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In this study we analyze taphonomic effects in two samples of human burials from archaeological sites: Aquihuecó
and Hermanos Lazcano, placed in the Department of Chos Malal, Neuquén Province. The sites are close to each
other (20 km.) and have similar age (early late Holocene, >3.500 BP). Even when both samples were deposited in
similar environmental conditions, have similar ages and show similar burial practices, the bones preservation is
markedly different. In order to understand this differential preservation, we evaluated the taphonomic signatures
of bones and soil chemistry variables of both sites. Our results show that soil chemistry is adequate for a good
preservation of bones in both sites. Aquihuecó sample has abundant calcium carbonate deposits on the bones.
We interpret that the high content of calcium carbonate is probably responsible for the good preservation of
Aquihuecó sample. More work is needed to improve the knowledge about the role of calcium carbonate in the
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Friday, July 10, 2015, 10:09 a.m.
That is the moment history will record when the Confederate battle flag flying over the South Carolina Statehouse grounds finally came down.
South Carolina officials, including the state's Republican governor, Nikki Haley, attended the event, along with crowds of ordinary Americans from both sides of the argument, many of whom waited hours to catch a glimpse of the big moment.
As soon as the flag began to come down, the crowd erupted in cheers before eventually shifting to a loud chorus of "Nah Nah, Hey Hey, Kiss Him Goodbye."
Only moments later, President Barack Obama also tweeted out his appreciation for the flag's removal.
Law enforcement were also out in droves to head off any possible violence from groups as varied as the Ku Klux Klan and the New Black Panthers. The State, a local newspaper, reported a number of roads around the capital were closed.
The Confederate flag, a politically untouchable issue mere weeks ago, exploded into the public consciousness after a gunman left nine dead at a historically black church in Charleston, South Carolina. Among the victims in the racially motivated massacre was State Sen. Clementa Pinckney. In postings online, the gunman posed with the Confederate battle flag and other historically racist icons.
While Gov. Haley and much of the state's political establishment coalesced behind the flag's removal, the celebration Friday among anti-flag forces was no sure bet. While the State Senate swiftly voted to remove the flag on Monday, the proposal faced a tougher climb in the more conservative State House of Representatives.
On Wednesday, the chamber debated the bill for 13 hours as opponents offered dozens of amendments designed to delay the measure by creating differences between between the House and Senate versions. Republican Charleston Rep. Jenny Horne called out these stalling tactics Wednesday evening by in a roughly five-minute monologue that quickly went viral, in which she said the ongoing debate was adding "insult to injury." The House ultimately voted early Thursday morning on an unamended bill and decided that the flag's time had come. Haley's signature later that day made it official.
"Today I am very proud to say that it is a great day in South Carolina," the governor said Thursday at a signing ceremony. Haley used nine pens to sign the bill, which were then presented to family members of the victims of the massacre.
If all goes according to plan, the flag, which has flown continuously on the statehouse grounds since 1961, will be moved to its new home in the state's Confederate Relic Room and Military Museum. | <urn:uuid:29ca967f-ace3-4ac1-a974-03c57182bb07> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.mic.com/articles/122043/watch-the-confederate-flag-come-down-in-south-carolina | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571536.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811224716-20220812014716-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.967979 | 526 | 1.648438 | 2 |
A number of experts receive noisy signals regarding a desirable public decision. The public target is to make the best possible decision on the basis of all the information held by the experts. We compare two "cultures." In one, all experts are driven only by the public motive to increase the probability that the desirable action will be taken. In the second, each expert is also driven by aprivate motive: to have his recommendation accepted. We show that in the first culture, every mechanism will have an equilibrium which does not achieve the public target, whereas the second culture gives rise to a mechanism whose unique equilibrium outcome does achieve the public target. Journal of Economic Literature Classification Numbers: C72, D71.
ASJC Scopus subject areas
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Why are people taking so many supplements?
Supplements are a group of products that are being increasingly taken in recent times. More people seem to be buying supplements with the number of products being bought increasing regularly and new supplement making and selling companies also coming up towards getting a share of the billions that the product sells every year. You might be wondering why people are taking so many supplements and if you should join them. This article will highlight the major reasons why people take supplements. If you find one or more of the reasons important to you, then you could also join them.
Alternative for treatments
There are a lot of ailments that their cure is yet to be found or some of the cures are not very effective. However, the body often can fight off a lot of ailments on its own or at least reduce the spread of those ailments when certain conditions are met. Examples of such conditions include consuming the right nutrients that would encourage the production of white blood cells and other conditions that will inhibit the spread of the disease and give the body a better fighting chance. The nutrients majorly encouraged are minerals and vitamins. For example, if a person’s eyesight is failing, he would be encouraged to consume more of Vitamin A. This would result in the prescription of Vitamin A supplements. In cases where a person’s bone is weakening due to age or a broken bone in an accident, he would get a prescription that would include calcium supplements.
Another reason why people take supplements is for bodybuilding reasons. Bodybuilding requires the need to regularly grow and repair muscles as well as the need to have enough energy for workouts. Thus, the people in this group buy supplements online that will provide them with the needed protein for building and repairing muscles as well as energy for their workouts. If you are wondering which protein to buy for pre-workout, you might want to read should you buy Myprotein supplements for more information.
Marketing and promotion
Many organizations now understand the importance of marketing and promotion as they are now doing it more vigorously than ever. Companies that produce supplements are not left out. They produce a lot of information that encourage people to take supplements and circulate it. Thus, a lot of people can find one reason or the other from those adverts why taking supplements will do them a lot of good. Thus, they regularly buy supplements either to take care of a deficiency in their meals, pre-workout supplements to have better and more effective workouts or because they love the taste of the supplement (for example, Vitamin C supplements).
More health awareness
A lot of people now have more awareness of their health. They know that they are expected to take a minimum of a certain quantity of every nutrient important to the body daily. However, they are not sure if they are getting enough of some of these nutrients from their meals, or they are sure their meals hardly contain some of the nutrients. To be sure they are taking enough of some nutrient so as not to suffer the effects of its deficiency, they subsequently delve into buying supplements.
Ease of taking a supplement
A supplement is very easy to take compared to doing a lot of things. For instance, a lot of people will prefer to go for a supplement that contains nutrients that are believed to give a flat tummy than to be working out every day to maintain a flat belly. A lot of people also prefer to take supplements that strengthen the liver than to give up the intake of alcohol and other substances that could harm their liver. Thus, the ease of taking a supplement for a particular effect as opposed to doing the more stressful alternative to achieve a similar result is another major reason why people are taking so many supplements. | <urn:uuid:b4608d36-2d7a-4a1f-bd3b-e2666f309d95> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.daltonfury.com/sports/why-are-people-taking-so-many-supplements/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571198.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810161541-20220810191541-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.978709 | 747 | 1.882813 | 2 |
Motel enthusiast and author Heather David can point out the new neon sign at Santa Clara’s Capri Motel on El Camino Real. During David’s July 27 author talk at Central Park Library, David shared more insights about motels, whether they are old, new, themed or out of business, from her book, “Motel California,” published by CalMod Books.
“The book covers the entire State of California; it is about the Golden Age of the motel,” David said. “Because of the number of people who were relocating here to live, to work for business and for recreation, we had an explosion in motel development following World War II. California is also home to the world’s first motel, the Motel Inn in San Luis Obispo. It was built in 1925.”
David distinguished between motels and hotels.
“Motels were specifically designed for the automobile,” she said. “Motels were designed for a casual experience where you can drive up to your room. Hotels used to pop up along the train station routes and were for the well-to-do.”
According to David, the motel, as a building type, has represented the democratization of luxury and the accessibility of travel to the middle class.
“The motel gave people access to the swimming pool, which was once a leisure activity for the rich,” David said. “When you think about the motel, it introduced everyday people to items such as automatic ice machines and Beauty Rest mattresses. A lot of companies have used motels as a way to advertise their products, such as the complimentary shampoos and soaps.”
Living in San Jose on the Santa Clara border, David had lots to share about Santa Clara motels.
“Here’s the King’s Highway Motel in Santa Clara,” said David, showing a slide of the former motel on El Camino Real. “The sign was there until maybe five years ago. It truly is an old motor court. Can you see the old cabins with the rooms for the cars? I believe there are garages between each room. One day the sign was gone. It had incandescent bulb lights which would have been chasing as you were going down El Camino Real.”
David showed an early sign from Mariani’s Motel (now Mariani’s Inn). She pointed out the diving lady with a pool on the sign. The advertisement of a swimming pool on site was David’s explanation of why diving ladies appeared on motel signs in the 1950s.
According to David, when the Western Motel was built in Santa Clara, the South Bay was a “checkerboard of orchards.” The Western Motel is still in Santa Clara on 2250 El Camino Real.
Not to be confused with the Western Motel is the Best Western University Inn at 1655 El Camino Real. This motel was formerly the MoteLodge.
“This is where my parents stayed on their honeymoon in 1966 and that’s actually a picture of their room,” said David, showing a slide of MoteLodge. “I must’ve gotten my fascination with motels from my parents.”
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UCAT Situational Judgement: 10 Tips For UCAT Success
The Situational Judgement is the final section of the UCAT. It looks at how you would react in certain clinical or professional settings. Despite being the last section, and arguably the least time pressured, do not think that it is any less important. You need to make sure that you do not neglect it so you ensure you are a Band 3 or above as this is a common cut-off for lots of UCAT universities. These ten tips will help you to succeed with your preparation.
1. Make sure you look at the GMC guidance
Many students tend to learn UCAT Situational Judgement by trial and error. Doing mock questions is great practice however, as with every part of the UCAT, it is best to learn the theory first. This will then give you a great foundation for practising this section.
The GMC is the General Medical Council in the UK. Amongst other things, they set the professional standards expected of medical students and doctors in the UK. The UCAT was designed to be used for admission to NHS UK medical schools so a lot of the answers for the Situational Judgement section are based around the GMC’s published guidance.
The first thing to do is to read through and got your head around the GMC guidelines. The document is quite long so it may help if you make your own document to summarise them in. This will mean you always have something to refer back to while you are practising. Over time, try to refer less and less to the document when you answer.
The GMC have also published guidance for medical students. This covers the same principles as the original document but is more tailored to situations you may encounter during medical school. A lot of the scenarios given to you will be like this so it’s a good addition to your revision.
2. Understand the options
The difference between the SJT options in the UCAT can be incredibly minute and consequently, very confusing! In order to choose the right answer, you need to understand what the options mean. Here’s a guide to one of the most common question types:
- A very appropriate thing to do means it addresses the main problem in the stem without negative consequences
- Appropriate, but not ideal, means that whilst it solves one of the issues in the stem, it isn’t the most ideal solution
- Inappropriate, but not awful, means that it has transient negative consequences
- A very inappropriate thing to do means it either doesn’t address the problem at all or actively makes the issue worse
3. Use the ‘Rule of 3’ when reading the question
The ‘rule of 3’ comprises the 3 primary things you need to make a mental note of before attempting the question. These are:
- Role: What is your role in this scenario? How a doctor reacts to a situation will be very different to how a medical student may be expected to act. Therefore, note down your role and react accordingly.
- Setting: How one responds to a scenario depends on the setting of the problem. For example, it is always best to have personal conversations with a colleague in private and so, doing this in public would be inappropriate.
- Main problem: Most scenarios will have more than one issue that needs solving; find the main one and focus on solving it in the most appropriate manner.
4. Always keep the patient at the forefront of your decision-making
Patient safety is a key factor in decision making in Medicine. This included their health and physical safety, but also safety of their information (i.e.; confidentiality). Therefore, options that do not respect these are often inappropriate. Similarly, scenarios where patient safety is at stake, amongst other problems, should prompt recognition that this is the primary issue. It can be helpful to use the 4 pillars of medical ethics when considering what is best for patients:
- Beneficence – “do good”, consider if your actions benefit the patient
- Non-Maleficence – “do no harm”, consider if your actions are causing the patient harm and how to avoid this
- Autonomy – allowing the patient to make their own decisions and respecting them
- Justice – treat all patients equally and in consideration of the law
5. Don’t neglect the Situational Judgement section
As aforementioned, being the last section some students neglect this section.
It is important to note that some universities look at Situational Judgement more than others. For some universities, your application will not be considered if you have a poor score but apart from this the section is not considered. Other universities will put a greater emphasis on Situational Judgement by using it as part of the MMI interview process. Make sure to research your chosen universities and find out just how much it is taken into account.
Regardless of how much your chosen Universities consider the SJT section, it is critical that you do not neglect studying for it. As scoring highly in this section will keep as many options as possible open to you when applying.
Additionally, your SJT score is the only score that you cannot hide behind your UCAT average as it is stated as a separate “banding score” alongside your UCAT total or average numerical score.
This section has a different scoring system to the other sections, so it’s useful to familiarise yourself with this too.
|Band 1||Performed at an excellent level, displaying judgement similar to the majority of the expert panel.|
|Band 2||Displayed a decent level of performance, often demonstrating appropriate judgement, with several responses corresponding to model answers.|
|Band 3||Performed at a modest level, displaying appropriate judgement for some questions and significant differences from model responses for other questions.|
|Band 4||Performed poorly, displaying significantly different judgement than the model response in several cases.|
6. Search for resources carefully
Situational Judgement tests are used throughout medical careers for doctors at all stages of training. For example, situational judgement tests are used at university, during Foundation Years and even when you specialise. Therefore, make sure to search for ‘Situational Judgement UCAT’ if you’re looking for the best questions. There is so much out there, you what to make sure the ones you are doing are appropriate, as you don’t want to end up doing a Cardiology Speciality test!
Additionally, various resources will argue their own rationales for the problems in the SJT. Therefore, it’s important to rely on formal sources and experts to guide you. Medic Mind’s 1-1 tutoring for the SJT can come in handy as our tutors have had first-hand experience with the SJT at multiple levels in their career – check us out here!
7. Analyze the rationale properly
When practicing, it is important to understand the reason behind the right answers. This is the case even if you got it right. If a book or question bank doesn’t give good explanations for the questions, then it may be an inadequate resource to prepare you. If this is the case, try and reference back to the GMC guidance and see where your particular scenario would fit in.
As you do more scenarios, you’ll find that certain themes and rules pop up more than others. Use these as a guide to answer questions! For example, when solving inter-professional issues, always solve them locally (i.e.; with the person in question) before escalating unless there is an acute threat to someone’s safety.
If you continue to struggle with explanations, then you may benefit from some one-to-one tuition. All of our tutors have experience within the NHS and are well versed with GMC guidelines, so can give expert advice.
8. Prepare for the full length of the test
Many students’ intellectual energy fade during the Situational Judgement section. They have prepared hard for the other sections and have expended all their energy answering all of the previous questions. This impacts their score in the final section as they run out of steam right at the end. Remember that your score for this section is reported separately – there’s no point getting 900 (the maximum score) in all other sections if you have no energy left for situational judgement and get a Band 4!
You need to make sure that this does not happen to you on test day. Make sure you practice mock exams that are the full length of the UCAT, so you will learn the stamina needed to get you all the way through on test day. Remember if you get extra time in the test be sure to add this on to your practise.
9. Timing tips
This section is the least time pressured section. You have the luxury of having time to fully read each question carefully to make sure you don’t miss any key details. In the Situational Judgement section you have 26 minutes to answer 69 questions, so ensure you use this time well. Make sure not to rush but think carefully about your answers. Equally, do not become complacent – the test is not finished yet.
Once again this reiterates why it is so important not to neglect this section of the test. Practising and preparing for it will allow you to find a rhythm when answering the questions. And by knowing roughly how long it takes you to answer a question, you will know on test day if you answering too slowly or too quickly.
10. Do not be too indecisive
Sometimes students deliberate too much in Situational Judgement and go back and forth between answer options. You will get a half mark just for getting the right side (a/b or c/d). This does not mean that you should rush, but try not to spend too long deciding between a or b for example.
Practice is something that will help significantly if this is something that you struggle with. It will allow you to get used to the question types and understand the ethics behind the questions. Once you are familiar with both of these things you will be able to move through the questions confidently and efficiently.
Finally, as with all things related to medical school applications, remember to keep your cool and separate your self-worth from your score. Ultimately, getting into medical school is an incredibly holistic game and one poor score will not dictate the entirety of your chances.
What is UCAT SJT?
How is UCAT SJT scored?
You are given an overall band depending on your raw score. The bands range from Band 1 (the highest) and Band 4 (the lowest). In 2020 30% of candidates scored a Band 1, while only 9% received a Band 4. Take a look at our UCAT scoring guide here for more info. | <urn:uuid:dd5ee65e-a009-493f-b269-ce302d64569a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.medicmind.co.uk/medicine-ucas-guide/ucat-situational-judgement-tips/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571536.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811224716-20220812014716-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.949616 | 2,256 | 1.992188 | 2 |
VATICAN CITY (RNS) — Pope Francis delivered his Easter message and blessing in an empty St. Peter’s Basilica on Sunday, sending a message of hope for those affected by the coronavirus and challenging world leaders to work together for the common good while addressing the pandemic.
“Dear brothers and sisters, indifference, self-centeredness, division and forgetfulness are not words we want to hear at this time,” Francis said after the morning Easter Mass at St. Peter’s Basilica on Sunday (April 12).
“We want to ban these words forever!” he added.
In his message, the pope described a world currently faced “with epochal challenges and now oppressed by a pandemic severely testing our whole human family.”
He called for a “contagion of hope,” inspired by the Christian faith in the Resurrection of Christ.
Francis spoke directly to world leaders, who are charged with enacting policies to help prevent the spread of the coronavirus.
“I encourage political leaders to work actively for the common good, to provide the means and resources needed to enable everyone to lead a dignified life and, when circumstances allow, to assist them in resuming their normal daily activities,” he said.
Francis mentioned the most vulnerable, the sick and the elderly as the first concern for global leaders in his address. He asked that the poor, the outcast, the refugees and the homeless not be abandoned. He expressed his closeness to the many victims of the disease and to the nurses and doctors who have put their life on the line in the service of others.
“This is not a time for indifference, because the whole world is suffering and needs to be united in facing the pandemic,” he said.
Francis asked that “international sanctions be relaxed” as countries, especially developing nations, grapple with the challenge of the pandemic. He asked for “the reduction, if not the forgiveness, of the debt burdening the balance sheets of the poorest nations.
“This is not a time for division. May Christ, our peace, enlighten all who have responsibility in conflicts, that they may have the courage to support the appeal for an immediate global ceasefire in all corners of the world,” he said.
By asking for a global ceasefire and the loosening of sanctions, Pope Francis joins the appeals of the United Nations, which pointed to the financial vulnerability of countries like Iran, Cuba, Venezuela, North Korea and Zimbabwe.
Francis called out the nations who continue to manufacture and deal in arms despite the pandemic. He mentioned “great bloodshed in Syria, the conflict in Yemen and the hostilities in Iraq and Lebanon.” The pope asked that Israelis and Palestinians resume peace talks. He asked for the end of suffering in the Eastern regions of Ukraine and the end of terroristic attacks in many African nations.
“This is not a time for forgetfulness,” he said. “The crisis we are facing should not make us forget the many other crises that bring suffering to so many people.”
Francis mentioned humanitarian crises in Mozambique, Libya, Venezuela, Turkey and Greece. He mentioned especially the Greek island of Lesbos, site of his first foreign trip as pontiff in 2013, which houses numerous refugees seeking a home in Europe.
“This is not a time for self-centeredness,” the pope added, referring to Europe especially. The European Union, which began to dismantle when the United Kingdom exited the union Feb.1, is further weakened by rivalries among member states regarding the handling of the crisis.
Francis recalled how Europe was able to recover and "rise again" from the deep divisions that provoked the Second World War.
“It is more urgent than ever, especially in the present circumstances, that these rivalries do not regain force but that all recognize themselves as part of a single family and support one another,” he said.
“The European Union is presently facing an epochal challenge on which will depend not only its future but that of the whole world.”
Francis called leaders to find creative and innovative solutions and resist the “selfishness of particular interests and the temptation of a return to the past.”
In his blessing, the pope may have spoken directly to world leaders, but his first thoughts were for those directly affected by the coronavirus. Not only those on the front lines in the fight against the pandemic but also those who suffer financially, personally or religiously by not having access to the sacraments.
“May Christ, who has already defeated death and opened for us the way to eternal salvation, dispel the darkness of our suffering humanity and lead us into the light of his glorious day,” he said, “a day that knows no end.”
Article originally published by Religion News Service. Used with permission.
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Majorelle Garden (Marrakech)
The Majorelle Garden (Arabic: حديقة ماجوريل) is a botanical garden in Marrakech, Morocco. It was designed by the expatriate French artist Jacques Majorelle (1886-1962) in 1924, during the colonial period when Morocco was a protectorate of France.
Though Majorelle's gentlemanly orientalist watercolors are largely forgotten today (many are preserved in the villa's collection) the garden he created is his creative masterpiece. The special shade of bold cobalt blue which he used extensively in the garden and its buildings is named after him, bleu Majorelle.
The garden has been open to the public since 1947. Since 1980 the garden has been owned by Yves Saint-Laurent and Pierre Bergé. After Yves Saint Laurent died in 2008 his ashes were scattered in the Majorelle Garden.
The garden also houses the Islamic Art Museum of Marrakech, whose collection includes North African textiles from Saint-Laurent's personal collection as well as ceramics, jewelry, and paintings by Majorelle.
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Organic, Biodynamic and Natural Wines….what’s the flipping difference?
The wine industry, in general, is confusing. I’m all, “White Burgundy? Always Chardonnay – except that it isn’t because Sauvignon de St Bris is in Burgundy and is Sauvignon Blanc.” And you’re all, “What in the world are you talking about? White Burgundy? Is that from California? Chardonnay – is that red? Sauvignon what? Waiter – bring me a beer!”
No matter how much you learn about wine, there is always something else around the corner ready to throw you off your game. After studying it in the US and the UK for several years (not counting 15 years in the restaurant biz) and a healthy appetite for the collection of the stuff, the very best lesson I ever had was taught by Kevin Zraly under whom I studied and with whom I worked and whom I call a friend: “It’s grape juice. Stop being an *sshole.”
So. Here we are. We have an extremely confusing product that evokes feelings of sophistication, celebration, joy and terror (lots of terror) and now…now we have three more things to add into the murky midst: the addition of organic, biodynamic and natural to the already unhelpful wine labels.
It may surprise you to know that there are very clear-cut rules for labeling a wine as organic, natural or biodynamic.
The labeling of something as “organic” is regulated by the US government and the European Union – which includes France, Italy, Portugal, and Spain (along with 14 other countries but these are the main wine-producing ones). Within that there are two options: Wines can be made from organic grapes or wines can be labeled as organic wines. Wines made from organic grapes are made from grapes grown with only natural intervention, no synthetic fertilizers, herbicides, pesticides, fungicides, etc. Organic wines, on the other hand, are made from those same organically grown grapes but also without the addition of sulfites – like sulfur dioxide – which are a preservative, in the wine making process.
Biodynamic, on the other hand, is to organic what Jack Bauer is to Columbo: they both solve mysteries but Jack Bauer has a whole lot more going on in his day. Biodynamic viticulture kicked off in 1924 with the mystical-scientific teachings of Rudolf Steiner. It is organic winemaking but with a holistic approach to the agriculture. The theory is that without the addition of additives including sugar, tannins or cultured yeasts the wines instead show a truer expression of terroir orplace. If you can only nurture the naturally occurring product it forces the distinct flavor of that place through – good or bad. There is both a certification for biodynamic viticulture (by Demeter International) and a widely accepted “biodynamic approach” which is not regulated but relies on people who label wines as such to be truthful in their claims. To be certified, however, there are nine biodynamic principles which must be followed. One example is burying cow manure in cow horns in the soil over winter, then digging them up, stirring in water and spraying the vineyard with that water, and another is that oak bark is “buried sheathed in the skull of a farm animal, the skull is buried in a watery environment over winter, then dug up. The skull’s contents are removed and inserted in the compost (the used skull is discarded)”. And then there are also some funky ones involving cow intestines.
And “natural” well, there is no legal definition of “natural” but it is generally accepted as an indication that the producers implement organic farming practices but haven’t yet gone through the lengthy and expensive certification process. Considering it can also be broadly interpreted to include any winemaking because grapes are, after all, natural, you are best advised to research producers making this claim if it is important to you.
So, does all of this make the wine any better?
Danielle Price, former Executive Director of Wine for Wynn Resorts, winemaker and current proprietor of Maison du Prix wines says that she believes farming organically and biodynamically makes a difference in the quality of the wine but that it completely depends on the producer. “Like non-organic wines, there are organic producers making exceptional wines and some just mediocre. Quality wines come from quality vineyards. Many of the greatest wines in the world and my personal favorites are organic/biodynamic but most people don’t even know it because they do not make a big deal about promoting it. Domaine de la Romanee Conti, Araujo, Beaucastel, Comte Lafon… “
And there is another issue. It turns out that consumers don’t think they like wines labeled with the big “O.” So even though wine makers may believe in it and some consumers may swear they taste better, the numbers don’t lie: Magali Delmas, a professor at UCLA’s Institute for Environment and Sustainability, studied the effect of eco-labels on California wines from 1999 to 2010. She found that when an producer advertised, by including on their label, “made from organic grapes,” “certified by California Certified Organic Farmers,” “USDA Organic” or “Demeter-certified” the wine prices dropped. By nearly 7%. Wines labeled as organic bring about strong feelings in consumers – that they aren’t as good.
So where does that leave us? Maybe we are already drinking more natural, organic, biodynamic, environmentally friendly wines than we thought –without having any idea that we are doing it. Chances are pretty good because some of the more popular certified organic producers include Domaine Zind Humbrect in Alsace (who is also biodynamic), Maison Joseph Drouhin in Burgundy, Peregrine in New Zealand, La Perrin & Fils in Rhone, Bodegas Muga in Spain and Frog’s Leap in the US. Some pretty big name producers are currently in conversion to organic certification include Yarra Yering from Australia, Chateau d’Yquem in Bordeaux, Chateau de Puligny Montrachet, and Qupé and Ridge Vineyards in the US. In addition some popular biodynamic producers include Qupé in the US and Château de Puligny-Montrachet in Burgundy.
So in the end the facts are these: There are official certifications for organic and biodynamic viticulture and wine making. There are also general practices. And these eco-friendly practices and certifications do not make or break wines – that is up to the producer. If it is important to you to drink wines that are eco-friendly, your best bet is to do some research and find a few go-to producers you like and trust, as not all are alike. If taste is the driving factor in your decision-making, then don’t select a wine for being eco-friendly or decline it but rather let the producer have the wine speak for itself.
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Some experts have expressed considerations about returning to lecture rooms because of the chance students may carry the virus residence to older relatives. Education professionals have also expressed fear they could be in harms method. “We encourage localities and states to simply simply observe the science, open our colleges,” she continued. White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany stated Trump wants faculties to be “open and full” and “science mustn’t stand in the way of this.” Discover Uni attracts on national data to offer average salaries and employment/continuation information.
We loved the science experiment present about polymer chemistry. I had a good time right here with my daughter’s college for their field journey. There is a lot for the kids to do, the Maryland Science Center really does do an exceptional job of creating learning enjoyable. Through our programs, we reach audiences in every a part of Maryland and past, because every child deserves access to education, science, personal perception, innovation, and invention. A health employee checks the physique temperature of a boy at a medical camp to screen residents for COVID-19 signs in Mumbai, India, Friday, July 17, 2020.
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Tumor suppressors are generally downregulated in individual cancers and knowledge of the systems by which tumor cells restrict the appearance of tumor suppressors is very important to the prognosis and involvement of illnesses. the PML ubiquitination functions are often influenced by other styles of posttranslational adjustments, such as for example phosphorylation, prolylisomerization, and sumoylation. Such feature signifies a highly governed character of PML ubiquitination in various cellular circumstances and cell contexts, hence providing many strategies of possibility to intervene PML ubiquitination pathways. We talk about the potential of concentrating on PML ubiquitination pathways for anti-cancer healing strategies. gene was originally determined on the breakpoint from the gene continues to be subject to extensive studies. The individual gene can provide rise to at least 12 transcripts because of substitute splicing [2,3]. These isoforms talk about the same N-terminal region including RBCC (Band, B-box, and coiled-coil) theme but differ within their C-termini. PML may be the essential element of PML-nuclear physiques (PML-NBs), that buy 693228-63-6 are spherical subnuclear organelles using a size of 0.1 to at least one buy 693228-63-6 1?m [4,5]. PML features as the arranging center of the structure, enabling the recruitment of several proteins through systems concerning SUMO-modifications and connections . PML-NBs are recognized to great tune several cellular processes & most of these are linked to tumor suppression . As PML is essential for the set up of PML-NBs, the natural features of PML-NBs are relatively difficult to end up being recognized from those of PML. PML tumor suppressive features The tumor suppressive function of PML was initially suggested with the id of PML-RAR fusion proteins in APL. Extra genetic evidence originates from PML null mice. These mice are inclined to develop papilloma, carcinoma, and T/B lymphomas in a number of chemical substance and physical settings of carcinogenesis . When crossed with various other tumor mouse versions, PML reduction accelerates tumor advancement . Furthermore, research with in vitro and/or in vivo systems possess revealed several PML-elicited cellular features that are linked to tumor suppression. These features are referred to below: 1.Many lines of evidence indicate a job of PML in modulating apoptosis. For example, lymphocytes, thymocytes and embryonic fibroblasts produced from mice are even more resistant to apoptosis induced by stimuli that activate either intrinsic or extrinsic apoptotic pathway, weighed against their outrageous type counterparts [9,10]. The pro-apoptotic features of PML could be mediated by both p53-reliant and p53-indie systems. PML activates p53 by multiple systems, such as marketing its phosphorylation and acetylation by recruiting it into PML-NBs and by binding and inhibiting the p53 harmful regulator MDM2 [11,12]. Besides p53, other elements are implicated in the pro-apoptotic function of PML. One particular molecule is certainly Daxx, which is certainly recruited to PML-NBs through its relationship with sumoylated PML . Daxx is certainly reported to repress the appearance of many anti-apoptotic genes when localized in PML-NBs, thus eliciting pro-apoptotic features . Lately, the extranuclear PML continues to be reported to create a complicated with inositol 1,4,5-triphosphate receptor (IP3R), Akt and PP2a in ER and mitochondria-associated membrane, where buy 693228-63-6 PML participates in Akt- and PP2a-dependent modulation of IP3R phosphorylation to market IP3R-mediated calcium discharge from ER, thus inducing apoptosis . 2. PML was initially implicated in mobile senescence by its requirement of V-H-Ras-induced senescence via modulating p53 acetylation and activation . Subsequently, it’s been discovered that overexpression of a specific PML isoform, PML-IV, induces senescence via an Rb-dependent system [17,18]. Intriguingly, through the induction of senescence, PML-NBs are colocalized with senescence-associated heterochromatin foci (SAHF), Rabbit Polyclonal to OR52E2 Rb, and E2F, which is certainly considered to mediate PML-induced repression of E2F focus on genes, resulting in proliferation arrest, DNA harm and senescence . Latest study determined TBX2, a T-box transcription aspect, as an E2F focus on crucial for PML-induced senescence . 3. PML insufficiency leads to elevated neoangiogenesis and raised appearance of pro-angiogenic elements such as for example HIF-1 and VEGF in individual and mouse tumors. 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A divorce has a larger impact than couples realize. If they have children, the divorce has an effect on them. Both sets of grandparents can also get caught up in what the ex-spouses think is a matter between two people.
Grandparents want to be involved in their grandchildren’s lives, and it’s important that divorce doesn’t present an obstacle to doing that.
Keep the Relationship Alive
While parents might be divorcing one another, it doesn’t mean that the connection between grandparent and grandchild needs to suffer. Divorce doesn’t have to sever all family ties.
The former spouse should reach out to their ex’s parents and assure them that he or she still wants them to play an important role in the children’s lives. This gesture will prevent grandparents from feeling alienated and taking sides in the divorce.
Don’t Place Restrictions on Spending Time with Grandparents
It’s tempting to say that your kids can only spend time with your ex’s parents when they’re with your ex. However, if your ex-spouse doesn’t live nearby or the kids don’t see him or her often, that might mean that they’ll see his or her parents even less.
If it’s geographically feasible, try to schedule visits with your former in-laws when you’ve got custody of the kids. Your children will enjoy getting to spend time with their grandparents, and they’ll appreciate your lack of selfishness when they’re older.
Invite Grandparents to Events
Do your ex-spouse’s parents live nearby? They can be involved in their grandchildren’s lives by participating in events such as birthday parties, holiday celebrations and family dinners.
Inviting your ex’s parents will make them feel as though they’re not missing out on seeing their grandchild. Also, it can make special occasions, such as birthdays, even more memorable for children because they got to see their grandparents.
Put Your Kids First
Your children didn’t ask for this divorce. Although you and your ex-spouse have differences that can’t be resolved, you don’t want to punish them by cutting off their relationship with their cherished grandparents.
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A bench is a pretty versatile furniture piece, which can add zest to overall look of a room and create interesting ensembles, if combined with other objects. Benches may be freestanding, or placed against a wall, or even fixed to a wall.
By the way, a bench is one of the oldest furniture pieces: it’s at least as old as a stool and a table. Did you know that Ancient Romans already used paneled benches? Later, in the Middle Ages, benches were much more common in homes and public halls than chairs. Chairs were a luxury – only rich and noble people could afford them. Sitting on a chair was a sign of high status (the word “chairman” dates back to these times), while benches were in any home.
Nowadays, a bench is often placed at the end of a bed – such a bench is sometimes called ” a bedroom bench”. In a living room, there also are spots where a bench is the best choice.
Modern benches are extremely multifarious: from rustic-style ones with a plain wood plank as a seat to stylish, truly luxurious benches with super-soft cushions, padded seats, and upholstery coming in a variety of materials. Benches from Bellavista Collection brand are of the latter kind. They surely are as elegant and top-quality as all other Italian luxury furniture this company produces.
Open the PRODUTS section on Bellavista Collection’s website, and in UPHOLSTERED PIECES product category you’ll find OTTOMANS&BENCHES sub-category. Look it through – and you’ll be surprised how beautiful and diverse these benches are.
If you browse through Bellavista’s 2020/2021 collection (WHAT’S NEW section of the website), you will see two grand-looking upholstered benches: FRIDA and LILLIGRE. Let’s take a brief look at the first one.
FRIDA could be described in just a couple of words: elegance and practicability.
This bench looks really chic, so it will be a great addition even to the most luxurious room. FRIDA’s somehow laconic design leaves an impression of sophistication and grandeur. A brief glance is enough to tell that this piece is truly luxurious. In fact, the same could well be said about every item designed by Attilio Zanni – Bellavista’s genius of a designer and the brand’s co-founder.
True luxuriousness has nothing to do with excessive decorations and pretentiousness. FRIDA looks classic, with clear lines and somehow simple outline, but beauty and elegance are visible in every detail.
Cast brass with an antique bronze finish of the base looks extremely well together with fabric or leather upholstery (just like most of the upholstered furniture pieces from Bellavista, FRIDA bench is available in either leather or fabric).
It goes without saying that this bench is made only of the best-quality materials – well, it’s the case with every piece from this brand. Bellavista Collection has always been very scrupulous when it comes to quality. For instance, all metal comes from Bellavista’s own foundry, where every detail is carefully cast using the technology that dates back to a few millennia.
The inner structure of FRIDA is made of solid fur wood. The brand always uses natural solid wood rather than cheaper wood products: whatever wooden piece you take, you won’t find a single detail made of, say, particleboard or plywood in it.
As to the padding, high-grade variable-density polyurethane foam is used (fire-resistant foam is available as an option).
Bellavista Collection has always strived to give its customers lots of options to choose from. FRIDA, for example, has a good number of upholstery options.
Covers of this bench could be made of fabric or leather; each of these materials in its turn is available in multiple variants. Besides, if you want your FRIDA bench to be upholstered in a particular material, Bellavista offers such an opportunity as well. You can provide fabric or leather, for this piece to perfectly match the interior of your room.
If you prefer to select upholstery material from the list of the available options, you will also have plenty of choices.
For example, upholstery fabric for FRIDA could be of five categories: A, B, C, Lux, and Extra Lux; with a number of colors in each of these categories.
As to leather, it could be of category P1, P3, and nubuck (sanded leather, which looks pretty much like suede) of the P3 category.
In the P1 category, there are as many as 30 colors, including various shades of grey, red, brown, blue, yellow, and black.
P3 category offers 11 colors and shades of grey, brown, blue, and black.
The nubuck of the P3 category comes in 13 yellow shades of brown, pink, grey, and beige colors. As you see, you have plenty to choose from if you want your FRIDA bench to blend into the interior, harmonizing with all existing furniture pieces in your room.
Decorative stitching with the thread in matching color will highlight the beauty of the material, and so will the lovely piping, made of contrasting material.
The size of this bench is optimal to suit the needs of most customers. FRIDA is 170 cm (66.9 inches) long, 52.5 cm. (20.7 in.) wide and 45.5 cm. (17.9 in.) high.
Where to put this bench? Well, there could be lots of ideas, from using it as a bedroom bench to placing it beside a window to create a cozy nook (a couple of pillows may be a good idea if you choose the latter). Even in a dining area this bench might come in handy. Of course, everything depends on your preferences.
But wherever you put it, you can be totally sure that FRIDA will serve you for decades. It simply can’t be otherwise. All items made in Bellavista– from tables, sofas and armchairs to boiserie and lighting fixtures – are extremely durable. The very fact that the item is designed and made in Bellavista Collection means that it is of top quality. Such pieces do last long, so in many years your FRIDA bench will be as elegant-looking and cozy as it was on the day you brought it home. | <urn:uuid:fd75f99f-d72f-46dc-bc23-fd9e4343b829> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://orderhelmandpalacesf.com/timeless-elegance-plus-great-usability-frida-bench-from-bellavista-collection.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571198.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810161541-20220810191541-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.949013 | 1,392 | 1.539063 | 2 |
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PLASTIC bags could be ditched from every shop in Woodley to make the town greener.
Woodley’s Liberal Democrat town council submitted a motion encouraging shops to veto plastic carrier bags at its monthly meeting at the Oakwood Centre last night. The town is the first place in Reading to put forward the drastic measure.
The motion states: “This council notes the huge number of throwaway plastic bags in use throughout the world and recognises the environmental damage caused during their production, transport and disposal. This council, as a partner in the Woodley Town Centre Management Initiative, requests – through their chair – that the town centre manager seeks the retailers’ support in making Woodley a disposable plastic bag-free town.”
Town councillor Coling Lawley, representing Southlake North, who is supporting the campaign for Woodley to become plastic bag free, said it was important the town thought about its future.
He said: “We have put it forward as a motion for several reasons. We want to keep Woodley on the map. But this is a good thing to do for the big picture. A similar scheme works well in Ireland, so why not also do it in Woodley? We should put it in front of the Town Centre Management Initiative – disposable plastic bags.
"Some shops will find it easier to do than others, but I think it will happen everywhere eventually so Woodley may as well stay ahead.”
Town centre manager Liz Creighton described the plan as “fantastic” but admitted it would be difficult to convince all the shops to come onboard.
She said: “It would be lovely for everyone to come in but it would be a long struggle.
“Yes, I think it is a fantastic idea, but I will have to see what the Town Centre Management Initiative think first.”
Some shops, including RISC in London Street, Reading, and the various True Food Co-ops, are already plastic bag-free zones.
Reading Friends of the Earth co-ordinator Amy Burchell, 26, led a campaign in Caversham to get plastic bags binned.
She said: “We are absolutely pleased about Woodley. We struggled with getting retailers to bin bags in Caversham, so it is nice to know the orders are coming from above. It is excellent news. There’s been a huge movement over the past eight months since Modbury in Devon became plastic bag free – the first place in Europe to do so.”
Green Party activist Rob White, 28, of Mandela Court, Newtown, who plans to fill just one bin with rubbish in a year, also supported the campaign.
“I was talking to one of my local shopkeepers about this.
“He spent about £6,000 a year buying plastic bags, but he said he had to because of the competition.”
A spokesman for Waitrose, which has a store in the Woodley precinct, said: “Waitrose is committed to minimising its impact on the environment so any scheme that helps achieve this is always of interest. We are already operating a ‘green till’ in 13 branches where customers have the option of using a bag-free checkout.”
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Next is the hero’s call to adventure. The hero is usually given a message by a messenger or an external event. For Steve Rogers, the war was his call to adventure. Once America joined World War 2 and started recruiting volunteers to help out in the army, Steve and his friend, Bucky, decided that they should join the army. Steve registered but did not make the army.
An example of Paul’s loyalty is when his friend, and fellow soldier, Kemmerich is in the hospital Paul spends hours by his side to comfort him before he dies. This loyalty, created by the war, helps them to survive while out on the front by making sure the men watch out for each other and is one of the few positive things to come from the war. Paul’s prominent personality traits; his desensenzation, his bitterness, and his loyalty are all results of the war. It’s hard to say exactly what Paul would be like if he never fought the war but it is easy to say that his personality would be immensely different. World War I forever changed Paul Bӓumer in All Quiet on the Western Front just as it changed the lives of real life soldiers fighting in the war and how war continues to change lives
Max Vandenberg is a Jewish man who is taken in and hidden by the Hubbermanns, Rosa and Hans, during World War 2 in Nazi Germany. His father saved Hans's life during the First World War. Hans, in turn, repays this deed by hiding Max from the Nazis, therefore putting his family in great danger as a result of it. During Max’s time living in the Hubbermann residence he befriends the protagonist, Liesel Meminger. The two find that they are very similar to each other.
Sassoon was able to fight in May 1915. He was depressed because of the war but that did not stop him from doing his duty, for that courage he was a well-known man. Because of the fact that he appeared to be completely fearless; his friends called him “Mad Jack”. In Sassoon’s poem he gives descriptions that show the state of the soldier.
A personal journey is an adventure that teaches a character valuable lesson. In the book A Long Walk to Water by Linda Sue Park we follow Salva’s journey after he has to flee the country after war breaks out. Salva’s journey impacted him by making him more self sufficient, brave, and courageous. Salva’s journey taught him how to be more self-sufficient. In the beginning of the book he relied on others more.
The Changes of the Western Front War, irrefutably, changes the mentality and ableness of a person beyond recognition. Through the hardships recruits and veterans face on the front lines, many come back as different people. Through their experiences, they take back gruesome images, and traumatic experiences. Many do not even return from the battlefield. German casualties in World War I were around “1.7 to 2 million”, and about “65% of all mobilized men were casualties” (Rabideau 1), many of whom were young recruits enlisted straight out of school.
“Won’t you join up, Comrades?” (Remarque, 11) said Kantorek, who was Paul’s schoolmaster and had swayed Paul and his friends to go to the District Commandment and volunteer for the war. Paul and his friends were merely adolescents full of ignorance and innocence going straight from high school into an unknown environment full of death, despair, loneliness and hopelessness. They did not know what to expect from war, all they knew was that they were doing this for the good of the country they loved. It can be seen Paul was affected when he experienced the first bombardment and sees his fellow comrade Joseph Behm die during the attack and Paul and his troop are unable to help him.
Proverbs 24:6 says; “for by wise guidance you can wage your war, and in abundance of counselors there is victory and safety” (Holy Bible, New Living Translation). In the novel Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand, the story of Louis Zamperini is told from his troubled childhood, his record breaking running days, and to becoming a WWII hero, and living to tell his story. Louie ends his running career when the second world war started between the Americans and the Japanese. Louie faces many hardships through his time in the military, and after the war. Through Louis Zamperini’s suffering while striving to survive while being stranded at sea, becoming a Prisoner Of War in Japan, and his post war trauma, leads him to God, and finding his faith.
In his novel Borderliners, Peter Hoeg uses a deceased character, Oscar Humlum, to mentor Peter and steer him in the right direction. Bonded by their broken family situations and common understanding of each other, Peter and Oscar become fast friends at Crusty House. Humlum stands up for Peter when he is confronted by bullies and pedophiles, and serves as Peter’s ‘savior’ on numerous occasions. Although he commits suicide in front of Peter by swinging into an oncoming train, Humlum’s persona is resurrected and he continues to save Peter as he did while they lived in Crusty House. When he reemerges to Peter, Humlum mirrors Jesus with his sacrifices and divine interventions to guide Peter.
The Glorification of Psychological Harm “Epitaph on a Soldier,” by Cyril Tourneur, an English soldier and diplomat during the 16th and 17th centuries, depicts the honorable death of a soldier during a time when war was glorious and fighting for one’s country was almost customary. Meanwhile, in “The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner,” the 20th century poet Randall Jarrell illustrates a more bleak image of gunner’s blunt and harsh death during World War II, when war became less magnificent and much more brutal. The reassuring and honoring tone in “Epitaph on a Soldier” expresses that the triumphant experiences of war cause a young soldier to become mature so that his life is complete, while the bitter and disturbed tone in “The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner” communicates that a soldier’s grim time in war and subsequent death is, in reality, devoid of all glory and only mentally scars a soldier. “Epitaph on a
Erich Maria Remarque was a man who had lived through the terrors of war, serving since he was eighteen. His first-hand experience shines through the text in his famous war novel, All Quiet on the Western Front, which tells the life of young Paul Bäumer as he serves during World War 1. The book was, and still is, praised to be universal. The blatant show of brutality, and the characters’ questioning of politics and their own self often reaches into the hearts of the readers, regardless of who or where they are. Brutality and images of war are abundant in this book, giving the story a feeling of reality.
Elie is a young boy who lived with his family. Elie and his dad work for the Germans at the concentration camp stay alive, and they try to survive the holocaust by keep working for them. Elie Wiesel effective core quality throughout the book is that he was really scared and confidence. Elie core quality change by thing that happened, In front of him, his quality became more confident about himself because is normal for him. For example, when his father gets beat by of the German guard, he didn 't even blink about what happened.
A character in the book “All quiet on the Western Front.” A teenager aged 18-19 years old who was sent to war as such a young age who wasn 't mentally or physically prepared for war. Throughout the book I have consider Paul Baumer as a definition of humanity. He always put all his friends or his war family when he was alive from simply being compassionate and always putting himself first for
All Quiet on the Western Front written by Erich Maria Remarque is a story of a young man named Paul Bäumer who volunteers to be a soldier in the German army during World War One. Being at a very young age Bäumer, and three of his friends whom also enlisted to the German army from the same school he attended, felt proud when enlisting “we were a class of twenty young men, many of whom proudly shaved for the first time before going to the barracks” (AQOTWF p.21). Very soon, however, Bäumer and the young men he enlisted with begin to feel indifferent and embittered of being in the army “At first astonished, then embittered, and finally indifferent.” (AQOTWF p.21/22). Joining the army for Bäumer changed the way he felt about everything he knew in the past, and the way he thought of the people who stayed back home.
Even though a story is not an autobiographical work, a relationship can still exist between the author and the main character. This circumstance occurs in the anti-war novel All Quiet on the Western Front. This novel presents a relationship between the main character Paul Baumer and the author Erich Maria Remarque. If a reader knows Remarque’s life and background, the reader can determine the connection between his life and his work. All Quiet on the Western Front is a fictional story and contains fictional characters, but Remarque bases these characters on real people he actually knew and used Paul Baumer to represent himself (Roberts). | <urn:uuid:1730fd79-6e52-42c2-af70-78b4ffa40f08> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.ipl.org/essay/All-Quiet-On-The-Western-Front-Bildungsroman-P398TBWMGXFT | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570921.9/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809094531-20220809124531-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.979615 | 2,015 | 3.234375 | 3 |
“Human error and social engineering attacks continue to be the primary reasons behind data breaches affecting organisations” according to Gartner Market Guide For Security Awareness Computer-Based Training.
Simply checking the box on annual compliance trainings is a standard of the past, and users have limited time and interest in security awareness. To combat the challenges of persistent phishing, ransomware, and email fraud attacks, organisations need continuous and adaptive security awareness training programs.
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The 5 Main Muscles of Movement.
Anatomy in detail:
The trapezius muscles are the most superficial muscle layer of the upper back and back of the neck.
Together, the left and right trapezius muscles form a kite-shaped sheet of muscle that extends from mid-back to the base of the skull, and across the upper back to each shoulder.
Wikipedia: Trapezius: from Late Latin trapezium, from Greek τραπέζιον (trapézion), literally "a little table", a diminutive of τράπεζα (trápeza), "a table", itself from τετράς (tetrás), "four" + πέζα (péza), "a foot; end, border, edge"
The left and right trapezii (plural) meet on the body's midline.
The trapezii are large, thin muscles. They are sculpted down the sides of the neck and as they extend out to each shoulder, attaching to both the scapula (shoulder blade) and clavicle (collar bone) of each arm.
The whole of each muscle should be free to fully extend, without pain or tension, supporting the head and arms through a full range of natural movement.
The left and right trapezius muscles attach to the cervical and thoracic vertebrae (bones of the spine) via the nuchal & supraspinous ligaments making them responsible for the alignment of the upper body.
Sensory information provided by the trapezii gives us information about the relative positioning of thoracic and cervical spine. This knowledge allows us to feel how to move to improve posture.
Current descriptions split each trapezius into 3 functional sections - the upper, middle and lower trapezius, based on the direction of the muscle fibres.
a.k.a. superior (i.e. higher than the other sections) trapezius.
a.k.a. descending (i.e. the muscle fibres descend) trapezius.
The upper trapezius attaches to:
a.k.a. transverse (i.e. the muscle fibres run approx. horizontally) trapezius.
The middle trapezius attaches to:
a.k.a. inferior (i.e. lower than the other sections) trapezius.
a.k.a. ascending (i.e. the muscle fibres ascend) trapezius.
The lower trapezius attaches to:
Movement of the upper body should begin from the lower trapezius.
With Base-Line support in place, think of activating both your lower trapezii starting from midback, extending upwards and outwards towards your shoulder blades.
Between the 6th cervical and 3rd thoracic vertebrae (the base of the nuchal ligament and start of the supraspinous ligament) the trapezius muscles are connected to the midline by a broad semi-elliptical aponeurosis (thin sheet of strong connective tissue), forming a tendinous ellipse between the shoulder blades.
The trapezii should be free of restrictions, guiding the head and arms through a full range of natural movement when connected to Base-Line support (pelvic floor and rectus abdominis).
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Alder Eco-Arts Hub
Why “The Alder”?
Alders are commonly found near streams, rivers, and wetlands. Alders are among the first species to grow in areas disturbed by floods, windstorms, fires, landslides, development, and logging. Alder improves the fertility of the soil where it grows, and it helps provide additional nitrogen for the successional species which follow (such as Cedar, Douglas Fir, and Hemlock). The bark is good for tanning, dye colour, gargles for sore throats, salves for psoriasis and rheumatism (among other things), and weaving. The wood is good for carving, furniture, building instruments, and mask-making. The Alder Eco-Arts Hub is becoming a centre of art and multi-generational mentorship that honours Traditional Knowledge of Indigenous Elders, learns from senior artists, and encourages new generations of artists and community members to learn, create, and develop collaborative and sustainable artistic ecosystems.
PROGRAMS SUPPORTED BY THE ALDER
Colour Me Local Dye Garden
In 2019, we installed a dye garden by the Renfrew Ravine to support pollinators, natural dye programs at the Alder Eco-Arts Hub, and medicinal plant programs with Resurfacing History. The garden continues to be managed by staff and community volunteers as part of a Dyers and Gardeners Club.
We hold seasonal community potlucks at the Alder Eco-Arts Hub to celebrate the seasonal abundance and to encourage ethical foraging. Guests bring dishes that contain ingredients which have been homegrown or responsibly foraged. Our Forager’s Feasts provide an opportunity for community members to connect over food while discussing ideas such as home, cultural tradition, and reciprocity with nature.
Sarah Ross House Programs
Our monthly events at the Sarah Ross House modular housing building provide a way for residents to engage in community activity. Events range from activities such as natural dyes, lantern-making, and facilitated talks. Through these events, we hope to engage Sarah Ross House residents using the values of art, nature, and community.
Resurfacing History is an Indigenous-led knowledge-sharing program at Mount Pleasant Neighbourhood House. The program develops a community process for understanding of the land around us, and resurfacing Indigenous land-based teachings and practices. The Alder provides space for harvesting and processing of native plants and medicine, and provides a space for workshops to take place.
Cracks in Creeks: Live Streaming (2019)
In 2019, Still Moon Arts created a site-specific performing arts project with youth to explore our relationship with Still Creek through movement, poetry, visual art, and sound. The project resulted in three public performances and a youth-produced documentary film about the creation process.
Mycelial Connections and Fruiting Bodies (2018-2019)
In 2018, we created a community-engaged eco-art piece in the Renfrew Ravine using mycelium from oyster mushrooms. The second phase of this installation, called Fruiting Bodies, saw the creation of two other beautiful mushroom figures, which continue to be on display in the Renfrew Ravine.
Birds on Parade & Birds in Residence (2016-2018)
In 2018, we celebrated our winged relatives as part of the Vancouver International Bird Festival and the International Ornithological Congress in Vancouver.
Lost Stream Street Murals (2014-2017)
Still Moon Arts and residents of Renfrew-Collingwood created a number of beautiful street murals throughout the neighbourhood to uncover the lost streams of Still Creek.
5050 Joyce St. Pop-up Studio (2017)
A temporary 10-week space created for local artists and community organizations, the pop-up studio was an engaging display of the thriving arts community in Renfrew-Collingwood.
Still Creek Stories (2017)
In 2017, we published a book highlighting the stories and knowledge told by community members about Still Creek, Renfrew Ravine, and the Renfrew-Collingwood neighbourhood.
FUNDERS & SUPPORTERS
The Alder Eco-Arts Hub is generously supported by the BC Arts Council’s Arts-Based Community Development Program, and the Vancouver Park Board’s Field House Activation Program which provides project space and access to parks to foster community-engaged activity that focuses on: arts, culture, sport, environment, local food and social encounters. To learn more about all the other Fieldhouse studio projects go to https://vancouver.ca/parks-recreation-culture/fieldhouse-programs.aspx | <urn:uuid:429cdb61-355e-4b6a-8ef6-52621fec49b3> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://stillmoonarts.ca/alder-eco-arts-hub/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572021.17/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814083156-20220814113156-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.91434 | 983 | 2.578125 | 3 |
Chris Sidwells looks back at when the world’s best professionals raced on British roads for the very first time.
By 1959 road racing had been part of life in mainland Europe for over 70 years, but in mainland UK it was banned for almost as long. This was the first year it was permitted by cycling’s then governing body, the British Cycling Federation, although it had been going on unofficially for some years. To celebrate this emergence from the shadows, a Frenchman launched an ambitious project to bring the world best to British roads for the first time.
His name was René De Latour, he was a New York-born French journalist and dedicated Anglophile, who chose the Isle of Man for his ambitious project. He knew it well as the one place where bunched road racing had been allowed in the UK, and he took members of his cycling club, the VC Levallois, to compete in an annual race there called the Manx Trophy
That race was for amateurs and based on the island’s famous motor cycle TT course. The first Manx Trophy, run in 1936, was a reincarnation of a much older race called The Push-bike TT, where after a lap of the TT circuit riders turned off the promenade in Douglas and the race finished inside the Palace Ballroom.
Charlie Holland won the first Manx Trophy over one lap. In 1937 the race did two laps of the TT circuit, and by 1951 it had grown to three. By then the race was part for a week of cycling on the island, a week that attracted droves of club riders from all over the UK, so De Latour knew a pro race was guaranteed a good crowd.
He approached the Isle of Man Week organisers, who convinced the Isle of Man Tourist Board that a pro race would bring even more cycling fans to visit and spend, so the Tourist Board came up with extra money to put on a professional event.
It was called the Manx Premier Race and the first edition was held on Wednesday, June 17th 1959 over ten laps of the 10-mile Clypse circuit. De Latour used the European rider’s agents, Daniel Dousset and Roger Piel to sign up five of the biggest stars in cycling, each bringing four team mates. The stars were Fausto Coppi, Louison Bobet, Jacques Anquetil, Raphael Geminiani and Roger Walkowiak. By 1959 they had won seven Tours de France, five Giri d’Italia, two world road titles, and countless classics between them.
The start of the 1959 Manx Premier, Coppi centre, Anquetil in green on left.
The star’s teams were Coppi-Tricofilina, Mercier-BP-Hutchinson, Helyett-Leroux-Fynsec, Rapha-Geminiani and Peugeot-BP-Dunlop, so that was 25 riders in all. The rest of the field of 78 was made up of riders representing British-based professionals, or as they were classed at the time, independents.
One of the Brits was George Shaw, who later managed the early TI-Raleigh team. I knew him quite well, he was Tom Simpson’s best friend, and this is what Shaw told me about the day he raced against Coppi, Anquetil, Bobet and the rest. “The first thing to remember is that all the British-based riders had to take the day off work to do the race. We were classed as professionals, but all that meant was we could officially take cash. Basically all we got was expenses to get to the island and a chance of a cash prize if you were going well.
“We did what we could in those days. My training was crammed between full-time work and night school. We raced as hard, but basically what happened in the Manx Premier was that the British riders did the first half of the race, and then the continentals showed us how to go on for the rest of it. I don’t know how many British finished, but it can’t have been many. But we’d all raced against Fausto Coppi, and that was the main thing.”
Shay Elliott won the first Manx Premier from Jo De Haan of Holland, with Brian Robinson in third. André Darrigade, who would win the world title in Holland later that year, made the big attack that saw the Europeans draw clear. The fans loved it, and nobody who was there ever forgot the Coppi Race. Suddenly the Manx Premier was a regular part of the European pro calendar.
The same Euro-pro versus Brits structure was kept, as an Isle of Man week regular as an amateur and a pro, Barry Hoban remembers; “Rene De Latour used to get all the European pros to meet at Le Bourget airport just outside Paris, where he set up a charter flight to the Isle of Man, so they could get in and out quickly,” he says.
Hoban rode the Manx Premier for the first time as a new pro in 1964, and he was third to the first double winner, Shay Elliott. Darrigade won the second Manx Premier, wearing the rainbow jersey in 1960, Jo De Roo won in 1961 and Rudi Altig in 1962. Alan Ramsbottom, one of a growing band of young British pros in European teams by then was third, equalling Brian Robinson’s best Brit finish of 1959. Surely it was time for a British winner.
Tom Simpson was an amateur racing in Brittany when the first Manx Premier was on. George Shaw remembered Simpson being disappointed he couldn’t race against his childhood hero, Fausto Coppi. “Tom always wrote lots of letters and cards to us, and in one of them he mentioned how he’d wished he’d been there, although he was still technically an amateur then.
“Tom turned pro at the end of 1959 and finished fourth in the worlds to Darrigade, but he didn’t ride the Isle of Man race in 1960 either, even though he was down to do it. That was because there was still national service back then, and Tom had been deferred while he did his draughtsman apprenticeship. Theoretically he still had to do it, even though he’d turned pro, and the authorities were after him by 1960. They found out he was contracted to race in the Isle of Man and they had military police waiting for him at the airport. Luckily Tom got a tip-off and didn’t get on the plane in Paris.”
The question of Simpson’s military service was quickly sorted out, and by June 1963 he’d won the Tour of Flanders, led the Tour de France and finished 6th overall, and taken a string of classics podiums. When he took part in the 1963 Manx Premier he was world number one, leading the season’s rankings, or the Super Prestige Pernod competition as it was called.
The race was hit by gale force winds and torrential rain, which quickly lashed most of the riders into submission, including the legendary Rik Van Looy, who stopped after 60 miles. Simpson, though, was inspired. He attacked from the start, pushing ahead with various groups until he formed a group of four, which he left with one mile to go and won. Only 16 riders finished out 70 starters.
Simpson won the 365-miles all-in-a-day Bordeaux-Paris classic a couple of weeks before the Manx Premier, but in an interview with Cycling Weekly’s predecessor magazine, Cycling he said that the Manx Premier was harder.
Start of 1963 Manx Premier, with Tom Simpson in Peugeot BP jersey front and centre, Rik Van Looy on Tom's left in blue. 2042
Simpson’s 1963 victory was an epic in the Manx Premier’s short history, but the best celebrity one-two was in 1965, when five-time Tour de France winner Jacques Anquetil narrowly beat a new pro called Eddy Merckx.
Tom Simpson returned to the island in 1967, when he became the second rider after Elliott to win the Manx Premier twice. It was also his last road race victory and his last visit to Britain. It was stormy on the island again, but Simpson was on top form because he’d built his year around the Tour de France, which started a few days later. The race was 80 miles and on a shorter circuit, and Simpson attacked at half way taking a small group with him. The field split up behind, so after going alone with 20 miles to go Simpson began lapping some of the back markers. He won by over three minutes from the 1966 Tour de France winner, Lucien Aimar.
Simpson died just over two weeks later in the Tour de France, and one of the three survivors from the British team, Arthur Metcalfe won the 1968 Manx Premier. Jan Harings of Holland won in 1969. By then fewer European pros rode the race, and when Barry Hoban brought the curtain down on the Manx Premier in 1970, the field was almost all British-based riders.
And that was the last Manx Premier race. The first British race the world’s best took part in. Since then the Tour de France has been here, there have been several big UK pro races, but there is still the need for a UK classic. That’s what British bike racing needs next.
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Researchers analyzed the dreams of people and identified which areas of the brain were activated when they experienced fear in their dreams. They found that once the individuals woke up, the brain areas responsible for controlling emotions responded to fear-inducing situations much more effectively.
Can your fears show up in your dreams?
You might feel panicked or nervous during the dream, but these emotions might also linger after you wake up, and your general unease might persist throughout the day. … Some general causes of nightmares and anxiety dreams include: fear or stress.
What does dreaming about your fears mean?
“Fear dreams have to do with something that frightens you and needs to be fixed,” she says. … Really scary dreams try to grab your attention and say, ‘Something in your waking life or behavior is threatening your well-being or the well-being of people you love, and it behooves you to recognize it. ‘”
Are dreams subconscious fears?
You can’t reach someone on an emotional level, or feel that something in your body is not working properly.” While fear-based dreams are certainly unpleasant, they’re actually your subconscious mind’s way of trying to alert you of problems in your life that you need to address.
What is the fear of dreaming called?
Oneirophobia. Specialty. Psychology. Oneirophobia (from Greek όνειρο (oneiro), meaning “dream”, and φόβος (phobos), meaning “fear”) is the fear of dreams.
How do I stop having fear of dreams?
Turn your alarm clock around and don’t pick up your phone. Try to relax your body: Use a relaxation strategy that helped prior to bed to relax your body and mind. Get out of bed: If you can’t fall back to sleep after a stressful dream, then try getting out of bed to help decrease the frustration.
Do dreams show your true feelings?
Yes, dreams have meaning. Dreams come from deep within your psyche (unconscious mind, or, as some might say, “deeper self”). Early on psychologists recognized that what people dream is related to what’s going on in their lives, that dreams hold our unconscious ideas, beliefs, and feelings.
What is Dream anxiety disorder?
Nightmare disorder, also known as dream anxiety disorder, is a sleep disorder characterized by frequent nightmares. The nightmares, which often portray the individual in a situation that jeopardizes their life or personal safety, usually occur during the REM stages of sleep.
Do dreams reveal your desires?
Your dreams might influence your final choice, suggests new research. Scientists disagree as to what extent dreams reflect subconscious desires, but new research reported in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology (Vol. 96, No. 2) concludes that dreams do influence people’s decisions and attitudes.
Do dreams reflect your thoughts?
In large-scale studies on the content of dreams, Domhoff has found that dreams reflect the thoughts and concerns of a dreamer’s waking life. … 5 Dream content, he suggests, results from these cognitive processes.
Why do our brains make scary dreams?
“Night terrors are a phenomenon of the deepest parts of non-REM sleep, when the brain is less active,” says Barrett. … Nightmares can arise for a number of reasons—stress, anxiety, irregular sleep, medications, mental health disorders—but perhaps the most studied cause is post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
Can you feel pain in dreams?
The results indicate that although pain is rare in dreams, it is nevertheless compatible with the representational code of dreaming. Further, the association of pain with dream content may implicate brainstem and limbic centers in the regulation of painful stimuli during REM sleep.
Are nightmares real?
A nightmare is a bad dream. Almost everyone gets them once in a while — adults and kids. It can may make you feel scared, anxious, or upset. But nightmares are not real and can’t harm you.
Why is sleeping scary?
Experiencing trauma or post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), which can both contribute to nightmares, can also cause a fear of sleep. You might also fear things that could happen while you’re sleeping, such as a burglary, fire, or other disaster. Somniphobia has also been linked to a fear of dying. | <urn:uuid:93a5f6ca-1c28-4956-ae28-db1141f64e45> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://astrologersachinshastri.com/dream-interpretation/do-dreams-reveal-fears.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570921.9/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809094531-20220809124531-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.935748 | 933 | 2.1875 | 2 |
- What is the first reason that Paul gives to show that God has
not rejected His people?
- What part of Israel is chosen by grace?
- If God's choosing is based on grace, what is it not based on?
- What is one reason relating to the Jews that Paul gives as to
why salvation has come to the Gentiles?
- What would acceptance of Christ by the Jews mean?
- Why were the branches of Israel broken off?
- What two aspects of God in His actions? What condition is the good aspect based on?
- To what two kinds of trees does Paul compare Jews and Gentiles?
- For how long has a hardening come upon a part of Israel?
- What two things are irrevocable?
- Why has God consigned all men to disobedience?
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The National Hockey Association (NHA), was a professional ice hockey organization with teams in Ontario and Quebec, Canada. It is the direct predecessor to today's National Hockey League (NHL). Founded in 1909 by Ambrose O'Brien, the NHA introduced 'six-man hockey' by removing the 'rover' position in 1911.
During its lifetime, the league coped with competition for players with the rival Pacific Coast Hockey Association (PCHA), the enlistment of players for World War I and disagreements between owners. The disagreements between owners came to a head in 1917, when the NHA suspended operations in order to get rid of an unwanted owner (Eddie Livingstone). The remaining NHA team owners started the NHL in parallel as a temporary measure, to continue play while negotiations went on with Livingstone and other lawsuits were pending. A year later, the other NHA owners decided to permanently suspend the NHA. The NHA's rules, constitution and trophies were continued in the NHL. | <urn:uuid:bf1942a6-91ab-424a-874f-f17b0a6d5aae> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.retroseasons.com/leagues/nha/history/seasons/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571536.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811224716-20220812014716-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.977054 | 204 | 2.8125 | 3 |
Last July, the UAE sent 500,000 doses of the COVID-19 vaccine to Tunisia….reports Asian Lite News
The UAE dispatched two cargo planes, which arrived in Tunisia on Wednesday, carrying 47 metric tonnes of medical supplies, including a number of respirators and oxygen cylinders, in support of Tunisia’s drive to contain the COVID-19 pandemic.
Rashid Mohammed Al Mansouri, UAE Ambassador to Tunisia, said that the UAE is closely monitoring the health situation in Tunisia, noting that this step is a continuation of the UAE’s efforts to provide support to Tunisia to aid in its fight against the COVID-19 pandemic.
He added that this initiative is the fruit of ongoing communication between His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme Commander of the UAE Armed Forces, and Kais Saied, President of Tunisia, noting that the UAE will continue to monitor worldwide health developments to advance its efforts to support other nations.
Last July, the UAE sent 500,000 doses of the COVID-19 vaccine to Tunisia, and in November 2020, it sent approximately 11 metric tonnes of medical supplies and equipment at a time when the worldwide number of COVID-related cases was rapidly rising due to a lack of medical supplies around the world.
To date, the UAE has provided over 2,200 metric tonnes of medical supplies to more than 135 countries, demonstrating once again its solidarity with other nations in line with the UAE leadership’s vision. | <urn:uuid:1d083378-d539-45ee-8300-4745f848ddee> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://asianlite.com/2021/top-news/uae-sends-medical-supplies-to-tunisia/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571536.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811224716-20220812014716-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.940973 | 311 | 1.6875 | 2 |
El Encanto Valley
Located 19 km west of Ovalle, this is a very important valley, due to the petroglyphs, pictographs, and tacit stones that are found here.
It is a huge amphitheater, 5km across, that was a religious sanctuary at one time and that, nowadays, has been converted into an open-air museum of cultural and scientific interest.
Archeological excavations have been carried out in the valley, which have shown that groups of hunters were living in this area nearly 4,000 years ago. The valley was discovered in 1946 and declared a National Monument in 1973.
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Hey Guys!!!!! Do you really think that you know the basics about JVM??
So, your answer would be either ‘YES’ or ‘NO’… No worries let’s try to figure it out also remember I am not going to discuss the entire information about JVM but let’s give a START.
Most people think that they know about Java Fundamentals including myself. Hey, guys please don’t be angry about me note that I am not talking about everyone but of course about a few or more people. When we talk about Java fundamentals, we can’t forget about JVM, JRE and JDK. So here I mainly take you guys through a bit about JVM.
Let’s take look at the below conversation which is a small part of the JAVA Software Engineer interview session.
“Interviewer: …. Hey, so let me take you through some of JAVA fundamentals. Can you explain to me what is JVM?
Interviewee: JVM standard for Java Virtual Machine and it executes java byte codes further it converts compiled bytecode into machine code.”
I am not trying to say each and everyone would come up with an above answer but a few or more use the above answer when someone asked about JVM also I’m not trying to tell that the above answer is completely wrong but of course above answer is not fair. Here I used a term called ‘fair’ instead of wrong. Now, let’s see why I used ‘fair’. Assume someone comes and asks you to explain about your mother so what if you just tell, she is the one who prepares your meal every day so now you might feel ‘Okay this is somewhat true. Yes of course this is somewhat true but this is not a fair answer why because out of 1000 + tasks, preparing your meal is just one task that your mother does for you. If you give such an answer this is not really fair RIGHT??
As similarly, the above answer regarding JVM is just one point that you trying to show.
Ooopsss!!! I forgot to tell you. When someone answers the above mentioned JVM question, a few or more people sometimes tell that it is inside the JRE. So, guys what do you think is that really TRUE??? Let’s see. Now let me put full stop storytelling session and walk you guys through to the real flow.
JVM these three letters standard for Java Virtual Machine so the name itself tells that it is a virtual machine. Now some of you might think what does it really mean. It means this is a machine that does not exist in the reality or is not available physically further you cannot go and touch or find this machine in the real environment/ in your computer. Do you ever try to download and install this so-called JVM on your computer? Obviously, the answer would be NO because this JVM is nothing that exists physically or entity-wise.
Let’s go a little bit more with virtual machines then you can easy to find what is JVM.
I hope now you have somewhat an idea about what is a virtual machine. There are two types of virtual machines which are System based Virtual Machines (SVM) and Application based Virtual Machines (AVM).
· SVM — This type of virtual machine is used one or more hardware and it creates multi environments which are totally independent from each other.
Examples: Hypervisor, XEN
· AVM — This type of virtual machine has not involved any type of hardware instead it may have software to create a platform to run the programs. Since these types of virtual machines are applications, we can consider this as a process so we can call this a Process based Virtual Machine as well.
Examples: JVM, CRL (Common Runtime Language)Now back JVM
Now back to JVM
So JVM is a virtual machine that does not exist in reality and fallen under Application or Process based virtual machine and this JVM is completely a specification that tells what needs to be done in order to run a java program also you need to remember when the time you install JRE (Java Runtime Environment) which is an implementation which illustrates how the things need to be done, it deploys all the code which required to create JVM. When the time we start running our Java program, it will create a JVM instance, in another word if you are not executing any program on your computer at that time remember you don’t have any JVM instance on your computer. Assume now you are running a ’n’ number of different java programs, at that time there are ’n’ number of JVM instances are available on your computer. So, the point to remember is that JVM is not static or constant on the computer. Now we are aware of at what time this JVM instance gets created and let’s see how this JVM instance gets destroyed. We have two ways of destroying this JVM instance. First, in java, we have daemon and non-daemon threads. When a java program started it creates a JVM instance and that JVM instance creates a non-daemon thread. When the time the last non-daemon thread gets dies, at that time JVM also gets destroyed. Second, the program itself has to call the system exit() method.
JVM is platform-dependent because the JVM instance takes care of reading class files and converting that into machine language which is your operating system understands.
JVM topic is kind of huge range topic so there are many things that you need to aware of JVM but above I have discussed simple and very basic points about JVM and hope to cover some more points in JVM in upcoming stories.
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The Food and Business Knowledge Platform covered the release of the study by the Access to Seeds Foundation focused on improving access to seeds by smallholder farmers. This study was done in preparation of the Regional Access to Seeds Index for Eastern Africa.
The report (PDF) provides baseline information on the East African regional seed sector detailing both regional and country specific scenarios. The research is based on existing literature and interviews with regional and national seed sector actors. Twelve countries are included: Burundi, Ethiopia, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, Rwanda, South Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe.
The report covers seed sector profiles of each country and shows that they are at different stages of agricultural development. Results indicate that the countries are heavily dependent on agriculture while smallholders contribute the bulk of the production. The formal seed sector is not well developed and therefore the majority of farmers still depend on informal sources. The data is covering the diverse industry players, the major food crops, the prevailing business environment, the agricultural growth potential and the challenges being faced by farmers. | <urn:uuid:c7b47eee-f1b4-4a9a-8108-91219b2a1685> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.accesstoseeds.org/preliminary-report-regional-access-to-seeds-index-for-eastern-africa/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570921.9/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809094531-20220809124531-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.906791 | 216 | 2.8125 | 3 |
America Must Prepare for a War Over Taiwan
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Benedikte Vahl, a retired schoolteacher, has just one hope for Narsaq, her hometown of colorful wooden houses on a fjord in southern Greenland: that a mine will open soon in nearby Kuannersuit, bringing badly needed jobs and investment. Times are so tough that, over the past five years, more than 600 of her neighbors have left an already small municipality of 7,000. Mining might be the last hope. “I see no other solution,” Vahl says.
Kuannersuit has long been of interest to geologists. It is filled with pretty stones such as the pink tugtupite (“reindeer blood” in Greenlandic) and is home to more than 200 rare minerals, 15 of which cannot be found anywhere else in the world. But these days, all eyes are on the region’s so-called rare earth elements -- raw materials essential to technology products such as cell phones, wind turbines, and hybrid cars. For years, China has held a near monopoly on the global supply, controlling an 85 percent share. (That figure is down from a high of 95 percent a year ago, thanks to U.S. and Australian efforts to start mining their own rare earths.) Kuannersuit contains as much as 10 million tons of such metals and could potentially produce 40,000 tons a year. In total, Greenland could potentially produce upward of 20 to 25 percent of the world's supply.
Global power brokers once dismissed Greenland as a white blot on the world map. No longer: Investors from Australia to Canada to China are flocking to the island in the next great contest for mineral riches. And there aren’t many people to stand in their way. Greenland is one of the least densely populated parts of the planet. Its 57,000 inhabitants -- 90 percent are indigenous Greenlandic Inuit -- live scattered across an ice-covered expanse roughly a third the size of Australia.
Although Greenlanders won the right to govern their own domestic affairs in 2009, they have yet to realize their aspirations for full independence. Denmark still provides for Greenland’s defense, and the state church and monarchy have retained their official roles. But the greatest source of dependence has always been economic: Greenland still uses the Danish kroner as its currency, and it relies on Danish markets to absorb over 60 percent of its exports and provide almost 65 percent of its imports. To achieve full independence, in other words, Greenland must find new trading partners and have something to trade. Greenland lacks the infrastructure, population, and educational system to otherwise develop its economy; natural resources offer the best chance of progress.
Historically, though, three barriers have stood in the way of large-scale mining. First, until recently, a thick ice sheet covered the mineral-rich areas of the north. Second, until 2009, the Kingdom of Denmark, which opposed mining for uranium, exercised near-total control over Greenland’s affairs. Third, a long-standing ban on mining uranium effectively prevented any kind of rare earths extraction in places like Kuannersuit, where lucrative rare earths are tied up with plentiful uranium deposits.
But now the ice is melting and Greenland governs itself. The laws are changing as well. In elections here last March, the ban was the dominant campaign issue. The social democratic Siumut (Forward) Party won 43 percent of the vote on promises to lift the ban and negotiate large royalties from international mining companies. This week, Prime Minister Aleqa Hammond took a crucial first step in making good on that promise, overturning the law in parliament with a single 15–14 vote. Her government has also signed a 30-year licensing agreement with London Mining to extract iron ore -- the largest project of its kind in Greenland’s history.
The victory did not come easily. On the eve of the vote, Hammond’s government had to sack one of its two coalition partners, the leftist nationalist Partii Inuit (People’s Party), because it wouldn’t support the repeal. With Hammond triumphant, Benedikte Vahl may finally see her hopes for a mine in Kuannersuit realized.
What hasn’t changed in recent years is the fact that mining around radioactive material poses serious risks, both to Greenland’s environment and to international security. And Greenland’s opposition party, Inuit Ataqatigiit (Community for the People), has channeled many Greenlanders’ fears and hesitations, particularly through its citizens’ meetings in Nuuk. With only 16,000 inhabitants, Greenland’s capital isn’t exactly Copenhagen or Washington, but by Greenland standards, Nuuk is the rare Arctic metropolis. At the foot of the Sermitsiaq mountain, a 12-story apartment complex and a new shopping mall sit side by side with brightly colored wooden houses from the eighteenth century. Copenhagen sends its public transportation buses to retire here, where 4,000 cars share 60 miles of paved road. Not everyone appears to be ready for the radical changes that mining would bring.
At a recent citizens’ meeting, held in a wooden hall filled with murals depicting Greenlandic landscapes, tensions were high. Relieved of heavy winter jackets, hats, scarves, and mittens, the participants sipped one-dollar coffee and nibbled on homemade cake. In between their emotional speeches in passionate Greenlandic, with simultaneous interpretation for Danish speakers, the moderator had to remind those assembled to remain calm and respectful. No one seemed to be against mining to strengthen the economy, but many worried about the prospects of mining uranium. Almost everyone asked for more time before repealing the country’s zero tolerance policy. And the party suggested that the public should have a chance to decide on the issue by popular referendum.
As it stands, uranium is only a byproduct of the rare earths mining. But it could become the main product if the economics worked out. No one knows exactly how much uranium Greenland has, but estimates suggest that Kuannersuit could contain some 575 million pounds of it. The most bullish analysts predict that Greenland could become the world’s fifth-largest uranium exporter, with the potential to bring in revenues of $20 billion a year.
But if uranium isn’t mined carefully, it can poison land and water for generations. The Chinese government, for example, has reportedly begun spending billions of dollars to repair the environmental damage of nearly two decades of unregulated rare earth mining and refining; runoff has destroyed rice fields and streams, cancer rates have skyrocketed, entire villages have had to be resettled, and a toxic soup of chemicals and radioactive waste is slowly seeping toward the Yellow River. In fact, one of the main reasons China has been able to dominate the rare earths market has been its disregard for environmentally devastating extraction processes. More than any other mineral, uranium brings to the fore highly charged emotions, reviving Cold War–era fears about nuclear disasters or the more recent memory of the 2011 Fukushima disaster.
Uranium extraction also has real security implications. Although Greenland has the power to control its own underground resources, Denmark has retained responsibility for the country’s foreign policy, security, and defense. Since uranium can be used for nuclear weapons, Danish Secretary of State Villy Søvndal has made clear that Denmark will participate in all Greenlandic dealings with uranium. Still, although the European Union has strict laws on mining for uranium, Greenland -- unlike Denmark -- isn’t part of the EU. Creating a legal framework for exporting uranium from Greenland will still require a lot of lawyers, says Cindy Vestergaard, a Danish expert on uranium policies. She estimates that such a framework would require five to ten years of planning. Yet it could be done; there is no reason that Greenland couldn’t live up to the standards set by uranium-exporting neighbors such as Canada, Norway, and Sweden. So far, firms interested in bidding on mining contracts have not raised any concerns about Danish oversight, which will be crucial to upholding high safety standards.
Outside Greenland, many countries are wary of the closer ties to China that mining would bring. Last summer, Chinese President Hu Jintao was the first Chinese head of state to grace Denmark with a visit, one that lasted three days. China is interested not only in Greenland’s resources but also in its strategic position in the Arctic. This summer, it became an observer state on the Arctic Council. China’s Sichuan Xinye Mining Investment Company has already partnered with London Mining to mine Greenland’s iron ore, providing labor and capital for the Isua iron mine near Nuuk. The project could bring $5.9 billion to Greenland over the next 15 years.
Chinese investment -- and Chinese markets -- will be critical to Greenland’s future as a mining nation, but financial dependency on China brings other concerns. China has a history of unregulated nuclear power production -- only three of its 17 nuclear facilities are under IAEA safeguards -- and is known for horrible conditions for mining workers, especially in Africa. In 2010, for example, Human Rights Watch reported on Zambian copper mines where workers worked 12–18 hour shifts, 365 days a year, in fume-filled tunnels without access to clean drinking water or safety equipment. And a recent U.S. State Department report detailed how the China Henan International Cooperation Group in Mozambique had Mozambican workers wearing badges that read “escravo” -- “slave” in Portugese.
DIGGING FOR GIGAWATTS
Despite such concerns, fundamental economic needs are likely to propel Greenland's mining projects forward. Fish constitute 90 percent of Greenland’s exports, and the economy depends heavily on an annual $600 million grant from Denmark. Roderick McIllree, a managing director of Greenland Minerals and Energy Ltd., estimates that mining could raise the country’s present-day GDP of $2 billion by as much as 25 percent. His company has already invested $110 million in Kuannersuit. He is happy to pay royalties and expects to produce revenues for Greenland 50–100 years into the future.
For all the risk and the work to be done, Greenlanders still hope that McIllree and others like him can deliver on their promises. But that might be a long shot. The country needs to find more investors to back the implementation of large-scale mining, and London Mining alone requires another $2.5 billion in financing before it can even break ground.
Even if Greenland manages to build the capacity for large-scale mining, there is no certainty that demand for rare earths won’t slump. Some argue that China’s near-monopoly on chemical elements has forced others to focus on recycling rare earth elements and on researching alternatives, which might ultimately cause the market to disappear. Others compare rare earths to aluminum, reasoning that if a steady supply can be guaranteed over several decades, the price of the elements themselves will fall.
Uranium prices also depend on an uncertain market; many countries, including Germany, are working to wean themselves off of nuclear power. There are, of course, more than 400 nuclear reactors in the world; most of them were built in the 1960s and 1970s and will soon need more uranium to continue energy production. For its part, China has already begun construction on 30 reactors, and plans to build 50 more in the coming years. That would translate into a fourfold increase in nuclear capacity -- to at least 58 gigawatts of electricity by 2020, 200 by 2030, and 400 by 2050. It would be tempting for Greenland Minerals and Energy to dig out as much uranium from Kuannersuit as possible, as quickly as it could, to feed Chinese demand. On the other hand, such a flood of supply could easily cause prices to crash.
For the immediate future, at least, politics could still stand in the way of mining projects before they can break ground. Greenland is small enough to be drawn by big dreams into potentially risky schemes, but also to be redirected by a vocal opposition. On a recent afternoon in Nuuk, a crowd of more than 100 took to the streets of the capital with chants of “Naamik uran” -- Greenlandic for “No uranium.” Many wore white hazmat suits over their puffy winter clothes, carrying signs with slogans like “No More Fukushima.” Considering the weather -- freezing, stormy -- and the city’s population -- only 16,000 -- the turnout was impressive. The crowd caused enough of a stir that, after walking through the town to the parliament, it was greeted by a number of politicians, including Prime Minister Hammond. Titsiaat Johansen, 28, a tall Inuit with a tattooed face and broad cheekbones, said that he knew uranium was a necessary part of rare earths mining, but didn’t think the risks were worth taking. “I know that nuclear provides energy to a society,” Johansen said. “But it can also ruin a society.” | <urn:uuid:a4ada9b4-7398-4295-a9fa-160db88d640a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/north-america/2013-10-28/greenlands-rare-earths-gold-rush | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571536.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811224716-20220812014716-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.953945 | 2,725 | 2.671875 | 3 |
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New York, July 5 07, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Reportlinker.com announces the publication of the report “Aircraft Interface Device Market Forecast to 2028 – COVID-19 Impact and Global Analysis By Platform, Connectivity, Fit Type, and Aircraft Type” – https://www. reportlinker.com/p06289879/?utm_source=GNW
Airlines in both developed and developing countries are ordering a large number of aircraft to meet the ever-increasing demand for air travel.
Due to the continuous growth in the disposable income of the world’s population, the need for air transport is also increasing rapidly. Commercial air traffic is expected to maintain a steady growth rate, despite various challenges, such as rising aviation fuel costs and technical failures causing accidents.
These factors are propelling the growth of the aircraft interface devices market.
According to the International Air Transport Association (IATA), the global number of commercial aviation passengers in 2020 was 1.8 billion, which is expected to reach 7.8 billion by 2036. According to the market production report Boeing’s commercial hub, Asia-Pacific is expected to be the most revenue-generating region, contributing 33% to global passenger numbers in 2019, and it is expected to contribute up to 41% by 2040. , the aviation industry is adopting advanced information technologies, which are expected to transform the industry’s decision-making capability and make new implementations faster than ever before. Analysis of Aircraft Interface Devices through the European Federation of Biotechnology (EFB) uses thousands of distinct software algorithms to process radar data and raw flight plans from the air traffic control system (ATC) ATC. With regard to these benefits, the market for aircraft interface devices is growing due to increased awareness of them.
The shift to machine learning and the increasing use of artificial intelligence to leverage big data should provide aircraft interface devices with technology to improve their predictive analytics capabilities. With these capabilities, manufacturers are improving the usability of the cockpit EFB and replacing paper charts. with computer screens and tablets in the cockpits.
The demand for advanced technologies is driving the airline industry and demands greater integration of these techniques to achieve a smarter cockpit. The smarter cockpit helps provide better communication with ground support personnel, including maintenance and dispatch personnel, to make better decisions associated with flight performance and weather. avoidance for efficient operations and improved energy efficiency.
These factors are further contributing to the growth of the aircraft interface devices market.
Impact of COVID-19 on the Aircraft Interface Devices Market
North America is one of the regions hardest hit by the COVID-19 pandemic. There has been a disruption in the supply chains of many industries due to restrictions on logistics operations and the closure of manufacturing facilities.
The outbreak in the region has hampered the performance of the aircraft interface devices market. North America outperformed the rest of the world from 2012 to 2019, with its airlines making a total profit of US$44 billion.
However, the pandemic has not spared the aviation sector in the country as it suffered a financial loss of US$63 billion in 2020. The North American aviation industry, especially the United States, was already experiencing severe challenges caused by the B737 Max issue, which was exacerbated by the massive emergence of COVID-19.
The coupled result of the two problems is a drop in demand, supply disruptions, financial strains and labor difficulties. This, in turn, has negatively impacted the aircraft interface device market in North America.
With over ~20,000 flights per day and ~600 million passengers traveling each year, Europe is recognized as having the busiest airspace in the world. devices.
The demand for new modern aircraft in commercial and military aircraft module is driving the aircraft interface devices market in the region. Economic stability in the region is helping airliners and defense forces procure more aircraft to meet airlift demand and bolster armed forces.
Similarly, the military sector has also increased its purchases of military aircraft over the years. The trend is expected to continue over the years, which will strengthen the market for aeronautical interface devices.
According to data published by IATA, European airlines carried around 389.9 million passengers in 2020. These factors influence the increase in manufacturing of aircraft and aircraft components. For example, Germany has announced plans to purchase six Lockheed Martin C-130J Hercules aircraft in 2018. Germany and France are also looking to build a joint manufacturing plant for C-130J Hercules aircraft to provide power additional to their air forces, keeping costs within limits. . These investments contribute to the growth of the aircraft interface devices market. Similarly, new facilities for aircraft development are being built by manufacturers across the region. For example, in May 2020, Boeing opened its first European manufacturing site in the UK. All these factors are contributing to the growth of the aircraft interface devices market in Europe.
Key players operating in the global aircraft interface devices market profiled in this market study include Thales Group; Honeywell International, Inc.; AMETEK; Boeing; and Collins Aerospace.
The overall Aircraft Interface Devices market size has been derived using primary and secondary sources.
The process also serves to obtain an overview and forecast of the Aircraft Interface Devices market size with respect to all market segments. Additionally, several primary interviews were conducted with participants and industry commentators to validate the data and obtain more analytical information on the subject.
Participants typically involved in this process include industry experts such as vice presidents, business development managers, market intelligence managers, national sales managers, and outside consultants, such as experts in valuation, research analysts and key opinion leaders, specializing in the Aircraft Interface Devices market. .
Read the full report: https://www.reportlinker.com/p06289879/?utm_source=GNW
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I am NOT an epidemiologist, virologist, disease modeler, public health researcher, etc. These visualizations were made for my own curiosity and I thought they would be of general interest. It is possible that my data normalization is overly naive and skewed in some important way.
MD does not report total tests given by zip code and date (they do this at the county level). This means that if tests are doubled, you would expect cases to also double. This also means I cannot report the zip code level percent positive rate.
MD does not report (or I could not find) the methodology for how the zip code level data is recorded. It is possible/probable that cases that cannot be associated with a zip code are dropped. Therefore cases may be missing, which can potentially skew the data.
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By Phil Stewart BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq has for the first time deployed soldiers trained by the U.S.-led coalition in their campaign to retake the city of Ramadi from Islamic State militants, the U.S. military said on Thursday. The disclosure came during an unannounced visit by U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter to Baghdad, where he met Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi and underscored the need for capable Iraqi ground forces to battle back Islamic State. "We’re making some progress. We need to make more," Carter told U.S. troops gathered at Baghdad airport. Islamic State seized Anbar's capital Ramadi two months ago, extending its control over the Euphrates valley west of Baghdad and dealing a major setback to Abadi and the U.S.-backed army he entrusted with its defense. The fall of Ramadi was the Iraqi army's worst defeat since Islamic State militants swept through north Iraq last summer and raised questions about the ability of the Shi'ite-led government in Baghdad to overcome the sectarian divide that has helped fuel the Islamic State's expansion in the Sunni heartland of Anbar. Pentagon spokesman Colonel Steve Warren told reporters traveling with Carter that the roughly 3,000 coalition-trained soldiers joined the Ramadi operation in recent days. Some 500 Sunni tribesmen were also participating, Warren said. He declined to say how many Iraqi forces in total were involved in the Ramadi campaign, citing operational security. U.S. President Barack Obama responded to the fall of Ramadi last month by ordering 450 more U.S. troops to set up at Taqaddum base, which is closer to the fighting in Anbar province and only about 15 miles (25 km) from Ramadi. One of the goals of the new U.S. deployment to Taqaddum was to encourage Sunni tribes to join the battle against Islamic State, complementing efforts at the Ain al-Asad air base, also in Anbar. Carter sought to underscore that objective in Baghdad, holding talks with Sunni leaders including the governor of Anbar province. ENCIRCLING RAMADI The Iraqi forces, backed by U.S.-led coalition air strikes, were in the process of encircling Ramadi to choke off Islamic State supplies and trap their fighters ahead of a push to seize the city, Warren said. Citing Iraqi battlefield reporting, Warren said Iraqi forces had advanced to the area around the University of Anbar in Ramadi, saying they were moving "methodically, deliberately and slowly". The United States estimates there are about 1,000 to 2,000 Islamic State fighters in Ramadi, Warren said. Shi'ite militia commanders, who have led much of the fightback in Iraq against Islamic State over the last 12 months, have said their initial focus is not on Ramadi but the nearby city of Falluja, under insurgent control for more than a year and a half. Warren said the government in Baghdad had indicated the militia would not be involved in Ramadi. "The government of Iraq has indicated that they have no intention of using the Shi’ite militia forces as part of the liberation of Ramadi," Warren said. Abadi, at the end of a 45-minute meeting with Carter, sought to underscore the role of his forces battling Islamic State. "It is Iraq forces that are fighting on the ground and that are liberating remaining territory," he said. (Reporting by Phil Stewart; Editing by William Maclean and Tom Heneghan)
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Building a cross-European framework for climate-smart sustainable agricultural soil management systems
24 countries join forces in the European Joint Programme EJP SOIL. The overall objective is to provide sustainable agricultural soil management solutions that contribute to key societal challenges including climate change and future food supply
We do not always remember the importance of soil, but actually, our lives depend on it. Soil is the habitat and the supplier of nutrients and water for plants and their roots.
Fertile and productive soils are literally the foundation of our existence, as they are the prerequisite for a stable supply of food, fibre, animal feed, timber and other biomasses.
Sustaining soil functions
Soils sustain huge biodiversity and contribute to the provision of a wide range of ecosystem services, and as the largest store of carbon on land, soils are also in the nexus of the global climate challenges. Soils are part of the solution to realising the SDGs.
However, soil is a limited resource, and soil degradation including erosion, loss of soil organic matter, soil contamination and soil sealing are threats to soil functions. Intensified production due to rising global demand for food and biomass will only amplify the challenges.
Through sustainable soil management, it is possible to preserve and even enhance the provision of ecosystem services by soil and biodiversity. Soil management can also be climate smart, contributing to mitigate climate change by carbon storage and to adapt agroecosystems to changing climate.
Climate smart sustainable soil management is the adequate response to these key societal challenges.
Both the European Environmental Action Programme, FAO and other international initiatives are calling for increased knowledge on sustainable soil management and the protection of soils functions.
A European effort for sustainable soil management
On this background, the objectives of the European Joint Programme EJP SOIL are to develop knowledge, tools and an integrated research community to foster climate-smart sustainable agricultural soil management, i.e. agricultural soil management that allows sustainable food production, sustains soil biodiversity, as well as other soil functions that preserves the ecosystem services that the soils deliver.
EJP SOIL comprises 26 partner organisations from 24 countries. Together with the European Commission, the partners have a joint budget (80M€) and forces to create an enabling environment that will enhance the contribution of agricultural soils to key societal challenges, including climate change adaptation and mitigation, sustainable agricultural production, ecosystem services provision and restoration and prevention of land and soil degradation.
Roadmap for sustainable soil management
The implementation of climate smart sustainable soil management differs from region to region, between agricultural practices and obviously between different soil types. As one of its first activities, EJP SOIL will involve European and national stakeholders in identifying knowledge gaps and differences in existing regional and national activities. Stocktaking will establish the baseline of available knowledge and tools in partner countries and help to identify research priorities. This will enable the construction of a roadmap that will functions as a strategic research agenda that allows for strategic decision making in science, policy and implementation issues across Europe.
EJP SOIL will develop harmonized and easily accessible soil information, contributing to international reporting on agricultural soils. The combined efforts will strengthen a multidisciplinary research community working on agricultural soils, integrated in a wider network of stakeholders, and through a collaborative approach, EJP SOIL will support networks creation, initiation of transnational projects and training of PhDs, educational training, dissemination and communication.
Awareness, guidelines and policy advise
EJP SOIL will seek to raise general public awareness and improve understanding of agricultural soil management.
Farmers, landowners, land managers and industry will get access to context-specific guidelines for sustainable soil management practices, technology and tools for carbon level accounting. As part of the roadmap development, stocktaking will look at current models for accounting for soil quality and soil carbon in partner countries. Among other outcomes, this will lead to possibilities for the implementation of agricultural soil management options accounting for the potential effect on soil organic carbon stocks and GHG emissions.
At the policy level, the aim is to identify data gaps and priority needs for new knowledge and enhance evidence-based recommendations for policy-making at European and regional levels.
The EJP SOIL programme has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 652615
EJP SOIL Coordinator: EJP SOIL Coordinator: Claire Chenu INRAE. E-mail address: email@example.com
For more information about EJP SOIL, please visit www.ejpsoil.org and subscribe to the programme newsletter.
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Pharma manufacturers need to adopt Industry 4.0 strategies
Over the past decade, many of the key ideas behind Industry 4.0, a.k.a. smart manufacturing, have been percolating throughout the economy and picking up momentum. The makers of foods, beverages, metals, electronics, and defence products have been taking the lead. In essence, Industry 4.0 replaces the traditional shop floor, characterised by discrete machinery and manual process controls, with a fully-digitised, highly automated, integrated manufacturing environment largely running their production.
At least in principle, a whole series of advantages can flow from making the transition to smart manufacturing. They include increased agility, greater efficiency, and higher quality production – each of which would benefit any industry.
But the $1.25 trillion pharmaceutical industry, for whom product quality means everything, has largely lagged behind. While there are important differences between making a life-saving medication and making a box of cereal for children, there is even more that they have in common.
Supply chain oversight
For example, both typically involve feed lines, granulation, blending, drying, heating, cooling, milling, sorting, compressing, coating, and product packaging – factory operations using machines that require constant monitoring and maintenance. And both need to be FDA compliant. But even more important is that they share a dependence on external supply chains whose raw materials, after processing, become integral to the finished product.
Having a clear picture of a company’s tier one suppliers as well as any second or third tier suppliers throughout their critical ingredients’ chain of custody, can help to identify flaws in those materials before they get baked into the finished product.
In the field of medications, that sort of problem occurred frequently until the late 20th century, as well as in third-world countries where regulations are typically more relaxed. But they can and do happen in the developed world too.
For example, in 2008, the blood thinner Heparin was recalled by the FDA due to contamination of its raw materials imported from China. Nearly 80 people in the United States had died as a result. Between 2012 and 2018, generic versions of an entire class of blood pressure medications were made in huge volumes using contaminated ingredients later found to have caused cancer. And there have been other instances as well, many of them resulting in massive fines and costly settlements. But they don’t have to happen.
Improving visibility along the supply chain is an integral part of the smart manufacturing concept. You can’t manage what you can’t see, and neither can your machinery. But keeping a digital ledger of materials can help to track the movements and the transformations of material procured from suppliers. That ledger can provide insights that lead to improved yields, higher quality, better safety, and consistent compliance by offering data-centric views of material flows throughout the product’s lifecycle.
Achieving digital maturity
Using cloud technologies to integrate internal data with external data sources – which is part of the Industry 4.0 vision – allows for real-time monitoring, prediction, response, and control all along the value chain.
Of course, elements of that capability are already in place at many factories. However, the key difference between what a smart manufacturing facility is capable of and what the earlier generation of plant technologies can do, is that Industry 4.0 involves taking the company’s current computing and communications systems and carrying them a step forward, where they interface with a new generation of autonomous digital devices and software. It does not necessarily involve a wholesale replacement of manufacturing equipment; rather, it focuses on improving how they’re controlled.
That’s not a simple matter; it’s a journey of learning and maturation which typically requires time. While it begins with simple data captured from a manufacturing process, it goes onto to the conversion of that data into information through analysis, and from there to knowledge resulting from the addition of context, sometimes through the use of artificial intelligence, and finally to actionable wisdom that informs the facility’s autonomous systems and cyber-physical machinery to make judgements, decisions, movements, and adaptations without human intervention.
It doesn’t all happen at once, and making that transition requires more than just adding new digital technology. Doing it successfully frequently involves creating new business models, negotiating new workforce arrangements, and mastering new leadership skills. In addition, there’s a risk that the transition can produce what some have called a “hidden factory” – one resulting from an unpredictable mix of old and new technologies which can lead to defective products and late deliveries.
The regulatory burden
Operating in a regulatory framework, as the pharmaceutical industry does, can be a serious challenge to introducing new technologies. As the authors of a thoughtful article in the International Journal of Pharmaceutics point out, the lack of regulatory precedent can lead the industry to retain conventional processes even when new processes, over time, can reduce the overall regulatory burden and increase product quality. Beyond that, there’s the challenge of filing regulatory applications in different countries with different rules and requirements.
However, there’s also some good news. For more than a decade, the FDA has been moving toward increasingly performance-based regulation. That form of regulation is based on measured outcomes rather than prescriptive processes, techniques, or procedures. In many respects, it is a great fit for Industry 4.0 which already uses extensive data and analysis to identify product attributes in the light of acceptance criteria.
Of course, adopting the advanced technologies and supervisory approaches needed to implement Industry 4.0 will not happen overnight. But it brings along with it the potential for higher output, increased safety, enhanced quality, improved cost savings, greater agility, and reduced waste – outcomes which other segments of the economy are now starting to enjoy and which the pharmaceutical industry is positioned to benefit from as well.
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Tame the access challenges that a tunnel project creates.
Access. It’s always the top consideration when you look at options for groundwater control in tunnels and shafts. And those options are determined by how and where you can install dewatering equipment.
What’s more, conventional dewatering systems don’t always work with a combination of horizontal tunnels and vertical shafts. Here are 5 methods that do work, along with detail on what makes each one optimal.
1. Deep wells
Electric submersible pumps lower the groundwater level below your tunnel. The pumps are installed in wells drilled outside the perimeter of the excavation area. This mode of dewatering is a good choice when you need to lower groundwater because of deep excavation.
Deep-well dewatering is less effective in soils with low permeability, which restricts water flow. Many submersible pumps aren’t capable of handling the low rate of flow. In that scenario, dewatering with eductor wells is a better choice.
2. Eductor wells
Tunnels and shafts excavated in sandy or silted areas pose a challenge to dewatering projects. The most efficient way to lower the groundwater level in these conditions is by using an eductor well system, also known as an ejector system.
Water is circulated at high pressure using eductors at the base of each well. This creates a vacuum that promotes drainage. The system works on the venture principle. The wells are drilled outside the excavation area and high-pressure supply pumps at ground level maintain the vacuum. This type of dewatering solution can also help to stabilize the soil in the excavation area.
A wellpoint tunnel and shaft dewatering option only works for excavations up to a depth of 20 feet. Lines of closely-spaced, shallow wells are drilled along the perimeter of the excavation and each wellpoint is connected to a header pipe, to which a wellpoint pump is then attached. These positive displacement pumps can handle both air and water.
The wellpoint dewatering system works in stages. It can control the groundwater level only about 15 to 18 feet below the level of the wellpoint pump heads. If your tunnel excavation is deeper than that, you’ll have to install another ring of wellpoints at a depth equal to that of your first set.
4. Relief wells
Tunnel projects often operate with limited access and space. For example, dewatering techniques may have to be placed in the tunnel itself, while relief wells can be drilled to create an upward pathway for groundwater. As it rises into the wells, it’s removed with sump pumps.
Sump pumps have the ability to handle some solids while they move water. This is helpful for relief well dewatering because the wells are usually filled with sand or gravel to create a permeable path to the area where the sump pump will have access.
5. Tunnel drains
Sump pumps are also used with this system. First, small wells are drilled outward from the tunnel. Groundwater in these areas then flows into the tunnel, where it’s captured by the sump pumps and removed.
Not quite yet. You’ve selected the right dewatering process for your tunnel, and the groundwater is out of your way. But now you’ve got to dispose of it. And if you’ve used sump pumps, this water will need to be treated to remove the solids.
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Bed Bugs are back
At one time thought to be expunged from the United States, the well-known pest referred to as a bed bug of for all the professor types “Cimex Lectularius” is making a big comeback and making its self comfortable in our homes and hotels. Bed bugs or Cimex Lectularius are not just encountered in dirty dingy motels, but in exclusive top of the line hotels, in popular cities like New York City, Chicago, Miami and San Francisco.
Again, bed bugs are referred to by some as Cimex Lectularius or as chinch. They are flat, egg-shaped, and brown to red in color. They don’t have any wings and get to you by crawling on you while you sleep. They don’t bite you, but stick in your flesh with two hollow tubes and draw up your blood. One tube does the sucking while the other pushes in its saliva containing an anesthetic and an anticoagulant in order to numb the area and make the blood flow freely.
How did they get labeled with the title of bed bugs? The number one area where bed bugs conceal themselves is in mattresses. You become a meal for them while you lay in slumber. Favorite feeding times are between three and four in the morning. Other areas you will typically encounter bed bugs are in furniture, in and under carpeting, and around your bed’s frame. They prefer wooden as opposed to metal.
Why is their a bed bug revival? DDT and other expansive scale pesticides were banned in the early 1970s due to potential harm to us and the environment. Nowadays, pesticides on the market are geared toward one specific insect, like termites. Most exterminators are not experienced in bed bug elimination and will not even do bed bug infestations.
Those who travel frequently run a high risk of bringing bed bugs home with them. Hotels in popular vacation cities are also high on the bed bug radar scale. You have people from various parts of the world coming and going constantly. These tourists can be bringing bed bugs with them to the hotel they are staying at or they can take bed bugs home with them if guests infected the room before they arrived at the hotel. Once established in one hotel room, bed bugs can take over the entire hotel infesting every nook and cranny of the building.
There are various ways to get rid of bed bugs. You can hire an exterminator, if they even deal with bed bugs and if you have the money to spend, or you can use natural products specializing in bed bug elimination. Search for products that contain diatomaceous earth and sodium lauryl sulfate on the label just to name a few. These products are considered to be very effective against bed bugs and their infestation.
Be sure to check back from time to time for updated news and articles on bed bugs or Cimex Lectularius. Remember, the faster bed bugs are identified and treated the higher the chances are for a successful eradication.
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Then and Now: Rerouted roads now a retail hub
A mystery needed to be unraveled before property near the intersection of 29th Avenue and Division Street could be developed in the 1980s.
In 1979, the Minnesota Department of Transportation was working on plans to reduce congestion on Minnesota Highway 23 by closing some intersections and upgrading others between 20th and 30th avenues.
The project eliminated part of Roosevelt Road, which came to an end and fed its traffic onto the highway —which in that area also was Division Street. Roosevelt Road met Division at an angle where Division Place Shopping Center now stands.
According to a Feb. 21, 1979, St. Cloud Times report, the Roosevelt-Division intersection would be realigned so that Roosevelt either headed straight into an intersection with 28th Avenue or ended at First Street South, diverting traffic west onto First Street South for one block then right onto 29th Avenue.
The first alternative would free 1.5 acres for development. The second would make about 4.5 acres available.
However, no one knew for certain who owned the chunk of land within the "Y" which would soon be "one of the most valuable pieces of property" on a highly visible street.
It was assumed by many that the state of Minnesota owned it. However, MnDOT wasn't so sure, stating that things were done differently at the turn of the century. The highway department may have simply paid the owner for an easement to build the road there.
If that was the case, the report stated, the owner or the owner's heirs may hold the title.
At that time, St. Cloud City Engineer Sy Knapp had no doubt the title holders would come forward. "I'm assuming that we don't have to worry about us spending time and effort finding out ... because they're going to come to us."
Knapp was right. John and Mirtha Miller and the trustees of the Justin Swiggum estate came forward, and by February 1982, the city of St. Cloud was seeking legal advice in the matter.
The property in question would turn out to be 4.2 acres made available by the second option, and it turned out to be worth more than $1 million.
In a Feb. 9, 1982, Times report, St. Cloud City Attorney Jan Petersen told the City Council that the Millers owned the north and east portions of the property, and the estate of Justin Swiggum owned the south and west section.
However, Mayor Sam Huston had doubts, questioning the language of the warranty deed signed when the Millers bought 2.09 acres and Al Miller bought 1.66 acres from the city in the early 1940s.
Al Miller sold his land to the Swiggums in 1950.
Later, council member Phil Lynch would say it would be ludicrous to give away $1 million if the city had a legitimate interest.
The city filed a lawsuit to establish ownership in May 1982.
A settlement wouldn't be reached between the three parties until fall 1986.
Source: Times archives, Stearns History Museum.
The development of 29th Avenue and Division Street
Here are some of the businesses that have occupied the corners near this historic intersection:
• Simonson's Gas Station, 1950-1991.
An attached restaurant was the site of Matt's Hamburger Inn, George's Cafe, Division Cafe, and Rick's Cafe.
• Coca-Cola Bottling Co., 1947-1962.
• Fleet Tractor Sales, 1964.
• Big Bear, 1965-1996. Big Bear bought the Holes-Webway plant next door at 2715 Division in 1969. The building provided extra warehouse space and offices for its headquarters.
• CT Farm & Country, 1996-2001.
• Division Place Shopping Center, 2003-present.
• Miller Motor Co., 1940-1959.
• Miller Shopping Center, 1961-1986. SuperValu grocery was the anchor of the strip mall that on its opening day included H & D Drug Store, S & Q Hardware Store, Maurie's Liquor Store, Ben Franklin Variety Story, Lucille Heinen's Beauty Salon, and Zimmerman's V Department Store. Other stores that have made Miller Shopping Center its home include Godfather's Pizza, Baker's Craft and Hobby, and St. Cloud Hardware.
• Division Place Fashion, 1987-present. The main eatery has been a Pannekoeken Huis Restaurant and Baker's Square. Other popular businesses in the mall included Godfather's Pizza, Floral Arts, The Dugout, Pier I Imports, Bursch Travel Agency, and Baker's Craft and Hobby.
• Uncle Henry's Tavern, 1940-47.
• Al Miller Inn, 1947.
• Fred May B. Inn (gas station), 1948.
• Swiggum's Motel & Cafe, 1950-1974. Swiggum's Just-Jump, a trampoline center, opened in 1960.
• Crosstown Motel & Restaurant, 1974-1989.
• Division Place Fashion II, 1990-present. Some well-known stores in this mall expansion included Minnesota Fabrics, Schepers Jewelers, Jerry's Menswear, Helga's Hallmark and Subway.
Source: Times archives, Stearns History Museum.
Here are the businesses that currently occupy the four corners at 29th Avenue and Division Street:
Gilleland Chevrolet & Cadillac
Division Place Shopping Center
• Foxy Nails
• $5 Pizza
• L.L. Smith Jewelers
• evelieblu collections
• Panera Bread
Division Place Fashion I
• Starbucks Coffee
• T.J. Maxx
• Famous Footwear
• Midwest Vision Center
• Magic Nail
• Star of India
• H & R Block
• Great Clips
• Weight Watchers
• Clothes Mentor
• Dollar Tree
• Mestads Bridal & Tuxes
• Massage Envy Spa
Division Place Fashion II
• Red Lobster
• Radio Shack
• Plato's Closet
• Computer Renaissance
• Home Choice
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Imagine coming home to your favorite lavender scent. The lights in your living room turn at just the right brightness and with the shade of your preferred color. The pets have been fed through automatic feeders you control remotely. In the kitchen, dinner started cooking 30 minutes before you arrived, and is now ready. All that’s left for you to do is relax.
That is the promise of the intelligent home designed to meet individual needs and give homeowners the most comfortable living experience possible. Moreover, it offers more than mere comfort. Automated security systems protect the house from calamities and intruders as well.
All these advantages are possible through a network of Internet of Things (IoT) applications, which provide the technological foundation for intelligent homes. Meanwhile, architecture and design ensure that the resulting applications are ergonomic. As a result, this combination of technology and design produces the functionality you’d come to expect from an intelligent home. Programmable lighting, advanced security features, automated temperature control, intelligent appliances, and integrated communication systems are just a few examples of these features.
Very impressive, indeed. And yet, there are deeper issues that need to be addressed before we can really feel at home with the idea.
- Intelligent Home: Challenges
- Intelligent Home Applications
- Intelligent vs. Smart Home: Is There a Difference?
- Intelligent Homes of the Future: What Do They Look Like?
Intelligent Home: Challenges
As new technologies become available, we need to understand how they affect our lives. Here are some of the most pressing issues facing intelligent homes and their inhabitants.
Dependence on Technology
One of the concerns about intelligent homes is that they bring our dependence on technology to a whole new level. Connected appliances, for example, need the Internet so we can maximize their usefulness. Does this mean that we are helpless if this link is taken away from us?
Intelligent homes also expose us to the same security risks that computer systems and networks constantly face. You may not realize it, but hackers can and have successfully infiltrated multiple smart home systems to spy on households. Since IoT produces loads of data that reveal homeowners’ preferences, chances are that criminals will go to great lengths to grab this information.
Extra Layer of Complexity
Arguably, the most inconvenient feature of intelligent homes is that they add an extra layer of complexity to our already complicated lives. We need to navigate the learning curve for the technologies involved, which may be quite steep. We may also need to adjust our lifestyles and activities to maximize the benefits of these new features.
Privacy intrusion is among the biggest concerns when it comes to intelligent homes. We’ve already seen several incidents where more unscrupulous marketers use smart devices to eavesdrop on the conversations of unsuspecting homeowners. So smart technology is proving problematic for consumers, especially since some manufacturers attribute privacy issues to users who activate devices’ listening features with or without meaning to.
Ever notice why most smart homeowners are quite rich? That’s mainly because of their high cost. Average homeowners would have to lose an arm and a leg to incorporate smart devices into their homes. Hope is not lost, however, as tech giants like Google and Amazon are now offering smart products at more affordable prices.
The Tenant vs. Landlord Argument
To gain a competitive edge, more and more landlords are integrating intelligent home features into their rental properties. Sometimes, though, this practice poses issues on who controls the embedded smart devices. Tenants fear that landlords who remain in control are invading their privacy. Regulations may need to be put in place to remedy the issue.
Visions of futuristic homes certainly seem amazing. Nevertheless, just like for every significant technology that impacts our lives, we need to think through its nuances.
Intelligent Home Applications
Despite the cons listed above, the arrival of smart homes seems inevitable. Let’s take a look at what has already been undertaken today in designing an intelligent home.
Smart Home Energy
- Appliance usage adjusts according to current needs, like lights turning off in an unoccupied room.
- Alerts are sent regarding in-home activities, so owners can identify when there is unnecessary energy usage.
Smart Home Security
- Monitoring devices like cameras and sensors, smart lock systems, and alert systems notify the owners and authorities in case of a break-in attempt.
- Remote control lets homeowners monitor appliances as well as suggest their presence even if they’re away.
- Appliances like robot vacuums, pet feeders, and automatic sprinklers can do chores according to owners’ schedules.
- Users can employ If This Then That (IFTTT) and other commands, such as “If I receive a phone call, then the television’s volume should lower.”
- The sound system, temperature, fragrance, and lighting can be adjusted to enhance the sensory experience.
- Settings check occupants’ health. For example, a smart bed studies the health condition of a person to provide the best sleep quality.
- Sound systems can be devised to provide the best surround experience within the house.
- Lighting can be completely transformed to give life to any event.
Intelligent vs. Smart Home: Is There a Difference?
When discussing advancements in homes, it is pretty common to encounter the terms “intelligent home” and “smart home.” While the two may be synonymous, they do differ in terms of technological application.
A smart home is made possible with the aid of Internet connectivity. Homeowners can remotely control and monitor their abodes when they are online. Some would refer to smart home technology as a form of home automation that aims to provide a more secure and comfortable living arrangement without incurring extra costs.
In general, smart home automation is often programmed or triggered by the user. For example, the homeowners can time their air-conditioning system to turn on 30 minutes before they arrive home. The many advantages a smart home offers have made it a popular choice for many.
Intelligent homes, on the other hand, are way more advanced than smart homes. They use algorithms that allow them to come up with complex decisions based on the data they gather.
Intelligent homes can learn about their users’ routines and preferences. All these get fed into their machine learning (ML) and predictive technology components. Suppose the homeowners frequently turn the air-conditioning on at a specific time. An intelligent home learns this daily routine and automatically turns on the air-conditioning system without the need for user preprogramming.
Intelligent homes can come up with decisions by making a thorough analysis of available data. The longer the intelligent home gets exposed to the homeowner’s practices, the better its responses to specific triggers. Later on, an intelligent home can automatically adjust the home’s temperature, depending on the weather. Eventually, the algorithms can learn the homeowner’s lifestyle and make suggestions for conserving energy.
In short, intelligent homes mimic how the homeowner’s brain functions and decision-making process.
Intelligent Homes of the Future: What Do They Look Like?
The advent of intelligent homes seems inevitable, as many homeowners are currently priming their abodes for the technology.
Swedish research firm Berg Insight, in fact, claimed that by 2022, around 63 million households in the U.S. would be considered “smart.” That means each house will use some form of artificial intelligence (AI). And so intelligent homes of the future are likely to have these at the very least:
Smart Kitchen Gadgets
Perhaps some of the best iterations of intelligent home technology that will become widely available are kitchen gadgets. Smart homes of the future are bound to have smart Crock-Pots that can connect to Alexa. Alexa can then let homeowners know how much cooking time is left or even control the process via their smartphones.
Beyond the kitchen, bathrooms will also get smart technology treatments with smart showers. These can be set to automatically turn on at the right temperature while factoring in the room temperature and weather, along with the homeowner’s preference.
It is also exciting to see smart homes of the future replacing traditional lights with energy-efficient walls with built-in motion- and outdoor-sensing functionalities.
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Which iced tea is lowest in sugar? No Iced Tea Numerous editors characterized this sample as sweet. Surprisingly, Lipton Lemon Iced Tea had the least amount of sugar per serving among the beverages tested.
Is Lipton green tea diabetic-friendly? Green tea’s health benefits and risks for those with type 2 diabetes. The fact that green tea has no added sugar, is inherently calorie-free when consumed straight from the bag, and is a nutritional powerhouse makes it an excellent addition to a diabetic diet.
What types of iced tea are OK for diabetics? Certain teas contain potent chemicals that may be beneficial for diabetics. Green tea, turmeric tea, hibiscus tea, cinnamon tea, lemon balm tea, chamomile tea, and black tea may have potent anti-diabetic properties, making them excellent options for diabetics.
CAn a Diabetic Drink Ice Tea Mix – RELATED QUESTIONS
Are diabetics able to consume sugar-free iced tea?
Tea that is unsweetened or sugar-free and sweetened without sugar is an excellent beverage for diabetics. You’ll get the health advantages of tea and the desired sweetness, but without the sugar or calories!
Does tea boost glucose levels?
A person with type 2 diabetes may choose unsweetened tea or herbal infusions as a low-calorie beverage option since these beverages have no effect on blood sugar levels. In addition, they may prevent dehydration, which can cause an increase in blood sugar levels.
What beverage reduces blood sugar?
Consider brewing a cup of green tea, which, according to the Mayo Clinic, includes 28 milligrams of caffeine and may help prevent diabetes. Green tea and green tea extract may help decrease blood glucose levels and may have a role in preventing type 2 diabetes and obesity, according to a review of research.
Can sugar be eliminated by drinking water?
The only way to wash out the sugar in your body is to exercise more. The bad news is that the answer is negative, although drinking water will keep you hydrated and assist your kidneys in eliminating pollutants.
Is orange juice beneficial for diabetics?
The glycemic index, which measures the influence of foods on blood sugar levels, ranks orange juice between 66 and 76 on a scale from 0 to 100. This makes fruit juice a high GI beverage, and patients with diabetes should generally avoid high GI meals and beverages.
Is ginger ale diabetic-friendly?
First, remember that you should focus on the spice itself. That excludes sugar-laden, processed beverages such as ginger ale and ginger beer. These choices have the opposite impact of what is sought, perhaps increasing blood sugar levels.
Is Lipton Iced tea good for you?
Certainly not. Identical to hot tea, iced tea brewed from the leaves of the Camellia sinensis plant yields the identical beverage, just cooled. As part of a Dietary Guidelines-compliant diet, drinking two to three cups of tea daily may contribute to the maintenance of normal, healthy cardiac function.
Is unsweetened iced tea a healthy beverage?
The flavonoids in unsweetened iced tea help prevent chronic illnesses such as diabetes, macular degeneration, cardiovascular disease, cancer, and cataracts. The flavonoids in iced tea may also be used to heal wounds, bruises, and sprains, while the antioxidants in flavonoids act to halt the aging process.
Is iced Lipton tea superior than soda?
As long as you do not add sugar or other additions, iced tea is calorie-free. This makes it superior than regular soda. Additionally, iced tea is superior than diet sodas since it contains nothing but tea. Also acidic and hence harmful to dental enamel is soda.
How can diabetics have high blood sugar levels?
Hyperglycemia (high blood glucose) is characterized by an excess of sugar in the blood due to an insufficiency of insulin. Hyperglycemia is associated with diabetes and may result in vomiting, increased appetite and thirst, a fast pulse, and eyesight issues, among other symptoms.
Tea or coffee is healthier for diabetes.
Coffee use may reduce the chance of developing type 2 diabetes by enhancing sugar metabolism, according to a 2019 analysis of research. As with tea, it is essential that coffee stay unsweetened.
Can diabetics have milk tea?
Tea is a popular beverage option among Indians and is believed to be beneficial to your overall health. In addition to lowering blood pressure and LDL cholesterol levels, tea may also help decrease blood pressure. Avoid milk tea and sweeteners when selecting your tea; instead, choose for black, green, or herbal tea.
Is Gatorade zero diabetic-friendly?
If you have diabetes and want to consume sports drinks, a sugar-free or “zero” version may be the easiest alternative, but excessive use of artificial sweeteners is not advised.
Does Gatorade benefit diabetics?
For instance, Gatorade has a glycemic index of 89. That is really high. A GI score of 89 indicates that Gatorade is swiftly digested, absorbed, and metabolized, resulting in large variations in blood sugar levels. Something that may be dangerous for diabetics, who should avoid significant blood glucose fluctuations.
How much water must a diabetic consume each day?
If you have diabetes, you should consume a lot of fluids — around 1.6 liters (L) or 6.5 cups per day for women and 2 L or 8.5 glasses per day for men.
What if your blood glucose level is 500?
You may develop a dangerous condition known as diabetic ketoacidosis (or DKA). This often occurs in individuals with Type 1 diabetes and glucose levels over 500. If you have DKA, substances known as ketones produce a great deal of acid in your body. The acid and high blood glucose levels might cause severe illness.
How long does it take for diabetes-related blood sugar levels to decrease?
Yes, it is feasible to reduce blood sugar rapidly! Scientific research clearly suggests that a healthy lifestyle (excellent eating, regular exercise, and a cheerful outlook) may cure diabetes in as little as two to three weeks.
Can apple cider vinegar rapidly reduce blood sugar levels?
HbA1c readings represent a person’s average blood glucose levels over the course of many weeks or months. Thirty minutes after ingesting apple cider vinegar, blood glucose levels improved significantly in individuals receiving the vinegar.
Does lemon water lower blood sugar levels?
Lemon water may not have a direct effect on your blood sugar levels and induce a decrease, but it may assist avoid unexpected rises. The simple-to-prepare beverage is low in carbs and calories and keeps you hydrated, which is vital for diabetics.
Can diabetics have milk in the evening?
It is not usually recommended for diabetics to consume milk before bed, since the number of calories available in milk at night might be harmful to the body. This will boost your blood sugar and cause you to experience pain.
Does icy water reduce blood sugar levels?
Consuming icy water In addition to removing toxins from the body, it helps to regulate your body temperature. Thus, drinking water quickly decreases blood pressure and reduces blood sugar levels.
Does hot water reduce blood sugar levels?
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WASHINGTON — US retail sales rose modestly in October, evidence that recent job gains and lower gas prices are lifting consumer spending as the holiday shopping season begins.
The Commerce Department said Friday that retail sales rose 0.3 percent last month after falling by the same amount in September. Excluding gas stations, where falling prices lowered spending, sales rose a solid 0.5 percent.
Employers have stepped up hiring, giving more Americans paychecks to spend and boosting consumer confidence. Stock prices have reached new highs, possibly encouraging more spending by wealthy households. Greater spending could spur more growth because consumer spending makes up about 70 percent of economic activity.
Auto sales rose a solid 0.5 percent, after falling sharply in September. Americans also spent more at restaurants and at sporting goods and health care stores.
Economists said the figures suggest consumer spending could rise by 2.5 percent to 3 percent in the fourth quarter. That would be only a moderate gain, but above the July-September quarter’s 1.8 percent increase.
The report shows a ‘‘boost to consumer spending power and sentiment from plummeting gasoline prices that we anticipate will continue into the key holiday shopping period,’’ said Ted Wieseman, an economist at Morgan Stanley.
Sales at electronics stores plunged after a big gain the previous month, when the newest iPhone went on sale.
The National Retail Federation, a trade group, has forecast that holiday sales will rise 4.1 percent this year, compared with 2013. That would be the biggest gain in three years.
While many categories showed sales gains, there were some signs consumers remain cautious.
The category that includes major department stores and other general retailers reported flat sales last month.
That echoes the largely disappointing sales reports this week from many retail chains, including Macy’s, J.C. Penney, and Kohl’s.
Walmart, however, said that cheaper gas helped boost sales at its stores in the August-October quarter. But it also warned that deep discounting would likely lower profits over the holiday shopping season.
Outside retail chains, sales were mostly healthy. Online and catalog retail sales jumped 1.9 percent, the biggest gain since March. And sales at restaurants and bars rose 0.9 percent, the most since May. Sporting goods stores said their sales climbed 1.2 percent.
The economy and job market have made steady progress for most of this year. Employers have added an average 229,000 jobs a month through October.
That’s put hiring in 2014 on track to be the strongest in 15 years. The unemployment rate has fallen to 5.8 percent, a six-year low, from 7.2 percent 12 months earlier.
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Bills pre-filed to allow guns in school, increase gas taxes
COLUMBIA — Bills to allow school personnel to carry guns, to expand background checks on gun purchases, to increase the state's gas tax and to require seat belts in school buses are among almost 200 pieces of legislation filed this week by state senators in advance of the legislative session that starts in January.
Guns and road funding are the subjects of legislation annually but Sen. Kevin Bryant, an Anderson Republican, said he pre-filed a bill to allow school personnel to carry guns as a result of the shooting at Townville Elementary School in September that killed 6-year-old Jacob Hall and injured three others.
"I've always supported the concept," Bryant told The Greenville News. "The Townville shooting, I feel, could have been prevented had there been more armed school personnel on the school's grounds."
Bryant said the bill would allow school officials and law enforcement to work together to develop whatever procedures and training they want for guns to be brought onto school property. He also proposed a bill that would exempt Townville students from make-up requirements for the days they missed after the shooting.
A bill by Sen. Danny Verdin, a Laurens Republican, would create an "institutional" concealed weapons permit that could allow gun owners to carry weapons in schools, daycare centers, churches and hospitals. The State Law Enforcement Division would be asked to develop rules for such permits under the bill.
Sen. Marlon Kimpson, a Charleston Democrat and gun-reform advocate, said he is unconvinced the bills would improve safety.
"I am unaware of one documented instance where a civilian with a gun was able to successfully apprehend and prevent a mass shooting," he said.
Kimpson said he wants to hear the arguments of the bills' sponsors but is inclined to vote against them.
"I do not believe they will make our neighborhoods safer," he said.
Verdin's bill also would allow gun owners to carry weapons in the event of a mandatory evacuation, and require concealed weapons permit holders to be given a license plate sticker indicating they hold such a permit.
Two other bills would toughen requirements for gun sales involving background checks. Currently, those buying guns at a firearms store submit an application that is immediately examined by the FBI. If the agency finds no problems in the background check, the store is notified and the sale can proceed. If, however, the check prompts questions or the need for more records, the store must wait up to three days for the check before allowing the sale, though some stores do not allow such sales unless a background check is complete.
A bill by Sen. Mia McLeod, a Columbia Democrat, would not allow such sales until the background check is complete, while bills by Sen. Gerald Malloy, a Darlington County Democrat, would require a wait of at least 28 days from the time the check was initiated. Malloy filed similar bill's in the previous legislative session.
Kimpson, who has pushed for expanded background checks, said he wants to work on a bi-partisan bill for expanded checks instead of introducing something himself.
The expanded background check legislation was propelled by the 2015 murders in Charleston of nine African-Americans in a church Bible study by a white shooter. The man accused in the shootings, Dylann Roof, now on trial for his life, was able to buy his gun because the FBI could not locate records during the three-day waiting period that would have disqualified him from owning a gun, officials said.
Roof was charged by federal prosecutors with 33 counts, including hate crimes, because the state does not have such crimes.
Malloy has pre-filed a bill that would allow murders committed against a person because of the victim's race, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or disability to count as an aggravating circumstance when considering a sentence.
On road funding, two bills propose to raise money for improvements.
One, proposed by Sen. Sean Bennett, a Dorchester County Republican; Sen. Paul Campbell, a Berkeley County Republican; Sen. Ross Turner, a Greenville Republican; and Sen. Greg Hembree, an Horry County Republican; is similar to a bill that failed to pass during the last session that would phase in an increase of 12 cents per gallon in the gas tax and also index it for inflation, though any inflation increases would be capped.
The bill also would increase vehicle registration fees, driver's license fees and the sales tax on vehicles, from $300 to $600.
The bill would offer income tax relief through the adjustment of tax brackets.
Lawmakers initially offered tax cuts in road funding plans in response to a demand by Gov. Nikki Haley that any plan include tax relief or face her veto.
Another bill by Senate Transportation Committee Chairman Larry Grooms and Campbell would create a local option motor vehicle fuel fee that could be used for road projects within a county if a local ordinance is passed and the county's voters approve the fee on retail sales of fuel.
Also proposed this week is a bill by McLeod to require lap and shoulder belts in all school buses be installed by August 2019. All those riding in the buses would be required to wear them and drivers would be required to ensure the belts were placed around students.
Sen. Darrell Jackson, a Columbia Democrat, proposed allowing local governments, schools and colleges to alter or remove historical monuments or rename buildings, structures or streets.
State law currently forbids any change in the historical names of buildings or the alteration or removal of historical monuments, a law that was changed to allow lawmakers last year to remove the Confederate flag from the Statehouse grounds after the Charleston church shootings.
Some local and college officials have since pointed to the law as preventing them from changing Confederate-era names or monuments.
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The Basic Idea
The term “empowerment” is increasingly used in contemporary communications, whether it refers to women uplifting other women in technology,1 supporting the COVID-19 vaccine industry,2 or taking action on your career goals.3 If empowerment applies to so many domains, does it mean the same thing in every context? At its core, empowerment is a construct that links individual strengths, help from community systems, and proactive behaviors to social policy and change.4
Empowerment refers to a value orientation of autonomy and self-determination, as well as a theoretical model for understanding the process and consequences of efforts to exert control over decisions that affect oneself, organizational functioning, or the quality of community life.5 Empowerment is commonly linked to strength and confidence, as autonomy allows people to take control of their choices and claim their rights.6 To this end, both self-empowerment and empowering others are important. There are different types and levels of empowerment, defined according to the contexts to which they apply.
Theory, meet practice
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Empowerment: Involves both individual determination over one’s own life and democratic participation in the life of one’s community.
Levels of empowerment
Personal level: Empowerment is the experience of gaining increasing control and influence in daily life and community participation.
Small group level: Empowerment involves the shared experience, analysis, and influence of groups on their own efforts.
Community level: Empowerment revolves around the utilization of resources and strategies to enhance community control.
The concept of empowerment can be traced back to Marxist sociology, which has been concerned with the relationship between society and economics since the 20th century.7 Specifically, Marxist sociologists focused on historical materialism, modes of production, and the way that police forces were used to control Indigenous folks and low-income individuals - all in the name of capitalism.8
However, the term “empowerment” was first used for research purposes by American psychologist Julian Rappaport, in his 1981 article In praise of paradox: A social policy of empowerment over prevention.9 Rappaport emphasized that focusing on empowerment would lead people to look for solutions to social and living problems in a variety of local settings, rather than in centralized solutions of a single “helping” structure, where help is considered a scarce commodity. Rappaport suggested that in order to ensure empowerment, there is a paradoxical issue that we need to focus on: a conflict between “rights” models and “needs” models when considering people in trouble.
Following his 1981 article, Rappaport published another article in 1987 entitled Terms of empowerment/exemplars of prevention: Toward a theory for community psychology.6 In this piece, Rappaport made a case for empowerment as the subject of an ecological theory for community psychology, a field of psychology that studies individuals’ contexts within, and relationships to, their close communities and broader society.10 By understanding the quality of life of individuals within different social contexts, community psychologists hope to enhance quality of life.
Rappaport believed that empowerment would be a strong theoretical base for community psychology as it captured the the field’s world view and phenomena of interest: applications and interventions to stimulate, facilitate, or create encouraging social policies.9 Rappaport pointed out that the definitions of empowerment suggest that research must focus on how it is actually experienced and the mediating structures.
By definition, empowerment literally means to bring power: adding “em” before a word typically means “to put in or into, bring to a certain state.”11 Related to Rappaport’s idea of studying people’s experiences with empowerment under community psychology, Canadian researchers John Lord and Peggy Hutchison published an article in 1993 entitled The process of empowerment: Implications for theory and practice.12 In this article, the researchers highlighted how - in order to understand empowerment - there must first be an understanding of the basic concepts of power and powerlessness. Empowerment as a whole focuses on ensuring basic opportunities and encouraging skill development, but this is especially important for marginalized communities to increase equitable access to opportunities and resources.
Lord and Hutchison also highlighted the difference between real and surplus powerlessness.12 Real powerlessness results from economic inequities and oppressive control exercised by people and systems. On the other hand, surplus powerlessness is an internalized belief that change cannot occur, resulting in apathy and an unwillingness to struggle for more autonomy. Discussions of empowerment tend to focus on personal control, in which surplus powerlessness can be influenced by one’s mindsets: when struggling against real powerlessness, it is important to first overcome surplus powerlessness. Of course, prior experiences can make this a difficult process.
More recently in 2000, adolescent health and empowerment researcher Marc Zimmerman made a distinction between empowerment as a value orientation and empowerment theory.5 Zimmerman held that value orientations of empowerment suggest goals, aims, and strategies that people can develop to implement change. On the other hand, empowerment theory provides principles and a framework for organizing our knowledge around empowerment and social change.
Empowerment theory as it applies to social work emphasizes social workers’ roles in increasing their clients’ capacities for self-help. Rather than viewing themselves as passive and helpless, empowerment theory can shift mindsets to be self-empowered and fighting oppression. In this “fight,” social workers take on the roles of facilitators of the process, rather than “rescuers.”
Within social work, there is a focus on direct power blocks, the structures that stop people from achieving their goals (i.e. inequitable access to education) and indirect power blocks, referring to internalized oppression.13 Social workers and community psychologists can work together to deliver interventions addressing indirect power blocks, such as trauma-focused cognitive behavioral therapy. Empowerment theory also helps marginalized communities develop awareness on several barrier levels: self-efficacy, guiding individuals to believe they can change their circumstances; critical consciousness, bringing individuals together to learn from another and to avoid feeling alone; and tool development, through personal intervention and collective advocacy.
Empowerment is also commonly referenced in terms of gender empowerment, through an approach partly guided by feminism and human rights. The United Nations has pointed to empowerment and gender participation as a necessary step for countries to overcome the obstacles associated with poverty and development, setting its fifth sustainable development goal to “achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls.” 14
Closely related to gender empowerment is legal empowerment, referring to when marginalized communities use legal mobilisation - a tool used by advocacy groups to negotiate with other concerned agencies and stakeholders - to improve their social, political, or economic situations.15 This empowerment approach focuses on understanding how the law can be used to overcome barriers for marginalized communities.
Lastly, employee empowerment is used in workplaces, referred to as one of the most important management concepts.16 Generally, this form of empowerment refers to distributing control, such as giving workers greater access to resources and lower-level decisions. With greater employee participation comes greater abilities to independently and responsibly handle individual tasks. Employee empowerment also increases employee motivation and satisfaction, which benefits stakeholders at all levels of the organization.17 In order for managers to empower their employees, there are three key factors that must be met:
- Share information with everyone;
- Create autonomy through boundaries; and,
- Replace the normative hierarchy with self-directed work teams.
The criticisms of empowerment theory focus on its lack of theoretical basis and the inherent power imbalances in empowerment approaches. For example, programs must be grounded in a clear conceptualization of empowerment, rather than assuming that programs themselves are empowering.18 Yet, there does not seem to be a universal definition for empowerment - even across different fields - making it difficult to evaluate the effectiveness of so-called empowerment approaches.
Of course, in order for one practitioner to use an empowerment approach with another, both parties must have an understanding of who is doing the empowering.19 Then comes the question of who determines what is empowering. In social work, for example, is it the social worker, or the client, or both? There is an inherent power imbalance such that the social worker decides what the client needs to feel empowered, a dynamic that practitioners must be critical of.
Additionally, there is the question of when empowerment approaches are appropriate.18 In certain communities that value interdependence, marginalized members who express power may experience negative consequences (i.e. women talking back to their husbands in a culture that values “traditional” gender norms). While we may feel that this is unjust, we must recognize that many researchers and consumers of research are WEIRD: Western, educated, industrialized, rich and democratic.20 When evaluating empowerment theory, practitioners must remember that not all clients may be WEIRD, and that such approaches are not universally beneficial.
Employee empowerment and team performance
Employee empowerment has been a topic of interest ever since American social worker and management consultant Mary Parker Follett distinguished between “power-with” and “power-over”, suggesting that integrating desires would increase power-with and power-over.21 The existing literature on this topic is varied: some researchers have focused on psychological aspect of employee empowerment (i.e. meaningfulness, choice, impact, and competence) while others have suggested that there are seven dimensions of employee empowerment (i.e. power, decision making, initiative and creativity, responsibility, autonomy, information, and knowledge and skills).
Considering the model of seven dimensions of employee empowerment, Yang and Choi felt that there was noticeable overlap between dimensions.21 For example, decision making overlaps with autonomy, which also overlaps with power. Based on these observations, the researchers identified four dimensions of empowerment: autonomy, creativity, information, and responsibility. They wanted to examine the effect of employee empowerment on team performance, specifically in the context of municipal work teams.
Surveying 176 American municipal government employees, the researchers found that all four dimensions - autonomy, creativity, information, and responsibility - had positive and significant effects on team performance.21 Increased autonomy was associated with more intrinsic motivation, increased information was associated with more accurate decisions, and increased creativity was associated with more motivation to work.
The findings suggest that employee empowerment programs should consider different dimensions of empowerment, allowing managers to design more successful programs and experience improvements in the workplace.21 The findings also suggest that dimensions of empowerment may vary across domains and populations. What is necessary for one group may not apply to all, which is why it is important that research addresses many different marginalized communities to better understand and apply empowerment approaches.
The first developmental perspective
Charles Keiffer, psychologist and Executive Director of the SOS Community Crisis Center in Michigan conducted one of the first empirical studies on personal empowerment, examining empowerment as a change process.22 Keiffer was motivated by Rappaport’s emphasis on rights and abilities, rather than deficits and needs, when addressing people as “citizens” embedded in their political and social environments. Inspired by Rappaport’s ideology, Kieffer realized that there was no research on personal empowerment as an issue of adult learning and development. Through his experience as a clinician, organizer and educator, Kieffer felt this would be an insightful perspective.
In 1984, Keiffer selected fifteen participants who had been active in community-based grassroots organizations, all of whom were characterized by: self-acknowledgement of personal transformation; recognizable transition into proactive and multi-issue engagement; and evidence of continuing commitment to local political processes or grassroots leadership roles.22 These participants engaged in open-ended, reflective, and critical interviews with Keiffer, discussing their empowerment or lack thereof.
Based on these interviews, Keiffer felt that the transition from powerlessness to community participation - or, “participatory competence” - was best characterized as a dynamic of long-term development from sociopolitical “infancy” to sociopolitical “adulthood”.22 His development approach to personal empowerment conceptualized a process with four stages:
- Entry: Motivated by the participant’s experience of “provocation”, an event or condition that threatened them or their family.
- Advancement: Three core factors are important in this stage to continue the empowerment process, including a mentoring relationship, supportive peer relationships with a collective organization, and the development of a more critical understanding of social and political relations.
- Incorporation: The main focus of this stage is on the development of a growing political consciousness.
- Commitment: Participants apply their new participatory competence to increasing areas of their lives, subsequently increasing empowerment for both themselves and their community.
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- Counter, R., & Underwood, K. (2021, March 24). Changemakers: Canada faces serious challenges, but these leaders show that solutions are possible. The Globe and Mail. https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/rob-magazine/article-changemakers-canada-faces-serious-challenges-but-these-leaders-show/
- Mehan, D. P. (2021, May 29). Let’s empower vaccine industry to combat COVID-19. Springfield News-Leader. https://www.news-leader.com/story/opinion/2021/05/29/lets-empower-vaccine-industry-combat-covid-19/7468404002/
- Damyanova, D. (2021, May 25). Abandon the career hamster wheel and empower your field of possibility. https://www.forbes.com/sites/ellevate/2021/05/25/abandon-the-career-hamster-wheel-and-empower-your-field-of-possibility/?sh=c5746cb320a8
- Perkins, D. D., & Zimmerman, M. A. (1995). Empowerment theory, research, and application. American Journal of Community Psychology, 23(5), 569-579.
- Zimmernman, M. A. (2000). Empowerment Theory. In Handbook of Community Psychology.
- Rappaport, K. (1987). Terms of empowerment/exemplars of prevention: Toward a theory for community psychology. American Journal of Community Psychology, 15(2), 121-148.
- Birnbaum, N. (1968). The crisis in Marxist sociology. Social Research, 35(2), 348-380.
- Correia, D., & Wall, T. (2018). Police: A Field Guide. Verso Books.
- Rappaport, J. (1981). In praise of paradox: A social policy of empowerment over prevention. American Journal of Community Psychology, 9(1), 1-25.
- Kloos, B., Hill, J., Thomas, E., Wandersman, A., Elias, M., & Dalton, J. (2012). Community Psychology: Linking Individuals and Communities. Cengage Learning.
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- Lord, J., & Hutchison, P. (1993). The process of empowerment: Implications for theory and practice. Canadian Journal of Community Mental Health, 12(1), 5-22.
- Adams, R. (2008). Empowerment, Participation and Social Work. Palgrave Macmillan.
- United Nations. (2020). Goal 5: Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls. Sustainable Development Goals. https://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/gender-equality/
- Domingo, P., & O’Neil. (2014, June 13). The politics of legal empowerment: Legal mobilisation strategies and implications for development. Overseas Development Institute. https://odi.org/en/publications/the-politics-of-legal-empowerment-legal-mobilisation-strategies-and-implications-for-development/
- Wilkinson, A. (1998). Empowerment: Theory and practice. Personnel review, 27(1), 40-56.
- Honold, L. (1997). A review of the literature on employee empowerment. Empowerment in Organizations, 5(4), 202-212.
- Kasturirangan, A. (2008). Empowerment and programs designed to address domestic violence. Violence Against Women, 14(12), 1465-1475.
- Henderson, S. (2003). Power imbalance between nurses and patients: A potential inhibitor of partnership in care. Journal of Clinical Nursing, 12(4), 501-508.
- Henrich, J., Heine, S. J., & Norenzayan, A. (2010). Most people are not WEIRD. Nature, 466, 29.
- Yang, S., & Choi, S. O. (2009). Employee empowerment and team performance: Autonomy, responsibility, information and creativity. Team Performance Management, 15(5-6), 289-301.
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Ten years ago, Facebook was starting to become the most favored social network for people who wanted to keep tabs on friends and family. Now we can choose from several popular messaging apps on our smartphones when it comes to sharing what we want with whom we want.
And in recent months, the trend of one-to-one communication has been gaining traction among users of social media, simply because when you message someone in private, we expect a reply. When you post on Facebook, it often feels like leaving a note on a friend’s door in the hope they’ll see it.
Social networking is going through a makeover with the rise of messaging services, and Facebook’s one-to-many type of communication is being gradually being replaced by more direct messaging.
According to a recent report of data startup Quettra, six of the 10 most-downloaded and most-used apps are the ones providing messaging services – the average user opens one of them 9 times a day.
When it comes to Facebook-owned texting apps, WhatsApp and Messenger are opened on average 25 to 30 times a day, while the classic Facebook app only comes up 15 times. This doesn’t mean that Facebook is getting dumped, it only means its purpose has changed and its messaging apps have become more relevant.
People are starting to appreciate more the one-to-one chatting, because it reflects more closely the way people interact every day. And Facebook has noticed the trend and it has happily hopped on board.
After purchasing WhatsApp for $22 billion last year, the Silicon Valley tech giant has also invested and promoted in the upgraded version of Messenger, transforming it in a stand-alone platform boasting more than 700 million users.
Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg said in a Q&A session that numbers show that messaging is the only thing people love more than social networking – and they directed their efforts accordingly. But trouble might be looming still.
With its primary revenue coming from advertising that shows up in the users’ feed, there’s a certain risk hidden in the shift to messaging apps, as they don’t benefit from such a stream that makes room for displaying ads.
But Facebook is hinting to other ways of making money, such as monetizing Messenger. After opening it to outside developers that brought in games and its own payment method, no one is worried that Facebook’s deep pockets will have to suffer.
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Equipped with the right applications, a computer can be of great help in virtually any domain of activity. When it comes to designing and precision, no other tool is as accurate as a computer. Moreover, specialized applications such as AutoCAD give you the possibility to design nearly anything ranging from art, to complex mechanical parts or even buildings.
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After a decent amount of time spent installing the application on your system, you are ready to fire it up. Thanks to the office suite like interface, all of its features are cleverly organized in categories. At a first look, it looks easy enough to use, but the abundance of features it comes equipped with leaves room for second thoughts.
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Similar to a modern web browser, each project is displayed in its own tab. This comes in handy, especially for comparison views. Moreover, layouts and layers also play important roles, as it makes objects handling a little easier.
Sine the application is not the easiest to carry around, requiring a slightly sophisticated machine to properly run, there are several export options put at your disposal so that the projects itself can be moved around.
Aside from the application specific format, you can save as an image file of multiple types, PDF, FBX and a few more. Additionally, it can be sent via email, directly printed out on a sheet of paper, or even sent to a 3D printing service, if available.
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All in all, AutoCAD remains one of the top applications used by professionals to achieve great precision with projects of nearly any type. It encourages usage with incredible offers for student licenses so you get acquainted with its abundance of features early on. A lot can be said about what it can and can't do, but the true surprise lies in discovering it step-by-step.
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AutoCAD Cracked Accounts 2016 (MacOS and Windows) was introduced to the market in 2010 as an update to AutoCAD 2005, and later AutoCAD 2009. It features new features, more intuitive user interface, and tools to enhance the ease of use. AutoCAD 2016 features GPU acceleration, a streamlined user interface, improved 3D modeling and parametric design, new drawing tools, enhanced applications, improved materials modeling, new drawing and printing options, an improved parametric design tool, and a new cloud component.
One of the primary goals of AutoCAD 2016 was to make it easier for users to work with AutoCAD. The toolset was also simplified to improve efficiency and enable faster understanding of complex drawings. As part of this effort, AutoCAD 2015 introduced the ribbon, a user interface tool that has been in use since AutoCAD 2007. This tool replaced the AutoCAD 2007 menu bar, which is no longer in use, and the AutoCAD 2010 user interface, which was slightly modified in AutoCAD 2013. In the redesign of the 2016 user interface, the ribbon was carried over unchanged.
Key Features Of AutoCAD 2016
In this guide, we will discuss some of the key features of AutoCAD 2016. We will also briefly discuss some of the major changes introduced by AutoCAD 2016.
New Collaboration Features
One of the major features of AutoCAD 2016 is the ability to collaborate between multiple users. The team collaboration feature allows multiple users to work on a drawing at the same time. Each user is presented with the same set of tools with all the changes made to the drawing being automatically saved to the drawing history and the revision history of each drawing being maintained. Changes made to the drawing by one user can be viewed immediately by all other users. Team collaboration also allows users to annotate drawings and allows other users to send drawings to remote servers or to mobile devices.
Individual user preferences can also be applied to the entire drawing by each user. Individual user preferences can include views, toolbars, layers, and any other options. Users can also change the color, fonts, and size of the text in their drawings.
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AutoCAD 2016, like the other latest versions of AutoCAD, uses the ribbon interface. The ribbon replaces the AutoCAD 2007 toolbars and the AutoCAD 2010 menu bar. This feature made it
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The drawing template is a special drawing file used as the base for new drawings. A drawing template provides a number of predefined blocks, which can be used for the most common and standard parts of a drawing. When a new drawing is opened, AutoCAD automatically loads the appropriate template, which can be changed by users.
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AutoCAD’s intuitive design tools make it easy to customize the way you view, select, and manipulate your drawings.
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Design collaboratively and create effective constraints at the project level.
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View and apply colors on the fly. Switch between common color palettes like Pantone and find color samples and other artwork to use in your designs.
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In a win for the American Civil Liberties Union, South Dakota agreed Thursday to not enforce its “Riot Boosting Act,” decried by indigenous and environmental activists as a measure to stifle First Amendment rights and inhibit pipeline protests.
The bill, SB 189, signed into law by Gov. Kristi Noem in March, was part of a larger pipeline package. The law allowed South Dakota to sue any individual or organization for “riot boosting” or encouraging a protest where acts of violence occur. Under SB 189, individuals could have been criminally or civilly liable even if they “do not personally participate in any riot but directs, advises, encourages or solicits other persons participating in the riot.”
The package of bills, passed in preparation for the construction of the Keystone XL Pipeline, was meant to provide a legislative solution to “ensure the safety and efficiency of pipeline construction in South Dakota,” Noem said at the time.
But the package of bills faced swift and harsh criticisms in the state, particularly from Native American groups who felt the law targeted them. Indigenous activists have been the driving force behind the opposition to the Keystone XL, which is set to start construction soon.
Legal experts also feared the vague clause about “encouraging” or “soliciting” others to participate in a protest could be indiscriminately applied. It wasn't clear if that meant that sending an invitation to people to join a protest or writing a letter to the editor of a newspaper in support of protesters would fall under the law's purview.
A coalition of indigenous and environmental groups teamed up with the ACLU to sue the state over SB 189 and two mirroring criminal statutes, saying it violated the First and the 14th amendments.
In September, a federal court temporarily blocked the enforcement of the law through a preliminary injunction.
“Imagine that if these riot boosting statutes were applied to the protests that took place in Birmingham, Alabama, what might be the result?” U.S. District Judge Lawrence L. Piersol of South Dakota wrote, sharing concerns about how the law could be broadly exercised.
Now, the ACLU, its plaintiffs, and the state have come to an agreement that nullifies the law, pending court approval.
“South Dakota knew these laws couldn’t stand up to our legal challenge, so rather than face embarrassment they decided to capitulate,” Dallas Goldtooth, a plaintiff in the case affiliated with the Indigenous Environmental Network, said in a statement. “We will celebrate this win, but remain vigilant against further government attempts to outlaw our right to peacefully assemble.”
Vera Eidelman, staff attorney at the ACLU, said the settlement is not only a win for first amendment rights in South Dakota, but also for the country.
“There is a legislative trend around the country of legislatures passing bills that either seek to or, in fact, will chill dissent,” Eidelman said, referencing the more than 20 statehouse bills in the past two years that First Amendment advocates say criminalize protest and discourage political participation. “We hope this serves as a lesson to those legislatures.”
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Involving patients in HTA activities at local level: a study protocol based on the collaboration between researchers and knowledge users
BMC Health Services Research volume 12, Article number: 14 (2012)
The literature recognizes a need for greater patient involvement in health technology assessment (HTA), but few studies have been reported, especially at the local level. Following the decentralisation of HTA in Quebec, Canada, the last few years have seen the creation of HTA units in many Quebec university hospital centres. These units represent a unique opportunity for increased patient involvement in HTA at the local level. Our project will engage patients in an assessment being carried out by a local HTA team to assess alternatives to isolation and restraint for hospitalized or institutionalized adults. Our objectives are to: 1) validate a reference framework for exploring the relevance and applicability of various models of patient involvement in HTA, 2) implement strategies that involve patients (including close relatives and representatives) at different stages of the HTA process, 3) evaluate intervention processes, and 4) explore the impact of these interventions on a) the applicability and acceptability of recommendations arising from the assessment, b) patient satisfaction, and c) the sustainability of this approach in HTA.
For Objective 1, we will conduct individual interviews with various stakeholders affected by the use of alternatives to isolation and restraint for hospitalized or institutionalized adults. For Objective 2, we will implement three specific strategies for patient involvement in HTA: a) direct participation in the HTA process, b) consultation of patients or their close relatives through data collection, and c) patient involvement in the dissemination of HTA results. For Objectives 3 and 4, we will evaluate the intervention processes and the impact of patient involvement strategies on the recommendations arising from the HTA and the understanding of the ethical and social implications of the HTA.
This project is likely to influence future HTA practices because it directly targets knowledge users' need for strategies that increase patient involvement in HTA. By documenting the processes and outcomes of these involvement strategies, the project will contribute to the knowledge base related to patient involvement in HTA.
The purpose of health technology assessment (HTA) is to summarize information about the clinical, economic, psychological, social and ethical aspects of health technologies (e.g. prevention programs, drugs, medical devices, procedures or systems used in screening, diagnosis, treatment, rehabilitation or palliation) in order to inform decisions about the introduction or use of these technologies . To date, however, most HTA activities have focused on the clinical effectiveness and cost effectiveness of health technologies to the detriment of the other dimensions [2–4], such as their social and ethical aspects and the patient perspective, both of which are emphasized as important in the literature [5–11]. As direct beneficiaries of the technologies, patients have concrete knowledge of the impact and effects of treatments and technologies on their condition and on other areas of their lives . Taking their perspective into account is therefore essential in order to arrive at a more complete assessment of the real value of health technologies and of their impact on the health of populations .
Policy makers, managers and HTA producers are thus increasingly interested in exploring strategies for incorporating the patient perspective in HTA activities [6, 12]. A systematic review of the literature assessing international studies in the area of patient and public involvement in HTA led us to observe that despite all the theoretical benefits commonly associated with involving patients and the public in HTA, there is little evidence to support these benefits. In fact, in the scientific literature , there are very few empirical evaluations of patient or public involvement in HTA. This lack of documentation may be due to the fact that patient involvement is seen more as an end in itself, rather than a means, and to the difficulty of evaluating their involvement without the support of widely accepted frameworks and tools .
Nonetheless, this systematic review identified 24 studies showing different means of integrating the patient perspective in assessing technologies or specific methods of dispensing and organizing services. Various experiences of patient consultation in HTA, such as the definition of schizophrenia treatment outcomes relevant to patients or the analysis of the impact of pressure ulcers on quality of life , have been conducted by collecting primary research data. Some of these studies report that focusing on the patient perspective raises important issues, so far ignored, related to the use of assessed technologies. For instance, a study by Kinter has shown that some of the criteria deemed essential by schizophrenic patients concerning their medical treatment (such as the ability to think clearly, participate in social activities, etc.) did not coincide with traditional clinical criteria used in the assessment of this treatment. Other studies listed in this review evaluated the direct participation of patients in HTA activities, notably those conducted by the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE), and the National Coordinating Centre for HTA (NCCHTA) in the United Kingdom [17–20]. These studies highlighted several elements of successful patient participation experiences, such as adequate preparation of participants, clear presentation of the topic of the meeting, and recruitment of people affected by the health technology assessed. Some barriers are also identified, such as problems related to recruitment, time, patient skills and their ability to participate, as well as the cultural differences among committee participants.
Moreover, our exploration of HTA stakeholders' views and practices during interviews conducted in a previous project revealed that there is agreement on the relevance of considering patient perspectives in HTA even though few experiments have yet been conducted at the local level (Gagnon et al., unpublished data). According to stakeholders, two methods were usually deemed relevant to seek the patient perspective in HTA: a) consulting patients or their close relatives as part of data collection, when the type of technology and issues assessed were appropriate for that, for example, when they have a great potential impact on patient's quality of life, and b) directly involving patient representatives in the assessment process, particularly during the three stages of: developing the assessment plan (or protocol), discussing the assessment report and recommendations, and disseminating results (Gagnon et al., unpublished data).
These interviews enabled us to identify the main factors facilitating or impeding each type of involvement according to the different stakeholders. We were thus able to outline the main elements of a reference framework for patient participation in HTA at the local level, an outline which forms the basis of this project.
This research project will complement a project prioritized by the Sectorial Table on HTA at the Réseau universitaire intégré de santé de l'Université Laval (RUIS-UL) in Quebec, Canada. After collecting information from member institutions in 2009, this sectorial table selected a question with supra-regional scope for HTA, namely, alternatives to isolation and restraint for hospitalized or institutionalized adults. The HTA unit at the Centre hospitalier universitaire de Québec (CHUQ) was mandated to carry out the assessment.
The aim of this research project is to use our framework to implement and then evaluate interventions involving patients in the assessment of alternatives to isolation and restraint for hospitalized or institutionalized adults.
Research question and objectives
This research aims to answer the following questions: What are the impacts of targeted interventions to promote patient involvement in HTA activities, and how effective are they?
The objectives of this project are:
To validate the reference framework developed in our previous project and to explore the relevance and applicability of different models of patient involvement in the specific context of assessing alternatives to isolation and restraint for hospitalized adults or elderly people in nursing homes.
To implement interventions involving patients (including close relatives and representatives) at different stages of the mandated assessment process and also in the dissemination of its results.
To evaluate the intervention processes to further understand the contextual issues (ethical, social and organisational) of patient involvement in HTA activities.
To explore the impacts of these interventions on: a) the applicability and acceptability of recommendations arising from the assessment from the patients' perspective and that of the other groups involved in HTA; b) patient satisfaction; and c) the sustainability of this approach in HTA activities.
Methods and design
This research project was designed with the collaboration of the HTA unit at the Quebec University Hospital Centre (Centre hospitalier universitaire de Québec - CHUQ) and its partners. We adopt an action research strategy which allows for constant adjustments between research objectives, methods, data collection, and analysis. The various activities we will undertake to achieve each objective of the study are described in the following section.
Validate the reference framework and explore the relevance and applicability of patient involvement models
To achieve this objective, individual interviews will be conducted with representatives of the regional health agencies targeted by the project, with members of health and social services centres (CSSS) and HTA organisations, and with representatives of patient associations affected by the use of alternatives to isolation and restraint for hospitalized or institutionalized adults. We expect to carry out about 20 interviews in the entire area served by the RUIS-UL. An interview guide will cover questions on the applicability and relevance of the different models of patient involvement in the HTA of alternatives to isolation and restraint for hospitalized adults or elderly people in nursing homes. Interviews will be recorded digitally following informed consent of participants. The content of the interviews will be transcribed verbatim and analysed using N*Vivo software .
A thematic analysis of the content will be carried out using a three steps method described by Huberman and Miles : data reduction, data display, and drawing conclusions/verification. To ensure the internal validity of the analysis process, interview codification will be carried out independently by two members of the team who have long experience in qualitative research using an iterative approach. The results will be then pooled and a consensus sought among the researchers with regards the final codification. Validating our reference framework this way is likely to result in the most appropriate strategies, methods and tools in the context of current practice in HTA, and will therefore have the most potential for sustainability.
Development of interventions aimed at improving the participation of patients in HTA
Overall, four stages of the HTA process can be described and subdivided into several sub-stages. The first is the selection of the technologies to be assessed and includes identifying and prioritizing the assessment topics. The second is conducting the assessment, including the following steps: development of the protocol (or assessment plan), review of the evidence-based data, contextualization of the data and a field assessment if relevant, analysis and synthesis of the results. The third stage is the production of a final report which may include recommendations, and the last stage of the HTA process is the dissemination and implementation of the results.
According to our systematic review, patient or public involvement is possible at each of these stages . However, interviews conducted during the previous project enabled us to identify certain steps (corresponding to different sub-stages) that are particularly pertinent for patient involvement. These steps are: a) the development of the assessment plan (which allows patients' views and concerns to be considered in analysing the issues), b) the assessment itself (through consultation to collect data from patients about their experiences, perceptions and views), c) the discussion of the final report and recommendations, and d) the dissemination of the results . Different modes of patient involvement (that correspond to different levels of involvement) may be used at these different steps (see Additional File 1), mainly consultation - i.e data collection from patients - and direct participation of patients in the committees or working groups set up for a specific assessment.
Our project aims to implement and evaluate three strategies of patient involvement in the HTA process (See Additional File 1): 1) the direct participation of patient representatives in the HTA process of assessing alternatives to isolation and restraint for hospitalized or institutionalized adults; 2) the consultation, through data collection, of patients or/and their close relatives to inform the assessment; and 3) the involvement of patients in the dissemination of the HTA results.
For the first strategy, direct patient participation in the HTA process, patient representatives will be involved in a multidisciplinary working group specially established by the HTA unit for this assessment. The local HTA unit sets up a working group for every assessment it undertakes, but for this project the working group will be somewhat different from usual because of its supra-regional scope and because it involves representatives from several health regions. Patient representatives will be added to this working group to offer their perspective and their concrete experience as beneficiaries of the technologies assessed. They will be recruited through mental health and/or geriatric patients' associations. For the selection and supervision of these representatives, we will draw on the experience of other HTA agencies such as the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) and the National Health Service (NHS) of the United Kingdom (INVOLVE, a national advisory group for promoting public involvement in NHS, public health and social care research) .
As for the second strategy, the consultation of patients (or their close relatives) through primary data collection will be conducted according to methods reported in the literature on similar subjects [2, 15, 16, 26, 27]. We plan to conduct about six (6) focus groups involving patients and/or their close relatives. These focus groups will encourage participants to discuss their experiences and perceptions of alternatives to isolation and restraint.
The third strategy, involving patients in the dissemination and communication of the HTA results, will be achieved in close collaboration with mental health and/or geriatric patients' associations involved in the HTA project. We will draw on the experience of the NHS Centre for Reviews and Dissemination in the United Kingdom for the production of written material suitable for members of these associations. The focus groups will be consulted to make sure that the results presented are accessible and useful to patients. The project team researchers will collaborate with representatives of target groups who have experience preparing materials appropriate for communicating the results of the assessment.
Patient representatives will also be asked to play the role of ambassadors in "translating" the recommendations in the final HTA report so they can be transmitted back to their associations and to the various mental health and geriatric forums.
To improve our chances for successful interventions, our approach will be based on the best scientific evidence available about effective strategies for patient involvement and on the reference framework we developed in collaboration with HTA producers and HTA users .
Objectives 3 and 4
Evaluation of the process and impact of patient involvement
The strategies used in this project must be evaluated to establish their practicability and to provide evidence-based data that will inform future strategies for involving patients in HTA . As this study is likely to influence practices in HTA, evaluation of the effectiveness of our strategies will focus particularly on how the patient involvement process is set up and subsequently followed up, taking the views of all the different participants into account. We will also evaluate the impact of our patient involvement strategies on the recommendations arising from the HTA, and evaluate patient understanding of the ethical and social issues relating to the HTA.
We will base our evaluation of strategies on two sets of criteria, those related to the process and those associated with results and impacts. We will develop our evaluation plan from the model proposed by Rowe that identifies nine criteria for assessing patient involvement: five related to the effective construction and implementation of a procedure (representativeness, independence, early involvement, influence or impact on decision making, and transparency) and four related to process (accessibility of resources, task definition, exercise of structured decision making, and cost-effectiveness). However, a recent analysis by Rowe and collaborators of these criteria showed that although they have a certain validity, they are not exhaustive nor necessarily appropriate for all involvement activities or all contexts. We will consequently use additional criteria, some based on information we gathered during interviews with various actors in HTA in Quebec and others that we identified from the literature on patient and public participation.
The choice of outcome indicators, methods and analysis strategies will be based on discussions with researchers and policy makers, an approach recognized as being the most effective for knowledge translation [33, 34]. The research team will observe and evaluate the process and results of the patient involvement strategies at each stage of the project. The evaluation will be participatory [35–38], which means that it will involve stakeholders at each step of the evaluation (planning, design, data collection and analysis, identification of findings, conclusions, recommendations and dissemination of results).
At the beginning of the project a workshop will be conducted with knowledge users and team researchers to reach a consensus on the objectives and evaluation questions. The data collection methods, the outcome indicators, the data analysis plan, and the roles and responsibilities of each team member will also be discussed. This collaborative approach is likely to increase our success in strategy implementation, as the results will relate directly to the challenges knowledge users face and will address their practical needs. They will thus be more likely to follow the recommendations when making decisions .
The evaluation of involvement strategies will be based on a mixed-method approach. Semi-structured interviews with various stakeholders (patient representatives, HTA producers, and healthcare managers) will be held after each phase of the project to identify the benefits and drawbacks of each strategy, the factors that eased or complicated its implementation, as well as how the strategy influenced the HTA process, the recommendations, and the perceptions of the various stakeholders. The evaluation will also address the questions of time required, human and material resources needed, and associated costs. This will provide data for knowledge users interested in implementing similar strategies. The evaluation will also focus on the possibility of using the tested strategies in other HTA projects. The proposed approach is thus in keeping with the knowledge translation cycle in that the knowledge produced and its evaluation within one context will serve as a basis for developing interventions in other contexts aiming at greater involvement of patients in HTA.
Knowledge translation activities
The two elements most often associated with the usefulness of knowledge emerging from research findings in decision making are the timeliness of the data and the ongoing relationships between researchers and policy makers . Our approach to knowledge translation (KT) is therefore based on these two keys elements. First, the project answers a need expressed by policy makers and HTA producers to move towards greater involvement of patients in HTA activities. Second, the close collaboration between researchers and knowledge users in the team, which began with a previous project and has been nourished by many exchanges since, will continue throughout this project. Thus the participatory approach characterizing all stages of this research project will promote mutual ownership of the research results.
To facilitate the translation of our results we will organize presentations in institutions involved in HTA in the RUIS-UL. Presentations will also be offered to a wider audience (such as the Ministry of Health and Social Services) so that they can validate our process and results and we can assess their applicability to other organizations interested in HTA. These presentations will form an integral part of the regular training activities of these organizations. To ensure their effectiveness, we will target key messages identified during workshops we previously conducted with policy makers and patients to the specific audiences (managers, health professionals, HTA producers and patients). The presentations could also be made by knowledge users belonging to the team or by patient representatives or researchers, depending on the target audience. Thus, an interactive process of knowledge translation will promote participation of targeted knowledge users (44, 45). Towards the end of the project, we will organize a provincial meeting for representatives of the main HTA producers and users groups (policy makers, managers, HTA producers, health professionals and associations of patients).
A previous systematic review found little evidence about effective strategies to involve patient in HTA . In the field of clinical practice guidelines, a systematic review found that patient and public involvement was more frequent in mental health . This project represents a unique opportunity for policy makers and researchers to work toward a common goal to test different forms of patient involvement in HTA and to evaluate them in order to produce useful knowledge regarding the implementation of patient involvement strategies in HTA and their possible effects and impacts. By creating links between research and practice, this project will establish a good balance between the interests and the expertise of researchers and those of knowledge users. The knowledge users involved are already working with researchers on the team; our collaborative approach will ensure a common understanding of the project's objectives, activities and results [33, 34]. This will facilitate the translation of knowledge that is tailored to the local context and to the specific reality of knowledge users.
Since this study meets the needs expressed by knowledge users belonging to the team and their partners in the RUIS-UL, the knowledge produced will be directly useful to guide practice in terms of patient involvement in HTA activities. In addition to answering a real need among decision makers and HTA knowledge users, this project will not only contribute to the advancement of knowledge about patient involvement strategies for HTA, but it will also foster a greater involvement of patients themselves in the field.
Interviewees and participants in the focus groups will be asked to complete a consent form presenting research objectives and information about research implications. Ethics approval for the project has been received from the Research Ethics Board of the Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Québec (approved on June 22, 2011; ethics number S11- 06-039).
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This study is funded by a Knowledge to Action grant from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR; grant #201010KAL-234745-KAL-CFBA-111141). MPG holds a New Investigator grant from the CIHR to support her research program on effective e-health implementation. FL is Tier 2 Canada Research Chair in Implementation of Shared Decision Making in Primary Care.
The authors declare that they have no competing interests.
All authors collectively drafted the research protocol and approved the final manuscript. MPG is its guarantor.
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3) Time is another factor that needs to be accounted for, as the trends in old data may become obsolete. If a model was to be made using data from 2010, it may not be applicable now due to changes in detection and treatment.
Their model has three modules, which each patient is placed through in order to generate a prediction:
The details of this works are quite complicated, and reading about dimensionality reduction might help anyone who struggles to fall asleep at night! Essentially, the amount of numbers collected for each patient (108 to be exact) is reduced to a more manageable set of numbers, while retaining most of the salient differences between patients. This is done by seeking the variables with the highest amount of variance and information, and removing those that do not add anything to the classification method.
Model performance was judged on the 82% of cases not labelled as "indeterminate".
The model achieved
Compared to a more standard deep learning model, the COMPOSER model markedly reduced the number of false alarms (patients being labelled with sepsis when they don't have the disease). For every hour a patient was in hospital, there were 0.043 false sepsis alarms with the COMPOSER model, in comparison to 0.296 in the standard deep learning model.
The COMPOSER model also achieved a higher positive predictive value (24.3%) than the baseline model (23.0%). This indicates the likelihood that a patient who has been labelled as high risk for sepsis will actually have it.
An AUC of 1.0 would mean perfect model performance.
This AI model is highly accurate for the cases it classified, but it labelled 18% of cases as "indeterminate" and therefore did not attempt to classify them. In real life it is not possible to ignore cases that you do not think you can give an good answer for, so this technique is not without its flaws. The improved accuracy and false alarm rate needs to be taken in context, as it has not attempted cases which are more likely to be predicted as wrong. The false positive rate in the accepted group was 19%, but found to be 91% in the indeterminate group. It is akin to a student taking a maths test and not attempting any trigonometry questions because they have had insufficient revision on it, then asking for those questions to be excluded from their final mark.
However, it still has the potential to be clinically useful because it predicts which cases the model is inappropriate for. By improving accuracy on the cases it does predict, it means that the use of the model in clinical practice is safer and more dependable, but
Often, medical research data has problems with representativeness in features such as ethnicity, with minorities often underrepresented. There is very little discussion in this paper on the nature of the 18% of cases labelled as indeterminate (which is a substantial proportion of cases) and why they were labelled as such, other than being "indeterminate". Finding out more about indeterminate cases and their associated outcomes would help in deciding how these cases should be dealt with, as well as how the model can be improved in the future. This would ensure this model doesn't widen inequalities in health outcomes for particular demographic groups.
It is important to note this risk-aversion problem is not unique to artificial intelligence. Clinical guidelines are often written about patients which are better represented in research data, and take the clinician back to square one in other cases. They will also often encourage clinicians to be on the safer side in a way clinicians may struggle to follow because of resource constraints. So while these mechanisms (including AI algorithms) help reduce the burden on clinicians in decision making, the management of cases which do not fit guidelines or algorithms will be more difficult to instigate and carry out.
The paper presents an interesting approach to selecting which patients are suitable for the predictive model. As the authors note, usually this comes in the form of a manual disclaimer "warning: this model is only suitable for patients with these conditions and without these factors". This approach automates this, by labelling patients that are too different from the original data as indeterminate.
This does open a larger discussion around responsibility and risk in medicine. Theoretically, the more cases are classed as indeterminate, the more the algorithm can simply detect the "low-hanging fruit" cases, and get more of those cases predicted correctly. But these indeterminate cases still need to be managed somehow, and take the clinician back to square one in deciding how to treat them. Nevertheless, by not making a prediction on all cases, the accuracy of the predictions made increases to a more clinically reliable level, and can help clinicians not to worry about sepsis as much in certain patients and to be more vigilant of it in others. Consequently, in order to integrate such a model into clinical practice, a lot of thought will be required to decide how to treat low risk, indeterminate and high risk cases; simply treating all cases the same would make the use of this innovative model null.
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In the woods, someone had built a labyrinth, a maze edged with stones. It began where a spoked handwheel, rusted red, had been pressed into the dirt as if it were a sundial, a clock, stopped. The path was overgrown with ferns. It twisted and turned and snaked around in a coil until it ended at a murky well fed from a spring where a person, quiet of heart, is meant to meditate. That person is not me. Nearby, a stone Buddha the size of a small girl watched from the crooked stump of a fallen birch.
I saw the place one summer, an eighteenth-century farmhouse in Vermont on a hillside that was once a farm but had become a forest. Ruins were everywhere. The overgrown labyrinth; stone walls; the foundations of barns; a pine shack, collapsed; abandoned roads; a junk yard at the bottom of a ravine, a little village of bathtubs and glass bottles and old stoves and washbasins; dumped cars, a Plymouth of indiscernible vintage, a Volkswagen Karmann Ghia, its hood and trunk popped open, like an upturned deerstalker cap. Grapevines climbed up the mopey branches of a willow. Wasps had lain siege to the barn. There was a wooden rocking horse in the shed, a faded Victorian settee in the attic, and, crammed in between the rafters, resting on plaster made of lime and horsehair, there were corncob husks that had been fashioned into Colonial dolls, folded and tied into the shape of skirted girls.
Usually, I need to know who lived in an old place or else the curiosity bores through my bones. I pore over deeds. I dig up gardens. I once found, beneath the floorboards of a three-story Queen Anne, an issue of “The Golden Library of Choice Reading for Boys and Girls,” from 1886. I figured out the name of the little girl who must have owned it, and when I found her gravestone I read her a story. Everyone has a labyrinth. History is mine.
I discovered that the man who built the farmhouse, in 1779, felled trees and hewed timbers in a wilderness where an alarming number of settlers quite entirely lost their minds. One filled his house with thousands of books, declared it a college, and then tried to beat his brains out with an axe; a surgeon saved him by drilling a hole in his skull, but the poor man later cut his throat with a razor and lay down to die between two hemlock logs. Another man left town, cut his throat in a field, regretted it, and tried to stuff grass into the wound but was unable to stanch it.
More recently, there was Henry. He lived in the farmhouse, very happily, until his death, in 2003, when he was nearly eighty. “Henry used to have a big vegetable garden over there,” neighbors told me, pointing to a cleared field. The woodstove in the barn? That was Henry’s. The labyrinth? Built by Henry’s wife. Henry had been a miller. Henry once had a cow. Henry made cheese. People called him Henry the Cheeseman. Henry read stories to schoolchildren; he did all the voices. He wrote and performed in a one-man play about Thoreau. Henry wasn’t his real name; he may have taken it from Thoreau. Henry, when he was younger, and in Hollywood, was named Peter Tewksbury. He directed Elvis, Fred MacMurray, Danny Thomas. And, when he was Peter Tewksbury, Henry the Cheeseman persuaded J. D. Salinger to make a movie of “For Esmé—With Love and Squalor.”
I walked back to the labyrinth. “Esmé” is a story read in the middle of the twentieth century by girls of unquiet heart sometime after reading “Ramona the Pest” and “Harriet the Spy” but before reading “Emma” and whichever one of the Judy Blume books is the one that has sex in it. (“For Esmé,” my best friend wrote, inscribing for me a copy of “The Phantom Tollbooth.”) I eyed the Buddha. I’d have to find Esmé and dig her up. I got out my spade and my axe.
J. D. Salinger’s eight-thousand-word story, “For Esmé—With Love and Squalor,” appeared in The New Yorker on April 8, 1950. It’s one of his best stories, and one of his shortest; at the last minute, he cut six pages. Not much happens in it except that a terribly lonely man writes a story for a terribly clever girl. Salinger is sometimes compared to Lewis Carroll; Esmé was his Alice. The New Yorker rejected a lot of his stories but loved “For Esmé,” and Salinger got more letters about it than he received for anything else he’d ever written. “The Esmé story was just the shot in the arm I needed,” he told his editor, the boost that made it possible for him to finish the book he was trying to write; “The Catcher in the Rye,” Salinger’s only novel, was published a year later. There was talk of a movie. Billy Wilder wanted to make it, but Salinger refused. He told Elia Kazan, “I fear Holden wouldn’t like it.” (“If there’s one thing I hate, it’s the movies,” Caulfield says on page 2.) Salinger didn’t hate the movies, but he regretted having sold an earlier story, “Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut,” to Samuel Goldwyn, who padded it into a daffy romance called “My Foolish Heart.” “My contempt for Hollywood is immeasurable,” Salinger wrote. Also, he didn’t think “The Catcher in the Rye” would necessarily make a good movie. “There are readymade ‘scenes,’ ” he explained to one rights-inquirer, but “the weight of the book is in the narrator’s voice.” To another, he sent a testy telegram: “IM AFRAID THE ANSWER IS EMPHATICALLY NO REPEAT EMPHATICALLY.”
For a long time, Salinger had the same policy for “Esmé.” A month after the story appeared, “an English film maggot,” as Salinger called him, said he wanted to make a movie out of it; Salinger wasn’t interested. In 1953, “Esmé” was reprinted in Salinger’s “Nine Stories,” a collection whose U.K. edition was titled “For Esmé—With Love and Squalor: And Other Stories.” The following year, the BBC tried to acquire the rights to adapt “Esmé” for a radio drama series hosted by Laurence Olivier. Salinger said no. In 1958, Salinger’s U.K. publisher sold paperback rights to the story collection to a publishing house that issued a cheap pocketbook whose flashy cover pictured Esmé as a dishy blonde, with the tagline “Explosive and Absorbing—A Painful and Pitiable Gallery of Men, Women, Adolescents, and Children.” Salinger never spoke to the publisher again.
“Some of my best friends are children,” Salinger wrote in 1955. “In fact, all of my best friends are children.” There were two kinds in his work: earlier versions of himself, and girls. Some Salinger stories, Norman Mailer once said, “seem to have been written for high-school girls,” which was untrue but seems to have been the worst insult Mailer could think of. Salinger was among a crowd of postwar writers whom Leslie Fiedler called Teenage Impersonators, along with Mailer, Jack Kerouac, and William Burroughs. One reason that Salinger’s writing can seem juvenile is that it contains no adult sexuality, which is not the case with Mailer, Kerouac, and Burroughs. Sex would have ruined Salinger’s girls, narratively speaking, since their purpose is to serve as moral housekeepers, the cleaners of men’s souls. As Fiedler pointed out, “The series which begins with ‘Esmé’ goes on through ‘A Perfect Day for Bananafish,’ where the girl-savior appears too late to save Seymour, oldest of the Glass family; and reaches an appropriate climax in ‘Catcher in the Rye,’ where the savior is the little sister.” When I was a little sister, girls who were readers had, as a rule, two choices: stories about boys or stories about unsullied girls. (So many little Nells, so few Elizabeth Bennetts.) Salinger knocked my kneesocks off, at least until “Lolita” ruined him for me, which wasn’t Salinger’s fault. But these things happen.
The Teenage Impersonator impersonated only boys. Salinger is Holden, but Salinger is not Esmé. Salinger wasn’t worried that Esmé wouldn’t like a film about her; he was worried that he wouldn’t. In any event, it’s hard to imagine “For Esmé—With Love and Squalor” as a film, because it’s mainly narration, with only three ready-made scenes; four, tops. The story is brief. In April, 1944, an unnamed sergeant, an American soldier stationed in Devon before the invasion of Normandy, wanders into a church where a children’s choir is rehearsing. Esmé is a singer in the choir. “She was about thirteen, with straight ash-blond hair of ear-lobe length.” After the rehearsal, the sergeant goes to a nearby tearoom, where Esmé turns up. “She was with a very small boy, unmistakably her brother, whose cap she removed by lifting it off his head with two fingers, as if it were a laboratory specimen.” She joins the sergeant at his table:
Esmé’s father has been killed in North Africa. She wears his watch on her wrist. She asks the sergeant what he did before the war. He tells her that he’s a short-story writer:
They agree to correspond, and she asks him to write a story for her. “ ‘Make it extremely squalid and moving,’ she suggested. ‘Are you at all acquainted with squalor?’ ” The second half of the story, the squalid part, takes place six weeks after V-E Day, in a house in Germany, the onetime home of a Nazi official. The sergeant, having witnessed untold horrors, is unkempt, sleepless, half-mad. At his writing table, he fingers a copy of Joseph Goebbels’s 1941 book, “Die Zeit Ohne Beispiel.” (“Time Without Precedent”). A package arrives from Devon, containing a letter from Esmé, with a note from her little brother, who is learning to spell—“HELLO HELLO HELLO HELLO HELLO HELLO HELLO HELLO HELLO HELLO LOVE AND KISSES”—and, wrapped in tissue, her father’s watch, its crystal smashed, time stopped. He writes to Esmé, “You take a really sleepy man, Esmé, and he always stands a chance of again becoming a man with all his fac—with all his f-a-c-u-l-t-i-e-s intact.”
Then, in 1962, Salinger got a letter from Peter Tewksbury, he of the cheese, an Emmy Award-winning television director, best known for “Father Knows Best” and “My Three Sons.” Salinger had a 16-mm. projector at his house. He borrowed reels from the Dartmouth library; he loved to watch old movies, like “The Lady Vanishes.” But the only TV show that Salinger watched in 1962, according to Tewksbury, was his new series, “It’s a Man’s World.” Tewksbury wanted to adapt “Esmé.” Salinger agreed.
J. D. Salinger was born in New York in 1919, Peter Tewksbury in Cleveland in 1923. They both attended prep school; after high school, Salinger went to N.Y.U., Tewksbury to Dartmouth. Then began the war. A generation of young men knew death before they knew sex, love as salvation. Salinger was drafted in 1942, Tewksbury in 1943, the same year as my father, who, like Salinger and Tewksbury, came back broken. After the war, there were girls, to help fix them. Salinger and Tewksbury got married. Salinger wrote stories; Tewksbury directed plays. Tewksbury turned to television in 1954, when he directed an episode of “Life with Father.” In the nineteen-fifties, while Salinger wrote about the Glass family, who had appeared, as children, on a quiz show called “It’s a Wise Child,” Tewksbury directed a hundred and thirty-four episodes of “Father Knows Best.” He won an Emmy in 1959. He and his wife had three sons and a daughter. In 1960, he produced and directed “My Three Sons.” No director is more intimately responsible for television’s vision of American family life during the Cold War.
In May, 1961, Newton Minow, the chairman of the F.C.C., dared an audience of American broadcasters to watch a full day of their own programming, which he described as “a vast wasteland . . . a procession of game shows, formula comedies about totally unbelievable families, blood and thunder, mayhem, violence, sadism, murder, western bad men, western good men, private eyes, gangsters, more violence, and cartoons.” Tewksbury was stirred. Having earned a great deal of money and acclaim for NBC, he got free rein to develop a new series with the working title “The Young Men,” an hour-long drama about four boys—two teen-agers and two college students—living on their own in a houseboat on a river in the Midwest. (The college scenes were shot at Marietta College, in Ohio.) He wanted nothing phony: no infallible fathers, no staginess, no hammy dialogue, no fake kids. “We want to do young people as they really are,” Tewksbury said. “Kids solving problems without family authority.” From Universal City, he sent out a casting call to talent agents: “Since we are not looking for established, so-called ‘stars’ or ‘name actors,’ we intend to explore not only all of your clients, but to find and talk to every possible actor we can whether or not he has an agent and whether he lives in this area or Chicago or Slapout Holler, Arkansas.”
Tewksbury travelled across the country by bus. He found Randy Boone, a folksinger, working in a coffee shop in North Carolina, and cast him as Vern, a modern-day Huck Finn. Glenn Corbett, who’d done a few small parts in movies, played Wes, who was working his way through college while raising his younger brother, Howie, played by thirteen-year-old Michael Burns. For the role of Tom-Tom, a college student from a wealthy family in Chicago, Tewksbury cast Ted Bessel, a stage actor who’d been training in New York with Sanford Meisner, who, in 1961, made a recording of Gene Wilder and Mary Mercier performing a dramatic reading of “Esmé.” Tewksbury wrote Bessel a letter, in the voice of Tom-Tom, signed it “Caulfield,” and added a postscript: “If you think you would like to play the role of the man who wrote the enclosed letter, call me.”
To Tewksbury’s dismay, NBC changed the show’s title to “It’s a Man’s World.” The first episode aired in September, 1962. Kennedy was in the White House, Salinger was America’s favorite author, Bob Dylan had just released his first album. The network’s publicity department was hard-pressed to describe what Tewksbury was up to. “The series features offbeat, super-realistic drama,” a brochure ventured. One TV critic told readers that he’d been unable to get NBC to show him the pilot: “No one at the network or the agency level would green-light a preview.”
“It’s a Man’s World” is an amazingly strange and interesting television show. On the set, Tewksbury was a fanatic: wiry, dishevelled, intense, and a little terrifying. “Peter Tewksbury is a mid-century modern artifact,” Michael Burns told me. He was a director of the old school. He refused to call the actors by their real names, even off set. “He always called me ‘Howie,’ even thirty years later when we lived in Vermont,” Burns said. When he needed tears, he drove actors to tears; when he needed fear, he raged at them. Tewksbury had a lot at stake in the experiment, and a sense of calling; his actors rallied behind him, passionately. “This is not a show,” Corbett said. “It’s a cause.” | <urn:uuid:cc24ae0f-bf16-44e5-a386-4f8edc46270c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/11/21/the-film-jd-salinger-nearly-made | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571536.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811224716-20220812014716-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.979118 | 3,948 | 1.703125 | 2 |
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This course aims at providing a conceptual understanding of some of the many faces of the Universe. General issues relating to the nature of mathematics and science, of space and time, and of the universe as a whole will be discussed. The course will be divided into the following sections: The Structure of the Universe, Shape and Measurement, The Geometry of Space-Time, Cosmology and the Arrow of Time, The Development of Life and the Anthropic Principle. The various sections will be introduced in a historical context emphasising the evolution of thought leading to current understanding. Topics to be covered include: the nature of numbers and of mathematical knowledge; geometry and the physical world, the nature of gravity and black holes, time travel and backward causation, determinism and free will, and mathematical models of the universe.
Upon successful completion, students will have the knowledge and skills to:An understanding in outline of the history of cosmology, and of contemporary cosmology.
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An understanding of what would be involved in further study in philosophy of science, and in cosmology.
A habit of educated questioning of scientific orthodoxy.
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What is ADHD?
ADHD is a condition where you have lots of energy and have difficulty concentrating. You might also find it hard to control what you say and do. For example, you might speak without thinking first, or find that you do things on impulse.
Symptoms usually start very early life, before the age of six. We don’t know exactly what causes ADHD but experts think it might run in families, or it could be to do with the way the chemicals in your brain work. But you might start to experience ADHD-like symptoms if you’ve had a difficult experience.
Another condition called ADD (Attention Deficit Disorder) has similar symptoms to ADHD, but you don’t feel as hyperactive. For people with ADD, the main problem they have is difficulty concentrating.
The symptoms of ADHD. Symptoms include:
- Feeling restless or fidgety
- Talking a lot and interrupting others
- Becoming easily distracted
- Finding it hard to concentrate
- Saying or doing things without thinking
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Below is a great story about how important it is to give others a “good name” in our hearts and in our minds (and theirs).
Read the story and think about someone in your life that deserves this kind of treatment.
Maybe forward the story and tell them what they mean to you.
Make it a great day.
PS – Meaghan is a one million cow wife (probably the best compliment she’s gotten lately).
Johnny Lingo’s Eight-Cow Wife
by Patricia McGerr
When I visited the South Pacific islands, I took a notebook along. I had a three‐week leave between assignments in Japan, so I borrowed a boat and sailed to Kiniwata. The notebook was supposed to help me become a junior‐grade Maugham or Michener. But when I got back, among all my notes the only sentence that still interested me was the one that said, “Johnny Lingo gave eight cows to Sarita’s father.”
Johnny Lingo wasn’t exactly his name. But I wrote it down that way because I learned about the eight cows from Shenkin, the fat manager of the guest house at Kiniwata. He was from Chicago and had a habit of Americanizing the names of the islanders. He wasn’t the only one who talked about Johnny, though. His name came up with many people in many connections. If I wanted to spend a few days on the island of Nurabandi, a day’s sail away, Johnny Lingo could put me up, they told me, since he had built a five‐room house–unheard‐of luxury! If I wanted to fish, he could show me where the biting was best. If I wanted fresh vegetables, his garden was the greenest. If I sought pearls, his busi‐ness savvy would bring me the best buys. Oh, the people of Kiniwata all spoke highly of Johnny Lingo. Yet when they spoke, they smiled, and the smiles were slightly mocking.
“Get Johnny Lingo to help you find what you want, and then let him do the bargaining,” advised Shenkin, as I sat on the veranda of his guest house wondering whether to visit Nurabandi. “He’ll earn his commission four times over. Johnny knows values and how to make a deal.”
“Johnny Lingo!” The chubby boy on the veranda steps hooted the name, then hugged his knees and rocked with shrill laughter.
“What goes on?” I asked. “Everybody around here tells me to get in touch with Johnny Lingo and then breaks up. Let me in on the joke.”
“They like to laugh,” Shenkin said. He shrugged his heavy shoulders.
“And Johnny’s the brightest, the quickest, the strongest young man in all this group of islands. So they like best to laugh at him.”
“But if he’s all you say, what is there to laugh about?”
“Only one thing. Five months ago, at fall festival time, Johnny came to Kiniwata and found himself a wife. He paid her father eight cows!”
He spoke the last words with great solemnity. I knew enough about island customs to be thoroughly impressed. Two or three cows would buy a fair‐to‐middling wife; four or five a highly satisfactory one.
“Eight cows!” I said. “She must be a beauty who takes your breath away.”
“The kindest could only call Sarita plain,” was Shenkin’s answer. “She was skinny. She walked with her shoulders hunched and her head ducked. She was scared of her own shadow.”
“Then how do you explain the eight cows?”
“We don’t,” he said. “And that’s why the villagers grin when they talk about Johnny. They get special satisfaction from the fact that Johnny, the sharpest trader in the islands, was bested by Sarita’s father, dull old Sam Karoo.”
“Eight cows,” I said unbelievingly. “I’d like to meet this Johnny Lingo.”
So the next afternoon I sailed a boat to Nurabandi and met Johnny at his home, where I asked about his eight‐cow purchase of Sarita. I assumed he had done it for his own vanity and reputation–at least until Sarita walked into the room. She was the most beautiful woman I have ever seen. The lift of her shoulders, the tilt of her chin, the sparkle of her eyes all spelled a pride to which no one could deny her the right.
I turned back to Johnny Lingo after she had left. “You admire her?” he asked. “She . . . she’s glorious,” I said. “But she’s not Sarita from Kiniwata.” “There’s only one Sarita.
Perhaps she does not look the way they say she looked in Kiniwata.” “She doesn’t.” The impact of the girl’s appearance made me forget tact. “I heard she was homely. They all make fun of you because you let yourself be cheated by Sam Karoo.”
“You think eight cows were too many?” A smile slid over his lips. “No. But how can she be so different?” “Do you ever think,” he asked, “what it must mean to a woman to know that her husband settled on the lowest price for which she can be bought? And then later, when the women talk, they boast of what their husbands paid for them. One says four cows; another maybe six. How does she feel, the woman who was sold for one or two? This could not happen to my Sarita.”
“Then you did this just to make her happy?” I asked.
“I wanted Sarita to be happy, yes. But I wanted more than that. You say she is different. This is true. Many things can change a woman. Things that happen inside; things that happen outside. But the thing that matters most is what she thinks about herself. In Kiniwata, Sarita believed she was worth nothing. Now she knows she is worth more than any other woman in the islands.”
“Then you wanted . . . ” “I wanted to marry Sarita. I loved her and no other woman.” “But . . . ” “But,” he finished softly, “I wanted an eight‐cow wife.”
LOOKING AHEAD . . .
Someone said, “We are not what we think we are. We are not even what others think we are. We are what we think others think we are.” In other words, our estimation of our value as human beings is greatly influenced by the way people respond to us and the respect or disdain they reveal day by day. Those interactions shape our self‐concepts and are translated into the nuances of our personalities.
Johnny Lingo was, indeed, a brilliant man. He was astute enough to know that his negotiations with Sarita’s father would seal forever the self‐concept of the woman he loved. That’s why Sarita revealed such confidence and beauty. Let me say to the husbands and wives reading this book: You have the power to elevate or debase each other’s self‐esteem. Rather than tear down, don’t miss a single opportunity to build up. | <urn:uuid:9507b125-de3e-4ea0-9a44-e13e6db3bd67> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://thedailyattitudeemail.com/2018/01/24/daily-attitude-email-01-24-18/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571909.51/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813051311-20220813081311-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.982295 | 1,666 | 1.929688 | 2 |
What does ‘show don’t tell’ mean? It means don’t tell us about loneliness (or any of those complex words like dishonesty, secrecy, jealousy, obsession, regret, death, injustice, etc) show us what loneliness is. We will read what you’ve written and feel the bite of loneliness. Don’t tell us what to feel. Show us the situation, and that feeling will be triggered in us.
When you take your child to school on their first day you may find yourself teary and relieved at the same time. Put into words what you see: the child’s face, the wave at the gate, the other mothers saying their goodbyes, another child coming up to take your son by the hand. We will get what you’re trying to say without you telling us directly.
When you write, be conscious of the senses and how they connect to the experiences you are writing about. Use sight, sound, smell, touch to create concrete pictures. The senses allow you to get as close as humanly possible in words to the wedding, the sunrise, the dog, the suitcase. It’s the best way to penetrate your story and breathe life into it. Don’t tell us about something, drop deep, enter the story and take us with you.
‘Use strong, specific verbs, and avoid overusing adverbs. Provoke emotion through character reactions and vivid writing, don’t simply tell readers how to feel. Use well-placed details to bring scenes to life. Use expressive dialogue to show characters’ emotions and attitudes.’ – Creative Writing 101, Wright State University
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Outdoor Education & Activities
Outdoor education usually refers to organized learning that takes place in the outdoors. Outdoor education programs sometimes involve residential or journey wilderness-based experiences in which students participate in a variety of adventurous challenges and outdoor activities such as hiking, climbing, ropes courses and group games. Outdoor education draws upon the philosophy, theory, and practices of experiential education and environmental education.
Let Us Be the Place for Learning!
Learning about nature and the beauty of the environment.
Getting students outside and allow them to explore the beauty of the world is a must for all students.
Environmental education is a process that allows individuals to explore environmental issues, engage in problem solving, and take action to improve the environment.
A ropes course is a challenging outdoor personal development and team building activity which usually consists of high and/or low elements.
The Zip Line!
Handicap accessible and available for you.
'Any good PE curriculum should ensure that all children have water confidence'. Teaching even basic swimming skills can help keep young people safe.
Animal welfare & education are important today, but where can you learn about them?
Swing set, sand volleyball, basketball, gaga pit, disc golf, will allow your students to just play!
Hot meals may be available or we'll bring you a sack lunch to you!
Zip line, crate, climb and other elements will challenge students of all skill levels.
Wedding Pics Tall Oaks2
Trained, caring staff help you learn to take the reins!
Archery Tall Oaks
Learn a new skill.
We Can Design a Program For You
Challenge courses, group initiatives, environmental education, pond studies, archery, equestrian, and personal study we can help your students enjoy the outdoors.
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October 31, 2020
October 2020 at Policy Integrity
- Aligning Public Lands Policy with Climate Priorities
- Policy Approaches for Sustainable American Infrastructure
- The Path Forward to Effective Regulatory Review
- Reviving Rationality: New Book by Livermore and Revesz
- Examining Trump-Era Attacks on Science and Economics
- Litigation Updates: Fracking Regulations, Healthcare Conscience Rule
- Policy Integrity Welcomes New Advisory Board Members
- More from October 2020
U.S. public lands and waters are the source of almost 30 percent of annual domestic energy production, primarily from fossil fuels. The federal government, however, has yet to develop a comprehensive plan that aligns its land management decisions with climate change priorities. We released a report describing immediate and longer-term actions that the Department of Interior can take to improve its natural resources policy and reduce greenhouse gas emissions from public lands and waters.
Most categories of American infrastructure—from transportation and water systems to public school buildings and electricity meters—are in dire need of modernization, and climate change is compounding this challenge. Our report provides policy recommendations at each stage of the infrastructure lifecycle, from project planning and analysis, through financing, construction, and maintenance. We explain how a realigned approach to infrastructure can boost the economy while addressing threats from climate change and prioritizing social equity goals.
In recent years, federal leadership has distorted the practice of regulatory analysis and eroded the integrity of the government’s regulatory review structure—as coordinated by the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs. We released a report detailing how OIRA can restore and improve regulatory review by addressing recent missteps while affirming best practices and making key enhancements. Implementing these recommended reforms would refocus OIRA on helping agencies once again use regulations to improve the health and safety of the American public.
The Trump administration has destabilized the decades-long bipartisan consensus that federal agencies must base their decisions on evidence, expertise, and analysis. Michael Livermore and Richard Revesz’s new book, which will be published by Oxford University Press in November, analyzes the Trump administration’s actions and details how future administrations must approach the difficult task of rebuilding a rational regulatory system. More information on their book, Reviving Rationality: Saving Cost-Benefit Analysis for the Sake of the Environment and Our Health, is available from Oxford University Press and Amazon.
Examining Trump-Era Attacks on Science and Economics
As the election approaches, many are scrutinizing the Trump administration’s prolonged record of problematic deregulation. In addition to his forthcoming book, Richard Revesz has written several academic articles examining these attempts to undermine vital safeguards. He has analyzed attacks against greenhouse gas regulations and the Clean Air Act and the administration’s patently inconsistent approach to policy analysis. Revesz has also described the specific strategies employed by the administration to weaken environmental and public health protections, further summarizing these strategies in a piece directed at economics and policy audiences.
Litigation Updates: Fracking Regulations, Healthcare Conscience Rule
Our amicus brief in the Ninth Circuit criticized the Bureau of Land Management’s flawed decision to repeal an Obama-era rule that tightens environmental regulations for fracking on public lands. We focused on BLM’s irrational analysis, which dismisses the rule’s significant benefits and disregards longstanding practices.
We also filed a brief opposing the Department of Health and Human Services’ conscience rule, which sought to expand healthcare providers’ rights to deny care on religious or moral grounds. Our brief focused on HHS’s failure to acknowledge the rule’s likely health costs for women and LGBT individuals.
This month, five new members joined our advisory board.
- Norman Bay is a Partner and Head of the Energy Regulatory and Enforcement Group at Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP, and previously served as a Chairman of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.
- Tomás Carbonell is Senior Counsel and Director for Regulatory Policy in the U.S. Clean Air Program at Environmental Defense Fund, and teaches at Howard University School of Law.
- Brenda Mallory is the Director of Regulatory Policy at the Southern Environmental Law Center, and previously served as General Counsel of the White House Council on Environmental Quality during the Obama administration.
- Albert Monroe is an Economist in the Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of Pollution Prevention and Toxics, and previously served as Chief of Staff of the Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection.
- Kevin Poloncarz is a Partner at Covington & Burling LLP, and co-chairs the firm’s Environmental Practice Group and Energy Industry Group.
Each new board member brings tremendous experience in climate and energy policy, and we look forward to benefiting from their guidance. You can learn more about our advisory board here.
More from October 2020
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Getting to Know Your Students
Wednesday, August 17, 2022 | 2:30 - 3:20 p.m.
Event Type: Webinar
Facilitator: Linda Stewart
How might we create the “relentless welcome” students need to feel a sense of belonging and improve their learning (Felton & Lambert 2020)? During this webinar, participants will explore multiple ways to connect with students and create community in any modality. We will examine the significance of the first weeks of the semester, identify components of an inclusive classroom, provide multiple strategies and resources for relationship-building, share a brief story online, and reflect upon our ‘sense of belonging’ practices. Current or future graduate student teachers and faculty are welcome. | <urn:uuid:2a5c735b-c7e0-44fd-aa67-b03d7240588e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://facultydevelopment.kennesaw.edu/scholarly-teaching/events/2022-fall/getting-to-know-students.php | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571909.51/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813051311-20220813081311-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.870707 | 156 | 1.890625 | 2 |
Carrot is one of the most magical vegetables. Its main strength is in combination of vitamins and minerals.
Our chefs often prepare varieties of carrot dishes, but vegetable is also used in cosmetology.
100 grams of carrots contain only 34 calories. Also, BC, K, PP, D, E, C, vitamins, mineral salts, potassium, iron, iodine, copper, fructose, and carotene. Carotene is particularly important - it is converted into vitamin A in the body.
Carrot improves blood circulation system. It is also useful for gastritis, asthma, tuberculosis, bronchitis, and pneumonia. It can also reduce stress level. Carrot is very beneficial for hair and nails.
Carrots are recommended for pregnant women.
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Performance Management Process and the CEO
Critique and evaluate considerations that are traditionally used to determine CEO compensation
Many reward compensations adopted by the CEOs of this era contain five primary components: limited stock grants, limited option grants, payouts for incentive plans, annual bonuses, and salary. While the amounts of bonuses, compensation and perquisites found in not-for-profit sectors may pale in comparison to those in the for-profit world, they generate combined reactions. Their existence can ignite debate, especially in periods of shrinking budgets and increasing costs. However, the ability to hire, maintain, and compensate CEOs is essential in all sectors, and is mostly achieved using a variety of executive compensation plans. The issues around the design of these systems in both the business and not-for-profit areas are similar (Bhattacharyya, 2011).
The last two decades have witnessed a drastic transformation of the executive compensation in many organizations. Compensation of top executives has expanded considerably quicker than that of ordinary workers. As of 2003, the common large firm CEO made 500 times than those of ordinary employees. Consequently, the numbers involved have become quite substantial. In a span of five years, CEO compensation at each company in the widely used ExecuComp data source, aggregated over the 1500 companies in the data source, totaled at approximately $100 billion (Bebchuk & Fried, 2004). CEOs set their own salaries. Consequently, they claim, even though CEOs are under a fiduciary responsibility to expand shareholder value, compensation plans for CEOs often do not succeed to provide CEOs with proper rewards so to do and may even cause shareholder and executive interests to diverge.
Create a matrix or a sample evaluation tool that details the factors you believe CEO compensation should be measured by in the company
Pay-for-performance would be the most useful device in calculating CEO compensation. In order to establish defensible compensation choices in the current era of corporate governance and effective investors, the management needs new tools such as pay-for performance. It must be linked to key business metrics, targets, and business strategy. This tool identifies the total cost of a CEO relative to:
(i) Return on investment capital, which excludes the cost of capital
(ii) Shareholder Return
(iii) A 10-year Treasury and (iv) Six chosen real professional organizations with corresponding compensation adjusted to the level of work complexity or the role of the CEO. Administrators need performance metrics and periods that help them evaluate the stability of the business technique, whether it will allow the company to make value with the capital offered from investors, and if so, how much (Chingos, 2002).
In order to create defensible compensation choices boards need to look beyond previous times one to two years of operational efficiency, unless the company is up for sale Three to five-year efficiency times should be the lowest benchmark for pay-for-efficiency planning and evaluation. Executives can keep no better legacy than guaranteeing the stability and viability of the business over which they have strategic management. In order to achieve this, directors require new procedures and new tools, like pay-for-performance to help them precisely determine the executive performance metrics and work accountability of CEOs that align with the strategic plan for the company. For the pay-for performance to become a reality, directors need to be completely advised and test to ensure the executive pay programs and policy they accept lead to the development of real and maintainable value for investors.
Evaluate how transferable this tool would be across industries.
There is minimal efficiency for performance-based compensation device across diverse sectors. Nobody can transfer anything that works in one setting and have it work in another. Therefore, the kind of tool used in health care is not going to work in transport. Each of the areas is unique. Simultaneously, there were enough parallels for carrying out a successful evaluation. Medical care is not the only sector in which there is collaborated production going on; that is also true in education. The situation in education is that while...
In addition, in health care, one has combined care, and CEOs often work in groups. Moreover, maybe in those cases, the right tool of accountability will not be the individual employee, but perhaps a team.
Determine how technology can best be used to assist in the development of the factors you identified as factors that you believe the CEO should be measured by The entire efficiency and settlement system should have a powerful technological innovation supporting. Without a powerful technological platform, companies end up with static objectives and performance records that are not customized based on changing business conditions and are not analyzed until the next performance evaluation. In addition, the skill calibration procedure depends on a single view of company skills. Without a technological enabler, skill's evaluation becomes a long and costly manual system. The technological innovation is also critical to moving the adjusted performance evaluation data into the compensation technological system. With the outstanding complexity of international settlement systems, versatile and highly configurable technological innovations are essential in handling the procedure, in ways that promote top-performing CEOs (Chingos, 2004). The technological innovation should take a "heavy lifting" off the settlement team concerning CEO settlement eligibility and transparency into procedure and practice in any organization across the world.
Considerations for the technology system should include an evaluation of how settlement guidelines and computations are designed, modified, and applied. Such an undertaking will be crucial in the management of complicated settlement scenery. Additionally, the program should be capable of dynamically determining CEO qualifications. Since CEOs might be qualified for multiple plans, and it is certain that they will transfer between geographies, eligibility can change along with these changes. While using performance metrics, concern should be given to whether the settlement program can use the input framework to measure variable compensation. For example, if CEOs are paid depending on financial results for their companies, the settlement system must determine the proper benchmark in accordance with the data approved from the financial system.
Discuss the challenges that technology would have on the effective evaluation of CEO compensation and how this challenge differs from traditional challenges technology has had on the performance management process.
While digital evaluation techniques have several benefits associated with network-based technological innovation, they can also suffer from familiar problems related to other technological innovations. First, it is important to consider the attitude that CEOs may have toward technological innovation. In particular, some people may have a mistrust or discomfort with technological innovation, which can damage the achievements of any program that depends on it. As a result, people who will be using it can lead to a company investing significant figures on devices that will not be used successfully. Consistent with this line of thinking, one study revealed that companies recognized inadequate coaching and support for technology-based HR techniques as the biggest hurdle to their achievements. As such, in order for a digital CEO evaluation program to be effective, both CEOs and their employees need to completely understand the technological innovation and feel safe using it, a process that can include expensive and time-consuming coaching prior to adopting.
The above challenge differs from traditional challenges technology has had on the performance management process. Traditionally, technological innovation had a far larger effect on employment, in office work and professional services. Technological innovation like the Web, big data, artificial intelligence and enhanced analytics -- all made possible by the ever improving accessibility to cheap computing power and storage capacity -- are automating many routine projects. Plenty of conventional white-collar projects, such as many in the postal service and client support, have vanished (Blazey, 2013). Brian Arthur, a leading specialist at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center's intellect systems lab and a former financial aspects lecturer at Stanford School, refers to it as the "autonomous economic system." It is far simpler than the idea of automation and robots doing individual projects. It includes digital systems speaking with other digital procedures and creating new CEO evaluation procedures. Eventually, companies will be able to do many things with fewer people and making other human jobs outdated.
Thinking ahead to the next decade, discuss whether the factors you identified as considerations would remain relevant.
Regardless of the remarkable heterogeneity in compensation practices across companies, most CEO rewards contain five primary components: limited stock grants, limited option grants, payouts for incentive plans, annual bonuses, and salary. Moreover, CEOs often get contributions to defined-benefit retirement programs, various perquisites, and, in case of their leaving, severance pays. The significance of these settlement components has modified significantly over time. From 1936 to the nineteen fifties, CEO settlement consisted mainly of incomes and yearly bonuses. As nowadays, benefits were non-discretionary, connected with one or more measure of yearly accounting performance, and compensated in either stock or cash. Payments from long-term incentive programs,…
By opening stock options to middle management and employees, it was assumed that better employee performance would be incentivized. As company stock prices go up, it creates a greater spread between the option price when it was granted to the employee and the hypothetical sale price at the end of the vesting period. Consistently better performance over a longer period of time would yield greater reward when the option
Morgan Stanley & Goldman Sachs Employee compensations has for many years been seen as a type of job benefit package that did one of two things: either reward people for doing good work (merit) or offer them the chance to make more by coming up with creative new business ideas that made the company money (incentives) (Tropman, 2001). Now, however, the issue has changed on a number of fronts. For most
Value of Performance Evaluations Some people think of the performance evaluation as little more than a waste of time. They believe that given that they are mandatory and generally completed in a relatively short period of time, performance evaluations fail to capture an employee's true performance or give the employee meaningful feedback that would enable him or her to improve performance. As a result, many have suggested that the performance
This talent does need to be retained. With respect to the executives who were involved in mortgage-backed securities, however, this argument holds little water. These are not talented individuals, as demonstrated by the substantial losses their actions have inflicted upon the company. They are not the sort of employees that the firm should be seeking to retain. It is only due to the outdated or erroneous perception that these individuals
Those days are likely over, for a variety of reasons, including shareholder concerns about the ever increasing dilution due to the issuance of options and new accounting rules requiring companies to expense options... In addition, studies have shown that the accounting cost of stock options exceeds employees' perceived value of those options. Finally, there has been a crisis in governance that has caused a reexamination of corporate accounting standards.
Part of the reason for this, is because shareholders and the board of directors are allowing this to occur. To prevent the situation from becoming worse, shareholders and the board need to be more independent, by questioning the motives / actions of management. At the same time, there must be some kind regulations in place that can prevent the runaway abuses from occurring. If this kind of strategy can | <urn:uuid:45aa95c1-d4bc-4cab-bf86-73c376bac790> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.paperdue.com/essay/aligning-employee-compensation-to-the-performance-189848 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571536.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811224716-20220812014716-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.95781 | 2,248 | 1.640625 | 2 |
The "Select data" tab allows the user to choose what parameters will be used to clustering the data.
Figure 4: Select data tab
Select the data from the file frame
In the frame "Select the data from the file", the left list contains all the values present in the file and not yet selected and the right list contains all the values that have been selected for the clustering.
In this frame are several buttons that allow the user to interact with the lists : * The "Select All" button allows you to add all the variables with a single click ; * The "Select" button adds the selected variable(s) ; * The "Unselect All" button allows you to remove everything ; * The "Unselect" button allows to remove the selected variable(s).
The drop-down list "Select the labels (if available)" allows the user to select the column containing the real labels if it is available in the file. Otherwise, select "NA". The precision of this column in the interface, will allow in the results to have more information, especially with the scores and the correlation matrix
This part allows the user to quickly visualize the data present in the file. This can help him to select the parameters he will have to use for the clustering. Just select the two axes in the two drop-down lists and press the "Plot" button to show the plot.
Next step button
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Autism is now recognized as a varied group of developmental disorders, known as autism spectrum disorders or ASDs. It is defined at the behavioral level, and its three hallmark features are known: impaired social interaction, communication difficulties and repetitive behaviors.
Much like a computer, the brain relies on intricate wiring to process and transmit information. Scientists have discovered that in people with autism, this wiring is faulty, leading to misfiring in communications between brain cells.
In the brain, nerve cells transmit important messages that regulate body functions — everything from social behavior to movement. Imaging studies have revealed that children with autism have too many nerve fibers, but that they’re not working well enough to facilitate communication between the various parts of the brain.
Brain imaging techniques, such as magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), have been used to examine the brains of individuals with autism. However, results have been inconsistent. Abnormal brain areas in people with autism include the:
- Cerebellum – reduced size in parts of the cerebellum.
- Hippocampus and Amygdala – smaller volume. Also, neurons in these areas are smaller and more tightly packed (higher cell density).
- Lobes of the Cerebrum – larger size than normal.
- Ventricles – increased size.
- Caudate nucleus – reduced volume.
Scientists also have discovered irregularities in the brain structures themselves, such as in the corpus callosum (which facilitates communication between the two hemispheres of the brain), amygdala (which affects emotion and social behavior), and cerebellum (which is involved with motor activity, balance, and coordination). They believe these abnormalities occur during prenatal development.
In addition, scientists have noted imbalances in neurotransmitters — chemicals that help nerve cells communicate with one another. Two of the neurotransmitters that appear to be affected are serotonin (which affects emotion and behavior) and glutamate (which plays a role in neuron activity). Together, these brain differences may account for autistic behaviors.
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A business cannot thrive solely on ideas and good faith, no matter how innovative and hard-working you may be.
As an entrepreneur, you would have to make large-scale decisions on a daily basis and if you are by nature a creative force and not a rational mind, you may find some aspects of running a business stressful.
However, once you come to terms that you cannot control or know everything, you will have no problem gathering an interior or hiring an exterior team for different purposes.
A wise leader knows that organization is crucial, as well as delegating tasks in accordance with areas of expertise.
Finance is one of the fields that causes many headaches to business owners but it is nevertheless essential.
You need to know your budget capabilities at all times in order to have a perspective on whether your business is making progress. And whether something needs to be changed in your business plan.
With that in mind, here is a short overview of different financial accounting systems as well as the business areas which will benefit from a reliable accountant.
1. Accounting systems
There are four main types of accounting, which can be divided into smaller subcategories. The first couple is the manual and computerized duo.
As the name suggests, the manual accounting system relies on the manual calculation of balances, preparation of financial statement reports, as well as recording of transactions in physical registers.
Computerized accounting systems do all of that work electronically. The second pair are the single-entry and double-entry systems.
The single-entry accounting means that the data is recorded as a single entry in the log and this method doesn’t require too much training to be able to perform it.
On the other hand, double-entry accounting involves two or more accounts which help to detect an error on time.
2. Strategic management
The term strategic management encompasses the strategy devised to prepare for any future outcome.
In this changeable environment, every business needs a flexible enough strategy to withstand the many challenges but firm enough not to lose the business’ essence.
Accounting data are a tool in assessing the most optimal solutions concerning segments such as development planning, procurement, and sales planning, as well as cash planning, all of which can you can educate yourself by resorting to a business funding guide.
Only when you know the hard-cold factual numbers behind your business operations can you make an informed decision on how to plan the next segments of your business endeavors.
3. Employee motivation
Although the question of money as a reward can be controversial, we are all aware that it is a necessary element to our lives.
Our livelihood depends on it in a direct or indirect manner. And we need it not only for paying the bills and purchasing bare necessities but to treat ourselves and our loved ones from time to time.
So, although it may not be the strongest, money is a powerful motivator in achieving employee engagement whether we want to admit it or not.
To be able to deduce whether there are enough funds for a raise or a one-time stimulation for a meticulous employee, you would first need to consult the current accounting information, as well as future estimates.
4. Professional advice
Sailing the sea of business finance is not a smooth ride and at times it might seem as though you are not certain whether your boat will endure the crisis.
In such instances, it is very important to have a loyal team of people behind you to put the extra effort to get something done and a reliable and non-judgmental accountant.
Naturally, accountants specialize in different areas. An accountant’s strong point may be to aid you with filing your tax return, while another will be to help you out of a financial disaster.
If you are in a profession that is often stigmatized, for instance, the adult industry, you should be able to find a reliable sex worker accountant who will offer objective and sound professional advice.
It is paramount for that person to be unprejudiced and to perform their job expertly without judging your mistakes or line of work.
5. Information transfer
The company’s success depends, to a large extent, on the communication between departments.
Each department represents one piece of a puzzle and for the picture to be whole, you need all parts to get along, that is, to fit in.
In order to avoid misunderstandings and prospective mistakes, it is best to avoid word of mouth type of communication and go straight to the source.
Accounting records your financial activity and owing to that, represents a source of valuable data which are essential for a business to grow.
Meaning, its purpose is not only to collect but as well to supply both the management and different departments with information on sales price, time and cost of purchase, as well as stock.
This type of accounting, called managerial accounting, aids managers in their pursuit of business goals.
6. Budget planning
Since planning your company budget can be an arduous task, your accountant can help you facilitate the process of creating budget plans, both short and long-term.
Accountants evaluate the cost of services, and if they are from the local area, they can also advise you regarding the choice of location in case the cost of purchasing or renting a space for your business exceeds the budget.
Another budget-related category in which accounting plays a significant role in acquiring equipment and vehicles.
If you provide your accountants with the list of purchased equipment and the costs, they will be able to draw up a depreciation budget based on that information.
You can then use this data to help you acquire new tools as well as take care of the old ones that need to be repaired and regularly maintain work equipment.
The measurement of a successful business is not the fact that there are no mistakes in its operations but how well it bounced back.
All trials and errors are crucial components to every business’ growth and represent an invaluable experience and building blocks of a stronger business.
An accountant records these ups and downs making income statements, balance sheets, and cash flow statements an important source of information.
The data from this source doesn’t only show the financial health of your business, but can be a useful tool in making many decisions.
For instance, it can help with future budget allocations, to know whether there will be enough funds for equipment acquisition and employees’ rewards.
The versatile application of accounting records makes accounting an innate element to any business.
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FINDLAY – The Findlay Post, and the Hancock County Sheriff’s Department will be conducting a Distracted Driving effort February 23rd-29th in Hancock County.
Last year, 95 traffic crashes were related to distracted driving which resulted in 1 person losing their life, and more than 32 were injured in Hancock County. Sending or receiving a text message takes a driver’s eyes off the road for an average of 4.6 seconds, the equivalent of driving the length of an entire football field when traveling at 55 mph.
“Every time someone takes their eyes off the road – even for just a few seconds – they put their lives and the lives of others in danger,” said Lt. Matthew Crow Commander of the Findlay Post. “Distracted driving is unsafe and irresponsible. In a split second, its consequences can be devastating.”
In October of 2018, Ohio passed House Bill 95, a law which broadened what is considered distracted driving and increased the fine if it was a contributing factor to the commission of the driving violation.
Distracted driving is any non-driving activity with the potential to distract a person from the primary task of driving and increase the risk of crashing. Distractions can be visual, taking eyes off of the road; manual, taking hands off the wheel; or cognitive, taking the mind off driving. Texting while driving is an example that results in all three types of distraction.
As a reminder, Ohio law bans all electronic wireless communication device usage for drivers under 18. Texting while driving is illegal for all drivers and is a secondary offense for adults 18 and above.
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One of the reporters asked if BTS gave them any advice, and Beomgyu revealed that they learned a valuable lesson from their seniors when they ran into them at the company.
He recalled the time when they met BTS, and they advised the TXT members to always think of the team first. It was an important lesson that was taught to them by Bang Shi Hyuk, and they wanted to pass it down to their juniors.
“They emphasized a lesson they learned from Bang Shi Hyuk PD: Always remember the importance of the team.”
And it wasn’t just a one time thing. Whenever BTS runs into their juniors in the hall, they always leave a warm advice to help cheer them on!
“Every time we run into them, they tell us, ‘Always think of the team first. Become an amazing artist. We’re always looking out for you and cheering you on.’
They always give us warm advice whenever we see them. It gave me strength while I was training.”
Beomgyu also revealed that he’s a “big fan of BTS“, and “whenever [he runs] into them at the company, [his] heart flutters with nervousness, so [he] forgets how to speak.”
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Today is: 10, August 2022
Joseph Sampson Jr. was born in Dangriga Belizemore than fifty years ago.
Joseph has taught History and Social Studies at the secondary and tertiary levels both in Belize and Jamaica. In Belize he has taught at Stann Creek Ecumenical High School and Ecumenical Junior College(Dangriga), St. Peter Claver College and Julian Cho Technical High School(Toledo), Edward P. Yorke High School, St. Catherine Academy and Anglican Cathedral College (Belize City), Belmopan Baptist High School(Cayo). Today Joe is an Associate Lecturer of History in the History and Anthropology Program at the University of Belize.
In Jamaica Joe taught at Mona Preparatory School, Holy Childhood High School and was Tutor in Caribbean History for a short time at the University of the West Indies, Mona Campus.
Joe is a graduate of the University of the West Indies, Mona Campus where he pursued both undergraduate and postgraduate studies in History.
On the personal side, Joe is married to Rev. Lorna Sampson, a priest in the Anglican Diocese of Belize. They have two children, Dawn and Donald Sampson, son-in-law, Ralph Nunez, daugther-in-law, Carolyn Centeno Sampson, granchildren, Diroune, Kayan and Kavaun Sampson.
NINTEENTH CENTURY MIGRATION TO BELIZE
- Mixture of Carib Inidan and African Slaves in the Caribbean [articularly St. Vincent.
- These people fought with the Europeans to preserve St. Vincent as their place of domicile.
- They were defeated and many were sent out to sea to perish.
- they made it to the Bay Islands of Honduras.
- Later some moved to the mainland inhabiting parts of Guatemala(Livingston and eventually moving to Belize.
- Mestizos were a mixture of Spanish and Indian.
- They became the victims of the Guerra de Las Castas in Mexico.
- Eventually many of them fled Mexico and established themselves in Corozal and Orange Walk in Belize.
- These people left Prussia and Russia in search of political and religious freedom.
- They had strong objections to military service and governmental interference in their way of life.
- Eventually they crossed unto the North American Continent establishing themselves in Canada.
- Later many moved down to the United States, Chichihuaha in Mexico and Belize.
- In Belize they were given land and commitments of freedom of worship and community with no government interference.
Mayas from Guatemala
- Different Maya Groups from Guatemala particularly the Peten Department crossed over into Belize.
- A number of them settled in what is now San Antonio Village in Toledo
The East Indians
- East Indians were brought to the West Indies as Indentured servants to make-up the shortfall in the labour market after emancipation.
- Many of these East Indians left India because of extreme poverty and a promise of land, income and a better way of life in the Caribbean.
- For a number of them Belize was an option and they left Jamaica to come work in the logwood industry in Belize.
- Those that worked with the Southern Confederates in the sugar industry in the Toledo District were the victims of racism.
- Today East Indians are mainly an agricultural people.
The Southern Confederates
- Arrived in Belize after the civil war in the United States in 1865
- Started the first sugar industry in Belize in the Toledo District
- Eventually they began to leave the settlement because of disease, tropical conditions and racial considerations since they had to be living with East Indians.
- Chinese also came as indentured servants
- However they did not like the logwood works nor did they care for agricultural works
- Most of them had a preference for retail trading.
- Therefore they left the logwood works and took up commerce.
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We’re nearly 6 months on since the Domestic Abuse Act 2021 received Royal Assent but only parts have come into law on 1 October 2021 with many of the provisions still to be appointed. The bill came into effect after many years of campaigning by survivors of domestic abuse and domestic abuse organisations.
The law creates a legal definition of domestic abuse, establishes the office of Domestic Abuse Commissioner and provides protection for children in their own right.
Abusive behaviour’ is defined in the act as any of the following:
For the definition to apply, both parties must be aged 16 or over and ‘personally connected’. Personally connected includes people who are married to each other, civil partners, people who have agreed to marry or enter a civil partnership, had a parental relationship in relation to the same child, in a personal relationship to each other or are relatives. Controlling or coercive behaviour is recognised in the definition which is an important step. The family court has changed its approach as to how it considers whether there is controlling or coercive behaviour in a relationship.
The Act is intended to help victims of abuse in both criminal law proceedings and family law proceedings, as well as providing wider support such as providing safe housing.
The provisions relating to cases in the family court came into effect on 1 October 2021 and in particular measures preventing perpetrators of domestic abuse from questioning the victim in a family law court case are now in effect. This is an important step for those who have experienced domestic abuse. It is difficult enough for the victim to leave an abusive relationship. If family proceedings are then needed such as divorce, to deal with the arrangements for the children or deal with the division of the finances then the relationship continues between the abuser and victim. Most working in family law are conscious of the impact upon the parties where domestic abuse is alleged and that the way family proceedings are conducted does not always provide sufficient protection for the victim. It can re-open the trauma of the relationship for the victim.
It is very early days to comment on how effective the Domestic Abuse Act will be within the family courts but my view is that most family practitioners who work in this field are trying to protect victims and so the new law will make it easier for measures to be put in place to reduce the impact of court proceedings. Many of the measures to protect the victim were an option prior to the implementation of the Act but should be much easier to put in place.
Until the entire Act comes into force it is difficult to know if the provisions will bring about better protection for victims of domestic abuse and provide a more cohesive support system. There will hopefully be greater momentum for investment in the domestic abuse support system as a result of the recent high-profile murders of women. The increase of reports of domestic violence during the pandemic has highlighted the need for steps to be taken to protect those in an abusive relationship and to prevent the abuse in the first place. The focus may also now be on preventing the abuse in the first place rather than just protecting the victims of domestic abuse. We need to see a whole system change to protect victims of domestic abuse and to tackle the reasons for the abuse and finding ways to prevent it from happening.
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LUCKNOW: A dispute over restrictions on the wearing of the hijab by female students in a southern Indian state has now reached India’s most populous state of Uttar Pradesh, with a group of youngsters asking a college to ban the head covering.
Authorities closed colleges in Karnataka in India’s south last week after a new uniform policy barred students from wearing headscarves in classrooms, leading to protests by Muslim students and counter protests by Hindu students.
Muslims have criticised the ban as another way of marginalising a community that accounts for about 13% of Hindu-majority India’s 1.35 billion people.
In Uttar Pradesh, in the country’s north and bordering New Delhi, a group of more than two dozen young men reached the Dharma Samaj College in Aligarh district on Monday and handed a memorandum to its officials seeking a complete ban on the hijab within its compound.
They had saffron shawls around their necks - typically worn by Hindus - said the college’s chief proctor, Mukesh Bharadwaj, adding he did not recognise the people. Currently, religious garb is not allowed in classrooms, but can be worn elsewhere on campus.
“Two years ago the same issue was raised and it has been raised again. We do not allow any type of religious uniform and we have a civil code of uniform for everyone,” Bharadwaj told Reuters by phone on Tuesday.
“There is a changing room for girls and they can change their dress there before attending class,” he said. “We are investigating the matter.”
Uttar Pradesh, estimated to have as many people as Brazil, is ruled by a Hindu monk from Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s party and is in the midst of a multi-phase election that ends next month. Hindu-Muslim disputes are often used for political gains in the state. The hijab issue has already reached court in Karnataka.
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Neck and back pain are incredibly common — sitting or standing for hours at a time in a static position, or placing a great deal of strain on the cervical spine through physically demanding activities can lead to common aches and pain. Even for less strenuous or regular activity, we walk around with a roughly 10 pound weight pushing down on our neck and spine all day, as the average adult human head is about 5-6 kg.
Whether it’s for the common strain we experience from daily life, or from a more traumatic injury, physical therapy for the neck and back can be a great way to recover. Neck physical therapy, and by extension back and spinal physical therapy, focuses on regular exercises that improve or recover a healthy range of motion.
What Does Physical Therapy for the Neck Do?
The primary goal for physical therapy will always vary based on an individual patient’s needs, but typically neck physical therapy is designed to help undo the stiffness and lack of motion that most people experience.
Most jobs these days involve sitting for long periods of time looking at a computer or other fixed spot, which can lead to a completely static set of muscles and joints throughout the head, neck, and spine. Similarly if someone has had surgery or experienced an injury that resulted in a loss of movement or a reduction in a range of motion, they can experience similar issues.
Our muscles and joints want and need to move to stay healthy. Not unlike muscles, they can grow stiff through inaction, receive less blood flow, and take longer to adjust to motion which is usually when people start to notice pain.
Once a physical therapist assesses your situation, they can begin developing a unique routine and set of exercises to help you reduce pain, regain a full range of motion, and avoid that pain in the future. Oftentimes these exercises will be some combination of regular stretches, physical therapy sessions to help you learn and practice those stretches in a controlled environment, and education on how to maintain these healthy practices on your own after you have recovered.
When Should I Consider Neck Physical Therapy?
Physical therapy is something you should consider on a flexible basis. In some cases, you can simply recognize pain and consult your primary care physician, inquiring about physical therapy as a more preventative measure or to help with minor aches and pains.
For chronic or acute pain in the neck, back, and cervical spine due to prolonged issues or injury, you may be referred to a physical therapist to help during recovery.
Due to the fact that much of the neck and spine are delicate and filled with nerves, a physical therapist may be recommended to help you avoid further injury during your recovery, particularly if you have a reduced capacity for motion or may be at risk agitating your injury even during routine activities and movement.
When To Consider or Ask About Neck Physical Therapy
- Ongoing pain or discomfort in the neck from sitting, exercise, or injury
- After operations, traumatic injury, or other changes to the neck or spine
- If you have other conditions that may affect your joints, spine, or neck
- If you work or regularly find yourself in painful conditions due to a lack of motion
Why Work With Our Physical Therapists For Neck And Back?
At Crom Rehabilitation, we have a team of caring, compassionate physical therapists that are dedicated to helping people achieve their peak physical form, regardless of health circumstances. With cutting edge treatment and therapy techniques, our goal is to maximize our patient’s chances at lasting pain relief, greater physical capability, and a higher level of personal satisfaction.
We partner with most major insurance companies as well in order to enable a wider range of coverage for people seeking the care and quality therapy that they deserve. If you’re struggling with pain, a loss of motion, or recovery from neck related injuries, speak with your PMC or contact us. We look forward to hearing from you and beginning a journey to full recovery and health through neck, back, and spinal physical therapy.
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The key data of Plasser&Theurer‘s 09-3X track tamping machine are impressive: 80 tonnes net weight, 35 m length, eight axles, and three-sleeper tamping units. To determine the stresses and deformations of the vehicle frame, PJM carried out pressure frame tests according to EN 12663-1. The strength tests were performed at the Plasser&Theurer‘s Linz factory in June 2022.
This has clear advantages for the machine manufacturer: the entire on-site infrastructure is used and any adaptations to the object can be coordinated with the design engineers and immediately implemented. Using PJM’s mobile pressure frame allows the tests to be carried out directly in the factory. Thanks to its modular design, the pressure frame is suitable for every type of vehicle. It has proven its effectiveness in static tests in numerous projects.
As an ISO/IEC 17025 accredited testing laboratory, PJM performs measurements, tests, and analyses in the field of vehicle approval. PJM was the first privately accredited testing laboratory in Austria. It carries out approval tests in the areas of driving technology, strength, braking, aerodynamics, and acoustics for international customers worldwide, among them the suburban rail in Berlin, Chicago, and Riyadh, the metros in Barcelona and Glasgow, the London Underground or the WESTbahn. | <urn:uuid:6f8b7b2d-959a-4702-86ad-d84326ce0a83> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.railvolution.net/news/pjm-s-static-strength-measurements-in-the-factory | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571536.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811224716-20220812014716-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.921368 | 289 | 1.773438 | 2 |
Continuing our focus on Data Visualization this month and next, here are six key considerations for creating clear and engaging visuals, from the team at E-Tabs.
The need to create more visually engaging reports has become ever more compelling. Traditional slides of unstimulating charts, tables and walls of text are now being replaced with more visually captivating representations of data. Audiences now want to engage with a story, that allows them to clearly see insights and to plan for any outcomes. Poorly designed reports can cause audiences to misunderstand your data and eventually lead to incorrect interpretations and poor decision making. Our Data Viz experts came up with a guide to enable you to get the best results out of your data visualizations!
1. Have a clear idea of your audience and what you want to show them before you start
When creating visualizations, one size does not fit all, so you need to understand your audience and build to their preferences / understanding. It is imperative that you identify the audience, recognise the challenges they are facing, and create your report to allow them to solve these challenges. Don't use the same template and design for all situations and clients. By understanding your audience, the report that you produce will be tailor-made, and the visualizations you have chosen will be meaningful to your audience. Knowing all this before you start will inform all stages of production and be a lot easier than trying to modify things later.
2. Keep visualizations straightforward and easy to interpret
Ensuring that the audience can easily process what you are presenting is very important. Being able to interpret the data quickly is important to allow busy people to make decisions and create outcomes efficiently. Often the amount of 'visual' time you'll get can be measured in seconds. So, avoid trying to use fancy visualizations, which can get in the way of showing clear and concise data. The visualizations that you use should be clean, simple and easy to digest. Just because something looks cool and bright doesn't mean that it's the right thing to use for the given context.
3. Keep the user engaged
Human beings are naturally visual beings. To ensure that your audience remains engaged throughout the entire presentation, use great looking visualizations. Also, make sure you keep to a clear storyline of what you want to show with your data! Don't just show a collection of charts without any coherent narrative. If you are presenting a customer survey about a shopping experience, you could start the story with the first location the respondent was asked about. Start with the 'shop front' or ease of finding suitable parking, and then move on to the ease of finding the desired aisles and products, range of available products, ease of finding staff to assist, ease of checkout process etc. Alternatively, you could structure your presentation to start with the high scoring areas and then move on to those that require more improvement. This technique gives the audience a clear pathway, keeping them engaged.
4. Don't cram!
Data Visualization is all about expressing your data whilst keeping it easy on the eye. By cramming in too many charts you can cause the audience to miss the clear story you want to convey. In the worst case you will even cause them to lose interest. It is advisable that the report is spread out over multiple pages, slides or canvases. This allows the report to keep a good flow, and most importantly, makes it easy for the audience to focus on one thing at a time! In addition, use text sparingly and use space to emphasise key points. Remember, if the viewer must scroll then it's an indication there is probably too much there!
5. Developing and sticking to a visual language
When building reports, whether in PowerPoint or via a dashboard tool, colour can be a very effective tool when used correctly. When misused, colour can cause the viewer to become confused and ultimately lose interest. When using different colours, ensure that the difference between them is easy to see. When colours are too similar, for example light red and pink, it becomes difficult to distinguish between them. This is the case for all people, but especially for those who are visually impaired.
Also, use colours consistently and correctly. For example, only use red for bad/warning, and green for good. If you were to use the colours the other way around, the audience would naturally misinterpret the data based on the common use of the colours. Once you have decided on your colour palette, make sure that you are consistent. If you've chosen a specific shade of green for positive scores, use that shade throughout.
As well as colour, any theme, icons or images that you use should be the same throughout the report. Whatever symbol or picture you choose to use for the key points and sections should always be the one shown rather than having different versions which can be confusing.
6. Using the right tool
When it comes to building reports, having the right tool for the job is essential. Without the right tool, you could spend hours creating one PowerPoint slide, or dashboard, which has zero visual impact. Even after you've got it spot-on, you could spend all that time again when you realise that the numbers that you were using have now changed.
E-Tabs has a data visualization tool called Vizualz, which allows users to create meaningful data-driven infographics at the click of a button. Vizualz is the only PowerPoint plugin that enables you to quickly and easily display and edit your data in an eye catching and engaging manner within your PowerPoint slides. Being data-driven means Vizualz will automatically size or fill objects proportionately to the underlying values saving hours of fiddly manual formatting.
If it's an online dashboard reporting tool you're after, check out Iris from E-Tabs. Iris was built from the ground up with survey data and the needs of market research in mind, allowing clients and stakeholders to visualize and interact with key insights in an online environment easily, efficiently and effectively.
Finally, just remember that data visualization can be fun! Visualizations should turn data into insight, telling a compelling story. And with the right tools, any market researcher can achieve great results with minimal effort and training.
With thanks to Marta Blankenberger from redaviZ for the illustrations and examples provided above.
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WASHINGTON—According to a new analysis of data from the Public Religion Research Institute, strong majorities of religious Americans support LGBTQ nondiscrimination protections. The analysis includes breakdowns of numbers from a broad spectrum of states including Alaska, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and more. Overall, 69% of people of faith favor or strongly favor passing LGBTQ nondiscrimination protections.
The analysis was released today by Faith for Equality, a coalition of 120+ religious groups that support LGBTQ dignity, and can be accessed here: https://www.faithinpubliclife.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Faithful-Majority-One-Pager.pdf
“PRRI’s American Values Atlas, which contains interviews with more than 20,000 Americans in all 50 states, reveals a remarkable breadth of support for nondiscrimination protections for LGBTQ Americans, noted Robert P. Jones, CEO and Founder of PRRI. “Nationally, strong majorities of every religious group–including 61 percent of white evangelical Protestants–favor laws that would protect gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender people against discrimination in jobs, public accommodations, and housing. And majorities in every state, including the deep South, favor LGBTQ nondiscrimination laws.”
A majority of states lack LGBTQ nondiscrimination protections on the state level, leaving more than half of the LGBTQ population in America vulnerable to discrimination. Without a federal law, LGBTQ people remain vulnerable to being evicted from their homes, kicked out of a business that’s open to the public, denied health care, removed from a jury, or denied government services in a majority of states simply because of who they are. With 1 in 3 LGBTQ people having reported experiencing discrimination in their personal lives, a federal nondiscrimination law would guarantee that LGBTQ people are extended the same federal nondiscrimination protections that others in the United States have enjoyed for decades.
“No matter our faith, gender, orientation, race or zip code, we all deserve to live with freedom and dignity. LGBTQ people are made in the image of God and should be free to live, work, worship and exist as their full selves in public without fear of discrimination,” said Jennifer Butler, CEO of Faith in Public Life. “The vast majority of religious Americans share these values and agree that the equality and freedoms of LGBTQ people must be protected. Extremist politicians and Christian nationalists have weaponized religious language to mask their own bigotry and justify policies that attack human dignity. This is bad theology and immoral politics. The Faithful Majority provides a better witness that is true to the shared teachings of our traditions. I urge Congress to honor our values by passing federal nondiscrimination protections for LGBTQ people in jobs, housing and public accommodations.”
The Equality Act, which would update federal law to include express and enduring nondiscrimination protections for LGBTQ Americans in key areas of life, passed the U.S. House in a bipartisan victory just over a year ago and had its first-ever hearing in the Senate Judiciary Committee shortly afterwards. President Biden has vowed to sign it into law and just reiterated that commitment in his recent State of the Union.
“Catholics understand the importance of following the Golden Rule, and values like treating others fairly, equally and with respect are rooted in our faith and religious teachings,” said Francis DeBernardo, Executive Director of New Ways Ministry. “This compels us to support protecting all Americans from discrimination. A federal nondiscrimination law would help alleviate the personal suffering of LGBTQ people, provide them equal access to our society’s opportunities, and, in many cases, save lives. We are all God’s children and we all deserve to go about our daily lives without the fear of discrimination.”
“Equality is the civil rights issue of our time. Americans of all faiths and none overwhelmingly recognize that, as a matter of both law and justice, protecting our friends and neighbors from second-class status can wait no longer,” said Rabbi Jack Moline, President of Interfaith Alliance. “LGBTQ+ people deserve safety and celebration now. We can avoid the need for future memorials and retrospectives through swift and commendable action by the Senate and President Biden to pass the Equality Act into law. This is our opportunity to affirm that equal protection under the law applies to every person, regardless of who they love or how they identify, and to finally secure the blessings of liberty for all.”
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With its whitewashed façade and antique-style shutters and windows, this mas has a timeless quality. It showcases the skills of French architect Alexandre Lafourcade, who converted an old farm that had been uninhabited for four decades into a traditional mas for a large family.
This enormous building started life as a shelter for horses and agricultural workers.
Alexandre Lafourcade saw the potential of this space and brought it back to life. He kept the existing walls, but restructured each room to optimise free flow and bring in as much natural light as possible.
One thousand square metres of living space are distributed over the ground floor and first floor; the latter houses seven bedrooms with ensuite bathrooms, as well as an office overlooking the terrace and enjoying stunning views of the surrounding landscape.
In the foreground, tall grass sways to the rhythm of the faintest breeze, and the intense blue of the pool echoes the azure sky; the pool was built entirely from scratch and yet its classic shape blends perfectly into the landscape, planted with olive trees and holm oaks. On sunny days, it is a favourite meeting-place for the fun-loving family and their many friends.
Simplicity is the guiding principle of the garden created by May de Lasterie. With its radical restructuring of each space, Lafourcade Architecture focused on achieving a seamless connection between indoors and outdoors. Throughout the property, the materials chosen are timeless and elegant. The house's symmetry hinges on its minimalist aesthetic, which for the owners is synonymous with peace and tranquillity. | <urn:uuid:5d3ac549-0292-4c84-b91a-fe7b0218ec1b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://architecture-lafourcade.com/en/realisation/9/l-039-attrape-coeur | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571909.51/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813051311-20220813081311-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.960005 | 334 | 1.507813 | 2 |
Fourth grade students buddied up with our kindergarteners to study the properties of rocks! Students measured, weighed, scratched, floated and drew different aspects of their rocks. This is a great way for students to collaborate with each other because both grade levels study rock properties as part of their core. Many students discovered their rocks could float, had rough texture and were all different shapes and sizes! Way to go kindergarteners for using the scientific method!!! | <urn:uuid:f648ca57-bb64-4336-8b59-cabe70604b11> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://taylor.nebo.edu/news/4th-graders-help-kindergarteners-rock | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571536.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811224716-20220812014716-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.962832 | 112 | 3.3125 | 3 |
Until recently, the CQC also included research groups at the University of Cambridge, but now the Cambridge groups operate as an independent entity called the Cambridge Centre for Quantum Information and Foundations (CQIF).
The CQC conducts theoretical and experimental research into quantum computing, quantum cryptography and other forms of quantum information processing, into the implications of the quantum theory of information for physics itself, and into foundational and conceptual questions in quantum theory and quantum information theory.
- Atom-photon physics, group led by Axel Kuhn.
- Ion trapping, group led by Andrew Steane and David Lucas.
- Nuclear magnetic resonance, group led by Jonathan A. Jones.
- Quantum spin dynamics, group led by Arzhang Ardavan and John Morton (group spans physics and materials).
- Quantum theory, group led by Dieter Jaksch.
- Ultracold quantum matter, group led by Christopher Foot.
- Ultrafast quantum optics, group led by Ian Walmsley.
- Photonic nanomaterials, group led by Jason Smith.
- Quantum and nanotechnology theory, group led by Simon Benjamin.
- Quantum spin dynamics, group led by John Morton and Arzhang Ardavan (group spans physics and materials).
- Mathematical physics, group led by Artur Ekert.
The centre has its origins in the early 1980s when the computer industry began to worry about the limits of computing. In 1981, Oxford physicist David Deutsch attended a party in Texas given by the famous American physicist John Wheeler who had invited a number of scientists interested in the foundations of computing. It was at this party that Deutsch gained the crucial insight that would lead to an entirely new branch of physics. At the time, computer scientists were turning to Newtonian physics to try to resolve certain fundamental puzzles in the field. But during a conversation at Wheeler's party, Deutsch realised that this was the wrong approach. Physics is fundamentally governed by quantum theory, and Deutsch could see immediately that using quantum theory instead of Newtonian physics would give a different result. As a consequence of this insight, Deutsch published the paper in 1985 that is now generally regarded as a classic in the field. The paper describes how a computer might run using quantum mechanics and why such a computer is fundamentally different from ordinary computers.
In 1987, Artur Ekert arrived at Oxford to work on a DPhil in physics, where he met Deutsch. Whilst working at Oxford, Ekert developed a theory of cryptography based on quantum entanglement. A chance meeting on the ski slopes of the Alps with John Rarity, a scientist at DRA (then the UK's main military research organisation), led to a collaboration in which Ekert's scheme was tested experimentally in the early 1990s. After finishing his DPhil, Ekert gained a junior research fellowship from Merton and took on his first DPhil student. With Deutsch, this created a small team that within a year had acquired the title of the Quantum Computation and Cryptography Group.
A breakthrough in 1994 by Peter Shor, a researcher at the labs of the American telecommunications giant AT&T, boosted the entire field of quantum information. Shor showed that Deutch's quantum computer could actually solve an important problem that an ordinary computer would find impossible. For the first time, it became clear that quantum computers were far from unimportant curiosities. After Shor's announcement, quantum information became increasingly popular with Oxford. In 1995, Andrew Steane began an experimental effort to study how quantum computers might be built from ionised atoms trapped by laser beams. In 1996, Jonathan Jones started a group working on a quantum computer based on the same techniques used in magnetic resonance imaging in medicine. And two years later, Dirk Bouwmeester arrived from Geneva to begin an experimental group working out how the quantum world could also revolutionise communication. The group changed its name to the Centre for Quantum Computation.
When Artur Ekert moved to Cambridge to become the first Leigh Trapnell Professor of Quantum Physics in 2002, the Cambridge Centre for Quantum Computation was created. It continued under this name until 2010, when the existing research group was joined by Richard Jozsa, and the centre was renamed the Cambridge Centre for Quantum Information and Foundations (CQIF), reflecting the broad range of its research activities. The Cambridge CQIF is based at the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics (DAMTP), within the Centre for Mathematical Sciences. The Cambridge CQC's permanent faculty were Artur Ekert, Leigh Trapnell Professor of Quantum Physics at Cambridge from 2002 to 2007, and Adrian Kent, currently Reader in Quantum Physics at Cambridge. The Cambridge CQIF's permanent faculty are Richard Jozsa, Leigh Trapnell Professor from 2010, and Adrian Kent.
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- "Visiting CQIF". Cam.qubit.org. Archived from the original on 9 October 2011. Retrieved 21 January 2014.
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Sunglasses are on the uniform list at an Auckland primary school - but not for cosmetic reasons.
The North Shore's Belmont Primary has added the option of wearing shades to school in a move that has won over more than half of its 380 pupils in the space of a term.
Principal Bruce Cunningham said the shades were introduced to try to extend sun protection to eyes.
"You see mums and dads wearing sun glasses but their children won't be. We thought let's introduce sunglasses over the summer months and it's taken off."
While not compulsory, around 200 children wore the rubber-framed $15-a-pair glasses to school each day. This is on top of the compulsory wide-brimmed hat or baseball cap when they are outside during summer months.
Said Jodi Letica, mum of youngsters Sascha, 8, and Karl, 6: "I think it's great. My kids have always worn sunglasses so it made perfect sense that it was part of what they did at school."
The drive for increased protection at primary school comes as a study begins to find out how secondary schools are protecting teenagers from the sun.
The Cancer Society, which has introduced a sunsmart programme in primary and intermediate schools over the past decade, is looking at how to get reluctant high schools on board.
Many secondary schools ban hats and caps and lock classrooms during interval and lunchtimes, forcing pupils to stay outside during the summer terms.
This is at odds with strict primary school sun protection policies. At many primary schools if children do not have a hat they are made to play under shaded areas or classroom verandas.
The study, by the society's social and behavioural research unit at Otago University, will give the first clear idea of what secondary schools are doing to stop students from being burned during school hours.
It asks schools 12 questions relating to safe sun practices, including shade on school grounds, uniform hat code, provision of sunscreen, sun safe education, and staff role modelling.
Study head associate professor Tony Reeder said at the end of the project schools would be rated on sun safe practices.
Secondary Schools Principals' Association president Tom Parsons said it was difficult to enforce sunsmart measures during the teenage years.
He applauded the society's sunsmart programme success at a junior level but said this was largely because younger children were more likely to be compliant. | <urn:uuid:bc88779e-e032-4372-91b5-4409cfdfb3b9> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/shades-are-cool-for-school/S7NTJP4EMDVFFZG7IN3I6ZSP6E/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571536.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811224716-20220812014716-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.974331 | 491 | 1.8125 | 2 |
Energy Efficiency In Doors And Windows
When it comes to glass doors and windows energy efficiency is exceptionally important.
Naturally, glass doesn’t provide great insulation, however double and triple glazed units can improve it massively.
Over the years technology has improved greatly and modern windows can not only keep your home really warm, but they look really good too.
What are the key features, which will improve your windows performance?
- Low- E coating – metal oxide coating, applied on the internal part of the glass panel. Allows light and heat to go in and prevents it from escaping.
- Cavity pocket- gap (which is usually 16 mm thick) between two or three sheets of glass, filled with either air, argon, krypton or xenon. Air does not work as a good insulator compared to other gases.
- ‘Warm Edge’ spacer- synthetic pane spacer, keeps glass sheets apart from each other, helps to minimise energy loss and reduces condensation.
- Right frame- all frame materials are available in various different energy ratings. Make sure that you check that too.
Making The Right Choice
How will you know that you have made the right choice?
Ask your double glazing systems supplier what is the U- value (calculation of its ability to transfer the heat) of them.
The lower number they give you the better it is for you.
According to British Building regulations, U- values of newly installed doors and windows should not be higher than 2.0. Larger glass panels achieve better U- values than smaller one.
Passiv Haus Systems can take you down to even 0.69; they are usually triple glazed as a standard.
The goal is to make your house as economic and environmentally friendly as possible.
They have got the best performance when it comes to wind resistance, water tightness, sound insulation and security.
Design matches a timber finish on the inside and aluminium on the outside giving them a Scandinavian look and incredible durability.
Manufacturers usually give a 10-year guarantee for these systems.
High-quality systems will be very effective in preventing condensation.
Condensation happens when humid air meets a cold surface, which is why it is so common on glass doors and windows. Obviously; properly isolated units are much better at preventing it, however, they can not prevent it 100%.
Some glazing suppliers can offer anti-condensation coatings. This is applied to the external surface of the glass and chemically bonded to it. That makes it extremely smooth, so it is very difficult for condensation to stick to it.
Energy-efficient glazing will not only keep your home warm and reduce the cost of your bills, but it will also work as a very good acoustic barrier.
In order to achieve the most efficient acoustic barrier, you should choose the most robust windows. As the thicker the glass is and the deeper your cavity pocket is, the better soundproofing it will provide.
Life Span of Your Doors and Windows
Predicted lifetime for most of the double glazed units is 20 years. However, this period can vary from 10 to 35 years. It all depends on the environment and the way you are going to treat your glass doors and windows.
It’s easier to notice the drop-down in the performance in colder countries (like Scandinavian countries for example).
Performance of double glazed unit will be less satisfying if the seal becomes compromised and gas from between the panels starts leaking, which will reduce its insulating features.
Thinking of energy-efficient glazing we usually focus on its ability to retain the heat, forgetting that it is equally important for us to keep our houses at a comfortable temperature during the summer too.
Applying a Solar Control Coating to the glass will prevent your home from overheating and your surfaces from getting discoloured.
That will automatically reduce air conditioning costs, especially in places with large expanses of glass.
It is a metal oxide coating which is spread over the internal face of the external glass sheet of an insulated glass unit.
This coating is available at various different levels of intensity. The most common one is 70/35. That will allow your unit to transmit 70% of light, reducing the G factor (solar heat gain) to 35% at the same time.
Applying solar control coating on the glass does not change its appearance.
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2Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, Wisconsin, USA
3Division of Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine, Department of Medicine, VAPSHCS/GRECC S-182, Building 1, Room 810A, 1660 S. Columbian Way, Seattle, WA 98108, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
The decline in pericyte numbers in diabetic mouse brain and pericyte apoptosis in high glucose cultures are caused by excess superoxide produced during enhanced respiration (mitochondrial oxidative metabolism of glucose). Superoxide is precursor to all Reactive Oxygen Species (ROS) which, in turn, cause oxidative stress. The rate of respiration and thus the ROS production is regulated by mitochondrial carbonic anhydrases (mCA) VA and VB, the two isoforms expressed in the mitochondria.
Inhibition of both mCA: decreases the oxidative stress and restores the pericyte numbers in diabetic brain; and reduces high glucose-induced respiration, ROS, oxidative stress, and apoptosis in cultured brain pericytes. However, the individual role of the two isoforms has not been established. To investigate the contribution of mCA VA in ROS production and apoptosis, a mCA VA overexpressing brain pericyte cell line was engineered. These cells were exposed to high glucose and analyzed for the changes in ROS and apoptosis. Overexpression of mCA VA significantly increased pericyte ROS and apoptosis. Inhibition of mCA VA with topiramate prevented increases both in glucose-induced ROS and pericyte death. These results demonstrate, for the first time, that mCA VA regulates the rate of pericyte respiration. These findings identify mCA VA as a novel and specific therapeutic target to protect the cerebromicrovascular bed in diabetes.
Keywords: Diabetes mellitus; Brain pericytes; Apoptosis; Mitochondrial CA VA; Topiramate
The BBB is physically made up of endothelial cells of the microvasculature. However, pericytes in close proximity to endothelial cells interact with the latter and are vital for inducing and maintaining the integrity and function of the BBB . Pericyte loss has been shown to cause disruption of the BBB in Alzheimer’s disease . Hyperglycemia induces pericyte loss in the mouse brain and brain pericytes grown in high glucose undergo apoptosis . Pericyte demise both in vivo and in vitro is triggered by access superoxide, produced during accelerated respiration (mitochondrial oxidative metabolism of glucose) [12,13]. Superoxide is precursor to all Reactive Oxygen Species (ROS) , which cause oxidative stress leading to pericyte death [15,16]. Brain pericyte cultured in high glucose exhibit significant increases in respiration, ROS, oxidative stress, and apoptosis [11,13].
The rate of respiration and thus ROS and consequent pericyte apoptosis is regulated by mitochondrial carbonic anhydrases (mCA) VA and VB . Of the 12 known active carbonic anhydrases only two that is VA and VB are expressed in the mitochondria. These isoforms provide bicarbonate (HCO3 -) for conversion of pyruvate to oxaloacetate, a key intermediate in respiration .
Genetic silencing of both mCA reduces oxidative stress in the mouse brain. In vivo, pharmacological inhibition of both mCA restores pericyte numbers depleted by hyperglycemia. In culture, pharmacological inhibition of both mCA slows the rate of respiration, ROS production, and pericyte apoptosis .
The individual contributions of mCA VA and mCA VB in pericyte ROS and apoptosis have not been investigated. Therefore, this study was designed to determine whether mCA VA plays a predominant role in the regulation of respiration. To accomplish this goal, a mCA VA overexpressing mouse brain pericyte cell line (CA VA-BPC) was established by stably transfecting the brain pericytes (BPC) with mCA VA cDNA. These cells were challenged with high glucose and mCA VA was inhibited pharmacologically with topiramate. The effects of mCA VA inhibition on intracellular ROS and pericyte apoptosis were determined.
We now report, for the first time, that the overexpression of mCA VA significantly increased intracellular ROS and apoptosis of pericytes. As expected both ROS and the percent of apoptotic pericytes were significantly reduced upon inhibition of mCA VA. These data demonstrate that mCA VA is an important pathway in the regulation of high glucose-induced ROS production and pericyte death and provides a novel and unique therapeutic target to protect the brain from hyperglycemia induced damage.
Transfection: The BPC were transfected with Lipofectamine transfection reagent (Life technologies, Carlsbad, CA) according to supplier’s protocol. Fifty five hours post transfection, cells were incubated in growth media containing 0.8 mg/ml Geneticin (Life technologies, Carlsbad, CA), to select for mCA VA overexpressing cells. Media was changed every 2-3 days. Expression of mCA VA mRNA was determined by quantitative real time PCR (qRT-PCR) and the level of mCA VA protein was assessed by immunoblot. Once established, mCA VA overexpressing cells (CA VA-BPC), were maintained in Geneticin containing media. Figure 1A shows that overexpression of mCA VA did not alter the morphology of the pericytes.
RNA isolation and quantitative real-time PCR: Total RNA was isolated from cultured pericytes using RNeasy kit (QIAGEN, Valencia, CA). For mRNA quantification, complementary DNAs (cDNAs) were synthesized using Superscript III first Strand Synthesis System (Invitrogen, Carlsbad, CA), following the manufacturer’s protocol. Real time qPCR was performed in triplicate dishes of cells using Power SybrGreen reagent (Applied Biosystems, Carlsbad, CA) in a LightCycler-480 (Roche). The levels of mRNA were normalized to 36B4 as a housekeeping gene and calculated using the comparative ΔCt method. The sequences of the primer used were: mCA VA forward primer 5’- CCA GTC CAG AGG GGG TGT-3’ and reverse primer 5’-CTG GCG TTT CCA GCA TTC-3’. There was a 50-fold increase in mCA VA mRNA in CA VA-BPC compared to parent BPC.
As shown in Figure 2 and Table 1, high glucose induced ROS in both BPC (NG, 100.0 ± 4.6 vs HG, 135.4 ± 5.7, p<0.05) and CA VA-BPC (NG, 111.0 ± 10.8 vs HG, 165.2 ± 16.8, p<0.01). However, the amount of ROS produced in CA VA-BPC was significantly higher than the parent BPC (HG, 165.2 ± 16.8 vs HG, 135.4 ± 5.7, respectively, p<0.05). Topiramate treatment blocked the effect of high glucose on ROS production in both BPC (HG, 135.4 ± 5.7 vs HG+10 μM TOP, 80.0 ± 9.5, p<0.01) and CA VA-BPC (HG, 165.2 ± 16.8 vs HG+10 μM TOP, 75.2 ± 8.1, p<0.001) (Figure 2 and Table 1).
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Effect of mitochondrial CA VA overexpression on high glucose-induced pericyte apoptosis
As expected, there was a significant increase in apoptosis in BPC exposed to high glucose. However, the number of apoptotic cells in CA VA-BPC in high glucose was even significantly higher than the parent BPC (Figure 4). Topiramate treatment rescued both BPC and CA VA-BPC from glucotoxicity (Figure 4).
Oxidative stress is caused by overproduction of superoxide during excess respiration triggered by unrestricted influx of glucose in insulin-insensitive tissues such as the brain, eye, kidney, and nerve . Mitochondrial CA regulate the rate of respiration as described in our earlier publications [11,13] and in Figure 5. Briefly, glucose in the cytosol is metabolized to pyruvate by glycolysis. Pyruvate enters the mitochondria where it is carboxylated to oxaloacetate, a key enzyme in the Krebs cycle and Electron Transport Chain (ETC) reactions.
The HCO3 - required for carboxylation of pyruvate has to be produced inside the mitochondria; it cannot be imported from the cytosol because mitochondrial membranes are impermeant to HCO3 -. Mitochondrial CA, the carbonic anhydrases inside the mitochondria, provide HCO3 - by reversible hydration of carbon dioxide (CO2 + H2O ⇔ HCO 3 - + H+). Oxaloacetate, upon entering the Krebs cycle, generates electron donors, FADH2 and NADH, which are carried to ETC to generate ATP. Superoxide is produced as a byproduct of ETC reactions and is the precursor to all ROS. The latter at physiological levels are essential for the normal functioning of the body . However, in diabetes, constant influx of glucose in brain, eye, nerves, etc., causes an overproduction of superoxide as described: The excess electron donors produced during the Krebs cycle generate high mitochondrial membrane potential by pumping protons across the inner mitochondrial membrane. The high mitochondrial membrane potential inhibits electron transport at complex III, increases the half-life of the free radical intermediate of coenzyme Q, which reduces O2 to superoxide. High levels of superoxide lead to overproduction of ROS, which in turn trigger other molecular pathways of ROS production such as polyol pathway [21-23], Advanced Glycation End Products (AGE) formation [24-26], protein kinase C activation , and hexosamine pathway [28,29], which in turn propagate more ROS. Though small fluctuations in the steadystate concentration of these oxidants may actually play a role in intracellular signaling , uncontrolled increases lead to free radical mediated chain reactions which target proteins , lipids , polysaccharides , and DNA [33,34], and result in oxidative stress. Our published data show that inhibition of mCA with topiramate slows the rate of respiration, ROS production, and oxidative stress in brain pericytes [11,13].
Topiramate protects pericytes from hyperglycemia-induced oxidative stress and apoptosis both in vivo [10,35] and in vitro , by inhibiting mCA. There are a total of twelve known active carbonic anhydrases, ten of these are expressed outside of the mitochondria and differ in their tissue distribution, kinetic properties and subcellular localizations . Only two that is CA VA and CA VB, are expressed in the mitochondria and regulate respiration and ROS . Since topiramate inhibits both isoforms of mCA, it is not possible to decipher which of the two plays a predominant role in pericyte apoptosis. Our recent report shows a predominant role of mCA VA in ammonia detoxification whereas both mCA VA and VB contribute equally to gluconeogenesis, giving rise to the possibility of either mCA VA or mCA VB playing a more prominent role in the regulation of respiration. Our preliminary data showed a reduction in oxidative stress in the brains of mice in which only CA VA was silenced genetically (Supplemental Figure 1); therefore, this study was designed to investigate the contribution of mCA VA in regulation of ROS production and apoptosis in brain pericytes.
We now report that mCA VA alone modulates ROS production and pericytes apoptosis. As illustrated in Figures 2 and 4, the overexpression of mCA VA significantly increased ROS (Figure 2) and percent apoptotic cells (Figure 4). Furthermore, inhibition of mCA VA with topiramate reduced ROS (Figure 2) to normal levels and rescued pericytes (Figure 4).
Topiramate is in clinical use for treatment of other diseases [22-37], and can be potentially used to inhibit mCA VA to protect the microvasculature of the brain from hyperglycemia-induced damage. However, topiramate has serious side effects owing to its ability to inhibit other metabolic pathways [22-38] and nonmitochondrial CA . Since mCA VA alone is sufficient to protect pericytes from glucose toxicity, drugs can be designed to target this specific isoform. These mCA VA specific drugs will be less toxic and may be better tolerated by the patients.
These drugs may also prove useful in preventing diabetic damage to other insulin-insensitive tissues such as the eye and the kidney , since events similar to the ones caused by hyperglycemia-induced oxidative stress in the brain microvasculature; also occur in the capillary beds of these other tissues . Loss of pericytes in retinal microvasculature precedes endothelial cell death and blindness [40,41]. In the kidney, hyperglycemia-induced renal vascular cells loss [42-44] eventually leads to diabetic kidney disease.
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The Kurdistan Region of Iraq’s (KRI) favourable climate and soil fertility offer ideal conditions for potato production, while cultivation and post-harvest activities provide important sources of employment and income in rural areas. Land and labour are also in abundance so there is the potential to significantly increase production. However, due to a lack of investment in the value chain and the limited training received by trainers and extension workers, these factors are underutilised.
The East African Community (EAC) represents one of the fastest-growing regional economic communities in the world. However, trade of agricultural products, from and within this region, has been hindered by factors including Sanitary and Phytosanitary (SPS) issues. The project will assess the SPS systems and identify challenges and opportunities for further investments.
Small scale vegetable farmers in Pakistan encounter a number of issues that compromise their sustainable livelihoods; particularly for women and youth. Through the project, an alliance of selected organisations is aiming to improve the livelihoods of rural communities in Sindh and Punjab through strengthening selected horticultural value chains, and promoting sustainable production and marketing opportunities.
CABI has launched a project to strengthen the value chains of four vegetables in Pakistan – thereby helping to boost the household incomes and livelihoods of thousands of smallholder farmers and their families. | <urn:uuid:7dcf80da-85c3-4b23-a55a-14e20dd5f07c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://development.cabi.org/tag/value-chain/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570921.9/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809094531-20220809124531-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.9488 | 267 | 2.234375 | 2 |
We provide cross-country and time series evidence on the extent of exchange rate pass-through into the import prices of 23 OECD countries. We find compelling evidence of partial pass-through in the short run, especially within manufacturing industries. Over the long run, producer-currency pricing is more prevalent for many types of imported goods. Countries with higher rates of exchange rate volatility have higher pass-through elasticities, although macroeconomic variables have played a minor role in the evolution of pass-through elasticities over time. Far more important for pass-through changes in these countries have been the dramatic shifts in the composition of country import bundles. | <urn:uuid:bb7f2d9d-29c7-485a-a1c9-8b8c40b39713> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://direct.mit.edu/rest/article-abstract/87/4/679/57656/Exchange-Rate-Pass-Through-into-Import-Prices?redirectedFrom=PDF | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571909.51/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813051311-20220813081311-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.928458 | 128 | 1.6875 | 2 |
Twitter cracks down on coronavirus misinformation from Giuliani, Bolsonaro
It's notable that Twitter, like other social networks, has announced stricter rules on virus-related misinformation than other types of false posts. Even more notable, though, is that Twitter has actually enforced its rules against prominent accounts in recent days.
Why it matters: Twitter has been criticized for being lax to enforce its rules, particularly against well-known politicians and celebrities.
Driving the news: Twitter temporarily locked the account of The Federalist after it linked to one of its articles suggesting the best way to approach the coronavirus was to spread it to as many young people as possible quickly in order to build immunity.
- Twitter deleted a tweet from Rudy Giuliani quoting conservative activist Charlie Kirk, who touted hydroxychloroquine, an anti-malaria drug, as a cure for the coronavirus. (It has yet to be scientifically determined to be effective at treating COVID-19.)
- Twitter deleted a pair of tweets by Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro that cast doubt on the need for quarantines. Bolsonaro has downplayed the risks of the coronavirus.
Twitter has made several adjustments to its rules specifically targeting misinformation about COVID-19, including how it is spread and transmitted as well as cures and treatments not backed up by medical authorities.
Yes, but: There are plenty of examples of Twitter failing to act, even regarding the coronavirus. The company allowed to stand a tweet from Elon Musk that said that children were immune from COVID-19 (they aren't) as well as other tweets of dubious veracity. | <urn:uuid:3acc76ac-a66d-428c-9ec1-80d05db8ddd8> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.axios.com/2020/03/30/twitter-coronavirus-misinformation-giuliani-bolsonaro | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571909.51/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813051311-20220813081311-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.971874 | 335 | 1.898438 | 2 |
Robert Reich: The Most Dangerous Looming Supreme Court Decision You Never Heard Of
Spread the word, because the midterms elections have become even more crucial.
On June 30, the Supreme Court agreed to hear a case called Moore v. Harper. With all the controversial decisions handed down by the Court this term, its decision to take up this case slid under most radar detectors. But it could be the most dangerous case on the Court’s upcoming docket. You need to know about it.
We’ve already had a preview of what this theory could mean. It underpins a major legal strategy in Trump’s attempted coup: the argument that state legislatures can substitute their own judgment of who should be president in place of the person chosen by a majority of voters. This was the core of the so-called “Eastman memo” that Trump relied on (and continues to rely on) in seeking to decertify Biden’s election.
The U.S. Constitution does grant state legislatures the authority to prescribe “the Times, Places and Manner of holding Elections.” But it does not give state legislatures total power over our democracy. In fact, for the last century, the Supreme Court has repeatedly rejected the independent state legislature theory.
Yet if we know anything about the conservative majority now controlling the Supreme Court, it’s that they will rule on just about anything that suits the far-right’s agenda.
Conservatives on the Court have already paved the way for this bonkers idea. Then-Chief Justice William Rehnquist was an early proponent. In his concurring opinion in Bush v. Gore, the 2000 case that halted the recount in Florida in the presidential election, Rehnquist (in an opinion joined by Justices Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas) asserted that because the state court’s recount conflicted with deadlines set by the state legislature for the election, the court’s recount could not stand.
The issue returned to the Supreme Court in 2020, when the justices turned down a request by Pennsylvania Republicans to fast-track their challenge to a Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruling that required state election officials to count mail-in ballots received within three days of Election Day. In an opinion that accompanied the court’s order, Justice Alito (joined by Justices Clarence Thomas and Neil Gorsuch) suggested that the state supreme court’s decision to extend the deadline for counting ballots likely violated the U.S. Constitution because it intruded on the state legislature’s decision making.
Make no mistake. The independent state legislature theory would make it easier for state legislatures to pull all sorts of additional election chicanery, without any oversight from state courts: ever more voter suppression laws, gerrymandered maps, and laws eliminating the power of election commissions and secretaries of state to protect elections.
If the Supreme Court adopts the independent state legislature theory, it wouldn’t just be throwing out a century of its own precedent. It would be rejecting the lessons that inspired the Framers to write the Constitution in the first place: that it’s dangerous to give state legislatures unchecked power, as they had under the Articles of Confederation.
The Republican Party and the conservative majority on the Supreme Court call themselves “originalists” who find the meaning of the Constitution in the intent of the Farmers. But they really don’t give a damn what the Framers thought. They care only about imposing their own retrograde and anti-democracy ideology on the United States.
Second, Congress must impose term limits on Supreme Court justices, and have them rotate with judges on the U.S. courts of appeals.
Third, Congress must restore federal voting rights protections and expand access to the ballot box. We need national minimum standards for voting in our democracy.
Obviously, these reforms can happen only if Democrats retain control of the House in the midterm elections and add at least two more Democratic senators—willing to reform or abolish the filibuster.
So your vote is critical, and not just in federal elections. Make sure you also vote for state legislators who understand what’s at stake to preserve our democracy. Because, as this Supreme Court shows, the future of our democracy is not guaranteed.
Robert Reich, is the Chancellor’s Professor of Public Policy at the University of California, Berkeley, and a senior fellow at the Blum Center for Developing Economies. He served as secretary of labor in the Clinton administration, for which Time magazine named him one of the 10 most effective cabinet secretaries of the twentieth century. Reich’s newest book is “The Common Good” (2019). | <urn:uuid:a7eb443f-5c85-4104-81e8-672937dea014> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://voxpopulisphere.com/2022/08/01/robert-reich-the-most-dangerous-looming-supreme-court-decision-you-never-heard-of/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571909.51/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813051311-20220813081311-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.943318 | 961 | 1.96875 | 2 |
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We place significance on events that turn the changing tides. The American Revolution inspired the French Revolution, which lead to the beheading of Louis XV of France and the subsequent end of a long reigning monarchy. What does this have to do with an antique desk? This flow of events is endlessly recounted, but we often overlook the decor that rose from the ashes of revolution decades later as reproductions and markers of history. We had the privilege of restoring a Louis XV style antique desk and extending its legacy.
Restoring a Prized Antique Desk
It’s hard to not be struck with the sense of history in his home when entering the apartment of Michael Igoe. From memorabilia of the maiden voyage of the SS Normandie to century old oil paintings by artists lost to time, he lives in a veritable capsule of wonders. One of these wonders is the 18th century style writing desk that Armand Lee had the pleasure of restoring. Igoe’s family attained this desk in 1931 after purchasing it from Chicago’s own John A. Colby & Sons auctioneers.
The desk had suffered from years of damage from sun bleaching and moisture, which showed in the flaked and cracked veneer. One of our resident furniture restoration experts, Tom, completely sanded and refinished the body and legs of the desk. In addition, our team replaced and patched the veneer and scuff sanded the brass ornamentation to maintain the patina. About the final product, he said, “It was rewarding. I was very happy with the results.”
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Have you ever heard about fairy eggs? Or maybe you like to call them wind eggs, rooster eggs, or fart eggs? Let’s explain what the deal is with these little fellas. Are fairy eggs uncommon? What causes a chicken to lay a fairy egg? Is it a sign of illness or nutrient deficiency when a hen lays a fairy egg? Or maybe you are wondering whether you can incubate a fairy egg?
Let’s get started and tell you all about the tiniest eggs in your chickens’ nesting boxes.
What Are Fairy Eggs?
Once your hens are old enough to start laying, chances are, during their lifetime, they’ll lay some abnormal-looking eggs. They can lay weirdly shaped eggs, soft-shelled eggs, eggs with a strange texture, or fairy eggs.
Fairy eggs are very tiny eggs, usually without the yolk. They come from a hen that lays regular-sized eggs but, due to an error in the egg-making process, lays a tiny, yolkless egg instead. During fairy egg-making, the albumen gets formed before the yolk is released, and the eggshell shapes around only the egg white. Although a yolk inside a fairy egg is possible, chances are relatively low, and it usually looks more like an orange slime floating in egg white.
It isn’t that uncommon and nothing to be worried about when it happens occasionally. Only when your hen starts laying fairy eggs instead of regular-sized eggs further research has to be done.
What causes a hen to lay a fairy egg?
- Beginning of Laying Cycle
- End of Molting
- End of Laying Cycle
- Calcium or Protein Deficiency
- Wonky Reproductive System
Beginning of Laying Cycle
Your pullet starts laying eggs somewhere between 18 and 25 weeks old depending on the breed. Some take a little less time, and some take more time. But eventually, eggs are formed and laid, and you’ll find a fresh batch of eggs a couple of times a week.
What to expect from their first egg is hard to predict, but chances are the egg will be much smaller than a regular-sized egg. It can look oddly shaped or maybe has a strange texture.
There is nothing wrong with the egg, so there is no danger in eating the first egg your pullet lays.
Expect weirdly shaped first eggs as the reproductive system and egg-laying cycle are not entirely on point yet. As they are still young, their hormones are still stabilizing. Pullets can even lay two eggs in a single day. So if you are lucky, you might hit a double!
Give it some time, and you’ll enjoy regular-shaped eggs in no time.
End of Molting
Most hens stop laying eggs during molting as it is a painful and stressful process. They need energy and nutrients to produce new feathers instead of making eggs.
After molting is over, they’ll start laying eggs again because they don’t have to focus on growing new feathers anymore. But kickstarting the lay after a period of downtime can make the fresh eggs look a bit weird initially. But don’t worry, they’ll pick it up in no time.
End of Laying Cycle
All breeds have different life cycles, so it’s difficult to tell when your hen stops laying eggs. Typical laying hens usually don’t age over five years, but some chicken breeds can become as old as 20.
Generally speaking, a hen tapers off egg production after three years of age and completely stops laying after they’ve turned 6 or 7 years old. Before egg production ultimately comes to an end, older hens are likely to lay oddly-shaped eggs or fairy eggs due to a disturbance in their cycle.
Calcium or Protein Deficiency
A lack of calcium or protein in your hens’ diet results in soft-shelled eggs or ‘rubber eggs.’ These eggs can be recognized by their fragile shell or the complete absence of an eggshell and are not fit for consumption.
Fairy eggs are shelled eggs, but smaller and lack a yolk. Their cause can be brought back to a calcium or protein deficiency. If only one hen lays an occasional fairy egg, it has nothing to do with nutrition. But it’s something to keep in mind when multiple hens inside your flock are laying abnormal-sized eggs.
When a hen feels stressed, she’ll decrease or stop egg production until she feels better. Multiple issues can cause stress:
Once the hen resumes her egg production, the formation of fairy eggs is possible, but it’ll only be temporary, so don’t worry.
Wonky Reproductive System
Fairy eggs aren’t uncommon, but that doesn’t mean it should be a weekly routine. When you notice a hen frequently lays weirdly shaped eggs or small eggs without egg yolk, this could suggest a medical issue in the reproductive system.
To be sure what’s going on, you are best to consult your vet. It’s possible your hen is incapable of releasing any yolks or isn’t able to develop the ovum but releases it regularly. She could have underlying health issues as some illnesses can cause permanent reproductive malfunctions.
If your hen frequently lays fairy eggs, consult your vet.
Can you incubate a fairy egg?
Of course, you can try. But due to the absence of egg yolk in most fairy egg cases, the egg is not likely to be fertilized. Even if a yolk is present, the egg itself will not hold enough nutrients to grow a chick.
If you want to give it a try, you can use our ‘Egg Hatching Guide’ to get you started.
Can you eat a fairy egg?
Yes. Instead of other strangely shaped eggs such as soft-shelled eggs, you CAN eat a fairy egg. It doesn’t matter whether it’s your hens’ first egg ever or not, you can eat it without any health risks. However, due to the size and lack of egg yolk, a fairy egg will not be as nutritional as normal eggs.
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I recently read The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood and since then I’ve regularly been thinking about the Turing Test. I first came across Turing’s work while studying computer science and mathematics at University. It concerns artificial intelligence, or as he put it: “Are there imaginable digital computers which would do well in the imitation game?” (Side point: Did you know 2012 is Alan Turing Year?)
Late last year, I read about a team of researchers who created a bunch of “socialbots”:
“designed to be stealthy, that is, it is able to pass itself off as a human being.”
This enables those behind the scenes to infiltrate a group of people, reach an influential position and then exploit it by spreading misinformation and propoganda, or to gain access to more private information which can in turn be sold. Their findings were that it’s easy to infiltrate Facebook at a large scale, most people are not careful enough when accepting connection requests sent by strangers, especially when they have mutual connections, and Facebook’s “immune system” did not detect their socialbots.
“102 socialbots made a combined 3,000 friends in eight weeks. The bots began by sending friend requests to random users, 20 percent of whom accepted, and then to their mutual friends, which resulted in the acceptance rate jumping to almost 60 percent.”
Knowing if someone on Facebook (or other social media sites) is “real” or not is going to become more of a problem (if not for you and me, for Facebook).
In two books I recently read, “fake” people were powerfully used: The World According to Monsanto, documents chilling examples of fake scientists traced back to PR companies who influenced the scientific community and Ghost in the Wires showed how easy it was for someone to create a new identity.
So yes, there’s spambots, transparent useful bots and socialbots, stolen identities and fake identities out there. Would I know the difference between those and “real” people, always? Really?
I remarked to Regan the other day that I find that some blogs I used to regularly read have become so insanely formulaic, so robotic-like in their content and publishing schedule (Top 10 Lists! Guest posts! I have the secret!) that I wonder where the personality and edge has gone in lots of blogs. (Not all!)
And yet, Anil Dash blogged:
“The entire modern social web was born from the blogging movement, and social activism has been part of the blogging medium since its birth.”
Has blogging and status updates been toned down over time to have less “realness”? Less “humanness”?
A friend recently lamented on Facebook that once blogs meant daily stories with adverbs and adjectives and now status updates are so dry, boring, too much detail and not enough feeling. She also linked to the book 420 Characters which tells stories within the 420 character limit Facebook puts on status updates.
I know my status updates on Facebook have changed. I’m more aware of what I’m writing, more aware I’m being watched and it changes my behavior. (The Hawthorne effect.) I’m trying hard to avoid doing that with my blog – I want to write about the things which interest me, rather than the things which will get me traffic.
Meanwhile, I’m waiting for my copy of Monoculture: How One Story is Changing Everything to arrive in the mail.
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For my father, David Eduard Van Dijk, on Father’s Day 2019 with loving gratitude for instilling a love of books in his children:
Once upon a time, in a kingdom not too far away from here, lived a king and queen with their three children.
The king was a thin man with a pointy grey beard who wore thick spectacles and loved to read. The castle was lined with shelves containing books in all shapes, sizes and imaginable colours. It was filled with the musty smell of old paper and ink. King Eruditus was known for his knowledge of many subjects none of which pertained to anything related to human relationships or the Unknown Realm.
To him it did not exist at all. This special Holy Realm. He had no patience with the women who chatted amongst themselves of this other place – one of miracles and magic. Equality, peace and freedom. More a way of being really, than a place, they said, where one could do and be anything one wanted to. Even talk to those who had passed on, it was whispered. Sometimes glimpse the future or receive messages from the Past. A state of timelessness and Grace where the ancestors live and breath and have their being.
Try as he might the King could not prevent the talk. No law or edict or proclamation seemed to have any effect . He found the whole business exceedingly tiresome. To him only facts were real and of any worth. He seldom, if ever, left his reading corner, preferring to even eat his meals alone surrounded by his beloved volumes.
This sorry state of affairs was difficult for those close to him to bear. Not to speak of the inhabitants of Academia who had not so much as glimpsed their monarch in many years. In fact, things had really begun to suffer because their absent ruler hated being disturbed for anything practical. To make matters worse there was a severe drought in the land – had been for years.
If Truth be told, the kingdom was in crisis. There were no cattle or other animals left, very little food and the only water to be found was very high up in the mountains. Work on the pipeline to bring the precious liquid down to the people was slow and laborious and often interrupted by marauding bands of desperate peasants who wanted to save their dying children. Corruption, bribery and violence was rife.
Queen Mercy was the only one who could talk some sense into King Eruditus when she could get up the nerve to face her rather intimidating spouse. She was a gentle woman with raven-coloured hair and doe-like brown eyes . She loved to wear floral gowns shaped like bells that swished when she moved and velvety pumps on her dainty, little feet. She smelt like red roses in full bloom and jasmine in the early spring. She had a loving nature and cared deeply for her three children and also for all the people of Academia.
She, too, had withdrawn of late, unable to bear the sight of hollow-eyed thirsty mothers and listless children trailing behind the parched men who begged at street corners and banged on the castle’s gates at night demanding action. She spent her days and nights praying for a solution and for the strength and wisdom to help her husband and her people. Eventually she could bear it no longer and died of a broken heart.
The king was devastated and in his despair and anguish he ventured out just long enough to see what was happening in the kingdom. He vowed to find a way to save Academia and her people.
He called all the wise men of the land together and asked what should be done. They scoured every conceivable book, deliberated, debated and discussed every possible avenue of action. No-one seemed to know what to do. None of the many scriptures or books of Wisdom seemed to offer any workable solution.
The two princes were sent out on a mission to find remedies to the evils that had befallen the kingdom. Both sent word after a short time that they had found no answers to Academia’s dilemma. They each found a new kingdom, married a lovely lady from that region and settled there. They begged their father to visit them and give up his castle to live with them.
Eruditus was somewhat relieved that his sons had found a way to live a good life , yet he also felt betrayed and determined to stay on in Academia.
Give up his kingdom….never !
Dismayed he surveyed the shriveled land that had once been green and lush. He became more and more reclusive.
Seeing her father’s dilemma, the Princess spoke:
“Father, I have heard of a wise woman who lives in the woods at the foot of Mount Hochmah . They say she is the guardian of the Chalice of Life. Maybe we should ask her for help. “
“A woman ! Indeed ! Where did you read of this woman, daughter?”
“I did not read of her, father. I heard her voice calling me in my dreams . When I awoke a little brightly coloured bird sitting on my sill chirped her name. Sophia, Sophia ,Sophia. Three times I heard him. Later , whilst in the rose garden I heard her calling my name in the wind.”
“What nonsense! Voices in the wind…dreams and speaking birds – you have lost your mind. Go to your room.”
Saddened and shamed the princess ran to her room and lay on the bed too miserable even to cry. She thought of her mother and wished that she were there.
No sooner had she made this wish than Queen Mercy appeared in her room.
“Dear child, it is time for you to do what I could not. You need to follow your heart and be courageous and true. The kingdom and your father and all the good people of Academia, everyone…. is depending on you.”
“What do you mean? What must I do? Mother, don’t leave… What am I to do?” She cried as the apparition disappeared.
She sat in silence on the opulent bed until it grew dark around her. She rose to light a candle and continued her vigil. Waiting for the voice she had heard or her mother’s ghost to reappear. Neither came. Yet somehow she grew calm and sure.
As dawn came and the castle awoke and began to move for the day, she packed a few things and left on a journey to find the one who had called to her in her dreams. She left without word- slipping out of the castle over the field that once had been covered in green grass and yellow daisies.
She spoke to the arid field, the anxious small animals she met along the way. She avoided settlements and people keeping to areas where she could journey unseen. She traveled at night to escape the scorching rays of the sun. Drinking dew in the mornings and lying in ditches and hollows or any other form of shelter she could find during the hottest parts of the day. Eating sparingly from the small pouch she carried tied to her waist that magically seemed to always contain another morsel no matter how many times she dipped into it.
Her favourite purple cloak provided shade from the sun and warmth at night. It became her comfort, her home. It ,too, remained pristine and whole – untouched by passing branches. Clean, despite the dirt she lay on. Unharmed by the elements, as she was.
Whenever she came to crossroads or a fork in the path she asked : “What is in my heart? Which road shall I take?”.
Then, having discerned, she set out once more confident and determined. She traveled for miles and miles over rocky terrain and crossed many sandy, dry river beds.
The moon was her greatest friend lighting the way. When she became despondent or afraid she looked up at the starry night and saw her mother’s face in the bright moon.
Strangely enough, although she heard the jackals call and even once a lion’s roar they never bothered her. The snakes, lizards and spiders she encountered scurried away as if very busy with their own agenda.
After days of traveling she was exhausted and ready to give up the quest.
“If what I seek is not round the next bend I will lie down and die”, she thought.
As she reached the bend in the road, she paused and prayed for help. She spoke to her mother and her other ancestors, her guardian angels, archangels, saints and all her mother had told her of, who lived in the Unknown Realm. She pleaded to be shown the way to help her father and his kingdom.
Rounding the bend, she gasped.
In front of her lay a beautiful green forest and as she stood transfixed by the sight, she was sure she could hear the sound of running water!
As she ran with arms outstretched, delighted and convinced she had reached the end of her journey, she was stopped in her tracks by an enormous silver and green long necked dragon.
The dragon towered over her, its jewel shaped blue third eye pulsating in the centre of its rather small head. She waited with bated breath for the roar of fire . All that came from the beast’s mouth was a feeble spurt of puny flame pale yellow in colour.
The dragon was leashed and was pulling and straining at the chains that held it captive.
At first the princess thought the creature was straining to get to her until she noticed a stone bowl from which a fountain of pure, clear mountain water bubbled. The dragon was desperate to reach the water.
As she watched she thought of the thirst of her own land and it’s people, of the parched road she had followed to reach this place.
With scarcely a moment’s hesitation she reached out and loosened the beaded collar around the monster’s neck.
As she did this, she looked into his eyes and saw all she had seen on her journey.
She saw again her father’s gaunt and haunted face ; the wretched, tired eyes of the woman who had recognized her just after she left the castle, felt again the woman’s pleading tug at the hem of her purple cloak. It was this desperate gesture that had made her set her course through uninhabited land; to travel with the animals at night ; spurred her on when she grew weary and despondent. She heard too, her mother’s voice and saw again, in her mind, the desert land and her people who were depending on her.
The beast heaved itself forward and lunged.
She closed her eyes expecting to be devoured.
When nothing happened, she gingerly opened one eye, then the other, to see the dragon lapping up the water like a puppy dog.
As she ever so gently and carefully approached the drinking dragon, she heard her name being called…in chorus….a lilting chant that beckoned her to enter the forest .
The ferns seemed to greet her, raising their heads as she passed. The moss underfoot was a soft green carpet and the best of all was the clear stream gurgling, inviting her to drink freely. Which she did gratefully, lying face down on the soft grass, hugging and stroking the round, smooth river stones.
When she had had her fill, she ran around wildly, beside herself with joy. She lay on her back on the moss carpet , watching the sunbeams dance through the canopy of trees to tickle her face.
She awoke startled by the dragon licking her face and nudging her to get up.
He was hunched at her side. Looking up she realized he was waiting for her to get onto his back.
He ambled through the wood until he reached a clearing. He bent down and waited patiently for the princess to dismount.
In the centre of the clearing was a clear pool surrounded by large ferns. As she looked into the water she saw a very beautiful, elegant woman wearing an exquisite, dark purple cloak. Her hair was dark and framed her perfectly oval face. Her eyes were kind and a warm brown. They seemed wise…her eyes. And compassionate. There was a light shining from them.. so bright that the princess felt like blinking.
She gazed at the beautiful woman and was so moved and touched by her beauty that she began to cry.
As her tears fell the reflection was disturbed and she glimpsed a fine silver goblet lying lodged amongst the pebbles at the bottom of the pool. It was simple and beautifully crafted with a few brilliant jewels and delicate inscriptions and engravings that filled her with awe and wonder.
She lifted the cup tenderly from the water and studied the markings carefully and reverently for she knew instinctively that this was a holy object.
In the centre of the cup was a simple engraving that mesmerized the princess – a heart with a spiral in it. Under it were the words: “The answers lie within”. Eagerly she turned the cup over to look inside . It was empty.
Disappointed she hugged the cup to her chest. It felt as her heart was breaking.
“Look again. Go within. Look again. Go within,” she heard the angelic choir chant.
So she peered into the cup again and seeing nothing there, she glanced at the pool. The reflection was back. It was the same except for a beautiful heart with a spiral in it forming a vortex as she watched almost too afraid to breathe.
From the vortex words began to dance and as she read them, she felt them in her heart.
Love , Forgiveness, Compassion, Peace, Sharing, Kindness, Joy, Laughter.
The words danced and she began to dance with them and to sing and in her heart she knew.
She cried for joy and as she cried and released all the pain of her journey the heavens opened and it began to rain.
She flew back home to the castle on the dragon’s back, blessing the land as she passed over it. Blessing it with her healing tears. She felt the water on her face and saw the people cry out in joy and relief.
King Eruditus was so happy to see his little princess again. He found her changed though. She was older, wiser and very beautiful. Her bearing was regal and serene and her brown eyes shone with fervour and conviction as she said:
“Books are fun and interesting too. But the answers, dear father, lie within.”
To this day, the crest of the flourishing kingdom of Academia bears these words: “Read, Enjoy, but go within!”
The people and their king learnt the ways of the Heart from their beautiful, courageous Princess, the heir to the throne.
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On the TWIT.tv site, in their FLOSS weekly podcast, Jacob Kaplan-Moss is interviewed about the origins and design of the Django project by famed Perl guru Randal Schwartz while both recently attended OSCON. (Sadly, the audio seems to only be available in encumbered MP3 — we need more audio published in free formats like OGG!). Read about the episode and download the MP3 here.
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“The corporation, as we know it, has passed its expiration date.” — Nick Carr, SuperNova, 22-July-2007
Heard on IT Conversations Podcast, “Technology’s Potential to Reshape Business” with Chris Meyer
Backdating this post a bit, as I didn’t get it posted yesterday,…
In Fresh Ubuntu, Harlem and Peter lead off this week with a conversation with Michael Ramm about productivity and GTD in “.”
PyCon2007 had a good and a not-so-good set of audio recordings: “slides) was a flop, though. The recording was in the back of an echoing hall, and cut off in a little less that twelve minutes. I’ll ping the organizers to find out if that can be resampled.” was quite interesting, though there wasn’t as much deep programming insights as an interesting diversion about experimental economics. “ ” (
Clay Shirky talks to Moira Gunn on Tech Nation “Here Comes Everyone.” Clay did one of my favorite presentations of all times, audio available on IT Conversations and a white paper here. Clay’s got a new book out and he’s marking the rounds of the media. I heard him on “ ” last week.
Tim Spaulding talks with Jon Udell about LibraryThing. in Jon’s “Interviews with Innovators” series on IT Conversations. I mention LibraryThing two years ago on this blog, and have been a regular visitor to the site. They continue to come up with intriguing features and make browsing through the stacks a lot of fun. | <urn:uuid:213abeb3-8bfd-4f9a-8335-b0282db14765> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://blog.tedroche.com/tag/podcast/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571909.51/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813051311-20220813081311-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.952357 | 451 | 1.59375 | 2 |
Set data structure for positive numbers
A bit array, or bit set, is an efficient set data structure. It consists of an array that compactly stores bits and it uses bit-level parallelism to perform operations quickly.
Once you have installed Go, run this command
to install the
go get github.com/yourbasic/bit
There is an online reference for the package at godoc.org/github.com/yourbasic/bit.
- The API of this library is frozen.
- Version numbers adhere to semantic versioning.
The only accepted reason to modify the API of this package is to handle issues that can't be resolved in any other reasonable way.
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At the beginning of Donja Raša, the lower, workers’ part of town stands the comfortable three-storey building called Type F1 Building with the total of 22 rooms which once housed single officials. Likewise, there was a Type F1 Building, a two-storey building with six mini-apartments for single engineers, erected in the upper part of town behind the church. Both of these were converted into residential objects after mine closure in 1966. It is interesting that after converting of Type F1 the area suffered tuberculosis epidemics, and this building served as a temporary quarantine accommodation for patients, mostly children, to be isolated from uninfected population. The epidemics, caused by infected water well sources Kokoti and Fonte Gaja, affected almost the entire Labin area in spring at the beginning of 1970s. The case was covered up for decades after the epidemics. | <urn:uuid:df493245-81f8-409d-a447-dd66fa8dbf6a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://tz-rasa.hr/historic-guide-through-rasa/type-f-building/?lang=en | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571198.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810161541-20220810191541-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.975806 | 182 | 2.078125 | 2 |
More than half a million public sector workers in the United States are set to have their student debt erased under a revamped debt forgiveness program. But for people hoping to take advantage of the federal initiative, getting those loans forgiven takes persistence, said one person who has successfully used the program to get rid of tens of thousands of dollars in student debt.
“I spent hours on the phone with the federal loan service company I was using,” said Karen Tongson, professor of English, gender and sexuality studies at the University of Southern California. , who told CBS News she once owed $73,000 in school loans. . Even after making payments for 16 years, she was still liable for $47,000 due to interest on the debt, she added.
Last year, however, the US Department of Education erased Tongson’s remaining balance under the Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program, or PSLF, launched in 2007 under then-President George W. Bush.
Initially, the effort looked like a textbook case of bad public policy undermining a potentially important goal. Although the program promised to wipe out student debt for government employees after a decade of payments, 99% of those who applied were told they weren’t eligible, according to a 2019 report. report of the Office of Government Accountability. Many Americans, say the program has never worked for them.
But after revamping the PSLF last year, the Biden administration said the effort will help more than 550,000 teachers, members of the military, first responders and government workers get out of student debt.
“First of all, don’t be intimidated by this and don’t be afraid to ask questions,” Tongson said as he encouraged eligible borrowers to apply for relief under the PSLF. It’s about being “very persistent in calling and insisting on talking with someone,” she added.
To qualify for loan forgiveness under the PSLF, an applicant must be employed full-time in a federal, state, local, or tribal government agency or nonprofit organization. The applicant must have direct federal loans that are repaid under an income-based repayment plan.
“The key is to make sure you speak to your employer’s human resources department so you know how to get your verifiable employment forms for loan forgiveness as soon as possible,” Tongson said. | <urn:uuid:fc6bc393-0feb-462b-9f17-9fe74e41ff4c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://datovecentrum.info/public-service-loan-forgiveness-program-can-help-tackle-student-debt-borrower-says/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571909.51/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813051311-20220813081311-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.965404 | 490 | 1.859375 | 2 |
Our CEO, Brian Bannatyne explains what the two most important things are in business and why;
What are the two most important things in business ?
At the end of the day there are only two things in business… People & Culture. Everything else flows from these two things.
Why do you think these are the most important things ?
Getting the right people, focused on the right things and behaving in the right way are the keys to success. This is what Leadership is all about.
Why does your view differ compared to other organisations in our Industry?
Having not worked in any other organisation in our Industry I can’t comment specifically, but what I would say generally is people tend to be focused on “stuff”. There is satisfaction and value in this but it doesn’t build great organisations. People don’t spend nearly enough time on People.
What do you think makes a great culture ?
This is driven by the Values of the organisation. What is it we value? How do we want our people to be? In Kura we want our people to be themselves, to question everything, to seek feedback from their colleagues, to have a voice and to demonstrate personal accountability. When people do this they develop very quickly.
How do you recruit and retain the best people ?
You recruit the best people by investing sufficient time in it. Hugely more than is typical across businesses. You hire for values and behaviours. You retain people by building a great culture where people can grow and be successful.
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HEAD (Health + Design Lab) focuses its scientific activity on the interface between people and health, developing environments, products and services, aiming to promote health literacy, social inclusion and therefore, improve subjective wellbeing.
“The WHO definition of health as complete wellbeing is no longer fit for purpose given the rise of chronic disease. Machteld Huber and colleagues propose changing the emphasis towards the ability to adapt and self-manage in the face of social, physical, and emotional challenges” (Huber et al., 2011).
Considering the given importance of subjectivity, the revised conceptual framework of health creates new opportunities for design intervention.
HEAD projects are developed by multidisciplinary teams, bringing together design, clinical medicine, psychology, sociology and communication skills, assuming a practical and interventional nature.
As people are essential in our projects, one of our main goals is the improvement of human-centred research methodologies based on the designerly ways of knowing (Cross).
This orientation will support projects aiming to:
– improve the relationship between people; between people and information; between people and products; between people and spaces; between people and services.
– contribute to patient empowerment, by designing systems that attend to specific needs of people in different stages of life, preparing them to better analyze risks and make choices.
– design exclusive solutions in order to promote inclusion.
– develop digital tools and other media, by designing more efficient communication and making information more understandable fostering health literacy – in order to contribute to health promotion, disease prevention and counteract misinformation. | <urn:uuid:dc0e2629-54fb-42a6-be76-043cb20e0c22> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://idmais.org/pt-pt/research-group/health-design-lab/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571909.51/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813051311-20220813081311-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.931029 | 325 | 2.515625 | 3 |
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