point detector. Instruments based on IR technology use two wavelengths, one at the gas absorbing wavelength and the other at a wavelength not absorbed by the gas; neither wavelength is absorbed by the other atmospheric constituents such as water vapor, nitrogen, oxygen, or carbon dioxide.
Fig : Open Path Infrared Gas Detector
Image Credits : General Monitors
IR gas sensing technology provides for fail-to-safe operation in contrast to electrocatalytic sensors since optical sensing is an active technology, which continuously monitors for sensor faults and communicates them to the user.
This is achieved chiefly through the use of the second or reference wavelength. IR detectors are also immune to poisoning, resistant to corrosion, can operate in a deficit or surplus of oxygen, and do not suffer from reduction in sensor life on repeated exposure to gas.
With the sophisticated optical and electronic designs currently being used, the detectors are factory calibrated and virtually maintenance free.
This is particularly desirable when sensors must be located in inaccessible areas and cannot be easily calibrated on a periodic basis.
Point IR Detectors
Point combustible gas detectors are used to monitor the presence of flammable levels of hydrocarbon gas or vapor in industrial environments such as refineries and chemical plants.
If the concentration of the hydrocarbon gas or vapor exceeds its Lower Explosive Level (LEL), the gas can be ignited and lead to an explosion.
Point combustible gas detectors are therefore located at several dozen sites to monitor for gas leaks.
In the point IR detector, the concentration of hydrocarbon gas is measured via the infrared absorption of an optical beam known as the active beam.
Image Credits : General Monitors
A second optical beam known as the reference follows the same optical path as the active but contains radiation at a wavelength not absorbed by the gas.
This second beam provides for the fail-to-safe operation of the point IR detector; a feature that is not available with the electrocatalytic technology.
The two wavelengths are generated by two infrared sources which have the active and reference filters attached to them, are pulsed alternately and guided by the optics onto a common optical path.
A detector receives the two optical pulses after they have traversed the optical absorption path.
All the components of the instrument are mounted inside an explosion-proof housing with infrared transparent optical windows.
Maintenance on IR detectors is typically limited to periodic cleaning of the external optical windows and reflectors to ensure dependable performance.
The current availability of reliable, low cost electronics and solid state IR detectors have reduced costs and made the technology feasible for many commercial applications.
The signals from the IR detector are converted into digital format and processed by a microprocessor with the help of a gas concentration lookup table and a correction factor for ambient temperature variations.
The instrument outputs a 4-20 mA analog signal as well as a RS485 serial output. Use of the RS485 using the MODBUS RTU protocol provides two-way addressable communication for status, alarm, fault, and other information for operation, trouble shooting, or programming the unit. MODBUS also permits linking of up to 128 point detectors in series and up to 247 point detectors using repeaters.
A typical system configuration linking 20 gas detectors and 20 flame detectors is shown in Fig
Fig : Multi-drop Addressable System
Point IR Detectors Vs Open Path IR Detectors
In open path IR gas detectors, the concepts of the point IR detector are expanded to a gas sampling path which can be as long as 130 meters as opposed to a few inches internal to the instrument.
These systems can either use a retro-reflector or use separate IR transmitters and receivers housed in explosion-proof housings.
The active and reference wavelengths for hydrocarbon detection are alternately selected via a rotating filter wheel, while the source is a broadband IR emitter.
Open path IR detectors offer many of the same advantages as the point IR technology such as immunity to poisons, high sensitivity leak detection, low maintenance, fail-to-safe detection, and easy installation.
Unlike point gas detectors, open path IR detectors do not pinpoint the location of a leak since the leak can occur anywhere along the optical path.
The gas concentration output for open path detectors is therefore expressed in ppm.meters or LEL.meters since only the product of the average gas concentration and gas cloud length can be calculated.
This means that a small dense cloud of hydrocarbon gas could give the same output as a large dispersed cloud if the integral of the gas concentration over the path length were the same.
A unique feature is a dual range, ppm.m for small hydrocarbon leaks and LEL.m for more catastrophic leaks, with the ability to switch between ranges as required.
Open path systems are particularly useful in those situations where a gas release has been dispersed by wind or natural diffusion.
The gas can still be detected, even though its point concentration may have fallen below normal alarm settings for point detectors.
If a gas leak creates a cloud, it generally has the following characteristics:
- The highest gas concentration of a cloud is at the source and it decreases in concentration towards the edges.
- The shape of the gas cloud is elongated or has an irregular pattern, depending upon air currents.
- In outdoor environments gas clouds dissipate more quickly and can have very low gas concentrations
Open path systems have the advantage of being able to cover large open areas, a line of several potential leak sources such as a row of valves or pumps, and also for perimeter monitoring of leaks.
A mirror can also be used to deflect the optical beam around a corner to the receiver. Whereas hydrocarbon detection systems use relatively inexpensive components and are used to monitor larger leaks, more expensive diode laser based systems are currently available that can monitor toxic gases such as hydrogen fluoride and hydrogen sulfide at low ppm.meter levels.
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Explore the Universe that God created and investigate how it all works perfectly together to create the world we live in. This course moves the student from the lithosphere of the earth itself, to the hydrosphere in and on the earth, to the atmosphere surrounding the earth, and finally out into space visiting the solar system and the rest of the universe. All of this is a quest to understand God’s created world.
Lab fee: $80
Tuition: $550/year or 10 monthly payments of $55.
Textbooks: Bob Jones, Earth Science, 5th Ed. and Earth Science Lab Manual, 5th Ed.
Parents provide the textbooks for their student. Only student texts are to be purchased.
Class time: 2 hours, once weekly
*Withdrawal fee after 9/30 of that school year is 3 months of tuition.
*The Laboratory Fee and Mrs. Davis’s science form are due upon registration.
*If lab fee and science form are not received within 2 weeks of registration, student will be unenrolled from class.
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When the body of an elderly homeless man was discovered in a discarded cardboard box behind the back of a fast food joint in downtown Kingston, Jamaica, coroners had a problem: Who was this mysterious old man? No identification had been found on the body; indeed, the only possessions the old man had on him were a faded photograph of the Houses of Parliament in London, a dented tin containing a small quantity of marijuana and a battered old guitar.
With no leads to go on, the authorities turned to Jamaica’s national DNA database. When the results came back from the lab, the coroners couldn’t believe their eyes.
“I thought it must be a joke,” says Jacob Chambers, the chief coroner. “My colleague came running into my office waving a piece of paper in the air. ‘You’re not going to believe this,’ he shouted. I told him to calm down and explain what all the excitement was about. When he told me, I couldn’t believe it.”
The results of the DNA test reveled that the old man police had discovered behind the fast food restaurant was none other than reggae superstar … BOB MARLEY.
“I stared at the results wide-eyed,” Chambers admits. “My jaw dropped to the floor. This had to be a mistake.”
It had always been presumed Bob Marley had died from cancer in 1981 as he made his way back to Jamaica by plane from Germany. But if that was the case, why was his elderly body lying on a slab in a downtown Jamaican morgue? Chambers could come up with only one explanation:
“Naturally I concluded somebody was playing a joke on us, and told my assistant to label the body as ‘persons unknown’. This would mean it could be cremated by the authorities and the death filed as that of an unknown male in his late sixties to early seventies. But it was then that things got really weird.”
That afternoon, the coroners office was visited by men in sunglasses. They were wearing dark suits and called themselves ‘government officials’. They confirmed that the body was indeed that of the late reggae legend, and that Marley’s death had been faked back in 1981 on the request of the star who had grown tired of all the attention he was getting and just wanted to live the quiet life of a street busker in Jamaica, earning enough for food, reggae tapes for his Walkman and cannabis. The Jamaican government agreed to go along with Marley’s plan, on the understanding that they would receive the royalties from his most successful album, Exodus.
Chambers claims the ‘government officials’ removed the body of Marley, along with the DNA results and the coroner’s report into the death. They then left, warning Chambers and his staff to keep quiet about the matter or they would face – in Chambers’ words – ‘serious consequences’.
“I decided I couldn’t stay silent about this, despite having no evidence because the government took it all away to a secret location somewhere,” says a defiant Chambers. “Bob Marley did not die in 1981, and I’m damned if I’m going to keep that a secret just because some shady officials told me to. The truth must be heard, even if that means the government losing the royalty rights to Exodus, which is a fantastic album by the way.”
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The Button control helps you easily design and customize buttons without the need for any other plugins or shortcodes.
Add Button to the page
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Set contents of Button
Select content tab from the control's settings panel, and select button section:
- Text: Enter the button’s text, or set the dynamic text with expression editor.
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Methodological naturalism is a strategy for studying the world, by which scientists choose not to consider supernatural causes - even as a remote possibility. There are two main reasons for pursuing this strategy. First, some scientists believe that there is no supernatural: they begin with the assumption that God does not exist (see atheism) and that there is no life after death (see also Atheism and life after death). Second, some scientists believe it is possible that supernatural causes (such as God and angels) may exist, but they assume that any supernatural action would be arbitrary or haphazard and therefore impossible to study systematically.
The first methodological naturalist is sometimes considered to have been Thales, who explained earthquakes (which were traditionally attributed to the anger of the god Poseidon) with an early theory of plate tectonics .
According to Christian philosopher Alvin Plantinga, "The philosophical doctrine of methodological naturalism holds that, for any study of the world to qualify as "scientific," it cannot refer to God's creative activity (or any sort of divine activity)." The possibility of divine intervention in nature is not only neglected, but positively dismissed.
This kind of approach is the result of application of the epistemology of either of the empirical philosophies of pragmatism or logical positivism, and (because it is a methodology developed without first establishing the ontological principles of the world) is unfounded.
This is the reason that presuppositionalists do not subscribe to methodological naturalism, relying on the intelligent design Programme instead. Presuppositionalists also contend that methodological naturalism is inherently atheistic, since it would be a meaningless exercise to define the rules of empirical inquiry in an entirely arbitrary manner. Since we define the rules of empirical inquiry in such a way that the ontological systematicness of the world is reflected in the method, the methodological naturalist's claim that methodological naturalism is independent of ontological naturalism is disingenuous.
Defenders of methodological naturalism point out that it in no way requires or implies philosophical naturalism.
- Atheism and the supernatural
- Horror of a unique position
- Atheism, naturalism and the origin of the universe
- List of atheist and agnostic pseudosciences
- Methodological Naturalism? by Alvin Plantinga
- Methodological Naturalism? Part 2 by Alvin Plantinga
- Methodological Naturalism? by Alvin Plantinga - From Perspectives on Science and Christian Faith 49 (September 1997): 143-154.
- The Rules of the Game by Carl Wieland
- Padamsee, Hasan. Unifying the Universe: the Physics of Heaven and Earth. CRC Press, 2003. Page 15.
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Have you ever heard yourself remark, “I wouldn’t want to be a kid these days”? Growing up has never been easy. Despite all the new technology and the opportunities that weren’t available to you and me, growing up today is especially difficult. The combination of higher expectations, less free time, greater academic pressure, ever-present social media, and tough family issues is forcing children to contend with ever-higher stress levels.
Unfortunately, that spills over into classrooms. Both public and private schools are recognizing that a growing number of students need extra attention to simply get through the day. Achieving academic success is often secondary to basic emotional survival.
It’s not a matter of ordinary misbehavior in the classroom, poor concentration, or grades that take a sudden and surprising drop. For many students, school is a safe respite from chaotic or abusive home lives. Fractured families and parents with their own problems mean that many of those children and teens don’t know where to turn or how to cope. Even trained school counselors may not have the professional knowledge or confidence to help these students. And if they do, there isn’t time to get to all the students who have need.
The professionals at Care to Change can serve as a trusted resource for schools. We can provide the additional support students need when they lack supportive, positive relationships in their lives. We can evaluate situations and offer practical guidance to parents, teachers, and administrators. When crises occur (such as the death of a student or staff member), we can provide immediate assistance to back up the school’s own efforts.
Our professionals can also provide in-service training for teachers and administrators on the impact that trauma and attachment issues can have on students, and the ways in which those issues can manifest themselves in the classroom and the hallways.
It tough to be a kid these days, and it’s tough to have the responsibility for guiding today’s kids to become self-sufficient, stable adults. It’s one of society’s most important roles. We’re here to support schools and educators as they serve students and families.
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Context: In the context of the establishment of a new medical specialty, rapid growth in hospices and palliative care programs, and many anecdotal reports about long delays in filling open positions for hospice and palliative medicine (HPM) physicians, the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine (AAHPM) appointed a Workforce Task Force in 2008 to assess whether a physician shortage existed and to develop an estimate of the optimal number of HPM physicians needed.
Objectives: Develop estimates of the current supply and current need for HPM physicians. Determine whether a shortage exists and estimate size of shortage in full-time equivalents (FTEs) and individual physicians needed.
Methods: The Task Force projected national demand for physicians in hospice- and in hospital-based palliative care by modeling hypothetical national demand on the observed pattern of physician use at selected exemplar institutions. The model was based on assumptions that all hospices and hospitals would provide an appropriate medical staffing level, which may not currently be the case.
Results: Approximately 4400 physicians are currently HPM physicians, as defined by board certification or membership in the AAHPM. Most practice HPM part time, leading to an estimated physician workforce level from 1700 FTEs to 3300 FTEs. An estimated 4487 hospice and 10,810 palliative care physician FTEs are needed to staff the current number of hospice- and hospital-based palliative care programs at appropriate levels. The estimated gap between the current supply and the hypothetical demand to reach mature physician staffing levels is thus 2787 FTEs to 7510 FTEs, which is equivalent to 6000-18,000 individual physicians, depending on what proportion of time each physician devotes to HPM practice.
Conclusion: An acute shortage of HPM physicians exists. The current capacity of fellowship programs is insufficient to fill the shortage. Changes in graduate medical education funding and structures are needed to foster the capacity to train sufficient numbers of HPM physicians.
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Deciding to own your truth and live as your authentic self is hard to do—and being transgender in a scholastic environment can feel like an added weight on your shoulders. If you are preparing to go to school within the next few weeks and are in the midst of a physical and/or hormonal transition, it can be hard to foresee a happy academic future. You may have questions such as, “How will peers perceive me, treat me, and socialize with me?” You want to be treated like everyone else, but most people may not understand. So, what should you do?
My experience with transitioning from male to female started during the fall of my junior year of high school in 2009. I took the transition process slowly, starting with wearing my mom’s clothes that she graciously offered me. I didn’t know what would come from this, but what I did know was that I was going to start feeling more like the woman I knew I was on the inside.
In May, I felt seen for the first time when I became the first openly transgender girl to win the coveted title of Prom Queen. Within those seven months, I was able to learn how to navigate life in my changing body with my classmates and our town of very judgmental parents. When I graduated high school that next year I felt better equipped to take on college and even closer to becoming the woman I had always wanted to be. I’ve taken what I’ve learned from both high school and college and made a guideline for surviving this incredible time in your life.
Each transitional journey is unique.
There is no one way of being transgender or transitioning. Take this very important journey in your life at your own pace. In a world where social media has consumed us, it may be easy to get caught up in comparing yourself with other transgender people you see online—but there is no need. This transition is yours, and you are allowed to transition in whichever way makes you feel the most comfortable.
You can dress however you want to.
When it comes to wardrobe and transitioning, things can get pretty tricky. It may seem easier to over- or even under-dramatize your wardrobe, especially when you’re thinking of the company you’ll be around. There is often pressure on trans people to conform to a binary style—but you don’t have to. For me, walking into school and wearing a wig and a dress just didn’t feel natural to me. But if you feel this would be what makes you happy, then that’s okay, too. The point is to feel both secure and safe. It’s wise to have a parent, professional, or teacher that knows about your transition, someone who you can confide in. Ultimately, you should feel free to express yourself however you like.
Don’t let others get to you.
It’s true that high school never ends—at least when it comes to facing some, uh, opinionated people. Both in school and in the world outside of it, you’ll find that you can’t please everyone; so focus on pleasing yourself. There will be people who won’t accept you, treat you nicely, or understand you in the way you ought to be. Try to not let this upset you. Instead, take deep breaths (which will relax both your mind and your body) and channel your frustrations into something that brings you peace. Perhaps, the thought of knowing you’re working on yourself is all you need. Think about it like this: You’ve discovered yourself and are on track to being the best possible version of you, and not many people get to that level in their entire lives. You are so strong and courageous for doing this. Keep going, and never stop evolving.
Stay on track.
If you’re in school, focus on your studies and an extracurricular activity that you’re passionate about. Don’t worry about dating—you’ll have time for those experiences later. Find a passion that you can indulge in so that your transition and those around you aren’t what you are thinking about 24/7. If gendered sports or theater productions don’t make you feel the most comfortable, there are so many gender neutral activities—like art, books, science, gaming, and yoga that you can take part in. Lose yourself in a hobby that makes you happy.
Two things my mom instilled in me growing up are 1. Keep your wits about you, and 2. You never know what could set someone else off. Unfortunately, in a world like ours, you need to protect yourself. And so I’ll say to you, too: Keep your wits about you. Maybe taking up martial arts or a self defense course could help you feel more safe, empowered, and better prepared. Sometimes, transitioning in high school may not be the safest experience. And if this is the case for you, know that there is always college and an entire life outside of school as well.
When it comes to restrooms, consider all your options.
One of my major concerns in this political climate is where transgender people can go to the bathroom. Discuss this with your administration, if you can, or ask a guardian, doctor or faculty member to speak on your behalf. If changing in any gendered bathroom doesn’t make you feel comfortable, ask to use the office or nurse bathroom. This goes for changing for gym class, as well. If you have the option to pick your activity during P.E., take dance! That’s what I did, and I made a lot of great friends while being able to express myself in a less judgmental environment.
Remember that this is a beautiful journey that can teach you a lot—if you let it.
Think about the bigger picture: You are making a huge decision and, in many ways, will have to mature faster than your peers. In fact, you probably already are. Mantras I love to have at the ready are, “This too shall pass,” and “It gets better.” Not every trans person has a support system at home or at school, so please be safe and also keep in mind that your beautiful transition and life outside of it are something you have to look forward to—revel in that. Take the time to enjoy what’s happening to your body, although at times you will be uncomfortable, sweaty, and moody. You can learn a lot about yourself, your body, and this fascinating process if you pay attention. It might be fun to journal throughout your transition and life beyond it, too. This is something I didn’t do during my own transition process, but I wish I had.
Above all, I want you to know that confidence is key and you can definitely do this.
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July 23, 2021
‘Transparency seeds collaboration’- Adopting OKRs in Business
Today, many organizations are redefining the ways work gets done by indulging small teams in handling specific business challenges. Irrespective of the problem a team is trying to solve, the potential solution does not merely belong to one group but depends on effective collaboration between different teams. Therefore, it is imperative for teams to have clarity about other teams’ goals and the company’s overall vision and purpose. Here comes the role of OKRs in business to imbibe transparency across the entire organization, which leads to improved communication and performance impact.
John Doerr rightly said in his book, Measure what Matters, “Transparency seeds collaboration.” So, companies that keep goals as secrets must share OKRs publicly with everyone to attain better results. For instance, an employee is striving to accomplish her quarterly goal. If OKRs are visible to everyone, other employees can jump in to help that employee achieve her target and measure progress. This improves the overall quality of work while fostering relationships through effective communication and goal transparency.
You may be aware of how cross-functional team collaboration can help drive organizational success. So, while setting OKRs in business, ensure that objectives are well-structured, bold, and attainable to set the proper focus, alignment, and collaboration between the teams. The best way to drive the cooperation is by facilitating transparency of objectives and key results shared with everyone, from company CEO to leaders and their teams.
For successful implementation of OKRs in business, companies must set objectives and key results at the individual, team, as well as organizational levels. The achievement of desired business outcomes at each level is not only confined to their pertinent goals and interests. OKRs must comprise common goals and measurable key results that encourage collaboration with other teams on whom you depend, or on the contrary, they rely on you for better results.
In a nutshell, OKRs must be transparent for all, ensuring that everyone rallies in the same direction, track other teams’ progress, and share feedback whenever needed. When organizations nurture transparency with OKRs, it leads to better collaboration and alignment, ultimately bridging the gap between strategy and execution.
OKRs in business nurture a positive work environment where employees feel motivated, connected, and able to make the business grow and succeed. It is important to implement OKR framework to aid companies focus on the priorities, adopt the right rhythm, and align different teams in the same direction. It drives engagement, improves business outcomes, and spurs innovation.
Are you looking for the best goal-setting and performance management OKR framework that can help drive focus and transparency between your teams? Then, Unlock:OKR can best fit your requirements, making teams align to company’s priorities, vision, and overall purpose.
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Article by: Samreen Ayesha
People nowadays are switching to healthy eating and when you talk about healthy eating, there’s one strategy that works every time and that is ‘planning ahead’. Therefore, meal preps in one way that saves your time and energy during the day.
People usually do meal prep a little bit differently. Instead of preparing the same meals for five days of the week, it’s better to prepare individual ingredients all at once. Then, you can use it for the rest of the week. This saves you a heap of time in the kitchen for the entire week and yet gives you far more variety to eat healthy and delicious at the same time.
However, that’s not the only way. If you want to save more energy and time, then another option is to get ‘Dinnerly Promo Codes’ – affordable yet healthy meal kits that only charge you for the meal preps they would do for you.
With plenty of ingredients placed in your fridge, all it takes is a little creativity to combine them with fresh produce or items that you have in your pantry for healthy meals that take less than five minutes in your day to prepare. Using this way to meal prep will have greater variety, your tummy will be happy and you will still save time in the kitchen. So, let’s dive in.
Planning Before You Start…
Instead of directly starting on your Sunday, do your homework first. This includes getting all the ingredients out and ready and jotting down a few notes like what you plan to make, any appliances you will need and how long will it take to prepare or gather the ingredients. This can also help you if you have missed out on any item, you can get it beforehand.
1. Roasted Veggies
It’s too easy to toss a bunch of veggies into a baking tray and cook them. Roasting vegetables is easy but you need to choose the veggies that take the same amount of time to cook. The popular that usually people add on their list and you can too be onions, broccoli, cauliflower, Brussels, sprouts, carrots, beets, potatoes/sweet potatoes, butternut squash, and mushrooms. It takes about 25-35 minutes at 425 Fahrenheit degrees in an oven.
Once everything is sliced into evenly sliced pieces, drizzle with a little olive oil or avocado oil while seasoning with salt n pepper and giving it a good toss. Transfer these veggies to storage containers and keep them in the fridge.
2. Gluten-Free Sweet Potato
This is the best alternatives if you want to add some gluten-free ingredients to your diet. Slice sweet potatoes and bake them for 45 minutes in the oven. Once baked, make sure they are cool before transferring them to the air-tight container as they will have quite a bit of moisture and you don’t want it to get too soggy. To absorb any excess moisture, you can add a paper towel at the bottom of the container. However, the simple matter to this ingredient is that sweet potatoes will be soft once you reheat them. so, make sure you are okay with that before you add it to your ultimate ingredient list.
3. Herb Baked Protein
After vitamins are sourced from vegetables, it’s essential to get some protein into your daily diet. When it comes to easy yet delicious cooking, this should be one of your go-to options. Since it takes less time and gives you great flavors in your chicken.
Coat both sides of the chicken with avocado oil and season with pepper and salt. Sprinkle in your favorite herbs and spices that could include oregano, rosemary, thyme, basil, and of course parsley for garnishing. This whole mix of herbs gives your chicken great flavors and you can enjoy this with veggies during the whole week. However, feel free to get creative. Once the chicken is done, place the chicken in a glass bowl container in the desired pieces that you have cut.
4. White Rice Starch
In terms of starch or grain, you can use white rice or even brown rice depending on your digestive system. As a substitute, you can always use brown rice, quinoa, lentils, etc. boil the rice as how you like to make it.
5. Eggs on the Go
The next ingredient is a great source of protein is eggs and this should be a must on your list. Since egg contains all essential and non-essential proteins, therefore, eating the whole egg without removing egg yolk or white from it is one ingredient that should be on your meal prep list. It’s up to you whether you want to peel the eggs now or leave them for later. Keep it in a glass lock container so that it remains fresh for the rest of the week.
6. Almond Butter
Rest four cups of almonds for 10 minutes, letting them cool and blending them high for one minute. If you do that, you will have ultra-creamy smooth homemade butter. If you are still not able to get that creamy texture, you can add half a tablespoon of almond oil and blend it again. This will definitely give you a creamy texture and you can keep it in an airtight jar and use it any time of the week.
7. Homemade Hummus
You can also get the peas into the grinder and make fresh homemade hummus. Hummus already has its flavor so you do not need to add major flavors. All you need to do is to add garlic powder, salt n pepper. Be ready to get creative with it. Keep it in an airtight container, as well.
8. Carrots and Celery Sticks
One of the best things to scoop up hummus is celery and carrot sticks. It’s easy and efficient to chop a bunch of celery and carrot sticks and keep them inside the jar. You can even eat this in a combination of peanut butter. If you store them in a jar with cold water, they will also stay fresh for 7 days, if not longer.
9. Zucchini Noodles
They are so versatile and can be used as the main ingredient with a Bolognese sauce or as a salad with light cucumber sauce. They also stay fresh for up to five days in a sealed container.
Cheers to the winning combination of healthy ingredients that we have learned so far. Hope it’s useful to you!
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This type of loan is often short term loans, which means it is aimed at those people who cannot afford to spend a long time waiting for a loan. For example, these can be used for emergency travel costs, unexpected car repairs or medical emergencies. It can be especially useful to those whose incomes are on the rise but who find they are having to borrow more to make ends meet. This website https://www.my-quickloan.co.uk/quickquid.html
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However, quick loans do not mean that you will be left with a large amount of debt in hand. These are specifically designed to help people manage their finances better, so they are generally much easier to repay. This is because they can be tailored to fit your specific needs and in some cases, your bank will even arrange for you to consolidate them into one easy to repay monthly payment.
You may have to pay a higher interest rate on your quick loans the UK than you would for an unsecured loan, so take this into account before you apply. It is also important to make sure that you keep up to date with your repayments. In some cases you may have to pay a set interest amount each month, but the longer you take out the loan the more you will be able to borrow. | <urn:uuid:681d5449-a1fd-456c-83d0-503e84981801> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://stephanstoyanovgallery.com/category/uncategorized/page/13/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570692.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20220807181008-20220807211008-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.977489 | 276 | 1.6875 | 2 |
A bunion is bony prominence caused by mal alignment of the bones in the foot. Bunions result in pain, swelling and deformity of the foot and make it difficult to find comfortable shoes. Bunion surgery can be performed to realign the joint, correct the deformity, and relieve the pain and discomfort.
Surgery is the only means of correcting a bunion. Surgery is also recommended when conservative measures fail to treat the symptoms of a bunion.
There are many surgical options to treat a bunion. The common goal is to realign the bones in the foot, correct the deformity, and relieve pain and discomfort. The surgery is performed under general anesthesia, sometimes with a regional nerve block to help with pain afterwards.
There are many different ways to treat bunions based on the severity of the deformity and presence of arthritsis. Sometimes a combination of techniques are used. Most commonly the below techniques are utilized.
Distal Chevron Osteotomy with an Akin Osteotomy
This technique is best for more moderate bunion deformities. During the procedure, the surgeon will make an incision over your big toe joint to perform the distal chevron osteotomy first. The joint capsule is opened, and the prominence is shaved down using a surgical saw. A V-shaped cut is made on your big toe and the metatarsal bone is shifted to bring your toe into a more normal anatomical position. The bunion is then shaved, and the soft tissues are realigned to correct the position. To get an even better visual alignment, often an Akin Osteotomy is necessary. Akin osteotomy corrects the sideways deviation of the tip of the big toe. In this part of the procedure, your surgeon makes a small cut in the proximal phalanx (base of the big toe) and removes a wedge of bone to straighten the big toe. The bony fragments are then stabilized using a screw or staples.
First Metatarsalphalangeal Joint Arthrodesis
This option is reserved for patients with significant arthritis at the big toe joint. It is fusing the big toe joint in an appropriate position that allows for normal function of the foot, but gets rid of the bunion pain. During this procedure, the surgeon will make an incision over your big toe joint. The the diseased remaining cartilage and bone is removed. Toe is brought into a good position and a plate with screws is placed to maintain it. The 2 bones will then grow together. This eliminates the pain from the bunion and arthritis very successfully, but does get rid of some motion. Functionally though, a fusion of the big toe doesn’t affect most people’s athletic activities.
First Tarsametatarsal Joint Arthrodesis
This procedure is an excellent option for patients with moderate to severe bunion deformities and no/minimal arthritis at the big toe joint. In this surgery the alignment is corrected through the joint closer to the ankle than the big toe joint (the 1st TMT joint). This allows the preservation of big toe joint motion and the normal TMT joint only has around 1 degree of motion which is usually not noticed. The Lapiplasty procedure is an excellent way to achieve this reliable correction.
Risks and Complications of Bunion Surgery
As with any surgery, bunion surgery involves certain risks and complications. They include:
- recurrence of the bunion
- nerve damage
- unresolved pain and swelling
- joint stiffness or restricted movement
- Delayed healing or healing in the wrong position
In rare cases, a second surgery may be necessary to correct the problems.
Post-Operative Care of Bunion Surgery
Patients should follow all instructions given by the surgeon following the surgery. These include:
- Keep your dressings dry and leave them in place until your next outpatient appointment.
- Do not place any weight on the operative leg.
- Elevate the foot to minimize swelling as much as possible for the first 6 weeks.
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AIM: To evaluate the practice patterns of the European Pediatric Surgeons' Association (EUPSA) members regarding the management of primary spontaneous pneumothorax (PSP) in children.
METHODS: An online survey was distributed to all members of EUPSA.
RESULTS: In total, 131 members from 44 countries participated in the survey. Interventional approach (78%) is the most common choice of treatment in the first episode, and most commonly, chest tube insertion (71%) is performed. In the case of a respiratory stable patient, 60% of the responders insert chest tubes if the pneumothorax is more than 2 cm. While 49% of surgeons prefer surgical intervention in the second episode, 42% still prefer chest tube insertion. Main indications for surgical treatment were the presence of bullae more than 2 cm (77%), and recurrent pneumothorax (76%). Eighty-four percent of surgeons prefer thoracoscopy and perform excision of bullae with safe margins (91%). To prevent recurrences, 54% of surgeons perform surgical pleurodesis with pleural abrasion (55%) and partial pleurectomy (22%). The responders who perform thoracoscopy use more surgical pleurodesis and prefer shorter chest tube duration than the surgeons performing open surgery (p < 0.05).
CONCLUSION: Most of the responders prefer chest tube insertion in the management of first episode of PSP and perform surgical treatment in the second episode in case of underlying bullae more than 2 cm and recurrent pneumothorax. The surgeons performing thoracoscopy use more surgical pleurodesis and prefer shorter chest tube duration than the responders performing open surgery. The development of evidence-based guidelines may help standardize care and improve outcomes in children with PSP.
- primary spontaneous pneumothorax
Field of Science*
- 3.2 Clinical medicine
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Old Trestle launches Truckee’s first distillery in 100 years
With the release of Theory Gin, Old Trestle Distillery brings distilling back to Truckee offering its first locally made spirit.
According to a news release, Truckee was a mecca of spirits in the late 1800s and has a rich history of distilleries, speakeasies and saloons. With the arrival of Theory Gin, Old Trestle is reviving this tradition.
Founded in 2012, Old Trestle bottled its first product for sale last month. Theory Gin 001 is the first in a series of gin experiments, highlighting flavors unique to the distillery’s home in the Sierra Nevada.
“We’re honored to continue the long history of distilling in Truckee,” Master Distiller Jake Holshue said in a news release. “Dark spirits have been aging in our Truckee facility for years, but while they rest, we wanted to introduce some of the breadth of what Old Trestle is capable of. Our first gin is a smooth, approachable style that blends well with your favorite cocktails. Local rose hips found along the banks of the Truckee River along with local Western Juniper berries foraged from the Sierras lend a balanced Truckee flavor that we’re very excited to share.”
Theory Gin 001 is available exclusively at the Old Trestle Distillery production facility, 10434 River Park Pl #2, in Truckee during regular business hours (9 a.m. — 5 p.m., Monday through Friday). Local distribution begins this winter, and the distillery has longer term plans to launch new spirits and expand regionally to more distributors, Jake added.
“We’ll have vodka soon, and our first whiskey when it’s ready,” Holshue said. “You can’t rush the aging process so we’ll have some fun with other spirits in the meantime.”
Source: Old Trestle Distillery
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Paula says - "We obtain our Navajo dolls from a sort of doll consortium . . . all hand made by Navajo women, perhaps like a quilting bee, they get together and some make the skirts while others paint the faces - can I do the jewelry??!!
"These ladies include Rose Ann Joe, Betty Peters, Joann Silversmith, Louise Grey, Marie Yazzie, Betty Yazzie, Isabella Joe and Edith Baker ."
Meant to resemble Navajo Men and Women in ordinary dress, Navajo dolls are meant to be played with or collected.
Navajo women are usually outfitted in a cloth dress or skirt and top and embellished with jewelry made of turquoise, silver and shell. The dress is traditionally made of velvet, cotton or muslin embellished with rick rack trim and cinched with a woven or embroidered sash. Necklaces are often sewn right onto the dress. Earrings are often beaded loops.
Men appear in traditional muslin pants, bright colored shirt (often velvet) and a cinched sash like belt.
Hair for the dolls is often made of mohair, wool or yarn. The hands are often made of leather. The face is fabric and the facial features are painted on.
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Robert F. Powelson is stepping down from FERC to head the private water corporation lobby.
Robert F. Powelson is one of five commissioners who sit on the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, or FERC. He was nominated by Donald Trump to FERC in May 2017 and confirmed to FERC in August 2017. Prior to this, Powelson was a member of the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission since 2008, and was its chair from 2011 to 2015.
Last week, Powelson announced his resignation from FERC to become President and CEO of the National Association of Water Companies (NAWV), a national lobbying organization for private water companies. Its members include powerful water corporations like American Water, Suez, and Aqua.
Powelson’s move is yet another disturbing example of the revolving door between regulatory institutions and the corporations they oversee. Private water companies are closely tied to the fracking industry, helping to dispose and recycle the wastewater that fracking generates. Powelson will now be able to work the connections he made for ten years as a state and federal regulator in order to benefit the corporate members of NAWV he will now represent.
NAWC is a major lobbying force in DC for the interests of private water companies. Since 2015, NAWC has spent a whopping $2,945,500 lobbying the federal government.
Powelson’s move also reflects a constant theme throughout his career: his affinity for and closeness to the private industries that he has been tasked to regulate. He has a history of supporting the fracking industry and backing controversial projects like the Mariner East pipeline. While speaking at a gas industry conference, he denounced pipeline protesters as engaged in “jihad.” While serving PUC chair, he accepted two tickets to a Philadelphia Eagles game. In 2014, Powelson also stirred controversy over potential conflicts of interests from his membership in an energy industry group focused on expanding the fossil fuel industry (he was forced to resign from the group).
The corporate water lobby’s decision to recruit Powelson may also indicate that they’re looking to get more aggressive in lobbying for water privatization and the further expansion of fracking.
It’s unknown how much Powelson will earn as the head of NAWC, but the current CEO earned $304,451 in total compensation from NAWC and related organizations in 2016. That is not a huge sum, but given Powelson’s stature and connections, it’s likely he’ll earn significantly more at the head of NAWC. It also would not be surprising if Powelson at some point takes some well-compensated corporate board of director positions.
Here are some posts we published over the past few years that examine Powelson, the Pennsylvania Public Utilities Commission, and FERC’s revolving door:
- On the slew of former FERC commissioners who went on to lobby for the corporate interests they were once task to regulation: “FERC Revolving Door Continues as Top Lawyer Leaves for Fossil Fuel Lobbying Firm”
- On the conflicts at the Pennsylvania Public Utilities Commission currently (one of the current commissioners, who use to work for a fracking industry law firm and whose former law partner represents companies like Sunoco, was Powelson’s counsel while Powelson was on the PA PUC): “As Decision on Mariner East Project Looms, Pennsylvania Public Utilities Commission Ties to Project Owner Sunoco & Other Fossil Fuel Interests Present Possible Conflicts”
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Volume 17, Issue 1
INSIGHTS from the SEDRA
Insights from the Sedra is a project of the Scholar’s Kollel of Great Neck. It aims to provide several questions and answers about the Sedra, culled from various commentaries, including the following: Baal Haturim, Darash Moshe, Vedebarta Bam by Rabbi Moshe Bogomilsky, Torah Treasures by Dov Furer, Wellsprings of Torah by Alexander Friedman, and Kol Dodi by Rabbi Dovid Feinstein, Great Torah Lights by Rabbi Yitzchak Meir Goodman, Something To Say by Dov Wasserman, The Vilna Gaon, and Growth Through Torah by Zelig Pliskin.
ואלה שמות בני ישראל הבאים מצרימה
“These are the names of the sons of Israel who came to Egypt.” (1:1)
The Jews’ physical exile was their forced slavery; their spiritual exile was their psychological enslavement to their hosts’ culture. Although many Jews assimilated because of their exile, others struggled to retain their Jewish identity, refusing to give up their Jewish names and language because their faith in their destiny. It was only after revealing their inner identity in response to the challenge of exile that the Jewish people could receive the Torah. The purpose of the Torah is to teach us how to bring Divine consciousness into the most mundane aspects of life, even those that initially oppose Godliness. In exile, the Jewish people learned how to overcome even these forces.
The same applies to our present exile: holding on tenaciously to our traditions – even those that appear to be unimportant – will hasten our redemption. The challenges that we overcome purify and prepare us for the exalted Divine revelations that will accompany the imminent, final Redemption. (Likutei Sichot)
וכאשר יענו אתו כן ירבה וכן יפרץ
“But as much as they would afflict it, so it would increase and so it would spread out.” (1:12)
The Ohr HaChaim wonders why the verse uses the future tense here – V’ka’asher y’anu – but as much as they would afflict, rather than – V’ka’asher anu – but as much as they afflicted. This indicates that the Jewish nation would be persecuted in the future, but that the outcome would be the same as in the verse: so it would increase and so it would spread out. The message is that regardless of who would afflict Israel, the persecution would never be devastating; in fact, the Jews would always emerge stronger than before. (Ohr HaChaim)
ויצו פרעה לכל עמו לאמר כל הבן הילוד היארה תשליכהו וכל הבת תחיון
“Pharaoh gave orders to all his people: ‘You must cast every boy who is born into the Nile, but you must let every girl live.’” (1:22)
By instructing his people to “let every girl live,” Pharaoh meant that the Jewish girls should be raised as Egyptians. He thus decreed that the boys be killed physically and the girls be killed spiritually. The decree to throw the boys into the Nile also alludes to immersing the Jews in Egyptian culture, for the Egyptians worshipped the Nile as the source of their livelihood and culture.
Egypt is the prototype of all exiles. In all exiles, the ruling culture urges us to raise our children in its ways, promising that this is the path to attain material and social success. As in Egypt, resisting these promises and ensuring that our children grow up cherishing the Torah’s values is what will guarantee their material, social, and spiritual happiness, as well as their freedom from the bonds of exile. (Likutei Sichot)
ויפן כה וכה וירא כי אין איש
“He turned here and there and saw no one.” (2:12)
QUESTION: Why did Moshe not see the person who said to him on the second day, “Do you think you will kill me like you killed the Egyptian?” (2:14)
ANSWER: When Moshe saw a Jew being beaten, he was startled and dumbfounded. He could not believe his eyes. Why was an innocent Jew being beaten with nobody raising a protest? Immediately, Moshe “turned here and there”: He ran to the police, to governmental agencies, and to “humanitarians,” screaming at the top of his voice, “Do something! An innocent Jew is being beaten for no reason!” After turning to all sides and receiving no response, “vayar ki ein ish” – “He came to the realization [that the world] does not consider [Jewish blood] human.” Therefore, he had no other choice but to take the law into his own hands and kill the Egyptian. (Vedebarta Bam)
ומאז באתי אל פרעה לדבר בשמך הרע לעם הזה
“From the time I came to Pharaoh to speak in Your Name, he did evil to this people.” (5:23)
The expression from the time implies that Moshe was referring not only to his recent, unsuccessful visit to Pharaoh, but also to a meeting with Pharaoh, occurring in the distant past, perhaps when Moshe was an adolescent. Possibly, in his youth, Moshe had convinced Pharaoh to permit the Jewish slaves to rest on Shabbos. Now, years later, Moshe wondered if the harsher regimen now being imposed was intended to compensate for the Shabbatot which Bnei Yisrael had not worked.
The language of the Fourth Commandment (Devarim 5:15), in which the observance of Shabbos is explained as a memorial to Yetziat Mitzrayim, made it abundantly clear to Moshe that the servitude in Egypt was not prolonged as a result of his attempts at negotiation. On the contrary, Yetziat Mitzrayim and Shabbos observance are closely related, as the Shabbos prayer states: “Yismach Moshe b’matenat chelko”, Moshe rejoiced in the gift of his portion, that he helped Bnei Yisrael earn the Shabbos as a respite from their labors. (Chasam Sofer)
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Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology Publication Info
APIC/SHEA Position Paper
Antimicrobial Stewardship: A Collaborative Partnership between Infection Preventionists and Healthcare Epidemiologists
Received January 23, 2012; accepted January 23, 2012; electronically published March 15, 2012
Misuse and overuse of antimicrobials, primarily involving therapeutic agents used to treat infection in humans, is considered one of the world’s most pressing public health problems.1 Not only does such inappropriate use diminish the therapeutic benefit of essential medications, it also facilitates the development and spread of multidrug-resistant organisms (MDROs).2 Antimicrobial resistance and the rise in MDROs globally are associated with increased morbidity and mortality, cross-transmission within and between healthcare settings, and increased consumption of limited patient-care resources. Despite elevated awareness, publication of guidelines on antimicrobial stewardship,3 and several initiatives, the proportion of resistant strains causing both health care– and community-associated infections continues to increase and the number of new antimicrobials continues to decline.4,5
In response to this growing problem, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) launched the Get Smart for Healthcare initiative6,7 in 2004, which includes a national campaign to promote collaboration across healthcare settings and mobilize national and local health officials in educating patients, consumers, and healthcare practitioners about appropriate use of antibiotics. The importance of antimicrobial resistance was recently highlighted by the World Health Organization (WHO), which dedicated World Health Day 20118 to halting the spread of antimicrobial resistance. The CDC and WHO are leading voices working toward an international solution with a three-pronged focus: (1) optimizing use of existing antimicrobial agents, (2) preventing transmission of MDROs, and (3) pursuing new therapeutic tools to treat emerging pathogens.
Antimicrobial Stewardship (AS) is an interprofessional effort and involves optimal, prudent antimicrobial use for patients across the continuum of care: acute, inpatient, and long-term care and outpatient settings.9
This position paper highlights the critical importance of healthcare epidemiologists (HEs) and infection preventionists (IPs) in effective antimicrobial stewardship programs (ASPs). The skills and knowledge each of these highly skilled professionals brings to a facility’s ASP, when combined with other disciplines, can accelerate progress toward preventing emergence and cross-transmission of MDROs (Table 1). The Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC) and the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology (SHEA) are the professional organizations with historical focus, expertise, and credibility in articulating and implementing best practices in antimicrobial stewardship and infection prevention and control.
APIC and SHEA believe the following:
MDROs cause a significant proportion of serious healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) and pose significant risk to patient safety across all points of health care delivery.
Integrated, multidisciplinary ASPs led by a physician and a pharmacist with training in antimicrobial stewardship are crucial to promoting the prudent use of antimicrobials and in combating the development of MDROs in all health care settings.
ASPs can benefit infection prevention and control (IPC) programs by identifying reported trends and outbreaks of epidemiologically significant organisms and educating about infection prevention policies in the course of interaction with providers.
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It is clear that the widespread and injudicious use of antimicrobials has greatly increased the presence of MDROs that threaten the health of all. There is worldwide acknowledgment that this threat is growing and that prudent use of antimicrobials combined with infection prevention can prevent harm and improve patient safety. ASPs must harness the talents of all members of the healthcare team to effectively identify the organism, determine its susceptibility, institute any precautions required, and prescribe the narrowest-acting antibiotic that will destroy it. IPs/HEs play a pivotal role in this approach by assisting with early organism and infected-patient identification, by promoting compliance with standard and transmission-based precautions and other infection prevention strategies such as care bundle practices, hand hygiene, and by educating staff, patients, and visitors.
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We acknowledge Arjun Srinivasan, MD, FSHEA, for his insightful review and commentary.
Potential conflicts of interest. All authors report no conflicts of interest relevant to this article.
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- This article is being jointly published by American Journal of Infection Control and Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology.
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Is R-squared The Same As R?
Is R-squared the same as R? R square is simply square of R i.e. R times R. Coefficient of Correlation: is the degree of relationship between two variables say x and y. The correlation value always lies between -1 and 1 (going thru 0 – which means no correlation at all – perfectly not related).
Should I use R or R2?
If strength and direction of a linear relationship should be presented, then r is the correct statistic. If the proportion of explained variance should be presented, then r² is the correct statistic. If you use any regression with more than one predictor you can't move from one to the other.
What is the relationship between R2 and R?
Simply stated: the R2 value is simply the square of the correlation coefficient R . The correlation coefficient ( R ) of a model (say with variables x and y ) takes values between −1 and 1 .
What is R and R2 in linear regression?
R-squared is a goodness-of-fit measure for linear regression models. R-squared measures the strength of the relationship between your model and the dependent variable on a convenient 0 – 100% scale. After fitting a linear regression model, you need to determine how well the model fits the data.
How do you interpret R and r-squared?
The most common interpretation of r-squared is how well the regression model fits the observed data. For example, an r-squared of 60% reveals that 60% of the data fit the regression model. Generally, a higher r-squared indicates a better fit for the model.
Related faq for Is R-squared The Same As R?
How do you interpret adjusted R2?
Adjusted R2 also indicates how well terms fit a curve or line, but adjusts for the number of terms in a model. If you add more and more useless variables to a model, adjusted r-squared will decrease. If you add more useful variables, adjusted r-squared will increase. Adjusted R2 will always be less than or equal to R2.
Is Pearson correlation coefficient r or R2?
The Pearson correlation coefficient (r) is used to identify patterns in things whereas the coefficient of determination (R²) is used to identify the strength of a model.
Is R2 same as Pearson?
Pearson's r is usually used to express the correlation between two quantities. You could calculate Pearson's r to evaluate whether the two quantities are correlated. R^2 is usually used to evaluate the quality of fit of a model on data.
Can you have a negative R2?
Note that R2 is not always the square of anything, so it can have a negative value without violating any rules of math. R2 is negative only when the chosen model does not follow the trend of the data, so fits worse than a horizontal line.
Is r 2 correlation squared?
The correlation, denoted by r, measures the amount of linear association between two variables. The R-squared value, denoted by R 2, is the square of the correlation. It measures the proportion of variation in the dependent variable that can be attributed to the independent variable.
Is R 2 the correlation coefficient?
The coefficient of determination, R2, is similar to the correlation coefficient, R. The correlation coefficient formula will tell you how strong of a linear relationship there is between two variables. R Squared is the square of the correlation coefficient, r (hence the term r squared).
What does an R2 value of 0.9 mean?
Essentially, an R-Squared value of 0.9 would indicate that 90% of the variance of the dependent variable being studied is explained by the variance of the independent variable.
What is the R 2 value in regression?
R2 is a statistic that will give some information about the goodness of fit of a model. In regression, the R2 coefficient of determination is a statistical measure of how well the regression predictions approximate the real data points. An R2 of 1 indicates that the regression predictions perfectly fit the data.
What is the difference between r-squared and beta?
R-squared measures how closely each change in the price of an asset is correlated to a benchmark. Beta measures how large those price changes are in relation to a benchmark.
What does an R-squared value of 0.3 mean?
- if R-squared value < 0.3 this value is generally considered a None or Very weak effect size, - if R-squared value 0.3 < r < 0.5 this value is generally considered a weak or low effect size, - if R-squared value r > 0.7 this value is generally considered strong effect size, Ref: Source: Moore, D. S., Notz, W.
Is a high R-squared value good?
In general, the higher the R-squared, the better the model fits your data.
What does a low r2 value mean?
A low R-squared value indicates that your independent variable is not explaining much in the variation of your dependent variable - regardless of the variable significance, this is letting you know that the identified independent variable, even though significant, is not accounting for much of the mean of your
What does R-squared tell you in linear regression?
R-squared evaluates the scatter of the data points around the fitted regression line. It is also called the coefficient of determination, or the coefficient of multiple determination for multiple regression. R-squared is the percentage of the dependent variable variation that a linear model explains.
Should I use R-squared or adjusted R-squared?
Which Is Better, R-Squared or Adjusted R-Squared? Many investors prefer adjusted R-squared because adjusted R-squared can provide a more precise view of the correlation by also taking into account how many independent variables are added to a particular model against which the stock index is measured.
Is higher adjusted R-squared better?
A higher R-squared value indicates a higher amount of variability being explained by our model and vice-versa. If we had a really low RSS value, it would mean that the regression line was very close to the actual points. This means the independent variables explain the majority of variation in the target variable.
What is difference between R-squared and adjusted R-squared?
Adjusted R-Squared can be calculated mathematically in terms of sum of squares. The only difference between R-square and Adjusted R-square equation is degree of freedom. Adjusted R-squared value can be calculated based on value of r-squared, number of independent variables (predictors), total sample size.
Is r2 the same as slope?
In this context, correlation only makes sense if the relationship is indeed linear. Second, the slope of the regression line is proportional to the correlation coefficient: slope = r*(SD of y)/(SD of x) Third: the square of the correlation, called "R-squared", measures the "fit" of the regression line to the data.
What is difference between Pearson correlation and R value?
Basically, a Pearson product-moment correlation attempts to draw a line of best fit through the data of two variables, and the Pearson correlation coefficient, r, indicates how far away all these data points are to this line of best fit (i.e., how well the data points fit this new model/line of best fit).
What is r squared in Excel?
What is r squared in excel? The R-Squired of a data set tells how well a data fits the regression line. It is used to tell the goodness of fit of data point on regression line. It is the squared value of correlation coefficient.
How do you calculate R 2 in Excel?
The correlation coefficient, r can be calculated by using the function CORREL. R squared can then be calculated by squaring r, or by simply using the function RSQ. In order to calculate R squared, we need to have two data sets corresponding to two variables.
How is r2 calculated?
The R-squared formula is calculated by dividing the sum of the first errors by the sum of the second errors and subtracting the derivation from 1. Keep in mind that this is the very last step in calculating the r-squared for a set of data point.
What is SSE and SST?
SSE is the sum of squares due to error and SST is the total sum of squares. R-square can take on any value between 0 and 1, with a value closer to 1 indicating that a greater proportion of variance is accounted for by the model. In this case, R-square cannot be interpreted as the square of a correlation.
How do I improve my R2 score?
When more variables are added, r-squared values typically increase. They can never decrease when adding a variable; and if the fit is not 100% perfect, then adding a variable that represents random data will increase the r-squared value with probability 1.
What is SSE and SST in regression?
The ratio SSE/SST is the proportion of total variation that cannot be explained by the simple linear regression model, and r2 = 1 – SSE/SST (a number between 0 and 1) is the proportion of observed y variation explained by the model. Note that if SSE = 0 as in case (a), then r2 = 1.
What does R squared of 0.1 mean?
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When the mariner was entering the working world for the first time, he visited the state employment office. He was given an aptitude test and a dexterity test. It was only then that the counselor talked with him about jobs he may like and probably be successful at performing.
Years later, when he was applying for a computer programming job, again he was given an aptitude test to judge whether he had the wherewithal to perform in the strange world of programming.
Aptitude tests seem to have gone out of favor. Consider state Governors. Had Rick Snyder (R-Michigan) been required to take a public service aptitude test before he could be a politician, he would not have passed, could not have run for office, and would not have failed at a job for which he had no aptitude. Snyder’s ineptitude has cost his citizens beyond imagination. Poisoning an entire city to save a few million dollars is not the decision a Governor would have made had he had an innate understanding of the responsibilities of an elected politician.
Nor would he have dismissed a stellar staff at a retired veterans home and replaced them with the cheapest price contract he could find. An inspector who visited the home found unbelievable conditions ranging from broken backs to starvation. An ‘ept’ Governor would be happy that things were going well and left the situation alone. But Rick wanted to save a few dollars. By the way, the inspector was fired.
There are several more atrocities that his citizens suffered including a state school system that Snyder took personal charge of so the budget could be slashed. Some school buildings were finally condemned and the teacher payroll runs out of money in April; schools will close in Michigan in April – a bit early. Applied to all elected politicians, one wonders how government would operate if they had to demonstrate an innate understanding of the job with an aptitude test. Throw in the Supreme Court, too – aptitude tests would have to be given before one could apply for law school. By the time Justices are appointed, it’s too late.
The mariner knew a pastor who was bounced around districts of his diocese. Mariner was confident that the pastor had aspergers. Individuals with aspergers have no empathy. It didn’t take long for parishioners to suspect there was something wrong with their shepherd. The mariner has experienced inept pastors on several occasions. Clearly, the Diocese needs a further screening process to filter those who should not be pastors. It is a job requiring several nuanced skills and judgment besides being able to shake a Bible at a church service.
Every reader can offer an example or two or three of an inept manager. The answer is an aptitude test to screen for leadership skills and an innate understanding of what it is a manager is really supposed to do.
Further, school boards attack the ‘quality teacher’ issue by imposing more and more constraints on teacher behavior, lesson content, and whether they have earned sufficient IEUs – an educationist’s approach to competence. The issue can be resolved quickly by requiring an aptitude test during the college curriculum. And, having added a stiff requirement that weeds out inept teachers, a fifty percent raise may also be required to attract ‘ept’ teachers to pursue the teaching profession.
Mariner could go on: How about aptitude tests for would be parents? Policemen? Might we install a breed of policeman that likes people for a change? What aptitude test does the reader wish they had taken before they ended up being dissatisfied and inept?
Amos is always complaining about the laxity with which Americans enunciate or obliterate their language. Amos warns that already, American English is worse than French when it comes to disparity between spelling and enunciation. He picked this off the Internet: There is nothing hard about saying the French word for “son,” which is pronounced “feess”—until you see it written down: fils. Try these: bidness, cannidate, close (clothes), decrepid, drownd, Febuary, and so on. See: http://www.alphadictionary.com/articles/mispronounced_words.html
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Join a few online forums and discussion groups that focus on the subject of home based business. A quick Google search will find you several good sites that offer useful information. There are also a good deal of blogs on the subject of home-based business that you might find helpful.
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Ferrer, M., Otalora, F., García-Ruiz, J.M. 2004. Density-dependent age of first reproduction as a buffer affecting persistence of small populations. Ecological Applications 14: 616 – 624.
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Many portray villagers as backward, uneducated, and less able to innovate. Kompas.com wants to present the opposite view through the Meranti Reporting Project. In the first part of the reporting, their journalists and photographer visited Sungai Tohor, a village just 3 hours away by ferry from Batam and Singapore that has cultivated sago for hundreds of years. Their report revealed that the villagers know their potential very well, grasp current trends, and are very passionate about developing products. They are beyond sago farmers; they are a group of product designers.
Kompas.com packs the coverage in a tour-like format. Content invites readers to complete three trips, see villagers' efforts in developing sago, and reflect on their experiences. Readers must open seven messages hidden in envelopes that spread across the page and are easily found. Through those messages, Kompas.com communicates how sago plays a vital role in peatland restoration and the challenges villagers face when developing and marketing sago. A question that readers should have and discuss with their peers when they finish reading is, "What's your idea to answer challenges in expanding Sungai Tohor's sago products?" | <urn:uuid:d2368531-9d40-4d5d-b8c7-cb02ac56113e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://rainforestjournalismfund.org/projects/revitalizing-peatlands | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570879.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809003642-20220809033642-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.949735 | 243 | 1.617188 | 2 |
Famous quotes containing the words duchess of and/or duchess:
“Duchess of York. Good madam, be not angry with the child.
Queen Elizabeth. Pitchers have ears.”
—William Shakespeare (15641616)
“If everybody minded their own business, the Duchess said in a hoarse growl, the world would go round a deal faster than it does.”
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The Data Editor is one of the most powerful and useful DBeaver tools for most of our users. It allows you to view and edit data and metadata, visualize data, generate result sets for reporting, and much more.
But did you know that the Data Editor has default colorization settings that you can change and the grid will look like this? Let’s try to do so.
Changing the general view of the grid
Even rows in the Data Grid have a white background, and odd rows have a light blue background. This is done for the convenience of the visual perception of the data.
If you want to make all your rows’ background white open the Main menu and find the required settings section.
Yes, it’s not very easy, but still possible. Go to Window -> Preferences -> General -> Editors. Choose Data Editor, go to Appearance -> Grid and uncheck the box “Mark odd/even rows”.
If you would like to set a different color for odd rows, you can do so in the global settings of the app. For our example, we chose a light pink color. To do the same (or set any other color you like) you need to go to Preferences -> User Interface -> Appearance -> Colors and fonts. In a folder called Database Query Results, you will find the item “Odd row background”. Double click on it or select it and click on the Edit button.
Now you can choose from a set of colors or use the palette to set your custom color. Click the Apply and Close button, and you will immediately see the result in your Data Grid.
Distinguishing data types
Database tables can contain many different data types, and it is sometimes easy to confuse them with each other. For example, the String type data type can contain any characters, and you have to look at the column header every time to distinguish it from a date or a number. This issue is especially relevant for tables with many columns that you often need to horizontally scroll to find the data you need.
To make it more obvious which data types are used in cells, you can colorize the main five of them. To do this, you need to go to the same global settings item that we described above and open the folder “Resultset Data Types”. Here you can see the default colors for binary, boolean, date/time, numeric and string data. You can change any of these settings.
For example, here you can make your string values purple and binary values brown. These colors are quite contrasting and will look good on the light pink background we chose earlier.
To see the results of your customizations in the table, you need to right-click on any grid cell and go to View/Format -> Colorize Data Types.
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Elton John sings at Princess Diana's funeral in 1997
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Those who watched the funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales, will remember Sir Elton John’s, 74, memorable performance where he sang his newly re-written song, Candle In The Wind. But it turns out there was some opposition from the Royal household towards the new track, for fear it was “too sentimental”.
He has written new words to the tune which is being widely played and sung throughout the nation in memorial to Diana
Rev Dr Wesley Carr
Diana was killed in a fatal car crash in Paris on 31 August 1997, a year after her divorce from Prince Charles.
The lyrics had been rewritten as a personal tribute by Sir Elton, and was a defining moment alongside Earl Spencer’s eulogy to his sister, in the funeral at Westminster Abbey watched by billions around the world.
As part of a freshly released set of government papers by the National Archives, the Dean of Westminster had to send a personal plea to Buckingham Palace in 1997 to allow the singer to perform the touching song, which went on to sell 33 million copies across the globe.
Westminster Abbey had reportedly put a solo saxophonist on standby to perform the song, in case the palace “refused” to allow the performance to take place.
The documents state that Rev Dr Wesley Carr managed to persuade the family by pointing out it’d be an “imaginative and generous” gesture to the public, as tensions ran high over the tragedy.
Lieutenant Colonel Malcolm Ross, who was involved in negotiations over the service between the Palace and Diana’s family and officiated the service, said the song had captured the public mood.
In a note to a senior member of the royal household, he wrote: “This is a crucial point in the service and we would urge boldness.
“It is where the unexpected happens and something of the modern world that the princess represented.
“I respectfully suggest that anything classical or choral (even a popular classic such as something by Lloyd Webber) is inappropriate,” he added.
“Better would be the enclosed song by Elton John (known to millions and his music was enjoyed by the princess), which would be powerful.
“He has written new words to the tune which is being widely played and sung throughout the nation in memorial to Diana. It is all the time on the radio.”
Ross went on to describe Sir Elton’s track as “popular culture”, saying: “Its use here would be imaginative and generous to the millions who are feeling personally bereaved: it is popular culture at its best.
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“If it were thought the words were too sentimental (although that is by no means a bad thing given the national mood), they need not be printed – only sung.
“I would be prepared to discuss the significance of this suggestion over the phone with anyone.”
Dr Carr had also written to Buckingham Palace three days after Diana’s death, proposing a provisional order of service with the need for a change in musical pace during the funeral.
In the order, the iconic songwriters 1969 livelong Your Song was misnamed as Our Song.
Enclosing a copy of the lyrics, the Dean wrote: “Elton John to sing Our Song – a different style of music, popular and associated with the princess.”
The documents do not make clear how the amended version of Candle in the Wind, also known as Goodbye England’s Rose, became the preferred choice for the funeral.
In his 2019 autobiography, Sir Elton recalled how he had received a phone call from Sir Richard Branson suggesting that he revise the lyrics after noticing that many of those writing in a book of condolence in St James’s Palace were quoting the lyrics of the original song.
It is understood that that Candle in the Wind was the only song Sir Elton considered performing, believing that Branson’s request had come with the support of the Spencer family.
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How To Use a Torque Wrench Video & How It Works [CLICK-CLICK]
Ever wondered how your torque wrench ‘clicked’ when you reached the torque goal? This video will not only discuss how to use a torque wrench (properly), but we also disassemble a perfectly good torque wrench to see what makes it “click.” You may be surprised at how simple the mechanism really is.
How To Use a Torque Wrench Properly
Before digging into the internals, we wanted to take a moment to discuss the essentials of using a torque wrench. In our case, we were using the torque wrench that’s included with the Sonic Tools 958-piece Mechanics Toolbox that we reviewed a few weeks ago. This is a 1/2″-drive torque wrench that has an operating range of 80Nm to 400Nm (60 – 250 ft-lbs). First, we unlocked the handle, then turned the handle to find the 140 ft-lb mark in through the magnified window on the torque wrench.
Now, we want to use a smooth pull or push to achieve the needed torque, and don’t rush this. You can easily surpass your torque measurement if you’re jerking or not paying attention. As soon as you hear and feel the click, stop. Just because it clicks doesn’t mean that it stops tightening.
What Makes It Click?
Now that we’ve covered how to use a torque wrench, let’s look at what makes that clicking sound. I’ve been using click-stop torque wrenches most of my life, and I never exactly knew how it all worked. Taking one apart, it’s very elementary. Basically, a large spring is compressed against a key, when the force applied to the handle overcomes that force and friction on the key, then Click! The internal conical shaped shaft slaps the side of the handle and the key rolls 90-degrees to the next side. See the video for much more detail.
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Trump's New IRS 'Postcard' Is Not So Simple And Not Really A Postcard
The IRS is planning to unveil a new tax return form — as soon as Friday — that is the size of a large post card.
It's been touted as a way to simplify tax filing, and is something President Trump pushed congressional Republicans to come up with. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said the document "will be a post card, as we've promised and hard-working taxpayers won't have to spend as much time filling out their taxes."
Sounds good, right? Imagine, filing your taxes on a post card. What could be easier?
But a look at a draft version of the form, obtained by NPR, show things aren't quite so simple.
For one thing, it's a rather large two-sided document, about the size of a half of a sheet of paper.
It does have fewer lines, 23. The current 1040 form has 79. But, people will still be required to file several pages of work sheets if they wish to itemize deductions.
And, unlike an actual post card, this one will have to be put in an envelope to be mailed — unless you want your Social Security Number and private financial information on full display.
Howard Gleckman, a senior fellow at the Tax Policy Center, a Washington tax think tank, says the whole concept of a written tax form postcard is kind of irrelevant these days. After all, who uses paper anymore to file their taxes?
"More than 90 percent of us file our tax returns electronically," Gleckman noted, "and I suspect if you ask most 30 year-olds about post cards they won't even know what you're talking about.
"So it's kind of a silly 1950s concept that makes for a good photo op, but it doesn't really change peoples lives."
President Trump and congressional Republicans promised to slim down the size of the 1040 form to post-card size when they first talked about their tax-cut bill. The president even kissed a mock up during a White House appearance with congressional Republicans.
Gleckman did point out that the new tax law Congress approved will make it easier for some filers, as it "significantly increases the size of the standard deduction." That will simplify tax filing for millions of people and, "that's a good thing in terms of simplicity," he said.
But, he added, changing the form for everyone else "is a P.R. stunt and really has no effect on their lives."
Except maybe to complicate them actually.
For instance, if you receive alimony or can claim deductions for teachers expenses or are claiming energy credits, you'll need to use one of six new worksheets.
Some entries, once on the tax form itself, are now on separate worksheets, which means they could be overlooked by some taxpayers.
And some lines on the new form, such as the one for people wishing to claim the earned-income tax credit, are harder to find.
Because those worksheets and the new "post card" itself will all have to be stuffed into an envelope, as Gleckman points out, you probably won't even save on postage.
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Cardinals Hall of Famer Stan Musial dies at age 92
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - Missouri's side of a new bridge over the Mississippi River will be called the "Stan Musial Memorial Bridge" under legislation signed Wednesday by Gov. Jay Nixon. But state officials might not have exclusive naming rights.
Federal legislation approved by Congress and awaiting action by President Barack Obama calls the span the "Stan Musial Veterans Memorial Bridge." That name represents a compromise between Missouri lawmakers who wanted to honor the late St. Louis Cardinals great and Illinois lawmakers who wanted to name the bridge in honor of military veterans.
The new Interstate 70 bridge crosses the Mississippi River and connects Missouri and Illinois. It is four lanes and is intended to relieve the 50-year-old Poplar Street Bridge.
Musial died in January at age 92. He was a three-time MVP and seven-time batting champion who spent his 22-year career with the Cardinals. He also was a Navy veteran of World War II and a 2011 recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
In addition to a bridge after Musial, the legislation signed by Nixon names part of a highway for construction worker Andy Gammon, who died while building the bridge. And the current Poplar Street Bridge will be called the "Congressman William L. Clay Sr. Bridge" after the former lawmaker who won the first of 16 U.S. House terms in 1968. | <urn:uuid:ba2bafd7-4d12-4bba-9dc1-0d2c5a05b2ab> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.hutchnews.com/story/news/2013/01/20/cardinals-hall-famer-stan-musial/20885618007/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570692.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20220807181008-20220807211008-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.963041 | 289 | 1.851563 | 2 |
Take a minute to think about this - more than half of the people killed in vehicle crashes in the United States in 2020 weren’t wearing seat belts. So far this year in Iowa, nearly 45 percent of those killed were unbelted. In our state, that means 60 mothers, fathers, sons, and daughters are not enjoying the summer with their families when the simple click of a seat belt might have saved their lives.
One word may come to your mind when pondering these senseless deaths. “Why - why weren’t these people bucked up?”
Here are some common excuses.
1, “I’m a careful driver. I don’t need to buckle up.”
As careful as you might be, others may not be as careful. Buckling up is one way to protect you and those in your vehicle from the mistakes of other drivers.
2. “Wearing a seat belt makes me feel restrained.”
That’s the point. You are restrained. When a vehicle comes to a sudden stop, being restrained means your soft body won’t keep moving until it hits something solid and unforgiving. Objects in motion tend to stay in motion.
3. “I’m not traveling very far or very fast.”
Many crashes happen close to home. And you don’t have to be traveling at highway speeds for a crash to severely injure you.
4. “I don’t want to get stuck inside the car during a crash.”
You don’t want to be ejected. Trust us on this one. You’re about 75 percent more likely to die if you’re ejected from your vehicle. The body of your vehicle is meant to absorb the energy of an impact and keep the passenger compartment intact, but you need to buckle up for that to keep you safe. In addition, not wearing your seat belt increases the chance you’ll be knocked unconscious or physically incapacitated in a crash, and unable to free yourself.
5. “Seatbelts cause injuries during crashes.”
Think about it: If you’re in a severe enough collision that a properly worn seatbelt bruises you, the injuries that you would have suffered if you weren’t wearing it would have been worse. A lot worse.
How do you protect your kids? Buckle them in. Read the Boughton’s story at https://www.transportationmatters.iowadot.gov/2019/08/se-iowa-family-credit-seat-belts-for-saving-them-in-a-crash.html
In Iowa in 2022, there have been 193 deaths in traffic crashes. That’s an increase of 10 since last Friday. To see statistics published daily by the Office of Driver Services, go to the daily fatality report at https://www.iowadot.gov/mvd/stats/daily.pdf | <urn:uuid:7263b2ce-5f93-41f3-b860-707f22304c0d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.transportationmatters.iowadot.gov/2022/08/roadside-chat-buckle-up-or-risk-eating-glass.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570692.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20220807181008-20220807211008-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.957225 | 630 | 2.375 | 2 |
Tokyo, In the capital of Japan, after the second world war, for the first time on Monday, a military exercise was carried out to expel people, in which hundreds were involved. This practice has been done at a time when there is tension in North Korea’s nuclear program.
During the practice, a loudspeaker was told in an amusement park in Tokyo, “We have received information that the missile has been launched. Please go out peacefully or get underground. ‘ A second message was released shortly after the loudspeaker, “Missile passed away. Missile Kanto went through the region to the Pacific Ocean. ‘
In Japan, areas of earthquake-prone areas are practiced in such areas, because such annual exercises related to natural disasters, fires, etc. are practiced in schools, from workplaces to conservatory homes and almost everywhere in the city. Nonetheless, this practice, in response to the threat of missile attack from North Korea in Tokyo, is a new idea. However, similar practices were practiced in other parts of Japan last year. | <urn:uuid:0965b204-047c-457f-907e-5314aa157ab5> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.feedbyme.com/threat-north-korea-japans-first-military-exercise-world-war-2/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570879.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809003642-20220809033642-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.983076 | 216 | 2.75 | 3 |
What does a positive anticardiolipin antibody mean?
A positive result means that cardiolipin antibody was detected in the blood. As mentioned earlier, the presence of cardiolipin antibodies may indicate several diseases, such as: Syphilis. Antiphospholipid syndrome (APS) Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE)
What if VDRL test is negative?
A negative test is normal. It means that no antibodies to syphilis have been seen in your blood sample. The screening test is most likely to be positive in the secondary and latent stages of syphilis. This test may give a false-negative result during early- and late-stage syphilis.
How accurate is VDRL?
The VDRL test isn’t always accurate. For example, you may have false-negative results if you’ve had syphilis for less than three months, as it could take this long for your body to make antibodies. The test is also unreliable in late-stage syphilis.
What is anticardiolipin antibody?
Anticardiolipin Antibodies. The first anticardiolipin antibody (ACA) tests were developed in the early 1900s as a screening test for syphilis. 1 The Venereal Disease Research Laboratory (VDRL) test is a manual agglutination assay that detects antibodies to cardiolipin extracted from bovine heart tissue.
What is the VDRL test?
The basis of the VDRL test is that body produces antibody when infected, and in this test the antibody is detected by subjecting the serum to an antigen, which is composed of colorless alcoholic solution of beef cardiolipin, cholesterol, and lecithin.
What is the VDRL test for Treponema pallidum?
Like the RPR test, the VDRL test can be quantitated by examining serial dilutions of serum and can be used to follow the course of illness, including the response to therapy. Interpretation In a healthy person, the test is negative. This means that no antibodies to the organism that causes Treponema pallidum/bacteria.
What is the difference between anti-cardiolipin antibodies and lupus anticoagulant activity?
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Have you ever wondered if coffee can go bad? It’s a common question that people ask themselves. In this article, we will learn how long coffee can sit out.
Whether you are talking about grounded or brewed coffee, there is a lot of concern when they overstay. Although it doesn’t ‘expire’ like other commodities, it will eventually do.
The coffee going bad depends on different factors. If you are eager to learn the expiry of coffee, let’s get down to the full information.
Does coffee go bad/or expire?
Coffee, like other products, will eventually expire. Over time, it will degrade whether you store it in bean or grounded form.
Since the beans are dried before storage, the degradation rate is slowed, especially with correct storage procedures.
For roasted coffee to maintain freshness, it is hermetically sealed in nitrogen. However, once opened, it gradually loses flavor due to oxidation.
Now that we have seen roasted and raw coffee go bad after a while, does ground coffee go bad?
A short answer is that ground coffee goes bad and at a faster rate than full beans. Normally, ground coffee will lose flavor after two weeks if not vacuum sealed.
The essential oils in coffee start to degrade; hence it loses its appealing flavor.
Coffee shelf life explained
The state of coffee, storage, and other factors determines how long it lasts. You might ask, how long is coffee good for? Or Does instant coffee go bad?
As we have said earlier, unground beans have excellent storability under the right conditions.
However, ground coffee tends to have less shelf life due to quick oxidation.
On the other hand, instant coffee can last for a long time. In most cases, instant coffee flavor isn’t strong, hence not a priority. It can last for years as long as you store it in a dry and cool place.
Does brewed coffee go bad?
Coffee, when brewed, can’t last for long. It is recommended that you brew coffee that you can finish.
Although coffee doesn’t expire once brewed, it develops an unpleasant taste. If you let it stay overnight, drinking in the morning won’t be appealing.
If you brew more than you can consume, can you leave the coffee out overnight? Does coffee need to be refrigerated?
Leaving your coffee overnight will affect the taste. Even more, refrigerating brewed coffee isn’t recommended.
Although some people might argue freezing coffee will keep it fresh, it does it slightly.
How long can cold brew sit out if freezing isn’t the solution? Also, how long can black coffee sit out at room temperature? According to professionals, freshly brewed coffee can only last for 30 minutes.
After half an hour, the flavors will begin to degrade. If you leave the coffee for more hours, the flavor will disappear. Additionally, the beverage will taste rancid, and the coffee smell fades away.
Apart from black coffee, how long is brewed coffee good for at room temperature? Similarly, brewed coffee doesn’t last long. It can last for up to 4 hours and start degrading.
Plain coffee without additives has a long time of remaining fresh. However, time shortens when you add other ingredients like milk and creamer.
The perishability of milk makes the shelf life of coffee to reduce significantly.
How to know coffee is expired?
For ground coffee, one of the ways to know your coffee is expired is loss of flavor and smell. When coffee is stored for long, it tends to degrade slowly.
Even when stored in the correct state, taste and flavors will degrade but at a slow state.
If coffee comes into contact with humidity, you might notice mold development. This is an indication that your coffee is no longer fit for consumption.
On brewed coffee, you can notice the coffee has gone bad by experiencing flavor loss. Also, a funny rancid taste indicates the degradation of your coffee drink.
Can you drink expired coffee?
When ground or unground coffee beans have expired, they don’t have the authentic coffee flavor. The smell and flavor disappear, but caffeine isn’t affected since it’s not volatile.
If the beans have no mold, drinking expired coffee beans won’t cause any harm. But you won’t enjoy the flavor. However, don’t dare drink that coffee if it’s showing signs of mold development.
On the other hand, drinking overstayed brewed coffee isn’t also available. Normally, when you make a coffee, consume it within 2 hours. If not, you can refrigerate and consume it within 24 hours.
Additionally, when you have coffee with milk, it will expire faster than pure coffee brew. Therefore, it’s advisable to consume such coffee as fast as possible within 2 hours.
You might wonder what happens if you drink expired coffee. One of the things is you will experience an unpleasant or rancid taste. Also, the flavor and smell of a coffee won’t be there.
The more serious issue is experiencing stomach problems. If your coffee has mold, you will likely experience mold exposure symptoms.
While drinking expired coffee beans might not be a big deal, moldy ones can cause serious problems.
How to prevent coffee from going bad?
It’s possible to prevent your coffee from going bad. But first, you need to know what caused coffee to degrade quickly. Some of the largest factors are;
The combination of these factors leads to accelerated coffee degradation. The faster the rate of oxidation, the more the quality loss.
To slow the degradation process, the most vital thing is to slow the oxidation. It is achieved by storing well-dried coffee in air-tight containers.
You can prevent oxidation by keeping coffee in thermal containers for hot beverages. Cold and iced coffee can last up to 24 hours in a refrigerator while still fresh.
How long sit out FAQ
How long can coffee with creamer sit out?
People usually ask how long liquid coffee creamer can sit out. Creamer contains dairy products. Since coffee with milk lasts for 2 hours, the same happens to coffee with creamer. Always consume within two hours.
How long is coffee good for in the pot?
Without milk, a pure black coffee can sit in a pot for hours without going bad. However, the ideal time is about 4-6 hours. After that, it’s going to suffer flavor and smell degradation.
How long can coffee beans sit out?
Unroasted coffee beans can last for up to 1 year with vacuum-sealed storage. Nevertheless, when the beans are roasted, they can still last for 3-5 months in vacuum-sealed containers.
How long can French press coffee sit out?
If you make coffee using a French press, you aren’t supposed to leave it for long. The coffee can only last fresh in a French press for about 4 hours like any other container.
Coffee is somehow perishable if not handled well. How you store it determines the freshness and how long its refreshing flavors and smells last.
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You have been dying to paint the living room a new color, but you have no idea where to start. Sound familiar? Many homeowners get these hopes and dreams for a new home decorating project but have trouble getting past this very basic first step.
Some people struggle because they don’t have the natural interior designing gift, but often times people struggle because they lack the confidence to be comfortable with whatever they choose.
After today, you will be fully prepared to pick the best color palette for your walls without all of the second-guessing!
Ask yourself what’s going to change??
The first thing that you need to think about is what else you want to change about the room. If all of the furniture is staying exactly the same, then you can inform the color selection with the items that are already in the room.
If all of your fixtures and furniture are changing, then you may want to make a few of those bigger purchases before changing the color on the wall. Part of the reason why this is important is because the color palette should be selected from the largest pattern in the room.
Whether it is a painting on the wall or a carpet on the floor, the largest pattern that lives in that room will give you the best options for your walls regardless of whether you are painting them a neutral or a bold color.
Know how much you are going to change… your project scope
If you are making sweeping changes to the room, then another important rule of thumb is the dark to light mantra. Your room should be a representation of reality, and in the real world outside most of the dark colors are on the ground and the world gets lighter as it reaches the sky.
Try to decorate the interior of your home with that same mentality. Keep the dark floors but fade into making the ceiling as light as possible. This will help you pick a color for the walls that ties the floors to the ceiling and keeps with this dark to light vertical transition.
You may decide that you want to start the entire room from scratch, and that can be a bit more overwhelming than replacing a couch or a rug or some other large item. This requires changing the entire color scheme and buying all new items from top to bottom, which can be overwhelming.
Get familiar with the color wheel…
A good rule of thumb for this labor-intensive home renovation project is the use of the color wheel. Yes, you remember, the one from your elementary school art class that taught you the primary and secondary colors and what mixed with what to make which. It applies in adulthood too, because the colors next to each other on that wheel tend to be the most complimentary!
Pick the right scheme based on your style…
Sometimes, the issue can be choosing a theme more than a scheme. You may not be sure of what mood you want to capture in the room and that can make choosing colors difficult as well. Some designers recommend taking a look inside of your closet before making big decisions about interior designing.
That may sound silly, but your clothing says a lot about both your personality and your tastes. You may be more preppy or bohemian, have an affinity for purple or olive green. All of this will tell you a bit more about whether a room that is decorated in nautical themes makes more sense than the photo of a shabby chic living room that you saw in Home Décor last week.
Follow this one simple rule…
Another simplistic rule of design is the rule of three colors. In any room, if you limit the number of colors in the palette to three then you will be guaranteed a clear design without making the room look too busy or too boring.
The other side of that rule, though is the rule of 60-30-10. About 60% of the room should utilize the dominant color in your palette, 30% should use the secondary color and the last 10% should simply be an accent. Using these three rules will make your color choices look like they were selected by a professional, guaranteed!
Get clear on your design style
If your palette is minimalistic and you are really racking your brain for that design thumb but cannot seem to figure it out, there is an even simpler solution. When all else fails in selecting the right color for your wall, go with the gray.
It is modern, clean but not too clinical or old-school like the standard whites or creams. It will give your room a stylish and classic look without taking away from any of the furniture or other design touches that your room may have.
Don’t waste anymore time wondering about those 50 shades of gray…
Spending time doing a consultation with an interior designer can change the look and feel of your room better than anything.
A professional designer can make you think of the options for your home decorating project that you would never have been able to come up with and they will be invested in achieving your dreams while sticking to your budget.
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For many design of bike, be it cargo, urban, sports; igus has presented new components made with high-performance plastic technology. Triboplastics have already been dubbed as an alternative to metal solutions for the e-bike industry moving forward. These new plastics can be used for light and lubricant-free polymer bearings, wear-resistant gears for motors, and durable rod ends. The polymer they use is iglidur M210.
In most suspension systems, manufacturers rely on metallic solutions, however, In Frankfurt, igus announced they have “Lubrication-free plain bearings made of high-performance plastic prove to be more maintenance-friendly, up to 80 percent lighter and dirt-resistant.” igus showcased a new line of bearings made of the iglidur M210 polymer – the result being bearings that can replaced much quicker, with many other benefits.
Due to their higher flexibility and resistance to tension, polymer bearings also dampen vibrations more effectively than that of a metal-based solution, ensuring better absorption of shocks and greater comfort for the rider.
Polymer bearings are also ideal for the bicycle industry for their dirt-resistance. The outer coating of the part is applied with a technology that is more resistant to daily stress – meaning it will be in better condition far longer than usual.
For even more dirt protection, igus also presented the new iglidur ‘SG03 series’ plain bearings with felt seals. These bearings provide additional protection against dirt that is smoother running compared to metal bearings. They also showed the plastic plain bearings of the iglidur E series. igus has specifically developed these for use in suspension forks. The bearings are exceptionally suitable for linear movements.
At the exhibition, igus showed improvements for the heart of the bike itself – the motor. They presented high-performance gears for planetary gearboxes made from iglidur, which they claim, “Significantly outperform other plastic alternatives in terms of service life.” These gears are also quieter and lighter than those made with metal solutions, and more often than not, can be delivered faster (due to the advancement of 3D printing technology and injection molding, designers can now create and commission gears in a matter of minutes).
Finally, igus shared the ‘igubal 2.0 series’ metal-plastic hybrid rods for cargo bikes. These components combine the advantages of stainless steel and plastic ensuring high-stability and excellent vibration dampening. To ensure high stability and vibration dampening, these hybrid rods combine the advantages of being lubrication-free, maintenance-free and dirt-resistant. Furthermore, igus also shared a rattle free solution that can be used to manufacture cargo bikes’ sliding doors; yet further innovation from the German company.
The “igus:bike project” shows further innovation from the Germany company, the concept being a bicycle that consists of over 90% plastic - from the frame to the bearings, up to the toothed belt. Now recycling plastic waste can be reused to forge a high proportion of the required raw materials for this product.
As a partner of igus, the Dutch startup “mtrl” presented their first model. They will start producing and selling the ‘mtrl.bike’ by the end of this year.
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When listing the struggles facing college students, people tend to think of homesickness or studying stress—many never consider hunger.
Food insecurity—or not knowing from where the next meal is coming—is at the heart of the establishment of a food pantry for Illinois State University students. The School Street Food Pantry opened last September at the First United Methodist Church in Normal.
Driven by a group of passionate students from across campus, the launching of the food pantry is a collaborative effort more than a year in the making from Illinois State students and community organizations.
“Nationally, 45 percent of college students in the United States face some uncertainty when it comes to food,” said Jeanna Campbell, a second-year graduate student in the School of Social Work. “Those numbers were even higher when we looked at Illinois State.”
Campbell, a native of Bloomington, was studying the idea of food insecurity when she came across several other groups on campus examining the same issue. Student surveys done by the Student Government Association (SGA), students in the School of Social Work, and the Department of History, and student Amy Illovsky of the Department of Family and Consumer Sciences showed the issue was a growing one. “Nearly 66 percent of students surveyed said they knew someone who has struggles obtaining food,” said Campbell.
Campbell went beyond the research to begin pulling together those interested in tackling the problem.
“We’ve always had people who are passionate about a food pantry, but just did not have the right set of circumstance to pull it off,” said Jack Whitsitt, a senior from Alexis and vice president of SGA. As senators, Whitsitt and senior in political science Jason Hale were part of the 2017 SGA food survey. “Students said that they are having to make the choice of paying for rent instead of buying food. We saw a real need for a food pantry for students,” said Whitsitt.
The SGA attempted to launch a food pantry in an office in the Bone Student Center, but organizers quickly realized the scope of the project was more than one group could handle. “There were issues of keeping the pantry stocked, having hours where students could easily access food, and having people run the pantry,” said Whitsitt. When Campbell approached Hale, he relayed the SGA experiences. It was decided a larger coalition of support was needed to get a food pantry off the ground.
Campbell connected with Normal Township Supervisor Sarah Grammer, whose job includes offering emergency assistance for residents battling poverty issues. Grammer had seen students come in around finals fighting to make it to the end of the semester. “Students come in who are really struggling, and unsure whether to pay the electric bill or eat,” said Grammer. “Sometimes we can help get the utilities turned back on, but there are not enough resources to help with basic needs.”
Grammer said her office had referred students to area food pantries, but none were close to campus, and some were open only once a month. “For a person working two or three jobs and taking classes, there are not a lot of options,” she said. Grammer spoke with the Rev. Kathy King-Nobles of the First United Methodist Church, situated next to the campus Bone Student Center. “Talk about prayers being answered,” said King-Nobles. The congregation had been exploring ways to reach out and assist students. “We weren’t necessarily looking to establish a food pantry, but simply meet a need.”
Campbell, Grammer, and King-Nobles started an advisory board with the aim of building a student food pantry. The advisory board is 50-50 split between community members and students. Drawing on the passion of the students and the expertise of the community members has been a key element to success, said board member Pat Turner, who has been the director of the Center for Hope Food Pantry in Bloomington for more than 20 years. “Students are part of our collective community, and we do better together. It’s wonderful to see the skills, ability, knowledge, and commitment we all bring to the table,” she said.
The board includes students such as Whitsitt, Campbell, and Noah Tang, an education major from Lisle, who graduated in December. Tang worked with community gardens with the Bloomington-Normal Democratic Socialists of America. “Illinois State is in the middle of a food desert, which is defined by the USDA as a region where people who don’t have transportation don’t have access to healthy or proper food,” said Tang. “It’s great that a lot of groups can come together to reduce this type of food insecurity among students.”
Through the efforts of students like Tang and Campbell, the School Street Food Pantry has been designated as an official food pantry, meaning it will receive pallets of food from area food banks for distribution. Pantry organizers plan also to include recipes along with bags of food. “This effort is really about knowledge as much as it is about food,” said Tang, who added future plans include holding cooking classes and providing tips on budgeting for healthy food.
Though the board gains input from several community organizations, the bulk of implementation work is being done by students. “The students are the driving force, and I cannot say enough great things about them,” said King-Nobles. “They are willing and eager to work, and repeatedly offered their skills and gifts. They have been eager to participate and connect with an audience broader than their peers.”
Along with battling hunger, Grammer sees the pantry connecting students to the larger community. “These students are reaching out and doing something they know is creating a positive change. That ties them to a place and a people. They graduate thinking, ‘I have lived in this community. I have contributed.’”
In the end, the School Street Food Pantry will provide students a better chance to achieve their primary goal at Illinois State—learning. “According to national statistics, if you are food insecure, then your health is more likely to be poor,” said Campbell. “Without reliable food, we are really setting up a lot of people for not achieving their potential.”
Tang agreed, adding that the work of the food pantry feeds into his mission for the future. “I am going to be a teacher, and I’ve noticed that students who focus on when they are going to eat next have a much harder time concentrating,” he said. “If I’m going to teach, then I need to be prepared to understand and help combat all the problems students will face.”
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10 Cost-Effective Strategies for Motivating Employees
Employees who are motivated are generally more committed and engaged and typically perform better than employees who aren't. But motivating employees isn't always easy, especially since they aren't all motivated by the same thing. Supervisors should understand individual motivators and tailor their management style accordingly.
A common misconception is that employees are motivated predominately by money. While this may be true for some employees, most are motivated by other non-monetary factors, such as autonomy, challenge, and recognition. Below are 10 cost-effective ways to inspire your workforce:
- Challenging work. Many employees seek challenging and varied work that allows them to grow and develop their skills. Not only does this foster a sense of achievement, but it can also help prepare them for future growth within your business.
Low cost motivator: Whenever possible, try to design jobs with a variety of tasks and give employees “stretch” assignments.
- Recognition. Recognizing employees' contributions and accomplishments can help demonstrate that you value and appreciate their work and can provide continued motivation for meeting and/or exceeding expectations.
Low cost motivator: Send “thank you” notes or emails to express your appreciation and make announcements in newsletters or group meetings to highlight employee achievements.
- Autonomy. Many employees are motivated by having greater control over the way their jobs are accomplished. This can help them to feel more personal responsibility for the outcome of their job and establishes a foundation of trust and respect.
Low cost motivator: Set clear goals and expectations, but be open and flexible on how the results are achieved.
- Teamwork. Some employees are motivated by developing strong working relationships with their co-workers. As an added benefit, camaraderie often results in a more relaxed and comfortable workplace, which can lead to a happier and more productive workforce.
Low cost motivator: Consider assigning more group projects and facilitating group activities and company events.
- Align goals. Employees want to know that their work is valued and that it contributes to the success of the overall business. The company's mission and goals should be clearly communicated to all employees, and employees should know how their job fits in.
Low cost motivator: Tie employee goals and outcomes to overall business objectives.
- Career development. Giving employees opportunities to learn new skills and face new challenges can be an effective motivational tool. Not to mention, career development can be viewed as an investment, since these initiatives can prepare employees for future growth within the company.
Low cost motivator: Consider developing your employees through programs such as mentoring, coaching, job shadowing, and cross-training.
- Open communication. Communicate openly with employees about the company's goals and business results and give employees the opportunity to provide you with feedback.
Low cost motivator: Hold regular staff meetings, implement an employee suggestion program, and conduct employee satisfaction surveys. Caveat: If you invite employee suggestions, make sure you follow-up on them. Try to use as many suggestions as possible and recognize employees when their suggestions are used.
- Flexibility. Flexible work arrangements can help motivate employees by allowing them to balance their work and life responsibilities.
Low cost motivator: Rearrange work schedules for increased work-life balance. Consider telecommuting (i.e. work from home arrangements), compressed workweeks (e.g. four 10-hour work days per week), and flextime (i.e. early arrival or departure).
- Time off. Paid time off serves as another way for employees to meet their work-life demands. It's also important for ensuring your employees have time to relax, avoid burn out, and remain energized throughout the year.
Low cost motivator: Develop a paid time off program that gives your employees a chance to meet personal obligations and recharge. The amount of paid time off is usually based upon years of service.
- Fair workplace. If employees view your policies and practices as unfair, they are unlikely to be motivated. Policies should always be followed consistently, pay practices should reflect workers' contributions, and employees should be valued and respected.
Low cost motivator: Review your policies and procedures to ensure employees are treated fairly and equitably. Additionally, ensure that all supervisors are trained to enforce company policies on a consistent basis.
Motivated employees not only perform at a higher level, but they also tend to be more committed and have lower turnover. Determine what motivates your employees and then develop strategies accordingly.
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How to Make a Selection Decision & Complete New Hire Paperwork
Date: March 6, 2012
Time: 4:00 PM EST
The hiring process culminates with a successful hire. But, to help make the relationship last, it’s important to spend the time orienting and training new employees. This presentation covers: required and recommended new hire paperwork; components of an effective orientation program; and how to start the employment relationship on the right foot.
Exempt vs. Non-Exempt Classifications: Understanding when Overtime is Due
Date: March 13, 2012
Time: 4:00 PM EST
In this presentation, we uncover the differences between exempt and non-exempt employees and how it relates to your minimum wage and overtime obligations.
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Today, southeastern Uzbekistan is marked by dry, mountainous terrain, but hundreds of millions of years ago, this patch of the Earth was the bottom of a shallow sea where bizarre creatures crept across the soft sediment. It was around this time that vertebrate animals—more specifically, the sharp-toothed Ichthyostega—first shuffled out of the water and adopted a land-based lifestyle.
The seafloor sediments have long since hardened and tilted upward as the Turkestan Mountain Range emerged. The rocks now form platy fragments of limestone. Layers just inches thick represent thousands of years of slow seafloor accretion. These layers, one following another, extend for kilometers into the upper reaches of the mountains, cumulatively witnessing roughly 300 million years. Over this time, new animals evolved and were preserved in the gooey sediments, providing modern-day explorers with a unique window back in time.
At the Kitab State Geological Reserve, visitors can see the world’s best-preserved time capsule of this momentous era in the planet’s history. It was first established decades ago as a base camp for the Soviet geologists who did much of the initial work in the area. Nestled in a leafy valley on the banks of a rustling river, the handful of buildings serve as an outpost for visitors and scholars alike. A couple of miles up the dirt road, numbers start to appear on rocks, blue paint markers counting down the eons to the most significant historical moment: the boundary between the Pragian and Emsian stages that occurred 407 million years ago.
Over time, the rocks of Kitab have become a sort of geological holy grail. Geologists travel from around the world to take selfies with this vertical rock wall. Such an extensive, continuous record of the planet’s history is nearly unprecedented, and Kitab even caught the attention of the International Commission on Stratigraphy. The Commission is a group of obsessives that scours the world for the best-preserved rocks that tell Earth’s story. Each segment of deep time is assigned to a “standard section,” where chemical, biological, and geological signals give a rich sense of conditions at the time. If you want to know what things were like 2 million years ago, for example, pack your bags for Sicily; to set your time machine for 66 million years ago, head to Tunisia. Kitab will transport you to a 407 million-year-old Earth.
Back down the road, the research station’s museum reveals the full scope of the rocks’ stories. In glass cabinets, beautifully preserved fossils—snails, corals, and soft-bodied creatures long since extinct—represent a sort of ancient zoo. Colorful geologic maps adorn the walls, the result of decades of painstaking work across the entire region to mark where one layer of rock ends and another begins. The area’s contemporary wildlife is also on display, as full snakes preserved in formaldehyde stretch several feet. | <urn:uuid:a7c38901-47c8-4fec-9b2c-cc9af995e58d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://assets.atlasobscura.com/places/kitab-state-geological-reserve | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573540.20/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819005802-20220819035802-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.936549 | 624 | 3.671875 | 4 |
We here at Titan T-Center & Weight Loss have heard the term “male menopause” tossed around to describe the hormone changes that occur in males as they age. We’re not particular fans of that term, and in this blog, we’re going to tell you the truth behind it.
Age-Related Hormone Changes In Men
In women, once ovulation ends, hormone production plummets over a very short period of time known as ‘menopause.’ Although hormone levels certainly do change as men age, the situation for men is very different from that of women. Men’s hormone production and bioavailability decline gradually over a period of many years (which has been estimated to be 1% a year after age 30) – there is no concentrated drop in the form of a ‘menopause.’
However, for some men, levels can drop below normal for their age group. This is known as low testosterone, or Low Testosterone. The only way to diagnose Low Testosterone is through a blood test, and while some men may show no symptoms, for others, Low Testosterone may cause erectile dysfunction, reduced libido, changes or disturbances in sleep patterns, physical changes like increased body fat or reduced muscle bulk, and emotional changes like decreased motivation or reduced self-confidence.
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Whether personal or business oriented, we’ve all had to face our fair share of problems. Often we think that if we’re in the right position we shouldn’t have to face challenges. This is simply a false notion. We ALL have to face challenges, regardless of our position of season of life. The good news is that problems can actually lead to a positive future. Here are a few reasons why you should embrace the problems in your life.
- Confidence Boosting – There is no better training than experience. When we walk through challenges in our life, we learn to overcome and that build confidence within us. When you endure and overcome challenge, you can better handle similar circumstances in the future. Experience is not something a class or a book can teach you.
- Warning Signs – Just because you experienced success doesn’t mean that you’re immune to future problems. Problems let you know that its time to make some adjustments. You can no longer ride the wave of past success. They tell you how to move forward to achieve another great success.
- Future Success – Without problems, we would have no opportunity for growth. They keep us on our toes and cause us to look beyond ourselves and think outside the box. If you don’t have problems, you’re probably stuck with no real opportunity for an expansive future.
- Wisdom & Understanding – Major lessons are learned through mistakes and challenges. We learn a lot about life and we learn a lot about who we are. This can also translate in how you develop and interact with those around you. You can approach goal setting and team management in a whole new light when you have a background of overcoming the storms of life. | <urn:uuid:5fe44ca2-34f6-466a-af35-7a979640908d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://fullidentity.com/why-you-should-embrace-problems/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571989.67/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813232744-20220814022744-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.950022 | 351 | 1.773438 | 2 |
Sandra, a 31-year-old woman living in Barcelona, has been overweight since childhood. But, as an adult, she developed morbid obesity. "From my 124 kilograms [273 pounds] I managed several times to drop to 100-105 kilograms [220-230 pounds], but I never managed to remain at that weight," she told photographer Alessandro Vincenzi. Ultimately, Sandra decided to undergo gastric bypass surgery — and invited Vincenzi to document her life before, during, and after the procedure. The result is an honest, often melancholy photo series Vincenzi titled Metamorphosis.
Vincenzi, a self-trained documentary photographer also based in Barcelona, first met Sandra while visiting the Hospital del Mar at the recommendation of a friend who worked there as a radiologist. The hospital's obesity program offers gastric bypass surgery to select morbidly obese patients who have already completed a year of nutritional and psychiatric counselling. Patients do not choose to undergo the surgery lightly.
The procedure typically involves dividing the stomach into a small upper section and larger bottom section; then, the small intestine is connected to both sections, restricting the amount of food patients can eat and the calories the body absorbs. "When I asked Sandra why she [chose to have the surgery], she told me that she didn’t want to have health problems in the future and also, she wanted to be accepted by society," Vincenzi writes on his website. Sandra told Vincenzi that she didn't have a "complex" about her looks, but that she feared for her future.
Sandra lost nearly 120 pounds over two years, and now, at 154 pounds, she is "on her way to a new life, though she is still in the process," Vincenzi writes. That process will be lifelong: While recovery from the gastric bypass surgery itself is painful, the regimented schedule of eating many small, nutrient-rich meals each day exacts a greater toll on patients. Still, Sandra "looks at these pictures with a smile," Vincenzi says of his subject's reaction to Metamorphosis.
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Lancaster city officials are one step closer to updating its political lines for the next decade.
The city’s proposed redistricting maps are now ready and will be unveiled during a public hearing July 12 at Lancaster City Hall.
That night, Lancaster City Council will also consider first reading of an ordinance to adopt the maps, which were prepared by the S.C. Revenue and Fiscal Affairs (SCRFA) Office in Columbia.
“Trying to keep neighborhoods of common interest and communities was a priority,” said City Administrator Flip Hutfles.
Hutfles met with The Lancaster News on June 30 to discuss the redistricting plan, which must be in place by Aug. 1.
That is when filing begins for the upcoming nonpartisan City Council elections in November. The seats for Lancaster mayor and city districts 1, 2, 5 are up for reelection in November.
Alston DeVenny is Lancaster mayor. Kenny Hood represents District 1, Tomonica Marsh represents District 2 and Hazel Taylor represents District 5.
“One of the initial proposals basically split Pardue Street in half and that was not going to work,” Hutfles said. “You try to balance the demographic makeup with keeping neighborhoods intact.
“Another goal is to keep your incumbents within the districts they represent. We waited because we did not know who the representative for District 2 was going to be,” he said, noting that Marsh was elected to council in May’s special election.
The redistricting process repeats itself every 10 years requiring the maps to be redrawn to assure “One person, one vote,” as well as meeting federal requirements and court decisions.
The U.S. Constitution, the state constitution and law require South Carolina to redraw the electoral lines so that people have equal representation within various levels of government as populations increase and decline.
This is done to comply with the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment to protect the principle of “one person, one vote.”
The U.S. House districts, as well as the State Senate and House and county council district maps must also be redrawn.
The city of Lancaster did not redraw its voting districts 10 years ago because there was not enough of a population shift to warrant redistricting.
But that has now changed.
The latest census numbers places the city’s population at 8,460, which means the six council districts must be divided close to 1,410 residents per district to assure equal representation. The numbers are based on residents, not voters.
The number of residents can’t deviate more than 10%. The SCRFA recommends a deviation of 5%, or less.
As drawn right now, city Districts 5 and 6 are overpopulated.
By the numbers
Here is the population by city district, according to the 2020 Census, along with the deviation numbers:
• District 1 — 1,128 (under 282 residents, or 20%)
• District 2 — 1,292 (under 118 residents, or 8.37%)
• District 3 — 1,367 (under 43 residents, or 3.05%)
• District 4 — 1,319 (under 91 residents, or 6.45%)
• District 5 — 1,540 (over 130 residents, or 9.22%)
• District 6 — 1,814 (over 404 residents, or 28.65%)
The proposed maps that City Council will consider show the following populations, which comply with the target number of 1,410 residents per district.
• District 1 — 1,407
• District 2 — 1,407
• District 3 — 1,405
• District 4 — 1,406
• District 5 — 1,425
• District 6 — 1,410
Lancaster City Council now has four Blacks in its ranks — Hood, Marsh, Jackie Harris and Octavia Mungo-Jones.
But based on the proposed lines, that number is not guaranteed. The census data now shows the city’s Black population as 49.1%. Whites make up 38.8% and Hispanics make up 8.9% of the city’s population, with other races making up about 3%.
“When you look at the numbers, we are pretty much a split population,” Hutfles said.
While census data shows that current city Districts 5 and 6 are overpopulated, the proposed maps shrink both of those districts down in size.
That in turn, creates a major shift in the political borders of city districts 3 and 4. Harris represents District 3 and Mungo-Jones represents District 4.
Here is a rough overview of the proposed changes:
• District 1 — Represented by Hood, District 1 picks up Cunningham Street, Hampton Road, Sowell Street and Ballard Street along the south side of Chesterfield Avenue. It would be bordered on the east side by Kershaw Street.
• District 2 — Represented by Marsh, District 2 picks up from Willow Oak Road on the east to East Meeting Street on the north side. It also includes Pleasant Hill Street and the eastern side of Moore Street.
• District 3 — Represented by Harris, District 3 takes in the west side of Moore Street and cuts one block over to Pleasant Hill Street. It then extends northward to East Barr. It also goes across North Main Street to include the Normandy Road area near Lancaster High School and much of the Gillsbrook Road corridor to Forest Drive to the north and Plantation Road to the south.
• District 4 — Represented by Jones, District 4 expands northward to East Arch Street to Willow Oak Road and takes in all the homes to North French Street. District 4 would cross the S.C. 9 Bypass, taking in all of Clinton Avenue and a section of the North Park area from Quality Drive to North Main Street.
• District 5 — Represented by Taylor, District 5 would be bordered on the south by Woodland Drive and on the east by North Main Street. It then cuts a westward swath down University Drive to include the Gregwood subdivision. It would border the city limits on the north and west along the northwestern side of the S.C. 9 Bypass along the creek. District 5 also contains a slice of Plantation Road between Sherwood Circle to Gillsbrook Road. All of Myers Circle would shift to District 5 from District 6.
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