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God created man in His own image, in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them. —Genesis 1:27
Or so the Creator of man proclaims.
“But from the beginning of creation, God made them male and female. For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother, and the two shall become one flesh; so they are no longer two, but one flesh.” —Mark 10:6-8
Or so says the Son of God.
But since these voices of ancient wisdom are verboten in Albemarle County Government Schools, modern understandings must be conceived.
To that end, following is a discerning expository on sexuality and gender, courtesy of an Albemarle County middle-schooler, as published in the online school newspaper:
Finding your Identity
By: xxxxxx xxxxxx
Identity is a hard thing to figure out, and many teens are left confused about gender and sexuality. I’m here to give you a helping hand. Here is a list of a few sexualities and their definitions.
- Heterosexual (straight)- Often considered the “norm” It means to like genders other than your own (typically used to describe binary genders)
- Homosexual (gay and lesbian)- means to like the same gender as your own.
- Bisexual- means to like your own and other genders.
- Asexual- means to feel no sexual attraction, but doesn’t necessarily mean that they don’t have any interest in romantic relationships.
- Pansexual- means that they ignore gender entirely. They don’t have any preference for gender and it’s a lot more personality based.
Of course, these are only a few of the many different sexualities’, and sexual orientations, so if you feel like none of these fit you and you want to learn more, or if you’re just a bit curious, there is more information online.
In addition to that, you don’t need to use a label and you don’t need to make your identity public. You can make decisions about what you want to do with your life. Middle school is early in our lives, and you will likely change a lot by the time you’re an adult. You don’t need to stick with the label that you use today! You can change and develop and so can your sexuality.
Now to begin talking about gender identity, I feel as if I must explain a bit more before starting the list. Sometimes, people are born into a body that they don’t belong in. Whether they are born into a female body, but are actually a boy, or they are born a boy, but don’t feel that they fit with either binary gender, they are all very real and valid. If someone requests that you refer to them with a different name or new pronouns, please honor their request and do so. They understand that it might be hard for a while and you may make mistakes, but if you make an effort to help them, that’s often all they need. You may be wondering, What are pronouns? Pronouns are what you are referred to by. For example, He/Him, They/Them, She/her, and Zie/Zir are a few examples of pronouns. If you’re ever unsure about someone’s pronouns then you can simply ask. More often than not they will appreciate you asking even if they’re cisgender. Now for the list!
- Cisgender- Identifying by the gender you where born with
- Transgender- someone who transitions from their birth gender to a different gender.
- Nonbinary- someone who doesn’t fit with either binary gender
- Genderfluid- someone whose gender flows and changes.
Obviously, I couldn’t possibly cover every gender identity in one little list, but there are many resources online that provide more information.
If you’ re interested in good safe spaces and organizations for LGBTQIA+ this website that shows lots of local LGBTQIA+ organizations and such: http://cvillepride.org/2018/07/31/organizations-support/
Plus, the Henley GSA (gender sexuality alliance) is an amazing group of students and teachers who create a safe space and discuss issues regarding LGBTQIA+ in our school and area. Sadly the plans for the GSA while online have not been confirmed.
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Share Your Thoughts
Q I’d like to discuss social issues such as homelessness, caste system, fundamentalism and domestic violence with my father and relatives. They seem moderately interested but dismiss the subject with, “We can’t really do much about it; it’s the will of God.” They spend a fair amount of time discussing religion and philosophy and also go to the temple quite often to worship. However, I don’t see them wanting to extend themselves to alleviate human suffering or questioning the responsibilities of their privileges. Additionally, I don’t see their personalities evolving much or growing as human beings. I am wondering if people use religion and spirituality and fate to avoid dealing with the problems of the world?
A When people are used to a certain amount of privilege due to class, gender, caste or financial success it is easy to not have to think about those who are in less privileged situations in life. It is also easier to believe that anyone who wants more out of life can get it by simply working harder. However, there are other familial and social factors involved in a person’s success besides personal efforts.
Facing life’s unfairness and suffering is very challenging. It’s complex and difficult to understand all the causes and ways of resolving inequities. Nonetheless, that’s no excuse for not engaging in some form of social justice work. We all have different ways of coping with suffering, especially if we don’t think we can do much about it or it feels overwhelming.
“Spiritual bypass” is one such avoidance method. It’s where people use religion and spirituality to console themselves, withdraw from life or simply feel pious so as to avoid feeling guilty or take the time to get involved in a project that helps others. It helps them rise above suffering—one’s own and another’s.
From a spiritual perspective, ultimately all of life’s problems arise out of our disconnection with a deeper and more profound reality. Disorder and suffering are symptoms of not being in touch with the Atman (soul or true nature).
Often that thinking is very short term and oriented around symptom relief, rather than probing the deeper causes of the suffering in our lives and the world at large. Thus, it makes sense to spend time to become more attuned to that from which wisdom, compassion and true guidance for our lives springs and spend time practising spiritual tenets. This is better for the world and challenges each individual to integrate their inner practices with real-life situations.
Modern psychology offers a lot of models to help people work out challenging relationship dynamics and methods to grow emotionally in ways that religion and spiritual practices don’t. These include communication skills; understanding, naming and sharing our feelings; working at seeing another person’s point of view; being oneself while being close to another.
When spiritual awareness and psychological tools are integrated it creates a powerful approach to living a conscious and engaged life in the world.
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During my client engagements, I can’t tell you how many times I’ve been asked what the difference is between Strategic Planning and Strategic Execution. I’ve also had many leaders tell me that they handle the more strategic issues while their teams focus on execution. The difference has also been described to me as thinking vs. doing. Or as, much to my chagrin, executive level vs. manager level. My answer to the Strategy Planning Vs. Strategy Execution question is this: Strategy IS Execution.
Let me explain. Strategy is about choices to differentiate and win. Part of making choices includes the markets, customer, products you’ll focus on, how you will be different, and the capabilities and management systems required to link all these choices together. What has traditionally been thought of as “execution” becomes the essence of the organization’s strategy. Said differently, if you spend time identifying the markets, customers, and products you’ll focus on and the differentiating elements you’ll employ but spend no time outlining the resources necessary to win or how you will align those resources, you don’t really have a strategy.
You see, most organizations are pretty good at developing products and services to help them meet the growth target. If they aren’t good at this, well, they don’t hang around long. But, in my experience, these same organizations usually don’t have a good handle on the resources necessary to win. Notice I said win. Organizations usually identify the resources they think they need or resources they used to need. However, very few organizations spend the necessary time identifying the capabilities required and the management systems necessary to win. Let me offer a theoretical example. Let’s say a food manufacturing company decides they will win by offering the absolute best tasting food products out of their entire competitive set. That would be a worthy strategic choice indeed. But, at the same time, let’s say this company neither shifts resources into the Quality and Food Science department nor enhances any of their systems for measuring taste preference vs competitive items. Let’s say they neglect to develop any systems or materials for training sales people how to sell the company’s taste story. How effective do you think their Taste Leadership choice is going to be?
If your organization separates Strategy and Execution in practice or in belief, be careful. You may unintentionally be driving confusion and frustration throughout your workforce. If you would like an evaluation of your Strategy to ensure you have the correct alignment, please reach out to me at www.boldnorthstrategy.com. | <urn:uuid:a04dae09-03c3-417b-b637-49eef689c0db> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://boldnorthstrategy.com/strategy-planning-vs-strategy-execution/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570921.9/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809094531-20220809124531-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.955314 | 535 | 1.664063 | 2 |
Dear Corbett School District Families,
On Sunday, March 8th, the Oregon Health Authority and Oregon Department of Education announced guidance for responding to COVID-19 cases in Oregon schools. The following is part of the announcement; you can read the guidance in full by clicking here:
At this time, the guidance recommends against closing schools and campuses where no cases of COVID-19 are present. It also recommends that schools, colleges and universities consider all alternatives before closing a school, college or university in the event that a COVID-19 case is detected among students or staff. The guidance identifies important strategies educational administrators can use to reduce the risk of COVID-19 within a school community and protect students from lost instructional time.
The guidance recognizes that the instruction schools and universities provide is vital to student well-being. In addition, schools provide many students their only ready access to health care and food. More than 22,000 students in Oregon experienced some form of homelessness in 2019.
The recommendation gives schools tools to prevent COVID-19 transmission and maintain a normal learning environment for students and staff. Under existing OHA guidance, individuals who have COVID-19, including students and educators, will be subject to self-isolation to prevent others from becoming infected.
The safety, health, and well-being of our students and staff is our highest priority. We will continue to work in close partnership with the Oregon Health Authority and Multnomah County Health, and follow their guidance in order to minimize both the spread of coronavirus and disruption to schools and students.
We will continue emphasizing the importance of handwashing at school. Our custodians are now in week two of giving priority to disinfecting high-touch surfaces in classrooms and common areas. We have been delivering extra supplies such as disinfecting wipes and disinfecting sprays to teachers and administrative staff for periodic use during the school day and will continue to do so. We have also extended increased cleaning protocols to our school buses.
Finally, a reminder that you can best support these efforts by washing hands frequently, covering mouths when coughing or sneezing, and using hand sanitizer. Those experiencing symptoms of the cold or flu should stay at home, only returning to school or work when symptom-free for 24 hours. If you are concerned about symptoms, please consult with a doctor. | <urn:uuid:b46a30cd-89df-43ed-9796-062f91abba83> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://corbett.k12.or.us/2020/03/09/corbett-school-district-update-on-coronavirus-march-9/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572198.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815175725-20220815205725-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.956628 | 481 | 1.820313 | 2 |
- Purchase the complete Expat Arrivals Ottawa Guide (PDF)
Ottawa prides itself on being a global centre for learning. As a result of the city’s investment in schools, universities and other educational establishments, it now boasts one of the most highly educated workforces in the country. Furthermore, Ottawa offers some of the highest average salaries in the whole of Canada.
Expats will also find that the city’s unemployment rate is fairly low and stable. However, competition for well-paid jobs is fierce. Therefore, it is best to have secured a suitable position before relocating to Ottawa.
Job market in Ottawa
As Canada’s capital and the seat of power, Ottawa’s biggest employer is the federal government. Canadian citizens are generally given preference when it comes to government jobs. The city is also home to several major national institutions, as well as foreign embassies and non-profit organisations which employ a large number of expats.
Ottawa is a thriving business and technology hub. Other leading industries for employment include health and social services, education, high-tech industries and manufacturing.
For most jobs in Ottawa, expats will be expected to speak fluent French or English. Speaking both will be even more advantageous.
Finding a job in Ottawa
A good starting point for finding a job in Ottawa is to look online. There are many online portals where expats can look for work. Networking is also an essential element of the job search in Canada, and social networking sites such as LinkedIn are especially helpful to make connections and research the local job market.
Expats looking for jobs in Ottawa may face some obstacles, such as a language barrier, having no previous work experience in Canada, and difficulty having their skills and foreign qualifications recognised by Canadian employers.
There are facilities and services in Ottawa that assist foreigners in overcoming such challenges. For instance, several organisations offer courses in English or French as a second language. Expats will also benefit from approaching Employment and Social Development Canada (ESDC). ESDC has a Foreign Credential Recognition programme that evaluates qualifications achieved abroad and helps internationally-trained workers make an easier transition into the Canadian workforce.
Expats moving to Ottawa should be aware that a licence is required by the province of Ontario to work in certain sectors. Expats working in professions such as teaching, medicine, architecture, social work and engineering will need to obtain the relevant licence or certificate to practise in Ottawa, along with a work permit, before applying for a position.
New arrivals should note that regardless of their field of work, anyone working in Ottawa will be required to have a Social Insurance Number (SIN).
Work culture in Ottawa
As Canada's capital city and a political hub, Ottawa is often thought to have a bureaucratic work culture, though this varies across industries and companies. Ottawa’s tech companies have a reputation for a friendly and fun working environment, but one that also has employees working hard.
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Paul Celan (/ˈsɛlæn/; 23 November 1920 – c. 20 April 1970) was a German language poet and translator. He was born as Paul Antschel to a Jewish family in Cernăuți (German: Czernowitz), in the then Kingdom of Romania, (now Chernivtsy, Ukraine), and adopted the pseudonym “Paul Celan”. (Celan in Romanian is pronounced Chelàn, and was derived from the syllables of his surname). He became one of the major German-language poets of the post-World War II era.
Celan remained imprisoned in a work-camp until February 1944, when the Red Army’s advance forced the Romanians to abandon the camps, whereupon he returned to Cernăuţi shortly before the Soviets returned. There, he worked briefly as a nurse in the mental hospital. Friends from this period recall Celan expressing immense guilt over his separation from his parents, whom he had tried to convince to go into hiding prior to the deportations, shortly before their death.
A version of Celan’s poem Todesfuge appeared as “Tangoul Morţii” (“Death Tango”) in a Romanian translation of May 1947. Additional remarks were published explaining that the dancing and musical performances evoked in the poem were images of realities of the extermination camp life.
Celan became a French citizen in 1955 and lived in Paris. Celan’s sense of persecution increased after the widow of a friend, the French-German poet Yvan Goll, unjustly accused him of having plagiarised her husband’s work. Celan was awarded the Bremen Literature Prize in 1958 and the Georg Büchner Prize in 1960
Celan committed suicide by drowning in the Seine river in Paris, around April 20, 1970.
The death of his parents and the experience of the Shoah (The Holocaust) are defining forces in Celan’s poetry and his use of language. In his Bremen Prize speech, Celan said of language after Auschwitz that:
Only one thing remained reachable, close and secure amid all losses: language. Yes, language. In spite of everything, it remained secure against loss. But it had to go through its own lack of answers, through terrifying silence, through the thousand darknesses of murderous speech. It went through. It gave me no words for what was happening, but went through it. Went through and could resurface, ‘enriched’ by it all.
An Animated English Translation of Paul Celan’s famous work Todesfuge
Here it is read in the original German by its author Paul Celan
A further English translation where Todesfuge (Death Fuge) is entitled Black Milk
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Ocean Sensors specializes in the development of innovative ocean measurement instrumentation and systems. Our products are used in the academic oceanographic, environmental monitoring and Naval Research and development markets. Founded in 1986, we have developed and supplied instruments for use in ocean profiling, moored and shipboard data logging applications.
The measurements of ocean waves, tides, temperature and salinity are routinely completed using our instruments. Our products frequently integrate with dissolved oxygen, pH, fluorometer, transmissometer, and tilt sensors. Ocean Sensors interacts with foreign and domestic academic institutions including Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, University of Washington, Scripps Institution of Oceanography (S.I.O.) and Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Our research projects continually expand the existing products into broader market bases. Ocean Sensors products are used extensively in environmental monitoring from remotely operated vehicles, submarines, autonomous and towed vehicles.
In 1989, as a proof of concept project, we were funded for, and successfully completed the design and field testing of an autonomous instrument with satellite data telemetry. In 1993 Ocean Sensors introduced a thermosalinograph with integrated Global Positioning System (GPS). In the same year we introduced the Autonomous Profiling Vehicle (APV) which repeatedly profiled to over 1000 meters depth without any surface connection. The data was transmitted back to land via satellite. In 1999 we introduced a new line of compact high speed, low power data loggers. The instruments provide up to 70 gigabytes of data storage. Our conductivity and temperature (CT) sensor measures both electrical conductivity and temperature. It responds rapidly in time, and averages over small spatial zones. It is physically small and retains stable calibration. Another development is an automatic computer controlled calibration facility, which is regularly compared against the S.I.O. calibration facility. This innovation reduces human related calibration errors and improves productivity.
Ocean Sensors emphasizes low power (as little as 1 milliwatt) designs for use in long term deployments where power consumption is a critical factor. Ocean Sensors has developed several microprocessor?based systems (embedded systems). The operating systems allow the instruments to be programmed for data acquisition (up to 64 additional channels). The systems are capable of concurrently acquiring data and communicating with the user if needed. Logical decisions can be made, to command other devices such as radio, GPS, pump, or motor. Hundreds of our systems have been in use for many years and have successfully completed individual data acquisition tasks at sea for over a year.
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Helen Lachs Ginsburg, an economist and leading authority on full employment, or what has been called a job guarantee, died on Oct. 8 in a hospital in Queens. She was 91.
Her family said she had multiple health problems.
Dr. Ginsburg had retired as a professor of economics at Brooklyn College, where she specialized in labor and social welfare. She studied the public policy’s ramifications of full employment in the United States as well as in Sweden, and she received several awards from the U.S. Department of Labor.
Full employment — defined as an economy in which anyone who wants a job can find one — has been part of the national conversation since the early 20th century.
President Franklin D. Roosevelt was a strong proponent of full employment during the Depression. His hiring programs, including the Works Progress Administration and the Civilian Conservation Corps, provided significant relief for many workers, but their temporary nature made them insufficient to achieve the long-term benefits that he had hoped for.
“Living-wage jobs as a right may seem unrealistic,” Dr. Ginsburg wrote in a 2011 article, “but so once did the right of all children to go to school, the right of women to vote and the abolition of slavery.”
Dr. Ginsburg was a founding member of the National Committee for Full Employment, which was led by Coretta Scott King as she carried on the quest for economic justice and equality begun by her husband, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Dr. Ginsburg lectured around the country in the 1970s in support of the full employment legislation proposed by Augustus Hawkins, California’s first Black representative in Congress, and Senator Hubert H. Humphrey, Democrat of Minnesota.
The original legislation, intended to reduce inequality and poverty, would have provided a job for everyone who wanted to work. It was a forerunner of similar proposals today, including the federal job guarantee, a $15 minimum wage and the Green New Deal, which includes a right to living-wage work.
A watered-down version of the Humphrey-Hawkins bill was passed in 1978 and did not guarantee full employment. At that point, a disappointed Dr. Ginsburg began her study of Sweden’s successful, sustained full employment policy.
It led to her book, “Full Employment and Public Policy: The U.S. and Sweden” (1983), which inspired progressives to examine the Swedish model and try to adopt parts of it to the United States.
She also co-wrote, with two authors, a 1994 manifesto on full employment, “Jobs for All: A Plan for the Revitalization of America.” That work led to the creation of the National Jobs for All Coalition, now called the National Jobs for All Network, which promotes the idea that everyone capable of working has a right to a job. Dr. Ginsburg was a founding member.
“Helen Ginsburg was a model of a scholar-activist whose research and writing, always informed by her engagement in the struggle for economic justice, was an inspiration and impetus to all who carry on that struggle,” Gertrude Schaffner Goldberg, chair of the National Jobs for All Network, wrote in a tribute.
Helen Lachs was born on June 25, 1929, in the Bronx. Her father, William Lachs, was a haberdasher. Her mother, Anna (Riegelhaupt) Lachs, was a homemaker.
She grew up in Bayside, Queens, and received her undergraduate degree in economics from Queens College and a doctorate in economics from The New School.
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Our faculty have been named American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Fellows, Fulbright Scholars, National Endowment for the Humanities and National Science Foundation (NSF) Career Award winners, and numerous other nationally prestigious awards and honors.
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Our researchers are leaders in advancing the science of resilience in agricultural and natural ecosystems, developing best practices that will help ensure food and water security worldwide. Other teams are developing crops resilient to higher nighttime temperatures brought by climate change and studying resilience of birds’ social networks and climate-driven genetic adaptations.
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250% more business value
In a recent survey from Informatica “Driving Business Value from Data in the Face of Fragmentation and Complexity” (https://www.informatica.com/lp/driving-business-value-from-data-in-the-face-of-fragmentation-and-complexity_4241.html), there are a few numbers to highlight the importance of data management.
The most impressive number is this one — 250% more business value generated by enterprises with a high level of data maturity.
It’s important to see mentioned data maturity and not any technological maturity, so these are not necessarily organizations that are fully digitally transformed, that have fully migrated to the cloud, that have data mesh or data fabric architecture or just created their data lakehouse. No. These are organization with a high level of Data Maturity.
So, what organizations are these?
These are data-driven businesses, working with business-driven data.
- Where data management is fully automated.
- Where data is a strategic asset.
- Where data is an intrinsic component of their decision processes.
- Where there is a data culture aligned with a data strategy that is continually improved.
- Where employee focus on high value work
- Where AI/ML are effective.
- Where new ways of working and new business models are emerging.
- Where data brings the organization closer to their customers.
- Where data is used to create a performance culture.
- Where data-driven insights are imbedded into every business process and drive action.
These are organizations that can get breakthrough improvements not just through their data, but mostly through the way they manage and explore their data.
These are a subset of the 25% of organizations that have end-to-end data management in place.
What is happening to organizations with low data maturity?
These are organizations where data initiatives fall short from the objectives and will settle for dilution of value and mediocre performance, confronted with a situation where they simply assume that the investment was wasted and worse than that, accept to live with mediocre, under-performing solutions — expensive failures.
- Where there is little or no data management.
- Where there is no data strategy.
- Where there is no data culture.
- Where there is a reactive approach.
- Where data initiatives are ad-hoc.
- Where reporting is manual.
- Where there is disagreement on how data is processed.
- Where data is managed in silos.
- Where data sources are unknown or uncontrolled.
- Where there is little or no ownership.
- Where there is no trust in data.
- Where PoCs never make it to production.
- Where spreadsheets rule.
Considering that 79% of the organizations are using more than 100 data sources, it’s easy to imagine that a vast majority of the organizations are losing money with their data.
Organizations where data far from being an asset is a liability.
The way up the ladder
Deriving value from the investment needed to become data-driven is a challenge, especially for organizations locked in legacy data environments, business processes, skill sets, and change resistant cultures, as they struggle to enable their data capabilities.
It’s critical to build the awareness that the transformation process that leads to a data-driven organization must be wholeheartedly supported on the business strategy and objectives — not on technology. The purpose is to create business value, so the transformation strategy, must be oriented towards the organization’s strategic priorities and key business objectives.
To understand that it’s the business prerogative to determine what are the priorities and objectives of the transformation, especially when most of the transformations tend to be customer oriented, and who better that the business to have the necessary awareness and knowledge of the customers’ expectations.
To understand that this is a business-driven transformation — where all initiatives are and oriented by the business units and grounded on clear business use cases — aligned with strategical business objectives.
Data-Driven is a priority
Whatever the reasons impairing data initiatives, analytical decisions and actions are generally better than those based on intuition and experience.
The need for data-driven organizations and cultures is real and it’s a priority.
Rather than undertaking massive change, organizations should concentrate on targeted efforts to build a data-driven culture. Don’t focus on overall data-driven transformation, identify specific projects and business initiatives that move the organization in the right direction.
Focus on the steppingstones not on a bridge to a data-driven organization.
A strict alignment with business goals and objectives — Keeping in mind that “data exists to serve business”, this means that any data governance process must be supported on strong business cases, with objectives anchored on business objectives, otherwise it will be viewed as another siloed IT project with no perceived value from the business side.
A strong focus on strategic data — At an operational level, most of the organizations rely on dozens of different systems, which handle massive volumes of data of every kind of typology daily. Approaching data in a global perspective will inevitably lead to a lack of focus, resulting on a misalignment with the business objectives and incapability to deliver value. Being supported on a strong business case that identifies and prioritizes business critical and strategical data is paramount for success.
Looking at any organization’s data landscape, to design a data strategy can be a challenge.
8 Steps for adoption
Frequently identified as a cause for data initiatives failures, the lack of leadership buy-in and commitment can be tracked back to the absence of a strong vision.
The role of top management it’s not simply to sanction a digital transformation.
It is essential that they communicate a vision of what and why is to be achieved — a strong purpose — to demonstrate that the transformation is an unquestionable priority, making other leaders accountable, and making it harder to back-track.
These processes need buy-in from all levels of the organization, it may start with strong executive sponsorship but needs the commitment of all the other stakeholders in the organization.
2. Clear, ambitious (business) objectives
Data’s purpose is to create value, so any data strategy must be oriented towards the organization’s strategic priorities and key business objectives, again — Data strategy is business strategy.
It is essential that clear, ambitious objectives are set from the beginning — objectives that can be clearly related to business objectives and evaluated by the business value they generate (cost savings, revenues, improved performance, or customer satisfaction).
3. Plan with the end in mind
Transforming into a data-driven organization is a long process, it needs planning.
A data journey roadmap is an essential tool. Mapping all the initiatives needed to complete the data strategy objectives, identifying the existing gaps between the current situation and the future situation, and most important the existing gap between business and the existing IT ecosystem.
It is critical to put business on the driver seat, to allow that all initiatives are driven and oriented by the business units. Transforming into a data driven organization is not an IT responsibility, it is a business responsibility, it is the business who better knows what their problems and objectives are. The role of IT in this process is to find the right technology and support the business units in this journey.
Planning the data journey roadmap must also create the conditions to ensure early efforts to thrive and gain traction. Choosing carefully on which initiatives to start with and support them with the necessary resources.
4. Start small
The priorities identified in the data journey roadmap allow to define the business cases to address first — business cases not use cases.
In an early stage, for effectiveness purposes, there should not be more than five business cases running in parallel, all with clear, achievable objectives and stakeholders that are aware of the importance and impact of data.
The choice must fall on small, targeted initiatives, where the impact and value of data can be clearly identified, business stakeholders that can passionately and effectively articulate the impacts of data in their business processes and that will be eager to defend the project.
Focus on success and on gaining traction. Look for initiatives that can be framed within a reasonable funding model, that are targeted, with focused effort, within short timeframes, able to increase internal engagement, and that can deliver targeted returns on short timeframes.
5. Who, then what
Once the roadmap is defined and the data journey about to start it’s important to gather a launch team, a team that gather the set of skills necessary to complete the first challenges, this core team should include business analysts, CX designers, data scientists, agile coaches to facilitate agile development, and developers with the necessary skills for the developing IT environment. This is the embryo team that gathers competencies in areas such as digital product and design, digital marketing, or data analytics.
6. Agile mindset
Apply an agile development mindset to all this process, start with a minimum viable solution and iterate, allow that visible results are presented in short time lapses.
Promoting agile product development, test-and-learn methods, and cross-functional teams that bring together specific types of expertise, will enhance the capabilities to create the business values necessary to build momentum and a sequence of successful data initiatives.
This agile mindset combined with the ongoing initiatives where the business stakeholders have an active role will accelerate the process of quickly move from the findings to specific actions.
7. Develop a data culture
Building a data culture within an organization is probably the biggest challenge in this process, and again, this change must be introduced in a progressive and incremental way. The same way that betting on small, focused initiatives is the best way to start, also the culture changes must be introduced in parallel and integrated with these initiatives.
Embracing innovative ways of thinking and working, it’s easier once the results and the produced value are in plain sight.
8. Build on success stories
A success story, even at a small scale will create the awareness within the organization and act as a motor to leverage the replication of that story in other business units.
When these initiatives are successful and deliver the intended benefits, business leaders will be encouraged to push to achieve more, not only focusing on what works well, but also on letting go of what doesn’t work.
Additionally, this focus on the involvement of business stakeholders driving these processes where visible business value is generated, will turn potential detractors in to change evangelists, even if only by sheer peer pressure.
Becoming data-driven begins with establishing a strong data foundation, that will increase the quality and efficiency of corporate decision processes, positively affecting business operations, strategy, and performance.
Bottom line, business success depends on the execution and implementation of those decisions, and they are only as good as the data that supports them.
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Ahhhh, lovey Arrowtown – a short drive away from the hubris and hustle of neighbouring Queenstown, Arrowtown has to be one of Otago’s cutest towns. Small, quaint and with an incredibly well preserved and historic looking main street, it could almost have come straight out of a old Western movie. Indeed, Arrowtown was used as a ‘Lord of the Rings’ filming location (mainly around the Arrow River basin area).
We have visited Arrowtown several times over the years, across all seasons – the summer greenery in the valley gives way to one of the most spectacular displays of Autumnal colours you’ll ever see in New Zealand’s south island. We’ve also been during the winter / ski season and had snowball fights in the streets here – so it perfect to visit and step back in time at any time of the year.
Getting to Arrowtown
Given its distance from Queenstown (20km), there are several ways you can get here (accommodation in Arrowtown is pretty scant). Firstly, use a hire car and combine it as part of a much longer trip. Secondly, bike it or (hitch) hike it. Your other option is to jump on the hourly blue Orbus bus service from Queenstown for $5 (cash accepted) or buy a $5 GoCard for a cheaper fare of just $2 – great if you are doing multiple trips.
History of Arrowtown
Arrowtown is best known as a historic gold (rush) mining town. Gold was first found in the Arrow River in 1862 and a township soon sprang up to cope with the demands of the newly arrived inhabits. During its peak, Arrowtown had around 7,000 residents (today it has around 3,000 permanent residents but with a lot more tourists visiting than ever before).
Arrowtown Chinese Settlement
Part of the town’s gold mining history is brought to life by the Arrowtown Chinese settlement, a heritage listed restored village near the river that is free to visit. It shows what the conditions used to be used and the types of dwelling miners would inhabit.
We’ve also seen a number of gold-panning activities spring up over the years including one that has appeared near to the Arrow River since our last visit in 2017. Although we are no experts, these look a bit naff (big plastic tanks of water filled full of stones and the occasional gold fleck) and are probably best avoided.
Lakes District Museum
This is a museum situated on the main high street (Buckingham Street) set across three historical buildings, including the town’s bank. It goes into detail about the pioneering days for the early Chinese and European gold miner settlers, as well as early Maori. You can also explore an old Victorian schoolhouse, an old liquor den (‘grog shanty’) and a blacksmiths (a fee applies). There is also a free to visit section, which includes interpretation panels, plus an i-SITE with lots of tourist information booklets.
FURTHER READING – The ultimate New Zealand bucket list – top 50 things to do
Historic Buckingham Street
For us, this is the main draw of Arrowtown – a bit like Cromwell’s Heritage Precinct, Buckingham Street feels so old and historic, and has still has oodles of character. If it wasn’t for the cars dotted along the street (and this is where Cromwell’s precinct feels more authentic), you really could be forgiven for feeling like you’ve stepped back in time (well, if you screw your eyes a little).
Many of the old buildings have been preserved and repurposed into shops and restaurants, and there are plenty of places to buy Kiwiana gifts, especially New Zealand wool and outdoor wear. On our most recent visit, there were also a few local fruit stalls on the street, selling local produce very cheaply (and they tasted so good).
One of the aesthetical highlights of Buckingham Street is the Arrowtown Post Office, built in 1915 and one of the few remaining NZ post offices still called a ‘Post and Telegraph Office’.
Walking in Arrowtown
Arrowtown is a hiker’s heaven (how busy the car parks can get by the Arrow River kind of proves this). There are fifteen listed walks in the area that vary from one hour strolls through to epic journeys that last several days (kind of like how it feels to watch the ‘Lord of the Rings’ movies to us!). Trail maps are available from the Arrowtown Museum.
Eating in Arrowtown
There are lots of nice looking restaurants in Arrowtown (La Rumbla both come highly recommended) but we have a confession to make – literally every time we visit (be it summer or winter), we always head to Arrowtown Bakery, situated at the start of Buckingham Street.
It is easy to find – just look for the big queues (summer) or follow the delicious smells of baking pies (winter). In fact, if you Google ‘Arrowtown Bakery’, the first articles that appear are Trip Advisor exclamations about how Arrowtown Bakery produces the best pies in New Zealand.
Our opinion is that on a good day, it is one of the best in New Zealand (our two Queenstown / Otago favourites are Arrowtown Bakery and Mrs Ferg Bakery). Their range of pies is huge (vegetarian options too) and frankly you’d be a fool if you at least didn’t pop in to see what they are cooking up!
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Wheelyboat launch allows disabled anglers to fish
- Credit: Archant
DISABLED anglers can now fish for trout at a Devon reservoir, thanks to a new wheelchair accessible Wheelyboat.
The craft is operating at Burrator Reservoir after being supplied by The Wheelyboat Trust and funded by the Environment Agency.
Burrator Reservoir is looked after by South West Lakes Trust and is one of their 50 inland waters located across Devon, Cornwall and West Somerset. As well as being the main source of drinking water for Plymouth it is also run as a trout fishery. Very poor access to the water’s edge meant that up until now the reservoir was almost completely inaccessible to disabled anglers. The Wheelyboat solves this problem and will provide disabled anglers with hassle-free and independent access to the fishing.
The Wheelyboat resembles a small landing craft with a bow door that lowers to form a ramp for roll-on, roll-off access. Once on board, the deck is level throughout and there is plenty of room for the disabled angler to operate the boat on their own or with the help of a companion.
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Portable Raman versus portable mid-FTIR reflectance instruments to monitor synthetic treatments used for the conservation of monument surfaces
Autori: Conti C., Striova J., Aliatis I., Colombo C., Greco M., Possenti E., Realini M., Brambilla L., Zerbi G.
Affiliazione autori: Istituto per la Conservazione e la Valorizzazione dei Beni Culturali (ICVBC), National Research Council (CNR), Via Cozzi 53, 20125 Milan, Italy;
Istituto Nazionale di Ottica and LENS, Università di Firenze, National Research Council (CNR), Via Nello Carrara 1, 50019 Sesto Fiorentino, Italy;
Politecnico of Milano, Dip. Chimica, Materiali e Ingegneria Chimica “Giulio Natta”, Piazza Leonardo da Vinci 32, 20133 Milan, Italy
Abstract: This study aims to evaluate the relevance of portable Raman and portable mid-Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) reflectance instruments in monitoring the synthetic treatments applied on plaster substrates, a crucial issue in a conservation work. Some polymeric consolidants and protectives have a relatively short life owing to their degradation, and after some years the surface should be retreated. It follows that any information about the presence and composition of the products applied, their chemical transformations and their distribution on the surfaces is essential. For these purposes, conservation scientists should seek and test new in situ methods, and this is of utmost importance especially in the case of buildings, considering their large dimensions and consequent extensive mapping. The effectiveness of portable Raman and portable mid-FTIR reflectance instruments has been compared by analysing a set of laboratory specimens prepared and treated with variable amounts of products belonging to three classes of polymers; the spectroscopic investigation highlighted, for the first time, the limits and the advantages of portable Raman and portable mid-FTIR reflectance instruments in the detection of small amounts of products commonly employed for the conservation of plasters.
Giornale/Rivista: ANALYTICAL AND BIOANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY
Volume: 405 (5) Da Pagina: 1733 A: 1741
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Last week I wrote about influenza vaccines. I provided a link to a site summarizing the evidence that flu shots are effective and safe. Nevertheless, one reader commented “The flu vaccine does not work,” citing a Cochrane review. Elsewhere, a Twitter tweeter cited a study showing that flu vaccination in early pregnancy caused autism in babies. I thought it would be worthwhile to review those studies in case others are misled by them.
Does influenza vaccine in pregnancy cause autism in children?
The autism study didn’t say that at all. It was a large cohort study designed to investigate the association between influenza infection and vaccination during pregnancy and the risk of autism spectrum disorder (ASD). It looked at the records of 196,929 children born at Kaiser Permanente Northern California over a 10-year period. 23% of mothers (45,231 women) were vaccinated during pregnancy, and 1,400 mothers had clinical illnesses that were diagnosed as influenza infections by laboratory testing. 3,101 children were diagnosed with ASD. The study was published in 2017 in JAMA Pediatrics.
There was no association between maternal influenza infection anytime during pregnancy and increased ASD risk. There was a suggestion of increased ASD risk among children whose mothers received an influenza vaccination in their first trimester, but the association was not statistically significant after adjusting for multiple comparisons, indicating that the finding could be due to chance.
That single finding, which was not statistically significant, does nothing to tip the balance when weighed against this information from the CDC:
Flu is more likely to cause severe illness in pregnant women than in women of reproductive age who are not pregnant. Changes in the immune system, heart, and lungs during pregnancy make pregnant women (and women up to two weeks postpartum) more prone to severe illness from flu, including illness resulting in hospitalization. Flu also may be harmful for a pregnant woman’s developing baby. A common flu symptom is fever, which may be associated with neural tube defects and other adverse outcomes for a developing baby. Getting vaccinated can also help protect a baby after birth from flu. (Mom passes antibodies onto the developing baby during her pregnancy.)
Bottom line: flu shots are recommended for pregnant women.
The Cochrane review
The reader who asserted “the flu vaccine does not work” said, “Cochrane reviewed 90 flu vaccine studies, and less than 10 percent were considered good science.” He found this information here. That study didn’t say the flu vaccine didn’t work; it said it worked, with a number needed to treat (NNT) to prevent one case of influenza of 71.
The Cochrane review he cited was published in 2014 and has been superseded by a 2018 update. The 2018 review says:
Due to the uncertain quality of observational (i.e. non‐randomised) studies and their lack of influence on the review conclusions, we decided to update only randomised evidence. The searches for observational comparative studies are no longer updated.
They included 52 clinical trials of over 80,000 people. They said 15% of the studies they reviewed were well designed and conducted, but they found insufficient evidence to determine the likelihood of bias in about 70% of the studies they included in the review.
- Moderate-certainty evidence that flu vaccines reduce the rate of influenza in healthy adults from 2.3% to 0.9%. (That’s percentages; think of how many individuals that corresponds to in our large population.)
- 71 healthy adults need to be vaccinated to prevent one of them experiencing influenza. (This is actually not too shabby when compared to the NNTs for other widely accepted treatments, as reported here.)
- Vaccination may lead to a small reduction in hospitalization, but the confidence interval is wide and doesn’t rule out a large benefit.
- Low-certainty evidence that vaccines may lead to a small or no reduction in days off work.
- A modest protective effect of vaccination in pregnant women and newborns.
- A reduced risk of influenza-like illnesses.
Other relevant studies
A 2016 review in The Lancet found that the effectiveness rates for the specific strains of influenza virus covered in the vaccine ranged from 33 to 73%. For adults over 60, they found effectiveness rates of 24% to 63% depending on the strain.
The effectiveness varies with the accuracy of prediction of which strains will dominate in a given year. According to the CDC, the overall vaccine effectiveness for last year was 36%. The effectiveness for the H3N3 strain, the dominant strain circulating that season, was notoriously virulent and less receptive to vaccination than other types of influenza; its effectiveness was approximately 25%. The effectiveness for the less severe H1N1 was 67% and for influenza B viruses it was 42%.
As a TIME article pointed out:
36% effectiveness may not seem very impressive, but the CDC emphasizes in the report that even small increases in immunity can have a large impact on public health. CDC data has shown that even in 2014-2015, a year when vaccine effectiveness didn’t even hit 20%, immunizations prevented as many as 144,000 flu-related hospitalizations and 4,000 deaths. Plus, people who get the shot, but who still end up getting sick, tend to have less severe illnesses than unvaccinated people.
Lessons to be learned
- Never rely on a single study.
- Do your research carefully. Read what the study actually said rather than relying on a second-hand report from a possibly biased or ill-informed source.
- Look for studies that refute the claim, not just ones that confirm it.
- Make sure you have found the most recent information available.
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Recently, after years of refusal, I finally bought my first pair of Birkenstocks. Now, it’s not that I really had anything against the ridiculously comfortable sandals. But considering they’ve been a mainstay in the chic fashion crowds for a few years now, I didn’t want to be the person who bought them just because they were ‘cool.’ But a few months ago, I noticed my knees started feeling a little creaky when I walked up and down stairs. Whether you blame it on lifting weights, dance classes or my flat feet, it was official — at 25 I was now a person who sought out Birkies for my ‘bad knees.’
I’m not alone, either. Research shows that as many as 1 in 3 young adults experience knee pain at one point or another. It’s can be caused by things like wearing high heels or unsupportive shoes, muscle imbalances or carrying excess weight. But whatever the cause, your doc is likely to tell you to to avoid high impact exercises that are rough on the legs, like running and plyometrics. But what’s girl to do when your knees are giving you grief, but you want to stay fit? Luckily, there are plenty of low intensity styles of exercise that will still allow you to work up a decent sweat. Here are some of our faves:
Pilates is one of those things that is actually a lot harder than it looks. It may be quite slow and controlled, but when done regularly it can work wonders for those tricky-to-tone spots, like your arms and inner thighs! It also happens to be amazing core workout and great for flexibility, which in turn may actually help to strengthen your knees. Roll out your mat and try one these at home pilates workouts, or head to a nearbystudio.
Swimming is quite possibly the best low impact workout you can do. Thanks to the buoyancy of the water, there’s pretty much zero impact on your joints. Not only is it a super efficient cardiovascular exercise, the resistance of the water is also great for strengthening your muscles. Make the most of the last few weeks of summer and visit your local pool (or the ocean, if you’re up for it) for some laps!
It’s no secret that we love our yoga here at Amodrn. Not only is it amazing for getting your zen on, it’s great for flexibility and strengthening your muscles (and, of course, your core). It also happens to be a fantastic low impact workout! Depending on what type you do, you can also get quite sweaty doing it. To find out about the different types and find the right one for you, check out this article.
The TRXis definitely one of the most versatile pieces of gym equipment out there. Basically, as long as you have one of these bad boys and something to attach it to (like a doorframe), you can do a low impact resistance workout that will get your blood pumping and your muscles firing. Not sure what to do with it? Gyms like Fitness First and boutique studios like Flow Athletic offer guided classes.
While the rower used to sit at the back of gyms gathering dust, it’s had a bit of a resurgence lately — thanks torowing studios popping up around the country. Clocking up kms on the machine will work your arms, legs, back and core while having minimal impact on your joints.
Believe it or not, cycling is actually a low impact exercise. However, it’s important to make sure your bike is adjusting correctly for you to minimise your risk of injury. Whether you take your bike out into the great outdoors, head to a spin class (or do one from the comfort of your own home), cycling is an amazing way to get your cardio hit while looking after your joints.
Want to work on your booty and legs, but worried about the impact weighted squats while have on your knees? We’ve got one word for you: barre. The workout style is a fusion of dance, pilates, yoga and resistance training and WOW, is it challenging. But it also happens to be a lot of fun, too. Check out this article to find out how to burn more calories while you do it! | <urn:uuid:63cf4e20-a299-4cc4-95d2-379921967682> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://amodrn.com/7-low-impact-workouts-that-are-still-super-effective/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572198.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815175725-20220815205725-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.955805 | 927 | 1.625 | 2 |
Adding a grid on TS is simple. You can go about it in two different ways.
01 Selecting a grid from clipart
Select the Grids & Labels collection in the Clipart section of Elements. We've added some basic grids you can easily add to your canvas. If you need others we'll be more than happy to create them and add them to this collection. So feel free to email us your requests at firstname.lastname@example.org
02 Creating a Grid
You can also easily create a grid from scratch by simply drawing straight lines.... here is a very short video.
- Draw a straight line by pressing the Shift Key and clicking the Line icon in the Draw section.
- Copy this line as many times as you would like rows.
- Select all these lines and click left justify in the hovering tool box
- Group all these lines by selecting them and clicking Group Elements in the Arrange dropdown menu.
- Repeat these steps or copy the selection and then rotate to a 90 degree angle. You can easily rotate by pressing the Shift Key and then hovering over and clicking on the bottom right angle when the little curved arrow appears.
- Trim each group of lines to fit properly to your specifications.
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Clearing inflammable brush and creating defensible space have long been recognized as key preparation for buildings near wildland to give them a better chance of surviving wildfire.
But how best to do what can be difficult and challenging work on steep slopes?
For a hilltop treasure--the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and Museum in Simi Valley--authorities have long called on teams so skilled at clearing brush they can do it while eating lunch. Fact is, that's pretty much how a herd of goats does it--chowing down on dry groundcover, treating potential fire fuel as if it's a salad.
"It benefits the goats, but it certainly has benefited us," said supervisory curator Randle Swan, among those convinced the goats deserve to share at least a portion of the credit in helping firefighters protect the Library last week as the Easy Fire burned uphill toward the hilltop on which it sits. Incident Command made protecting it a priority for both air tankers and firefighters on the ground. At the same time, Library leadeership and Ventura County Fire Department officials had confidence in the defensible space provided last May by a herd from 805 Goats.
This was one of the first big jobs for the Conejo Valley based goat grazing service, launched just a year ago, and stepping into the hooves of brush clearers that in years past had been brought in from farther away.
"I knew what the goats had done, but I was hoping there wouldn't be much re-growth," said Scott Morris, the owner of 805 Goats. "We had a nice firebreak that was there, and the goats did their job."
Clearance of 13 acres around the Reagan Library, along with another critical site in Ventura County on the north side of Ojai, is arranged by the Ventura County Fire Department. This year 805 Goats was the only local company to bid.
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Morris and his co-founder wife both have day jobs--she's a teacher, he an employee benefits consultant--but he said they saw need for a local herd dedicated to serving the Conejo Valley area. Their herd has grown to some 140 goats. He touts them as an eco-friendly solution, quieter than weed-wackers.
Assuming responsibility for naming the goats, the Morris children have paid tribute to artists as they display a flair for puns, as in Vincent Van Goat, Goatzart, and Selena Goatmez.
Goats aren't just ideal candidates for brush clearance because they love to eat -- they're also skilled and tireless climbers. To keep them from discovering the client's roses and other delectables, they do need to be contained with flexible fencing, which the herder will reset during the course of the day as the goats are guided from pasture to pasture.
The cost runs about $1,000 to $2,000 per acre, depending on conditions. The past week, they have been clearing 15 acres on a private ranch on the south slopes of the Simi Valley. It was their second visit to the property this year, returning to trim back what had grown and dried since spring.
"Seems like a great way to go," said Greg Manke, the ranch's contractor who made the arrangments with 805 Goats.
Months before the October Easy Fire surrounded the Reagan Library, goats had been deployed to chew through brush that sprouted after the wet winter months. During the morning, flames could be seen through the floor-to-ceiling window inside the library's stunning Air Force One pavilion. As it was, the fire split and burned around the library on both sides, shrouding the complex in thick smoke and raining the structures with ash and embers.
Firefighters were positioned near the library, which was closed to visitors for the day. Flames came to within about 30 yards of the complex, but several water drops and firebreaks helped protect buildings.
The exterior of the library has scorched in spots, but no significant damage was reported.
"Everything worked the way it was supposed to," Swan said after the fire. "The buildings are unharmed."
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I did some quick testing of the steam boiler today with 545. My test setup is basically Liquid Heat Exchanger -> Steam Boiler -> Steam Turbine -> Kinetic Generator.
Prior to today I was getting about 60EU/t from 200HU/t and occasional steam explosions as the turbine just couldn't keep up. Meanwhile a stirling generator would happily provide 200EU/t without issues, for a lot less cost.
Today, I'm very happy to see that I get 320EU/t (per 100HU/t) and no more steam explosions. The stirling generator now provides 50EU/t from 100HU/t, which is inefficient and I'm okay with that because it is so cheap.
I'm glad that steam is a much more efficient way to generate EU, but it's not perfect yet.
The power output comes in pulses because the turbine consumes steam faster than the boiler can make it, which leads to a brief "dead time" between operations. It would be really neat if the turbine had a speed-up and slow-down, consuming more steam per tick as it speeds up. That way it would become eventually become balanced with the steam input rate.
Much worse, the system can be exploited. Heating a boiler with an Electric Heat Generator creates more EU than it uses. A positive feedback loop, free energy, of roughly 200EU/t. Well, not actually free because the turbine will wear out.
I noticed the heat capacities and heat of vaporization haven't changed, so I'm guessing the balancing is far from done. I just wanted to let Thunderdark know that he should make sure EU generation is never more efficient than 1EU per 1HU, or whatever the Electric Heat Generator's ratio is. | <urn:uuid:933206fe-08a5-444c-964b-6999c3ab315f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://forum.industrial-craft.net/thread/10719-steam-generator/?postID=166181 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572033.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814113403-20220814143403-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.958937 | 365 | 1.625 | 2 |
Participants will Continue to Walk as Individuals, Families or Small Teams on Sidewalks, Tracks and Trails across Craven County in Wake of COVID-19
The Alzheimer’s Association – Eastern North Carolina Chapter is inviting New Bern residents to join the fight to end Alzheimer’s by participating in the Alzheimer’s Association Walk to End Alzheimer’s® on Sunday, October 25.
The Walk to End Alzheimer’s – New Bern continues, but instead of hosting a large gathering, the Alzheimer’s Association is encouraging participants to walk as individuals or in small groups on sidewalks, tracks and trails across Craven County.
“This year’s Walk to End Alzheimer’s will be everywhere,” said Lisa Roberts, Executive Director of the Eastern North Carolina Chapter. “The pandemic is changing how we walk, but it doesn’t change the need to walk. This year, more than ever, we need to come together to support all those affected by Alzheimer’s and other dementia. With the dollars raised, the Alzheimer’s Association can continue to provide care and support to families during these difficult times while also advancing critical research toward methods of treatment and prevention.”
Time-honored components of the Walk to End Alzheimer’s are being replicated. On Walk day, an Opening Ceremony will feature local speakers and a presentation of Promise Flowers to honor the personal reasons participants join together to fight Alzheimer’s and all other dementia, all delivered online to participants. Next, everyone will walk in their own neighborhoods with their family and friends. Finally, the Alzheimer’s Association will create the iconic Promise Garden in a “view only” format that participants can drive by on Walk day at The Galley Stores and Marina in New Bern to honor all those impacted by Alzheimer’s.
To enhance the participant experience leading up to the event and on Walk day, new features are being added to the Walk to End Alzheimer’s mobile app to create an opportunity for the community to connect. Participants can use the app and new “Walk Mainstage” to track their steps and distance, follow a virtual Walk path, manage their Facebook fundraisers, and access information and resources from the Association and Walk sponsors to help individuals and families affected by the disease. A new audio track is also available to encourage participants along the way and to congratulate them upon completion of their Walk.
“Alzheimer’s is not taking a hiatus during COVID-19 and neither are we,” said Georgiana Bowman Bircher, 2020 New Bern Walk Chair. “We must continue Walk to End Alzheimer’s, and we are working with all participants to ensure they have a powerful and moving experience that is felt when we are together. Many of our constituents are at higher risk when it comes to COVID-19 and we know that our volunteers and participants appreciate our commitment to keeping all involved healthy and safe.”
More than 5 million Americans are living with Alzheimer’s disease – the sixth-leading cause of death in the United States. Additionally, more than 16 million family members and friends provide care to people living with Alzheimer’s and other dementias. In North Carolina alone, there are more than 180,000 people living with the disease and 479,000 caregivers.
The Alzheimer’s Association hosts 19 walks across North Carolina including: Alamance County, Asheville, Charlotte, Gaston/Cleveland/Lincoln Counties, Fayetteville, Guilford County, Henderson County, Hickory, Iredell County, Jacksonville, Moore County, Mount Airy, New Bern, North Wilkesboro, Robeson County, Rowan-Cabarrus Counties, Triangle (Raleigh and Durham), Wilmington and Winston-Salem. To register and receive the latest updates on any of this year’s Walk to End Alzheimer’s, visit: alz.org/walk.
Alzheimer’s Association Walk to End Alzheimer’s®
The Alzheimer’s Association Walk to End Alzheimer’s is the world’s largest event to raise awareness and funds for Alzheimer’s care, support and research. Since 1989, the Alzheimer’s Association® mobilized millions of Americans in the Alzheimer’s Association Memory Walk®; now the Alzheimer’s Association is continuing to lead the way with Walk to End Alzheimer’s. Together, we can end Alzheimer’s.
About the Alzheimer’s Association®
The Alzheimer’s Association is a worldwide voluntary health organization dedicated to Alzheimer’s care, support and research. Its mission is to lead the way to end Alzheimer’s and all other dementia — by accelerating global research, driving risk reduction and early detection, and maximizing quality care and support. Visit alz.org or call 800.272.3900.
About the Alzheimer’s Association – Eastern North Carolina Chapter:
The Eastern North Carolina Chapter provides patient and family services, information and referral, education, and advocacy in 51 eastern North Carolina counties. It offers opportunities to get involved and to make a difference, in addition to a variety of services including: a 24/7 Helpline, support groups, educational programs, and MedicAlert®. For more information about Alzheimer’s disease, or the Alzheimer’s Association, Eastern North Carolina Chapter, visit www.alz.org/nc or call 800-272-3900. For the latest news and updates, follow us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.
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The Early Industrial Period 1830-1870 (History of Chester) was the manufacturing heyday of North Chester. Here we have the North Chester Cotton Mill.
John Cook operated the mills making cotton thread, some linen, and brown sheeting for the next twenty-four years. The History of Western Massachusetts reported in 1855 that Cook’s mills used 80,000 lbs. of cotton, 100 cords of wood, 2,000 lbs. of starch, and 250 gallons of oil each year. From these raw materials, which cost $10,000, the mills employed forty people to produce 350,000 yards of fabric valued at $27,800. He eventually bought Selden Cone’s window shade business, which was reported in 1839 to earn $15,000 annually. #hikethehilltownhistory #chesterma
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1. The toxic air pollution is not only reducing the life span of humans given its long-term impacts but is also proving to be fatal to newborns.
2. A study of air pollution’s global impact on newborns, State of Global Air 2020, finds that outdoor and household particulate matter pollution contributed to the deaths of more than 1,16,000 Indian infants in their first month of life in 2019.
3. However, the study found progress in reducing household air pollution exposures but levels stagnant for outdoor PM2.5.
4. The study said more than half of these deaths were associated with outdoor PM2.5 and others were linked to the use of solid fuels such as charcoal, wood, and animal dung for cooking.
5. Long-term exposure to outdoor and household air pollution contributed to over 1.67 million annual deaths from stroke, heart attack, diabetes, lung cancer, chronic lung diseases, and neonatal diseases in India in 2019.
6. For the youngest infants, most deaths were related to complications from low birth weight and preterm birth.
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From the moment a human zygote is formed, the cells are busy dividing and specializing into the many different types of cells they will become. These specialized cells will perform numerous functions in the human body, from digestion and excretion to message transmission and oxygen distribution. The structure of each type of human cell depends on what function it will perform in the body. A direct relationship exists between the size and shape of every cell and the tasks it needs to accomplish.
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The structure and shape of each type of human cell depends on what function it will perform in the body. For example, red blood cells (RBCs) are very small, flat discs, which allows them to easily fit through narrow capillaries and around sharp corners in the circulatory system to deliver oxygen throughout the body.
Neurons carry messages from the brain and spinal cord to the rest of the body, using electrical signals down their lengths and chemical signals between neurons. Since electrical signals travel much faster than chemical signals, neurons are long and thin to minimize the number of slower chemical signals that would be required between links in a chain of many shorter neurons.
The elongated shape of muscle cells allows the contraction proteins to line up in an overlapping pattern that makes muscle flexing possible.
And human sperm cells’ structures allow them to “swim” long distances to reach an egg for fertilization. They do this by using flagella, their long whip-like tails, and also by being very small, carrying little more than the DNA for a potential zygote.
Red Blood Cells
Red blood cells carry the protein hemoglobin, which attaches to oxygen and delivers it to all of the body's tissues. Red blood cells are flat, round and very small, allowing them to easily turn corners with the flow of the blood and fit through the capillaries, the tiniest blood vessels, where oxygen is transferred to body cells.
Nerve cells, or neurons, carry electrical messages to and from the brain and spinal cord, helping the body respond to various stimuli, regulate mechanisms, and absorb and store information. To most efficiently transmit these electrical messages, neurons have a long, thin structure, allowing for very quick and accurate communication and responses. Length is beneficial to the structure of a neuron because electrical messages within a neuron travel more quickly than the chemical messages between neurons. Thus, a few longer neurons means faster transmission of signals than a chain of many shorter neurons.
Skeletal muscle cells are arranged in bundles of linear fibers. A single muscle cell is elongated in shape, containing within it many myofibrils. These are thin strands made of the proteins actin and myosin that perform muscle contraction. The elongated shape of muscle cells allows the contraction proteins to line up in an overlapping pattern that makes muscle flexing possible. Nuclei and other organelles that are normally within a cell lay at the perimeter of muscle cells, making space for the ordered patterns of the proteins.
Sperm cells in males are the only human cell with flagella, or whiplike cell extensions. This is because of their need to "swim" long distances to reach an egg for fertilization. Also due to their need to travel, the body of a sperm cell is very light, carrying not much more than the chromosomes containing the DNA for a potential zygote. The other organelles that are found in most other body cells are nonexistent in sperm cells, and are given to a zygote by its mother's egg.
- National Institute of General Medical Sciences; Inside the Cell; Alison Davis
- National Center For Biotechnology Information: Shape and Biomechanical Characteristics of Human Red Blood Cells in Health and Disease
- The Alcohol Pharmacology Education Partnership: Neuron Structure and Function
- National Center For Biotechnology Information: Molecular Biology of the Cell - Sperm
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A new professional cyber community designed specifically for people of marginalised genders, including non-binary people, trans and cis women and trans men, among others, has been set up to support the careers of security professionals and aspiring future cyber talent of systematically oppressed genders.
The We Open Tech (WOT) initiative, spearheaded by a number of cyber and tech leaders drawn from communities including WeAreHackerz and Women of Security (WoSEC), is designed to provide opportunities for mentoring, professional development, career opportunities and support via an online community and a number of local chapters across the US and, in Europe, Barcelona and London.
Most importantly, the group said it would provide free-to-access resources, and a safe space set aside from the judgement, criticism and toxic hatred that often pervades both the real world and online spaces.
“We believe that every single person, regardless of their gender and background, should have access to obtain any position and title within security and tech,” said the organisation’s co-founder, Chloé Messdaghi, who in her day job works as chief strategist at Point3 Security, where she is a frequent and well-known commentator on cyber issues.
“We are here to support and empower curious minds and enable anyone in the tech or security space who wants to be authentically who they are and share their knowledge at any experience level, and to improve themselves.”
Co-founder Maria Mora, who is an advocate at hacker rights non-profit Hacking Is Not A Crime, added: “As I learned more about other folks as well as myself, I noticed the lack of recognition or erasure of other marginalised groups. Raising awareness and acceptance of those outside the ‘traditional’ gender binary will get us to a better place for all.
“Collaboration is key. It takes a village to increase awareness and acceptance and we will partner with various organisations in order to educate and raise awareness in the industry, as well as support folks in their careers.”
More details of how to join the community can be found here, and the team is actively looking for more people to establish local events in addition to its virtual programme.
“By starting a local chapter, you can help to break down barriers and build bridges for marginalised genders to thrive in security and tech,” said Messdaghi.
Read more about gender diversity in technology
- International Pronouns Day, which falls on the third Wednesday of October each year, aims to make it an everyday occurrence for people to educate themselves about, and respect, people’s personal pronouns.
- Many IT workers say their companies are working to address gender diversity in their IT departments, according to Computer Weekly’s salary survey.
- IBM’s master inventor Lisa Seacat DeLuca gives insight into promoting gender diversity. Learn why both official programmes and informal outreach are so important. | <urn:uuid:2e3ffe60-acaa-404a-aa6d-721d1579a64d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.computerweekly.com/news/252502080/We-Open-Tech-community-supports-non-binary-and-trans-security-pros | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571909.51/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813051311-20220813081311-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.955122 | 622 | 2.25 | 2 |
Make sure to read:
- an example from a student writer, Alexander Eberhart, on “Ethos, Pathos, and Logos in Television Commercials,” from Excelsior College’s OWL
- an example of classification and division from professional writer Krystal D’Costa, written for Scientific American‘s blog, on “Why Don’t People Return Their Shopping Carts?” This article is interesting, as it blends classification and division and cause and effect.
- an example of classification and division from professional writer Keith Rosen, “The Seven Types of Managers – Where Do You Stand?”
Note that although Rosen’s sample is written as an article and not an academic essay, Rosen still has a working thesis and topic sentences providing an assertion about each type of manager (the topic sentences are not the numbered items, but are the first sentences of each category). To become an academic essay, the topic sentences and support would be developed further about each type of manager, and the headings would be deleted in favor of those topic sentences
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This workshop is designed to strengthen the shape modeling community by bringing together women researchers at various stages in their careers (from graduate student to senior researcher) to foster research collaboration and mentorship. We welcome applications from women with active research programs from smaller teaching schools as well as from research-oriented institutions.
Participants will spend one week working together in small groups to solve one of four open questions in shape modeling. Instead of the more typical workshop structure where participants watch presentations of established results, WiSH participants will begin generating new results in collaboration with other participants.
Likely topics for the problems are as follows:
- Simultaneous spectral and spatial analysis of shape: This project will investigate a new distance-like shape operator from the spectral point of view, adopting signatures developed in the spectral literature and solving similar symmetry detection problems. We also plan to develop a connection to image segmentation and registration using the yet unclear connection of the new operator to the Ambrosio-Tortorelli functional
- Dimensionality reduction and visualization of data in tree-spaces: This project will study dimensionality reduction in shape spaces where the shapes have the structure of a tree, such as classes of anatomical trees like airways and blood vessels, medial axes of 2D shapes, or phylogenetic trees. We will develop techniques for low-distortion embedding into open books and hyperbolic spaces whose geometric structure is similar to that of tree-space.
- Geometric shape segmentation: This project will explore shape segmentation from a Gestalt perspective, using information from the Blum medial axis of edge fragments in the image. We will combine existing edge saliency measures together with medial data to increase support for or against hypothesized edge interpolation. We will also develop techniques for considering related appearance cues.
- Representing and editing self-similar details on 3D shapes: Shape deformation and editing techniques, such as elongating or compressing parts of a shape while maintaining local style, copy-pasting details from one shape to another, or changing the scale of details without changing lower resolution geometry, are essential for interactive shape design. Blending properties of implicit surfaces, and the fact that they can be generated from skeletons of lower dimension (also used for shape animation), makes them good candidates for solving this problem. We will explore the extension of multi-resolution analysis to these surfaces and their deformations, enabling us to characterize repetitive details through skeleton self-similarities, and develop methods for filtering details out and generating them again, possibly at a different scale, after low resolution shape editing. An extension will be to study multi-resolution editing of animated shapes.
Note to applicants:
- If you wish to request a particular working group, please indicate your preference in the Research Interests portion of the application.
- Support for travel will be provided to as many applicants as funding allows.
- Applicants requiring childcare arrangements during the workshop should email the organizers. We will make every effort to provide childcare if necessary.
(California State University, Channel Islands (CSU Channel Islands))
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PIC-IoT WG Development Board
The PIC-IoT WG Development Board is a 16-bit MCU-based kit that packs more punch than you'd think. While of course the 16-bit PIC24F microcontroller is extremely low power, it also integrates a 12-bit ADC, three comparators, a charge time measurement unit (CTMU) for capacitive touch applications, 128 KB of ECC Flash and 16 KB RAM. You can connect straight to the cloud on this little device thanks to the ATWINC1510 network controller, an 802.11b/g/n Wi-Fi device with 8 MB of Flash. This means that wireless connectivity stacks don't need to burden the PIC MCU, or even, some system software can be relegated to the ATWINC1510 because of its SPI interface.
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The legacy of the Abbott Government’s Aboriginal policy, the Indigenous Advancement Strategy, has been labelled deeply flawed and the government urged not to repeat its logic.
The Senate Finance and Public Administration Committee tabled its final report into the Indigenous Advancement Strategy following a marathon week of debate.
The committee delivered nine recommendations to the government, including to avoid repeating “blanket competitive process”, awarding longer contracts to indigenous organisations to “ensure stability” and prioritising investment in smaller Indigenous organisations.
It also recommended a full internal review of the IAS be undertaken by the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet.
Unveiled in the 2014 Budget, the IAS effectively put much of the Indigenous affairs portfolio out to tender and forced many organisations to apply for funding in a competitive application process.
“The committee heard that the reality was that the timetable to bed down the policy and administrative changes involved in a shift of this magnitude was too ambitious,” the report said.
“In addition to implementing a completely new and untested way of doing business, the process was further complicated by machinery of government changes and budget cuts.”
The committee also criticised the five streams into which the IAS attempted to consolidate government funding. The streams were: jobs, land and economy; children and schooling; safety and well being; culture and capability; and remote Australia strategies.
“The five streams do not appear to clearly or adequately cover the field of programs required to meet the objectives of this policy shift,” the report said.
Minister to consider report, but defends IAS
The Indigenous Affairs Minister said he would “carefully consider” the report’s recommendations.
“While accepting we can always do better, it’s clear the IAS has already delivered significant benefits,” Senator Nigel Scullion said in a statement to NITV.
Labor’s Indigenous Affairs spokesman told NITV that the IAS had set back Aboriginal policy by a generation.
“I think the IAS needs major changes and I hope if I am a minister in a Shorten Labor Government … that indeed we will listen closely and follow carefully these recommendations which I think will put Indigenous affairs back on track,” Shayne Neumann said.
There were nearly 100 submissions to the Finance and Public Administration Committee’s inquiry and it held hearings in Parliament House and Darwin.
Greens senator Rachel Siewert instigated the inquiry. Liberal Senators Cory Bernardi, Jo Lindgren and Dean Smith were part of the committee.
The critical submissions should be put into perspective, according to Minister Scullion.
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Confusion as to whether charges for books, supplies, kits and other related goods and services should be prorated has been an ongoing issue for years in the post-secondary education industry. The Department of Education has provided the following wording in response to the confusion. “The determining factor in whether the proration requirement applies is whether the charge for books, supplies and equipment is an institutional charge. The Department’s longstanding guidance has been that books and supplies must be considered an institutional charge if a student does not have a real and reasonable opportunity to purchase the required course materials from any place but the school. A student has a “real and reasonable” opportunity to obtain required course materials from another source if, the required course materials are available for purchase at a relatively convenient location unaffiliated in any way with the institution; and the institution does not restrict the availability of financial aid funds, so the student can exercise the option to purchase the required course materials from alternative sources in a timely manner. If students do not have a real and reasonable opportunity to obtain the required books and supplies from another source, the institution must ensure that it meets requirements for including the costs for those items in tuition and fees, e.g. ensuring that the books and supplies are made available at or below market rates.”
To make this as straight forward as possible books, supplies, kits and other related goods should be prorated among payment periods if the charge is part of the Institution’s enrollment agreement and or any addendum. If the Institution routinely debits the student’s ledger account for the amount of a charge along with tuition and fees it is considered to be an institutional charge and should be added to the enrollment agreement as a best practice. A good example is a registration fee. Registration fees are included on most if not all enrollment agreements and are required to be prorated to each payment period the student is enrolled.
You may be asking why does it really matter if books and supplies are considered an Institutional charge? Proper proration of charges will affect when a Title IV credit balance exists and a calculation of an R2T4. To calculate the proration of charges for Title IV credit balances and R2T4 calculations the Institution should divide the total charges by the hours or credits in the total program and multiplying it by the number of hours or credits in the payment period. This result provides you with the prorated cost for the payment period to assess if there is a Title IV credit balance or R2T4 charges.
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06 Feb, 2014 | 10:42 pm
On News1st Explorers which was premiered on Prime Time News on Wednesday details were brought to attention of how our first colonists, the Portuguese made port in the commercial hub of Sri Lanka, Colombo.
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Research into a cure for type 1 diabetes proceeds on several fronts. One interesting approach is seeking ways to manipulate the autoimmune system to prevent the body’s mistaken destruction of pancreatic beta cells. Another tack is the transplantation of pancreatic tissue, either from human cadavers or carefully isolated “clean” pigs that have been specially raised for the purpose.
It turns out pigs will be crucial to both approaches. Burlington, Mass.-based Coronado Biosciences is looking into using pig worm ova as shields against autoimmune attacks on the pancreatic cells.
In a recent interview with me, Karin Hehenberger, MD, PhD, chief medical officer at Coronado Biosciences, explained the fascinating thinking behind this line of research, called “Trichuris Suis Ova Suspension” (TSO).
Nadia: In your research with Coronado, you’re using pig worms to modulate the immune system?
Dr. Hehenberger: Yes, our company is in clinical trials using pig worm ova. We place the eggs in a 15 mL saline solution that we give orally to patients every two weeks. In humans, the ova develop into microscopic larvae, but don’t-and cannot-become worms. That’s because pigs are their natural host and humans are not, so they can’t really colonize a human.
But what they do is modulate the autoimmune system. For the two or three weeks that they live in the human intestine, their presence makes the autoimmune system focus on and attack them rather than other targets, such as pancreatic beta cells. In a way, they act as a drug patch that diverts the autoimmune system.
In people with autoimmune disease, instead of fighting outside dangers, which we normally do when there’s an infection, for example a virus or a bacteria, they fight their own bodies. There’s a switch where something goes wrong in the development of the immune system in very young people. It may even start in utero. So the autoimmune system needs to be retrained. In TSO, we’re introducing an outside agent for the autoimmune system to deal with, with the result that we get a decrease of the pro-inflammatory markers usually associated with autoimmune disease and an increase in certain good markers that indicate the autoimmune system is doing its intended job.
Nadia: Why dose every two weeks? Wouldn’t it be better to find a way to keep the ova in the body permanently?
Dr. Hehenberger: It wouldn’t be good to permanently colonize a patient with the ova because then it would be difficult to get rid of them if you wanted to.
Nadia: Do patients have any aesthetic problems with drinking the solution?
Dr. Hehenberger: You can’t see the eggs. They’re microscopic and the solution is tasteless and odorless.
Nadia: Assuming this approach works, I’d anticipate a very large demand for your product. How does Coronado plan on meeting market demand?
Dr. Hehenberger: That’s a good question. We announced a few weeks ago in a press release that we are building a second manufacturing source in the US. Right now, the pigs are raised and the manufacturing is done in Europe. Even at that distance, the process is extremely efficient. From just one pig you can produce essentially millions of doses of this product, so you can supply any number of patients with the product. If this approach is successful, we won’t need a large number of pigs to address the entire market. We also hope to use this approach in many different indications. Its whole mechanism of action is applicable across the spectrum of autoimmune diseases.
Nadia: Conceivably you could give someone a solution for the pancreas, another for the nervous system, or multiple sclerosis, or rheumatoid arthritis?
Dr. Hehenberger: Exactly. That’s why we are initiating a number of different trials, because we do have to prove that it works in these different indications. Our current primary indication is in gastrointestinal disease, specifically Crohn’s disease. That’s where our Phase II trial is. We also have a number of other trials that are ongoing in MS and RA, and we are about to start studies on psoriasis and type 1 diabetes. We also just started a study on autism.
Because we’re going through a regulatory process, we’re working closely with the FDA in the US and with the EMA in Europe. We need to show, of course, that it’s efficient and safe.
Nadia: How do the different trial phases work?
Dr. Hehenberger: As soon as you start clinical trials, you have to do them with human beings. Phase I is normally with healthy volunteers, so it’s a study really just to check safety. We did Phase I trial with a group of patients with Crohn’s disease, but we only gave them one dose. That was enough for the FDA to give us permission to go forward into a Phase II trial.
Phase II is normally a dose-ranging study where Coronado is tracking 220 U.S. patients and our European partner, Dr. Falk Pharma GmbH, is tracking 250 European patients. By the end of 2013, we will have data from almost 500 Crohn’s disease patients.
If Phase II is successful, the company will decide to go to Phase III, which will involve thousands of patients. Essentially Phase I is usually 20 to 50 patients, or even fewer. In Phase II, where you’re looking at what dose to use in Phase III, you have a few hundred patients-up to maybe 300 or 400. In Phase III, it will be probably be 2,000 patients. So it really ramps up as you go to larger studies and further along the regulatory pathway.
Nadia: How do you assure consistency in the pig worm ova so that each batch is exactly the same?
Dr. Hehenberger: These are clean pigs. They’re kept in a very regulated, virus-free, pathogen-free environment in Denmark. They, and the people who tend them, are tested regularly. You cannot walk in there without wearing a mask and gown, and there are specific standard operating procedures people have to observe. The manufacturing facility is inspected regularly by the European authorities. The manufacturing facility we’re building in the US will operate under the same kind of tight regulations.
So you’re absolutely right, the ova have to be produced consistently, and the cleanliness and health of the pigs are crucial. There are many tests we do on the product to make sure that, first of all, it doesn’t have any contaminants. Secondly, if we’ve set the dose at 7,500 ova, every time we give that dose, it must have 7,500 ova, and those ova must be viable.
Nadia: If this formula were to be approved for people with type 1 diabetes, would they go to the pharmacy to pick it up?
Dr. Hehenberger: It’s a 15 mL solution, so it would come in a small bottle. It would have to be refrigerated and dispensed from a specialty pharmacy, so it probably would be a prescription by a physician. You’d keep it in the fridge, similar to how you store insulin.
The Personal Side of
Dr. Hehenberger’s Work
Nadia: You have a personal interest in type 1 diabetes?
Dr. Hehenberger: I do. I developed type 1 diabetes when I was 16. The first 10 years with diabetes, everything went really well. I was in high school and then went on to medical school. But the 10 years after that, when I worked in different places, it was more difficult to control.
Nadia: Was that because of an erratic work schedule?
Dr. Hehenberger: Yes. When you’re working and being stressed, you don’t have as much control even if you’re perfectly healthy otherwise. So I developed complications after about 20 years with the disease. Over a very short period of time, my kidney function deteriorated from almost normal to less than 10 percent functioning. It was absolutely devastating. I had to change my diet, couldn’t have protein, and I lost a lot of weight. I became obviously very tired. Kidneys essentially clean the system, so I had lots of toxins in my body because my kidneys didn’t work well enough.
When you have kidney failure, you only have two options: One is to go on dialysis and the other one is to try to find a kidney match. Once they told me I needed a transplant or to go on dialysis, they said that with my blood type, I probably would have to wait between five to 10 years to get a transplant from a deceased donor.
Nadia: Were you able to find a kidney donor?
Dr. Hehenberger: I was incredibly fortunate: My father gave me one of his kidneys for the transplant. I was very lucky to have a father who was both a good match and very healthy. He actually volunteered to give me a kidney, which was fantastic! So I got the kidney from him and, essentially, that helped me so that I could go on living. Otherwise I would have been on dialysis, and the average time a person with diabetes survives on dialysis is five years. It would have been a terrible time for me and I probably couldn’t have worked because I would have had to go every two days to get dialysis and it really would have drained me.
The transplant cured my kidney problems. But I still had type 1 diabetes, which complicated my hopes for getting a pancreas transplant, which I had been offered nine months after receiving my kidney. I was having a difficult time with my diabetes. I was very brittle and becoming very much hypoglycemic unaware. In the past, every time my sugar came down I felt bad and would eat something or change my behavior in some way. But now I was becoming hypo unaware, so I didn’t really feel a sugar low until it was too late. One time I passed out in the kitchen, fell on my forehead, and broke teeth and my nose. It was awful.
That was in December 2009. Luckily, on New Year’s Eve, I got a call from Minnesota, where they were going to do my pancreas transplant. I flew there and they did the surgery, which was very long but incredibly successful. Since then, I have not required any insulin injections or any exogenous insulin because the pancreas has worked very well. So for three years now I’ve been cured of diabetes and cured of kidney failure.
Nadia: Do you take the immuno-suppressants?
Dr. Hehenberger: I do. And that’s another reason why I’m so motivated to really work on TSO. I believe that if you have something that is immune modulating versus immune suppressing, you can avoid some of the complications that often come with the use of immuno-suppressants, such as multiple infections. For example, people with Crohn’s disease, MS and RA who need to take immuno-suppressants have a higher risk of developing lymphoma. They also have higher risk of tuberculosis and even just simple infections.
So I definitely am running some risks. of those. I’ve been lucky enough to not develop anything since I had the kidney transplant, but it’s definitely something I have to be aware of all the time. Still, I would take that anytime over kidney failure and the very brittle type 1 diabetes that I had. | <urn:uuid:1dc3ec8b-d130-4f03-a370-715227994405> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.diabeteshealth.com/could-pig-worms-lead-to-the-cure-for-type-1/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572033.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814113403-20220814143403-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.967594 | 2,473 | 2.734375 | 3 |
Birds that wake up earlier have more offspring, a study of the songbird Parus major claims. Moreover, the early birds have a habit of taking advantage of their snoozing counterparts, with late-rising males often raising young fathered by their up-and-atem counterparts.
Before we go any further, let's get the sniggering out of the way. Yes, the common name for these birds is “great tits”. Happy now? Let's get back to the science.
P. major is a pair-bonding bird, with males and females sharing the job of raising the young. However, DNA studies have shown that many such species are far from monogamous, with birds often “cheating” on their partners so that males end up raising another male's offspring. For P. major, these non-pair couplings usually occur early in the morning when one partner has not woken up, and the other sneaks off for a quickie with a neighbor.
North Dakota State University's Dr. Timothy Grieves is the first author of a paper in Functional Ecology reporting on the effects of giving melatonin to male birds to change their body clocks. The melatonin-enhanced birds showed confusion about when dawn was coming and rose later, but were not affected in their capacity to fertilize eggs, feed young or in any other behavior once they woke up.
"We found that birds that received the implants filled with melatonin woke up slightly later than birds that received an empty implant. Further, we found that males that received an implant filled with melatonin were more likely to be found raising young in their nest that had been sired by another male," said Dr. Timothy Greives. There were no signs of ill-effects for young that were fathered by birds given melatonin.
Questions remain about the applicability of this study to nature in general. For a start, the sample size was small, with just nine birds given melatonin and ten controls, although the trial was continued over two breeding seasons. Moreover, the effects may be different for those birds that naturally rise later.
The effects in this study occurred because females were up and about with time on their wings while their partners were still sleeping. Late risers that have bonded with those with similar sleeping patterns might have to cope with demanding offspring early in the morning, but are unlikely to find themselves at the same risk of cuckolding. A study earlier this year also found that P. major couples are more likely to stay together when their hormonal levels are aligned.
Grieves intends to extend his research to see what happens when males and females are naturally misaligned. If similar disadvantages have occurred, it will raise questions about how traits for late rising survive. | <urn:uuid:2bf5bbf0-4e36-4b87-bfca-e16aef85daa7> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.iflscience.com/early-birds-watch-out-28671 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572033.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814113403-20220814143403-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.979841 | 565 | 3.15625 | 3 |
Long wait times for patients can be the undoing of a large clinic or a hospital system. According to a recent survey, 84% of patients consider a reasonable wait somewhat or very important to a quality experience, and 30% say they’ve left a medical appointment because of an inordinately long wait. Perhaps unsurprisingly, there’s a strong correlation between offices with longer average wait times and low patient satisfaction scores. And a whopping 20% of patients say they’d consider changing providers due to wait times alone.
That’s why Mohan Giridharadas, a Stanford graduate and former McKinsey and Company partner, founded Charlotte, North Carolina- and Santa Clara-based LeanTaaS. It’s a predictive analytics company that taps data science to “radically” improve health care provider performance, using cloud-based solutions to solve problems like resource utilization.
LeanTaaS got its start in 2010 and went on to raise $14 million in venture capital, and to partner with 20 centers within the not-for-profit National Comprehensive Cancer Network alliance and 30 National Cancer Institute member institutions. (Memorial Sloan Kettering, New York-Presbyterian, Penn Medicine, Stanford Health Care, and UCSF Health are among its customers.) Following three funding tranches totaling $61 million led by Insight Partners, the company today announced that it’s closed a $40 million series C round from Goldman Sachs’ Merchant Banking Division, bringing its total raised to over $100 million.
“Right now, in the busy cold and flu season, patients wait hours to be seen, medical staff suffer from burnout, and costs continue to rise for patients and providers alike,” said Giridharadas. “The healthcare industry can take a nod from airlines, who have improved the travel experience by using advanced data analytics to maximize everything from fuel trucks to baggage handlers. Just as the answer for busy airports wasn’t to add runways or build more airports, the answer for healthcare is not to build more facilities or extend operating hours. Instead, we must figure out how to do more with the resources already on-hand to improve the experience for all.” He added that the fresh capital will be used to bolster product R&D, as well as talent acquiring across LeanTaaS’ engineering, data science, product management, sales, and marketing teams following a 10-month hiring spree that saw more than 85 employees join.
Proprietary algorithms underpin LeanTaaS’ marquee product, iQueue, which matches available assets — including operating rooms, infusion chairs, ambulatory clinics, imaging assets, and inpatient beds — with patients and clinicians who require them. It takes into account hundreds of real-world operational constraints, and it continuously self-improves by comparing anticipated with actual performance, ostensibly improving patient access and staff satisfaction while decreasing wait times and operating costs.
iQueue comes in three flavors: iQueue for Operating Rooms, iQueue for Infusion Centers, and iQueue Labs.
The first — iQueue for Operating Rooms — offers a marketplace and dashboards designed to boost surgeon access with actionable metrics. It ingests electronic health record data from providers like Epic, Cerner, Meditech, Allscripts, and McKesson to suggest allocation changes and determine whom to take away time from (versus whom to give it to). Moreover, it enables surgeons to monitor abandoned and released time blocks from the web or from a mobile app, and to request those blocks on-demand from health care system schedulers.
Similarly, iQueue for Infusion Centers looks at daily appointment patterns, chair utilization, and staff availability to suggest freely available appointment slots. It creates calendar schedules that maximize patient flow and chair usage, with templates engineered to minimize delays and fully utilize resources. A schedule shifter feature suggests ways to restructure and to improve a future day’s schedule, while daily and weekly huddle reports provide start-of-the-day views of anticipated chair utilization and over- and under-booking estimations. Every morning, the system sends a summary email to center leaders that spotlights patterns and trends concerning patient volumes, add-ons and no-shows, patient arrivals, wait times, cycle times, and more. A separate nurse allocation report previews the day’s nurse availability by time and treatment length.
As for iQueue Labs, it orchestrates both medical imaging and phlebotomy labs processes. On the imaging side, it predicts the demand pattern of incoming imaging orders by time of day and day of week, balancing the various stages of the workloads to ensure a smooth flow across machines. With respect to phlebotomy, iQueue projects the patient demand for each category of lab test by time of day and day of week, and it handles patient placement and right-sized bed and unit capacity planning, as well as handling census taking and streamlining discharge.
Giridharadas claims that at the 180 infusion centers where it’s been deployed, iQueue for Infusion Centers has improved patient access by 15% to 25% across 4,500 chairs while reducing wait times by up to 50%. And in the case of iQueue for Operating Rooms, which is in active use by 105 hospitals (with more than 900 operating rooms collectively) belonging to 24 different health systems, customers report seeing 3% to 6% improvements in operating room utilization, with one health system saying iQueue helped identify more than 390,000 minutes of additional operating room capacity.
LeanTaaS’ portfolio targets several lucrative health care software sectors, including the patient scheduling app segment (which is anticipated to reach $444.1 million by the end of 2019) and the operating room management segment ($3.41 billion by 2022). It’s not without competitors — University of Washington spinout Perimatics offers an AI system that uses data on patients and surgeons to predict the length of surgeries, as do Tagnos and Qventus — but LeanTaaS has market momentum on its side.
“LeanTaaS’ iQueue represents a rare nexus of product leadership, robust ROI, and fast time to value for hospitals,” said Insight Partners managing director Peter Segall. “As software-focused investors, we have found the product’s impact on customers to be very impressive in general, but in particular considering how hard it is to deliver value with true SaaS products in healthcare environments.” | <urn:uuid:758da8f6-e6ae-4381-99e3-f7db1c1cdf9a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://memorialcareinnovationfund.com/leantaas-raises-40-million-to-optimize-health-clinic-operations-with-ai/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572198.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815175725-20220815205725-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.923208 | 1,333 | 1.507813 | 2 |
12 Apr Stories of the Underground Railroad Inspire Novels and Action
Author Colson Whitehead did extensive research on the era of slavery and its legacy in America while writing his acclaimed novel The Underground Railroad, drawing on oral histories from survivors, famous autobiographies, and primary sources such as runaway ads and newspapers. The novel is both historical and speculative, as Whitehead blends history and compresses time to reveal not only the horrors of slavery in the 1850s (when the novel is set), but the pervasive legacy of slavery in America.
History doesn’t have to take the form of fiction to become a story, though: many times, history is divulged, passed down, and preserved as stories truthful to our human perspectives. Here in our own WNY community, the Niagara Falls Underground Railroad Heritage Center’s mission is to reveal authentic stories of freedom seekers and abolitionists in Niagara Falls, inspiring visitors to recognize modern injustices that stem from slavery and take action toward an equitable society.
One of the stories you’ll learn about at the Heritage Center is about the Niagara Falls Suspension Bridge, a pivotal crossing point for freedom seekers entering Canada. Harriet Tubman herself helped freedom seekers cross here, and the last portion of the original bridge still stands across the street from the Heritage Center.
These stories are essential to remembering and learning from our past, inspiring astonishing novels and inspiring action toward a more just society. If you’d like to hear these stories and visit the site firsthand, join Just Buffalo for a special tour of the Niagara Falls Underground Railroad Heritage Center on Saturday, April 30. | <urn:uuid:4af524a8-3c50-4221-a29e-a8b0f3273ce3> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.justbuffalo.org/stories-of-the-underground-railroad-inspire-novels-and-action/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572033.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814113403-20220814143403-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.934222 | 325 | 3.6875 | 4 |
Illustrated by Valeri Gorbachev
Published by Harcourt Books, 2004
Ages 2 to 5
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The animals are playing hide and seek in the forest, but Bear, the biggest one of all, cannot be found. Is Bear hurt? Is Bear sick? Where could Bear have gone? One thing is certain: his friends will do whatever it takes to find him. Told in verse and illustrated with charming animal characters, this is a great read-aloud story.
Why I wrote this book
I loved playing hide-and-seek as a child, and thought it would be fun to write a book where animals of the forest played my favorite game and to make up fun hiding places for them.
Who wants to go play Hide and Seek?
Everyone hide. Bunny don’t peek!
With eyes shut tight so she can’t see,
Bunny counts out, “One, two, three”
Fox sneaks behind a fallen log.
Oops, she almost sat on Frog.
Where is Turtle? It’s hard to tell
If that’s a stone or Turtle’s shell…
© 2003 Lesléa Newman
“A wonderful rendition of the ever-familiar hide-and-seek game, this rhyming story gives readers a forest-animal version. Bunny kicks things off by being “It” as all the other creatures run off to their respective woodland hiding places. While Bunny doesn’t take long to locate most of the critters, it is the largest of the beasts, Bear, whose whereabouts remain elusive. Bunny and company bravely go where few have gone before to locate their ursine friend. It must be heading toward winter in the wood because although Bear is located in his cave and roused, he doesn’t remain awake for long. With charming pen-and-ink and watercolor spreads that depict the animals’ bewilderment, this fun-loving, simply-told story will appeal to the pre-school set.” | <urn:uuid:56fb542a-58bd-488b-af18-77c6298d0cb4> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://lesleakids.com/books-for-kids-teens/picture-books/where-is-bear/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572198.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815175725-20220815205725-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.950529 | 461 | 2.1875 | 2 |
It's normal for babies to cry for a number of reasons including hunger, tiredness and needing to be held. But if your baby just won't settle no matter what you try but is otherwise healthy, they could be suffering from infantile colic.
So what exactly is colic, what causes it and how can you cope if your baby cries all the time?
What is baby colic?
Baby colic, sometimes called infantile colic, is defined by periods of crying for more than three hours a day, three days a week for at least one week. It's when the baby is otherwise healthy and there doesn't seem to be a cause for their crying. Normally, colic in babies does not result in any long term conditions or problems, though it can be frustrating for the parents.
What causes colic?
Between 10 and 15 per cent of all children get colic. Doctors don't know precisely what triggers the condition. There are several theories, but doctors aren't agreed on a single cause or even on a course of treatment.
Colic is more something that babies 'do', rather than a problem they suffer from. It's a normal part of baby development, even if it's not nice for parents and can be difficult to cope with.
The most popular theory is that the child's intestines are working too hard, which causes them to get a sort of cramp. But some doctors believe that colic arises because the child's bowel movements may be too slow, so that air in the bowel makes the intestines expand, causing the pain.
Others believe that colic has something to do with eating too fast, eating too much, or swallowing too much air without burping. There's also a theory that there's a link between colic and whether or not the mother drinks cows' milk.
Diagnosing colic in babies
These are several signs to look out for:
✔️ Your baby often cries at roughly the same time, often late in the afternoon, and usually once or twice a day.
✔️ It's difficult to soothe your baby.
✔️ Your baby goes red in the face and/or clench their fists.
✔️ Your baby is very windy.
Remember, colic might not be the only cause of your child's discomfort. If your baby cries loudly all the time and cannot be comforted, you should first consult a doctor before deciding if he or she has colic.
Conditions, such as volvulus (when the stomach gets twisted), a twisted testicle, hernia or other pain, can also make a baby cry incessantly. If in doubt, ask your GP.
Can a mother's diet impact baby colic?
Some doctors think that if a baby is breastfed and the mother eats food that can cause gas, this may cause colic or make it worse. Food and drinks that produce lots of gas include:
- Orange juice.
- Vegetables, especially onions and cabbage.
- Fruit, such as apples and plums.
- Spicy food.
- Products containing caffeine, such as chocolate, coffee and tea.
Experiment to find out what makes a difference to your child's colic. The best thing is to leave two days between each change of diet so you know exactly what makes your baby feel better or worse.
Colic in babies treatment tips
There's no foolproof advice because colic isn't fully understood. But there are several things that parents can try:
• Rock your baby
Many children with colic calm down if they are rocked either in a cradle, a rocking chair or on your lap.
• Wear a baby sling
Some children feel better if they are carried in a sling on your stomach – your body heat and movement may help. They tend to feel comforted when wrapped in a blanket or held tightly.
• Give your baby a little massage
Gently massaging your baby's tummy may help, because this is where the large intestine lies. Massage in a circle, moving your hand from left to right. Massaging in this direction can ease pain by helping your baby to pass wind.
• Go for a drive
Some parents find their baby is comforted by a car ride.
• Relax with music
A baby can sometimes be soothed with music or monotonous sounds. It may help to sing to your child, which has the additional effect of helping to calm you too!
The following tips may also help to relieve baby colic:
- Get your child to drink their milk slowly, perhaps trying a smaller teat if bottle fed.
- Burp your baby more often.
- Sit your child straight while he or she eats (if old enough).
- Try a different product, or brand, if your child drinks formula milk.
Follow your instincts and work with your baby, and if you need more help, ask your health visitor.
Coping tips for parents if your baby has colic
When a baby has colic, family life can be turned upside down. It's extremely stressful and upsetting when your baby cries for hours and cannot be comforted.
For first-time parents in particular, it can be a shock and disappointment to discover that your newborn baby is not always the bundle of joy you were expecting. You may also feel guilty, even though you're not the cause of your child's colic.
It's easily said, but your child is healthy and will outgrow the colic in a few months' time. Colic doesn't harm your baby's development – in fact, children with colic are actually very stimulated!
Parents should look after themselves, too, during the difficult periods. It may be necessary for you and your partner to take turns, so that one can rest while the other is awake. You may also need to call on friends or family as reinforcement. It's better to ask for help than to wear yourself out completely because of the challenge. Breastfeeding may also suffer, if mothers get overtired.
It can help to talk to other parents, who have experienced the same thing. If you do not know any yourself, ask your health visitor to put you in touch with someone to chat to. Always remember: colic is only temporary. It always gets better eventually.
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Please do a paragraph about this post with this instruction .
post most have 4 or more sentences .
you also have to have a high quality post from a content perspective. This means it also needs to do more than agree with or praise a class mate. If you agree with a classmate, explain why, give an example, share what you learned in the readings, ask questions of each other, etc.
“Nursing is the protection, promotion, and optimization of health and abilities, prevention of illness and injury, alleviation of suffering through the diagnosis and treatment of human response, and advocacy in the care of individuals, families, communities, and populations” (American Nurses Association website, 2015).
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We must try to understand that the universe is something really gigantic, bigger than anything you can imagine! Even researchers who study this subject every day have trouble understanding what the universe looks like.
We often imagine it as a kind of huge balloon filled with galaxies but a balloon that has no wall, no center and nothing around him, no outside. Everyone says it, but in reality no one understands exactly what it looks like. You saw like me that the universe contains planets, stars, galaxies, quasars, black holes and maybe even extraterrestrials, but it’s not is not sure.
The universe also contains a lot of gas and dust floating randomly in space. Some elements are from the formation of the universe but others were ejected by stars at the time of their explosion in supernova.
As far as we look in the universe with a large telescope, we see galaxies, and still galaxies. Regardless of the direction in which we look and whatever the magnification, we see galaxies by thousands, as if the universe was homogeneous and unlimited.
Astronomers have discovered galaxies more than 10 billion light-years away and believe that they still exist far more distant. Recently, indeed, some physicists have estimated that the radius of the universe measured a.l., a 1 followed by a thousand billion zeros! All this space is probably full of galaxies.
But one wonders what is the point of having such a vast universe if one does not have the means or the time to explore it? And nobody knows anything! The universe exists, a point that’s all. Who did it and why? As no one knows, some people think it’s God but no one knows either.
So astronomers have tried to understand how the universe was formed, if there was a beginning or if it has always been there, how it evolves and whether or not it will ever disappear. Today nobody knows the answer but several theories have been proposed.
In 1929, the American astronomer Edwin Hubble discovered that all the galaxies were moving away from each other, sometimes to more than 1000 km / s (3.6 million km / h)! First of all it was thought that they all deviated from the Milky Way. But we did not understand why they were all running away from us. In fact it was an optical illusion because in reality it is the universe that is expanding and growing continuously. The galaxies only follow this movement like pellets stuck on a balloon that would inflate continuously.
Then, in 1965, thanks to radio telescopes, astronomers discovered that the universe was not quite cold and that there was a tiny bit of heat in the space. Its temperature is +2.73 K is -270.42 ° C. It is obviously very cold but it is a little hotter than the absolute 0 ° (0 K) which is -273.15 ° C. According to calculations and laboratory experiments, the universe has cooled over time and had to reach a temperature of several billion billion degrees about 13.8 billion years ago! But what phenomenon has caused this heat and why the universe continues to grow? Looks like there was an explosion. | <urn:uuid:e8aecf4c-23c7-4f76-b7bd-a5203a0175ce> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://intercelestial.com/what-is-the-universe/?replytocom=17804 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572033.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814113403-20220814143403-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.976915 | 637 | 3.078125 | 3 |
Servicing of PCB Transformers is allowed with a dielectric fluid at any concentration. However, a PCB Transformer should not be serviced when the coil must be removed. This transformer should be disposed of properly.
PCB Transformers must be visually inspected quarterly for leaks. These visual inspections may occur any time during the periods of January to March, April to June, July to September, and October to December, as long as there are at least 30 days between inspections. More frequent inspections (monthly) are recommended. The PCB Transformer owner is responsible for maintaining records of these inspections.
No routine, visual inspections are required for PCB-contaminated Transformers, but it is recommended that these transformers be visually inspected quarterly for leaks.
All leaking transformers must be repaired immediately, or the transformer must be replaced. A leak must be cleaned up within 48 hours after its discovery. All active leaks must be contained in a drip-pan or by some other appropriate method. Daily inspections are required until the leak is repaired.
If a PCB Transformer is involved in a fire-related incident, the National Response Center must be notified through proper channels, and specific reporting and containment requirements implemented.
Large PCB Capacitors (containing 1.36 kg or more of dielectric fluid) that are located in restricted areas (either a restricted-access electrical substation or a contained and restricted- access indoor installation) may continue to be used for their remaining lives. Large PCB Capacitors that are not located in restricted areas are prohibited. All small capacitors may continue to be used for their remaining lives.
No routine inspection requirements apply to capacitors unless they are stored for disposal, but it is good practice to inspect them annually for leaks.
Most capacitors cannot be sampled for analysis of PCB concentration. In most cases, the presence of PCBs can be determined directly from information on the capacitor or from the manufacturer. (All capacitors are assumed to contain PCBs unless the label or nameplate information, manufacturer's literature, or chemical analysis states that the capacitor does not contain PCBs.) The Environmental Staff can assist in this identification.
The EPA allows continued use of non-leaking PCB and PCB-contaminated fluorescent light ballasts. When these ballasts are taken out of service, they must be disposed of properly as hazardous waste and are not to be sold to subsequent users.
Most electromagnets, switches, and voltage regulators containing PCBs may continue to be used for their remaining useful or normal lives. The use or storage of a PCB electromagnet (500 ppm or more) in a location where human food or animal feed could be exposed to PCBs released from the electromagnet is prohibited.
Weekly inspections are required for electromagnets with PCBs if they are in use or stored for reuse and contain between 50 ppm and 500 ppm and pose an exposure risk to food or feed.
No routine visual inspections are required for other PCB or PCB-contaminated (less than 500 ppm) electrical equipment in use or stored for re-use, but it is recommended that this equipment be inspected quarterly for leaks.
Strict regulations apply to the use of PCBs in equipment which may not be totally enclosed. Examples of such equipment include hydraulic systems, heat-transfer systems, and compressors. Generally, this equipment requires annual testing and fluid replacement to reduce PCB levels to less than 50 ppm. Small quantities of PCBs used in equipment during research or used in optical liquids may have less stringent requirements. Contact your Environmental Staff for information on applicable regulations. | <urn:uuid:356e753a-cc0f-472c-9de6-9176c4500783> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.ehso.com/PCB_App_A.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571909.51/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813051311-20220813081311-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.941049 | 727 | 2.53125 | 3 |
If you suspect that someone is using your Gmail account without your authorization, we recommend that you change your password as soon as possible! In this article, we will explain to you how to change from your iPhone/iPad, Android or PC.
Why change your Gmail password?
Most users have only one password for their Gmail account, and some users reuse their passwords across multiple accounts. We recommend you do not reuse password for multiple accounts. If you also use your Gmail password for other accounts, any other site that's compromised using this same password will expose you to your Gmail account being hacked. This is much more common than you might expect, so make sure to diversify your passwords.
How to change your Gmail password from a computer?
Changing your password in Gmail is very simple.
- Sign into Gmail and click on Settings > Accounts and import.
- Then click on Change password.
- After identifying yourself, enter the new password and confirm.
How to change your Gmail password from your iPhone/iPad?
- Open the Gmail app.
- Tap on your profile picture in the top right and choose Manage your Google Account.
- Tap on Personal Info and go to Password.
- Enter your password and select Change Password.
- Type your new password and confirm it.
How to change your Gmail password on Android device?
- On your Android, go to Settings > Google > Manage your Google Account.
- Tap on Security tab.
- Under Signing in to Google, select Password.
- Type your current password and then enter the new one.
- Choose Change Password and confirm the changes.
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Be sure that the lighting you choose is an unbreakable material like wood or plastic rather than glass or pottery to keep your child safe. It is also a good idea to secure any loose cords to a wall, floor, or table.
Lighting can be helpful in creating a cozy environment for your child to fall asleep each night. It is a good idea to keep a night light in their room or in a nearby hallway to help them feel safe and secure. This could include a simple plug-in light, a glowing object, or dimmable light bulbs.
Whether your child is creating a work of art, building a castle out of blocks, or completing a homework assignment, giving them space at their desk to spread out and learn is important. Try a clip on light to leave extra room to work or choose a multi-purpose lighting option like a desk lamp that doubles as a pencil holder.
Light-up shapes like a bright rocketship or a colour-changing unicorn can add creativity and fun to your child’s space. LED lights are another option to display a message in their room. Finally, use colourful string lights to create a cozy nook or additional reading light above their bed.
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STUDENT DROP-OFF / PICK-UP PROCEDURES
Our priority remains student safety. We need your help and cooperation for a safe and smooth drop-off or pick-up. Please be familiar with our procedures.
Please remember that the car drop-off line is a cell phone free zone. For the safety of your child as well as other children and teachers, please refrain from talking on your cell phone while you are in the line.
ARRIVAL / DROP-OFF
Children should not be dropped off at school before 7:30 a.m. Prior to this time, there is no supervision.
Students should be dropped off at the designated drop off zone located at the rear of the building near the gymnasium.
Please loop around the circle and pull your vehicle to the end of the drop off circle.
Students may go directly to their homeroom or to the cafeteria to pick up breakfast.
Before 7:30 a.m. continue to use the right lane to allow for teachers and staff to arrive in a timely manner so that teachers can get in the building and prepare for greeting your child.
At 7:30 a.m. traffic may use 2 lanes. This is to allow for traffic to move off of Berkeley Dr. and for closure of the gate.
Please stay in the car line and do not pass other vehicles.
Please stay in your car and allow your child to enter the building under the supervision of the administrators and safety patrols on duty.
Front gate closes at 8:00 a.m., after which the tardy bell will ring. If you arrive after the gate is closed, please park and escort your children to the front office. All students arriving at this time must be signed in. For their safety, children should never be unsupervised in the parking area.
Remember that the handicap spaces are reserved for cars with a handicap tag.
Parking in a designated fire lane may result in a fine. Please avoid the red curb!
For safety purposes, parents should have a visitor's pass when entering the building.
If you have items to deliver to the classroom, leave them in the office. We will be happy to deliver them for you.
DISMISSAL / PICK-UP
If you wish to pick up your child before 2:15 p.m. dismissal, you should sign your child out before 2:00 p.m.
If there is a change of dismissal plans for your child/children, please notify the school in writing prior to 1:30 p.m. the day of the change. This ensures that we are able to deliver the proper information to your child/children before dismissal.
Please inform the office and teacher if there are persons who are not allowed to pick up your child. Pertinent custody documents will be kept on file in the child's school record.
The school-provided hangtag, with the number assigned to your child/children should be displayed in the front window, prior to entering the school campus and remain displayed until your child/children enter(s) the car.
Dismissal for K-2nd grade only car rider students begins at 2:15 p.m. in rear of the building.
Dismissal for 3rd-5th grade car rider students and their younger K-2nd siblings begins at 2:25 p.m.
Dismissal for walkers begins at 2:20 p.m.
Drivers should only use the right (outside) lane when arriving on campus to pick up students.
The staff member running the Driveline will be in the left lane. You could be redirected by this staff member to enter the middle of the parking lot if you are early for 3rd-5th grade dismissal.
Please remain in the right lane for exiting after student pick-up, unless directed by staff, then proceed cautiously to the left lane.
Staff members will be on duty to assist students who are being picked up and will supervise each child to his/her car.
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Wes Ellett has diamonds in his eyes. “What I really want to do is sell really expensive diamond-plated drill bits,” said Ellett, one of 400 students and energy industry representatives sharing perspectives at a recent networking event at Texas Christian University. Munching hors d’oeuvres and discussing employment opportunities, those on both sides of the hiring line had upbeat impressions of an industry that pumped $284 billion into the nation’s gross domestic product in 2012 and stands to surpass $468 billion by the end of the decade, according to a recent study by IHS Inc.
“There are a lot of opportunities,” said Ellett, a former U.S. Marine sergeant and, at 29, already an energy industry veteran after testing gas well blowout preventers for Lone Star Hydrostatic LLC in Montague, northwest of Fort Worth. “Anytime I’d get a call, I’d drive to wherever companies were drilling, and we’d test the preventers to make sure they were safe so they could start drilling,” Ellett said. But he returned to school to fulfill a promise to his grandfather. “I promised to get my degree, but I’m here to find out who’s hiring and what opportunities are out there,” Ellett said. Openings are plentiful, according to others exchanging business cards and job leads. “It’s growing every day with more and more operations popping up all over Texas,” said Jacob Kirkpatrick, a Higginbotham associate who insures energy companies. “There’s a high demand for oil and gas and a huge overall demand for the energy industry. It’s important that they be covered in everything they do,” Kirkpatrick said.
Despite predictions that solar, wind and other alternative energy sources could diminish fossil fuels’ future dominance, some students place their bets on oil and natural gas. “The oil is there,” said Austin Meyer, 21, a junior and environmental science major. Dismissing speculation that alternative energy might make fossil fuels obsolete, the Chicago native placed his bets on ongoing oil drilling. “It’s good that there is alternative energy, but there’s no problem with oil supplies, certainly not in my lifetime,” Meyer said. With Devon Energy Corp. acquiring more Eagle Ford Shale property in South Texas and other oil and natural gas producers expanding operations in the state and elsewhere, many at the March 6 session expressed confidence, despite a slowdown in Barnett Shale drilling in recent years.
“The drilling phase in the Barnett has played out,” said Jeffrey Myers, 22, a senior majoring in mechanical engineering, referring to the North Texas shale formation. “Yes, it’s had a little bit of a resurgence, but it seems like most of the activity is from existing operations and not as much drilling.” Myers has watched activity ramp up in the Marcellus formation near his home in Dublin, Ohio, and he banks on alternative energy and natural gas as helping ensure the industry’s future. Myers said he plans to pursue employment in fluid flow after he graduates in May. Ellett, Myers and other students discussed job opportunities with XTO Energy representatives and others, who described jobs as multiplying.
“It’s all about jobs,” said Larry Brogdon, board chairman at TCU’s Energy Institute and a former partner with Four Sevens Oil Co. in Fort Worth, discussing the industry at the networking forum. “There are a lot of opportunities.” Those are expected to rise by 2040, according to Exxon Mobil Corp.’s recently released energy outlook. From 2010 to 2040, the global population is expected to grown from 7 billion to nearly 9 billion, with global energy demand expected to rise by about 35 percent, according to the company forecast. “So barring a pandemic or a major war, the trajectory is good,” Brogdon said. So is interest in a profession that only continues to grow. Networking event host Frank Iannelli, a strategic adviser at Texas Logistics Group and former COO at Frontier Oilfield Services Inc., compared the 400 attendees at the networking session with about 170 at the first gathering last year. “I think we’ll definitely hold additional ones, maybe do them quarterly. The interest is definitely there,” Iannelli said. | <urn:uuid:98ebbb9c-45f1-494b-a405-da768c2327e6> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://fortworthbusiness.com/energy/drilling-for-jobs-students-ponder-energy-industrys-future/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572198.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815175725-20220815205725-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.96535 | 942 | 1.671875 | 2 |
Senator Grace Poe expressed keenness and optimism on an ambitious project of the Duterte administration to construct a 25-kilometer underground mass transportation system, stressing such will not only help ease traffic in the already congested metropolis but also propel economic growth.
“We have to invest now, build now, but not without exercising caution. Having a reliable public transportation system, especially railway, will not only spell public convenience but also contribute to economic growth,” said Poe.
Poe, main proponent in the Senate of the emergency powers sought by the Duterte administration to ease traffic in major urban areas, has been an advocate of the subway system.
“Although it is relatively costly and the construction time will take a little bit longer as reportedly said by Transport officials, an underground mass transport will help decongest road traffic as there will be less road disturbance to the above-ground environment,” Poe added.
The senator however stressed that the subway design should complement road transport design above ground, and should take into account the accessibility and walkability of each station’s stop with that of other public transportation.
“Transport interconnectivity is key to a thriving economy and improving the lives of our people. I hope that this time the administration, in considering the location of each station, will prioritize public convenience and accessibility over private interests,” said Poe.
Reports said President Duterte and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe are expected to sign an agreement for the P227-billion subway this year. Construction of the first leg of the Mega Manila subway is expected to be finished in 2024. The subway system will connect Quezon City to Taguig, with projected travel time at half an hour and can initially accommodate around 350,000 passengers daily in its opening year, officials said.
The proposed 13 stations are along Mindanao Avenue, North Avenue, Quezon Avenue, East Avenue, Anonas and Katipunan in Quezon City; Ortigas North and Ortigas South in Pasig City; Kalayaan Avenue in Makati City; Bonifacio Global City, Cayetano Boulevard and Food Terminal Inc. in Taguig; and the Ninoy Aquino International Airport in Pasay City.
“In the long run, the benefits will far outweigh the cost. As estimated by the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), projected losses from traffic reach P3 billion daily. We must address this for the benefit of the public,” said Poe.
Based on the same JICA study, Metro Manila road traffic demand is expected to increase by 13 percent from 2012 to 2030, and the total transport cost of road users, including vehicle operating cost and time cost, will increase from around P3 billion a day to P6 billion a day.
The feasibility study of the subway project is ongoing with assistance from JICA.
According to Poe, the design should be “future-proof” and should have room for expansion to accommodate the growing population in the metropolis. Moreover, she cautioned the government about entering into disadvantageous contracts that hounded the EDSA MRT-3 and brought public inconvenience.
Poe said the government should ensure that the best engineers are hired because “although we are prone to flooding and other natural calamities, Japan, which is also in the path of various natural calamities, has successfully run their rail system with similar conditions.”
To emphasize that an underground railway system is possible in the Philippines, Poe said trains in the United Kingdom cross the English Channel, while in the US, the Bay Area Rapid Transit in San Francisco crosses the San Francisco Bay.
“This is a legacy project, one that can determine the forward trajectory of economic development in the country. Millions of jobs can also be created following a seamless transport system in Metro Manila. We should ensure that we deal with reputable companies and that we get the best deal for the operations and maintenance of the project,” said Poe.
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Just as night follows day, it seems part of the regular cycle of the world’s share markets that downturns and falling prices follow good times and rising prices.
The impact of the COVID-19 Global Pandemic was typical of such downturns, prompting a 35 per cent sell off in world share markets and a dramatic fall in economic activity. Tourism and hospitality industries, in particular, were brought to their knees by sudden and prolonged closures.
For many, it has prompted memories of other equally, and sometimes more devastating, downturns in the world’s share markets.
The most famous was “Black Thursday” in 1929, which led to an 80 per cent collapse in share prices and sparked the Great Depression, lasting for more than 10 years. It created widespread misery and sustained world-wide unemployment rates in excess of 30 per cent.
What caused it? The wild excesses of the roaring twenties when consumer confidence was at a record high and the introduction of margin loans, where people could borrow up to 80 per cent of the value of shares.
This created a classic investment bubble, where optimism overwhelmed caution, and people started buying shares in the mistaken belief they would always increase in value. A drop in agricultural production due to droughts and a fall in economic production caused a sudden reversal in sentiment.
A similar situation played out 60 years later, when in 1987, panic selling on Black Monday, wiped some 30 per cent from the value of the key US market index, the Dow Jones – its biggest one-day fall.
It put an end to the ‘Greed is Good’ mentality of the eighties and prompted a review of the relatively new, computerised share trading systems. It also led to the introduction of circuit breakers to stop panic selling and exaggerated market movements caused by sudden sell-downs.
Yet it seems investor’s memories are short.
Not long after this, markets got caught up with a new investment bubble prompted by the development and growth of the Internet. Companies raced to find their place online, and suddenly, all Internet companies were considered a sure bet.
This speculative buying ran out of steam when the Dot Com Bubble finally burst in 2000, wiping 45 per cent off the value of shares. It’s believed 130 internet-based companies went broke in the United States that year, creating widespread unemployment.
While much the same as the earlier market falls, the Global Financial Crisis of 2008, was also in many ways unique. It was the direct result of dodgy lending practices in the US housing market, which created a toxic class of home loans, commonly referred to as ‘sub-prime loans’.
Typically, these lenders ignored the individual’s ability to repay the loans and instead focused on the belief property prices would continue to rise, and there would always be people prepared to rent these properties.
It created a typical investment bubble in the US housing market, where greed and optimism overrode common sense. Eventually, people found they could not meet their repayments and as the bubble burst, nor could they sell the properties held as securities.
The sudden realisation that many mortgages were not worth the paper they were written on, caused enormous problems within the US banking system and saw the collapse of several international banks.
It took a prolonged economic downturn and the introduction of tighter lending practices to correct these difficulties.
The lesson to be learnt from all these devasting crashes is that while no two were the same, they were all similar in nature. All were created by exaggerated investor beliefs that prices would never fall and saw greed outpacing fear.
It is therefore essential to think carefully before investing, ensuring each investment is made with a long-term mindset, and that sudden market corrections do not lead to panic selling.
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The LLVM generated BPF byte codes need go through kernel
verifier before being allowed to execute in kernel.
performs path sensitive analysis to verify safety of the program.
The verification is done during bpf program loading time, and
typically right before the program starts to run.
Since verifier is executed in kernel space and it runs during program
loading time, there is a great effort to avoid introducing complexity
and running time overhead for it. Sometime, in order to add analysis
to verifier, user code hacking is conducted to workaround the issue.
Related to this patch, the following kernel patch is a workaround
for code generated by LLVM instcombine insertRangeTest().
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bpf/bpf-next.git/commit/?id=b7a0d65d80a0c5034b366392624397a0915b7556 107: w1 = w0 108: w1 += -1 109: if w1 > 6 goto -24 <LBB0_5> 110: w0 += w8
Basically since verifier does not record and propagate copy state
for performance and memory reasons. Register "w0" value range
will become conservative and later on may cause verification failure.
Another example is
People has to come up with weird ways to workaround this issue.
To improve user space usability, this patch proposed to disable
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The crowdfunding market is expected to witness a growth at a CAGR of over 16% during the forecast period (2021-2026). Crowdfunding entails soliciting many small amounts of money from an undefined group of people known as the crowd. Crowdfunding platforms could be intermediaries between donors and beneficiaries. This intermediary could exploit a plethora of marketing techniques to influence the behavior of the potential donor. Therefore it is important to look for the influencing factors that are being used on crowdfunding platforms such as social media platforms for raising funds.
- Moreover, according to Fundly, the global amount raised by crowdfunding amounted in the thirties of USD billion in 2019. Further, it has been estimated that 6,445,080 number of crowdfunding campaigns were hosted globally in 2019. Also, the crowdfunding market is expected to triple by 2025.
- The social media platforms are acting as a free of cost promotion resources for crowdfunding organization to have a global reach to audiences. It has enabled the companies to make their pre-selling and marketing for products at more convenience. Hence, the active crowdfunding campaigns on social media are expected to further drive the crowdfunding market's growth in the coming future. According to startups.com, 12% of the Facebook share, 3% of Twitter shares, and 53% of email shares convert to donations.
- The company operating in the gaming industry are witnessing the most successful fundraising campaign to raise fund. Also, technology campaigns are able to attract crowdfunding. According to the Kickstarter crowdfunding platform, it raised over USD 1 million, where 37% of gaming campaigns have been successful in raising funds and technology campaigns made up of 30% of successful campaigns.
- Many companies, such as Kickstarter PBC, Indiegogo Inc., GoFundMe Inc., Crowdfunder Inc., and Alibaba Group, are offering their platform for crowdfunding to raise funds for various initiatives. In October 2019, the crowdsourcing platform Kickstarter registered over USD 4.5 billion, which has been pledged to different projects.
- With the recent outbreak of COVID-19, the crowdfunding market is witnessing significant growth, especially donation crowdfunding to support and help communities, people, and many organizations fight this pandemic. For instance, in April 2020, Facebook launched "Facebook Fundraiser," a platform where people can raise funds for the charity to help others during a pandemic.
- In April 2020, in India, various crowdfunding platforms raised worth over INR 100 Crore to financially support people in need. These online crowdfunding campaigns help stranded migrants, daily wage laborers, transgender communities, circus artistes, Uber drivers, Swiggy delivery personnel, rural artisans, dancers, and freelance workers during the pandemic.
Key Market Trends
Reward-based Crowdfunding is Expected to Grow Significantly
- Reward-based crowdfunding is where the company (typically a start-up) raise pre-seed and seed capital through an online platform and offers investors a gift or "perk" for their financial contribution. It is considered pre-sales, in which individual or projects, or the companies, raise funding from bankers, who then receive a non-monetary reward. This provides the companies to engage an build on an existing network and solicit than can be leveraged later. This kind of crowdfunding is usually suitable for early-stage companies or a specific project.
- Australia-based start-up - Okra Solar, which has been piloting its "plug-and-play smart controller" to facilitates power-sharing by neighbors. The company has mentioned fo it launched a reward-based crowdfunding campaign to complete the small-scale pilot to prove the technology. With this campaign, the company raised over USD 45,000 in seed capital to build a prototype. Later the campaign won many grants from the United Kingdom's Department of International Development, Swedish International Development Corporation Agency, and secured pre-seed financing through Energy Access Ventures Fund backed by Schneider Electric.
- According to the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor, the start-ups in the United States hold over a significant 17.4% share of the country's total population. This indicates the huge opportunity for the reward-based crowdfunding in the region. Also, with the huge market of crowdfunding in North America, this opportunity further expands.
- The Covid-19 pandemic has led to a surge in the donation and reward-based crowdfunding incidences aimed at supporting the population affected by the worldwide pandemic. There has been a considerable upsurge in the number of Covid-19 reward-based crowdfunding campaigns launched by a wide variety of people (including citizens, business organizations, foundations, charities, and trusts) across the European continent.
Europe Occupy Significant Market Share
- The European crowdfunding market share and growth are expected to proliferate due to an increasing number of countries in the region, organizing regulations for the crowdfunding model. The European Union countries are also reportedly planning to set rules with an aim to enable crowdfunding platforms in the region to operate across other EU regions.
- Additionally, Turkey is one of the countries in Europe experiencing significant growth in the crowdfunding market with the presence of steady employment opportunities. According to the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor Report 2019, this is one of the key factors driving economic growth in the country, improving conditions for entrepreneurship by 10%, raising over USD 331 billion to the economy.
- Hence, the government actively encourages and supports entrepreneurship in the country. According to the Startups Watch 2019, the Turkish government funds have the dominance in market share by the funding volume followed by angel investments and VCs for funding early phase startups in the country.
- The European Investment Bank (EIB) has a venture-debt product which is aimed at SMEs looking for raising over EUR 7.5 to 50 million. With the help of the crowdfunding platform, the bank combined advantages of a long-term loan with a remuneration-model based on the borrower’s performance. With this model, the bank targeted companies with over 3,000 employees in the field of biotechnology and life sciences, software and information and communications technology (ICT), engineering and automation, and renewables and clean technology. To date, the bank lent over EUR 750 million in long-term venture debt financing and is expecting to create more than 6,500 jobs and EUR 7 billion in research and development investment.
The market for global crowdfunding is moderately consolidated due to the presence of a few companies dominating the market with the presence of many other companies competing between themselves. Also, these companies are extensively investing in offering a wide range of technologies to the customers for industry-specific end-user applications. Some of the recent developments in the market are:
- In May 2020 - BuildHer, a UK-based crowdfunding platform for women of black origin, officially launched its service. Founded in 2018, BuildHer claims it equips disadvantaged young women in Kenya with accredited construction skills, leading to greater financial prosperity, changing male attitudes, and promoting gender equality within the construction industry.
- In April 2020 - Aescuvest international GmbH, a leading crowdfunding platform powered by EIT Health in their Call4Ideas Campaign, aims to help start-ups and researchers work towards flattening the curve of COVID-19, accelerating their entry to the market.
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Table of Contents
1.2 Scope of the Study
4.2 Industry Value Chain Analysis
4.3 Industry Attractiveness - Porter's Five Forces Analysis
4.3.1 Threat of New Entrants
4.3.2 Bargaining Power of Buyers/Consumers
4.3.3 Bargaining Power of Suppliers
4.3.4 Threat of Substitute Products
4.3.5 Intensity of Competitive Rivalry
4.4 Assessment on the Impact of COVID-19 on the market
5.1.1 Use of Social Media as a Free of Cost Promotion Source
5.1.2 Increasing Investor Forward looking Strategic Behaviour and Social Interactions among Investors
5.2 Market Restraints
5.2.1 Time Consuming Process and Stringent Regulatory Compliance
6.1.1 Reward-based Crowdfunding
6.1.2 Equity Crowdfunding
6.1.3 Donation and Others
6.2 By End-user Application
6.2.1 Cultural Sector
6.2.5 Other End-user Applications
6.3.1 North America
6.3.4 Middle East & Africa
6.3.5 Latin America
7.1.1 Kickstarter PBC
7.1.2 Indiegogo Inc.
7.1.3 GoFundMe Inc.
7.1.4 Fundable LLC
7.1.5 Crowdcube Limited
7.1.7 Crowdfunder Inc.
7.1.8 Alibaba Group Holding Limited
7.1.9 Wefunder Inc.
7.1.11 Jingdong Inc.
7.1.12 Suning.com Co. Ltd
7.1.13 Owners Circle
7.1.14 Realcrowd Inc.
A selection of companies mentioned in this report includes:
- Kickstarter PBC
- Indiegogo Inc.
- GoFundMe Inc.
- Fundable LLC
- Crowdcube Limited
- Crowdfunder Inc.
- Alibaba Group Holding Limited
- Wefunder Inc.
- Jingdong Inc.
- Suning.com Co. Ltd
- Owners Circle
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The B vitamins are
These vitamins help the process your body uses to get or make energy from the food you eat. They also help form red blood cells. You can get B vitamins from proteins such as fish, poultry, meat, eggs, and dairy products. Leafy green vegetables, beans, and peas also have B vitamins. Many cereals and some breads have added B vitamins.
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There are some fundamental rules that investors need to pay attention to regardless of the size of their assets. Keep in mind that the simplest strategies are often the most effective. They are less risky and often yield better returns. Those wishing to invest are immediately faced with a series of questions. Of course, there is a big difference if the capital you can invest amounts to CHF 5,000 or several hundred thousand francs. If you have small assets, it is not reasonable to invest in individual stocks: transaction costs are too high, diversification is insufficient. Instead, it is preferable to invest in funds. In this article we have summarized five investment strategies for you to choose from to invest your money successfully: Strategy 1: invest from an early age and reduce costs Strategy 2: diversify and stay on course Strategy 3: rebalance the portfolio from time to time Strategy 4: stagger purchases Strategy 5: contain losses STRATEGY 1: INVEST FROM AN EARLY AGE AND REDUCE COSTS Time is a precious ally for investors. The earlier you start investing, the stronger the effect of compound interest will be. An amount of CHF 15,000.– invested at the age of 20 transforms with an average return of four percent into assets of around CHF 88,000.– upon reaching the age of 65. If, on the other hand, you are even more optimistic and expect an average return of six percent, which is quite possible if you invest in equities, your final assets can even reach CHF 206,000.–. The broad time horizon not only amplifies the effect of compound interest but also reduces the risk of losses associated with high-risk investments. From an investment horizon of 35 years, statistically, the probability of suffering losses is very small, while the possibility of obtaining substantial gains is relatively high. The rule of thumb suggests that a time horizon of at least ten years should be planned for investments inequities. In addition to time, cost-effective investment products are also allies of investors. Investments are also associated with the payment of commissions. For this reason, it is important to check costs carefully. Always have financial product vendors and wealth management consultants disclose all costs and fees, clearly explain them and explain why they are fair and appropriate. STRATEGY 2: DIVERSIFY AND STAY ON COURSE It is difficult to predict not only the overall trend of the stock market but also and above all that of individual stocks: this is why you need to diversify your investments. Don’t just buy a few stocks – this strategy can have disastrous results. It is important to be aware that risks are inevitable, even when you leave your money in your savings account. The deposited amounts bear practically no interest and are exposed to the risk of being affected by inflation and any administrative expenses, such as bank deposit fees, etc., which cause them to decrease. However, the fact that risks are omnipresent should not lead you to take a bold attitude and make you aspire to very high returns. In fact, the higher the returns, the greater the risks. Set yourself a realistic goal. A return of four percent after inflation is a fully achievable long-term goal. Once you have established the right mix, you must remain faithful to your strategy: at first, difficulties do not revolutionize your plans, otherwise, you will have to face unnecessary transaction costs. Don’t go crazy chasing the news at the last minute. Selling stocks when prices have peaked and bought them back when prices fall is every investor’s dream. However, transforming it into reality is almost impossible. It is, therefore, better to opt for long-term investments. If you choose this path, it is essential to be able to withstand the large fluctuations of stocks or simply ignore them. Investing over a long time horizon is also important because the high long-term returns on equities are often attributable to a few days of strong price increases. Those who have never stopped investing in European equities since early 1999 have practically doubled the amount available today (based on the MSCI Europe stock index). However, the good performance is almost exclusively attributable to the ten best trading days recorded in this period. It is sufficient not to keep your investment in the few days of the market with strong growth because the general return will be reduced considerably in the long term. For this reason, most of the time it is good to keep the investment for an extended period. STRATEGY 3: REBALANCING YOUR PORTFOLIO FROM TIME TO TIME Capital gains and losses not only generate stress but also create an imbalance within your strategy based on the correct investment mix established in the preliminary phase. This is why it is important to rebalance your portfolio from time to time: by doing so, the percentage distribution of your investment assets will remain constant. EXAMPLE Let’s assume your strategy is to invest half in stocks and half in bonds. Proceed to select your investment products accordingly. If stock prices rise while bond prices fall, the share of equities can easily add up to 75 percent of the portfolio’s overall value. At this point, it is necessary to sell shares and buy bonds to restore the original distribution of the investment assets. Conversely, this action must be taken before stock prices fall and bond prices rise. This re-weighting of investments (rebalancing) allows you to implement a counter-cyclical strategy, following which, in the best of cases, you buy when prices are low and sell when prices reach a high value. However, the more frequently you rebalance your portfolio, the higher the transaction costs and the less you will be able to benefit from lasting market trends. The rule of thumb suggests that you should check your portfolio at least every 12 months to eventually consider a rebalancing of investments. STRATEGY 4: STROKE PURCHASES From the dilemma that you can’t know in advance whether the current share price is cheap or not, there is an easy way out: to invest in a staggered manner. If you inherit CHF 300,000 today, you don’t have to invest all of your assets in one fell swoop. Instead, it is preferable to invest it regularly over an extended period. For example, today you invest CHF 50,000.– and every four months you invest another CHF 50,000.–: after 20 months you will have invested the full amount. By doing so, if you consider the entire period, you will invest at an average price and more advantageous conditions (Cost Average). It is reasonable to adopt this staggered approach for subsequent amounts as well. You can implement it yourself, or contact those who offer savings plans and propose investments in different funds. If you opt for such a partnership, you should choose a trader who invests your money in cost-effective ETFs (Exchange Traded Funds). By making regular deposits, you will benefit from the effect of the average price: when prices go down, the shares of funds purchased increase, while they decrease when prices go up. Again, the costs must be compared. STRATEGY 5: CONTAINING LOSSES True, leaks hurt. When you sell a title, the loss is not only recorded on paper but also materializes definitively. For this reason, many investors are holding onto a stock even if its price has fallen sharply: they hope that sooner or later it can be resold at a higher price than its initial value. Avoiding losses is also essential because it is very difficult to remedy them. 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The personal impact of bankruptcy
At BT Acumen, we are real people, just like you. As insolvency specialists, we understand the toll a period of financial distress can take on mental health and wellbeing.
By the time someone is considering bankruptcy, wellbeing is often compromised by feelings of stress, fatigue and struggling to cope. The fear of the unknown, worry about the stigma of bankruptcy, incorrect information, and uncertainty about the future, fuels the negative impact. In other cases, financial difficulties come from trouble with addiction or mental health challenges and becoming debt free may only be the beginning of a wellness journey.
Regardless of the cause, mental health and wellbeing play a significant role in achieving successful insolvency outcomes.
No matter where you live, the following organisations can offer help and guidance.
Resources and Important Links
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See the Seek legal assistance for debt related issues section https://www.afsa.gov.au/insolvency/cant-pay-my-debts/seek-legal-assistance
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Alcohol sales have increased drastically during the COVID-19 quarantine (Rehm et al 2020) and people have begun drinking 2-3 more drinks on average, than they did prior to COVID-19 (Lechner et al 2020). We predicted that social isolation due to COVID-19 would negatively correlate with a person's number of binge-drinking episodes. 40 participants completed a survey and answered questions about the number of social contacts they maintain and their drinking habits. Participants took both the AUDIT-C and CAGE-4 questionnaires, which provide an accurate quantifiable value of a person's likelihood to engage in binge-drinking. There was no significant correlation present between social isolation and binge-drinking behaviors. These findings are unlike any similar research studies, but it may indicate that there is not a relationship between isolation and alcohol misuse behaviors.
Walton, Grace; Goldberg, Abigail; and Mullen, Liam, "The Effects of COVID-19 Social Isolation on Binge-Drinking Behaviors in College Students" (2020). Fall Showcase for Research and Creative Inquiry. 35. | <urn:uuid:5e2c24bf-4584-42db-a652-bd50216f1aa5> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://digitalcommons.longwood.edu/rci_fall/35/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572033.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814113403-20220814143403-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.913228 | 271 | 2.953125 | 3 |
it’s difficult to prove the existence of a pharmacist shortage. We’ve identified nine states where the typical salary for a Pharmacist job is above the … Over the same time span, hospitals’ share of employment climbed from 23.2% in 2010 to 25.4% in 2017. The site also reports that after bonuses and profit-sharing programs were added, the total pay range for pharmacists was $84,830 – $136,940. as of October 31, 2018, the average pharmacist salary in the U.S. was $129,718. Employment of pharmacists is projected to decline 3 percent from 2019 to 2029. © 2020 Forbes Media LLC. , but that growth in the industry trails other healthcare professions. I'm a finance writer with years of experience covering topics such as taxation, Social Security, entrepreneurship, investing, real estate and housing markets. You can download this report and receive an infographic summarizing key points here: Unfortunately, the news isn’t all great. That figure represents a 4.5% increase from the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ May 2017 salary of Pharmacist salaries in the U.S. are significantly higher than the national average for all ... [+] occupations. The site also reports that after bonuses and profit-sharing programs were added, the total pay range for pharmacists was $84,830 – $136,940. Salary.com reports that as of October 31, 2018, the average pharmacist salary in the U.S. was $129,718, with a range between $121,998 and $138,520. 17, 2019. The national average annual wage of a pharmacist is $123,670, according to the BLS, much higher than the average annual salary for all occupations, $51,960. Additionally, the PDI predicts that growth in hospitals, non-retail settings, and physician’s offices will outpace mail and retail pharmacy. Another source, salary.com, the average Pharmacist salary in the United States is $132,513 as of March 28, 2019, but the range typically falls between $124,861 and $141,134. The median annual wage for pharmacists was $128,090 in May 2019. You may opt-out by. The truth of the pharmacy industry is that demand varies based upon pharmacy setting, geographic region, experience, skill set, and a variety of other factors. It appears that 2018 brought some much-needed good news to pharmacists. Go ahead and sign up to download the guide below. The shift in pharmacy continues as the number of pharmacists in various formats shifts to meet the changing demand. The best-paid 25 percent made $145,870 that year, while the lowest-paid 25 percent made $111,340. They must also be licensed, which requires passing two exams. The average change in salary for pharmacists in 2017 was 1.35%, compared to 2% for other healthcare workers. Salary.com reports that as of October 31, 2018, the average pharmacist salary in the U.S. was $129,718, with a range between $121,998 and $138,520. It appears that 2018 brought some much-needed good news to pharmacists. Though pharmacy doesn’t appear to be on the decline, trends suggest that pay for pharmacists is flattening out over time, perhaps in response to market saturation. The truth of the pharmacy industry is that demand varies based upon pharmacy setting, geographic region, experience, skill set, and a variety of other factors. Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. Trending Now: Cities With the Most Female Entrepreneurs. The state with the most growth in average pharmacist salaries is Nebraska, where they increased by 18%, from $101,380 in 2013 to $119,670 in 2018. As more new pharmacists graduate from school and enter the workforce, the trend will likely continue. Overall, Pharmacy Week reports that salaries increased overall, but that retail positions appear to trail other positions. Retail pharmacy, hospital education, oncology, and long-term care were among the most prevalent skill sets for pharmacists. Without fail, in surveys across basically every demographic, the number one most important aspect of a job for most people is the salary — how much do pharmacists get paid where I live? According to PayScale, the average U.S. pharmacist salary stood … Read on for a full breakdown of where pharmacists make the most money, and where they're making the least. Most notable in the report was the first-ever decrease in base salary for retail pharmacists compared to 2017. , perhaps in response to market saturation. By Chris Kolmar - May. Some of these states have seen large increases in pharmacist’s salaries over the last five years. The BLS estimates that 17,400 jobs will be created between 2016 and 2026. , with a range between $121,998 and $138,520. An early career Pharmacist with 1-4 years of experience earns an average total compensation of $56.03 based on 2,223 salaries. I’ve discovered in my research that it’s difficult to prove the existence of a pharmacist shortage because we tend to rely on symptoms to make our case rather than actual facts and figures. Pharmacists must have a Doctor of Pharmacy (Pharm.D. No need to bookmark this salary guide. How much does a Pharmacist make in the United States? As of Q3 2018, for example, the Pharmacy Demand Indicator showed that, growth was slowest in the south and greatest in the west. Drug Channels reported earlier this year that the average pharmacist salary hit $120,000, but that growth in the industry trails other healthcare professions. Pharmacy Week reported that all key pharmacy jobs saw an increase in turnover in 2018, with the highest turnover among Pharmacy Team Managers. Here’s a breakdown of the top-10 states in which pharmacists earn the most: It’s interesting that most of the top-10 best states for pharmacist salaries are geographically northern states, whether West or East. An Entry Level Pharmacist in your area makes on average $52,299 per year, or $1,210 (2%) more than the national average annual salary of $51,089. Pharmacy is not unique in that salary is perhaps the most important consideration for those working in the profession. varies according to the source, but we hope this information will provide tools for you as you negotiate salaries and contemplate new opportunities. The 10 States With The Highest Pharmacist Salaries For 2019. All Rights Reserved, This is a BETA experience. More good news! The average Pharmacist salary in Tennessee is $124,850 as of October 28, 2020, but the range typically falls between $117,639 and $132,980. Couple that figure with the 14,502 first professional degrees awarded in the 2016-2017 school year and it isn’t hard to see that supply is fast outpacing demand. Detailed salary report based on location, education, experience, gender, age etc. For example, Iowa is the fifth lowest-paying state, but pharmacist salaries have increased by 13.5% from 2013 to 2018, which is far above average. The annual survey also revealed that base pay increases were lower in 2018, averaging about .2%, compared to last year’s base pay average of $3.2%. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ Occupational Outlook Handbook, employment as pharmacists is forecasted to change little, with only 100 pharmacist jobs being lost from 2018 to 2028. As of Q3 2018, for example, the Pharmacy Demand Indicator showed that growth was slowest in the south and greatest in the west. Advanced 2019/20 Survey. You’ve likely noticed that the average pharmacist salary varies according to the source, but we hope this information will provide tools for you as you negotiate salaries and contemplate new opportunities. The outlet also reported that the number of hospital pharmacists increased and that those pharmacists saw higher salaries and greater salary increases than their counterparts in outpatient dispensing formats. We’ll continue to monitor the evolution of pharmacist salary and update you as new information becomes available. Average salary for Pharmacist is US$ 119,869. How Much Do Pharmacists Make In … By Chris … Although the demand for pharmacists isn’t decreasing, it’s absolutely true that growth in pharmacy is slowing compared to other healthcare professions. ranks number 1 out of 50 states nationwide for Entry Level Pharmacist salaries. Just seven months earlier, in April 2018, the site reported an average salary of $111,000 with a salary range of $83,726 to $136,212, representing a growth of about .5%. My work has appeared on MSN, Yahoo Finance, Fortune, CNBC, CBS, U.S. News and more. Though pharmacy doesn’t appear to be on the decline, trends suggest that pay for pharmacists is. Be Happy and Be a Pharmacist: How You Can Become Both, Again. Pharmacy is unique, too, in that its graduates walk out of college into six-figure incomes that leave little room for future growth. Although the demand for pharmacists isn’t decreasing, it’s absolutely true that growth in pharmacy is slowing compared to other healthcare professions. Pharmacy Week also generates a list each of year of pharmacist salaries by state. State & Area Data Certain experts continue to point to an aging Baby Boomer population, an increase in chronic disease, and the increasing demand for medications as drivers of the perceived shortage of pharmacists. Although employment isn’t growing, it also isn’t falling, which is great because the average pharmacist salary in the United States is quite high. Using occupational data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, we've analyzed and compiled a round-up of the average salary of a pharmacist in each U.S. state for 2019. 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DELĀRESTĀQ (also Delārostāq, Dīlārostāq), dehestān (administrative district) in the šahrestān of Āmol (Lārījān baḵš), on the northeastern slope of Mount Damāvand in Māzandarān (Razmārā, Farhang III, p. 122). It is a small, isolated region, located between Lārījān and Nūr and thus forming part of the conglomeration of mountain valleys in the central Alborz. For a long time it was difficult of access owing to the altitude and especially to the steepness of the slopes in the lower part of the valley bordering the Harāz river (Sotūda, pp. 463 ff.).
The population consists of only 1,300 inhabitants of eleven small villages and hamlets (Census, 1365 Š./1986). As is general in Lārījān, most of the villagers winter in the neighborhood of Āmol, and only agricultural families and herdsmen remain all year in the mountains. Although a few families from the village of Razān (or Razon) call themselves Mongols (Sotūda, pp. 463 ff.), the basic population of Delārestāq has been settled there since time immemorial, and all speak the Gīlakī dialect of Āmol. Until the beginning of the 20th century they were governed by local princes who resisted the successive political authorities (de Planhol, p. 20).
The heart of this pastoral district is a vast plateau, only a small part of which is cultivated (in wheat, barley, and potatoes); it is overlooked by the steep, snowy slopes of Mount Damāvand. The main village, Nāndal (or Lāndāl), is located on this plateau and is often damaged by earthquakes; it serves as the point of departure for ascents of the north face of Damāvand. In the summer herds of cattle and especially flocks of zeli sheep (without fat tails) from the Āmol region graze on the high pastures. Summer visitors from Māzandarān and Tehran have become numerous, especially since the construction of the road from Panjāb along the main Harāz route and passing through the neighboring valley of Namā-rostāq.
According to tradition, Delārestāq was part of the region in which legends linked with Mount Demāvand were set, and many shrines (takīyas and emāmzādas) attest the symbolic and mythical richness of this small plateau (Sotūda, passim). According to Ebn Esfandīār (p. 57), Ferēdūn was born in Var, a village in Delārestāq the location of which is at present unknown, though H. L. Rabino (p. 115) seems to have recorded its existence in the 19th century; Ferēdūn was supposed to have grown up among cattle herders at Šalāb in the vicinity of Āmol, which seems to fit the present pattern of seasonal migrations between the two districts. Near the village of Kahrūd in the lower part of Delārestāq, where the climate is relatively mild, there are ruins of a castle known only as Robāṭ, which overlooks the entrance to the Harāz valley and Lārījān beyond. Rabino identified them as the celebrated fortress of Prince Manōčehr of Lārījān, who was supposed to have rebuilt it as a palace; it was destroyed by Sayyed Faḵr-al-Dīn Marʿašī in 783/1381 (Rabino, p. 115; cf. Sotūda, p. 478).
(For cited works not found in this bibliography, see “Short References.”) X. de Planhol, “Un haut pays du versant aride de l’Alborz. Le Laridjan (haute vallée du Harâz),” in X. de Planhol, Recherches sur la géographie humaine de l’Iran septentrional, Paris, 1964, pp. 17-36.
H. L. Rabino, Mázandarán and Astarábád, GMS, N.S. 7, London, 1928.
M. Sotūda, Az Āstārā tā Estārbād III. Māzandarān-e ḡarbī, Tehran, 1335 Š./1956.
Originally Published: December 15, 1994
Last Updated: November 21, 2011
This article is available in print.
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Distance = 6.4 miles
Elevation Gain = 2401 feet
Neahkahnie Mountain a really awesome hike with an EPIC view at the top! The view is where mountains meet the beach – as far as the eye can see!
But keep reading because this spot (where I’m standing in the picture) is not where most hikers go – this is not the marked viewpoint (yet it’s only about 50 feet away, and hidden)!
There are two ways to hike up: From the north, and from the south. The north approach is longer. Most people park at the south trailhead, hike in and hike back to the car (this is what I did).
If you want to hike the close to 7 mile full trek, then you can do the full loop – park and either trailhead, get to the view point, continue going to the other trailhead, and then walk back along Route 101. (Check the map for a visual or visit All Trails for more info’)
At the Top
Once you make it to the top, most people go the the typical view point BUT there is a secret passage to the left (once you get to the top, it’ll be on your left)! It doesn’t look like much, so really look for it. You’ll see a small opening through the trees, and a ledge that goes pretty steep upwards… follow that! The reward is an epic view, with fewer trees in the way, and no one around! | <urn:uuid:7c7f3681-a363-4baf-97a9-84736dae84f4> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.holestories.com/neahkahnie-mountain-oregon-pnw-hike/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571536.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811224716-20220812014716-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.94215 | 342 | 1.507813 | 2 |
Images © Adrian Smith and Gordon Gill Architecture
The 1 Park Avenue Skyscraper will be covered by high-tech light shelves and light-sensor-activated shades, shading the glass and photo voltaic cells to colect solar energy.
“1 Park Avenue’s transparent skin will feature a high-performance exterior wall that controls the transfer of heat and light from outside with the help of a high-tech system of light shelves and light-sensor-activated shades. Shading fins jut out above each floor, shading the glass beneath, which allows for a more transparent curtain wall and adds visual texture to the building skin. Integrated photovoltaic cells will harvest solar energy.
The approximately 600,000-square-meter mixed-use complex houses premium offices, condominiums and service apartments, along with the world’s highest luxury hotel. Its three podium buildings, whose flowing form complements the tower’s own, provide offices and support for the hotel in a park-like setting.” | <urn:uuid:dd70ddfb-51fe-45fa-b1e5-4a6fa6597cd6> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://wordlesstech.com/1-park-avenue-skyscraper-by-adrian-smith-and-gordon-gill-architecture/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571536.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811224716-20220812014716-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.868445 | 215 | 1.945313 | 2 |
In a circuit a capacitor
(paper capacitor ) was
burned due to over
voltage in this case can we
replace that type
cappacitor with other tye
Answer / master ramunniraja
We can use same capacitor but capacitor voltage range in
three times higher then the rated supply voltage.
|Is This Answer Correct ?||3 Yes||2 No|
Explain marx circuit.
why square root 2 is multiplied with line voltage in selection of LA ie 11/sqrtroot3=6.35 kv and it is multiplied with sqrt2 ie 6.35 KV*sqrt2=8.9 kv we will select 9kv.my question is why we are multiplying with sqrt 2?
Refernce currents are to be generated using refernce cueernts how can this be done??
Ferranti Effect says that voltage at the receiving end is higher than that at the sending end. How is it possible?
if field winding of synchronous generator are shorted on each other will it start or burn or run for short time like induction motor
What is the difference between electric and electronic circuits?
practically What is power factor
What happened when the field winding of dc series motor is open?
How can decide the MVA rating of power transformer for substation like 220/132, 132/66, 66/33kv etc or even higher kv rating of substation???? Send me the strictly technical answer that shows your strong technical aptitude.
WHY IS THE UNITY POWER FACTOR NOT THE MOST CONOMICAL POWER FACTOR?
if generator is running in iso mode parrallel with grid and suddenly grid breaker off what will happen?
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Distance from Jessore to Saharsa
Distance from Jessore to Saharsa is 401 kilometers. This air travel distance is equal to 249 miles.
The air travel (bird fly) shortest distance between Jessore and Saharsa is 401 km= 249 miles.
If you travel with an airplane (which has average speed of 560 miles) from Jessore to Saharsa, It takes 0.44 hours to arrive.
Jessore is located in Bangladesh.
|GPS Coordinates (DMS)||23° 10´ 10.9560'' N |
89° 12´ 49.3560'' E
Jessore Distances to Cities
|Distance from Jessore to Kolkata||110 km|
|Distance from Jessore to Saidpur||662 km|
|Distance from Jessore to Saharsa||401 km|
|Distance from Jessore to Tekari||486 km|
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Onto the final page of the main report we see all the figures we have seen on previous pages, just laid out in one big table.
We don’t go over old ground on this page, but instead will just focus on muscular balance. We look at the amount of muscle in the left arm, vs right arm, and in the left leg vs right leg. If they are more than 10% different left to right, we will point this out and discuss remedial actions.
Lastly, when you come in for repeat scans, you get the following page, which shows you exactly how things have changed overall, and each time you’ve come in. Here we can see a young bodybuilder who has been going through a very obvious bulking and cutting cycle – so we are able to track how much lean mass he is putting on in the bulk, and how much fat mass, and how much lean and fat mass he is losing in his cut. As you can see, in this example, he’s done a really good job in each cycle of preserving some of his lean mass through the cut, and limiting the fat gain through the bulk.
After the raw DEXA report, we then turn to the action blueprint which really brings it all together, and turns the figures into an action plan to guide your future efforts. That may be the topic of another post however.
As ever, with all the above, your personal situation is all-important and context is key. We always try to stick to the best science, and will try not to get drawn on elements for which we feel this isn’t good scientific basis.
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Arts and Crafts tapestries from The Tapestry House
William Morris tapestries
William Morris (1834-1896) dominated the late-Victorian creative design force in Britain we know as the Arts and Crafts Movement. He was a master of detailed design work: wallpaper and fabrics, calligraphy and type-design, embroidery and carpets and, of course, tapestries. Popular examples of this are his Tree of Life tapestry and the Woodpecker tapestry.
Morris described tapestry weaving as “the noblest of the weaving arts”. He taught himself to weave tapestries from a fourteenth century French crafts manual. This enabled him to design a high-warp tapestry loom in the medieval manner in 1879 which was placed in his bedroom at Kelmscott Manor where he would begin his days weaving. Commercial hand-weaving was later established at the Morris & Co workshops at Merton Abbey – some Morris & Co tapestries are included here designed by John Henry Dearle.
(Tapestries by Edward Burne Jones are shown in a separate section. We have created a further section of other Arts and Crafts tapestry art featuring other Morris & Co tapestries originally woven at Merton Abbey and some tapestry wallhangings which are reproductions of leading Pre-Raphaelite paintings by J.W. Waterhouse, Frank Dicksee, Edmund Blair Leighton and others.)
Ordering William Morris tapestries
All these William Morris tapestries below are woven in France and are lined, having a rod pocket for ease of hanging. Click on the images or their names below for further information – to see a description and larger photograph. Some have a further room setting photo to inspire! Sizes and prices are shown (see drop-down arrow), and you can commence your online ordering through the secure shopping cart process which is as securely encrypted as online banking. We provide free shipping to North America, and worldwide shipping mostly for just $20 or $30.
You might enjoy reading our biographical article about William Morris and discover the remarkable breadth of arts and crafts which he created and influenced. Many of these are available today including designs of William Morris tiles. | <urn:uuid:44be4e21-726d-452f-b4fa-d3b37be5c32e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://artsandcraftstapestries.com/product-category/william-morris/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571198.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810161541-20220810191541-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.959505 | 469 | 2.484375 | 2 |
OCR GCSE Latin Set Texts
Last week I examined style questions in the set text examination, including the 8-mark question. Such questions are without doubt the most challenging element of the literature exam. The 10-marker, by contrast is remarkably easy, yet students – if not given specific guidance and a good deal of practice – tend not to score as highly as they could.
It took me a while to realise that students needed a good deal more preparation for this element of the exam than I had been giving them. At first I assumed that because the question seemed so straightforward, I only had to tell students what to do and they’d smash it out of the park. The reality, of course, is that students actually need a great deal of modelling as well as practice before they can achieve top marks in any extended answer. The process is definitely worth it, not least because this question is worth a whopping 20% of the student’s performance in that paper.
A key thing to remember about the 10-mark question is that the examiner is using it to test the student’s knowledge of the whole prescription, going beyond the small handful of passages that can be included on the paper. This means that – in order to score highly – students must reference the whole prescription. Students should quote the text in English translation (not in Latin – this will only waste their time and risk errors). Students do not (of course) have to quote the translation word for word – how would this be possible when the examiner will not be privy to the particular translation that they or their teacher has produced? Rather, a clear reference to the text is enough: the rule of thumb is that if the examiner can recognise the line or lines of the text being referred to then it counts as a reference. For example, from Sagae Thessalae I might mention the moment when the weasel appears and stares Thelyphron straight in the eye; this is not a quotation from the text but it will be very clear to the examiner which section of the text I am referring to.
Students need to make as many such references to the text as they can for their answer to qualify as “wide-ranging” enough for a high mark. They should make sure to quote from the beginning, the middle and the end of the text for the same reason – answers that focus on just one part of the text will be capped. Other than that, so long as they write in paragraphs and address the question, the process is very simple.
Below is a video from my YouTube channel in which I explore the 10-mark question in detail:
It is crucial to get students to practise this style of question from early on and the process of doing so can be a really useful way of reminding them that they should be revisiting sections of the text that they have already learned. My methodology in recent years has been to include a question of this style at the end of every test I give them; in the early stages, when they have only learned one or two sections, I might make it worth fewer marks, but I still train them in the process of how to approach this kind of question. As they progress further through the text the questions can become full 10-markers. This method has worked really well and has enabled students to practise until they find the process as straightforward as it should be – there really is nothing difficult about this kind of question, but it’s amazing how many good students miss out on the marks because they’re not sure what’s required of them.
Like with the style questions, it will be necessary to remind students not to use the same approach as they have been prepared for in their English literature examinations; they are not expected to explore individual quotations in detail (arguably, what would be the point of doing this in translation anyway?) and they should remember that the examiner’s goal is to check their knowledge and understanding of the text as a whole. In addition, it is also crucial to keep reminding them that the examiner is looking for volume – he cannot reward an answer that gives only three or four textual references that are explored in detail, no matter how well-argued the answer is: he needs evidence that the student knows the whole of the text and knows it really well.
More than one examiner has expressed frustration that they are sometimes presented with highly intelligent and extremely well-argued answers that they cannot reward with a top-band mark because the student’s answer does not fit the mark scheme. This is, of course, the eternal problem with examinations at this level, and the only way to give our students the best fighting chance of success is to inform ourselves by reading the examiners’ reports and attending the training sessions put on by OCR or by Keynote, whose courses are run by examiners – sometimes the Chief Examiner – and which I have found invaluable in the past. I would also highly recommend to any teacher that they apply at least once to be a professional marker, as the best way to have a mark scheme properly demystified for you is to attend the training laid on for the examiners themselves. | <urn:uuid:2794e905-2718-47fd-b5dc-41e40781aaa9> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://latintutoring.co.uk/tutorblog/2022/07/07/the-10-mark-literature-question/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572198.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815175725-20220815205725-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.974741 | 1,059 | 3.34375 | 3 |
The effects of electricity price increases on the poor in Zambia
The distribution of electricity subsidies and access to the grid is skewed towards rich households, resulting in an increase in extreme poverty. However, budget neutral mitigation strategies lead to larger reductions in extreme poverty compared to the baseline scenario.
In 2016, the electricity crisis in Zambia reached its peak, with daily load shedding of up to 12 hours experienced in some residential areas. This was caused by low water-levels at the country’s main hydroelectric reservoirs, which triggered a power deficit of 34% the electricity demand. In response, the government put in motion broad electricity sector reforms aimed at achieving viability and full market pricing in the sector by 2021 (Ministry of National Development and Planning, 2017). In a recently published article, we assess the likely effects of the 75% electricity price increase on household welfare, namely for the poor, in 2017.
The need for increased electricity prices
Prior to the reforms, Zambia’s average end-use electricity tariff rate stood at $0.06/kWh, a low rate compared to estimates of the required cost recovery rate of about $0.11/kWh (SAPP, 2016). Such large subsidies no doubt translated into a large fiscal burden for the state and reduced the ability of the state power utility company (Zambia Electricity Supply Corporation) to adequately maintain existing infrastructure, let alone expand capacity to meet growing demand.
The economic costs of under-pricing are far ranging, from widening fiscal deficits, to diverting budgets away from important social investments such as education and health. Increasing electricity tariffs to cost-reflective levels is a classic solution to the problem of underinvestment. However, such a policy can hurt poor.
Methodology: Assessing the effects of electricity price increases
Our study simulated the direct and indirect welfare effects of electricity price increases using data from the 2015 Living Conditions Monitoring Survey (LCMS) and the latest input-output table for Zambia. The underlying idea is that increases in electricity prices not only impact households through increased electricity bills, but also indirectly raise the costs of the other goods and services in the wider economy. For example, electricity hikes can indirectly affect the cost of maize meal, whether or not a household is connected to the electricity grid.
To get the direct and indirect welfare effects, we simulated the full 75% price increase in electricity tariffs assuming that the broader objective of full cost reflectivity across all residential tariff bands was fully achieved. We made the simulations using a price shifting model proposed by Coady (2008) and then assessed the effects on welfare in Zambia.
Main findings: Skewed subsidies and adverse effects on the poor
- We estimated the distribution of the subsidies before and after the 2017 price reforms. We found that the distribution of the subsidies is highly skewed towards the richer households. In particular, more than 60% of the subsidies went to the richest 20% of the households, while less than 1% was transferred to the poorest 20%.
These patterns largely hold both before and after the 2017 changes and this is mainly due to the fact that, in the first instance, access to the grid is skewed towards the richer households. In addition, given that richer households consume larger quantities, even within the first highly discounted tariff block, electricity subsidies substantially accrue to the richer households (especially given that subsidies are currently not targeted in Zambia).
- We found that the electricity price increases are likely to adversely impact household welfare, especially among the poor. Our simulations show that welfare (captured as the reduction in real household expenditures) might decline by nearly 4% on average. However, breaking down the distribution of the welfare losses in deciles (i.e. 10% categories of households) reveals that poorer deciles likely suffer the largest welfare losses in comparison to their relatively richer counterparts. Figure 1 presents these welfare effect distributions in more detail.
As can be seen in Figure 1, poorer household have a large total household welfare loss relative to the wealthier ones across the entire distribution. Naturally, the welfare losses lead to a 0.5 percentage point increase in extreme poverty. This translates to about 90,000 people likely falling into extreme poverty as a result of the electricity price hikes.
Mitigating the effects on the poor
To mitigate the impact of the electricity hikes on the poor, we simulated the poverty outcomes if government transferred the realised fiscal savings to the poorest 50% of the population. It turns out that this policy strategy would likely reduce extreme poverty by 4 percentage points, which is equivalent to lifting 649,000 people of extreme poverty if fiscal savings were transferred to the poor. This budget-neutral option is quite attractive in low income countries, such as Zambia, which are faced with the complex challenges of widening budget deficits, electricity deficits, and high extreme poverty.
Based on the findings in Maboshe, Kabechani and Chelwa (2019), we recommend that:
- Government should consider budget-neutral policies that transfer realised fiscal savings as social grants to the poor.
- Subsequent reforms should focus on targeting any electricity subsidies to the poor to improve equity in electricity subsidy benefits.
- The rural electrification programme should be accelerated to improve access to the grid, especially for the rural poor.
Further research that explores the viability of various budget-neutral mitigation strategies would add value to electricity sector debates and policies in Zambia.
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Central Statistics Office/CSO and the World Bank (2017). Zambia – Living Conditions Monitoring Survey VII 2015. Accessible: http://catalog.ihsn.org/index.php/catalog/7105
Coady, D. (2008). The distributional impacts of indirect tax and public pricing reforms: a
review of methods and empirical evidence. In: Gillingham, R. (Ed.), Poverty and
Social Impact Analysis by the IMF: Review of Methodology and Selected Evidence,
International Monetary Fund, Washington DC. Accessible: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2018.10.041
Maboshe, M., Kabechani, A. and Chelwa, G. (2009). The welfare effects of unprecedented electricity price hikes in Zambia, Energy Policy (126) 108-117. Accessible: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2018.10.041.
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Plan. Government of the Republic of Zambia, Lusaka, pp. 2017–2021. Accessible: http://extwprlegs1.fao.org/docs/pdf/zam170109.pdf
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PM speech at Manchester Science and Industry Museum
The Prime Minister delivered the following speech at Manchester Science and Industry Museum.
Published 27 July 2019 From: Prime Minister’s Office, 10 Downing Street and The Rt Hon Boris Johnson MP
Delivered on: 27 July 2019 (Transcript of the speech, exactly as it was delivered)
Good morning everyone and thank you for joining me here in Manchester – in the heart of the world’s first industrial city.
A city whose confidence and whose extraordinary future we can see in the changing fabric of the urban landscape, the mighty towers of Deansgate Square, last week’s extraordinary International Festival in Manchester.
We can see it in the Christie, the hospital where the future of cancer treatment will be written at the vast new Paterson building, with new therapies saving the lives of people around the world for generations to come.
This is not and has never been a city for negativity or navel-gazing.
Indeed when the University of Manchester’s Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov said they were planning to extract a single-atom-thick crystallites from bulk graphite – I hope I’ve got that right – to give us the super-light super-strong wonder that is Graphene…
I imagine that there were people who had no idea what difference it could make to their lives – and frankly people in this audience who have no idea,
Yet today, we stand on the cusp of the Graphene age, with applications in everything from de-icing of aircraft wings to life-saving medicine.
Their story of those pioneers is told here at the Science and Industry Museum, and it is one of the countless tales of Mancunian pioneers.
Because time and again, when the cynics say something cannot be done – Mancunians find a way to get on and do it.
And the centre of Manchester – like the centre of London – is a wonder of the world.
But just a few miles away from here the story is very different.
Towns with famous names, proud histories, fine civic buildings where unfortunately the stereotypical story of the last few decades has been long term decline.
Endemic health problems. Generational unemployment. Down-at-heel high streets.
The story has been, for young people growing up there of hopelessness, or the hope that one day they’ll get out and never come back.
And in so far as that story is true and sometimes it is, the crucial point is it isn’t really the fault of the places and it certainly isn’t the fault of the people growing up there – they haven’t failed.
No, it is we, us the politicians, the politics, that has failed.
Time and again they have voted for change, but for too long politicians have failed to deliver on what is needed.
Our plan now, this new Government I am leading, is to unite our country and level up.
And I want to explain now what I mean by that.
Now I am absolutely not here to tell you, Mr Mayor, that London has all the answers.
Or that everywhere should be like London, or indeed like Manchester.
Each place in our country has a unique heritage, a unique character, and a unique future.
And indeed I recognise that when the British people voted to leave the European Union, they were not just voting against Brussels – they were voting against London too, and against all concentrations of power in remote centres.
So I’m not here to say that Manchester or London are the template for other places.
But I do believe there are lessons to be learnt from the success of cities like these.
I remember London in the 1970s – how it was stuck in post-war gloom and doom.
Between 1951 and 1981 the population actually declined – it went down 20 per cent it was so miserable.
Yet, over the last twenty years, the capital of our country has been utterly transformed.
London is today one of the world’s leading global cities (second only to Manchester!) – with the largest concentration of tech companies, artists, financial services, top class restaurants and all the rest of it.
We can see the same thing happening now in this incredible city.
So today I want to set out what I think are the basic ingredients of success for the UK, and for the places we call home: our cities or our towns, our coastal communities and rural areas.
There are four things I think we need to get right.
First is basic liveability. The streets need to be safe. There need to be enough affordable homes. There need to be jobs that pay good wages. There need to be great public services supporting families and helping the most vulnerable.
Second thing – connections. That means great broadband everywhere, and it means transport. Inspiration and innovation, cross fertilisation between people, literally and figuratively, cannot take place unless people can bump into each other, compete collaborate invent and innovate.
We need to literally and spiritually unite Britain, and that means boosting growth and bringing our regions together.
The third thing that places need is culture. People love Manchester because of the fantastic arts and entertainment here, the football and music, the heritage and the creative industries that make it such a lively, wonderful place to live and work.
We need to help places everywhere to strengthen their cultural and creative infrastructure, the gathering places that give a community its life.
And finally, the fourth thing – places need power and a sense of responsibility, accountability.
Taking back control doesn’t just apply to Westminster regaining sovereignty from the EU. It means our cities and counties and towns becoming more self-governing.
It means people taking more responsibility for their own communities. London and Manchester have boomed partly because they have had Mayors – some better than others, I would say, but all with the power to speak for their cities, to bang heads together, to get things done.
These are the lessons from London and Manchester. Liveability. Connectivity. Culture. And power.
And the first condition of liveability is of course making our streets safer.
Because recorded crime here in the North West is up 42 per cent. I think it’s time we got that down, and we will.
Yesterday I met twenty new officers in Birmingham who are graduating after 15 weeks training. They will now join our brave and formidable police men and women who will be putting their lives on the line for our safety.
But you want more of these policemen and women on our streets – and so do I.
That is why I have committed to an extra 20,000 police officers over the next three years.
Their recruitment will begin in earnest within weeks.
And a new national policing board chaired by our dynamic new Home Secretary will hold the police to account for meeting this target.
We will also give the police greater ability to use stop and search in order to drive a reduction in the violent crime that plagues our communities.
But there is no point in arresting, charging and convicting criminals if we do not then give them the sentences they deserve.
In fact the number of offenders with more than 50 previous convictions who were convicted but spared jail rose from 1,299 in 2007 to 3,196 in 2018.
So we need to restore the public’s faith in our criminal justice system, by ensuring that people who repeatedly commit crimes are punished properly,
and that means those that are guilty of the most serious violent and sexual offences are required to serve a custodial sentence that reflects the severity of their offence.
And it is only by making the streets safer than you can create the neighbourhoods that people want to live.
One of the biggest divides in our country is between those who can afford their own home and those who cannot.
This is a long-term problem which all governments have failed to fix.
So we will review everything – including planning regulations, stamp duty, housing zones, as well as the efficacy of existing Government initiatives.
And, we will also emphasise the need, the duty, to build beautiful homes that people actually want to live in, and being sensitive to local concerns.
And then of course to get great, great neighbourhoods, safe streets, allow people to own their own homes – we need great public services to make that possible.
Which is why I have committed to delivering the funding promised to the NHS by the previous government in June 2018 and to ensure this vital money goes to frontline services as soon as possible.
This will include urgent funding for 20 hospital upgrades and winter readiness.
And proposals drastically to reduce waiting times for GP appointments.
The NHS represents a sacred promise between the state and its citizens. A promise that says we will protect and support one another when we are at our most vulnerable and weakest.
And the same should go for the other great service of wellbeing; particularly social care.
Yet many people who have worked hard all their lives have had to struggle with the financial burden of care in their final years and been forced to sell their homes.
The British people cannot understand why the health service is able to provide the same care for everyone, regardless of income,
And yet the social care system cripples those with savings.
For too long, I think politicians have simply kicked this can down the road. I want you to know, that can-kicking stops now.
So I have promised to find a long term solution to social care once and for all.
And that is what we will do – with a clear plan that will give every older person the dignity and security they deserve.
At the same time, we will give every child the world class education they deserve.
Which is why we will increase the minimum level of per pupil funding in primary and secondary schools and return education funding to previous levels by the end of this parliament.
And we cannot afford any longer the chronic under-funding of our brilliant FE colleges, which do so much to support young people’s skills and our economy.
We have a world class university sector; in fact it is one of the biggest concentrations of higher education anywhere in Europe right here in this city – why should we not aspire to the same status for our further education institutions, to allow people to express their talents?
If you’re going to allow people to express their talents properly, then you need proper connectivity. It is absolutely crucial.
Because if you are someone with a bright idea, or you are running a fantastic business, but you can’t get the connectivity you need and instead spend an eternity staring at that pizza wheel circle of doom on your computer screen – then you won’t be able to get your idea off the ground, you won’t be able to grow your business, and you won’t be able to find customers.
And you can have all the talent in the world
but if you are a young kid in a deprived town, with intermittent transport, and you can’t get to the places where the jobs are then you won’t have the opportunities you deserve.
But people are able to meet each other, and compete with each other, challenge each other, spark off each other – around the water cooler or elsewhere –
That’s when we get the explosion, or flash of creativity and innovation.
That is what we are going to make that happen – not just here but across the country.
First we’re going to invest in fibre roll-out and indeed we have just completed the build of a large fibre cable between Manchester and York alongside the Trans-Pennine railway route.
This interconnects the Manchester and Leeds Internet Exchanges and strengthens the internet infrastructure for the Northern Powerhouse.
I am delighted to see Jake Berry, sitting in the Cabinet, expressing this Government’s commitment to the Northern Powerhouse.
And just now, before coming here, I met Barry White – at the Pomona site – part of a huge stretch of new tramline that will link up to Northern Powerhouse Rail.
I want to be the Prime Minister who does with Northern Powerhouse Rail what we did for Crossrail in London.
And today I am going to deliver on my commitment to that vision with a pledge to fund the Leeds to Manchester route.
I want to stress it will be up to local people to decide what comes next, as far as I’m concerned that’s just the beginning of our commitment and our investment. We want to see this whole thing run.
I have tasked officials to accelerate their work on these plans so that we are ready to do a deal in the autumn.
It is the right thing to do, it’s time we put some substance into the idea of the Northern Powerhouse Rail, and that’s why we are here this morning.
We want to inject some pace into this so that we can unlock jobs and boost growth.
But I know people can’t wait and they want to see change faster. They want change now. It takes a while to build a railway, believe me.
They want reliable, everyday services – so that the 18-year-old in Rochdale just starting out as an apprentice knows that they can get into Manchester for 8 o’clock each morning.
So that people can get out and about in the evening, for a drink and a meal – boosting local businesses and growth.
Services within cities, not just between cities. Services that mean people don’t have to drive. Services that don’t just give up at the end of the working day.
So I am going to improve – with your help – the local services which people use every day. And I want that to start now with improvements that can happen in the short term.
That means buses. I know a lot about buses, believe me. I love buses. I helped to invent a new type of bus, very beautiful that it is.
I will begin as a matter of urgency the transformation of local bus services – starting here today in Manchester.
I will work with the Mayor of Greater Manchester on his plans to deliver a London style bus system in the area under powers we gave to him – you Andy – in the Bus Services Act.
I want higher frequency, low-emission or zero-emission buses, more bus priority corridors, a network that’s easier to understand and use.
I want local partnerships between the private sector, which operates the buses, and a public body, which coordinates them.
In London – where they have all these things – bus passenger journeys have risen by 97 per cent in 25 years.
In other metropolitan areas – where they do not – it has fallen by 34 per cent over the same period.
I think we can see the first results, here in Greater Manchester, within a few months.
And I want the same for any other part of the country where local leaders want to do it.
Good bus connections, good transport connectivity, is also vital to so many of the towns that feel left behind.
We are also going to start answering the pleas of some of our left behind towns,
And this might come as a surprise to some, but not everyone wants to live in one of our country’s great cities.
Too many places – towns and coastal communities – that don’t feel they are getting benefits from the grown we are seeing elsewhere in the UK economy.
Now I reject the ridiculous idea that everybody’s ambition is to get on their bikes and move to the city.
Our post-industrial towns have a proud, great heritage – but an even greater future. Their best years lie ahead of them.
So we are going to put proper money into the places that need it.
We will start by ensuring there is investment from central government – by bringing forward plans on the UK Shared Prosperity Fund – and we have growth deals as well for Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.
And we’re now going to have a £3.6 billion Towns Fund supporting an initial 100 towns. So that they will get the improved transport and improved broadband connectivity that they need.
They’ll also get help with that vital social and cultural infrastructure, from libraries and art centres to parks and youth services: the institutions that bring communities together, and give places new energy and new life.
Finally, of course, there is an even more radical shift that we need to make now to deliver this and I have seen myself the changes that you can bring about in towns and cities and regions, when local people have more of a say over their own destinies. A say over their own destinies.
And I do not believe that, when the people of the United Kingdom voted to take back control, they did so in order for that control to be hoarded in Westminster.
So we are going to give greater powers to council leaders and to communities.
We are going to level up the powers offered to mayors so that more people can benefit from the kind of local government structures seen in London and here in Manchester.
We are going to give more communities a greater say over changes to transport, housing, public services and infrastructure that will benefit their areas and drive local growth.
And in doing so, we will see to it that every part of this country sees the benefits of the potentially massive opportunity that will come from Brexit.
Over the last three years, we have tended to treat Brexit like some impending adverse weather event.
I campaigned to leave the EU because I believed it was a chance to change the direction of the UK and make us the best country in the world to live.
Leaving the EU is a massive economic opportunity – to do the things we’ve not been allowed to do for decades, to rid ourselves of bureaucratic red tape, create jobs, untangle the creativity and innovation for which Britain is famous.
And we do not need to wait to start preparing to seize the benefits of that project.
So we will begin right away to create the free ports that will generate thousands of high-skilled jobs – and revitalise some of the poorest parts of our country.
We will begin right away on working to change the tax rules to provide extra incentives to invest in capital and research
We will double down on our investment in R&D, we will accelerate the talks on those free trade deals
And prepare an economic package to boost British business and lengthen this country’s lead as the number one destination in Europe for overseas investment.
At the same time we will unite and level up across our country – as I say, with infrastructure, better education and with technology.
And in so doing, making our whole nation not just an alright kind of place to live, or a better-than-average place to live but the greatest place on earth. The greatest place to live, to raise a family, to send your kids to school, a great place to start a business, to invest and to have a life –
And where better than Manchester, where better than the Science and Industry Museum, to set out our ambition for doing so.
Here today we can look back at centuries of progress, the inventions, ideas and breakthroughs that came out of Manchester, came out of the North, came out of the United Kingdom and shaped the world we know today.
I just want you to imagine, if we were to reconvene here 30, 40, 50 or more years hence, what treasures this museum might hold then.
I’m absolutely certain there will be displays celebrating the dawn of a new age of electric vehicles, not just cars or buses, but electric planes, made possible with battery technology being developed now in the UK.
You will see tributes and dioramas commemorating the men and women who use new gene therapies to cure the incurable and achieve the impossible.
Here in Manchester, home of the world’s first passenger railway, with Stephenson’s rocket behind me, we should remember that there were people back then who thought that the whole project should be abandoned as a danger to public health, because the speeds that were being proposed would be intolerable for the human body.
So I can imagine in the future of this wonderful museum there will be exhibits recording not only the breakthroughs in bioscience, here in Manchester and elsewhere that allow the UK to lead the world in producing genetically modified crops – blight-resistance potatoes will feed the world.
But also a memorial to the sceptics and doubters, complete with bioengineered edible paper, with which they were forced to eat their words.
I don’t blame the doubters and the sceptics, but all I will say, is that the evidence is behind us, there’s Stephenson’s rocket behind us, we’re sending rockets into space – we will expand our space programme as well.
I don’t blame the doubters and the sceptics, it’s a natural human instinct, but time and again, they have been proved wrong.
I think they will be proved wrong again.
If we unite our country, with better education, better infrastructure, with an emphasis on new technology, then this really can be a new golden age for the UK.
Time and again Manchester has shown the UK that anything is possible. Time and again this extraordinary country has delivered the same message to the world. That’s what we are going to do once more.
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Lately, there has been a lot of press about gluten, which is a wheat protein. To look at the proliferation of gluten-free products on the supermarket shelves, one would think that half the country has problems with gluten. Is this a real issue, or the latest fad? How many of us really need to avoid gluten? What is celiac disease? Is there such a thing as non-celiac gluten intolerance? Should people without any of those problems avoid wheat products? At least once a week, I see a patient who wants to know if they could have celiac disease, or possibly gluten intolerance. Often, they have put themselves on a gluten free diet. They may feel better (or not) and want to know whether they should continue the diet.
Celiac disease is a true gluten allergy, where ingestion of gluten leads to changes in the lining of the small intestine, which in turn leads to difficulty absorbing nutrients. We used to think that celiac disease is primarily a disease of children, but now we know that it can occur at any age. It can occur through all ethnic groups as well, and is said to be present in .6-1% of the world’s population. It is more common in people who have a sibling, parent, child with celiac disease, with estimates ranging from 5-20% in those groups. Symptoms can range from no symptoms to bloating, abdominal pain, weight loss, and diarrhea, or to symptoms more commonly thought of as irritable bowel symptoms such as gas, constipation, or alternating bowel habits. There may be more generalized symptoms such as fatigue, headaches, rashes, joint pains, or findings such as anemia or abnormal liver tests.
The treatment of celiac disease involves avoiding eating foods that contain gluten. Gluten is a wheat protein found in products made with wheat, rye or barley, such as bread, pasta, cereals and baked goods and as an additive in many foods, medications and even makeup. The diet must be maintained throughout one’s life. Possible complications of untreated celiac disease include osteoporosis, neurologic problems, fertility issues, lymphoma and cancer of the small bowel, so even if patients do not have symptoms, it is important for them to be treated. People without symptoms may be diagnosed because they are relatives of a person with celiac disease, or because they have abnormal blood tests such as low blood counts or low iron or abnormal liver enzymes.
Celiac disease is diagnosed by a blood test, and by a biopsy of the small intestine, taken through an endoscope. If the blood test is abnormal, response of celiac disease to diet can be followed by re-checking the blood test. An endoscopy (evaluation of the upper part of the intestinal tract) may be performed periodically to monitor the lining of the small intestine.
Gluten sensitivity or non-celiac wheat sensitivity is less well defined. There is no specific blood test or biopsy that can make that diagnosis. The symptoms that have been attributed to gluten sensitivity are the same as those caused by celiac disease. Of note are the above mentioned symptoms and headache, depression, numbness of extremities, moodiness, muscle or joint pain, change in menstrual pattern, weight gain. By definition, patients with non-celiac gluten sensitivity do not have abnormal blood tests or tissue biopsies. They report feeling better when they avoid gluten and report recurrence of symptoms with ingestion of wheat products. The best test for non-gluten celiac sensitivity would be for patients to go off gluten and see if their symptoms resolve. They then would go back on either a gluten-containing pill or a placebo and see if symptoms recur. This has been used in studies of people with gluten sensitivity but is not available to the general public.
One cannot be tested for celiac disease when following a gluten-free diet. It makes the tests inaccurate. Therefore, when possible, patients should at least undergo blood testing for celiac disease prior to initiating a gluten-free diet. Many patients come to me already on a gluten free diet. If they are unwilling to resume eating gluten in order to be tested for celiac disease, we can perform HLA genotyping testing (a blood test). Two HLA types (similar to blood types) are associated with celiac disease, HLA-DQ2 and HLA DQ8). If a patient has one of those HLA types, it does not mean that they have celiac disease, but if they DON’T have that HLA type, they are very unlikely to have celiac disease. The differentiation between gluten intolerance and celiac disease is important because, gluten intolerance does not cause long term complications.
It is difficult to know how many people who put themselves on a gluten free diet have gluten sensitivity. A small percent of them have wheat allergy. Some may have irritable bowel syndrome or may have other food sensitivities. Why would a patient with IBS respond to a gluten-free diet? One may be that they were previously eating a diet high in processed foods or too much grain fiber, causing gas and bloating. They could have been eating too much “junk food” with either fat or sugar or both (i.e. in cake) leading to symptoms. Eating gluten free makes a person more aware of what he or she is eating and also requires planning. The placebo effect is very strong in many aspects of medicine and gastrointestinal symptoms are no exception. Although a gluten free diet is not necessarily a healthier diet, it is not harmful; therefore, if people feel better avoiding gluten, there is no reason to resume eating wheat products. People with gluten sensitivity rather than celiac disease may be able to ingest small amounts of gluten without symptoms.
There is no evidence that a gluten free diet is healthier than a regular diet. In fact, there are lots of snack foods now labelled gluten free. For patients who have neither celiac disease nor gluten intolerance, I recommend a balanced diet with minimal processed foods. For those who need to follow a gluten free diet, I also recommend minimizing processed foods and eating carbohydrates that are naturally gluten free, such as rice and potatoes.
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4 Ways To Improve Your Outdoor and Nature Photography Skills During Your Next Hike
As the days get longer, many of us long to be outside. This is especially true for photographers, who know good photographs are waiting to be taken in uncharted territory. If you have the itch to get outdoors, consider going beyond your neighborhood park and tackling a true adventure: a hike.
Once you’ve filled your backpack with the essentials you’ll need for the duration of your hike, it’s time to pack up your camera gear and head out. Before you leave home, though, read through these tips that can help you snap phenomenal photos while also enjoying breathtaking views.
The first tip is something you’ll need to do before you leave home. Carefully research different hiking spots and choose one that can add to your portfolio. Look for a trail that will add diversity to your portfolio, rather than shots similar to the ones you already have. Once you’ve identified the perfect trail, map your route, highlighting significant hot spots along the way. Apps like MapMyHike can help you plan your journey electronically, allowing you to go offline once you’re on the trail.
As you start your journey, it’s important to stop and capture every photo opportunity you see. You may pass something and tell yourself you’ll catch it on the way back, but by then the lighting may have changed or you may choose a different return route. Make plans to arrange your hike around the photos you’ll capture and you’ll find you don’t rush past the highlights. If capturing the perfect shot means varying from your route slightly, make sure you can safely do so, then go for it. Some of your best shots will be completely unplanned.
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Nail bacteria may be healed with a large range of clinical physician suggested medicines, either mouth or topical. These medicines might be regularly be costly as well as can have indications or signs and symptoms, it is as a result wise to eliminate this situation in their initial stages with among some all prominent medications conveniently offered as well as in addition to constantly maintain reputable food to boost the body insusceptible system as well as additionally advertise it to fight the fungamin forum. Although there are several products which have aggressive to communicable individual or business properties parasitic testimonial, loc, just motivates one of the most reliable, finest goods for rapid action and also in addition long-term happens.
It is impressive that ideal diet plan is certainly the required to resilience as well as additionally on top of that life expectancy. Getting a warranty to a throughout changed consuming regular strategy is the singular routine degree that you could perform in order to handle a sounds in addition to adjusted whole body. Excellent foods maintains weight in the exceptional display, reducing your threat of coronary condition, diabetic person problems, swelling cells as well as likewise a large team of fungis guard plus analysis. Absorbing an exceptionally a whole lot modified eating typical program moreover supplies your secured structure the possessions to keep a selection of viral and also in addition contagious contaminations, including nail microorganisms. It actually is seriously crucial to be experienced in precisely what crabs you occur to be using to stack this will certainly require. This is solely easy in instance you are polluted with nail development like a high sugars figures in the disperse of health and wellness problems. | <urn:uuid:bb17d3ac-73af-4744-b51e-c58ac11079aa> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://bonheurdebrodeuses.com/outcomes-of-finest-fungamin-lotion/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572198.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815175725-20220815205725-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.963931 | 550 | 1.71875 | 2 |
From Video to Images: Contrastive Pretraining for Emotion Recognition from Single Image (Student Abstract)
Keywords:Self Supervised Learning, Contrastive Learning, Emotion Recognition, Computer Vision, Deep Learning
AbstractEmotion detection from face is an important problem and has received attention from industry and academia. Although emotion recognition from videos has a very high performance, emotion recognition from a single image stays a challenging task. In this paper, we try to use information from videos to do emotion recognition on a single image. More specifically, we leverage contrastive loss for pretraining the network on the videos and experiment with different sampling methods to select consistently hard triplets for continual learning of the network. Once the embeddings have been trained, we test them on a standard emotion classification task. Our method significantly improves the performance of the models and shows the efficacy of self-supervision in emotion recognition.
How to Cite
Garg, B., Kim, K., & Ranjan, S. (2022). From Video to Images: Contrastive Pretraining for Emotion Recognition from Single Image (Student Abstract). Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 36(11), 12951-12952. https://doi.org/10.1609/aaai.v36i11.21612
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Carbon is a chemical element with an atomic number of 6 in the periodic table of elements. It’s the 19th most abundant element found in nature. With a quantity of approximately 0.025 percent in Earth’s crust (2.00×102 milligrams per kilogram), carbon is not really plentiful.
However, it is widespread and it’s one of the chemical elements that form numerous compounds. Despite being relatively unreactive, this member of the carbon family has four valence electrons that help carbon make numerous compounds with many non-metal elements of the periodic system.
Chemical and Physical Properties of Carbon
The symbol in the periodic table of elements: (C)
Atomic number: 6
Atomic weight (mass): 12.0096 to 12.0116 g.mol -1
Group number: 14 (IVa)
Color: It depends on the carbon allomorph (the colors palette includes the following nuances: transparent/colorless, white, black and shiny, dark brown, or black)
Physical state: Solid non-metal at room temperature
Electronegativity according to Pauling: 2.55
Density: 2.26 g/cm3
Melting point: 3500 °C (3773 K, 6332 °F)
Boiling point: 4,827 °C, 5100 K, (8,721 °F)
Van der Waals radius: 170 pm
Ionic radius: .16 (+4) Å
Most characteristic isotope: carbon-12, carbon-13 (both stable and naturally occurring isotopes), carbon-14 (a radionuclide)
Electronic shell: [He] 2s2 2p2
The energy of the first ionization: 11.2603 kJ.mol -1
The energy of the second ionization: 2351.9 kJ.mol -1
Discovery date: In ancient times by an unknown discoverer
This star-born substance has the periodic table symbol C, atomic number 6, variable atomic mass from 12.0096 to 12.0116 g.mol -1, and electronic configuration [He] 2s2 2p2. Carbon is a polyatomic nonmetal with a hexagonal crystal structure that reaches its boiling point at 4827 °C, or 5100 K (8721 °F). With a melting temperature of 3500 °C (3773 K, 6332 °F), carbon has the highest melting point among the periodic system elements.
With oxidation states of +2, +3, +4, and the highest sublimation point among all elements, carbon has an electronegativity of 2.55 according to Pauling, whereas the atomic radius according to van der Waals is 170 pm. However, both the chemical and physical properties of carbon depend on its allotropic structure, which makes it one of the most unique and versatile chemical elements.
This tetravalent member of the carbon family of elements in the periodic table is able to form covalent chemical bonds. Carbon is an excellent conductor of electricity, possesses great thermo-insulating properties, and is extremely durable. When exposed to high temperatures, carbon burns brightly. It can be dissolved by acids and bases, but it’s insoluble in water.
How Was Carbon Discovered?
Charcoal and soot were familiar to the ancient civilizations way before our times. They used coal to start fires. But, despite the fact of carbon being discovered far before the times of modern chemistry, many chemists have attempted to determine both the chemical and physical properties of carbon by studying and experimenting with its various forms and compounds in much more recent times.
In the 17th century, the Anglo-Irish chemist Robert Boyle (01.25.1627 – 12.31.1691) was the first scientist who discovered carbon as an element that cannot be further broken down into other substances. In 1694, the Florence based naturalists Giuseppe Averani and Cipriano Targioni experimented with directing sunlight to a diamond via a magnifying glass. The result gave them supported evidence that heat can destroy the diamond. In their case, the diamond had disappeared under the heat of sunlight.
In 1772, the French nobleman and chemist Antoine-Laurent de Lavoisier (or simply: Antoine Lavoisier), who is considered as the ‘father of modern chemistry’, attempted an experiment in order to prove that the diamond is an allotrope of carbon. In 1789, he published his findings of the new element of the periodic table.
His findings were enriched by the finding of the German chemist Carl Wilhelm Scheele. Namely, in 1779 he additionally discovered that graphite was also a carbon allotrope, which completed the information of carbon as a chemical element.
In 1797, the British chemist Smithson Tennant performed a series of experiments that provided him with sufficient evidence that diamond is a pure form of carbon and that the carbon dioxide compound is made only of carbon and oxygen.
How Did Carbon Get Its Name?
The Latin word for burnt wood, “carbo”, was used in labelling this chemical element. This term refers to one of the naturally occurring impure forms of carbon (coal) formed by the burning of wood.
Where Can You Find Carbon?
According to the Swinburne Center for Astrophysics and Supercomputing, carbon is formed in the core of stars by the triple-alpha process. This chemical substance is released after leftover helium burns in the older stars. In Earth’s atmosphere, carbon is found in the form of carbon dioxide (CO2). In nature, carbon can be found in coal, methane clathrates, peat, and fossil fuels. Carbon monoxide (CO) can be obtained from the exposure of fossil fuels to extremely high temperatures.
In its pure crystal form, carbon occurs as graphite and diamond in nature. However, in order to get their commercial form, these carbon allotropes first must be processed. With an accumulation of 18.5 percent, carbon is also the second most abundant trace element in the human body.
Carbon in Everyday Life
Carbon and its alloforms (fullerene, diamond, graphite, coal) have wide use in everyday life and many industries. For example, carbon in all its forms can be applied for making plastics from carbon polymers, in the production of charcoal (an impure carbon made of wood), as a major source of fuel, in steel production, as a gas absorber, for making nuclear reactors, for metal smelting, in the production of dry batteries, as an addition to ink for printers, as pencil tips, a bleaching agent, in the making of precious jewellery, for electro-forming and electroplating, etc.
Organic Macromolecules and Carbon
Since carbon is present in almost all forms of life, it is naturally found in the food we consume, too. Namely, fats, carbohydrates, proteins, and nucleic acids, are groups of organic macromolecules that contain carbon atoms as a mutual constitutional element.
Fats are molecules made up of carbon and hydrogen atoms. Due to the molecular carbon chain in the fats, they cannot be dissolved in water (just like carbon itself). American diet mainly consists of saturated fats, such as red meat, bacon, whole-milk dairy products, lard, butter, etc. The term ‘saturated’ is used to label the number of hydrogen atoms gathered around an atom of carbon.
However, despite being tasty, a long-term diet rich in saturated fats can lead to raised levels of cholesterol and eventually result in chronic heart disease.
Carbohydrates and Cellulose
Carbohydrates are composed of carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen; they even contain carbon in the name. Cellulose is a form of carbohydrate which is found in this group. It’s one of the most abundant carbohydrates that are found in nature. When we consume foods rich in cellulose, such as leafy green vegetables, fruit (apples, pears), grains, and vegetables, we feel fuller much faster.
Even though our body is unable to process cellulose, it’s very important that it’s included in our diet due to its laxative properties that eliminate toxins, regulate blood sugar levels, and improve the metabolic function of our body.
Found in dairy products, meat, legumes, and nuts, proteins consist of molecular chains made up of carbon and amino acids. Proteins are highly important for the proper functioning of the cellular mechanisms which, in turn, builds the immunological defense of our body. They also serve as the building blocks of our hair, nails, muscles, and ligaments.
Nucleic acids are molecule chains of carbon atoms and nucleotides. They comprise an essential part of our DNA and RNA molecules that house the genetic information. The proper functioning of the cellular mechanisms of these molecules is directly responsible for the bodily functions and homeostatic processes.
Fossil fuels release extremely large amounts of carbon by burning. Coal, crude oil (petroleum), lignite, and natural gas (methane), are naturally found carbon compounds that are extracted from the fossil fuel deposits in the oceans, accumulated under layers of sand and mud.
Natural gas is formed by an application of great pressure and heat over a period of time longer than it takes for the natural oil to be formed. On the other hand, the petrification of trees and plants as a result of heat and pressure in the deeper layers of Earth’s crust results in the formation of coal.
Today, fossil fuels based on carbon comprise the world’s most dominant source of energy. By producing almost 20% of all quantities of fossil fuels around the globe, the United States is the largest fossil fuel and natural gas producer. Venezuela, Russia, Iran, and Canada also take place on the list of the world’s biggest fossil fuel and natural gas producers. On the other hand, China is the world’s biggest producer of coal among the coal-producing countries.
How Dangerous Is Carbon?
In its elemental form, carbon is almost a non-toxic substance. However, some of its forms can be extremely lethal. Such are carbon monoxide, cyanide, and tetrodotoxin.
Carbon Monoxide (CO)
Carbon monoxide (CO) is an odorless and colorless highly flammable gas that can be extremely dangerous health-wise. Namely, by binding to the hemoglobin molecules in blood, this form of carbon depletes the organism from its most essential element – oxygen. This deteriorates the function of all tissues and organs of the body due to a lack of oxygen supply.
Carbon monoxide poisoning occurs upon exposure to high levels of this gas in a closed space via car exhaust fumes or burning fuel… When inhaled, instead of oxygen, it’s absorbed by the red blood cells, which inflicts damage to the lungs and the tissues of the body. Some of the symptoms of carbon monoxide poisoning include dizziness, headache, nausea, loss of consciousness, and even death.
Cyanide (CN-) is a simple carbon compound made up of one carbon and one hydrogen atom, linked together with a triple bond. However simple the compound, the substance has extremely toxic properties. Cyanide poisoning mainly occurs as a result of inhalation of industrial fumes, or via consumption of cyanide contaminated food or water. Clinically, cyanide poisoning manifests as an irritation of the breathing passages, and heart failure that swiftly leads to a fatal outcome.
Tetrodotoxin is a highly lethal biotoxin, associated with the Vibrio alginolyticus and Pseudoalteromonas tetraodonis bacteria that is carried by the Tetraodontiformes family of fish (such as the pufferfish), crabs, newts, some frogs, etc. Made of 11 carbon atoms, 17 hydrogen atoms, 3 nitrogen atoms, and 8 Oxygen atoms, this neurotoxin blocks the sodium channels located in the membrane of the neuron cells. In this way, tetrodotoxin inhibits the relay of sensory information between the neurons.
After consummation of some of the aforementioned fish or marine animals, the symptoms experienced by the individual affected by this neurotoxin include paralysis, neurological problems, tingling, numbness of the mouth, fingers or extremities, gastrointestinal problems, etc.
Environmental Effects of Carbon
The elemental form of carbon has no negative environmental effects. However, the effects of some of its compounds extend from the environmentally most beneficial (photosynthesis) to most detrimental for the environment (the greenhouse effect).
The Carbon Cycle (Photosynthesis)
Antoine Lavoisier and Joseph Priestley were the first naturalists who detected the carbon cycle, which was later more thoroughly studied by Sir Humphry Davy. The carbon cycle is the fluctuation of this star-made substance through the geosphere, biosphere, hydrosphere, pedosphere, and atmosphere of Earth. The consistency of the carbon cycle supports the formation of other carbon compounds and many biological processes that are of vital importance.
One of the most important influences of the carbon cycle is photosynthesis – a process that enables the existence of oxygen in the atmosphere. During the process of photosynthesis, plants and trees absorb the toxic carbon dioxide that has been released into the air. By carbon sequestration, the plants remove carbon dioxide from the air in order to use it for the production of glucose, which is their energy source. After that, they release pure oxygen back, thus purifying the air.
Carbon Dioxide (CO2 – The Greenhouse Gas)
Carbon dioxide is a colorless and odorless gas with an unpleasant, sharp smell. It’s released by the burning of carbon compounds, but also by people and animals via respiration. Namely, when we inhale oxygen, we exhale carbon dioxide. In the 17th century, the Belgian chemist Jan Baptista van Helmont was the first scientist who observed carbon dioxide as a resulting substance from the burning of fuels.
Despite being an essential element for the health of plants, the increased levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide lead to severe climate change by raising the natural temperatures of the seasons. Together with water vapor, methane, and nitrous oxide, carbon dioxide is considered as one of the greenhouse gasses.
Namely, these gases lead to global warming, causing the ‘greenhouse’ effect that disrupts the normal cycles in nature by absorbing the warmth of the Sun and reverting it back to Earth. As a result, the millennium-old ice glaciers melt, animals lose their natural habitats, many animal and plant species become extinct. Nature and people suffer.
What is a Carbon Footprint?
The amount of carbon emissions in the atmosphere is known as a carbon footprint. It’s a result of the increased traffic and exhaust fumes from transport (cars and planes), heating, industrial chimneys, and use of various natural fuel-consuming services.
How to Reduce the Greenhouse Effect and Global Warming?
Climate change is an inevitable fact that our planet (as well as our life on the planet) is endangered mainly by our quest for more natural goods. The fossil fuels exploitation, cutting of the forests, increased work of the industries, pollution of waters and air, cities clogged with traffic – these are only a few of the triggers for the greenhouse effect, extinction of animals, and rapid temperature fluctuations.
In order to reduce the negative greenhouse effect and global warming, we could try and implement some simple things in our everyday life:
- Use bicycles or walk, instead of driving cars that pollute the air;
- Reduce, reuse, recycle;
- Find a natural substitute for plastic products;
- Use the energy resources wisely;
- Spare electric energy and water;
- Use alternative ways of heating instead of electric energy;
- Use energy-saving LED bulbs instead of the regular ones;
- Plant trees (the more, the better);
- Limit waste.
Isotopes of Carbon
With a half-life of 5730 years, the 14C is the longest-living carbon isotope. It’s mainly used in radiocarbon dating and radiolabeling.
|Nuclide||Z||N||Isotopic mass (Da)
[n 4][n 5]
|Natural abundance (mole fraction)|
|Normal proportion||Range of variation|
|8C||6||2||8.037643(20)||3.5(1.4) × 10−21 s
|9C||6||3||9.0310372(23)||126.5(9) ms||β+, p (61.6%)||8
|β+, α (38.4%)||5
|11C[n 9]||6||5||11.01143260(6)||20.364(14) min||β+ (99.79%)||11
|12C||6||6||12 exactly[n 10]||Stable||0+||0.9893(8)||0.98853–0.99037|
|14C[n 12]||6||8||14.003241988(4)||5,730 years||β−||14
|16C||6||10||16.014701(4)||0.747(8) s||β−, n (97.9%)||15
|17C||6||11||17.022579(19)||193(5) ms||β− (71.6%)||17
|β−, n (28.4%)||16
|18C||6||12||18.02675(3)||92(2) ms||β− (68.5%)||18
|β−, n (31.5%)||17
|19C[n 14]||6||13||19.03480(11)||46.2(23) ms||β−, n (47.0%)||18
|β−, 2n (7%)||17
|β−, n (70%)||19
|22C[n 15]||6||16||22.05755(25)||6.2(13) ms
Carbon compounds make the basis of all life-forms found on our planet Earth. The list of carbon compounds is one of the most extensive among the chemical elements of the periodic table. For instance, carbon compounds form some of the most exploited minerals, such as magnesite, dolomite, gypsum, marble, or limestone. Among them, methane (CH4) is the most simple carbon compound.
Hydrogen is the only chemical element that forms more compounds than carbon. Hence, the largest number of carbon compounds contain both hydrogen and carbon, forming the organic compounds labeled as hydrocarbons (natural gas, crude oil, oil shales, coal, etc.). These hydrocarbons are mainly used as fuels.
When combined with oxygen (O2), carbon forms the following gaseous substances: carbon monoxide CO, carbon dioxide CO2, and carbon suboxide C3O2.
Allotropes of Carbon
The distinct forms of carbon include:
- Amorphous carbon.
Being one of the softest natural materials, graphite (also: plumbago, blacklead, or mineral carbon) is the hexagonal crystal form of carbon. This mineral is very soft but resistant to high temperatures. It’s found in the natural deposits that were exposed to pressure and heat, resulting in the formation of gneiss, marble, and schist, from which graphite is extracted. New York and Texas are the U.S. location where the largest deposits of graphite are found.
The most popular use of this carbon mineral is probably as a lead in pencils. Hence, the Greek word “graphite”, denoting ‘to write’, has been used to label this carbon allomorph. In addition, the wide use of graphite encompasses its application in the steelmaking industry, manufacture of batteries, etc.
Diamond is the hardest natural gem-quality allomorph of all periodic table elements and the only precious gem that has been formed by a single chemical element. Its formula is simply labeled with the symbol of carbon – (C). It is formed in the deep Earth layers under high pressure and temperature but can be found as shallow as the river beds.
The lamproite and the soft bluish peridot rock labeled as kimberlite (referring to the famous deposit at Kimberley, South Africa) are the main sources of diamonds. Some traces of diamonds are also found in the meteorites. Since ancient times, diamonds have been considered gemstones of prestige and wealth.
This carbon allotrope was discovered in 1985, by the research team of Rice University in Texas, led by Rick Smalley and Robert Curl. Their attempt to vaporize graphite using a laser resulted in a new form of carbon, labeled as buckminsterfullerene. Or more simply – carbon nanotubes and buckyballs.
Fullerene is used in the production of plastic when mixed with atoms of oxygen and nitrogen. In combination with steel, fullerene forms carbon steel. According to the American Iron and Steel Institute (AISI), this alloy does not require an addition of any other element in order to achieve the projected effect.
What’s more important about fullerene is its application in medicine. According to a study published in 1996, these new pure carbon molecules, i.e. buckyballs, have an inhibitory property regarding the spread of the HIV virus. Medical researchers are currently trying to attach molecules of medicine to the buckyballs so that they can deliver medicine directly to the infection or tumor-affected tissues in the body.
Graphene is a material made from carbon and has been assigned some superb properties by its researchers. Namely, it’s stronger than steel, thinner than paper, and more flexible than rubber. This carbon allotrope is applied in the manufacture of sensors, precision gadgets, electronics, solar panels, etc.
Amorphous carbon is a free form of carbon that has no crystal form. It’s often associated with the impure forms of carbon, such as coal or sooth (lampblack). According to the degree of graphitization, this carbon allomorph can be classified as soft (graphitizable carbon) or hard carbon.
5 Interesting Facts and Explanations
- Carbon occurs in a larger variety of forms than any other of the periodic table elements.
- There are 3.5 times more carbon atoms in the Universe than silicon atoms.
- The chemical elements neon, hydrogen, helium, oxygen, and nitrogen are the only substances that are more plentiful in the Universe than carbon.
- According to the 2009 study in the Journal of Archaeological Science, the most famous corpse in history found frozen in the Alps, Ötzi the Iceman, had tattoos on his body that were probably made with carbon, taken from the fireplace soot.
- Cows pollute the air nearly as much as cars. This can be explained by the fact that when these ruminant animals regurgitate the cud, their stomachs become saturated with methane-producing bacteria. Later, the cows belch out the methane into the air which significantly adds to the quantity of greenhouse gasses. This is also one of the reasons why cow’s excreta is used for the production of eco-fuels.
Chemical Property and physical property of element Carbon
Symbol of Carbon: C
Atomic Number of Carbon: 6
Group of Carbon: Non-Metal
Crystal Structure of Carbon: Hexagonal
Atomic Weight of Carbon: 12.011
Shells of Carbon: 2,4
Orbitals of Carbon: [He] 2s2 2p2
Valence of Carbon: 2,3,4
Melting Point of Carbon: 3920
Boiling Point of Carbon: 5100.15
Electro Negativity of Carbon: 2.55
Covalent Radius of Carbon: 0.77 Å
Ionic Radius of Carbon: .16 (+4) Å
Atomic Radius of Carbon: 0.91 Å
Atomic Volume of Carbon: 04.58 cm³/mol
Name Origin of Carbon: Latin: carbo, (charcoal).
Discovered of Carbon By: Known to the ancients
Pronounced of Carbon: KAR-ben
Oxydation States of Carbon: (±4),2
Density of Carbon: 2.62 g/cm³
Uses of Carbon: For making steel, in filters, and many more uses. Radiocarbon dating uses the carbon-14 isotope to date old objects.
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Through a wide range of artist projects and programs, Re:Working Labor asks us to locate our respective places in the global labor chain.
Two poets, veterans of university unionization campaigns, chart the growing crisis of the new intellectual working class
I can’t remember being so deeply frustrated by a book that I assumed I would like and find informative.
Not long ago we wrote about a study that took up the question of who is an artist, examining some of the ways in which defining creative workers is difficult. On Monday the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) added to the conversation by releasing a new data set called “Keeping My Day Job: Identifying U.S. Workers Who Have Dual Careers as Artists.”
Four more artists have joined the boycott of the Biennale of Sydney, and the protest of arts organizations connected to Transfield, a company that manages mandatory offshore detention centers for asylum seekers in Australia, is growing.
How are artists who have been systematically denied fair wages and access to basic services like healthcare and unemployment protections gaining access to those things today?
For more than six months, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco have been in the news nonstop. Robert Flynn Johnson, the museums’ curator emeritus, summed it up pretty well when he called the museums’ situation “a state of Orwellian dysfunction.” And that’s just the news that’s been reported.
So far this year I’ve been to two different events that highlight different but related approaches to political organizing among artists here in New York. Just to clarify what I mean by organizing — literally bringing individual artists together into a larger community that can advocate for and create political change around some of the more pressing issues facing independent artists in the city (unstable housing, irregular employment, healthcare, etc), issues which many other groups in the city also face. | <urn:uuid:50d32030-e54a-4d8d-ae8c-a57e03144ef5> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://hyperallergic.com/tag/arts-and-labor/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572198.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815175725-20220815205725-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.956724 | 391 | 1.554688 | 2 |
This elegant, oval basket was made in Middelburg by Hendrik Boshart around 1770. It has two curved handles and rests on four leave shaped feet. The openwork sides seems to be made of interwoven wicker. Along the lower and upper edge are moulded twigs with a flower on the handles and in the middle of the sides.
This charming basket is a small version of the larger wickerwork baskets in this model and was used to serve sweet delicacies or candy sugar.
The first silver baskets appeared in the Netherlands around 1747. The oval model with the slightly curved upstanding body is typically Dutch.
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High Response Rate Seen With CD19 CAR T-Cell Therapy in CLL
CD19 CAR T-cell therapy induced a high-response rate in patients with high-risk, ibrutinib-refractory chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL).
Cameron J. Turtle, PhD
Treatment with CD19 chimeric antigen receptor (CAR)-modified T-cell therapy induced a high response rate in patients with high-risk, ibrutinib-refractory chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL), according to results recently published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology.
Twenty-four patients with relapsed/refractory CLL were included in the analysis for the phase I/II study and received lymphodepleting chemotherapy and anti-CD19 CAR-T cell-infusion at 1 of 3 dose levels—2 X 105, 2 X 106, or 2 X 107 CAR-T cells/kg). At 4 weeks postinfusion, the overall response rate (ORR) was 71% (17 of 24), according to International Workshop on Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia (IWCLL) criteria.
“CD19 CAR-T cells are highly effective with manageable toxicity in patients with high-risk CLL, including those who are ibrutinib refractory,” first study author Cameron J. Turtle, PhD, Clinical Research Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, and coinvestgators wrote. “This approach can achieve sustained molecular remissions and improve the poor prognosis of ibrutinib- refractory CLL. Future studies in patients who are likely to become refractory to ibrutinib on the basis of high-risk cytogenetics or early detection of mutations before relapse that confer ibrutinib resistance are warranted.”
One patient developed fatal neurotoxicity and did not undergo response assessment. Among the 23 restaged patients, the ORR at 4 weeks after CAR-T cell infusion was 70%. One additional patient achieved a late response.
At a median of 6.6 months’ follow-up, the absence of the malignant IGH clone in marrow of patients with CLL who achieved a response was associated with 100% progression-free survival (PFS) and overall survival (OS) after CAR-T cell immunotherapy. The PFS was similar in patients with lymph node partial repsponse or complete response by IWCLL criteria.
Patients in the study had received a median of 5 previous therapies (range, 3-9), and the median age was 61 years (range, 40-73). All patients had high-risk disease and 96% had high-risk cytogenetics. The median percentage of marrow abnormal B cells before lymphodepletion chemotherapy was 61.6% (range, 0%-96%). Twenty-three patients had nodal disease, and 2 had active CNS disease.
Nineteen patients experienced disease progression while receiving ibrutinib (Imbruvica), 3 were ibrutinib-intolerant, and two did not experience progression while receiving ibrutinib. Six patients were refractory to venetoclax (Venclexta), and 23 had a complex karyotype and/or 17p deletion.
Twenty patients (83%) developed cytokine release syndrome (CRS), and eight (33%) developed neurotoxicity, which was reversible in all but 1 patient with a fatal outcome.
Twenty of 24 patients received cyclophosphamide, fludarabine lymphodepletion, and CD19 CAR-T cells at or below the maximum-tolerated dose (≤2 X 106 CAR-T cells/kg). The ORR was 74% 4 weeks after infusion in the 19 patients who were restaged.
Among the 16 ibrutinib-refractory patients included in this subgroup who were treated with cyclophosphamide, fludarabine lymphodepletion, and ≤2 X 106 CAR-T cells/kg, the ORR was 69% (95% CI, 41%-89%). Four patients had complete response.
Among patients diagnosed with marrow disease, 88% had no disease by flow cytometry after CAR-T cell infusion. Twelve of these patients underwent deep IGH sequencing, and 7 (58%) had no malignant IGH sequences detected in marrow.
All patients discontinued ibrutinib before lymphodepletion, including 2 who had not experienced disease progression while receiving ibrutinib because the safety of concurrent CAR-T cells and ibrutinib had not been established.
Six patients with persistent or relapsed disease after the first cycle of lymphodepletion and CAR-T cell infusion underwent a second cycle. One patient had a second cycle at the same dose, 5 were treated with a 10-fold higher dose. Four of the 6 patients developed CRS, 2 were grade ≥3, and 1 developed reversible grade 3 neurologic toxicity after the second CAR-T cell infusion. Two patients had complete responses, and investigators noted that residual CLL was not detected by bone marrow flow cytometry and IGH sequencing.
Overall, 20 patients experienced CRS. There were 18 cases of grade 1/2 CRS, 1 incidence of grade 4, and 1 incidence of grade 5. Six patients (25%) had clinical symptoms severe enough to require tocilizumab and corticosteroid treatment.
There were 2 incidents of grade 1/2 neurotoxicity and 5 incidents of grade 3. One patient had grade 5 neurotoxicity. All patients with neurotoxicity also had CRS. Two patients required intensive care unit management, one of whom developed fatal neurotoxicity after infusion of 2 X 106 CAR-T cells/kg. Neurotoxicity was reversible in all other patients.
Turtle CJ, Hay KA, Hanafi L, et al. Durable molecular remissions in chronic lymphocytic leukemia treated with CD19-specific chimeric antigen receptor—modified T cells after failure of ibrutinib [published online July 17, 2017]. J Clin Oncol. doi: 10.1200/JCO.2017. 72.8519. | <urn:uuid:039ff5cc-4a2c-4917-a74d-a7fe3ad7c070> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.oncnursingnews.com/view/high-response-rate-seen-with-cd19-car-tcell-therapy-in-cll | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572033.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814113403-20220814143403-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.944646 | 1,289 | 1.695313 | 2 |
A depositional model for the development of the Helvetiafjellet Formation in Nordenskiöld Land, Spitsbergen is presented. The formation was deposited into a segment of the large epicontinental Boreal basin that rimmed northern Pangaea during the Early Cretaceous. A wide range of depositional subenvironments are recorded within the succession; including fluvial braidplain, shallow marine bay, delta, coastal plain and fluvial channel. The depositional model approaches a layer-cake style for this part of the basin, caused by the rapid rates of progradation and retrogradation made possible by the gentle depositional gradient. An initial period of fluvial deposition arose in response to an early rise in relative sea-level. Following a regional flooding, the progradational to aggradational architecture in the area reflects a balanced rate of increase in accommodation vs. rate of sedimentation (A/S) ratio. This resulted in a heterolithic stacking of sandstone and mudstone. Autogenic variables are thought to have dominated the lateral facies variations recorded in the upper and middle parts of the succession. | <urn:uuid:2ae3fdcc-2b27-40f4-a457-9e610b1aa91a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://njg.geologi.no/index.php?option=com_fabrik&view=details&tmpl=component&formid=17&listid=17&rowid=249&iframe=1&print=1&Itemid=142 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571909.51/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813051311-20220813081311-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.910644 | 341 | 2.46875 | 2 |
5 Tips for Proper Dental Hygiene
Dental hygiene is not only an important habit in your everyday life, but it can also be a winding road of different rules of thumb depending on who you ask. Since it is so important to your oral health, however, it is absolutely paramount that you figure out what works, what doesn’t work, and what works best for you. Not all mouths are created equal, so what works for your friend may not work the same for you. Thankfully there are some general guidelines you can follow when it comes to proper oral hygiene for your teeth and gums.
Use the proper brushing technique
How long should you brush your teeth? This is a question dentists are asked quite frequently, and most dentists agree that sufficient brushing takes at least two minutes. What is the correct way to brush your teeth? First off, make sure you don’t brush too firmly. This is easier on your gums and will help to prevent gumline recession. That considered, the correct way to brush your teeth is fairly simple. Your brush should rest at a 45 degree angle to your gums while you gently move the brush in a circular motion. All surfaces of your teeth should be brushed as well, so make sure to brush the backsides of each tooth. Brushing twice daily is the minimum recommendation, while brushing after each meal is optimal.
Make sure to floss regularly
Proper oral hygiene must include flossing. It is one of the most important habits to get into. Flossing is a necessary step in any proper oral hygiene regimen because it can reach places that your brush cannot to remove hidden plaque buildup. Each piece of floss you use should be 18 inches in length, and a clean section of it should be used to clean each crevice in your teeth. This will ensure that you aren’t reintroducing the plaque you just removed back into your oral cavity.
Mouthwash is not only a tool for fresh breath, it is the last line of defense in removing germs that your brush and floss cannot. Mouthwash helps to remove the debris that irritates the gumline and causes gingivitis, which can worsen into periodontitis and often require surgery.
Scrape or brush your tongue
To determine what is proper oral hygiene, the entire oral cavity must be taken into consideration. For this reason, it is also important that you scrape or brush your tongue. As with your gums, the tongue is also susceptible to periodontitis, so cleaning should be performed on it regularly. On top of that, an unclean tongue is often the cause of bad breath, so brushing or scraping it should leave you with markedly fresher smelling breath.
Watch your diet
Proper oral hygiene is not limited only to the correct way to brush your teeth and flossing etc. The foods you eat also play a role in the overall health of your oral cavity as well. Sugary and acidic foods should be avoided whenever possible. One of the biggest culprits in America is coffee and all of its sugary variations. Coffee in and of itself is quite acidic, and when you add sugar into the mix it can really take a toll on your teeth. Other acidic and sugary foods to be cautious with are: citrus fruits, candies, soda, and sports drinks.
If you practice good hygiene now it will save you time, stress and visits to the dentist later. Taking good care of your teeth is only the part of what proper oral hygiene encompasses, so make sure that you are cleaning and taking care of every nook & cranny inside your mouth. | <urn:uuid:efb65fd4-9b39-44a3-9e21-983d2b9fa6fe> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.yourgumspecialist.com/oral-health-care/5-tips-for-proper-dental-hygiene | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571536.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811224716-20220812014716-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.947107 | 745 | 2.8125 | 3 |
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1624 Computer Camp for Blind Youth (Jun. 8, 2016)
Computers are very accessible to the visually impaired. Moreover, those with a knowledge of computers and computer programming are highly desired in today’s work force. Hosts Nancy and Peter Torpey talk with Cheryl Cumings and Rich Caloggero about a computer camp for blind youth they are organizing to motivate students and introduce them to these skills. | <urn:uuid:5bfa6d83-390f-4747-b3eb-811df9a6d818> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://www.eyesonsuccess.net/include/search.php?submit=search&sn=1624 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571909.51/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813051311-20220813081311-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.963947 | 105 | 2.046875 | 2 |
The G-8 Summit in Okinawa
The following is a press release developed by the Okinawa Peace Network of Los Angeles stating our position on the G-8 Summit and its implications for the push to remove the U.S. military presence from Okinawa.
Date: July 22, 2000
LOS ANGELES, CA., July 22, 2000 - The Okinawa Peace Network - Los Angeles issued a statement today urging President Clinton to uphold his commitment to peace and security in the Asia-Pacific region by revising the U.S.-Japan Status of Forces Agreement to include a specified timeline for the removal of U.S. military bases from Okinawa, Japan, combined with a commitment to freeze development of a new military heliport off the coast of Henoko, a city in Okinawa. The Okinawa Peace Network - Los Angeles additionally urged Clinton to develop a plan for the removal and clean up of military toxics from these bases, and draft safeguards to keep the U.S. military from committing human rights abuses on Okinawans.
Following the recent protests by Okinawans against the U.S. military for the recent molestation of an Okinawan schoolgirl by military personnel on July 3rd and a recent hit and run accident involving military personnel and Okinawan citizens on July 9th, the Okinawa Peace Network - Los Angeles issued a statement supporting the more than 7,000 Okinawans who demonstrated in Ginowan City, Okinawa outside of Futenma Marine Corp Air Station, and the 30,000 people who linked arms to form a human chain around Kadena Air Force base to continue their protests on this issue.
"The Okinawans have lived under the shadow of U.S. military bases for 55 years and we as U.S. citizens have to support them in saying enough is enough," stated Martha Matsuoka, spokesperson for the Okinawa Peace Network - Los Angeles. "The Okinawan people's protests show that they have had enough of security strategies that have resulted in violence against women and children, contamination of the environment, and that have retarded the development of a potentially viable local economy."
The Okinawa Peace Network - Los Angeles further noted that there are 39 U.S. military bases and 26,000 troops in Okinawa, and stressed that the Okinawan people's demands for an alternative framework of security come from more than half a century of dealing with U.S. military crimes and the presence of military toxics in Okinawa. Since 1972, more than 4,700 crimes have been committed by U.S. troops in Okinawa and military toxics have been linked to increasing numbers of low-birth weight babies and higher incidences of cancer and leukemia in Okinawan adults and children.
The Okinawa Peace Network - Los Angeles is a Southern California area network of U.S. citizens dedicated to the removal of U.S. military bases in Okinawa. Formed in 1995, following the rape of a 12-year old Okinawan school girl by U.S. military personnel, the Okinawa Peace Network - Los Angeles works in conjunction with chapters in the San Francisco Bay Area, Hawaii, and Boston, Massachusetts.
While the article below gives too much airplay to Clinton's empty statements regarding the intents of the U.S. at the G-8 Summit meetings and is not very critical of the very role of the G-8 members, the policies that they implement, and the political maneuvering that brought the G-8 Summit to Okinawa in the first place, the following article does talk about the demonstrations that were held in Okinawa at the time of the G-8 Summit to protest the ongoing military presence there.
Thursday, July 20,
OKINAWA CITY, Japan -- Thousands of protesters formed a human chain around the gates of a US air base Thursday as leaders of the world's industrial powers and Russia assembled on this World War II battleground island to discuss narrowing the gap between rich and poor countries. En route to the summit, Russian President Vladimir Putin picked up North Korea and China as allies in his campaign to derail American plans to build an anti-missile nuclear shield. President Clinton set aside his Mideast peacemaking efforts at Camp David, Md., to take part in his farewell summit of the Group of Eight.
"The Okinawa summit will create a framework to fight infectious disease, increase access to basic education and expand opportunity through information technology," Clinton said on the way to the meeting. "Despite a stronger global economy, too many people around the world live every day without essential health care, basic literacy or the opportunity to share in the benefits of modern technology."
His first event was a speech to the people of Okinawa at the island's Peace Park, where a monument's black walls bear the names of 237,318 soldiers -Japanese, American and British -and civilians who perished in the island's ferocious 82 -day World War II battle. So fierce was the fighting that it convinced President Harry S. Truman that he had no alternative to using the atom bomb against Japan.
The heavy American military presence on Okinawa today - 30,000 servicemen and women are stationed here - was the target of one of the island's largest protests in years. Organizers claimed more than 25,000 people had mobilized in a human chain stretching 11 miles around Kadena Air Base. Some 22,000 police, most flown in from other parts of Japan, were deployed, but no violence was reported. Protesters - many of them accompanied by their children - wore headbands with anti-base slogans, and organizers yelled into loudspeakers, "Clinton, take your troops home," and "We don't want your troops."
"As teachers, we have vowed never to send our students to war again," said Isao Kaneshiro, head of a local teachers' union. "I want President Clinton to know that we don't want his troops here."
Okinawa - located near the Korean Peninsula, Taiwan, China and southeast Asia - is considered by US officials to be of crucial strategic importance. But many Okinawans feel the US presence is too heavy, and want it reduced or eliminated.
Military-related crime is a frequent source of tension. The recent arrest of a 19 -year-old Marine for allegedly breaking into a home and climbing into bed with a sleeping schoolgirl reignited anger.
"Most Okinawans welcome the summit," said an editorial in the Ryukyu Shimpo newspaper. "But there are concerns as well. We are concerned that the bases, which cause such damage to us, will be praised by the summit leaders."
The G8 - the United States, Japan, Britain, Italy, Canada, Germany, France and now Russia -has held summits each year for the past 25 years. This is the fourth summit Japan has hosted, and the first it has held outside of Tokyo.
While Clinton was en route, Putin wrapped up the first visit by a Russian leader to North Korea. He was joined by the North's ruler, Kim Jong Il, in urging Washington to scrap the proposed missile shield. The two said North Korea's missile program, one reason the United States wants to build the shield, is meant for peaceful purposes, not attacks on other nations.
On Tuesday, Putin and Chinese leader Jiang Zemin signed a statement denouncing the US missile shield plan. France and Germany share Russia's concerns that it could be destabilizing. Russia said it will push at the summit for a write-off of Soviet-era debts, despite a bill passed Wednesday by the US House of Representatives barring debt forgiveness until Russia shuts its intelligence listening post in Lourdes, Cuba.
The meetings are being held at a subtropical, seaside resort in the city of Nago. Officials are hoping it will put Okinawa on the international tourism map. The Foreign Ministry says the summit is expected to cost $750 million, including security, construction and road repairs. | <urn:uuid:2108364f-0ab9-4f23-ad88-0cff8301fe1c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://www.uchinanchu.org/uchinanchu/g8_summit.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571909.51/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813051311-20220813081311-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.961288 | 1,621 | 1.609375 | 2 |
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1 Jan, 1970 at 12:00 am - 31 Oct, 2019 at 12:00 am
This event is now fully booked. To join the waiting list in case of cancellations, please email [email protected]
Tues 29 October,
Weds 30 October,
Thurs 31 October
Artist and workshop facilitator, Shamila Chady will lead workshops that focus on elevating voices and celebrating the contributions of forgotten heroes. Workshops are designed for young people to take part without their parents €” so a great place to make new friends and build confidence. A fun space to learn new skills, try out different art forms, share ideas and showcase work.
Take inspiration from Mimesis: African Soldier to create a layered collaged representation of Africa and Europe; while tracing journeys and stories of Africans who have been forgotten, including those who took part in the First World War. You will also learn more about our Mezzanine Gallery exhibition, When The Snow Melts and create mixed media banners to celebrate people and stories that are important to you. | <urn:uuid:13671fa6-e7f9-4573-a009-cd95f2a94d29> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.nae.org.uk/event/forgotten-stories/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572033.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814113403-20220814143403-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.935463 | 242 | 1.679688 | 2 |
Words by Alexander Sarafian, architect, project manager at London Central Portfolio (LCP)
London’s Victorian mansion blocks are the embodiment of style, and when passing through the city’s more affluent boroughs, their stylish architecture still can’t help but draw the attention of passers-by. Like a beautifully restored classic car, an antique Swiss watch, or a quality Scotch from an ancient distillery, these buildings have retained their historic charm over the years, and are the perfect example of designs that have successfully stood the test of time.
But their quality is not just skin deep; these buildings have a reputation for their generous room-sizes and window openings, tall ceilings and robust construction, adorned with interesting flourishes and details almost everywhere. As a result, properties within these blocks are always seen as the perfect projects for the trendiest interior designers, and worthy of show-stopping pieces sourced from the world’s most stylish furniture houses.
We have historical influences from the 19th century, such as the Gothic Revival and the Arts and Crafts movements, to thank for encouraging architects like Richard Shaw and Alfred Waterhouse to experiment with traditions, preventing these buildings from feeling outdated even today. They are deeply woven into the fabric of London’s history, and it would be sad to one day lose them.
But despite their brilliant design and engineering, like all buildings, they require maintenance from time to time. Unfortunately, many of the bureaucratic systems responsible for these ‘palaces for the many’ only manage issues according to their severity, when the problem has spread far beyond what’s visible. Just as nobody should only book an appointment with their dentist when their teeth hurt, and should instead opt for routine check-ups, whilst brushing and flossing regularly, historic buildings require this same philosophy when it comes to maintaining their charm and beauty. For many people, however, it’s hard to justify expenses when nothing seems wrong; especially amidst a cost-of-living crisis, and an unprecedented inflation of construction costs.
The good news is that if you own a property like this, it’s within your power to protect your investment. Bringing in the help of the relevant industry professionals to conduct regular appraisals and assessments will help you to identify hidden concerns – such as penetrating damp, condensation, poor ventilation, water leaks, structural defects and other common issues – early on, allowing you to deal with them before they spiral. In the beginning, these concerns are just small seeds, but unless they are addressed in a timely manner, they may slowly grow into the kind of monumental challenges that can ultimately defeat old buildings.
This advice might sound expensive, but having peace of mind is priceless and (given the option) absorbing these short-term costs versus dealing with problems that have grown into monsters is a far more appealing prospect for most. Not only is it better for your wallet, but also one step closer to safeguarding some Victorian grandeur, and some of the rich history that invariably goes with it.
London Central Portfolio (LCP) is a boutique real estate buying and investment agency representing international and UK based clients looking to purchase a home or buy to let investment in London.
With a team of in-house interior designers and architects, LCP specialises in refurbishing period properties. With over 30 years’ experience, LCP creates beautiful spaces – ranging from minor upgrades to full-scale renovations – for properties ranging from small apartments to magnificent town houses, with all projects managed to agreed timescales and budgets. LCP’s unique end-to-end refurbishment service is managed at every stage, from concept design to construction management. | <urn:uuid:2d5035a5-495b-4048-b26b-1d36693e3c0f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.luxurylifestylemag.co.uk/property/preserving-victorian-grandeur-why-prevention-is-almost-always-better-than-cure-when-it-comes-to-the-beautiful-historic-buildings-we-love/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571909.51/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813051311-20220813081311-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.952996 | 757 | 1.796875 | 2 |
As our region’s corporations and municipalities seek to reduce their planet-warming greenhouse gas emissions, they are also seeking to add renewable power to their energy portfolio. To meet this need, PSE created Green Direct, a renewable energy program specifically designed to meet our customer demand.
Green Direct is a ground-breaking program designed to provide PSE corporate and governmental customers the ability to purchase 100 percent of their energy from a dedicated, local, renewable energy resource, while providing them with a stable, cost-efficient solution.
This program furthers PSE’s deep decarbonization goals and accelerates the move toward clean electricity by 2045, as called for in Washington’s Clean Energy Transformation Act.
Skookumchuck Wind Energy Project
The first project developed for the Green Direct program is the Skookumchuck Wind Facility. Construction began in 2019 and the project went into operation November 2020. It can produce up to 137 megawatts (MW) of wind energy—equivalent to powering 30,000 homes.
The project, owned by Southern Power, is located on Weyerhaeuser timber land, located in Lewis and Thurston counties. It is the first large-scale wind project located in Western Washington; and the first in the state to be located on working forest land.
Site preparation and construction have begun on Lund Hill Solar, a second project being developed by Avangrid Renewables in Klickitat County, which will diversify the energy mix to provide both wind and solar renewable energy for our Green Direct customers.
All 41 total customers in the program, with 18 additional customers added in March 2021, are receiving renewable power generated from a mix of these resources in Washington. | <urn:uuid:c6be0450-e284-43e6-b124-cb26332a5e01> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.pse.com/green-options/Renewable-Energy-Programs/green-direct | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572033.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814113403-20220814143403-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.950075 | 350 | 2.140625 | 2 |
Diabetes is a health condition that affects how your body turns food into energy. Normal blood sugar levels are between 70 mg/dl and 100 mg/dl. Your blood sugar levels fluctuate depending on your activity including eating, exercising, and resting. You should check your blood sugar levels before meals, at bedtime, before exercising and, if you are exhibiting any signs or symptoms of high (hyperglycemia) or low (hypoglycemia) blood sugar levels. Frequent monitoring of your blood sugar levels will allow you to intervene in the case of emergent or life threatening results. Education and awareness can save your life. Don't forget...give diabetes the finger!
A health condition where blood sugar levels are higher than normal, but not high enough yet to be diagnosed as type 2 diabetes.
An autoimmune disease that causes the body to make little or no insulin. Used to be called juvenile diabetes. People with Type 1 diabetes must have insulin.
A disease where your blood sugar levels are high because your body is resistant to the insulin you make or you do not make enough insulin to manage your sugar levels. This is the most common type of diabetes.
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When the Florida Department of Transportation decided to widen U.S. Highway 17-92 in the town of Lake Alfred, dividing the highway and limiting the options for driving from one side to the other, an unwitting side effect was to hurt area retailers. “Our new road construction, which has one way in and one way out, has put a damper on every business,” says Al Kitzmiller, co-owner of Sherman’s Antiques. In the aftermath, he and his business partner, Jerry Sherman, decided to start a flea market. “We had to find something to bring people back into our area, and this is what we came up with,” he explains.
So far the LA Vendors’ Flea Market has been held twice, and it has been a big success, not only for the vendors at the flea market, but for nearby shopkeepers as well, according to Kitzmiller. The monthly swap meet is being held on the last Saturday of every month, and the third session will be this coming this Saturday. Currently the market is held on private land next to Sherman’s Antiques, and there it can fit 200 vendors. The August session attracted 40. “We had a farmer’s market, live music, a church selling food, and a handicapped nursery doing plants. That was pretty darn good,” he says.
Now Kitzmiller and Sherman are starting the nonprofit Lake Alfred Merchants Association, with the expectation that the new group will take over owning and running the market. They also hope to close off a nearby street to hold the flea market.
But it is not just the Department of Transportation that is putting up roadblocks to stop business growth in Lake Alfred. “Between city requirements and Florida Department of Law Enforcement’s sign restrictions in and out of its right-of-way, businesses have suffered,” writes Mary Hurst of NewsChief.com. When the flea market went to the town to get permits for more sessions, and to request the closure of a street for future markets, the Lake Alfred City Commission decided to take over the flea market and make it a joint venture of the local government and the Lake Alfred Chamber of Commerce. According to the news report at NewsChief.com, “City Manager Larry Harbuck said he had been working with the Chamber to take over the event so it would be co-sponsored by the city and the Chamber.”
Naturally, Kitzmiller is quite resistant to that idea. “It’s all about the merchants. It has nothing to do with the city. We put our own money in, and all we want is permission, nothing else. And now, all of a sudden, at the last commission meeting, they’re taking it over,” he says, adding passionately, “No they’re not.”
He listed the hurdles the town has thrown up to try to derail the market. “When we asked the city for permission, they wanted to take it over right then and there. Then they told us we had to have liability insurance, and we already have it,” he says. “They told us that a private individual could not charge rental fees — but we’re not!”
As Kitzmiller says, he is not charging vendors any money at all for spaces, nor is he charging shoppers for admission. “We’ve put a lot of money into this,” he says, “but we have not made a penny back.” He is angry about the local government obstructions. “They can’t do things on their own,” he says. “They want to grab somebody else’s idea, I guess.”
Judy Gay, the president of the Lake Alfred Chamber of Commerce, says that her organization has held informal talks with the city, but she has not presented the flea market proposal to the Chamber’s Board. She did not think that a public roadway would be used for the market. “The last I heard, the city was not going to close a street,” she tells FleaMarketZone.com. “There are a couple of other places that have been discussed.”
Gay suggested that the City Commission wants to partner with the Chamber of Commerce only because the new Merchant Association is not actually a formally organized nonprofit at this point. “My understanding is that the new Merchants Association is not official yet. The city has to have an organization to partner with to sponsor a special event,” she says. “They have started recruiting, but it has to be a 501 organization.”
In general, Gay is very supportive of the idea of a flea market. “It has been very successful in surrounding communities, so I think it’s a good idea,” she says. “The people I’ve talked to are in favor of it.” She says that the stumbling block is liability insurance, and that has to be figured out.
The City Commission is meeting again on the issue on Oct. 3. Lake Alfred mayor Nancy Z. Daley did not reply to a request for comment on this story by presstime.
Kitzmiller and Sherman are holding an organizational meeting for the new Merchants Association Sept. 27. For more information about that or about the LA Vendors’ Flea Market, call Kitzmiller at (863) 224-0395 or Sherman at (863) 221-4035.
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Mumbai, Dec 23 : The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on Wednesday warned individuals and small businesses against falling prey to a growing number of unauthorized digital lending platforms and mobile apps on the promise of getting loans fast and hassle free.
These platforms charge excessive interest rates and additional hidden fees, adopt unacceptable and overbearing collection methods, and abuse agreements to access data on borrowers’ mobile phones.
“Members of the public are hereby cautioned not to fall prey to such unscrupulous activity and to check the background of the company / business offering loans online or through mobile apps,” the central bank said.
Additionally, consumers should never share copies of KYC documents with unidentified persons, unverified / unauthorized applications and should report such incidents to relevant law enforcement.
Legitimate public lending activities can be undertaken by banks, non-bank financial corporations (NBFCs) registered with the RBI, and other entities that are regulated by state governments under statutory provisions. | <urn:uuid:58b7cd7c-5def-40b3-8953-bbc87dd5fd4e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://telanganareport.com/business-news/rbi-cautions-unauthorised-digital-lending-platforms-mobile-apps/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572198.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815175725-20220815205725-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.918175 | 196 | 1.679688 | 2 |
THE PROPOSED 12-turbine Mossy Hill wind farm on the outskirts of Lerwick has been given the green light by Shetland Islands Council’s planning committee.
Councillors met on Monday to discuss Peel Energy’s plans and the development was approved with two extra conditions added to an already large list of requirements the developer will need to adhere to.
A motion by committee chairman Theo Smith to approve the plans with a condition to strengthen shadow flicker mitigation for homes closest to the development was passed after a vote by the eight councillors.
A new condition was also imposed to deal with concerns from the Shetland shooting club over the site encroaching onto its safety drop zone.
The plans already came with over 30 suggested conditions from the council’s planning service in areas like operation, construction, aviation, bird breeding, habitat and peatland.
One is to develop a scheme for the shutdown of specific wind turbines during times when shadow flicker resulting from the blades is predicted to occur in nearby areas of housing.
A counter motion by North Mainland member Andrea Manson to reject the plans due to the proximity to houses, the possible effect on a local water supply and shadow flicker was outvoted by six to two, with only South Mainland councillor George Smith backing her.
Members were recommended to approve the plans as its “impacts would be outweighed by the benefits of renewable energy generation”.
Manchester based Peel Energy is looking to build a 12-turbine wind farm with a generating capacity of up to 50 megawatts on a site between Lerwick and Scalloway after scaling down its initial plans from 21 turbines.
Each generator would have a maximum blade tip of 145 metres, and it is anticipated that the wind farm would generate electricity for 25 years before being decommissioned.
The wind farm is dependent on a subsea transmission cable being laid between Shetland and the Scottish mainland, something that is likely to happen should the planned 103-turbine Viking Energy farm win government subsidy later this year.
In a report presented to councillors on Monday afternoon, council planners said the wind farm would make a “significant contribution to meeting greenhouse gas emission and renewable energy targets” and would provide job opportunities and contribute to the local economy.
The report added that “environmental effects can be mitigated by planning conditions”.
Three residential properties are within one kilometre of the wind turbines, at Frakkafield and Tagdale, and a further seven properties are within 1.5 kilometres.
The committee heard from the council’s development manager team leader John Holden, who acknowledged that issues like the impact on landscape can be centred on a “emotional response” where there are “no formulas to assist”.
But planning officers said it was not considered that the landscape impacts were significant enough to warrant refusal of the planning application when balanced against the potential reduction in greenhouse gases that are anticipated as a result of the development.
Shetland Central member Davie Sandison said with scores of conditions in mind, he had worries about the under-staffed planning team’s ability to deal with the development.
“My concern is about the extent of the resources available…and the level of expertise with our resources,” he said.
Planning manager Iain McDiarmid said his team were used to processing a wide range of applications from house extensions to the Shetland Gas Plant, but admitted it could be difficult to juggle a number of large developments at the same time.
This could happen should plans for the interconnector, which are being led by Scottish Hydro Electric Transmission, get the go-ahead.
Local campaign group Sustainable Shetland had objected to the Mossy Hill plans, saying that it – along with the nearby Burradale development and the proposed Viking Energy wind farm – would have an “unacceptable” cumulative effect on the isles’ landscape.
The group’s James Mackenzie was one of four objectors who spoke to the committee on Monday.
He suggested the Mossy Hill wind farm may contravene planning guidance due to the capacity of the turbines.
Angus Nicol, speaking on behalf of residents from nearby Frakkafield, said all of his neighbours opposed the plans.
He described having large wind turbines near to two accident blackspots at the Frakkafield junction at the Brig o’ Fitch as “nuts” – suggesting they could distract drivers.
Jenny Atkinson, from Tingwall, raised concerns of shadow flicker and the movement of turbines.
She said with the existing Burradale generators nearby her house, “we will be surrounded by turbines”.
Peter Davis of the Shetland Clay Target Club, meanwhile, said the proposed site encroaches on part of its shooting area.
“The access road will infringe on our safety drop zone, which has to be in place for the legal reasons,” he said.
Peel Energy’s development manager Steve Snowden faced a number of questions from councillors, particularly relating to the development’s proximity to houses.
“We are informed by our studies that in these instances there will not be an unacceptable adverse impact,” he said.
“Right from the start of this meeting today what really, really disturbed me is this flicker, or potential flicker from these machines, especially in Frakkafield,” Theo Smith said as the discussion moved to debate.
He said he wanted a condition to “beef up” shadow flicker mitigation by specifically mentioning the houses at Frakkafield and also at the top of Shurton Brae in Gulberwick in a condition about the issue.
Lerwick South member Cecil Smith agreed, saying: “I think we need to be sure that we keep complete control of this flickering”.
Town councillor Malcolm Bell supported Theo Smith’s motion, but suggested to add a condition to ensure that any problems with the clay shooting club are dealt with.
George Smith, meanwhile, said he was “quite uneasy” about the application.
“I’m really not sure that this is acceptable to the folk that are most affected by it,” he admitted.
Manson said she “could not look herself in the mirror” if she supported the plans due to their proximity to housing, with noise in addition to flicker also a potential problem.
She suggested development should be “somewhere it’s not going to destroy somebody’s life”.
Manson proposed a counter motion to refuse the plans, but she was outvoted and the wind farm development moved one step closer to coming to fruition.
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I am using the template canvas to illustrate positions of robots. Meaning that the templates used are rectangles moving around the layout.
I am doing this by using cell update bindings on the x,y coordinates of the individual robots.
We have 15 robots so this means 30 cell update lines(x+y).
My problems is that everytime one position changes, the screen “blinks”. It is just a few ms, but its easely observable. I am pretty sure it is due to loading the canvas.
The second problem is that I have a drawing behind the template repeater. (illustration of the factory floor). And everytime the reapeater blinks/loads, the graphic behind is also blinking. Even though the template repeater(which is in front) has a transparent background.
Is there any way around this?
Maybe a fix to “disable loading indication”.
Or some code to turn the canvas.visible=0 during a cell update. and then back to 1 after the update has been finished.
Consider using a paintable canvas to draw your robot rectangles in the desired locations. Or more complicated robot imagery. As long as all of the data needed for the paint operation is kept local to the component/window, its update will be effectively instant. (No DB or other gateway callouts in the python.)
That is a good alternative to the template canvas i guess. It would be nice to be able to click on the various robots and open popups with details. Will this still be posible throught the paintable canvas?
Its a bit sad not to utilize the power of templates though
Is there any other way to place a normal template on a display, and set the position dynamically? For example, I have tried writing “component.x=100” but that is a read only property.
Yes, you can use mouse events with the paintable canvas. You’ll have to to “find” the right rectangle within the canvas yourself, though.
Just a trade-off. Templates are low-performance overkill for drawing rectangles, as you’ve seen. If you want more complex imagery, you could write a generic “draw my robot” subroutine in a project script, including whatever text and animations you wish, called by the paint event multiple times. Re-use is re-use, whatever form it takes in the end.
I see, im trying out the paintable canvas now.
(Got quite far on just a few lines of code:
for i in range(0,15):
robot =Rectangle2D.Float(xCoords[i].value, yCoords[i].value, 50 , 50)
Thanks for the answers!
You should not read tags inside your paint event–you can lock up your GUI. Bring all of your coordinates and any other dynamic information to the component in a dataset or other collection of properties. The paint event should only look up data that is already present in the client. Also, changes to custom properties on the canvas is what triggers repainting.
Thank you for the advice! That was actually my next question, how to trigger repainting.
How about the gui.transform, I like that one can include animation effects. How would you most efficiently trigger a for loop for gui.transform(s)
Don’t use a for loop. Just fire the transform when coordinates change. (And its built-in animations do not require you to call it again.)
Just an update. The problem regarding this topic was fixed in the 8.06 Nightly build.
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Purpose Determine if balance and technique training (BTT) implemented adjunct to normal Australian football (AF) training reduces external knee loading during sidestepping. Additionally, the authors determined if an athlete's knee joint kinematics and kinetics change over a season of AF.
Methodology Eight amateur-level AF clubs (n=1,001 males) volunteered to participate in either 28 weeks of BTT or a ‘sham’ training (ST) adjunct to their normal preseason and regular training. A subset of 34 athletes (BTT, n=20; ST, n=14) were recruited for biomechanical testing in weeks 1–7 and 18–25 of the 28-week training intervention. During biomechanical testing, participants completed a series running, preplanned (PpSS) and unplanned sidestepping (UnSS) tasks. A linear mixed model (α=0.05) was used to determine if knee kinematics and peak moments during PpSS and UnSS were influenced by BTT and/or a season of AF.
Results Both training groups significantly (p=0.025) decreased their peak internal-rotation knee moments during PpSS, and significantly (p=0.022) increased their peak valgus knee moments during UnSS following their respective training interventions.
Conclusions BTT was not effective in changing an athlete's knee joint biomechanics during sidestepping when conducted in ‘real-world’ training environments. Following normal AF training, the players had different changes to their knee joint biomechanics during both preplanned and unplanned sidestepping. When performing an unplanned sidestepping task in the latter half of a playing season, athletes are at an increased risk of ACL injury. The authors therefore recommend both sidestepping tasks are performed during biomechanical testing when assessing the effectiveness of prophylactic training protocols.
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Anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injuries in sport are common1 and associated with high financial and personal cost. In New Zealand and Australia, ACL injuries cost their respective healthcare systems approximately 17.4 million NZD1 and 75 million AUD2 per year. Following an ACL injury, over 50% of athletes are not capable of returning to the same level of competition 2 years postreconstruction,3 a percentage that increases to approximately 70% after 3 years.4
One-half of non-contact ACL injuries occur during sidestepping sport tasks.5 Biomechanical analysis of sidestepping shows that compared with straight-line running, peak extension knee moments are similar, while internal rotation and/or valgus knee moments are elevated;6,–,8 the same loading patterns that elevate ACL strain measured in cadaveric knee models.9 Peak in vivo ACL strain during sporting tasks characterised by a rapid deacceleration phase,10 like sidestepping,11 generally occur during the weight-acceptance (WA) phase of stance (first 20–30%)7 ,8 ,12 and thought to be when ACL injury risk is the greatest.
The ACL consists of two bundles, the anteromedial bundle (AMB) and posterolateral bundle (PLB), named from their insertions on the tibial plateau. Modelling of the AMB and PLB shows the kinematics of the ACL change as a function of knee flexion angle, with peak elongation observed near full extension.13 These results show that knee flexion during stance is associated with ACL injury risk.
Reducing externally applied forces to the ACL can be achieved in two ways. First, reduce the size of the loads applied to the knee by changing an individual's posture or technique during sidestepping.12 ,14,–,16 Second, increase the strength and/or activation of the muscles crossing the knee capable of protecting it when loads are elevated.14 ,17
Training interventions like balance8 and technique training15 have been shown to be effective in reducing internal rotation and/or valgus knee moments during sidestepping. However, these training interventions have only been shown to be effective when implemented in ‘ideal’ settings,8 ,15 which for this study is defined as a training intervention conducted in a controlled laboratory setting, with high athlete compliance (>80%) and a low coach to athlete ratio (<1:20). To date, no study has determined if balance and technique is effective in reducing peak knee loading during sidestepping when implemented in a ‘real-world’ training environment. This is where training is conducted in a community-level setting with similar coach to athlete ratios as observed during normal training and the instruction is given by a trainer blinded to the intended aims and outcome measures of the intervention.
The primary purpose of this investigation was to determine if balance and technique training (BTT), implemented adjunct to normal preseason and regular season AF training reduces peak knee moments and/or influenced an athlete's knee flexion angle during the WA phase of preplanned (PpSS) and unplanned (UnSS) sidestepping. Additionally, we determined if an athlete's knee joint biomechanics change over a season of AF. With this information, we can establish if positive laboratory-based training outcomes can be translated to ‘real-world’ community-level training environments, and if an athlete's ACL injury risk changes over a playing season.
This study was approved by the Human Research Ethics Committees at The University of Western Australia (UWA) and the University of Ballarat.
Participant population – training intervention
As part of the Preventing Australian Football Injuries through Exercise (PAFIX) study,19 eight Western Australian Amateur Football League (WAAFL) clubs (n=1,001 males) participated in either 28 weeks of BTT or a ‘sham’ training (ST) intervention adjunct to their 2007 or 2008 preseason and regular season training. The ST intervention served as the experimental control group. All participants provided their informed, written consent before participating in their respective training interventions.
Participant population – biomechanical testing
From an alphabetical list of the eligible WAAFL participants (n=1,001) 58 athletes were recruited via a phone interview by an independent researcher 1 week before training through the first 7 weeks of training (weeks 1–7) for biomechanical testing. Thirty-four (59%) were available for follow-up testing in weeks 18 to 25 (BTT, n=14; ST, n=20) (figure 1). Exclusion criteria for participants included self-reported joint disorders or had undergone an orthopaedic surgical procedure. All participants provided their informed, written consent before biomechanical testing.
Two independent research assistants blinded to (1) which training programs they were overseeing, and (2) the outcome variables analysed during biomechanical testing were assigned to each of the eight WAAFL clubs. Each club consisted of three teams (grade A, B and C), with approximately 25–30 players per team. This made a trainer to athlete ratio of approximately 1:40 for each club. To run each training session, each club uses a staff consisting of a head coach, assistant coaches and athletic trainers. Our research assistants were used in place of the club's normal athletic trainers to conduct 20 min of either ST or BTT at the beginning of each club's regularly scheduled training sessions. Research assistants were considered qualified to run these training sessions after completing a 20 h coaching seminar associated with their respected training intervention. These research assistants also accurately recorded athlete participation following each training session.20
A WAAFL playing season consists of 8 weeks of preseason training and 20 weeks of regular season training, with two regular season bye weeks, where teams trained but did not play a match. Each club trained twice per week during the preseason and regular season, and played one match a week during the regular season.
Training interventions (BTT or ST) were conducted for 20 min before each team's normal training, twice a week in the 8-week preseason, and during the first 10 weeks of the regular season (18 weeks). Training was then condensed to once per week for weeks 19 through 28 (total training sessions, n=46). Of the participants that completed both biomechanical testing sessions, athletes in the BTT group attended 45±22% of the total training sessions and the ST group attended 51±33%. A one-way ANOVA showed no differences (p=0.696) in the number of training sessions completed by athletes in the BTT and ST groups.
The BTT protocol used for this study is an extension of previous training methods shown to be effective in decreasing peak knee moments during sidestepping.8 ,15 Balance training included single-leg, wobble board, stability disk and Swiss stability ball balance tasks. Each balance exercise became progressively more difficult from weeks 1 to week 18 with the last 10 weeks of training designed as a maintenance phase. During each training session, when appropriate, athletes were verbally instructed to keep their stance foot close to midline, maintain a controlled vertical trunk posture and increase knee flexion during the stance phase of both sidestepping and landing tasks. Interested readers can obtain a detailed description of the BTT training protocol from the corresponding author.
The primary goal of the ST intervention was for athletes to concentrate on improving their acceleration during straight-line running tasks, which to our knowledge has not been shown to significantly decrease peak knee joint change to loading or ACL injury rates following training. Neither technique instruction nor balance tasks were included in the ST intervention. The difficulty of the exercises used in the ST intervention progressed with difficulty in a similar fashion to the BTT protocol. Again, interested readers can obtain a detailed description the ST protocol from the corresponding author.
To evaluate the influence of BTT and a season AF on an athlete's knee joint biomechanics, testing was conducted on two occasions. The first was in weeks 1–7 of the WAAFL preseason training schedule. The second was conducted in weeks 18–25 of their respective training interventions.
During biomechanical testing, participants completed a random series of preplanned and unplanned straight-run, crossover-cut and sidestep running tasks with their self-selected preferred stance limb (figure 2).6,–,8 ,12 ,15 ,16 A computer monitor displayed a 30 cm arrow to direct participants to perform the straight-run or change of direction running tasks. During unplanned running tasks, the direction arrows were triggered by the athlete running through timing gates situated along the approach pathway. The direction arrow was signalled by the timing gates when participants were approximately 1.5 m from the force plate, which corresponded to contralateral leg toe off. For all running tasks, a trial was considered successful if the average approach velocity of the right anterior superior iliac spine marker calculated in Vicon workstation (Vicon Peak, Oxford Metrics, UK) was between 4.5 ms−1 and 5.5 ms−1. A successful change of direction trial also required participants to contact a black line marked on the running surface 45° relative to global x-axis of the laboratory with the contralateral leg during cutting manoeuvre (figure 2). Participants were required to complete three successful trials of each running task before testing was completed. To minimise participant fatigue during the testing period, participants were restricted to maximum of 30 running trials during testing and were given at least 60 s of rest between each running task.
A 12-camera 250 Hz Vicon MX motion capture system (Vicon Peak, Oxford Metrics, UK) was used to record three-dimensional full-body kinematics.15 ,16 Ground reaction forces (GRF) were synchronised and recorded at 2000 Hz from a single 1.2×1.2 m force plate (Advanced Mechanical Technology, Watertown, Massachusetts, USA).
Ankle joint centres were defined using anatomical landmarks on the medial and lateral malleoli. A six-marker pointer was used to digitise the medial and lateral femoral condyles, with a functional knee axis to define knee joint centres and knee axes orientation.21 A functional method was also used to define the hip joint centres.21 A custom foot alignment rig was used to measure calcaneous inversion/eversion and foot abduction/adduction to define the anatomical coordinate system of the foot segment.21
Marker trajectories and GRF data were both low pass filtered at 15 Hz using a zero-lag fourth-order Butterworth filter, which was selected based on a residual analysis22 and visual inspection.
Spatial–temporal, knee kinematic and knee kinetic variables were analysed during preplanned running (PpRun), PpSS and UnSS sport manoeuvres. Spatial–temporal variables included mean precontact (PC) velocity, mean change of direction (CoD) angle and mean CoD velocity. The PC velocity was calculated as the mean mid-pelvis horizontal velocity 50 ms prior to heel contact. The CoD angle was calculated by taking the cosine dot product of two vectors representing the position of (a) mid-pelvis 50 frames before heel contact to (b) heel contact and (c) contralateral leg heel contact to (d) ipsilateral leg mid swing (figure 2). The CoD velocity was determined from the mid-pelvis resultant velocity during the first 3/4 of stride. The last quarter of stride was not used as this typically occurred outside the calibrated motion capture volume of the laboratory.
Knee kinematics and kinetics were calculated within the WA phase of stance (heel contact to first trough in vertical GRF vector) using custom lower limb kinematic and inverse dynamic models in Bodybuilder (Vicon Peak, Oxford Metrics, UK).6,–,8 ,12 ,15 ,16 Kinematic variables calculated in this phase included mean knee flexion and knee flexion range of motion (RoM). Kinetic variables included mean peak externally applied flexion, valgus and internal-rotation knee moments. All knee moments were normalised to each participant's total body mass and height.
Biomechanical investigators were blinded to each participants training intervention until final statistics were performed. Only athletes who attended both biomechanical testing sessions were included in the analysis. All variables described in the analysis section were assessed using a linear mixed model (α=0.05) in SPSS 17.0.1 (SPSS, IBM Headquarters, Chicago, Illinois, USA). Factors were time (testing session 1 or 2), training intervention (BTT or ST) and running task (PpRun, PpSS or UnSS). The number of training sessions that each athlete participated in-between biomechanical testing sessions was used as a covariate. An adjusted Sidak post hoc analysis (α=0.05) was used to assess significant main effects and interactions.
A Pearson's Correlation (R2), 95% CI and limits of agreement (LoA) for PC velocity, CoD angle and CoD velocity measures were used to assess the reliability of the UWA sidestepping protocol between biomechanical testing sessions 1 and 2. Pre-empting the results, no statistical differences in PC velocity, CoD angle and CoD velocity were observed between training groups or biomechanical testing sessions, so were grouped together for the aforementioned correlation and LoA analysis.
No significant differences in knee kinematic variables were observed between training groups or biomechanical testing sessions for all running tasks (table 1). Mean knee flexion and knee flexion RoM were significantly different between running tasks (p<0.001). Post hoc analyses showed that peak knee flexion and knee flexion RoM were significantly elevated during both sidestepping tasks when compared with PpRun. Only knee flexion RoM was significantly elevated during UnSS when compared with PpSS.
No significant differences in peak knee flexion, valgus or internal-rotation moments were observed between training groups for all running tasks (table 2). Mean peak knee flexion moments were significantly different between running tasks (p<0.001). Post hoc analysis showed that mean peak knee flexion moments during both sidestepping tasks were significantly larger than PpRun.
An interaction between running task and time in peak valgus knee moments was observed (p=0.037). Post hoc analysis showed that peak valgus knee moments were significantly elevated during both sidestepping tasks when compared with PpRun across both testing sessions. Peak valgus knee moments during UnSS were significantly elevated relative to PpSS in testing session 2, but not during testing session 1. Peak valgus knee moments during UnSS significantly increased (p=0.022) by 31% from testing session 1 (0.48±0.27 Nm kg−1 m−1) to testing session 2 (0.63±0.40 Nm kg−1 m−1).
An interaction in peak internal-rotation knee moments was observed between running task and time (p=0.026). Post hoc analysis showed that in testing session 1, PpSS peak internal-rotation knee moments were significantly elevated relative to both UnSS and PpRun. In testing session 2, no differences in peak internal-rotation knee moments were observed between running tasks. Peak internal-rotation knee moments during PpSS significantly decreased (p=0.025) by 45% from testing sessions 1 (0.33±0.36 Nm kg−1 m−1) to testing session 2 (0.18±0.09 Nm kg−1 m−1)
The UWA sidestepping protocol reliability test (table 3) showed a moderate to strong correlation in CoD angle during both sidestepping tasks (R2≥0.55). Between testing sessions 1 and 2, moderate to strong correlations in PC velocity and CoD velocity were observed during UnSS (R2≥0.46), while moderate to low correlations were observed during PpSS and PpRun (R2≤0.30). This is likely attributed to the use of laser timing gates to control for velocity during UnSS. The limits of agreement for all velocity measures were all less than 1.0 ms, which can be considered negligible differences.
An interaction between running task and time in PC velocity was observed (p=0.022) (table 4). Post hoc analysis showed that PC velocity was significantly elevated during PpSS relative to UnSS during testing session 1, but not for testing session 2. The PC velocity during PpRun was significantly elevated relative to both sidestepping tasks in both testing sessions.
Both balance8 and technique15 training conducted in controlled laboratory settings have been shown to be effective in decreasing internal rotation8 and/or valgus8 ,15 knee moments during both PpSS and UnSS. However, to date, no study has determined if BTT-implemented adjunct to normal ‘real-world’ preseason and regular season training is effective in reducing peak knee moments during the WA phase of PpSS and UnSS. Additionally, it is unknown if an athlete's knee joint biomechanics change over a playing season. The major finding of this study was BTT implemented in a ‘real-world’ community-level training environment did not change an athlete's laboratory measurements of knee joint biomechanics during either PpSS or UnSS. However, knee moments during both PpSS and UnSS tasks were found to respond differently over the playing season.
The main finding of this study is that 28 weeks of BTT was not effective in reducing external knee moments when implemented adjunct to normal ‘real-world’ AF training. These results do not align with previous literature. Neuromuscular23 and plyometric24 training conducted in ‘ideal’ training settings were both effective in decreasing valgus knee moments during double-leg drop-landing sport tasks. A condensed plyometric-based training protocol implemented adjunct to regular season basketball training was then shown to be effective in reducing peak extension and valgus knee moments during a similar double-leg drop-landing task (Y. S. Lee, personal communication, 19 January 2011).25 Chappell and Limpisvasti26 showed that 10–15 min of neuromuscular training adjunct to preseason soccer and regular season basketball training was effective in reducing valgus knee moments during double-leg stop-landing task. These significant results were in part attributed to two factors, (1) high athlete compliance,25 ,26 which was as high as 100%,26 and (2) low coach/trainer to athlete ratios during training, which was approximately 3:11,25 and 2:33.26 Within this study, we had low athlete compliance (45%) and a relatively high coach to athlete ratio (1:40). These may have been two major limiting factors preventing the positive biomechanical responses observed in laboratory-based studies8 ,15 from being transferred to a ‘real-world’ community-level training setting.
It is possible that modifying the BTT protocol may have improved athlete compliance, which may have resulted in different biomechanical outcomes following training. Mykleburst et al27 modified their balance training protocol midway between a 2-year training intervention based on athlete and coach feedback. Following these changes, they observed reductions in ACL injury rates in the second season of their training protocol. It is evident that future research should give more attention towards addressing an athlete's perceptions of and compliance to biomechanically based ACL injury-prevention protocols.28 Of equal importance, a coach's attitudes and beliefs toward an intended ACL injury-prevention programme must also be addressed to ensure the intended benefits are effectively translated to the athlete.29 Considering the psychological needs of both athletes and coaches when implementing injury-prevention protocols at the community level will likely increase athlete compliance30 and therefore the probability of positive biomechanical outcomes associated with balance8 and technique15 training being transferred to ‘real-world’ community-level training environments.18 ,29 ,31
Within-season training effects were observed in this study. For example, following a season of AF, both the BTT and ST groups displayed a 45% reduction in internal-rotation knee moments with no change to either their valgus or flexion knee moments during PpSS. This could be due to PpSS being a common sport skill within AF, which is performed repeatedly by athletes during normal training (2 h×2 days per week) and play (2 h×1 day per week) in both training groups. It is therefore possible that athletes learnt to adopt techniques during their normal AF training and game play that reduced their internal-rotation knee moments and ACL injury risk.
Within-season training effects were also observed during UnSS; external valgus knee moments in both the BTT and ST groups increased by 31% between testing sessions. These results are supported by previous research, which has shown that following 12 weeks of normal AF football training (control group), valgus knee moments increased by 26% during the WA phase of sidestepping.8 It could be argued that differences in CoD angle and/or velocity between biomechanical training sessions may have contributed to these observed increases. However, PC velocity, CoD angle or CoD velocity during UnSS were all shown to be similar between testing sessions, suggesting that these variables are not associated with the significant increases in valgus knee moments. Results show an athlete may be at increased risk of ACL injury when performing an unplanned sidestep in the latter half of a playing season. Additionally, these results support previous literature and show that unplanned sport tasks are unique factors associated with ACL injury risk.6 ,32
The ecological validity of the biomechanical testing protocol used in this investigation may have influenced knee loading measurements during biomechanical testing and in turn the non-significant findings associated with the BTT protocol. For example, all running tasks were conducted under non-fatigued conditions; athletes were tested in isolation rather than in a team environment and differences in the running surface between the laboratory and training environment were apparent. However, we should note that previous training interventions, using the same biomechanical methods have been sensitive enough to measure significant changes in valgus knee loading pre to post training.8 ,15 We therefore believe our ‘non change’ in knee joint biomechanics following BTT were likely associated with the training intervention and not the biomechanical testing protocol.
BTT in ‘real-world’ training environments, adjunct to normal AF training was not effective in changing an athlete's knee joint kinematics or decreasing external knee moments during the WA phase PpSS or UnSS. Knee joint biomechanics respond to normal AF training differently during both preplanned and unplanned sidestepping tasks. When performing an unplanned sidestepping task in the latter half of a playing season, athletes are at an increased risk of ACL injury. Both preplanned and unplanned sidestepping tasks are therefore recommended during biomechanical testing when assessing the effectiveness of prophylactic training protocols. Athlete compliance to training and coach to athlete ratios should be considered when implementing training interventions in ‘real-world’ community-level training environments.
What this study adds
▶ An athlete's knee joint biomechanics changes over a season of play.
▶ Preplanned and unplanned sport tasks are recommended when assessing the effectiveness of prophylactic training protocols.
▶ Athlete compliance is an important factor associated with the ‘real-world’ implementation of prophylactic training protocols.
The authors thank Kevin Murray and Laura Firth from the UWA Statistical Consulting Group for statistical advice. Dr Dara Twomey provided support to the PAFIX study in her role as the Victorian-based Project Manager.
Funding Australian National Health and Medical Research Foundation.
Competing interests None.
Patient consent Obtained.
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My shrimp parm hero was delicious. It came with huge shrimp, lots of mozzarella and sauce.
Q: Is shrimp healthy to eat?
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In recent years, high-speed oval track racing has become one of the most popular sports in the country, especially with regards to the NASCAR and Indy Racing Leagues. In general, typical oval track raceways have used reinforced concrete outer walls for containment of the high-speed race cars. While these concrete walls provide effective containment of errant vehicles, their rigidity has led to many serious injuries and fatalities. Recently, an energy-absorbing barrier was developed by the Midwest Roadside Safety Facility at the University of Nebraska - Lincoln to mitigate the severity of impacts with the outer containment walls. The new barrier, known as the Steel And Foam Energy Reduction (SAFER) Barrier, consists of a high-strength, tubular steel skin that distributes the impact load to energy-absorbing foam cartridges in order to reduce the severity of the impact, extend the impact event, and provide the occupant of the race car additional protection. Currently, the SAFER barrier has been installed at a large number of race tracks across the country. A significant number of impacts involving both NASCAR and IRL vehicles have occurred into the various SAFER barrier installations. Impact data from these events has been collected by the safety personnel in the motorsports organizations and provided to the designers of the SAFER barrier. This accident data was then compared with the data from similar impacts on unprotected concrete walls in order to provide a real-world performance evaluation of the SAFER barrier. Analysis of the crash data demonstrated that the SAFER barrier provides a substantial decrease in impact severity and potential driver injuries over impacts with an unprotected concrete wall.
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- Automotive Engineering
- Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality
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Predict the weather like Charles Darwin with Admiral Fitzroy's ingenious storm glass. The liquid inside the glass will indicate what the weather has in store. The liquid within the glass is a mixture of several ingredients, most commonly distilled water, ethanol, potassium nitrate, ammonium chloride and camphor. This specific mixture was developed by Admiral Robert FitzRoy and used on his voyage with Charles Darwin on HMS Beagle.
- If the liquid in the glass is clear, the weather will be bright and clear.
- If the liquid is cloudy, the weather will be cloudy as well, perhaps with precipitation.
- If there are small dots in the liquid, humid or foggy weather can be expected.
- A cloudy glass with small stars indicates thunderstorms.
- If the liquid contains small stars on sunny winter days, then snow is coming.
- If there are large flakes throughout the liquid, it will be overcast in temperate seasons or snowy in the winter.
- If there are crystals at the bottom, this indicates frost.
- If there are threads near the top, it will be windy.
Since 1992, Kikkerland Design has established itself as one of the top companies in the world offering unique, inspiring, well-designed products.
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I've just read the paper Better Computer Go Player with Neural Network and Long-term Prediction which seems to make a big step in direction of getting a better algorithm playing Go than any human.
Now I was wondering how the game could be changed to something which is well-defined and where humans are still much better than computers.
Does a Go variant on an infinite board exist?
One would have to play it with a computer, of course. Having such an infinite board (of which only the parts which were looked at are calculated, of course) isn't really a programming problem.
As the boundaries seem to be important, one could add random borders to the game. The winning criterion could be an absolute / relative difference in points. What would be the implications of such a game?
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In this Windows 8 Tutorial you will learn how to change the application tile size for metro applications. If the application is not a metro style application you will not be able to re-size it. Their are a few benefits to changing the tile size of applications including the ability to have more applications viewable in smaller space so that you don't have to scroll through assuming you make applications smaller. Enlarging the application will allow you to see more information about that app. Its also beneficial for those who may be visually impaired as the large tiled applications are more readable. If you have any questions about this Windows 8 tutorials let us know and we will do our best to assist you with learning Windows 8.
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When I was a child, I did not understand the passage of time. I would feel a sense of loss, anxiety, and confusion as moments would drift and fade in and out of focus from one to another. Time seemed like this elusive, all-powerful force that would discombobulate my sense of presence in moments and […]Read more "Total Presence"
Intentionality is often posited as one of the first characteristics of mind, referring to the mind’s innate tendency to be directed towards something other than itself. However, self-awareness is also a feature of the mind, and self-awareness seems counter to intentionality in that it reflexively stares back into the conscious state itself, almost as though […]Read more "Intentionality and Self-Awareness" | <urn:uuid:48f4fe47-3cd1-49c9-8a60-9cef374e5a3b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://whatisexperience.com/category/phenomenology/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571536.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811224716-20220812014716-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.985798 | 160 | 1.585938 | 2 |
In the past, Florida’s back-to-school sales tax holiday covered only the basics – paper, pencils and erasers. Now, the popular series of tax exemptions covers a wide range of school-related products.
The 2014 Back-to-School Sales Tax Holiday begins at 12:01 a.m. Friday, Aug. 1 through 11:59 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 3.
During the three-day period, purchases of specified school supplies and clothing, as well as computers and computer-related accessories are exempt from sales tax.
Tax-exempt clothing includes wallets or bags, handbags, backpacks, fanny packs and diaper bags – excluding briefcases, suitcases and other garment bags— with a sales price of $100 or less.
The state defines clothing as any article of wearing apparel intended to be worn on or about the body, excluding watches, watchbands, jewelry, umbrellas and handkerchiefs; and all footwear, except skis, swim fins, roller blades and skates. Exemptions are for clothing items from $75 to $100 or less per item. The amount for school supplies, $15 or less per item, remains the same.
School supplies are:
- Pens, pencils, erasers, and crayons
- Notebooks, notebook filler paper, legal pads and binders and construction paper
- Lunch boxes
- Markers, folders, poster board, composition books, poster paper
- Scissors, cellophane tape, glue or paste
- Rulers, computer disks, protractors, compasses, and calculators
Supplies considered non-exempt include books, computer paper, correction tape, fluid or pens, masking tape, printer paper, staplers and staples. The back-to-school holiday does not apply to sales made within a theme park or entertainment complex, public lodging establishments, or airports.
The tax-exempt status will apply to the first $750 of the sales price of digital tools like personal computers and accessories. This way, the purchase of higher priced items will still get some savings.
“Personal computers” are items and accessories purchased for noncommercial home or personal use. They include:
- Electronic book readers
- Laptops and desktops
- Tablets and other handheld devices
- Keyboards and mice
- Monitors (without TV tuners)
- Modems and routers
- Non-recreational software
Cellphones, video game consoles, digital media devices and other devices not used in data processing are not included in the sales tax holiday. As in previous tax-free holidays, shoes and clothing up to $75 and school supplies—pencils, pens, notebooks, erasers and other school items up to $15—will continue to be tax-free during the three-day weekend.
“Digital literacy is essential for our children, and we appreciate the work of all the legislative supporters of the sales tax holiday,” said Rick McAllister, president and CEO of the Florida Retail Federation, a major proponent of the back-to-school tax break. The Federation had also advocated the introduction of digital tools to the exemptions.
“Retailers are reporting a strong trend of sales growth of between 4 and 5 percent statewide, and we expect spending to remain strong through the crucial month of August,” McAllister added. “Florida’s economy is humming along at a nice pace, and we are very pleased to see consumer spending warming up. Consumer spending is at least 70 percent of the economy, so when retailers are doing well it usually means everyone else is doing well.”
Florida first offered a sales tax holiday in 1998, which lasted seven days. For a few years after that, the tax holiday was for just clothing and footwear. In 2001, the Legislature added school supplies to the list.
In 2013, computers and related accessories valued at $750 or less for either personal or home use were added.
Online purchases can be exempt from sales tax if the item is for immediate delivery, even when that delivery is after the holiday. If the sale price includes shipping and handling, and multiple items are included on the sales invoice, shipping and handling charges must be “fairly assigned” to each item on the ticket to determine if an item qualifies for tax exemption.
Articles in a set cannot be priced separately, so individual items qualify for the tax-exemption. If a taxable item is part of the set, the entire purchase is subject to tax.
For items returned after the holiday and exchanged for the same item are not subject to tax; however, items exchanged for different item will be taxed.
If using a rain check for an item during the holiday, regardless of when the store issued the rain check, the item will be tax-exempt if it qualifies. Items purchased with rain checks issued during the tax holiday are subject to tax, if purchased after the end of the weekend.
According to a report by The Washington Economics Group (WEG), the 2010 back-to-school sales tax holiday translated to $7 million in additional state tax revenue, over what it would be without a tax holiday. In 2010, consumers purchased taxable and tax-exempt items, increasing sales of taxable items by $115 million. Total purchases in August surpassed estimates by $289 million. | <urn:uuid:f2631135-4774-4180-b82c-3c749e9a3fd6> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://saintpetersblog.com/florida-back-school-sales-tax-holiday-weekend-begins-friday/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572198.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815175725-20220815205725-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.944606 | 1,112 | 1.546875 | 2 |
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A vehicle's transmission fluid is necessary because it keeps moving parts lubricated and helps the transmission maintain an optimal temperature. In an automatic transmission, the fluid also supplies hydraulic pressure and friction for the internal parts, so they operate correctly and smoothly. Since the gears work and shift differently, the correct type of transmission fluid depends on whether your car has an automatic or manual transmission. Even after those two categories, you will find there are many different types of transmission fluid. Aside from traditional formulas that are crude oil based, The owner's manual should specify the best type of fluid for your car's transmission needs. There are a few variables when it comes to how frequently you need to change your transmission fluid. Those variables will depend on the age or model of your vehicle, the type of transmission, what the vehicle is mainly used for, and the specific manufacturer's recommendations. If yo ... read more | <urn:uuid:07165838-3f48-4ddb-ac52-6a965f0619d1> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.rainierauto.com/blog/archives/july-2022 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572033.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814113403-20220814143403-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.916743 | 193 | 1.875 | 2 |
There’s convergence here – we are just concluding Community Foundations Week (officially declared twenty-five years ago by President George H. W. Bush for the week of November 12-18), we’re mailing out our annual reports, and I returned a few weeks ago from a community foundation conference that celebrated 100 years of community foundations in the United States.
OK. There are enough “community foundations” in that first paragraph to make many people stop reading. Why? Over the years I’ve learned that “community foundations” are an “inside baseball” (to draw from my last column) kind of a thing. If you know what they are, you understand their importance. If you don’t know, you have no idea why they matter. The problem is “community foundation” is not easy to explain in a 60 second sound bite or even a 500 word column.
Why do we all care? It comes down to the local, or the “community,” part of foundation. Foundations for so long were defined by big names and very wealthy people. Community foundations popularized the concept and made “foundation” more accessible to everyone. This now extends to Mendocino County where anyone can give through, and participate in, our community foundation.
Our 2013-14 Community Foundation annual report highlights this concept and describes the power of collective giving and collective impact. As I write, “we may all be able to support one member of the band, but together we can fund an orchestra.” Sure, there are some people who are able, through current giving or estate plans, to develop their own individual or family funds that are quite specific. But often these are combined with other funds with a similar purpose to create a bigger collective impact. Mr. Farrell from Willits left money in his trust for a fund for animals, but that was amplified when a few living donors created a similar fund – enhancing the amount available every year.
The Community Foundation Conference in Cleveland was an overwhelming testament to the community foundation model. It would be an amazing journey to look at a single investment made in the Cleveland Foundation endowment 100 years ago and follow how it has been used to sustain core institutions and preserve community values while adapting to the unprecedented transformations the city has experienced in that time.
Our community foundation in Mendocino County primarily uses a traditional business model based on endowment. That means, at the request of our donors, we invest the money and use a percentage of the total value each year for grants. We use the endowment model for several reasons. Mendocino County, unlike more populous regions, does not have a lot of corporate and private foundations to support non-profits. The Community Foundation is one of the primary sources of grants from endowment income. We also understand the needs of our county are long-term and the resources are scant, and endowments permit sustainable, lasting philanthropy. Finally, endowments fit the needs of many donors who want to know that their investment will be spent prudently over time. | <urn:uuid:16205d0b-1322-4e3f-9025-7f8cc42733a3> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://communityfound.org/giving-back/theres-a-lot-to-celebrate-in-community-foundations/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572198.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815175725-20220815205725-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.962173 | 633 | 1.679688 | 2 |
[PAST EVENT] "Exploring Orphan Narratives in American Literature"
LocationStryker Center, Boundary Street
Access & Features
- Open to the public
American popular culture is full of orphans, from Huckleberry Finn to Superman. Join Erna Anderson, PhD candidate in American Studies, for this talk that will explore how some literary orphans have been used as symbols and enforcers of colonization while Black and Native American orphans have been depicted as victims of the very same systems.
February 23, 2 p.m. in the Stryker Center, 412 N. Boundary Street.
The Emerging Scholars Series is offered in partnership between the A&S Graduate Center and the Williamsburg Regional Library.
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Skin break out first comes out amid puberty, when hormone levels start to increase. This sudden flucturation of hormones makes the sebaceous organs go into overdrive. They begin producing expanded dimensions of such oils that end up getting to be stopped up inside the organs. At the point when the oils can’t get away, skin inflammation results!
So it’s a given that when there is a vacillation in the hormone levels inside the body, it can trigger an expansion in sebaceous oil creation, and consequently builds the opportunity that an episode of skin inflammation will probably happen. With women, skin breakouts are normal while they are taking contraception pills and furthermore when they end up pregnant.
Using Birth Control Pills to Control Acne
Women who do take the birth control pill and who notice that their acne is getting worse should discuss the situation with their doctor. Different types of oral contraception have differing levels of hormones and one side effect of some contraception is an increase in acne. Switching to another brand may bring acne back under control.
Any woman who is healthy, and is at least age 15, who has begun menstruating and who has decided to start using oral contraception can discuss getting a prescription for a birth control pill with their doctor. There are several brands that help clear up acne but only one so far has been approved by the FDA for treatment of acne and that is Ortho Tri-cyclen.
It is important to note that taking the birth control pill as a way to treat acne should be the last alternative, after all other acne treatment options have been attempted without success. The birth control pill does have side effects and it must be taken exactly as prescribed to be effective.
Acne During Pregnancy
Women who have become pregnant often report an increase in acne, too. Many changes occur within a woman’s body in an effort to properly prepare the body for the growing fetus. The two primary female hormones at work in every woman’s body are progesterone and estrogen. Progesterone is more androgenic than estrogen, which basically means it is more like the hormones found in men. Increased progesterone during pregnancy can cause the sebaceous glands to produce more sebaceous oils than normal and that is what can cause outbreaks of acne.
In the event that conceivable, the most ideal approach to deal with skin break out amid pregnancy is to understand that it is a temporary issue that will generally leave once the infant is conceived. In the event that this is beyond the realm of imagination, examine your choices over with a dermatologist who has encounter working with patients amid their pregnancy. Subsequent to experiencing your circumstance, the dermatologist will most likely recommend treatment alternatives that’ll make you happier with your appearance and that won’t hurt your child. | <urn:uuid:d70adbfe-2491-4464-89fa-a7391d2e502b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://ourbabyfriendly.com/birth-control-pills-pregnancy-and-acne/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572033.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814113403-20220814143403-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.949638 | 571 | 2.328125 | 2 |
Developing wind farms since early 2000 Wind power is one of the fastest growing energy sources in the world. Statkraft has developed onshore wind power for around 20 years and is the leading producer in Northern Europe. In 2020, Statkraft owns more than 20 wind farms...
A big player Tuuliwatti Oy develops and builds modern industrial onshore wind farms. The company is Finland’s leading wind power producer and operator with more than a decade of experience in the industry. In 2019, Tuuliwatti produced about 20 % of the country’s wind...
Wind Atlas for Norway
Customer: Norwegian Water Resources and Energy Directorate
With the aid of the mesoscale meteorological model (WRF), we have created
the first comprehensive wind atlas for Norway. The wind atlas has a horizontal resolution of 1km x 1km. The results from the wind atlas have also been compared to 22 measurement masts, and the comparisons showed that 20 of those masts had errors within +/- 10 %. In addition to the wind atlas we have created maps of production variables (capacity factor, full load hours), icing and terrain complexity.
SSVAB (Vindkraft Norr)
Customer: SCA Vind AB
Location: Area between Östersund and Sundsvall, Sweden
Size: About 1.000MW
Mapping of wind conditions for a 1000 MW wind project in central Sweden.
Kjeller Vindteknikk has been responsible for an extensive measurement campaign.
We have installed wind measurement devices on 18 masts for these projects.
Kjeller Vindteknikk has also been responsible for the analysis of the data and calculations of energy yield estimates.
Due Dilligence of energy yield
Location: Various locations in Sweden
Kjeller Vindteknikk has carried out bankable energy yield estimates for a number of wind farms in Sweden. This includes analysis of data from measurement masts, SODARs, model simulations, uncertainty analysis and icing analysis.
Calculation of production losses due to icing
Customer: O2 Vind
Location: Various existing wind farms in Sweden
With the help of the mesoscale meteorological model WRF, we carry out on-going calculations of production losses due to icing for a number of wind farms in Sweden. The calculations are updated on a monthly basis. Today, Kjeller Vindteknikk delivers icing-forecasts and inproduction forecasts the losses due to icing.
Customer:FORSCA (Fred Olsen and SCA)
Location: Västernorrlands län, Sweden
To map the wind conditions in the area, Kjeller Vindteknikk has installed four met masts of 120 m height. One of the met masts is instrumented with ice-free ultrasonic sensors at several heights which gives a valuable data cover, even during the winter months. The ice-free sensors are supplied with power from one of our strong power supply units. Kjeller Vindteknikk also performs analysis of the measurement data, there among a running long term correction of the data.
Wind measuments at 140 m height
Customer: Högland Skog & Kraft AB
Location: Hocksjön, Sweden
Kjeller Vindteknikk has installed two 140 m high met masts at Hocksjön. The met masts are state-of-the-art, both regarding the configuration and the choice of sensors. By using Kjeller Vindteknikk’s power supply units, heated sensors can be used to achieve high availability of data even during the winter periods. During the measurement campaign, continuous work is carried out including data control, running long term correction of the data and preliminary reports. This contributes to the high quality of the measurements and is the basis for further calculations of the energy yield for the planned wind farm.
Wind measurements for RES
Customer: RES (Nordisk Vindkraft)
Loation: South of Norway
Kjeller Vindteknikk has installed and instrumented three 80 m high met masts in the South of Norway. Two of the met masts are located in remote areas without road access. This has put high demands on the safety and planning of the installations.
Wind measurement and analysis for JP Vind
Customer: JP Vind
Location: Borgvattnet and Skyttmon, Jämtland, Sweden
Kjeller Vindteknikk is mapping the wind conditions in the project areas Borgvattnet and Skyttmon, with two 100 m high met masts. Both met masts are equipped with heated sensors to achieve valuable ice-free measurements during the winter periods. The measurement data is then analyzed and the expected energy yield from the wind farms is calculated.
Customer: Stena Renewable AB
Location: Various locations in Sweden
Kjeller Vindteknikk is responsible for collecting data from and maintaining more than 10 SODAR devices at various locations in Sweden.
Customer: EU Commission
An EU-financed research and development project with the goal of creating a wind atlas for the Baltic Sea, North Sea and Celtic Sea. There is also a strong element of development of new methods in the project. A large pool of different sources of information about wind conditions is drawn from; satellite data, LIDAR, measurement masts and meteorological model data must all be combined to form a final wind atlas. Kjeller Vindteknikk has the responsibility of preparing the final wind atlas.
Ongoing forecasts of day-ahead production
Location: All of Norway
Kjeller Vindteknikk delivers, in cooperation with met.no, day-ahead production forecasts for all of Statkraft’s wind farms in Norway: Smøla, Hitra and Kjøllefjord.
Kjeller Vindteknikk has the responsibility of collecting data from and maintaining the LIDAR devices at Utsira. The LIDAR is placed on the westernmost coast of the island and the position was chosen to be as representative as possible of the offshore wind conditions in the area. We also do various analyses of the measurement data to best characterize the offshore wind. In the first year after installation the LIDAR had a technical availability of over 95%
Location: Off Karmøy, Rogaland, Norway
Kjeller Vindteknikk calculated load extremes for this turbine which is placed offshore from Haugesund, on the west coast of Norway. In addition Kjeller Vindteknikk delivers, in cooperation with met.no, daily forecasts for wind speed, production and wave heights.
Location: Kjøllefjord, Lebesby kommune, Finnmark, Norway
Kjeller Vindteknikk has carried out wind measurements, analysis, layout design and calculations of production estimates. The latter has been done for different phases of the project, with the latest performed when the turbines had been in operation for a period. We have also analyzed icing and uncertainty.
Sheringham Shoal Offshore wind farm
Location: Norfolk, England
Kjeller Vindteknikk has carried out meteorological modeling and provided time series for production of this wind farm, which is under construction. Analyses of energy production have also been carried out.
Racco Wind farm arctic wind measurements
Customer: Varanger Kraft
Location: Berlevåg, Berlevåg kommune, Finnmark, Norway
Kjeller Vindteknikk has carried out and been responsible for wind measurements at Racco. Racco is located 12 km from any road and is prone to extreme weather and periods with icing. The measurement station has heated sensors and its own power supply. A layout and production estimates have been provided for different construction scenarios.
Fakken Wind farm
Customer: Troms Kraft
Location: Fakken, Vannøya, Karlsøy Kommune, Troms, Norway
Kjeller Vindteknikk was involved as technical consultant throughout the process of purchasing turbines for Fakken wind farm near Tromsø, a project of approximately 60 MW. The role was to be the customer’s expert on wind conditions. Fakken is a wind farm in complex, mountainous terrain. The lifespan and warranties for the park were important themes in this work. Kjeller Vindteknikk has also carried out wind measurements and calculation of production estimates for Fakken.
Guleslettene Wind farm
Location: Guleslettene, Bremanger Kommune, Sogn og Fjordane, Norway
Guleslettene wind farm is placed at a high elevation with exposure in the direction of the sea, immediately north of Florø, Norway. Zephyr and Elkem Fornybar Energi have plans to build a wind farm of up to 180 MW on the site. Kjeller Vindteknikk has been responsible for a demanding wind measurement campaign, consisting of three measurement masts. One of them has been equipped with heated sensors and an external power supply.
Kvitvola Wind farm
Customer: Austri Vind
Location: Engerdal kommun, Norway
Austri Vind is planning a wind farm on the mountain Kvitvol, an area 1000 m above sea level. The site is characterized by rough climatic conditions. Kjeller Vindteknikk has been chosen to carry out wind mapping of the area. As a first step in this process, one met mast has been installed, equipped with instruments of high quality. The mast is also equipped with one heated sensor supplied with power from a specially designed power supply, with diesel generator, solar panels and a large battery storage of 800 Ah.
Engvikfjellet Wind farm
Location: Engvikfjellet, Snillfjord Kommune, Sør-Trøndelag, Norway
Kjeller Vindteknikk has carried out shadow flicker calculations, as well as wind measurements and analysis of collected data.
Yttre Vikna Wind farm
Customer: Sarepta Energi
Location: Vikna kommun, Norway
To be able to follow up the energy production, a met mast has been erected during the first step of the construction of the wind farm. Kjeller Vindteknikk has made the planning, installation and operation of a 70 m high self-supported met mast. The instrumentation is made according to IEC standards. The mast and instruments were put together on ground and then mounted with help of a crane. The measurement equipment has been connected to the Enercon SCADA system so that all wind data is collected and saved separately together with the production data.
Customer: Lyse Produksjon
Location: Bjerkreim kommun, Norway
Kjeller Vindteknikk has planned, installed and put a 80 m high met mast into operation in the planned wind farm. We are also responsible to follow up the measurements from the met mast. The mast is erected 3 km from nearest road. The foundation and supporting wires are adapted to the remote access in a cost-effective way. The installation was made by helicopter.
Customer: Austri Vind
Location: Trysil kommun, Norway
Kjeller Vindteknikk has been selected to carry out wind mapping of the area where a wind farm of 110 MW is planned. To map the wind conditions a 100 m high met mast has been installed, equipped with high quality sensors. Occurrence of icing during the winters is frequent and the mast is equipped with ice-free sensors supplied with power from our efficient power supply units. As a complement to a regular met mast, we also carry out wind measurements with a WindCube-Lidar from Leosphere. The operation and maintenance of the Lidar is carried out by out certified Lidar operators.
Wind and production estimates in the Balkans
Customer: Terra Romania
Microscale analysis based on mesoscale model data for wind farms from 300-500 MW. Layout and production estimates, advice on choice of turbines and design of wind measurement campaigns. Micrositing of turbines and measurement masts.
Wind and production analyses in South Africa
Customer: Afri-Coast Engineers
Location: South Africa
Kjeller Vindteknikk has carried out several analyses of wind, wind power production and turbulence for wind farm areas near Port Elizabeth in South Africa. Quality control of wind measurements and advising on the design of measurement campaigns.
Customer: Statens Vegvesen Region Vest
Location: Åsarødholmen, Suldal Kommune, Rogaland, Norway
Kjeller Vindteknikk has been commissioned to measure wind and turbulence at 60m height, as well as to carry out analyses of extreme winds and the spectral distribution of turbulent energy.
Bjørvika – Urban wind conditions
Customer: HAV Eiendom, Bjørbekk & Lindheim
Location: Oslo, Norway
Expansion of Bjørvika will affect the local wind conditions. Kjeller Vindteknikk has assessed the wind conditions for the planned Munch Museum and Deichman Library, as well as the surrounding buildings. Frequency of wind in different speed classes and exceedance of comfort criteria were calculated for the Munch Museum.
Analysis of meteorological conditions for possible airport locations in the Faroe Islands
Location: Glyvursnes and Søltuvik, Faroe Islands
Kjeller Vindteknikk has been commissioned to analyze wind and turbulence conditions, as well as visibility and cloud-heights for two possible locations of a new airport in the Faroe Islands.
Wind and climate conditions in Oslo
Customer: Plan- og bygningsetaten
Location: Oslo, Norway
Kjeller Vindteknikk has conducted an assessment of the wind and climate conditions in the new area Filipstad planned in central Oslo. Computational fluid dynamic simulations (CFD), combined with climate data from a numerical weather model, have been used to determine the future wind conditions in the area. The end product is an estimate of the area’s future wind comfort. The wind comfort levels are used as guidance by the architects in the planning and design of the new buildings and roads in the area. The results of the assessment are also useful in determining the suitability of different places for distinct purposes, such as cafés, benches, playgrounds, walkways and bike paths etc.
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It was the best time in Jacob Hudson’s life. He was about to marry Abigail Rodgers, his best friend and love of his life.
Together they would build their dream home and start a family. Jacob’s carpentry business was successful and he was closer than ever to his siblings. Life was good. 1911, a time when Sir Robert Laird Borden was Prime Minister and King George V was on the throne, life in the Canadian Prairies wasn’t easy, but Jacob was no stranger to hard work and integrity was his middle name. Jacob and Abigail’s happiness wasn’t everlasting. An abrupt illness, extreme weather, unexpected debt; each obstacle more difficult than the last. Jacob was determined and trusted in the Lord, but not everyone had his faith. While Jacob thinks he can help anyone who is in need, he comes face to face with the harsh facts when he too has to rely on others for help. How will Jacob overcome the things he cannot change? When his faith is tested, can he continue to trust that God will never fail? Follow Jacob and Abigail and their family back to Abbington Pickets through early 20th century Saskatchewan, Canada and their intriguing story of a carpenter who followed his heart in a small community only to find more than he expected. | <urn:uuid:d3a331d8-c16a-4dc7-92e6-756dd06425d5> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.1531entertainment.com/2022/07/15/jacobs-place-christian-historical-romance-by-h-c-hewitt/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572033.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814113403-20220814143403-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.989869 | 274 | 1.578125 | 2 |
Steven Kutcher is not the kind of entomologist who wantonly sticks bugs on pins in display cases. He is the kind of entomologist who lovingly applies non-toxic paint to a bug’s feet, lets the bug walk around on a damp piece of paper or canvas to create a tiny masterpiece, and then carefully cleans the bug off when done.
In the video below, Kutcher begins his story about how he came to make his paintings with this anecdote: “In the ’80s, I worked on a project with Steven Spielberg. And they asked me to have a fly walk through ink and leave fly footprints. I didn’t know how to do it, so I experimented, and I figured out how to make a fly walk through ink and leave fly footprints.” I really like the way this statement repeats itself. There is something very free and unconscious about it, like a found poem. Only a man who helps bugs make paintings could say something so sort of clumsily elegant. I think the fact that he creates art this way is pretty interesting, but I think he himself is arguably more interesting. Here’s his video about how and why he creates this bug art.
I like how he carefully spins the paper to make them make little circles. And how about that shot of Kutcher in the mirror, after he has tenderly showered off that little stinkbug, when he says, “I have to take good care of him, because he’s an artist, after all.” Part of you thinks, “OK, that’s a bit much.” But then you think well, nice work if you can get it. | <urn:uuid:fe78b812-f790-4151-9050-d42f171c795c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://grist.org/living/thats-not-just-a-bug-thats-an-amazing-artist-who-happens-to-be-a-bug/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572198.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815175725-20220815205725-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.962545 | 387 | 2.09375 | 2 |
What is WordPress?
If you’re in the web development industry, then you know WordPress is a wonderful and intuitive platform for website creation. If you’re new to the industry or are looking for someone to develop your website, then you may be asking, “what is WordPress?”
In the most basic terms, WordPress is a free website builder. Topic covered, blog over, right? Well, not quite. WordPress is so much more than what it seems.
What is WordPress?
At its core, WordPress is the most popular way to create your own website or blog. In fact, WordPress powers over 40% of all the websites on the Internet. But, what is it?
WordPress, created in 2003, is a web publishing open-source software that can create websites, blogs, and much more. It’s grown to a complete content management system with thousands of custom plugins so you can develop and run any sort of business or personal blog online.
A content management system (CMS) is basically a tool that makes it easy to manage important aspects of your website – like content – without needing to know anything about programming. The end result is that WordPress makes building a website accessible to anyone – even people who aren’t developers.
With WordPress, you can create:
- Business websites
- eCommerce stores
- Social networks
- Membership sites
- And so much more.
What’s The Difference Between WordPress.org and WordPress.com?
Yes, there are two different versions of WordPress. The most common version and the one you’ll likely use when developing your website, is WordPress.org.
This is because the .org site is:
- Allows you to install your own web host
The .com version is a lot more limited, because it is hosted by the .org website. You’ll only want to use WordPress.com if you want to use a for-profit, has built-in hosting, and paid service that is simple to use, but doesn’t have the same flexibility of the self-hosted .org site.
If you want to truly own your website, self-hosted WordPress.org is almost always the best option.
Who Uses WordPress?
As you may be able to guess from the percentage we shared, a majority of people and businesses use Wordpress. It’s used by everyone from Fortune 500 companies, news outlets, celebrities, music sites, bloggers, and so much more. Here are some of the websites that are run on WordPress:
- The White House
- The Rolling Stones
Built-In WordPress Features
As a website building platform and CMS, WordPress boasts an impressive feature set. Here are just a few of the many features of WordPress. You can also expand all of these by searching through their limitless plugin menu.
Search Engine Optimization (SEO) on WordPress is easy. Many plugins will grade your SEO for you, which means you’ll be able to track what you need to update and what you’re doing well. We always recommend Yoast SEO for beginners, because it breaks everything down for you in a simple format.
You can also check out these free WordPress SEO training videos to learn more.
WordPress is a lean website framework that is constantly striving to remove code “bloat” that slows down the loading speed of a website. If your website is slow, WordPress also makes it easy to speed it back up with easy-to-access HTML coding options and plugins.
Most WordPress themes are now mobile-friendly, which is huge for SEO and conversion rate! The faster your website loads on mobile sites, the higher it will be ranked on Google.
If your mobile site is taking more than 3 seconds to load, you need to do something about it. Statistics show that 53% of mobile users leave a site that takes too long to load. A delay by just one second in page load time can reduce conversions by up to 7%, according to a report on Fast Company.
Your mobile site’s speed is increasingly becoming important, especially after Google released the in July 2018 that made mobile page speed a direct ranking factor.
Media File Library
WordPress includes a built-in media library where you can upload and embed media files such as images or videos into your pages or posts. You can even perform basic edits to your images within WordPress.
Easy-to-Use User Interface
WordPress is very easy to use with no complicated settings. If you can use a WordPress processor, you can use WordPress. WordPress also has a focus on accessibility.
WordPress makes it easy to create navigation menus with links to your pages or custom links.
Adding a blog to your website is as simple as publishing a post.
So, What is WordPress?
In the simplest terms, WordPress is the most customizable free website builder you can find online. It boasts the most extensive plugin library, built-in security, and personalization options that other website builders do not. On top of that, most first-time website developers should be able to pick up WordPress development with relative ease and make a bare-bones site within a few days.
Check it out and try it for yourself! Or if you need a little help, reach out to us at Agile 451. | <urn:uuid:373bcac6-05f3-446e-a70f-86ce5ccb6eb1> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.agile451.com/index.php/insights/what-wordpress | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571909.51/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813051311-20220813081311-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.918333 | 1,162 | 2.40625 | 2 |
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