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UNC is looking into expanding the Carolina Union, which might just mean rolling out the bulldozers.
Vice Chair for the Carolina Union Board of Directors Neil Harwani said a professional design and architecture firm was brought in to assess potential for expansion, as well as to work with students to poll their interests.
“The new concept right now is that it would be a total demolition of the two union buildings,” he said. “It could take 16-24 months. They looked into expanding on the current building, but the current structure really doesn’t allow us to build up.”
Harwani said the plan for expansion hasn’t been finalized, but assuming the plan passes a student referendum the decision may be made to knock the existing Union down.
He said professionals assessed the current building and determined there was no potential to build extra floors. Without room to build horizontally, the Union has nowhere to go but up.
“So right now we’re still in the education phase,” Harwani said. “Right now all of the specifics of what will actually be in the rooms will all be figured out later on. The process is really feasibility study, student referendum, and then depending on how that goes you move into advanced planning.”
Harwani said the information collected for the study showed that over 80 percent of students support an expansion of the Union, and rank it as a medium to high priority.
“A lot of the work we’ve even doing this semester has been actually going to these student organizations that are active users of the Carolina Union and really talking to them and informing them of the decisions that have been made,” he said. “So far there really haven’t been any specific requests.”
Harwani did say that some of the longstanding student organizations like WXYC and Student Congress will have a guaranteed space in a new Union, and said that other groups that have a usual space right now will likely still have one after any changes.
“So for example student congress does their senate meetings around campus,” he said. “In the new building, they will have a senate room where they can hold their meetings.”
Student Government Treasurer Ben Albert said that new space will be greatly appreciated.
“In the new union there’s going to be a senate chamber which will be really great for the senate,” he said. “Right now they have to go around to different classrooms and it’s kind of all over the place.”
Albert said the proposal had a good chance of passing a student referendum, but also has to get a recommendation from the Student Fees Audit Committee.
He said Student Government currently has all of its needs met by the Union, but would welcome new space to make them more accessible.
“Honestly we are pretty well taken care of now,” he said. “We have plenty of space and some of us even have offices. I mean a fridge would be nice.”
Sophomore Journalism major Isabella Hernandez said the Union is her choice study spot, beating out the ever-crowded Davis Library.
“I actually come here a lot,” she said. “There’s food here, and I don’t know, it’s just very airy compared to the library which always seems so dead.”
Hernandez said she loves the high ceilings and quiet white noise in the Union because it keeps her in touch with what’s going on at UNC.
“It’s a really great hub,” she said. “If I go to the library there’s not going to be that many people, but when I’m here it’s nice to see new faces. It gives you a chance to actually socialize while your studying, which for me at least is a good way to stay connected with university life instead of just getting absorbed in my books.”
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The drill chuck is clamped and locked with a single hand movement. The radial locking device prevents the unintentional release of the drill bit during counter-clockwise rotation. Impact resistance is a standard at Röhm. That means these quick-action chucks are predestined for use on hand-operated drills, not least due to their weight-reduced design.
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Bailiff enforcement and vulnerability is a vitally important subject. If you or anyone you know, is vulnerable and facing bailiff enforcement, this page should be of assistance. The enforcement regulations provide some protection from bailiff action for those who are genuinely vulnerable. However, such protection is only possible if the enforcement company are made aware of any vulnerability at the earliest possible stage.
How do I know if I am considered vulnerable?
Vulnerability, for ‘enforcement’ purposes is very difficult to define. For example, being disabled does not necessarily mean that you will be excluded from bailiff enforcement. Some people may be constantly vulnerable (due to permanent lack of mental capacity or very severe disability etc). Others may be temporarily vulnerable (for example, through suffering mental illness for a short period of time, bereavement, pregnancy, unemployment etc). Each case is unique and will be looked at individually by the enforcement company or bailiff.
By and large, when it comes to bailiff enforcement, vulnerability is usually reserved for extreme cases. An example could be where your medical condition could worsen if a bailiff were to visit you or where you are unable to manage your own affairs etc.
The Taking Control of Goods National Standards 2014
Although the National Standards are not legally binding, they are nonetheless a very helpful tool for the enforcement industry and creditors alike. On the difficult subject of vulnerability, they provide that the following groups might be considered vulnerable:
- The elderly
- People with a disability
- The seriously ill
- The recently bereaved
- Single parent families
- Pregnant women
- Unemployed people
- Those who have difficulty in understanding, speaking or reading English
I am vulnerable…can a bailiff seize my vehicle?
A vehicle that is used for transportation needs of a disabled person will be exempt from seizure as long as it is displaying a valid blue disability badge. If the blue badge is not displayed….the vehicle can be seized.
Bailiff fees and vulnerability
If you are vulnerable, further protection is provided under Regulation 12 of the Taking Control of Goods (Fees) Regulations 2014. If an enforcement agent visits your property and is satisfied that you are vulnerable, he should not remove any goods. Instead, he must give you an opportunity to seek advice from a debt advice agency/charity etc. If he fails to do so, he cannot charge the enforcement fee of £235.
It is important to stress here that even if the bailiff is satisfied that you are vulnerable, he is still able to request payment from you. What he cant do, is to remove your goods without giving you an opportunity to seek advice as outlined above.
Do I have to provide any evidence that I may be vulnerable?
In the first instance, it is vitally important to contact the enforcement agency at the earliest opportunity (preferably on receipt of the Notice of Enforcement). By doing so, you will likely avoid a personal visit being made. Initial contact should be made by telephone and a brief outline of your personal circumstances should be given to the operator. You will be advised what documentary evidence they require. It is usual for a letter from your doctor or specialist to be requested. A letter from the DWP confirming an award of Disability Living Allowance/Carers Allowance/PiP/ESA may also be necessary.
Local Government Ombudsman’s decisions about vulnerability and bailiff enforcement.
Since the Taking Control of Goods Regulations was introduced in 2014, there have been some very important decisions made by the Ombudsman regarding bailiff enforcement and vulnerability. Details of these decisions can be accessed here.
Bailiff enforcement and vulnerable households.
If you are vulnerable, please do not be tempted to download template letters from internet sites. In particular, please don’t be tempted to send a template letter to claim that you are from a vulnerable household. If there is serious disability in the family, whilst this does not exclude the bailiff from taking enforcement action, it is important to bring such instances to the enforcement agencies attention. This may affect the approach made by the enforcement agent and possibly lead to the debt being managed in-house by the enforcement company’s Welfare Department.
Given the importance of vulnerability to the enforcement industry (and their local authority clients) most companies have dedicated Welfare Departments with specialty trained staff. Once vulnerability has been identified, the account will usually be managed in-house. A personal visit from a bailiff will be avoided.
Commentary from Bailiff Advice Online
If you are vulnerable and worried about a bailiff visit or have contacted the enforcement company or bailiff and are having difficulty getting the company to accept that you are genuinely vulnerable, then please do not hesitate to contact us. You can email a question to us in confidence using our online Enquiry Form. Alternatively, you can contact us by phone. Details can be found on our Contact page. | <urn:uuid:0646e190-7221-417f-970a-9356041b07dd> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://bailiffadviceonline.co.uk/latest-news/bailiff-enforcement-and-vulnerability | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570879.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809003642-20220809033642-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.941846 | 1,004 | 1.914063 | 2 |
An Australian former minister, widely criticised by environmentalists, has made it to the final two contenders to lead the Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD).
Mathias Cormann, who opposed climate pricing, renewable energy targets and a green bank in government, will run off against Swedish candidate Cecilia Malmström, after the Greek candidate dropped out.
Cormann’s record on climate change is seen as the biggest barrier to his selection. His campaign has fought back against criticism and he has pledged to address climate change if selected.
“On the critical issue of taking ambitious and effective action on climate change, it is essential that the OECD provide global leadership,” he wrote in a statement published on LinkedIn on Tuesday. “Achieving global net-zero emissions by 2050 requires an urgent and major international effort.”
The leader of the Australian Green Party has written to OECD members, urging them not to choose Cormann.
Adam Bandt said: “Unfortunately, Mr Cormann’s record on climate change has been to block action at every turn during his years as a senior minister in the Australian government”.
Mathias Cormann is a bad choice to lead OECD. He’s a climate inactivist of the sort discussed in The #NewClimateWar: Talks a good climate game, but doesn’t support real action. I will be greatly disappointed if @JoeBiden administration gets behind him.https://t.co/Pn1E52sEnO
— Michael E. Mann (@MichaelEMann) February 20, 2021
According to Lowy Institute analyst Daniel Runde, the US is likely to back Cormann due to aligned positions on issues like digital taxes and expanding membership.
Australian prime minister Scott Morrison raised the issue in a congratulatory phone call to US president Joe Biden on his election victory. Cormann has chartered an Australian Air Force jet for his campaign, to meet ministers and diplomats in person.
Most European nations are expected to back former EU trade commissioner Malmström, but her outspokenness on corruption and governance issues has made her unpopular with some countries. The majority of OECD member states are European and it has been 25 years since a European held the Paris-based post.
Malmström would be the first female head of the OECD if elected. Her platform is based around international cooperation, a green recovery from the coronavirus pandemic and inclusive development. “The OECD, with its extensive expertise, can play a key role in providing its member countries with the evidence-based analysis necessary for policies for a sustainable future,” she said.
A formal decision is due by 1 April.
It clearly should be Cecilia Malmstrom over Mathias Cormann for #OECD! Because he is so much anti-climate. Because it would be a progressive signal if the very qualified woman would get the job. Because she can stand up to China just as well as him. https://t.co/mKVZrkE37Q
— Reinhard Bütikofer (@bueti) March 2, 2021
Cormann was Australia’s finance minister between 2013 and October 2020, when he resigned to campaign for the OECD role. He served under successive center-right prime ministers Tony Abbott, Malcom Turnbull and Scott Morrison.
In 2018, he was instrumental in securing the replacement of Malcom Turnbull with Scott Morrison, in an ouster driven by opposition to an emissions-cutting policy for the power sector.
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In 2019, six years into Cormann’s stint as a finance minister, the OECD criticised the country’s reliance on coal and said “Australia needs to intensify efforts to meet its 2030 emisions goal”.
Their statement noted Australia is “one of the few [OECD countries] where greenhouse gas emissions (excluding land use change and forestry) have risen in the past decade”.
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ACI Operations Certificate
A well-trained and efficiently organized Treasury Operations department is essential to every financial institution. It provides a vital service to the Front Office by ensuring that all funds flow in a timely and correct manner and that all the necessary documentation is completed. Taking the wider job function of operations staff into consideration, this examination has been designed to provide a benchmark for competency in all aspects of the operations and settlement processes.
KEY COURSE OUTCOMESIt aims to test candidates' knowledge of:
- The underlying instruments involved in the international financial markets
- The processes for efficient settlements
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Aquidneck Island’s Waters Under Tremendous Pressure
August 24, 2018
AQUIDNECK ISLAND, R.I. — The ponds, rivers, brooks, and streams that supply the Newport Water Division and its nearly 15,000 service connections with drinking water and the island’s popular beaches are relentlessly stressed by contaminated stormwater runoff. The problem isn’t going away.
Ongoing projects of various shapes, sizes, and costs — from removing asphalt and installing rain gardens to upgraded water-treatment facilities and a $6 million ultraviolet treatment plant — have helped and are helping to lessen the impact of polluted water rushing off Aquidneck Island’s roads, roofs, parking lots, and lawns.
But in the 20 years since Rhode Island’s list of impaired waters was first published, the same local water bodies are routinely listed and beach closures remain a part of the island’s summer adventures.
The state’s most recent impaired waters report, released in March, again notes that Bailey Brook, Maidford River, and Paradise Brook, all tributaries to Newport Water reservoirs, have impairments caused by phosphorus and/or turbidity, and “are sources of nutrients to the drinking water supply reservoirs.”
In fact, seven of the nine water bodies listed in the report as high priorities for total maximum daily load (TMDL) development are on Aquidneck Island. All nine are sources for the island’s public drinking-water supply. All nine are contaminated. TMDL is a regulatory term in the Clean Water Act, describing a plan for restoring impaired waters that identifies the maximum amount of a pollutant that a body of water can receive while still meeting water-quality standards.
Aquidneck Island’s stormwater runoff is polluted by phosphorus- and nitrogen-containing fertilizers used in agricultural operations and on golf courses and lawns. Stormwater — also called nonpoint source pollution because it comes from a variety of culprits — includes human and animal contaminants, oil, grease, and other sediment from streets and parking lots, bacteria from pet and wildlife waste, litter, and anything else that washes into storm drains.
Stormwater also causes combined sewer overflows (CSO), when a sewer system gets overwhelmed by stormwater during heavy rains and is forced to discharge untreated sewage, along with stormwater, into local waters, such as Narragansett Bay.
In Newport, the system overflows into Newport Harbor when it’s overwhelmed, at two locations: the Wellington Avenue CSO facility outfall, northeast of Ida Lewis Rock; and the Washington Street CSO facility outfall, east of the north end of Goat Island.
The city’s CSO problem is aggravated by illegal hookups of catch basins, roof drains, and sump pumps that are connected to the sewer system rather than a storm-drain system or allowed to discharge into the ground.
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in 1994 established the Combined Sewage Overflow Control Policy to expedite compliance with the requirements of the Clean Water Act.
The island’s three municipalities — Newport, Middletown and Portsmouth — have violated the Clean Water Act and the state version of the federal statutes. They are hardly alone, which is why the Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management (DEM) and the EPA have set standards that limit CSO discharges into Narragansett Bay.
Aquidneck Island’s water bodies are also stressed by substandard septic systems and outdated cesspools.
In Portsmouth, a 2014 agreement between the town and DEM required all property owners to have their septic systems inspected. Systems that failed had to be replaced. Cesspools have to be replaced by 2025, and those within 50 feet of a storm drain must be gone by 2020.
The water coming out of the taps of Newport Water Division customers is safe to drink, thanks to upgraded water-treatment facilities and constant monitoring, but the untreated water coming from the system’s nine surface reservoirs — North and South Easton ponds (Middletown and Newport), Gardiner Pond (Middletown), Nelson Paradise Pond (Middletown), St. Mary’s Pond (Portsmouth), Sisson Pond (Portsmouth), the Lawton Valley Reservoir (Portsmouth), Nonquit Pond (Tiverton), and Watson Reservoir (Little Compton) — is contaminated, largely by elevated levels of phosphorus.
The poor quality of this raw water has created challenges in providing drinking water that meets federal and state standards on a reliable basis. Among the measures taken to keep ahead of the problem was the construction of new treatment facilities in 2014. But the quality of the untreated water that necessitated these expensive improvements hasn’t changed, according to DEM.
The state agency has noted that the nine reservoirs are nutrient-enriched and experience frequent algal and cyanobacteria blooms, “which impact the reservoirs’ use for drinking water purposes and their ecosystem health.”
Six of the nine reservoirs — North Easton Pond, Gardiner Pond, Nelson Paradise Pond, St. Mary’s Pond, Sisson Pond, and the Lawton Valley Reservoir — have been listed as impaired in seven of the 10 state water reports published since 1998.
Bailey Brook, Maidford River, and Paradise Brook, tributaries to Newport Water sources, are currently listed as impaired. Both Bailey Brook and Maidford River have been listed as impaired since 1998. Paradise Brook has been listed as impaired in six of the 10 reports.
The most recent report, for 2016, notes that Bailey Brook doesn’t support fish and wildlife habitat because of lead and phosphorous contamination, and recreation contact isn’t advised because of the presence of enterococcus, a type of bacteria found in the intestines of warm-blooded animals that indicates the presence of raw sewage.
The Bailey Brook watershed, which feeds North and South Easton ponds, features about 20 percent commercial land use. As a result, this area produces heavy loads of contaminated runoff.
The Maidford River also doesn’t support fish and wildlife habitat because of lead and phosphorous contamination and turbidity, according to the 2016 report released in March. The presence of fecal coliform makes the river unsafe for recreational activities.
Phosphorous contamination and turbidity in Paradise Brook don’t support fish and wildlife habitat, and fecal coliform makes the brook unsafe for recreational activities.
The discharge of raw sewage into Narragansett Bay during CSO events and polluted stormwater runoff adversely impact some of Aquidneck Island’s most important economic features: its beaches.
The Rhode Island standard for enterococci is a maximum of 60 colony forming units (cfu) per 100 milliliters in both fresh and saltwater beaches. Prior to 2015, the standard was 104 cfu per 100 milliliters for marine beaches. The water at Rhode Island public beaches is sampled during the summer season, Memorial Day through Labor Day.
On June 7 2006, after heavy rains, Atlantic Beach in Middletown and Easton’s Beach in Newport were closed after both beaches were found to have 24,192 cfu per 100 milliliters. The beaches remained closed for four days.
The $6 million Easton Beach UV Stormwater Disinfection System, across Memorial Boulevard from the adjacent beaches, began operating in May 2011. The treatment has dramatically reduced the number of days Atlantic Beach and Easton’s Beach have been closed to swimming.
Neither beach has been closed to swimming this summer. Easton’s Beach was last closed, for three days, in early September 2015. Atlantic Beach was last closed on July 8, 2015.
Just three Aquidneck Island beaches have been closed this summer: Peabody’s Beach in Middletown for three days in early July; Third Beach in Middletown for five days in mid-August; and Sandy Point Beach in Portsmouth for several days this month.
Two of those beaches, Peabody’s Beach and Third Beach, were among the 14 marine beaches on Narragansett Bay classified as “High Concern” last year in a report done by the Narragansett Bay Estuary Program.
Last summer, six Aquidneck Island beaches — Peabody’s Beach, Third Beach, Sandy Point Beach, King Park (Newport), Spouting Rock Beach (Newport), and Hazard’s Beach (Newport) — were closed for a total of 14 days.
The sources for Newport Water and the island’s popular beaches are in highly developed watersheds that feature roads, rooftops, parking lots, concrete, and other impervious surfaces that prevent water from seeping into the ground and recharging groundwater levels and instead rush pollutants into local waterways.
To help address this flow of contaminated runoff, Newport Water has bought some 350 acres of conservation easements that serve as natural buffers in protecting the system’s nine surface reservoirs. But with impervious surfaces covering 30 percent of Newport, 18 percent of Middletown, and 13 percent of Portsmouth, the island’s dwindling collection of natural buffers is under siege.
When impervious surface coverage surpasses 10 percent, the impacts of stormwater runoff on pollution and flooding begin to increase. When this coverage eclipses 25 percent, water-quality impacts can be so severe that it may not be possible to restore water quality to preexisting conditions, according to a 2010 DEM report.
Nearly 50 percent of the total area of Aquidneck Island (28,605 acres) could be considered already disturbed by residential, commercial, and industrial development, infrastructure, and other manmade stuff.
Besides expensive upgrades to water-treatment facilities or building multimillion-dollar UV systems, there are many things municipal government, local businesses, and Aquidneck Island residents can do to limit pollution from stormwater runoff.
In fact, many runoff remedies, big and small, have already been put into practice in Newport, Middletown, and Portsmouth. Here is a look at what can be done, courtesy of the Rhode Island Department of Health, the University of Rhode Island Cooperative Extension’s NEMO program, and Newport Water:
Homeowners: Maintain wooded buffers or restore natural vegetation along wetlands or waterways that run through your property; reduce fertilizer and pesticide use; limit watering; have your septic system regularly inspected and maintained; install rain barrels to collect rainwater from your gutters.
Municipalities: Use zoning setbacks for maximum protection of small headwater
streams and wetlands; set targets for maximum impervious cover at current levels or no more than 10 percent in less developed areas; develop standards for redevelopment and infill to limit impervious cover, retrofit stormwater systems, and restore wetland buffers; inspect and maintain sewers to prevent leakage and infiltration.
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The quiet history of how ASU shaped the civil rights movement
It’s hard, maybe impossible, to identify an iconic moment in civil rights history that doesn’t somehow have a tie to Alabama State University. Like a thumbprint invisible to the naked eye, the university left its mark on each protest, march and sit-in that happened during the civil rights movement.
Those marks aren’t always obvious from the outset. It's the student wearing an Alabama State shirt, linked arms with a row of people that includes The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. as they move forward in the Selma-to-Montgomery march. It's Fred Gray, a famed civil rights attorney and Alabama State graduate, quietly taking notes in the background of a congressional hearing related to civil rights.
It’s only upon closer examination that the institution’s influence upon civil rights can be understood, and the way the university celebrates that history realized.
The university’s roots travel back, at least, to the 1940s when F.D. Reese was getting his undergraduate degree in science from what at the time was known as Alabama State College for Negroes.
“Of course, we would always be connected with the science building, and always in that building were people who were connected to the civil rights movement. That was the reason I was so concerned about the movement, being close to those persons who were connected (with the civil rights movement) in the science department,” Reese recalled.
His professors were always asking students what their stance on civil rights issues were, pushing them to form opinions about what they were experiencing.
Reese went on to become a leader in the movement, and is known for inviting King to come help with Selma’s voting rights efforts.
“We felt the need for Selma and Dallas County to have the leadership of Dr. King. My responsibility as the president of the Dallas County Voters league was to invite him to come to Selma and to assist us in our quest for the right to vote. I did that and I guess the rest is history now,” said Reese, a 1951 graduate.
In the 1950s, professor Jo Ann Robinson used the university’s mimeograph machine to run off thousands of fliers letting people know to stay off the buses on the day of Rosa Parks’ trial, triggering the historic boycott.
People like Vera Harris, who later graduated from Alabama State, helped pass the fliers out on campus, putting the words of the movement in as many hands as she could. Harris and her husband later opened up their home to the 1961 Freedom Riders who underwent severe beating when they arrived in Montgomery.
In the days leading up to the Montgomery Bus Boycott, Gray sat in Robinson’s living room and planned for what would happen after the boycott started.
Gray and Robinson talked about how to get Rosa Parks exonerated, how to get the laws that allowed for her arrest declared unconstitutional and how to get the community involved in a boycott.
They knew they needed to plan a meeting with local ministers about getting congregations involved if they wanted to mobilize the masses.
“Jo Ann said, ‘Well, when we get through with the meeting I’m going to prepare a leaflet. This leaflet is going to say: Another black woman has been arrested,’” Gray recalled. “Then we said if we’re going to do that than we’re going to need a spokesman, and she said that her pastor would be a good spokesman.”
Robinson then pulled in her pastor, King, to help organize the boycott.
Gray would go on to successfully litigate Parks’ case, and a host of other historic cases that desegregated the South, including filing a federal lawsuit that forced state officials to allow the Selma-to-Montgomery march to take place.
And before the Selma-to-Montgomery marchers arrived in Montgomery, Alabama State student Richard Boone rallied roughly 800 students to meet them before they arrived at St. Jude, and complete the final leg of the march to the Capitol.
Five years before that historic march when ASU students organized a sit-in at Montgomery County Courthouse, Gray filed federal lawsuits that shaped not only desegregation, but paved the way for college students to be afforded due process rights as well as strengthened libel laws.
Gray, now 86 and still practicing law, recently sat in his Tuskegee law office and summarized the role his alma mater played in the civil rights movement.
“To make a long story short, Alabama State has been involved in all of the civil rights activities that have come out of central Alabama,” said Gray, who is also a 1951 graduate from Alabama State.
But decades after the Voting Rights Act passed, after federal courts ordered schools to be desegregated and after blacks were legally allowed to sit next to whites on buses, discrimination still plagued ASU.
The university became party to a federal suit filed in 1981 alleging that the state’s property tax system were originally enacted to discriminate against blacks, causing the university to lose out on funding and forcing them to raise tuition.
After at least 14 years of litigation, U.S. District Judge Harold Murphy sided with the plaintiffs, finding that the state’s policies violated the Constitution, and ordered a litany of changes to these policies.
The legal battle fought and won on behalf of students calls to mind Reese’s mentality while he was fighting for civil rights on ASU’s campus.
“We wanted to make sure that skin color would not determine the way a person would be treated,” Reese said. “And we were willing to give whatever necessary to do away with discrimination based on the color of a person’s skin.”
And though this history, both recent and decades-old, has been heavily celebrated by ASU, the university has lately taken a more organic approach to commemorating its roots.
“I suppose what we try to do around here is to make Black History Month longer than a month. It’s elongated. It’s not difficult to do on our campus because our campus was sort of the crucible of black history,” said Derryn Moten, department chair of history and political science at ASU.
Remembering black history is now more of a culture than it is an event.
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We can all collectively say, I told you so.
In what has been interpreted as a signal of the crackdown following the Obama administration’s Iran nuclear deal, the Iranian government has arrested an Iranian-American businessman who was visiting family in Tehran.
Siamak Namazi, the man arrested, was living in Dubai as the head of strategic planning at an energy company. According to reports, he is in his late 40s and was arrested by the Revolutionary Guards Corps two weeks ago.
This makes the fourth American known to be imprisoned in Iran, but more importantly, his arrest signaled a new discord in the relationship between Tehran and the West following the nuclear pact.
A fifth American went missing back in 2007 and it is believed that Iran has knowledge of his whereabouts.
Namazi’s arrest also pointed to the ongoing friction between Iran’s hard-liners and President Hassan Rouhani, who has been pushing reforms.
The nuclear deal lifts the international sanctions on Iran’s oil and financial sectors in exchange for limits on its nuclear program, but the arrest is likely to send a warning to anyone in the business community looking to exploit the new opportunities that have come about because of it.
Namazi, whose family came to America when he was a boy in 1983, according to The Washington Post, was a proponent of a greater engagement between the United States and Iran. In 2013 he wrote an op-ed for the New York Times that urged countries to relax their restrictions so that life-saving medical supplies could be sent into Iran.
According to The Wall Street Journal, Namazi’s family home in Tehran was ransacked by Iranian intelligence officials who took his computer and have been following the contacts in his email, exposing them to cyberattacks.
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The global unsaturated polyester resin (UPR) market size was USD 11,579.6 million in 2019 and is projected to reach USD 16,965.7 million by 2027, exhibiting a CAGR of 5.9% during the forecast period.
Unsaturated polyester resin is a linear polymer compound with an unsaturated double bond and ester bond. It is formed by the condensation polymerization of saturated dihydric acid dihydric alcohol or unsaturated dihydric acid dihydric alcohol. This material is a printable liquid polymer that keeps the solid shape from the mold when cured with styrene. When combined with fiberglass, it can showcase properties such as strength and durability. It also has applications for opaque paneling, aircraft ductwork, and providing an aesthetic appeal.
The rising demand for this product can be associated with the growth in the construction industry, where it is used for wood paints, flat laminated panels, ribbed panels, artificial cement, and bathroom fixers. Moreover, this product also finds applications in frames, ducts and pipes, panels, interior and exterior components of vehicles, boats, and airplanes. Hence, the expansion of the automotive, marine, and aircraft industries will propel the unsaturated polyester resin market.
Temporary Halt in Manufacturing Activities amid the COVID-19 Outbreak to Affect Growth
The coronavirus pandemic has significantly affected several industries all over the globe resulting in the temporary halt of manufacturing and trade activities. These industries include automotive, and building & construction. The lockdown has led to a shortage of raw material, which, in turn, has caused a halt in manufacturing activities in these industries. It is further leading to a decline in the product demand. This has surged the pricing of raw materials and finished products as a mode to generate enough revenue for manufacturers. Moreover, the normalization after the COVID-19 period is expected to benefit manufacturing industries such as automotive, marine, and aerospace to help in the revenue generation, which, in turn, would support the UPR market growth.
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High Demand for UPR from Several End-use Industries to Provide Growth Opportunities
The growing demand for UPR from several end-use industries such as automotive, aerospace, electrical & electronics, and marine is positively affecting the key market growth. This product is used for printed wiring boards, pipes and ducts, and panels. This product is also used as a composite material for making vehicle structures and boats in the automotive and marine industries. As composite materials made from this material are low-cost and lightweight, this acts as an ideal product to be used in these industries, thus resulting in the high demand for unsaturated polyester resin.
Moreover, this material is used in electronics & electrical applications due to its beneficial properties such as corrosion resistance, insulation, flexibility, strength, and durability. These properties make this product a high demanding material for the manufacturing of microwave antennas, wiring boards, and electrical insulation devices. At the same time, the increasing demand for applications in end-use industries such as wind, aerospace, and pipes & tanks is further set to support the product consumption.
Increasing Demand for Unsaturated Polyester Resin from Building & Construction Industry to Aid Growth
This product is majorly utilized in the building & construction industry for the manufacturing of products such as window panels, roof tiles, floor tiles, and bathroom fixtures. The use of this product offers excellent surface finish, water repellency, resistance to wear, rigidity, and good electrical insulation. Hence, the increasing demand from the building & construction industry acts as a key driving factor for the UPR market. Growing construction activities around the globe to meet the high demand from the rising population is leading to the high consumption of this product. Besides, the expansion of government infrastructures and housing projects in developing regions is driving the building & construction industry, which is further anticipated to propel the UPR market. Moreover, the rising urban population and renovation activities due to the growing disposable incomes of consumers are further driving the demand for this product.
Availability of Substitutes May Hinder the Market Growth
This product has seen a major demand growth from various end-use industries. However, this has led to the development and introduction of substitutes in the market. These substitutes include epoxy resin and nylon, thus leading to consumers shifting towards cheaper and easily available resin raw material that acts as a restraining factor for the market growth rate. Moreover, governmental regulations over the protection of the environment and limiting the use of non-renewable resources as an act towards conservation is further hindering the market growth in the process. Additionally, the temporary shutdown of production units due to the COVID-19 pandemic is also a restraining factor as it is creating a demand and supply gap.
Orthophthalic Segment to Hold Major Share in the Market during the Forecast Period
On the basis of type, the market is segmented into orthophthalic, isophthalic, and DCPD. The orthophthalic segment dominated the market due to more benefitting properties such as toughness, durability, chemical, and thermal resistance. These properties prove to be advantageous in the automotive, marine, and construction industries, which have led to the high consumption of this product. This material is used in various applications such as boat decks, fishing poles, lamination, castings, gel coats, and polymer concrete in the above-mentioned industries. The expansion of the automotive, marine and aerospace end-use industries would support the market growth.
The isophthalic segment is expected to experience significant growth during the forecast period due to the increasing demand for fiberglass. The isophthalic UPR offers properties such as higher-grade, better flexibility, strength, and chemical resistance. These properties make it an ideal type to be used for fiberglass applications in the transportation industry. DCPD is used for composite materials, body panels, closure panels, boat hull fenders, and decks in the marine and transportation industries. They are also used for coatings and adhesive applications.
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Building & Construction Segment to Lead Backed by High Demand from the Housing Sector
On the basis of application, the market is segmented into building & construction, marine, pipes & tanks, electrical & electronics, land transportation, wind energy, and others. The building & construction segment dominated the market due to the high demand from the housing sector as a result of the population growth. This material is used for roof panels, tiles, bathroom fixers, coatings, insulation, wiring, and others. The demand for this product can be associated with the growth of the building & construction industry in developing regions.
The marine segment is expected to show substantial growth during the forecast period due to the rapid use of this product in marine applications such as boat decks, interior & exterior parts, fiberglass panels, and surfer boards. The wind segment is also anticipated to have the fastest growth due to the increasing demand for energy from various sectors. Composite materials made from this product are used in the manufacturing of wind blades at lower prices. Moreover, the growing prices of fossil-based fuels are resulting in the shift towards more effective energy generation sources.
In the electrical & electronics segment, this product is used for electrical and thermal insulation, wiring boards, and printed circuit boards on account of various properties such as durability and flexibility. Moreover, fiberglass made from this product is used for the manufacturing of pipes and tanks for industrial applications. The rising demand for applications in the pipes & tanks and electrical & electronics segment is further expected to support the overall market growth.
Asia Pacific Unsaturated Polyester Resin Market Size, 2019 (USD Million)
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Asia Pacific dominated the unsaturated polyester resin market in terms of volume and is estimated to have a value of USD 6,606.2 million in 2019. The dominance of the region can be attributed to the increasing demand for this product from several industries such as automotive and aerospace. The economic development within numerous countries such as China, India, and Japan is leading to significant demand for composite material made from this product in household and institutional applications. It is expected to drive the market during the forecast period.
North America is estimated to have a significant share in the global market, which can be associated with the growing technological advancement and disposable income in the region. The growing demand for this material from the construction industry for renovation is a leading factor responsible for the market growth. This, along with rising trade activities, such as exports of end products made from this material from the region, would drive this market.
Europe is expected to show substantial market growth during the forecast period. This growth can be attributed to the high demand for this material from applications in the automotive industry. Germany is one of the major countries in terms of the production and consumption of automobiles and is anticipated to increase the demand for this product. The expansion of the automotive industry in the region would also lead to market growth.
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Latin America and the Middle East & Africa are expected to have gradual growth during the forecast period. In Latin America, Brazil is anticipated to show growth due to rapid urbanization along with the increasing disposable income. Furthermore, the Middle East & Africa is a major hub for mining. At the same time, raw materials are available easily and at lower prices for manufacturers in the region. This reduces the total production cost of the product. Moreover, the growing economy and population within the region would further surge the market.
Joint Ventures and Capacity Expansion are the Key Strategies Implemented by Companies
Key players operating in the industry are Reichold, Royal DSM, Deltech, Polynt, Dow, BASF SE, and INEOS. Companies are adopting strategies such as distribution enhancement, new product development, acquisition, collaboration, and mergers to gain a competitive edge in the global market. For example, Reichold is one of the key players that provide a wide range of unsaturated polyester resins and saturated polyester resins for various applications. Deltech is also a major player that offers an extensive range of resins primarily based on unsaturated polyester and alkyd chemistry. The company has a production capacity of 20-ton batches of resin.
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The market research report provides a detailed analysis of the market and focuses on crucial aspects such as leading companies, types, and applications. Also, it offers insights into market trends and highlights vital industry developments. In addition to the factors mentioned above, the report encompasses various factors that have contributed to the growth of the market over recent years.
Volume (Kiloton); Value (USD Million)
By Type, By Application, and By Region
Fortune Business Insights says that the global market size was USD 11,579.6 million in 2019 and is projected to reach USD 16,965.7 million by 2027.
In 2019, the market value stood at USD 11,579.6 million.
Registering a CAGR of 5.9%, the market will exhibit steady growth in the forecast period (2020-2027).
The building & construction segment is expected to lead this market during the forecast period.
The increasing demand for unsaturated polyester resin for roofing, flooring, coatings, and fiberglass applications is the key factor driving the market growth.
Reichold, Royal DSM, Deltech, Polynt, Dow, BASF SE, and INEOS are the leading players in the market.
Asia Pacific held the highest share in the market.
The high demand for composite materials from various end-use industries and technological innovations are expected to drive the adoption of these products.
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Africa’s travel and tourism sector is the second fastest growing in the world behind the Asia Pacific region, the Jumia Hospitality Report 2019 Africa has revealed.
According to the report, the third of its kind, the continent’s tourism sector grew by a rate of 5.6 percent in 2018 against a 3.9 percent global average growth rate. The report similarly revealed that the continent was visited by 67 million international tourists in the period under review up from 63 million in 2017. The seven percent increase has been credited to the affordability and ease of travel within the continent with spending among domestic travellers accounting for 56 percent as compared to 44 percent international expenditure.
According to Estelle Verdier – Jumia’s Head of Travel- enactment of the African Continental Free Trade Area (ACFTA) agreement will further enhance domestic tourism.
“To realize the full potential gains will require cooperation from all industry players. Governments have to be willing to eliminate visa requirements for African nationals traveling to their countries. Ministries and other responsible partner organizations should create campaigns that will promote their local travel destinations and tourism offerings to attract more regional travellers. At Jumia, we will continue to offer diversified products at affordable prices including resident rates for regional travelers booking through our platform,” Ms. Verdier said during the official release of the annual report at the Africa Hotel Investment Forum (AHIF) in Addis Ababa, ahead of the 2019 World Tourism Day.
The report also revealed that Africa’s passenger traffic increased from 88.5 million in 2017 to 92 million in 2018. Despite the 5.5 percent increase in passenger traffic, the continent’s share of tourists worldwide dropped marginally to 2.1 percent up from 2.2 percent in 2017. This was attributed to increased competition from regions such as Asia Pacific. Africa’s share is however predicted to grow by 4.9 percent annually over the next 20 years. | <urn:uuid:9fd6d257-03b6-4386-86e7-980a702fab3d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://news.callapr.co.ke/africatourismgrowthsecondglobally/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570692.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20220807181008-20220807211008-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.947307 | 397 | 1.773438 | 2 |
Monitoring brain activity during transcranial electric stimulation (tES) is an attractive approach for causally studying healthy and diseased brain activity. Yet, stimulation artifacts complicate electrophysiological recordings during tES. Design and evaluation of artifact removal methods require a through characterization of artifact features, i.e. characterization of the transfer function that defines the relationship between the tES stimulation current and tES artifacts. Here we characterize the phase relationship between stimulation current and tES artifacts in EEG and MEG. We show that stimulation artifacts are not pure in-phase or anti-phase signals, but that non-linear mechanisms induce steady phase deflections relative to the stimulation current. Furthermore, phase deflections of stimulation artifacts are slightly modulated by each heartbeat and respiration. For commonly used stimulation amplitudes, artifact phase deflections correspond to signals several times bigger than normal brain signal. Moreover, the strength of phase deflections varies with stimulation frequency. These phase effects should be accounted for during artifact removal and when comparing recordings with different stimulation frequencies. We summarize our findings in a mathematical model of tES artifacts and discuss how this model can be used in simulations to design and evaluate artifact rejection techniques. To facilitate this research, all raw data of this study is made freely available.
Keywords: EEG; MEG; Neural entrainment; Stimulation artifacts; Transcranial alternating current stimulation (tACS); Transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS); Transcranial electric stimulation (tES).
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Early 2017 update: A recent Atlassian study shows that the average office worker may be attending up to 62 hour-long meetings each month, half of which are considered useless. That’s roughly 31 wasted hours/person/month. So make sure you factor those hours in when going through the exercise below.
Original post from 2016:
The average meeting cost varies from company to company - factors like median salary, monthly rent, equipment and other hidden bills all play their part in driving a meeting’s costs higher and higher. But for the sake of this exercise, let’s only focus on personnel costs. It’s easier this way. Next, let us assume that a meeting is comprised of only 3 people working for the company, each earning a yearly wage of $25.000 (pre-taxes).
A normal meeting lasts about one hour, and since we have 3 staff members in the same meeting, the company has to pay for 3 hours of their time. At $25.000/year, 1 hour equals $24 - so the company must spend $72 for the meeting to take place (and that’s ruling out any other costs).
What do you care, your business model depends on meetings happening?
Actually, it doesn’t. Just like your project management tools don’t (or shouldn’t) depend on how many tasks you have to go through.
YAROOMS, despite being a meeting room booking system, depends on one thing - our clients conducting productive meetings. We charge very little per meeting (~$0.33) precisely because they tend to be so expensive.
Three things you can do to make the most out of your meetings
1. Hit Send
Big tech companies like LinkedIn have shaved hours off their meetings’ time with a simple tactic - slashing away presentations. Meetings should be reserved for important talks, decision-making and brainstorming sessions. By sending presentation over email, you can prime people for a more purposeful conversation, give them time to form opinions, arguments or even objections. They can become familiar with the subject and play an active role in the discussion rather than in the RPG they installed on their smartphones.
2. Trim down
Only involve those who need to be involved - the rest can pitch in after they receive the follow-up email with your notes. Meetings with more than 7 participants allow people to lay back and let others do the talking - in a big group, your input is less visible, so unless your opinion is vital, you’ll either be ignored or you will start doodling idly. “Someone else can pick up the slack, there are so many of us to choose from”.
3. Be strict
Enforce a time limit and a clear goal. Sometimes you need more hours to reach a positive outcome, but by forcing people to work on a deadline, you prevent them from giving in to distractions like “urgent” emails, incoming phonecalls and so on. If your meeting isn’t important enough that people turn off their phones, then maybe you could have solved the problem by email and a 10 minute chat.
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Becoming an Adult Stepchild
Adjusting to a Parent's New Marriage
For many adult stepchildren, the marriage of a parent is a complicated situation fraught with emotional difficulties as the existing family structure is reshaped through the introduction of new members and the realignment of familial roles and relationships. A parent's marriage and the upheaval it generates can also mobilize long-buried feelings within adult stepchildren, including anger, betrayal, resentment, and a sense of deprivation.
Until now, the millions of adult stepchildren have not had a resource to help them address the psychological issues they face in this situation. Written by an expert with substantial experience in stepfamily life, Becoming an Adult Stepchild: Adjusting to a Parent's New Marriage provides invaluable advice on how to examine the underlying issues and feelings engendered by a parent's marriage and use this knowledge to reduce the inherent tension in this situation. In a caring and supportive manner, Dr. Prilik also urges readers to take advantage of the golden opportunities hidden in their parent's marriage, including
Dr. Prilik begins each chapter by posing a few questions on specific subjects and situations that challenge readers to examine their feelings, attitudes, and behavior toward their parent's marriage. She then explores the underlying conflicts brought about by these particular circumstances and provides numerous vignettes to illustrate typical adult reactions to a parent's remarriage. She also offers many suggestions on how readers can reduce the tension and acrimony that can develop during this transition.
Armed with this awareness and practical advice, adult stepchildren can build more satisfying relationships within their new family structure and use this unique opportunity for profound personal growth.
You, Your Parent, and Marriage.Introduction. Why would your parent want to marry—now? Making sense of the complex web of childhood emotions. Why you don't like your parent's spouse: reasons you may not expect. Feeling discarded: when your parent no longer seems to need you. Here comes the bride: you and your parent's wedding day. Is your parent competent to decide to marry?
You, Your Parent, and Your New Stepfamily.Adding a new branch to the family tree. Family rituals: when two families' traditions collide. My mother's pin, my father's watch: who gets the family heirlooms? Conclusion. Index.
About the Authors
Pearl Ketover Prilik, D.S.W., is a psychotherapist with private practices in Garden City and Lido Beach, New York. She is also a postdoctoral student in psychoanalysis at the Derner Institute for Advanced Psychological Studies in Garden City, New York.
[J]ust knowing that other adults whose parents are remarrying also share a wide range of emotional reactions ambiguity, relief, disappointment, jealousy, and feelings of disruption and loss—can make this a worthwhile investment. In her examination of the underlying conflicts and tensions that result when parents of adult children decide to marry, Prilik has added a dimension not often considered in the current, heady reshaping of American families.—Michigan Family Review
Astonishing in content, well-thought out, and well-organized, Prilik's intense look at the emotions of an adult stepchild will be welcome to all practitioners who work with stepparenting issues. . . . Sensitive, yet direct, the text conveys enough insight to make the book a must for all the generations involved in the blended family, and for all practitioners who work with marital and family issues.—Readings: A Journal of Reviews and Commentary in Mental Health
Through a thoughtful exploration of emotions while adjusting to life as an adult stepchild, Ms. Prilik confirms, 'You are not alone,' and weaves together a vision of what adult children need to move toward as well as what they need to move away from in accepting the new family order.—Margorie Engel, President,Stepfamily Association of America, Author of Weddings for Complicated Families: For Couples with Divorced Parents and, Those Planning to Remarry, Boston, Massachusetts
Becoming an Adult Stepchild is comprehensive, warm in tone, and eminently practical. I know because I am about to be married (next month) and recognize several of the issues Prilik raises and discusses in our four children who range in age from 19 to 39. This is a useful book!—Jane Marks, Author of We Have a Problem: A Parent's Sourcebook
Dr. Pearl Prilik has written a timely, well-conceived, informative book. Her style is clear, interesting, and extremely helpful. The lessons taught are lightened by one's sense of the twinkle in the author's eye. Becoming an Adult Stepchild: Adjusting to a Parent's New Marriage is a must read for all those having to deal with hazards and pitfalls of being an adult stepchild.—Lorelle Saretsky, Ph.D., Director Postdoctoral Psychotherapy Center, Garden City, New York
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The Mold Making and Plaster Studio is a space where students can explore a wide variety of mold-making methods as well as sculpt with plaster. Students have free access to a variety of plasters and space to make molds, and may safely explore concrete, plastic, foam, resin, wax, moulage, and a variety of plaster materials.
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Tokyo 2020 will become the second Olympic Games to include a competing Refugee Team. At the 2016 Summer Olympic Games in Brazil, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) presented the first Refugee Olympians. Ten athletes participated in this monumental occasion. Two swimmers, two judokas, a marathon runner and five middle-distance runners competed. The athletes originally hailed from Ethiopia, South Sudan, Syria and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Officials made the Tokyo 2020 decision, during the 133rd IOC meeting in Buenos Aires. IOC President Thomas Bach said:
“The IOC Session has once again endorsed this initiative. In an ideal world, we would not need to have a Refugee Team at the Olympic Games. But, unfortunately, the reasons why we first created a Refugee Olympic Team before the Olympic Games Rio 2016 continue to persist. We will do our utmost to welcome refugee athletes and give them a home and a flag in the Olympic Village in Tokyo with all the Olympic athletes from 206 National Olympic Committees. This is the continuation of an exciting, human and Olympic journey, and a reminder to refugees that they are not forgotten.”
The IOC displays its commitment to addressing the global refugee crisis through support of the ten original Refugee Olympians. These athletes have received scholarships to assist with training and to prepare for and compete in national and international athletic events. The Refugee Olympic Foundation was created to support the protection, development and empowerment of children and youth in vulnerable situations through sport. | <urn:uuid:e5589bff-8c3e-4215-84b0-16a544bc19dd> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.goteamliberia.com/2018/10/31/tokyo-2020-refugee-olympic-team/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570879.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809003642-20220809033642-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.941085 | 302 | 2.5 | 2 |
Our partners keep asking for examples of design thinking in the reimagining of higher education. We teach design thinking at The Academy for Innovation in Higher Education Leadership. This winter a cohort met at Arizona State University (ASU), and Phil Regier, the architect of ASU’s successful and fast-growing online programs, took us through the latest projects at ASU’s EdPlus, where he serves as University Dean for Educational Initiatives and CEO. EdPlus is the new amalgamation of “out of the box” pathway projects, using research, design and partnerships to scale learning and degree completion. You may have heard about two of the projects that were announced last year, but it occurred to us that these are excellent examples of human-centered design. While Phil, a former accounting professor, doesn’t toss around design terms like “student journey mapping,” “user needs,” or “rapid prototyping,” (each parts of our own process), he and his team are living it. And he cheerfully agreed to sit down for a discussion.
I. Our Interview with Phil: What we learned
“What ASU has done is create a model where students can first find out whether they’re successful, and then pay.”
With the Global Freshman Academy, ASU set out to address two big problems. Problem one: Most online degrees are career-specific. Problem two: Spending money on college if you don’t have a plan is like playing roulette, as 50% of students don’t make it. From these problems, ASU identified a couple of user needs: That an online program should be affordable as an alternative to traditional college and aspirational in helping students to learn what it is they want to do when they grow up. Given these needs, the team generated three key design criteria: The courses should be (1) explorable, (2) transferrable, and (3) accessible.
From this design challenge, the Global Freshman Academy was born, an open-scaled, technology-enhanced (edX platform), visually-immersive program, offering freshman-level college courses. Students can enroll at no cost and have the option of paying $49 at the start of the course if they wish to verify their identity and be eligible to receive credit at the end. If they pass the course with a C or better, they then have the option to pay $600 to receive credit. This unique financial structure flips the risk-equation for students. As Regier describes, “What ASU has done is create a model where students can first find out whether they’re successful, and then pay.”
With this pathway, a student can complete the general studies requirements and be set up for a professional pathway (like pre-business or pre-law) for $6500, about 75% less than the sticker price of ASU’s freshman year for out-of-state and international students. It’s also, by the way, a very smart marketing strategy for early digital education mover ASU, a global “introductory offer” funnel into their existing online degree programs. (As the first year ends, it will be interesting to see where the freshman go, and how well the credits transfer to other universities who deeply protect their general education “cash cow” credits.)
“College in America is not designed to be completed.”
If the Global Freshman Academy is ASU’s focus on redesigning the entry-level student experience, the College Achievement Plan with Starbucks redesigns the latter-half of a student’s college career. Says Regier, “College in America is not designed to be completed.” That’s a depressing statement, but the outcome stats back him up. What to do about it? The partnership allows Starbucks employees to enroll at ASU Online and to be reimbursed 100%. By investing in their workers, Starbucks hopes to have a more mature, better prepared, and well-rounded workforce, with a goal of 25,000 graduates by 2025. And because Starbucks expects no commitment from enrollees to continue working for Starbucks after graduation, Starbucks has created a social value proposition consistent with company values. As Regier describes it, “With Starbucks, the alignment of their values with the value of education was complete.”
Likely, part of Starbucks’s calculation is that if the company serves its employees better, those scholar employees will, in turn, better serve the customer. It’s too early to judge the impact on attrition, as this double shot journey will likely take 4-5 years. Of course, that’s 4-5 years that students will stay at Starbucks.
The cost is broken down 3 ways: by an ASU scholarship (which pays 42% of costs), financial aid (all participants are asked to fill-out a FAFSA, though no education loans are expected), and an upfront cost that is reimbursed by Starbucks at the end of the semester (you can watch a 2-minute video on how this works here). At steady state, an impressive 10% of the baristas you meet are expected to be brewing college on the side. Signing folks up hasn’t been as easy as expected; interestingly, the sweet spot is 25-26 year olds who have seen how far the retail service sector can take them without a degree. The 18-20 year olds are less likely to have the discipline to juggle 6 AM espresso shifts and online classes.
II. From the Lab: Using our Design Lens
UX/UI & Design Thinking
Designing around the user experience (UX) and user interface (UI) is key to good design, and in this realm ASU gets high marks. The university gathered data on its audience to better understand what users need. ASU’s typical online student is 33 (similar to most of the large online programs) and transfers in with 55-60 credits. So degree focus and completion were the user needs and design criteria for most online program plans.
The average Starbucks student, as mentioned above, is 26 and transfers in with 30 credits. For the Global Freshman Academy, students are self-identifying as freshman no matter what age. As such, ASU designed both programs to fill this gap, but with different channel or marketing strategies.
These composite students (we call them “personas” in design thinking) are crafted through quantitative and qualitative data and research. Regier has spent time in Starbucks stores, talking with baristas and watching them in action to get a better understanding of their lives as Starbucks employees. Likewise, the head of Starbucks’s North America division is taking the online introductory course to become more familiar with what the program’s experience is for a student. These are typical research methods in a design thinking process. And both groups have used continued research and data analysis to iterate from prototype to pilots.
Obstacles v. Catalysts
ASU has approached its redesign of the higher ed experience with a critical proposition: That there is a difference between reducing obstacles and motivating students to succeed, and that reducing an obstacle does not necessarily motivate a student to succeed. Take, for example, costs, an infamous culprit in impeding students’ success. Although both programs dramatically reduce costs to students, Regier acknowledges that “even if tuition is 100% reimbursed, it’s still difficult to engage and motivate students.” Put more frankly, Regier observed, “It’s easier to buy a house than to go to college.”
Compounding this problem is the relationship between how students finance their education and the pathway they take. For example, many students want to experience both the broad exposure of a university while also developing depth to a specific skillset (an innovative approach known as the T-shaped student). But while ASU might want to work with a provider like General Assembly, by the time a graduate becomes a ripe candidate for such a provider, they’ve exhausted their savings and are no longer eligible for financial aid (like Pell). GFA presents an opportunity to restructure some of these pathways. The Starbucks partnership, likewise, leverages its position towards the latter-half of a student’s college career to present itself as an opportunity for students to recalibrate and improve their GPA.
III. What’s Next?
The Scaling Context
By employing design thinking to produce new, affordable pathways to attainment, ASU has strategically located itself on the horizon of the global unbundled learner revolution. Regier is in discussions with at least three other corporations for what we might call “sponsored pathways” like the Starbucks deal. As the “coming of age” population continues to trend toward putting off traditional degrees, you could imagine within ten years a significant population of workers thinking about how to most efficiently gain a degree parallel to a working life. And employers will compete around this as a benefit. (It’s cheaper than providing health care and possibly “stickier.”) Regier adds that some employers are asking to design master’s degree partnerships because of worrying trends such as 50% of all engineers nearing retirement age. These programs are not just for the US: India and China produce most of the world’s college-age population (356 million and 269 million, respectively), and every year for the next 10 years, about 30 million Indian and 25 million Chinese learners will become college-age. Many of these populations want higher ed access but, with such staggering numbers, they just do not have the capacity to accommodate their incredible growth. These fruits of design thinking, like the learner-centric online models coming out of ASU, could be America’s next great export.
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The Impact of COVID-19 on Human Rights: Recommendations to the Dutch Foreign Affairs Committee
The outbreak of the corona pandemic has worsened the crisis for democracy around the world. It has provided governments with a cover to shrink the civic space for pluralism and to curb fundamental human rights. In light of the impact of COVID-19 on human rights and the persistent oppression of human rights since the pandemic, the Netherlands Helsinki Committee, together with Cordaid, Free Press Unlimited, Civic Engagement Alliance, Hivos, PAX and Amnesty International, formulated recommendations for the members of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Dutch Parliament prior to their review of the 2021 budget for Foreign Affairs.
Fundamental human rights under pressure
The protection of fundamental freedoms such as the freedom of association, freedom of religion and belief, freedom of speech, and freedom of the press is of great importance, and is high on the priority list of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. However, since the pandemic broke out, democracy and pluralism are under pressure, and civil liberties and human rights have worsened. Freedom House has reported that since the coronavirus outbreak began, the condition of democracy and human rights has grown worse in 80 countries.
“Our data indicate that 40% of the world’s population in 2019 lived in a repressive country. The year before that number was only 19%.” – Marianna Belabla Barreto, Civicus
Authoritarian leaders use the combat of COVID-19 to shrink the civic space for pluralism. This trend is spreading fast, and not only in authoritarian regimes, but also in democracies. The global democratic space has been steadily decreasing over the past years, but 2020 is a new low.
“The COVID-19 pandemic is exacerbating the 14 years of consecutive decline in freedom.” – Freedom House
The absence of international organizations, foreign journalists and the limited capacities of diplomats due to the corona-crisis result in grave human rights abuses and insufficient noting and documentation of the curtailing of fundamental human rights that is taking place.
Pepijn Gerrits, Executive Director of the NHC, underlines the urgency of implementing control mechanisms to ensure the protection of democracy and the civic space for pluralism:
“Around the world, COVID-19 has put fundamental human rights under pressure. It is important to curb the spread of the coronavirus, while at the same time ensuring there is no lasting damage to our fundamental human rights that are to be universally protected.”
During the roundtable discussion, the speakers made the following recommendations for the members of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the NL Parliament prior to their review of the 2021 budget for Foreign Affairs:
- Acknowledge that, especially during the COVID-19-crisis, a diverse, lively and resilient civil society is necessary to ensure that emergency measures pass the test of proportionality, necessity and temporality.
- Create wider mechanisms to sustain and strengthen civil society and including medium- to long term financing for networks of umbrella organizations, so they can be actively involved in drafting government policy in their specific contexts.
- Invest in the cooperation with (local) religious actors and acknowledge their role in reaching difficult to reach areas and marginalized groups.
- Support and sustain local independent journalism – as part of civil society – and human rights organizations so they can continue their vital work. This ensures they can continue providing the public with reliable information that helps the public survive, develop themselves and enables the public to check governments.
- Insist on the adoption of laws and rules that can strengthen civil society. Point to the existing legal and constitutional frameworks that ensure the rights and freedoms of civil society organizations, both regionally and nationally. Condemn legislation that is in conflict with international human rights. Restrictive measures are possibly temporarily necessary to combat the spread of corona, but these measures must at all times remain proportional and temporary.
- Intensify the execution of human rights policy at embassies, specifically the diplomatic support for human rights defenders. Embassies should implement EU-guidelines for human rights defenders
- Encourage governments to develop a more inclusive and human rights oriented response to the COVID-19-crisis. This response should acknowledge the circumstances of women and the youth, and gives them a voice. These groups are disproportionately affected by the (in)-direct consequences of the COVID-19 crisis, and often have little to no say in the policy creation process.
Why the Netherlands?
The Netherlands is one of few countries worldwide that has enshrined the furthering of the international legal order in its constitution. Article 90 of the Dutch constitution, loosely translated, states that the government furthers the development of the international legal order.
“In numerous countries across Europe and further, the rule of law is under pressure. Thus, it is both fitting and necessary that the Netherlands takes the initiative to win back the public space for democratic opposing forces.” – Pepijn Gerrits, Executive Director NHC
To realize the aforementioned recommendations it is important that the government focuses on increasing capacities at embassies; thereby investing in the relations with the local civil society. It is also of great importance that additional financing is made available for the human rights fund, as this kind of financing enables local organizations to increase the space for civil society in their specific contexts.
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TULSA, Okla. — Children running away from home and being forced into sexual slavery is a problem that the Tulsa Police Department says has exploded in the past few years.
Since March of 2019, the Human Trafficking/Vice Unit of the Tulsa Police Department has made 59 human trafficking-related arrests including 29 federal indictments.
This is up from none in 2018.
Tulsa police told 2 News Oklahoma that the human trafficking of children is now a growing issue, and they are working around the clock to rescue our city's most vulnerable.
2 News Oklahoma recently had the opportunity to go out with the Tulsa Police Department's Human Trafficking/Vice Unit on a sting targeting the buyers, but now we want to talk about the victims, where they typically come from and why it's so hard to leave a life of sexual slavery.
“It can be out of a car, out of a hotel, out of an apartment, out of a home, we rescue them from all over," says Lt. Brian Wilson.
Wilson is a lieutenant with the Tulsa Police Department's Human Trafficking/Vice Unit. He says now more than ever they are seeing young runaways being forced to sell their bodies for sex.
"They get sucked into a life they never could have imagined," Wilson says.
And sometimes these children find there's no way out.
One of the ways Wilson says pimps keep them from escaping is by making sure they stay hooked on drugs.
“So, they are sucked in, they’re hooked and the only place to get their narcotics is from their abuser. There is just no way out.
If you are running these women and you are preying on them and forcing them to do sexual acts against their will, your overhead is low," he says.
Profits for the pimps can be high.
“She works all day. She is victimized 10 times by 10 different men, a minimum of $100 a pop. Already you are looking at $1,000 on the cheap end, and then you work her 7 days a week and that’s $7,000 a week times 4, that’s $28,000 a month," Wilson says.
He and his team of investigators spend thousands of hours working on these cases doing everything they can to help these women and children escape.
“There are some weeks where every day we are identifying and encountering a new victim every week," Wilson says.
He says one of his biggest hurdles right now is a lack of investigators.
"The hours spent on each one of these cases it’s not just identifying our victim, finding our victim, and rescuing her, but it is literally almost 1,000 man-hours affect the fact of bringing it to a successful prosecution.”
The Tulsa Police Department is recruiting men and women to regain its authorized force of over 900 officers, and that lack of officers really impacts the Vice Unit.
“Our authorized strength is for a lieutenant, a sergeant and 6 investigators. Right now, currently with the manpower crunch that the department is under, I am down to 4 investigators and it’s tough," he says.
But Wilson and his team say they'll keep fighting for justice... hoping to prevail in the end with a rescued child.
“I think our youngest victim of a case that we worked was 4 years old," says Wilson. The strength it takes for them to testify, it’s huge. It’s absolutely huge and the amount of trust that they have to have in us, that’s hard to build," he says.
Wilson says it's so important to let the people around you know how much you love them because one of the common things they see in human trafficking victims is runaways who don’t have a lot of positive, male influences in their life.
He also says he’s so grateful for the organizations that work with them to bring healing to the rescued victims, and they really lean on service providers to carry on the mission.
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On Sunday, the President attends services at Chongwenmen church, the first American Methodist-Episcopal church built in northern China. It is the largest Protestant church in Beijing and was founded in 1870. One of its pastors, Wu Wei, will visit the United States this summer under an USIA International Visitor Program (IVP) grant. Reverend Billy Graham preached at Chongwenmen twice and former President George Bush attended services there.
Following church services, the President will tour the Forbidden City. Located in the center of Beijing, the Forbidden City is the largest and best-preserved palace complex in China. Once the imperial palace of the Ming and Qing emperors, it now is open to the public, receiving over 10,000 visitors each day.
During the afternoon, the President will travel to Mutianyu, located 40 miles outside Beijing to tour a portion of the Great Wall of China. The Great Wall at Mutianyu is located about 40 miles northeast of Beijing; it only recently has been opened to tourists. Originally constructed in the mid-6th century, it was rebuilt in the 14th century by the Ming emperors. The masonry at Mutianyu consists of rectangular granite covered by gray bricks. The main castle has three connecting watch towers -- a large tower in the center with two smaller ones on either side.
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In an April 7, 2022 Memorandum to Regional Directors, NLRB General Counsel Jennifer Abruzzo announced that she will be asking the NLRB to outlaw so-called “captive audience” meetings. Captive audience meetings refer to meetings between employers and employees during an employee’s paid work time where the employee is required to listen to the employer (or its representative) explain the company’s position on unions. Such meetings have long been criticized by labor advocates, and have most recently been condemned as “union busting” tactics by Amazon in its ongoing battle with labor organizations seeking to represent its workers.
While captive audience meetings have been criticized, they have been deemed to be legal for nearly 75 years, 1948, the Board ruled that an employer does not violate the Act by compelling its employees to attend meetings in which it makes speeches urging them to reject union representation. Babcock & Wilcox Co., 77 NLRB 577 (1948). As a result, the practice of requiring employees to attend such meetings has long been a staple of employers’ “union avoidance” campaigns. The rationale behind such meetings is that it provides the company with the opportunity to ensure that employees hear its position on unions before the employee votes in a representation election.
If the General Counsel is successful in her efforts to make captive audience meetings illegal, it will significantly change the balance of power in representation campaigns. While unions will continue to be able to meet with employees outside of work and communicate their message, employers will no longer be able to require employees to hear the company’s responses to the message the union is communicating. In a world where people are increasingly getting their news and other information only from sources that conform to their beliefs, one has to wonder if it is in an employee’s best interest to allow them to opt out of hearing the employer’s message. Ultimately, NLRB elections are conducted by secret ballot, and it seems to me that hearing “both sides of the story” before casting a ballot is the best way to make an informed choice. | <urn:uuid:7ccdde36-f037-48d9-82e4-9a8d1f5a7b8d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.kollmanlaw.com/labor-law/nlrb-general-counsel-targets-captive-audience-meetings/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570879.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809003642-20220809033642-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.97133 | 425 | 1.773438 | 2 |
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Eat your vegetables. Sleep eight hours a day. Exercise.
There are so many truisms about staying healthy that we sometimes don’t use due diligence in determining if the advice given to us is even true. Then there are the old wives’ tales, passed down from one generation to the next, that often disregard the difference between fact and fiction. Below, you’ll find a list of 10 of the most common health clichés out there. None of them are true.
We Only Use 10 Percent Of Our Brains:
Weighing in at just over 1.4 kilograms (3 lb), the human brain is home to nearly 100 billion neurons. They transmit information to each other across gaps called synapses, of which the brain has almost one quadrillion.
The brain is sectioned into three primary parts-the cerebrum, the cerebellum, and the brain stem. The cerebrum composes roughly 85 percent of the organ and is responsible for much of the higher-level functioning we associate with being human. Seated below it, you’ll find the cerebellum, which controls basic coordination and balance. And finally, you have the brain stem. Connected to your spinal cord, the brain stem controls most of your automatic functions, such as breathing and digestion.
Wouldn’t it be incredible if all this processing is only making use of 10 percent of the brain’s bandwidth?
Alas, this “fact” is utterly wrong. We’re not sure where the claim that we only use 10 percent of our brains came from, but it seemed to percolate out of the late Victorian era. In the late 1890s, Harvard psychologists William James and Boris Sidis used the latter’s wunderkind (his IQ was nearly 300) as proof that all humans must have the capacity to be that smart. We just have to try harder.
Pretty ridiculous, right?
Further research at the start of the 20th century found that rats with cerebral damage could be retaught certain tasks. This was used to bolster the already weak case that our human brain is full of untapped potential. Alas, this factoid is completely ridiculous with no basis in modern science. Just reading this paragraph uses more than 10 percent of your brain. Oh well.
It Takes Seven Years To Digest A Piece Of Gum:
After swallowing a particularly large piece of bubblegum, many of you may remember being horrified to hear that your digestive tract would spend the next seven years trying to digest it. If your seven years isn’t up yet, you may be relieved to learn that this “fact” is complete nonsense.
Although the origins of this myth are elusive, it has borne out a relative truth about chewing gum. It’s indigestible. The Food and Drug Administration defines gum as a “nonnutritive masticatory substance.” (Translation: It’s not food.)
While it’s not advisable to swallow your chewing gum, what happens to it isn’t all that exciting. Excess ingredients like sweeteners may be digested, but the bulk of the gum is an elastomer that gets moved through your digestive tract without being broken down. Then the gum comes out the other end via the excretory system and is usually unscathed.
Foreign, inedible objects have to be roughly larger than a United States quarter to get stuck in your digestive system. Otherwise, they flow like junk down a stream, right out the other end.
Chocolate Will Make Your Skin Break Out:
As if puberty, high school, and those teenage years aren’t hard enough, many of us grew up learning that our chocolate intake had a causal relationship with breakouts. Pretty awful that chocolate, the one thing that makes adolescence bearable, lights up your face with ugly zits.
Well, we’re here to let you know that this old wives’ tale is false. Eating chocolate will not cause you to break out. However, eating foods high in fat and sugar can increase your body’s natural sebum production, which makes your skin oilier. Furthermore, those unhealthy foods lead to higher levels of skin inflammation.
But will chocolate-or any food for that matter-make your skin break out? The answer to that is a resounding no. Eating high levels of fatty foods will definitely trip up your blood sugar, which can indirectly affect breakout levels. But no single food item is your golden ticket to avoiding teenage pimples.
Carrots Improve Eyesight:
The myth that carrots will improve your vision is wrapped up in a twisted history of wartime propaganda. To be fair, carrots are great sources of beta-carotene, an inactive retinol that is transformed into vitamin A during digestion. Vitamin A provides all sorts of benefits to the body, including the protection of eyesight.
But does it really improve one’s nighttime vision?
No. The British Ministry of Information ran a campaign during World War II that suggested pilots in the Royal Air Force were eating large quantities of carrots, explaining their uncanny ability to shoot down German fighter pilots under the veil of darkness. Truth is, all the carrots in the world couldn’t give you the gift of nocturnal sight.
British troops were warding off German bombers with novel technology at the time-airborne interception radar. It’s unlikely that German intelligence bought into the idea that British pilots were fueled by high-octane carrots.
Yet, in the almost century since, the Western world’s general public has remained firm believers that if they eat enough of the orange stuff, their eyes will thank them. We hate to be the ones to break it to you, but you’re not going to have night vision anytime soon.
We Have Five Senses:
This one should be easy, right? Not so fast. The belief that we have five senses dates back to the time of Greek philosopher Aristotle, who was the first to discern the five discrete senses of the human body. You probably learned them in elementary school: sight, hearing, smell, touch, taste.
Yes, these are five of your senses. But they aren’t the only ones.
Let’s start with the basics. What is a “sense”? Well, it’s something with a sensor that can perceive a given stimulus. Every sense is activated by a unique phenomenon.
In fact, the sense of touch is actually much more complex than just a single sensation. Many neurologists break down “touch” into divergent sensations, including perceptions of pressure, temperature, and pain.
Depending on whom you ask, humans have as many as 33 senses. These include some senses, like blood pressure and balance that you knew you had but didn’t count as a “sense.” So, next time someone says they have a sixth sense, you might respond by saying you have 33. They may not know what you mean by that, but you’ll know!
Rolling Your Tongue Is Genetic:
Many of us can remember being taught, by a biology teacher no less, that our ability to roll our tongues was simple genetic fate. The majority of people can roll their tongues, and societal wisdom held that tongue rolling was a dominant genetic trait. If either of your parents could do it, so could you. Or so we were told.
In reality, it’s not that simple. Unlike many of these human body myths, we have a good idea from where this one came. In 1940, American geneticist Alfred Sturtevant published a study which concluded that your tongue-rolling ability was a hereditary trait based on a dominant gene.
However, Sturtevant’s exuberance over his finding was short-lived. People realized quickly that there were identical twins where one could roll his tongue and the other couldn’t. As a result, Sturtevant’s findings were swiftly debunked, with the man at the helm conceding defeat.
And yet, decades later in classrooms across the world, this falsehood is being spread anew. Now that you know the truth, you can stop the madness from spreading the next time someone unveils this quirky parlor trick.
Heat Escapes Through Your Head:
Between the myth that we only use 10 percent of our brains and the prevailing notion that we lose the majority of our body heat through our heads, it seems like our craniums can’t catch a break. A prevailing hypothesis on the origin of this myth: Scientists conducted studies in the 1950s in which subjects were exposed to low temperatures and lost a solid chunk of their heat through their noggins.
The problem with this research is that the subjects were bundled up in coats and only their heads were exposed to the elements. So yes, if every part of your body is insulated and your head isn’t, you’ll lose a disproportionate amount of body heat through your head.
However, more recent research finds that, all else being equal, an excessive amount of heat doesn’t escape from your head. You lose approximately 7 percent of your body heat through your head, which makes sense because your head is roughly 7 percent of your body’s surface area.
So, treat your head like every other part of your body. When it’s cold, bundle it up and everything will be fine.
Hair And Fingernails Keep Growing After Death:
This “fact” about the human body is sort of creepy, isn’t it? The idea that protein shards of keratin keep growing at our extremities in the days and weeks after we die is freaky. Well, we’re here to let you know that it’s simply not true.
Our bodies dehydrate rather rapidly once we die. When this happens, our skin starts wrinkling and pulls inward. This gives the illusion that our hair and nails are still growing. On the contrary, the rest of the body is merely shrinking. For this reason, morticians will often lather corpses in moisturizer to keep them from pruning up.
Cracking Knuckles Will Cause Arthritis :
Arthritis isn’t a single condition but rather a catchall term for a group of pain disorders characterized by joint aches, swelling, and inflammation. Unfortunately, it’s quite common, affecting more than 50 million adults and 300,000 children in the US. Arthritis can be mild or debilitating. It can flare up or feel like a slow and steady burn.
Obviously, if you can avoid activities linked to arthritis, you should. For many health-conscious individuals, this includes a seemingly simple request-don’t crack your knuckles. However, we’re here to tell you that cracking your knuckles doesn’t make the list in your fight to prevent arthritis.
But first, what is “cracking” the knuckles? That popping sound is associated with bubbles bursting in your synovial fluid (the stuff that greases your joints). As bad as that sounds, a cross-study analysis by doctors at Harvard Medical School found no evidence that cracking one’s knuckles has a causal link to arthritis.
That said, you still might want to give up the habit. Chronic knuckle cracking is linked to weaker grip strength. Furthermore, it’s just annoying to listen to.
Shave Your Beard, And It’ll Grow Back Darker:
Who hasn’t heard this one? You can shave your beard-or for women, the hair on your legs-but your efforts will be in vain. Not only will the hair grow back, we’re told, but it’ll grow back faster and darker than before.
This is absolutely false. In fact, we’ve known this isn’t true for quite some time. One of the first contemporary studies on the issue took place in 1928. The participating men all shaved in the same manner with the same brand of shaving cream. Then their subsequent new hairs were analyzed for increased rates of growth.
A lot of this myth comes down to perception. As our hair grows back, we may be influenced by our preexisting biases. Also, when you wax or shave off hair, it’s like chopping down a tree and leaving the stump. You’re left with slightly wider and more visible hair, contributing to perceived gains on the part of your stubble.
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That, apparently, is the number of blood cells that the Cord Blood Registry was able to capture from our young master’s U-cord. (The idea is that the stem cells in that blood can be used later in life if medical needs arise.) Apparently the registry was hoping for at least 100M cells but was able to store nearly 2 *billion*. Now, for all I know 2 billion is nothing, or maybe they always give parents these stats so that it sounds like your kid is a real champ (for all I know, they could tell me that his fan belt needs to be replaced and I’d probably buy it). Even so, it’s music to his new parents’ ears. | <urn:uuid:1629571a-0aa2-43aa-b778-4ddaa3d978af> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.jnack.com/micronaxx/2008/03/13/1883000000/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570879.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809003642-20220809033642-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.985149 | 147 | 1.5625 | 2 |
When the Open Enrollment Period for the year is over, you can only enroll in or change a health plan if you qualify for a Special Enrollment Period.
Qualifying Special Enrollment Events
There are many events that trigger a special enrollment opportunity, such as:
- Loss of minimum essential coverage or other qualifying coverage (i.e., loss of employee-based coverage, Medicaid or CHIP, or coverage after a divorce)
- Marriage (if one or both spouses had other qualifying coverage or minimum essential coverage for at least one day during the 60 days prior to the marriage)
- Gaining a dependent (through foster care, adoption, or court order)
- Aging off a parent’s plan at 26 years or other loss of Dependent status
- Moving to another state
- Change in immigration status from a non-eligible status to an eligible one
- Leaving incarceration
Populations That Qualify Throughout The Year
Some populations are also able to enroll throughout the year without experiencing events, such as:
- Consumers who are American Indian or Alaska Natives can enroll or change their marketplace plan one time per month. More information can be found at https://www.healthcare.gov/american-indians-alaska-natives/
- If you’re a survivor of domestic abuse/violence or spousal abandonment and want to enroll in your own health plan separate from your abuser or abandoner, contact a Navigator. Your dependents may be eligible too. If you’re married to your abuser/abandoner, you can answer on your Marketplace application that you’re unmarried, without fear of penalty for misstating your marital status. You then become eligible for a premium tax credit and other savings on a Marketplace plan, if you qualify based on your income. If you qualify for this SEP, you’ll have 60 days to enroll in a Marketplace plan.
Documents For Enrollment Applications
If you qualify for a Special Enrollment Period and apply for Marketplace coverage, you may be asked to provide documents to confirm the events that make you eligible.
- You’ll learn if you must provide documents after you submit your application. Details and instructions will appear on your eligibility notice.
- It’s best to pick a plan first and submit your documents afterwards. After you pick a plan, you have 30 days to send the documents.
- You must send the documents before you can start using your coverage.
- Your coverage start date is based on when you pick a plan.
- You can’t use your coverage until your eligibility is confirmed and you make your first premium payment.
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The sum of the vertical angles MOE and DOC, formed at the intersection of straight lines MC and DE, is 140 degrees. Find the angle MOE.
The vertical angles at the intersection of straight lines are equal, then the angle MOE = DОС.
By condition, the sum of the angles MOE + DOE = 140, then MOE = DOC = 140/2 = 70.
The angle MOD is adjacent to the angle MOE, the sum of which is 180, then the angle MOD = (180 – 70) = 110.
Answer: The angle MOD is 110.
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Saturday, August 22, 2020
Human Rights in World Politics Essay Example | Topics and Well Written Essays - 500 words
Human Rights in World Politics - Essay Example The avoidance of social and political gatherings as focuses of destruction in legitimate meaning of slaughter has been discussed. A few students of history and sociologists frequently allude to social and political gatherings while examining about slaughter. Be that as it may, the by and large acknowledged thought on decimation is the, it is the intentional obliteration of a social character (Genocide). The term annihilation ought to be re-imagined to incorporate littler gatherings as opposed to national gatherings with bigger populace. Segregation or expected killings of little gatherings as indicated by their race, ethnic foundation or even strict convictions, regardless of whether propagated by individual or inconsequential gatherings ought to be remembered for the setting of slaughter. As history had appeared, killings on disastrous extent for the most part began in unchecked and irrelevant killings on lesser degree that later in the long run heighten to a full-promise destruction. With the end goal for annihilation to create, the accompanying conditions must be available: arrangement, symbolization, dehumanization, association, polarization, planning, killing, and forswearing. Characterization happens when societies recognize individuals into 'us' and 'others' putting together with respect to just on race, religion, nationality, or ethnic foundation with further naming to such orders, along these lines symbolization emerges. | <urn:uuid:558e0f03-3b91-4ba2-89e4-8a3324318c39> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://termpaperwritingservice72.blogspot.com/2020/08/human-rights-in-world-politics-essay.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570879.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809003642-20220809033642-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.94454 | 298 | 2.5 | 2 |
‘Total war.’ Even today it has an ominous ring. The phrase was coined by the German General Erich Ludendorff to describe what happened in the First World War on all sides. Victor of the Battle of Liège and of the Battle of Tannenberg, he was for last two years effective leader of the German war effort along with von Hinderburg. Der totale Krieg meant all that mattered was winning: the traditional laws of war and other civilities might be abandoned on all sides, military and civil conscription imposed, civil liberties suspended, and distinctions between combatants and non-combatants diminished. Population centres would be sieged and commercial shipping raided. Pretty well any weapon might be used. All one’s own civilians and civilian resources could be co-opted; and almost any target on the other side regarded as fair game.
Horrible as we know that war became, in 1914, when war was announced, there was cheering in the streets of London and people were convinced it would be over in a few months; few imagined that war would become so total that under the Defence of the Realm Act it would soon be illegal in Britain to loiter under railway bridges, speak a foreign language on the phone, or whistle for a taxi after 10pm. In Australia, too, young men joined up with great enthusiasm for the war that made the ANZACs, little understanding how merciless would be the trench warfare, the mustard gas and the rest; meanwhile under the War Precautions Act of the young Commonwealth, people were interned without trial, incomes taxed for the first time by the federal government, and produce compulsorily acquired and rationed. A century ago ‘total war’ was a relatively new and frightening concept. But ‘the Great War’ that made the ANZACs would change for ever what war means to us.
In our reading from the Book of Wisdom tonight we heard that “The souls of the virtuous are in the hands of God; their passing seemed like punishment, disaster, annihilation; but they are at peace, in glory, immortal.” (Wis 3:1-3) With readings such as these, other high sounding speeches and grand monuments, we try to persuade ourselves each war we’ve fought was worth it, each death a sacrifice given in a noble cause. There is some consolation there for relatives, and pride for citizens, and justification for rulers. But how real is it all? Were the young Australians who died at Gallipoli or in countless campaigns before or since really more virtuous than others? Were they really more courageous than the veterans who returned to march each year in their memory? More noble than the parents, wives, or children they left behind? More righteous than those who died on the other side of the trenches? More gallant than those of us who, by God’s mercy, have been spared warfare?
Those of us lucky enough never to fight for God and Empire, never to lose a relative for Queen and country, never even to suffer the effects of war on liberties and economies at home, are tempted in many directions: to romanticise war and exaggerate courage; to ignore war as something distant and alien; or to wag fingers at generals and soldiers as naive or worse. The war that made the ANZACs is now commonly seen as a total war fought without reason or moderation; a terrible combat directed by warlords who from a safe distance sent millions to their deaths and destroyed the social fabric upon which their own world depended; a conflict in which the war poet Robert Graves said all the ‘Big Words’ like honour, loyalty, peace, faith and love came to naught. And certainly as we track the poets or the letters home we note how ‘the initial patriotic fervour … (collapsed) into cynicism and anger’.
So, are all the words empty, the marches and last posts, and the rest? No: there is something about heroism under fire that rightly inspires our admiration, if also our fear; there is something genuinely awesome captured in words of Scripture or poetry, in cenotaphs and national memorial days. We grieve for those lost and those who miss them, and for those injured physically or mentally or otherwise haunted by war. Yet their courage under fire properly stimulates our pride also, and gratitude, as do patriotism, mateship, the very innocence of the young soldiers: “Naught broken save this body, lost but breath”, wrote Rupert Brooke, “Nothing to shake the laughing heart’s long peace there.” The ‘big words’ for which they fought, like honour and loyalty, faith, love and peace, were not empty words: they were words exemplified by them in their acts of honour amidst hellfire, in their loyalty to comrades, their faith in homeland and their dreams of peace. If we recoil from the thought of total war, we also rightly rebel against the view that all wars are equal or all kinds of warfare, that there can be no justification, no honour, no surviving goodness.
Like the deaths of the martyrs, the deaths of soldiers that count for virtue are deaths in terrible circumstances for a good cause. Yet no-one dies for God or country unless he has to some extent lived for them: how we live now prepares us for our deaths; we practise our dying in our living. Courage, innocence, fidelity, mateship: these do not appear out of the blue on the deathbed or battlefield, though sometimes we may demonstrate qualities we never guessed were in us. But in us they were, for the souls of the virtuous are souls practised in virtue, drilled as it were, like soldiers; perhaps not always paraded, though those closest to us may see them; but sometimes on show, at least when challenged by enemies or difficulties of one kind or another.
As we gather each year to commemorate that first ANZAC Day in 1915 and all it has come to mean for our nation; as we pray for eternal life for those who have died in service of this country and in the hope of a better future; as we intercede, likewise, for the injured and the grieving and those presently in harm’s way; so also we pray never to be tested as they were tested and never to romanticise what tested them. We pray that if and when the hour comes that ‘our soul is troubled’ (Jn 12:27), as theirs was, that we shall prove worthy of them and of the country for which they fought. When our time comes, may we be glorified as Christ was, and as were all His own: not by worldly triumphs but by that victory which is holding fast to what is true and good and beautiful, standing by your mates, your family, your country and your character.
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As a part of an ongoing effort to develop a “standard library” for scientific and engineering parallel applications, we have developed a preliminary finite element framework. This framework allows an application scientist interested in modeling structural properties of materials, including dynamic behavior such as crack propagation, to develop codes that embody their modeling techniques without having to pay attention to the parallelization process. The resultant code modularly separates parallel implementation techniques from numerical algorithms. As the framework builds upon an object-based load balancing framework, it allows the resultant applications to automatically adapt to load imbalances resulting from the application or the environment (e.g. timeshared clusters). This paper presents results from the first version of the framework, and demonstrates results on a crack propagation application. | <urn:uuid:eecf70fa-6fc4-4a73-8c0d-9869e7b808dd> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://experts.illinois.edu/en/publications/a-parallel-framework-for-explicit-fem | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570879.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809003642-20220809033642-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.867413 | 150 | 1.5625 | 2 |
Well a group of researchers, including Adi Shamir (whose last name puts the S in the RSA algorithm) and Alex Biryukov, Orr Dunkelman, Nathan Keller and Dmitry Khovratovich.
The paper, which details the attack, has yet to be made public. Brice Schneier has read the paper, and provided a peek on his Web site:
In this paper we describe several attacks which can break with practical complexity variants of AES-256 whose number of rounds are comparable to that of AES-128. One of our attacks uses only two related keys and 239 time to recover the complete 256-bit key of a 9-round version of AES-256 (the best previous attack on this variant required 4 related keys and 2120 time). Another attack can break a 10 round version of AES-256 in 245 time, but it uses a stronger type of related subkey attack (the best previous attack on this variant required 64 related keys and 2172 time).
The paper, detailing the attack technique, should be available within days. For now, Schneier is recommending people not use AES-256 and that AES-128 "provides more than enough security margin for the foreseeable future."
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Yom Hazikaron, Israel’s Memorial Day, was commemorated in several of Meir Panim’s Branches across the country in very meaningful ways.
Dimona Welcomes IDF soldiers
Meir Panim’s Restaurant-Style Soup Kitchen in the southern city of Dimona welcomed IDF soldiers from a nearby base to spend the day volunteering at the Holocaust Senior Day Center. Soldiers had the chance to help with food preparation and distribution as well as visit with the Survivors. After a full day of hard work, the soldiers were rewarded with a fresh snack: watermelons, a tasty seasonal treat here in Israel.
Or Akiva Honors fallen IDF soldiers
In Or Akiva, Meir Panim’s incredible staff partnered with other organizations in the area to prepare flower bouquets to place on the graves of fallen IDF soldiers. The volunteers not only made and delivered the flower arrangements themselves but they also cleaned off the graves of local fallen heroes. Even with the extra volunteering they did, the Meir Panim work crew still found time to finish their daily preparation of hot meals for the disadvantaged and needy. | <urn:uuid:439f3973-3f58-4639-9440-a40d04e43c7d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://meirpanim.org/yom-hazikaron-2021/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570879.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809003642-20220809033642-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.952142 | 232 | 1.648438 | 2 |
Editor's Note: This article originally appeared on The Conversation.
There are many reasons to miss George H.W. Bush, the 41st president of the United States. A World War II hero, he later served his country with great distinction in a number of important positions before becoming vice president and then president.
The outpouring of warm feelings first for his wife, Barbara Bush, who passed away earlier this year, and now for him, reflects not only the role President and Mrs. Bush played in American history but also the decency they represented in a political system that now has become full of indecency.
Strikingly, George H.W. Bush was also the last person elected president of the United States with any prior foreign policy experience.
He left office with an impressive list of achievements, including the unification of Germany within NATO. As historian Jeffrey Engel has reminded us in his excellent recent book, “When the World Seemed New,” this was far from assured. British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and French President Francois Mitterand were deeply opposed to Germany’s unification, while Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev opposed not only unification but the incorporation of the former East Germany into NATO. Germany’s leadership in Europe as a force for democracy and human rights since those years has clearly vindicated President Bush’s instincts to support West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl in his efforts in 1990.He entered office with one of the most impressive resumes of any president, having served as director of the Central Intelligence Agency, ambassador to the United Nations and Ronald Reagan’s vice president.
A major high point of the George H.W. Bush presidency, however, was also the harbinger of disappointments to come: the swift military victory that reversed Saddam Hussein’s invasion of Kuwait and seemed to herald a new era in world affairs – but left Saddam Hussein in power.
In 1991, it seemed America could do anything it wanted to in the world – politically, diplomatically and militarily. But no one could have imagined 27 years ago the role that Iraq would come to play in American foreign policy in the ensuing years and the loss of American lives, money, standing and self-confidence that resulted from U.S. involvement in that country.
A new world order?
U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, George Bush, raises his hand signaling a veto vote to block a call on Israel to stop reprisal raids in the Middle East following the murder of Israeli Olympic athletes, Sept. 10, 1972.Associated Press/Dave Pickoff
A month after Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait, in September 1990, Bush and Gorbachev issued a joint statement noting that “no peaceful international order is possible if larger states can devour their smaller neighbors.” That same month, Bush declared, “We’re now in sight of a United Nations that performs as envisioned by its founders.”
The problem was that while the United Nations was set up to prevent powerful states from invading weaker neighbors, as Germany and Japan had done in the 1930s and 1940s, the main challenges of the post-Cold War world – prior to Russia invading Ukraine in 2014 – were different. They were mainly internal challenges: failed states and civil wars in places like Somalia, Rwanda, the Balkans, Afghanistan and eventually Iraq after the disastrous U.S. occupation following the 2003 war.
The U.S. effort to put together an international coalition against Iraq in 1990 was stunning. Secretary of State James Baker met with every head of state or foreign minister whose country held a seat on the U.N. Security Council. That meant not just meeting with those countries that had permanent seats like the Soviet Union and China, but also those holding rotating seats such as Ivory Coast, Romania and even Cuba.
Baker’s efforts were successful. The Security Council passed U.N. resolution 678 on Nov. 29, 1990 and established Jan. 15, 1991 as the deadline for Iraq to withdraw its troops from Kuwait or face a U.S.-led international coalition to force its withdrawal.
The coalition made good on the threat. As Colin Powell told my co-author Derek Chollet and me in an interview for our book on the period, “The Gulf War was the war against the Russians we didn’t have. There were no trees and no hills, but that’s what we were trained to fight. The Iraqis sat there and we kicked the shit out of them.”
For those who had suffered through the morass of Vietnam and the crisis of American confidence that followed, it was the ultimate feel-good moment. An estimated 800,000 people packed the National Mall to cheer their military heroes. Bush came out of the war with a 90 percent public approval rating.
The Iraq problem
In this Nov. 22, 1990 file photo, President George Bush poses with soldiers during a stop at an air base in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia. Twenty five years after the first U.S. Marines swept across the border into Kuwait in the 1991 Gulf War, American forces find themselves battling the extremist Islamic State group, born out of al-Qaida, in the splintered territories of Iraq and Syria.Associated Press/J. Scott Applewhite
And yet, the following year, a candidate with no foreign policy experience who had avoided military service in Vietnam won the presidency. By 1992, the Cold War was over, and Bill Clinton campaigned with the mindset that it was “the economy, stupid.”
But while Clinton defeated Bush, he inherited the Iraq problem from his predecessor, who had chosen not to remove Saddam Hussein in order to keep his U.N. coalition together. Clinton was faced for eight years with patrolling the no-fly-zones established over the north and south of Iraq to protect the Kurdish and Shiite populations.
Clinton passed the Iraq problem off to George W. Bush, who in the aftermath of the attacks of Sept. 11 made the fateful decision to go to war in 2003 – this time without U.N. authorization. Bush and his “coalition of the willing” removed Saddam Hussein, leaving the United States as an occupying power. And while Barack Obama promised – a promise on which, for a fleeting moment, he seemed to deliver – a U.S. withdrawal from the country, he was forced to go back in militarily with the rise of the Islamic State, handing off the Iraq problem to his successor to manage. Even as Donald Trump presided over tremendous military success against ISIS, Iraq remains a diplomatic and military challenge for the United States. The 2003 war left Iran ascendant in the region, and it cost the United States not only significant blood and treasure, but so much of the standing and legitimacy it gained in 1991.
Thus the promise of the Gulf War – the U.S. dominant like no other since ancient Rome, confident that it could rule the world on behalf of freedom and democracy – gave way over time to doubt and confusion. In the post-Cold War world, the U.S. military was largely called upon to handle internal conflicts – in Somalia, Bosnia, Kosovo, Afghanistan, Libya and, throughout it all, Iraq – and the results have proved deeply dissatisfying.
In 1991, George H.W. Bush declared victory and celebrated with a parade. In 2011, there was no parade for Libya. There will be no parade for Afghanistan. If Donald Trump ever holds a military parade in Washington, D.C. as he once discussed, it will take place in an America exhausted from its long wars and feeling far less confident in its role in the world than it was back in the George H.W. Bush years.
It’s fitting that George H.W. Bush, World War II military hero and Cold War veteran, is the last president to preside over what at the time felt awesome: a major military victory fought on behalf of the entire world against a dictator.
His successors, none of whom served in the military and all of whom have wrestled with post-Cold War challenges, have been vexed not only by Iraq, but by challenges posed by nonstate actors while trying to manage regional threats emanating from China, Russia and Iran. While Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, Barack Obama and now Donald Trump have each in their own way tried to define American leadership, George H.W. Bush’s presidency represents the moment at the end of the Cold War when anything seemed possible for the United States in world affairs, and the underlying challenges were only just beginning to become visible.
Editor’s note: This story updates a version published on June 12, 2017.
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Please answer one of the following questions:
1. Using examples from the book, describe how Dr. Hammerschlag changed his thinking and became a more effective physician – i.e., a true healer.
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From March 20 to 30, Kairos Italy Theater (KIT) and Dicapo Opera will present “Tosca e le altre due” (Tosca and The Two Downstairs), a satirical, behind-the-scenes sister-story to Puccini’s “Tosca” as imagined by one of the wittiest and most admired Italian playwright and actresses, Franca Valeri. The piece is directed by Laura Caparrotti, Artistic Director of KIT, and its English translation is by Natasha Lardera. Supertitles are by the prestigious Prescott Studio in Italy. The piece will be staged at Dicapo Opera, 184 E. 76th Street, Manhattan.
The play will be acted by Laura Caparrotti and Marta Mondelli in Italian with English supertitles. KIT-Kairos Italy Theater is a rarity: a bilingual Italian-English theater company that presents Italian theatrical works of literary merit. It is named for Kairos, the Greek god of the fleeting moment. The prologue will be acted in voice over by Rocco Sisto. Set design is by Lucretia Moroni.
“Tosca” by Puccini is based on a drama by Sardou. In this well-known opera, Mario Cavarodossi, a painter who has concealed a dangerous political prisoner, is being protected by his lover, a celebrated singer named Tosca. Cavarodossi is tortured to reveal the whereabouts of the prisoner to Scarpia, the chief of police, who has promised to save the painter by a mock execution if Tosca will give herself to him. She ultimately agrees, but stabs Scarpia at the last moment. The execution is, however, a real one and in grief, Tosca leaps from a battlement to her death. The opera debuted on January 14, 1900.
“Tosca e le altre due” by Franca Valeri shares the 19th century setting and events of the opera, but refracts them through two memorable women characters who share them from the outside. The torture’s screams and scuffles are overheard from upstairs by the wife of the torturer and the female doorkeeper of Palazzo Farnese in Rome, where the interrogation is taking place. The play is a wry and humorous character study of these two women, outsiders, who are accidentally close to the passions and politics of the story.
In the play, the doorkeeper’s lodge of the Palazzo Farnese is dominated by Emilia, a proud Roman woman who is responsible for upholding both the house’s decorum and the reputation of the powerful and wicked Baron Scarpia. She is married to Nando, the jailer of the Castel Sant’Angelo; a strong housewife who doesn’t get easily upset over the constant shouting and somewhat shady affairs of the Palazzo. The politics of Rome in 1800 are important to keep in mind. Napoleon having invaded Italy, power was shifting between the old royalists (who employ Scarpia) and the young Italian revolutionaries (like Cavaradossi), who wanted Italy to become a republic along French lines. Emilia passionately supports anything Baron Scarpia must do to wield his authority.
One night, a woman named Iride sneaks into the porter’s lodge. She is an actress and former prostitute from outside Milan who has come to pick up her husband, Sciarrone, the galley-sergeant and sadistic factotum of Scarpia. Sciarrone is working late at a very delicate job on the upper floor of Palazzo Farnese: he is forcefully interrogating a variety of prisoners, among whom is Cavaradossi, Tosca’s lover. His techniques are cruel, but Scarpia knows that Sciarrone’s methods, when applied to Cavaradossi, may be an efficient way to shock poor Tosca, whom he desires, into surrendering her body to him.
Emilia and Iride patiently wait for the end of Sciarrone’s shift. With the prisoners’ tortured screams in the background, the two women keep each other company. Scattered through their dialogue are inserts of the actual opera performance. In the course of the play, all the characters in “Tosca”-including Scarpia, Spoletta, Roberti and Cavaradossi-pass by and are commented on by the two women, whose conversations are a hilarious parody of common people’s life. Their gossip reveals the miserable daily struggles of the poor, who must dwell among state secrets that are much larger than they are. The situation peels away to reveal a desperate women’s plot. Iride is not there just to wait for her thuggish husband, but to escape from him. A dangerous plan is born free her.
Divided almost like the three acts of Tosca, “Tosca and the Two Downstairs” moves between two Roman settings, the church Sant’Andrea della Valle and the Palazzo Farnese. It starts out deceptively satirical, comical and light, then enlarges into a very profound analysis of its two characters. Emilia, although stern, conservative and protective of her position in the status quo, is revealed to be empathetic to a fault and willing to risk her life to help anyone. Iride, who had escaped a life with no “moral” pretensions, would now rather return to the streets than endure her violent, cruel husband.
The play had its debut on 1978 in Italy with Franca Valeri as Emilia and Adriana Asti as Iride. In the U.S., the play has only been presented by KIT-Kairos Italy Theater, which held a reading at Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimo’ at NYU and at the Ciao Italy Festival in Brooklyn and in 2010 presented the play’s American debut at the cell in Manhattan.
REVIEWS OF THE 2010 PRODUCTION
“Iride is rendered with exquisite charm by Mondelli, who is nicely balanced by Caparrotti’s gruff but crafty Emilia. ‘Tosca e Le Altre Due’ is humorous and insightful, a novel way to comment on Puccini’s examination of politics and passions. Kairos, dedicated to spreading Italian culture abroad, has achieved its aims here. The production and company are worthy of note.” -Fern Siegel, Huffington Post
“A saucy little two-character Italian comedy, astutely acted by Laura Caparrotti (who also directs) and Marta Mondelli, ‘Tosca e le altre due (Tosca and the Two Downstairs)’ fabricates a funny, feminist-tinged side story to the famous Puccini opera….enormously appealing on many levels” -Lisa Jo Segolla, Backstage (Critic’s Pick)
“The setting and costuming are aesthetically pleasing, the dynamic between the actresses is good, and the history of the play is fascinating, but most of all it is the redeeming, new permutation of Tosca that is its most unique quality….Anyone with a taste for culture will gain something from the experience of these two Italian women ‘downstairs.'” – Jonathan Lim, Off-off Online
“Laura Caparrotti, who is also the producer of the play and KIT’s artistic director, plays Emilia, the role created by Valeri herself. She channels Ms. Valeri’s theatrics to perfection, certainly not an easy task, showing impeccable comic timing and a unique knack in delivering the snide remarks with which her part is peppered. Marta Mondelli made an utterly plausible character of Iride, a role which could lend itself to easy stereotypes. Her progress from frivolous chatterbox to anguished, desperate woman is thoroughly and painfully tangible. Particularly heartfelt was her monologue during ‘Vissi d’arte.'” -Ecole Farnese, The Parterre Box
“Kairos Italy Theater’s remarkable production of Tosca and the Two Downstairs thoroughly grasps the manifold meaning of the play. The spare – and yet extremely appropriate – decor of the set properly props the clockwork interaction between Emilia and Iride, respectively played by Laura Caparrotti (who is also the director) and Marta Mondelli. Caparrotti’s skillfully unadorned and almost solemn gestures – keenly studied on the Roman popolana beyond Valeri’s onw renditions – are timely matched by Mondelli’s extroverted reconstruction of the Lombard starlet. The vernacular interjections peppering the characters’ witty retorts might suit better the Italian speakers, but the English supertitles appropriately render the nuances of the play nonetheless. It was high time that a modern and intelligent Italian comedy like Valeri’s ‘Tosca and the Two Downstairs’ were produced. Thanks to Laura Caparrotti for having once again done the right thing.” -Andrea Malaguti, I-Italy
“This show is a great way to be introduced to, or continue to appreciate, Valeri’s work.” -Essence of Italy
ABOUT PLAYWRIGHT FRANCA VALERI
“Tosca and The Two Downstairs” is the first play by Franca Valeri to be produced in the U.S. Born in Milan in 1920, she is the first female comic actress and satiric playwright to enjoy steady success from the 1950s to today. Her unforgettable women characters-above all the “Signorina Snob,” the satirical portrait of a rich girl from Milan-made her very popular in the 50s. During a career that now, despite the age, shows no signs of slowing down, Ms. Valeri has worked in about 53 films with the most famous Italian directors and actors such as Alberto Sordi, Vittorio De Sica, Toto’, Dino Risi among many others. In addition, she has written several screenplays and plays. Ms. Valeri is also an opera connoisseur who has directed several operas and founded a competition for young opera singers. In 2014, she keeps working and writing. She is now 93 years old.
WHO’S WHO IN THE PRODUCTION
Laura Caparrotti (Emilia/director) has a Masters degree in Performing Arts, Cinema and Theatre History from the University “La Sapienza” in Rome. She also studied independently with Nobel Prize winner Dario Fo and Annie Girardot. After ten years of professional theatre in Italy, she relocated to New York, where she has directed and/or performed at The Kitchen, The Fringe Festival, The Walter Reade Theater at Lincoln Center, the cell, the Flea and Casa Italiana Zerilli Marimo’, among other venues. She was the Assistant to the Director of the Off Broadway production of Eduardo De Filippo’s “Souls of Naples” featuring John Turturro. She is the world-wide representative of the De Curtis Family, and the curator of “Excerpts of a Prince Named Toto,” the official traveling exhibition on the Italian iconic actor Toto. She is also a playwright, a journalist, a teacher, a lecturer, a consultant and dialect coach for Italian (“Boardwalk Empire”) a curator and a panelist for NYSCA. She is member of the Director’s Lab at Lincoln Center, of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society, the League of Professional Theater Women and the Founding Artistic Director of Kairos Italy Theater. In 2013, she started the In Scena! Italian Theater Festival NY, the first Italian Theater Festival to take place in all five NY Boroughs.
Marta Mondelli (Iride) was born and raised in Italy, where worked as an actress both in theater with her company Chiediscena and movies (among which “Stai Con Me” with Giovanna Mezzogiorno and Adriano Giannini and “Vieni Via Con Me” with Mariangela Melato). She moved to New York in 2002 where she started a career in playwriting and screenwriting. She acts steadily with Kairos Italy Theater. Her first novel in Italian, “Occhi di cane, cuore di cervo,” was published in Italy in 2011. Her first script, “Eve’s Story,” was finalist in the competition Screenplay Festival 2005. In 2010 she wrote and directed her first feature film, “The Contenders,” which won the Aloha Accolade Award for Excellence in Filmmaking at the Honolulu International Film Festival that same year. Her third screenplay, “A Small Accident,” received an Honorable Mention at the “Table Read My Screenplay” Contest during the Sundance Film Festival 2011. “The Window,” her first play, had a very successful run at the Cherry Lane Theater Studio in January 2014.
Rocco Sisto (Prologue, VO) has been seen in several movies, including the cult hit “The American Astronaut,” “Donnie Brasco,” “Carlito’s Way,” “Illuminata,” “Frequency” and “Lorenzo’s Oil.” On television, Sisto played young Junior Soprano in HBO’s “The Sopranos.” He has appeared in “Law and Order,” “Law and Order C.S.I.,” “Close to Home,” “Alias,” “N.Y.P.D. Blue,” “J.A.G.,” and “CSI: Crime Scene Investigation.” In theater, he is a founding member of Shakespeare & Co. and he has often acted in the New York Shakespeare Festival at the Delacorte Theater. On Broadway and Off-Broadway, he has appeared in numerous successful plays such as “Quills,” “Amadeus,” “The Comedy of Errors” and “Souls of Naples.” He received an OBIE for “The Winters Tale,” an OBIE, a Drama Desk nomination and a Drama League Award for his role in “Quills,” and an OBIE award for artistic excellence.
Natasha Lardera (Translation) has a degree in Film and Creative Writing from Emerson College and a Masters in Journalism from NYU. She is a journalist, translator, writer, critic who has been managing editor of various Italian and American publications focused on theater, cinema, food, wine, and tourism. She is also an actress and songwriter. Since 2004, she has translated for KIT and collaborated on several shows including “Accattone in Jazz,” a play with Italian celebrity Valerio Mastandrea based on Pasolini’s film “Accattone,” which was performed at Lincoln Center. She has translated plays by Dino Buzzati and poetry by Toto and other Italian personalities.
Lucretia Moroni (Set Designer) was born in Milan, attended the renowned Van der Kelen School in Brussels and continued her training in interiors with the Renzo Mongiardino architecture firm in Milan. After working with Franco Zeffirelli on the sets of “La Traviata,” she moved to New York City in the early 1980’s. She has worked on a large number of private and public projects, including the renovation of Bethesda Fountain in Central Park and residences in Italy, South America and the U.S. Her work has been published widely in design and general magazines worldwide. In 1997, she founded Fatto a Mano, a creative workshop located in New York which designs and produces a variety of printed silk and linen fabrics, some of which will be used in the set.
Kairos Italy Theater (Producer) is the only troupe focused on bilingual (Italian and English) theater in New York. It is named for the Greek god of the fleeting moment. KIT’s mission is to create a cultural exchange program between Italy, the US and the international community and to unveil artistic and creative sides of these two countries to the world. In the States, KIT is dedicated to spreading the Italian Culture and to creating an Italian Cultural Network in order to support and further increase the knowledge of Italy in the States. (www.kitheater.com)
Since its foundation in 2000 in New York City, KIT has produced more than 20 performances and events over the years, collaborating with Off-Off and Off Broadway theaters and with US Institutions such as The Kitchen, La MaMa, The Fringe Festival, the Abrons Art Center, Casa Italiana Zerilli Marimo’ at NYU, Italian Academy at Columbia University, Film Society at Lincoln Center, Dahesh Museum of Art, NY Hall of Science, the Flea Theatre, Theater for the New City, Montclair State University, Suffolk County Community College, the Bernie West Theater at Baruch College, the cell theatre, the Cherry Lane Theatre, The Italian Cultural Institute in NY, LA, Chicago, San Francisco and the General Consulate of Italy among many others.
KIT specializes in bringing premieres to the US stage. Never-before-translated works before by Ennio Flaiano, Franca Valeri, Eduardo De Filippo, and Pier Paolo Pasolini have been presented to US audiences, who have grown in appreciation and in number since the first production in 1997. In May 2003, KIT inaugurated the Double Theatre Experience: one act performed first in English and then in Italian. In 2013, KIT inaugurated its In Scena! Italian Theater Festival NY, the first Italian theater festival to take place in all five boroughs.
KIT has curated several events all related to Italian Culture: “Fellini-Flaiano: a different take,” “Caricatures from Tolentino,” “Fellini and The Myth of I Vitelloni in Italian Cinema” in 2003. KIT is the representative of the De Curtis Family in the US and the curator of the exhibition “Excerpts from a Prince named Toto’.”
KIT also organizes classes in Italian and Theatre for children and adults in NY and NJ, launched a bi-lingual online magazine Kit in the City, dedicated to cultural and every-day events in New York and Rome and recently created Teatro Italiano Network, a theatrical agency dedicated to Italian Companies and Artists.
In 2012, KIT created YoungKIT, its ‘youth division’ company comprised of young Italian actors studying in NYC. The goal is to educate the younger generation on the traditions of Italian theater while offering them a platform to improve their training.
This production of “Tosca e le altre due” in New York is sponsored by the Italian Cultural Institute in New York and Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimo’ at NYU.
Kairos Italy Theater and Dicapo Opera (184 E 76th Street) will present “Tosca e le altre due” March 20 to 30, 2014 Thursdays through Saturdays at 8:00 pm, Sundays at 2:00 PM. Tickets are $35.00 for gen. adm. and $20.00 for students and seniors and can be reserved through SMARTTIX (212) 868-4444 or purchased online at www.smarttix.com. | <urn:uuid:14bfd2ab-2c82-42cc-b703-ac1542ef9d30> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://newsblaze.com/entertainment/theatre/italys-culture-in-focus-on-tosca-e-le-altre-due-play_35027/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570879.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809003642-20220809033642-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.961904 | 4,193 | 1.570313 | 2 |
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This article discusses three trial scenes from three different ancient Greek novels (by Chariton, Achilles Tatius, and Longus), in which naïve justice seems to be deliberately subverted. The titular concept of “naïve justice” is defined here in terms borrowed from Aristotle’s Poetics, where the term “double resolution” is used, disparagingly, of plots in which the good characters are all rewarded and the bad characters all punished. The argument is made that the trial scenes under discussion should raise doubts in the reader’s mind as to which of the parties is truly guilty, and which is truly innocent. This can be seen as a reflection of unexpectedly mature ethical sensibilities on the part of these often-underestimated writers, who seem to have grasped that the “double resolution” may make the reader feel good, but has little to do with the real world.
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- Achilles Tatius, Leucippe and Clitophon.
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- Longus, Daphnis and Chloe.
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One of the most common questions we get here at roof repair is: how do ice dams damage roofs? It’s a good question and one that we’re happy to answer. Ice dams occur when the snow melts on your roof and then re-freezes at the edge of your roof line. This can cause a dam to form, which can then back up the water underneath your shingles and into your home.
This can cause serious damage to your roof, walls, ceilings, and even your foundation. While ice dams are more common in cold weather climates, they can happen anywhere there is snow and ice on your roof. If you think you may have an ice dam, it’s important to have it assessed by a top rated roofers in Enterprise as soon as possible to prevent further damage to your home. Thanks for reading!
How Ice Dams Form
Ice dams are caused by accumulated snow and uneven roof temperatures. During winter, when the upper area of a roof is warmer than the lower edge, nearest the eave or overhang, snow begins to melt and run down the roof slope. Once it reaches the colder roof edge, it refreezes, creating a block of ice called an ice dam. An ice dam prevents snowmelt from draining, causing water to pool on the roof which can eventually back up under your shingles or cause damage to your roofing system and home’s interior.
Uneven roof heating can be caused by inadequate attic ventilation or insulation. The heat from the living space below escapes through the ceiling into the attic, warming the roof surface and melting snow in patches, even if outdoor conditions keep the rest of it below freezing. Proper attic ventilation and insulation will help keep your roof uniformly cool, helping to prevent ice dams.
How Ice Dams Affect a Roof
Once an ice dam has formed, it can cause significant damage to your home if not removed. As water pools at the roof’s lower edge, it can begin to back up under the shingles. Once water is under the shingles, it can soak into the sheathing and roof deck.
If an ice dam breaks free and falls off the roof, it can damage both the gutter system and the shingles at the edge of the roof as well as any items, landscaping, or people around the area under it. Even if it doesn’t come loose, the weight of an ice dam can cause gutters and downspouts to bend or warp.
After soaking into the roof deck, water can continue its journey into the attic insulation. Wet insulation doesn’t perform as well as dry, providing water to get into the drywall in the living area. If that happens, the leak may finally become noticeable to the homeowner. But if unknown or left untreated, the leak can cause warped drywall, uneven floors, and rotten wood.
If the damp area is not dried out properly, it can also lead to the right conditions for mildew or mold to grow in the attic or even the living area. Mold and mildew can cause respiratory issues for those with allergies or sensitivities. If ice dams have caused mold or mildew to creep into your home, you should have a professional address it during the repair process.
Preventing Ice Dams
Ice dams can be prevented with winter maintenance, snow removal, proper attic ventilation, and insulation.
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We crunch the numbers of the series during its first-generation prime
writer Peter Higham
So to summarise… the first and original Canadian-American Challenge was a noisy, well-funded series for Group 7 sports-racing cars that briefly rivalled Formula 1 for stars and spectacle. It began in September 1966 and was run jointly by the Sports Car Club of America and Canadian Automobile Sport Club. With unrestricted engine capacity and rules that allowed technical freedom, the series was awash with innovation.
John Surtees’ Lola T70-Chevrolet won the first race and inaugural title, but McLaren soon dominated with Bruce McLaren, Denny Hulme and then Peter Revson winning the next five titles. Penske Racing and Porsche brought that run to an end in 1972 and 1973, with George Follmer and Mark Donohue.
Healthy title sponsorship from Johnson’s Wax helped attract GP drivers such as Jackie Stewart, Jo Siffert, Chris Amon, François Cevert and Dan Gurney to mix it with North America’s finest. They raced on iconic circuits from Laguna Seca and Riverside in California to Bridgehampton on the eastern Seaboard.
Jackie Oliver won the 1974 title for Don Nichols’ recently established Shadow marque, but Can-Am was now in terminal decline. A recent oil crisis, spiralling costs and the withdrawal of title sponsors and leading teams all contributed to the series being suspended after 1974. The Can-Am title was revived three years later for converted Formula 5000 cars. It had its place in the North American motor racing spectrum for a time, but was a shadow of its predecessor. | <urn:uuid:89b1a0e3-e15f-4949-9a04-c41edf487089> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.motorsportmagazine.com/archive/article/september-2016/100/data-trace-1966-74-can-am | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570879.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809003642-20220809033642-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.957677 | 344 | 1.585938 | 2 |
The avid driver and car enthusiast will tell you that you should check your tyres, rotate your wheels, check the wheel alignment, and balance your wheels. Yet, many people are not sure about this and ask whether they should have their car’s tyres rotated. They also don’t really know how it should be done, either.
Do you have to rotate your car’s tyres? In a nutshell, the answer is yes. You have to rotate your car’s tyres. This is essential for the longevity of your car’s tyres and would mean that you don’t have to change them too often.
Why do you have to rotate your car’s tyres? The main reason for doing this is to achieve a uniform wear on all the tyres. All four tyres should, theoretically, wear at the same pace. The left tyres shouldn’t get worn quicker than the ones on the right hand side of the car. This process also ensures that irregularities related to the tyres are avoided.
When do you have to rotate your car’s tyres? This has to be done periodically and should form part of the tyre maintenance. If you take your car in for a service, then it will be done as part of the service checklist. That means it should be done every year or when your service mileage is reached, whichever one of the two comes first. In other words, it’s once a year or once you’ve driven 15000 kilometres. However, you can rotate your tyres earlier if you notice that irregular or uneven wear has developed. This may occur if your car has experienced a hard impact such as hitting a pothole. This impact can cause the misalignment and can lead to uneven wear. If you have to sort out the problem before your next service, you can take your car to a wheel and tyre fitment centre. They will be able to determine the cause of the irregular tyre wear problem, so that they can fix it and you can avoid it in future. Then they will rotate your tyres and take it for a test drive to check whether the problem is fixed.
Do you still think that tyre rotation is another unnecessary check point on the service checklist? It is essential that you rotate them to ensure the longevity of your tyres. If you do this as often as it is recommended then you will have a safe comfortable driving experience.
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Worldly Cares Are Thorns
Luke 8:14, “And that which fell among thorns are they, which, when they have heard, go forth, and are choked with cares and riches and pleasures of this life, and bring no fruit to perfection.”
This third type of ground is characteristic of a large part of the Body of Christ today. These are people who have received God‘s Word, committed themselves to it to the degree that they are able to remain faithful in persecution, but because of being occupied with the affairs of this life, the Word sown in their heart is choked and no fruit is produced. Just as weeds in a garden will steal all of the nutrients and starve the plant, so the pleasures of this life, if we allow them to dominate our thinking, will stop the fruit that the Word would have produced.
Throughout history, the Church has always grown in size and strength during persecution. This is because during persecution we get our priorities straight. We realize our life is in Jesus (Jn. 14:6) and not in things (Lk. 12:15), and we focus all of our attention on the Lord. However, prosperity has been far more damaging to the Body of Christ for the exact reason stated here in this verse. God wants to bless His children with things (Ps. 35:27; Mt. 6:33), but a preoccupation with these things will choke God’s Word and make it unfruitful. If we would follow God’s formula for prosperity found in Matthew 6:19-34, we would have the Word bringing forth fruit and we’d enjoy the physical blessings of this life, too.
Notice Jesus said that no fruit was brought to perfection. This type of person will exhibit some fruit, but it will always be small and far short of what it should be. Do you feel frustrated because you are just getting by and are not really experiencing the abundant life that Jesus came to give? (Jn. 10:10) Examine your lifestyle and see if the cares of this life, deceitfulness of riches, or pleasures of this life could be choking God’s Word.
May the LORD bless Nigeria, American and Israel and take care of us; May the LORD make His face shine upon us, And be gracious to us; May the Lord lift up His countenance upon us, And give us peace, In Jesus Christ Name, we pray! Amen!
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One of the weird things you'll note about Olympic basketball is that it features a tiny field relative to the sport's other major global tournament, the FIBA World Cup. (They have changed the name from the World Championship going forward, I assume to borrow from the soccer tournament's popularity.) Only 12 teams make it to the Olympics, where 24 will qualify for the 2014 World Cup. In 2019, the field will have 32 teams -- or 20 more than the Olympics.
It's nice to have a tournament with some exclusivity. The idea is that it limits blowouts, makes every game more competitive and allows basketball fans to also enjoy more of the bounty that the Olympic Games offers. But only the last point has any merit. The 12-team field doesn't do anything to limit blowouts in group play or make games more competitive.
The issue is that the Olympics, despite its small size, grants five regions a total of seven automatic bids. The Americas (which includes powerhouses like the United States and Argentina) gets two automatic bids, as does Europe, a continent replete with good to great teams. But then Asia (China), Oceania (Australia) and Africa (Tunisia) all add a team, too. And frankly, these teams are not typically near the level of the top teams in the Americas and Europe. Yet they make up a quarter of the field. The other five qualifiers come from the reigning World Champion (Team USA this time around), the host nation and three wild card berths decided by supplementary tournament.
Having automatic qualifiers from the regions is great. It ensures that we're developing basketball everywhere it can be played (which is everywhere). But having those teams in the tournament leads to a good number of blowouts in group play. Witness Russia's win over China on Tuesday, a double-digit plastering that was never ever ever in doubt. China was the Asian champion. Russia got in as a wild card. And Russia was twice as strong as China. Doesn't that tell you something about the automatic qualifiers and the wild card adds?
The truth is that the in most years the top 10-14 teams in Europe will be better than the best team in Asia, Oceania or Africa. The top five in the Americas will usually be better than the automatic qualifiers from the three weak regions. (Note that Oceania is all of two teams deep, as in only two nations -- Australia and New Zealand -- compete for the Oceanic automatic berth.) Russia is a perfect example: it was shut out of the automatic bids in Europe, and needed to play at the wild card tournament in early July to earn a spot. It currently looks strong enough to beat Spain and medal. There are quite possibly other teams like Russia -- not quite as strong, but you never know -- that Olympic fans can't see.
Take Turkey, for example. Because the calendar is so tight between the end of the major league's seasons and the start of the Olympics, FIBA has to constrict admission to the wild card tournament. So much like the top one or two teams from the regional tournaments like EuroBasket earn automatic bids to the Olympics, the next couple finishers earn automatic bids to the wild card tournament. Turkey finished No. 2 in the 2010 World Championship, behind only Team USA. But only the team who placed No. 3 through No. 6 in EuroBasket 2011 earned bids to the wild card tournament. Turkey had a rough tournament and landed at No. 11.
So quite possibly the second or third best team in the world was eliminated from Olympic contention a year before the Games began.
How tight is the Olympic tournament? This is Tony Parker's first visit. He's 30 years old. The tiny field size also makes it imperative that nations bring their top players to the regional tournaments held a year before the Olympics. That expands the duties of already exhausted players, and leads to the distaste NBA team reps have with international play.
The easy solution: expand the field to 24. You'll have four groups of six in pool play, with each team playing five games, as they do currently. The top two finishers from each group move on to the quarterfinals, and the tournament follows the same format from there. How do you determine the bids? Automatic bids for the last Olympic champion, the host nation, the top three World Cup finishers who haven't already qualified via the previous two designations, the top three in EuroBasket, the top two in FIBA Americas and one from a combined Asia-Oceania tournament and from Africa. That gives us 12 teams and 12 open spots. Invite the next 24 best teams according to the FIBA World Rankings (which should be modified to place greater emphasis on recent play) to a wild card tournament a few weeks before the Olympics. Separate them into six groups of four. Do a round of play within the groups. The top two from each group advance to the Olympics. Now we have 24 teams in the Olympics. It's pretty simple.
How would this help, other than getting more worthy teams in the tournament (which in itself is a useful objective)? It'd boost the number of teams prepared to play well right now. An example of this is Nigeria, who didn't win the African championship last summer but did get an invite to the wild card tournament. With Ike Diogu and two Aminus, the Nigerians came out blasting in the wild card spot ... and won a spot. They promptly beat Tunisia, the African champs, in the Olympics' first match. Adding those late-berth spots ensures that most of the teams enter the tournament in strong shape. Given how much one injury can matter, that's huge. It would make the majority of games more competitive. Team USA will still win blowouts, but perhaps Russia wouldn't be racking up the lopsided victories it's seeing early.
It's worth noting that FIBA has requested a larger Olympic field, but the International Olympic Committee has repeatedly denied those requests. It'll take some catastrophe like Team USA failing to qualify after the tournament potentially goes under-23 for the IOC to change its mind, it appears.
I'll end this plea with the indelible image of Skopje, the capital of F.Y.R. Macedonia, a tiny country that stunned Lithuania in the quarterfinals of EuroBasket 2011. This is how F.Y.R. Macedonia celebrated a win that put them into the semifinals of a continental tournament.
Imagine what they'd do if they found their team in the Olympics. We need to support basketball-crazy people like the good folks of Skopje. We need to open up the Olympic tournament to more teams.
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21 Mar Does a TV in the Hospital Room Help or Hurt the Patient’s Healing?
Working as a Feng Shui consultant in various hospitals over the years, I have been cognizant that there are specific life-critical systems in place near each hospital bed. In an emergency, an oxygen supply, medical ventilators, monitoring capabilities are all crucial to helping people heal.
Along with all that, the patient is also influenced by the presence of a television. Typically mounted on the wall, the TV looms over the patient waiting for the chance to entertain or inform. A remote allows the patient to decide what to watch on their television and when.
But is this a good idea?
In Feng Shui, television sets are a modern invention that didn’t have to be taken into consideration a few hundred years ago. In homes, I suggest that a television be placed in an armoire of entertainment center where doors can close off its influence.
And now that a TV in a hospital room is expected, they require attention in terms of their healing impact.
Here are some “Pros” and “Cons” to the TV question based on a Feng Shui approach:
- They have a strong presence even if they aren’t broadcasting. When the TV is off, the screen is dark creating a black hole in the room which pulls energy from the patient.
- They are typically mounted near the ceiling. I understand this from the standpoint of cleaning and countertop space, but looking “up” at a TV puts the patient in an inferior position.
- They emit an electromagnetic field which can impede a patient’s recovery.
- They’re scientifically linked to other negative effects when someone watches television for long periods of time—-lack of exercise, obesity, depression, etc.
- Watching television can certainly be a distraction but in doing so, will take the patient’s mind off their discomfort, even if for a short period of time.
- Many hospitals now have “healing” TV programs available to patients—-soft music, scenes of nature, inspiring quotes—-which is clearly helpful to someone who needs to get better.
- They can bring people together as they enjoy a special program or series as a group.
- They can help a patient pass the time.
I am sure televisions will not be removed from hospital rooms any time soon. So here are my two suggestions to make sure they are a healing tool and not just an energy drain.
- First, lower them (even slightly) so the interaction between patient and TV is on a more equal level.
- Second, have a way to cover the TV when it’s not in use. A shutter system is the simplest way to do this—-they’re easy to keep clean and easy to open and close.
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Like all financial institutions, Pfandbrief banks are subject to the European Single Supervisory Mechanism (SSM). The various banking supervisory authorities give effect to the regulatory requirements in European or national provisions and carry out the Supervisory Review and Evaluation Process (SREP).
In legal terms, banking supervision is based on European and national provisions and is exercised by various supervisory authorities on the European and national level. Significant institutions are supervised directly by the ECB banking supervision through so-called joint supervisory teams (JST). Less significant institutions are supervised by national competent authorities (NCA), although the ECB banking supervision exercises indirect supervision by setting standards for uniform supervisory practice. In Germany, the Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (BaFin), together with the Deutsche Bundesbank, handles the direct supervision of less significant institutions. The classification as a significant or less significant institution is specified in the SSM Regulation.
The legal bases of supervision are essentially set down in the following European legislation:
- CRR (Capital Requirements Regulation)
- SSM (Single Supervisory Mechanism) Regulation
- National transposition of the European Capital Requirements Directive (CRD) in the German Banking Act (Kreditwesengesetz, KWG) and in associated regulations
Also, for Pfandbrief banks, the German Pfandbrief Act (Pfandbriefgesetz, PfandBG) is of importance.
Banking supervisory authorities issue bulletins giving more detail on regulatory requirements. On the European level, the European Banking Authority (EBA) sets guidelines. These guidelines are to be applied in full, in part or not at all by the competent authorities (for German institutions, the ECB banking supervision or BaFin) on a “comply or explain” basis. In addition, the competent supervisory authorities are specifying the regulatory requirements through further pronouncements.
As part of its “Single Rulebook Q&A” process, the EBA also performs interpretation of the CRD and the CRR, although this is not directly binding on institutions. Finally, the competent authority decides whether it adopts an EBA Q&A into its administrative practice. The ECB banking supervision and BaFin generally adopt the EBA Q&A.
The ECB banking supervision also develops supervisory methods and standards, inter alia, in the form of manuals, guides, and regulations, that are effective for the entire Single Supervisory Mechanism (SSM).
Additionally, BaFin and the Deutsche Bundesbank also publish interpretive decisions, guidance notices, circulars, and administrative acts, which are primarily relevant for institutions supervised directly by them. These include, for instance, the guidance on the supervisory assessment of bank-internal capital adequacy concepts.
BaFin also specifies the ratios for the countercyclical capital buffer attributable to German exposures for all institutions – regardless of whether they are significant or less significant – as well as the capital buffers for systemic risks and for global or other systemically important institutions.
Regarding real estate financing, the so-called hard test should also be emphasized. Based on the losses from real estate financing reported by the institutions, BaFin decides whether a well-developed and long-established real estate market exists. If the hard test is met – as has been the case in Germany for many years – real estate financing will benefit from regulatory privileges (see also CRD/CRR, European regulations). The publicly available data on losses per outstanding loans are as follows:
The SREP is used to verify and assess both an institution’s risk situation/controls and the associated adequacy of its internally determined capital and liquidity (ICAAP and ILAAP). These are based on the EBA’s SREP guidelines. On-site inspections, stress tests, and supervisory benchmarking of internal approaches constitute the main supervisory activities, the results of which are included in the SREP. Based on EBA guidelines, the SREP follows what is known as the “Pillar 1 plus” approach, in which the minimum requirements of Pillar 1 (pursuant to the CRD/CRR) are supplemented by institution-specific supervisory capital requirements covering risks not taken into account in Pillar 1 (e.g. interest rate risk in the banking book).
The EBA is developing guidelines, and draft regulatory technical standards (RTS), governing the use of internal approaches for determining capital requirements for credit and market risk. The aim is to reduce undue variability in the model’s results. Examples include the guidelines on the estimation of probability of default (PD) and loss given default (LGD) parameters or the RTS on the specification of the assessment methodology for competent authorities regarding compliance of an institution with the requirements to use the IRB approach (internal approaches to determining capital requirements for credit risk).
Regarding the ICAAP and ILAAP, the ECB banking supervision issued comprehensive guidelines as the result of a multi-year project. Together with ongoing analyses of current practices in the institutions, the need for improvement identified by the ECB banking supervision in some areas is being addressed.
Currently the BaFin revises in the Minimum Requirements for Risk Management (Mindestanforderungen an das Risikomanagement, MaRisk) mainly concern the following aspects:
- Management of non-performing and forborne exposures including collateral valuation
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One of the world’s most respected epidemiologists says history books can teach us how to better handle the Covid-19 pandemic.
Professor Tom Jefferson of Oxford University reveals that studying how the Ancient Romans treated infectious patients would have helped ensure more of the NHS could have remained operational for patients with serious conditions unrelated to coronavirus.
He said the hospital in a Roman fort in Perthshire was a template for how to tackle contagion.
He said: “The Romans knew how to tackle a pandemic better than we have done. When they had infectious patients they were treated well away from everyone else and kept apart.
“If we had done that, the NHS would have been able to continue operating as normal instead of what we have seen happening in hospitals and clinics across the country.”
The expert, who has served as a government advisor to the UK, Australia and Italy, revealed a historic Roman site in the heart of Perthshire holds the key.
He warned that the world has changed forever and we must now plan and prepare to continue facing the invisible enemy that has brought society to its knees.Professor Jefferson said: “We have to accept change, prepare and learn supreme adaptability to what we will face in the future.
“To do that, we need to learn from history. Close examination of the architecture of the hospital (valetudinarium) in the Roman Legionary fortress at Inchtuthil near Perth gives us clues as to how we should develop hospitals to specifically deal with infections such as coronavirus in the future.
“Their hospital was a single-story rectangular structure with two entrances. This allowed access control and a one-way flow of people which reduced cross-infection.”
Professor Jefferson said patients with Covid-19 or similar infectious conditions should not be taken to mainstream hospitals where they risk infecting other patients and staff.
He said: “They should be taken to a separate, specialist infectious diseases hospital, like the Romans built and like the old fever hospitals we used to have back in the day when we were battling Spanish flu and TB.
“What resonates are simple basic principles of health and hygiene, distancing, air circulation, patient flow control, light, privacy, insulation, buddy aid, maintenance of identity and above all, supreme flexibility in the face of the unknown.
“Modern-day hospitals are more like packed multi-storey hotels with elevators and lay outs that are ideal breeding grounds for infection.”
He said if infectious disease or fever hospitals of the past had been kept and maintained instead of being replaced by huge modern hospitals, the NHS could have continued seeing other patients without the fear of Covid-19 being passed.
And patients with other conditions would not have been left too terrified to seek help or attend clinics.
He said: “If we want to stay safe, we need to prepare for the future and invest in separate infectious disease hospitals which will require to be maintained and made ready for more coronavirus-type infections.
“That means general NHS hospitals can remain open and accessible to other patients in a way that just isn’t happening right now.
“Adaptability, preparedness and common sense is the way forward.
“The Romans were successful because although they never knew what they might be facing as their Empire spread far and wide, they prepared for every eventuality. That is what we must do now.
“We do not need to climb into a DeLorean car and go back to the future to see the way we should go in treating our fellow human beings.
“We need to look to the basic principals learned in our past.”
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March 19, 2009
For humans, the Southern Ocean is an inhospitable place: the water temperature is at or below zero-degrees Celsius (the freezing point of freshwater), air temperature and wind chill can cause hypothermia, and large waves and swell are common. When equipment is deployed or recovered from the back deck, many precautions are taken to protect those involved from the harsh environment.
Float coats—full-body jumpsuits and jackets with built-in insulation and floatation—provide protection from the icy water. Waves can wash over the deck and get people wet. Even in calm weather, science events may require hours of work outside; float coats keep wearers warm and dry.
Hard hats must also be worn while working on deck. There are a number of overhead dangers, including wires being pulled under high tension, and tools or icicles that could fall. Although only small icicles, less than five centimeters long, have shown up on this cruise, in 2008, icicles up to 30 centimeters long covered the ship. Even if such overhead dangers were not present, the unpredictable rocking of the ship can pull someone out of balance and cause them to bump into low-hanging obstacles.
When work requires people to get close to the ship’s edge, they must wear a special belt over their float coat with rings for attaching a lifeline, a line that is tied to the ship so the person can’t fall into the water. In some cases, a special “dog run” is used to anchor lifelines, allowing the wearer to move from side-to-side but preventing them from falling overboard. | <urn:uuid:1cfe3948-39d8-4ab9-88bb-4357c31a6637> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.mbari.org/antarctic-2009-ship-life-mar-19/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570879.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809003642-20220809033642-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.945036 | 345 | 3.4375 | 3 |
In a study of children with type 1 diabetes who were treated with insulin pump therapy, temporarily stopping insulin helped in preventing a decline in blood sugar (hypoglycemia) during exercise. However, the risk of high blood sugar (hyperglycemia) increased.
Regular exercise is encouraged for children with type 1 diabetes, but it is often difficult to maintain normal sugar levels during prolonged periods of physical activity. In particular, exercise can lead to an increased use of sugar, resulting in hypoglycemia.
Dr. Eva Tsalikian, from the Jaeb Center for Health Research in Tampa, Florida, and other members of the Diabetes Research in Children Network Group evaluated the effect of stopping the insulin pump during exercise in 49 diabetic children. A number of studies have looked at the process of exercise-induced hypoglycemia in children with type 1 diabetes, but few have examined strategies for preventing this problem.
The subjects were randomly assigned to stop or not stop insulin during four 15-minute treadmill cycles (target heart rate of 140 beats per minute), interspersed with 5-minute rest breaks. Sugar levels were measured before, during, and after exercise. The children switched groups and process was repeated on a second day.
The rate of hypoglycemia, defined as a blood sugar level of 70 milligrams per decaliter or lower, was 16 percent with during insulin suspension compared with a rate of 43 percent when insulin was not stopped.
The rate of hyperglycemia, defined as an increase in sugar levels of at least 20 percent to at least 200 milligrams per decaliter at 45 minutes after completion of exercise was higher in the insulin suspension group: 27 percent vs. 4 percent.
Turning off the insulin pump during exercise is an effective strategy for reducing hypoglycemia in children with type 1 diabetes, but the risk of hyperglycemia is increased, the researchers state.
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Prof. Chioma Agomo, former dean of the faculty of law of the University of Lagos recently exited the university system after serving for 40 years. In this interview with Assistant Editor, Law and Foreign Affairs, JOSEPH ONYEKWERE, she expressed views on some legal matters and declared that corruption would continue to fester in the country until people experience a change in values. According to her, integrity, transparency, merit, and a sense of social responsibility must be enthroned.
There are people who believe that the standard in legal education is falling. What is your view on that?
My answer to this question has not changed from the view I expressed in 2007 when I was first asked this same question. In my view, we cannot isolate legal education from the general educational system, and other factors, which impact teaching and learning. We cannot separate legal education from governance. We cannot separate it from funding, from competing interests.
Having said that, I must add that education is at a crossroads, legal education included. There is a paradigm shift, which is beginning to show in the mode of interactions between teacher and students. The difficulty is that the facilities in place in some places do not match the number of intakes. In the days of smaller numbers, and effective tutorial system, it was easy to assess the quality of education. That has since gone, but the virtual learning mode now made imperative by the COVID-19 pandemic, has shown that there are viable alternative modes of legal education. The introduction of clinical legal education over more than a decade ago exposed students and lecturers to innovative ways of teaching and learning such that, law students at the point of graduating, would be expected to have acquired some lawyering and other requisite skills. These changes, I believe, are continuing in many law faculties. One area where I have recently expressed some concern is in the area of students’ willingness to engage themselves purposively in acquiring life-long legal knowledge and skills, beyond the acquisition of knowledge for the purpose of passing exams and nothing more. This is a cause for concern.
How can legal education be improved?
Education is a process. It is not static. It must change with the times. Legal education has come a long way, and it still has a long way to go. Globalisation and the internet have brought in their wake the gradual erosion of internal barriers and hindrances to access to changes across the globe. There are now ample opportunities and avenues to learn from other systems. However, there are still things that are needed within borders to improve on what is already on ground. Minimum standards as set by the National Universities Commission (NUC) from time to time should be strictly applied across the board to federal, state and private universities. Government cannot shy away from adequate funding of the system. It is share hypocrisy to give the impression that education in public institutions is free, and yet not fund the institutions adequately so as to provide a conducive learning environment.
Why is ethics not studied as a course and do you think it is needed in the legal curriculum?
It is not correct to say that ethics is missing from the legal curriculum. The legal profession is one that has strong ethics. Besides, it has always been part of the curriculum of the Nigerian Law School.
Will you subscribe to the view that law should be studied as a second degree?
I was asked this question in 2005, one year into my deanship of the Law Faculty of the University of Lagos. My response then was “Yes.” Eighteen years down the line, my thinking has remained largely unchanged. However, I have come to realise, that maturity is not necessarily a function of age. There are some young people with wisdom and maturity beyond their years, while there are adults who behave like immature babies. What is needed to sustain the quality of students admitted immediately after secondary school education is a thorough screening process as is currently the case, which uses a three-tier structure. Furthermore, the increasing popularity of the school of foundation studies, which prepares students for the Joint Universities Preparatory Examinations Board (JUPEB), has provided a further maturing period for intending students.
For 40 years you taught law in the University. What do think about scrapping the law school such that universities prepare students for non-residential Bar exams?
I do not think it is a good idea to scrap the law school for a non-residential Bar exams. The law school provides a common ground for law graduates from the various law faculties to undergo their professional training. It should not be scrapped for uniformity.
As an insurance expert, what is the legal consequence of non- compliance with group life insurance provision of the Pension Reform Act?
The Revised Guidelines for Group Life Insurance Policy for Employees 2020, jointly issued by the National Insurance Commission and National Pension Commission, provides in paragraph 7.3 that where an employer failed to carry out a Group Life Insurance on behalf of the employees and death occurs in active service, such employer is liable to pay the 300 per cent of the gross emolument for Group Life Insurance Policy to the beneficiaries of the deceased employee in line with the provisions of the Pension Reform Act 2014. According to paragraph 7.4 of the Guidelines, an employer who fails to insure its employees for up to the 300 per cent of their gross emoluments, is liable to pay the difference to the beneficiary of the deceased employee. Gross emolument for this purpose means the annual total remuneration of the employee before any deductions.
For years, Nigeria has had to live with unjust labour treatment of contract staff, which deprives workers of entitlements in cases of death, dismissal, retirement or even resignation. How do you think this can be tackled?
This is a sad reality of today’s world of work. I believe it is most prevalent in the banking industry. The oil and gas sector appears also to have its fair share of contract staff. Unfortunately, the economic situation makes it difficult for those affected to leave and seek employment elsewhere. The treatment of contract staff by employers runs counter to International Labour Organisation (ILO’s) concept of decent work, which advocates fair remuneration, social protection and social dialogue, among others. The only effective way out is through unionisation. It is only collective labour that can fight for the rights of its members. Individual employees are powerless to fight for themselves.
Transparency international has consistently rated Nigeria as one of the most corrupt countries in the world. In 2020, Nigeria ranked 149 of 180 corrupt nations in the world on yearly corruption perception index. According to the United Nations (UN), every year, $1 trillion is paid in bribes, while an estimated $2.6trillion are stolen yearly, a sum equivalent to more than five per cent of the global Gross Domestic Product (GDP).
Judicial corruption topped the ICPC corruption ranking last year. How can these corruption trends be reversed?
Corruption has eaten deep into the fabric of the society. It is now obvious that it has continued unabated under the present administration. It merely goes to show that no matter who is in power, corruption will still flourish unless or until people have a change in values. Integrity, transparency, merit, and a sense of social responsibility must be enthroned. Again, there must be the political will to sanction offenders appropriately, no matter whose ox is gored. Selective treatment demoralizes people and encourages others to continue to engage in corrupt practices.
Would you agree with the idea that the Marine Insurance Act has become archaic and so, should be reviewed to reflect common trends in other jurisdictions?
My answer is yes.
Nigerian Insurance bill, which practitioners say would revolutionise the sector is currently before the National Assembly. Are you aware of the state of the bill today?
I do not know the state of the bill. I know that I was sent a draft for my comment some months ago. I did not comment because this matter has dragged on for years. I recollect that I was one of those co-opted into the Committee that revised the Insurance Act, 2003. It was a thorough exercise under the chairmanship of Professor Joe Irukwu. This was around 2009. I am not sure of the exact year. That we should still be dealing with the same matter in 2021 leaves a lot to be desired. The potential of the Insurance Industry to drive the economy has not been fully explored. It is sad.
Now that you are retired, what next for you?
I have been able to come this far through the grace and mercy of God. This is just the ending of one phase. The next phase is in His hands.
How can you sum up your experience over the years in teaching and researching legal issues as well as the challenges you overcame?
As I said during my exaugural lecture, it has been a fruitful and deeply satisfying journey. It has been a journey reflecting the invisible hand of God guiding me through the highs and lows. He blessed me with destiny helpers. There were challenges. It was not an easy journey, but God saw me through each stage. To Him alone is the glory. I must not fail to add that the Faculty of Law of the University of Lagos is a family. There are great people within its walls. There are men and women of impeccable integrity. The Faculty is a home away from home. It was a great privilege to have spent my entire working years in the University of Lagos.
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VV114 is a very interesting galaxy. It's a major merger of at least two big galaxies. If I might go out on a limb, it may even be an advanced merger (on the left) currently strongly interacting with another galaxy (on the right).
The left galaxy is extremely dusty. Sunsets are red because particles in the atmosphere preferentially scatter away the bluer light. Redder light penetrates the dust better. Just before the Sun sets, we're looking at it through as much atmosphere as we ever see it, so it has to go through the most number of particles in the atmosphere. similarly, very dusty galaxies are red in color. In VV114, this is most striking when you compare the optical light to the infrared light. The left galaxy is nearly invisible in blue light, but is the brighter galaxy in the infrared.
The IR images was taken back in the 1990s, and were part of my first published paper in grad school. The optical image was taken a year or two ago with the CTIO 1.0m telescope. Both images are "false color" -- I've enhanced the colors to bring out the contrast, and of course no IR image can be "true" color, as it would just look all black to our eyes! However, longer wavelengths have redder colors, so qualitatively the colors are what you would expect.
...and VV 114's properties in the ultraviolet are unusual enough to make it one of a small number of local galaxies that appear largely analogous to the Lyman Break Galaxies seen at redshift z~3.
Definitely a galaxy that deserves more attention.
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It’s impossible to ban cryptocurrencies in Russia, the country’s minister of finance has stated in his first comments on his department’s latest disagreements with the Russian monetary authority. The two institutions are reportedly failing to reach consensus on crypto regulation but the treasury intends to submit draft legislation despite their differences.
Disagreements on Future of Cryptocurrencies Persist Between Finance Ministry and Bank of Russia
A meeting between the Central Bank of Russia (CBR) Governor Elvira Nabiullina, Russian Finance Minister Anton Siluanov, and Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Grigorenko — devoted to adopting a common approach to the regulation of cryptocurrencies — has failed to produce the desired results, domestic and foreign media unveiled this week.
According to a report by Bloomberg, quoting knowledgeable sources, the participants have not reached a consensus on Russia’s future policy regarding the crypto space, but merely formalized their disagreements, despite President Putin’s call. The only common ground so far has been the shared position to prohibit the use of bitcoin and the like as a means of payment.
In January, Bank of Russia proposed a blanket ban on operations such as issuance, exchange, and mining of cryptocurrencies, citing threats to financial stability and investors. However, the federal government has sided with the treasury department’s view that most crypto activities should be legalized and regulated, under strict rules, rather than banned completely, an announcement published on Feb. 8 indicated.
As cryptocurrencies are quite volatile, the ministry thinks it’s necessary to restrict access to these assets for non-qualified investors, suggesting a limit of 50,000 rubles (approx. $650). At the same time, Minfin wants to make them attractive for other investors, according to Siluanov, and considers “controllable” all risks highlighted by the CBR. Commenting on the discord, quoted by Forbes and Reuters, the finance minister stated:
The Central Bank wants to ban cryptocurrencies, arguing that this creates risks, primarily for citizens, can “infect” financial institutions, banks and create an opaque settlement market. It’s the same as banning the internet, which is impossible… We don’t use the methods that China uses.
Earlier this month, Russian media reported that Dmitry Grigorenko has instructed the finance ministry and the central bank to draft new crypto legislation together and present it by Feb. 18. In case the disagreements with the CBR persist, the ministry plans to submit to the government a package of bills along with a table listing the differences, Finmarket reported on Wednesday.
Any delay would hinder the development of the crypto sector and lead it into the shadows, Siluanov warned, speaking to reporters. He added that the Ministry of Finance is aware of the active development of this market and recognizes the need for its regulation in the Russian Federation. Quoted by Tass, his deputy Alexei Moiseev said that the draft law will be prepared by the said date.
Meanwhile, another report by the Russian edition of Forbes revealed that Bank of Russia has proposed a different set of amendments to the current Russian legislation in the field. The regulator wants to incorporate a ban on the circulation of cryptocurrencies into the law “On Digital Financial Assets” which went into force in January 2021, only partially regulating crypto-related matters.
Do you expect Russian government institutions to eventually reach an agreement on the future of cryptocurrencies? Share your thoughts on the subject in the comments section below.
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We all have more questions than answers about the coronavirus.
But here is what we have so far learned about this infectious threat.
The coronavirus is generally believed to originate in bats, but it can spread to other animals before jumping onto people.
The World Health Organization has noted that the virus could transmit easily from one person to the next and onward, just like the common flu.
What are the symptoms and how dangerous is it?
On December 31, China notified the WHO to a strange outbreak of pneumonia – an inflammation of the lungs, accompanied by coughing, that can be caused by a number of pathogens.
Health officials have recently identified an even broader array of symptoms, as per the WHO. These symptoms include fever, cough, and shortness of breath.
Some patients have been successfully treated in hospitals and released within a few days, while others have suffered severe complications.
361 people infected with the coronavirus have thus far died in China.
One commonality among the fatal cases is that the patients also had other health issues. The first person who died also had chronic liver disease as well as abdominal tumors.
Another 66-year-old man who died due to the virus had suffered from COPD, hypertension, and other conditions, while a 48-year-old woman previously had diabetes and had had a stroke.
What can we do about the coronavirus?
- There is currently no vaccine for the virus. To shield yourself from being infected, you must basically do the same things you normally do to avoid the common cold:
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- Avoid touching your eyes, nose, or mouth.
- Do not get close to people who are carrying the virus.
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What are the 7 branches of the US military?
The Army , Marine Corps , Navy , Air Force , Space Force and Coast Guard are the armed forces of the United States. The Army National Guard and the Air National Guard are reserve components of their services and operate in part under state authority.
Which branch of the military has the most members in the United States of America?
How many soldiers does the US have in 2020?
In FY 2020 the total Army will have an end strength of 1,005,500 and by FY 2024 will grow to only 1,016,500 .
What are the 17 branches of the military?
What are the Branches of the Military ? Air Force and Air Force Reserve: The nation’s source of air and space power. Air National Guard: Army and Army Reserve: Army National Guard: Coast Guard and Coast Guard Reserve: Marine Corps and Marine Corps Reserve: Navy and Navy Reserve: Space Force.
What is the hardest military branch?
the Air Force
Who has the strongest military in the world?
In 2020, China had the largest armed forces in the world by active duty military personnel, with about 2.18 active soldiers. India, the United States , North Korea, and Russia rounded out the top five largest armies respectively, each with over one million active military personnel.
Which military branch has the most females?
Similar shares of men and women currently serve in the Army, which is the largest active-duty branch of the military, and in the Navy . But women are more likely than men to be in the Air Force ; nearly one-third (31%) of military women are in the Air Force compared with 22% of men.
What is the biggest branch of military?
Which branch of military gets paid the most?
the Marine Corps
How large is the US military?
There are more than one million active US soldiers, comprised of 476,000 regular troops, a 343,000-strong National Guard and US Army Reserves totalling 199,000 soldiers. The US has 6200 combat tanks to support its soldiers, a significant number but less than Russia and China.
Which country has the powerful army?
How powerful is USA?
The United States is much more powerful than past lead states. With 5 percent of the world’s population, the United States accounts for 25 percent of global wealth, 35 percent of world innovation, and 40 percent of global military spending.
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What’s the easiest military branch to get into?
the Air Force
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Five MLS teams currently play on synthetic turf, while 13 NFL facilities–including shared stadiums in Los Angeles and New York–sport synthetic turf. Bank of America Stadium will feature FieldTurf.
Do professional soccer teams play on turf?
There is a reason why all top soccer leagues in Europe are played only in natural grass. You start seeing artificial grass at third division games, maybe. But mostly, soccer players play in natural grass. Also, it is important to know that all World Cups in history have, and probably will be played in grass.
Which MLS teams play on real grass?
Charlotte would become the sixth MLS team to play on turf, following Atlanta United, the New England Revolution, the Portland Timbers, the Seattle Sounders, and the Vancouver Whitecaps.
Do the Portland Timbers play on grass or turf?
|PNC Stadium||Houston Dynamo FC||Grass|
|Providence Park||Portland Timbers||FieldTurf|
|Q2 Stadium||Austin FC||Grass|
|Red Bull Arena||New York Red Bulls||Grass|
How many turf fields are in MLS?
NOTE: 24 full-size, fully-lit sports fields, including 22 natural grass and 2 synthetic turf fields surround the professional stadium. 2007 and 2015 MLS All-Star Game host. Has hosted many U.S. national team matches and other international soccer events.
Why is turf soccer bad?
Although there is some debate around the differences in turf and grass safety, the general consensus is that turf increases players’ injury risk. One study found that the rate of ACL injuries increased by 45% on turf, largely due to cleats failing to grip to the artificial grass as they do on natural grass.
Is turf harder than grass?
This may be because turf surfaces are stiffer than grass surfaces, which can affect impact forces on the body’s bones, muscles, tendons and ligaments, according to the 2007 study. … Dorfman agrees, noting that ankle, knee and head injuries can be exacerbated on turf, which is a harder surface than grass.
Do any European soccer teams play on turf?
Still, there are some teams that are playing home games on turf whether they want to or not. Very rarely do you see European soccer teams playing on turf. Still some teams that have played in the Champions and Europa Leagues this season play on turf, including Young Boys in Switzerland and Nordsjaelland in Denmark.
Do the Sounders play on real grass?
Like every Seattle Sounders home game since the club’s introduction to the league in 2009, last year’s MLS Cup final was played on an artificial grass surface. FieldTurf, to be precise. … Artificial surfaces are permitted in the Champions League, but not for the final.
Does Atlanta United play on real grass?
So an artificial-turf surface was installed and has been used for all football and soccer games played in the stadium since its 2017 opening. That will have to change in the summer of 2026 if Atlanta succeeds in its bid to host some World Cup games.
Is Providence Park grass or turf?
A real grass field could make Providence Park more attractive for hosting international soccer matches. As of 2021, Providence Park is the only soccer-specific stadium in MLS that doesn’t use real grass.
What football teams have artificial turf?
Stadiums with artificial turf
|Switzerland||Stade de Suisse||Young Boys|
|Stade la Maladière||Neuchâtel Xamax|
|USA||CenturyLink Field||Seattle Sounders FC|
|Gillette Stadium||New England Revolution|
How much do MLS players make?
These rosters consists of 10 players who are split into three separate categories: Senior Minimum Salary Players, who earn a minimum of $81,375 per season in 2021 and 2022; Reserve Minimum Salary players, who earn $63,547; and Homegrown Players, who earn a base wage equivalent to Reserve Minimum Salary players.
Is MLS field smaller than FIFA?
No, an MLS field is not smaller than FIFA regulation. A Major League Soccer (MLS) fields dimensions are in the acceptable range of FIFA international standard sizes. FIFA allows for a range of dimensions for a soccer field, and every MLS field fits within those dimensions.
How big is MLS?
The league comprises 28 teams—25 in the U.S. and 3 in Canada—and plans to expand to 29 teams by the 2023 season. Although not one of the “Big Four”, the MLS, along with the Canadian Football League, is considered one of the “Big Six” major professional sports leagues in the United States and Canada.
How many MLS teams are there?
Major League Soccer (MLS)
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DENVER — The Environmental Protection Agency botched the clean-up effort at the Gold King Mine by rushing to complete the job instead of taking precautions that would have prevented the disastrous toxic spill into the Animas River.
A 132-page report released Thursday by the Interior Department and Bureau of Reclamation found that the Aug. 5 accident was not “inevitable,” as the EPA’s own internal review had concluded, but could have been avoided if the agency had followed engineering practices used at other inactive mines.
Rep. Scott Tipton, the Colorado Republican who represents the area, called the investigation’s finding “outrageous.”
“It’s outrageous that the EPA was doing this work without having an understanding of the conditions in the mine or the potential environmental impacts downstream should a spill occur,” Mr. Tipton said in a statement. “The EPA is responsible for this disaster and will be held accountable.”
According to the report, the agency committed a pivotal error by failing to gauge the level of wastewater behind the collapsed rock and soil at the mine, which could have been done by using a drill rig to “bore into the mine from above and directly determine the level of the mine pool prior to excavating backfill at the portal.”
Such a procedure was used successfully in a 2011 reclamation project at the nearby Red and Bonita Mine.
SEE ALSO: EPA comes under fire following another Colorado mine spill
“Although this was apparently considered at Gold King, it was not done,” said the report. “Had it been done, the plan to open the mine would have been revised, and the blowout would not have occurred.”
The report, which was peer-reviewed by the U.S. Geological Survey and the Army Corps of Engineers, was significantly tougher on the EPA than the agency’s own internal review team, which found that the blowout “was likely inevitable” and praised the agency’s quick action afterward in avoiding fatalities.
The EPA review also defended the decision not to use a drill rig to determine the water level behind the debris, saying it “would have been quite costly and require much more planning and multiple field seasons to accomplish.”
“Although difficult and therefore expensive and technically challenging, this procedure may have been able to discover the pressurized conditions that turned out to cause the blowout,” said the EPA report.
That review, released Aug. 24, came three weeks after an EPA-led crew accidentally unleashed 3 million gallons of toxic wastewater into the Animas River near Silverton, Colorado, turning the water orange and cutting off water supplies to communities downstream.
The uproar over the spill prompted a visit and an apology from EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy, as well as promises to clean up the damage and reimburse farmers, ranchers and businesses for their losses.
SEE ALSO: Gina McCarthy, Environmental Protection Agency administrator, defends handling of toxic mine spill
EPA spokeswoman Nancy Grantham noted that the agency itself had requested an Interior investigation into the spill.
“EPA will carefully review the report,” she said in a statement. “This report, in combination with the findings of EPA’s internal review of the incident, will help inform EPA’s ongoing efforts to work safely and effectively at mine sites as we carry out our mission to protect human health and the environment.”
She added that the decision not to bore into the Gold King Mine with a drill rig came after the internal review team “found that site conditions made it difficult to undertake such drilling to determine pressure within the mine.”
The more extensive Interior Department investigation also concluded that EPA officials pay too little attention to the engineering challenges associated with mining reclamation projects in their zeal to address the environmental damage from the hundreds of abandoned mines from the Gold Rush that dot Colorado and the West.
“The current state of practice appears to focus attention on the environmental issues,” said the report. “Abandoned mine guidelines and manuals provide detailed guidance on environmental sampling, waste characterization, and water treatment, with little appreciation for the engineering complexity of some abandoned mine projects that often require, but do not receive, a significant level of expertise.”
Sen. Cory Gardner, Colorado Republican, said he was “deeply troubled” by the report’s conclusion that the spill was preventable.
“I fully expect accountability and transparency from the EPA, and I look forward to a response to my questions surrounding the EPA’s insufficient and untimely recovery efforts and its proactive measures to prevent a disaster of similar magnitude in the future,” Mr. Gardner said.
Mr. Tipton also reiterated his call for so-called Good Samaritan legislation, which would remove regulatory hurdles discouraging conservation groups and others with reclamation expertise from undertaking clean-up efforts.
“There’s a better way to address contamination in abandoned and inactive mines than the EPA’s status quo which lacks the technical expertise to accomplish the goal,” Mr. Tipton said. “By empowering the people on the ground who have the engineering expertise and have been working locally to address the problems in these mines for years, we can truly make strides to clean them up and limit further harm to the environment.” | <urn:uuid:166058a2-30c8-49c6-96fe-3ed98914c701> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/oct/22/epa-mine-spill-was-preventable-not-inevitable/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570879.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809003642-20220809033642-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.95984 | 1,110 | 2.0625 | 2 |
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Covid-19 brought about an education crisis, fuelled by deep pre-existing inequalities, many of which will have been exacerbated with schools closed around the world. The evidence and stories in the Youth version of the new 2020 Global Education Monitoring (GEM) Report confirm the extent of inequalities and discrimination persisting in education today. It shows how to build a system where all learners can feel they belong in school, no matter their identity, background or ability.
Starting today – International Youth Day – young people are invited to sign this letter to world leaders calling on them to prioritize access to and strengthen inclusion in quality education when schools re-open. We will circulate this letter with your signatures.
To: World leaders
From: [Your Name]
Dear world leaders, ministers, and decision-makers,
The Covid-19 pandemic brought about the biggest cataclysm to education any of us have seen. It magnified issues of inequality, insecurity, and injustice within and across societies, highlighting the importance of social services, including education. Even before schools shut in early March, some 260 million were not in school. Not because they didn’t want to, but because world leaders had not prioritized their education. We are writing to implore you to take this chance to ‘build back better’, to restore rather than replicate past mistakes.
Today, too many children and young people are denied their right to an education because their families are underprivileged, because of where they come from, the language they use, their gender or sexual orientation, or because they have disabilities. Some are entirely excluded from education; others face discrimination, stereotyping, and stigma once inside school doors. Rather than welcoming what each learner brings, education is often too rigid, pushing many of us out.
The new 2020 Global Education Monitoring (GEM) Report by UNESCO calls on all education actors to widen their definition of inclusive education to include all learners. The new evidence in this Report confirms the extent of exclusion in education persisting today, as many have only just realized during this pandemic. It provides us with the opportunity to shift the needle on access and inclusion, and it is up to us to make that promise a reality.
Learners should not have to adapt to the system. Instead education systems should adapt to their needs. Societies, like nature, thrive on diversity, not on monocultures.
Equal access to quality education must be a priority because educated youths across the world empower communities and fuel economies, helping people out of extreme poverty. Education is key for raising awareness on global issues we are currently experiencing, such as climate change, social and racial discrimination, and the health crisis. Moreover, it is important to equip young people with 21st century skills for employment, decent work, and entrepreneurship given the crucial role of skilled youth in addressing current and future global challenges like COVID-19. Education plays a central role in the achievement of all the Sustainable Development Goals, because an inclusive and equitable quality education will bring about the social change and sustainable development we need to #SaveOurFuture.
We ask that you:
- Prioritize access and availability to quality education and put funding for it at the top of every national and local agenda because of its impact on so many important issues like extreme poverty, health, climate change, social and racial injustice;
- Widen your understanding of inclusive education to include all learners, no matter their identity, background or whether or not they have a disability;
- Address the social and emotional trauma experienced by students and young people during this time;
- Put diversity at the core of education systems, rather than seeing it as a problem;
- Help make the invisible visible with better data on the disadvantaged;
- Share the resources we know can help the marginalized and underserved – educators, support staff, and equipment – so that everyone can benefit, and support one another as you rebuild education systems that are inclusive for all.
We each have a role to play in ensuring that no child is left behind. For our part, we will hold you to account with the power of our voices if you regress on this promise. We need quality education systems and institutions that are accessible and work for everyone, whatever their identity, background, or ability, in which people feel safe and can thrive. Education for all should mean all, and not just the lucky few.
What do you say?
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Congratulations! You’ve successfully completed your TEFL teaching course and you’re about to step into your first classroom. Standing up in front of a class for the first time can be daunting for new teachers, but we hope the tips below will calm your nerves and help you prepare.
1. Remember, everyone was a beginner once!
You will make mistakes, even the best teachers do. Learn from them and move on. Mistakes are your greatest teacher. Don’t be afraid to ask for help when starting out, ask your fellow teachers for tips/ideas on how to teach particular language points or deal with any difficulties you’re having in the classroom, etc. The staff room is full of experienced teachers, use this to your advantage!
2. Be adaptable
Stick to your learning objectives for each lesson, but be flexible in terms of how you will achieve them. It’s important to plan your lessons, but it’s also important to prepare for contingencies. Ask yourself; How will I adapt this lesson if only 3 people show up? What if it’s a one-to-one class? What if the students aren’t in the mood? What if they don’t see the point of the activity? What if it’s too difficult or too easy? What if they finish activities faster than expected? and so on. If you incorporate some flexibility into your lesson plan, you’ll be equipped to deal with any last-minute changes or variables.
3. Bring your personality into the classroom
Students love to get to know more about you and your personality. Don’t be afraid to be yourself in the classroom!
4. Use humour and make it fun (while keeping the learning objectives in mind)
Who says learning can’t be fun? Injecting a bit of humour and fun into your classes can be great for building rapport and keeping your students engaged. Remember not to lose sight of the learning objectives while playing games though. Explaining the objectives of a task will help your students stay focussed while they laugh their way to the next level!
5. Let your students speak
A common mistake made by new teachers is speaking too much and interrupting students. Remember that students need time to process a question, think about how they will answer, then think about how to express it in English before they even begin to respond. Try not to jump in with the answer too soon. You can help with prompts or clues to help them, but ultimately you want the student to do most of the work. Make sure your questions are suitable for the students’ level, and don’t push them for an answer if they are really struggling. Students will be comfortable participating in class when they feel confident in their own ability, so helping them build confidence will lead to more enjoyable, interactive lessons.
6. Keep your instructions short and to the point
Another common mistake made by new teachers is giving instructions to tasks that are too long and complicated, with language that is too difficult for the class level. A useful tip is to write down exactly what you will say to the class when explaining each task. Break it down into stages, and decide when you will say each part. Often teachers will overload the students with information by giving all of the instructions at once, leaving students completely lost. You can always ask students to repeat instructions or explain back to you what they must do in order to check that they have understood what they need to do. Remember to also speak slowly and clearly, making sure you don’t mumble your words.
7. Don’t take feedback personally
You will have good days and bad days in teaching. Don’t beat yourself up too much, and try not to take feedback from students or academic directors too personally. Instead, welcome their feedback, make sure you understand it and don’t be afraid to ask for further explanation or advice on particular issues. Assess the value of the feedback for yourself, take it on board for future lessons, and test out any ideas/tips given. Reflect on how effective your lessons were before and after the feedback was given. Remember, you can always ask your students what they like or dislike about your lessons and which activities they find the most effective. The more you know about your students’ learning styles the better you can tailor your lessons to suit their needs.
8. Sit down
If you’re feeling particularly nervous about standing up in front of a class, why not try starting off by giving instructions while sitting down? This technique not only has the ability to calm your nerves but also those of your students. Bringing yourself to their level can be less intimidating and make students feel more comfortable participating in classroom activities.
9. Take care of yourself
Teaching is a very rewarding job but unfortunately, teacher burnout is common. Make sure you take time outside of work to relax, unwind and take your mind off what happens in the classroom. You may need to schedule this time into your week to force yourself to do so. Remember, you can’t pour from an empty cup!
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Kawasaki disease is a common nonspecific vasculitis seen in childhood. The most significant long-term sequela is coronary artery aneurysm. However, the spectrum of complications involves not only the heart, but also other organs such as the eyes, skin, kidneys, gallbladder, liver, and central nervous system. Sensorineural hearing loss (SNHL) is a relatively unrecognized complication of the disease. Although most of the complications (except coronary artery aneurysm) are self-limiting, SNHL can be persistent. It is, especially important in infants and young children who might not be able to report the hearing deficits and are most likely to have cognitive and speech delays if this hearing loss is not addressed in a timely manner. We report a child with Kawasaki disease who had SNHL during the 2 nd week of the illness. The aim of this article is to briefly review the pathophysiology behind this hearing loss and strongly emphasize the importance of universal hearing evaluation in all children diagnosed with Kawasaki disease. This screening in children with Kawasaki disease may provide some timely intervention if needed. Since most Kawasaki disease patients will be seen by cardiologists, we hope to create more awareness about this complication to the cardiology community as well.
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Shell-shocked Armenians return to Nagorno-Karabakh after peace deal
STEPANAKERT, Azerbaijan (Reuters) - Armenian refugees who fled a six-week war between Azerbaijan and ethnic Armenian forces have begun to return home to Nagorno-Karabakh to try to rebuild their shattered lives after Russia last week brokered a peace deal over the enclave. At least two convoys of buses carrying residents arrived in Stepanakert, the capital of the mountainous area, from neighbouring Armenia over the weekend.
STEPANAKERT, Azerbaijan (Reuters) - Armenian refugees who fled a six-week war between Azerbaijan and ethnic Armenian forces have begun to return home to Nagorno-Karabakh to try to rebuild their shattered lives after Russia last week brokered a peace deal over the enclave.
At least two convoys of buses carrying residents arrived in Stepanakert, the capital of the mountainous area, from neighbouring Armenia over the weekend.
Under the terms of the agreement, control over the enclave's main city Stepanakert, in territory internationally recognised as Azerbaijan, will stay with ethnic Armenians despite them being forced to cede other land to a victorious Azerbaijan.
On Monday, refugees lined up in the centre of Stepanakert, which had been deserted for weeks beforehand, to collect bags of humanitarian aid which included staples such as canned food and pasta.
Several men handed out rolled-up pieces of plastic which the returnees could use to fix broken windows in their homes
Some said they had come back with a heavy heart.
“I have seen the third war already here. In 1992 and 2016 I did not leave the city for even a minute. But this time it was awful,” said a middle-aged woman who declined to give her name.
The woman, who said she had returned on Sunday, said she had left for the Armenian border town of Sisian after the first week of fighting in early October when she had been forced to hide from shelling in a bomb shelter.
While Stepanakert may remain in ethnic Armenian hands after the deal, Shusha, the second largest town in Nagorno-Karabakh, is now controlled by Azerbaijan after fierce fighting.
“There are no Armenians in Shusha now,” said 35-year-old Alexander Simonyan, a gymnastics teacher from Shusha.
When the fighting began, he sent his wife and children to Armenia and joined the Nagorno-Karabakh defence forces.
He said he now lived with a friend in Stepanakert and had nowhere to house his family, though he hoped local authorities might offer them all somewhere to live. “This is our land. Where else can I go? I can’t live in another place.”
The Russian defence ministry said on Monday it had helped 475 people to return on Sunday and that a total of 725 people had come back to the enclave since Nov. 14.
After the ceasefire, Andranik Sarkisyan, 27, a former fighter, managed to bring his wife and two sons back from Armenia to their home village of Badara in Nagorno-Karabakh.
News of the truce had been painful, he said. “I was on the front line and they (commanders) simply called and told us that the land has been given up. All the soldiers were crying.”
Sarkisyan worked as a hairdresser in Stepanakert before the war and went to fight in the district of Gadrut, which was taken by Azeri forces at the start of the conflict.
Many men in his battalion had been killed by artillery fire in an Oct. 11 attack, he said, adding that he had only survived because he had left earlier to guard a checkpoint.
“The guys were simply burnt, they died, we collected their body parts. I saw it every night. It was unbearable, impossible,” he said.
Such memories make it difficult for him to think about the terms of the settlement.
“It is not about land. It is about the blood spilled on it,” he said. “I hope it was the last war.”
(Reporting by Reuters reporters; Editing by Andrew Osborn and Mark Heinrich)
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By Robin Emmott and John Irish | BRUSSELS/PARIS BRUSSELS/PARIS France and Germany will agree to a U.S. plan for NATO to take a bigger role in the fight against Islamic militants at a meeting with President Donald Trump on Thursday, but insist the move is purely symbolic, four senior European diplomats said.The decision to allow the North Atlantic Treaty Organization to join the coalition against Islamic State in Syria and Iraq follows weeks of pressure on the two allies, who are wary of NATO confronting Russia in Syria and of alienating Arab countries who see NATO as pushing a pro-Western agenda."NATO as an institution will join the coalition," said one senior diplomat involved in the discussions. "The question is whether this just a symbolic gesture to the United States
BEIJING Chinese President Xi Jinping on Wednesday called for greater efforts to make the country's navy a world class one, strong in operations on, below and above the surface, as it steps up its ability to project power far from its shores.China's navy has taken an increasingly prominent role in recent months, with a rising star admiral taking command, its first aircraft carrier sailing around self-ruled Taiwan and a new aircraft carrier launched last month.With President Donald Trump promising a US shipbuilding spree and unnerving Beijing with his unpredictable approach on hot button issues including Taiwan and the South and East China Seas, China is pushing to narrow the gap with the U.S. Navy.Inspecting navy headquarters, Xi said the navy should "aim for the top ranks in the world", the Defence Ministry said in a statement about his visit."Building a strong and modern navy is an important mark of a top ranking global military," the ministry paraphrased Xi as saying. | <urn:uuid:0edb00b9-2d3f-403c-bc10-fc760b332b67> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.firstpost.com/world/shell-shocked-armenians-return-to-nagorno-karabakh-after-peace-deal-9019541.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570879.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809003642-20220809033642-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.976147 | 1,275 | 1.789063 | 2 |
What is Sepsis?
Sepsis is a medical condition in which the body responds to a severe infection by attacking its own organs and tissues. In other words, the body’s immune system overreacts to an infection. The initial infection usually occurs in the intestines, lungs, skin or urinary tract. Left untreated, sepsis can cause complications that can damage the brain, kidneys, lungs and hearing. The condition can even cause death.
Because their immune systems are still developing, sepsis is most common in infants under three months old. However, sepsis is also common in the elderly, people with chronic medical conditions, and people who have compromised immune systems, such as people with HIV.
Infants with sepsis may experience the following symptoms: vomiting or poor feeding; fever (a rectal temperature of 100.4 degree Fahrenheit); irritability or lethargy; decreased muscle tone which results in floppiness; a fast or slow heart rate; difficulty breathing, including brief periods of stopped breathing; pale or blue skin color; a rash or jaundice, or difficulty urinating or producing very little urine. Children who are older may experience fever, be irritable or lethargic, have difficulty breathing, or complain about having a racing heartbeat.
Sepsis, especially in infants, is usually caused by an initial bacterial infection. Group B strep, E. coli, listeria, meningitis and salmonella are common bacterial infections that can lead to sepsis. In addition, premature babies, who have severely underdeveloped immune systems, are often treated by invasive procedures such as catheters or breathing tubes which can lead to infections. Mothers who have a fever during pregnancy and who suffer from an infection of the placenta or uterus have a higher risk of having a child with sepsis. Moreover, pregnant women who experience a rupture of the amniotic sack 18 hours or more before delivery are also at risk of having a newborn with sepsis.
How is Sepsis Treated?
Because symptoms of sepsis can be vague in newborns, it is extremely important for doctors to perform various lab tests to diagnose and detect the condition. Blood tests can look at white blood cell counts and detect the presence of bacteria. Urine tests can also detect bacteria. Lumbar punctures can detect meningitis, while X-rays can detect pneumonia. Infants who have sepsis are usually required to stay in the hospital, where they will be administered antibiotics and monitored closely.
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We see in this passage that Jesus has been teaching the crowds about the Kingdom of God, telling all sorts of stories and parables. The religious leaders have also turned up to listen to what he has to say, for a very different reason however. They are trying to undermine Jesus’ teaching. They’re looking to set him up, lay their traps and catch him out. Of course, Jesus does not fall for their games. In response to Jesus silencing the Sadducees with his answers, the Pharisees then come together to give it another crack. Yet in true Jesus fashion, his answer leaves the crowds in amazement. The whole of scripture and our very purpose on this earth hinges on these two sentences from the mouth of Jesus. Love God, love people. That’s it. Matthew 22:37-40 reads:
Jesus replied: “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbour as yourself.’ All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.”
Now lockdown 2.0 has been here for a little under a week now. I don’t know about you, but it feels very familiar. We have been here before. Being back in this place has had me thinking about the first time around.
So, if it’s not too painful, join me in casting your mind back to March 2020. The world was heading into crisis mode. Almost overnight, the way we live our lives changed for the foreseeable future. Everything we read, watched, listened to, talked about revolved around Covid-19. This was a global crisis, pretty much every nation on the planet was impacted in some way.
Yet, in the midst of this, a wonderful wave of connection began to ripple across the country. All of a sudden, our ever increasingly global network of interaction and connection began to dim. Away from the daily rhythms of busyness and hurry, we began to revisit that age old question, ‘who is my neighbour?’
I don’t know about you, but the importance of the local and the significance of proximity were reinvigorated in me during that time. Mutual aid groups popped up all over, we stood shoulder to shoulder, so to speak, to clap for the NHS, and the well recognised faces of 2/5/10 years gained a name. And as we work our way through this second round of national lockdown, let me pose this question to us again, ‘who is my neighbour?’
Let me share a quick story. A week ago today, with lockdown looming, some of us on the staff team went our onto the high street of Crookes, armed with some lovely locally sourced chocolates and the offer of prayer. We met with people from nearly every shop along the high street. The response we had truly warmed my heart. People were blown away by the kindness that had been shown to them, especially with the uncertainty and trepidation of the next month as most of them were small business owners, some of whom hadn’t been open longer than 2 or 3 months. And wonderfully, we had the opportunity to pray with so many of the people that we met. And what made it all the more special, was their main request was that we would pray for others, not just them. One lady asked that we prayed for her customers, especially those who were elderly and vulnerable, that they would remain well and not feel isolated and alone during this time. Another asked that we would pray for the local community, that they would come together and be united in love and kindness.
All of this reminded me that our neighbours are sons and daughters of our Heavenly Father too. We all have the same dad. He loves them, and cares for them and wants to be in communion with them. We are called to do the same. Our faith hinges on Jesus’ words in Matthew 22. Our purpose is to obey these commandments. Love God. Love your neighbour.
So let this be my challenge to us today. First off, pray. Pray for your streets. If you know people already, amazing. Pray for them, tell them you’re praying for them too. People generally love to know that someone cares enough about them that they would pray for them. If you don’t know your neighbours, pray for opportunities to get to know them. Also, pray for your area. Pray for the local business, for schools, for hospitals. There’s been a bunch of folks across the city that have been prayer walking every Wednesday at 9:15am, join in where you are! Prayer really does make a difference.
Secondly, do. Do build relationship with your neighbours. Do try new things, be bold and courageous. Get in touch with others who you see modelling something that works. Ask for help and ideas and resources. Do put your money where your mouth is. It might be too soon to mention this for some, or even too late for others, but why not consider buying locally this Christmas, love your neighbour by buying their stuff. In this passage, Jesus’ words highlight the importance of locality and proximity and his actions echo this. In this season we have an opportunity again to love those around us, as a witness to Jesus’ love for them.
Father, thank you that every person on earth, you have created and you love. Help us to see people through your eyes. Help us to love our neighbours well during this time. Would your kingdom come and your will be done. Amen.
BIBLE READING: Matthew 22:34-46
Hearing that Jesus had silenced the Sadducees, the Pharisees got together. One of them, an expert in the law, tested him with this question: ‘Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?’
Jesus replied: ‘“Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.” This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: “Love your neighbour as yourself.” All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.’
While the Pharisees were gathered together, Jesus asked them, ‘What do you think about the Messiah? Whose son is he?’
‘The son of David,’ they replied.
He said to them, ‘How is it then that David, speaking by the Spirit, calls him “Lord”? For he says,
‘“The Lord said to my Lord:
‘Sit at my right hand
until I put your enemies
under your feet.’”
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Classics Today 10/10; Music Web International: outstanding; Gramophone: outstanding.
Ronald Brautigam’s performance on the previous volume in this series was described in the International Record Review as ‘remarkably full-blooded and forceful playing, pushing the instrument to its limits yet always securing a rich and well-rounded tone’. With the present disc, consisting of sonatas from Beethoven’s middle period, Brautigam continues his survey of Beethoven’s piano music on a new instrument, a copy of a Graf 1819 fortepiano, which corresponds to the greater demands in terms of power and dynamics made by works such as the Waldstein and the Appassionata. Beethoven’s middle period began shortly after a personal crisis brought on by the composer’s encroaching deafness, and during it he began to push the borders between free expression and strict form to an even greater extent than previously. In their glowing reviews of previous volumes, many critics have commented precisely on Ronald Brautigam’s ability to bring out the radical aspects of the works. According to the reviewer in The Times, ‘Beethoven the revolutionary comes closer than ever in Brautigam’s fiery interpretations’, and his colleague in Süddeutsche Zeitung agreed: ‘One has almost the impression of being a contemporary of Beethoven’s: one of the first, infinitely startled – not to say shocked – witnesses to this music.’
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Operation Warp Speed's Logistics Chief Weighs In On Vaccine Progress
A top U.S. Army general who is co-leading the federal COVID-19 vaccine initiative anticipates that the first of millions of Americans could start receiving COVID-19 vaccines as soon as next month.
"I think a safe and effective vaccine will be available initially in December," Gen. Gustave Perna told NPR's Mary Louise Kelly in an interview Monday. If the Food and Drug Administration authorizes a vaccine by then, "10 to 30 million doses of vaccine will be available that we can start distributing."
Perna is chief operating officer for Operation Warp Speed, the government's initiative to fast-track the development, manufacture and distribution of COVID-19 drugs and treatments. In May, he was appointed to co-lead the project, along with the initiative's chief science adviser, Moncef Slaoui.
Perna's remarks followed an announcement earlier Monday of promising developments about a COVID-19 vaccine developed by the drug company Pfizer. Early results suggest that the vaccine is more than 90% effective in preventing COVID-19. "Great [news] to wake up to today," he said.
"When we talk 'vaccine effectiveness,' what we're talking about is, 'How effective was the vaccine at preventing actual disease?' " scientist L.J. Tan, chief strategist of the nonprofit Immunization Action Coalition, explained to NPR's Allison Aubrey in September.
In other words, by that definition, if you vaccinated 100 people, at least 90 people would not get the disease, if these early results from Pfizer hold up.
The tens of millions of vaccine doses that Perna says could be available in December is the combined number of vaccine doses that Pfizer and Moderna, manufacturers of the two candidates furthest along in clinical trials, could have ready to ship by then.
Being prepared to have large quantities of the COVID-19 candidate vaccines ready for distribution as soon as one is authorized as safe and effective by the FDA has been a major feat of planning and coordination that runs counter to the typical drug and vaccine development process.
"Generally, you don't start manufacturing a vaccine until you have an [approval]," Perna explains. But waiting for an OK from the FDA before ramping up production would have greatly prolonged the timeline for getting a COVID-19 vaccine out to the public.
So early on, the Operation Warp Speed team invested in manufacturing capacity. "We needed brick and mortar," Perna says. "We needed trained employees. We needed to have all the materials, and we needed very technical machinery to produce the vaccine."
"We started executing manufacturing requirements in parallel with the development and the trials of the vaccines," he says.
Simultaneously pursuing processes that typically happen one after another is a resource-intensive, high-risk strategy. It's possible that some pre-manufactured vaccine candidates will not be found to be safe or effective and that those vials would need to be thrown out. But the strategy makes it possible for some vaccine doses to be available as soon as a vaccine is authorized — and for vaccine production to scale up quickly after that.
If a vaccine is in hand in December, availability "will expand rapidly in January, February, March, April," Perna told NPR, describing a "steady cadence" of vaccine rollout that could result in most Americans getting access to a shot by mid-2021.
A four-star general, Perna previously served as the commanding general for the U.S. Army Materiel Command, which manages the Army's global supply chain. "I'm a professional logistician. That's what I've been doing for 39 years," he says.
The military is coordinating the vaccine distribution but will not play a direct role in moving or injecting vaccines on the ground, according to Perna. "We're partnering with commercial industry to do the actual distribution, because they know how to do it," he says, "They do it every year, with influenza and other medications and vaccines."
Pfizer has an assembly center in Kalamazoo, Mich., and plans to use private carriers such as UPS and FedEx to deliver vaccines to hospitals and vaccination sites. Vaccines from Moderna and other Operation Warp Speed candidate vaccines would likely be moved by the medical supply company McKesson, which has a contract with the government to distribute COVID-19 vaccines.
The government will be allocating initial vaccine supplies to states and jurisdictions, which will then be responsible for getting shots into people's arms and determining which groups get priority for those first doses. "Some of the jurisdictions have thought about mass [vaccination] campaigns. Some are going right to brick-and-mortar and working with CVS and Walgreens. Some are going to utilize their hospitals," and the places people can go to get vaccines may shift as more doses become available, Perna says.
Perna says he hasn't heard from President-elect Joe Biden's transition team yet but played down suggestions that a change in administration could complicate the work. "I believe that the mission we have — to develop, manufacture and deliver safe and effective vaccines — is moving in the right direction," Perna says. "And I am just going to keep my head down and drive to that and keep going."
From Delaware, Biden met with his newly formed COVID-19 advisory board Monday morning. In remarks after the meeting, he warned Americans to brace for "a very dark winter," despite the good news that Pfizer's vaccine seems to be effective, pending further tests.
"The projections still indicate we could lose 200,000 more lives in the coming months before a vaccine can be made widely available," Biden said, imploring Americans to wear face masks in public. Until nearly everyone has been vaccinated, he said, "a mask remains the most potent weapon against the virus."
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So where did Trump get the idea that he’s Andrew Jackson?Breaking News
tags: Andrew Jackson, Trump, Steve Bannon
... Trump discussed Jackson briefly last April when he was asked during the primary to weigh in on the issue of deposing Jackson from the front of the $20 bill. Trump, then the GOP frontrunner in the primary, blamed the move on “pure political correctness.”
But the reason Jackson has taken on such a physical and rhetorical presence in the Trump White House is, in fact, primarily because of Bannon, Trump’s chief strategist and the former head of Breitbart. According to officials in the Trump campaign, presidential transition, and administration speaking to The Daily Beast, Bannon would often discuss Jackson’s historical legacy and image with Trump on and after the campaign trail, and how the two political figures were a lot alike.
“[During the race], Trump would say he had heard this pundit or this person making the comparison, and [Steve] would encourage him and tell him how it was true,” a Trump campaign adviser who requested anonymity to speak freely told The Daily Beast. “It was a way to flatter [Trump], too. Bannon and Trump talked about a lot, but this was the president they had casual [conversations] about the most."
Another senior Team Trump official said that “as the transition was underway, he would encourage [Trump] to play up the comparison,” and that “Trump’s campaign and message was a clear descendant of Jacksonian populism and anti-political elitism.”
"[Bannon] is why Trump keeps equating himself with Andrew Jackson. That is the reason why," the aide added.
According to two sources with knowledge of the matter, Bannon had suggested and had given Trump a “reading list” of articles and biographies on Jackson, and reading material on Jacksonian democracy and populism. Stephen Miller, another top Trump adviser, also recommended and offered related reading material to Trump, a senior Trump administration official said. ...
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capitalizr changes the case of first letter of any word (lowercase to uppercase)
capitalizr - It’s a utility that lets you change the case (lowercase to uppercase the letter of the words) words in a file, leaving the words which have 3 or less letters. The file looks pretty if it has all words in capitalcase in it.
why not sed?
- because capitalizr is easy to use, just damn simple
- sed doesn’t takes input from stdin, it just works on piping.
The one and only requirement is Python, if you are on any variant of UNIX (e.g. Linux, *BSD, Mac etc) then you have a good luck, else download it. The simplest installation (for UNIX) is download/clone the archive, extract it cd to it and run the setup:
$ pip install capitalizr
Refer to INSTALL file for more instruction related to installation.
After following the instructions in INSTALL file, you should be able to type capitalizr in terminal. Type capitalizr followed by the filename and the output will be on the screen:
$ capitalizr inputfile.txt
Pipe input to it:
$ cat inputfile.txt | capitalizr -
Input from stdin:
$ capitalizr - the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog ^D the Quick Brown fox Jumps Over the Lazy dog
You can write the output into file by passing -o followed by output filename, and the output will be on a file named outputfile.txt:
$ capitalizr inputfile.txt -o outputfile.txt
Override the default length of words to be escaped. The default it 3:
$ capitalizr -t 1 inputfile.txt
Bugs? Suggestions? Questions?
Questions approaching in your mind? Found any bugs? Have any suggestions? Don’t hesitate to post it at: https://github.com/santosh/capitalizr/issues
These might seem silly ;) Here are implementation I want, priority wise:
- Android App
- Implement GUI
- Put it in repository list of Ubuntu, Fedora etc.
- Deployment with Debian package and Windows installer.
- ~~Manual page (And the installation of it)~~ ✔
See also the sandbox branch of the repository.
Feel free to contribute, just fork, clone, do your changes, push and send me a pull request.
Here are the contributors:
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Reflecting on Higher Education’s Most Significant ChangesEvoLLLution NewsWire
Last month, The EvoLLLution asked higher education stakeholders to share their opinions on the top three changes they have observed in the industry. The respondents — who ranged from institutional administrators to association heads, from educators to students, from corporate learning directors to instructional designers — had a number of different perspectives.
Based on the responses, we have developed our own list of higher education’s top three changes:
The EvoLLLution’s Three Biggest Changes in Higher Education
1. Technology has fundamentally changed higher education
Technology, and its role in the learning process, was the number one change spotted by survey respondents. In fact, 60 percent of respondents said technology has fundamentally changed post-secondary teaching and learning. Another 20 percent of respondents delved into more detail to point out that personal electronic devices, such as tablets and smart phones, are changing the way students and instructors alike approach education.
- “Technology has greatly altered the way we interact with students, from technology in the classroom to hybrid/online courses, e-mail and chat interaction and the flipped classroom,” said William Badke, associate librarian at Trinity Western University.
- “Today I can teach courses that are completely based in a learning management system,” said Wilda Smith, adjunct faculty member at the Central Texas College. “By doing this, I can stage written items, PowerPoint slides and other lesson materials or I can have a synchronous session where I have students meet me at a specific time.”
2. Higher education is better meeting the needs of non-traditional students
35 percent of respondents indicated that colleges and universities are more responsive to the needs of non-traditional students today than they were in the past. This is notable given recent increases in the number of adult and working students enrolling at higher education institutions across the United States.
- “In recognizing we are no longer dealing with children, but adults, we now have instruction that is based on participative learning and not lecture,” said Lindle Grigsby, dean of career and technical programming at Eastfield College. “This means an open learning space, modular furnishings and an instructor who is a mentor guiding the learning.”
- “One of the largest changes that I have seen is, larger universities have recognized the need for non-traditional student programs,” said Crystal Trotter, a student at Eastern Illinois University. “I have also seen colleges and universities expand options of how a non-traditional student can become involved at universities and have special occasions to recognize the non-traditional students on campus.”
3. Declining budgets
Declining budgets for public institutions was a topic of concern for 30 percent of respondents. They pointed out that tightening purse-strings have created a new array of challenges for higher education institutions.
- “The decrease in provincial funding to universities in Ontario is creating immense pressure on faculty and departmental budgets. For continuing education, a cost-recovery model is essential, and providing a substantial return to the institution is more important than ever before,” said Carolyn Young, director of continuing studies at Western University
- “Institutions are in the position of having to rethink their financial models based on funding cutbacks,” said Tina Grant, director of the National College Credit Recommendation Service at the University of the State of New York. “Some of that rethinking involves considering massive open online courses as a viable option for providing learning at a reduced cost.”
The Runners Up
There were several other changes noted by large numbers of survey respondents that did not make our top-three list, so below is our list of the three runners-up.
1. Professors and instructors are focused on teaching
30 percent of respondents noted that educators have become less focused on publishing in recent years, and more concerned with instruction, competency and relevance.
- “Professor roles are changing and have changed considerably,” said Jodi Robison, director of assessment at UniversityNow. “‘Publish or perish’ may be becoming a thing of the past.”
2. Degree programs are becoming more student-centric
25 percent of respondents noted that classes and degree programs have become markedly more self-paced and flexible in recent years.
- “Student-centered is taking on a new focus,” said Rosa-Fay Milnar, associate professor at Ashford University. “Individual customization is being tried many different ways such as competency-based credentials, credit for experience and requiring faculty to do more than just teach the class. [There is] more awareness that retention is only possible if students feel a sense of belonging to a larger whole they respect and are proud of.”
3. Declining recognition of the value of higher education
10 percent of respondents noted a change in the popular attitude towards higher education credentials. They pointed out that, over the past few years, the value of higher education degrees has been subject to increasing criticism from the public and from governments.
- “Americans are questioning the value of getting a higher education,” said Julia Dozier, executive director of economic development and contract education with the Chabot-Las Positas Community College District. “Having a college degree no longer means that one will get more than an entry-level job, if you get a job at all; and the cost of getting that degree can be a debt that must be carried for years after graduation.”
Ultimately, the survey has shown that this has been a period of significant change for the higher education industry. Non-traditional students are gaining more recognition on campus, and having their needs better met by new programs and advances in technology. However, the costs associated with higher education and ever-decreasing support from government bodies are posing dire threats to the industry.
Here are a few interesting points made by individuals that didn’t fit into any of the overarching themes, but that we wanted to share with the wider community.
1. Role separation is harming the quality of education
- “[One worrying trend is] separating the tasks of instructional design from instructional delivery and maybe even not recognizing the need to evaluate the impact of instruction and the total impact of a series of courses for a program of study culminating in a degree or certificate,” said Susan Farber, online instructor at the University of Cincinnati. “If each of these related tasks are completed by different individuals, how can these tasks be effective?”
2. Students are not learning the soft skills they need to succeed
- “I find that higher education is not fully addressing some significant social inadequacies,” said E. Beverly Young, director of certification and administration for the Pennsylvania State Police’s Municipal Police Officers’ Education and Training Commission. “Many students in our classrooms, virtually and traditional, present marginal ability needed for writing and interacting with other students, skills needed to experience the social aspect of learning.”
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Watch P2P TV Live Streaming on the Internet
P2P TV Live Streaming: The advance of peer-to-peer technology (P2P) has made possible the distribution of video and TV streams via a P2P network. p2pTV is the software application that doing basically that, designed to redistribute video streams on a p2p network.
P2PTV is not the old method of downloading movies, DVDs, TV episodes by using Bit-Torrent (BT) or eDonkey (eD2K) or other file-sharing networks and then watch the videos after completing the download. Nor it’s downloaded short video clips through SHOUTcast, etc.
p2p TV is the freeware that enables you to watch video streams, including live TV channels from pay cable or satellite TV. Thus, it’s possible to make every TV channel in the world available to all viewers globally.
How does P2P TV Technology work?
In the traditional way of video streaming, all viewers connect to the streaming server, thus creating bottlenecks or traffic congestion on the server, slowing down the downloads and viewing pleasure.
With p2pTV technology, only a few users need to connect to the mainstreaming server. Instead, each user themselves become a streaming server that broadcasts to another peer while at the same time receiving the streaming video from other peer’s streaming server. This greatly reduces the burden on the main video streams hosting server and increases the sources where the media can be streamed from. Thus, the download speed will be higher, and so do the smoothness of media playing.
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P2PTV System Requirements
While each individual P2P TV applications may have its own system requirement, but as a rule of thumb, to have an optimum streaming quality for great viewing pleasure without much lagging, it’s vital to have at least the following:
- At least 1,500 Kbps download speed
- Windows Media Player 9 and/or Real Player
- Disable Windows XP Service Pack 2 TCP Connection Limit
P2PTV Network and Software
Some of the P2PTV applications are:
ppStream – Best!
CoolStreaming – No Longer Available due to Copyright Issues
Open Media Network
The main consents are copyright. In these free P2P-TV networks, you can find numerous entertainments, news, and sports channels from cable and satellite TV stations.
The quality of the streaming video is also of variable quality, especially on those networks with fewer users. Lagging or intermittent delay and disconnection of the video stream is not uncommon. | <urn:uuid:5b843586-e52c-4c3f-b758-f39be25be36f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://techvictoria.com/p2p-tv-live-streaming/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570692.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20220807181008-20220807211008-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.873043 | 599 | 1.5625 | 2 |
Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item:
|Title: ||Fuzzy-controlled active state-of-charge controller for fasting charging behavior of Li-ion battery|
|Authors: ||Hsieh, G. C.;Chen, Liang‐Rui;Huang, K. S.|
|Issue Date: ||2012-06-05T06:50:33Z
|Abstract: ||A fuzzy-controlled active state-of-charge controller (FC-ASCC) is presented to adaptively program the charging behavior of the Li-ion battery.|
The proposed FC-ASCC can provide two charging modes (SM and CM) instead of the usual CV mode for improving the charging trajectory of the Li-ion battery. A fuzzy-controlled strategy is built with a set of membership functions to prescribe the charging process in a safe charging region. A design example is conducted with simulation and experiment for accessing the predicted charging performance of the Li-ion battery. The FC-ASCC can actually fast the charging speed over 23% comparing with the traditional charging system.
|Relation: ||The 25th Annual Conference of the IEEE:Industrial Electronics Society, 1999. IECON '99 Proceedings: 400-405|
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The Union budget presented on July 5, 2019 has been a topic of discussion and debate all over the nation. Some have zipped their lips and are cynical about it. While others are embracing the budget and are happy about it. The Modi 2.0 Government has tried to make their presence feel on all sectors but the most fascinating field that grabs the attention is ‘Women and Child Development’. Mrs. Sitharaman has augmented the budget by various policies keeping in mind the aspirations and hopes of women and children.
The Women and Child Development sector witnessed a hike of 17 per cent. A total of Rs 29,000 crore was dedicated to this sector. The FM emphasized on the inclusive participation of women. She highlighted the immense contribution of women in India’s growth story. By quoting Swami Vivekanda, in a very vibrant way, she presented an analogy between a bird without wing and an economy without women.
This budget concentrated more on women- led initiatives instead of women- centric policies. .‘Nari Tu Narayani’ received immense appreciation from women and was accepted by all. One woman in every self- help group will be made eligible for a loan up to Rs 1 lakh under MUDRA scheme. “For every verified women SHG member having a Jan-Dhan Bank Account, an overdraft of Rs 5,000 shall be allowed,” she said. The budget focused on self-employment of women and thus broadening their horizons.
‘Pradhanmantri Matru Vandana Yojana’ got a major boost and Rs 2,500 crore were dedicated to it. This spending is merely double as compared to Rs 1,200 crore in 2018-19. This Maternity Benefit Programme grants Rs 6,000 to pregnant women and lactating mothers for the birth of first child. Rs 1,500 crores were assigned to the ‘Child Protection Services Programme’. This programme which comes under the Integrated Child Development Services also saw an enhancement from Rs 925 crore. Anganwadi services received a spectacular amount of Rs 19,834.37 crore.
Mrs. Sitharaman has strengthened the ‘Mahila Shakti Kendras’ by granting them 115 crores. Considering the aspect of women empowerment, Mahila Shakti Kendras have been crucial in providing a great platform to express their opinions and make them courageous. In the same way, allocation for Working Women’s Hostel scheme and windows’ homes uplifted and gave them new hopes. Schemes like MUDRA and Standup India, started to encourage entrepreneurship skills in women, got a special attention in the budget.
Overall, there was a boom to certain policies and schemes related to women and children in the Union Budget. With 78 Women MP’s in the assembly, assurance of better financial growth and development was given by the Finance Minister. Schemes like Nirbhaya Fund and policies related to health issues of children needs proper scrutiny and correct implementation. Empowering women, addressing their issues, instilling a sense of confidence and faith in them and making them fly on their own wings was the motive of the Government. Mrs. Sitharaman made her best effort to cross the four walls of women-oriented policies thereby trying to flourish women- led initiatives. | <urn:uuid:601b9ee9-ffa6-495f-9450-152d0e135f9a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://digiinfomedia.online/budget-that-gives-place-for-women-led-initiatives/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570879.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809003642-20220809033642-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.960789 | 691 | 1.523438 | 2 |
The coat protein (CP) genes of two potato virus Y necrotic isolates (N27 and a mutant strain N27-92), which differed in their reactivity to a monoclonal antibody (mab), were characterized. Both isolates could be detected by mab 4E7, but mab VN295.5 selectively reacted to N27 and not to N27-92. The CP genes of both isolates coded for 267 amino acids with ~99.0% identity at both the nucleotide and the amino acid levels. Nucleotide sequence comparison indicated five substitutions in N27-92 compared with N27. Three of these changes resulted in substitution of amino acids. Two transitions (A→G) in N27-92 changed threonine to alanine and lysine to arginine at positions 7 and 55, respectively, whereas a A→T transversion changed asparagine to isoleucine at position 27. The surface probability curves of both the isolates could almost be superimposed, except at amino acid positions 7 and 27. Since amino acid substitution at position 55 is conservative, changes from polar to hydrophobic amino acids (threonine→alanine and asparagine→isoleucine) at positions 7 and 27 might have changed the epitope(s) of N27-92, abolishing its detection by mab VN295.5.
- Coat protein gene
- Potato virus Y
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"Jihad: Waging Peace and Justice" according to the Canadian Islamic Congress
"Many lives to avenge oh ye pagans" Islamiway website extols the joys of Jihad and shows Lady Liberty as a Muslimah
The President of the Canadian Islamic Congress Mohammed Elmasary : "Jihad :Waging Peace and Justice"
According to Elmasry's explanation below on the CIC website , Jihad is a peaceful humanitarian movement which only uses violence when expedient.
by Prof. Mohamed Elmasry
1. The word Jihad (from the Arabic root Ga-Ha-Da) is a verbal noun meaning exerting an effort, expounding an energy, striving, working to improve, struggling, doing one's best.
From the same Arabic root, there is Majhood (effort), Mojtahed (a person who does his/her best), Ijtehad (Islamic science of deducting Islamic laws from basic sources), Johid (potential or energy as in electrical potential or energy) and Jihad (persuasion as in (29:8), (31:15), (6:109)).
2. Jihad in Islam is waging peace and justice. Jihad is a war against unjust, oppression, exploitation, tyranny, fear, corruption and denying the masses basic human rights (4:75-76) and to establish justice, peace, freedom, especially freedom of religion, security, equity and social justice (2:193).
The tools for launching this exploitation, tyranny, fear, corruption and denying the masses basic human rights (4:75-76) and to establish justice, peace, freedom, especially freedom of religion, security, equity and social justice (2:193).
The tools for launching this war are knowledge, effort, resources, activism, awareness, praying, persuasion, combativeness, advocacy in addition to exercising social, political and military pressures (9:111), (8:60), (9:44-45).
The use of the military option is not ruled out and would be used if and only if it is the only option to stop a greater evil (2:216). The rules of engagement are so strenuous for a given military option to qualify as Jihad. Not every military campaign is a Jihad (2:244).
3. Jihad in Islam is not meant for domination, and not to achieve personal, territorial and/or economical gains and not to exercise power and control. Any type of aggression would make Jihad null and void (2:190-191).
4. One of the most important objectives of Jihad in Islam is to stand for those who are oppressed and/or forced out of their homes just because of their religion (22:39-40).
5. Those who are performing outward Jihad must also spiritually reform themselves by performing (al-jihad al-akbar), an inward personal and more difficult type of Jihad (29:69), (22:78).
This type of Jihad is the internal spiritual and moral struggle which should lead to the victory over the ego. This is an important, necessary, and meritorious type of Jihad. In effect, this type of Jihad is the one which we wage against our lower selves, according to the Prophetic traditions. This personal effort made to overcome the self is considered to be "the greatest Jihad", as mention in a Hadith narrated by Imam Ahmed.
6. It is impossible for Jihad to be performed by an oppressor, a tyrant, a transgressor or an exploiter; it does not matter what that person/government/group calls his/her/its actions. Nor there is Jihad for those who are after personal, tribal and national gains (9:24).
It is precisely in such a context that Jihad meant not to have a negative but a positive meaning both inwardly and outwardly and it is in this sense that Islam has stressed the positive aspect of combativeness; peace belongs to those who are inwardly at peace and outwardly at war with the forces of unjust.
7. Jihad is an unselfish and noble effort for the good of humanity (29:6), involving many sacrifices; money, time, effort, and the ultimate sacrifice of all, life itself. But the rewards of this unselfish and noble act are immense (29:69), (9:41), (4:74), (3:142), (9:16), (9:111), (49:15) and its negligence is costly for humanity (9:38-39), (9:24), (9:81).
8. For political and historical reasons, the word Jihad in the West connotes violence. It is most often translated into English not only as "a holy war," but also a war waged against non-Muslims, a kind of Crusade in reverse.
Today in the West the term Jihad leads people to believe that Muslims are supposedly encouraged to take up arms in order to impose their faith by force, annihilating those who reject it.
This is contrary to the Islamic teachings that it is not for man but for God alone to judge and punish disbelief and that compulsion in religious matters is formally forbidden (2:256). It is regrettable that in Western public opinion, Jihad seems to have retained only the misleading meaning of "holy war."
9. The Qur'an explicitly safeguards the clergy, declaring that God protects non-Muslim places of worship: "Did not God check one set of people by means of another, there would surely have been pulled down monasteries, churches, synagogues, and mosques, in which the name of God is commemorated in abundant measure."
This prohibition is corroborated and elucidated by the Prophetic tradition which forbids soldiers to do harm to any religious persons, whereas they could logically have been the primary targets if the motive of "holy war" had been religious.
Without putting Western civilization on trial, we should nevertheless mention by way of contrast that several centuries later, the founders of international law in Europe excluded the Muslim "infidels" from the benefits of the law of wars. Yet, the concept of "holy war" remains branded as the expression of the Muslims' religious fanaticism. How ineradicable are the prejudices!
10. Jihad was and still being invoked in Muslim protests against foreign occupation, oppression and exploitation during colonialism, post-colonialism, and neocolonialism, a cause perceived as both just and necessary.
However some Muslims must bear responsibility for the bad name given to Jihad. Today some contemporary governments and groups in Muslim countries make reference to Jihad only in its military meaning, through words and deeds, in order to hide their moral, social and political bankruptcy. In the process they kill the innocent, cause only death and destruction and do not advance the cause of peace and justice. But regrettably they are the ones who show up regularly in the newspapers and on television.
11. Today Muslim's outlook on Jihad are one of the following: a. All types of Jihad is irrelevant to Muslims today. b. All types of Jihad is justified except these types which involve the use of armed resistance. c. All types of Jihad is very much relevant and needed today, from the inward spiritual struggle against one's lower self, to activism for peace, justice, social justice,...etc, to armed resistance whenever armed resistance is justified; for example against foreign occupation, oppression, tyranny and unjust.
[Prof. Mohamed Elmasry is national president of the Canadian Islamic Congress.]
Below: A poem extolling Jihad on the Islamiway website .
The Understanding Islam article on it's homepage stresses that" Muslims follow a religion of peace,mercy, and forgiveness,and the majority have nothing to do with the grave events which came to be associated with their faith".
Apparently the author of the Jihad poem missed this lesson.
What Is Islam?
Islam is not a new religion, but the same truth that God revealed through all His prophets to every people. For a fifth of the world's population, Islam is both a religion and a complete way of life. Muslims follow a religion of peace, mercy, and forgiveness, and the majority have nothing to do with the extremely grave events which have become associated with their faith .
MIM :The Islamiway webmaster converted because "Islam was termed a terrorist religion" and credits America and Israel for his conversion.
Innocent Afghan's bombed and ME!!!! American Jeans, American Cokes, Music , Movies!!! I just couldn't take that anymore...."
The Islamiway webmaster is so desperate to "pimp for the Prophet" that he converted Lady Liberty into a Muslimah as well.
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A Plan To Put Your Driver's License On Your Phone
We're doing more and more things with our smartphones, so why not use them to store our driver's license? But when you think about it, you may not be comfortable handing your phone over to a police officer.
Motorists in Iowa may be among the first in the nation to be able to whip out their smartphones to access their licenses at traffic stops. The Iowa Department of Transportation is developing a smartphone app that would allow drivers to access a digitally encoded license that would take the place of the conventional plastic ID card.
"It's on your cellphone so you can carry it around with you," Iowa Department of Transportation Director Paul Trombino says.
At a recent statehouse briefing on the IDs, Trombino demonstrates that first you access an app on the Internet. Next, with a PIN you fill in the app with information from your physical driver's license. Then your new virtual license downloads into your phone for you to present wherever you need an ID.
But some Iowans who might be most affected by the change have their doubts.
"From a law enforcement perspective I really don't see any advantages," says Sgt. Scott Bright with the Iowa State Patrol. "The first thing I thought about is if we're making a traffic stop, is that violator looking for their cellphone before we stop the car."
Bright also doubts that officers could scan the information from a digital license without carrying the cellphone back to the squad car — and that raises obvious privacy concerns.
Computer security experts say the digital license could be more secure than a plastic license you might lose or leave lying around. But that doesn't mean there's any real need for this yet.
"My thought is I wouldn't get one but not for security reasons," says Doug Jacobson of the Information Assurance Center at Iowa State University. "We've all stood in line at the airport behind the people trying to scan their QR codes to get aboard the airplane" after multiple attempts.
And Jacobson says it would take some time for most people to consider this a valid ID.
So with all the objections, what's the point of a digital driver's license? Andrea Henry at the Iowa DOT concedes there isn't exactly a clamor yet for this innovation.
"However, we do know that customers are demanding services through their mobile devices more and more. It's really about just keeping up with technology," Henry says.
MorphoTrust USA, the technology company developing the app, is pushing that concept to other motor vehicle departments around the country. Jenny Openshaw of MorphoTrust USA says customers do want to be able to renew their driver's licenses online and sees this as the next logical step.
"I think that the digital driver's license doesn't so much solve a problem as it fulfills a need and a desire on the part of the American consumer to have everything that is important to us in electronic form and on the mobile device of our choice. People are more likely to leave their wallet at home these days than their cellphone," Openshaw says.
Iowa officials predict a rollout of the new smartphone license this year or next. That's after security and privacy concerns are carefully addressed and after DOT employees test it out for customer comfort.
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Painting a door may seem daunting, whether you're copying the latest front door ideas, upgrading an internal uPVC or composite door. But, learn this key DIY skill and you'll be able to use it for life.
When you know how to paint a door, you'll see that the technique is basically the same for each type. You just need the right paint for the job, as well as a little time and space but otherwise, it's not a complicated job and you certainly don’t need to pay a professional to do it for you...
There's no better way to inject color and vibrancy, not to mention curb appeal into your home than with this simple home improvement job. From prepping and priming the door for painting, to leaving the paint to dry and cure, you can guarantee a professional finish throughout your home with our guidance.
- See how to go about painting a house with our expert guide.
What kind of paint do you use on doors?
If you're painting a front door, as we do in the how-to video, you should choose an exterior paint like from Valspar (opens in new tab)’s Exterior Wood & Metal Trim range.
Generally speaking, all doors, see a lot of traffic, so you should choose a gloss or satin finish for durability as these are easier to clean. If your internal door is made from solid wood, pick up one of the best paints for wood.
Dominic Myland, CEO of Mylands (opens in new tab) says, 'It’s best to choose a wood and metal paint for doors and window frames. These are specially formulated to be particularly durable and can also be applied to walls for a consistent finish. If you’re not too confident with colour, we always recommend painting a smaller area first such as a single door or window frame in a bold colour and leaving the rest of the room off-white – it’s really easy to live with but is a fun way to introduce colour. You can increase your areas as your confidence grows.'
Painting uPVC doors: If you're painting composite materials like fibreglass doors or upgrading a uPVC door, you'll find lots of specialist paints on the market for the job. Some are available without the need from primer – although we'd always recommend using a primer when painting around the house – and others are water-based which will need priming always. If your uPVC door is external, look for UV and weather protection also to prolong its life.
Painting composite doors: Although composite doors won't be 100% plastic, you should still use the same method below and paint as you would for uPVC to protect their outer layer from flaking.
Before painting a front door
If you are painting a front door, the process is exactly the same as for an interior door, but you have the added complication of the weather and security to contend with.
If you have a new door to paint, leave the old one in position until the new one is ready to hang. This may mean removing the old door temporarily while you size up and cut the new one.
If you are re-painting your existing front door, remove it from the hinges and remove any door furniture. Masking tape windows to protect them from paint. If you do not have anything to temporarily block the doorway, work in a place where you can keep an eye on the door for security.
Myland adds, 'Always use masking tape where possible before you start painting to protect door frames, ironmongery, windows, walls and skirting from smudges and blurred lines.'
Finally, in an ideal situation, the paint needs a day to cure but this isn't always possible when the door needs removing. If this is the case, start first thing and invest in good quality primer and paint that will dry in good time.
What you’ll need for painting a door:
- Dust sheets (opens in new tab)/newspaper
- Primer (opens in new tab)
- Paint (make sure it is suitable for exterior use if for a front door)
- Small paint tray (opens in new tab)
- Cutting-in brush (opens in new tab)
- Small foam roller (opens in new tab)
- Screwdriver (opens in new tab) for removing door from hinges
- See our pick of the best brushes.
1. Pick the right day
When painting a front door, try to work under cover if possible, but always choose a day with no forecast of rain, strong wind or any other adverse conditions that could affect your work.
Temperature is most relevant if you're using water-based paints, but try to pick a dry day again where the temperature isn't too hot but above 10°C/50F as this will help the paint dry properly, not too quickly, or not at all.
2. Take the door off its hinges
Before starting to paint your door, take it off its hinges and lay it flat on a paste table. Remove any handles, door knobs and hinges.
3. Clean and prep the door
Much of knowing how to paint a door is in the prep and you want to make sure the surface is clean, dry and is free from dust and grease. Scrape off any loose paint, remove any mildew with a solution of one-part bleach and three-parts water, and sand thoroughly.
'As ever, preparation is key to a good finish. Start with a good sand of the window frame or door to even out the surface and help the paint to fix, followed by a clean with a damp cloth to make sure you’ve got rid of any dust.' Adds Myland.
4. Prime the door properly
When painting doors yourself, you should apply a coat of primer using a brush and small roller to help achieve a professional-looking finish.
Zoe Warren, interior expert at PriceYourJob.co.uk (opens in new tab) says 'If you are painting an existing door that has paint blemishes, it is vital that you prime the door, as this will help the new paint adhere better and block stains.
Priming will also help you discover any flaws, which should be covered with spackling compound to create a smooth surface. You should then sand and prime the door before painting.'
5. Paint the door
When painting doors you want to begin by brushing inset or trim details by hand with a paintbrush so that you can lay an even base coat. Use the brush to feather out the edges of the paint so that there are no drips. Then, use a small foam roller to apply a smooth, consistent paint application across all of the flat surfaces, including the outside edges of the door.
'Paint one coat at a time, following the direction of the wood grain, making sure the first coat has time to dry before you start the next one.' Recommends Myland.
- Find out how to paint a garage door
6. Leave the door out to dry
Allow to dry for two to four hours, lightly sand in-between coats to encourage good adhesion and add a second coat.
Myland adds 'Make sure you remove the masking tape before it’s completely dry to prevent any cracks or chips.'
Once one side is completely dry, turn it over and do the other side.
Leave the door for a full day to allow the paint to cure.
7. Reattach all parts
Once fully cured, you can reattach the handles, hinges and knobs and reattach the door to the frame.
- See our guide on painting windows too.
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Study on energy efficiency programs in Latin America led by Microsol and funded by the Rexel Foundation
This study aims to evaluate the opportunity of using carbon schemes to improve access to energy efficiency
Rexel and Microsol are partnering on a study related to the feasibility of developing carbon schemes in the field of energy efficiency in the Andean zone of Latin America. The purpose of the study is to analyze 2 main issues:
- Understand how access for disadvantaged people to efficient equipment using renewable energy can be boosted using voluntary carbon credit scheme.
- Assess relevance of the carbon mechanism to accelerate deployment of eco-efficient lighting for disadvantaged people will be a special interest.
There is a true need to bring electricity to isolated rural populations in the Andean region. Renewable energy sources remain untapped despite available technological solutions that could be implemented on a large scale.
The analysis of carbon mechanisms as a means of ensuring projects’ long-term sustainability, while improving their social and environmental quality, is conclusive. There is a real opportunity to use such mechanisms, provided that the value of carbon credits increases.
Further information and the full results of the study are presented in the following documents
- The executive summary provides the context, central issue and key findings of the study.
- The synthesis uses a clear, didactic approach to describe the analysis of the electrification potential in the Andean region and the eligible, profitable projects that have been identified; to decipher carbon mechanisms; and to present the study’s remarkable contributions.
- Graphics simplify and illustrate the study’s conclusions regarding the advantages related to using carbon mechanisms.
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New Delhi: New research suggests that the spread of fake news in India that sparks mob lynchings is largely done out of “reasons of prejudice and ideology”, rather than “ignorance or digital literacy”.
“It can be seen…that assuming most misinformation spreads through rural and/or illiterate users and targeting functional digital and information literacy interventions primarily at these groups would be both inaccurate and ineffective,” a new qualitative study put out by researchers at the London School of Economics (LSE) notes.
This goes against, in part, conventional wisdom that all WhatsApp needs to do is conduct a series of workshops across the country as a method of imparting digital literacy and teaching users how to spot fake news.
Furthermore, a “typology” of users constructed by the study also suggests that if a WhatsApp user is “male, urban or rural, young or middle-aged, technologically literate, Hindu, upper or middle class”, they are more likely to share (certain types of) fake news or hate-speech.
“Some user narratives in our fieldwork go as far as to suggest that this type of technologically-literate, male, Hindu user is also more likely to create and administer the groups responsible for ideologically charged misinformation, disinformation and hate-speech on WhatsApp in the first place,” the study notes.
“On the other hand, if a WhatsApp user is lower caste, Dalit, or Muslim and/ or a woman and/or rural, particularly with lower levels of technological literacy, then such a user is less likely to create and curate and unlikely even to forward ideologically-charged misinformation and disinformation,” it adds.
This research is part of a group of 20 academic projects that were funded by WhatsApp in 2018 in response to widespread criticism that the company was doing little to examine the role it played in the spread of fake news and misinformation in a wide range of fields.
The LSE study, which conducted extended qualitative interviews with over 250 users across four states (Karnataka, Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh) in 2019, doesn’t look to come up with sweeping generalisations but instead is more interested in examining the “social and psychological formation of ‘WhatsApp vigilante’ groupings”.
In the last two years, a string of murders and lynchings have been linked by the mainstream media to messages spread on the Facebook-owned messaging application.
Not all of the killings are the same – some are over Muslims and cattle-smuggling, while others revolve around rumours of child-snatching – but they all nevertheless thrust WhatsApp into a controversial debate over security and privacy.
In July 2018, the Narendra Modi government specifically took aim at WhatsApp’s role in the issue and asked it to curb the spread of hate speech and identify users who were responsible for spreading rumours.
When it comes to spreading fake news or rumours, one school of thought has advocated that some of this is due to a lack of digital literacy (‘people are unaware of what they are forwarding’) or a lack of education (‘ignorant villagers believe in ignorant things’).
The LSE study – which is authored by Shakuntala Banaji, Ram Bhat, Anushi Agrawal, Nihal Passanha and Mukti Sadhana Pravin – strongly argues that a section of rural and urban upper and middle-caste Hindu men and women are predisposed to simply believe in formation against discriminated groups.
“A key finding is that in the case of violence against a specific group (Muslims, Christians, Dalits, Adivasis, etc.) there exists widespread, simmering distrust, hatred, contempt and suspicion towards Pakistanis, Muslims, Dalits and critical or dissenting citizens amongst a section of rural and urban upper and middle caste Hindu men and women.
WhatsApp users in these demographics are predisposed both to believe disinformation and to share misinformation about discriminated groups in face-to-face and WhatsApp networks. Regardless of the inaccuracy of sources or of the WhatsApp posts, this type of user appears to derive confidence in (mis)information and/or hate-speech from the correspondence of message content with their own set of prejudiced ideological positions and discriminatory beliefs.” [Emphasis added].
Education and media literacy levels don’t really matter in this regard, the study’s focus groups with WhatsApp users also noted.
“Particularly amongst well-educated users who are aware of the need for a politically correct stance on disinformation, we found a tendency to position themselves as alert, ethical, responsible and savvy media users. However…even very educated and media literate users are often not aware of the contradictions in their beliefs and behaviours,” it says.
WhatsApp ‘reporters’ and group behaviour
The internal dynamics of a WhatsApp group also create the necessary social infrastructure for disinformation to thrive.
For instance, the study notes that in its fieldwork it came across the role of a “WhatsApp reporter’ in many groups – a few members who want to “post first” or “forward first”. These people do so in hopes of gaining social capital and acquiring a reputation for being very knowledgeable and informed.
While these users may not be ideologically biased, they are often less concerned with the reliability of the news they forward, but are ironically seen as more accurate.
“Positioning themselves as amateur reporters in the context of their own communities, the users who want to ‘post first’ or ‘forward first’ are less concerned with reliability or the potential to start dangerous rumours than with immediacy and impact. Our analysis was also confirmed by other users who commented on those in their groups who always “post first” or from whom many forwards emanate, suggesting that the proportion of inaccurate or false information might be larger from these people but that they still had a reputation as very knowledgeable and informed,” the study notes.
“Our analysis of the data suggests that for many amateur “WhatsApp reporters”, the internet appears to be a vast repository of stock messages. Given the limited time in which to gain first mover advantage, they take what they can get. All of this connects to the strong affective element at play in the use of WhatsApp for the circulation of content that is apparently informational. Amidst the flow of hundreds of messages, the ones which stand out are those that convey a sense of immediacy, and those that can shock,” it adds.
Other behaviour that plays a role in spreading misinformation is the lack of “reflexivity” involved in “in receiving, decoding and forwarding information and misinformation”. Or, put simply, forwarding messages without checking what the actual information is about.
“They claim that the preview is sufficient to give them a sense of the value of the message and its importance,” the study notes.
Another form of WhatsApp messaging that is closely linked to this behaviour is blind bulk-forwarding of messages.
As the research notes, sheer exhaustion simply leads to bulk deletion and bulk forwarding of potentially dangerous messages:
“The cognitive, physical and emotional labour that would be required to process, and decide whether to respond, amend, delete, forward-to-many or forward-to-some the bulk of messages received on any given day is significant – and in some cases would (and does) comprise a full-time, paid job. In the face of such relentless flows of sayings, greetings, prayers, comments, information, misinformation and disinformation, ordinary users who are not paid to administer social media spaces demonstrate two key tendencies associated with the need for speed – bulk deletion and/or bulk forwarding of messages.”
What’s the solution?
The research project suggests a mixture of regulatory and technological steps – but warns grimly that even current forwarding restrictions are being circumvented in various parts of the country.
“Further, we have learnt that to circumvent the restrictions on how many forwards at a time, and how many members are allowed in groups, many users are downloading and using outdated and/or unauthorised versions of the app (such as WhatsApp GB and WhatsApp Plus) which are available on Android operating systems which enable them to bypass some of the recent changes in the application,” it notes.
The need of the hour, according to the study, are methods that will allow WhatsApp to “identify and block the phone numbers” of users who are responsible for posting hate-speech and to take down their posts.
Secondly, it recommends that the Facebook-owned company set up a “beacon feature” that can broadcast a warning or advisory to users in specific locations about specific issues – say an area in which signs of vigilante violence, cattle-killing or child-kidnapping have been shown to spread within minutes.
“Finally, we also recommend that WhatsApp introduce a mechanism whereby users, especially women and sexual minorities are able to report hate speech, misogyny, sexual violence etc. on a separate fasttracked route in partnership with local or state-level law enforcement,” the study says.
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Acupuncture for Proteus Syndrome Pain Management
While surfing the net I found this interesting video and felt it would be very eye opening to share. Mr. Richards suffers from proteus syndrome, a rare disease that causes dis-figuration and over growth.
The condition is so rare that only a few hudred people suffer from the condition worldwide.
Researchers at NIH have recently learned that Proteus syndrome is caused by a mosaic mutation in a gene called “AKT1.” 1. A mosaic gene mutation is a change in some cells but not others. With finding this gene, researchers are able to look into possible treatments for this disease. Until then, he and others with the disease must utilize surgery and pain management methods to manage the condition.
Acupuncture has been popularized for it’s ability to deal with pain management. Acupuncture for proteus syndrome pain management can provide relief to many people suffering from this condition. Every acupuncturist uses different methods to treat patients, but the treatment goal is all the same: subdue the imbalances and do the best we can to help people heal.
1. Proteus Syndrome Foundation. http://www.proteus-syndrome.org/proteus-syndrome/faqs/
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As Russia’s annexation of Crimea proceeds, the United States must step back; the European Union must step forward; and the international community must ensure both that Russia pays a steep economic and political price for its actions, and that Russian and Ukrainian nationalists do not lock both sides into a deadly spiral of violence.
Thus far, Western leaders have played their cards about as well as they could, barring early missteps by German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who described a calculated assertion of Russia’s regional interests as the behaviour of a leader who was out of touch with reality. Escalation of the crisis by the US at this stage would merely play into Russian President Vladimir Putin’s hands and expose the West as a paper tiger.
To see why, it is useful to recall some history. Throughout the 20th century, the US intervened repeatedly in Latin America to topple or subvert governments it did not like: in Cuba, Nicaragua, the Dominican Republic, Panama, Guatemala, Haiti, El Salvador, Chile, and Grenada, to name only the most prominent cases. During the Cold War, successive US presidents were perfectly happy to send in troops, directly or indirectly, to ensure that friendly governments prevailed in the Americas (and beyond).
Now recall Western responses to previous Soviet and Russian incursions into strategically important countries: Hungary in 1956, Czechoslovakia in 1968, or Georgia in 2008. Each time, the US refused to engage militarily with a state possessing the largest number of nuclear weapons on earth.
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To recite this history is not to approve it, but rather to try to understand how Russians might understand the legitimacy of Putin’s actions. There is also the universal political dynamic whereby a foreign threat or crisis strengthens a leader domestically. Putin is getting the same bump in popularity from his Crimean adventure that then-British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher got from the Falklands War in 1982. Even left-wing intellectuals are lining up to support Putin for protecting ethnic Russians from what the Kremlin and its allied media portray as ‘fascist’ Ukrainian nationalism.
Against this backdrop, US Secretary of State John Kerry is right to make clear that NATO is not contemplating a military response of any kind. He would do even better to hand off responsibility as lead negotiator and spokesman in this crisis to a group of EU leaders: Merkel, UK Prime Minister David Cameron, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk, and the EU’s foreign policy chief, Catherine Ashton.
The EU as a whole has far more extensive economic ties – and hence influence – with Russia than the US does. The EU is Russia’s largest trading partner – the US is in fifth place, behind China and Ukraine. Roughly half of Russian foreign direct investment in 2012 went to the Netherlands, Cyprus, and Switzerland (which is not an EU member, but is subject to EU pressure), while an estimated 75% of Russia’s inward foreign direct investment comes from EU countries. Finally, Russian oligarchs own more property in London and the south of France than they do in New York or Miami.
Moreover, EU pressure on Russia is less likely to whip up Russian nationalism than US ‘interference’ in Russia’s neighbourhood. For starters, Ukraine is in the EU’s neighbourhood as well. But, more important, the EU does not remind Russians daily of their post-Soviet losses and humiliation on the global stage in the same way that the US does. The US has far fewer Russia experts in politics today than it did two decades ago, because most American foreign policymakers have been paying far more attention to China, India, and the Middle East. No country, much less a former superpower, likes to be ignored.
Finally, if the US steps back, the EU, the United Nations, and even China can remind the Russians of the political consequences of flagrantly violating international law and swallowing up impoverished, restive territories that will prove far harder to digest than the fixed referendum results would suggest. The Muslim Tatars – roughly 15% of Crimea’s population – strongly oppose joining the Russian Federation and may become a permanent thorn in its side, along with the 25% of Ukrainian-speaking Crimeans who have been silenced over the past ten days.
The US and European decision to impose some economic sanctions now, with the possibility of adopting tougher and broader sanctions later, is not a sign of weakness but of strategic calculation. Heavier weapons remain in the diplomatic arsenal to deter Putin from trying to carve off further sections of Ukraine; in the meantime, markets are imposing additional economic costs on all Russians.
It is now equally important to strengthen the moderate members of the new Ukrainian government and to reduce the influence of right-wing nationalists who would trample on the rights of Russian-speaking Ukrainians. From the French Revolution to Egypt and Syria, extremists have repeatedly overtaken moderates and then proceeded to mimic the tactics and politics of the government they originally united to overthrow.
That is not to say that the US, the EU, and other concerned actors should not do everything possible to ensure that Ukraine’s people, whatever language they speak and religion they practice, gain the rights and prosperity that they desperately seek. For the US, the defence of universal values is, according to President Barack Obama’s National Security Strategy, a core American interest.
But the way to pursue that interest in this case is not to invite a Cold War-style face-off. It is to backstop the countries that have the most influence over Russia and the most at stake – strategically and economically – in resolving this crisis.
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The Sundgau House of Nature, built by the Porte d'Alsace combined municiple authorities, offers nature activities for all ages.
Activities not to be missed:
Throughout the year, the Sundgau House of Nature provides entertainment for young people and the general public:
It supports teachers in educational nature projects,It organizes youth training and ""nature"" work camps during the holidays,It also provides the general public with a programme of guided tours to encounter the natural heritage of Sundgau, practical ecology workshops, festive events, etc.
And in the summer?
The SHN offers guided tours to discover the natural heritage of the Sundgau area, special evenings and fun workshops for the family (the programme is available on the website). For those who prefer travelling around the Sundgau area autonomously, it also features walking routes departing from Altenach.
The more curious amongst you will also take the time to explore, on the site of our Altenach discovery trail, the little ""key to the soil"" gallery of geology and will spend a few moments in the Strange Grange, encountering an odd universe...
- Altitude : 329m
- Distance to the nearest station (km) : 5
- Type of visits proposed : Free visit, Guided tour for groups with reservation
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- Within weeks of the September 11 attacks, US forces were in Afghanistan fighting Al Qaeda and its Taliban hosts.
- By March 2002, US special-operations forces, their international partners, and local allies set out on the first major battle of the war.
Nineteen years ago, a team of Canadian snipers set back-to-back world records for the longest sniper kill during one of the largest battles of the war in Afghanistan.
The US response to the September 11 terrorist attacks caught Al Qaeda and its Taliban hosts by surprise. Instead pouring tens of thousands of troops into Afghanistan's harsh terrain, as the Soviets had done, the US military took the unconventional route.
A small number of US special operators and CIA paramilitary officers partnered with the Northern Alliance, a hodgepodge of anti-Taliban factions, and other groups. By late 2001 they had largely defeated Al Qaeda and the Taliban through a combination of air power and ground operations conducted by local fighters with guidance from Green Berets.
It was a perfect unconventional-warfare campaign and a ringing endorsement of the US and Coalition special-operations community, leading policymakers to rely more on commandos.
Following the Battle of Tora Bora, in which Delta Force and British Special Boat Service commandos almost caught Osama bin Laden in December 2001, the US military sought to find and destroy any Al Qaeda and Taliban remnants in the country.
Intelligence indicated a large combined Al Qaeda and Taliban force was in the Shahi Khot Valley in eastern Afghanistan. The US military decided to strike the roughly 1,000 terrorists and Taliban fighters there.
Surrounded by mountains, the Shahi Khot valley has a base altitude of 8,500 feet and is about 3 miles wide and 6 miles long. The peak of Takur Ghar mountain — which would end up playing a key part in the operation — looks down on the valley from a height of about 12,000 feet.
The plan was to trap the Al Qaeda and Taliban fighters in the valley in an "anvil and hammer" operation.
Paratroopers from the US Army's 101st Airborne Division would land in several different areas south of the valley, while an Afghan partner force led by Army Green Berets would block the valley's north end. Meanwhile, several small special-operations teams would position themselves on the mountains surrounding the valley and provide intelligence updates and direct airstrikes against the enemy below.
All in all, Operation Anaconda, which took place during the first half of March 2002, involved about 2,000 troops, including Delta Force, SEAL Team 6, Australia's and New Zealand's Special Air Services, and Canadian commandos.
You broke the world record? Hold my beer
Canada, a steadfast US ally, was one of the first to commit troops to fight Al Qaeda and the Taliban. By March 2002, there were about 1,000 Canadian troops in Afghanistan, but only a handful participated in Operation Anaconda.
Two three-man sniper teams from the 3rd Battalion of Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry were attached to the 101st Airborne for the operation's duration.
In addition, operators from the Joint Task Force 2 (JTF-2), a Canadian special-operations unit similar to the US Army's Delta Force, worked independently and directed airstrikes against the enemy.
The Canadian snipers hit the ground running, racking up multiple kills, but they truly distinguished themselves a few days into the operation, when Master Cpl. Arron Perry took out an Al Qaeda fighter who was acting as a forward observer.
Perry's shot was from 2,310 meters, or 2,526 yards, breaking the record for the longest sniper kill. But glory was not his for long.
A few days later, Cpl. Rob Furlong broke that record with a 2,430-meter (2,657-yard) shot against an enemy machine-gunner.
By the end of Operation Anaconda, the Canadian snipers had made the difference, killing numerous enemy fighters and saving countless US lives. As a result, the five snipers received the US military's Bronze Star Medal for Valor, the fourth-highest award for bravery under fire.
In the years of fighting that followed in Iraq and Afghanistan, the impressive records set in Shahi Khot Valley were broken, but the titles remain in Canadian hands. The current record is 3,540 meters (3,871 yards), set by JTF-2 commandos against ISIS fighters in Mosul, Iraq, in 2017.
Disaster on Takur Ghar
Operation Anaconda, however, didn't end well for everyone.
Advance Force Operations teams from the elite Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) were the first to deploy to Shahi Khot Valley, sending precious information about enemy positions back to headquarters.
But as the battle progressed, the teams — composed of Delta Force, SEAL Team 6, and operators from other special-mission units — ran out of rations and batteries. Instead of resupplying the teams on the ground, JSOC sent in fresh personnel. However, the new teams weren't acclimated to the brutal conditions and terrain. This would be fatal.
MAKO 30, a SEAL Team 6 element, decided, with approval the JSOC task force commander, to insert on top of Takur Ghar instead of landing on its slopes and making its way to the top.
During its approach, the MH-47 Chinook helicopter carrying MAKO 30 came under intense fire. Chief Petty Officer Neil Roberts fell from the ramp of the Chinook as it took evasive action.
The chopper had to make an emergency landing on the slopes before heading back to base. MAKO 30 was reinserted on Takur Ghar to save their teammate, who by that time had been killed and mutilated by Al Qaeda fighters after a valiant last stand.
Once reinserted, the SEALs were pinned down and forced to retreat with several wounded, leaving behind Tech. Sgt. John Chapman, an Air Force combat controller, who they thought had been killed. Chapman, however, was still alive and fought to the end, even charging the enemy positions by himself.
An Army Ranger quick reaction force went in to save MAKO 30 but came under fierce enemy fire. One Chinook carrying the Rangers crash-landed on the slopes of the mountain. The soldiers inside put up a brave fight but lost four men, while five were wounded. A second Ranger quick reaction force relieved them after several hours of battle.
The Battle of Takur Ghar yielded two Medal of Honors. Chapman and Master Chief Britt Slabinksi, MAKO 30's team leader, received the military's highest award for valor.
A CIA drone was over Takur Ghar as Chapman fought, making his the first Medal of Honor action ever caught on film.
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UN Resident Coordinator in Iran, Stefan Priesner, has called for boosting cooperation with Iran in the field of environment.
In a meeting held on Sunday with Iran’s Department of Environment Chief, Ali Salajegheh, the two sides emphasized the need for expanding cooperation in order to resolve environmental problems both in the region and throughout the world, IRNA reported.
Salajegheh, for his part, referred to the valuable and unique environmental capacities of Iran and urged the UN to play an effective and professional role in dealing with unilateral and unfair sanctions against the country.
On September 30, 2021, Priesner presented his credentials to Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian.
“I am fully committed to building even stronger cooperation for sustainable development between the United Nations and the Islamic Republic of Iran”, Priesner said.
“My first priorities are to increase the Covid vaccine supply to help Iran overcome the pandemic that has devastated the lives of so many people around the world. I also encourage support by the international community for the Afghan population in Iran in the spirit of global burden-sharing.”
The UN presence in Iran consists of 20 agencies, funds, and specialized programs.
Saber Masoumi, director of the environment and social development of the UNDP in Iran, said in December 2021 that Iran and the United Nations have successful environmental cooperation which should be shared at the international level.
The United Nations has two successful experiences, including the sustainable development and expansion of the environmental management of Lake Urmia and the wetlands of Iran.
Development capacities in Iran are vast, however, using the experience of successful countries can facilitate the movement, he highlighted.
Considering climate change as a serious threat to the future of the world, he stated that fighting climate change is a priority for the United Nations and according to the forecast, the future will not be satisfying.
One of the successful plans that have been implemented in Iran for more than 20 years in cooperation with the UN, is the carbon reduction plan which has brought important achievements, that included in the Sixth Development Plan of Iran, he explained.
In 2009, a comprehensive management plan for the Urmia Lake catchment was signed, and this document was a reference and a base for future plans to rehabilitate the water body, he emphasized.
According to the cooperation document signed between the Department of Environment and the United Nations Development Program with the financial support of Japan, in order to stabilize the measures taken and generalize the achievements and successful experiences of previous years in reviving Lake Urmia, “environmental and sustainable livelihood management development plan in Lake Urmia and Bakhtegan and Shadegan wetlands” is scheduled to be implemented in the next three years.
Achim Steiner, Administrator of the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), has said UNDP strongly supports the environmental and development programs of Iran, considering the country’s previous brilliant actions.
He made the remarks in a meeting with Iran’s Department of Environment chief Ali Salajegheh on the sidelines of the 26th UN Climate Change Conference which is held in Glasgow, Scotland in November 2021.
“We are fully aware of the environmental issues raised in Iran. Given the country’s brilliant track record in dealing with environmental issues, UNDP certainly will support to help make a cleaner world,” he stated.
Regarding the lifting of sanctions, Steiner added that “We will do our best to solve the problems that have arisen in the international arena caused by U.S. sanctions in order to pace up the development and progress of the environmental projects.”
Salajegheh for his part expressed hope that cooperation will develop, especially in cases where we have not been able to use international facilities in the field of the environment due to sanctions.
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Will, “males exercise because they like to be bigger,” claims Vincent Perez, PT, manager off sports medication on Columbia University Hospital Eastside for the New york. “Pecs, biceps, leg muscles ? the male is once majority.”
“Men has actually plans,” contributes Pamela Peeke, MD, writer of Human anatomy-for-Life for ladies: A great Woman’s Policy for Both mental and physical Conversion process. “He has a specific purpose, and there’s usually several inside it.” She phone calls this the fresh “Family Depot” method of workouts: “They have a strategy plus they just want to get it complete.”
For some people, “working out is a hobby, plus they exercise because it is fun, it’s competitive, and it’s something that obtained usually over,” says Lori Incledon, composer of Resistance training for ladies. “For women, fitness try a shallow question. They do they because will assist her or him lookup most readily useful.”
Males like to seem like they might be exercise, claims Peeke, “the new sweatier the better. Whenever is the very last day your heard a woman state she planned to work?”
Usually, she states, “females consider everyone else is considering him or her therefore these are generally frightened to put on work out clothing otherwise get out indeed there in public areas the help of its bumpy skin jiggling. Manage males worry what they feel like while they are exercising? Needless to say not!”
Anything individuals have in common, based on Incledon: They tend to miss the health benefits associated with exercise.
Mars vs. Venus Exercising
After they see through its 1st resistance, females generally have a balanced approach to fitness, says Perez. Its exercises are very likely to are a mix of cardio, resistance training, and you will notice-system practices eg pilates or tai chi.
They’re also very likely to ask questions, he states, if or not from an individual instructor otherwise from the enrolling in category groups.
“Because the a person, I dislike to state this, however, people grab education most readily useful,” says Perez. “Guys are scared of to make a fool from themselves.”
“Most guys choose sports-based points that don’t require moving or overt coordination,” believes Sophistication De Simone, a spokesperson to have Gold’s Gym All over the world. “That they like activities that they can call on using their earlier in the day, eg recreations. Females take pleasure in dancing-depending facts that have toning and you can flexibility.”
Women may be more apt to engage in group circumstances since they are looking for the new personal aspects of exercise and you will as they feel more comfortable in a fitness center when they’re having anybody else, says Cedric Bryant, PhD, head exercise physiologist for the American Council for the Take action.
Real, people frequently show up into the kinds such as “training” workouts. However, lady dominate other groups, especially those you to mention brain-human anatomy procedure.
Regardless of the sorts of work-out that they like, women basically work out below people, with a lot of citing decreased time because a conclusion, according to Amy Eyler, PhD, secretary teacher of neighborhood health on Saint-louis College or university University from Public Wellness. Eyler is the publisher regarding a text towards the physical working out one of girls, Ecological, Plan and you will Social Products Related to Physical exercise when you look at the a diverse Decide to try of women.
“Ladies are also hectic handling other people for taking worry away from themselves,” Eyler claims for the a news release. “The dedication to household members gifts generous time and logistical barriers so you’re able to are myself active.”
Considering Peeke, ladies are “hardwired” getting caregivers: “We will look after whatever appear contained in this a hundred feet regarding all of us, whether or not it need they or otherwise not.”
Yet “it is essential to fight for the ideal to deal with yourself,” Peeke states. She informs the lady customers that “an informed caregiver was a healthier caregiver.”
The Bodily Distinctions
“You will find a change anywhere between just what people is going to do and may create,” says Margie Weiss, an individual trainer and you can category do it director for three Gold’s Health clubs in the Washington, D.C., area.
For example, ladies pelvises tilt over men, so they may need to would a somewhat other sort of squat to protect its all the way down backs. This might imply flipping the feet outward some time, updates into the base some large apart, rather than dropping thus lowest, Weiss says.
Since girls reduce muscle tissue than males, they won’t most right up as often, states Perez. But, according to him, they must however explore lighter loads than men to stop the wounds which come out-of “too much, too often.”
Usually, men’s room government tend to be smaller flexible, claims Pilates instructor Lisa Johnson away from Brookline, Mass. However, she thinks that is faster from the nature of their bodies than simply because they’re less likely to is stretching in their exercising.
Guys as well as generally have greatest upper body strength than female. “But that is where their mirror lies, and keep working harder to keep people regions of their body greatest defined,” Johnson notices.
Similarly, “females also tend to have best knee energy, but I think that more to do with wanting to remain our tushies and you will feet fit than nearly any mental need,” Johnson claims.
Reading From Each other
Including, ladies are to-be quicker intimidated Toronto sugar babies from the resistance training. Which is most likely as they are studying you to definitely muscle happens a long answer to providing them reduce weight, states Linda Kirilenko, MD, a keen orthopaedic physician on DeWitt Health care System inside Virginia and you will a certified fitness instructor.
There are various other areas where everyone can study on both (and not just when it comes to fitness, but that’s another facts!).
“Boys can teach women not to forget to work difficult,” claims Johnson. “Ladies are nevertheless careful of appearing like a bodybuilder, and tend to be afraid they injure on their own.
“Women can often deal with more they feel capable, but since they will have never ever pressed by themselves one hard, they feel they may split a strength or overtrain on the area away from burns.”
Their advice in order to women? “A couple instruction that have a qualified trainer will assist you put your membership so you can read when to force incase to help ease out-of,” she says.
On the other hand, women can teach males one to exercise would be fun, says Johnson. She explains a large number of women used numerous exercise routines, both in a fitness center and out — step categories, indoor bicycling kinds, Yoga, pilates, and stuff like that.
“Every boys in my own Yoga studio were dragged for the from the the spouses who had been looking to improve its sore bones,” she states. “There is not a way these people were likely to are things therefore various other by themselves.”
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- A pension system in Fairfax County, Virginia, is reportedly considering allocating money to funds focused on crypto yield farming.
- Yield farming involves locking up, or staking, cryptocurrency for a period of time in exchange for interest or other rewards.
- The investments under consideration offer a yield of at least 9%.
A pension system in Virginia's most populated county may allocate some money to two crypto funds that use yield farming as an investment strategy, a move that could bolster returns for its portfolio, according to reports.
If approved, the Fairfax County Police Officers Retirement System will aim to add money to the funds in the next three weeks, according to a Tuesday report from The Block, citing the system's Chief Investment Officer Katherine Molnar. Molnar spoke at the Milken Institute of Global Conference in Los Angeles.
Similar to earning interest from money deposited at a bank, yield farming involves locking up, or staking, cryptocurrency, for a period of time in exchange for interest or other rewards, such as more cryptocurrency. The process provides liquidity to decentralized exchanges.
The report said Molnar views yield farming as a fixed income replacement, or an opportunity to make higher returns than rate-sensitive assets.
"We're using it as a high-yield substitute...the yields we're expecting are, let's say, closer to nine to 11 % in one case and the other manager probably slightly higher than that, so attractive as a fixed income replacement," she was quoting as saying.
Fairfax County became one of the first counties in the US to put pension money into crypto-linked investments in 2019, according to Bloomberg. Fairfax's crypto-focused investments add up to more than 8% of its portfolio, Molnar told Bloomberg, which reported first about consideration of the yield-farming strategy.
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I love that moment on the rolling sea when Peter steps out toward the beckoning Jesus. “Come,” said Jesus, to his feisty friend. And Peter, according to Matthew 14:29, “got out of the boat and walked on the water and came to Jesus.” Unbelievable! What courage and zeal on Peter’s part. That he would even lift his foot over the wooden side of the rain-soaked boat toward the raging water ought to cause us all to pause with utter admiration. Lifting my foot would have probably not crossed my mind. Insecure laughter maybe, but no foot-lifting.
If only Peter had starved his eyes, however. You see, he wasn’t but just a few paces out, fixated on his master Jesus, when he allowed his eyes to drift toward something that would take him down. Verse 30 says it plainly: But when he saw the wind, he was afraid, and beginning to sink he cried out. . . .
To see the wind was to see the storm as a whole (“wind” serves as a synecdoche for the entire storm). The spray of the water, the angry clouds, perhaps bolts of lighting carving their way through the darkened sky, the rolling waves—all of these were shouting at Peter, swatting at him, teasing and mocking and shaming him into removing his attention from the One who had invited him to walk on the glassy billows. Storms can do this. They can utterly distract, demoralize, even destroy. Starving the eyes (“eyes” serves as a synecdoche for the soul within us) so they stray not toward the blustery gales of life is a good practice.
But exceedingly difficult.
No-fly zones in Libya. Tragedy in Japan. Bloodshed in Bahrain. A diminishing dollar. It seems the world is falling apart. Honestly, it can be frightning at times, every tear shed in Sendai and every bullet spent in Benghazi pulls at our hearts, elevates our senses, and makes us to question the world as we know it. Why the intensity? Why the drama? Why the exponentially growing chaos, swatting at us, teasing us, mocking us, and causing us to turn away from the One who calls us to trust?
But Matthew 14:31, thankfully, tells us the rest of the story. “Jesus immediately reached out his hand and took hold of Peter, saying to him, ‘O you of little faith, why did you doubt?'” Keeping our eyes on Jesus helps us to keep the fearful things from getting the best of us. And Jesus himself has made it clear if we will only trust in him we will keep steady.
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Research Paper on Electrical Stimulation Featured in BMC Research NotesThe outcome of MTG's research on neuromuscular electrical stimulation (NMES) - conducted jointly with Associate Professor Kohei Watanabe of the School of International Liberal Studies at Chukyo University, and Emeritus Professor Toshio Moritani of Kyoto University - have been published in BMC Research Notes.
MTG's research focused on the effects of low-intensity NMES devices on the quadriceps femoris muscles. After trying various electrode positioning patterns for several NMES devices, evaluation of induced muscle strength revealed the single most effective electrode positioning for EMS training.
"Effect of electrode position of low intensity neuromuscular electrical stimulation on the evoked force in the quadriceps femoris muscle" [PDF:970KB]
MTG will continue to explore the potential of NMES devices via ongoing research and development of NMES application technology.
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Politicians who represent constituencies relying heavily on Defence economically are prone to making the claim that they belong to ‘the party of defence’.
Nowhere is that more hotly contested than in Plymouth where two young and ambitious MPs are no strangers to a verbal tussle on the airwaves or on social media over various Defence-related topics.
Nobody can doubt their passionate and honest interest in Defence matters, not just for reasons of thousands of jobs (and votes) being at stake, but also because they truly understand the issues.
On the other hand, the political parties they belong to have no more special claim to being ‘the party of Defence’ than any other.
Even Winston Churchill - the heroic Second World War PM and former First Lord of the Admiralty - could not claim to be ‘the man of Defence’ (and he kept changing parties, so never belonged to one long enough to claim he belonged to ‘the Party of Defence’).
For, while Churchill spent years in the political wilderness between the world wars warning about the need for the UK to rearm, he had actually played a major role in making the British Lion toothless.
Serving as Chancellor of the Exchequer in a Conservative government, Churchill enshrined the notorious ‘ten-year rule’, which ensured the Armed Forces remained cut to the bone after the First World War and were only maintained at a low level.
The reasoning behind the ten-year rule was they would not have to fight another war for at least a decade, so there was no need to substantially increase defence spending. Ten years after the end of the First World War, the government of the day, in a time of austerity, decided the ten-year rule’s expiry should not signal a massive, long overdue investment in the forces.
A rather cunning wheeze was therefore introduced by Churchill.
Rather like Groundhog Day, as each year ended the countdown was to be set at zero again, so there was never any progress to ‘year ten’. The so-called ‘ten-year rule’ was actually a permanent state of disarmament. No additional money need be spent on modernization or growing the Armed Forces, for it was always going to be ten years before it needed to be done.
Year Zero was to last forever.
The service hit the hardest was the Royal Navy, for it needed many years of enhanced investment to design, build and introduce into service new surface warships and submarines. The Navy never got out of the starting gate - surviving with increasingly obsolete ships and with pay driven so low sailors’ wives were forced to prostitute themselves to feed their families and ratings took on second jobs.
There was such discontent a mutiny erupted in the Atlantic Fleet in 1931 with sailors demanding no more pay cuts.
By the time Britain went to war in September 1939 cruisers and battleships from the 1920s were among the most modern in its order of the battle.
The legendary Devonport-based battleship HMS Rodney, together with Portsmouth-based sister vessel HMS Nelson - both first commissioned in the late 1920s - were the youngest capital ships in commission.
Meanwhile, the future ‘Darkest Hour’ Prime Minister endeavoured to atone during his wilderness years, lobbying hard to repair the damage done by the ‘ten-year rule’ by warning of a rising threat from Germany.
However, it was Nazi machinations at the Geneva Disarmament Conference in 1934 - which saw efforts to reduce the most destructive types of weapons come to nothing - that prompted Britain and other nations to begin serious investment in Defence. It was a close run thing and many of Britain’s new warships and submarines were not yet ready for action in 1939.
It is the natural order of things, of course, that after long, immensely destructive and costly wars, there is a process of major disarmament, and that was again the case after the Second World War and the Cold War.
Things often go in twenty-year cycles, so by the mid-1960s, for example, the Cold War was heating up so much that some rearmament was unavoidable. For the Royal Navy that meant trying to construct nuclear-powered submarines and establish the Polaris deterrent at the same time as it strived to build a new generation of large strike carriers.
The Labour government of the day decided that, as the economy was not doing very well, not everything was affordable, so the carriers were axed along with all but one of the guided-missile destroyers meant to protect them.
Fast-forward to 1981 and a Conservative government was intent on wielding the cost-cutting axe, with the Navy again to be very heavily hit. Proposed cuts included amphibious warfare vessels, to be discarded along with a small Invincible Class aircraft carrier sold to Australia and frigates retired from service.
Savings were needed to afford the substantial British Army of the Rhine facing the Soviets on the German plain. There was also the looming cost of renewing the nuclear deterrent via Trident missiles and Vanguard Class submarines.
To us today this all sounds very familiar and in 2018 local MPs and the communities they represent are again the meat in the cost-cutting sandwich, with the sharp teeth of the Treasury seemingly ready to chomp down.
Amphibious ships are once more allegedly at risk, the Royal Marines could be cut while the frigate force is small and those Type 23s that survive are getting old with replacements slow to come (and too few).
The massive cost of the new Queen Elizabeth Class strike carriers and renewing the nuclear deterrent force - with Dreadnought Class submarines and upgraded Trident missiles - is contributing to an even greater hollowing out of the Navy.
In the early 1980s the Falklands War came along to save much of the Navy’s capabilities by showing how vital the very ships the Tories wanted to cut were.
This time around advance warning of the damage to be done to the Devonport amphibious forces has galvanized MPs and the South West’s communities to fight further cuts, with help from the media, including The Herald’s ‘Fly the Flag for Devonport’ campaign.
The storm of protest has spread nationwide. The House of Commons Defence Committee, with Plymouth MP Johnny Mercer among its members, has lambasted any move to cut the amphibious ships and Royal Marines as ‘militarily illiterate’. It would be totally out of step with geo-strategic reality, which sees other leading nations expanding their own equivalent forces.
Despite all the protests the threat is still there. The Treasury under the stewardship of Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Hammond seems firmly wedded to austerity, even in Defence at a time of escalating threats.
The Government sees off fears of major cuts by pointing to an increasing Defence budget – rising only because it has been reduced to such a level it can only go up (besides which it cannot keep pace with inflation).
There are also claims from Government spokespersons of ‘a growing navy’, which might be true in terms of tonnage for a few new vessels. The stark reality is a navy that is a shadow of its former self and smaller than it has ever been. It has been gutted of people and capabilities by successive governments wedded to the post-Cold War equivalent of the ten-year rule.
There are simply not enough warships available for front line operations and those out there on the high seas are being driven very hard, along with their people. Aside from not enough frigates and destroyers there are too few people to properly crew them all the time, not enough submarines (ditto lack of submariners), with helicopters and warships also mothballed when they should be on operations.
The fight to save the amphibious ships and Royal Marines is therefore just the tip of the iceberg and both Labour and the Conservatives (and the Lib Dems when in power during the coalition) have inflicted serious damage on the UK Armed Forces and the Royal Navy in particular. It is clear none of the main parties can claim to be the ‘Party of Defence’.
To save the situation there needs to be grassroots effort, so when the local elections are staged in May, people should ask those seeking to be their councilors: What do you intend doing about saving the Navy and the Royal Marines from further cuts? They should also be asked what they would seek to do to preserve the naval base and dockyard itself.
It is no good local election candidates trying to palm people off – as has happened to me – with a mumbled statement that such matters are ‘a matter of national policy’. They aren’t solely national government issues – they are also crucial local issues of utmost importance.
Every ship based in Devonport (or refitted there) and every sailor, Royal Marine and soldier based in Plymouth is not only income for the local economy (and dockyard jobs), but also an essential component of national defence in a very dangerous world.
The politicians should prove to us on the doorstep that they all belong to ‘the party of defence’, whether they are aspiring local councilors or sitting (and would be) MPs. And it needs substantial answers, not robotic regurgitation of party ‘lines’ that are nothing more than spin to avoid addressing thorny issues.
If they do retread familiar sound bites then politicians of all kinds are not worthy of our votes.
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Dispelling the myths of Botox®
I thought it was about time to address some of the common concerns my clients have when considering Botox®.
- ‘it’s a poison Doc’-Botox® gets it’s name from Botulinum Toxin. It’s true that when taken orally (from poorly canned foods) this can give you a nasty case of food poisoning. It’s not true that when injecting the purified form that is Botox® into selected muscles of the face that there is any evidence of poisoning. Nor is there any ill effect been found when injecting much larger doses to children with Cerebral Palsy.
- ‘it’s all well and good having Botox® now, but when I stop I’ll look worse than if I hadn’t had it.’Untrue. We know from studies comparing identical twins, one who’s had treatment for years and one who hasn’t, that over the period of time you have Botox® it prevents wrinkles from forming. This mean when you stop having treatments, your skin will be better off than had you had no Botox® at all! Also, there is no truth in the rumour that you will get addicted to Botox. You may like the effect and want further treatments because of that, but you will not become physically addicted to Botox®.
- ‘Botox® gives you a frozen face’-This is both true and false. It’s true that when given in too high doses, or not thoughtfully placed that Botox® can give you a frozen looking face, particularly a smooth plastic forehead or ‘startled’ eyebrows or a cold, unmoving area around the eyes when you smile. However, if your doctor has a good aesthetic eye, Botox® can be very flattering, reducing lines, elevating eyebrows, improving contours WITHOUT giving you a frozen or startled look.
So there you have it, Botox® really is as good as people say it is!
Botox® and Dysport are Prescription Medicines containing 100 units of clostridium botulinum Type A toxin complex for injection. It is used for the treatment of severe frown lines of the face. It should be administered only by trained medical professionals. Arrange a consultation to discuss the benefits/risks of this procedure in appearance medicine. Cautions: people with defective neuromuscular transmission disorders, presence of infection at site of injection, glaucoma, pregnancy and lactation. Possible side effects include headaches, pain, burning or redness at injection site, local muscle weakness including drooping eyelids, lack of feeling and nausea. If you have side effects or concerns speak to a doctor. A charge applies. Note: Botox® and Dysport treatment lasts about 4 months and after this time further courses of treatment could be necessary. Arrange a consultation to discuss your own situation.
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Underreporting of suspected adverse drug reactions to newly marketed (“black triangle”) drugs in general practice: observational studyBMJ 1998; 317 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.317.7151.119 (Published 11 July 1998) Cite this as: BMJ 1998;317:119
- Richard M Martin (), clinical research fellowa,
- Karan V Kapoor, research assistanta,
- Lynda V Wilton, visiting honorary lecturerb,
- Ronald D Mann, senior professorial fellowb
- aDrug Safety Research Unit, Southampton SO31 1AA
- bSchool of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Health and Biological Sciences, University of Southampton, Southampton S016 7PX
- Correspondence to: Dr Martin
- Accepted 12 February 1998
Data on side effects of newly launched drugs are limited,1 highlighting the need for effective postmarketing surveillance. An inverted black triangle (▾) on product literature identifies new products. Suspected adverse reactions to these drugs, however minor, should be reported to the Committee on Safety of Medicines through the yellow card scheme.2 Adverse reactions are underreported,3 and few doctors in the United Kingdom know the meaning of the “black triangle” symbol.4 We assessed the degree of underreporting of suspected adverse reactions to new drugs in general practice and determined if reporting varied when reactions were severe or previously unrecognised.
Patients, methods, and results
The Drug Safety Research Unit performs observational cohort studies (prescription event monitoring) on selected newly marketed drugs in general practice. All patients in England who have been dispensed selected new drugs are identified for these studies by the Prescription Pricing Authority. Questionnaires (“green forms”) are subsequently sent to prescribers asking about clinical events, suspected adverse drug reactions, and events reported to the Committee on Safety of Medicines as suspected adverse reactions. For the 10 drugs we examined (acarbose, risperidone, fluvastatin, tramadol, gabapentin, famciclovir, lansoprazole, zolpidem, venlafaxine, and losartan) median exposure was 46 435 (interquartile range 24 524 to 55 735) patient months. Events recorded by general practitioners as suspected adverse reactions, and those stated as having been reported to the Committee on Safety of Medicines, were classified as serious or non-serious, using the definition published in the British National Formulary.2 We determined whether the event was listed (“labelled”) in the summary of product characteristics at the time of the study; events not listed were classified as unlabelled. Reports stating “non-specific side effects” or intolerance were not classified. By calculating a risk ratio, using non-serious labelled events as the reference group, we determined the likelihood of each category of adverse reaction being reported to the Committee on Safety of Medicines.
There were 3045 events (in 2034 patients) reported as suspected adverse reactions on the green forms during the 10 studies. General practitioners indicated that they had reported 275 (9.0%; 95% confidence interval 8.0% to10.0%) of these reactions to the Committee on Safety of Medicines: reporting was highest for serious unlabelled reactions (26/81; 32.1%) and lowest for non-serious labelled reactions (94/1443; 6.5%) (table). Serious unlabelled and non-serious unlabelled reactions were significantly more likely to be reported than were non-serious labelled reactions. According to general practitioners' responses, the proportion of serious labelled reactions also reported on yellow cards (7/64; 10.9%) was only slightly greater than that of non-serious labelled reactions.
These findings show a selective reporting bias to the Committee on Safety of Medicines, with general practitioners notifying a greater proportion of adverse reactions that are of greatest clinical concern. Our estimates are subject to potential reporting and recall biases. Some doctors who had submitted a yellow card may not have completed the green form. We would have underestimated the proportion of yellow cards submitted if green form responders were less likely to complete yellow cards than green form non-responders. It seems more plausible that green form responders would be at least as likely to report yellow cards as green form non-responders. Doctors may not have indicated that a yellow card was submitted. As the number of yellow cards reported per doctor is low,5 the impact of recall bias on our estimates is probably limited. Our overall estimate of underreporting corresponds to previous estimates.5 The message that doctors should submit yellow cards for all suspected adverse drug reactions to “black triangle” drugs should be reinforced.
We thank the general practitioners who take part in prescription-event monitoring studies. We also thank Shayne Freemantle and Gillian Pearce for technical help with accessing the data.
Contributors: RMM was involved in formulating the study hypothesis, executing and coordinating the study, study design, analysis and interpretation of data, and writing the paper. KVK was involved in interrogating the prescription-event monitoring database and preparing the data for analysis and contributed to the writing of the paper. LVW was involved in study design, discussion of core ideas, quality control, and interpretation of data and contributed to the writing of the paper. RDM initiated the research project, discussed core ideas, helped formulate the study hypothesis, participated in study design, was involved in interpretation of results, and edited the paper. RDM will act as guarantor.
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The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia will require its employees to get vaccinated against COVID-19, a spokesperson for the hospital confirmed.
CHOP has not yet finalized its plan for implementing the mandate, according to a memo sent to staff Thursday obtained by Dan Diamond of the Washington Post. But with more than 70% of the hospital's patients not yet eligible to get vaccinated, officials said a mandate is needed to combat "the rising threat of the more contagious Delta variant."
Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, one of nation’s leading children’s hospitals, just informed staff of plans to mandate vaccine for workers, per a tipster.— Dan Diamond (@ddiamond) July 29, 2021
Along the reasons: More than 70 percent of CHOP patients aren’t yet eligible for vaccine. pic.twitter.com/ELalXbNv0K
CHOP initially planned to institute a mandate after the vaccines were fully licensed by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, according to the internal memo. That hasn't happened yet. In the memo, hospital officials cited the vaccines' effectiveness in preventing severe cases of COVID-19 and "concern for development of future, potentially even more contagious variants" as reasons for requiring employees to get the shots now.
"The health and well-being of our community is at the forefront of Children's Hospital of Philadelphia's mission, and we believe that it is our duty to protect those who cannot protect themselves, especially our young patients," spokesperson Camillia Travia told PhillyVoice. "In consultation with our clinical experts, we are currently preparing for the implementation of a vaccine requirement for all workforce members at any CHOP location."
The FDA has not yet authorized coronavirus vaccines for children younger than 12. On July 22, the Philadelphia Department of Public Health cited rising cases of the Delta variant among children while strongly urging residents to wear masks indoors regardless of their vaccination status.
Dr. Paul Offit, director of CHOP's Vaccine Education Center, has voiced frustration over lagging vaccination rates across the United States and the uptick in new cases. The Delta variant has become the most prevalent strain of COVID-19 in the country, accounting for more than 80% of its new cases.
"One thing that really upsets me is we're hitting a wall,” Offit told the Washington Post earlier this month. "What do you do then? And I think the only answer to that question is you compel people to vaccinate. It's certainly legal. It is not your inalienable right as a U.S. citizen to catch and transmit a potentially fatal infection."
CHOP's move to implement a vaccine mandate comes just weeks after St. Jude Children's Research Hospital announced it will require all hospital employees — except those with approved medical or religious exemptions — to get vaccinated by Sept. 9. Employees who are not vaccinated by then will be subjected to two weeks of unpaid leave, according to a report from The Commercial Appeal, and those who do not begin the vaccination process during that time will be fired.
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IndianOil and the Gujarat government have inked a memorandum of understanding that will see India’s first hydrogen dispensing plant built at IndianOil’s Gujarat Refinery as a clean fuel project, according to the firm.
This facility will focus on hydrogen buses and fuel cell electric vehicles (FCEVs) that will run between Vadodara and Kevadia/Sabarmati Ashram.
In addition to the dispensing facility, a hydrogen infrastructure will be created in the local area, assisting in the acceleration of hydrogen development and transportation initiatives.
This is in line with the India H2 Alliance’s six-point strategy, which involves the creation of ten hydrogen valleys across the country to speed up hydrogen adoption.
Finally, India should establish a Bharat hydrogen industrial group to use hydrogen to aid decarbonization efforts in the steel, refinery, fertilizer, and cement industries, as well as a separate Bharat hydrogen heavy-duty freight transport group.
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Turn on TV, read the local newspaper or listen to your local radio station and all you are going to hear, see and read are accounts of people knee-deep in playing the blame game. What you don’t hear is anybody saying “thank you.”
From the safety of France, Pierce Brosnan took the time to tell the world: “This man called President Bush has a lot to answer for. I don’t know if this man is really taking care of America. This government has been shameful.” Instead of lifting a finger to help Katrina’s victims, this was the make-believe 007’s response to the tragedy.
Hollywood celebrity Sean Penn raced to New Orleans with his leaky boat in what became a Keystone Kops effort to rescue flood-stranded victims. He failed, but the cameras were there to record for posterity his gallantry in coming to their aid. Having lost that photo op, he launched into his usual leftist rhetoric to castigate the president, accusing the administration of criminal negligence, while his boat’s engine sputtered to a stop.
At a Labor Day rally, with his AFL-CIO union collapsing all around him, John Sweeney assured his members that what he alleged was the government’s slow response was a sign of hostility to workers. No kidding, he actually said that.
Can you just picture George Bush waking up in the morning and saying to Laura: “The hell with those workers. We’re not going to send help to New Orleans because we hate ‘em.”
As these bozos were collectively venting their liberal spleen at the president, huge caravans of trucks carry thousands of tons of food and water and clothing and other vital supplies were pouring into New Orleans from as far away as California and New York. Army and National Guard troops were arriving by the thousands, all sent under orders from the president. Did it occur to any of his critics to take a moment out to say “thank you” to George Bush?
Harry Connick Jr., a native resident of New Orleans, was there, but unlike his fellow celebrities he wasn’t spending his time making political speeches. Instead, he was in his boat – which didn’t leak – surrounded by toxic water and rescuing those mostly black folks trapped by the flood. Has anybody said “thank you” to Harry Connick Jr.?
From almost the moment the 17th Street dike broke, members of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers have been laboring day and night to repair the breech and stop any more of the lake waters from gushing into the streets of New Orleans – a job they have now completed. Has anybody said “thank you” to these dedicated and weary men? Not that I’ve heard.
All across the nation the left-wing wackos are squinting to find something they can complain about and blame on the president for alleged failures in the massive federal effort to cope with the worst natural disaster in American history. They can’t bring themselves to admit that a lot of good things are being done by the federal government and the horde of good people who are pitching in to help their fellow Americans. If they did they might have to say “thank you,” a phrase they don’t seem to have in their vocabularies.
When my wife asks me to vacuum the house, I inevitably miss a spot. She doesn’t jump all over me because I messed up, but, understanding what klutzes husbands are when it comes to domestic chores, she simply thanks me.
These liberal scoundrels don’t have it in them to thank those police, firemen, National Guardsmen, regular army soldiers, relief workers from FEMA and the Red Cross and all the others and the people in the Bush administration whose efforts are above and far beyond the call of duty.
They are too busy looking for the motes in the administration’s eyes to see the huge planks in their own.
All together now, let’s hear it: “Thank you President Bush, thank you Harry Connick Jr., thank you police and firemen and National Guardsmen and members of the Red Cross and Salvation Army and all you other heroes.”
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The housekeeping staff at any place whether it could be in the hospitals or the hotels are same. All of them are housekeepers. The only difference will if it is hospital or a hotel. The hospitals are the places where they look for more and more hygiene than other places because of the patients’ health and sensitivity there. This is why it is important to look for the staff who can take care more on the hygiene of the place (Haden, 2012). For hiring housekeeping staff, the recruiting team can look for housekeepers either from local hotels or hospitals. Also, even the neighboring people in that area could refer to good people who could solve this issue.
Staffing a chief surgeon for a hospital is little tougher than hiring a housekeeper. A chief surgeon needs to be well qualified and should have degree in medicine and should definitely have completed their residency. A chief surgeon should be able to treat the patients and should make them better and healthy. The list of candidates and areas that could be looked for hiring a chief surgeon is narrowed down when compared to a housekeeper search. It is better for the recruiting team to rely on the local universities for hiring a chief surgeon for their local hospital (HEATHFIELD, 2019). Also, there definitely will be some medical search agencies who could look for reliable candidates as per the hospital’s requirement when it is hard to find a candidate. It is always better to look for the reliable candidates from the university rather than depending on the medical search agencies in the first place.
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New Pre-Processor EXCLUDE Directive of C/C++Journal: International Journal of Scientific Engineering and Research (IJSER) (Vol.5, No. 8)
Publication Date: 2017-08-05
Authors : Gaurav Kumar Roy;
Page : 49-52
Keywords : compiler; libraries; header-file; programming; efficiency; header file; algorithm;
This study and research paper is an attempt to bring in a new feature in C and C++ language where the unused headers can be omitted or excluded from the program. This paper brings in the idea of excluding the unused libraries from within the program. I?d further like to forward my research paper to our respected Sir Bjarne Stroustrup to apply my idea into his compiler.
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Jesus did not come to accept our sacrificial acts, but to make Himself a sacrifice for our sins. He did all this to give us new life in Him
Luke 5:36-37, “And he spake a parable unto them; No man putteth a piece of a new garment upon an old; if otherwise, then both the new maketh a rent, and the piece that was taken out of the new agreeth not with the old. And no man putteth new wine into old bottles; else the new wine will burst the bottles, and be spilled, and the bottles shall perish.”
MATTHEW 9:11-17, MARK 2:16-22, LUKE 5:30-39
These two parables are in response to the scribes’ and Pharisees‘ criticism (v. 30) and the question from John’s disciples about why Jesus didn’t act according to their religious traditions and expectations (Mt. 9:14; Mk. 2:18). The gist of these parables was to show that Jesus came to do a new thing that would not mix with the old covenant ways that were familiar to people (Isa. 43:18-19; Jer. 31:31-34; Heb. 8:7-13).
A new cloth sown on an old garment in Jesus’ day would shrink the first time it was washed. Then it would tear away from the old garment that had already shrunk, making the hole worse. This illustrates that Jesus did not come to patch up the old Mosaic covenant, but to replace it (Heb. 7:18-19).
Also, new wine (not yet fermented) had to be put into new or reconditioned wineskins to allow for the expansion of gases within the skin as the result of the fermentation process. Otherwise, an old wineskin that had already been stretched by use would simply burst and all the wine would run out. The Old Testament laws could never stretch enough to accommodate the New Testament truths of mercy and grace (Heb. 10:1-10). Jesus set us free from the judgment of the Old Testament laws (Rom. 6:14; 7:1-4; 8:2; 10:3-4; Gal. 3:12-14, 23-24; 5:4; Phil. 3:9).
These religious scribes and Pharisees (Lk. 5:30) were making the terrible mistake of trusting in their own efforts to produce their right standing (righteousness) with God. Jesus did not come to accept our sacrificial acts, but to make Himself a sacrifice for our sins. He did all this to give us new life in Him. Thank Him for His grace today.
May the LORD bless Nigeria, American and Israel and take care of us; May the LORD make His face shine upon us, And be gracious to us; May the Lord lift up His countenance upon us, And give us peace, In Jesus Christ Name, we pray! Amen!
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There are many foods and herb extracts which are excellent natural antivirals, and probably many more as yet unknown.
Garlic, onions, grapefruit seed extract, oil of oregano all spring to mind having some powerful properties. While the food-type ones are good to eat regularly, there are times when more fire-power is needed.
Olive Leaf Extract has a combination of important properties which few, if any, of the other natural antivirals can boast of having.Below are some of these.
Viral infections often cause ill-defined fevers which cannot be pinpointed, diarrhoea or other usually short term illnesses as well as the obvious colds and 'flu.
Olive leaf extract debilitates or destroys most if not all of these.
Some viral diseases are not preventable or treatable by pharmaceutical drugs, for example Coxsackie virus, Polio and some of the Herpes viruses such as Epstein Barr. A compound (Calcium elenolate) derived from olive leaf in laboratory tests destroyed all of these.
Olive leaf extract is one of the best natural cold and 'flu remedies which you can keep in your kitchen cupboard.
The tinctures have a shelf-life of about 5 years and the capsules about 2 years and need no special storage other than keeping them out of direct sunlight and at room temperature.
They are easy to take, ideally with a little water and as natural antivirals, (food supplements) they require no prescription.
When you need an antiviral, you need it quickly and you need it to work almost immediately.
Viruses, once they start replicate rapidly and damage a large number of cells in a short space of time.
Olive leaf extracts works quickly. You normally notice a dulling of symptoms within hours of the first few doses. This I have noticed especially using a good tincture as a natural cold remedy or for the 'flu.
On day 3-4 when there is a big reduction of symptoms the risk is now forgetting to take the next few doses - you feel so much better!
Forgetting now is a big mistake, and you will realise how much the olive leaf was doing when its activity tapers off and the remaining viruses are able to multiply again and the infection returns with a vengeance. It now takes longer to get rid of it.
Continue for about 3-4 days after feeling completely well again to ensure you've got it beaten.
If the infection was just starting when you began dosing, as with an itchy throat and you caught it early, you may only need a few doses altogether to stop it.
Olive leaf extract does not appear to damage probiotic bacteria in the gut, a property which separates it from most other natural antivirals.
This is very important in avoiding recurring infections after overcoming the first one.
The exceptional lack of toxicity in such a potent antiviral is a miracle in itself.
You do not have to worry about "finishing a course". Start or stop taking as you please. Pathogens have not been able to mutate around olive leaf extract for thousands of years.
Olive leaf extract is in my opinion the first choice in natural antivirals. Not only is it effective in the vast majority of cases, it is easy to use, store and is extremely safe when used as directed. It will not compromise your health later on.
Although one of the best natural flu remedies and a great natural cold remedy, remember olive leaf is not a pain killer.
If you are infected and have painful symptoms, do not expect the pain to go immediately. It will go gradually as the infection is stopped and the body begins to heal.
I have found that a "hot toddy" made of powdered vitamin C, a tablespoon of lemon juice, a teaspoon of honey and 1 "Disprin" or soluble aspirin (only if you are allowed aspirin, use paracetamol in minimum recommended dose for children) mixed in 1/4 cup of boiling water and drunk hot, takes away a sore throat and post-nasal drip and allows a good night's sleep.
If you have seasonal allergies and recurring colds and 'flu it might be a good idea to check for vitamin C or other
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Background Asthma is a organic and heterogeneous chronic inflammatory disorder that’s associated with mucous cell metaplasia and mucus hypersecretion. were significantly reduced in BALF. We also found that the rate of goblet cell apoptosis was increased after treatment with mCLCA3 antibody, which was accompanied by an increase in Bax levels and a decrease in Bcl-2 expression in goblet cells. Conclusions Taken together, our results indicate that P005672 HCl Rabbit Polyclonal to PMS1. mCLCA3 antibody may have the potential as an effective pharmacotherapy for asthma. Introduction Allergic asthma is increasingly regarded as a complex and heterogeneous chronic inflammatory disorder, involving a complex interplay between both environmental and genetic factors, and is becoming increasingly widespread worldwide, in developed countries specifically. Although sensitive asthma can be a complicated disease, research in individuals and animal versions show that reversible air flow blockage including goblet cell hyperplasia, airway mucus hypersecretion and airway swelling (including eosinophil infiltration) will be the primary hallmarks of the condition. In individuals with bronchial asthma, triggered eosinophils, mast cells and basophils to push out a selection of cytokines to market the differentiation of Th cells into Th2 cells . Th2 cells can secrete IL-4, IL-5, IL-13 and IL-10, which may bring about mucus hypersecretion . Furthermore, these Th2 cytokines could be directly from the overexpression of CLCA in the asthmatic individual and asthmatic mouse versions . A earlier study demonstrated that the 3rd murine CLCA homologue, mCLCA3, continues to be determined in goblet cells . Goblet cell hyperplasia is apparently associated with CLCA over-expression in asthmatic mouse versions directly. There is certainly some evidence how the suppression of mCLCA3 inhibits goblet cell hyperplasia, whilst overexpression raises goblet cellular number in mice . The reduction in goblet cellular number might be connected with apoptosis. Cell apoptosis plays a part in the chronicity of the inflammatory process and may regulate inflammatory cell success . Apoptosis is controlled by inducing or suppressing genes such as for example and and model systems . Our previous research recommended that mCLCA3 performs a pivotal part in mucous overproduction P005672 HCl by bronchial goblet cells and an hCLCA1 DNA vaccine avoided mucus hypersecretion and related pathological adjustments inside a murine asthma model through the induction of anti-mCLCA3 antibodies . Consequently, CLCA protein can serve as useful biomarkers aswell as significant restorative focuses on for the analysis and treatment of individuals with chronic inflammatory airway disease . In this specific article, we utilized the asthmatic mouse types of OVA-induced chronic airway inflammatory disorder to review the function from the mCLCA3 antibody. We display how the mCLCA3 antibody may inhibit goblet cell airway and hyperplasia mucus hypersecretion in asthmatic mice. Materials and Strategies Antibodies Rabbit anti- mouse mCLCA3 polyclonal antibody (ab46512, IgG, 1/8000 useful for immunohistochemical evaluation and 1/1000 useful for traditional western blotting[16,17]; the antibody reacts with mouse, but will not respond with human being), rabbit anti- mouse Bax polyclonal antibody (ab7977, IgG, 1/100 useful for immunohistochemical evaluation and P005672 HCl 1/1000 useful for traditional western blotting; the antibody reacts particularly with Bax and reacts with mouse, rat and human), rabbit anti- mouse Bcl2 polyclonal antibody (ab7973, IgG, 1/1000 used for immunohistochemical analysis and western blotting) and rabbit anti- mouse -actin polyclonal antibody (ab15263, IgG, 1/200 used for immunohistochemical and 1/3000 used for western blotting) were purchased from Abcam (Cambridge, MA). Mice and sensitization Female BALB/c mice aged 6C8 weeks (19~25 g) were obtained from the Experimental Animal Centre of the Fourth Military University, Shaanxi Province, China. Experiments were conducted under a protocol approved by the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee of the Fourth Military University. OVA sensitization of BALB/c mice was performed as described previously with minor modifications . Briefly, the BALB/c mice were sensitized by i.p. injections of 1 1 g of OVA (Sigma, Saint Louis, MO) and 100 g of Al(OH)3 suspended in 0.5 ml saline on days 0 and 7. On days 14C20, the BALB/c mice were challenged with 1% OVA aerosol for 5 h each day to construct an asthmatic mouse model and an antibody intervention asthmatic mouse model. On days 17C20, 50 l mCLCA3 antibodies was dropped into the nasal passages of OVA-challenged mice to construct.
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“Vrindavana was always absorbed in the thought of Krishna. Everyone remembered His pastimes and was constantly merged in the ocean of transcendental bliss. But the material world is so contaminated that even in Vrindavana the asuras or demons tried to disturb the peaceful situation.” (Krishna, The Supreme Personality of Godhead, Vol 1, Ch 35)
Friend1: Let me ask you about the spiritual world.
Friend2: Vaikuntha. That means the land free of anxieties.
Friend1: Makes sense. If you’re going to live with the Supreme Lord eternally, you figure there wouldn’t be any problems.
Friend2: Vaikuntha is a little different from the common conception of heaven. I know you didn’t specifically ask about that, but it’s a key distinction to know.
Friend1: Right. You die and go to heaven. But what does heaven really mean? What is life there like? Do you still have a body?
Friend2: Shri Krishna describes that in the heavenly planets, going to the topmost one of Brahmaloka even, there is death. The idea is that you accumulate pious credits by good deeds performed while on earth, in a human body. It’s something like racking up reward points on a credit card. You can then use those points later on.
Friend1: Eventually your pious credits run out, though. That’s why you have to fall back down to earth.
Friend2: Right, and coming to earth means birth and death. In the heavenly realm you get increased material enjoyments, with an accompanying heavenly body. Vaikuntha is something different. There you get a spiritual body.
Friend1: And the only way to reach Vaikuntha is to be completely God conscious at the time of death. No other thoughts on the consciousness.
Friend2: There is a Bhagavad-gita verse that confirms this. We are not just mentally speculating.
“And whoever, at the time of death, quits his body, remembering Me alone, at once attains My nature. Of this there is no doubt.” (Lord Krishna, Bhagavad-gita, 8.5)
Friend1: Vrindavana is part of Vaikuntha, right?
Friend2: Yes. Just like in the material world there are many planets, so the same in Vaikuntha. Different spiritual manifestations of the Supreme Personality of Godhead preside on those planets. Krishnaloka is where Vrindavana is found. Shri Krishna, the all-attractive one, resides there.
Friend1: From reading the Shrimad Bhagavatam, I see that there are many demons who came to the Vrindavana of this world, some five thousand years ago. That was when Krishna, God Himself, descended to earth and enacted His wonderful pastimes. If the spiritual world is having the association of God, how can there be demons in Vrindavana? How can bad guys be present?
Friend2: That is a good question. For starters, these demons are actually devotees who fulfill different roles in a wonderful drama. They get killed directly by Krishna, which means that at the time of death they are perfectly God conscious.
Friend1: Right. So you’re saying they aren’t really demons? Is that the case for everybody, then? There is no good and bad. It’s just a dream.
Friend2: Every person is a devotee at the core, for that is the essential characteristic of the soul, but there is still good and bad in terms of behavior. The demons in Vrindavana had the special favor of being the antagonist to match the greatest protagonist in Krishna.
Friend2: I know what you’re asking, though. If you’re in the presence of God, how can anyone behave improperly? How can there be adharma in the presence of dharma personified?
Friend1: Yeah, that’s exactly it.
Friend2: These demons show that there is always a choice. The living entity has independence. Even if they see the all-attractive one directly in front of them, it is not that they will give up their villainous ways. They have to be purified in consciousness to see properly. I may be looking all over for my keys, but they are right in front of me. The thing is, I don’t have the proper qualification to see them. Then what good do the keys do me?
Friend1: I see. Nevertheless, there is the angle of the other associates to consider. Mother Yashoda, the cowherd boys, the gopis – they were all in Vrindavana. They were all subject to these attacks. If they were in the spiritual world enjoying Krishna, how could these bad things have happened?
Friend2: They only happen in the Vrindavana of this world. In the spiritual planetary system there are no bad guys. If there is even a hint of envy towards God, that person falls to the material world. Hence the jiva souls are described as the marginal energy. These pastimes with bad guys ordered by King Kamsa of Mathura take place in the world of duality, where a person can act out on their choice to forget God.
Friend1: I see.
Friend2: Notice also that the devotees you mentioned were always protected. They were in the sacred land of Vrindavana, and even with attackers coming there was no break in Krishna consciousness. In that way we see that a person can be liberated even before death. Liberation is a mindset more than an actual physical condition relating to place of residence.
Asuras like Putana to see,
How then spiritual world could be?
To Vrindavana by Kamsa sent,
Arriving with villainous intent.
In the material world happening only,
In spiritual planets envy not any.
That always a choice by pastimes shown,
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