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Judging from the two sides warring over Proposition 16, voters might be led to believe it’s either a profit-driven control scheme or a vital taxpayer protection. It’s a bit of both, actually. But we find more persuasive arguments for the proposition, which would require local governments to get two-thirds voter approval before entering the lucrative electric utility business.
Prop. 16 is sponsored by the utility giant Pacific Gas & Electric, which serves Californians from Eureka to Bakersfield. The private company is investor-owned but regulated by the California Public Utilities Commission, as are Southern California Edison and San Diego Gas and Electric.
Some local governments are considering entering the retail electricity business, including some municipalities served by PG&E. Prop. 16’s opponents point out that it would raise the bar for entry for these potential competitors who desire to serve some of the San Francisco-based utility’s customers. The desire to protect its government-regulated monopoly probably explains why PG&E essentially is the only – and substantial – financial backer of Prop. 16. Others supporters include the California Chamber of Commerce and California Taxpayers’ Association.
The argument against Prop. 16 is that local government-run utilities have happier customers, who pay lower rates. Unlike PG&E, government-operated utilities, such as the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power and Anaheim Public Utilities, don’t build profit into their costs, and don’t pay franchise fees or property taxes like PG&E. Their users’ rates accordingly can be lower.
Taxpayers Against the PG&E Powergrab remind us that voters can have more influence on municipally owned utilities than on investor-owned utilities like PG&E, which answers to shareholders. This is a plus for consumers. Ratepayers complaining to distant, appointed PUC commissioners in Sacramento probably hold less sway than if complaining to local city council members who oversee municipal utilities. These are strong arguments against the proposition. We don’t dismiss them lightly.
However, Prop. 16 ultimately won’t change the public’s right to change to municipally operated utilities. It only makes that more difficult. If approved by voters June 8, Prop. 16 would require a two-thirds majority of voters before a local government could spend or borrow public funds to enter the retail electricity business. Voter approval isn’t necessary today.
This potential taxpayer protection is compelling. It may only be a coincidence that local governments are interested in becoming electricity providers at the same time they increasingly struggle to stay in the black. We don’t know how much of this desire to deliver electricity is driven by visions of potential new revenue streams. Many cities that operate utilities receive a portion of rate revenue for general purposes. The L.A. DWP and City Council are arguing over how much of that revenue the city should get as it copes with a huge budget deficit.
We’ve seen in Sacramento that, as the government’s budget sunk into deficit, officials creatively shifted money from one account to another, even borrowing against funds supposedly designated for exclusive purposes to pay, instead, for general operating expenses.
Municipal utilities may have a better track record in service and rates, but there’s no guarantee that difference will continue. There is, however, a distinct threat that financially strapped elected officials could use electricity rate increases to backfill government budgets. Increasing electricity rates is easier than raising new taxes, which generally require two-thirds vote of the people. So, too, should the government’s entry into the lucrative electricity business. Weighing the benefits for ratepayers against taxpayers’ exposure, we choose to urge a “yes” vote for Prop. 16, to restrain government.
- Editorial: Prop. 14: Open invitation to bland candidates
- Dan Walters: Prop. 14: Reshaping the political battlefield
- Debra Saunders: Prop 14: A year of desperate measures
- Editorial: Measure B: More taxes for fewer kids
- Editorial: Measure C: State needs cash from selling fairgrounds
- Editorial: No on Measure D in Mission Viejo
- Editorial: Prop. 15: Campaign finance measure flawed
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- Editorial: Prop. 16 not perfect, but good
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No Child Left Behind includes many new responsibilities and requirements for states, school districts, and schools. The law also includes new rights and responsibilities for children who attend public schools that receive Title I funds and their parents.
How are America's children doing in reading?
Not well. Approximately 40 percent of students across the nation cannot read at a basic level. Almost 70 percent of low-income fourth grade students cannot read at a basic level. In other words, these children struggle with fundamental reading skills like understanding and summarizing a story. Almost half the students living in urban areas cannot read at a basic level. Average-performing students have made no progress over the past 10 years, and the lowest-performing readers have become less successful over this same time period.
We know what works. Research has consistently identified the critical skills that young students need to become good readers. Teachers across different states and districts have demonstrated that sound, scientifically-based reading instruction can and does work with children. The critical missing piece lies in helping teachers benefit from the relevant research in each and every classroom. Real, nationwide progress can be made when we bring together proven methods and actually use them in America's classrooms to make sure that every child becomes a successful reader.
Research shows that children who read well in the early grades are far more successful in later years. Putting it another way-reading is a gateway skill to all learning. Young, capable readers can take greater advantage of school opportunities and develop invaluable confidence in their own abilities. Reading success leads directly to success in other subjects such as social studies, math, and science. In the long term, students who cannot read well are much more likely to drop out of school and be limited to lower-paying jobs throughout their lifetimes. Reading is undeniably one of the foundations for success in society.
Improving the reading skills of children is a top national and state priority. The President, the First Lady, the Secretary of Education, governors, business leaders, elected officials, citizens, community organizations, parents, and teachers are deeply committed to doing whatever it takes to ensure that every child can read. In the past few years, science has provided tremendous insight into exactly how children learn to read, and related research has identified the most essential components of reading instruction.
Reading First is a bold new national initiative, squarely aimed at helping every child in every state become a successful reader. For this purpose, up to nearly $6 billion will be distributed among the 50 states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico over the next several years. These funds are specifically dedicated to helping states and local school districts establish high-quality, comprehensive reading instruction for all children in kindergarten through third grade.
Reading First, unlike previous national reading programs, is a classroom-focused nationwide effort designed to help each and every student become a successful reader. Every state will be eligible to apply, and the most needy schools and districts will receive the funds and other support they will need to succeed. It differs from earlier initiatives by establishing clear, specific expectations for what can and should happen for every single student in a classroom. Reading First specifies that teachers' classroom instructional decisions must be informed by scientifically-based reading research.
Through Reading First funds, grants will be available for state and local programs in which students are systematically and explicitly taught five key early reading skills:
Phonemic awareness: the ability to hear, identify, and play with individual sounds - or phonemes - in spoken words
Phonics: the relationship between the letters of written language and the sounds of spoken language
Fluency: the capacity to read text accurately and quickly
Vocabulary: the words students must know to communicate effectively
Comprehension: the ability to understand and gain meaning from what has been read
Reading First appropriately concentrates attention on classroom learning. After all, during the average school day, students spend most of their time in classrooms. Classroom instructional time should reflect the most accurate and up-to-date knowledge about the science of teaching children how to read. For that reason, Reading First provides funds to states and local districts to help classroom teachers improve the reading instruction they deliver to all of their children.
States will ensure that primary grade teachers deliver reading instruction that is informed by scientifically-based reading research. For those teachers in schools and districts with the greatest need, Reading First funds may be used to organize additional professional development, purchase or develop high-quality instructional materials, or administer assessments or diagnostic tests. The common goal is to make sure that teachers have all the necessary tools to provide coherent, skills-based reading instruction for all children.
Students are expected to become proficient readers by the end of third grade. Teachers are expected to deliver consistent and coherent skills-based reading instruction. District and state leaders are expected to provide educators with ongoing, high-quality support that makes a difference in the classroom. Reading First contributes to these high expectations by steadfastly supporting high-quality local and state reading initiatives with the funds needed to make real improvements.
Reading First will be working when every child in our country becomes a successful and proficient reader, irrespective of economic circumstances or family background. Further, these efforts work when every child can read and understand a mathematics problem, social studies textbook, or science experiment because of a firm reading foundation established in the early elementary years through well-delivered, strong instruction. These efforts work when every child is ready for success and achievement in the later grades because every child mastered reading in the early grades.
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By John LaForge
Donald Trump: “America will never be a socialist country.â€
Too late. We already have socialism for the rich, with the nuclear power industry as a prime example.
On a level playing field, nuclear power would go bust. Those owners get financial supports or subsidies that safe renewables like solar power, geothermal, and wind power don’t get. Two particularly large government handouts keep the reactor business afloat, and without them it would crash overnight.
1) In a free market, the US Price Anderson Act would be repealed. The act provides limited liability insurance to reactor operators in the event of a loss-of-coolant, or other radiation catastrophe. The nuclear industry would have to get insurance on the open market like all other industrial operations. This would break their bank, since major insurers would only sell such a policy at astronomical rates, if at all.
2) The US Nuclear Waste Policy Act (NWPA) would also be repealed. NWPA is the government’s pledge to take custody of and assume liability for the industry’s radioactive waste. Without NWPA the industry would have to pay to contain, isolate and manage its waste for the 1-million-year danger period. The long-term cost would zero the industry’s portfolio in a quick “correction.â€
Jeremy Rifkin: “From a business perspective, it’s overâ€
Even if the industry retained the above two subsidies, economists say the reactor business is finished. Jeremy Rifkin — the renowned economic and social theorist, author, political advisor to the European Union and heads-of-state, and author of 20 books — was asked his view of nuclear power at a Wermuth Asset Management global investors’ conference.
“Frankly, I think … it’s over. Let me explain why from a business perspective. Nuclear power was pretty well dead-in-the-water in the 1980s, after Three Mile Island and Chernobyl. It had a come-back. The come-back was the industry saying: ‘We are part of the solution for climate change because we don’t emit CO2. It’s polluting, but there’s no CO2.’
“Here’s the issue: Nuclear power right now is six percent of energy of the world. There are only 400 nuclear power plants. These are old nuclear power plants. But our scientists tell us [that] to have a minimum impact on climate change — which is the whole rationale for bringing this technology back — nuclear would have to be 20 percent of the energy mix to have the minimum, minimum impact on climate change — not six percent of the mix.
“That means we’d have to replace the existing 400 nuclear plants and build 1,600 additional plants. Three nuclear plants have to be built every 30 days for 40 years to get to 20 percent, and by that time climate change will have run its course for us. So I think, from a business point of view, I just don’t see that investment. I’d be surprised if we replace 100 of the 400 existing nuclear plants which would take us down to 1 or 2 percent of the energy [mix].
“Number 2: We still don’t know how to recycle the nuclear waste and we’re 70 years in. We have good engineers in the United States. We spent 18 years and $8 billion building an underground vault in Yucca Mountain to store the waste for 10,000 years, but we can’t use it. It’s already no good because there are cracks in the mountain. But any geologist could have told them we live on tectonic plates and you can’t keep underground vaults secure.
“Number 3: We run into uranium deficits according to the IAEA [International Atomic Energy Agency] between 2025 and 2035 with just the existing 400 plants. So that means the price goes up.
“Number 4: We could do what the French generation of new plants is doing and recycle the uranium to plutonium. But then we have plutonium all over the world in an age of uncertainty and terrorism.
“Finally, and this is the big one that people don’t realize: We don’t have the water. Over 40 percent of all the fresh water consumed in France each year goes to cooling the nuclear reactors. It’s almost 50 percent now. When it comes back [when reactor cooling water is returned to the lakes and rivers] it’s heated and it’s dehydrating our ecosystems, and threatening our agriculture. We don’t have the water, and this is true all over the world. We have saltwater nuclear plants but then you have to put them on coastal regions and you risk a Fukushima because of tsunamis….
“So it’s no accident Siemens [Corporation] is out [of reactor business], Germany is out, Italy is out, Japan is now out… I’d be surprised if nuclear has much of a life left. I don’t think it’s a good business deal.â€
Rifkin is not alone in his assessment. William Von Hoene, Senior Vice President of Exelon Corp., said last April 16 at the annual US Energy Association’s meeting, “I don’t think we’re building any more nuclear plants in the United States,†Platts reported. “I don’t think it’s ever going to happen,†Von Hoene said. “I’m not arguing for the construction of new nuclear plants. They are too expensive to construct.â€
John LaForge is a Co-director of Nukewatch, a peace and environmental justice group in Wisconsin, and edits its newsletter.
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WASHINGTON – The House on Tuesday easily approved a bipartisan bill that would for the first time regulate tens of thousands of toxic chemicals in everyday products from household cleaners to clothing and furniture.
Supporters said the bill would clear up a hodgepodge of state rules and update and improve a toxic-chemicals law that has remained unchanged for 40 years.
“Today marks a milestone — for this Congress and for the American people as we make great strides to update our nation’s chemical safety laws,” said Rep. Fred Upton, R-Mich., chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee. “This bill is good for jobs. It’s good for consumers. And it’s good for the environment.”
The 403-12 vote in favour of the bill sends it to the Senate, where it’s expected to be approved and sent to President Barack Obama, who is expected to sign it.
The bill, more than three years in the making, won support in recent days from a broad coalition that ranged from environmental and public health groups to the chemical industry and the National Association of Manufacturers.
In a sign of the bill’s wide support, lawmakers from both parties heaped praise on the measure. House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis., called it a “common sense” bill that will reduce risks to consumers and make “chemicals and products we use every day safer for Americans.”
Rep. Diana DeGette, D-Colo., said the bill “addresses the fundamental flaws” of the current law that expose the public to dangerous chemicals. “It is long past time that Congress update this law,” she said.
Some environmental groups remained opposed, however, saying the bill did too little to protect consumers from dangerous chemicals that can cause cancer, nervous system disorders and other health problems.
“Despite the best efforts of many lawmakers to redeem legislation that originated in the suites of the chemical industry, on balance the law Congress will send to the president’s desk continues to place chemical company interests above the public interest,” said Ken Cook, president of the Washington-based Environmental Working Group.
Toxic chemicals have been linked to serious illnesses, including cancer, infertility, diabetes and Parkinson’s disease. But under current law only a small fraction of chemicals used in consumer goods have been reviewed for safety.
The bill approved Tuesday would set new safety standards for asbestos and other dangerous chemicals, including formaldehyde, styrene and Bisphenol A, better known as BPA, that have gone unregulated for decades.
The measure would update the 1976 Toxic Substances Control Act to require the Environmental Protection Agency to evaluate new and existing chemicals against a new, risk-based safety standard that includes considerations for particularly vulnerable people such as children and pregnant women. It also establishes written deadlines for the EPA to act and makes it harder for the industry to claim chemical information is proprietary and therefore secret.
The manufacturers group said industry has “revolutionized the way chemicals are made and used” since the original toxics law was adopted in 1976, “yet the law has not been updated to keep up with those changes.”
State laws enacted to fill the void have resulted in “a patchwork of confusing, often contradictory, regulations for manufacturers and consumers to navigate,” the manufacturers group said in a statement. “It is time to update our nation’s chemical laws.”
“While not perfect, the bill meets the high goals set by the administration for meaningful reform,” the White House said in a statement Monday. The legislation is likely to restore public confidence in the safety of chemicals while improving public health and environmental protections, the White House said.
A key sticking point in negotiations over the bill has centred on state regulation of toxic chemicals.
California, Massachusetts, Vermont and other states have moved aggressively to regulate chemicals, and some Democrats said they feared the bill would block state efforts even as it imposed the first-ever national standards for tens of thousands of chemicals that have gone unregulated for decades.
The 181-page bill declares that any state law or rule in place before April 22 would not be pre-empted by federal law. The legislation also would allow states to work on some regulations while federal rules are being developed, a process that can take up to seven years.
States that do not regulate chemicals closely would follow the federal standard.
Rep. Paul Tonko, D-N.Y., said the bill includes a “regulatory pause” that prevents states from acting on some chemicals for up to 3 1/2 years while EPA reviews a chemical. Tonko called that “a core flaw in reform that cannot be ignored.”
Supporters say they hope to win Senate approval later this week, with the goal of sending it to Obama’s desk by Memorial Day.
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RESEARCH SCHOOL OF FINANCE, ACTUARIAL STUDIES AND STATISTICS College of Business & Economics, The Australian National University
REGRESSION MODELLING (STAT2008/STAT4038/STAT6038)
Assignment 2 for 2016
Instructions This assignment is worth 20% of your overall marks for your course (for all students, enrolled in STAT2008, STAT4038 or STAT6038). If you wish, you may work together with another student in doing the analyses and present a single (joint) report. If you choose to do this then both of you will be awarded the same total mark. Students enrolled under different course codes may work together. You may NOT work in groups of more than two students and the usual ANU examination rules on plagiarism still apply with respect to people not in your group. Research School of Finance, Actuarial Studies and Statistics assignment cover sheets are available on Wattle. Please complete and attach a copy of the cover sheet to the front of your report. Remember to keep a copy of your assignment. Assignments should be written, typed or printed on sheets of A4 paper stapled together at the top left-hand corner (do NOT submit the assignment in plastic covers or envelopes). Your assignment may include some carefully edited computer output (e.g. graphs) showing the results of your data analysis and a discussion of those results. Please be selective about what you present only include as many pages and as much computer output as necessary to justify your solution and be concise in your discussion of the results. Clearly label each part of your report with the question number and the part of the question that it refers to. Unless otherwise advised, use a significance level of 5%. Marks may be deducted if these instructions are not strictly adhered to, and marks will certainly be deducted if the total report is of an unreasonable length, i.e. more than 12 pages including graphs. You may include as an appendix, any R commands you used to produce your computer output. This appendix and the cover sheet are in aIDition to the above page limits; but the appendix will generally not be marked, only checked if there is some question about what you have actually done. Assignments will be marked by your allocated tutor. Assignments should be submitted in the assignment box labelled with your course code (STAT2008 or STAT4038/STAT6038) and your tutors name located next to the Research School of Finance, Actuarial Studies and Statistics office by 3 pm on Friday 20 May 2016. You may ask one of the tutors or me (Ian McDermid) questions about this assignment, in person, up to the deadline (3 pm on Friday 20 May 2016), after which we will NOT answer any further questions about this assignment, until after the marked assignments have been returned to students. Answers to questions in writing sent to me via e-mail or posted on Wattle, will be posted on Wattle, but must be received no later than 12 noon on Thursday 19 May 2016. Late assignments will NOT be accepted after the deadline without an extension. Extensions will usually be granted on medical or compassionate grounds on production of appropriate evidence, but must have my permission by no later than 12 noon on Thursday 19 May 2016. Even with an extension, all assignments must be received no later than 9 am on Monday 23 May 2016, when the solutions to this assignment will be released on Wattle. These solutions will be discussed in the tutorials in week 13 (Monday 23 to Friday 27 May 2016).
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Data Many of the projects I have worked on as a statistician have involved data that was considered private (such as health data) or data to which access was restricted (for example, data that was designated commercial-in-confidence). For these reasons, it is not always easy to source realistic data for use in teaching statistics and so groups of statisticians maintain repositories of examples of real data that are in the public domain. In many countries, there are Internet repositories of data available for use in the teaching of introductory statistics. The data to be used in this years assignments come from two such repositories: the data archive associated with the Journal of Statistics Education (JSE), a publication of the American Statistical Association (www.amstat.org/publications/jse/jse_data_archive.htm); and OzDASL, the Australasian Data and Story Library, which is part of the Statistical Science Web (www.statsci.org/data/index.html), maintained by Gordon Smyth, a member of the Statistical Society of Australia. Datasets in the JSE data archive are typically accompanied by a file which give a description of the variables included in the data (the meta-data) and are also often accompanied by an associated article in the journal (and occasionally even by references to other sources). The
cigarettes data, which we will be using in question 1 of this years assignments, includes both of the above accompanying documents. You can download a text file containing the cigarettes data and the associated documents from the JSE website (www.amstat.org/publications/jse/jse_data_archive.htm) or the data is also available on Wattle in the file cigarettes.csv, which includes a header row with the variable names. I have also downloaded a copy of the meta-data text file (cigarettes.txt), and made this file available on Wattle. Datasets in OzDASL also typically come with some resources. The meta-data for the stroke data, which we will be using in question 2 of this years assignments, is available on the Statistical Science Web (http://www.statsci.org/data/oz/strokeass.html), where you can also download a text file containing the data. The stroke data is also available on Wattle in the file
stroke.csv and the meta-data description is available in the file stoke.pdf.
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Question 1 (20 marks) The United States Federal Trade Commission annually rates varieties of domestic cigarettes according to their tar, nicotine, and carbon monoxide content. The US Surgeon General considers each of these substances hazardous to a smokers health. Past studies have shown that increases in the tar and nicotine content of a cigarette are accompanied by an increase in the carbon monoxide emitted from the cigarette smoke. The file cigarettes.csv, available on Wattle, contains a summary of the data collected in one year, for 25 brands of cigarettes and includes the variables: Brand name (Brand); Tar content in milligrams (Tar); Nicotine content in milligrams (Nicotine); Weight in grams (Weight); and Carbon monoxide content in milligrams (CO). In this assignment, we would like to use all of the available variables to build a multiple regression model to examine the factors that affect the amount of carbon monoxide emitted by these cigarettes. (a) Produce a pair-wise scatterplot matrix for the cigarettes data. Comment on the relationships shown in this scatterplot, assuming that CO is going to be the response variable for your multiple regression analysis. What type of variable is Brand name (Brand)? Can Brand be sensibly included as an explanatory variable in your multiple regression model? (3 marks) (b) Using CO as the response variable and Tar, Nicotine and Weight as explanatory variables, fit a multiple regression model. Experiment with the order in which you fit the explanatory variables in the model and examine the ANOVA table for each model. Why do the models change so dramatically depending on the order in which you include the explanatory variables? Present an appropriate ANOVA table and conduct a nested F test to determine if Nicotine and Weight are a significant aIDition to a model that already includes Tar? (3 marks) (c) Find a multiple regression model with CO as the response variable, which includes all three of Tar, Nicotine and Weight as predictors, but in an order where all three have significant sequential F-tests in the ANOVA table. Call this model A. Present the ANOVA table and the summary output for model A. Interpret the coefficients of the explanatory variables in model A and the various F-tests and t-tests shown in the summary output for model A. What does model A suggest is happening to the emitted carbon monoxide, as weight and nicotine increase? Does this make sense? (4 marks) (d) For model A, present a plot of the internally Studentised residuals against the fitted values, a normal quantile plot and a bar plot of Cooks distances. Is there a problem with potential outliers with this model? What other diagnostics can you produce to investigate these potential outliers? (Note this is not an invitation to produce a large amount of R output choose just one or two aIDitional relevant plots or summaries and discuss any output that you do produce). (3 marks) (e) Now apply a natural log transformation to all of the variables included in model A and re-fit model A to these log transformed variables. Present the same plots and other diagnostics you produced for model A in part (d), for this new transformed model. Discuss the differences between this new output and the output in part (d). Has the transformation solved the problems with potential outliers? (4 marks) (f) Finally, without presenting a lot of aIDitional R output, discuss which of the possible models (and including the model we fitted and discussed in Assignment 1) would you recommend for these data and why? What was probably the underlying research question when these data were collected (i.e. what do you think the researchers were really interested in)? Does your chosen model really aIDress this underlying question?(3 marks)Assignment2_2016.docx Page 4 of 5Question 2 (20 marks) The dataset stroke contains data from a pilot study of twenty patients selected from two large public hospitals in Brisbane. All twenty patients had recently suffered a cerebrovascular accident resulting in hemiplegia lasting at least 24 hours, had not previously been incapacitated from stroke or other disease and were currently receiving occupational therapy. The pilot study collected a number of variables which could be used as evaluation tools for assessing the recovery of patients who had recently suffered a stroke. Following on from Assignment 1, the client is now interested in building a series of multiple regression models to assess recovery from stroke with Barthel as the response variable. The client believes that a patients age (variable Age, measured in years), sex and the side of the brain affected by the stroke are all important factors that potentially affect recovery. These variables must be included in any multiple regression model that you fit, to control for their possible effects and so the client can assess these effects. The client is also interested in the areas measured by the Bobath Assessment Form, but (following your report on Assignment 1) would prefer to use the related Goteburg Assessment Form, which is divided into seven components (variables Arms, Legs, Hands, Balance, Sensation,JointPain and JointMotion; which are further described in the file stoke.pdf). (a) Create two new indicator variables, Female (which equals 1 if Sex = F and 0 otherwise) and Right (which equals 1 if Side = R and 0 otherwise) and fit the multiple regression model of Barthel on Age, Female and Right. Do the residual plots for this model show any obvious problems? Check the plots and answer the question, but only present one of the plots if you want to argue that there is a problem. Present a bar plot of the leverage values for this model. Which observation stands out as having relatively high leverage? What is different about this observation? (3 marks) (b) Present the ANOVA table and the summary output for the model in part (a). Interpret the various F-tests and t-tests shown in this output (you do not need to present formal hypothesis tests). What do the signs of the estimated regression coefficients suggest about the effects of age, sex and location of the stroke as predictors of Barthel as a measure of recovery from stroke? (3 marks) (c) We could potentially include any of the variables in the stroke data as explanatory variables in a multiple regression model, but what is the obvious problem with including the variable Subject? Given the results of Assignment 1, is there a problem with including Kenny as a possible predictor for Barthel? If we are going to fit a multiple regression that already includes some demographic variables (Age and Female), some classification variables (Right) and some of the seven components of the Goteburg Assessment as predictors, is there a problem with also including Bobath as a predictor?(3 marks) (d) The variable Lapse (the time since the occurrence of the stroke in weeks) might be another factor that affects recovery. Present an aIDed variable plot for Lapse as a possible aIDition to the model in part (a). Also present the aIDed variable plot for log(Lapse). Use these plots to comment on the inclusion of Lapse as a possible predictor.(3 marks)Assignment2_2016.docx Page 5 of 5Question 2 continued (e) Now experiment with including some or all of the seven components of the Goteburg Assessment as aIDitional predictors in the model in part (a) (note that the model should already include Age, Female and Right, regardless of their significance). You should treat the seven variables from the Goteburg Assessment (Arms, Legs, Hands, Balance, Sensation,JointPain and JointMotion) as observational covariates and only include them if they significantly improve the model. Remember that the order in which you include them will be important, so experiment with including these variables in different orders. [To make this a little easier, we will observe a few restrictions. Do NOT include the variables Subject, Sex, Side, Kenny, Bobath or Lapse in your model. Use variables only on their original scales, i.e. do NOT use transformations. Do NOT include any higher order terms (e.g. interactions or quadratic terms). Do NOT delete
any observations as potential outliers.] Present full details of a nested model F-test that compares your chosen model with the full multiple regression model of Barthel on Age, Female, Right, Arms, Legs, Hands,Balance, Sensation, JointPain and JointMotion. (3 marks) (f) Now delete one (but only one) potential outlier from your chosen model in part (e). Which observation do you choose to delete and why? Present the details of a test to decide if this observation is really an influential outlier. Choose one of the residual plots and present two versions of this plot; both before and after the deletion of this observation. Discuss your results. (3 marks) (g) Present the ANOVA table and the summary output for your chosen model from either part (e) or part (f), depending on whether or not you consider the deletion of the potential outlier to be warranted. Interpret the various F-tests and t-tests shown in this output (again, you do not need to present formal hypothesis tests). Discuss the overall fit of this model and what the model suggests about the underlying research question.(2 marks) (h) Finally, suppose we forget about all of the restrictions in part (e). See if you can find a better model for these data and present a concise summary of your results. This last bit is optional and not worth any marks, but if you do a good job and dont bore the client in the process (in this instance, your tutor, who has to mark your assignment), they may be impressed and give you back some of the marks that you may have lost elsewhere in this question (you will also need to respect the overall page limit, as your tutor may simply stop reading once you have exceeded that limit). (0 marks) _____________
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Two more people have died due to leptospirosis.
The Permanent Secretary for Health, Dr. James Fong says a 27-year-old died in the Lautoka Hospital on March 10th, and another 27-year-old died in Wainibokasi on March 2nd.
There have been a total of 27 deaths from leptospirosis this year, with 19 in the Western Division, 3 in the Central Division, and 5 in the North.
There have been 1,230 lab-confirmed cases of leptospirosis this year, with 240 new cases.
Dr. Fong says outbreaks are ongoing in all four divisions.
The most admissions last week were in Lautoka and Rakiraki hospitals, followed by Nadroga/Navosa and Nadi, Ba, and Tavua. A downward trend of admissions has been noted in all subdivisions.
Dr. Fong says cases remain predominantly in the 10-39-year-old age group, with more in males than females.
The leptospirosis bacteria is spread to humans through the urine of infected animals, such as cows, pigs, rats, and dogs.
Important prevention measures include wearing full covered footwear at all times when going outdoors, avoiding walking or swimming in flooded waters, using clean fresh water to wash up after exposure to muddy waters, and keeping all food and drinks covered and away from rats. Cover cuts and wounds well, and use protective equipment, especially footwear when in flooded and/or muddy areas.
Dr. Fong adds people should seek medical care if they have recently had contact with floodwaters, mud, or animals, and develop fever, muscle pain, headache. You may also have red eyes, loss of appetite, nausea/vomiting, dizziness, or feel weak.
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It is Good Friday. This is a day of deep grief and sadness, that resonates with and is dearly loved by, Catholics in particular. I say this because we devote this entire day to reflecting on Jesus’ Passion and Death, in so many little ways, and we also reflect on our personal sins and our frequent human failings- due to our sinful nature, which made our Salvation, in this manner, necessary. Our sorrow drives us to know we need The Sacrament of Confession- and in this, we are given to know that, with true contrition, we are truly forgiven. This too brings tears; of thankfulness- for His Goodness, Mercy and Grace. The Cross is our reproach and Our Fount of Mercy. The natural response to this is fasting, abstinence, sobriety and prayer.
On this particular Good Friday, while travelling to the 3 o’clock reading of the Gospel of John 18:1-19:42; (commemorated in many, if not all, Christian Churches) I suddenly remembered that The Chaplet of the Novena of Mercy starts today- on Good Friday. A condition of this is to be in a state of grace; having confessed all our sins, after a thorough examination of conscience. Grace obtains grace.
Surprised, and grateful, I decided to begin it immediately. I remembered the intention for the First Day of this beautiful Novena of Prayer, was for “All Mankind; especially sinners”. I thought how fitting it was, that this was the intention, falling on Good Friday, where Jesus gave Himself for that same intention
We intercede therefore, for all humanity, both sinners who are greatly in need of Salvation, and believers; we all are part of the one human family in need of Our Saviour. I had a prayer intention weighing quite heavily on my heart too. I had need of prayer, a powerful and fitting prayer, to help give words to my sorrowful soul which heaved and sighed within me, for this person, but it was not foremost in my mind at that moment.
I also trust in this prayer. This prayer is one of great trust in God. I prayed the Chaplet with the Day One intention of Jesus in mind, laid at the foot of the Cross; at Jesus’ feet, on Good Friday. And I travelled on to hear the Gospel. Later, I reminded a few others of the chance to start and partake in the Novena today, also because when we hear good news, we want to spread it!
By the time I returned home, I wanted to do more. I desired to read the words which Jesus had given to St. Faustina (Servant of God and Apostle of Mercy) and to pray the words of the intention prayer which offer this group of souls to Him. Again, because they are beautiful, because they appeal to His fathomless Mercy- and in words more perfect than I could choose; they are written through the Holy Spirit, Himself. Just praying these words soothes and consoles my soul and that of My Lord– who on the Cross, in perfect union with The Father and Holy Spirit, longs and thirsts for the Salvation of souls.
So I opened my drawer to find the little pamphlet with these words, to aid me in my prayer and to deepen and prolong my reflection, on this Holy Day. Upon doing this, the first thing I saw were my volumes of The Book of Truth. I decided to pull one out, being likely that I had kept the Divine Mercy pamphlet in it, as one of my many bookmarks. I had pulled out Volume 2. (There are 5 volumes).
I began to quickly do a visual check of the 5 or so bookmarks in that volume, to try to find what I was looking for. On the third bookmark I checked, my eye fell on a message entitled, “Only Through the Prayers of Intercession, can those souls in the dark be saved.” ( April 3rd, 2012). I stopped to read this message which directly related to my unspoken prayer intention and was an answer to my concerns. The message said that intense prayer was needed now, during Holy Week, for the salvation of souls who are beyond helping themselves, and that this needed to be our priority. It reminded me that when we ask Our Beloved Father, in Jesus’ Holy Name, to save such sinners, our prayers will be answered. In the message, Jesus then offers us a specific prayer to pray on behalf of those sinners:
O God, the Almighty Father, on behalf of your beloved Son, Jesus Christ, and in commemoration of His death on the Cross to save us from our sins, I beg You to save souls who cannot save themselves, and who may die in mortal sin during The Warning. In atonement for the sufferings of Your Beloved Son, I urge You to forgive those who are unable to seek redemption because they will not live long enough to ask Jesus, Your Son, for Mercy, to free them from sin. Amen.
I thanked Jesus for His wonderful encouragement, help and consolation (thinking that was wonderful enough and feeling greatly consoled!) and then, I saw the title of the next message too:
“Please say My Divine Mercy and start My Novena on Good Friday”.
You could have knocked me over with a feather. There are 5 volumes and over 1000 messages. I think God was clearly speaking to me, and all of us, in regards to this, today, and confirming it through The Book of Truth. It’s too much of a coincidence to be one.
Good Friday is all about His Mercy. Lets’ seek it today.
The message can be read here:
The instructions for the completing Chaplet and Novena (9 days of praying the Chaplet for 9 special intentions) can be found here:
As we speak I am holding the Divine Mercy Chaplet pamphlet in my hand, but I can’t recall when or where I found it- and I just felt my Rosary beads in my pocket too.
Today we bring Jesus all mankind, especially sinners…
Most Merciful Jesus, whose very nature it is to have compassion on us and to forgive us, do not look upon our sins but on our trust, which we place in Your Infinite Goodness. Receive us all into the abode of Your Most Compassionate Heart, and never let us escape from it. We beg this of You, by Your love, which unites You to the Father and the Holy Spirit.
Eternal Father, turn Your Merciful gaze upon all mankind and especially upon poor sinners, all enfolded in the Most Compassionate Heart of Jesus. For the sake of His sorrowful Passion, show us Your Mercy, that we may praise the omnipotence of Your Mercy forever and ever, Amen. | <urn:uuid:067e5325-aaad-4a3e-a880-822e9cf1120c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://remnantdisciplesjtm.com/tag/the-novena-of-mercy/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572833.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817001643-20220817031643-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.954587 | 1,423 | 1.507813 | 2 |
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The last 10 years have seen major advances in the scientific understanding of ADHD. This book builds on them to provide a practical, comprehensive and evidence-based approach to clinical work with ADHD and hyperkinetic disorder, and to similar problems in people with complex neurodevelopmental disabilities. This is a book for professionals of all kinds who deal with hyperactive children and people with ADHD. It explains the science base of understanding it and gives practical step-by-step instructions on how to treat it – including informative leaflets for parents and teachers.
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Do your gums bleed when you brush your teeth, or even with the slightest pressure? Do they look and feel swollen? If you said yes to these questions, you may be suffering from gum disease – and you have to get treatment as soon as possible before the condition worsens. Gum disease can be prevented by good oral hygiene habits and regular visits to your dentist, but more serious gum problems can be avoided with early treatment.
How are gum problems treated?
Scaling and root planing – these are both deep treatment cleaning options for gum disease. Tartar deposits are scraped off from above and below the gum line using scaling. Root planing, on the other hand, is used to remove the rough spots on the tooth roots, where harmful bacteria can stay and multiply to cause even more gum problems.
Medications – these include prescription antibacterial mouthwash, antibiotic gels, enzyme suppressants, antibiotic microspheres, and oral antibiotics that can be used together with deep cleaning treatments to solve gum problems. If the gum problem has progressed, a deep cleaning treatment combined with medications may not be enough to fully solve the issue.
Surgical treatments – surgery may be needed in the case of severe gum disease, and when deep cleaning treatments and medications cannot complete solutions. Flap surgery involves the lifting of the gum tissue (to form a flap) so that the dentist can access the deep-seated tartar deposits. After the removal of these deposits, the gum tissue is stitched back into place.
Gum/soft tissue graft – this is used to address gum tissue loss. Gum tissue harvested from another part of the mouth, or synthetic material, is used to cover the exposed tooth roots as a result of the gum disease.
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The prompt Joker was given by Asian Literary Society. The first thought that came to my mind was obviously, a man with make-up and smiling no matter what. Strangely, isn’t that what all of us do these days – don make-up and smile, no matter what.
The curtains are drawn, the crowds are cheering,
The lights are on, and he, center-stage is standing,
A big, big smile on his face he’s wearing,
All eyes on him, are watching…
His eye lids painted white, appear bright
His brows, a big arch, blackened, to highlight-
His lips deep red, an upward curve, shine bright
And a blob for a nose; he looks fun and light…
He juggles and flips, from his fort on the ground
And makes all laugh, prancing and clowning around,
Wherever he is, smiling he’s found,
Entertaining the crowd, a symbol of joy abound…
He’s called the joker, a facade he perpetually wears,
And safely hides, the pain and sorrow he bears,
For he knows those looks, those strangers’ stares,
And that, nobody coming to the circus really cares…
He dons a mask for pennies few,
But he isn’t the only one, there’s me and you,
Minus the blob for a nose and the green wig new,
In the circus of life, aren’t we all jokers too?
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Every week on Twitter I mark a series of tweets as favorites. These are tweets that have either interesting links, encourage thought-provoking conversations, spark some sentiment within me, or need to be read more thoroughly. My Personal Learning Network (PLN) on Twitter is full of educators who consistently engage me in conversation. These individuals ignite within me a need to continually strive to be a better educator and reflect upon my instructional practices. Due to various time zones or highly active Twitter streams we may miss the chance to participate in conversations or miss important links. Therefore, I will post five of my favorite tweets each week. Hopefully, you will be introduced to some new people you were not following before who would benefit your PLN. These are in order of occurrence with the first tweet being the earliest tweet in the week.
I really enjoyed this tweet by the Kenny Christian, EnglishProfi, because I was able to reminisce with others about our first website beginnings. David Truss and I had a similar conversation later in the week. I think many will be slightly saddened by this event. Geocities was the first hosting site I used to create a website when I first began college. Back then animated gifs were the hot items and I had plenty on my website. Needless to say I have come a long way from that time. Click here for to find out what to do with your Geocities account.
Language Learning in Second Life
SecondLife is the latest technology I have been learning for educational purposes. Nik Peachey’s tweet provides a link highlights the amazing possibilities SecondLife provides for learning languages. The program offers the student a language learning experience akin to traveling abroad. The student gets a roommate from China, creates an Ecological part in China, and is immersed in Chinese culture all from the comfort of a computer screen. Click here to try this learning experience for free in the month of August!
Parent Edtech Workshops
Thomas Whitby is well known for his thought-provoking tweets. I liked this idea so much I went to my school administrators and asked them if I could hold an educational technology workshop for my young English language learner’s parents. Click here for the link!
Collaborative Mindmapping Tool
I discovered this really cool mindmapping tool through Aniya, TheEngTeacher! Aniya is well known for feeding teachers on Twitter. The link she provides is to Richard Byrne’s blog post about Slate Box, a collaborative mindmapping tool. This tool has several uses for class projects, distance learning, e-learning, and so forth. Can’t wait to use this tool for my online classes. Click here for the link!
One Comment A Day Project
The last of this series of tweets comes from Steven Anderson, web20classroom. Steven provides information about the One Comment a Day project in which each person commits to posting at least one comment to encourage a new blogger. Then the person tweets the link to the blog post with the hashtag #OCP. I added my name to the list and encourage you to do the same. For more information on this project visit Steven Anderson’s post by clicking here!
If you enjoyed this post, you may also want to check out these posts with more favorite tweets:
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Child abuse includes physical, sexual, psychological/emotional abuse, and/or caregiver neglect against a minor 18 years or younger, though the definition varies by state. It can be perpetrated by family members, caregivers, trusted individuals, or strangers.
What is Child Abuse?
While this list isn’t exhaustive, you may be a victim of child abuse if someone:
- Hits, shoves, strangles, or otherwise hurts you
- Threatens to injure you
- Touches you or forces you to do sexual things you do not want to do
- Intentionally scares you
- Yells at you or calls you names
- Abandons you or neglects you by failing to provide the medicine, food, and care you need from them
What can I do?
While there is no universal set of steps that will work for everyone, these actions may be of assistance to you:
- Call 911 for Immediate Assistance – You know yourself and your situation better than anyone. Trust your instincts and call for help if you feel you are in danger.
- Alert Others – Tell trusted adults, teachers, doctors, or family members that you are in need of help.
- Locate Resources in Your Community – Contact Victimconnect or The Childhelp National Child Abuse Hotline to locate supportive resources in your community.
- Report the Abuse – Your local Child Protective Services agency may be able to help by investigating your situation and connecting you to local support services or law enforcement. Find your state’s Child Protective Services in the VictimConnect Resource Map
- Stay Connected – Friends and family members that you trust can be of support to you if you are experiencing abuse, neglect, or maltreatment.
- Create a Safety Plan – Develop a personalized plan to keep yourself safe. Find help doing this here or connect with an advocate for assistance.
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White Moss common is once more under threat, as the application to ‘improve’ it into a visitor hub has been renewed with (very minor) adjustments (the cafe is slightly smaller).
This comes as the Lake District National Park Authority are also selling off large swathes of the Lake District, including Stickle Tarn, Baneriggs, and Lady Wood, the wood above Town End which William and Dorothy Wordsworth knew as ‘John’s Grove’ after their brother, drowned at sea in 1805, and which is described in the last of the Poems on the Naming of Places, as below. This is one of my favourite Wordsworth poems, and, I think, particularly evocative of Grasmere and the Lake District more generally.
I have been both a listener and leader in walking seminars that have taken students and visitors to The Wordsworth Trust into Lady Wood to hear these words along with that ‘sea-like sound’ coming through the trees. Almost everyone cries, whether they have any interest in poetry or Wordsworth or sailors or woods or not. It’s actually kind of creepy. In my critical work, I argue for the central importance of this poem, and this place to the Wordsworths’ Grasmere, and the Grasmere passed down through their writings.
It’s almost as though no one at the LDNP or Lowther or GoLakes paid attention to that excellent protest poem I posted about back in early November. I don’t know what’s wrong with them. Maybe you do, and would like to write to them to tell them.
‘When first I journeyed hither’
When first I journeyed hither, to a home
And dwelling of my own, it was a cold
And stormy season, and from week to week
The pathways and the publick roads were clogged
With frequent showers of snow. Upon a hill
At a short distance from my House there stands
A stately fir-grove, wither I was wont
To hasten, for within its shade I found
Commodious harbour, a sequestered nook
Or cloister with an unencumbered floor.
Here is safe covert on the shallow snow,
And sometimes on a speck of visible earth,
The red-breast near me hopped, nor was I loth
To sympathise with vulgar coppice birds
That hither came. A single beech tree grew
Within this grove of firs, and on the fork
Of that one beech there was a thrush’s nest,
A last year’s nest conspicuously built
At such small elevation from the ground
That even an unbreeched Boy might look into it:
Sure sign I thought that they who in that house
Of nature and of love had made their home
Among the fir-trees, all the summer long
Dwelt in a quiet place: and oftentimes
A few sheep, stragglers of a scattered flock,
Were my companions and would look at me
From the remotest outskirts of the grove,
Some nook where they had made their final stand
Huddling together from two fears, the fear
Of me and of the storm. Full many an hour
Here did I lose. But in this grove, the trees
Had by the planter been so crouded each
Upon the other, and whithal had thriven
In such perplexed array that I in vain
Between their stems endeavoured to find out
A length of open space where I might walk
Backwards and forwards long as I had liking
In easy and mechanic thoughtlessness.
And, for this cause, I loved the shady grove
Less than I wished to love a place so sweet.
I have a brother: many times the leaves
Have faded, many times the spring has touched
The heart of bird and beast since from the shores
Of Windermere, from Esthwaite’s cheerful Lake
And her grey cottages, from all the life
And beauty of his native hills he went
To be a Sea-boy on the barren seas.
When we had been divided fourteen years
At length he came to sojourn a short while
Beneath my roof, nor had the sun twice set
Before he made discov’ry of this grove
Whither from that time forward he repaired
With daily visitation. Other haunts
Meanwhile were mine but from the sultry heat
One morning chancing to betake myself
To this forsaken covert, there I found
A hoary pathway traced around the trees
And winding on with such an easy line
Along a natural opening that I stood
Much wondering at my own simplicity
That I myself had ever failed in search
Of what was now so obvious. With a sense
Of lively joy did I behold this path
Beneath the fir-trees, for at once I knew
That by my Brother’s steps it had been traced.
My thoughts were pleased within me to perceive
That hither he had brought a finer eye,
A heart more wakeful: that more loth to part
From place so lovely he had worn the track,
One of his own deep paths! by pacing here
With that habitual restlessness of foot
Wherewith the Sailor measures o’er and o’er
His short domain upon the Vessel’s deck
While she is travelling through the dreary seas.
When thou hadst gone away from Esthwaite’s shore
And taken they first leave of these green hills
And rocks that were the play-ground of thy youth.
Year followed year my Brother! and we two
Conversing not knew little in what mold
Each other’s minds were fashioned, and at length
When once again we met in Grasmere Vale
Between us there was little other bond
Than common feelings of fraternal love.
But thou a School-boy to the Sea hadst carried
Undying recollections, Nature there
Was with thee, she who loved us both, she still
Was with thee, and even so thou didst become
A silent Poet! from the solitude
Of the vast Sea didst bring a watchful heart
Still couchant, an inevitable ear
And an eye practised like a blind man’s touch.
Back to the joyless ocean thou art gone:
And now I call the path-way by thy name
And love the fir-grove with a perfect love.
Thither do I repair when cloudless suns
Shine hot or winds blow troublesome and strong;
And there I sit at evening when the steep
Of Silver-How, and Grasmere’s silent Lake
And one green Island gleam between the stems
Of the close firs, a visionary scene!
And while I gaze upon this spectacle
Of clouded splendour, on this dream-like sight
Of solemn loveliness, I think on thee
My Brother, and on all which thou hast lost.
Nor seldom, if I rightly guess, when Thou,
Muttering the verses which I muttered first
Among the mountains, through the midnight watch
Art pacing to and fro’ the Vessel’s deck
In some far region, here, while o’er my head
At every impulse of the moving breeze
The fir-grove murmurs with a sea-like sound,
Alone I tread this path, for aught I know
Timing my steps to thine, and with a store
Of indistinguishable sympathies
Mingling most earnest wishes for the day
When We, and others whom we love shall meet
A second time in Grasmere’s happy Vale.
Published as ‘When to the Attractions of the busy World’, 1815.
This text from MS. W recalled that ‘The grove was a favourite haunt with us all while we lived at Town-End’ .
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8 Best Foods To Keep Your Lungs Strong And Healthy
Edited By: Stephanie Dawson
Pistachios are a dry nut that is beneficial for lung health. Studies have suggested that consumption of pistachios provides the body with a special type of vitamin E named Gama-tocopherol that provides a defense against various types of lung cancer. It is also beneficial for lowering cholesterol levels.
• Cayenne pepper
Cayenne pepper is consumed as seasoning as well as a foodstuff, its effective at fighting and diminishing cough and sore throat. It provides support against cold and flu. Cayenne pepper is effective for people suffering from bronchial congestion and respiratory ailments because it breaks down congested mucus.
Broccoli is a green vegetable which is high in antioxidants. It contains NRF-2 dependent characteristics and is among the best green foods for lungs. It is beneficial for people suffering from chronic obstructive pulmonary disorder.
Carrots are a rich source of vitamins A and C. Vitamin A directly influences the health of your lungs. In a study conducted on rats, it was found that rats with high vitamin A levels had a lower chance becoming victims of lung disease than those without. Carrots also contain lycopene, zeaxanthin, and lutein which are powerful cancer-fighting agents. Vitamin C also helps get rid of many lung disorders.
Onions contain a component called quercetin, a natural anti-oxidant. Research has shown that this anti-oxidant helps prevent lung cancer and many other lung diseases. Onions also contain vitamins B6 and C as well as other vital nutrients that provide self-healing power to the body.
Oranges contain vitamins B6 and C and iron which help the lungs transfer oxygen to cells more effectively. This juicy fruit also contains a natural anti-oxidant called beta-cryptoxanthin which makes it a good food for lung health.
• Red wine
Red wine is a rich source of resveratrol which is a powerful anti-oxidant and helps the body get rid of free radicals which are the main cause of cancer. Eating a food rich in anti-oxidants provides your lungs with extra protection against diseases and disorders. Red wine also contains pteristilbene which catalyzes the job of resveratrol and helps it provide benefits to more efficiently.
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The Food and Drug Administration’s crackdown on flavored e-cigarettes in 2020 was meant to be a comprehensive, aggressive strategy to curtail the epidemic of teenage vaping.
But two years later, sales of disposable, flavored e-cigarettes have soared. Some companies have moved just beyond the reach of the FDA by swapping out one key ingredient. They have circumvented federal oversight of tobacco plant-derived nicotine by using an unregulated synthetic version.
The agency had nearly wiped out the use of flavors in devices like Juul, once the teenage favorite, that could be refilled with pods in flavors like crème brûlée and mango. Jumping into the breach, though, companies like the teen favorite Puff Bar are selling disposable devices filled with candy flavors and tobacco-free or synthetic nicotine.
Scientists are just beginning to study the unknown health effects of synthetic nicotine, even as research is expanding into the harm caused by vaping and flavor ingredients alongside continuing cases of devastating vaping-related lung injury. To many public health advocates, new trends in the vaping industry are thwarting the FDA’s efforts to protect a new generation from nicotine addiction.
“These companies like Puff Bar and others are deliberately driving their trucks of poison through this huge loophole,” said Meredith Berkman, a founder of Parents Against Vaping E-Cigs. She recently hosted a webinar about synthetic nicotine attended by 700 people. “We think we need to regulate these products.”
Lawmakers on Tuesday proposed language that they want inserted in the congressional omnibus budget bill that would give the FDA authority to regulate synthetic nicotine, although it is unclear if the issue will be included in the final bill.
Rep. Frank Pallone Jr., D-N.J., chair of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, said the provision would be a public health victory over “bad actors” who circumvented the FDA’s authority.
“That ends with passage of this bill, which will close this loophole and clarify FDA’s authority to regulate all tobacco products, including those containing synthetic nicotine,” Pallone said in a statement Tuesday.
Sales of synthetic or tobacco-free nicotine went from virtually nonexistent in 2020 to taking up shelf space in two-thirds of U.S. vape shops in 2021, according to market research. Those stores said such products accounted for nearly 20% of sales, according to ECigIntelligence, which surveys hundreds of the shops each year. The company projected that the U.S. vape market, web sales included, would be nearly $6 billion this year.
Federal officials have been in a cat-and-mouse game with some e-cigarette makers. Spurred by a court order, the FDA forced thousands of e-cigarette companies, including Juul, to apply in 2020 for authorization to remain on the market. With the agency focused on the most popular devices, like Juul’s, that used insertable cartridges, makers of disposable vape pens in flavors like gummy bear and candy cane flooded the market. The agency then responded with a stern warning and even product seizures aimed at some of those companies, including Puff Bar.
By late last year, more than 1 million tobacco-sales applications had been denied. Applications to remain on the market by Juul and a myriad of other companies are pending.
By early 2021, Puff Bar returned to the market with “tobacco-free” or synthetic nicotine that didn’t fall under FDA oversight, loaded with the fruity flavors prohibited in vapes with tobacco-based nicotine. Other companies imported similar devices containing synthetic or tobacco-free nicotine from factories in Shenzhen, China, according to industry experts.
Patrick Beltran, who has identified himself in news reports as one of two executives of Puff Bar, did not respond to requests for comment.
Sales data released by the CDC Foundation shows that since the FDA stepped up e-cigarette enforcement in February 2020, sales of disposable fruit- and candy-flavored devices have grown by 290%, to 6.46 million devices a month by November 2021. Sales of the FDA-targeted flavored pod and cartridge devices have nearly vanished.
Since early 2020, overall e-cigarette sales are up nearly 50% to about 22 million units per month, according to Information Resources, a data tracking consultant. The National Youth Tobacco Survey conducted in early 2021, when many students were learning via Zoom, reported that, overall, about 11% of high school students used e-cigarettes.
New e-cigarette suppliers can go into business easily. They contract with a manufacturer in China, set up a website and get space in a warehouse to store and ship devices, said Samantha Shusterman, a senior counsel supervising e-cigarette enforcement for the Massachusetts attorney general’s office. They use shell companies and can quickly withdraw the profits if they face scrutiny.
“It’s a whack-a-mole situation,” said Shusterman, whose state banned all flavored e-cigarettes, except in licensed smoking bars. “They’re not following any of the laws.”
Mitch Zeller, director of the FDA’s Center for Tobacco Products, said the agency recognized the problem.
“Disposable e-cigarettes made only with synthetic nicotine pose a particular challenge for the FDA when it comes to our tobacco authorities,” Zeller said in an email. “The FDA is actively investigating this issue and considering how to best address such products.”
Vaping is still popular among teenagers. Rani Dhiman, 16, said it is highly visible in the bathrooms and stairwells of her high school in the Detroit suburbs.
She said the stress and loneliness of the pandemic might have been a trigger for some teenagers to start. It is also portrayed glamorously, she pointed out, in “Euphoria,” a popular HBO series about a teenager kicking drug addiction.
“Sometimes so many people are vaping in the bathrooms, it’s hard to do anything about it,” Dhiman said, adding that she doesn’t vape.
The FDA’s efforts to limit teenagers’ access to flavored vapes had little effect on Lizzie Burgess’ ability to get them over the last four years in the Indianapolis suburbs. Within weeks of starting to vape at 16, she said, she was addicted. There was always a gas station, older friend or website selling e-cigarettes in flavors like banana ice cream or sour apple, she said.
At 19, she said, she was vaping THC and using a device — now advertising tobacco-free nicotine — that has as much nicotine as two packs of cigarettes, every two to three days. She said she fell ill with what started like a cold, which progressed to rapid breathing, almost-gray lips and feeling depleted. By the time she went to the emergency room, her oxygen saturation was 67, far below the normal range of 95 or higher. Burgess said she was soon in the ICU with vaping-related lung injury.
She has struggled to end her nicotine addiction and is down to two cigarettes a day.
“I think the FDA should take it all off the market now,” Burgess said of the flavored vapes. “I think it will be very, very hard for them to reel it all in. It’s so big and there are so many companies now.”
Synthetic nicotine remains far more expensive than the tobacco-derived product, leading some industry experts to question whether a device label of “synthetic” is accurate.
The unregulated vaping market at this point is a problem of the FDA’s making, said Gregory Conley, president of the American Vaping Association, an industry trade group. He said the agency fueled the problem by overregulating a product used by millions of adults who find vaping a safer alternative to smoking.
“This country should learn some lessons from past prohibitions that failed miserably,” Conley said. “If you don’t fairly regulate a market where there is a great deal of demand from legal adults, you will fuel gray and black markets where the operators are not concerned with checking IDs before selling.”
Dr. Robert Jackler, who studies tobacco company advertising at Stanford University, has also noted major tobacco retailers entering the synthetic nicotine market with flavored gums called “pouches.” He said his tobacco research group could pose as a teenager and use gift cards to easily buy the flavored synthetic nicotine gums from major retailers and have them shipped to a home in California.
“When we buy them, there’s no age gating,” Jackler said.
The loopholes are many with synthetic nicotine, he said, allowing the products to avoid hefty tobacco taxes and remain affordable and to evade the algorithms that online retailers use to weed out underage sales of tobacco products. The ease of purchasing was also concerning, Jackler said, given how little is known about the health effects of flavored, synthetic nicotine.
Dr. Sven-Eric Jordt, an associate professor at Duke University who has studied synthetic nicotine, said it posed many unknowns.
About 99% of tobacco-derived nicotine is a psychoactive molecule called S-nicotine, he said. But a mirror-image molecule, known as R-nicotine, makes up 50% of most types of synthetic nicotine. He said the R-nicotine molecule appears to be less addictive, but very little research has been done on it in animals or humans.
“It could alter nerve transmission in the brain in different ways from classic nicotine,” Jordt said, “but we don’t understand that at this time.”
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Unemployment rates in the United States are at the highest level they have been in many decades – some reports even claim we are experiencing the highest unemployment numbers in our country’s history.
Regardless of the news source, there is no denying that millions of Americans find themselves suddenly out of work. While the COVID-19 pandemic caused many companies to permanently shut their doors, there are other businesses that remain in operation – even if they have scaled back their workforce.
If you were recently let go, you may be thinking, “Why did they fire me and not my coworker? I have never been written up. They made a big mistake. I have been wrongfully terminated!”
Legally, What Is Wrongful Termination?
Wrongful termination is a term widely used but it has different meanings to different people. When speaking with family and friends, you may tell them how your employer foolishly fired you but kept other people, even though you were by far the best worker they had. Or you may say that someone accused you of a wrongdoing that simply wasn’t true and that’s completely unfair. Perhaps your boss just didn’t like you and has always “had it out for you.” There are a variety of circumstances that could have occurred where you never should have been fired. There is little doubt that your termination was simply WRONG!
In the legal world, however, the term wrongful termination means something completely different from the above examples. In almost all U.S. states, jobs are governed by the “at-will employment” doctrine. That means you can quit for any reason at any time, but it also means that the employer can fire you for any reason at any time – with or without cause. There may be an exception if you have a signed employment contract or if your employer has an employee manual outlining other steps that must be taken before termination can occur.
However, most legal issues only arise if an employer demotes or terminates you based on one of the following circumstances:
- Discrimination: Workers cannot be fired due to their race, color, national origin, sex, age, religion, disability, marital status, pregnancy status, sexual orientation, gender identification, or any other protected class.
- Retaliation: An employer may not fire you because you filed a harassment or discrimination complaint, refused to take part in harassment, or for any other retaliatory reason, including filing a lawsuit against them.
- Whistleblower Claims: Firing an employee for filing a whistleblower claim is a form of retaliation and constitutes unlawful termination.
- Workers’ Compensation: It is illegal in Florida to fire an employee because he or she filed a workers’ compensation claim.
- Family and Medical Leave: An employer cannot terminate employment because a worker requests or takes a qualifying FMLA-related leave of absence, if the company is large enough to meet the criteria to be covered under the FMLA.
- Unpaid Overtime Wages: Your employer cannot fire you if you complain about unlawful wage practices such as unpaid overtime wages, disputed FLSA exemption status and wrongful classification as an independent contractor.
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Notebook computer are ending up being a growing number of preferred these days, and currently are typically the only kind of computer used in a household. This is because at the same time that they are becoming more and more budget friendly, their computer power is expanding to the point where they are as effective as desktop from simply a few years ago. Laptops are still not quite powerful adequate to be a excellent option if you frequently do tasks that call for a great deal of power, such as video editing and enhancing. But also for web searching, data processing, and also a lot of other usual computer work they are just great, provided you do incline the tv dimension. Or, if you don’t mind a REALLY tv and are primarily using the computer system for email as well as internet browsing, you can save a lot of money and traveling very light buy acquiring a Netbook computer for just $250 or even much less. Several do not such as to use what a laptop has in area of a computer mouse, yet you can add a computer mouse at very little price.
If you determine to get a laptop, and also you are going to be lugging it about instead of having it rest on a workdesk as a substitute for your old desktop computer, it is important that you purchase some good security for it. It is a good concept to acquire both a hard case and also a laptop sleeve, which might be considered a tight fitting envelope for your laptop, constructed of plastic, neoprene, plastic, or more unique materials such as leather. Just a situation for your laptop computer is inadequate due to the fact that with a case, a laptop computer, particularly a powerful desktop-replacement model, is typically much heavier and much less portable than you would certainly such as. A sleeve supplies adequate security for most scenarios, without the mass and weight of a instance.
The rate completely top quality laptop sleeves varies from around fifteen to fifty bucks. A excellent sleeve must be padded for included defense in case you drop it. This can occur more frequently than you may assume; for example trainees typically forget they have their computer system in a knapsack and then continue to toss the backpack on the flooring! You also require to consider whether you want the sleeve to include a handle or a shoulder strap. There is a large option of sleeves readily available online, so you ought to compare costs and styles by doing searches on net internet search engine such as Google. Usage a number of search terms, such as “sleeve for laptop” as well as “laptop notebook sleeve”, to obtain the most effective outcomes. Very first search for the dimension as well as style that fits your requirements, as well as as soon as you have narrowed your options down contrast the costs. Bear in mind that the size requirements such as 17 inches describes the angled dimension of your laptop computers display. If you are not sure of the size try to find sleeves made particularly for your laptop design.
A neoprene laptop sleeve is a great option due to the fact that along with the security it is specifically lightweight as well as has a elegant appear it were a wetsuit. Neoprene is likewise referred to as polychloroprene, as well as is a sort of synthetic rubber, invented by Dupont around 70 years back. Belkin is just one of the most effective brands for Neoprene sleeves in a variety of dimensions and also shades, although if you have a Macbook Pro, the fit might not be as tight as you would like. Microsoft likewise makes a great neoprene sleeve.
One excellent website to look for laptop computer sleeves of all different kinds is eBags. Their collection of sleeves consists of the Developer Sleeves brand name 17 inch Exec Laptop version, with take care of as well as strap and offered in a selection of shades and also patterns, for concerning $48. A much slimmer neoprene design they have is the 17 inch SlipSuit by Mobile Edge, additionally readily available in several colors, for about $23.
For many laptop customers, the look of the sleeve goes to least as essential as its feature. For you “fashionistas” there is a fantastic listing of 50 stylish, distinct sleeves at Hongkiat. As an example there is the “My Papers” laptop sleeve, which resembles the “My Records” icon on a PC. Or try the Italian natural leather sleeve that appears like among those manila envelopes utilized to send out mail from one division to one more in a company. Another one resembles the front of a white shirt used for workplace wear, total with connection and bust pocket. Other layouts are more uncomplicated. Of course, a lot of these attractive sleeves are fairly a whole lot more costly than the plainer, practical ones.
If you are a deal seeker as I am, consider getting a used laptop sleeve on eBay. If a vendor has a lot of favorable responses and also will certainly approve returns, buying from eBay is secure, as well as the selection is big. Ensure to inspect the delivery cost ( numerous ebay.com vendors make their cash by charging too much for delivery), and also the distribution time. Additionally make certain the picture is of the real thing instead of a supply photo, as well as thoroughly check out the summary of the sleeves problem. Signing up to be an ebay.com member is sensibly easy and also free. A lot of the time sellers will only approve PayPal payments, but signing up for PayPal is a lot easier than it utilized to be. An additional location to get utilized sleeves is Craigslist, but the selection is much, a lot more minimal.
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If you haven’t secured your network, you’d be surprised how easy it is to break into, especially if you work from home and are distracted 24/7. Cybersecurity is a real concern, so you’re probably wondering which network security gadgets you should buy to protect yourself. Don’t worry; we’ve got answers for you, along with an overview of the state of cybersecurity in 2021.
Looking to enhance your network security in 2021? It’s a good idea, especially since security keys, encrypted routers, and Wi-Fi security devices really can help you thwart a cybercriminal. So if you’re wondering which cybersecurity gadgets should you buy in 2021, you’re in the right place. But to understand which devices you should invest in, it helps to know exactly what the threats are. So before we delve into our shopping guide, let’s take a look at the state of cyber attacks right now.
These cybercrime and security trends are terrifying
We wrote extensively about what is and isn’t a cyberattack last year. But where does it all stand this year? Experts say that the threat has only grown more sophisticated due to emerging technologies like machine learning, 5G, and artificial intelligence. There’s even cooperation between hacker groups and state actors to worry about. The attacks are diverse, and with the landscape always changing, it’s important to know how cybercrime is evolving.
Ransomware was on the decline in 2018, but don’t get too excited; many companies simply pay the ransom, which can be expensive. In early 2020, an attack on the New Orleans city government cost the city over $50 million. Overall, in 2019–2020, the average global cost to redress a ransomware attack was $751,106. That’s a lot of money if you’re a small business or an individual. What’s even more alarming is that nation-states can be involved in these attacks and their aims aren’t always monetary. Investigations have shown that the Wanna Cry and NotPetya ransomware attacks that began in 2017, but whose effects lasted well into 2020, were organized by nation-state actors. Some of the top causes of ransomware attacks come from phishing emails, weak passwords, and lack of training. | <urn:uuid:d554fdbf-02e5-4138-90ae-f1b7d997b73b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://earlyjournal.com/which-cybersecurity-gadgets-should-you-buy/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573172.64/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818063910-20220818093910-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.954502 | 487 | 2.203125 | 2 |
Lake Titicaca Peru is located in the department of Puno bordering Bolivia in the Andes Mountains, its surface is evenly distributed between Bolivia and Peru. The lake is surrounded by Andean mountain ridges and slopes varying in altitude between 4,000 and 4,200 meters or 13,100 and 13,800 feet above sea level. The lake itself is located on a high plateau ranging from 3,657 to 4,000 meters or 11,200 to 13,100 feet above sea level. Lake Titicaca is known for the deep blue beauty of its water.
At this altitude temperatures average less than 15C or 59F all year round and it remains constant throughout the year. Temperatures do not drop at night or in winter as much as in other places at similar altitudes.
Lake Titicaca is divided into two sub-basins, the larger one is Lago Grande and the smaller is Lago Pequeño. Both lakes are connected by the Strait of Tiquina. The bright luminescent sunlight permeates the highland Altiplano making it feel spiritual and magical. It is necessary to bring sun block as the sunlight is very intense in high altitude and the rays bounding off the lake can cause severe sunburn. About 25 rivers deposit their water in the lake but only one, the Desaguadero River drains it, 95% or the incoming water lost through evaporation.
To the local population the lake has mystical properties as it is surrounded by fertile land in the otherwise dry and windswept Altiplano. The Inca Civilization considered the lake as a sacred place.
Lake Titicaca History
Lake Titicaca is a geological wonder formed during the pre-ice age about sixty million years ago. The lake was formed when massive earthquakes shook the Andes Mountains splitting the range in two and forming a hollow that eventually got filled with water from the melting glaciers, creating bodies of water and ultimately rivers and the immense Lake Titicaca.
According to one of the legends of the origin of the Incas, the first Inca Manco Capac and his wife Mama Ocllo emerged from the depths of Lake Titicaca on the sacred rock on Isla Del Sol to look for a place to build an empire. Lake Titicaca was a sacred lake to the Incas.
Lake Titicaca was the cradle for Peru’s ancient civilizations. The Puraka culture settled in this fertile land around 200BC and a millennium later the Tiwuanaku culture emerged and spread throughout the Altiplano and into Bolivia. Warlike tribes like the Aymaras and the Collas emerged only to be absorbed by the Incas. It was the Inca civilization that unified the many cultures and spread into this land forming the Inca Empire. The current local population is the Uros people who have populated this territory for hundreds of years, they come from the Aymara and the Quechua populations and they speak the ancient language of Aymara.
It is believed that the name Titicaca means “Rock Puma” derived from the Aymara language titi: wild cat and karka: rock. Legend tells that titis used to live on the rocky islands of the lake and that they swam from the islands to the mainland in search of food. Nowadays the titi cat or the Andean cat is the most endangered cat species in the Americas.
Legend of the lost city
Ever since the Inca civilization inhabited this area, the lake has drawn fascination and according to local population is has mythic, almost sacred powers. Stories of Inca treasures lost by the Spanish and an underwater city have attracted many expeditions. In 1968 French explorer Jacques Cousteau undertook a one and a half month underwater exploration. The expedition did not find the lost city but brought out animal varieties not found anywhere else in the world.
In 2000 the international scientific group Akakor Geographical Exploring launched the expedition “Atahualpa 2000”. They found ruins of what appeared to be a temple and a submerged road dating back 1,000 to 1,500 years, the ruins belong to the Tiwanaku culture. Their conclusion was that the temple exists but it is not a submerged city. Attempts to bring the ruins to surface have faced resistance from the local population who are superstitious about disturbing the waters of Lake Titicaca.
Related Information about Lake Titicaca
Lake Titicaca is the highest navigable lake in the world. It is the largest lake in South America in terms of volume.
Local indigenous people, the Uros, have settled in the shores of the lake for thousands of years but they also live on the islands. They live on about 40 manmade floating islands.
Puno is located in the Altiplano of Peru, surrounded by the Andean mountain range.
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If you believe you are being abused, or you think someone you know is at risk of abuse, then it is important to tell someone.
You do not need to know everything about the situation or what is happening. You may just be worried, or feel that something is not right.
Report a concern
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The Visual Studio debugger allows you to observe the run-time behavior of your program and locate logic errors. The debugger works with all Visual Studio programming languages and their associated libraries. With the debugger, you can break execution to step through your code and evaluate variables in your application.
In This Section
Getting Started with the Debugger
Explains how to use the debugger to control the execution of your application.
Navigating through Code with the Debugger
Describes how to step through code with the debugger.
Describes what breakpoints are and how to use them.
Lists the different debugger windows.
Just My Code
Describes the Just My Code feature that lets you step over system, framework, and other non-user calls and that collapses those calls in call stack displays.
Describes exceptions, how the debugger handles them and how to change that handling, how to see where the exception occurred and see the variable contents, limitations for unhandled exceptions in managed code, and fixing exceptions in native (C++) code.
Attach to Running Processes
Explains how to attach to a process that is already running.
Specify Symbol (.pdb) and Source Files
Explains how to specify symbol and source files for debugging.
Debug 64-Bit Applications
Explains how to debug 64-bit applications, and how to troubleshoot problems.
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Distribution of the Phasmatodea
Zoologists, studying the distribution of animals (zoogeography or biogeography) divide the world into six well defined zoogeographical regions or faunal realms, in each of which at least 50 % of the known mammals are endemic (see BRIGGS, 1987, COX & MOORE, 1993). These are the Palaearctic, Nearctic, Australian (= Notogaea), Afrotropical, Oriental and Neotropical regions (► map 1). As the Nearctic and Palaearctic regions exhibit very similar and closely allied faunas they are often combined as the Holarctic region. This is a similar case with the Afrotropical and Oriental regions, which are often combined as the Palaeotropics. Major zones of transition whose faunas cannot definitely be assigned to a certain zoogeographical region are marked by hatching in the map below (► map 1). These are the Sahara and the Wallacea. The latter contains the Lesser Sunda Islands (Lombok, Sumbawa, Sumba, Flores, Wetar & Timor), the Philippines, Sulawesi (= Celebes), the Moluccas, Ambon, Ceram as well as the Key Island. Whether the Philippines should be included in the Wallacea is still subject of discussion (see VANE-WRIGHT, 1990, HUXLEY, 1868). The “Wallace Line” represents the western boundary of the Wallacea, but the eastern boundary is still not a confirmed but generally accepted to be Weber’s Line (see SIMPSON, 1997).
Madagascar, Seychelles, Comoros and the Mascarene Islands form a quite well-separated subregion of the Afrotropical region, which lacks most of the typical African faunal elements. Its fauna shows distinctly more close relations to that of the Oriental and Australian regions rather than to the African continent. Other well-defined sub-regions with rather distinctive faunas are the Caribbean subregion (part of Neotropical region), as well as New Zealand or the Papuan and Polynesian subregions of the Australian region (► map 1).
The English zoologist Alfred Russel WALLACE (1823-1913) was the first to define the division of the earth into zoogeographical regions based on the mammal fauna in 1876, based on the mammal fauna. Although WALLACE’s concept has seen numerous additions and sub-divisions into subregions or zoogeographical provinces during the past 140 years, his division has principally remained valid until now.
The Phasmatodea distribution areas encompass most parts of the warm climate zones of all zoogeographical regions, but especially the tropical and subtropical areas. The Oriental and Neotropical regions do by far represent the richest and most diverse phasmid faunas, followed by the Australian region, Madagascar, the Ethiopian, Nearctic and finally the Palearctic region (► map 2 below).
The habitats in which phasmids occur can be divided into groups due to their diverse vegetation and climatic conditions. The identification of these habitat types requires knowledge of the typical tree and plant species. These have a great influence on the spectrum of phasmid species occurring in a particular habitat. In addition, the different habitats show a close connection to the vertical height and vegetation zones and the associated climatic conditions. In the following, different habitats are briefly described and some habitat-typical phasmid species are mentioned.
Mangroves are evergreen forests with only a few different tree species that settle in sheltered bays, lagoons and river mouths within the tidal range and prefer clayey sandy swamps. These areas are flooded at high tide, dry at low tide and are largely dominated by tree-like halophytes (salt-tolerant plants) with their typical stilt and breath roots. The largest mangrove diversity is reached in the Oriental Region. The phasmid fauna of the mangrove forests is sparse and mostly limited to a few species. For example, at "Cape Tribulation" in north-eastern Australia (Queensland) only Megacrania batesii (Kirby, 1896) occurs, which can be found on Pandanus palms (Pandanaceae, screw pine).
Riparian Forest / Floodplain Forest
Tropical floodplain forests are those lowland forests that are flooded at least once a year for more than two days. In most cases, these areas grow few trees and are characterized by low plant diversity. Since the water flows off more quickly in the immediate vicinity of rivers and therefore the flooding periods are shorter than in the other areas, the phasmid fauna along rivers is often not necessarily typical for the adjoining floodplain forest area. There are normally no species in these areas which lay their eggs into the soil or drop them to the ground, as these would be flooded during the flood periods. The phasmids found there are usually flying species which stick or prick their eggs to branches or leaves of the food plant or lay them under tree bark. The species density is generally quite low, but increases near rivers.
Tropical Lowland Rainforest
Tropical lowland rainforests cover large areas in Southeast Asia, North Australia and the Amazon lowlands of South America. They grow only in hot tropical climates, where the average annual temperature fluctuates only slightly (between 24 and 30°C) and even the coldest monthly average does not fall below 18°C. The temperature in the tropics is very low and the average temperature in the tropics is very low. Rainfall in these areas is high (2000-6000 mm per year) and often evenly distributed over the seasons. At certain times of the day, there are regular heavy downpours, longer dry periods are usually completely absent. Tropical lowland rainforests can be found up to 1500 m above sea level. The constantly high humidity and the balanced temperatures allow lush vegetation to thrive, although the characteristic red clay soils have a low humus content and therefore few nutrients. The soils of the tropical rainforest zone are among the most infertile on earth.
The tropical rainforest is incredibly rich in evergreen trees but almost free of conifers. Botanists estimate that two thirds of all plants on earth occur in the evergreen tropical rainforest. In the Amazon lowlands, for example, only a few hectares of forest are home to more tree species than the whole of Europe (60-200 species per hectare), and it is not unusual for a single tree to be populated by up to 100 different species of climbing plants and mosses. The multi-layered, vertical structure of lowland rainforest is very complex (see figure 2 below) and is divided into:
- shrub- and herb-layer
- understory layer
- canopy layer
- emergent layer
The canopy layer, which forms a dense canopy of leaves at heights of 20-30 m and allows only a little sunlight to penetrate to the rainforest floor, is only interrupted by giant trees up to 60 m high (emergent layer). The undergrowth (understory layer) consists mainly of young plants of the dominant trees and shrubs as well as various giant shrubs (e.g. Musaceae). The shrub and herb layer is mostly formed by ferns and other shade-loving plants with often colourful leaves. The "striving for light" is particularly expressed by the abundance of lianas, epiphytes and other climbing plants.
The lowland rainforest is home to a wide range of different phasmid species and groups. Since the lower, easily searchable vegetation layer is rather meagre, it is sometimes difficult to find phasmids in such areas. Most species are forced to look for their forage plant in the understory and canopy layers, where they are hardly accessible for phasmatologists without appropriate collection or climbing equipment. Although the shrub and herb layers also contain various flightless species, their numbers are small compared to secondary or mountain rainforests. The largest part of the phasmid fauna in these areas consists of small, well flying species in the treetops (canopy layer). The most abundant collection sites in the primary lowland rainforest can be found along rivers, the edges of deforested areas or along roads, logging and hiking trails.
The upper parts of the rainforest (including the treetops) are still largely unexplored and are therefore an interesting area of research for many biologists. New insect species are discovered almost daily in the treetops of tropical rainforests in different parts of the world.
Phasmid species in the different zones:
- shrub- and herb-layer (0 - 5 m)
small to medium-sized, wingless and isolated, flying species as well as various larvae,, e.g, Dares, Pylaemenes, Hoploclonia, Aretaon, Haaniella, Acanthoclonia, Autolyca, Creoxylus, Parectatosoma, Eurycantha, Libethra, Oreophoetes, Medaura, Ramulus, Dyme, Calynda, Bostra, Lonchodes, Pseudophasma
- understory layer (5 - 10 m)
larger, flying species and giant stick insects, e.g. Orthonecroscia, Calvisia, Necroscia, Diesbachia, Citrina, Pseudophasma, Paraphasma, Prexaspes, Bostra, Phanocles, Pharnacia, Phobaeticus
- canopy layer (4 - 15 m)
various flying species and giant stick insects, e.g. Necroscia, Stratocles, Melophasma, Prisopus, Paraphasma, Pseudophasma, Pharnacia, Phobaeticus, Hermarchus, Ctenomorphodes, Acrophylla, Tropidoderus, Extatosoma, Cladomorphus
- emerging layer (15 - 50+ m)
small to very small, flying species and changing leaves, e.g. Necroscia, Nescicroa, Stratocles, Phyllium
A: soft-leaved herbs and perennials (e.g. Araceae: Begonia, Dieffenbachia & Spatiphyllum)
B: fast growing trees (e.g. Cecropia spp., Moraceae)
C: young shrubs and trees
D: climbers (e.g. Calamus spp.)
E: ferns and tree ferns
F: climbing plants (e.g. Araceae: Epipremnum, Scindapsus & Philodendron)
G: giant tree (over 50 m) with board roots
H: epiphytes (e.g. Bromeliaceae, Orchidaceae)
K: staff trees with stilt roots (e.g. Ficus)
L: upper tree layer
Tropical lowland secondary forest
Tropical lowland secondary forests and mountain rainforests are the most productive habitats when searching for phasmids. Usually, representatives from all important groups are present there. Secondary forests are formed by deforestation and slash-and-burn of primary forest areas, which are then used for agricultural purposes for several years. If such an area no longer yields enough crops to secure a livelihood, it is quickly abandoned and a new forest, the secondary forest, can slowly form. Usually, the trees are younger and considerably lower than in the surrounding primary forest. Therefore, a considerably denser and richer vegetation can develop near the ground. In the immediate vicinity of primary forest, such areas provide a very suitable new habitat opportunity for various animals, including phasmids. Secondary forests that have grown for at least 10 years are often very productive collection sites for phasmids. Just the access to secondary forests is often somewhat difficult, due to the dense low-level vegetation, yet there is plenty of vegetation to be searched. Additionally, near agricultural areas, there are often paths alongside and through the thicket, which make collecting much easier. Especially the edges of secondary forests have proven to be extremely successful and productive. Thickets along major roads, which cut broad forest aisles into the primary rain forest, are fauna-rich secondary forests too.
Since the vegetation grows lower than that in the primary forest, it is possible to find species here which otherwise occur mainly in the treetop layer. Typical trees of the secondary forest in South America are for example the fast growing trees of the genus Cecropia (Moraceae).
Tropical Mountain Rainforest
Tropical mountain rain forests are found between 1500-2500 m above sea level. They are similar in structure to tropical lowland rainforests but are characterized by a lower tree layer (5 - 15 m) and denser shrub and herb layers. Tree ferns and epiphytic mosses emerge in large numbers. There are also various palms and conifers (conifers such as Podacarpus spp. in South America) as well as many orchids and bromeliads (in South America). Due to orographic rainfall, precipitation is even more frequent here than in the lowland rainforest. Due to the frequent precipitation, the mountain slopes favour landslides, which tear large aisles into the vegetation cover. And this creates new habitats for many pioneer plants and subsequently diverse and dense vegetation. Mountain rainforests, therefore, have a very high biodiversity (species density). In addition, there is the condensation of fog droplets on branches and leaves, so that the vegetation is exposed to high humidity in a rather cool climate all year round. Besides secondary rainforests, tropical mountain rainforests are the most productive and easily accessible areas for phasmid collection. Because of the lush, low vegetation, the highest density of phasmid species can also be found here.
A special form of mountain rainforest is the tropical cloud forest. In principle, cloud forest is a sub-concept for different (altitude) levels of the mountain rainforest and is located between 1500 and 3000 meters. At this altitude, the cloud level is reached, and thus the zone of maximum humidity. Here the cloud forest spreads out, which depends on almost 100% humidity. The extreme humidity and mild temperatures in connection with sufficient sunlight allow for vegetation, which resembles the mountain rainforest but has fewer species. The dominant plants here are tree ferns, epiphytes as well as moss and liver moss carpets, which spread over the entire soil and also envelop the trees and shrubs in a green overgrowth. Often there are different begonias, fuchsias, orchids or bromeliads.
The phasmid fauna of the cloud forest is similar to that of the mountain rain forest but has fewer species. Collecting can be difficult due to the dense fog.
Starting from heights of 2500 m, mostly above the cloud zone and above the tree line, one can find dwarf forest. With relatively little rainfall, compared to the regions at lower altitudes, the green of the trees becomes sparser and the maximum tree height is barely more than 5 metres. In the Andes of South America, the tree layer of the dwarf forest is composed almost exclusively of Podacarpus species (Podacarpaceae), while in Africa at this altitude mainly plants of the Ericaceae family can be found. The leaves of these shrubs are always hard and small. Mosses are replaced by beard lichens. The vegetation near the ground is dense and almost impenetrable, but not very diverse.
The phasmid fauna of the dwarf forest zone is generally quite poor, but especially in the dwarf forest zones of the Andes in Colombia and Ecuador a surprising number of often strongly adapted phasmid groups occur. Due to the low vegetation and the often isolated growing "forest islands", the collection in these areas is simple but, apart from certain regions of the Andes, not very productive.
Páramo (Alpine Tundra / Highland Steppe)
The tropical highland zone of the Páramo in the Andes of Latin America is unique in the world. This wet and cold grassland zone is found exclusively between 10° northern and 10° southern latitude, i.e. from the highlands of Costa Rica to the north of Peru, and at altitudes between 3000 and 4700 m. The extremely specialized Páramo vegetation has developed over the course of more than 60 million years and forms mostly heather-like formations of hedgehog grass (Stipa ichu, Gramineae), nosegrass, small laurel-leaved shrubs as well as low cushion and rose plants (e.g. Polylepis spp., Rosaceae). Typical for this region are the espeletias with a height of about 1-8 m and puyas (Puya spp., Bromeliaceae). The leaves of the Páramo plants are small, thick and often arranged in symmetrical rosettes, which results in better absorption of sunlight. A thick wax layer protects the leaves against the intense sunlight and small hairs protect them against the cold and store the necessary warmth. The flat growth of most plants provides lesser exposure to wind and cold. The Páramos have an extreme daytime climate with frequent precipitation. A strong wind blows, which often increases to snow and hail storms and passing clouds can cause temperature drops of up to 15°C in only a few minutes. While temperatures can rise to over 20°C during the day due to intense sunshine, night frost can occur almost daily at altitudes above 4000 m. The temperatures can rise to as much as 20°C during the day. There are also vegetation zones similar to the Páramo in the heights of the African continent (e.g. Mount Kilimanjaro). Instead of the Espeletia and Puyas there the similarly adapted Dendrosenecio and Lobelia species can be found.
The phasmid fauna of the Páramo is amazingly rich in species. Usually, the species found there are very small (rarely more than 5 cm) or, like the highly specialized Monticomorpha species (Pseudophasmatinae), sturdily built with short limbs and coloured black. The dark colouring favours the admission of warmth through solar radiation.
Tierra Helada / Highland Desert>
Between the Páramo steppes and the snow line of the Andes, at an altitude of 4700 m, lies the almost vegetation-free zone of the Tierra Helada or Highland Desert. Highland deserts can be found in different parts of the world (Africa, Himalayas & Andes), but phasmids in this zone are only known from the Andes. These are highly specialized species of the genus Monticomorpha, especially M. flavolimbata (Redtenbacher, 1906). This species is found at the Cotopaxi volcano in northern Ecuador at altitudes of up to 5000 m, where they live mostly on or under lava stones. These stones can store an amazing amount of heat due to the intense sunlight and are hand warm even at air temperatures close to zero. The vegetation here is limited to isolated tufts of grasses, lichens and shallow cushion plants, which often have vivid red or yellow colour patterns.
Tropical Dry Forest / Dry Savannah
Tropical dry forests or seasonal forests occur in lowlands where rainfall less abundant or where the dry season(s) extend over more than 2 months per year. In areas where rainy and dry seasons alternate, most trees lose their foliage at the beginning of the dry season and sprout again at the beginning of the rainy season. These forests, which are green only during a short rainy season, are therefore in some respects an ecological counterpart to the deciduous forests in Central Europe. Lianas and herbaceous epiphytes still occur in these dry forests, but the unfavourable water balance leads to low-growing trees, more branching and smaller leaves. The biomass and biodiversity is considerably lower than in the rainforest. The diversity of species of phasmids is considerably lower in these areas. Nevertheless, a relatively high population density can be found for a few species if they are well adapted to their environment.
If precipitation decreases even further and the dry seasons are prolonged, the forests grow even more sparsely. The trees are low-growing and the foliage is thicker and sparser. The undergrowth of such dry forests usually consists of grasses and herbaceous plants, which blend into tropical grasslands. This grassland is usually formed by tall, horst-forming grasses, with shrubs and trees growing individually or in groups. Such tropical or subtropical grasslands interspersed with isolated trees are generally referred to as savannahs. In eastern Africa or western Madagascar, where these tree clusters are mainly formed by acacias (Acacia spp., Mimosaceae), we speak of thorn savannahs. Savannahs can be found in Africa (Miombo forests) but also in South America (e.g. the so-called "Llanos" at Rio Orinoco and "Campus cerrados" in Brazil). The phasmid fauna of such areas is rather small, however, especially in the acacia forests of Africa or the west of Madagascar large phasmid forms have developed (e.g. Bactrododema species in Africa and Achrioptera species in Madagascar). Many of the highly adapted Gratidia species can be found in the grasslands of Africa.
Agriculturally used areas can be of a very different shape. In the immediate vicinity of cities, agricultural land is often used intensively, so that there are no or hardly any areas of primary or secondary forest. In rural areas far away from larger cities, land utilisation is less intensive, which is why smaller, isolated areas of secondary forest and various hedges or groups of trees often still exist. Agricultural land often borders on primary or secondary forest. The less primary and secondary forest there is in agar areas, the lower the number of phasmids occurring in such areas. In areas where agricultural land borders directly on primary forest areas, the phasmid collection is more productive and often surprisingly successful. This is probably due to the easily accessible and walkable forest edges with rich and varied vegetation near the ground. Even isolated hedges along roadsides and paths are quite productive for collecting, as long as there is still forest in the surrounding area.
With their parks, hotel gardens or undeveloped plots of secondary forest, cities also offer potential opportunities for the presence of phasmids. In outlying areas with a more village character and more green areas or even areas with secondary forest, the presence of phasmids is even more likely. Since public parks and hotel gardens are intensively maintained and often treated with pesticides, it is rare to find a few phasmids there. Generally, it can be said that the population density increases with increasing distance from the city centre.
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Goat and Goat Compatibility
The compatibility of representatives of the same zodiac sign is often difficult, because agreeing with your own reflection is a difficult task. According to astrologers at AstrologyK.com, Goats are an exception to the rule. Creative and sophisticated representatives of the zodiac will easily find a common language, and developed intuition helps to literally feel each other’s desires. However, it cannot be said that the union of two Goats has perfect compatibility. Contradictions and conflicts are frequent. The fact is that people of the sign perfectly see each other’s shortcomings and weaknesses. At the same time, no one wants to change. The prospect of interaction is determined by the presence of a single goal of cooperation. For example, for the sake of family well-being, "Sheep" are ready to give up some principles.
Compatibility Horoscope for Goat and Goat
By nature, sociable representatives of the sign from a young age are surrounded by friends and fans. However, they have one feature – at times, outspoken extroverts turn into closed pessimists who do not want to interact with the outside world. Representatives of the same zodiac sign are well aware of such a metamorphosis. This gives a chance for a favorable compatibility of the Goat with the Goat. Partners feel the mood of each other and do not require an explanation if one suddenly wants to be alone. If opponents are united by a creative idea, the Chinese horoscope predicts a harmonious, fruitful union. The process of spiritual growth, personality development and self-realization is vitally important for people of the sign.
Representatives of the zodiac find a soul mate in each other. The female energy of the Yin sign helps people avoid conflicts and make compromise decisions. The vector of compatibility of a couple determines the level of spiritual and intellectual development of partners. The higher it is, the more harmonious the relationship will be. The horoscope of compatibility of the Goat and the Goat focuses attention: the well-being of the union directly depends on the initial moral and material equality of partners. The fact is that the people of the sign are not ready either to lead a companion or to put up with their own inconsistency with its level. Exceptions are couples with significant age differences. In this case, the older partner will willingly accept the role of leader and mentor, and the younger one will gladly follow the advice and instructions, without prejudice to pride.
Goat Man and Goat Woman
The Goat man is romantic, responsive, tactful. He treats women with respect, looks after beautifully. However, he is somewhat divorced from reality, often in creative fantasies, and is rarely ready to take responsibility for the relationship. He feels comfortable and confident with the lady of his sign. Understands the desires of a friend, calmly refers to changes in the mood of the chosen one. There will be a lot of passion and romance in a relationship. The eastern horoscope sees the favorable compatibility of a man and a woman of the sign if the partner becomes the leader of the couple.
Selfless and vulnerable woman Goat needs a strong male shoulder. Of course, feelings for the gentleman of one sign will flare up instantly. The lady will see a kindred spirit in her partner. Lovers are happy to show feelings for each other, enjoy communication. Similar life views and hobbies bring partners closer together. The advantage of the union is a mutual philosophical attitude to everyday life. In the house of this couple, there is a creative mess that lovers are quite happy with. The Goat woman is unlikely to create culinary masterpieces, and the Goat man will consider food delivery an excellent way out. True, the horoscope warns: the compatibility of partners is threatened by mutual falling in love.
Goat and Goat Business Compatibility
In the business sphere, the interaction of representatives of the zodiac can hardly be called productive. People of this sign do not like to work, they are wasteful. They prefer to stay away from the work process, limiting themselves to fulfilling the required minimum. However, the desire for material independence gives a chance for positive compatibility of the Goat tandem in work. For example, a joint creative project will captivate partners and they will be able to agree on ways to resolve work issues. The horoscope advises to distribute responsibilities in tandem evenly among the participants.
The representatives of the zodiac know how to make friends and do it with pleasure. The absence of obligations brings ease and satisfaction with cooperation into the relationship of comrades. Similar interests, hobbies and views on recreation exclude disagreements about how to spend time together. The union of representatives of the sign lasts for years without losing brightness and mutual interest. The horoscope predicts the high compatibility of the Goat and the Goat in friendship, regardless of the gender of the comrades. At the same time, she notes that friendly interaction often becomes the start of a love relationship.
Goat and Goat Love Compatibility
Zodiac representatives are romantic and amorous. From the first minutes of acquaintance, they feel mutual attraction. The horoscope predicts the high compatibility of the Goat with the Goat in love. After all, the desires and needs of partners coincide. Lovers are comfortable together. Enjoying communication with each other, everyone is sure that they have met their soul mate. Love correspondence, romantic dates, frank conversations are an integral part of a relationship. The couple soon decide to live together. And here compatibility can be shaken.
The need to solve everyday and material issues of the union often leads to disagreements. The creative nature of companions does not accept conventions and restrictions. According to astrologers, the average compatibility of the Goat and the Goat in a relationship is inherent in young lovers. Some infantilism, capriciousness interfere with interacting on an equal footing – everyone strives to get more than he contributed. Mature partners are ready to change, to seek a compromise on controversial issues for the sake of the well-being of the relationship. Everyone understands: romance and sensuality will not go far, and a harmonious union is a mutual work. Therefore, over the years, the compatibility of partners grows stronger, the relationship becomes prosperous and mutually satisfying.
Goat and Goat Sexual Compatibility
Perfect sexual compatibility helps to keep lovers together and overcome difficulties at the first stage of interaction. Intuitively feeling each other, partners enjoy intimate communication. From the first meeting, the flame of love flares up like a bonfire in the wind. Passionate by nature, Goats are gentle, affectionate and sensual in bed. They love intimate games. They are happy to bring sexual fantasies to life. The spiritual kinship of the representatives of the sign serves as the basis for harmonious intimate relationships.
Lovers do not hesitate to show feelings for each other in public. They are turned on by both envious and condemning glances of involuntary witnesses of their tenderness. It happens that a couple chooses places for privacy that are not at all intended for intimacy – for example, the chief’s office or a wardrobe in the theater. The perfect compatibility of the Goat with the Goat in bed grows stronger with the development of the relationship. Lovers love experimentation and innovation in the bedroom. Free and frank communication on intimate topics helps to realize the most intimate desires. Partners, despite being amorous, rarely cheat on each other. However, according to the horoscope, this is what often becomes the reason for the termination of the relationship.
Goat and Goat Family Compatibility
The family horoscope positively evaluates the compatibility of the Goat and the Goat in marriage. At the same time, he advises lovers to agree on how everyday issues will be resolved before the appointment of the date of the solemn event. Often sensual and dreamy Goats fly in the clouds, seeing marriage as a natural continuation of a romantic relationship. The stamp in the passport will deprive the lovers of the "rose-colored glasses" – the harsh reality can become an unbearable burden for the spouses. However, the horoscope assures: if, before the start of the family boat, the future husband and wife will constructively discuss the material aspects of the relationship, then "swimming" will become a successful and productive event.
The family for the representatives of the zodiac is a source of love, inspiration, sensual care for each other. Spouses strive for harmonious, equal, mutually satisfying relationships. They succeed. Favorable compatibility of the Goat with the Goat in family life is based on conflict-free and mutual understanding of partners. The horoscope advises the husband not to be afraid to take responsibility. Of course, the attitude “we decide everything together” is laudable. However, a family boat cannot do without a "helmsman". The birth of heirs increases the level of compatibility of the spouses. Representatives of the sign are parents who are caring and sensitive to the interests of children. Mutual respect and attention to the needs of household members for many years become the key to a strong, friendly family. | <urn:uuid:c83c0a2d-923c-4406-bfe8-070e8f016466> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://astrologyk.com/zodiac/chinese/compatibility/goat/goat | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572198.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815175725-20220815205725-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.945226 | 1,830 | 1.765625 | 2 |
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UNC-104/KIF1A is a Kinesin-3 engine that transports synaptic vesicles in the cell body to the synapse by binding to PI(4 5 through its Moxalactam Sodium PH domains. PI(4 5 and existence of hardly any motors on pre-synaptic vesicles pets have got poor locomotion regardless of PI(4 5 amounts due to decreased anterograde transportation. Moreover they present highly reduced degrees of UNC-104 preferential PI(4 5 binding and existence of even more motors on pre-synaptic vesicles PI(4 5 amounts increased anterograde transportation and partial repair of UNC-104 proteins amounts PI(4 5 binding specificity as well as the pets again demonstrated locomotory problems and reduced engine amounts. All allelic variations Moxalactam Sodium show improved UNC-104 amounts upon obstructing the ubiquitin pathway. These data display that lack of ability to bind cargo can focus on motors for degradation. Because from the noticed degradation from the engine in synaptic areas this further shows that UNC-104 gets degraded at synapses upon launch of cargo. Writer Overview The cell body as well as the synapse inside a neuron tend to be separated by significant range which can be spanned from the axon linking the two. Transportation of varied cargoes along the axonal highway is vital for neuronal function. The rules of this complicated process isn’t well realized. Using the model program we Moxalactam Sodium have proven for the very first time the destiny of a engine after it bears its cargo towards the synapse through the cell body. We display how the UNC-104 engine which bears pre-synaptic vesicles towards the synapse can be degraded once it gets there. Furthermore our genetic studies also show proof that lack of cargo binding focuses on the engine for degradation recommending an attractive system for the rules of motors in the synapse. Our research opens up many further questions like the system of engine degradation and offers significant implications for rules of cargo transportation. Introduction Transportation of pre-synaptic vesicles through the neuronal cell body towards the synapse can be an important process to make sure that the nerve terminals can efficiently take part in synaptic transmitting . This transportation can be a regulated procedure that occurs mainly using the Kinesin-3 family members engine UNC-104 Imac KIF1A and KIF1Bβ respectively in the model systems mouse and human beings -. In possess locomotory defects that arise from the ITGB8 absence of transport of synaptic vesicles leading to reduced synaptic transmission at neuromuscular junction synapses . Molecular motors in neurons such as UNC-104 are thought to bind to Moxalactam Sodium their cargoes in the cell body of the neuron get transported along microtubule tracks to synapses and release their cargo upon reaching the synapse . It has been proposed that upon release of cargo the motor gets either inactivated or degraded thus suggesting cargo binding and cargo release as possible means to regulate motor levels. UNC-104 recognizes its cargo by binding PI(4 5 present on the carrier vesicle via its PH domain and its mammalian orthologue in addition uses other proteins to recognize cargo . Several effects of cargo binding on the Kinesin-3 family motors have been shown. Cargo binding by a chimeric Kinesin-3 leads to aggregation of the motor on the cargo surface and improved processivity of the chimera . Mutations in the cargo-binding PH domain of UNC-104 that do not bind PI(4 5 efficiently have also been suggested to affect processivity of the motor . Further it has been proposed that UNC-104 dimerizes upon cargo binding . The mammalian KIF1A has recently been reported to exist in a dimeric autoinhibited state from which it is released upon cargo binding showing that while the orthologues behave differently they are both regulated by cargo binding. Similarly another motor Kinesin-1 is maintained in an inactive folded state and it is triggered by binding to regulatory substances/cargo adaptors. Simultaneous binding by both Fez1 and JIP1 activates Kinesin-1 and allows the electric motor to bind microtubules . Cargo launch continues to be postulated to try out important tasks in engine rules also. Motors involved with anterograde axonal transportation such as for example Kinesin-1 Kinesin-3/KIF1A and heterotrimeric Kinesin are. | <urn:uuid:11c68350-13ae-473a-83b0-b5fd673aaf10> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://cura-cancer.com/unc-104kif1a-is-a-kinesin-3-engine-that-transports-synaptic-vesicles-in-the/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573172.64/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818063910-20220818093910-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.934393 | 965 | 1.960938 | 2 |
The Citizen Lab, published by Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy, University of Toronto, has released research on how Microsoft search engine Bing is censoring China-sensitive terms from its autosuggestion feature internationally. The Citizen Lab research team analyzed Bing’s autosuggestion system censoring nearly 100,000 names in the United States, Canada, and China in English letters and Chinese characters. The team ran the test by modifying region, language, and IP address geolocation.
After the team had communicated the findings to Microsoft, Principal Program Manager Michael Golebiewski responded. In the email, Michael mentions that his team at Microsoft could not reproduce examples after trying multiple scenarios. He explains that the “nature of autosuggestion systems is such that the autosuggestions someone sees are largely based on the query itself and driven largely by user behavior, such as the queries other local users are searching for. Not seeing autosuggestion does not mean it has been blocked.” He adds that users can also directly enter auto-suggested terms into the query. In conclusion, there is an agreement of “a technical error where a small number of users may have experienced a misconfiguration that prevented surfacing some valid autosuggest terms.” Source.
In the report, The Citizen Lab has established that Microsoft Bing has a culture of autosuggestion censorship. The top two categories comprise words related to eroticism, followed by words of “Chinese party leaders, dissidents, and other people.” The team at The Citizen Lab has found that “Bing censors politically sensitive Chinese names spanning over “multiple Chinese political topics, consists of at least two languages, English and Chinese, and applies to different world regions, including China, the United States, and Canada.” The censorship by Bing is a part of a process that targets politically sensitive Chines names. The effect of this censorship is extended to DuckDuckGo and Yahoo, which generates results using Bing autosuggestion API.
Understanding autosuggestions is crucial to this entire story. As a user enters a search query on a web search bar, the internal system suggests options to complete the query. This is done through machine learning from the query behavior of millions of users. In China, where censorship is the norm, Baidu works in compliance with China’s general information control regime. According to this regime, all Internet communications should be pruned from political information. In China, it extends beyond the Baidu search bar to messages, group chats, file contents, usernames, mood indications, and user profile descriptions.
The report has documented all the Chinese names censored from domestic and international autosuggestions on Github. The names in these lists are not just the names of people China hates but also names of people that China doesn’t want its people or the world to be reminded of because users can always query directly using the names.
According to the paper, it is not the first time Microsoft Bing let Chinese censorship enter its western operations. There have been overlooked incidents, so the team highly doubts if this will be the last time. Market-wise, Microsoft has always kept its profit from the Chinese market under the covers. However, its persistence in obeying Chinese censorship laws reveals that there is a profit. The team suggests that the way ByteDance has got Douyin for China and TikTok for the rest. Microsoft should consider a strict bifurcation to limit Chinese censorship within China.
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The Religious Studies department offers Key Stage 3, GCSE, and A Level courses and also contributes significantly to the delivery of Core Religious Studies in the Sixth Form.
Religious Studies asks challenging questions about the ultimate meaning and purpose of life, beliefs about God, the self and the nature of reality, issues of right and wrong and what it means to be human. It develops pupils’ knowledge and understanding of Christianity, other religious traditions, and alternative world views that offer answers to these challenging questions. It offers opportunities for personal reflection and spiritual development. It enhances awareness and understanding of religions and beliefs, teachings, practices and forms of expression, and of the influence of religion on individuals, families, communities and cultures.
Key Stage 3
The scheme of work for KS3 meets the Curriculum Directory requirements to teach on the four main areas which are: Revelation, Church, Celebration and Life in Christ. Resources for the teaching of the topics consist of textbooks, worksheets (differentiated), DVDs, PowerPoints and the use of iPads.
In the construction of the syllabus we have tried to take into account prior learning as acquired through the ‘Come and See’ syllabus. We aim to stimulate a curiosity in religious and moral matters, develop a deep understanding and appreciation of the Catholic faith and explore how other religious traditions answer questions about the meaning and goal of life.
Homework tasks will focus on the effective use of the knowledge organisers. Pupils must be set a weekly homework to learn key terms in RS and, on occasion, biblical or Church quotes in relation to the topics currently being studied.
In Key Stage 3, pupils receive 10% of their learning time in RE.
By the end of Key Stage 3 pupils will have gained a secure grounding in the main beliefs of the Catholic Church as expressed first and foremost in the Bible and also through the Church’s traditions and Catholic Social Teaching. They will understand how God has intervened in history through key figures in the Old Testament and how his salvation reaches its culmination in the Person of Jesus Christ, his parables, miracles and saving death and resurrection. They will be able to link biblical stories with the seven sacraments and be able to explain the signs, symbols, biblical basis, importance and effects of each one upon the life of a modern Catholic. All pupils will have opportunities to prepare and lead acts of worship based on the topics studied. They will be able to link religious beliefs and practices with lifestyle and decision-making, especially with regard to some modern social issues such as poverty (and the work of CAFOD), the environment, and religion and science. They will understand how we are the Body of Christ on earth which can be fulfilled through various vocations within the Church and will have had the chance to explore the ideas of discipleship and vocation with either a member of a religious community or a parish priest, to understand how some people commit their lives to service to God. As members of a multifaith society, pupils will have explored key aspects of Hinduism, Islam and Judaism, resulting in an appreciation and tolerance of other religions in contemporary Britain. Over the course of the three years, pupils will increase their confidence in articulating religious and moral ideas in verbal and written form and will have developing evaluative skills.
Key Stage 4
Religious Studies GCSE is taken by all students. We follow the Eduqas syllabus.
Students will sit three exam papers at the end of Year 11; Foundational Catholic Theology, Applied Catholic Theology and Judaism. The Foundational Catholic Theology and Applied Catholic Theology papers are both 1 hour 30 minutes long (both worth 90 marks) while the Judaism papers is 60 minutes long (worth 60 marks). Students receive 5 lessons per fortnight, and homework is set weekly on examination style questions.
By the end of Key Stage 4 all pupils will have completed study for three GCSE examination papers: Foundational Catholic Theology, Applied Catholic Theology and Judaism. They will know and understand what Catholics believe about the origins and meaning of the world, good and evil, life and death, sin and forgiveness, and Jewish beliefs and practices, and will be able to explain and evaluate a range of positions held by Catholics, and how these may be held in common, or diverge, from other Christian traditions. They will be able to clearly articulate and give reasons for non-religious beliefs, such as humanism, and be able to draw comparisons and contrasts with Catholicism. Pupils will be able to confidently use religious scriptures from the Christian and Jewish traditions to form clear explanations of how beliefs impact upon lifestyle and decision-making, and will be able to construct well-argued, well-informed, balanced and structured written evaluative arguments. As a result of studying the course, pupils will be able to appreciate how religion gives meaning to life for believers and this will form part of their personal contemplation of their experiences as a young person in modern Britain.
Key Stage 5
At Key Stage 5 pupils follow the Eduqas Religious Studies scheme which incorporates three units: Philosophy of Religion, Religion and Ethics and A Study of Religion.
At the end of the course they will sit three external examinations. Each exam is 2 hours long and consists of two sections in which you need to answer: 1 question from a choice of 2 in Section A (AO1) and 1 question from a choice of 3 in Section B (AO2). The course enables learners to respond critically and engage with a wealth of philosophical, ethical and religious concepts, equipping them with analytical skills readily transferable to other areas of life.
The subject is taught by experienced staff members who offer continuous support through the course.
This course is suitable for anyone who achieves a grade 6 or above at GCSE.
By the end of Key Stage 5 students will have engaged with some of the larger, more pervasive questions of Philosophy, Ethics and A Study of Religion over the centuries. Students will get the opportunity to investigate ultimate questions such as “what is the purpose of life?” and “why does evil exist?” They will be able to study topics that explain the diversity of life and religion in the modern world. This will improve philosophical thinking skills and the ability to think outside of the box while coming to an understanding of contemporary ethical and religious issues such as medical ethics and immigration. Students will develop transferrable skills that are valued by employers because of studying Religious Studies, such as the ability to think logically, communicate clearly and effectively, construct well informed and reasoned arguments substantiated by relevant evidence. Students will be given the opportunity to debate in a way that recognises the right of others to hold a different view and coming to an understanding of the importance for religious believers of religion both in history, and in contemporary society.
Those students who solely cover the Core RE content in the Sixth Form will have had an opportunity to examine and discuss a variety of key topics including poverty, human rights, automation and AI, pilgrimage and stewardship. They will be able to draw links with morality and practice and have developed an increasing confidence in articulating their ideas in front of others. They will have considered the role of religion and religious ethics in these issues and will have practised engaging with opinions contrary to theirs and forming their own, balanced conclusions.
Religious Studies teacher
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A webhosting user may purchase a hosting plan that can be a dedicated server, VPS hosting or a Reseller hosting. If you want to create a cPanel account using WHM you are enabled to do so. Before we come to the steps that will explain how to create a cPanel account let us first know,
what is a cPanel?
cPanel is fundamentally a web hosting control panel that is Linux based providing a graphical interface and tools of automation that are designed to make the process of hosting a website simple. cPanel makes use of a 3 tier structure that offers capabilities for admins, reseller and end-users who are site owners to regulate the various aspects of website and server management through a web browser.
Who can use cPanel?
There are no hurdles to who can use cPanel. It does not matter if it is a small personal website or a large corporation website. Anyone can use cPanel along with their Linux hosting i.e. shared hosting, Reseller, VPS and Dedicated server hosting.
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Following are the steps to create cPanel account in WHM
Step 1. You have to login to your Webhost Manager (WHM).
Step 2. The menu on the left under the “Account Functions”, click on “Create a New Account”
Step 3. Then fill in the details to create the new account.
Enter the primary domain name on the cPanel account
Enter the Username and Password for the cPanel account.
Enter the email address that will be associated with the cPanel account.
WHM permits you to create a package, which makes it simple to manage cPanel accounts.
For example, you may create an intermediate plan like the one EzzyTech Networks offers in the cPanel webhosting. You can set limits to the plan which you created like no: of addon domains, Disk Space, Bandwidth, etc. If you have not already set any packages, you can do it by the Select Manually Option and decide what will be the package limits.
Select which theme of cPanel you want to assign to the user and select the suitable language for the user.
If you want to give Reseller privileges to the account select “Make the account a reseller”
If you only want the user to manage own account, use the below option which is “Make the account own itself” option. Once completed with the Reseller Setting scroll to the next setting.
You can decide how to configure the nameservers of the domain on the server. If the nameservers for the domain name are on another server, select the option Use the nameservers specified at the Domain’s Registrar
Mail Routing Settings
You need to decide how the emails must be handled for the specific domain. The emails must be delivered locally or the server must look for the external MX records. If one is not certain about the mail routing setting, then use Auto detect option.
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PUBLIC COMMUNITY HEALTH. PUBLIC COMMUNITY HEALTH. Task 6 Read and review WHO handbook on Healthcare Levels of Interaction Levels of Interaction – Practical Example Study case depicted in the picture of a young Hawaiian boy who does not take his insulin and manage his diabetes. Note the different levels on which health actions/interactions occur. (a larger picture is in the Important Documents). Become familiar with different health models. The Health Belief Model (in Important Documents) Watch video on Theory of Planned Behavior and Theory of Reasoned Action Using the example above with
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Preface Poets and composers, in multitudes, since the earliest times of history have enriched our literature and music. Because of such great personalities, our culture and religion has flourished. In the recent times, the great poet Shuddhananda Bharati, a boon of God to our country, contributed substantially to that genre. He was both a poet (Kavi) and a Yogi and fittingly adored as ‘Kaviyogi’. He was an outstanding poet and has left innumerable lyrics; many of them have already been popularized by great singers. Since he was well versed in music, his songs bear both lyrical and musical beauties. They tend to offer much scope for enhancing the musical subtleties for those who wish to tune them. He was equally a scholar in French besides Sanskrit and Tamil. With his spiritual bent of mind from an early age, he lived for some years in Pondicherry. His songs are in praise of many deities, Nature and so on. With lilting poetry, his songs were published by himself. Now, all his works have been compiled once again and published, a very essential service to humanity. I hope that those who are really interested in knowing or practising meritorious songs on religion, Yoga and so on will surely be benefited by this publication of his works by the Editions ASSA (Aum Shudha Shakti Aum) by Christian Piaget in L’Auberson, Switzerland.
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The Change To alternative Foam Technology (Part 2)
- Extinguishing foam
- Fire Fighting
- Fire Safety
- Foam proportioner
- Sharing knowlegde
As a manufacturer of Firefighting hardware products for over 125 years, we at Knowsley feel obligated to share market intelligence, and through our industry knowledge to help to provide solutions during this transitional phase the industry is currently going through. Changing regulations and use of alternative foam agent technology will have an impact across all industries for clients, manufactures and suppliers.
New Technology Comes With New Challenges
For many years Firefighting Foam manufacturers have actively been formulating alternative FFF (Fluorine free) Foam agents. New generation foam agents may require a different type of technology to maintain or improve performance over conventional Aqueous Film Forming Foam (AFFF) and Film Forming Fluorine Protein (FFFP) foam agents.
Replacing PFAS technology with alternative ingredients results in changes to foam properties, meaning there will be challenges to overcome while transitioning to FFF agents in existing foam suppression systems while using certain types of foam proportioners. The viscosity of FFF agents, also known as fluid thickness, is increased in comparison to AFFF, FFFP and FP foam agents with the result that ensuring the correct operation of current installed foam suppression systems, proportioners and mobile equipment comes with challenges. It can be extremely difficult to work out the correct proportioning (%) rate when using new generation foam agents in current systems.
Typical New generation foam agent vs. conventional AFFF foam agent
Sector knowledge is essential
Knowsley SK site service engineers have many years’ experience of inspecting and maintaining current foam suppression installations. They have been closely monitoring the industry and the development of new foams and are very knowledgeable regarding the challenges presented using next generation foam agents during commissioning and testing of existing foam proportioner systems.
As part of our commitment to the protection of people, property and the environment, Knowsley SK believe it’s our duty as a partner to provide guidance by sharing our knowledge and expertise on how to safely transition to FFF agents and to advise on topics as:
We can also help in the transition with Advice and support regarding clean-out of existing foam suppression systems contaminated by PFAS based AFFF/FFFP foam agents.
Inspection of existing pfas based foam suppression systems
Our experienced engineers are educated and trained to assess existing foam system and will develop a plan of approach based on the current foam suppression system on site, and with mutually agreed targets.
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Yellow tea (Huang Cha) is perhaps the most mysterious category of tea. Why? The way Yellow tea is made is kept secret. What we do know is that Yellow tea goes through a special process called "smothering" that oxidizes the tea similar to how Maillard reactions are used for browning food. What does that mean for customers? Yellow tea has a very distinctive flavor.
In terms of flavor, Yellow teas live somewhere between Green and Light Oolong. Like Green tea, Yellow teas are astringent. Unlike Green, you'll find many Yellow teas with notes of sweetness and umami, like you'd find in lighter Oolong teas.
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Legion of Honor: French show gratitude to Mebane World War II veteran
Seventy years after George Tyson Jr. fought in World War II, France has awarded the veteran with the Legion of Honor, an accolade intended to convey gratitude for those who helped liberate the country in the 1940s.
Tyson, of Mebane, who turns 92 in March, was one of 14 veterans from around North Carolina who received the medal Feb. 20 at the state House chambers in Raleigh.
According to the Consulate General of France, the award was founded by Napoleon Bonaparte in 1802 and is the country’s highest honor.
A retired L Company colonel and part of the 100th Infantry Division, Tyson said the process of receiving the award began a couple years ago, when he was recommended for the honor and had to fill out papers to confirm his involvement in the war.
“I had to prove I was in France and did a lot to help get their country back,” Tyson said. “We took on the Germans and gave France back their freedom. … They’re grateful to the American troops, and that’s why they’re giving us these medals.”
Tyson, originally from Durham, was drafted into the military Nov. 24, 1942, and trained in South Carolina, Tennessee and at Fort Bragg in North Carolina — where he met his wife, Jean — before being sent to France in October 1944.
Though he quickly worked his way up through the ranks, Tyson said, he was reluctant about his assignment at first.
“I didn’t want to be in the infantry then,” he said. “That’s where all the fighting was done. But now, after I’ve finished, I’m glad I went in there because I felt like I did my part in the war.”
When his work was complete in France, Tyson didn’t yet have enough points to come home, so he was sent to Berlin, Germany, where he helped rebuild bridges that had been blown up, he said.
He returned to the United States in March 1946, and remained in the reserves for 31 years, attending various military schools and training programs along the way. Tyson graduated from UNC-Chapel Hill in 1950.
He said he worked for Mebane Lumber Co. for 28 years before retiring and earning his general contractor license to build homes, which he did for another 15 years, until he was 80.
Tyson was awarded the first medal at the Legion of Honor ceremony since his rank of retired colonel was the highest of the recipients.
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Restores files and directories from a backup.
$ hb get [-c backupdir] [-r version] [-v level] [--no-ino] [--orig] [--delete] [-i] [-no-sd] [--todev blockdev] [--cache cachedir[,lock]] [--plan] [--no-local] [--no-mtime] [--splice] pathnames
Relative paths and simple filenames are changed to full paths using the current directory.
By default, the
get command restores the last component of the
pathname to the current directory. For example, if
restored, a new
rc.conf file is created in the current directory.
/etc is restored, a new
etc directory will be created in the
current directory. For extra safety, consider
cd /tmp before a
--orig restores files to their original locations instead of the current directory.
Get always asks before a file or directory is restored over an
existing file or directory. For safety,
get may sometimes refuse to
do a restore over existing data if it believes the restore may not be
what you really want. For example, it will not restore a file over an
existing non-empty directory with the same name. This can be avoided
by restoring to a different location, or removing or renaming the
existing file or directory before the restore.
When restoring over existing directories, get normally merges the
backup contents with the directory contents. If the existing files
match the backup files, they are left alone (unless
used). Otherwise, they are overwritten with the backup file. The
--delete option deletes existing files and directories that are not
in the backup. This is similar to the
--delete option and can
be used to "sync" a directory to the backup contents.
-r option selects a specific version to restore. This will
restore files that are backed up at this version or an earlier version
as necessary. With
-r1, some of the files may have been backed up
in version zero and some backed up in version 1; the
get command will
automatically select the latest version for each file. If
-r is not
get command restores files from their most recent backup.
Using Local Files
get will use local files to assist the restore. This
is sometimes called incremental restore. It looks in both the
original backup directory and the target restore directory for files
with the same name, mtime (modification time) and size to select matches.
This makes restarted restores very fast since data already downloaded
and restored does not have to be restored a 2nd time.
For a more strict verification, the
--no-mtime option can be used.
This computes a strong cryptographic hash of the local file and
ensures it matches the hash of the backup file before using the local
file for the restore.
To disable local data use the
--no-local option. This is a useful
option when doing test restores immediately following a backup to
verify remote backup data.
When local files have been modified, it is still possible to use some
local data combined with some remote data to restore files using the
--splice option. This requires reading through local files and uses
more temp space in the backup directory, but can save significant
download bandwidth. During splicing, a strong file hash is computed
for the restored file and compared to the original backup file’s
strong hash to ensure it was correctly restored.
-v option controls how much output is displayed:
-v0 = don’t print filenames as they are restored
-v1 = print some basic headings only
-v2 = print filenames as they are restored
-v3 = print local filenames not used in the restore
-v4 = print local files used in the restore
-i option asks before starting the restore. This is useful for
comparing restore plans.
--no-sd option disables selective download, which is what
HashBackup uses to download parts of files. This option might speed
up large restores when
cache-size-limit is set because the planning
stage is faster and uses less RAM. More data is downloaded because
whole arc files are downloaded instead of just the pieces needed, but
fewer requests are issued to remote servers. This option might be
useful on high-bandwidth and/or high-latency networks, or when RAM is
When the config option
cache-size-limit is set, some arc (backup
data) files are stored locally in the backup directory and some are on
remote destinations and have to be downloaded to the backup directory
during restore. This poses challenges:
the backup directory may be on a small disk, like an SSD, and might not have room to download the data needed to do a large restore.
during a restore, the backup directory has to be locked since the cache of arc files might be changing. This lock prevents backup during restore and keeps two different restores from running simultaneously.
--cache option solves these problems. It specifies a separate
directory used for storing downloaded data needed during the restore.
If the cache directory already exists and matches the backup directory
version, some downloaded data can be reused and the cache directory
will remain after the get command. If the cache directory doesn’t
exist when get starts, it will be created and then deleted when get
finishes. So to use the cache directory for several restores, create
it before using get.
--cache option has an optional modifier
,lock that can be
added to request locking the main backup directory. This allows using
arc files already in the backup directory instead of downloading them
,lock is not used, backup directory arc files can only be
reused if the cache directory is on the same disk as the backup
directory, allowing hard linking.
During backup, HashBackup stores a SHA1 checksum for each block of data within a file and a separate SHA1 checksum for the entire file. During a restore, all of these checksums are verified to ensure that the data restored is identical to the data that was backed up.
HashBackup handles deleted files correctly: if a directory contains
files A and B in backup versions 0 and 1, and file B is deleted and a
backup occurs (version 2), then restoring the directory with
-r1 will restore both A and B, but restoring with
-r2 will only
restore file A. If you try to restore file B with
-r2, an error
message is displayed indicating that the file was deleted in version
2. You can restore the deleted file B by using the
Unstable Inode Numbers and
--no-ino option is used to backup and restore filesystems like
CIFS, UnRAID, and sshfs (FUSE in general) that do not have stable
inode numbers. In typical Unix filesystems, every unique file has a
unique inode number. But with these filesystems, the inode numbers
are re-used, so two different files can end up with the same inode
number. This is a problem because during restores, HashBackup hard
links files with the same inode number. To prevent incorrect
hardlinking, use the
--no-ino option for both backups and restores
of these types of filesystems. After the initial backup, HashBackup
will stop with an error if it sees that file inode numbers are not
--no-ino was not used.
Restore Plans and Limited Cache
When local backup directory disk space is limited, the
cache-size-limit config option specifies how much backup data (arc
files) can remain in the backup directory. For restores with a
limited cache, HashBackup has to create a restore plan to decide what
data to download, the download order, and how long blocks have to stay
in the cache during the restore. For a very large restore with a lot
of small blocks, this restore planning can take some time. For
example, a 1TB VM image will contain over 240M blocks if saved at the
default 4K block size. Restore plans are saved in the backup directory
so that if the restore is restarted for some reason, the plan can be
To speed up restores in a disaster recovery situation, it is possible
to use the
--plan option to generate restore plans before they are
needed. This can be done for one or several different restores. It
is important to remember that each list of filenames to restore in one
get command creates a unique restore plan. So if restore plans are
created for restoring files
f2 separately, a different
restore plan is created for restoring
f2 together in one
restore. If the backup database is changed in any way, such as
another backup occurs, all restore plans are invalidated. The typical
way to use
--plan would be as part of the daily backup procedure.
Restore plans are only saved if the
Raw Block Device Restores
When a raw block device is restored, the data can be stored in 3 locations:
--orig= restore the data to its original block device (must be unmounted)
--todev= restore the data to a different, unmounted block device
neither option means restore the data to a file in the current directory, using the device name as filename
Some systems (devmapper on Linux) use symbolic links to point to the actual block device. When you backup the symlink, the actual block device is included in the backup. For example: `
# hb backup -c hb /dev/mapper/ub1264-swap_1 HashBackup build 971 Copyright 2009-2013 HashBackup, LLC Backup directory: /home/jim/hb Adding symlink target to backup: /dev/mapper/ub1264-swap_1 -> /dev/mapper/../dm-1 This is backup version: 0 Dedup is not enabled /dev/dm-1 /dev/mapper/ub1264-swap_1
If you restore the symlink,
get tries to do something reasonable.
If the symlink already exists but points to a different device,
will restore to that device, but asks for confirmation. The safest
option is to use
--todev and restore directly to the block device
/dev/dm-1 in this example, not the symlink. Then you know
exactly where your restored data is written.
Good restore performance is important for any backup system. Below are a few different restores from an actual backup to give an idea of HashBackup’s restore performance. The backup and restores are on a 2.66GHz Intel Core 2 Duo (2010) Mac Mini OSX server with 2x750GB hard drives. The system has been backed up daily since October 2010 and is the HashBackup build server. There are 5 virtual machines running, with disk images from 3-10GB each, 6 other virtual machines, and the usual OSX files. One hard drive is the root drive, the other stores the backups. The root drive has around 81GB of data being backed up daily. Backup for this system uses ~350MB of RAM, 2/3rds of that for the dedup table. Restores typically use 100-150MB of RAM, independent of the file or backup size, or the size of the dedup table (it is not used during restore).
Important note: these are not restores from a traditional "full" backup, or a version 0 backup where everything was just saved. These restores are from 1746 incremental, deduped backups saved over a 6 year period.
Test 1: restore a complete copy of the OSX root drive from 1746 incremental backups for 6 years
sh-3.2# time hb get -c /backup / -v1 HashBackup build #1496 Copyright 2009-2016 HashBackup, LLC Backup directory: /backup Most recent backup version: 1746 Restoring most recent version Using destinations in dest.conf Begin restore Restoring / to /test Restore? yes Restored / to /test No errors real 75m55.703s user 51m20.498s sys 7m57.109s sh-3.2# du -ksc /test 81719612 /test 81719612 total sh-3.2# find .|wc 578956 743762 57345665
In this test, 578,956 files and directories were restored, a total of 81.7GB in 76 minutes, averaging 17 MB/sec. The system was also running 11 virtual machines so was not idle during the test (it averages 80% idle), and most of these files were on the small side so there is more seek overhead. A similar test would be to do an initial backup of the root file system and then a complete restore. This could be expected to run faster because the backup data is not scattered over 1746 different backup versions (see test 4 below).
Test 2: restore a 2GB VM disk image with daily incremental backups for 5 years
sh-3.2# time hb get -c /backup /Users/.../Documents/Virtual\ Machines.localized/centos.vmwarevm/centos-s002.vmdk HashBackup build #1496 Copyright 2009-2016 HashBackup, LLC Backup directory: /backup Most recent backup version: 1746 Restoring most recent version Using destinations in dest.conf Restoring centos-s002.vmdk to /test /test/centos-s002.vmdk Restored /Users/.../Documents/Virtual Machines.localized/centos.vmwarevm/centos-s002.vmdk to /test/centos-s002.vmdk No errors real 3m26.150s user 1m46.945s sys 0m11.811s sh-3.2# ls -l centos5532-s002.vmdk -rw-------@ 1 jim staff 2086993920 Apr 8 02:13 centos5532-s002.vmdk
For this test, a 2GB virtual machine (VM) disk image file was restored. The file was originally saved August 2011 with daily incremental backups since then for the last 5 years. The VM stays running all the time so the disk image is backed up nearly every day. This was verified with the backup logs. This VM image is saved with a small 4K block size to maximize dedup, but that is also the most challenging to restore: the file has 509,520 backup blocks scattered over a 5 year backup period. HashBackup restored the file in 3 minutes, 26 seconds.
Test 3: restore a 498MB zip archive from a backup 3 years ago
# time hb get -c /backup /Users/.../tapes/prime.zip HashBackup build #1496 Copyright 2009-2016 HashBackup, LLC Backup directory: /backup Most recent backup version: 1746 Restoring most recent version Using destinations in dest.conf Restoring prime.zip to /test /test/prime.zip Restored /Users/.../tapes/prime.zip to /test/prime.zip No errors real 0m14.044s user 0m13.496s sys 0m1.732s sh-3.2# ls -l prime.zip -rw-r--r-- 1 jim staff 498219045 May 19 2013 prime.zip
The 498MB zip archive was restored in 14 seconds, from backup #715 on May 19, 2013 - at an average rate of 35.6 MB/sec. This file restored at a faster rate because it was contained in a single backup version and did not change after that, unlike the VM disk image.
Test 4: backup and restore the same drive as test #1 from an initial backup
sh-3.2# time hb backup -c /data/test -v1 -D1g / HashBackup build #1496 Copyright 2009-2016 HashBackup, LLC Backup directory: /Volumes/HD2/test Copied HB program to /Volumes/HD2/test/hb#1496 This is backup version: 0 Dedup enabled, 0% of current, 0% of max Backing up: / Mount point contents skipped: /Network/Servers Mount point contents skipped: /dev Mount point contents skipped: /home Mount point contents skipped: /net Time: 5345.8s, 1h 29m 5s Checked: 579014 paths, 86520028440 bytes, 86 GB Saved: 578956 paths, 86326260319 bytes, 86 GB Excluded: 32 Dupbytes: 20540224433, 20 GB, 23% Compression: 49%, 2.0:1 Space: 43 GB, 43 GB total No errors real 89m6.195s user 100m2.367s sys 12m2.822s sh-3.2# time hb get -c /data/test -v1 / HashBackup build #1496 Copyright 2009-2016 HashBackup, LLC Backup directory: /data/test Most recent backup version: 0 Restoring most recent version Begin restore Restoring / to /test Restore? yes Restored / to /test No errors real 63m49.108s user 53m11.719s sys 10m29.799s
This is like test #1, restoring 86GB in 578,956 files, but the restore is from a single-version backup, similar to restoring from a traditional "full" backup. The restore is faster, 64 minutes vs 76 minutes, because data is all stored in one version rather than the 1746 incremental versions in test #1. But considering the extreme backup space savings, test #1 still has good restore performance.
This initial backup used 43GB of backup space. The backup for test
#1, covering a 6-year period of daily backups for the same drive, uses
about 100GB of space. Backup #1 has a retention policy of
meaning "keep the last 30 days of backups, plus 1 monthly backup for
the year". So there are around 42 versions being retained. The
"forever incremental" strategy has greatly reduced the amount of
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Did COVID-19 Change Digital Media Buying and Planning Forever? | The Ward Group Explores the Subject
Throughout the course of advertising history, we’ve seen many major events that changed the industry forevermore. Take for example, the introduction of radio broadcasting, the first time ads could be something other than print; World War II and the creation of the Ward Advertising Council — now the Ad Council — responsible for landmark campaigns such as Rosie the Riveter, Smokey Bear and “Loose Lips Sink Ships”; the invention of VCRs and fast-forwarding through commercials in 1971, prompting the creation of in-program product placements; the Internet (can’t forget that one). And now, the COVID-19 pandemic.
In 2020, the onset of the pandemic prompted the ad industry to change in many lasting ways. We’ve all seen for ourselves how brands adopted digital-first strategies faster than they otherwise would have, but the changes go even further than that. The digital media buying and planning process has changed in response to consumer behaviors. As we look to the future, many of these changes are likely to remain.
Planning Deeper Media Mixes With an Omnichannel Approach
As consumer behaviors change, it’s up to brands to interact with them in whichever way they find most convenient. When everyone was stuck at home last year, their preferences changed and they began to engage with even more platforms, whether they be social media, streaming services, podcasts, linear TV, radio, eCommerce sites and more. In order for brands to seamlessly connect with their audience, it’s become increasingly necessary to plan deeper media mixes, including elements of traditional media (TV, radio, print, etc.) with a strong digital media presence.
The world of marketing and advertising moves so fast these days — something consumers are both the perpetrators and victims of. During the pandemic, we’ve all grown accustomed to watching TV while scrolling through social media or listening to a podcast while checking email, but this also makes it much harder for brands to find us, get our attention and give us the right information when we need it. That’s why it’s so important to create a consistent, omnichannel experience, so that moving forward you can find and engage with your audience wherever they feel most comfortable while keeping interactions consistent.
Navigating Streaming’s Fragmentation
One area that really blew up during the pandemic is streaming. As soon as lockdowns began and companies everywhere sent employees to work from home, people started watching a lot more TV, and CTV/OTT platforms launched to meet that need. Now you can’t throw an Emmy Award without hitting a new streaming platform. You have the old stalwarts: Netflix, Amazon Prime, Hulu, Roku. And, you have the new kids on the block: Disney+, HBOMax, Paramount+. With so many new options, the way people watch TV is more decentralized than ever.
How does this affect digital media buying and planning? Well, quite frankly, in order to buy inventory, buyers have to figure out who they even need to talk to. Gone are the days of working directly with a few national television networks. Today, you could be talking to the makers of smart TVs and CTV devices such as LG, Roku or Vizio, you could be talking to OTT providers like Hulu or Peacock, or maybe you’re actually reaching out to content creators themselves on Twitch or YouTube to do some kind of product integration or sponsorship.
Shortening Buying Cycles
As a result of digital transformation during the pandemic along with changing consumer behaviors, the consumer journey has become shorter and simpler. In the past, advertisers might have had to spend significant amounts of time planning awareness campaigns, but today’s highly informed audience looks at brands much differently, bulldozing their own way through the awareness, interest and consideration phases.
Initially, prospective buyers may first interact with a brand via an ad, but then they’re more likely than past consumers to do their own research, ask for recommendations and read reviews. This means the amount of time spent nurturing people through the consumer journey is much shorter. To keep up with increasingly condensed journeys, media planners and buyers must be able to present customers with more relevant content suited to their interests or concerns, and that’s where the use of advanced advertising insights and customer behavior metrics should come into play. When you do your own homework on your audience, you can help them do their homework on you, speeding up the buying cycle for everyone.
Digital Media Planning and Buying Agencies are More Important Than Ever
The ways that COVID-19 have permanently changed the behaviors of consumers, marketers and brands alike are numerous and yet to be fully understood. What we do know is that advertising is a much more complicated space than it was even a decade ago. That’s why digital media planning and buying agencies are getting a second look. Different ad ecosystems all have different signals and not all of them talk to each other, meaning there’s no single metric or marketing tactic you can solely rely on. You need to find the right tools and expertise to navigate an increasingly complex industry, and agencies have it.
The Ward Group has filled our ranks with talented media planners and buyers with expertise in a range of different areas, from traditional media like TV or radio to digital channels such as Facebook or YouTube. A global pandemic may have shaken up and fragmented the media industry, but our media stewards won’t let you get lost in the commotion. We’ll treat your brand and your budget as if they’re our own as we help you adapt to the evolving media landscape. Contact us today to meet your new team of media specialists. | <urn:uuid:698a698a-40c6-4a21-99be-f524ffa798cb> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://adchatdfw.com/2021/09/30/did-covid-19-change-digital-media-buying-and-planning-forever-the-ward-group-explores-the-subject/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572833.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817001643-20220817031643-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.948519 | 1,198 | 1.695313 | 2 |
Types of Camping
Being outdoorsy and finding it odd to set up a tent among a sea of RVs, we prefer campgrounds that cater to tent campers only, or smaller trailers and camper vans. We also enjoy staying in cabins in the woods. If you backpack like we do, Florida also has lots of primitive camping locations you may want to consider for an overnighter away from it all. Savvy locals know that we have lots of quiet camping spots at county and city parks, on water management lands, and our wildlife management areas.
Both Florida State Parks and Florida State Forests have contracted Reserve America to manage their camping reservations. National Forests and Army Corps of Engineers Campgrounds use them as well. Every reservation through Reserve America incurs an add-on fee and a full night’s cancellation fee. You won’t find that the case at county and city parks.
State Park Campgrounds
While our state parks are popular winter camping destinations for fleets of RVs that stream in from up north, that means those of us who live here have a tough time finding a campsite on weekends during prime hiking season. Click on each park page for details and reservation links. All Florida State Park reservations are handled by Reserve America, 1-800-326-3521.
State Forest Campgrounds
State forests provide another alternative for camping. They generally have smaller campgrounds, usually well tucked into the woods or along a lake. Facilities tend to be more basic. Click on each forest page for details about its campgrounds. Some of these forests have multiple campgrounds in different locations. All Florida State Forest reservations are handled by Reserve America, 1-800-456-2267 | <urn:uuid:527be24c-2bab-45cf-b6a8-930811a45aaa> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://floridahikes.com/camping | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572833.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817001643-20220817031643-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.951379 | 349 | 1.632813 | 2 |
The concept of music designed specifically in a technological environment was pioneered by Brian Eno in the nineteen-seventies, and has since become known by the term Ambient. The connotations that this generic term carries are particularly associated with the kind of material that Ambient produces - dumb two-finger melodies arranged and played by stoned and mathematically challenged humans in a derivative manner. Understandably, this has led most discerning listeners (and most composers) to entirely dismiss the concept of Ambient music as an idea worthy of attention.Over the past 5 years, I have become interested in the use of music as an autonomous being seeded from a small instruction set, and have come to believe that it is possible to produce material that can develop on its own terms without being in any way compromised by human intervention. To create a distinction between my own experiments in this area and the products of the various purveyors of, what Sousa termed, canned music, I have begun using the term Nano Music.
A Nano is defined as a unit prefix meaning “one billionth.” My intention is to seed autonomous works ostensibly (but not exclusively) for particular times and situations with a view to building up a massive but monotonous catalogue of cloud music suited to a wide variety of internet connected devices.Whereas conventional music proceeds from the basis of regularizing environments by blanketing their acoustic and atmospheric idiosyncrasies, Nano music is intended to de-regulate. Whereas conventional background music is produced by stripping away everything that is not human from the music, Nano music retains randomness. And whereas the intention of background music is to make the environment `interesting` by adding stimulus to it (thus supposedly alleviating the tedium of routine tasks and levelling out the natural ups and downs of the body rhythms) Nano music is intended to induce amnesia and a space beyond thinking.
Nano music must be able to accommodate many levels of listening attention without enforcing one in particular; it must be as imperceptible as it is post-human.
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|Title:||Music for TCP ports
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Our mission is simple: To help people become fitter, healthier and happier.
There are two ways to combat the global obesity crisis:
- Radical government intervention in the food and drink industry
It is unlikely that governments will do what is needed to change the ways of the food industry as this will lead to economic disaster. So it is down to the people to educate each other on healthy eating and exercise.
MotleyHealth likes to take a more relaxed approach to personal health and fitness. We take the meaning of Motley as that of a “varied mixture” which represents the diverse information on health and fitness on this site, and also the diverse range of people that read and contribute to the site. We believe that health and fitness needs to be brought down to earth a little.
However, even though we prefer to take a more casual approach to fitness and weight loss we ensure that the information we provide is backed by scientific research and references to research materials are provided whenever relevant.
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Everyone is unique, and we should all strive to do whatever we can to improve our health and fitness. Eat some fruit, climb a mountain. That will work just as well as a fad diet and an hour a day in an aqua-Pilates class.
We believe in embracing diversity, learning from different people, and taking all the best parts from every school of thought to ensure that we achieve our health and fitness goals.
Healthy weight loss is not complicated. Simple conditioning and endurance exercises, fat burning cardio workouts and bodybuilding training will get most people in good physical shape and also aid weight loss when a healthy diet is added.
Fitness and weight loss should always be free, it is human nature to be fit and strong. Your home is your health club, and we are your gym buddy and training coach!
Weight Loss Is About You
MotleyHealth is intended as a source of information for the general public looking to lose weight and get fit.
What we are trying to make clear, is that you do what works for you, what you enjoy, what comes easy, and whatever is accessible to get you fit and healthy. Being fit and healthy need not cost you a penny (or any other unit of currency).
Do not eat unhealthy food (unhealthy food is often more expensive, contrary to popular belief. Take a look at the price of onions and carrots for example, and compare that to burgers, chips and fizzy drinks).
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MotleyHealth is essentially a guide to using an assortment of methods and advice to help lose weight and get fit. Whether it is “old school”, ancient Eastern philosophy, Celebrity fitness workouts, fad diets or even 1980’s aerobics, it really does not matter how you get into shape. The important thing is to have the information to empower yourself to take action.
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MotleyHealth In The Press
In the last few years we have been mentioned in The Mirror, the BBC, Huffington Post, TheGuardian, The Sun, The Metro, Elle Magazine and Men’s Fitness.
The Mirror Article
A sure sign that like many of our readers, MotleyHealth is going from strength to strength – we got a mention in a national newspaper.
It was actually a couple of weeks ago now that we were mentioned in the Mirror, a popular British daily newspaper. The article that featured us was talking about inexpensive ways to get fit – “Shed pounds from your waist – NOT your wallet“.
The article even featured celebrity fitness expert Davina McCall, who is the host of the British Biggers Loser and has made some good fitness DVD’s.
The article that they refer to is this one: 20 Minute Home Workout. This is a workout that can be done at home or in the park with friends and is designed to get you fit and toned.
The article also mentioned PayAsUGym which we wrote about here: Pay As U Go Gym – New Way To Workout Without A Contract.
The Mirror has a daily circulation of around 1.2 million copies. It is over 100 years old, being founded in 1903 by Alfred Harmsworth. It was launched as a newspaper for women, by women.
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Spatial assessment of urban forest ecosystem services to explore opportunities for nature-based solutions: A study from Kumasi, Ghana
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More than half of the world’s population already lives in cities. According to estimates, this share will rise to more than 70% by 2050. The fastest urbanization is taking place in developing countries. Due to the enormous population growth and urbanization, cities are facing numerous challenges. These include increasing air pollution, heat waves, droughts and floods, as well as poverty and socioeconomic inequalities. This increases the vulnerability of the population to extreme weather events.
In this context, nature-based solutions (NbS) are becoming increasingly important in urban planning. NbS are measures to protect, sustainably manage, and restore ecosystems that can address societal challenges. They simultaneously benefit human well-being and biodiversity. The urban forest is a very important ecosystem as it provides numerous benefits to the population. It promotes a good urban climate, reduces air pollution, regulates the water cycle, and mitigates the effects of climate change. In addition, urban forests promote social cohesion as they can serve as gathering places and contribute to the well-being and stress reduction of the urban residents.
However, growing populations and rapid urbanization exceed the planning and implementation capacity of many municipal authorities in West Africa and other parts of the world. The urban forest and its ecosystem services are under severe threat in Ghana, for example, due to the continuous conversion of urban green spaces to other land uses. This can also be observed in Kumasi. The metropolitan region in south-central Ghana, which serves as the case study for this project, is the largest agglomeration in the country with more than three million inhabitants and, like many cities in West Africa, is characterized by rapid growth and high population density. The city was built on the garden city model and was considered the “Garden City of West Africa” as recently as the 1960s. However, especially since 2009, much of the green space in the city has been lost, and the remaining fragments of urban forest have come under pressure from increasing urbanization.
To ensure sustainable development, urban forest management strategies that take into account biodiversity as well as human, social, and cultural factors must be implemented. However, this is only possible if the various services provided by the urban forest are recognized and properly valued and appreciated.
This project will therefore spatially analyze and quantify both biophysical and cultural ecosystem services as well as access, use, and valuation of the urban forest by the population. Explicitly, inhabitants of informal settlements will also be included in the analyses. Finally, trade-offs between the different services of the urban forest will be analyzed, which could be mitigated by management strategies. Together with representatives of different stakeholders, it will be determined how an improved understanding of the ecosystem services of the urban forest can improve management and governance strategies toward nature-based solutions. The overall goal of the project is thus to identify opportunities for NbS to tackle various climate and societal challenges in Kumasi, Ghana, and other cities in West Africa.
The project’s interdisciplinary methodological approach includes field campaigns with measurements of urban trees, geographic information system (GIS)-based analysis, participatory mapping with urban populations, and qualitative interviews with stakeholders.
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Want to Study Abroad? See The Friendliest Cities for African Students
Africans are known to leave their cities to seek higher education abroad. The QS survey rates Lagos, Accra, Addis Ababa and Nairobi to be the top cities in Africa where youths typically leave from to go for study abroad.
So where do they go to? Where are the top choice cities Africans choose to have their education in and why? Are you looking to study abroad but you are wandering how embracing and wholly welcoming the city would be for you, especially as a black student?
The list of friendly cities in the world is very widely known to rotate between cities in Canada, United States, United Kingdom and a few times Australia, Germany, South Korea and Malaysia.
Below are 15 African-student friendly cities by AfterschoolAfrica. The list is rated by the population of black/diverse culture student population, Cost of housing, Cost of tuition fees and Employment Possibility. We have factored all these into our lists because everyone should be able to experience and afford the kind of education they need. Some of these cities have at least a University in them which has come on such rankings as world most prestigious schools. Enjoy.
International Universities:University of Melbourne, Australian National University, Australia Catholic University.
Diverse Population: The city of Melbourne, Australia boasts of a lot of black and African American students schooling in these universities especially the University of Melbourne with over 13, 000 international students out of 40,000 according to Usnews. Melbourne prides itself in having the highest score of students who are from different races. Apart from the size and cultural diversity of student population, levels of social inclusion and tolerance are also quite notable.
Cost of Tuition: Tuition plus living expenses of these seven Universities in Melbourne on the average according to QS is around US$13,700, which is less expensive than cities in other major countries in the world.
Student Employment: Students can readily get jobs with their study permits in Melbourne as there are a number of on-campus job opportunities like clerk duties and shopping assistants.
International Universities: Universiti Malaya, Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM)
Cost of Housing: According to Mercer, Kuala Lumpur has a high score for its affordability, be it in terms of low housing costs and relatively low tuition fee (which is an average of US$3,900 a year).
Diverse Population: Kuala Lumpur boasts of a large population of African students and is in fact the choice city for many Africans coming from Ghana, Nigeria and Sierra Leone. Kuala Lumpur is also home to international branch campuses of universities such as Australia’s Monash University, allowing students to study the same course, with the same prestige, for possibly more than half the price.
International Universities: There is one university in Debrecen, Hungary, widely known for its cultural diversity especially of Africans and that is the University of Debrecen in Debrecen, Hungary.
Diverse Population: A large number of African students troop into the University for medical studies. According to the university’s website, the number of African students would total 611 out of 3741 foreign students, an impressive figure for a school in Central Europe.
Cost of Tuition/Living: The cost of tuition in Debrecen is on the average $13,500, a relatively low price compared with schools in cities such as Paris or Vienna. Processing of admissions can be as low as $4. Because airfare is usually the expensive factor in abroad schooling, consider flying to Vienna and then getting on a train to Debrecen. Train transportion is infact always suggested as a cheap alternative means of transport as a student abroad in order to reduce living expenses.
Cost of Housing: The town of Debrecen provides housing for students at an approximate $146 monthly for a one bedroom suite.
Student Employment: Part-time jobs with flexible schedule for international students with study permits at University of Debrecen is available.
International Universities: Seoul National University, Korea University, Catholic University of Korea, Yonsei University, University of Seoul. Seoul universities are gradually coming to be recognised as schools to be reckoned with according to this statistics. The South Korean city is one of its most exciting study destinations not only because of its rich cultural heritage, but also for its inexpensive education. At US$6,300, an international student can get quality education in Seoul while enjoying the sounds of night-market sellers, the atmosphere of the all-night tea houses or the cries of gamers at gaming centers.
Cost of Housing: Student housings, which students can often share with other students usually goes between 400,000 to 600,000 won which is an estimated $420 monthly.
Germany itself is now the world’s third most popular study destination after the US and the UK, helped by the fact that undergraduate tuition fees at public universities in Germany have become free for all, regardless of nationality. The country’s online Schiller University is fast becoming a World renowned University among Africans who desire to undergo foreign study while avoiding incurring living expenses. According to Mercer, Berlin is also one of the most affordable European capitals offering a high quality of living for a low cost in comparison to many other cities.The healthy competition among hostels keeps costs low while still maintaining their quality.
International Universities: Freie Universität Berlin and Humboldt-Universität Zu Berlin. Berlin is fast gaining a reputation as a destination for international students due to its provision of courses in English, particularly at Masters level, a high quality of living, affordable costs, a liberal atmosphere and a happening party and music scene. All these have seen the German capital secure a huge amount of international students from all backgrounds and interests.
International Universities: National University of Singapore, Nanyang Technological University (NTU). Singapore’s schooling system is interestingly very successful and even though about 6% of Africans are in this part of the world, a reasonable number of Africans choose Singapore for Maths and Science courses, especially Engineering. This means that sought-after institutions, including the first two featured here, have grown very large and competition for places is intense.
Cost of Tuition: Tuition fees on the average, are from $18,000 to $25,000 for international students as a result of the rise in popularity, even though living and other expenses are remarkably affordable.
- Singapore International Graduate Award (SINGA) Scholarship in Science Engineering and Research
- Government of Singapore – ICAO Developing Countries Training Programme
International Universities: University of Toronto, York University, Ryerson University. While being among the top cities in Canada that have the most African Students, Toronto offers a wide range of cultural activities, outdoor adventure and career opportunities. Accordingly, it is an exciting and diverse place to live, with its residents’ heterogeneity reflected in the city’s culture and cuisine.
Cost of Housing: Cost of housing normally ranges from USD$1800 to $3500 monthly.
Cost of Tuition: Cost of tuition in Toronto normally ranges from USD $16,000 to $18,000 annually.
Student Employment: All international students must apply for a study permit via a Canadian visa office, or using the Citizenship and Immigration Canada (CIC) website, to school and work in Canada. International students can work on-campus without further documentation, as full-time students with a valid study permit.International students who want to work off-campus are automatically authorized to do so through their study permit, as long as they don’t work for more than 20 hours per week during term time. To qualify for this, the Canadian law says the international student must be enrolled in a six-month or longer program at a designated institution. After graduation, all international students who desire permanent residency in Canada, are grouped to compete with a larger pool of skilled workers for a chance to apply for permanent residency. Each student is given an Invitation to Apply (ITA) for permanent residency. Those who receive an ITA may then go on to complete the application process of permanent residency through one of the newly inaugurated immigration programmes. Canada is happy to tap into this new method of creating an eager workforce who will be willing to pay taxes and boost economic activities.
- Study in Canada: Lester B. Pearson Scholarship Program for International Students at University of Toronto
- 10 Best Engineering Schools in Canada
International Universities: University of British Columbia, Simon Fraser University. Vancouver is on the list of world’s most livable cities as a result of its arts and culture programs including the Vancouver International Film Festival and a vibrant and diverse music scene.
Cost of Tuition: Cost of tuition in Vancouver on the average is USD$19,300.
Diverse Student Population: Diverse Student Population in Vancouver is about 30% of the total population, an encouraging figure for aspiring students who desire education in Canadian cities especially Vancouver. Schools in Vancouver including University of British Columbia are reputably leading academic business schools.
Scholarships: With investment in education and internationalization as priorities in Canada, there are numerous scholarships available to international students, such as the MasterCard British Columbia Scholarship, this list of Scholarships in Canada and a host of others.
Kiev: The beauty of studying in Kiev as an International student is finding a University wholly dedicated to your choice of study. Hence, african students trooping to Kiev, Ukraine undertake studies in Medicine, Engineering, Economics & Aviation.
Take for instance these International Universities: Kyiv Medical University, Kiev National Linguistics University, National Technical University of Ukraine, National Aviation University, National University of Life and Environmental Sciences of Ukraine, National University of Food Technologies, Kyiv National University of Culture and Arts. Foreign universities for example Wisconsin University can also be found in the city, Kiev.
Cost of Housing: Cost of student housing is relatively cheap and often comes at the average rate of $250 monthly. Finding affordable and moderately direct travel and other expenses may be difficult, but student discounts exist to avoid overspending.
Nottingham, Oxford and Birmingham: UK remains the number one destination for African students to study abroad. By country, Nigeria is by far the largest source of African students, accounting for just over half (17,395 students, 51%) of the total, followed a long way behind by Kenya (2,175 students, 6%), Ghana (1,980 students, 6%) and Mauritius (1,450 students, 4%). A further 1,395 came from Libya, 1,230 from South Africa, 1,220 from Egypt and 950 from Zimbabwe. Many more African students in the UK are studying at postgraduate level than at undergraduate level. What this means is that you are likely to find a few students either from your home country or region at whichever university you choose to study at.
As a result, there are several UK Fully-funded Scholarships and more scholarships every year. Nottingham, Oxford and Birmingham remain the cities populated with more Africans than other cities in the UK. In many cities in the UK including these focus cities, there are job shops, which are there to help you find part-time work to support your studies, careers services, which provide information and advice about employment after you complete your course, accommodation officers, who can help you to find somewhere suitable to live, buddy schemes, which pair you with a more experienced fellow national and dedicated facilities for international students, such as international student lounges and halls of residences.
International Universities: Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Harvard University, Boston University, Tufts University, Boston College, Northeastern University, Brandeis University, University of Massachusetts – Boston.
Diverse Population: UNESCO’s Institute for Statistics reports that as of last year, there were 31,113 students from Sub-Saharan Africa and they comprised 4% of the 886,052 international students in the US. The top Sub-Saharan African countries of origin are Nigeria, Kenya, Ghana, South Africa, Cameroon and Ethiopia. Boston is certainly one of the world’s best-known academic hubs. Boston’s leading position is boosted by universities located in an area called the Greater Boston area, a neighboring town of Cambridge. Thanks to the two showstoppers, MIT and Harvard, Boston scores high in many university rankings category of the Best Student Cities index and AfterschoolAfrica agrees too.
Student Employment: It is also one of the highest scorers in the “employer activity” category.
Cost of Tuition: Even though the fees of these schools may be raking the ceiling of students pockets, both MIT and Harvard offer need-blind admission to international students as well as generous financial aids.
Scholarships: According to Mrs Jennifer Onyeukwu, Head Education USA Advising Centre (EAC), 80 percent of the Nigerian students who left to study in US in 2014 were given partial and full scholarships by the schools. Six students received the MasterCard Foundation Scholarship of $311,140 each annually for 4 years.
International Universities: University of Adelaide, University of South Australia, Flinders University. US$22,200.
Diverse Population: Out of a total of about 54,500 students in the city, there are a whooping 14,000 students from other regions, which is 25 percent of the number of students in Adelaide. This goes without saying that the city has an impressive diverse population of students.
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In Search of Lost Time: The study of Earth history and chronology from the 18th to the 21st century — RBML's Spring Exhibition in collaboration with the Department of Geology, on view from 1/24 - 6/22, 2022. This exhibit explores concepts of time, chronology, and history that form the lens through which Earth scientists view, understand, and interpret a dynamic planet.
Join us at the Rare Book & Manuscript Library on Saturday, April 2nd from 1-3pm for a hands-on workshop all about medieval manuscripts! Pre-registration is required.
Former RBML visiting scholars Claire Bowditch and Elaine Hobby (Loughborough University, UK) will discuss how their fellowships at the RBML informed and shaped their research of Aphra Behn, one of the first English women to earn her living by her writing. The RBML holds 79 early editions of Behn’s works, making it one of the largest collections in the country! | <urn:uuid:d799aa7a-e259-42d9-b48d-7afd9af40d16> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://calendars.illinois.edu/search/2169?skinId=44919&startDate=04/01/2022&endDate=04/30/2022 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571198.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810161541-20220810191541-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.930922 | 221 | 1.648438 | 2 |
Iris biometrics measure the unique patterns in the colored part of a user’s eye. Incredibly accurate, quick and contactless, biometrics that scan a user’s irises have found their way into a number of mobile and Internet of Things devices in recent years.
Samsung notably embraced iris recognition to differentiate some of the recent premium devices in its Galaxy line of smartphones. But iris biometrics’ accuracy and contactless nature may prove to be most impactful in the emerging world of automotive biometrics, with applications in the driver side visor or the rear-view mirror enabling hands-free authentication while on the road.
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As the League moves into our second century, we do so with a focus on the importance of effectively telling our social impact story.
In 2019, I joined the League of Women Voters to help build culture of evaluation focused on outcomes of our work. A core part of this effort is collecting and sharing information. To this end, during the Fall of 2020 we launched the Semi-Annual Survey Project.
Through this effort, we field two surveys each year (typically in the November and late Spring) that capture State and Local Leagues’ activities, partnerships, and efforts in key communities. By taking part in the Semi-Annual Survey Project, Leagues play a key role in strengthening our brand.
The first Semi-Annual Survey (1.1) provides insight into how Leagues engaged in their communities during 2020. The survey was open between November 5, 2020 and December 4th, 2020 and was available to all League entities (State Leagues, Local Leagues, Inter-League Organizations, and MALs) to complete. A total of 479 Leagues responded to the survey (41 State Leagues, 373 Locals Leagues, 5 Inter-League Organizations, 10 MALs).
The results of the survey are grouped into the following sections:
- Election-related activities;
- Voters impacted;
- Communities engaged; and
During 2020, responding Leagues participated in more than 12,000 election-related activities. Most of these activities included panel discussions, townhalls, forums, rallies, and press conferences.
Due to COVID-19, many activities were held online. Through these election-related activities, Leagues recruited more than 21,000 volunteers.
During the 2020, Leagues registered and contacted voters while taking part in Election Day activities.
Responding Leagues registered more than 58,000 voters through a combination of in-person and online efforts. In total, they contacted more than 90,000 voters through a mix of postcards, emails telephone calls, social media, and texting efforts.
On Election Day, Leagues took part in several activities to help support elections such as poll observations phone banking and election monitoring.
Throughout the 2020, Leagues engaged various communities in their electoral work.
Responding Leagues focused their efforts on students, low-income communities, communities of colors, new citizens, seniors, and veterans.
Leagues partnered with several groups to carry out out their activities. More than 70% of responding Leagues partnered with civic engagement or good government groups, while half of responding Leagues partnered with educational groups such as PTAs, school administrators, and teachers. More than 50% of responding Leagues partnered with women’s organizations.
Join us on May 4th, 2021, for a webinar to discuss our second Semi-Annual Survey. During this conversation, we will be joined by LWV Board Members to discuss the areas of focus for the survey and learn about supports to help you track and report on your League’s data. RSVP at this link.
Thank you to all those who contributed to the 2020 survey and our efforts to empower voters nationwide.
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Humans can develop when circumstances arise that trigger the use of reason. Modern African thought has been occupied with Ethnophilosophywith defining the very meaning of African philosophy and its unique characteristics and what it means to be African. For example, if I wish to jump into a lake and have no physical maladies which prevent it, then I am free to jump into the lake.
If things like tables and chairs are just collections of small corpuscles then they should be very easy to break apart, the same way I can easily separate one group of marbles from another.
These beliefs will impact my classroom management because I will have to make up lesson plans to follow the different intelligence.
Political Philosophy Locke lived during a very eventful time in English politics. Locke argues that we do have sufficient reason to think that the central truths of Christianity were communicated to us by God through his messenger, Jesus of Nazareth. However, as the general will is infallible, it can only do so when intervening will be to the benefit of the society.
First, the general will is directly tied to Sovereignty: Magnetism and various chemical and biological processes like fermentation were less susceptible to these sorts of explanations.
Ideas of relations are ideas that involve more than one substance. The Works of John Locke. I recognize his experiences there as part of a string of experiences that make up my life and join up to my current self and current experiences in a unified way.
The theory of perception endorsed by Locke is highly mechanical. The philosophical foundations will include metaphysical and epistemological beliefs.
Rousseau wrote the Confessions late in his career, and it was not published until after his death. Idea Acquisition In Book II Locke offers his alternative theory of how the human mind comes to be furnished with the ideas it has.
Be afraid to express your anxieties this is what makes you a real intellectually developed person. The Profession of Faith also includes the controversial discussion of natural religion, which was in large part the reason why Emile was banned.
If this could be done, one could then determine the most effective and legitimate forms of government. So even if, at this moment, my desire for pizza is the strongest desire, Locke thinks I can pause before I decide to eat the pizza and consider the decision. As such, it is appropriate to consider Rousseau, at least chronologically, as an Enlightenment thinker.
It can set up rules, social classes, or even a monarchial government, but it can never specify the particular individuals who are subject to the rules, members of the classes, or the rulers in the government. The overall purpose of education is to prepare children to be responsible, productive, compassionate adults, and to preserve and perpetuate the best aspects of society while using the worst aspects of society as examples of what students should not do.
Sovereignty does have the proper authority override the particular will of an individual or even the collective will of a particular group of individuals. The results of the inventory will help me to present subject matter in ways that help my students to learn.
Finally, Book IV discusses knowledge, belief, and opinion. Hobbes contends that human beings are motivated purely by self-interest, and that the state of nature, which is the state of human beings without civil society, is the war of every person against every other.
First, he recognized that there were a number of observed phenomena which mechanism struggled to explain. Furthermore, he is not advocating a return to the state of nature, though some commentators, even his contemporaries such as Voltaire, have attributed such a view to him.
It does not seem to have a clear parallel in contemporary metaphysics, and it is sometimes thought to be a mere catch-all category for things which are neither substances nor relations. In order to prepare to be part of adult society, the student must learn to accept and respect diverse cultures, and to move beyond cultural differences to work with other students in the process of being consumers of the service of education.
But Locke is suspicious of these two other ways of understanding signification. One of his earliest substantive works, the Essays on the Law of Nature, was developed in the course of his teaching duties. The work of Aristotle was very influential among the falsafa such as al-Kindi 9th centuryAvicenna — June and Averroes 12th century.
I can consider other items in my desire set: That is, the Discourse on Political Economy explains what he takes to be a legitimate political regime.
Whenever possible, a classroom should have no more than 20 or 25 students at one time so that the teacher can give each student as much individual attention as possible.
We now know, however, that they were in fact composed much earlier. He recognized that habits and prejudices formed in youth could be very hard to break in later life. **Personal Philosophy of Education** As teachers and other professionals in education, we all develop a philosophy of education that describes what we believe the learning process is and how instruction can promote the learning process.
My Personal Philosophy of Education Essay Words | 4 Pages. My Personal Philosophy of Education When I came to college, I debated on a major, trying to find a career that would be satisfying to me. After much pondering, I decided that education is the right path for me.
Sample Educational Philosophy Statements Sample #1 My Philosophy Statement on Education. I believe that each child is a unique individual who needs a secure, caring, and stimulating atmosphere in which to grow and mature emotionally, intellectually, physically, and socially.
Personal Philosophy of Education “Education Is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world. ” I believe the purpose to education Is to prepare our future generation to be able to act as law abiding citizens and to move forward with in life while reaching goals as.
valid. In an educational setting, this can be readily applied. Affirmation and encouragement must be offered regardless of a student's apparent effort or appropriate attitude - after all, it is His kindness that leads to repentance.
I believe relationships in education should function similarly. As a philosophy professor, when I first started out, it used to drive me nuts to hear people talking about their own “personal philosophy.” As I’ve taught for some time, read more, thought more, I’ve come to see a different side to that issue.Personal philosophy of education 2 essay | <urn:uuid:2369c500-d1e9-4860-b5c5-d4d617f147bb> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://sitezodepuv.thesanfranista.com/personal-philosophy-of-education-2-essay-24598lg.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572833.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817001643-20220817031643-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.962636 | 1,312 | 2.484375 | 2 |
The Germans from Volkswagen unveiled a new concept model, this time based on the Up! The VW Twin-Up Concept is an eco-friendly hybrid model which could enter series production in the coming years.
Under the tiny hood sits a 0.8-liter diesel engine producing 47 horsepower and 119Nm of torque. An electric motor outputting the same amount of power helps the model to offer a zero-emission driving range of 50 kilometers at speeds up to 125 km/h.
The Volkswagen Twin-Up needs 8,8 seconds to hit 100 km/h from standstill while the top speed is limited at 140 km/h. A dual-clutch seven-speed gearbox is used to send the power to the wheels.
Fuel economy figures are rated at 1,1 liters/100 km or 257mpg UK with CO2 emissions of just 27 g/km. The German concept weighs only 1,205 kilograms and benefits from an 8.6 kWh lithium-ion battery.
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High-dose-rate (HDR) brachytherapy may be a suitable option for men with localized prostate cancer who previously have undergone transurethral resection of the prostate (TURP), according to researchers in Taiwan.
Used in combination with a reduced dose of external beam radiotherapy (EBRT), it can achieve the same oncologic outcomes as a conventional dose of EBRT but with a significantly lower incidence of major post-radiation genitourinary (GU) complications
Investigators at Chang Gung Memorial Hospital-Kaohsiung Medical Center enrolled 59 men who had a history of TURP and underwent radiation therapy for localized prostate cancer. Of these, 34 underwent HDR brachytherapy in combination with EBRT and 25 underwent EBRT alone. Two to three weeks after seed implantation, men in the HDR brachytherapy group received an EBRT dose of 45-57.6 Gy. The EBRT-only group received a dose of 63.2-75.6 Gy.
The average interval from TURP to radiation treatment was 2.7 months and 2.3 months for the HDR brachytherapy and EBRT-only groups, respectively.
After an average follow-up period of 60 months, the researchers, led by Fumin Fang, MD, Director of the Department of Radiology, observed grade 3 GU complications in 8.8% of the HDR brachytherapy group compared with 44% of the EBRT-only group, according to an online report in International Urology and Nephrology. The five-year urinary incontinence rates were 2.9% and 24%, respectively. The differences between the groups were significant. In multivariate analyses, patients who received EBRT alone had a nearly 10-fold increased risk of grade 3 GU toxicities compared with patients in the HDR brachytherapy group. The study found no significant difference in biochemical relapse-free survival (82.4% vs. 72%).
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Silver, also known as poor man’s gold, has been used for more than 4000 years as a form of money and store of value.
Firstly you cannot ignore the gold/silver price ratio. This is one of the best indicators of how far silver prices can go. If you average out the price ratio between gold and silver throughout history, you land on a single magical proportion of 15 to 1. That implies that when gold is at $1600 per ounce, silver should be $106 per ounce. Gold is currently trading at $1640 an ounce and silver is at $30, which projects the ratio is now 54:1. Silver is massively undervalued right now and that gives it much more upside potential than gold.
What most people don’t know is that right now there is less above ground available silver than there is gold, that’s right, there is less silver than gold. This trend of consuming silver and saving in gold isn’t going to stop; the above ground supply of gold will continue to grow, while the above ground supply of silver will continue to move us towards a critical physical silver shortage.
Silver without doubt is the most important metal in the world. Yet when most people think about the uses for silver they think of jewellery, silverware, and photography. However, this barely scratches the surface of the uses for silver. Silver is used in solar panels, mobile phones, water storage, food processing, batteries, electronics, and for other industrial uses.
The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) publishes a list of standard currency codes. On that list silver is classified as a CURRENCY and has a currency code of XAG.
In 1995, the price of silver was at an average of $5. In 2011, it had an average price of $40. That is a massive change of 700%.
Precious metals investors often ask, “Should I invest in silver bullion or gold bullion?” Most silver experts would suggest silver. There are many reasons for their inclination towards silver. Let’s look at some of them.
First, silverhas always produced a greater percentage growth during precious metals bull markets. In some precious metals bull markets, silver has tripled in value while gold has doubled. In some moves,silverrose four times while gold doubled in price. Additionally,silverhas more industrial applications than gold does, with more uses being developed.
An increased industrial use provides more value to silver. According to CPM Group, a New York metals consultancy, between 1990 and 2003 new production and secondary recovery fell 1,899.9 million ounces short of meeting industrial demand.
Not only have production and secondary recovery been unsuccessful in meeting demand each year of the last fifteen years, but above ground supplies are critically short. Certain analysts say that supply will fall far short of meeting demand over the next decade, and that much higher silverprices will be the result. According to accepted statistics, more gold rests in the vaults of the world’s central banks than there is above ground silver.
The drop in reported silver holdings around the world shows just how much the production deficit has eaten into above ground supplies. In 1995, COMEX stocks stood at 260 million ounces; today COMEX stocks are struggling to stay above 100 million ounces. In 1991, estimated silver inventories in London and Zurich were 350 million ounces; today that number is closer to 50 million ounces. In 1980, world governmental silver stockpiles totaled some 325 million ounces; today, few governments hold any silver.
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Individuals use blogs to develop new relationships and also learn about different subjects. Blog sites enable individuals to connect with individuals from different cultural histories, geographical areas, occupations, as well as also uncommon pastimes. They can also share info they might not otherwise access with offline media. This makes blogging an effective interaction tool for business owners. Right here are some advantages of blogging for services:
Organizations can increase their online exposure by using blogs to involve with their target market. Readers that visit blogs wish to know who is covering their topics and also just how to learn even more concerning the subjects they want. In addition to boosting brand understanding as well as sales, blogging likewise supplies the possible to create additional profits. Effective blog sites can market products or produce extra revenue via associate web links, sponsored web content, or programs. These profits streams can assist company owner grow their organizations.
Starting a blog is simple. Begin by writing your very first post. Bear in mind that you should compose blog posts that are engaging, interesting, and reasonably lengthy. Individuals intend to check out web content that they can relate to. Using photos to highlight web content will certainly make your articles a lot more attractive to readers and also make them more likely to come back for more. You can also pick a readable, short title for your blog. If you are interested in offering your products, think about offering a membership to your items via your blog site.
Producing a blog is much easier than ever. With even more devices readily available today, it’s much easier than ever before to develop a blog for your business. Not just will blogging assistance you obtain even more exposure, it will also help you acquire rely on your target market. You’ll develop a relationship with your target audience through web content that they discover valuable and also interesting. Ultimately, it will certainly assist you offer extra items, along with attract brand-new clients. This is the function of a blog.
You can cover a range of subjects on your blog site. Some are individual, while others are much more general. For instance, an individual blog site could review your daily regimen. Various other blogs can focus on travel and style. You can also discuss arbitrary ideas. Whatever your interests, there’s a blog site available waiting on you. Simply make certain to find one that suits you! You’ll be glad you did! Just bear in mind that blog writing is not a permanent task.
The term “blog site” is an acronym for web-log. It initially referred to an on-line journal. In contemporary terms, a blog is an online journal that presents info backwards chronological order. Backwards order, the most current post appears on top. A blog site can be anything from an individual journal to a political campaign. The purpose of a blog is to connect and connect with other people. There are many advantages to blogging, consisting of the chance to get to a big target market.
While blog writing can be addictive, the web is rapidly broadening. More individuals are on-line than ever, meaning there’s a bigger target market waiting on your blog site. So, pick a domain name that fits your target market. There are lots of tools offered to combat Remark Spam. However, if you’re new to blogging, miss the next section. If you’re new to blog writing, you’ll require to choose a domain name expansion that fits your organization’s branding and individuality.
A blog can be a full-fledged post or part of a series. While messages on social media sites networks are limited to 140 characters, a blog post can be several hundred or even more. A blog site can also concentrate on a hobby, a business, or a particular topic. A blog site can post information concerning travel, dishes, individual money, self-help, and even a selection of various other subjects. A blog site will be frequently updating with new content, enabling the author to create a particular niche for their readers.
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Perhaps that is a dangerous question, but I am reflecting on it in the light of this “Open Letter to Pope Benedict XVI and the Catholic Bishops of Australia” being promoted by a group calling itself “Catholics for Renewal”. It has just over 1000 signatures at the moment and, while I am certainly not suggesting that you sign it (God forbid!), I am suggesting that you read it, and ask yourself this question: If I were composing an open letter to the Pope and bishops prior to their Ad Limina report, what would I be putting in it?
The composers of this particular “open letter” are quite right in pointing out that
As Christ’s faithful, we must speak out. Under Canon Law we have a right and a duty in keeping with our knowledge, competence and position, to manifest to our pastors our views on matters which concern the good of the Church (C.212.2-3).
It is probably worth highlighting there the phrase “in keeping with our knowledge, competance and position”. This canon doesn’t promote the right of just any old body with an axe to grind having his two cents worth heard by the Pope and bishops. It doesn’t give anyone the right to expound opinions which arise from ignorance, incompetance or… or what? what does “position” mean? Does it mean someone in a leadership or teaching position in the Church? Or does it mean “position” in the sense of being one of the “fidelium” whose “sensus” has a right to be heard?
This current letter seems mainly concerned with the issue of “collegiality and subsidiarity” and particularly calls for regular Diocesan Synods in all Australian dioceses. Is this, do you think, the solution to the renewal of the Church in Australia?
Let me give you another thought. I was reading this morning the June regular column of the Bishop of Sale, the Most Rev. Christopher Prowse, on their diocesan website. In it, he writes:
IN some of my visitations to parishes in the diocese I have introduced an ancient method of praying the scriptures called Lectio Divina.
I am delighted that some groups are established already. After reading this brief explanation below some might say: “We have already experienced this without knowing its name”. I hope so.
Pope Benedict XVI has encouraged the use of Lectio Divina. In his more recent Apostolic Exhortation (2010), Verbum Domini, n. 86- 87, he writes that it is truly “capable of opening up to the faithful the treasures of God’s word, but also of bringing about an encounter with Christ, the living word of God”.
…In regard to the regional forums, may I make this preliminary remark. I believe these fi ve gatherings were real moments of encounter with the Holy Spirit. When the Diocesan Pastoral Council met recently to consider the fruits of our gatherings, we all noted this. There was a real unity. They were prayerful, practical and engendered much “Gospel energy” amongst us.
…Since my Pentecost Pastoral Letter of a year ago (“Finding Home in Jesus”) till now, we have made a great start to reach our final aim of articulating some pastoral priorities to guide the diocese in the future. We have placed ourselves under
the guidance of the Holy Spirit. In the spirit of Novo Millennio Ineunte (n.29),we have sought to begin translating our Christ-centred approach to particular projects. We are attempting to place the entire diocese on a even deeper missionary/evangelisation foundation.
By praying deeply, perhaps using the Lectio Divina process, we will be helped on our pilgrim way as a people under Christ, our Lord and Saviour. Let us allow the scriptures, the Word of God, to lead us forward.
Now there are some things that seem to me as if it could really lead to renewal in our dioceses. Lectio Divina – deeply reading the Word of God, an emphasis on mission and evangelisation, true Christ-centredness and desire to be in step with the Holy Spirit’s guidance…
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"How many calories should I eat to lose weight — or even to maintain or gain?" One eating plan definitely doesn't fit all, even within the same weight class. If you weigh 115 pounds, any calorie intake calculator you consult will also consider other variables.
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The ideal 115-pound woman’s calorie intake can range anywhere from 1,300 to 2,300 calories for weight maintenance, and vary even more if she wants to gain or lose weight. This broad range is due to factors such as age, height and level of activity.
Using a Calorie Intake Calculator
It's common to be asked to specify your level of physical activity to help determine how many calories you need. The Mayo Clinic's online form, for example, lists four categories. "Inactive" describes a person with a fairly sedentary lifestyle, while "somewhat active" refers to someone who does some level of activity a couple of times a week, such as going for a walk.
To be considered "active," you'll need to be working out at a moderate level for a half-hour most days, or for 20 minutes, at an intense level, a few days a week. The highest level, "very active," is reserved for athletic people who work out for long periods every day.
For women under 50, of average height and weight, the ideal calorie range is between 1,800 and 2,200, depending on how active they are, according to the American Academy of Family Physicians. But because 115 pounds is a lower-than-average-weight, that ideal skews a bit lower for maintenance.
For example, a 35-year-old woman of average height who is "somewhat active" should consume about 1,700 calories. The total range for her age group is between 1,550 and 2,150 calories, depending on how often she works out.
Considering Additional Factors
Age and height are also important factors in picking the right meal plan for yourself. After age 50, a sedentary woman should lower her intake by about 200 calories a day to maintain her weight. For most women, that would mean taking in about 1,600 calories a day.
But a 115-pound woman's calorie intake should be about 1,450 when she is less active and over 50, according to the Mayo Clinic calorie intake calculator. (Ideally, she should also work with her doctor to plan a more active lifestyle.)
If you are over 50, get a fair amount of exercise and weigh 115 pounds, aim for 1,600 to 1,750 calories for weight maintenance. If you're very active or training for a marathon, on the other hand, bump your caloric intake up to 2,050.
While current weight is more important than height for putting together a meal plan, how tall you are is still a variable considered by the calorie intake calculator. A 6-foot tall woman should eat about 50 more calories for her activity level than a woman who is also 115 pounds, but who is only 5 feet tall.
Planning Maintenance vs. Weight Change
You may have decided you'd like to gain or drop a few pounds. In order to do this safely, aim for about 1 pound of gain or loss a week, advises the American Council on Exercise (ACE).
"How many calories should I eat to lose weight?" In terms of the mathematics of weight loss, you'll need to change your caloric daily intake by decreasing what you consume by 500 calories each day. Rather than cutting 500 calories from what you eat, however, ACE advises reducing your food calories by 250, and aiming to burn about 250 more calories each day through activity.
Of course, not every day will present an opportunity for a longer workout. There may also be days during which you eat more calories than your current target. That's why it helps to know ACE's formula: for the week, a 3,500 calorie decrease will result in a 1-pound loss. This allows you to work out longer on alternate days, rather than every day, for example, or to plan a lighter eating day once or twice a week.
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Digital Roads will harness data, technology and connectivity to improve the way the Strategic Road Network (SRN) is designed, built, operated and used. This will enable safer journeys, faster delivery and an enhanced customer experience for all. Our vision and ambition for Digital Roads are aligned to achieving these outcomes.
Digital Roads represents a step-change in UK transport infrastructure and is at the heart of our long-term vision for the SRN. Our approach to Digital Roads considers how we can improve what we do today and in the future, embedding digital, data and technology in everything we do.
Digital Roads supports a wide range of Government policies and commitments, providing a common approach for realising shared strategic ambitions and supporting Britain’s growth.
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Our vision for Digital Roads is structured around three core themes:
"We are at the beginning of a digital revolution in roads infrastructure and expect to see more change in the next decade than we have in the last century. This provides an opportunity to make our roads safer, improve customer experience for all, and support our plans for net zero."Nick Harris, Chief Executive, National Highways
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We've developed a virtual learning environment which includes additional material setting out our vision for Digital Roads. The environment also includes information on how we'll deliver our vision and the associated impacts on our customers, our employees and supply chain.Digital Roads virtual learning environment
Digitally enabled design – Scheme designs, and long-term planning is based on fit-for-purpose data and enabled by digital tools. We integrate digitised design requirements, existing data feeds, digital design tools and digital twins, to enable safer, more efficient and greener outcomes.
Modularised and standardised approaches – The use of offsite fabrication and modular construction is increased and components are standardised. This improves safety, reduces carbon emissions and minimises disruption.
Automated construction – Digital rehearsals and the use of connected and autonomous plant are embedded in our construction processes, improving efficiency and enhancing safety.
- All our schemes are designed with the safety of our construction workers and customers in mind. Innovative and modern methods of construction will ensure all our sites are safer.
- The use of digital design tools will ensure that we get designs right the first time, reducing the need to make changes at later stages. The use of modular and off-site fabrication will reduce carbon emissions, shorten road closures and enable smoother customer journeys.
- Digital design tools will enable us to consider the environmental impact of our schemes and minimise carbon emissions where possible. Offsite fabrication and modular construction will also reduce waste and minimise carbon emissions.
Find out below what this will mean for engineer Ella Jones and construction worker Michael Sani, and view the timeline for improvements in design and construction.
Intelligent asset management – Data and technology is harnessed to enable predictive asset management. Better coordination of roadworks and the deployment of connected and autonomous plant will improve efficiency and reduce customer journey disruption.
Enhanced operational capability – Greater automation and network adaptability is enabled through the use of data and sensor technology. When the unexpected does happen, customer safety is enhanced, and traffic is managed efficiently.
Digitally enabled workers – Digitally enabled workers have access to accurate, up to date and consistent information, enabling them to do their work more efficiently and more safely.
- Digital surveillance techniques will reduce the need for human intervention and improve safety outcomes for our maintenance crews. Automatically detecting and responding to incidents will make our network safer for all.
- Using digital tools will enable better coordination of roadworks, reducing network disruption. Our enhanced control room and operational capability will enable us to optimise traffic flow, reducing congestion and emissions.
- Improved traffic flow will help to reduce carbon emissions on the SRN.
Find out below what this will mean for maintenance worker Georgie Smith and control room operator Mateo Garcia, and view the timeline for improvements in digital operations and maintenance.
Information provision – Our customers receive accurate, consistent, and close to real time journey information through their preferred digital channels.
Customer engagement – We receive better quality data from our customers, which informs our decision making and enables our call centre staff to provide excellent customer service. We enable the deployment of vehicle technology and connectivity, focusing on the benefits to customers.
Partnerships and alliances – We work with local highway authorities, transport operators, vehicle manufacturers and technology providers to improve customer experience and provide end-to-end journey support.
- Accurate, consistent, and close to real time information will enable road users to react to potential hazards in advance. Our infrastructure will support the uptake of connected and autonomous vehicle safety technology.
- Customers will receive improved information to support journey planning, keeping traffic free flowing.
- Improved information provision regarding the location and availability of charging infrastructure will support the uptake of low emission vehicles.
Find out below what this will mean for haulage driver Gary Baker and regular commuter Joyce Parsons, and view the timeline for improvements in customer experience.
Delivering Digital Roads 2025
We have also developed detailed plans required to achieve the Digital Roads 2025 ambitions, which are summarised below.
Many of these activities are already in-flight across our organisation and supply chain, and we are working closely together with our key stakeholders to deliver them.
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Examples of work already under way
Our long-term approach
Our journey does not stop in 2025 ... in fact it is just the beginning. Our Digital Roads vision for 2025 lays the foundations for our longer term vision to 2050 and supports the delivery of Connecting the Country.
Whilst we cannot predict the future, we are conscious of key emerging digital trends, in particular: data sharing, connectivity, and automation. These will shape the way we travel in the future and we are preparing for them today.
A digital representation of a physical entity and its operation that can be queried. This will enable us to simulate our assets and improve our ability to design, construct, operate and maintain them with safety, customer and environmental outcomes at the forefront.
Connectivity is the use of technologies (e.g. mobile networks) to communicate with other cars on the road (vehicle-to-vehicle, V2V), roadside infrastructure (vehicle-to-infrastructure, V2I), and ‘Everything’ (V2X). This will enable smoother flowing traffic, reduced incidents and improved environmental outcomes.
Connected and Autonomous Vehicles
A fully autonomous vehicle is able to operate itself and perform necessary functions without any human intervention. This will enable smoother flowing traffic, reduced incidents and improved environmental outcomes.
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When I say Labs you are probably thinking of, either a beloved family pet, or a cold, clinical environment where the Zombie virus is currently being cultivated.
Make your choice, but we all think its one or the other.
Autodesk Labs on the other hand is my third favourite place on the internet, behind Twitter and Facebook. Why? because its the public playground for all things future in the Autodesk world.
Labs is the place where early concept software and add in’s are given to us, “normal” Autodesk users to play with, break and feedback, for the cycle to then start again.
Some of these features die, either from no-one using them or they just don’t make financial sense. Understandable, why develop something just because its cool, if no-one wants it or isn’t willing to pay for it, whats the point?
Some features become parts of the main products (ShareNow Add-in) or stand alone products of their own (Project Photofly looks a lot like ReCap360), and some products hang around in the Labs forever, I’m looking at you 2D to 3D tool, my personal favorite app from the Labs, its been alive in the lab since around 2011 (I think). Watch this video to see how you can take drawing information from an old AutoCAD drawing into Inventor and turn that into a 3D part quickly.
Unfortunately this is the last time the 2Dto3D tool will be revived as Inventor now has some fantastic tools for inserting and linking DWG files directly into your models. I’ll be sad to see it go.
There is a large list of Labs projects and their history here, Labs History. This goes back to 2006 and lets you have a glimpse of what has happened in the Labs to shape the products you use today, and trust me its a significant list of projects, some of which you will instantly be able to reference back to your product, whether Revit, Inventor, AutoCAD or any other Autodesk product. There are improvements there for every piece of software.
Autodesk Labs allows Autodesk to have an alpha test of products and features before getting too deep into the development cycle, but most of all it allows me to try out new technology and improve the way I do things, then feed that back to Autodesk and have them use this data to improve the products moving forwards.
Autodesk Labs can be found here Labs Link and the Labs Blog can be found here Labs Blog Link A very nice man called Scott Sheppard looks after this side of things, I have conversed with him a couple of times through the forums and via e-mail about my favorite tool, he even turned it back on in Inventor 2017 for me because I missed it so much.
This is why I love the Labs, anything can happen, so go play with the new toys and get involved in the future of your software. I highly recommend becoming an active part of the Autodesk Labs community, get behind the projects you like, but also adding your voice to the projects you don’t. At this stage every idea can be edited to create the next big thing. The future of our software is in our hands, lets not waste these opportunities. | <urn:uuid:0e498969-bf4a-435f-aa0b-02814ec31df4> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://cadblog.co.uk/2017/03/01/what-is-autodesk-labs/comment-page-1/?replytocom=2473 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570921.9/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809094531-20220809124531-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.950337 | 694 | 1.601563 | 2 |
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Functional testing can detect muscle imbalances, muscle weaknesses, poor muscular endurance, biomechanical abnormalities, abnormal movement patterns, and poor dynamic stability. Functional testing can detect neurologic inhibition and overactive musculature. Functional testing can show poor speed of contraction. These abnormalities, which can be detected through testing are the real causes of neck and back pain. Exercises that make you less vulnerable to stress are prescribed to prevent chronic and recurring symptoms.
Ultrasound is a physical therapy that also reduces swelling and creates heat at the muscle bone interface. Ultrasound uses electromotive force to move fluids and therefore reduce the inflammatory soup in the injured region. Ultrasound increases the metabolic rate. Ultrasound speeds tissue healing.
Hydrocollator packs or hot packs are used for pain management. Hydrocollator packs provide a deep wet penetrating change in tissue temperature. Heat is soothing. Heat increases blood supply and brings the building blocks of tissue repair to the injured tissues. Heat softens and relaxes the paraspinal muscles to facilitate spinal manipulation. Heat should be applied 72 hours following an acute injury and should not be applied immediately following an injury.
Ice is a physical therapy modality that reduces the metabolic rate. Ice numbs and calms the nerves. Ice should be applied within the first 72 hours following an injury. If you were to hit your head on the corner of a door, ice is the treatment of choice. Heat would actually enhance the swelling and make the swelling worse. Ice can be applied at any time.
Spray and Stretch Therapy
Spray and stretch therapy uses rapid evaporation of a chemical on the skin to cause a cold sensation. The cold sensation allows passive stretching and muscle relaxation to occur. Spray and stretch is an amazing treatment for trigger points and muscular spasm.
Deep Tissue Massage
There is no better way to feel paraspinal muscle spasm than by providing a deep tissue massage. Massage is helpful in reducing the inflammatory soup surrounding the injured tissue. Massage increases the metabolic rate, decreases swelling, decreases muscle spasm, and decreases pain. Massage promotes increased blood flow and lymphatic drainage. Massage breaks up soft tissue adhesions. Therapeutic massage is provided by the doctors, not a massage therapist at the Slone Chiropractic Clinic.
Biofreeze or counter a irritant is used to help cover up pain. Other creams such as Ben Gay, or Tiger Balm, are also beneficial.
Core Strengthening and Intrinsic Muscle Exercises
Core strengthening exercises are provided to increase strength and endurance. These exercises are provided using low-tech surgical tubing, which can be used at home as well. Home stabilization exercises are an essential component of a treatment program during your recovery. Identifying weak deep paraspinal muscles through functional testing and then correcting those weaknesses is what corrects and prevents recurring problems.
Home Stabilization Exercises
Home stabilization exercises are an important part of recovery from back pain and neck pain. Functional testing will often detect specific weaknesses in strength and endurance that contributed to your recurring problem. Home stabilization exercises are provided to strengthen the weakened core musculature.
X-ray is an important diagnostic tool. X-rays are essential in ruling out fracture, dislocation, and disease X-rays help the doctor assess the health and biomechanics of your spine. In some cases, X-rays can show injury to the ligaments as a result of injury. | <urn:uuid:21ae5396-a00b-4c8e-b7ce-5250c7732fed> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.slonehealthcareclinics.com/other-services/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572833.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817001643-20220817031643-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.928432 | 805 | 1.960938 | 2 |
Recent findings, including a new study out this week, should reassure people about fears that even mild covid-19 could damage the heart in young and fit people. Despite earlier research that found reason for concern, athletes don’t seem to be at high risk for heart issues related to the viral illness after all.
Last September, a small study of MRI scans from researchers at The Ohio State University raised alarm bells. They found evidence of heart damage, including myocarditis (heart inflammation), in about 45% of 26 college student athletes who had recently gotten covid-19. More worryingly, most of the students were asymptomatic, and none had severe covid-19, which is known to raise the risk of cardiovascular problems.
The findings quickly received lots of attention, as did earlier case reports of myocarditis among student athletes that appeared to play a role in the NCAA postponing several of their sports programs. Colleges and professional sports organizations began to keep a close eye on their athletes through screening. But even at the time, some scientists and doctors were less worried about the implications of this research, arguing that there wasn’t yet strong evidence of the link and that athletes still seemed to be at low risk for serious heart problems related to coronavirus infection.
In March 2021, a study in JAMA Cardiology shared the results of a screening program involving professional athletes across six major sports in the U.S. and Canada (Major League Soccer, Major League Baseball, National Hockey League, National Football League, and the men’s and women’s National Basketball Association). Out of nearly 800 athletes who tested positive for covid-19, 0.6% later appeared to develop inflammatory heart disease. These athletes were pulled from play temporarily but soon returned, and no cases of cardiovascular events occurred during 2020, related to the virus or not.
This week, a similar study of college athletes was published in the journal Cardiology. Out of about 3,000 students who tested positive for the virus and underwent a cardiac exam, 0.7% seemed to have heart inflammation or other damage related to covid-19. None of the athletes seemed to develop serious problems like heart attack as a result, though one person did suffer a cardiac event that was deemed unrelated to their infection.
The findings of these two recent studies suggest that athletes don’t require intense scrutiny and proactive screening for heart issues after they develop covid-19.
“The bigger message is for the athletes who only have mild symptoms or no symptoms; it’s not clear you need to do any testing at all,” co-author Jonathan Drezner, director of the University of Washington Medicine Center for Sports Cardiology, told ESPN. “And I would be comfortable simply doing a good review of symptoms and making sure when they get back to play, they feel well.”
The entire saga should also provide a good lesson in being careful about how we interpret and talk about emerging covid-19 research. Severe covid-19 does commonly affect the heart, and given how little we knew about the disease at the time (and even today), it wasn’t ludicrous to be worried that milder-seeming cases could still have a big impact on people’s hearts. But the study that prompted the most fear about this risk was very small (26 people), and it’s often true that smaller studies don’t turn out to be validated by larger ones down the line. The same could be said for hydroxychloroquine, the supposed “game-changer” covid-19 treatment that was later found to be ineffective in large clinical trials.
This doesn’t mean we should automatically distrust every small study. At its best, science is a self-correcting process, where theories and hypotheses are verified through multiple lines of research conducted by different scientists. But before that happens, we shouldn’t overhype studies that haven’t had the chance to be put through the ringer. | <urn:uuid:6a478335-02e1-4c0e-a915-8aba29e79974> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://gizmodo.com/what-to-know-about-the-research-into-athletes-hearts-an-1846739103 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572833.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817001643-20220817031643-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.972483 | 833 | 2.828125 | 3 |
Visual Identity Guidelines
The Villanova University visual identity is the graphic identifier of the University and should inform all print and electronic communication for both internal and external audiences. Using a clear, consistent visual identity for Villanova will promote awareness and recognition of the University across all audiences.
The visual identity encompasses four elements:
1) University-approved logos
2) A graphic design
4) University-approved color
Examples of communication vehicles include, but are not limited to, magazines, newsletters, brochures; stationery; banners and signage; electronic and print invitations and electronic and print ads. In each of these instances the designed communication vehicle must possess the University’s visual identity.
The University colors are blue and white, with Pantone 281 as our signature blue color. The University also uses a gold accent color for special events and announcements. Pantone 871 is our signature gold metallic, and Pantones 8003 and Warm Gray 6 are flat equivalent options.
The University also has a secondary color palette consisting of six hues that complement our signature colors. If colors outside of the primary colors are to be used we strongly suggest the use of the provided secondary palette.
Athletic Light Blue (Pantone 298) is a color specified for use with the Athletic logos and is to be used primarily with print material for the University’s Athletic Department. When used, it used it can ONLY appear in 10% of any design.
Marketing can assist you with color questions concerning the secondary palette or the Athletic Light Blue. Please email firstname.lastname@example.org.
Villanova Signature Blue
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The Goudy (serif) and Gotham (san-serif) font families are the recommended typefaces for all University communication materials. Either font family may be used in print or digital formats for headlines, body copy, or other text.
Acceptable substitute typefaces used in a limited manner, such as in a Word document, would be Times New Roman (serif) and Arial (san-serif).
Marketing can assist you with font questions. Please email email@example.com.
To assist you in concise and consistent writing of the Villanova message, University Communication and Marketing has provided a Villanova Style Guide on the University Communication and Marketing pages of the Villanova website. Please go to University Communication and Marketing's editorial style guide for any additional editorial style questions.
Brand Platform—The Villanova Experience
Restless hearts and rigorous minds create wisdom to shape the world. The Villanova University experience melds intellect and spirituality. Villanova’s Augustinian Catholic community urges self-exploration while rejecting selfcenteredness. The Villanova journey yields ambition with a sense of mission; intellect inspired by faith. The result: Villanova attracts and forges world changers—people who create positive change everywhere life takes them.
What Makes Villanova Distinctive?
What sets Villanova University apart is its Augustinian Catholic intellectual tradition, which is the cornerstone of an academic community in which students learn to think critically, act compassionately and succeed while serving others. Villanova prepares students to become ethical leaders who create positive change everywhere life takes them.
Augustinian Catholic Education
Villanova University’s Augustinian Catholic intellectual tradition is the cornerstone of an academic community in which students learn to think critically, act compassionately and succeed while serving others.
Reasons to Go Nova
All of the following reasons to join the Villanova University community are compelling on their own, and together they create an experience that is greater than the sum of its parts. These reasons, taken as a whole, make the Villanova experience unique and powerful.
At Villanova, students are challenged by a rigorous academic experience rooted in the liberal arts and shaped by a community where students and professors are partners in learning.
Villanova’s welcoming community shares a responsibility to uphold the ideals of Saint Augustine: truth, unity and love. This environment helps students grow intellectually, professionally and spiritually, and challenges them to reach their full potential.
The Villanova community is dedicated to providing a caring, personalized learning environment that fosters students’ intellectual and spiritual well-being.
Service to Others
Villanova’s Augustinian Catholic intellectual tradition challenges students to enrich their own lives by working for those in need. Academic and service programs allow students to use their knowledge, skills and compassion to better the world around them.
Foundation for Lifelong Success
The Villanova experience develops both the heart and the mind. It prepares students to become ethical leaders who create positive change everywhere life takes them.
About Villanova University: Since 1842, Villanova University’s Augustinian Catholic intellectual tradition has been the cornerstone of an academic community in which students learn to think critically, act compassionately and succeed while serving others. There are more than 10,000 undergraduate, graduate and law students in the University's six colleges—the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, the Villanova School of Business, the College of Engineering, the M. Louise Fitzpatrick College of Nursing, the College of Professional Studies and the Villanova University Charles Widger School of Law. Ranked among the nation’s top universities, Villanova supports its students’ intellectual growth and prepares them to become ethical leaders who create positive change everywhere life takes them. For more, visit www.villanova.edu. | <urn:uuid:5352a524-e85c-4545-93ec-1d30d800c97b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www1.villanova.edu/villanova/unicommunication/brandguidelines/VisualIdentityGuidelines.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572198.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815175725-20220815205725-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.878047 | 1,273 | 2.015625 | 2 |
Bangladesh has sought a joint blue economy approach to harness the untapped marine resources that can be useful in tackling poverty, food insecurity, unemployment, energy crisis and ecological imbalances towards strengthening the sustainable development process.
“Oceans are the potential and versatile resource-frontiers for humankind, but remains under-explored and unexploited,” said secretary of the Maritime Affairs Unit at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Rear Admiral (Retd.) Md. Khurshed Alam.
The vice-president of Tanzania, foreign and tourism minister of Tonga, minister of international development of Norway, ministers, high representatives and experts from the member states also attended the event, according to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Khurshed emphasized the need of fostering international and regional cooperation to develop strategies in support of the sustainable development of the blue economy in LDCs, LLDCs and SIDS.
He elaborated that states and organizations in developing regions may not have the capacity to develop and manage their own shared marine resources, as they lack the necessary information, expertise or the financial capacity to follow through with planning and operations.
External assistance can be valuable, and sometimes essential, in establishing shared international marine resources arrangements, Khurshed said.
Panelists opined that regional and international cooperation is crucial to develop marine scientific knowledge and research capacity to leverage the benefits offered by the blue economy.
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The Author: Sarah Stephens of the Center for Democracy in the Americas has just published a study on gender equity in Cuba.
The complete report is available for download CDA_Womens_Work The first part of the Executive Summary is presented below.
While this is an interesting study, the author seems to studiously avoid even the mention of some of the most courageous women in Cuba who are already having an influence on public policy and will likely play a more important role in building Cuba’s future than any of the women cited or interviewed for the study. I am referring of course to the independent journalists, pro-democracy activists, and those who dare to speak up in support of the genuine respect for the basic human rights that Cuba has signed on to in the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
How could an organization labelled the Center for Democracy in the Americas not have spoken to individuals such as Yoani Sanchez, Miriam Celaya, the Ladies in White, or Miriam Leiva?
The immigration reform law would not likely have been passed at this time were it not for the unrelenting pressure of Yoani Sanchez and the international publicity this engendered and the shame the travel restrictions brought on the Cuban government.
“Women’s Work: Gender Equality in Cuba and the Role of Women Building Cuba’s Future,” a report by the Center for Democracy in the Americas, examines progress made by Cuban women toward gender equality since the 1950s and discusses how that progress can be sustained in the future.
Cuba is highly ranked by international organizations from Save the Children to the World Economic Forum for the health and well being of its mothers and children; the literacy and educational attainment of its population; and for meeting or progressing toward the Millennium Development Goals.
These accomplishments are met with skepticism even disbelief by some in the U.S., because Cuba has a tiny economy, it is not capitalist or rich and, by U.S. standards, it is not free. Yet, the numbers speak for themselves.
But, the data also demonstrate, and many Cuban women agree, that measured against key objectives of gender equality – do women have access to higher-paying jobs; can they achieve a fair division of labor at work and home; are they acceding to positions of real power in the communist party or government– Cuba has a long way to go.
Now, as Cuba faces an economic crisis driven by fiscal, competitive, and demographic pressures, the government is trying to update its economic model. But, several actions – such as cutting budgets and controlling costs in its public health and education systems, and shrinking state employment rolls and moving workers into private sector jobs – could put Cuba’s gender equality achievements at considerable risk. Many Cuban women are reluctant to make the transition from the state jobs where they found work and received benefits to private sector employment, because they lack training, job security and benefits, and access to capital.
With ample global evidence that broadening rather than constraining participation by women increases economic growth, social wellbeing, and family formation, Cuba can improve its prospects for addressing the crisis by preserving, and indeed, expanding its commitment to gender equality. Cuban women also want to expand their roles, their power, and their ability to participate in the building of Cuba’s future.
CDA believes it would serve the national and humanitarian interests of the U.S. to help Cuban women achieve greater economic success as their nation undergoes a stressful adjustment to a new economic model, and the report offers recommendations for doing so. | <urn:uuid:05fb9ae2-25a3-42cd-a7a9-13806e9f0c51> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://thecubaneconomy.com/articles/2013/03/womens-work-gender-equality-and-the-role-of-women-in-building-cubas-future/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572033.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814113403-20220814143403-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.96562 | 745 | 2.21875 | 2 |
Travel Budget Worksheet
Travel Budget Worksheet. Traveling expenses format in excel allows you to compile the data of all. Make a budget use this worksheet to see how much money you spend this month.
How to create a travel budget. I’ve even added a master sheet and a practice sheet. One of my biggest travel tips to stay on budget is to prioritize the activities and experiences that you know will fill you up and bring you joy.
36 Travel Budget Templates & Vacation Budget Planners.
The templates are easy to use and available on instant download. However, some people finance their rvs and that payment could very well be their biggest expense per month. To our advantage, there are.
Well, This Application Will Help You Keep Track Of How Much You're Spending, While Traveling.
Determine your monthly fixed expenses. We have 15+ travel budget examples & templates to get you a head start in creating your own budget. Every country has differing prices.from $5 double rooms in se asia to paying $40+ for a dorm bed in.
There Are Several Steps We Take When Starting Our Flight Search.
The worksheet is set up to let you enter a quantity and unit cost for each item. A pie chart will appear after calculating your expenses, and you can see how much you're spending,. 4 in 1 travel budget worksheet maker.
I’ve Even Added A Master Sheet And A Practice Sheet.
Save the travel budget worksheet after each trip, so you can reference the cost of previous trips while planing your next adventure. Travel on a shoestring budget. But, as a rough guide to keep in mind when planning your travel budget, here are some of the most common travel vaccinations and their approximate costs:
Make A Budget Use This Worksheet To See How Much Money You Spend This Month.
We’ve built this trip planner to include 16 days of travel but you can adjust the length of the trip by adding or removing columns in the spreadsheet. For example, you may choose to finance a top of the line class a motorhome or trailer and your monthly payment may be $500. Every time i go to plan a trip i sit down and put together a budget for things like hotel, rental car, food, tickets to events and. | <urn:uuid:85effdb2-31b5-4da6-9167-d2c88f9ab280> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://templatesz234.com/travel-budget-worksheet/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572833.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817001643-20220817031643-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.890929 | 476 | 2.125 | 2 |
A little bit of sleuthing by Dr. Joseph Mercola of the popular Mercola.com online health resource has uncovered strong evidence that Google is now functioning not as an unbiased search engine, but rather as a propaganda front for Big Pharma and the ever-lucrative vaccine industry.
In trying to figure out why the vast majority of his most popular articles vanished from Google back in June, Dr. Mercola has learned that he’s become a Big Tech target due to his procuring of health and wellness information that, in many cases, eliminates the need for pharmaceuticals, vaccines, and other high-profit “medicines.”
You see, Google’s transformation into a pharmaceutical company has greatly influenced the search results that pop up during search queries. Users who try to seek out information about “rheumatoid arthritis,” for instance, will no longer find useful articles like the one Dr. Mercola wrote back in 2010. Instead, they’ll pull up pro-drug propaganda links to WebMD, Healthline, and Medical News Today, all of which push drugs and vaccines as the solution to all health problems.
As explained by Dr. Mercola in a powerful video he recently uploaded to his Brighteon.com page, WebMD is owned by the global investment firm KKR & Co., which also owned RJR Nabisco at a time when the company was selling junk food and tobacco products. KKR also owns Medscape and MedicineNet, two other choice websites promoted by Google over sites like Mercola.com.
“WebMD, as you may recall, was in 2010 caught providing users with a fake depression screening test,” Dr. Mercola explains in his video. “The test – in which 100 percent of quiz-takers ended up having a ‘high likelihood of major depression’ and were directed to talk to their doctor about treatment – was sponsored by drug giant Eli Lilly, the maker of Cymbalta.”
In essence, this WebMD depression quiz was nothing more than direct-to-consumer advertising disguised as a “health screening.”
For more related news about Google, be sure to check out EvilGoogle.news.
In 2017, Google also partnered with the National Alliance on Mental Illness to launch yet another self-assessment “quiz” that, just like the WebMD one, was designed to drive users towards taking antidepressant drugs for their internet-diagnosed “illness.”
“There simply is no doubt that Google is a proponent for and promoter of pharmaceuticals,” Dr. Mercola contends.
Amazingly, Google thinks it’s getting away with also embedding ads for antidepressant drugs within WebMD landing pages, presenting them to users as if they’re exactly what the doctor ordered. In truth, these ads, which are furnished by Google Ad services and DoubleClick, are both owned by Google, and generate large profits for Google.
It’s a similar situation over at Healthline, which is owned by an advertising company known as Red Ventures that pushes things like McDonald’s fast food home delivery. Both Healthline and WebMD are now the top “health” sites that show up when searching for almost any health-related topic on Google, and both sites rake in plenty of cash for Google because they’ve been “optimized” with Google’s drug advertising.
“In short, WebMD and Healthline – two ‘health’ sites that promote some very unhealthy choices – are prioritized in search results because they both use Google ad services,” Dr. Mercola explains. “When traffic is shuttled to these sites, Google makes more money from advertising revenue.”
A quick look at Google’s official policies and guidelines reveals that this little kickback setup is in direct violation of Google’s own rules. But Google no longer follows the rules, as the company sacrifices all remaining shreds of integrity on the altar of the almighty dollar, cash being the sole decision-maker at the “new-and-improved” Google.
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OBAMACARE SURVIVES ITS LATEST THREAT — BARE COUNTIES. That's according to Paul Demko, who writes that the Obamacare insurance markets are proving more resilient than many anticipated, with insurers jumping in to cover regions other companies fled, undercutting GOP predictions of widespread market collapse.
The Trump administration hasn't been helping. Instead of actively courting insurers to join the marketplaces, top officials have regularly highlighted the declining competition. “As Obamacare continues to collapse, the administration is considering its options on how to address the challenges Americans are facing by canceled plans, higher costs, and failing markets,” an HHS spokesperson said in a recent statement.
Case study: Ohio. The state was facing the prospect of having 20 counties without insurers, largely because of Anthem’s decision to exit the state. But Ohio officials eventually reached agreement with five health plans to cover all but one of the barren counties.
"I personally called the CEOs and just asked them to consider if they were in a position to assist with providing coverage," said Jillian Froment, the Ohio insurance commissioner. "These companies … really stepped up and helped us solve this problem."
Keep reading: More.
Maps: How the ACA competition crisis is overblown. While 40 percent of counties are teed up to have just one exchange insurer in 2018, the counties are disproportionately rural and with limited population, new maps drawn up by the University of Chicago's Harold Pollack and Todd Schuble show. The lack of insurer competition in these counties is a problem that predated the ACA, they note, given that the low numbers of customers and providers tends to make for expensive care.
"One pattern evident in both the original and the population-adjusted maps is where these counties with just one insurer tend to be: in the South and some parts of the interior West," HuffPost's Jonathan Cohn writes. More.
THIS IS MONDAY PULSE — Where your author is filing from the Gateway to the West, St. Louis, where he'll be watching the total solar eclipse later today. (After knocking on the front door of Centene, in order to ensure there will be a health care angle to this trip.) Sending sunny thoughts and forecasts to readers near and far; make sure to send tips to [email protected] or @ddiamond on Twitter.
With help from Victoria Colliver (@vcolliver)
MAYO CLINIC: WE REJECT 'HATRED AND BIGOTRY' — The top-ranked health system told PULSE that it "rejects statements of equivalency between Neo-Nazi groups and those who oppose them, and expressions of hatred and bigotry." The statement came after labor union SEIU asked for clarification of Mayo Clinic's relationship with President Donald Trump, whose controversial comments on white supremacists last week led a number of health care organizations to break ties with the White House.
… While Mayo Clinic CEO John Noseworthy and four other hospital leaders met face-to-face with the president in December 2016 and again in February 2017, the hospital says the ad hoc group has no formal standing.
"The engagement with the current Administration reflects Mayo Clinic’s historic commitment of service to the United States government," a spokesperson added. "Mayo Clinic has responded to the call to serve each White House administration back to the time of President Abraham Lincoln."
American Red Cross, Susan G. Komen the latest to cancel Mar-a-Lago fundraisers. The groups joined Cleveland Clinic, the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society and other health care organizations and charities that have nixed upcoming events at Trump's resort.
"It has increasingly become a source of controversy and pain for many of our volunteers, employees and supporters," the Red Cross said in a statement.
… The growing list of cancellations has been costly for Mar-a-Lago, The Washington Post notes: "The club earned between $100,000 and $275,000 each from similar-sized events in the past during Palm Beach’s glitzy social seasons." More.
Freedom Caucus loses key White House ally with Steve Bannon exit. The departure of the chief White House strategist is alarming conservative lawmakers and their allies, who no longer have a direct pipeline to the Oval Office, POLITICO's Kyle Cheney and Rachael Bade report.
Bannon played a central role in keeping the Freedom Caucus in the president's good graces when the group initially appeared to blow up the House's Obamacare repeal-and-replace effort in April. Conservatives who felt sidelined and ignored by Ryan and his leadership team took their case to Bannon, who personally conveyed and advocated their points on health care to the president.
"There's a real concern among lawmakers about who they'll be interfacing with at the White House," a Freedom Caucus source said. "Conservatives felt they had an ally in Bannon." More for Pros.
Trump quietly signs FDA reauthorization bill. The president didn't hold a signing ceremony on Friday, even though the bill has been one of the few major pieces of legislation to pass Congress during his seven months in office.
"It's a big bipartisan accomplishment, but it's not what he wanted," said Rachel Sachs, a law professor at Washington University in St. Louis. "It's an explicit repudiation of Trump's priorities," given that the administration wanted FDA to be entirely funded by user fees and the user fee agreement — which was negotiated between FDA and the industry many months ago — reauthorizes user fees at a much lower level.
STATE WEEK: Medicaid programs to recoup millions from Mylan settlement. A handful of states are set to receive millions of dollars as part of the federal settlement under which EpiPen maker Mylan agreed to pay $465 million to resolve claims it significantly overcharged Medicaid for the life-saving medicine, POLITICO's Brianna Ehley reports.
Nearly $214 million will go to states, according to the settlement agreement. For instance, New York’s Medicaid program will receive $23.5 million and Washington’s Medicaid program will receive $5.5 million, the states confirmed to POLITICO. A statement from Delaware’s attorney general said its program will receive $899,882. More for Pros.
California: Single payer redux? Here’s something that’s not on the agenda when the California Legislature resumes its session today after a month-long break: the state's single bill payer legislation, Senate Bill 562. But the California Nurses Association, the measure's main supporter, and other proponents don't think the issue is dead, POLITICO's Victoria Colliver reports from California.
Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon parked the bill, which he described as “woefully incomplete,” in a committee, effectively ending its prospects for the year. But single-payer supporters want lawmakers to bring it back for a vote this fall, whether by gutting and amending another bill, convincing the Assembly leader to release it from committee or some other means. "Where there's political will, there's a way to move it," Don Nielsen, government relations director for the nurses' union, told Victoria
… Whether that's political reality is another question. The union started a door-to-door campaign over the weekend in certain assembly districts, and plans to continue its lobbying efforts with ongoing legislative visits and town hall-style meetings. Supporters took some heat after Rendon's action for their aggressive tactics, which included personal threats.
Alaska: Tom Price tours Alaska Native medical services. The HHS secretary said he's been impressed in his meetings with tribal leaders and wanted to learn more about their challenges. "I said to my folks, 'I've got to get out there and see the tribal territory, especially the healthcare aspect of the tribal territory,'" Price told a local news outlet.
Price also linked the "self-governance aspect of the tribal health consortium" with Republicans' strategy to give more leeway to local health leaders. "They mentioned it over, and over, and over: the kinds of hurdles, the kinds of rules and regulations that Washington often times puts forward that makes it that much more difficult for them to be able to do their job," he said. More.
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… Price is now heading off for a week of travel to China, Vietnam, and Japan for meetings with government officials on global health security.
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This entire idea may be wrong, as I now know (not as I assumed) that Stalin was against dividing Germany. Sorry for this possibly offensive blog post. But I will keep it for “history”.
Russia is blocked by the devil. Most Russian people don’t accept the truth of Gospel, their minds are blocked from freedom. Integration with the West is hindered.
What exactly “blocks” Russians’ minds? I think this is a “composite” stronghold:
- Russian Orthodoxy
- “religion of victory”
- “frontline” 100 gram
“Russian Orthodoxy” is a religion similar to Catholicism (with only minor differences, if not to take as a difference that Russian priests do marry). It is little related with Christianity. One thing Russian Orthodoxy has in common with Christianity is that we both believe in Holy Trinity and resurrection of Christ. But that is the end of similarity. All other aspects of Russian Orthodoxy are unrelated with Christianity. Well, they “have” Bible, but don’t believe it is errorless. They pray to dead people just like shamans, they think that salvation of a man depends on whether he does good deals, rather than wholly accepting the sacrifice of Christ who saves us sinners. (See here the true theory of salvation.)
“Religion of victory” is Russian quasi-cult where they proudly celebrate victory over fascist Germany in 1945. No doubt it is good that fascists were defeated, but Russians converted this to a pride cult. Russians feel “we have already achieved success” (considering that victory) and for this reason the desire of Russians to reach success is hindered (“we already reached a success”).
So the problem is that Russian are too proud of their victory. But in fact the problem is worse: It was Stalin who attacked Hitler not vice versa. Thus Russians are proud of an aggressive war. It is just like to make a robbery and then be proud “I have overcome that other gangster which I’ve robbed!” Clearly this puts a serious curse on Russia, because God is against robbery.
It is curious to know how I revealed that Stalin attacked Hitler, not vice versa. Like most Russians I took for granted that Hitler aggressively attacked Russia. But once I’ve read in Bible (Joel 3):
1 “For, behold, in those days,
and in that time,
when I restore the fortunes of Judah and Jerusalem,
2 I will gather all nations,
and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat;
and I will execute judgment on them there for my people,
and for my heritage, Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations.
They have divided my land,
3 and have cast lots for my people,
and have given a boy for a prostitute,
and sold a girl for wine, that they may drink.
4 “Yes, and what are you to me, Tyre, and Sidon,
and all the regions of Philistia?
Will you repay me?
And if you repay me,
I will swiftly and speedily return your repayment on your own head.
5 Because you have taken my silver and my gold,
and have carried my finest treasures into your temples,
6 and have sold the children of Judah and the children of Jerusalem to the sons of the Greeks,
that you may remove them far from their border.
7 Behold, I will stir them up out of the place where you have sold them,
and will return your repayment on your own head;
8 and I will sell your sons and your daughters into the hands of the children of Judah,
and they will sell them to the men of Sheba,
to a faraway nation,
for Yahweh has spoken it.”
9 Proclaim this among the nations:
“Prepare for war!
Stir up the mighty men.
Let all the warriors draw near.
Let them come up.
10 Beat your plowshares into swords,
and your pruning hooks into spears.
Let the weak say, ‘I am strong.’
11 Hurry and come, all you surrounding nations,
and gather yourselves together.”
Cause your mighty ones to come down there, Yahweh.
12 “Let the nations arouse themselves,
and come up to the valley of Jehoshaphat;
for there will I sit to judge all the surrounding nations.
13 Put in the sickle;
for the harvest is ripe.
Come, tread, for the wine press is full,
the vats overflow, for their wickedness is great.”
14 Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision!
For the day of Yahweh is near, in the valley of decision.
It is clear the similarity of the situation: They divided Israel, got money, and Stalin also divided Germany into two parts and got the reparation. I’ve concluded that there should be also similarity of the result: a curse on the one who have done this. Well, in my more recent interpretation of Bible I do not suppose that similar situations always cause a similar result, but that time it worked:
I told to God: “God, everybody says that Germany attacked Russia but you say that Russia attacked Germany, I believe you. Show me how has this happened”. A few months after God has replied to my question: A Russian journalist Yevgeny Kiselyov explained on TV: Russia lost about a half of its military airplanes after the first German attack, because the airplanes were staying near the border, ready for an attack but not ready for defense. Stalin was sure that Hitler will be afraid to attack USSR, but was going to attack first. But Hitler “got wind” that Stalin is going to attack and got defensive measures. Hitler was afraid to attack USSR, but just started to protect himself. So it is clear: Essentially Stalin attacked first, Hitler just defended.
So Stalin’s propaganda is not yet crushed completely: his main myth that Germany attacked USSR continues to be promoted by Russian propaganda. In a sense they are stalinists yet. No doubt we must liquidate all remainders of stalinism. To crash stalinism we need to crash the religion of victory, which is intimately related with stalinism.
Russian Orthodoxy is also linked with this: The war was proclaimed “holy war” by Russian church. To crush the Russian Orthodoxy cult and replace it with true Christianity it is necessary to crush also religion of victory.
Another source of trouble are monuments. I’d dare to say that the topic of half of Old Testament is that when they built monuments, they lose God’s blessing and when they destroyed monuments they received God’s blessing. The main source of Russian monuments is the “religion of victory”. You see, all this is related.
Someone may say: Monuments are not idols. To know whether monuments are idols, we need to hear what the partisans of monuments themselves think and themselves say. They consider them as something holy. After we hear them, it is quite clear: They are! They are treated like idols and thus they are idols, because real idols is what is treated as an idol. Monuments are idols, they are worshiping to deads, what is forbidden by Bible (just like worshiping to dead saints, which is also connected to this).
And finally, yet one Russian problem, drunkenness. It does not work if we fight the symptom, we need to fight the source of the problem: (Eph. 6:12) “For our wrestling is not against flesh and blood, but against the principalities, against the powers, against the world’s rulers of the darkness of this age, and against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places.” The real reason of Russian drunkenness is sorcery! Russians often not just drink, they drink “for” something: For example they often “drink for health”. It is nothing other as sorcery, using vodka as a magical aid. The proper way to fight drunkenness is to fight sorcery, and thus to fight religion of victory and Russian Orthodoxy. And one reason for Russian drunkenness are well remembered so called “frontline 100 grams” (of vodka). You see drunkenness is directly related with religion of victory.
Yet another stronghold is Synodal Bible translation (widely used in Russia even by Protestants). In this Bible version there are more sentences with translation errors than sentences without errors (I have checked it myself using Hebrew and Greek dictionaries.) To Russian apply words of Christ (Rev. 3:17) “Because you say, ‘I am rich, and have gotten riches, and have need of nothing;’ and don’t know that you are the wretched one, miserable, poor, blind, and naked”, as they are separated from true word of God with a wrong translation and mind for themselves than they are better than for example Americans. Well, nothing wonderful with this as this Bible version is adequately named after “holy” Synod, which was even not under control of Russian Church but even worse a government entity created to control over the church by Russian czar.
Two religions cannot be in one place. There cannot be both monuments of “religion of victory” and true Gospel filling Russia. We need to make war with monuments and all other remnants of stalinism.
Don’t take me wrong, I am not an enemy of Russia. I want Russian to be prosperous. I just point the problem why Russia fails to prosper. I want Russia to stand up and get rid of the curse.
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Data from the SMART WARS study provides insight into the diagnostic utility of the KardiaBand and Apple Watch Series 4 devices for detecting arrhythmias in older adults.
Results of the SMART WARS study suggests KardiaBand devices outperformed the Apple Watch Series 4 for accuracy and sensitivity for detecting atrial fibrillation.
A head-to-head comparison of the automated algorithms used with each device in an outpatient setting, results of the study suggest the automated algorithm used in KardiaBand devices provided greater accuracy and sensitivity for detecting paroxysmal arrhythmias compared to the Apple Watch Series 4, but investigators note results also provide evidence in support of clinician assessment to improve accuracy of single-lead electrocardiogram devices.
“Our study provides real-world validation of commercially available smart watch algorithms for the detection of AF in an elderly, ambulatory population. The KardiaBand was more accurate at ascertaining heart rhythm and detecting AF than the Apple Watch Series 4. The overall accuracy of the Apple Watch Series 4 ECG classification considering all rhythm strips was substantially lower (66%) than reported by Apple (88%),” wrote investigators.
The utility of smartwatches and portable ECG devices for detecting arrhythmias has gone from science fiction to reality in recent decades. With the capability and popularity of wearable devices growing in stride with one another, optimization of leveraging these technologies to improve identification and, as a result, reduce the burden of arrhythmias has taken centerstage for many electrophysiologists. Designed by investigators from the Department of Cardiology at Monash University conducted the current study with the intent of comparing the diagnostic utility of the KardiaBand and Apple Watch Series 4 devices.
To do so, investigators designed their study to leverage data from consecutive recordings taken from patients attending cardiology outpatient clinics with both devices concurrently. Both automated diagnoses and blinded single-lead electrocardiographic tracing interpretations from 2 cardiologists were analyzed and additional analyses were conducted to determine the effect of the combined device and clinical interpretation.
In total, 125 patients were recruited from December 2019-March 2020 for participation in the study. Inclusion criteria for the study included being 65 years of age or greater and the ability to tolerate lying supine for 12-lead electrocardiography. Investigator pointed out 65 years was chosen as the age cutoff because of the increased prevalence of atrial fibrillation in older patients. The 125-patient cohort had a mean age of 76±7 years and 62% were men.
Upon analysis, results suggested the accuracy of the automated rhythm assessment algorithm was greater with the KardiaBand device than with the Apple Watch Series 4 device, with observed accuracies of 74% and 65%, respectively. When assessing sensitivity and negative predictive value for detection of atrial fibrillation, the KardiaBand device returned values of 89% and 97%, respectively. For the Apple Watch Series 4, assessments of sensitivity and negative predictive value for detection of atrial fibrillation yielded values of 19% and 82%, respectively. In models using hybrid automated and clinician interpretation, the overall accuracy of the KardiaBand device improved to 91% and the accuracy of the Apple Watch Series 4 device increased to 87%.
“These findings suggest that although these devices’ tracings are of sufficient quality, automated diagnosis alone is not sufficient for making clinical decisions about atrial fibrillation diagnosis and management,” investigators wrote.
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The Canary Islands, Spanish territory, form an archipelago in the Atlantic Ocean 150 kilometers west of the African coast. The answer of What's the best Canary Island to go to and which canary island to visit?
- The most asked question by holiday lovers is that 7 islands are to be discovered, the two best known of which are Lanzarote and Tenerife.
Why go visit and the best time to visit the Canary Islands? Here is a destination not far and not expensive for an extraordinary trip!
- The Canary Islands present volcanic landscapes, non tacky resorts, islands, las Palmas garajonay national park jameos del agua mixing lava fields and fine sandy beaches.
This article on the 10 best things to do in the Canary Islands will be your guide to some of the best places to see in the Canary Islands, as we break it down by island:
1-Visit Mount Teide National Park
Rising 3,718 meters above sea level, the Mount Teide volcano is the centerpiece of Mount Teide National Park, Canary Islands' largest park and highest peak.
Teide National Park, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, comprises the entire mountain, and a trip inside the huge crater is the highlight of a trip to the Canary Islands.
El Portillo Visitor Center is a good place to start, where an excellent little museum has interactive exhibits showing how volcanoes form and explore the crater environment.
Because it is right in the center of Tenerife and is the highest point in Spain, the scenery here is breathtaking. If you're feeling adventurous, you can join the Quad Safari Tenerife Teide Tour and trek to the foot of Mount Teide. But if you prefer to stay clean and cool, you can take the Tenerife cable car which will take you up to 3,555 meters for more spectacular views.
Stopping points at various sites have signs in English describing the flora and fauna and explaining the landscape, and hiking trails lead to the highlights. Definitely high on your things to do list in Tenerife.
2-Explore Loro Park
Another popular destination when tourists are looking for things to do in the Canary Islands is Loro Park. One of the most popular tourist attractions for families in the Canary Islands is this wildlife park located just outside Puerto de la Cruz.
Combining high standards of conservation with great entertainment, the park has one of the largest collections of parrots in the world, a large dolphinarium and a huge aquarium with an underwater tunnel where you can walk while sharks and other sea creatures swim above.
This popular spot lets you see all kinds of creatures and animals, with over 350 species of parrots and 200 penguins. If that doesn't fascinate you enough, you'll also see unusual zoo animals like anteaters, meerkats, killer whales and even sloths. One of the main attractions in the park is the shark tunnel which allows you to see the sharks swimming around you.
3-Explore Timanfaya National Park
One of the most popular things to do in the Canary Islands is seeing one Lanzarote volcano after another in this popular park. When you visit Timanfaya National Park, you will see spectacular shades and colors of rock formations that you won't see anywhere else.
The most spectacular volcanic landscapes, including a still active volcano, are now protected as the UNESCO World Heritage-listed Timanfaya National Park.
It literally has to be seen to be believed: huge areas of otherworldly terrain covered in swirls of solidified lava, cracked into crevices by more molten lava still moving below.
To see the whole park, go to Islote de Hilario atop a volcanic rock, where park rangers demonstrate the enormous heat right under your feet.
If you want a completely different experience in Lanzarote, you can ride a Timanfaya camel that will take you to a volcano in Lanzarote.
Camels in Lanzarote are a must when visiting the island.
4-The beaches of Tenerife
Like those of Gran Canaria, Tenerife's legendary beaches are found along its sunny south coast. Among the most developed, with many vacation homes, hotels, restaurants and sports facilities, are the family-friendly golden sand beaches.
Playa de Las Vistas and the upmarket enclaves around Playa del Duque, on the Costa Adeje to the West.
In the latter, you will find shopping, luxury spas, golf, windsurfing, jet skiing and other activities.
The chain of beaches ends in Puerto de Santiago and Los Gigantes, in a spectacular location under high cliffs. Smaller natural beaches with darker sand dot the entire shoreline east of Los Cristianos to El Medano. Too windy for comfortable sunbathing or swimming, El Medano is a world-class surf beach.
Further west is the beautiful little Playa Santiago and Playa de la Arena, protected by rocky headlands and set beneath lush parkland.
Adeje is an upscale resort town, with shopping, luxury spas, golf, windsurfing, jet skiing, and other activities. Perhaps the best beach for families is Playa de las Teresitas, just outside the capital city of Santa Cruz.
Its gently sloping golden sands imported from North Africa are protected by artificial reefs that make it perfect for children and swimmers, without the intense waves of some other beaches.
5- The beaches of Fuerteventura
The miles of beaches on the island of Fuerteventura are almost empty, and even most of those with well-developed tourist infrastructure are uncrowded. The beaches in the northeast are often quite windy and the surf on its northern beaches is quite heavy - much to the delight of surfers, who find some of the best waves in Europe here.
Corralejo, a fishing port on the north coast, is a surf hub, with rentals, surf schools, and a strong surf and watersports culture.
Playa el Pozo, which has moderate waves and safe swimming waters, a number of kiosks renting water sports equipment, beach chairs and umbrellas, and there are several other choices along nearly 10 miles of Corralejo sandy beach.
It's Playa Sotavento Leeward Beach that has earned Fuerteventura its reputation as a beach lover's paradise. It runs along the entire southern coast of the Jandia peninsula, at the southern tip of the island. You can choose your paradise from nearly 30 kilometers of golden sand lapped by turquoise waters.
While there are towns and tourist enclaves with all amenities, it's the abundance of uncrowded beach space that draws tourists to these legendary sands.
6- Watching Dolphin and Whale in Tenerife
The Atlantic Sea off Tenerife is known for its whales and dolphins, and a whale watching cruise is one of the favorite family activities on the island.
You can spot whales and watch pods of frolicking dolphins – up to five different species – on boat trips from various ports. Many cruises include a stop at a secluded bay to swim or snorkel.
A variety of watercraft are available, from sleek sailboats and catamarans to luxury yachts. On the Tenerife Whale and Dolphin Cruise from Los Cristianos, you'll be accompanied by trained crew members who will help you spot and identify the marine life you see.
You will also have different views of Mount Tiede and the coastline.
For those who like their wildlife experiences to be closer to the water - or in it - there are also excursions for kayakers and divers.
7- Santa Cruz de Tenerife
The capital of Tenerife is a lively and attractive city, marked by some exceptional architectural attractions.
The most important of these is the magnificent Auditorio de Tenerife, an opera house and concert hall overlooking the sea, designed by Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava. The concert hall hosts world-class artists, conductors and orchestras.
Santa Cruz de Tenerife has other cultural highlights, including the excellent collections of the Museum of Fine Arts, where you'll find works by Spanish, Flemish and Canarian painters.
At the fascinating Museum of Nature and Man, you can learn more about the natives of Tenerife, before the arrival of European settlers, and the volcanic history of the islands of Tenerife.
If you ask “What are the Canary Islands famous for?”, the answer Santa Cruz is where you'll find Tenerife's best shopping, as well as the Canaries' most famous event, the annual Carnival, marked by lavish parades, shows and extravagant costumes.
8- San Cristobal de la Laguna, Tenerife
This charming colonial city is designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site due to its exceptional cultural heritage. San Cristobal de la Laguna, locally known simply as La Laguna, is the former capital of all the Canary Islands.
The charming historic town has many architectural gems, such as its elaborate cathedral, Renaissance and neoclassical churches and impressive mansions built by wealthy families in the 17th and 18th centuries.
The town's parish church, the Iglesia de Nuestra La Concepción, was built in 1496 and modified in the 16th and 18th centuries. The sanctuary is simply decorated and has Mudejar coffers.
For a historical overview of the area, head to the Museum of History and Anthropology, housed in the charming Casa de Lecaro, which dates back to 1593.
9- La Orotava, Tenerife
In a beautiful valley of banana plantations, this colonial town has been designated a National Historic-Artistic Site. The historic district is filled with gracious old houses, most with ornately carved wooden balconies.
The most notable of these architectural gems is the Casas de los Balcones, built in the 1630s to house a wealthy colonial family. Today it is a museum and gallery of traditional Canarian crafts and sewing. To admire the interior balconies, enter the green patio.
The Iglesia de Nuestra Señora de la Concepción, a 16th-century Baroque church, has two notable bell towers. The beautifully landscaped Hijuela del Botánico teems with over 3,000 colorful tropical flowers and rare plants, surrounded by lawns adorned with decorative pools.
An even larger botanical garden can be found near Puerto de la Cruz, once part of La Orotava, a port known for its fishing it's boats still bring the daily catch to its restaurants.
10- Cueva de los Verdes
One of the most popular things to do in Lanzarote is to explore the seven kilometer long volcanic tube that stretches from the La Coruña mountain to the sea. These tubes formed when the surface of a lava flow cooled and hardened during melting, while a river of lava was still flowing below. When underground lava emptied into the ocean, it left the hollow tube deep underground.
The two-kilometer section you can visit inside the cave is in its original state - the only things that have been added are lights and walkways for security. You enter the caves through a jameo - a hole created by the collapse of a thin spot in the roof of the lava tube.
Some of the largest rooms are between 9 and 12 meters. The stone of the walls is red, orange and black, formed by compounds such as iron oxide and calcium carbonate in the stone.
Restaurant Recommendation in the Canary Islands
If you like good food, you should know that Canarian gastronomy is booming: in Tenerife alone, you will find six Michelin stars. And, let's not forget its wide variety of award-winning wines from over 200 wineries.
This restaurant is original to say the least. As its name suggests, the Tagoror “cueva” is a cellar, even a cave, inside which you will live an authentic Canarian experience.
This establishment also offers typical Canarian dishes, such as gofio 'escaldado‘ and papas arrugadas con mojo.
Gofio is surely the most typical food of the archipelago.
It is a kind of flour made from roasted cereals and other ingredients like barley and wheat.
The composition of the gofio escaldado also includes a fish broth.
On the other side, the "papas arrugadas con mojo" are potatoes that are bathed in mojo sauce (red or green), made up of oil, garlic, and peppers, among other things... A real treat!
The unique setting and delicious dishes make this restaurant one of our favorites in Gran Canaria!
- Average price: 80 dollars
Beach Recommendation in the Canary Islands
In this ranking one could not miss one of the best urban beaches in Europe:
Playa de las Canteras, the lung and the heart of the city and capital of Gran Canaria, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria.
Crystal clear waters in an area almost 3 kilometers long and with life and joy along its truly enviable avenue, from La Puntilla to La Cicer.
Enjoy the most family-friendly and famous beach in the capital of Gran Canaria. Walk along its relaxing and calm shore, crossing one of the best known and emblematic places of the Canary archipelago.
It is a favorite of Canarian families who call this beautiful townhome and one of the best beaches on the island.
This fascinating destination offers so many attractions that we decided to put together a list of what to do in Geneva and places to visit in one day.
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Ticks are a horrible form of parasite that effect humans and pets, and that latch onto our skin and drink our blood. They’re foul to look at, they can itch, and they can spread disease making them generally a pest and something that no one wants to have to deal with quickly. Likewise though they can also cause more complications if they are removed incorrectly and should the legs be left behind when they are pulled out. This then leaves the individual – or the dog – susceptible to infection and can also lead to a range of other symptoms such as rash or even difficulty breathing.
Removing Tick Heads
As such it is very important to remove the tick while also removing the head and the best way to do this is with a specialised tool for removing ticks which will enable you to lift and pull out the tick without touching it. These look like white plastic ‘forks’ in a way with two tongs that slide under the tick allowing you to quickly pull and leverage the tick out of the skin and to bring the head and the legs with it. You can get these in most pet stores and they will work on people too.
Alternatively you can use tweezers which might be more convenient if you want to get the tick head out in a hurry. To use these grab the head or the mouth of the tick with the tweezers but hold gently so as to avoid crushing the head and leaving you with nothing left to grab on to to remove the tick. Pull gently and directly up as you would with the tick remover and try to maintain a constant force rather than jerking it out.
Once you’ve removed the tick you’re not out of the woods just yet. Take the tick and place it in a jar and seal it – this is important as if you should have caught an infection from the tick, this can help the doctor to be able to diagnose any symptoms that occur more quickly.
As well you should make sure to wash the area of your skin that was bitten by the tick and to disinfect it. Use a warm water and soap and wash your hands too if you touched the tick with them. From here on look out for any potential signs of problems such as rash, fever, muscle ache or swelling.
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Severe storms over the Alps have led to flooding and storm damage in the region.
The bad weather front moved from west to east across Switzerland and Austria until Monday night.
In the Salzburg region, several trees fell on the Tauernautobahn, as the Austrian broadcaster ORF reported online.
The clearance work was made more difficult by heavy travel.
In addition, two tunnels on this route had to be closed due to power failures.
Fire brigades reported hundreds of operations.
The winds blew off roofs and flooded streets and basements.
In Upper Austria, up to 30,000 households were now without electricity.
No injuries were initially reported from Austria – on the other hand, three cases from Switzerland in the canton of Valais due to storms.
Two people were hit by a flying tent, the canton police reported.
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Another disadvantage is that ROI is based on accounting profits,which are subjective, rather than cash flows.
Sir in this statement it is said that profit is subjective how can profit become subjective?
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There are certain healthy fats that aid the keto diet, coconut oil being one of them due to its relatively large amount of medium-chain triglycerides (MCTs). That is because shorter fatty acid chains burn faster than longer ones, known as long-chain triglycerides (LCTs). MCT oil is an even higher concentration of MCTs, exclusively made of the MCTs people seek when using coconut oil for the keto diet. So MCT oil vs. coconut oil: which one will work the best for you and why?
The keto diet is a streamline approach to fat burning, limiting the amount of glucose that goes into the body, so that more fat can be processed out as quick energy. The ideal is to reach the state of ketosis (sounds almost like a visiting nation on a sci-fi show, doesn’t it?): the state where the body knows that it isn’t starving and is happy to burn off fat stores for your daily energy. Just as you would never eliminate all carbs and sugar from your diet (even those on a keto diet may need to carbo-load before a vigorous workout or sporting activity), you don’t want to say goodbye to the good fats either. So which are the good fats for ketosis?
First, let’s run down the categories of dietary fats.
The two main types of polyunsaturated fats are omega-3 fatty acids and omega-6 fatty acids (the numbers denote the length of the carbon chain). According to a chapter in The Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease Through the Mediterranean Diet:
Monounsaturated fats have one unsaturated carbon bond in the molecule (polyunsaturated fats have two or more). The American Heart Association recommends that the majority of the fats we eat should be either polyunsaturated or monounsaturated. Monounsaturated fats are:
So called because they are saturated with hydrogen molecules, saturated fats are fat molecules that have no double bonds between carbon molecules. Usually solid at room temperature, saturated fats:
Artificial trans fats are created during the industrial practice of adding hydrogen to vegetable oils (thus making them more solid). Trans fats can be found in a large variety of processed foods, including:
Trans fats are never recommended, while the complex bonds in polyunsaturated and monounsaturated fats might provide significant health benefits.
While avoiding trans and saturated fats is an excellent way to prevent gaining weight, the keto diet goes to the next level: using up the body fat already stored in your body. Losing unnecessary fat off your frame benefits your heart, your joints, your fitness potential, and your physique, so how can the right fats help you get there?
While long-chain fatty acids are usually the best for your health, when trying to achieve ketosis, it’s the medium-chain fatty acids that can be accessed more quickly. Medium-chain fatty acids don’t have to be extensively broken down before they can be used. Glucose and sugar can be converted into energy quickly, but when your goal is to strike a balance that allows you to access fat stores without putting your body into crisis or starvation mode…that is when these foods can best benefit your goals!
Of all the foods and oils with natural amounts of MCTs, coconut oil has the highest amount at 15%, significantly more than palm kernel oil at 7.9% or yogurt at 6.6%.
Virgin coconut oil has a naturally occurring higher amount of MCTs that can more quickly unlock the weight-loss potential of a keto diet. However, coconut is still a saturated fat, and it contains lauric acid, which is still not a fully understood component. While lauric acid may have benefits when applied to skin prone to acne, it is yet to be determined what effect it has on cholesterol levels when ingested.
If you’re unsure about coconut oil or just want the MCTs for your keto goals without any extra saturated fat, MCT oil might be a better solution. Pure MCT oil is made up of what is referred to as the “capra fatty acids,” namely:
While lauric acid (C12) is sometimes included on this list of MCT acids, experts will also argue that caproic, caprylic, and capric reflect the definition of medium-chain types of fatty acids more accurately than lauric does. However, C6 has a reputation for foul taste and smell and is normally left out of consumer MCT formulas.
If lauric acid is what’s needed, coconut oil is an excellent natural source for it. But if it’s MCTs you’re after, you may want to limit your consumption to exactly what you need, and no extras (that’s the keto way).
At the end of the day, MCTs are more rapidly broken down and absorbed due to their shorter carbon chain length. Many people are aware of the “brain fog” that comes along with adjusting to the keto diet, and utilizing MCTs to reach ketosis faster can improve brain function, daily energy, and help curb hunger while you reset your body to a purer form of functioning.
Whether you use MCT oil or gain MCTs through selecting the right foods, any type of MCT will provide a faster energy source that is less likely to be stored as fat than more complex chains of carbon atoms are. Moreover, the benefits of MCT oil applied directly to your keto diet might mean reaching a state of ketosis sooner rather than later, and when it comes to your health, the sooner the better.
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We are horrified and saddened by the staggering physical, human, and environmental damage that has been suffered by Japan following recent major earthquakes and major tsunamis. We are deeply concerned about ongoing radioactive releases— with potentially severe global impact—from several disabled nuclear fission reactors, and we pray that authorities will spare no effort in containing the leaks, providing humanitarian relief, and restoring disrupted communities and ecosystems.
Looking beyond immediate safety concerns raised by the crisis in Japan, we affirm our opposition to all use of nuclear fission to generate electricity because we find this technology to be incompatible with our vision of a just and ecologically sustainable world. Along with industrial agriculture and genetic engineering, nuclear-fission engineering emerges from a narrow, human- centered technological worldview that does not recognize the ecological principles that govern all life on Earth. It is a relic of Cold War-era thinking, which is biased toward large-scale, centrally controlled systems, even though most electrical power uses are relatively small-scale and widely dispersed. As part of a powerful military-industrial complex, nuclear fission tends to further concentrate power and wealth at the expense of democratic values, community wellbeing, economic justice, ecological balance, and personal freedom.
Proponents of nuclear fission and other advanced technological systems typically cite pressures to keep up with ever-expanding consumption and population growth. They do not acknowledge that on a finite planet, growth inevitably comes to an end, often tragically, and that the current economic model is based on endless growth. They tend to underestimate human fallibility and the limitations inherent in the laws of nature, including the law of unintended consequences.
The disaster in Japan has exposed the vulnerability of many older plants to disruption of vital reactor cooling systems and breaching of containment structures. We join others in calling for the orderly shutdown of all nuclear plants of any age that, due to design flaws, careless site selection, and inadequate means for preventing and responding to such emergencies, pose unacceptable risks to the public, to the non-human environment, and to future generations. We also oppose relicensing of facilities that are nearing the end of the period for which they were designed to operate safely.
We oppose as well the construction of new nuclear power plants, both in Japan and around the globe, for a host of practical and economic reasons that are commonly brought up in debates about fission-powered generation and the nuclear waste-disposal dilemma and which have been well documented in independent publications and websites.
We call attention to a number of scientific studies that dispute the claim that fission-powered plants are "carbon free" and therefore can play a significant role in controlling climate change, as well as the claim that radioactive releases during routine activities of the nuclear industry do not pose significant health or environmental risks.
We encourage governments and nonprofit organizations to give priority to public education about the greenhouse gas emissions and radiation hazards associated with the entire nuclear fuel cycle.
We urge all concerned citizens, including Friends around the world, to work individually and collectively with legislators and lobbying groups to encourage the development of appropriately scaled renewable energy systems and to eliminate subsidies for nuclear fission, coal, oil, natural gas, and other industries that are environmentally disruptive and ecologically unsustainable.
We urge Friends to reduce their personal consumption of electricity that comes from nuclear fission and fossil fuels and to obtain the electricity that they do use from truly renewable sources as much as possible.
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Shifting to Virtual Teaching in Higher Ed Mathematics – Part 3
This is the final in a three-part series of blog posts discussing faculty and student experiences in making the transition to virtual teaching and learning during the COVID-19 crisis.
Recommendations for meeting student needs in virtual classes
In exploring how we, as higher education instructors, begin redesigning our courses for online delivery, I’ve shared in Part 1 of this blog series some questions on how we can keep our students’ needs at the forefront. In Part 2, students speak for themselves to describe what they’re feeling in our current, unprecedented situation.
Now in this final post, I share a set of suggestions that are meant to be a starting point in our work as we consider some factors. These recommendations are not perfect; they were written after reading my students’ responses. Based on my teaching experience and knowledge of evidence-based best practices, the recommendations offer concrete ways that instructors might support students during this time.
Many students have limited access to privacy, technology, and reliable Wi-Fi.
- Go asynchronous when possible. This type of instruction allows students to organize their study time in a way that makes the most sense based on their personal situations. For example, if many family members are sharing the same space and internet connection, students might need to arrange their study time to accommodate everyone in the household.
- For synchronous meetings, be flexible about where students can connect from and allow them to turn their video off. Students’ access to completely private spaces might be limited.
- Establish norms for synchronous meetings (e.g., muting microphones). Adjust and reiterate the norms at the beginning of each meeting. Consider having a practice meeting for students to learn new platforms and routines.
- Assume the best about students’ actions and intentions.
- Give larger windows of time in which assessments can be completed. Don’t expect students to be able to complete daily assignments or assignments with little notice or short time frames.
- Notify students of opportunities for low-cost Wi-Fi or technology loans available through your institution, private sources, or government programs.
Students will be isolated.
- Consider organizing virtual study groups, and post links and times on a centralized calendar. If one is available, have a TA or student representative sit in on one or more of these study groups to monitor effectiveness of the meetings. Co-construct potential protocols for students to follow during these sessions.
- Create a discussion board for students’ questions. Encourage students to answer one another’s questions. Assign specific times for you or TAs to answer questions throughout the week. Do not attempt to be available 24/7.
- Don’t forget to post exemplar problems (instructor-generated or student-generated) and/or rubrics so expectations of work are clear.
- Schedule virtual office hours and have students sign up for specific time slots. Set the expectation that all students should see you at least once. Keep track of who attends and send email invites to students you haven’t been able to chat with yet.
These courses were not designed for virtual learning.
- Faculty at each institution can be valuable resources for one another. Department chairs should consider developing centralized structures where faculty can easily share best practices, and ask for and offer support to one another. Developing a culture of continuous improvement in our courses will support positive student outcomes. This shift in how we teach will create new demands on faculty time. Consider restructuring tenure calendars or incentive systems.
- Co-construct the course with participants. Students are good sources for monitoring what works and what does not, and they are often more proficient with technology than we are. Consider simple weekly or biweekly surveys to collect student input. A “keep, change, trash” format could be a starting point. It’s an easy way for students to identify things that are working, minor tweaks that could make the course more efficient, and structures that might need to be completely revamped or tossed. If you have many students in your course, or you have limited capacity, consider electing course representatives to survey their classmates and report back to you. This type of flexible, collaborative approach is extremely important as we certainly will not design the perfect virtual course on the first attempt. Most assuredly, a redesigned course requires thoughtful reflection and revision, and students should be a part of that process.
- Rethink grading schemes and assessments. Prioritize students’ well-being and learning over deadlines and performance during this crisis.
- Use some key features in your chosen platform to ensure privacy and minimize disruptions.
Students are in an ever-evolving and potentially unstable situation.
- Many students are sad about leaving campus, their friends, and support systems. Communicate often with students. Be as clear, transparent, and consistent as possible. We can play a part in helping students feel safe by providing clear structure and stability in our courses. Students appreciate explanations of why decisions are made.
- Keep things organized. For example, create one calendar (we use Canvas, but many options are available) with all meeting dates/times, assessments, study groups, and so on. Update the calendar with fidelity.
- Create a centrally housed online folder with information about services available to students. Organize by need (academic help, advising, financial aid, counseling), reference its location regularly so students are reminded it exists, and update the folder as new services become available. Consider coordinating this as a department, so that every instructor does not have to do it individually.
- Develop a systematic way of checking in with students. Let them know they can reach out to you when problems arise, and you can at least try to connect them to the appropriate institutional service or staff (e.g., academic advisors, campus mental health services). Students can feel overwhelmed with large institutions and often don’t know whom to ask for help. Follow up with students in distress to make sure they receive adequate support.
- Realize your own locus of control. Do your best to support students but don’t extend yourself beyond your own capacity. There will be limits in which problems you can help solve. Lean on other faculty, departments, and institutional services when appropriate.
As we all work together to navigate these challenging times, remember to stay flexible, stay creative, and remind yourself that this crisis will not last forever. In many ways, the challenges we face also present opportunities to learn new ways of teaching, new ways of working with and supporting our students. Don't let the opportunities pass you by.
More in the blog series “Shifting to Virtual Teaching in Higher Ed Mathematics”:
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IIBN caught up with busy entrepreneur Gary Lavin, Founder of VITHIT an Irish company who have been making drinks healthy since 2000. Low sugar, low calories and full of vitamins.
You can visit the VITHIT website here
We asked Gary how did he get the idea for the VITHIT business?
I couldn’t understand how people thought sports drinks were healthy with 28gms of sugar per bottle. I knew that the human body can only process 25gms of sugar a day, the rest turns to fat. I knew there was a gap in the market, I just had to force my way in.
Give a brief account of your education background.
Went to school in St Marys Rathmines. I was only interested in Rugby and focused most of my energy on that. I tried but wasn’t good at the national memory quiz (leaving cert). I just don’t believe that exams system is suited to everyone, and we definitely lose students who, like me don’t have a detailed memory. Through a lot of studying, I got enough points to go to college, but didn’t take it up as I knew it wasn’t for me.
Did you always know/ever think you would become an entrepreneur when you were younger? Always! Both my parents are entrepreneurs, so the mental barrier to entry wasn’t there. In fact, it always seemed like a more logical route for me vs working for someone.
Is entrepreneurship a common trait in your family?
As mentioned above, it certainly is. I believe entrepreneurship is nurture and not nature. If your parents tell you, that you can achieve anything (which mine did), it doesn’t seem like such a high wall to climb.
Did you have prior knowledge of the industry before setting up your company?
Zero. That was a help and also a hindrance. It helped, that I didn’t have any of the traditional barriers that you get from working in an industry following others. The downside was that I made a lot of basic mistakes that I could have learned on someone else’s dollar!
What was your previous work experience (if any)? Do you think this gave you an advantage when setting up your business?
I tried to work for other people, but it just never felt comfortable for me. I left school in 89 when there were very few jobs available. I even attended an interview for a job as a combine harvester salesman. When they asked me to describe a tractor engine, my cover was blown. I didn’t get the gig funnily enough!
How did you initially fund your business? (self-funded, government funding, etc)
Self, Family & friends. I think, even today you can get a first production trial done for very little. The issue was, I had no research, just blind faith. The first 8 years I was trying and failing with product and packaging, but I was really just finding the products sweet spot.
Looking back, would you have changed the method of funding you chose?
At the time there was no other funding, so I didn’t have a choice. Banks were deaf, crowdfunding didn’t exist, it was pretty bleak. I think with a good creative business plan you can get crowdfunding now quite easily which is great.
What difficulties, if any, did you encounter when securing funding?
It was impossible. Thankfully, I had bought and sold 2 apartments, so funded with the proceeds of that. Banks wouldn’t let me darken their door, so that was a dead end.
Did you encounter any financial difficulties in the first year of operation? If yes, what did you do to surpass them?
I had financial difficulties for the first 8-9 years. Building a brand with zero backing is not easy. However, what I found is that 1. nobody sells like the owner and 2. you can keep your costs low if you do most things yourself at the early stage.
What characteristics do you feel benefited you most when starting your business?
Determination. My moderate success at rugby gave me the self-belief to keep going when others would have given up. I genuinely believe that team sports give kids an incredible education in losing regularly, fighting back and teamwork. I read an amazing stat which says 85% of women on boards of corporate America played a high level of competitive team sports. Sports give self-belief and a competitive nature when you need it most.
To what do you attribute your company’s success/growth to?
Looks good, tastes good, does good. It’s a simple recipe, but very hard to get right. If your product doesn’t look good, you will not get the first sale. If your product doesn’t taste good you don’t get a second sale and if your product doesn’t have great ingredients, you will not build a lasting business in food or beverage.
What is your opinion on the importance of a professional network for an entrepreneur?
I didn’t have a network when I was building the business and I regret that. It’s great to see what your peers are achieving to set a bar higher for you (a rising tide lifts all boats). I also think that an entrepreneur’s journey can be very lonely and it’s good to share challenges. Also, if you have a network who are already in a space you want to be, they can sometimes give you that leg up you need to move to the next level.
Do you think entrepreneurship has changed in recent years?
Yes, there is distinct air of ‘build and burn’ cash. I have felt in recent years that building up a business without profits is a dangerous game as funding will run out. You learn more by having to survive on a profit and loss sheet than you do by getting a loan. Loans have to be paid back!
Would you ever consider starting another company or involving yourself in new start-ups again?
Absolutely, I have lots more ideas which I would someday like to start. When you have been in a business for 20 years, you start to see buying patterns which are not being fulfilled. The reason I don’t pursue them is I want to stay focused. I would rather be a shark in a pool than a school of fish in an ocean 🙂
If you had one piece of advice for a new entrepreneur, what would it be?
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Architectural artifact collectors John Sinclair and Deborah Harvey have approached award-winning architecture and interior design studio Liddicoat & Goldhill to renovate their Victorian barn shed. Located in Kent, England, their 18th-century dwelling had been transformed into a stylish party barn successfully in December 2014. Dubbed as ‘The Ancient Party Barn’, it features various mechanically operated doors and a whirling staircase around a narrowing brick chimney.
The Ancient Party Barn has enough living and sleeping space for its owners and guests. In the remodeling project, the design team focused on reusing the existing materials and elements, such as the decaying green oak frames were scratched out, and after the off-site repair were reinstalled again. A rotating window operated by adapted chain-lift is installed behind the insulated shutters which appear like barn doors. The American aircraft-hangar door in east opens to cover up the dining terrace. The main roof has a skylight that lets in enough natural light.
The sleeping area in mezzanine features a stone accent wall to add textural essence in the space. For heating needs in the barn, a ground-source heat pump is installed that harvests warmth from paddock soil. This party barn shed uses reclaimed light fittings that are re-aligned according to low-energy LED lamps.
Most interesting feature is the multiple electrically-opened openings that not only keep the structure secure but also offer magnificent surrounding views. Despite making big changes in the traditional home design, this home renovation project has kept the originality of the structure.
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Casio is named after its founder Kashio Tadao, a Japanese inventor who moved to Tokyo in 1946 to start Casio. Especially because of the electronic calculators Casio becomes a very famous brand. Until the 70s where they begin with digital watches
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The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James
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Improving your strength and endurance can even help you avoid accidents when exercising or merely going about your every day physical routines. Investing in home gym gear is a good method to start to get match in case you are uncomfortable with going to the fitness center and working out in front of different people. Keeping monitor of how many energy you eat in a day shall be helpful in planning out your bodily exercising. That’s because they plan out their meals and absorb more (wholesome) energy than the average individual. On the other hand, reducing weight and striving for a skinnier physique will involve more physical train than calories you ingest.
Endurance workout routines are done in larger repetitions, normally ranging from eight to twenty repetitions in an train set. The last element of physical fitness, physique composition, refers back to the ratio of fats mass to fat-free mass (corresponding to muscle, bone, organs, and more) in your body.
It Can Increase Your Energy Levels
Meanwhile, your leg muscles will need to have sufficient endurance to stroll lengthy distances. Even the muscle tissue of your core must keep “on†to assist your posture when seated and standing.
It’s usually not simply certainly one of these components that cause body composition to go up or down, however rather a fancy interplay between all of them. Body composition is often measured by a physique mass index scale (BMI), which I’m certain you’ve heard of by now. Life is stuffed with excuses, however bodily exercise ought to be an important a part of your life. Being match will help you stay young on the in and out, and it could assist you to breeze by way of the next few a long time by feeling strong and healthy. Maybe you’ve heard that being fit is necessary, however perhaps you could have been busy starting a profession or raising a household.
Fitness & Exercise Home
This can help to improve your memory, reasoning talents and reaction occasions. Take additional care if you’re new to exercise or haven’t exercised for some time. Start out gently and construct your endurance little by little – this way you’ll avoid overdoing it or injuring your self! | <urn:uuid:e646b9ee-6732-4066-affd-2c5050fcd38c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.badmintonandalucia.com/10-ideas-to-enhance-your-psychological-health.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572198.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815175725-20220815205725-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.953319 | 468 | 2.34375 | 2 |
National Science Foundation
Centers of Research Excellence in Science and Technology (CREST)
The Centers of Research Excellence in Science and Technology (CREST) program makes resources available to enhance the research capabilities of minority-serving institutions through the establishment of centers that effectively integrate education and research. CREST promotes the development of new knowledge, enhancements of the research productivity of individual faculty, and an expanded presence of students historically underrepresented in STEM disciplines. For more information, please visit the National Science Foundation website.
Increasing the Participation and Advancement of Women in Academic Science and Engineering Careers (ADVANCE)
The goal of the ADVANCE program is to develop systemic approaches to increase the representation and advancement of women in academic science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) careers, thereby contributing to the development of a more diverse science and engineering workforce.
Creative strategies to realize this goal are sought from women and men. Members of underrepresented minority groups and individuals with disabilities are especially encouraged to apply. Proposals that address the participation and advancement of women with disabilities and women from underrepresented minority groups are particularly encouraged. For more information, visit the National Science Foundation website.
Engineering Research Center (ERC)
The goal of the Generation Three (Gen-3) Engineering Research Centers (ERC) Program is to create a culture in engineering research and education that links discovery to technological innovation through transformational fundamental and engineered systems research in order to advance technology and produce engineering graduates who will be creative U.S. innovators in a globally competitive economy. These ERCs will be at the forefront as the U.S. competes in the 21st century global economy where R&D resources and engineering talent are internationally distributed.
Recognizing that optimizing efficiency and product quality are no longer sufficient for U.S. industry to remain competitive, these ERCs will optimize academic engineering research and education to stimulate increased U.S. innovation in a global context. They will develop this culture of discovery and innovation through a symbiotic relationship between academic researchers, small innovative firms, larger industrial and practitioner partners, and organizations devoted to entrepreneurship and innovation. In essence this solicitation requires that the efforts be devoted to creating, developing, and enhancing capacities in ERCs from transformational fundamental research to technology commercialization and creating a continuous pipeline in engineering education from middle school to graduate studies. For more information, visit the National Science Foundation website.
Grant Opportunities for Academic Liaison with Industry (GOALI)
Grant Opportunities for Academic Liaison with Industry (GOALI) promotes university-industry partnerships by making project funds or fellowships/traineeships available to support an eclectic mix of industry-university linkages. Special interest is focused on affording the opportunity for:
- Faculty, postdoctoral fellows, and students to conduct research and gain experience in an industrial setting;
- Industrial scientists and engineers to bring industry's perspective and integrative skills to academe; and
- Interdisciplinary university-industry teams to conduct research projects.
This solicitation targets high-risk/high-gain research with a focus on fundamental research, new approaches to solving generic problems, development of innovative collaborative industry-university educational programs, and direct transfer of new knowledge between academe and industry. GOALI seeks to fund transformative research that lies beyond that which industry would normally fund. For more information, visit the National Science Foundation website.
Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER)
Drexel University’s College of Engineering currently hosts 30 CAREER awardees.
The Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program is a Foundation-wide activity that offers the National Science Foundation's most prestigious awards in support of junior faculty who exemplify the role of teacher-scholars through outstanding research, excellent education and the integration of education and research within the context of the mission of their organizations. Such activities should build a firm foundation for a lifetime of leadership in integrating education and research. NSF encourages submission of CAREER proposals from junior faculty members at all CAREER-eligible organizations and especially encourages women, members of underrepresented minority groups, and persons with disabilities to apply. For more information, visit the National Science Foundation website.
Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU)
Drexel University’s College of Engineering currently hosts 2 REU sites.
The Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) program supports active research participation by undergraduate students in any of the areas of research funded by the National Science Foundation. REU projects involve students in meaningful ways in ongoing research programs or in research projects specifically designed for the REU program. This solicitation features two mechanisms for support of student research: (1) REU Sites are based on independent proposals to initiate and conduct projects that engage a number of students in research. REU Sites may be based in a single discipline or academic department, or on interdisciplinary or multi-department research opportunities with a coherent intellectual theme. Proposals with an international dimension are welcome. A partnership with the Department of Defense supports REU Sites in DoD-relevant research areas. For more information, visit the National Science Foundation website.
Research Experience for Teachers (RET)
Drexel University’s College of Engineering currently hosts 1 RET site.
Research Experiences for Teachers (RET) in Engineering program supports the active involvement of K-12 teachers and community college faculty in engineering research in order to bring knowledge of engineering and technological innovation into their classrooms. The goal is to help build long-term collaborative partnerships between K-12 science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) teachers, community college faculty, and the NSF university research community by involving the teachers in engineering research and helping them translate their research experiences and new knowledge of engineering into classroom activities. Partnerships with inner city schools or other high need schools are especially encouraged, as is participation by underrepresented minorities, women, and persons with disabilities. For more information, visit the National Science Foundation website.
Department of Education
Graduate Assistanceship in Areas of National Need (GAANN)
Drexel University's College of Engineering currently hosts a GAANN in pharmaceutical applications engineering. This program provides fellowships, through academic departments and programs of institutions of higher education, to assist graduate students with excellent records who demonstrate financial need and plan to pursue the highest degree available in their course study at the institution in a field designated as an area of national need. For more information, visit the Department of Education website. | <urn:uuid:ae67cee6-39f2-4f9f-9724-bdd8fd44d1e3> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://drexel.edu/engineering/research-design/funding-opportunities/faculty-grant-opportunities/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572198.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815175725-20220815205725-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.922105 | 1,327 | 2.28125 | 2 |
Indicative Planning in France
|Author:||Mgr. Marta Nachtmannová|
|Year:||2003 - summer|
|Leaders:|| † RNDr. Miron Tegze CSc.
|Work type:|| European Integration
|Awards and prizes:||M.A. with distinction from the Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences for an extraordinarily good masters diploma thesis|
|Abstract:||Indicative planning is studied in wider economic, social, historical and cultural context with an emphasis on French economic thinking and historical circumstances. From 1946 to 2003, principles, methods, tools and institutions of indicative planning experienced an important evolution characterized by rising decentralization and a shift towards so called "strategic planning". France had to cope especially with limited possibilities of planning in open economy. Through the role of France in construction of the European Union, specific evolution of French economic policy after WW2 influenced also institutions of the EU and principles of its economic policies.|
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SEO is the art and science of combining code, content, and submission tactics to achieve higher search presence for targeted keywords. Baseball is the art and science of combining athleticism, talent, and game tactics to achieve a winning formula. Both require many players to be successful.
Put together a scouting report of your page anatomy and develop it into a valuable, optimized All-Star. Follow the rules and give search engines what they want – relevant content. As long as you deliver relevant content and well-organized code, the chances of establishing search presence will improve.
Content is king and will be the most important factor for a page’s success. Content is the ace pitcher who anchors a pitching staff. As the copy itself is what spiders are looking for, an All-Star page should contain 300-400 words of visible copy using target keywords that is useful to users. Provide them with valuable, meaningful information. It’s important to use multiple occurrences of a keyword as well as variations throughout the copy. Stuffing is not recommended, however.
Once the players hit the field, we expect them to play. Same goes for users who reach your page. Engage them! Sporadically wrap links (one link for every 80-100 words) around high-value keywords that point to other pages. Search engines can use the anchor text to determine what the destination page is about and apply link relevancy. Also consider buttons to request information or download an asset like an infographic or guide.
No more than 55 characters in length, a title tag declares the topic of the page to both the spider and the user, and appears in the menu bar of browsers and in search engine results. The keyword most important to the page topic should be placed as close as possible to the beginning of the title tag, as the tag will then carry more weight.
Meta Description Tag
Meta tags contain information about a page hidden in the source code header of an HTML file. While search engine algorithms have diminished their importance, meta tags are still read by spiders and are often visible in search results. The description tag should describe the content of the page in a couple sentences, no more than 150 characters in length. Incorporate two to four relevant keywords in concise messaging that engages the user.
Meta Keywords Tag
Also hidden in the source code, but not displayed to the user or in search results, the keywords tag is a list of 8-12 keywords relevant to the content of a page. Think of it as announcing your All-Star starting lineup.
Image with ALT Text
Ever see a baseball game brochure without any pictures? Doubt it. A wall of words is not very user-friendly, so incorporate unique imagery (not stock) and use ALT text so search engines can understand the content of the image. Keyword stuffing is discouraged.
Header tags should be used to highlight the topic of the page as they provide search engine spiders with information that helps to qualify the subject matter. No page should have more than one H1, and this tag should include a relevant keyword and introduce the main topic of the page.
While an All-Star page should contain just one H1, it can also contain multiple lower level headers known as H2 tags. These should be used to introduce subtopics and should also contain a relevant keyword.
An H3 header tag should be used to introduce subtopics of the H2 subtopic in a parent-child structure. Again, these should also contain a relevant keyword if possible. | <urn:uuid:a117b4a5-41dd-4d15-a255-9c6a2a661d5e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.ovrdrv.com/blog/seo-all-star-lineup-of-page-anatomy/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571536.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811224716-20220812014716-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.900912 | 737 | 2.125 | 2 |
Testing your app is important. It ensures that the customer will be receiving what was promised. It also ensures a smooth and seamless user experience which result in higher adoption rates. Overall testing makes for a better product. Now that that’s been said, how do we test an app?
PLANNING Your Testing
You should start thinking about testing when you start planning your app. Create User Stories and Test Plans while writing out the descriptions of the requirements. Not only will this save effort when the time comes for testing, but it is helpful for your admins and developers to know the intended user interaction and result.
DESCRIPTIVE Test Plans
When writing your User Stories and Test Plans, be descriptive. If you are vague, your Admins and developers will have questions. This may end up costing you more time than you thought you could save by writing a Test Plan thinking “they can figure this out”. There are a few main questions to answer when writing your User Stories and Test Plans:
What Will The User See?
When the user opens the app or a page in it, what are they supposed to see? This is where you describe the UI, at least describe what page they should be on so they know they are in the right place. As an example,
User navigates to https://google.com, beneath the Google logo is the search bar, enter your criteria here and click the “search” button.
What Should The User Do?
What actions should the user perform to complete the User Story or Test Plan? This can be anything from filling out a form to clicking a button, to whatever the most complex task will be within your app. Depending on your target audience will determine how complex your app will be. As an example,
User opens the “Home Page” by clicking the house icon in the top left corner of the navigation bar. The navigation bar is the solid gray menu below the page header, “Your Page”.
What should the result be?
When the user completes the actions specified in your User Stories or Test Plans, what should their expected result be? Describe what they will see or what actions are now enabled. For Test Plans you should also describe what happens behind the scenes. For example,
User clicks “Sign Up” link in the top right corner of the navigation bar. User now see the Sign Up page. User fills out the form with at least the required fields: first name, last name, email address, birthdate. User clicks “Sign Me Up!” button. A new user is created with the information entered by the user. The system auto-generates a username based on the first name and email address. An email is sent to the user, welcoming them to the site and containing a temporary password.
Salesforce Unit Tests
Code Coverage isn’t just about getting to 75% to be able to deploy to production, it can be one of the main avenues of functional testing. Write specific tests for each User Story or Test Plan. Test to pass and test to fail (not actually fail, just assert that your results are failing appropriately). If you test for failing results, then you can plan accordingly with error messages or blockers to disallow those failures to happen to the user. I promise if you write tests for each story, then you will have 100% code coverage.
Writing scripts to automate your testing can take care of your navigation, content, performance, and even usability testing needs. This means that you don’t have to assign the task of having someone fill in every form and click every link and button, capture screenshots, and review content each time a test is performed. You write the script and run it. Your results will be printed on the screen. I recommend trying it out, you may just fall in love.
Don’t underestimate the importance of a well thought out test plan for your app. One of the most important things to keep in mind while testing, whomever wrote the code should not be the one testing their own work. Get another team member. It is even prudent to have someone unfamiliar with the app to do some testing as well. They can give you the most unbiased results and provide insights you may be to close to see. Leave a comment and let us know how you test your apps. | <urn:uuid:ee187c2a-906e-49f0-8601-177911076712> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://redargyle.com/testing-an-app-test-plans/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572198.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815175725-20220815205725-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.917209 | 894 | 2.421875 | 2 |
The aluminum end milling machine is mainly used for the end milling of aluminum plastic profiles, including aluminium milling, mill finishen aluminium, milling aluminum with a router etc.Products; Description; Videos; Knowledge
The end milling machine has a large processing range and is suitable for the end face milling of aluminum materials. It is widely used in the machinery manufacturing industry. It can be used for milling, drilling, boring and other special surface processing of the two ends of the super long workpiece.
The end milling machine can mill the workpiece plane, chamfer the trapezoidal surface and T-slot. The drilling can reach φ50mm and the boring can reach φ400mm. The movement of the worktable adopts planetary gearbox for variable speed, which is flexible and easy to operate. The column lifting and lowering adopts counterweight unloading device, which can move up and down easily, which not only prolongs the life of the screw, but also makes the cutting smooth. The whole machine has strong rigidity, is not easy to be damaged, convenient maintenance, diverse functions, and large geometric dimensions. It is an ideal equipment for mechanical processing. | <urn:uuid:4080310f-a3d3-4a23-a782-65d041fff063> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://sdjmd.com/aluminum-end-milling-machine_supply9.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572833.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817001643-20220817031643-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.90191 | 247 | 1.75 | 2 |
On October 6, the office of Volodymyr Zelensky, president of Ukraine, returned to Parliament a bill that would establish a comprehensive regulatory regime for digital assets.
The primary issue that the president’s office had was the establishment of a new regulatory body for crypto, which would be expensive:
“The creation of a new body, as provided by this law, will require significant expenditures from the state budget. Therefore, Volodymyr Zelensky proposes to include the regulation of the circulation of virtual assets in the competence of the National Securities and Stock Market Commission.”
The National Securities and Stock Market Commission is Ukraine’s equivalent of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission but is itself fairly underfunded. As of 2019, the most recent year of published data, the commission’s budget was just over 135 million hryvnya — at current exchange rates, roughly $5 million USD. | <urn:uuid:b05cc83b-d0f1-4ef7-9e4c-45761eb25d36> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://latoken.com/moments/123089/ukraines-president-returns-long-awaited-cryptocurrency-bill-to-parliament/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572833.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817001643-20220817031643-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.956725 | 193 | 1.5625 | 2 |
The most populous U.S. state not surprisingly has the most people being released from its prisons and jails. And now it has what organizers said Thursday is the nation's first statewide coordinated effort to help them reintegrate back into the community.
The newly formed Re-Entry Providers Association of California includes some of the state's largest reentry service providers who plan to jointly lobby state and local government officials on behalf of former prisoners.
California typically releases as many as 35,000 people each year who have completed their jail sentences or been paroled from prison, the group said. But even that number soared during the pandemic as jails and prisons last year released thousands more inmates earlier than normal to allow for social distancing in normally crowded lockups.
The state has also been releasing more inmates earlier because of criminal justice reforms designed to reduce mass incarceration.
That means helping people being released from prisons and jails find housing and jobs "has never been more important,” said Susan Burton, founder and president of A New Way of Life Reentry Project in Los Angeles.
Yet the groups said they have historically been under-funded, overlooked and lacking as a government priority despite doing work they said is vital to protecting the safety and health of communities.
“REPAC is going to be that essential unified voice that we need to really help shape the conversations that are taking place all over the state. And there’s no better time for REPAC to have begun” as the state invests in rebuilding during the pandemic, said Sen. María Elena Durazo.
She was one of three Democratic state lawmakers supporting the launch at an event Thursday, along with Assemblyman Isaac Bryan and Assemblywoman Mia Bonta, whose husband is state Attorney General Rob Bonta.
Reentry service providers have been "fighting for scraps of resources” at a time when the state spends more on incarceration than it does on the University of California system, Bryan said.
Organizers cited a 2018 study by the advocacy group Californians for Safety and Justice that found more than half of people with a criminal record have difficulty finding a job, and more than a quarter have trouble finding housing.
That sets them up for failure, endangering not only the former prisoners but the larger community, said Doug Bond, chief executive officer of Amity Foundation in Los Angeles.
Bryan called it “a scarlet letter" that hinders their reintegration.
The new organization plans to seek more funding to link former prisoners with things like job training, transportation, child care, educational opportunities and housing. But it also plans to lobby lawmakers and review state laws, regulations, budgets and administrative policies.
Underfunding means reentry services often lack the resources to break the cycle that can trap generations in a pattern of repeated incarceration, said Steven Kim, founder and executive director of Project Kinship, an Orange County-based reentry services provider.
The goal is to “amplify our voices on behalf of this crucial sector of our society that simply does not get the resources and support it needs,” said Donald Frazier, executive director of Oakland-based Building Opportunities for Self-Sufficiency and the new organization’s director. | <urn:uuid:8443fb78-6e9f-48fc-9ce1-fe6ca4480b0e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/california/new-california-group-forms-to-aid-inmates-return-to-society/2706202/?utm_campaign=San%20Jose%20Community%20Network%20%28SJCN%29%20Newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Revue%20newsletter | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572833.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817001643-20220817031643-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.967364 | 662 | 1.820313 | 2 |
In partnership with the National Forestry Authority of Uganda and Katakwi District Natural Resources and Environment Offices, Voice for Humanity Uganda has now established a tree nursery that will be producing tree seedlings for distribution to the community to promote Agro-forestry. We have launched with an initiatl nurseries to produce 50,000 Gravelia seedlings by Septemebr 2022. We are also already grafting Mangoes and Orange seedlings and we hope to have gatfted 20,000 Orange and Mongo seedlings by September 2022.
Voice for Humanity Uganda plans to produce one million tree seedlings annually for dsitribution to the communites to promote climate change mitigation efforts. Katakwi District and Uganda in geenral are currently experiencing unprecendented negative effects of climate change characterised by prolonged drought and occassional floods that is affecting food production and consequently leading to endemic problem of hunger and malnutrition. These challenges are aggrevated by massive cutting down of tree for charcoal which has turned out to be the quickest source of income for the rural poor especially the youths. Unfrotuantely without any direct efforts to promote tree planting, the situation could get worse.
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It’s that special time of year, WWDC is here!
If you’re not familiar, we’re referring to Apple’s annual Worldwide Developers Conference where they announce their new operating system (this year, iOS 14), new features (definitely), new technology (maybe), and some new hardware (possibly). As always, there are plenty of leaks flowing and rumors flying going into the keynote, but we never know what makes the cut until announcements are official.
So, if you’re not a developer, why should you care about WWDC 2020? Great question. You should care because it could be your chance to impress. New features fuel excitement, and if you can be one of the first to implement them… well, you have a real opportunity to get noticed.
Here are two groups you could impress by being an early adopter
1. Your users
If you have an app in the Apple App Store, the most important audience for you to keep in mind are your users. Impress them and delight them. Keep an eye on the new features Apple announces and embrace both large and small.
A great example would be Dark Mode, which was announced at WWDC 2019 and released as part of iOS 13. Dark Mode may have seemed minor at the time, but those who now use it love it. Nothing is worse than having your phone in Dark Mode, enjoying how easy it is on your eyes, and then opening an app that does not support it. Suddenly your screen is blazingly bright, in your face, and painful for your eyes. It’s a surprise and one that is not welcomed. A certain email app from a certain company in Mountain View did not fully support Dark Mode until just recently for all of their users. It felt lazy. It felt like they did not care about their users, and, more importantly, it left me looking for new email apps that did support it. Don’t be them. Don’t view the feature as just something minor or optional. Implement it for the sake of your users. Make them happy. Show them you care and show them that their time investment in your app is worth it.
They have a team of developers, designers, product owners, and analysts that have poured their heart and soul into the latest operating system. This is an exciting moment for them as they see their work unveiled to the world. If you are one of the first to implement their new features, they take notice. It is one of the few times you can get an honest, candid dialogue going with Apple. They want to know what you like about the feature, how you plan on using it, and how easy or difficult it was to implement. Their developer relations team will make the time to talk through everything with you, and if they are impressed there is a chance your app gets featured. Being featured on the App Store is priceless. You literally can’t even pay to be featured — Apple has to simply like your app. Once you are front and center, when a user opens the App Store, you will see a jump in downloads immediately. That’s every developer’s dream.
Moral of the story: WWDC 2020 is a big deal and you should be paying attention. It’s your chance to impress, so don’t let it pass you by.
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Whole-child curricula seek to promote learning by encouraging children to interact independently with the equipment, materials, and other children in the classroom environment. A recent meta-analysis showed that, on average, children exposed to whole-child curricula do not out-perform children in classrooms where curricula are developed locally by teachers or preschool programs (Nguyen, 2017). It may be because implementing a whole-child curriculum can be challenging, and programs often must train and mentor teachers to implement the chosen curriculum faithfully. We also cannot expect that each teacher will implement a curriculum identically across classrooms given that children come into the classroom with their own diverse needs. The current study seeks to document variations in the curriculum implementation of High Scope, the curriculum used from the famous Perry Preschool Study, by observing classrooms in which the same curriculum and training are provided to teachers. Such a study offers an opportunity to examine how a curriculum looks in practice in efforts to better prepare low-income, ethnically and linguistically diverse children for school and can help address what particular challenges teachers may face in implementing a curriculum with fidelity.
Promoting School Readiness with Preschool Curricula: A Mixed-Methods Study
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From Blood, Wings
The story of Pegasus, the winged horse of Greek mythology, is closely woven with that of the Muses, inspirational goddesses of literature, science, and the arts. In many ways, the legend of Pegasus mirrors the journey of the artist: from the birth and freedom of creation, to the taming of ideas which give way to the pitfalls of arrogance. In the end, perhaps fate decides whether the mark of the artist remains, maybe even written in the stars.
This sculpture captures Pegasus born from the blood of the slain Gorgon.
The Gorgon was a beautiful woman with a head of snakes said to turn men into stone. She was decapitated by Perseus who used a mirrored shield so as not to look at her face directly.
Title: From Blood, Wings
Medium: Wire, clay, aluminium, paper, wood, acrylic
Size: 11in tall
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Black Tudors by Miranda Kaufmann
First line: In April 1645 Sir John Wynter burnt his home to the ground rather than see it fall into Parliamentary hands.
Summary: Miranda Kaufmann dives into a little known part of the Tudor world. She explores the lives of Africans in Tudor society. Using primary sources the lives of several black people are brought to readers of the twenty-first century.
My Thoughts: It sounds so stupid of me but this is never something I really considered until hearing a podcast by Historic Royal Palaces featuring Miranda. But I found it absolutely intriguing. There is never a lot of documentation about anyone from 500 years ago but nearly nothing about Africans during this time either. However, Miranda was able to piece together many different sources to discover what the lives were like for these people during this time.
I learned about a man who sailed with Sir Francis Drake as he circumnavigated the globe. And a prostitute who was highly sought after because of her soft skin. A diver who helped excavate and salvage items from the sinking of the Mary Rose, King Henry VIII’s warship. Also I discovered a woman who owned her own cow which she was able to use for feeding herself and earning an income. These people were not slaves but free. They lived alongside the Tudor population and participated in society. As a reader of all things Tudor I found this to be a perfect addition to my knowledge. I am glad I read and was introduced to these people and now I can pass on their stories to others.
It always amazes me when a historian can find these little bits of history and bring them to life for readers. It was eye opening and interesting. I would love to read more about these people and the lives they lived. My one criticism is that the author spends a lot of time laying the foundations for the time or events. But this is because there is so little about the actual individuals that she needed to give context. I wish, and maybe someday we will, we knew more about these Black Tudors.
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Central Electric Power Cooperative
CEPCI's transmission assets consists of over 800 miles of lines
CEPCI obtains the majority of its power through long term purchase contracts
Central Electric Power Cooperative, Inc. is a not-for-profit generation and transmission cooperative headquartered in Columbia, South Carolina. It was created in 1948 and is owned by its Members - the twenty distribution cooperatives of South Carolina. Central and its Member cooperatives provide power to approximately 1/3rd of South Carolina's population through the only statewide electric system.
Central owns community solar and peaking generator assets but obtains most of its power through long-term purchase agreements with Santee Cooper, Duke Energy Carolinas, and the Southeastern Power Administration. | <urn:uuid:7e61fc12-10be-477d-aedf-28f8f0d92414> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://cepci.pod.coopwebbuilder3.com/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572833.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817001643-20220817031643-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.947171 | 151 | 2.15625 | 2 |
Here's a pop quiz: how many incidents of identity theft do you think happened in 2012? How often do you think they occurred?
Maybe you're aware of threats to your personal information. Maybe you've already taken steps to prevent identity theft. But do you really know how common it is?
Ok, I know I kind of gave it away in the title of this post, but take a guess anyway. A hundred thousand? Maybe a couple million?
The answer may shock you: there were 12.6 million cases last year, according to the 2012 Identity Theft Report by Javelin Strategy & Research. That breaks down to a new incident every three seconds, and it's higher than the year before. The total amount of money stolen through hacks and compromises was over $21 billion, and many victims of identity theft were targeted through their Social Security numbers.
The consequences of a trend like this are devastating and affect all of us, not just the victims. The same article reported that 15 percent of those who had their information stolen stopped making purchases through smaller online companies for fear that their data would be insecure. Well, wouldn't you?
You don't have to be Nate Silver to see the big picture here: it's hard to rebuild the economy and improve your business when consumers are afraid to spend their money. When you lose your customers' data, you lose their trust first and their business, second.
Like a lot of unseen dangers, there's a tendency among people to ignore threats to online security until it happens to them. You might see a story about it on the news and feel bad for a moment, but it doesn't seem that urgent, and soon you're thinking about something else. This is a fatal misconception. Data security breaches are not isolated incidents that pop up once in a while: they're a constant stream of attacks, going on round the clock, seven days a week. The sooner we understand that, the sooner we might finally take steps to keep our assets safe, so next year's number isn't even higher.
John Sileo is an online privacy expert and keynote speaker on social media privacy, identity theft and fraud. His clients included the Department of Defense, Pfizer, and Homeland Security. See his recent work on 60 Minutes, Anderson Cooper and Fox Business. | <urn:uuid:6c1f0d2f-3173-43d3-bd5a-f73b9c403e7c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://sileo.com/last-year-there-were-20-identity-thefts-per-minute/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572833.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817001643-20220817031643-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.974978 | 468 | 2.15625 | 2 |
We use different types of oil for various purposes. From transmission systems to engines, everywhere cars require oil. Hydraulic oil is an essential oil used to transfer power from one end to another end of the system through hydraulic components. But there is a question, “Can we mix 46 and 68 hydraulic oil?” running everyone’s mind. Is it your question, then the answer is No.
Hydraulic fluids are an essential factor in our vehicles. They maintain the performance of our vehicle. Any wrong steps, including hydraulic oil, can lead to a considerable performance drop that nobody expects. Read the article to clear everything about mixing two different hydraulic oil.
What Is ISO 46 Hydraulic Oil?
ISO 46 hydraulic oil is one of the most excellent oils designed to appeal to environmentally acceptable hydraulic fluids. It is obviously based on synthetic, biodegradable esters. It is widely used for different purposes. Its viscosity is 46 CST at 40°C. Its viscosity thins out to 6.8 CST at 100°C.
ISO 46 combines different additive packages like anti-wear, anti-corrosion, anti-foaming agents, and detergency. Preventing your system from oxidation, foaming, rust, and corrosion is its regular job.
What Is ISO 46 Used for?
ISO 46 is a powerful hydraulic oil mostly used under high pressure. You will see to use it in industrial plants. Besides industrial plants, it is widely used in boats, elevators, construction equipment, etc. it protects those tools from high-pressure rust and corrosion.
What Is ISO 68 Hydraulic Oil?
Hydraulic 68 is part of Crown Oil’s upper mid-range mineral-based hydraulic oil that meets the ISO standards for hydraulic oils and provides the most demanding protection of the system. This hydraulic fluid prevents rust, corrosion, and oxidation.
ISO 68 contains an anti-foam additive to control the quick release of incoming air. It will maximize the system’s efficiency. Its viscosity is 68 CST at 40°C. Its viscosity thins out to 10.2 CST at 100°C.
What is ISO 68 Used for?
ISO 68 is used in high-pressure areas where pressure exceeds 1000 psi. It is used as a base oil for liquid applications of metal forming. You will notice to use ISO 68 in heavy wire drawing of steel and aluminum, cold steel extrusion, heavy-duty stamping, and other heavy tasks.
Difference Between ISO 46 and 68 Hydraulic Oil?
The main difference between 46 and 68 is the thickness. ISO 68 is thicker than ISO 46. ISO 46 is the best choice for industrial work. In contrast, ISO 68 is suitable for the system used for high-carrying loads.
ISO 46 weighs approximately 15 with oil additives, and ISO 68 weighs 20 with additives. ISO 46 is a winter-based hydraulic oil because it has a lower viscosity. Most people do not know that. On the other hand, ISO 68 hydraulic oil is summer based oil with higher density.
Why Cannot I Mix 46 and 68 Hydraulic Oil?
You can mix different hydraulic oil if they have the same additive packages. Some look at the viscosity to mix the hydraulic oils. You can combine two oils with different viscosity. You don’t face any side effects or performance drops. But you cannot mix different oil with various additives because that combination compromises the performance that may result in surface corrosion.
ISO 46 and 68 are hydraulic oil with different additives. Their using purpose is also different. So, if you mix them, you will get the opposite result. That’s why you should not mix 46 and 68 hydraulic oils.
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
Can I mix different hydraulic oil?
Ans. You can mix if they have same additive packages. Otherwise, you cannot mix different hydraulic oil.
Can you mix different viscosities of hydraulic oil?
Ans. Check the additive packages are same or not, rather than viscosity. Experts don’t recommend to mix hydraulic oil with different viscosity.
What happen if you mix different viscosity?
Ans. Mixing different viscosity change the previous viscosity of the product. It won’t create any big impact.
You should try your best to avoid mixing different hydraulic oil. If you don’t have a good idea about two oils’ additives and technical properties, you should not combine them. It will create a bad chemical reaction and spoil oil’s technical properties. Because of different additives, you cannot mix 46 and 68 hydraulic oils.
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CRITICAL habitat supporting the so-called Strzelecki "super-koala" and endangered powerful owls is to be bulldozed as part of a controversial road-widening project in South Gippsland.
Several hundred trees, many home to koalas and with hollows suitable for nesting owls and other wildlife, will be lost, despite consultants warning the Latrobe City Council that the damp forest habitat is virtually irreplaceable in a region largely cleared of native vegetation.
The local member for Morwell, Brendan Jenkins, is appealing to Environment Minister John Thwaites for an 11th-hour reprieve after local conservationists lost their case in the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal.
Latrobe Council wants to widen Budgeree Road so that logging trucks servicing plantations can pass each other. Trucks now travel one way down the road and return via another route. Budgeree Road is also a tourist drive to Tarra Bulga National Park.
The tribunal initially raised strong objections to the project, near Boolarra, in the face of evidence that the council took little account of the vegetation affected, that traffic volumes did not justify the scale of the works, and that a redesign could save most trees. Then, in a surprise turnaround, it approved the project last month with minor amendments.
Strzelecki koalas are a genetically superior group that may hold the key to the species' long-term survival in Victoria. All other koalas in the state are descended from a handful of individuals transferred to French Island more than a century ago, a few years before koalas were hunted to near-extinction on the mainland.
The French Island colony was used to repopulate the state, but inbreeding is now becoming apparent. The Strzelecki koalas, however, appear to be a remnant of the original and genetically diverse mainland population.
The roadside forest is rare in its own right, being of "very high conservation significance". This category has legislative protection under the Native Vegetation Management framework, and can be cleared only under exceptional circumstances.
The loss of hollow-bearing trees is also listed as a threat under the Flora and Fauna Guarantee Act. Consultants from Biosis Research told Latrobe Council it would be difficult to find other damp forest areas that could offset the loss of roadside remnants.
Susie Zent, from Friends of the Gippsland Bush, said VCAT had set conditions for the roadworks based on a mistaken classification by the Department of Sustainability and Environment as to the vegetation's significance. She said the VCAT decision could be set aside if the department admitted to an error of judgement and requested amendments to its permit conditions.
Latrobe's chief executive officer, Paul Buckley, said he expected VicRoads to sign off the final plans within three or four weeks. He said the additional width was needed to improve safety.
A spokesman for Mr Thwaites said the department was waiting for final details from the council, particularly in relation to offset measures. "Offset measures are required to ensure there is no overall loss of areas that have ecological significance," he said. | <urn:uuid:a6788b0e-52dd-48b6-92ff-85a57a70c3de> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.theage.com.au/national/super-koala-habitat-faces-bulldozing-20051002-ge0z6c.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572833.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817001643-20220817031643-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.956311 | 646 | 2.71875 | 3 |
A good grin is obviously claimed to truly have a positive effect of a person over others. Adversely noticed and irregular teeth supply the impression of a very poorly maintained and harmful effect of an individual. Dentists are professionals, focused to offer exemplary solutions for all your dental and verbal needs. It is a inappropriate effect that only folks who are struggling with dental issues involve dental guidance, instead even individuals who have had glistening white teeth from ab muscles start involve to visit dentists frequently for the washing and examination of these teeth.
Its not all person has brilliant, bright teeth but through often visiting a nearby dentist you can obtain the services of these specialists in your area and obtain a richer smile. There are number dental imperfections nowadays that can not be repaired by a professional dentist, the only real require is to see them regularly. Dental companies are available effortlessly nowadays and you are able to walk in just about any hospital in your community for expert therapies and consultations for every problem of yours.
Once you initially visit a dentist, you will undoubtedly be examined and identified by qualified dentists and in the event you are found with any dental issue,an ideal dental treatment program is made predicated on your wellbeing conditions, age and the existing problem of your teeth. Specialist dentists tend to be very costly nearly every-where, but through getting the best dental program or insurance, some control can be performed in the area.
You could even come across less expensive dental treatments in your community, but ensure the dentist you’re dealing with is skilled and presents quality companies in all areas. Dental insurances are taken for the purpose to cover related expenses. These insurances come under dental services. These insurances are essential not just to protect the entire wellbeing of your teeth but also any tooth treatment that you could require. You will find nevertheless some constraints to dental insurance plans.
Still another among the important target areas of all dentists is the problem of maintenance and avoidance with preservation being the key to raised dental wellness and prevention being the avoidance of common diseases and other conditions by training proper dental hygiene. The preservation and reduction program frequently includes two checkups annually offering qualified cleaning as well as considering the problem of your respective teeth and gums.
New techniques for enhancing dental hygiene and the fitness of a person’s teeth are being produced constantly which includes lead to the requirement for more specific Fulham dentist that accomplish these procedures. When you initially begin searching for a family or personal dentist, it is very essential that you pick the proper dental companies provider.
That isn’t generally easy as you can find virtually thousands being marketed every day. Just look in the local place yellow pages or research on the web to obtain a notion of the quantity of choices that are now available. Just understand that number two dentists are actually alike. So if you think about how crucial they are where dental wellness and hygiene is worried, it’s extremely essential that you pick the best dental solutions provider.
Typically dental insurances don’t pay for any present problems you might have, as it just addresses any unforeseen event. Also aesthetic dental solutions aren’t included in the dental insurance such as for example it won’t pay for any brackets you’re able to resolve your teeth. All orthodontic related dental attention is excluded from normal dental insurance and these companies are required to be obtained separately. Several dentists give several appealing dental ideas at really economical rates and the requirement is to test them out about what they protect and what they exclude. Some really beneficial offers can be found with the specialist dentists which is often tested online through the different comparison sites available.
There is no fighting on the expert and experienced companies provided by dentists and it is possible to discover one in your area that will function to all your dental and dental needs at the most effective prices. You could actually come across a dental hospital that will completely mixture along with your dental insurance needs and make your treatment an economic paradise for you. | <urn:uuid:bbed8e57-2b40-4e77-b01c-c47fe92f9e6b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.comoqueporque.com/dental-company-plan-have-the-best-program-and-the-best-charge/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572833.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817001643-20220817031643-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.962682 | 809 | 2.046875 | 2 |
Icelandic authorities warned people to avoid the immediate vicinity of the Fagradalsfjall volcano near Reykjavik after three hikers were injured while viewing an eruption on Wednesday, August 3.
According to the Iceland Review, three visitors to the site sustained minor injuries while trekking across the area’s rough terrain. Rescuers said the visitors were “not adequately prepared for the hike,” the outlet reported.
According to the Iceland Meteorological Office, lava began to flow on August 3 following “intense seismic activity." The Thorbjorn Rescue Team said on August 4 that locals had built a new walkway to the volcano for visitors.
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THERE is great need for openness and transparency in the use of Constituency Development Fund.
Why CDF information continued to be left in the dark is a painful reality to people in the rural communities.
It is for their sake that this additional layer of service delivery apart from the central and provincial government system was established at the first place with the objective to help communities to generate income, encourage development and generally improve the livelihoods of people at the rural areas.
However, Transparency Solomon Islands under its Constituency Development Funds Community Consultation & Assessment Project has already conducted workshops in 12 Constituencies in three provinces (Guadalcanal, Honiara and Western Province) and we’ve heard and see for ourselves that CDF information is lacking in the rural areas.
It is their call that Members of Parliament, Constituency Development Officer (CDO), Constituency Project Officer (CPO), Constituency Accountant (CA) and relevant agencies like the Ministry of Rural Development must do the right thing to go down to them and inform them on what is their constituency development plan, what project is available to them so as they can apply, how much is allocated per constituency and how this fund was distributed and managed in their constituency.
This information if made available to constituents in the rural areas is very crucial for them to be informed and effectively participate in the social and economic development of their community, constituency and the country as a whole.
Because if we look at the Solomon Islands Government (SIG) Budget for this year, a total of $333 Million was allocated for CDF, a sum of 6.6 million dollars per Constituency.
This is a very huge substantives amount of money that has the potential to un-lock social and economical development in the rural communities.
This is no-secret to our Legislators and the Government.
The Government fully acknowledge the fact that the majority of our population resides in rural areas that is why they developed the policy on Rural Economic Development with its objectives focusing on two key areas :
1) To provide an enabling environment to stimulate economic growth, especially in the rural areas.
2) Address and meet the basic needs of people in the rural areas.
In the implementation of the Rural Economic Development Policy, the Government through the Ministry of Rural Development and in partnership with the Ministry of Development Planning and Aid Coordination (MDPAC) will bring about a comprehensive, well-structured and coordinated rural economic development program throughout all fifty constituencies.
An integral part of the Rural Economic Development Policy requires the formulation of Constituency Profiles and the development of Constituency Development Plans for each Constituency.
The two documents are very important documents for planning and development for each constituency especially the Constituency Development Plan which should contain the development aspirations of individual constituency and their people and so becomes the basis of which Government development assistance through the Constituency Development Funds can address and meet the basic needs of people in the rural areas.
This is very comprehensive and strategic, but what is silent therein is to inform the people in the rural areas who will be the major partner to this development plan.
Also, in the Rural Economic Development Policy it fails to give detail on how MP’s roles will play a crucial role to this plan.
Because, in actual facts it is the MPs and their constituency officers who are in the front-line to administered and implemented the CDF and facilitate transaction, not the MRD or MDPAC.
A simple example is the CDO who are appointed to MRD by the Public Service Commission (PSC) and report directly to the Director of MRD. In practice, they report to their respective MP and can be dismissed by them as well, not the PSC.
Thus, it’s about time to do the right thing and help our people in the rural area to be informed, so as they can actively participate and attain social and economical development as intended by the CDF monies.
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CSM: another killer disease that must be tackled
Ghana reported its first two cases of the novel Corona Virus Disease (COVID-19) on March 12, 2020. The cases relating to this pandemic were confirmed when two people returned from Norway and Turkey respectively.
Since then, the number of COVID-19 cases confirmed by the Ministry of Health, continue to increase by the day.
As of Wednesday, May 20 2020, Ghana’s number of confirmed cases had risen to 7,616 with 34 confirmed deaths with 2,421 recoveries.
According to official report from the Ministry of Health, out of the 7,616 confirmed cases, 60 percent of the number were males and 40 percent of the number being females.
Out of the 16 regions in Ghana, it was only the Ahafo Region which had not recorded any case at the time.
Although the country has been overwhelmed with the number of COVID-19 cases, some parts of the country are battling not only this pandemic but also another serious disease that threatens the very livelihood of the people.
Unfortunately, Ghanaians in the northern part of the country are battling the Cerebrospinal Meningitis (CSM).
The bacteria are transmitted from one person to another through droplets of respiratory or throat secretions, close and prolonged contacts.
Thus sneezing and coughing without covering your mouth or nose spread this disease: Kissing as well spreads this disease.
These modes of contact help to spread the disease very fast. These contacts are known to be a sure way to increase the spread of the disease.
According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), Cerebrospinal Meningitis (CSM) is an infection of meninges, the thin lining surrounding the brain and the spinal cord.
It is proven that the average incubation period of Cerebrospinal Meningitis (CSM) is four days which only infects humans.
Stiff neck, severe headache, high fever, seizures, vomiting, no or less appetite among others are symptoms of the virus as explained suggested by WHO.
The bacteria are hyper endemic in the northern areas of the sub-Saharan Africa where the people get infected during the dry season; due to dusty winds and upper respiratory tract infections as a result of cold nights.
Seven people out of 21 positive cases of Cerebrospinal Meningitis (CSM) in the Upper East Region have died as a result of the disease.
However, the Upper West Region has recorded about 45 deaths out of about 315 confirmed cases of the disease in the region. This is a highly contagious infection that affects young, adults and teenagers..
Even though COVID-19 is a global pandemic which has gained the attention of the government, Cerebrospinal Meningitis as a disease is causing more harm to a section of the citizens but happens to get less attention from the government.
Cerebrospinal Meningitis (CSM ) is killing more people just like COVID-19 in Ghana. It is disturbing that Cerebrospinal Meningitis (CSM) has not been tackled effectively due to financial constraints.
However, this same financial constraint seems not to be an issue for government in dealing with the COVID-19 disease.
According to health experts, an infected person by the Cerebrospinal Meningitis can be treated through vaccination; unlike the COVID-19 where the world, including Ghana, is awaiting a vaccine to treat it.
Cerebrospinal Meningitis (CSM) has been in existence since 1959 in the Northern sector of Ghana till date.
Medical experts have explained that government can help increase immunisation coverage in order to help stop the spread of CSM.
Government needs to pay more attention in tackling this disease by setting up a fund where money will be allocated for the treatment of CSM.
Also, more health practitioners should be trained in the northern parts of Ghana where the disease is endemic.
Loretta Yebowaa Hayford
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During the 1970s, when my father was in his mid-forties, he announced to me his fear that the numbers of men of religion would diminish. He told me that a day would come, and soon by his own account, when people would no longer find a sheikh or sayed to draw up marriage contracts and bury the dead. My father was not particularly devout; in fact, he did not pray or fast, and so was content to entrust my mother with these duties regularly, five times a day with respect to prayers. As for Ramadan, we seemed to be a pious family outwardly, for we would gather around the table, fasting or not, all waiting to hear the firing of the iftar cannon to begin to eat.
Perhaps he sought to convince me to go to Najaf to return from it seven or eight years later wearing the robe and turban. Not through devoutness, but perhaps because of an early knowledge he had gained that we must continue our education in accordance with the needs of the market. And, if I obeyed him in this, upon graduating, I would be an imam of three or four villages, as long as all the posts were empty.
The picture of a man of religion was not attractive to me. Let us remember the image of the official who performs civil marriages in Egyptian cinema at the time. The world was going in a different direction than the one my father suggested to me. I knew, for example, that many used to go to Najaf and not stay there very long. And that was not new or a result of the first years of the 1970s, but had started decades earlier. Among those who left the robe and turban were those who later became well-known writers and who played roles in secular parties, nationalist and communist.
This was not the case of al-Sayed, the hero of No Road to Paradise. He, who used to dream of studying medicine abroad and used to love Abdel Halim Hafez and recite his songs, was forced to acquiesce, to continue a tradition in his religious family continuing perhaps for hundreds of years. His father, the sayed–sheikh as well, sees that for the family to stop producing men of religion is akin to sterility and the sinking of the line into oblivion.
In that man, who is supposed to be a man of the pulpit and an imam who leads the people, I was given the chance to observe his gradual retreat from everything around him. He was too late in handing the keys of the mosque over to someone else, and when he did, he could not change his religious attire, so he continued to wear it, though he was no longer a man of religion.
Often I imagine him as a body stretched out on that bridge between what the 1970s were and how the situation became thirty years later. I don’t deny that among my reasons for writing the novel is my surprise at that turn in the flow of time, our religious time I mean, and its denial of the context that promised to follow it. I don’t deny my surprise, but I say that what drove me to write the novel was the man himself, his crisis and fragility, his having lived a life he did not wish for and having taken a road it was his desire not to follow, his having been driven to be an imam while he needed the strength to be a father.
I wrote the novel for him and about him first and foremost, not wanting at all to elevate his subject above his personal existence (I mean, to depend on the fact that we are witnessing this dominant presence of religion in order for the novel to be connected with the contemporaneity of his subject). Al-Sayed is who he is and is not identical to similar people. It would not be a novel if its hero was not an individual with full individuality. And this suits me; in fact, I am not good at anything else, and I know about myself that I no longer understand anything about anything from the moment it changes into a general subject.
Thus, with this award, I find myself having bridged another distance from Naguib Mahfouz. I mean Naguib Mahfouz the man who, when we say that the strands of his life were interwoven and intermingled with his novels, we do not mean only what we used to agree upon, that Kamal in the Trilogy is Naguib Mahfouz himself. His novels created our understanding of what it means for life to turn into a novel. All the heroes of the Trilogy, as well as the heroes of The Beginning and the End, Midaq Alley, Autumn Quail, The Beggar, and Adrift on the Nile, are enduring like real people and eternal types, but in a way that does not take away from their living existence. Ahmad Abd al-Jawad lives on, and so do Yassin, and Amina and Hamida and the brothers Hassan and Hussein and Hassanein. We never had enough of reading his novels, and so went on to collect every detail of his life that reached us—from an interview with him in a magazine, from the news about his self-discipline in his writing as well as his life, and from the return of someone who met with him in Egypt. “How is he, where was he sitting, what did he say?” And when I came to Egypt for the first time, a friend pointed out the neighborhoods and buildings and told me: this is Sugar Street, this is Palace Walk, and all of this is al-Gamaliya—and I never stopped wondering: how did Mahfouz call the places by their real names, and why?
My deepest thanks to the American University in Cairo for establishing this annual award to support the contemporary Arabic novel and follow its creativity.
My deepest thanks also to the distinguished committee that selected my novel to be among the novels of the writers who were awarded the prize before me.
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