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INDIANAPOLIS ― American education has been besieged by an onslaught of “hoaxes” that threaten to undermine traditional public schools and demoralize teachers.
That’s the message that New York University research and education professor Diane Ravitch delivered over the weekend to kick off the annual conference of the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education.
In a far-reaching speech in which she lambasted a variety of players on the educational landscape — from self-styled education “reformers” to Teach for America to U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan — Ravitch said American schoolchildren are being shortchanged by an inordinate emphasis on testing.
She took particular aim at teacher evaluation models known as value-added models, or VAMs, that seek to measure teacher effectiveness by the test scores of the students they teach.
“For nearly five years, states and districts have been trying to evaluate teachers by test scores, and it hasn’t worked anywhere,” Ravitch said. “It makes testing too important, promotes teaching to the test, and gaming of the system.
“We know all know this. But the policymakers don’t. Where’s the evidence? It’s a hoax.
“By ‘hoax’ I mean a legislative mandate or a program that you must obey that has no evidence behind it,” said Ravitch, who donned a black T-shirt emblazoned with the words “Where’s the Evidence?” to help underscore her point.
She further criticized calls by Secretary Duncan and others to evaluate teacher prep programs based on the test scores of students taught by program graduates.
“That’s a long stretch and takes ‘value-added’ to a higher level of absurdity,” Ravitch said.
“So those who choose to teach children with the greatest challenges will run the risk of being labeled ‘inefficient,’ while those who go to the leafy suburbs will look like stars,” Ravitch said, citing and praising the research of Dr. Edward Haertel, one of the nation’s foremost experts on assessment and testing.
Calling VAMs “too unstable and too inaccurate” to be used as a set percentage of teacher evaluations, Ravitch dismissed as “harmful and a sham” the release of teachers performance scores to the public. Florida recently released teachers’ VAM scores after the Florida Times-Union sued to make the data public.
Ravitch — a former assistant secretary of education under President George H.W. Bush — also branded Secretary Duncan’s Race To The Top competitive grant program as a “hoax” that is causing more “teaching to the test.”
“Why are we ‘racing to the top’?” Ravitch asked, arguing that the role of the federal education department should be to foster equality and meet the needs of children from America’s poorest families, not foment competition with “winners and losers.”
“The promise of American education is equality of educational opportunity, not a market-based system where some win and everyone else loses,” Ravitch said, invoking the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, which designates federal funds for services to students in schools with high concentrations of students from low-income families.
Race To The Top, or RTTT, rewards states that adopt standards and assessments that “prepare students to succeed in college and the workplace and compete in the global economy” — both themes that are frequently championed by policymakers.
“Our children are not ‘global competitors,’” Ravitch said. “They’re children.
“I have two young grandchildren. I don’t view them as ‘global competitors.’ I view them as kids,” she said. “We want them to have children’s lives, not live out the fantasies and mandates of politicians.”
Race To The Top also rewards states that build data systems to measure student success; recruit and retain more effective teachers and principals in high-need schools; and turn around the lowest-achieving schools.
Ravitch lamented the closing of underperforming schools.
“There is no evidence that closing schools helps children learn better,” Ravitch said. “If a school has low test scores, it’s because children have needs. Those needs should be met. Closing the school meets no needs.”
Ravitch also railed against Teach for America, or TFA, an alternative certification program that puts teachers in public school classrooms after they complete a five-week summer training institute. Ravitch said the program has a high churn rate and that the brevity of its training sends the message that teaching is not a profession.
She railed against charter school movement as well.
“We also have this hoax that the private sector does everything better,” Ravitch said. “But they don’t.
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Welcome to our latest www.Community-Wealth.org e-newsletter. This quarter we bring you the following new developments:
- The Democracy Collaborative continues to work with the Cleveland Foundation in implementing an innovative "economic inclusion" and wealth-building program in six of the city's poorest neighborhoods. Crain's Cleveland Business reported on the initiative in early January. The Foundation has also produced a brochure on the economic inclusion strategy, which provides an overview to the entire initiative.
- We feature the ninth in our continuing series of conversations with community wealth-building leaders: Ramón León of the Latino Economic Development Center, a Minneapolis-based community development corporation with a focus on public markets business development.
- We've added a new 30-minute video to our website, featuring The Democracy Collaborative's co-founder Gar Alperovitz. Provided to us courtesy of New Mexico documentary filmmaker Jim Kavanaugh, the video presents Alperovitz speaking to members of the La Montanita Co-op in Santa Fe about issues of wealth and inequality in our nation's economy.
- The Democracy Collaborative's Steve Dubb is interviewed about hybrid forms of for-profit and nonprofit organizations in this winter's issue ofNonprofit Quarterly.
- We also profile the "Twin Cities" as our fourteenth community wealth city:
Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minnesota.
As always, we have added dozens of new links, articles, reports, and other materials to the site. Look for this symbol to find the most recent additions. And don't forget to view our regularly updated C-W Blog.
NEW & RECOMMENDED:
Shared Ownership Strategies Offer Promise for Building Wealth
This paper, commissioned by the Annie E. Casey Foundation, explores a variety of shared ownership strategies that allow low-income individuals to share both the risk and rewards of home or business ownership. Reaching out to leaders in the asset-building and shared-ownership movements, the authors focus on how strategic partnerships with individual asset building efforts can be developed using a variety of shared ownership strategies, including cooperative housing, community land trusts, resident-owned manufactured home parks, and worker-owned cooperatives.
A Green Prescription for Our Economic Blues?
The Political Economy Research Institute (PERI) of the University of Massachusetts-Amherst and the Center for American Progress lay out a green economic recovery program. The plan calls for spending $100 billion through a combination of tax credits, direct government expenditures, and federal loan guarantees over the next two years. Expenditures would be targeted at six green infrastructure investment areas, including transit oriented development and renewable energy - wind, solar, and next-generation biofuels - to help create over two million jobs and begin the long-term effort to develop a low-carbon economy.
Employee-Owned Companies Respond to Economic Downturn
This issue brief contains survey results on the impact of the credit crunch on ESOP companies, as well as articles by experts on the state of ESOP financing, how to deal with more difficult credit markets, valuation concerns, and ideas for communication with employees. Among the highlights: Loren Rodgers of the National Center on Employee Ownership reports on an October 2008 NCEO survey on the financial impact of the credit crunch on ESOP companies. Available for $15 for NCEO members and $25 for nonmembers at:www.nceo.org/pubs/downturn.html.
IN THE NEWS:
Social Franchising: Coming to a Nonprofit Near You?
Given scarce resources in the philanthropic sector, nonprofits must constantly innovate to generate the necessary income to accomplish their social missions. Franchising offers one such opportunity, allowing groups to increase and stabilize their earned income and revenue stream without all of the obstacles of establishing original for-profit enterprises. This report from Community Wealth Ventures details the advantages (e.g. established customer base and supply chain) and the many important considerations and steps (i.e. does the nonprofit have a healthy revenue stream or capable manager) that any nonprofit should carefully explore when considering social franchising.
Report Profiles Concentrated Poverty in the United States
Contrary to popular belief, concentrated poverty is not strictly a phenomenon of older inner cities in the North. It can be found throughout smaller cities of the South and West, immigrant gateways, struggling areas of Appalachia and the Delta, and Native American lands. This report highlights the unique factors that contribute to concentrated poverty across the nation, profiling sixteen communities in areas as diverse as Miami, El Paso, and the Blackfeet Reservation in Montana. The authors offer strategies to address the challenges facing these communities, including a combination of place-based and people-based initiatives tailored to local needs and assets.
Land Bank Policies Offer Opportunities for Creating Community Wealth
Effective land banking policy allows communities to proactively respond to the large number of vacant and abandoned properties that have been created as a result of the mortgage foreclosure crisis and the long-run decline of older, industrial regions. While states and local governments have taken the first steps towards establishing these policies, this paper advocates a comprehensive federal approach that capitalizes local and regional land banking, encourages local and state code and tax reform, and advances regional problem solving to help these struggling communities.
Community Banking: Bigger Isn't Always Better
During 2008, big banks failed at a rate seven times greater than small banks. Small institutions actually outperformed large banks on every important metric. Ellen Seidman and Phil Longman of the New America Foudnation present a strong case for why government policy should support small-scale, traditional depositary institutions. They argue that policy, by lowering small banks' high fixed costs and easing access to capital, could help these banks address some of our nation's deepest financial problems.
Survey Highlights Co-op Sector's Role across the Country
Did you know that U.S. cooperatives directly serve 130 million Americans and that almost every American experiences an indirect daily co-op connection? This updated survey of the co-op sector features intriguing personal co-op stories and up-to-date information on the expanding co-op industry. The report highlights some impressive numbers, calling attention to the fact that nearly one-third of all produce is marketed through producer-owned cooperatives. The report also points out that nearly one-third of all Americans are member-owners of cooperatively owned credit unions.
Can Federal Economic Development Leaders Learn from State & Local Models?
Five large and commonly used economic programs funded by the federal government, including the Department of Housing and Urban Development's Community Development Block Grant Program (CDGB) and the Department of Labor's Workforce Investment Act (WIA) lack many of the best practices that some states and cities have established in their programs to protect taxpayers from misuse of subsidy dollars. This report urges changes in federal policy to revamp these programs by drawing on established local precedents that have encouraged community wealth building, supported transit-oriented development, and reduced global warming air pollution.
California's Energy Efficiency Policies Lead to Economic Gains
California has led the country in energy efficiency measures over the last 35 years. This report looks at some of the economic benefits of these policies, including a net gain of 1.5 million jobs with a total payroll of $45 billion, and household energy savings of $56 billion from 1972-2006. In addition, the authors assess the potential benefits that they think will be created from California's continued aggressive policies to reduce carbon emissions by 2020.
Guide Demystifies Mission-Related Investment
Although foundations have increased their program- and mission-related investments in recent years, confusion still remains regarding legal restrictions. This report analyzes the legal considerations applicable to these institutions under state and federal law, reaching the conclusion that foundations have considerable latitude to make these investments. Mission-related investment can take place in three ways: through screening of investments, through direct investments that advance the foundation's mission, and through shareholder and proxy voting.
C-W.ORG INTERVIEWS WITH COMMUNITY BUILDERS:
Ramón León is the founding Executive Director of Latino Economic Development Center (LEDC), a nonprofit organization serving the Minneapolis/St. Paul area. The group was founded by Latino community development leaders and is dedicated to creating economic opportunity for Latinos. Prior to joining LEDC, Mr. León was the founding President of Mercado Central, which today is a thriving marketplace with 47 businesses, with the market itself owned by the vendors as a cooperative. In this C-W.org Interview, León discusses the group's business development model as well as broader issues facing asset builders in the nation's growing Latino community.
More interviews at www.community-wealth.org »
The fourteenth in our continuing series of profiles ofCommunity Wealth Cities: Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minnesota. While the Twin Cities have a long history of rivalry and differ in appearances, together they both are home to many community wealth building initiatives and organizations. Among them: two community land trusts, City of Lakes CLT and Rondo CLT, are working to keep housing within the city limits permanently affordable for succeeding generations.
Community Land Trusts Aim to Expand Neighborhood Stabilization Efforts
More than 200 people attended the National Community Land Trust (CLT) Network conference in Boston. Participants celebrated the low foreclosure rate (well below one percent nationally) enjoyed by CLT residents and sought ways to scale up operations to expand their impact. The group also launched its National Heritage Lands Initiative, which aims to counter land loss and foster community land trust development in African-American communities.
Forum Fosters Common Ground among Wealth Building Advocates
The Annie E. Casey Foundation and the Asset Funders Network jointly convened a group of employee ownership, shared equity housing, and asset-building advocates to develop ways to better collaborate. Effective asset building, many conference participants suggested, requires employing a combination of individual and community (or shared ownership) based strategies.
Created by the Aspen Institute's Center for Business Education, CasePlace.org is a resource that provides teaching material on business and sustainability - from corporate governance to sustainable development. With the recent addition of the Curriculum Library on Employee Ownership, the site is home to the largest collection of teaching resources on employee ownership.
Innovation@CFED is a new resource site launched by CFED, a leading asset-building organization, which hopes to facilitate the next generation of effective strategies to build economic opportunity. The Innovators-in-Residence program will help identify individuals with promising ideas who would benefit form additional monetary and technical support.
Providing community-based solutions to the foreclosure crisis, Stablecommunities.org is a new resource site for community development practitioners. Sponsored by NeighborWorks, the site features sections on how to address the increase in vacant property, gather support from various programs and partnerships, and successfully advocate for policy changes on the state, local, and national level.
Northland Poster Collective
Northland Poster Collective, based in Minneapolis, was established in 1979 after eleven artists, meeting in a workshop, discussed how best to use their artwork as a way to support social change. The group promotes the art of social justice, the tools of grassroots union organizing and labor activism, and the craft of union workers. www.northlandposter.com | <urn:uuid:76da04f0-4cb0-474c-aef8-0af9a33f8cec> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://community-wealth.org/content/january-2009 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570767.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808061828-20220808091828-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.928014 | 2,582 | 1.53125 | 2 |
In Lost In The Cosmos: The Last Self-Help Book, Walker Percy raises a number of philosophical questions regarding the self and why we know so little about ourselves. He also invites readers to participate in a number of “Thought Experiments.” In a chapter on “Why the Self is the only Object in the Cosmos which Gets Bored,” he offers this experiment:
Imagine you are a member of a tour visiting Greece. The group goes to the Parthenon. It is a bore. Few people even bother to look—it looked better in the brochure. So people take half a look, mostly take pictures, remark on the serious erosion by acid rain. You are puzzled. Why should one of the glories and fonts of Western civilization, viewed under pleasant conditions—good weather, good hotel room, good food, good guide—be a bore?
Now imagine under what set of circumstances a viewing of the Parthenon would not be a bore. For example, you are a NATO colonel defending Greece after a Soviet assault. You are in a bunker in downtown Athens, binoculars propped on sandbags. It is dawn. A medium-range missile attack is under way. Half a million Greeks are dead. Two missiles bracket the Parthenon. The next will surely hit. Between columns of smoke, a ray of golden light catches the portico.
Are you bored? Can you see the Parthenon?
Sometimes a dramatic change in circumstance can cause us to see – to really see – what until then was so commonplace and ordinary that we scarcely gave it any thought at all. The death of a loved one from an aneurysm, so sudden that we have no time to utter a goodbye or say “I love you,” can wake us to memories and vanished possibilities. Many of us old enough to remember 9/11 also remember conversations and faces from that day, though we can’t recollect what we ate for breakfast last Sunday.
We are now going through just such a change in America.
For the last six months, Americans have lived in confusion and fear, some of it justified by COVID-19, some of it ginned up by those who govern us and their expert advisors. In some states, we are still required to wear masks and practice social distancing. Many businesses remain under restrictive measures while other establishments have permanently closed. Unlike some countries around the world, our schools will once again practice distance learning rather than getting students back in the classroom. Our churches are either closed or operating at reduced capacity, and sporting events, concerts, fairs, and other group activities are verboten in most places.
Those who issued these edicts, which in so many states have led to what is now basically a six-month quarantine, may have sought to reduce coronavirus deaths, but they were also blind to the side effects of their unprecedented dictates: the economic woes, the psychological damage to people of all ages, the increases in drinking and drug use, and the violence in many cities since June, all in part a consequence of the lockdown.
On this video, a man spoke to the Shasta County, California board of supervisors. He points out what many are starting to say, that officials who have instituted this quarantine continue to get paid while so many others have lost their jobs. He concludes with these remarks:
Open the county. Let our citizens do what they need to do. Let owners of businesses do what they need to do to feed their families. Take the masks off. Quit masking and muzzling your children. The psychological damage you’re doing to them is horrible. I’ve had six friends kill themselves since it’s happened. Veterans who lost their jobs. How do you feel about being complicit in perpetuating that, the greatest hoax ever perpetuated on the American people? And you’re part of it while you wear your masks. In Shasta County, we’re supposed to be red country up here. Not blue country, we’re red country up here.
It shouldn’t matter whether we live in blue country or red country. Every American should worry about the erosion of our freedoms. Governors and mayors have ridden roughshod over our First Amendment liberties, and nearly all of us have acquiesced to their edicts, some of us from fear, some because we are trying to be good citizens.
In the upcoming election, we should pay attention to the stances taken by candidates on issues like jobs, education, and law and order. These are vital to our country’s health. But most of all, let’s take a hard look at what candidates say about the value of liberty, and vote accordingly.
Soon there will be an acid test for these officials. Flu season is fast approaching, and this may result in an uptick in coronavirus cases. If some of those politicians revert to shutdowns and quarantines, it’s time to say enough is enough, protest their commands, and, if necessary, refuse to obey them.
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Expect the Unexpected
Here is a quote from the beginning of Chapter Four of the Reappearance:
“Today, the East and the West stand equally expectant. As we approach the theme of His work, it is essential that we remember that the Eastern Teacher embodied in Himself the Wisdom of God, of which human intelligence (the third aspect of divinity) is an expression; that through Christ, the second divine aspect was revealed in its perfection; and in Him two aspects, therefore, light and love, received full expression. It remains now for the highest of the divine aspects, the Will of God, to receive embodiment and for this the Christ is preparing. The continuity of revelation may not stop; and upon what other expressions of the divine nature may still later be revealed it is needless for us to speculate.
“The uniqueness of the impending mission of the Christ and the uniqueness of His opportunity consist in the fact that He is able-in Himself-to give expression to two divine energies: the energy of love and the energy of will, the magnetic potency of love and the dynamic effectiveness of the divine will. Never before, in the long long history of humanity, has such a revelation been possible.
The work and the teaching of the Christ will be hard for the Christian world to accept, though easier of assimilation in the East. Nevertheless, some hard blow or some difficult presentation of the truth is badly needed if the Christian world is to be awakened, and if Christian people are to recognize their place within a worldwide divine revelation and see Christ as representing all the faiths and taking His rightful place as World Teacher. He is the World Teacher and not a Christian teacher. He Himself told us that He had other folds and to them He has meant as much as He has meant to the orthodox Christian. They may not call Him Christ, but they have their own name for Him and follow Him as truly and faithfully as their Western brethren.” Reappearance of the Christ, Pages 62-63
Question: The last time Christ was here the emphasis was mostly upon the second aspect of Love/Wisdom. This time he will manifest (in addition to Love/Wisdom) properties of the first aspect of Will. Then he hints at the idea that Christ will strike a “hard blow” to the Christian world to wake them up.
It is likely that this hard blow will come through the Will aspect rather than Love, even though Love will be the motivating force.
Stretch your imaginations and ask yourself this. What teachings or actions could Christ present that would shock the Christian world?
Is it likely that the Christian world will accuse him of being a person lacking in love? Why?
A reader responded saying that Jesus observed the Law of Moses, which was in place last time, so he may just blend in with orthodox religion this time.
Actually, outside of celebrating the Passover, I can’t think of an example of Jesus following the Law of Moses. Nowhere is there any mention of him offering animal sacrifices. He discouraged the stoning of the adulterous woman according to the law. He was consistently accused of breaking the Sabbath. He even broke the law through his death for the law said that he who was hung on a tree was cursed of God and Paul said Jesus was hung on a tree.
Even though he did not observe the law in a traditional sense for himself he admonished those who believed in the law to follow their religion and sought to fulfill the principles behind the law through obedience to the law of love.
In fact, the religious people of his day were so concerned with his teachings that they accused him of attempting to destroy the Law of Moses. He argued, however, that this was not the case as he sought to fulfill the purpose of the law.
If a similar occurrence were to happen this time around, how would it play out?
- It would appear to the current religious authorities that Christ was not a supporter of orthodox behavior, procedure or even ordinances.
- Even though he would not be an orthodox member of any religion he would support people in following the good principles in which they believe.
- He would teach true principles in harmony with scripture, but out of harmony with orthodox beliefs.
- Last time he revealed greater light on an aspect of the Godhead which was love. This time he will reveal an aspect of the Will which is currently unrealized. This would create a lot of controversy.
- He supported new Piscean ordinances not mentioned in the Law of Moses such as baptism, communion, the washing of the feet etc. If he did the same thing again he would introduce Aquarian ordinances associated with air, spirit and mind rather than water and feeling.
The bottom line is this. If we look for the traditional Christ we will miss the real one for as it is written: “Behold, I do all things new.”
When Christ came 2000 years ago he was totally absorbed in the second aspect of Love Wisdom. To demonstrate this he taught, acted and worked with this energy which operated as a magnetic force rather than one that radiates. This magnetic force is illustrated in his statement which reads: “If I be lifted up I will draw all men to me.”
He was also described as the “Lamb of God.” Now a lamb is a meek and submissive animal that no one fears because of its harmlessness.
In that life the “turn your other cheek” and “love your enemies” approach to making change would seem very pacifist by today’s standards.
The point to keep in mind though is that the Love Wisdom or Second Aspect is only one out of the Great Trinity. It was an important time and place to emphasize it to the exclusion of others but the other aspects will not always be excluded by any master.
This is hinted at in the Book of Revelations, a book which reveals future cycles. In it, after the lamb had been slain, Christ is called “the lion of the tribe of Judah.” Rev 5:5
So we have the pacifist loving Christ represented by a lamb which is slain and then called a lion and later one who “doth judge and make war.” Rev 19:11
In other words, we have a Christ who worked almost exclusively with the Second Ray 2000 years who is emerging later as one who eventually wields the Will-Power-Purpose of the first ray and acts with the power of a lion.
Does this mean he will be a war monger when he comes?
No, he will still use the Love-Wisdom energy to the maximum amount that can be received, but it does mean that the visible Christ we will see will be the Lion of the Tribe of Judah rather than the slain lamb.
When he comes he will make war in righteousness, but it will not necessarily be a physical war with weapons. A war he will definitely wage will be one against the ignorance and illusion of the world. Because this will be done with first ray energy it will create quite a stir and people as a whole will be strongly divided either for or against him.
The Christian world will have difficulty in seeing him as the Lord of love because of the conflict which will seem to follow after him. On the other hand, the non religious secularists will have as difficult a time, or even more so, depending on the politics of the time.
In chapter four DK makes an interesting statement. He says:
“Let us look for a moment at the erroneous interpretations given to the Gospel story. The symbolism of that Gospel story-an ancient story-presentation often presented down the ages, prior to the coming of the Christ in Palestine-has been twisted and distorted by theologians until the crystalline purity of the early teaching and the unique simplicity of the Christ have disappeared in a travesty of errors and in a mummery of ritual, money and human ambitions. Christ is pictured today as having been born in an unnatural manner, as having taught and preached for three years and then as having been crucified and eventually resurrected, leaving humanity in order to “sit on the right hand of God,” in austere and distant pomp. Likewise, all the other approaches to God by any other people, at any time and in any country, are regarded by the orthodox Christian as wrong approaches, as being practised by so-called “heathen,” and as requiring Christian interference. Every possible effort has been made to force orthodox Christianity on those who accept the inspiration and the teachings of the Buddha or of others who have been responsible for preserving the divine continuity of revelation. The emphasis has been, as we all well know, upon the “blood sacrifice of the Christ” upon the Cross and upon a salvation dependent upon the recognition and acceptance of that sacrifice. The vicarious at-one-ment has been substituted for the reliance which Christ Himself enjoined us to place upon our own divinity; the Church of Christ has made itself famous and futile (as the world war proved) for its narrow creed, its wrong emphases, its clerical pomp, its spurious authority, its material riches and its presentation of a dead Christ. His resurrection is accepted, but the major appeal of the churches has been upon His death.” Reappearance of the Christ, Pages 63-64
Here he calls the gospel story “an ancient story-presentation often presented down the ages, prior to the coming of the Christ in Palestine.”
Does this mean that the life of Christ, or one like him, has “often” been presented during the “ages” of thousands of years before Christ in Palestine?
How much detail do you suppose was presented in ancient times?
Do you think it was possible that Jesus was aware of these ancient stories and attempted to play the role of savior?
Do you think that a number of scriptures are partially fiction or symbolic designed to present true principles?
“He who ceases to learn cannot adequately teach.” Unknown
Nov 30, 2004
Copyright by J J Dewey
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Dead or Alive?
And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins;(Ephesians 2:1) KJV
All souls are eternal, however, they’re either dead or alive. The death of our body isn’t the end of consciousness, and the death of our soul isn’t the end of existence. We’re made alive through Jesus Christ.
We (that’s me and the Holy spirit) have made so many connections between the physics of creation, the plan of redemption, and the behavior of gravity that we’ve expressed the Gospel as Physics. However, you should be aware that, by and large, Christians hate this stuff as much as unbelievers do. Christians can’t stand it when you explain God to them.
We all have the same evidence. Our choice of paradigm determines what we think it’s evidence of.– Matty’s Razor
It’s also been said that Matty’s Paradigm is science fiction (SciFi) and that we should lay off it. We’ve two problems with that.
- It only looks like SciFi to someone who doesn’t understand what “science” is.
- It works.
As horrific it may seem to do any of the following:
- relate the Holy Trinity to particle physics, or
- say that creation of the firmament occurred in response to the inception of gravity, or
- say that planet Earth is 6,000 years old while the remote regions of the cosmos are 13.8 billion years old at the same time, or
- say that evolution is the process by which the animals saved on Noah’s ark gave rise to current biodiversity…
…the most awe-inspiring thing, that ought to give anyone a deep reverential fear of the wisdom of God, is that it works. It’s shows that scripture, Physics, Biology and Geology are in perfect harmony.
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|6||Deliver Your Soul From Death||Psalms 33:18-19|
- Call upon the name of Jesus Christ,
- believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead,
- confess your sin.
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On any given day, regardless of the health of the economy, up to one-third of all open positions in the United States are in sales, so it’s not surprising that half of all college graduates’ first jobs will be in sales.
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THE NORE CHARTER
Charter of NORE – Network of Orthopaedic Registries of Europe
As of 02 June 2015
NORE as an all-inclusive network will foster international collaboration and co-ordination of learning and research in orthopaedics, with special focus on medical device surveillance, arthroplasty outcome, and other registries of orthopaedic conditions in order to support improvements in patient care.
NORE will provide advice and awareness to EFORT on international perspectives, experiences and practices in medical device surveillance. This may range from data capture (e.g. nomenclature) through data analysis and reporting techniques, to new methods for evaluating performance of medical devices.
2. RESPONSIBILITIES OF NORE
Create an all-inclusive national, regional and speciality society orthopaedic registry network.
Advice to emerging but also to established registries on registry related issues (e.g. data collection, methodological issues etc).
Initiate education and research projects within the network.
Promote awareness of NORE and its activities on an international level.
Comply with responsibilities of an EFORT standing committee.
Stimulate uniformity of registration and definition to enhance comparison of findings within Europe.
3. ORGANISATIONAL STRUCTURE
NORE stands for Network of Orthopaedic Registries of Europe. Initially, NORE will focus on Registries of Hip and Knee Arthroplasty – although initiatives and established registry formats for other joints and diseases (e.g. ankle, shoulder, spine, hip fractures) are not excluded. Even more, these established formats may help to create a blueprint to be used by others. The goal of the organisation is to produce uniformity in nomenclature and define those variables to be collected within a registry as a dataset.
The network is organised as a standing EFORT committee and reports to the EFORT Board.
As such, the EFORT regulations for standing committees apply except that it is anticipated that the organisational structure will be self-funding.
The network will be led by an Advisory Board under the leadership of a chairman appointed by EFORT for three years. The chairman can be re-elected once. The current chairman is Prof. Dr. Rob G.H.H. Nelissen, Chair & Professor Orthopaedics at Leiden University Medical Center (the Netherlands).
The Chairman will be a member of the EFORT Executive Committee with the following responsibilities:
- Participation in the two annual Executive Committee meetings (Jan/Feb and June, during the EFORT congress).
- Report to the EFORT Board & the EFORT Executive Committee on request, and in an annual written report.
- Set-up an annual budget proposal to be delivered to the EFORT Board for their meeting in September.
- Leading/chairing of the committee.
A possible structure of NORE could be that members of the Advisory Board are constituted by at least:
- a Chairman and a member of the EFORT board,
- and in addition, members from the NORE network representing the British Orthopaedic Association (BOA) or the National Joint Registry (NJR), the Nordic Arthroplasty Register Association (NARA), the German Hip Arthroplasty Register (EPRD), other European Registry and the International Society of Arthroplasty Registries (ISAR).
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Why the Jews Were Cursed
by Muhammad Alshareef
Rasul Allâh’s wife, Umm Al-Mu’mineen Safiyyah bint Huyayy - radiallaahu 'anha - was the daughter of one of the Jewish leaders of Madinah. After her Islâm, she informed the Prophet - sallallaahu 'alayhi wa sallam - when she had first felt the rays of Islâm enter her blessed heart.
It was the day that Anas - radiallaahu 'anhu - describes as the most radiant day to every come upon al-Madinah - the day Rasul Allâh - sallallaahu 'alayhi wa sallam - entered it. All the Ansar men, women and children gathered to greet him, cheers of praise to Allâh filled the air.
Amongst the gathering were 2 men; as much as the Ansar and Muhaajireen revered the Prophet, they despised him. It was the father of Safiyyah - radiallaahu 'anha - and her uncle.
She was only a youngster as she looked into the darkness and gloom that had enveloped their faces when they returned home that day. Her Jewish uncle 1400 years ago asked, “Is it him? Is it the Prophet that our scriptures speak of?” Huyayy lowered his head and said, “Yes. It is him.” “Then what shall we do?” Safiyyah’s uncle continued. Huyayy looked into his eyes, “Till the final day we shall be his bitterest enemies!”
From the very first raka’ah of Taraweeh we read the verse in the opening Sűrah: [Guide us to the straight path - The path of those upon whom You have bestowed favor, not of those who have evoked (Your) anger! ...]
Adiyy ibn Hatim asked Rasul Allâh - sallallaahu 'alayhi wa sallam - who it was that evoked Allâh’s anger? He said, “It was the Jews.” - Tafseer Ibn Katheer
When I was in high school, studying in journalism class, our teacher had placed on the wall a statement that I spent many days contemplating. It simply said, “Freedom of the press (speech) belongs to those that own the press!” Who owns the press? Well, you can believe me when I say that it is not the god fearing beloved of Allâh.
It is this same press that molds and programs the aqeedah of a huge section of our Ummah. Many of our brothers and sisters are illiterate to the words of Allâh and the guidance of Rasul Allâh - sallallaahu 'alayhi wa sallam, so it is with little doubt that their ideas are subconsciously molded by what Seinfeld tells them at 8 pm every Wednesday evening.
It is this same brother or sister that asks the question, “I don’t understand why the Jews were cursed. Seinfeld is funny. What did he do?”
This khutbah is our media and insha’ Allâh we shall learn in these few moments only samples of what carried the Jews to evoke Allâh’s anger.
In the opening verses of Surat Al-Baqarah, Allâh invites the Children of Isra’eel to come back - to remember the favor and blessing He bestowed upon them - and to fulfill the promise that they would follow the Prophet when he was sent to them.
[O Children of Israel, remember My favor that I bestowed upon you and fulfill My covenant upon you that I will fulfill your convenant (from Me) and fear only Me.] - Sűrah al-Baqarah 2/40
Allâh saved them of their slavery to Fir’own, he saved them from sea and drowned Fir’own and his army. Allâh selected them to receive food from the sky. Allâh sent them Prophet after Prophet from amongst themselves, and sent the Holy scriptures - the Towrah and the Injeel. Allâh preferred them over all others at their time.
[...And that I preferred you over the worlds (i.e. people).] - Sűrah al-Baqarah 2/47
How did they reply these Blessings of Allâh?
(i) They Followed Only What They Wanted to
When a Prophet came to them, if what he taught did not appeal to them they either rejected that truth or slit the throat of the Prophet and followed what was to them appealing.
[We had already taken the covenant of the Children of Israel and had sent to them messengers. Whenever there came to them a messenger with what their souls did not desire, a groups (of the Messengers) they denied and another party they killed.] - al-Maa’idah 5/70
And we must remember here that this is not the commentary of some human journalist who claims to be neutral. This is the Lord of the Universe telling us - in verses to be read till the final day - the deepest secrets that lie in the pits of Judaism. [And who is more truthful than Allâh in statement!] - al Nisaa’ 4/87
(ii) They Changed the Words of Allâh
There was groups of Jews that would change the words of Allâh - adding something here, deleting there - to pound the truth and keep the flock in servitude to what they desired.
[And indeed, there is among them a party who alter the Scripture with their tongues so you may think it is from the Scripture, but it is not from the Scripture. And they say, “This is from Allâh,” but it is not from Allâh. And they speak untruth about Allâh while they know.] Ali-Imran 3/78
(iii) Their claim that they are the beloved children of God
Ibn Abbas narrates: Nu’maan ibn Aasaa, Bahr ibn ‘Amr and Shaas ibn Adee (3 Jews) came to Allâh’s Messenger - sallallaahu 'alayhi wa sallam. He sat with them and invited them to Allâh and warned them of Allâh’s anger. They replied, “Why are you trying to scare us O Muhammad? By God, we are the children of God and His beloved ones!” At that the verse was revealed:
[And the Jews and the Christians say, ‘We are the Children of Allâh and His beloved.’ Say: ‘Then why does He punish you for your sins?’ Rather, you are humans from among (all the others) that He created.] Al-Maa’idah 5/18 ~ Ibn Katheer 2/36
(iv) Their Blasphemous Statements
There came upon the Jews a time of poverty, so they went to Shaas ibn Qays and questioned him. He said, “Your Lord is stingy, he never provides.” Allâh revealed in the Qur'ân:
[And the Jews say, “The hand of Allâh is chained.” Chained are their hands and cursed are they for what they say. Rather, both His hands are extended; He spends however He wills.] Al-Maa’idah 5/64
(v) Their Murdering of the Prophets
One of the most horrific sins that they performed was the slaughtering of their Prophets. This was one of the major reasons they were struck with humiliation.
[And they were covered with humiliation and poverty and returned with anger from Allâh (upon them). That was because they (repeatedly) disbelieved in the signs of Allâh and killed the Prophets without right. That was because they disobeyed and were (habitually) transgressing.] - Baqarah 2/61
Not only did they try to kill their Prophets, but they attempted to assassinate Rasul Allâh - sallallaahu 'alayhi wa sallam - himself. RasulAllah went with some companions to meet with the Jews of Banu Nadheer. While he waited for them at the side of a building, they climed the roof with a boulder to crush down upon the head of Rasul Allâh. Jibreel warned Rasul Allâh - sallallaahu 'alayhi wa sallam - of their plan. He stood up without saying anything, left for Madinah, and came back with an army. This was the cause of Banu Nadheer’s expulsion from Madinah - Mukhtasar Seerat Ibn Hisham 159
And the list goes on - They did not command the good or forbid the evil, they did not accept the ruling of what Allâh revealed upon them, they disbelieved their book, they received food from the heavens but rejected it, they challenged their Prophet to show them Allâh in this life, they took Angel Jibreel as their sworn enemy, they took the graves of their Prophets as symbols of worship ... and the list goes on and on in the Qur'ân and Sunnah.
There are some verses in the Qur'ân that spoke about those that do not judge by what Allâh has decreed is a transgressor. Some students of Ibn Abbas - radiallaahu 'anhu - asked him, “Were these not revealed for the Jews and Christians?” He said, “Subhan Allâh! Are all the glad tidings in the Qur'ân for us and all the admonitions for them? If our we do what they did, our end will be their end.” Rasul Allâh - sallallaahu 'alayhi wa sallam - said, “"You will follow the wrong ways, of your predecessors so completely and literally that if they should go into the hole of a lizard, you too will go there." We said, "O Allah's Apostle! Do you mean the Jews and the Christians?" He replied, "Whom else?" - Bukhari
The Qur'ân tells us of snakes in the grass that bit the Jews. Allâh tells us this so that we may take warning of what led them to evoke Allâh’s anger and not be bitten by the same snake.
Let us take an example from the following verse:
[And there followed them successors who inherited the scripture (while) taking the stock of this lower life (i.e. Haram gains and whims), saying (regardless), “We will be forgiven.”] - A’raaf 7/169
So many Muslims take this Qur'ân as something inherited, the real power of Allâh’s word’s has not penetrated the hearts. How many of our young Muslim youth understand the language of Cobolt and A++, spending years to understand, but do not comprehend a single sentence in the Quran?
Have we desisted from the Riba that Allâh made Haram upon us? In the years of 1973 to 1976, when the Muslims went out to challenge Israel, the entertainment armies were summoned. Female singers were brought, belly dancers hired, and soap operas dedicated to the encouragement of our fighting Muslims. The songs were drenched in nationalism and Arab pride.
In conclusion, a fundamental part of our Deen is Al-Wala’ and Al-Bara’ (wala’ - love and loyalty / Bara’ hatred and disownment). It would be profitable for us to reflect on the implementation of our Wala’ and Bara’ in regards to the Jews:
Firstly: We should not take them as our close allies.
Allâh commands us in the Qur'ân: [O you who have belied, do not take the Jews and the Christians as allies. They are allies of one another. And whoever is an ally to them among you - then indeed, he is one of them. Indeed Allâh does not guide the wrongdoing people.] - Ma’idah 5/51
Secondly: We should not Imitate them
The forbiddance of imitating the Jews and the Christians applies to those things that have become icons of their customs and falsehood. So for example, if someone wore a white collar on his neck, everyone would assume he was Christian. This is because the white collar has become a symbol of theirs.
The ruling is more general than just clothes. Rasul Allâh - sallallaahu 'alayhi wa sallam - said: [Act differently then the Jews.] - Saheeh Abu Dawood
Thirdly: A Muslimah may never marry a Jewish or Christian man that remains in his beliefs.
Allâh declares in the Qur'ân: [They are not (i.e. the Muslim women) lawful wives for them, nor are they lawful (husbands) for them.] - Mumtahinah 60/10
Is all this a death sentence on the Jews? Nay, Allâh’s infinite Mercy has left the gate open for ANYONE who wishes to come back to him.
[And if only the People of the Scripture had believed and feared Allâh, We would have removed from them their misdeeds and admitted them to joyful Gardens] - Ma’idah 5/65
O Allâh guide us to the straight path - the path of those who You have bestowed favor, not of those who have evoked (Your) anger, nor of those that went astray. Ameen.
Student of Knowledge
(Graduate of Muhammad Bin Saud University, Madinah SA, in Islâmic Law)
Currently teaches at Al-Huda School in College Park, Maryland
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A Pain in the Head
My head is pounding as I type this. Pounding, throbbing, aching. Like RA, it's a familiar pain and a chronic condition that I desperately do not want to have. But I do have it--right now anyway. For the last couple of weeks, my tension headaches have been severe and constant, rendering me unable to work or do just about anything. Thankfully, unlike RA, I can usually manage to get my headaches to go away. But it's not an easy or fast process and they often flare up again.
RA doesn't operate alone. It affects everything
Do I really need this debilitating head pain on top of my RA pain? NO. It feels very unfair for life to throw this at me, too, when I'm constantly struggling to fight against the assault of RA on my body. One thing I have learned from living with RA pain for 21 years and headache pain for almost as long is this: pain does not act alone; it connects to everything and even in ways that seem strange or unrelated. It connects everything, feeds off everything, affects everything. Is it a coincidence that my headaches began not long after I was diagnosed with RA? I don't think so.
According to an article from Everyday Health, "about 61 percent of people with severe headaches or migraines also have chronic pain conditions, including RA."1
I definitely fit into that category, and my headaches began about a year after I was diagnosed with RA, which was in July 1997. I remember spending the majority of the summer 0f 1998 lying on my parents' couch, suffering from constant, unrelenting and throbbing pain that enveloped my whole head. What was this? After months of doctors' appointments, tests, and wrong diagnoses, I finally found out what was behind my debilitating headaches: tension.
Tension headaches and RA
Many people probably think: tension headaches? Oh, that's not a big deal. It's not a migraine or anything. Well, yes it is a big deal, actually. And if my tension headaches get bad enough, they sometimes morph into migraines. Tension pain, consisting of severely tight and knotted and inflamed muscles, can be unbearable. There are also no quick fixes for these types of headaches. Tylenol, ibuprofen, and other over-the-counter medications don't touch them. I've been devouring muscle relaxers like candy lately and they're not doing much to lessen the pain. Tension headaches like the ones I often have can require a combination of drugs, exercises, and sometimes physical therapy. I'm doing all three right now and I'm still in a lot of pain.
So what's the RA connection with headaches?
Maybe it's somewhat obvious...the stress of RA pain causing pain elsewhere? I think my RA definitely plays a large role in my headaches. From what I've been able to discern so far, my head pain is caused by two main things: 1. stress and unconscious tensing/clenching of the muscles in my head/neck/shoulders, 2. clenching my teeth/jaw.
Why am I doing this? Why am I contorting my poor, delicate muscles into excruciating bands of tension and tight knots? I don't know! My theory is that the involuntary tensing of my muscles is something that I do in response to stress and coping with my RA pain. When your joints are in constant pain, often severe, your body has to compensate for it somehow. You brace for it, you wince with it, and you hold your body differently, trying to survive the assault against your joints. Unfortunately, that pain has to go somewhere, and for me, it goes straight to my shoulders and neck which then eventually takes over my entire head.
How to deal with these headaches
I honestly don't know the best approach to dealing with these headaches. I've had physical therapy for them several times and I know that I'm supposed to keep up doing my exercises regularly to prevent these bad flare-ups. However, real life means that I get wrapped up in working and living and I often forget to do my exercises until I'm trapped in the middle of a bad headache explosion. When this happens, it's kind of too late. The pain is raging and I get knocked down by what feels like a constant stream of semi trucks running over my head.
So, I have recently returned to physical therapy and I'm also looking into getting trigger point injections at my pain management clinic. Honestly, I think the physical therapy is a waste of time, but I'm hopeful about the injections. And in the meantime, I'm working hard to not clench my teeth while doing all of the silly-looking exercises that have actually helped in the past. It's either this or cut off my head. We'll see.
Am I the only one who deals with this on top of RA pain? I feel like I can't be.
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A firm has 10 million files, all ransomware encrypted, but the firm has all of those 10 million files backed up, and almost all of them have not changed. Would comparing all of those files against their unencrypted backups in addition to the other cracking algorithms help discover the key?
What you are suggesting is a Known Plaintext Attack, and yes if the encryption algorithm is bad enough, it could be used to discover the key or keys used to encrypt the data, depending on the cipher used. I say keys because some ransomware uses individual keys per file, so cracking one key would only give you the key to that file.
Practically this is unlikely to be useful as unless the ransomware encryption scheme has some sort of flaw (weak cipher, poor pseudo-random data source, small key, etc) or you have access to massive decryption computing resources then your great-grandchildren might just live to see one of the files cracked.
Would comparing all of those files against their unencrypted backups in addition to the other cracking algorithms help discover the key?
Addendum: usual malware operation
Once activated, the malware will attempt to contact its command-and-control network and either use a compiled-in public key (of which the CCC has the private one) or generate, as securely as possible, a public/private key pair, send the private key to the CCC, and delete its local copy.
Now the malware has a public key. It then either generates a single crypto key, or one crypto key for every file it attacks, and encrypts the crypto key with the public key. This way it can use a symmetric algorithm, very fast, to encrypt the file, while keeping the decryption key protected by a safer, albeit much slower, asymmetric algorithm.
The malware now creates an encrypted copy of the target file, then does its best to destroy all copies of the original (e.g. shadow copies). Finally renames the encrypted copy with the same name of the original, plus some extension.
Without ransoming back the private key and excluding errors on the programmers' part (e.g. they did not securely delete the private key locally, and it can be recovered), there is no chance of getting the symmetric key.
It is still possible to try and force the symmetric part of the encryption, knowing what the decrypted text looks like and the structure of the encrypted file (something like [32 BYTES SIGNATURE][4K OF ASYM-ENCRYPTED KEY][SYM-ENCRYPTED DATA]). This is where the KPA might come in. But this requires the symmetric encryption to be KPA vulnerable.
Yes... and no. What you propose would be a "known plaintext attack" (KPA).
But even if all the files were encrypted with the same key (which is not at all a given), the time required for a successful attack against a strong, properly implemented algorithm - as most recent malwares employ - is astronomical. You would in practice be running a brute force decryption, using the known plaintext to confirm the correctness of the key and the fact that it is the same for all files (you'll only know this at the very end. Until you break the encryption of the first file, you'll never know whether you gained access to 100% of your files, or only to 0.0000001%).
So you could get the key from the comparison, but you would not be deriving the key directly from it (this can only be done if the algorithm or its implementation has flaws). As @Kevin observed, such algorithms are said to be resistant to known plaintext attack.
If you have a backup, restore everything from it. Files that are still encrypted and for which no current enough copy is available can be decrypted using the ransomware tools (i.e., surrendering and paying up), or you can try several tools that try to exploit known flaws in some ransomware implementations that expose the key, leave the original data in some recoverable form, or allow shortcuts in key bruteforcing.
Keep in mind that some ransomware authors are also behind some of these so-called "tools". At the very least, they should be purchased using a capped, traceable credit card with limited balance (e.g. a prepaid).
I imagine you've already concluded that a single user account capable of accessing all those ten million files, in the hands of someone not knowledgeable enough to realize something suspicious is happening - you don't encrypt 10 M files with a snap of the fingers - is a Very Bad Thing.
To date, this kind of malware has few attack vectors and they're almost all based on exploiting unnecessary user privileges. Removing or thwarting these privileges will effectively defang most malware of this kind, and it might be a good idea to review local and group security policies in large organizations (also, place some limits/checks on BYOD policies. I've heard it rumored that some malware variants will go stealth and wait before encrypting, depending on how many files/network shares they are able to "see". I could not verify this, but I think the idea is not difficult to have, and even if it's not true now and would require a different approach in the attack - go resident instead of running straight away - it might well become reality in the future).
Traffic analysis - just policing bandwidth to the various workstations - should have alerted that something was afoot and even pinpointed the culprit, even if this would have come too late for a lot of the files.
Further, if most files have not changed, then more frequent incremental backups are in order. If only 1% of the files have changed, it means that with the same resources you can run incremental backups with a frequency two orders of magnitude greater (actually it's not so straightforward, but still).
Supposed that the ransomware is doing a "good" job, all files will be encrypted with something like AES-GCM, which is (at the time of writing) not (known to be) vulnerable to a known plaintext attack.
In that case the files might not aid much, only to verify the correctness of a brute forced key.
Also, if the ransomware is doing a "good" job, the key will differ on a per-machine basis, so brute-forcing the key will not help much to retrieve other data encrypted on another machine by the same ransomware.
In reality, no it does not. Encryption has long since passed the point where it is trivial to reverse by methods like Known Plaintext and such. It's not just a matter of XOR-ing the biggest file you can find against the encrypted version to get the keystream, that's not how things work in encryption these days. Ransomware uses standard high-strength encryption algorithms such as RSA that aren't subject to such simple solutions.
It is actually quite interesting to see how they have changed over the last few years.
What you can do is use a sample of the original files to identify the files that need to be recovered from backups, and consequently how much you can't recover that is lost for good. Each encryption virus variant has its own signature. Some of them change the filenames in specific ways, some have headers that you can read to identify which files are ruined, etc.
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Press Release – 2pm, March 2nd, 2022
Earlier today, two students spray painted “Just Stop Oil” and black oil slick designs onto buildings at three universities to highlight their investment in fossil fuels and to demand the government stops all new fossil fuel projects. The students are members of Youth Climate Swarm a group of young people from across the UK that are committed to standing up for their future – a future they don’t expect to have if the world remains on its current trajectory of global warming.
This week’s report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change laid bare the scale of the crisis and concluded that if the world does not rapidly reduce emissions we “will miss a brief and rapidly closing window of opportunity to secure a liveable and sustainable future for all”.
Nathan McGovern, 22, studying for an MA in Religion at King’s College London said:
“We are in a climate emergency. Our government and universities are chucking our futures down the drain. Hundreds of thousands of young people all over the world are dying even now, due to the fossil fuel industry. We refuse to die quietly. We have 2-3 years to act before it’s too late.”
Last year, the International Energy Agency stated that if governments are serious about climate change there can be no new investments in oil, gas or coal from now on, while Sir David King, former chief scientific advisor to the UK Government, predicts we now only have 2-3 years to “determine the future of humanity.”
The students targeted Imperial College London, London Metropolitan University, and Birkbeck, University of London who all have ongoing investments in the fossil fuel industry and no commitments to divest.
Will Goldring, 24, studying for a PhD in neuroscience at UCL said:
“By investing in fossil fuels, these universities are funding climate breakdown and lending implicit support to the corporations responsible. They are also directly contradicting their responsibilities as centres for learning and research. Investment in fossil fuels is a crime against the whole of humanity, and we intend to treat it as such.
“We can no longer simply appeal to a government which has failed us, we must take targeted action against the industries which are destroying our future, and all the institutions that support them.”
Youth Climate Swarm is calling on the UK Government to issue a statement that it will immediately halt all future licensing and consents for the exploration, development and production of fossil fuels in the UK. If the government has not done so by March 14th, Youth Climate Swarm have committed to intervene in order to avoid climate catastrophe.
The group is inviting young people to assemble in Trafalgar Square at 1pm on Saturday, March 5th to learn more about how they can fight for their futures. The group would also like to express solidarity with the current University and College Union staff strikes, as part of the fight for social justice.
Press contact: 07762 987334
NOTES TO EDITORS:
Youth Climate Swarm is a non-violent civil resistance campaign that aims to mobilise young people to act against government decisions harmful to their future. They are organising talks at universities and colleges across the country. Youth Climate Swarm is currently acting in support of Just Stop Oil. Just Stop Oil is a coalition of groups working together to demand that the government immediately halt all future licensing and consents for the exploration, development and production of fossil fuels in the UK. Further information here: https://juststopoil.org/
Universities record on fossil fuel investments: Imperial College London has actively chosen to continue investing in fossil fuels interspersing its statement with greenwashing and carbon-zero jargon that ignores the near-impossible chance of reaching the Paris Agreement goals.
London Metropolitan University claims to have no direct investment in thermal coal, oil shale and tar sands but does not appear to exclude fossil fuels more generally. A review by People and Planet, the student campaign network, found Metropolitan’s fossil fuel screening processes to be lacking. Furthermore, the university banks with Barclays, the biggest European financier of global fossil fuel projects.
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Logos are often a consumer's first experience with a brand. As such, they tend to say a lot about the brand they represent—especially when you factor in that marketers and graphic designers are a creative bunch. Just look at the redesigned Wendy's logo, which allegedly had the word "mom" hidden in the iconic mascot's collar, possibly subliminally signaling that the fast food chain delivered something akin to mom's cooking.
Most "hidden" logo design elements aren't necessarily meant to sway consumers' subconscious minds to think one way or another about a product, though. For the most part, their creators are just making clever use of negative space to say a little more about the brand. As you'll see in the 10 examples that follow, there is often more than meets the eye with logos many of us see every day.
FedEx's logo has an arrow is hidden in plain sight. You need only look at the negative space between the “e” and “x" to find the white, forward-facing arrow. Once you see it, it’s hard to un-see the simple and effective nod to the delivery service’s motion.
Upon first glance, the Bronx Zoo's logo just looks like a couple of giraffes and a few birds. Upon closer inspection, however, the negative space between the giraffes’ legs becomes a city skyline. The result is a logo representing both the wildlife the zoo houses and the concrete jungle it calls home.
3. SONY VAIO
The modern typography of the Sony VAIO logo is portraying more than just the brand’s name. The “v” and “a” are designed to mimic an analog signal, while the “i” and the “o” represent the binary 1 and 0.
The logo for the London Symphony Orchestra is at once simple and complex. It’s all one sweeping red line that manages to portray the three letters “L,” “S” and “O” for London Symphony Orchestra while also forming a drawing of an orchestra conductor.
Hershey’s Kisses are an easily recognizable piece of American culture. It's pretty much impossible to mistake the teardrop-shaped chocolates for anything else, but in case you need a reminder, check between the “k” and the “i.”
Initially, the orange arrow in online retail giant Amazon’s logo seems like little more than an added piece of flair to make the design pop. If you pay more attention to where the arrow is pointing, though, you will see that it suggests Amazon has everything from “a" to "z.”
To a layman, networking and systems management firm Cisco’s logo might appear to be some sort of digital reference. It’s simple, plain and looks like something from a math problem. That layman would be only partially correct. The vertical lines are actually a simplistic representation of the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, the city where Cisco was founded.
Basecamp, a popular collaboration software, serves to help users tackle their to-do lists. Naturally, the semi-hidden check mark in their logo is likely an intentional element meant to inspire users to check items off.
The Museum of Londons colorful design mimics a modern painting, but that is not all this logo is paying tribute to. In its design, it portrays the geographical area of London as it has grown over time.
The world’s largest digital provider of fonts, MyFonts, has a logo that includes a throwback to simpler times. Of course the logo says the brand's name, but the letters “m” and “y” outline the shape of a hand, referencing the days when humans still wrote just about everything by hand. Is anyone else wanting to dig out their calligraphy sets?
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Theranostics 2022; 12(5):2370-2382. doi:10.7150/thno.66905 This issue
1. The Second School of Clinical Medicine, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou 510515, China.
2. Department of Ultrasound, Institute of Ultrasound in Musculoskeletal Sports Medicine, Guangdong Second Provincial General Hospital, Guangzhou 510317, China.
3. Department of Ultrasound, Hunan Provincial People's Hospital (The First-affiliated Hospital of Hunan Normal University), Changsha, 410061, China.
4. Shenzhen Hospital of Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine, Shenzhen, China.
5. Department of Radiology, Azra Naheed Medical College, Lahore, Pakistan.
6. CAS Key Laboratory of Quantitative Engineering Biology, Shenzhen Institute of Synthetic Biology, Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenzhen, 518055, China.
#These authors equally contributed to this work.
Rationale: Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is an autoimmune disease characterized by chronic inflammation and damage to articular tissues that can lead to irreversible joint damage and progressive disability. The multipotent mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) play an important role in immune disorders and tissue regeneration. However, their immunosuppressive effects and the underlying mechanisms are largely unclear due to the lack of tools for real-time imaging of MSCs in vivo. Gas vesicles (GVs) are biosynthetic nanobubbles that are ejected from aquatic microbes, such as bacteria and archaea, and have an excellent ultrasound imaging capacity.
Methods: We harvested MSCs from the bone marrow of Sprague Dawley (SD) rats. Then, GVs were synthesized and incubated with MSCs to obtain intracellularly labeled MSCs. We firstly tested the ultrasound imaging of GV@MSCs in vitro and in vivo and then explored the therapeutic effect of GV@MSCs combined with methotrexate (MTX) in RA rats.
Results: These GV@MSCs showed significant contrast-enhanced ultrasound signals without a loss of viability and differentiation capacity. In addition, the GV@MSCs could be imaged in real-time for 5 days using ultrasound both in vitro and in vivo, making it possible to visually track their migration and homing to the joint cavity from the subcutaneous layer of lateral malleolus joints in the injected RA rats. Furthermore, GV@MSCs significantly enhanced the curative effect of methotrexate (MTX) against RA, resulting in decreased paw thickness, lower arthritis index score, reduced bone erosion and cartilage destruction, compared to the PBS, free MTX, and GV@MSCs groups.
Conclusion: We developed a novel therapeutic strategy against RA using GVs-loaded MSCs that can be tracked in vivo in real-time.
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Under half (46%) of respondents have access to flexible-working arrangements, according to research by Paymentsense.
Its survey of 2,000 UK employees found that 73% of respondents feel they have a good work-life balance.
The research also found:
- 59% of respondents believe that their working lives impact on tasks such as booking a doctor’s appointment or seeing friends and family. More than a third (35%) of respondents have trouble seeing their doctor due to work hours.
- 33% of respondents are unconvinced that their workload will be covered while they are on annual leave, and 37% of respondents worry about their workload when they are on holiday.
- 52% of respondents would consider coming into work when they are unwell just to complete their workload, and 48% of respondents stay behind after work at least once a week.
- 73% of male respondents think they have a good work-life balance, compared to 67% of female respondents.
- 33% of respondents aged between 18 and 24 feel they have a good work-life balance, compared to 25% of respondents aged between 45 and 54.
- 79% of respondents who work in the IT industry believe they have a good work-life balance, compared to 37% of respondents working in the business, consulting and management sector.
Guy Moreve (pictured), head of marketing at Paymentsense, said: “It’s important that everyone within the workplace gets the best possible work-life balance. It’s crucial to the efficiency of a business. If the employees are demotivated, then this will eventually show in the quality of their work.
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Supplementary MaterialsSuppl Fig 1. 1st molars. Col2.3GFP was used like a marker to recognize mature osteoblasts, pDL and cementoblasts fibroblasts. The consequences of MTA had been examined 2, 17 and thirty days after damage and likened histologically with closing using an adhesive system. The effects of two dilutions of medium conditioned with MTA on proliferation and differentiation of mesenchymal progenitor cells derived from bone marrow (BMSC) and periodontal ligament (PDLC) in vitro were examined using the PrestoBlue viability assay, alkaline phosphatase and Von Kossa staining. The expression of markers of differentiation was assessed using real-time PCR. Results Histological analyses showed better repair in teeth restored with MTA, as shown by greater expansion of SMA9+ progenitor cells and Col2.3GFP+ osteoblasts compared with control teeth. We also observed a positive effect on differentiation of SMA9+ progenitors into osteoblasts and cementoblasts in the apical region distant from the site of injury. The in vitro data showed that MTA-conditioned medium reduced cell viability and osteogenic differentiation in both PDLC and BMSC, indicated by reduced von Kossa staining and lower expression of lineage tracing studies in our laboratory showed that alpha-smooth muscle actin (SMA)-expressing cells reside in perivascular areas within a number of tissues, including periodontal ligament (PDL), dental pulp, bone marrow and periosteum, and represent a population of mesenchymal progenitor cells.16C20 Following periodontal injury, SMA+ cells expand and differentiate into osteoblasts in the alveolar bone, fibroblasts in the PDL and cementoblasts.20 Previous studies also demonstrated that SMA+ cells in the dental pulp are capable of giving rise Acta1 to a second generation of odontoblasts during reparative dentinogenesis.19 One of the main challenges of tissue regeneration is the re-establishment of tissues damaged by disease or trauma. Optimal regeneration or repair involves recruitment or activation of MSCs and their proliferation and differentiation. Despite numerous studies on the effect of MTA on stem/progenitor cells in various dental tissues, the underlying mechanisms of the effects of MTA on regeneration of periodontal tissues and surrounding alveolar bone and its effects on differentiation of stem/progenitor cells are not fully understood.2,4,21 The present study was designed SNS-032 manufacturer to gain insight into the effects of MTA on differentiation of periodontal progenitor cells. SMACreERT2;Ai9/ Col2.3GFP transgenic mice, in which SMA serves as a marker of progenitor cells in PDL, were utilized in this study.17 The effects of MTA were examined in vivo during repair of the periodontium and surrounding alveolar bone using cell lineage-tracing experiments following SNS-032 manufacturer an experimental injury to the root furcation of mouse molars, and in in vitro studies. 2 1 | Transgenic mice The SMACreERT2;Ai9/Col2.3GFP triple transgenic mice previously have been described.17 In SMACreERT2 mice, manifestation of Cre recombinase is controlled from the SMA promoter. The administration of tamoxifen activates CreERT2 in cells expressing the transgene. To identify the recombination event, SMACreERT2 mice had been crossed with Cre-dependent Ai9 reporter mice (Rosa26-tdTomato) allowing the visualization of SMA+ cells and their progenies by manifestation from the tdTomato (reddish colored) fluorescent proteins. We crossed SMACreERT2 Then;Ai9 mice with Col2.3GFP, where green fluorescent proteins (GFP) is portrayed in differentiated osteoblasts, cementoblasts and PDL fibroblasts. Pet protocols had been authorized by the Institutional Pet Treatment Committee. 2.2 | Teeth damage in vivo Teeth damage was performed in 4- to 6-week-old SMACreERT2;Ai9/ Col2.3GFP mice. To be able to label SMA-expressing progenitors, mice had been injected with tamoxifen (75 g/g bodyweight), double, at SNS-032 manufacturer 24-hour intervals. Two times later on, the mice had been anesthetized with an intraperitoneal shot of ketamine (87 mg/kg) and xylazine (13 mg/kg) and experimental pulp perforations on maxillary 1st molars had been performed utilizing a stereo system microscope (Nikon SZM800; Nikon, Melville, NY, USA), as described previously.22 Briefly, a course I cavity was prepared having a carbide circular burr SNS-032 manufacturer (size 0.40 mm) for the occlusal surface area of the 1st maxillary molars. Pulp chambers had been opened up, and SNS-032 manufacturer coronal pulp cells had been removed having a pulp. | <urn:uuid:dd38fc82-bc99-47a1-8c81-017db7ac2d70> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://azd8835.com/supplementary-materialssuppl-fig-1-1st-molars-col2-3gfp-was-used-like-a/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572833.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817001643-20220817031643-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.934619 | 1,080 | 1.695313 | 2 |
PHINMA supports different advocacies that make lives better. PHINMA Foundation Inc., gives out financial assistance to various causes.
Art and Culture
PHINMA Foundation, Inc. is a supporter of Philippines arts and culture. The foundation provides grants to artists and art institutions that preserve Filipino identity and heritage. PFI has given financial support to Ballet Philippine and Philippine Educational Theater Association.
PHINMA Foundation, Inc is committed to education. Aside from the flagship program, PFI gives financial assistance for students studying in science schools through its Science and Engineering Fund. PFI gives a stipend to high school and college students to help in their education. PHINMA Foundation is assisting 96 students in 18 different schools. PHINMA also supports those pursuing Theological studies.
Environment and Disaster
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Vodafone McLaren Mercedes is the first motor sport stakeholder in the world to receive the FIA Institute's Environmental Award for the Achievement of Excellence.
The award is part of a broader initiative between the FIA and the FIA Institute aimed at evaluating and reducing the environmental impact of motor sport. It is also the highest level attainable within the FIA Institute Sustainability Programme, which helps motor sport stakeholders to measure, improve and be recognised for their environmental performance.
Underpinning the Sustainability Programme is an environmental accreditation scheme - the Environmental Certification Framework - the first to have been developed specifically for motor sport. It enables National Sporting Authorities, teams, circuits, manufacturers, and event organisers to achieve the highest standards in environmental management.
Organisations that sign up are rated against three levels of environmental performance, so measuring their achievement and providing a benchmark against which to improve.
Shortly after the scheme was announced, in June 2012, McLaren applied for accreditation and underwent a series of stringent assessments set out by FIA Institute environmental experts. The Formula One team achieved the highest level through demonstrating a commitment to continual improvement and impressive environmental awareness throughout the entire organisation.
"McLaren's award is an important step in the recognition by motor sport of the social responsibility our community must acknowledge if our championships are to remain in tune with the key environmental debates we are all a part of," said FIA President, Jean Todt. "The FIA and the FIA Institute are researching the environmental impact of motor sports across all our world championships."
"This is a fantastic achievement for a motor sport organisation," added FIA Institute President, Gerard Saillant, "especially as the assessment is based on the leading environmental standards across all industries. We hope that other motor sport stakeholders will now follow McLaren's lead."
"We're delighted to receive this Award for Excellence from the FIA Institute," said Martin Whitmarsh. "It's great that the sport is encouraging those within it to improve their environmental performance and we are thrilled to be the first to achieve the highest level."
"We pride ourselves on our environmental credentials," added McLaren's Head of Sustainability, Ian MacDonald, "but the FIA Institute assessment really put those to the test. As a result, we have made major changes to further improve the sustainability of the team and the accreditation process has been worthwhile just for that."
The FIA Institute's Environmental Certification Framework has been developed in partnership with leading environmental consultancy Det Norske Veritas (DNV), as well as the Institute's Sustainability Advisory Panel, composed of environmental experts from across motor sport. The accreditation process itself is led by FIA Institute environmental consultant Even Wiger, who has implemented similar schemes such as IS0 14001 and other environmental certification programmes across a range of sectors, including in motor sport in his previous role as Managing Director of Rally Norway. | <urn:uuid:dc7c343a-776c-431d-b82c-ae344df52d8b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.pitpass.com/public/print_article.php?fes_art_id=48395 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573699.52/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819131019-20220819161019-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.950976 | 587 | 1.929688 | 2 |
The Watermelon Man
Bill Davis has looked into this one, and reports that Geneva Pettit believes that the man in the Watermelon Wagon is named Owen T. Karsner, who had such a wagon in Carrollton.
Kathryn Salyers believes the photo was probably taken on Main Street in Carrollton, with the Ohio River in the background. She thought perhaps he grew watermelons down in the bottom behind him in the photo. The advertisement in the doorway may have something to do with a reunion of the Dixie Cavaliers, a Civil War group, perhaps about the time they met on the courthouse square.
Kathryn thinks the house in the rear of the photo looks like ones that were on “Upper” Main Street, but Geneva Pettit says that Karsner once lived in the house with the big columns on the southeast corner of Main and Second Street (see the 1913 flood picture on the left, immediately above the watermelon man on the prior page) | <urn:uuid:6f2d8fee-405b-4cf9-8425-be2144f808e6> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://nkyviews.com/carroll/text/watermelon_man.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570767.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808061828-20220808091828-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.969881 | 204 | 1.585938 | 2 |
By Alex Quayle, Senior Policy Officer, Sustrans Scotland (a member of Stop Climate Chaos Scotland)
Changing the way we travel is vital to reducing carbon emissions and fighting climate change. But just having more electric vehicles on our streets is not the answer. To make a real difference, we need to cut carbon levels quickly and deeply. That means getting a lot more people to leave their cars at home and choosing to walk and cycle for everyday trips.
More than a quarter of Scotland’s carbon emissions come from transport. But, unlike the energy and industrial sectors, which also produce a lot of carbon, it has made the least reduction in its emissions. Doing something about carbon that comes from the exhaust pipes of cars, lorries and planes is a no-brainer. And it is exactly what the Scottish government have decided to tackle, with their plans to phase-out the need to buy new fossil fuel cars by 2032.
However, combining cleaner vehicles with getting more people to swap their cars for trips by foot or bike delivers a bigger reduction in Scotland’s carbon emissions. Research indicates that this could halve transport carbon emissions by 2050. The move would come with extra benefits too, such as improving people’s general health and activity levels. Most importantly, it’s a change which is cheaper, and which can be done more quickly.
Climate change demands cuts in carbon as quickly as possible. But the Scottish Government predicts it will take until 2030 to phase-out even half of fossil-fuelled vehicles from urban environments. And the electricity used to charge them is not yet carbon neutral. There is a lot that needs to happen before we can start relying only on electric cars as the answer to climate change.
We don’t just need cleaner vehicles, we need fewer of them on our roads. Whilst we wait for technology to catch up, there is still a lot we can be doing to make a difference to the way we travel. For example, we can:
- Build more segregated cycle lanes along main roads in cities, towns and to commuter belts.
- Have secure bike parking and changing facilities in all workplaces.
- Reduce access for cars driving into city centres. Use the free space to make better public places and safer space for people on foot and bikes.
- Improve our planning system to make sure important local services like shops and the GP are in a short, easy walk or cycle for local communities.
- Shut the streets to cars around school gates. This will improve road safety and air quality and encourage more people to leave the car at home.
At Sustrans Scotland we want everyone to have the choice to walk and cycle for simple, everyday journeys. This will help lower carbon emissions, unblock our urban areas and make Scotland a healthier nation. With this in mind, the Scottish Government deserves credit for doubling the yearly active travel budget to £80 million. This will help make walking and cycling safer and more attractive to many.
But the same government also predicts that by 2032, traffic levels will have risen by more than a quarter. We cannot, and must not let our cities become choked by cars and harmful fumes as we wait for electric cars to come to the rescue.
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His scientific interests lie mostly in Stroke, Genome-wide association study, Genetics, Pathology and Internal medicine. His Stroke study integrates concerns from other disciplines, such as Coronary artery disease, Dementia, Disease, Vascular disease and Ischemia. His research in Genome-wide association study intersects with topics in Meta-analysis, Case-control study, Genetic association and Bioinformatics.
His Genetics research is multidisciplinary, incorporating elements of Familial hemiplegic migraine and Migraine. His research integrates issues of White matter, Magnetic resonance imaging and Hyperintensity in his study of Pathology. His study explores the link between Internal medicine and topics such as Cardiology that cross with problems in Cerebral infarction.
Stroke, Internal medicine, Pathology, CADASIL and Disease are his primary areas of study. The various areas that Martin Dichgans examines in his Stroke study include Vascular disease, Genome-wide association study, Dementia and Blood pressure. His studies deal with areas such as Case-control study, Genetic association and Bioinformatics as well as Genome-wide association study.
Mendelian randomization is closely connected to Cardiology in his research, which is encompassed under the umbrella topic of Internal medicine. Martin Dichgans studied Pathology and Hyperintensity that intersect with Lesion. His Disease study frequently draws connections between related disciplines such as Neuroscience.
The scientist’s investigation covers issues in Internal medicine, Disease, Stroke, Cardiology and Mendelian randomization. His Internal medicine research is multidisciplinary, incorporating perspectives in Endocrinology and Oncology. Martin Dichgans combines subjects such as Neuroscience and Bioinformatics with his study of Disease.
Martin Dichgans interconnects Meta-analysis, Lesion and Genome-wide association study in the investigation of issues within Stroke. His Hyperintensity research extends to Genome-wide association study, which is thematically connected. His Mendelian randomization study combines topics from a wide range of disciplines, such as Odds ratio, Body mass index, Genetic predisposition, Confidence interval and Genetic association.
Martin Dichgans focuses on Disease, Internal medicine, Stroke, Cardiology and Neuroscience. His research in the fields of Dementia and Cognitive decline overlaps with other disciplines such as Medium term. His study looks at the relationship between Internal medicine and fields such as Immune system, as well as how they intersect with chemical problems.
His Stroke research includes elements of Odds ratio, Mendelian randomization, Obesity and Etiology. His Cardiology study combines topics in areas such as Endovascular treatment and Logistic regression. The study incorporates disciplines such as Tau pathology and Patient centered in addition to Neuroscience.
This overview was generated by a machine learning system which analysed the scientist’s body of work. If you have any feedback, you can contact us here.
The International Classification of Headache Disorders, 3rd edition (beta version)
Jes Olesen;André Bes;Robert Kunkel;James W. Lance.
Erratum: Genome-wide association study identifies variants at CLU and PICALM associated with Alzheimer's disease (Nature Genetics (2009) 41 (1088-1093))
D Harold;R Abraham;P Hollingworth;R Sims.
Nature Genetics (2013)
Neuroimaging standards for research into small vessel disease and its contribution to ageing and neurodegeneration
Joanna M. Wardlaw;Eric E. Smith;Geert J Biessels;Charlotte Cordonnier.
Lancet Neurology (2013)
Genome-wide association study identifies variants at CLU and PICALM associated with Alzheimer's disease.
Denise Harold;Richard Abraham;Paul Hollingworth;Rebecca Sims.
Nature Genetics (2009)
National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke–Canadian Stroke Network Vascular Cognitive Impairment Harmonization Standards
Vladimir Hachinski;Costantino Iadecola;Ron C. Petersen;Monique M. Breteler.
Common variants at ABCA7, MS4A6A/MS4A4E, EPHA1, CD33 and CD2AP are associated with Alzheimer's disease
Paul Hollingworth;Denise Harold;Rebecca Sims;Amy Gerrish.
Nature Genetics (2011)
Mechanisms of sporadic cerebral small vessel disease: insights from neuroimaging
Joanna M Wardlaw;Colin Smith;Martin Dichgans;Martin Dichgans.
Lancet Neurology (2013)
Mutation in the neuronal voltage-gated sodium channel SCN1A in familial hemiplegic migraine.
Martin Dichgans;Tobias Freilinger;Gertrud Eckstein;Elena Babini.
The Lancet (2005)
The phenotypic spectrum of CADASIL: clinical findings in 102 cases.
M. Dichgans;M. Mayer;I. Uttner;R. Brüning.
Annals of Neurology (1998)
Genetic evidence implicates the immune system and cholesterol metabolism in the aetiology of Alzheimer's disease.
Lesley Jones;Peter A. Holmans;Marian L. Hamshere;Denise Harold.
PLOS ONE (2010)
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Tipping point: Obesity crisis needs dialogue, action
According to a giant global study recently published in The New England Journal of Medicine, more than 10 percent of the world's population — 107.7 million children and 603.7 adults — is now obese. In the United States, nearly 70 percent of the population is either overweight or obese.
Travel beyond the U.S. borders, though, and you’ll see the same problem elsewhere: Obesity is now a growing phenomenon in just about every corner of the world, in poor and rich countries alike.
People in America are now bigger, and suffering from more obesity-related diseases, than ever before — prompting cities across the country to desperately try to fight back with measures like soda taxes and calorie labels.
The study is the largest systematic analysis of obesity data ever done, with researchers combing the medical literature and crunching thousands of data sets on obesity in adults and children covering 195 countries.
One important takeaway
The main driver of obesity is not lack of exercise: According to their paper, physical activity levels began to decline before the global obesity rate started to surge — which means changes to the food environment are the prime obesity culprit.
"Increased availability, accessibility, and affordability of energy-dense foods, along with intense marketing of such foods, could explain excess energy intake and weight gain among different populations,” the researchers wrote.
We are also simply eating more calories per person: Portion sizes have gone up, and eating outside of the home often means heavier, unhealthier foods, and sugary drinks to wash them down.
Yet, we often focus on the need for more exercise as the way to shrink our waistlines, and the study suggests that focus is misguided.
Indeed, the evidence is now clear: Exercise is excellent for health, but it's not important for weight loss. The two things should never be given equal weight in the obesity debate.
What seems to work?
At the individual level, some very good research on what works for weight loss in adults comes from the National Weight Control Registry, a study that has parsed the traits, habits, and behaviors of adults who have lost at least 30 pounds and kept it off for a minimum of one year.
The researchers behind the study found that people who have had success losing weight share a few things in common: They weigh themselves at least once a week. They restrict their calorie intake, stay away from high-fat foods, and watch their portion sizes. They also exercise regularly.
Additional details on the evidence for exercise and weight loss can be found at the following site:
Additional points from the study
• Having a high body weight is now considered a risk factor for a range of chronic diseases, including diabetes, cardiovascular disease, chronic kidney disease, and a number of cancers. And as obesity has become more common, so has the toll for these health problems.
• Childhood obesity is growing faster than adult obesity — and the U.S. rate is one of the worst. Of the 20 largest countries in the world, the U.S. had the worst rate of childhood obesity, with 13 percent of children now obese.
• A growing body of evidence points toward being overweight or obese in youth and damage to your heart health which can increase your risk of death. We also know that when people are obese as children, it can cut into life expectancy in a serious way.
• Medical advances have helped reduce obesity-related deaths in rich countries, like the U.S., where the death rate linked to obesity has actually fallen over the past 20 years. These advances in medicine have helped people manage their high blood pressure and other cardiovascular problems, the researchers said.
“Today, for the first time in history, more people are dying from too much unhealthy food than they are from too little healthy food,” Mike Bloomberg, WHO Global Ambassador for Noncommunicable Diseases, said in a statement. “This is a global epidemic that governments can no longer ignore because there are many steps that they can take to tackle obesity and save lives.”
The complete global study published in the New England Journal of Medicine can be accessed at:
Obesity is truly a public health crisis of the 21st century (worldwide as noted in the newest research) and particularly damaging in the U.S., with more than 150 million Americans being overweight or obese.
In December 2013, the American Medical Association voted to declare obesity a disease, a condition that affects more than one-third of adults and 17 percent of children. AMA documents refer to obesity as an “urgent chronic condition,” a “major health concern,” and a “complex disorder.” This follows a steep 30-year climb in American’s weight with the resultant concern over the tidal wave of expensive health problems.
Upcoming blogs will discuss some of the relevant issues to consider, both at the individual and societal level to address this complex issue of an unhealthful lifestyle affecting so many individuals in our society and which can lead to a diminished quality of life.
Mark Mahoney, Ph.D., has been a registered dietitian nutritionist for over 30 years and completed graduate studies in Public Health at Columbia University. He can be reached at email@example.com. | <urn:uuid:b2d3b276-4efc-4d66-bb04-3bf0aa2b1836> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.tallahassee.com/story/life/wellness/2017/07/31/tipping-point-obesity-crisis-needs-dialogue-action/523312001/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573172.64/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818063910-20220818093910-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.957832 | 1,161 | 3.078125 | 3 |
Having a VNA opens up so many possibilities for RF measurements. Typical measurements are antenna matching, RF filters, impedance matching and cable loss. But it an do more. You can use it even to measure the coaxial cable length – a task that is normally performed with time domain reflectometer (TRD), an instrument I have some knowledge about as I have designed/built few such circuits (Time Domain Reflectometer pulse generator, TDR kit, Avalanche pulse generator and Potato chip to TDR circuit).
Accurately measuring cable length with NanoVNA article will go through some mathematics on deriving TDR response with VNA data. Remember that the VNA does its measurements in the frequency domain. If we transform the frequency domain data into the time domain, we should see the time domain nature of our measurement (with certain limitations though). By using the magnitude and phase of the signal measured throughout the frequency sweep, we can compute the distance from where reflection occurred.
NanoVNA To Test The Loss & Length Of Coax Cables by Jim W6LG YouTube Elmer for Ham Radio Basics
The NanoVNA does many things. Two of which are testing coax cables for loss and length. Jim W6LG shows how to do both in this first video about the NanoVNA. In a subsequent video, Jim will show how the NanoVNA can be used to check antennas for resonance, impedance and reactance. The software that Jim uses is NanoVNA Saver. That software is free and easy to use.
Here is the link to the software : https://github.com/mihtjel/nanovna-saver
#316: Use NanoVNA to measure coax length – BONUS Transmission Lines and Smith Charts, SWR and more
nanoVNA – Coaxial Cable Measurement Methods (Characteristic Impedance and Cable Loss) – VE6WGM
1. Calibrating the nanoVNA
2. The Smith Chart – Briefly (Begins at 8:24)
3. Measuring the characteristic impedance of coax cable. (Begins at 11:46)
4. Measuring coax cable loss. (Begins at 22:34) *Correction: At 23:34 I stated that the nanoVNA has a directional coupler. I have since discovered that this is not accurate information. The nanoVNA actually uses a bridge to make it’s measurements. My apologies. For more information on how this works, please see this excellent video here: https://youtu.be/yGKWBpgN8PU
#502 NANOVNA Demystified
#37: Use a scope to measure the length and impedance of coax
Cable Basics; Transmission, Reflection, Impedance Matching, TDR
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I recently came across Andrew Herman Middleton’s Facebook and Instagram pages, known as “The Zosima Society.” He also started a Facebook group called “Orthodoxy and Culture,” which currently has 288 members. The description for the group is:
This is a place to discuss how Orthodoxy influences culture, and what kind of culture is beneficial to the Orthodox spiritual life.”
Andrew’s Facebook page is “Orthodoxy + Arts” and his page description says:
“An international network of Orthodox Christian non-liturgical artists. Previously OrthArts.”
Andrew features non-liturgical artists, musicians, and writers who are Orthodox in his Instagram posts, and has recently begun a series based on my novel CHERRY BOMB, which features an Orthodox monastery, church, nuns, saints, and even weeping icons. He uses the hash tag #zosimasociety for each post, and featured the first one for CHERRY BOMB on Monday, August 6—the Feast of the Transfiguration. Here’s what his post looks like (left). Follow him on Instagram for future posts.
He is also host of the Protecting Veil You Tube Channel, home of the “Collective Wisdom Project.” Here’s a recent interview he did with Father Stephen Freeman, “Why Did You Become Orthodox?” Andrew hopes to be in Memphis in the next few weeks and has asked me for an interview, so stay tuned.
I’m not sure how he balances all of these projects, but Andrew also has a site called “New Hagiography” which is “the ancient indie folktronica project of itinerant musician Andrew Herman Middleton.” So, what’s the New Hagiography about?
Ancient holy men and women played an important role in the history and development of Western culture, but knowledge of many of them has been forgotten. Who were these intriguing figures, what animated their lives, what were their hopes and dreams?
New Hagiography retells their stories, beginning with the flowering of Celtic Christianity in 5th century Ireland.
A note about terminology: iconography refers to painted images of Christ and the saints; hagiography refers to the writing of their stories with words.
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Switching to a modern digital eQMS from a paper-based QMS will save a medical device startups time and money by supporting virtual collaboration, digital signatures, and automating your processes. Going digital to an Electronic Quality Management System (eQMS) can actually become a requirement. When your documentation history grows, in order to stay compliant with the regulation, the cost of running a paper-based system becomes too high and the possibility of making mistakes will increase. The migration to an eQMS raises some concern and two topics we hear about are:
- Migrating historical documentation is too heavy a workload for a team focused on product development
- There is a compliance risk if migrated records are questioned on integrity
The key is to have a plan for dealing with your document history. This plan can either be created and executed by yourself or you can get help from external partners.
Planning the data migration to eQMS
In most cases it makes sense to move all current valid documents into the digital system. Hereby, you will be creating one single digital repository of documentation and one process for preparing and maintaining your records digitally moving forward.
Deciding on how to handle your documentation history and what to migrate to your new eQMS is a central part of your migration plan.
The migration plan identifies your current documentation which could be Standard Operating Procedures, training records and parts or a complete medical device technical file and design history file. Step one is to locate all files, create an index of all records and establish who is the document owner.
Companies moving from a manual QMS often have a blend of uncontrolled files in a file folder combined with printed copies with wet-ink signatures placed in paper binders. The paper binder records should be scanned to pdf format ready to be migrated to your eQMS serving as your baseline document. This is the formal starting point in your eQMS including the historical approval. The corresponding digital source copy e.g. in word format should also be migrated as this is the version you will use when preparing future versions of the record in your eQMS.
This detective work is valuable as you often identify missing documents and/or approvals which you have time to correct in your old QMS before migrating.
After establishing an initial overview of the history, you need to decide if documents are to be migrated as-is (typically your Design History Files) or if documents needs to change as part of switching to an eQMS. Examples of documents needing changes are Standard Operating Procedures like your document and change control procedures, that as part of the project changes, and there most be an action plan for implementing this change.
The migration plan also needs to specify the method for doing the actual migration. This can be an automated process, which has the capacity to migrate thousands of documents in minutes. Or it can be a manual process where a migration team handles a smaller amount of records manually using a normal user interface.
External resources can easily do most of the above-mentioned work. Your team will define the migration scope, find the records and review any proposals for procedure changes.
Testing your migration routine
Data integrity is a key topic as you need to establish proof that the records you migrated to your eQMS are valid and cannot be questioned later. This involves a test of your migration-plan and migration-routine to document that the migration did not change your records unintentionally. After finishing the migration, planned and actual data are compared, and a report of checks, findings and issues should be summarized. Needed corrections are done and retesting is carried out until all issues are eliminated.
Testing ensures you have control of both your content and the migration process. Furthermore, it ensures that you have documentation of your data integrity. A last important benefit is that you and your coworkers will see how your content and processes will be presented in eQMS at go live. This is done without actually going live – and where there is time for more training, which builds up your internal system and process expertise.
This part of the process can also be handled by an external partner, which can load all data in draft status. This means that your team will only be responsible for the final review and approval. The external team can also prepare the documentation of the test for your final approval.
Data migration – for real
The last action before going live on your eQMS is doing the final migration of documentation. This exercise is done as part of a cut-over plan which outlines all actions needed when switching from your current QMS to an eQMS. This is also the time where the migration of documentation is done to the production environment.
This exercise is a repetition of what was done during the test and most often runs without any surprises. Until the migration and cut over is completed successfully there is an opportunity to abort cut over and return to the current QMS. This ensures that you have control of when to switch to your new eQMS system. It also means that you can make sure all is in place before firing up your new eQMS.
It’s doable and value-creating
Migration of your history to an eQMS is a must-have, doable and value creating activity. It must be done to establish your eQMS documentation baseline. It also forces an evaluation of your existing documentation -identifying potential gaps and errors that you have time to correct.
Testing the migration plan and routine shows you how the eQMS will present your content at go live. It also gives you an opportunity to evaluate if you are ready for a smooth and controlled transition.
Documentation of the migration plan, tests and actual results ensures proof of data integrity and that your migrated records can be accepted in a digital format.
Finally, you should consider if your team or an external partner should handle the time-consuming preparations, the testing and the proof of data integrity. The central tasks, which you and your team is responsible for is locating the records for migration, approving plans and progress and digitally reviewing and approving migrated records to a final state.
SimplerQMS is a Ready-to-use eQMS for Medical Device Startup’s. We help you take a shortcut to market access by getting the required processes, templates and records in an Electronic Quality Management System accepted by the regulatory authorities. We are 21 CFR Part 11 Compliant and Validated according to GAMP5. This means that you can rely on a QMS and DHF that runs 100% digitally. Get rid of the paper binders, save time and start working more efficiently. | <urn:uuid:bcff053f-1aa0-48bb-9bfa-19de1c010a20> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.simplerqms.com/medical-device-start-ups-fear-migrating-to-eqms/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572033.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814113403-20220814143403-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.928417 | 1,354 | 1.648438 | 2 |
Earthquakes strike Philippines and Japan
Mindanao, Apr 19: An earthquake initially measured at magnitude 6.0 struck Mindanao island in the Philippines on Tuesday, the European Mediterranean Seismological Centre (EMSC) said.
The earthquake was recorded at a depth of 10 kilometers (6.21 miles), the EMSC confirmed.
🔔#Earthquake (#lindol) M6.0 occurred 77 km E of #Mati (#Philippines) 8 min ago (local time 09:23:08). More info at:— EMSC (@LastQuake) April 19, 2022
Earlier on Tuesday, Japan also recorded an earthquake, in Fukushima prefecture in the northeast of the country, measuring a magnitude 5.3.
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In March 2014, when she was 11, seventh-grader WIM Annie Wang became the youngest female chess master in the United States -- a record that had stood since 1996 when reigning U.S. women’s champion Irina Krush set it at age 12.
She was turned onto chess at the age of five, while attending a festival at a park near her home and observing a simul. Annie remembers: “I was interested in the toy-like pieces and started learning chess.” She has since compiled a number of impressive accolades, including an undefeated win in the U2100 section of the Annual Recession Buster Open in San Diego in 2013, and first place in the U18 Girls section of the North American Youth Chess Championship last June. There, she also earned her current title.
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Teachers and Technology
“Teachers matter the most in a student’s life because they deliver academic knowledge. Good teachers can inspire and great teachers boost long-term life outcomes.”
A few years ago, my colleague passed away. She taught history and geography, which is not sufficient to describe her. Even though I was a colleague, I found her classes very captivating. She put all her efforts into engaging and capturing the imagination of students. The students who were not interested in history also did not complain about her class because she made the lectures very interesting and engaging. From the Pyramids to the Incas, she used technology to tour them Worldwide and summarize the lessons with simple projects. She conducted debates, took them on virtual tours, and transported them to the era.
I also recall her discussing leadership and social responsibility in that context and adding value to students’ thought processes.
Teachers matter enormously. Research shows that the quality of teachers is one of the principal determinants of student success. I could never excel in math because my math teacher made the lectures incredibly dull. Hence, in my opinion, going from a poor-performing teacher to a great teacher can increase a student’s learning by multiple years. Good teachers boost their students’ long-term life outcomes, and poor teachers are responsible for their failure. Teachers know how critical their day-to-day actions and behaviors shape their students’ futures.
Education systems across the globe are focusing and investing in technology to help teachers become more effective in teaching. In many cases, the results of the impact of technology are very encouraging, and in a few, technology remains underutilized, hence undervalued.
Teachers, Technology and Learning –
The closing down of the schools worldwide has highlighted the inescapable importance of technology and how to leverage it for desired outcomes. Let us see how investing in technology can augment compelling learning outcomes in remote and classroom learning.
Evidence suggests that technology-savvy teachers are more productive and maintain compelling learning outcomes by using technology to power their classrooms. Many may think technology is a distraction, but evidence suggests it encourages active participation in the school. Using devices like a computer, tablet, or other types of technology in the classroom help turn traditionally dull subjects into interactive and fun activities. One of the teachers in our school avoided using technology. But she was delighted when she learned to use Appleworks templates, make PowerPoint presentations, and use multimedia in the classroom. She admitted that technology increased her efficiency and that her relationship with students changed positively.
I have been a teacher for a decade, and I have been using technology. It has certainly made my life easy! I have been using technology for almost everything – from maintaining rosters, using multimedia channels for preparing my lessons, video editing, and scanning pictures. I use Chronicle Cloud for taking formative assessments on the app. You can write descriptive notes on the child with multimedia attachments- audio, video, and images. Chronicle Cloud makes note-taking extremely easy. You can confer Notes on the students’ progress to refer to it in the future.
Technology and self-directed learning-
Self-directed learning is a psychological process that purposely drives students to learn how to solve problems. Self-directed learners usually actively participate in learning tasks such as completing classroom tasks, planning, and evaluating. Self-directed learners tend to search the online learning platforms for resources.
I realized the following must be present for a transformation to occur –
- a clear emphasis on self-directed learning
- the use of the latest technology methods
- the incorporation of critical thinking skills, and
- the use of problem-based learning that aligns with the times we are living in
With technology in every field, teachers should also consider using technology and become active participants to make their teaching effective and stress-free.
A Note for the Management and the Government-
Make the teaching profession more attractive: Teachers enter the teaching profession for various reasons. They have their own families to take care of, and – like most professionals – they respond to incentives, support, accountability, and the quality of the management around them. The management and the government should care for the teachers because they are at the center of education and learning.
The school management should provide continuous support and motivation and high-quality, in-service professional development so that teachers continue to improve their skills. Many teachers find technology cumbersome. These teachers need to be coached and mentored to use technology as a tool. Teachers must be constantly coached and mentored to incorporate technology in the classroom.
Management matters. Better managed schools deliver better results. The school management should create virtual learning environments so that teachers can optimize pedagogical skills with technology. iPads and tablets are effective instruments for sharing lesson plans, notes on individual students, assessments, feedback, and grades. For instance, Chronicle Cloud has reduced my time on a particular task to almost half! Virtual environments enhance interactions with different schools across the district, and this has proven to be an excellent tool to motivate teachers to give more to their professional commitments.
Over the past couple of years, technology has entered every aspect of our lives. Technology endows us with enough resources to reach out to every individual student to factor in their areas of strengths and their areas of development. After the technology boom, personalized learning and feedback have become almost a routine task for teachers. Chronicle Cloud acts as an instant recording and feedback mechanism for me.
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ASCO PerspectiveDon Dizon, MD, ASCO Expert“As the global incidence of cancer continues to grow, it’s essential that health care providers understand different cultural and social perspectives on cancer. This study reveals some important overlap between Maya and Western medicine, offering insights that can help health care providers more effectively communicate with patients of all backgrounds.”
Newswise — ALEXANDRIA, Va. — Understanding and integrating patients’ cultural beliefs into cancer treatment plans may help improve their acceptance of and adherence to treatment in multicultural settings. Researchers examined traditional Maya healers’ understanding of cancer and published their findings online today in the Journal of Global Oncology.
In-depth interviews were conducted with 67 healers across various ethnic and language groups in Guatemala exploring how its indigenous people define and treat cancer. The analysis found that, while key differences emerge between Maya and Western medicine perspectives, they also share many fundamental concepts.
“Maya healers understand cancer in remarkably similar ways to Western doctors,” said lead study author Mónica Berger-González, PhD, of the Institute for Environmental Decisions at ETH Zurich in Switzerland. “Recognizing this is the first step to bridging the gap between cultures and ultimately providing better, more effective services for indigenous populations.”
Nearly half of the population in Guatemala (approximately 5.4 million people) relies on Maya medicine. Traditional healers have practiced in Guatemala for more than 2,000 years, with the healing tradition passed down orally and through apprenticeship. According to the authors, this is one of the first studies to explore the subject of Maya healers and cancer across several ethno-linguistic groups, and limited data exist on survival outcomes.
Of the Maya healers interviewed, 46% were illiterate. Although only 36% were able to define the word cancer, the majority (85%) was familiar with the term and identified malignancy as a core characteristic of the disease, explaining the concept of metastasis clearly.
The analysis also revealed that Maya healers understand the origins of cancer in ways that align closely with Western medical concepts. When asked to identify the physical causes of cancer, 10 of 17 causes provided correlated directly with cancer risk factors as understood in Western medicine. Healers cited causes such as the consumption of harmful foods (46.3%), hereditary conditions (29.6%), and lifestyle factors such as smoking or working with toxic substances (29.6%).
One notable difference identified between the two perspectives is that Maya healers’ view of cancer is not limited to the physical body, but rather includes a complex imbalance of the emotions, mind and spirit. The Maya treatment of cancer is consequently holistic and seeks to restore that balance. This is achieved through a combination of methods—such as regulating diet, plant therapy, detoxifying baths—as well as social, psychological and spiritual methods, the latter of which the authors note is harder to grasp in Western medicine.
“If health care professionals do not understand indigenous peoples’ conception of cancer, these patients are far less likely to accept and adhere to treatment in the public health care system,” said Dr. Berger-González.
Many indigenous people in Guatemala do not have access to Western medicine services, cannot afford them, or prefer Maya medicine even when Western medical treatment is available. Yet Western medicine practitioners have little to no training in multicultural management or traditional indigenous medicine.
The authors offer three key recommendations to help address the challenges of providing care in multicultural settings:
- Adequate training of health care professionals on cultural and social perceptions of cancer,- Increasing evidence-based research on traditional medicine, and- Establishing national regulations on integrating traditional and Western medicine—following other countries like Peru, Brazil, and Ecuador, which have successfully incorporated these aspects of care.
The authors plan to continue their transdisciplinary research with the goal of providing biomedical evidence that advances different aspects of Maya medicine.
This research was supported by the Cogito Foundation, the Swiss Embassy in Guatemala, and the ETH Zurich.
The Journal of Global Oncology was founded to address cancer care, research, and care delivery issues unique to countries and settings with limited health-care resources. JGO is funded through the Conquer Cancer Foundation of the American Society of Clinical Oncology with the support of the Conquer Cancer Foundation Mission Endowment, the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, and Novartis Oncology. Expanded reach of the journal is made possible through collaboration between ASCO and the Union for International Cancer Control.
Comisión Internacional de Derechos Humanos. (2001). Quinto Informe sobre la situación de los Derechos Humanos en Guatemala. Capítulo X: Derechos de los Pueblos Indígenas. Guatemala: CIDH.
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You need to be inspired daily, if you want to live up to your purpose daily
Knowing your purpose is easy, living up to it daily, is not!
In a previous article, I discussed about vision to be the single biggest reason why start-ups succeed.
I strongly believe in this, not because it’s a highly discussed topic but because there are plenty of real life examples of great companies and individuals who started with a vision, pursued a vision and still in the game after decades or sometimes even more than a century since they first founded their business or the movement.
General Motors, Southwest airline, Apple, Google, Tesla, Martin Luther King, Nelson Mandela, and so many other visionary companies and individuals have proved that regardless of what we do, if we pursue a vision, it’s possible to build something which lasts.
It can be a company, an idea, a cause or anything we could imagine. The key is to be guided by a vision which does not change for next few decades, maybe a 100 years!
To summarize, the following are the ingredients of a vision.
- Values — the beliefs and principles which guide you, and your people
- Purpose — what you stand for, and why you exist
- Goals — a goal set 10 to 30 years in future which sounds crazy for the externals, but you know it’s doable
- The big picture — what you will become, what you will achieve and what you will create when you achieve the goal.
I also discussed how you could articulate values, purpose, goals and the big picture. With this, you could (re)discovered and established your vision, but what then?
Building a vision is easy, living up to it is not!
You might have built a great vision, but what’s important and seems difficult is that how you pursue it. If it was easy, probably everyone would have built lasting businesses and become great individuals who left a legacy behind.
It’s not easy. It’s extremely difficult to pursue a vision which is greater than oneself. This is why there are only few great companies surviving and thriving even after decades. This is why there only few individuals who are remembered by the entire human kind. How do we do this? What does it take?
Companies which are lead by great leaders, seems to thrive. In fact, they do. As individuals who are just starting your first business, it looks impossible to become one of those great leaders.
Those leaders have so many years of experience running businesses and leading people. They are well funded and experiment all the time. They have built personal brands as leaders which attract great people who then go on to further build the company. It seems you are quite not there.
Maybe you are not. Maybe you are, but you don’t know. The good new is, it’s possible to become a great leader without having a great business or a personal brand.
Leaders inspire. They inspire those around them to work for them, not because they need to, but because they want to.
They inspire so much that people go on to inspire more and more. It’s like a ripple on the water. Leaders cast stones which create the first ripple, and the rest happens automagically!
However, one possibly cannot inspire others if they are not inspired themselves. Leaders inspire because they are inspired first. They are inspired to inspire others. Are you inspired to inspire your people?
Being inspired is easier said than done. It takes a massive amount of energy to be inspired daily so you can inspire others daily. Inspiration does not come from what you do. It comes from what you achieve.
It’s like confidence. The more you achieve, the more confident you are. The more you achieve things which push you one step towards your vision, the more inspired you will be. The more you achieve what matters the most, the more inspired you will be.
Achieve what matters the most daily, and be inspired daily.
Eat that damn frog — first thing first
~Your “frog” is your biggest, most important task, the one you are most likely to procrastinate on if you don’t do something about it. It is also the one task that can have the greatest positive impact on your life and results at the moment…~ Brian Tracy
It’s a world full of distraction we all live in. starting from social media, smart phone notifications, emails, to-do lists, meetings and so on take majority of our time that we do not have the time to do the most important things. We do not have time to be inspired. We do not have time to inspire.
The world famous 80/20 rule points the way here. It says that 80% of the work we do accounts only for 20% of the results we aspire for, and 20% of the work we do accounts for a massive 80% of the results we need to achieve.
It’s clear that doing more does not necessarily mean achieving more. One has to actually do less, to achieve more. Get that 20% done the first thing. Again, it’s not easy. It’s difficult because this 20% needs 80% of our energry. It’s not the time but the energy we consume to get this 20% done.
Spending energy on this 20% of work has to be the one and only goal everyday if you want to build a lasting business, or to build a great career if you are employed. This has to be done the first thing everyday.
Why? because mornings are the most efficient and effective time of the day during which our brain and mind are refreshed, recharged and ready to tackle the most challenging tasks. Waste the morning and you will be working on the 80% mindlessly for the rest of the day.
Get in and be in “The Flow”
The flow — the total involvement, the state in which people are so involved in an activity that nothing else seems to matter ~ Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
To be inspired daily, you need to know that you are making progress towards your vision everyday. You need to be sure that you spend your majority of the energy on what matters the most.
You can’t spend your energy on what matters the most if you are distracted by shallow work. You need to deep work to create the best possible value. You need to deep work on the 20%.
If you are distracted by the notifications and emails and meetings and people and so on, you can’t deep work. You can’t deep work unless you are totally involved in what you do. You need to get in to flow and be in flow for a longer period of time in order to deep work. how do you get in and be in flow?
One could follow the simple few steps to get in to flow and be in flow to deep work.
- Wake up before 6am. Do not use your phone, emails and internet for the next 4 hours.
- Spend 5mins soon after waking up to reflect on your vision and goals. Write them down on your journal or note book daily. Become the person you want to be now!
- Start an activity which helps to focus ( I listen to music which helps me get in to flow. I listen to about 5 songs in repeat. Same songs, every time, everyday).
- While you are gaining focus, start working on what matters the most. the work that accounts for the 20%.
- Be in flow and deep for for at least 90mins in a stretch. Do not use phone, email and internet for this 90mins.
- Take a 30 mins break and repeat.
- Repeat daily!
Reflect and Recharge
Once you have done deep work, you know that you worked for what matters the most. Since deep work always produce results and create value, it gives you a sense of achievement. If you deep work daily, you get this sense of achievement daily.
This daily sense of achievement gives you the inspiration to go on and inspire the people around you for the rest of the day. It inspire you to inspire daily. Be inspired everyday, Do inspire everyday!
While eating a frog today is crucial, it’s important that you get ready to eat another frog tomorrow. You eat another frog tomorrow to be inspired tomorrow. To do this, you need to recharge all the energy you spent.
How you end the day determines whether you recharge and eat another frog tomorrow or not. If you want to be inspired daily, you need recharge daily.
Eat…eat well… nurture your body. Having the right food can do wonders. Eat so well that it does not make you sleepy but put you on fire.
Learn…learn to gather insights. Insights which can be applied to further improve your own life and the business. Don’t worry about collecting information, knowledge and data for the sake of it. Gather useful insights.
Sleep…sleep tight…. and sleep for at least good 6 to 7 hours everyday. But make sure you go to bed and wake up at the same time everyday. The daily routine is important in ways we would never imagine.
15mins before bed
However, before you go to bed, spend 15mins to prepare your self for tomorrow. The first 5mins of the 15mins should be to take a step back and see where you stand.
You should remind yourself that you are in a pursuit of a vision. You should remind yourself what you are aspiring to become, achieve and create because no-one else would do…
Next few minutes; plan what frog you will eat tomorrow and how you will do it. This saves a ton of energy in the morning. When you wake up, you don’t want to spend time wondering what to work on.
You don’t want to spend the precious energy on making decisions because you have a limited energy to spend everyday. You need to make sure you spend that energy first to eat that frog, not trying to figure out what frog!
You should also run the day quickly in your head just to see if at least the majority of your energy was spent on pursuing the vision.
If you find out that you were wasting time doing shallow work, give yourself a pinch as a reminder to avoid them tomorrow. If you indeed were in flow mostly, pat yourself.
P.S: Deep work doesn’t mean you always work only on your business or career. Success and happiness do not come only from building a great company.
It comes from building great and lasting human relationships as well. Don’t forget to deep work on your relationships. with you spouse, with your parents, with your siblings, with you friends and those around you!
Building a vision for yourself and for your business is easy. However living up to it and doing what matters is not so easy. It’s easier said than done. To be able to live up to it daily, you need to be inspired.
You need to be inspired daily to inspire those around you. To be inspired daily, you need to know that you achieve results which push you towards the vision you pursue.
It’s not easy to achieve results everyday, and this is why you need to get in to “flow” and be in flow to deep work. Deep work to achieve results that matters the most. To deep work, you need to first know on what you deep work. Find that damn frog and eat it daily.
We all have a limited amount of energy everyday. To be able to deep work every day, you need to recharge and reflect and recharge everyday. Learn insights, eat well and sleep tight to recharge everyday.
Take a step back and see where you stand in the pursuit of your vision. Reflect what works and what doesn’t. Learn from them. Finally, plan tomorrow so that you can eat another frog and be inspired once again!
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CoderGirl is a LaunchCode Education designed to engage and educate women in the technology community in St. Louis. The program begins with a 6-month learning cycle with class weekly on Wednesdays from 6:00-8:00pm, after which students begin work in the project cycle. CoderGirl provides a space for women of all skill levels to learn to code in a supportive community.
The CoderGirl program is an opportunity for women to network, learn and create. With professional mentors from companies like Climate Corporation, Asynchrony, and World Wide Technologies, you will get the training and support you need to launch a successful career in technology. Learn more and register here.
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En-Fold works with individuals and carers at any stage of their diagnostic journey, to provide information and support. We recognise that going through the diagnostic pathway can be a long and challenging process, with a sense of isolation afterwards.
Unfortunately, some individuals and their families and carers can get lost in the diagnostic system, unable to find the right support. Our autism support service, our training and our online information hub can equip individuals and families with the right knowledge and support for them and their situation.
We recognise that going through the diagnostic pathway is a long and challenging process resulting in questions as well as answers. Parents and carers of children and young people get lost in the diagnostic system leaving them confused and isolated after the process has ended.
We want to ensure that all children, via support to their parents, can access the best services, information and support for them. We also want to ensure all individuals receiving a diagnosis in adulthood find the right information and support.
We will act as system navigators to ensure better support, better communication, and most importantly connect individuals and families to the right support for them. All people deserve an equal chance to flourish.
"The support that Diane at En-Fold has provided to me over the past few months has been invaluable. It has made a huge difference to our family life, as well as providing better understanding of my 17-yo daughter, particularly her needs and strengths. More importantly, we now have a clearer understanding of what her path might look like as we move forward, after more than two years out of mainstream education. I'm always of the opinion that you only need to pick up one or two extra tips for something to be worthwhile, but what I've learnt over the course of our regular sessions far exceeds that. It's a shame that you have to rely on charities to get the support that families like ours needs, but thank goodness that there ARE such charities." Claire Barret June 2021
4-6 sessions of support, in the home or virtually. An excellent understanding of the emotional journey and empathetic listening skills used, to offer practical support and service signposting tailored to the individual and family's needs. Afterwards, the option of taking part in our mentoring and befriending service is available with trained volunteers supporting the individual or parent/carers of a child for a further 3 months.
What is Autism? What might this mean for me/my child and family? Assessment of individual support and information the family may need.
Information sharing on agencies, support groups, services etc, specific and tailored to the individual/family. Related disability benefits and form filling support.
Understanding behaviour and meltdowns including sensory needs within ASD and overview of strategies to support.
Education and understanding the system. Support for form filling and referrals to specific organisations if some longer-term support is required.
"Enfold have been an absolute credit in our journey with our 4 year old son being diagnosed with ASD in March 2021. They helped us understand autism so much better and about how it affects our son and the ways he processes things differently.
We really struggled to get any support with our sons autism but since working with Enfold we no longer feel alone, they gave us so much information and ideas and help when talking about the struggles we were facing with our sons behaviour. They have been so incredibly accommodating, writing us support letters when they were really needed and we have felt no judgement at all about anything, the people with Enfold are just so kind and amazing and they are the only people we have come across that provide extended mentors and befrienders.
We don't know how we would've coped without the help and support of Enfold, having a child with autism is incredibly difficult on a daily basis but they have made it much more manageable." Rachel Gardner July 2021
A poem from lived experience, by Julie, an En-Fold mentor/befriender
My life is full of acronyms, it's a new language for me.
I am now getting so fluent I may add it to my CV.
There is IEP, EHA, DLA and more.
Not forgetting CA as working is not easy now for sure.
SALT used to go on chips before but now that's not the case.
In fact I talk like this all day and people just look blankly at my face.
There is ASD and S.E.N sometimes with a D
And how could I ever forget those things called EHCP.
Don't forget SENCO, LA and TA and even SSS
With even more letters adding to the stress.
OT and Ed Psychs and community paeds
Not forgetting that visit we had to ENTs.
But in the end it is ok, I have En-Fold you see.
Explaining all the letters and really helping me.
I want to take a moment to thank them for their time
And providing a wonderful service to help my family shine.
Parents and carers get lost in the diagnostic system and are often confused and isolated after the process has ended. Behind each lost, bewildered parent or carer is a child with needs.
We want to ensure that all children, via support to their parents, can access the best services, information and support for them. We will act as system navigators to ensure better support, better communication, and most importantly connect families to the right support for their child.
All children deserve an equal chance to flourish. The change we want to make is to improve lives for families affected by Autism and put an end to parents/carers feeling 'completely left to it and isolated'.
Supporting a specific group of up to 8 parents with children on the pathway to ASD. Delivered in school but independent of the school, so parents feel open to express concerns. 6 sessions of 1-1.5 hrs, including question time.
What is Autism?
How does the diagnostic
How does the diagnostic
Evaluation. What next?
Other support available
Presentation to a class group about what Autism is and the impact it can have on a child. The presentation could (but doesn't have to be) tailored to an individual's needs/traits in the class. Interactive and fun session catering for each age group as appropriate with the opportunity to ask questions. The presentation could also be delivered with the young person's involvement, offering them ownership and a voice.
The setting up and facilitation of a generic parent support group with themed sessions as led by parent request.
Aimed at organisations and businesses, this consists of 3.5 hrs or 6 hrs of quality training in understanding Autism and its impact on those working with Autistic individuals. A chance to reflect on practice and consider strategies and approaches to best support individuals living with Autism. Delivered by an expert through lived experience, and a parent carer.
We can deliver training sessions at your workplace for up to 30 people and also virtually. Training packages include handouts and a certificate for each participant.
For pricing, please contact us.
"The training was absolutely incredible, possibly the best training I have ever been on. I learnt so much invaluable information and Diane and Mike were extremely helpful. I was interested and engaged throughout and was blown away by how much I did not know or understand before this training. This training is going to be extremely helpful in my practice in terms of how I engage and support my clients with Autism."
“I attended the En-fold Autism Training on 20th March 2021. What an inspiring, engaging and amazing day facilitated by Diane and Mike. The pace, the interaction, the tasks were all handled in such a way that everyone was included and felt safe and able to participate. This was a fantastic training and so relevant for our work at Service Six. Thank you and I look forward to working with En-fold closer in the future.”
Claudia Slabon, Chief Executive, Service Six
“I found the En-Fold Autism training hugely beneficial both personally and professionally. It helped me to gain a better insight to Autism, the challenges individuals face and strategies that might help in various situations. The training had the right balance of information, exercises and discussion. The use of videos was extremely powerful. Diane and Mike were brilliant, professional and congruent throughout- really refreshing.”
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Keep up the good work.
This has been the most useful and comprehensive training I have experienced in a while.
Thank you both so much!"
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You may remember the Paducah, Kentucky nuclear weapons plant that recently made headlines. The U.S. Department of Energy plans to compensate plant workers there who are suffering from cancer and other radiation illnesses. However, The NASHVILLE TENNESSEEAN reports that workers in the similar Oak Ridge, Tennessee plant are disappointed they are not getting similar attention.
It was recently disclosed that workers in both plants were not told that the uranium they worked with also contained plutonium, which is potently radioactive. Many workers at and neighbors of nuclear weapons sites in the area have been diagnosed with unexplained neurological, respiratory, and immune disorders. One resident of Paducah said, “Every household around the plant has a different story.”
To bring attention to health problems at the Oak Ridge plant and seek fair treatment and compensation, the president of a support group for ill workers and neighbors is leading a trip to Washington to state the workers’ case.
The Oak Ridge workers are not the first group in the U.S. to fight for government compensation for occupational exposure to uranium. Navajo uranium miners who worked under extremely unsafe conditions during the Cold War received some compensation in recent years for radiation-related deaths and illnesses.
The principal of Belridge (Calif.) Elementary School, Robert Wentland, announced Wednesday that he would ship all the school’s Christian textbooks back to the publisher, according to the ASSOCIATED PRESS. Combining Christian ideology with different subjects, the books informed students that only Christians go to heaven and Native Americans “attained a degree of civilization” but “had no knowledge of the true God, and without this knowledge all other attainments are worthless.”
Wentland held public meetings this summer about the books, and all parents were shown textbook samples and signed consent forms. He returned the materials, however, after the ACLU filed a lawsuit on behalf of a retired minister and a woman who had pulled her daughter out of the school. Nevertheless, Wentland said, “The state of California would be hard-pressed to find books as good.”
It was a heartwarming story — the kind of good news today’s media eat up: Children in a Colorado elementary school were so upset last year when they learned that Sudanese children were being sold into slavery, they raised enough money (in conjunction with the American Anti-Slavery Group and Christian Solidarity International) to free more than 1,000 of them, at a price of about $50 per slave. Now the fifth-graders want to do it again this year, and they’ve inspired hundreds of copycat bake-sale movements elsewhere in the country.
Problem is, the more slaves these kids and their well-meaning benefactors buy, the better the market becomes for slave-traders in Sudan and elsewhere in Africa, as the CONSERVATIVE NEWS NETWORK has correctly pointed out. So rather than ending slavery, these apple-cheeked kids are actually fueling its growth by increasing demand.
Now, after having been informed of this unfortunate and unintended consequence by UNICEF, the kids’ teacher has refused to call off the program, saying she will leave it up to the kids to decide whether to continue buying slaves, according to the DENVER POST. Let’s hope fifth grade isn’t too young for a lesson in macroeconomics, because it seems their teacher is too old for a lesson in common sense.
INTER PRESS SERVICE (IPS) reports that environmental groups fear that the world’s forests may be on the “chopping block” at the upcoming meeting of the World Trade Organization (WTO). On the agenda is discussion of a global free-logging agreement being proposed by the United States. The proposal calls for a reduction in tariffs worldwide in wood and paper products.
A coalition of over 100 environmental groups, most of them based in the Pacific Northwest, has issued a 32 page report which claims that reduced tariffs will undermine each individual nation’s ability to protect its forests, and increase worldwide consumption of forest products overall.
The report also cites a number of cases in which the interests of free trade and environmental protection clash. For example, WTO regulations could prevent countries from blocking importation of lumber infested with foreign insects that pose a danger to indigenous forests.
THE ATLANTA JOURNAL-CONSTITUTION reports that a Fulton County Judge has accused General Motors and its legal team of defrauding the court and obstructing justice. The Judge slammed the car manufacturer and its lawyers for suppressing key evidence which showed that GM chose to ignore safety problems with the fuel tank used in certain models. The evidence in question? Attorney’s notes taken during interviews with GM engineer Edward Ivey about a crash safety report he wrote 26 years ago.
“Plaintiffs have exposed a shameful scheme by GM to defraud and mislead several courts, to thwart and obstruct justice and to enjoy the ill-gotten gains of likely perjury,” wrote the judge in his ruling, which ordered GM to produce the controversial notes within five days.
In an interesting subplot, one of the lawyers who may be implicated by the documents is none other than Kenneth Starr, who, before taking a job as an independent counsel, defended GM in product liability lawsuits. While Jim Butler, the plaintiff’s counsel in this wrongful death civil suit, has explicitly accused Starr of being involved in wrongdoing, the judge’s order did not mention Starr. However, in what the JOURNAL-CONSTITUTION called an “unusual motion,” last week GM lawyers asked the court to forbid Butler from mentioning Starr during the upcoming trial.
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Exposes students to the basic trends of criminal intelligence as it relates terrorism around the world. The focus will be on the domestic and international threats of terrorism and the basic security issues that surround terrorism today. The student will gain an understanding of terrorism and the many factors that support and drive the terrorist movements throughout the world. The students will also analyze the laws and special forces which nations within the international community have created to meet this challenge. This course also presents an overview of computer crimes and the use of the internet to disrupt computer services throughout the world. The student will learn about emerging laws and digital solutions to block the use or spread of digital crimes or terrorism.
- Identify the Intelligence Cycle and the significance of Intelligence Information to criminal investigations.
- Describe how law enforcement agencies utilize Intelligence Information.
- Differentiate between analyzing intelligence for criminal vs. terrorist investigations.
- Identify the some of the major government and private sector agencies that participate in the intelligence process.
- Describe some of the major tools, programs, search engines and products used and created by Law Enforcement Intelligence Analysts/Professionals.
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In early 2013 I was invited with other well-known local artists, to present a series of pattern and tectonics talks and workshops to Year 11 Brisbane State High School (BSHS) Art Students.
Through an intensive program set out by BSHS Art Teachers Ms Cilento and Ms Kidd – utilising repetition and pattern and a rigorous making process – students developed material studies capturing an assigned action (for example crumpling, weaving, pleating, looping, coiling etc.) into 3D sculptural works for display at the BSHS’s Create Festival. Create is an annual event celebrating work by BSHS Visual Art, Media Arts and Film & Television students.
I love sharing knowledge and it was an absolute joy to present the talks, experience each students unique vision, see the diverse works featured at CREATE on June 14, 2013 and receive some nice feedback from BSHS’s Ms Kidd, Head of the Visual Arts Department on the workshops:
We have also been privileged to have Christina Waterson and Donna Marcus visit our classrooms to talk to students about their art practice. Both artists work in Sculpture, however their process and methodology is quite different, and it has been useful for students to experience different ways of working. Ms Amalia Kidd, HoD, Visual Arts, BSHS May 2013 Newsletter.
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How does society mold you as a person?
Society shapes our personality. That means who we socialize with molds who you are as a person. Through the process of socialization you learn values, morals, beliefs, norms, and your role in this world. The people who we surround ourselves with are the ones that influence us the most.
How society help us shape who we are?
Society shapes us through our gender, it dictates what jobs would be suitable for us, what we should wear, how we should look, who we are to socialise with and what is acceptable or not. Society shapes us into how they want their citizens to be and how they want gender roles to be played out….
How do experiences shape our identity?
Every experience we have shapes who we are in one-way or another. A seemingly unimportant experience may simply change how you feel one day which can cause a chain reaction of how you act a certain day, and how you act that day could affect your life as a whole. Our identity is simply a collection of experiences.
What is spatial identity?
Spatial identity is a result of a connection between people, physical elements of places, and activities associated with them. Through this study of spatial identity not only physical characteristics were identified, but also social characteristics.
How does society influence one’s identity?
Society affects one’s identity through the responses one sees and hears from other people. For example, if one resides in a society where people…
How does society shape the personal values of an individual?
Society shapes our values by the roles in which we play. It has positioned itself to determine what is moral or ethical. Because our culture has a dominant belief, it forces the majority or the mainstream to accept what is or is not moral or ethical.
What happens during midlife crisis?
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UAE-based frozen food company Healthy Farm is on a mission to encourage more people to buy vegan food.
Owned by Middle Eastern manufacturers Global Food Industries, Healthy Farm revealed its aim to convert 500,000 consumers to “plant-based eating” ahead of February’s Gulfood 2020 event in Dubai.
Per Arabian Business, Jacek Plewa—the brand’s general manager—said Healthy Farm anticipates that “15-20 percent of meat consumption in the UAE and the region will be plant-based by 2025.” He continued, “we aspire a 50 percent share for Healthy Farm’s portfolio of plant-based products.”
‘We Are Reaching the Point of No Return’
“We are no longer in the experimental stage where plant protein food sources are a gimmick or something quaint,” said Plewa. “These alternatives are impressively gaining preference across the globe. Consumers recognize the tangible impact left by nutrition choices on health, wellness, the environment, and animal welfare.”
Currently, global livestock accounts for around 14.5 percent of all annual greenhouse gas emissions, according to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United States. The meat industry also uses significant amounts of water and land.
“We are reaching the point of no return fast,” said Plewa. “With the current model of sourcing our food via animals, there will not be enough food for all on our planet in 30 years, to put it simply.” He added: “we are already damaging irreversibly our environment and our planet.”
Vegan Food in The UAE
The UAE is becoming more vegan-friendly. In 2018, Bareburger locations in Abu Dhabi and Dubai added the plant-based Beyond Burger to the menu. Applebee’s in Dubai also serves vegan B12 burgers.
Last year, Veganity, which first opened in Dubai in 2017, became the world’s largest vegan restaurant. It intends to expand to more cities, including Abu Dhabi.
The restaurant’s founder and chef Sky Sommers told Grazia in 2018, “It’s a myth that you can’t get enough [protein from plant-based foods] … People think we eat like rabbits but everything you ate before you can just make vegan and it’s way healthier. My hope is to mainstream the plant-based movement.”
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Standin’ On The Corner Park
Location: Winslow, Arizona (102 W. 2nd St.)
When to visit: Anytime, but daylight hours are better
Time needed: 10-15 minutes
Website: Wikipedia page
Any music fan knows the iconic lyric, “Well I’m standin’ on a corner in Winslow, Arizona / Such a fine sight to see / It’s a girl, my Lord, in a flat-bed Ford / Slowin’ down to take a look at me.”
It’s a line from the Eagles’ first #1 song, “Take it Easy,” from 1972. In honor of the lyric, the town of Winslow created a small public park right on a street corner on Old Route 66, and it’s a hugely popular tourist attraction.
Anyone doing a Route 66 road trip will want to stop by this park when passing through Winslow. Here’s what you’ll see when you’re standing on that famous corner!
History of the Song and the Park
“Take it Easy” is one of the most popular classic rock songs that still gets played on the radio to this day. It’s a great addition to any playlist of the best driving songs.
The song was the very first single for the Eagles, who went on to score 18 Top 40 hits and become one of the most successful rock bands of the 1970s. “Take it Easy” peaked at #12 in 1972 but has endured much longer than most other songs which fall short of the Top 10.
Jackson Browne started writing the track for his own debut album, but ended up finishing it with the Eagles’ Glenn Frey. Frey’s band loved it and put it on their record.
Browne came up with the “standin’ on a corner in Winslow, Arizona” part after getting stranded in Winslow one night. Frey came up with the flatbed Ford line, and Frey completed the rest of the second verse.
There’s debate over whether Browne was actually standing on a corner in Winslow or in Flagstaff, Arizona. Browne says he was stranded in Winslow, but acknowledged that the town where Frey saw the girl in the flatbed Ford was Flagstaff. Frey changed it to Winslow for the song. “Winslow” flows a lot better in the lyrics than “Flagstaff,” don’t you think?
Winslow, Arizona was a bustling town in the ’70s, and it was located right on Route 66. But then I-40 was built, and it routed around downtown Winslow, meaning the town lost a ton of visitors.
In the ’90s, the town started thinking of ways to revitalize itself. Someone came up with the idea to try to capitalize on the notoriety from the Eagles’ famous song. Hence, the Standin’ On the Corner Foundation was born, and the idea for Standin’ On the Corner Park was a logical way to create a fun tourist attraction.
No word on why they chose Standin’ on The Corner Park rather than the actual lyric of Standin’ on A Corner.
Visiting Standin’ on the Corner Park in Winslow, Arizona
Located at the intersection of W. 2nd Street (Old Highway 66) and N. Kinsley Avenue, the park opened in September 1999 and features a road sign reading “Standin’ on the corner” and a statue of a guy with a guitar.
People often assume the status must be one of the Eagles’ singers, but it’s not. Sculptor Ronald Adamson made the statue to look like his son.
The idea was just to have a random dude standing on the corner because, hey, that’s what the song says! Some people think the statue vaguely looks like Browne, and you can kinda see the resemblance.
There’s also a mural on the brick wall with the giant words WINSLOW ARIZONA. The flatbed Ford from the lyrics make an appearance on the mural, and sure enough, there’s a young woman behind the wheel.
In 2004, the building with the mural caught on fire, ruining most of the building. It was demolished entirely in 2006, except for the mural wall itself, which remains.
In 2016, a statue of Eagles singer Glenn Frey was added to the park. Sadly, the statue wasn’t commissioned until after Frey’s passing. Two radio DJs from Phoenix classic rock station KSLX (Mark Devine and Paul “NeanderPaul” Marshall) helped spearhead the effort to raise money to add the statue.
The statue of Frey was made to capture his ’70s look, so he has long, shoulder-length hair and a mustache. He’s wearing bellbottom jeans and a tight tshirt that reads “Song Power.”
You may also find vehicles parked nearby which tie into the theme. There is often a 1960 red flatbed Ford parked on the street next to the park, which only adds to the vibe.
And you’ll see a giant “Arizona Route 66” logo in the middle of the street at the intersection.
And the park itself has a “Route 66 Roadside Attraction” sign explaining when the park was formed and why.
Jackson Browne himself has visited the park several times. The first few visits were brief stops during the middle of the night, Browne has said, while his tour bus was passing through town between cities.
In 2013, though, Browne performed his first concert in Winslow and got to see the park during the day. How cool would it have been to witness that? He played in front of a crowd of about 200 and sang his classic hits, plus “Take it Easy,” of course.
There’s no record of Frey ever making the journey here.
I visited on a weekday summer morning, and there were probably 15-20 other visitors during the 15 minutes I was there. So you may have to wait in line to get your selfies with the statues. The park is mostly in the sun, but there is a small shaded area near Frey’s statue.
In the immediate area of Standin’ on the Corner Park, you’ll see gift shops galore at the intersection. These shops sell souvenirs related to the song, the park, and famous Route 66. Stop in and give some dollars to the local businesses of Winslow!
If you want to come to Winslow during the biggest party of the year, make the trek in September during the annual Standin’ on the Corner Festival.
The event features live bands, food trucks, a beer garden, raffles, horseshoes, and more. It’s estimated that at least 100k people visit this park each year, and a large number of those come during the festival.
Where to Stay Near Winslow, Arizona
La Posada. If you plan to stay in Winslow, La Posada is by far the coolest option. It’s a historic hotel, built in 1929 next to the Winslow train station. In its time, it was considered one of the most opulent hotels around, and it’s been renovated to retain its quality and charm.
Other lodging options in Winslow include the Quality Inn and Motel 6, just off I-40.
Other Nearby Attractions & Route 66 Highlights
In addition to the gift shops on the corner of W. 2nd St. and N. Kingsley previously mentioned, what else can you find in Winslow, Arizona?
There’s the Winslow Visitor Center and trading post, where you can get information about the area. The free Old Trails Museum informs visitors about the history of the area, Route 66, and the Santa Fe Railway.
Otherwise, this is just a normal small town, with residential areas, a high school, college, cemetery, and small businesses. Food options include Las Marias (Mexican), Mi Pueblo (Mexican), Entre Lounge (Chinese), and Falcon Restaurant (family dining), plus fast food like Sonic Drive-In and Church’s Chicken.
There’s a 9-11 Memorial Garden on the way out of town, right next to the Winslow Bark Park, a dog park where you can let your puppy run wild.
Other nearby attractions include Homolovi State Park and Homolovi Archaeological Site, where you can find the ruins of past Hopi settlements.
Also make sure to visit Meteor Crater Natural Landmark, which is just 25 minutes from downtown Winslow! That’s the spot where a huge meteor slammed into the earth 50,000 years ago. The impact created a perfectly-formed crater that remains intact today.
Other Attractions for a Longer Southwest Road Trip
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Wireless optical modems open up new possibilities for underwater communication
With the increasing asset utilization underwater and significant advances of subsea robotics, the industry’s choice of wireless communication technologies is now also widening. Radio waves do not penetrate water well, which historically limited the communication options to using sound waves. While sound waves can reach far underwater, they can only carry few bytes of information per second. This is great for sending position coordinates across but streaming high volumes of data was out of reach for the industry until recently.
Hydromea, a Swiss-based underwater communication and robotics company, first introduced its wireless optical modem, the LUMA™ 250LP, in 2016. The first modems have been used for research deployments, one of which involved reading data from ocean bottom landers at over 4’000m depth in the South Pacific Ocean. The company has since increased the product range, with the most advanced modem, LUMA™ X, being able to stream data at up to 10Mbit/s within 50m range using a wide 120-degree beam to provide utmost flexibility and connectivity in the dynamic underwater environment.
Hydromea focuses on miniaturization and technology scalability, as well as power efficiency of its modems. This makes the LUMA™ line of wireless optical modems the most compact, most affordable and most power efficient commercial modems on the market. The small size of the modems and its transparent link allow for both - easy retrofitting on legacy systems and high integration flexibility for the designs of new subsea systems.
The use of light to send data has its limitations as well. While LUMA™ devices do not require direct line of sight to work, the light can go only so far in water. Current devices can reach up to 50m range in clear water. Turbidity will naturally affect the range. The lower the visibility, the harder it is for light to travel through. LUMA™ modems have shown exceptional results in murky water deployments, however, being able to establish a solid link well beyond the visibility range.
"LUMA™ modems are increasingly saving time and cost in a number of underwater projects across the world today”, says Igor Martin, the CEO of Hydromea. “In many research missions, the optical modems have been crucial to reduce the risks of missed opportunities to collect data in the first place. An ROV can now link to the data loggers wirelessly and check on the status of sensors and the quality of data, without the need to surface the sensors, which can take hours in deep water deployments.”
“In the commercial sectors, we see a growing number of use cases for our technology: from data readouts off gyro boxes during subsea construction, to interrogations of corrosion protection sensors, to establishing a video link between an AUV and a control tower. The technology has already proven itself to be a critical asset in reducing the risks and time associated with inspection, monitoring and repair activities underwater.” | <urn:uuid:304cbf7c-e8c0-4387-a11f-a11c3363a777> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.maritimemagazines.com/marine-technology/202202/wireless-optical-modems-open-up-new-possibilities-for-underwater-communication/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573699.52/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819131019-20220819161019-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.929483 | 615 | 2.453125 | 2 |
Bartholomew County’s Substance Abuse Public Funding Board has recommended city and county funding of $1.22 million for local substance abuse treatment efforts. Columbus City Council and the Bartholomew County Council should fund every penny of that request, if not more. We’re hard pressed to think of a more urgent local concern.
We have an unrelenting crisis on our hands, just as the rest of the state and the nation does, compliments of the opioid/fentanyl scourge. As The Republic’s Andy East reported, Bartholomew County is on pace this year to continue to set yet another record for overdose deaths. In last year’s latest new grim record, 33 people in the county died from drug overdoses. So far in 2022, 19 people have died — three more than had died at this point last year, according to Coroner Clayton Nolting.
And that says nothing of the many, many more people in our community who are struggling with addiction.
Some may scoff at spending public money for substance abuse treatment, but the costs are a drop in the bucket, and in truth, we do not spend nearly enough to help people who truly need it at their most desperate time. Hence the maddeningly long waits for treatment beds.
Sure, $1.22 million sounds like a lot of money. But the combined public budgets of Columbus City and Bartholomew County total more than $142 million a year. So even when requests are fully funded, we are spending less than 1% of our total local public funding on helping people recover from addiction.
This money funds multiple worthy efforts. As East reported, about half of it — $555,380 — goes to the Alliance for Substance Abuse Progress (ASAP). Another $248,195 goes to the Bartholomew County Adult Drug Recovery Court, $229,780 is for the Recovery Enables a Life for Men (REALM) program at Community Corrections and $189,414 is for the Bartholomew County Jail Addiction Treatment Program.
All of these and more deserve our support as a community.
It’s nearly impossible to calculate the true, monumental toll of opioid addiction, but the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention tried to last year. In a detailed report based on 2017 data, the CDC concluded that the costs to American society of fatal drug overdoses and opioid addiction was more than $1 trillion annually.
In Indiana, the CDC estimates opioid overdose deaths and addiction costs more than $26 billion each year. This includes costs of health care, treatment, criminal justice costs, lost productivity and income, reduced quality of life and other factors. Extrapolating that data on a per capita basis, the CDC’s conclusions suggest the costs of all these opioid-related factors combined could be in the range of a staggering $300 million annually just in Bartholomew County.
And these are only the costs in dollars. This factors in none of the human costs. Addiction impacts not just the user, but families, relationships, neighborhoods and entire communities.
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As probabilistic computation plays an increasing role in diverse fields in computer science, researchers have designed new languages to facilitate the development of probabilistic programs. In this paper, we develop a probabilistic calculus by extending the traditional lambda calculus. In our calculus, every expression denotes a probability distribution yet evaluates to a regular value. The most notable feature of our calculus is that it is founded upon sampling functions, which map the unitdoi:10.1145/604178.604180 fatcat:nlqb7hxpbjhtfkcmgvdusfycoe | <urn:uuid:1fac4e1a-ff7b-4cd4-8937-0e3a3a446f8f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://scholar.archive.org/work/smvmorkmgrcpdhzk5ipvyppk7q | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570767.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808061828-20220808091828-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.866128 | 193 | 2.09375 | 2 |
Random Electromagnetic Interferometry Method Applied to Aluminosilicates Analysis
The minerals based on aluminosilicates such as clays (kaolinite, montmorillonite) and zeolites (clinoptilolite) are abundant and inexpensive. These are used as adsorbents for the removal of bacteria and pollutants. It has been proven that the presence of hydrogen bonding interactions, and electrostatic forces of attraction on the surface of zeolites modified with anionic and/or cationic species have a significant effect on the process of microorganisms elimination. The treatment of the zeolite surface with concentrated acids or bases also modifies their hygroscopic properties. This paper presents advances in the Dynamic Speckle Laser hydroadsorption analysis of materials based on a rich mineral “clinoptilolite” and their acidic and basic forms, which served as support for the incorporation of a binary complex sulfadiazine cobalt, promising in antibacterial drug design, fungicides, anti-inflammatory, etc.. To determine the water adsorption capacity of these materials as a function of time, the traditional method consists of introducing a sample in water and plotting the time dependent weight change in order to determine the amount of water adsorbed. In this work we use a technologically advanced and methodologically more accurate method for determining the speed of hydroadsorption of a zeolite (clinoptilolite) based on the optical random interferometric phenomenon named “speckle”, produced when a laser light illuminates a rough surface of zeolite. The data derived from the latter methodology is fitted using a numerical model that yields a better fitting as compared with several physicochemical (or physical) methods well established in the literature. | <urn:uuid:061a95e3-9734-4385-b022-b3bff5d72bbf> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://digital.cic.gba.gob.ar/items/009ef45f-2716-4699-800c-b8bbab45de16 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573699.52/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819131019-20220819161019-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.917201 | 377 | 2.5625 | 3 |
On the surface, they seem to be the perfect gift: they let your bourbon-drinking father chill his drink without diluting it, an apparent sin in the drinking world, and they strike a perfect balance — a touch too ridiculous to buy for yourself, but welcome when disguised with wrapping paper and a bow. And thus spreads the myth of the whiskey stone.
But the simple fact is, no one needs, wants or actually uses whiskey stones. They are almost entirely useless. Whiskey stones are intended to do two things: cool your drink down and prevent dilution. In each of these pursuits the whiskey stone fails.
In regards to the claim that whiskey stones cool your drink: In this arena, the stones, typically made of soapstone to help protect your highball because for some reason you decided to put an actual rock in it, are up against a world-class cooler. Ice is — and has — been the predominant way to cool beverages for centuries, so much so that it seems odd to have to explain why.
Water, and ice to a lesser extent, has extremely high specific heat, which can be thought of as the amount of heat required to raise the temperature of something. (Or in this case, how much heat that that something can absorb from a room-temperature drink.) Ice also benefits from the phase change. Melting ice into water takes an incredible (relatively) amount of heat. In fact, the process of melting ice absorbs the vast majority of heat in your drink. This phase change doesn’t occur with stones. They just warm up.
The second claim is that stones prevent dilution. This is true. (And is also true of reusable ice cubes, which are loads more effective than stones, provided you can bear to watch them float around at the top of your drink like a bad drink umbrella.) This is also sometimes a bad thing.
If you are a true whiskey snob, you drink your whiskey at room temperature (chilled drinks lessen the effectiveness of your taste buds and olfactory senses) and you drink it with a water dropper. You sip, you take notes, you add a drop of water, you repeat. It takes the fun out of drinking, but it illustrates a point: even experts dilute their drink. It “opens up” the whiskey, as they’ll say with a lot of hand waving.
Half the fun of throwing an ice cube into a drink is to taste the drink change as the ice melts (the other half is that you can throw a cube in your drink without shattering the glass, because it isn’t a whiskey stone). The recent trend of high-ABV bourbons hitting the market comes from bartenders demanding higher proofs that they can dilute with mixers while still maintaining high alcohol content. So dilution is sometimes good.
If you’ve given or received whiskey stones, don’t sweat it. We’ve all had them clanking around at the bottom of our drink at one point in our past. I’ve probably still got some sitting politely in my freezer; maybe enough time has passed for them to be “misplaced.” Just throw them in the garden, replace all your scratched-up tumblers and get on with your life. And if you really hate dilution but really want cold drinks, your best bet is an ice sphere. A sphere delivers the greatest cooling with the least dilution, and a press makes it denser and more efficient. Or you could just ignore this article and drink your whiskey like a Kentuckian: however the hell you want to. | <urn:uuid:8ebf5f52-b3e6-4900-9700-df97fe56e9f4> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.gearpatrol.com/food/drinks/a254075/why-whiskey-stones-are-terrible/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573699.52/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819131019-20220819161019-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.95488 | 751 | 1.671875 | 2 |
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The main factor that may weaken the stability of the roof structure is dampness. On its negative impact it is particularly exposed rafter framing, which deform under impact of water. Therefore is important roof protection against getting in water into its internal structure.
Typically, investors during the construction of the roof attach great importance both for building materials, as well as careful execution. Unfortunately, later very often they forget about the survey, and any minor defects commission outsource cheaper and often non-professional roofing companies. This is a big mistake,
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If we say we advocate for all people with Down syndrome is that really true? How do we choose which topics to advocate for?
Do we choose topics that affect the most people? Topics that are important to all people with ID/D? Topics that are important to the people in our group? Our friends? Or just what is important to us?
When we take on advocacy work, it’s easy to say that we’re doing it to benefit “all.” However, it’s been my experience, as a person who has lived in privileged and underprivileged spaces, much of the work that is done to benefit “all” people with Down syndrome really focuses on one perspective – white, middle to upper middle class.
It’s easy to conclude that the perspective comes from within advocacy circles. I’ve had many conversations about race and Down syndrome advocacy that end in a perpetual circle. Race isn’t considered because people of color don’t attend meetings and participate in traditional advocacy groups as much. And people of color don’t attend meetings and participate in traditional advocacy efforts as much because they don’t feel that their perspective is considered.
What about people from lower socioeconomic situations? When you’re struggling to put food on the table and keep a roof over your head it’s difficult to spend time worrying about being able to save more than $2000. If you count on day programs that keep your child safe so that you can work at a minimum wage job, you’ll be hard pressed to advocate for destroying “sheltered workshops” without having an immediate replacement. If you’re a victim of sexual or physical assault yourself, it’s only natural that you would think twice about how much time your nonverbal child spends at the mercy of others. Unfortunately, we can’t all create businesses for our children so that they have fulfilling jobs that match their interests and skill level.
And if your only insurance is Medicaid you can’t afford to get your child (young or adult) the medical care that we advocate for. Medicaid does not cover adult dental visits that research shows are vital to good health. And we can’t choose doctors who are specialists in the health of adults with Down syndrome.
“Compared with other populations, adults, adolescents, and children with MR [mental retardation (sic)] experience poorer health and more difficulty in finding, getting to, and paying for appropriate health care. These challenges are even more daunting for people with MR from minority communities ” – Report of the Surgeon General’s Conference on Health Disparities and Mental Retardation (sic), 2002.
A recent news story puts the health care disparities in a different light.
Four years after Tommy died the dentist who killed him is still seeing patients. Two theories make this case really scary; a) Did the doctor use so much anesthetic because she was afraid to perform the work Tommy needed? Did she not value Tommy’s life enough to make sure she used the right dose? and b) Has the dentist not been punished because Tommy’s life doesn’t count to the officials in charge of making her pay for her crimes?
“Ongoing invisibility, marginalization, and devaluation of people with IDD can negatively influence clinical encounters by convincing both patients and clinicians that it is acceptable for persons with IDD to receive second-tier health care.”- Slashcheva, et. al, 2016 Would People with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Benefit from Being Designated “Underserved”?
Finally, why is it that there has not been national outrage at the health disparities within the Down syndrome community?
So, I beg you, the next time you or someone you know says that they are a Ds advocate, or they advocate for all people with Down syndrome, consider those less fortunate. Consider those of color who need a better doctor. Consider the majority of people with Ds who live in group homes with underpaid workers and frequent turnover or spend their days in sheltered environments because of a lack of alternatives. Think about Tommy who died because he went to a dentist and Ethan who died on a movie theater floor – and the professionals who were supposed to serve them.
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I suspect that we’ve all sent emails that have been bounced back to us as “undeliverable” – for any one of hundreds of possible mail server errors (you might be surprised to learn that there are 850+ possible error messages). The most common error? We’ve used an incorrect email address.
In most circumstances (if you’re aware that you did send the bounced email), it’s safe to open the undeliverable notice. But, and this is a big BUT – if you didn’t sent it – DON”T click on it –DON”T open it! Especially if you’re required to open an attachment to view the details. An attachment virtually guaranteed to contain malware designed to hijack your email account.
You might think that this sort of thing couldn’t happen to you. But, don’t be so sure – a moments inattention can be all it takes.
Here’s an example forwarded to me, just a few days ago, by a regular reader who is a very astute user. A reader who’s extremely conscious of system security, and Internet safety. He and I correspond frequently on security related issues, and I can easily say – he knows his stuff.
I just had an email account hijacked because I sent an email to a legitimate web site and immediately received one of those undeliverable messages (Damein something?). Anyway, I clicked on it to see if I sent the email to the correct address. Shortly thereafter, someone took control of my contact list and sent emails out with a link on them.
Of course, I changed my password and deleted my contact’s list. I am no longer keeping a contact list on my email programs, as the first thing they do is take control of one’s contact list.
I’ll point out, that the most common reason (but, not the only one), you’re likely to receive an infected bounce back is – your email address has been scooped from an infected machine’s contact list. In other words, someone you know and have exchanged emails with, is infected. The example above, is a perfect illustration of this.
Malware delivery methods are cyclical (everything old is new again), and we’ve seen this threat before. From what I can see, following some investigation – it appears to be making a resurgence. So, when dealing with bounce backs, it’s important that you have a heightened sense of awareness.
You may think that this is an overreaction but, if the bounced email is a personal email – pick up the phone and confirm the address. Having once been a victim of a cyber criminal who hijacked one of my email accounts, I can assure you – it’s a most unpleasant experience.
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Bands also tend to stay uniform in spacing the length of the body and can sometimes fade into dark gray or fully black. Nach längeren Pausen und auch neunen Servern die mal ausprobiert wurden war Lycodon doch immer um längen besser.
The closely related species Lycodon aulicus Linnaeus 1758 of which L.
Lycodon. Lycodon ophiophagus Gernot Vogel Patrick David Olivier SG. Length up to 60 cm.
A new species of colubrid snake Lycodon cathaya sp. Auf diesem Server habe ich das Modpack zuerst kennengerlent und alle Basics wurden einem näher gebracht. Der Tekkit Lite Server wurde am 22032020 auf den Offline Modus umgestellt man braucht daher kein Premium Account mehr um auf diesen zu spielen.
Species Lycodon jara Twin-spotted Wolf Snake. Yellowish white incomplete band just behind the head. A flat narrow head just slightly wider than the neck at the jaw with proportioned round eyes and pupils.
It is most generally encountered by night on the forest floor but is also considered to be arboreal. Average size reaching up to 75 meters with reddish brown coloration and yellowish white mottling over the length of the body. Species Lycodon flavomaculatus Yellow-spotted Wolf Snake.
The word Lycodon is derived from the genus of colubrid snakes known as wolf snakes or Lycodon FX is short for Effects. Uses Please consult your physician or. Species Lycodon fasciatus Banded Wolf Snake.
Common Wolf Snake – Lycodon capucinus. Is described based on two adult male specimens collected from Huaping Nature Reserve Guangxi southern China. A genus of nonpoisonous snakes of the grass snake family.
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Users who donate and arent of legal age or who do not use their own PayPal account must present their parents consent. The New Latin name Lycodon is derived from the Greek words λύκος lykos meaning wolf and οδόν odon meaning tooth and refers to the fang-like anterior maxillary and mandibular teeth. There are some 16 species distributed in Southeast Asia.
Detailed information related to Lycodon Capsules uses composition dosage side effects and reviews is listed below. Nov is described based on two adult male specimens collected from Huaping Nature Reserve Guangxi southern ChinaIn a phylogenetic analyses the new species is shown to be a sister taxon to the clade composed of L. Lycodon davisonii William Thomas Blanford 1878.
Namdongensis with low statistical support and can be distinguished from all known congeners by the. When this company was formed in 2005 our area of expertise. Species Lycodon dumerili Dumérils Wolf Snake.
We offer the following options for donations. The banding is generally lower contrast than on the Many Banded Krait. A new species of colubrid snake Lycodon cathaya sp.
The term LycodonFX is a combination of two words. Die Plugins sind sehr gut durchdacht. Blanfords bridle snake is so named because its.
A species of Lycodon inhabiting the Indian subcontinent characterised by 1 a wide and large head 2 a distinct creamy white col- lar-mark on head across parietal scales converging to- wards snout-tip 3 a dark blackish-brown body with creamy white cross bars in life 4 preocular usually contacting frontal 5 supraocular usually not. TeamSpeak Discord E-Mail It can be take two or more days to validate your donation. Capucinus is often considered a subspecies or a synonym occurs in India Myanmar Nepal Pakistan and Sri Lanka.
Species Lycodon effraenis Brown Wolf Snake. Striatus found in the southern part of Turkmenia in Uzbekistan and western Tadzhikistan. Jeder Spieler der zuvor bereits einmal bei uns auf dem Server war hat ein von uns generiertes Passwort zugewiesen bekommen damit sich niemand fälschlich in den Account.
The Banded Wolf Snake has black and white banding and is very similar to the Many Banded Krait in appearance. Lycodon striatus striatus Shaw 1802 Indian population Lycodon striatus bicolor Nikolsky 1903 Western population Lycodon striatus sinhaleyus Deraniyagala 1955 Sri Lankan population.
Lycodon is a genus of colubrid snakes commonly known as wolf snakes. There is one species in the USSR the striped wolftooth L. The genus Lycodon comprises 70 recognized species.
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We follow David Vogel 1996 in regarding these two forms as valid species which are sympatric throughout much of the shared part of their ranges. The body is slender and the somewhat flattened head is of the. This wide-ranging species inhabits lowland forest and montane habitats up to at least 1500 metres elevation Tweedie 1957. | <urn:uuid:812a4589-40c9-4796-b3d0-bd2480566b47> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://animals.nulisen.com/lycodon/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573172.64/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818063910-20220818093910-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.703158 | 1,210 | 2.0625 | 2 |
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Under Nebraska law, it is unprofessional conduct to prescribe controlled substances to oneself, a spouse, child, parent, sibling, or “any person living in the same household as the prescriber.” The only exception to this prohibition is in times of medical emergency. The phrase “medical emergency” is not defined under the statutes – although it would presumably entail situations in which a family member would not have sufficient time to seek treatment elsewhere.
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Gold CIL (Carbon in Leach) Process is an efficient design of extracting and recovering gold from its ore. By cyaniding and carbon leaching crushed gold ore slurry simultaneously, CIL process lower the gold mining operation cost and increase gold recovery rate to a degree of 99 . mining machine recycling gold ore flotation cell.
Sulfide type gold ore gold ore flotation processing plant [randpic] Sulphide Gold Ore Treatment by Leaching and Flotation Process Problem with gold recovery from sulphide ore How may a mill get the maximum recovery of gold from a sulphide ore, at the least capital cost and at the same time obtain t.
CIL is cyanide gold extraction process. Firstly, raw material is crushed into less than 10mm by different types of crushers secondly, crushed material will be ground and classified into 90 of 200mesh, then fine powder will get into thickner, after concentration, add chemical and leach in the leaching tank. After leaching, we can use activated.
Limits of the CIL circuit in copper–gold plants. A large proportion of the gold processed in the 21st century will be recovered from sulfide ores. Since the sulfide minerals are to some.
Jan 01, 2017 Complex sulfide ore samples of Mississippi valley type were obtained from a mine located in North America. A full characterization study of mineral samples was conducted to reveal both qualitative and quantitative information about the crystalline phases within the sample as well as mineral associations, elemental distributions (assay), grain.
Dec 10, 2019 Among them, pyrite is the most common gold-bearing mineral. The separation of gold in ore is actually the separation of gold-bearing iron ore and some free natural gold or other gold-bearing minerals. Type of Rock Gold • Minor Sulfides Gold Ore. Low sulfide content and large particle size. Gold are the only recovery objects.
Apr 18, 2016 A Flowsheet to recovery gold from sulfide ores. There are many arrangements and combinations using flotation in conjunction with treatment of gold ores. The two gold process flowsheets shown, with some variations, are probably the most commonly used. In Gold Flowsheet No. 1 the ore is ground in water to such a size as to free the minerals.
Oct 20, 2014 The Metallurgy of Cyanide Gold Leaching – An Introduction. Leaching gold with a cyanide solution remains the most widely used hydrometallurgical process for the extraction of gold from ores and concentrates. Despite the difficulties and hazards of working with cyanide, no other process has yet been proven to be an economic viable alternative.
RECOVERY OF SILVER, GOLD, AND LEAD FROM A COMPLEX SULFIDE ORE USING FERRIC CHLORIDE, THIOUREA, AND BRINE LEACH SOLUTIONS By R. G. Sandberg 1 and J. L. Huiatt 2 ABSTRACT The Bureau of Mines investigated a hydrometallurgical procedure to re cover gold, silver, and byproduct lead from a complex lead-zinc sulfide ore.
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Mini Batch Gold Recovery Plant Oro Industries. Placer gold plant, gold mining equipment for sale placer gold recovery equipment for mining. PLACER PLANTS. Gold Concentrators. Ore processing flow! The ore needs to be dry, less the 15 moisture. The Air Impact Mill can be hand fed or fed by an optional feed hopper conveyor. 1200 TPD USED Gold.
Type of Rock Gold. Minor Sulfides Gold Ore Low sulfide content and large particle size. Gold are the only recovery objects. A simple recovery process such as single flotation and all-slime cyanidation can achieve higher recovery indicators. Polysulfides Gold Ore The content of pyrite and arsenopyrite in the ore is 20 ~ 45 , they are also.
The latter is mostly used for the quartz vein gold-bearing sulfide ore. 2. Gravity separation (amalgamation)-cyanide process This gold processing method is suited for the quartz vein type gold-bearing oxidized ore which with uneven disseminated grain size and high oxidation degree, the gold-bearing ore basically free of copper, arsenic.
Copper ore plant in tanzania. copper ore processing plant in tanzania. Jan 19, 2021 Kabanga Nickel is the new entity's majority owner with an 84 stake. Tanzania owns the remaining 16 , which is the government's usual stake in all of the country's mining projects. 3.
Mar 15, 2013 Refractory gold ores in Archaean greenstones, Western Australia Ora Banda sulphide ore has been blended with oxide and other ore sources before processing in a CIL plant sulphide gold ores in.
Mar 15, 2019 Gold recovery chemicals is the reagent that used to extract gold, which is one of necessary element in gold processing plant. The commonly used gold recovery chemicals can be mainly divided into three types flotation chemicals, heap leaching chemicals and cyanidation leaching (CIL, CIP) chemicals. Gold recovery industry has important economic significance, but the content of gold in most ore.
CIL gold processing plant mainly consists of following steps 1 The ore is first reduced in size (typically 90 passing 200mesh ) to ensure that all non-refractory gold is readily accessible for cyanide leaching, There are several variations of comminution circuits used in the gold leaching industry, such as Multi-stage crushing, then ball milling circuits, typical of ball mill and hyrocyclones.
Mar 15, 2013 Processing and Production Plant The four different ore types are oxide saprolite (clay), sulfide saprolite (clay), chalcopyrite ore with gold and Ora Banda sulphide ore has been blended with oxide and other ore sources before processing in a CIL plant sulphide gold ores in.
Jan 01, 2021 Flotation is a method that is widely used in gold ore processing plant to process the rock gold commonly used in dealing with highly floatable sulfide minerals containing gold ore. Flotation process can maximum enrich gold to the sulfide mineral tailings can be abandoned directly the cost of processing plant is low 80 of China s rock gold are.
The first type is the disseminated sulphide replacement type which comprises the bulk of the ore shoots. Typically these zones have a silicified core with fine sprays of disseminated arsenopyrite hosting the best grades. Disseminated sulphide replacement ore bodies range up to.
269 rows Jan 01, 2016 Plant tailings CIL Gold recovery from mixture of sulfide and nonsulfide-bearing residues (sand and slimes dumps) from old mining activities 39 Ergo South Africa Plant tailings CIL Consolidation of four retreatment plants into single 21.6-Mtpa facility, with 600 ktpm tailings pumped via a 50-km pipeline39 Addendum Yellowknife Canada.
Many sulfide ores, including Carlin-type gold ores 7 Arsenic sulfide ores Gold occurs as liberated particles and inclusions, and submicroscopic gold in arsenopyrite and oxidized products. Giant Yellowknife, Campbell Mine (Canada), Sao Bento (Brazil) and Carlin-type ores 8 Antimony sulfide ores Gold occurs mainly as native gold, with minor.
Jun 01, 2016 Locking of gold in a mineral matrix, preventing leach reagents reaching the gold. This is common in sulfide and silicate bearing ores. II. Reactive minerals in the ore can consume the leach reagents in side reactions, leaving insufficient cyanide or oxygen for leaching to occur. An example of this interference is copper bearing ores. III.
1.2 THE RECOVERY OF GOLD BY CY ANIDATION AND CIP CIL PROCESSING 2 1.2.1 Cyanidation chemistry 2 1.2.2 Adsorption of aurocyanide onto activated carbon 3 1.2.3 Adsorption of aurocyanide at the ore surface 4 1.2.4 CIP CIL processing of ores 5 126.96.36.199 Cyanide losses during CIP CIL processing 7 1.2.5 Modelling of the CIP CIL process 8. | <urn:uuid:04eb2bd8-6dfe-4ef1-b7ed-a9567ed7f12a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.icscae.org/ore-beneficiation-equipment/26658/sulfide.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573172.64/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818063910-20220818093910-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.895936 | 1,817 | 2.515625 | 3 |
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Coastal mapping was conducted as part of the Tijuana Estuary Fine Sediment Fate and Transport Demonstration Project, which was developed by a number of State of California, Federal, and private industry partners to provide information about the directions, rates, and processes of fine sediment transport at nearshore settings of California. The primary goal of the Demonstration Project was the monitoring of the transport, fate, and impacts of fine sediment from beach sediment nourishments in 2008 and 2009 near the Tijuana River Estuary, Imperial Beach, California. To achieve this goal, the USGS monitored the water, beach, and seafloor properties near the project site. The coastal mapping described in this report provided important baseline bathymetric and seafloor substrate information for the Demonstration Project and was used to develop sampling programs for the Demonstration Project. These data are intended for science researchers, students, policy makers, and the general public. These data can be used with geographic information systems or other software to identify bathymetric features. These data are not intended to be used for navigation.
Reference Frame: NAD83 (CORS96) Epoch: 2002.0000 Latitude: N 32D 34' 29.10834" Longitude: W 117D 7' 36.23523" Ellipsoid Height: -25.765 m Orthometric Height: 9.583 m (Geoid09) UTM Zone 11 Northing: 3604152.632 m UTM Zone 11 Easting: 488104.754 m Reference Frame: WGS84 (G1150) Epoch: 2008.3246 Latitude: N 32D 34' 29.12697" Longitude: W 117D 7' 36.29008" Ellipsoid Height: -26.526 m
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Farmer Field Schools (FFS) provide farmers with an opportunity to experiment new technologies which help them to make informed decisions that eventually lead to increased production and income. This study assessed the role of FFS in adoption of innovative rice production practices in Mvomero district, Tanzania. Adoption was conceptualized as an act in which FFS members accept and use the recommended rice production practices in their own fields. A cross-sectional survey was conducted among 188 respondents (FFS members) selected through a multi-stage sampling technique. Frequencies were run to determine the adoption level (proportion of FFS members who adopted the innovative rice production practices). Additionally, T-test and Chi-square tests were run to assess the influence of FFS members’ socio-economic characteristics on the adoption of innovative rice production practices. The results of the study showed that a total of 15 recommended rice production practices were promoted using FFS in the study area and more than 75% of FFS members were found to be aware of them. Further, 80% of the innovative rice production practices promoted were adopted by more than 65% FFS members. Household size, total land size, land planted with rice, marital status, literacy and nonfarm income influenced the adoption of some of innovative rice production practices. The findings suggest that FFS played an important role in awareness creation among FFS members whereby a total of 15 innovative rice production practices were promoted.
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Though the United States had not formally entered the war in Europe, it did begin preparations for involvement in the conflict. England had already declared war, and the United States was contributing supplies and equipment to their war effort. With its preparations for war, the United States began activating units not active since World War I. One of these was the 42nd Engineers.
Activated at Fort Benning on 1 June 1940, the 42nd Engineers was under the command of Colonel Raymond F. Fowler. In September and October 1940, the battalion constructed two camps: Camp Shelby, Mississippi and Camp Beauregard, Louisiana. The former is still used as a National Guard camp, primarily for the noncommissioned officer academy and local training area. Their duties at each camp were to construct a camp for a division of 15,000 officers and men. Facilities constructed included mess halls, mess tables, incinerators, wooden tent floors, and complete electric and water systems. The battalion also drove a well and built a water tower.
The battalion returned to Fort Benning, Georgia on 1 November 1940 to concentrate on completing basic training, which was conducted as an entire unit. This was a tremendous task with the arrival of several hundred selective service draftees. Throughout 1941, the 20th trained and participated in the Louisiana Maneuvers. In July 1942, the battalion left Fort Benning for a temporary home at Camp Kilmer, New Jersey. It was here that the 42nd was redesignated as the 20th Engineer Combat Regiment on 1 August 1942.
The 1st Battalion, 20th Engineer Combat Regiment boarded the USAT Cristobal on 1 November 1942 and landed on 19 November 1942 at Casablanca, French North Africa (now Morocco), where they established a bivouac area at Priscine.
While in Tunisia Colonel Eugene Caffey, the Regimental Commander, invented coded directional markers to be used to distinguish property. This distinctive sign, a wavy arrow, soon gave the 20th the nickname of the "Wavy Arrow." The 20th began the longest motor march in its history here. It moved across French North Africa, over the Atlas Mountains, more than 1100 miles, through Meknes, Fez, Oujda, Tlemcen (Algeria), Relizane, L'Arba, Setif and into Tebessa. Tebessa was the "gateway to the war." Here the commander of 1st Battalion, MAJ J. E. Sonnefield "gave one of his blood-and-thunder speeches to the officers and NCO's."
On 26 March 1943 1st Battalion, 20th Engineers moved to the vicinity of Kasserine. After laying mine belts around the bivouac areas, the battalion went to work on the roads. The Bekkaria-Thelepte-Sbeitla road was top priority as it was to become a major supply road for II Corps. The battalion built roads, culverts, dug ditches, hauled rock and Company C, hauling road material in Sbeitla, met its first S-mines in a bloody affair that left one dead and eight wounded.
On 5 April 1943 the regiment was alerted as II Corps reserve and ordered to move. The 1st Infantry Division and the 1st Armored Division had just defeated the Germans and Italians around El Guettar and Maknassy, and the 20th was moving to that location as reserve should a counterattack come. The Germans never counterattacked and the British 8th Army, pursuing the Afrika Korps up from Southern Tunisia, linked up with II Corps at gabes. Rommel was now staging his masterly retreat to Northern Tunisia. On 8 April the regiment moved back to the vicinity of Kasserine and took up its road building and mine-clearing duties.
1st Battalion minus Company C was used in support of the IX British Corps and on 10 May moved north to the vicinity of Pichon. The 1st Battalion primarily conducted maintenance of the British's supply routes. On 15 April the 1st Battalion rejoined the regiment at Kasserine and on 17 April the 20th Engineers was on the move again. Northward through Thala, LeKef, and Souk-el Arba, over the mountains, through Lacroix and LaCalle, the regiment moved with General Bradley's II Corps to Northern Tunisia. On 25 May 1943 Colonel Caffey left the Regiment to take command of Engineer Special Brigade. He was replaced by Colonel Arnold who was killed by a concrete mine on 6 June 1943. Colonel Daley assumed command of the regiment.
After a day at Roum-es-Souk repairing vehicles that had failed during the march, the regiment moved near Djebel Abiod. Two days later the 1st Battalion moved along the road that led from Sedjenane to Cap Serrat on the Mediterranean Sea. The battalion was to improve this road into a main supply route for the forthcoming attack. On 6 June, the 1st Battalion rejoined the regiment at El Alia across the lake from Bizerte. At El Alia the battalion began an intensive training period that included close order drill, infantry training, minefield emplacement, work with the treadway bridge, ranges, and arduous foot marches. On 23 June the regiment boarded LCI's in the Lac de Bizerte and landed on Yellow Beach on 26 June. The 16 mile march back to El Alia was difficult with soldiers carrying packs, gas masks and arms, light and heavy machine guns, bazookas, ammunition, mine detectors and radios.
The regiment again boarded the LCIs on 5 July for another training mission. On 6 July 1943 the 1st Battalion left the Bizerte Harbor and pulled around Cap Bone to Sousse. Finally the battalion was informed that it was to invade Sicily as part of George Patton's Seventh Army. Passing within sight of Malota on 9 July and landing at 1230 on 10 July 2 ½ miles east of Licata. The 1st Battalion, less Company A, was attached to the 3rd Division and moved inland and took up defensive positions on the hills surrounding the beachhead. The next day, they marched to Licata and took over guard of the city.
On 12 July1943, 1st Battalion moved by truck to the extreme eastern flank of the 3rd Division's beachhead and took up defensive positions in an Italian trench and pillbox system. While sitting on the hill east of Licata, the battalion was able to listen to radio reports, giving them the "big picture." The 82nd Airborne dropped during the night while the 1st, 3rd, 45th, and 2nd Armored Divisions followed the paratroopers in assault craft. The American forces had landed on the southern side of the island, while the British 8th Army landed in the east around Syracuse.
On 15 July the 1st Battalion moved to the vicinity of Palma. On the 17th they moved to Agrigento to quell riots and spent a day hunting souvenirs and taking Italian prisoners who were tired of the war. They spent the next day taking out obstacles, removing road blocks and filling tank traps in the Agrigento-Porto Empedocle area. On 18 July 1943, the regiment was released from the 3rd Division and assigned to the 7th Army. From Agrigento they worked north, following the 3rd Division. The regiment remained in Sicily until November.
On 18 November 1943, the 20th boarded the USAT Sloterdyke in Palermo Harbor and moved west through the Mediterranean Sea and the Strait of Gibralter. On 24 November, the ship anchored off Greenock, Scotland. The men left the Sloterdyke on 27 November and boarded a train in Greenock for Devizes. On 5 December, they left Devizes by trained and traveled to Truro, Cornwall. Initial preparations were made for Exercise Duck, the first of the great rehearsals for the invasion of the European Continent. The 20th received the mission of building tent camps to house the participating troops.
On 21 January 1944, the 20th Engineer Combat Regiment was officially redesignated. Combat Regiments were a thing of the past and the 20th had been one of the few remaining. From redesignation, the 20th Engineer Combat Battalion was formed and personnel and equipment were taken from the first battalion of the old regiment.
The battalion after redesignation, continued working on two construction projects, Rolero and Overlord. Both concerned the housing facilities for the concentration of forces needed in the assault of the continent. Late in January, the 20th was relieved of all construction tasks and was assigned the task of widening the roads leading to Hards on the Fall River.
On 10 February 1944, the 20th was officially relieved from attachment to the Southern Base section and attached to V Corps. That same day the battalion moved to Wellington, England to start training for the invasion.
On 1 March 1944, the 20th was notified that it had been selected by the 1st Infantry Division to support the unit in the assault on the continent. On 2 March they left by train for Dorchester to participate in Special Exercise Fox, a simulated assault on a hostile shore.
OMAHA BEACH AND FRANCE
On 5 June 1944, the 20th sailed into the English Channel in the midst of the greatest convoy of assault craft the world ever assembled. The unit landed on Omaha Beach off the Normandy Coast, supporting the men of the 16th Infantry in the advance on the beach. The 20th was given the task of removing mines and obstacles to move the supporting vehicles off the beach.
As the LCI's moved past the support ships toward the beach, officers of the 20th began to feel as if something had gone awry. Why were there so many dead on the beaches? Had the 16th actually made it off the beach, or were they cut to shreds by the entrenched Germans? The 16th and the rest of the 1st Infantry Division did make it onto and through Omaha Beach, and the 20th followed and cleared the beach for inbound vehicles, ammunitions, and supplies.
Elsewhere, the men learned that the invasion had gone basically as planned. The 82nd and 101st Airborne Divisions had jumped into Normandy to disrupt German communications. The 1st and 29th landed at "Bloody Omaha" and had pushed inland. At Point du Hoc the Rangers had scramble up the cliffs and knocked out the coastal guns. On Utah Beach the 4th and part of the 90th came ashore. From Port-en-Bessin eastward the British and Canadians had gone ashore and drove inland toward Bayeaux.
From 7 to 14 June 1944, the 20th supported the rapid advance of the 1st Division. On 12 July, the 20th received another assignment to support the 5th Division. The new assignment required the movement of the unit to Littry where the men did a vast amount of road work and mine clearance. During 9 to 16 August, the 20th was busy clearing debris and rubble and opening the road nets through the battered city of Vire.
Again the 20th was on the move with a long march on 17 August to Mortill. Here the Battalion received the mission of supporting the 80th Division in the push against the southern rim of the Falaixe Pocket. When the Falaixe Pocket was eliminated, the 20th joined the pursuit to the east and moved through newly liberated towns lined with cheering crowd to the city limits of Paris. On 26 August and for the next four days after the liberation of Paris, the 20th performed engineer and bridge reconnaissance in and around Paris. They removed roadblocks from the boulevards, guarded captured engineer dumps, and constructed the reviewing stand for the Victory Parade.
The 20th left France, passed through Belgium, and entered Luxembourg on 11 September 1944. The unit was now in support of the 28th Division, pushing northeast. All of northern France and Belgium was cleared of the German troops and all Allied forces had reached the German border. Here the Americans encountered the Siegfried Line, but the wait for supplies had given the enemy time to secure the defenses there.
The 28th Division had driven a small wedge into the famous line and the 20th had the mission of maintaining the supply routes. With the Autumn rains, the earthen roads, under heavy traffic, rapidly became rivers of mud. The 20th opened several quarries and poured rock onto the roads in an effort to maintain the routes. On 6 October, the battalion moved to a pine forest on the outskirts of Camp Elsenborn where they set up their bivouac in support of the 28th Division. Pre-fabricated buildings were erected to sere as combination mess halls and day rooms. During this time the 20th improved the supply roads in the division area and trained at Robertville Lake in assault crossing techniques for the prospective Rhine crossing.
The Siegfried Line had been pierced by both the 1st and 9th Divisions, but before the assembled troops could cross the Roer River and burst onto the Cologne Plain, it was essential that the Roer Dams be seized. These great earth dams had been built by the Germans as part of their Western defenses, and if there blown while Allied forces crossed the Roer, the resulting floods would destroy or cut off any advance into the flat Roer Valley. Thus the Roer River was the key to the attack, and the town of Schmidt, perched on a hill above the Roer River, where it controlled all approaches. On 26 October, the 20th was in direct support of the 122nd Infantry Regiment of the 28th Division in the attack on Schmidt.
The attack began with the 20th following the assaulting infantry. Their mission was to open and maintain a supply road from Germeter to Schmidt. The men labored valiantly under heavy artillery fire. The Germans counterattacked in great strength and drove the 28th Division from Schmidt. The 20th was committed as infantry to hold the enemy along the line of the Kall River. This was the most costly fighting in which the battalion had engaged, as their positions were under constant artillery and mortar fire.
In the middle of November, the 28th Division was relieved and its place taken by the 8th Division, but the 20th remained in the Hurtgen Forest battling the mud. In December, the Germans made an appearance in greater strength than the battalion had ever seen. Striking with overwhelming armor forces in the thinly held areas, the Germans broke through the Allied lines. The 20th was pulled out of the Hurtgen Forest on 20 December and sent down to La Reid, Belgium. Their mission was to set up secondary defense barriers of minefields and to prepare trees for demolition.
The Germans attacked the Allied lines with the ultimate objective of reaching Antwerp and the sea and thus cutting off the 38 Allied divisions. The Allied line held, and the line lost momentum as the German supply lines were stretched over many miles. Snow came to the Ardennes, and the 20th was kept busy day and night removing drifts and keeping the lifelines open to the divisions holding the Germans back.
In February 1945, spring arrived and the snow vanished. Under the heavy traffic of troop movements, the mission of maintaining the roads became a demanding task. For the first time in their history, the Battalion had the infantry supporting them in an effort to maintain supply routes.
Supporting the 9th Armored Division, the 20th again crossed the Siegfried Line, removing mines and performing other general engineer work. The 20th crossed the Rhine River, and once across, moved far from the waters of the Rhine, dashing east over the Autobahn to Weilberg, where Companies A and C built Bailey bridges. Then from Weilberg to Kassel, the battalion removed obstacles and cleared roads.
In May 1945, the 20th moved in convoy to Munchberg. Victory was near, and it was only appropriate that the 20th should end the campaign by again supporting the Big Red One. One of the outstanding accomplishments of the 20th during this time was the construction of a huge prisoner of war compound for some 100,000 German prisoners. The Battalion also traveled into Czechoslovakia, replacing destroyed bridges with permanent ones of timber and steel.
Throughout its three years of intermittent combat in the European theater, the 20th fought hard and well. General Patton once said: "Give me the 1st Division and the 20th Engineers and I'll go anywhere!" On 31 May 1945, in a formal review at Suxice, the unit colors were decorated with the blue streamer of the Distinguished Unit Citation. The unit had earned this coveted award in the action of D-Day nearly a year before, but never in that busy year had the 20th found time for formal presentation. Under the War Department General Order #67, August 1944, the citation reads:
The 20th Engineer Combat Battalion is cited for outstanding performance of duty in action. The 20th Engineer Combat Battalion was attached to the 16th Infantry with the mission of clearing the beach obstacles within the tidal range of the beach form vicinity of Vierville-sur-Mer to Coleville-sur-Mer on 6 June 1944. In the execution of this mission the battalion came ashore under artillery, mortar, rifle, grenade, machine gun, and small arms fire. Despite persistent enemy activity, the 20th Engineer Combat Battalion, with courageous determination and tenacity of purpose, cleared gaps in barbed wire and minefields to gain the beach. The operation was especially complicated because infantry and other troops were within the danger radius of obstacle demolitions. Working at times ahead of the infantry, the engineer cleared a beach exit through antitank ditches, roadblocks, and minefields to insure the infantry's uninterrupted advance. Although heavy casualties and loss of vital equipment, the battalion, by splendid foresight and technical skill, gallantly accomplished its difficult mission in a manner consistent with the highest traditions of the military service. The courageous prosecution of these extremely perilous tasks in the face of overwhelming odds and deadly enemy opposition is deserving of the highest praise.
In addition to the unit citation, the 20th earned streamers for participation in the campaigns in Algeria, French Morocco, Tunisia, Sicily, Normandy, Northern France, Rhineland, Ardennes-Alsace, and Central Europe. For its part in the Normandy Invasion, the 20th received the French Croix de Guerre with the following citation:
Valorous Unit which especially distinguished itself during the disembarkment operation of 6 June 1944. Having been given the mission of clearing up the beach from Vierville-sur-Mer to Coleville-sur-Mer, it accomplished its mission in advance of the infantry, under violent enemy artillery fire, and with the most absolute disregard for death. It thus permitted the regular and uninterrupted advance of the Allied infantry. The citation carries with it the award of the Croix de Guerre with the star of Vermeil.
The 20th remained in Europe until 30 March 1946, performing general engineer work. It was deactivated in Frankfurt, Germany and returned to the United States. This ended the 20th Engineer Battalion's participation in World War II and was the second time in 30 years that the unit had been deactivated. The battalion would only remain inactive for four years and would return to Germany in 15 years.
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Breast cancer is the most commonly diagnosed cancer in women. It is also one of the most treatable, with a five-year survival rate of over 85 percent. However, early detection is critical, so people need to be familiar with the signs and symptoms. Today, we’ll examine breast cancer, its treatment options, and how to detect it early.
What is breast cancer?
Breast cancer is a type of cancer that starts in the breast tissue and is the second leading cause of cancer death in women. Each year, it is estimated that over 260,000 women in the United States will be diagnosed, and more than 41,000 will die from the disease. This cancer occurs when cells in the breast tissue divide and grow out of control. These cells can form a tumor. A tumor is a mass or lump of cells. This cancer can spread to other body parts, such as the lungs, bones, or brain. However, the good news is that with increased awareness and improved treatment options, more women are surviving than ever before.
While the cause of breast cancer is unknown, certain risk factors increase a person’s chances of developing the disease. These include being female, older age, having a family history of cancer, having a first-degree relative, such as a mother, sister, or daughter, who has been diagnosed with this cancer before age 50, having a history of ovarian cancer, and being overweight or obese.
Breast cancer research is ongoing.
Breast cancer research is ongoing, and new treatments and therapies are being developed all the time. Researchers are constantly exploring new ways to treat the disease, and there are many promising new treatments in development. This research is crucial, and we must continue to research to find new and better ways to treat this devastating disease.
If you’re looking to explore the field of breast cancer research, masters degrees in health science are an excellent place to start. You’ll develop a foundation in the biology of cancer, learn about the latest research techniques, and explore ways to improve patient care. Plus, you’ll have the opportunity to specialize in an area of your choosing, such as cancer epidemiology or pharmacology.
How is breast cancer treated?
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Most patients are treated with surgery. The most common surgery is a mastectomy, which removes the entire breast. Some women also have a lymph node dissection, which removes lymph nodes in the armpit. This is done to see if cancer has spread to the lymph nodes.
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There are many different ways that people can detect early signs of breast cancer. If you are at risk for this cancer, it is important to be aware of the different methods available to you to detect the disease in its earliest stages.
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Another way to detect early signs is through self-examination. It is important to be familiar with the look and feel of your breasts to identify any changes. You should perform a self-examination at least once a month.
If you notice any changes in your breasts, such as a lump in your breast, size or shape of your breast, appearance of the nipple, or inflammation, it is important to see a doctor as soon as possible. This cancer is often treatable if it is caught early.
Fight back against breast cancer with awareness.
If you have been diagnosed with this disease, it is important to stay positive and seek support from family and friends. There are many different support groups available for people with this cancer, and these groups can be a great source of information and support. It is also important to speak with a doctor about any questions or concerns you may have. Most importantly, awareness is the best way to fight breast cancer. The more people are aware of this cancer’s signs and symptoms, the more people can catch it early and beat it.
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“Most people don’t listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply.” – Stephen R. Covey
In teaching us a foreign language, my high school French teacher didn’t want us just to listen and understand – he wanted us to reply! The class was a revelation – Bernie F., our teacher, had brilliant blue eyes like marbles, and hair so dark it looked black. He was probably in his 30s, and he fired vocabulary questions at us as if we were Gestapo soldiers ready to salute him. Yes, we were expected to listen, understand, and reply.
Newton North High in Massachusetts, near Boston, had a campus of three large buildings, with a yard between all of them – the grass had been worn away by students’ footsteps and it was, really, a dustbowl – making the grounds seem more like a rather grubby college than a high school. My classmates and I were typical teenagers of the 70s, wearing bell-bottomed jeans and plaid flannel work shirts, and Vibram-soled hiking boots, even if some of us were girls. On our rock & roll-listening-heads, we invariably had long hair – even the boys. And French was one of my favorite classes.
“For-mee-dahh-ble!” Bernie would shout in a French accent, if we answered a grammar question correctly or got an “A” on a test. We were meant to listen to and understand the peculiarities of the language, the idioms, but more than anything he wanted us to be able to answer him when he fired off a question. He drilled us, at every class, on tenses of verbs and our vocabulary, and expected us to respond in complete sentences, using the right word – “le mot juste.” I learned more French in that one year than I did in the entire other six years I spent studying French, because he expected so much of us.
The most fun part was “cooking French.” One afternoon we made Cherries Jubilee, which we ignited in the classroom with a torch, the flames rising halfway to the ceiling, and we also feasted on escargots – snails – dripping in garlicky butter. Bernie F. believed in teaching us the cuisine of France – it was part of the fun of being a Francophile. That part of it was more about understanding French cuisine than it was about shooting back an accurate response to our teacher’s verbal demands. So having us “understand” the complexity of flavors in French food mattered to Bernie – those were occasions when we weren’t thinking about making up an answer and trying to convey it with a good French accent.
I liked our teacher, very much, even though I found him tremendously intimidating. Having to always be ready with a reply made me nervous. And I studied hard at home, doing my assignments, but was always anxious I wouldn’t be able to “come through” with my responses the next time the class met.
When our old high school was torn down a couple of years later to make room for a big, new high school that was contained in one building, I regretted losing the old high school. Bernie had us captive in Building I, with our cooking sessions and drills on French vocabulary, and by the end of the year I understood his passion for, and firm belief in, the possibility of getting kids excited about learning a foreign language. We listened, understood, and replied.
I ended up scoring in the 700s on my oral French SATs for college – a feat I could never have accomplished without his strict tutelage. An oral exam was more difficult than a written one, because one had to comprehend what was rapidly said on the phonograph record they played for us as part of the test and be able to write a comprehensive written reply.
“Bien sur,” I say now to people who ask if I speak French, “Je parle un peu.” “Of course, I speak a little.” I didn’t understand spoken French well while on a vacation in Paris, when I was in college – the Frenchmen I met spoke so quickly. It was frustrating having to ask people to slow their speech down. But I was always able to answer someone.
How could I not be, having had the great Bernie F. as my teacher? He was “formidable”!! And I would say that, in learning a foreign language, the ability to understand is no more important than the ability to reply, if only to say, “Je ne vous comprends pas” – “I don’t understand you,” or even the much ruder “QUOI???” – “WHAT???” Our teacher wanted us to be able to make ourselves clear. It’s a tricky thing; you want to listen and understand; but you also want to show you understood by giving an answer. | <urn:uuid:9304c36c-f7cd-4347-8747-075b5edbfe1b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://nuhafoundation.org/home/blog/bloggingentries/2018/adult/learning-french/?replytocom=12210 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570767.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808061828-20220808091828-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.985359 | 1,059 | 2.1875 | 2 |
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By Timothy O•
Dec 10, 2016
When I took, assignments 2 and 4 were broken and there were no mentors to help students. However, I am now told they will be fixing the course. I give 2 stars becuase the concepts of the assignments is good, but the course needs more attention.
By Yiming Z•
Oct 14, 2017
Poor explanations in the lectures especially for particle filter.
It doesn't go deep into why and how the method was developed in a theoretical way.
By Alejandro A V•
Jun 8, 2016
It is not very clear. The assignments have several problems with the given code. There are many things to improve in the next sessions.
By Gaurang G•
May 6, 2017
Week 2 kalman filter assignment not clear;
Course can be made more clear like Aerial Robotics.
By Nico W•
Feb 5, 2017
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Writing Assignment: Prove ItAs you know, a large group of people without homes has set up a camp near your home, and some people who live in your community want the government and police to send these people away. Others support allowing them to stay, so the community can help them.You submitted a proposal to present the side of the issue you support at the Town Hall meeting. Your proposal was one of five chosen to be presented at the Town Hall Meeting next week. The presentations are required to have the following components:An Introduction3 supporting sectionsA conclusionAn arguable thesis (stated in the introduction and conclusion)At least 5 rhetorical devicesAll 3 types of appealsAt least 3 different types of evidenceRefutationFewer than 3 obvious logical fallaciesUse your proposal from the “Stake Your Claim” assignment, and do the following:PART 1: Your presentation may be delivered in one of 4 ways according to the council rules:You may write out your presentation in the form of a 5-paragraph essay that you submit.You may submit an mp3 audio file of the dramatic delivery of your presentation.You may create a PowerPoint Presentation of 14-25 slides with text and graphics that support your position.You may create a media presentation with audio, video, photographs, animation and/or art work that supports your text and develops your thesis clearly.Choose one of these options and create your presentation.PART 2: All selections must be accompanied by an annotated outline (as demonstrated in the instruction in Unit 2 section D) of the presentation that identifies:Rhetorical devicesAppealsRefutationTypes of evidenceComplete your outline and save it as a separate document.PART 3: Submit both your presentation and your outline to the Writing Assignment: Prove It assignment link for grading.To ensure success, read the grading rubric.For help with editing and revising, view the 6+1 Trait® Writing RubricCongratulations on completing this unit! Now, continue with the course. | <urn:uuid:f84a20f6-364b-4e02-aeba-a2148769d2d9> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://writingestate.com/writing-assignment-prove-itas-you-know-a-large-group-of-pe/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573699.52/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819131019-20220819161019-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.922339 | 404 | 2.53125 | 3 |
We work with students, scientists, communities, and producers to increase food and fuel security. Through these collaborations, we develop new crop varieties, agricultural processes, and technologies that revolutionize food systems and the agriculture industry.
Our Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Access Committee is leading the process of self-reflection, communication, and action required to make our department a more welcoming, supportive place for all. We began approaching this work in a more coordinated way in fall 2020. Here is a sampling of the ways we are currently engaging:
- Educating ourselves about historical and current inequities along multiple identity axes
- Systematically reviewing our department policies and amending biased structures and processes
- Incorporating IDEA contributions into annual evaluations for all faculty and staff
What We Do & Why It Matters
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"We develop cutting-edge technologies for the sustainable use of materials and energy"
Students at the USFQ Chemical Engineering program study the physical and chemical phenomena of the transformation of matter through mechanical and thermal processes, or by chemical reactions at a molecular or macroscopic level. Furthermore, students learn how to develop, design, evaluate, and optimize different types of transformation processes, whether mechanical, physical, thermal, or chemical. Through these studies students learn different ways of developing new products and processes in order to produce raw materials, intermediate products, and final products that are analyzed by experimentation, mathematical modeling, or the implementation of engineering criteria. As a result, graduates obtain basic competence skills for responsible performance of their functions as chemical engineers.
- USFQ offers its Chemical Engineering students a high level academic atmosphere, with professors holding PhD’s from prestigious North American, European, and Asian universities.
- The program offers modern chemistry and chemical engineering laboratories where students carry out experiments similar to those that occur in the chemical industry.
- The department of Chemical Engineering has two research groups that carry out cutting-edge studies in various areas such as development of chemical processes, renewable energy, biomaterials, bioprocesses, and computational chemistry. Students are involved in these projects from their first year of study, projects that are led by professors who specialize in the mentioned fields.
- A high percentage of Chemical Engineering students participate in international exchange and internship programs offered by USFQ, allowing them to gain international experience by learning how scientific and technical education is taught abroad.
- Chemical Engineering students are able to join the Chemical Engineering Student Club, CEIQ-USFQ, as well as join the student chapter of the American Association of Chemical Engineers, AIChE, which offers great benefits such as participation in national and international conferences and competitions, industrial visits, access to databases and exclusive information, job fairs, among other activities.
The combination of technical preparation acquired in different areas of process engineering, professionalism applied in projects, and a humanistic vision imparted through Liberal Arts forms graduates committed to personal, social, and organizational improvement through entrepreneurship and productive development. USFQ's Chemical Engineering graduates are professionals capable of effective decision making and problem solving, using deep critical thinking and having sensibility towards the social, economic, and environmental reality of Ecuador and the world.
Currently, there is an important demand for chemical engineers at a local and global level, for this reason, USFQ graduates have a wide range of employment options including venturing into national and transnational companies, starting their own production business, offering design or technical consulting, specializing in different technical or administrative areas, among many others.
A Chemical Engineer's professional work field is extensive thanks to the importance and relevance of knowledge acquired in the industry. Chemical Engineering graduates of USFQ are successful in professional areas such as design and implementation of industrial processes and plants, plant or project engineering, industrial safety, environmental management, research and development, process control, quality control, management, technical assistance, marketing and entrepreneurship, among others. These possibilities exist thanks to the solid foundations and knowledge that students acquire during their studies, and the proximity to practice and application within projects developed throughout the program.
“The academic rigor of the program allowed me to obtain the knowledge of chemistry, engineering, and processes that have been the fundamental base on which I have developed my career in the oil industry. Beyond academic teaching, the University and its Liberal Arts curriculum gave me the opportunity to explore different interests and areas of knowledge. Today, I highly value this teaching philosophy because it has allowed me to develop a global and balanced vision of the world, thanks to which I am able to convey the critical and structured thinking inherent in the sciences to any other field in my professional performance. The University gave me the opportunity to develop technical knowledge, social and personal skills, to learn from excellent professionals and academics, and to make friends for life. Today, I am happy to say that it was a wise decision.”
- Carolina Ulloa, USFQ Chemical Engineering Graduate, Class of 2011 -
“Studying Chemical Engineering at USFQ was a unique and very enriching experience. Thanks to the focus on processes in the program and Liberal Arts, I have managed to find great job opportunities in plant supervision and research positions locally and abroad. During the five years of my studies, I found excellent professors with extensive knowledge in their specific areas who, above all, offered me constant support. Without a doubt, what I most appreciate about USFQ's Department of Chemical Engineering is that it allowed me to be part of research and development projects from the second year of my program, since this allowed me to gain experience and see first-hand what a chemical engineer can do."
- Álvaro Gallo, USFQ Chemical Engineering Graduate, Class of 2016 -
“Chemistry is an integral part of everything that surrounds us and is responsible for the continuous improvement of our quality of life. By carrying out chemical principles on a large scale, engineering has been an important part of that development.
I chose this career because it gives a holistic view of the industry and endless opportunities for specialization. Due to this versatility, I have been able to work in the pharmaceutical industry, research, and even in the automotive field.
The Liberal Arts philosophy of the University of San Francisco de Quito has broadened my horizons and therefore my field of action: I have been able to see my career from several points of view. USFQ has a focus on personal and professional growth not only on its campus, but also in agreement with the best universities worldwide. Under its sponsorship, I studied for a year at the University of Ottawa in Canada and interned at a research center in Poland. Thanks to that growth in my resume, I now work in one of the best manufacturing companies in the country.”
- Jhoselyn Padilla, USFQ Chemical Engineering Graduate, Class of 2017 -
"USFQ's Chemical Engineering program offers students a plan of study that meets all international requirements in order to successfully practice the profession. The expertise of professors in their different specializations applied during development and research projects, provide students with a current and modern perspective on new trends and developments worldwide, while Liberal Arts training balances technical and scientific career training with a humanistic vision, allowing the student to identify the needs of others and be aware of social and environmental problems."
- Daniela Almeida Streitwieser, Ph.D. in Chemical and Process Engineering from the University of Erlangen - Nuremberg, Germany Director and professor of the Department of Chemical Engineering -
“Our greatest strength, in my opinion, is that we are a state-of-the-art Chemical Engineering Department which addresses not-so-traditional topics, while still marking the world trends: bioenergies, bioengineering, novel environmental applications, and important computational components, among others.
Additionally, we are distinguished by the closeness between professors and students, the fact that students can get involved in research very early, and the fact that we are a department with young and dynamic energy.”
- José Francisco Álvarez Barreto, Ph.D. in Chemical, Biological and Materials Engineering, University of Oklahoma, USA
Professor of the Department of Chemical Engineering -
“Chemical Engineering is a multifunctional career. You will acquire a breadth of knowledge and skills, which allow you to obtain a variety of jobs from research to the design of new materials. Chemical Engineering opens doors since it has great possibilities in other areas of knowledge. Chemical Engineering represents a high demand in the labor market and has the great possibility of contributing towards a sustainable future.”
- Alexis Hidrobo, Ph.D. in Chemistry, Universidad de Chile, Professor of the Department of Chemical Engineering -
“Chemical Engineering is engineering that studies transformation processes. Matter and energy can be transformed through mechanisms to meet certain objectives. The Department of Chemical Engineering offers the opportunity to understand the fundamentals responsible for achieving these objectives, to research and develop technology and processes in different areas such as energy, materials, modeling, simulation, computational chemistry, etc. from a humanistic, innovative, and sustainable perspective.”
- Andrea C. Landázuri, Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering with a minor in Environmental Engineering, University of Arizona, USA
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Handmade Waldorf Forest Animals
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Bring nature inside with these beautiful and durable wooden forest animals. This 15-piece set includes your child’s favorite woodland creatures — fox, wolf, squirrel, badger, hedgehog, brown bear, moose, rabbit, raccoon, and deer, as well as a maple tree, conifer tree, oak tree, hickory tree, and a mushroom.
Your child can create a world of natural wonders while placing their wooden friends just so. They can stay in the forest, or travel along with your child on their many adventures.
Open-ended play pieces are perfect for inspiring your child’s imagination. They can create a new story every day, or simply visit with their forest friends for a relaxing play moment.
Open-ended play is preschool learning at its best. Help your child’s imagination bloom with beautiful Waldorf Forest Animals!
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2012 Theses Doctoral
Needs Analysis of Genetics and Genomics in Communication Sciences and Its Disorders: Evidence for Change
Purpose: Signaled by the completion of the Human Genome Project in 2003, rapid and escalating discovery in genome science has initiated a paradigm shift in education training and healthcare practices. This shift has required healthcare educators and professionals to possess a level of genetic and genomic literacy and competency. The current study was designed to survey the current state of the perceptions of genetics and genomics in educational and clinical practices within the field speech-language pathology. Method: Seventy-five program directors of degree programs and 265 speech-language pathologists participated in two web-based surveys. Results: Program directors and speech-language pathologist reported to be aware of recent genetic and genomic advancements in speech-language pathology. Ninety-six percent of program directors expected graduated students to demonstrate competency in genetic and genomic related clinical services. Thirty-six percent of program directors reported graduated students were prepared to understand genetics. Seventy-three percent of speech-language pathology programs offered genetic content in their curricula. In comparison, eighty-three percent of speech-language pathologists reported performing genetic related services within their clinical practices. Less than half of respondents reported confidence in performing clinical services. Speech-language pathologists reported minimal to no knowledge of at least 85% of genetic or genomic principles related to speech-language pathology. Sixty-three percent of speech-language pathologists reported their degree-training program had not prepared them to understand genomics in speech-language pathology. Results of a needs index revealed discrepancies between perceptions of speech-language pathologist's performed clinical services and program director's expected competencies, and between level of perceived preparedness and perceived knowledge. Thematic analysis across perceptions, course content, expected competencies, clinical services, and areas of knowledge reflected principles of Mendelian inheritance and single gene disorders. This "medical genetics" perspective is one typically used prior to the completion of Human Genome Project in 2003. Conclusion: The results of this investigative study suggest the field of communication sciences and its disorders is not keeping pace with the demands of new advancements in genetics and genomics. Several discrepancies may contribute to misconceptions and misinformation surrounding genetics and genomic in speech-language pathology. This study provides a foundation for discussion of curriculum reform at the graduate level and policy changes in standard practices of speech-language pathologists at the national level.
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More About This Work
- Academic Units
- Speech and Language Pathology
- Thesis Advisors
- Saxman, John H.
- Ph.D., Columbia University
- Published Here
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LLC Operating Agreement Filing
An LLC Operating Agreement is not required for state filing purposes, but it is a great way to cover all of your bases and have a clear written out document of what specific members are in charge of and how gains and losses are split up among said members. While an operating agreement can also be oral, it’s a good idea to have a formal agreement to avoid any misunderstandings about who is in charge of what, distribution of debts and profits and to protect your limited liability status.
An operating agreement is a document that outlines the manner in which a company is to do business and who will manage the company. It is a framework for the business, and spells out the rules and regulations to which the company must adhere.
Forming an operating agreement is required by many states, however, no state requires that it be filed with the state. The laws of an LLC operating agreement can vary greatly from state to state, with some requiring an operating agreement for companies with a single member, while others only requiring one if there is more than one member.
Although states don’t require an operating agreement to be on file with the state, some still require it to be on file internally. An operating agreement can be oral, however, it may be a better idea to put it in writing in order to avoid any ambiguity or misunderstandings.
What information should an LLC operating agreement typically contain?
- Allocation of profits and losses
- Fiduciary duties of members and officers
- Member voting rights
- How members are to be added or removed
- How officers are elected and what their duties are
- Financial provisions and provisions for taxes, capital and dissolution
- Debt responsibility of members
- Annual meeting locations, times, and meeting rules
- Information about ownership and management
Who needs to see an operating agreement?
An LLC operating agreement is not only beneficial, but also necessary for some business activities to be carried out. For instance, lenders and banks will often request a copy of the operating agreement when your company is trying to obtain financing or open a business checking account.
Often, potential investors and partners will want to look over various business documents, including your operating agreement, and attorneys and accountants may request an operating agreement as well.
The Importance of Operating Agreements
An LLC operating agreement is important because they ensure that the company operates according to the vision of the LLC’s members and managers, and the agreement helps protect the integrity of the business.
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Need a step drill? We have a range of step drills in metric on the shelf ready for dispatch now.
The step drill bit drills holes by rotating in a clockwise direction, through metal sheets of up to ¼ inch thick. Each step in the drill enlarges the original hole. The smallest bits are self-starting in that they need no pilot drill to start off the hole.
Step drills work exceptionally well on sheet metal. They can be used on other materials as well, but you won't get a straight smooth-walled hole in solid materials thicker than the step height. Step bits are incredibly useful for one-step drilling operations, but they're not suitable for all operations.
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It may have produced cars from 1947 to 2011, but it’s fair to say that Bristol didn’t always go in for large-scale interaction with the press or the public.
If its charismatic owner, Tony Crook, took a disliking to a journalist who wanted to borrow a car, they would be told to sling their hook. If he didn’t like the look of a potential customer, he would tell them pretty much the same thing.
The early cars, types 400 through 406, were idiosyncratic, innovative, beautifully made and powered by a peppery 2.0-litre straight six that was sprightly enough to power a number of highly successful racing cars.
The post-1961 cars, types 407 onwards, adopted large Chrysler V8s and were proper and imperious grand tourers. They may have looked discreet, but in many dynamic and safety areas, they were impressively ahead of their contemporary rivals.
By the 1990s, though, Bristol was struggling and, in time, even the most purblind enthusiast of the marque would have had some difficulty in justifying its cars’ not-inconsiderable price tags.
Despite a brief injection of cash and enthusiasm from a new owner and an all-new 8.0-litre V10-powered two-seater called the Fighter, it all came to an ignoble end in 2011 – and despite a few subsequent attempts to revive it, that’s where it rests today.
Now, though, any Bristol, though wilfully eccentric, is definitely a cult hero. Of the V8 cars, the 411 of 1969- 1976 could well be the sweet spot.
This was, by the standards of its time, perhaps the most impressive V8 Bristol of all and, in its heyday, good enough for several motoring journalists to proclaim it one of the best cars in the world. It was a sober-looking, 140mph, aluminium-bodied four-seater of fighter pilot class and supreme engineering logic, and its arrival sparked a healthy boost in sales. | <urn:uuid:ef8f7752-6094-4e76-8d08-a14b5359f06f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://amarasuperstore.com/used-buying-guide-bristol-411.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573699.52/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819131019-20220819161019-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.983216 | 429 | 1.515625 | 2 |
- Ahmaud Arbery Story (4 Parts)
- Growth Guide: How to talk about tough topics
- Principles for Tough Topics
- 3 Ways to Encourage Critical Thinking
- Woke Homeschooling Discount
- Urban Intellectuals Discount
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News from Sudan
Publication of peace and other developments in Sudan (2000-2005)
18 Articles - page 1 2
- Nairobi, Kenya10 January 2005 - Zachary Ochieng
- 18 October 2004 - Shalom House
- The humanitarian crisis in Darfur shows no signs of abating at the same time as the national, regional and international politics of the conflict take on new dimensions.Tajudeen Abdul-Raheem
- IF EVER there was a place that required a large African peacekeeping force with an ability to deploy with speed and the power to prevent attacks, it has been the Darfur region of the Sudan .Jonathan Katzenellenbogen
- President Omar el-Bashir pledged to end violence in Sudan's western Darfur region in comments aired Saturday, but his vice president said it was not practical to disarm within 30 days the Arab militias responsible for the killings of some 30,000 people.
- Although quick to condemn brutalities in Sudan, the international community has been painfully slow to respond to a U.N. appeal for more aid and for troops to serve in a peacekeeping force in the western province of Darfur.Thalif Deen, United Nations
- Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Beshir, whose armed forces' actions have sparked a torrent of international criticism of his regime, has been made a field marshal, a top aide said Saturday
- Ketziot Prison, one of the largest IDF detention centers for Palestinian security prisoners located along the Egyptian border, has recently received seven unexpected visitors.Yaakov Katz
- Web ReviewFour months after the Darfur crisis in Sudan was described by the UN as the "world's worst humanitarian disaster", tens of thousands of people in the state of Western Darfur still live without shelter or sanitation, receive no food aid and have to drink contaminated water.
- SudanThe African Union, AU, held its annual summit from the 6-8th of July in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia amidst calls from human rights organisations for the AU to take a proactive role in stemming conflicts in the African continent.Henry Neondo
- SudanThe crisis in Darfur threatens to scuttle the Sudanese peace process, currently on the home stretch.Zachary Ochieng
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Exposition de Katja Lumpe
From 25 to 31 august 2022
Exhibition of the artist Katja Lumpe at Lavoir Vasserot
Katja Lumpe is a painter, originally from Germany, specialised in abstract painting.
Influenced by the colours, the contrasts and the light of the south of France, she transmits her emotions through her abstract art for the greatest pleasure of amateurs and collectors.
Katja Lumpe is an artist at heart. Her works are described as "characters" and subtly evoke an atmosphere of strength, lightness and harmony.
An inspiration from nature and the universe in all its splendid forms, its undulating reliefs, its bright and intense colours, while fully identifying with her creative visions through the expression of a free spirit.
Beyond the depth of his works and their symbolic significance, his spirit of independence is undoubtedly one of his most obvious traits.
Her works reflect this pure freedom and a life overflowing with richness.
The art studies that Katja Lumpe was spontaneously led to follow did not shape or formulate her. Above all, they allowed her to develop skills and perfect multiple creative techniques.
It was in 2014 when she arrived in the Gulf of St Tropez that her inspirations and expressions came to life in her unique and recognisable style.
Being an artist "is something that accompanies you all your life".
Katja is constantly seeking to evolve, to learn new mediums and to refine her work using materials such as gold, silver, coral powder, patinas and much more. Her desire to create has always been present.
Today, the artist travels to exhibitions, fairs and festivals dedicated to contemporary art. She has won numerous prizes, including the 1st Prize of the City of Saint Tropez.
From Thursday 25 to Wednesday 31 August 2022.
Free of charge.
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School Mission: Lamplighter Montessori School provides a world-class, student-centered educational experience designed to foster each child’s talents, self discovery, and love of learning.
Welcome to Lamplighter Montessori School’s Summer Camp!
Register your child now to ensure they are signed up for a summer of fun with their friends. Activities include arts and crafts, fun games, outdoor recreation, MakerSpace building challenges, water play, bike riding, and much more! This summer we are adding new themes in Elementary and crazy sprinklers!
Tuition Information: Weekly Rate
5 Full Days – ALL CAMPERS – $225
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Chances are high that you have heard some fascinating facts about kratom – a tropical tree native to certain South Asian countries. As with other plant species, there are varied strains of kratom, and you will also find a bunch of blends to choose from. Websites like In Sense Botanicals have made kratom more accessible to buyers in the west.
Kratom contains certain alkaloid compounds, specifically:
People of Indonesia and Thailand have been using kratom since ancient times, as herbal product to alleviate pain and also to gain additional energy for doing manual work.
What Kratom can really do?
As per the research done by FDA, kratom is considered as an agonist, which binds to mu-opioid receptors, that is same part exists in our brain, which is activated while taking opioids, or any prescription painkillers.
Hence, Kratom is basically a natural opioid and also comes with risk of dependence, tolerance and withdrawal symptoms.
Due to the presence of mitragynine as well as 7-hydroxymitragynine, it can also help to control our pain by attaching it to proteins which is called as opioid receptors and as a result, reduces the perception of pain.
In the recent online survey, it was found that most of the users of kratom in the US are either middle-aged or middle-income group of people who are living with pain. However, quite a few in this survey responded that they wanted to quit from opioid use.
Common side effects
Many people have reported following effects after consuming kratom:
- Poor concentration
- High blood pressure
However, it is difficult to say how much the Kratom was responsible for all above symptoms. Risks can however be higher if someone takes concentrated extracts mixed with some other psychoactive substances like drugs, adulterants or alcohol.
Following are few short-term side effects:
- Dry mouth
- Increased social behavior
- Increased urination
- Loss of appetite
- Sensitivity to sunburn
Following are few long-term side effects too:
- Discoloration of cheeks
- Frequent urination
Psychotic symptoms like hallucinations, delusion or confusion.
How long will Kratom stay in our system?
There is a need for further research in order to determine about the exact half-life period of kratom. Similar to many other addictive substances, the duration the Kratom will stay in our system will largely depend on following few factors:
- Body fat
- Food and water intake
- Frequency of use
- Metabolic rate
- Type of kratom
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Eight organisations wish to adopt killer Lucknow pit bull
LUCKNOW: Pit bulls are too dangerous to be owned. The capital city of Uttar Pradesh, Lucknow, a fortnight ago, witnessed an incident in which a pit bull killed an 82-year-old woman, the mother of its owner who is a gym trainer. Eight organisations, however, sought to adopt the killer dog now kept in a dog shelter under the supervision of the officials of Lucknow Municipal Corporation and veterinary doctors.
There is a saying that when a pit bull goes wild, it does not even spare its master. This was the reason that Germany bananned owning, breeding and importation of pit bulls, Staffordshire terriers and Tosa Inu in 2000, because of their ferocious nature. There are many stories about pit bulls killing their owners.
It was December 2017. Bethany Stephens was taking her two pit bulls to the woods for a walk behind her home in Virginia. It was she who raised the dogs when they were puppies. She had a fine relationship with them. As they walked 1.6km in the woods, the dogs pounced on her. When the police came to know about the incident, they rushed to the spot, but the dogs were guarding the body that they had mauled. The canines were growling. The policemen were unable to take Stephens's body.
Similarly, there was another tragedy in 1936. A 14-year-old boy Maxwell Breeze from Brockport, New York, was swimming in a local canal. A dog swam up to him and started to attack him and force him underwater. He drowned. The dog was presented before a court and awarded two years of confinement in its owner’s house. Nearly 500 people were present in the court to see the trial of the killer dog.
The pit bull in Lucknow is slowly returning to normal. Animal welfare officer Dr Abihhnav Varma said that the dog was behaving normally. It will be in the shelter home till July 27. It was not punished by any court. The dog was taken to the shelter so that it may behave normally.
An animal lover and MP of the Bharatiya Janata Party Maneka Gandhi called up the officials asking them to hand it back to its owner Amit Tripathi. The officials said that Tripathi had not contacted them after the dog was taken from his possession. If the owner does not claim the dog, it will be given for adoption, they said.
One of the persons who sought to adopt the dog is Amit Jani, head of the UP Navnirman Sena. He said that he had sent an email to the officials of the LMC, looking after the dog wishing to adopt it. In the mail, Jani says he has a pit bull named Brownie. He was ready to complete the formalities.
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New Linux admins need to know how to give and take sudo privileges from users. Jack Wallen shows you how on both Ubuntu- and Red Hat-based Linux distributions.
Most users on your Linux machines might be non-admins who use services and directories for various purposes. However, you might come into a situation when you need to “promote” one of those users to admin and give them sudo privileges.
How do you do that?
Once upon a time, it was required that you edit the sudoers file–which is still very much possible, but not necessary. There’s a much easier and more reliable method of promoting those standard users with sudo privileges. I’m going to show you how to do just that.
I’ll demonstrate on both Ubunutu- and Red Hat-based distributions, specifically, Ubuntu Server and AlmaLinux. You’ll be surprised how easy this is. It’s all about adding those users to the right group. Let’s first do this on Ubuntu Server.
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How to give users sudo privileges on Ubuntu Server
Log in to the machine and add the user in question to the sudo group with the command:
sudo usermod -aG sudo USER
Where user is the name of the user.
Once this is complete, the user will need to log out and log back in for the changes to take effect.
How to give users sudo privileges on Red Hat-based distributions
On Red Hat-based distributions the group is wheel, so the command would be:
sudo usermod -aG wheel USER
Where user is the name of the user to be added. Again, have the user log out and log back in so the changes will take effect.
How to remove users from a group
If you want to remove a user from those groups, the command would be:
sudo gpasswd -d USER GROUP
Where USER is the user name and GROUP is the group in question.
And that’s all there is to it. You’ve officially promoted those standard users with sudo privileges. Just make sure you only do this with users you trust, or you could wind up with serious problems to deal with.
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The Senate GOP leadership calls the energy bill that the Energy Committee passed with a bipartisan 18-4 vote last July “a leading contender” for floor debate early this year. Energy Committee Chair Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, is eager to lead that debate, hoping for Senate passage by March. If the Senate passes the Murkowski/Cantwell Energy Policy Modernization Act, S. 2012, the next step will be a House/Senate conference to merge that bill with the North American Energy Security and Infrastructure Act, H.R. 8, which the House passed Dec. 3 in a 249-174 vote.
But prospects for finalizing an energy bill this year face four major hurdles:
- Passing any legislation in a presidential election year is tough because there’s only a narrow window before partisan campaign craziness takes over.
- Since the election year limits opportunities for legislation, senators will try to use any energy bill as a vehicle for their own favored amendments. Any partisan amendments would slow the process and undermine support for the bill.
- The bipartisan Senate bill includes important provisions to support renewable energy such as $2.5 billion to support grid modernization and grid-scale energy storage whereas the House bill lost some support from Democrats after some renewable provisions weren’t included in the bill.
- U.S. and world oil prices have plunged, leading some members of Congress to call for more support for fossil fuels and less for renewable energy.
Low oil prices are likely to exert increasing pressure on Congress because stressed U.S. producers were counting on a rebound in prices rather than a further drop. Instead, this week U.S. and world oil prices fell below $31 a barrel, one-third their June 2014 peak and the lowest since 2004. In response, some House and Senate members are considering oil industry bailout measures that could include using sanctions designed to pressure Saudi Arabia to limit its production.
The price plunge is driven by a perfect storm of factors: stubbornly high U.S. and OPEC production despite the low prices, rapidly growing world stockpiles, fears that China’s slowing economy will continue to limit world oil demand, Iran’s promised surge in oil exports once U.S. sanctions are lifted, and a strengthening U.S. dollar. U.S. oil and natural gas companies have maintained production at unexpectedly high levels – levels that make no sense when much of the new U.S. production from hydraulic fracking has break-even costs of $50 to $100 a barrel.
Continuing high U.S. production comes despite warnings from Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley and others that oil could sink as low as $20, with no significant recovery likely until 2017. Even at today’s sub-$31 level, analysts warn of a flood of oil-sector bankruptcies.
Given the grim oil price outlook, Rep. Kevin Cramer, R-N.D., says using sanctions to try to limit Saudi production is a potential option.
Attorney Joseph Stanko, a partner who heads the federal government relations team at Hunton & Williams, tells Agri-Pulse that “should it appear that the Saudis or other parties are dumping oil on the world market intending long-term harm to U.S. domestic oil production, that could very well be the subject of oversight or legislative activity.”
Cramer says that along with addressing major obstacles to U.S. energy production including EPA’s Clean Power Plan to limit coal power plant emissions, “we have to get at some of the other regulatory issues” affecting the energy industry. He calls for legislation “to halt or at least rein in” problem regulations and “to stop or at least to slow down the war on coal.”
Cramer recognizes that any bills to block “regulatory overreach” will likely be vetoed. But he insists it’s worth passing such bills to show “what a Republican president, supporting a Republican Congress, would look like.”
Despite the challenges, House Energy and Commerce Committee Chair Fred Upton, R-Mich., says he’s “hopeful the Senate will take up and pass their energy bill so we can work through our differences in a conference committee to enact meaningful policy reforms.” He adds that along with the need to pass major energy legislation, his committee will continue to pursue “further DOE oversight, examination of EPA’s burdensome regulations, pipeline safety reauthorization, and an effort to modernize our electric grid.”
Upton is optimistic about 2016, noting the “wins” Congress posted last year in terms of energy policy.
“We lifted the 40-year-old ban on crude oil exports, enacted several grid security provisions into law via the highway bill, and modernized the Strategic Petroleum Reserve in the budget bill.” This year, he says, “we look to build on that momentum.”
One obstacle to the momentum could be efforts to repeal or at least reduce the volume requirements for EPA’s Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) designed to increase the use of biofuels.
Last week American Petroleum Institute President and CEO Jack Gerard dismissed the RFS as “a relic of our nation’s era of energy dependency that poses a direct threat to our nation’s economy, risks reversal of important environmental improvements, and could raise energy costs for American consumers.”
In response, Renewable Fuels Association President and CEO Bob Dinneen insists that as the nation endures another costly oil industry boom-and-bust cycle, “The fact is our nation needs domestically-produced clean burning renewable fuels now more than ever. Ethanol plants strengthen communities, they do not abandon them.” He explained that unlike oil industry jobs, “Ethanol jobs are as stable and renewable as the fuel itself.”
Growth Energy co-chair Tom Buis responded to RFS critics by asserting that “The RFS is the most successful energy policy this nation has enacted in the last 40 years. Not only is it creating jobs, it is revitalizing rural economies, reducing harmful emissions, improving our environment and reducing our dangerous dependence on foreign oil and fossil fuel. Additionally, it is providing consumers with a choice at the pump.”
The sharp divide over the RFS, along with other contentious issues such as the Clean Power Plan and the Endangered Species Act, threatens prospects for passing energy legislation this year. Any attempt to add anti-RFS or anti-Clean Power Plan amendments on the Senate floor at the very least would undermine support among Democrats.
National Corn Growers Association Director of Public Policy Beth Elliott says she hopes the Senate energy bill “survives the amendment process.” To make that happen, she says NCGA’s grassroots supporters will be on alert to rally opposition to any anti-RFS amendments.
Jill Gerber, press secretary for Sen. Chuck Grassley, says the Iowa Republican expects to be busy “defending renewable fuels against attacks and pressing the administration to live up to its statutory obligations” for greater biofuels use. She says there’s a long list of “energy items requiring action.” While some may be addressed in the Senate energy bill if it’s not derailed by partisan amendments, she says Grassley’s energy priorities include biodiesel and other tax breaks expiring this year but that “it seems unlikely that any movement would happen on tax extenders until after the election, during the lame duck session.”
On the contentious issue of the Clean Power Plan, one industry lobbyist tells Agri-Pulse that Congress hasn’t focused on the issue yet because Republicans are hopeful the courts will issue a stay order this month. If that doesn’t happen, he says, he expects Congress to find “the most effective legislative vehicle” – perhaps the Senate energy bill – to freeze the Clean Power Plan and protect states from being forced to make financial commitments before there is a final court decision.
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The software that many school districts use to track students’ progress can record extremely confidential information on children: “Intellectual disability.” “Emotional Disturbance.” “Homeless.” “Disruptive.” “Defiance.” “Perpetrator.” “Excessive Talking.” “Should attend tutoring.”
Now these systems are coming under heightened scrutiny after a recent cyberattack on Illuminate Education, a leading provider of student-tracking software, which affected the personal information of more than a million current and former students across dozens of districts — including in New York City and Los Angeles, the nation’s largest public school systems.
Officials said in some districts the data included the names, dates of birth, races or ethnicities and test scores of students. At least one district said the data included more intimate information like student tardiness rates, migrant status, behavior incidents and descriptions of disabilities.
The exposure of such private information could have long-term consequences.
“If you’re a bad student and had disciplinary problems and that information is now out there, how do you recover from that?” said Joe Green, a cybersecurity professional and parent of a high school student in Erie, Colo., whose son’s high school was affected by the hack. “It’s your future. It’s getting into college, getting a job. It’s everything.”
Over the last decade, tech companies and education reformers have pushed schools to adopt software systems that can catalog and categorize students’ classroom outbursts, absenteeism and learning challenges. The intent of such tools is well meaning: to help educators identify and intervene with at-risk students. As these student-tracking systems have spread, however, so have cyberattacks on school software vendors — including a recent hack that affected Chicago Public Schools, the nation’s third-largest district.
Now some cybersecurity and privacy experts say…
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We talk about root rot around here pretty often. It’s a common, but really annoying plant disease, and it can be deadly in some circumstances. To the new gardener, it can seem like it happens when you overwater… but that’s only partially true.
It’s also a little tricky to diagnose root rot for someone inexperienced, solely because you can’t see the root system. It’s hidden in the soil, after all, and we’re certainly not advocating digging your plants up on a regular basis to check and see if the roots are intact.
So what exactly is root rot? How can you tell if it’s root rot or something else? Is there a way to treat root rot? These are questions we know you’re desperate to know answers for. So let’s dive in and figure out how to prevent root rot and rescue your plants from an unthinkably grim fate!
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What Is Root Rot?
Let’s start with the basics: what is root rot, anyway?
There are a variety of soil-dwelling fungi, molds, or oomycetes out there, but root rot is caused by a small handful of these. Let’s go over the most common culprits, how they develop, and what they do.
Not a true fungi, this disease spreads more like an oomycete. While it can develop slender, threadlike hyphae extending outward from its host plant, it also has oospores that can overwinter in soil debris or infected plant material.
There are a wide number of species of pythium that impact plants. In the nursery industry, P. aphanidermatum strikes at temperatures below 68°F, where P. ultimum and P. irregulare are more common at temperatures above 77°F. These are the most common varieties in the United States on most houseplants, shrubs, or garden plants, but there are other species that are more likely to impact turfgrass.
In all cases, there are two things that make it more likely that your soil will get infected. Overly wet soil provides the perfect habitat for this species. Further, soils or soilless mixes that have high salt content are more likely to be contaminated, as it likes a slightly salty environment. This means that sphagnum peat moss and vermiculite blends are at risk, as are some forms of coconut coir.
Once this contaminant is in your soil, it can be hard to remove using organic measures. Further, overwatering and overfertilizing can increase infection rates in your plants. Overwatering furthers the cycle, plus can enable pests to nibble on roots and leave them open to infection. Overfertilizing with too much nitrogen suppresses the plant’s built-in defense response.
This disease is caused by a type of water mold. Anywhere that water accumulates or flows, this disease can occur. It’s common throughout the Pacific Northwest of the US, as an example, and along rivers or streambeds, in rice fields or any other flooded environment.
In a garden setting, phytophthora is most likely to strike at shrubs or trees, but can also impact vegetables like tomatoes, eggplant or peppers. It likes warm, wet conditions, and will thrive in those conditions, so drainage is key to reducing this annoying cause of rot.
Fusarium oxysporium, a fungi that we’ve covered in-depth for other reasons, is also a cause of rots. Typically it caused rots of roots and the plant crown, and it can live in the bed for long periods of time. This one is one of the most common forms in home gardens and can be tricky to deal with.
Other Root Rots
There are other species of fungus that can cause similar rotting damage to the above, but that have a more limited target spread.
Rhizoctonia is the largest of these. Caused by Rhizoctonia solani, it tends to strike out at a number of food plants like soybeans or wheat. It’s fairly common, but it can be controlled.
Thielaviopsis basicola is a common rotting disease of ornamentals or flowering plants. Like Rhizoctonia, this can be somewhat controlled.
Leptographium procerum causes procerum rots in trees. It’s most common in pines.
Finally, Heterobasidion annosum causes annosus rots in pines, firs, or other coniferous species. It is a major pathogen in American forestry, but is not as common in residential spaces.
Symptoms and Identification of Root Rot
One of the interesting things about these assorted root rot causes is that they all typically experience similar above-ground damage. It’s easy to pin down that it is a type of rot on your plant, but much more difficult to determine which one!
In most cases, plants will begin to experience slower or stunted growth. Yellowing of leaves can occur; in turf grasses, you may see yellowed circular patches on the lawn. As the rotting continues, the plant can start to show other serious signs of an inability to take in nutrients and moisture. Wilting can occur, and trees or larger plants dropping leaves out of season is fairly common.
Beneath the soil’s surface, the roots all will have different portions that are decaying. For instance, pythium tends to start at the tips of the roots and then gradually spreads. Phytophthora, as a water mold, will enter at damaged portions of roots. The fungi tend to gradually force their way into the roots using their hyphae.
Like many other diseases, people often rule out more common gardening problems first and then move on to more serious disease issues from there. But since all of these forms of rot result in some way from excessive soil moisture, practicing good stewardship of your garden can prevent them from occurring. Ensure your soil has good drainage, that your garden doesn’t get pooled water or isn’t overwatered, and that your potted plants aren’t sitting in trays of water for long periods of time.
Root Rot Treatment
Treatment of these rots really depends on the variety of rot you’re dealing with.
For some of these rot types, there are potent fungicides that can be used to prevent further spread. These are usually applied directly to the soil and kill off fungus in the garden bed. Most are chemical methods, as there are very few organic fungicides that prevent issues in the potting media itself.
But even these chemical methods don’t work on all forms. For instance, our top three are all much more complex, and can often become a death sentence for your plants. Few anti-rot methods work on these, although a few very strong chemical methods may have limited effect.
What does seem to help in most cases is the application of beneficial mycorrhizae to your soil when planting. These mycorrhizae develop a symbiotic relationship with your plant, sharing space safely with it and helping protect it from outside damage while sharing the same food and water. Particularly good options include Bacillus subtilis, Trichoderma harzianum, or Gliocladium virens, all of which seem to repel the pathogens well. Adding these to your soil or applying them directly to the root system prior to planting can be very beneficial.
It’s also possible with smaller plants to trim off dead portions in an effort to protect the rest of the plant. For instance, if you find orchid roots rotting in their pot, you can carefully remove the plant, trim off the fungus and soft rot, and repot in fresh orchid media with excellent drainage.
What To Do If The Plant’s Already Dying
If your plant is already dying, there’s not a lot that you can do to prevent its decline. But you can still attempt to propagate from healthy cuttings and thus save the plant.
Select cuttings that are high up on the plant but still vigorous. Follow common methods for rooting your cuttings, and use sterile soil to do so. Don’t plant it in the same location as the prior plant was at, as it may also be at risk in that location until the fungus is gone.
If you’re not sure which type of rot’s set into the plant’s root system, consider taking the roots to your local garden extension and asking. It’s best to bag up the roots in a doubled zipper-sealed bag so that nothing on them can escape. The people at the extension office can generally provide insight into exactly what it is so you can try to prevent it in the future.
Dispose of your old plant without composting it, roots and all. You can consider solarizing the soil to kill off fungal pathogens, but remember that this will also kill off beneficial microorganisms in the ground too.
Preventing Root Rot
So, with all of these scary root destroyers out there, how do you protect your plants? In this case, prevention is far better than trying to find a cure. Good stewardship of your garden is key here.
Selecting Resistant Plants
There are a number of plant cultivars that have resistance to common pathogens like fusarium. Look for strains that have high resistance to strains of fungi that are common in your area. You should be able to find a wide variety of plants that are able to fight off most causes, although they may not be the exact ones you’re accustomed to growing.
Provide The Right Conditions
Since all of these spread in some way because of wet or soggy conditions, it’s essential to avoid overwatering your plants. Try to use soaker hoses or other methods to regulate the water frequency and to prevent splashing that might spread plant diseases further.
In addition, work in perlite or large organic material like forest products to improve the drainage in your potting media. Well-draining mixes are commercially available and can become the perfect media for your future gardening endeavors.
If you’ve already experienced some root rot, don’t panic about removing contaminated potting mix from your beds. Instead, opt to plant either resistant species or plants not susceptible to your specific pathogen in those spaces for a while. Crop rotation may not be a perfect science, but it can allow your potting media to become naturally sterilized by the sun over time.
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Gregory Davis, Bradley Gibson; Linguistic control of visual attention: Semantics constrain the spatial distribution of attention. Journal of Vision 2010;10(7):263. doi: https://doi.org/10.1167/10.7.263.
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Previous research suggests that spatial reference frames mediate linguistically-driven shifts of visual attention (Gibson & Kingstone, 2006). One consequence of reference frame usage is a selection cost when attention is directed along the left/right axis but not the above/below axis (Gibson, Scheutz, & Davis, 2009). This cost is reflected in an “Opposite Compatibility Effect” (OCE) in which slower RTs are observed when distractors located along the left/right axis opposite the cued target are response-incompatible relative to when they are response-compatible. There are two possible explanations of the OCE. According to the “differential validity hypothesis,” the OCE arises because the spatial referents of “left” and “right” are less consistent than the spatial referents of “above” and “below” across discourse contexts. In this view, RTs are slower in the incompatible condition than in the compatible condition because attention is distributed more broadly in response to “left” and “right.” In contrast, according to the “differential processing hypothesis,” the OCE arises because observers are less likely to differentiate between the left and right locations than the above and below locations. In this view, RTs are slower in the incompatible condition than in the compatible condition because this is the only condition in which it is necessary to differentiate between the left and right locations (which takes additional time). The present experiments tested these two accounts by creating three different context conditions varying the necessity of differentiating between the two endpoints: the high differentiation condition (20% compatible/80% incompatible); the medium differentiation condition (50% compatible/50% incompatible); and the low differentiation condition (80% compatible/20% incompatible). Consistent with the differential validity hypothesis, the results showed that the magnitude of the OCE remained stable regardless of context.
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Annie Horniman portrait by Emma Magnus, c 1935 ( Manchester Theatre Collection)
The remarkable Annie Elizabeth Fredericka was born in 1860 in Forest Hill, the daughter of Frederick and Rebekah Horniman. Her grandfather, John Horniman was a grocer when he had the idea of selling pre-packaged tea. Before then tea was sold loosely, allowing the possibility of adulteration with used tea leaves, copper carbonate, lead chromate and even sheep’s dung. The Lancet had been leading the campaign against the adulteration of food and pronounced that John Horniman’s tea passed its purity tests “in triumphant fashion” which must have been a great boost to business. Horniman became known as “Honest John”.
The firm became incredibly successful and by the 1890s was said to be the biggest tea trader in the world. Like many merchants at that time the Hornimans were Quakers and John Horniman was said to be a splendid sight riding his black horse in full Quaker costume, perhaps not unlike the Quaker Oats man. Annie’s father, Frederick joined the family firm, became Liberal MP for Penryn and Falmouth at the age of 66 and was a noted collector. He had a butterfly, beetle, bug and moth named after him after he founded the Horniman Museum.
Annie grew up in a large detached Victorian villa, set in fifteen acres in Forest Hill. Family life for Annie and her younger brother, Emslie, was run on strict Quaker lines despite her father having converted to Congregationalism on his marriage. The house was gradually filling up with Frederick’s curiosities, collected on his travels but life for Annie and Emslie was rather quiet. They were educated at home and fairly dependent on their governesses for contact with the outside world. Playing cards were forbidden as was going to the theatre but when Annie was 14, she and Emslie were taken to a performance of The Merchant of Venice at The Crystal Palace by a German governess and this sparked a lifelong love of the theatre in her. In 1882 she and Emslie both began studying at the Slade School of Art which had only opened its doors to women eleven years before. She regularly travelled abroad wearing trousers and cycling across the continent alone on a man’s bicycle, “ladies’ bicycles are mere hen-roosts…serious travelling on them is ridiculous”, she said. George Bernard Shaw said that it was “monstrous and unheard of” to ride as she did. She went to Paris to see the Impressionist paintings which were then causing such a stir and it was while attending the Bayreuth Festival in Germany that she became aware of the German subsidised theatre scene and its cultural importance. Back in Britain she joined the Independent Theatre Society and this led to her becoming a pioneer of the modern repertory theatre movement.
She was a fervent supporter of women’s suffrage and sexual equality. She cut her hair short and was a prolific and public smoker at a time when that was considered quite daring for a woman. She dressed flamboyantly and often used furnishing fabrics from Liberty’s to make her distinctive gowns: Sybil Thorndike described her as wearing “beautiful stuff that you would only think of for curtains”. She also had distinctive jewellery including an enormous elaborate dragon pendant with ruby eyes and made of 300 opals which she had collected on her travels.
She joined and helped finance an occult society, the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn. She also financially supported one of the founders of the order, Samuel Liddell Mathers, who had worked for her father at the Museum until he lost his job (and his tied accommodation on Horniman’s estate in Forest Hill) following an argument. Fellow members of the order included the famous occultist Aleister Crowley, Bram Stoker, author of Dracula and the Irish poet, William Butler Yeats who called her “The Quaker Lady”. She was expelled from the order in 1896 for insubordination and it was at about the same time that she stopped financially supporting Mathers. She was reinstated four years later.
In 1894 she inherited £40,000 from her grandfather; the equivalent sum today would be several millions. Insisting on strict anonymity so as not to incur the wrath of her family, she funded a season at the Avenue Theatre in London including the first public production of Arms and the Man by George Bernard Shaw and W.B. Yeats’ first play in London: The Land of Heart's Desire. A financial disaster but a critical success, it was referred to by Annie as a “fruitful failure”. She developed a strong affection for Yeats and an appreciation of his work led to her becoming his unpaid secretary for many years. She also made the costumes for a play of his performed at the Abbey Theatre in Dublin, a theatre set up by Yeats as a home for the Irish National Theatre. Finding that the theatre had no permanent home she said to Yeats “I will give you a theatre” and funded the purchase of a property which opened in 1904 with plays by Yeats and Lady Augusta Gregory. It quickly established an international reputation for championing new Irish plays and a high standard of acting.
Annie’s mother died in 1895 and two years later her father, aged 61, married Minnie Louisa Bennet, aged 21. Annie strongly objected to the marriage, boycotted the wedding and broke off all contact with her family including her brother. She never spoke to her father again and later claimed to have been disinherited by him although he did in fact leave her £25,000 when he died in 1906 though this was a small proportion of his fortune. Emslie approved of the marriage and his daughter was a bridesmaid at the wedding. Emslie had joined the family firm and would later inherit the family fortune together with the children from his father’s second marriage and go on to become a noted anthropologist, Liberal MP for Chelsea and, following in the family tradition, a philanthropist and collector. He endowed an acre of land in Chelsea to be laid out as a park and it still exists today as “Emslie Horniman’s Pleasance”.
In 1898 her beloved family home was demolished to build what would become the Horniman Museum and this may have been the time she bought the flat in Portman Square which she was to own throughout her life and where she lived alone save for two tabby cats.
Meanwhile back at the Abbey Theatre, there was some resentment both of an English woman funding the Irish National Theatre and also of the level of control Annie wanted to exercise. She wanted to choose the plays, the management, the ticket prices but most of all to stem the tide of nationalist fervour which was undoubtedly rife at the theatre. There were many internal disagreements and in 1907 Annie shifted her energies and chequebook to Manchester, buying the Gaiety Theatre a year later and opening it as the first modern repertory theatre. The final straw came when the Abbey Theatre inadvertently stayed open the day after King Edward VII’s death in 1910, when other theatres in Ireland were closed. Annie misinterpreted this as a political act (although it seems to have been more cock-up than conspiracy) and she stopped subsidising the Abbey completely. Sadly, Annie’s long friendship with Yeats didn’t survive the altercations.
Annie hired the noted theatre architect, Frank Matcham to completely refurbish the Gaiety Theatre with excellent sightlines, good acoustics and the latest comfortable tip-up seats. Its repertoire ranged from Euripides to Shaw but was most closely associated with writers of the ‘Manchester School’. Annie was involved in every aspect of the theatre, from management to designing programmes, from arranging tours to reading over 40 plays a week looking for material. She allowed no star actors and was rigorous in sharing out parts, with actors taking turns at both large and small roles. She organised paid coffee breaks and was known as “the actors’ best friend”. The theatre was enthusiastically supported by the Manchester Guardian and underwrote the careers of many playwrights and actors. Annie caught the zeitgeist with this venture, attracting young mill-workers who were becoming aware of the wider world beyond Manchester. One such worker, Alice Foley, described a Gaiety matinée in her autobiography, A Bolton Childhood: "Over tea, brown bread, peaches and cream, we animatedly argued and discussed the philosophy, art or satire of the productions. The whole outing cost about five shillings each but we returned home like exultant young gods, tingling and athirst with the naïve faith that if only sufficient human beings could witness good drama and comedy it might change the world."
Living part-time in Manchester Annie became a popular local figure, always ready to get on her soap-box regarding either women’s rights or the theatre. In 1910 she was awarded an honorary MA by Manchester University for services to the theatre and the cultural life of Manchester, after which she often proudly wore her subfusc for photographs.
In 1913, she appeared onstage in a non-speaking role, playing herself in Nothing Like Leather, a satire on the Gaiety Theatre. She received an ovation and later remembered it as one of the great moments of her life.
Unfortunately audience numbers didn’t hold up. The theatre ran into financial difficulties and despite her financial support the company collapsed and was disbanded in 1917. Asked whether she would attend the last performance Annie said, "Of course I shall be there. Every corpse must attend its own funeral." She leased the Gaiety to other companies for four years but in 1921 the theatre was sold to a cinema company. The headline in the Daily Herald read, “Miss Horniman Compelled to Sell Manchester Gaiety. Heavy Blow to Drama”. Many other provincial cities followed the Gaiety Theatre repertory model with more success however, and George Bernard Shaw said that she “really started the modern theatre movement”.
In 1921 Annie packed up, left Manchester and moved back to Portman Square for good. She gave the Durer engravings which had been in the theatre to Manchester Grammar School and her Rossetti painting to the City Art Gallery. She never again became actively involved in a theatre, although she remained a frequent and enthusiastic theatregoer and supported the movement to establish a National Theatre in London. She had a wide circle of friends and correspondents including J M Barrie, Arnold Bennett, Millicent Garrett Fawcett, John Galsworthy, Emmeline Pankhurst, Marie Stopes, Sybil Thorndike, Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree and Israel Zangwill. In 1918, at the age of 58, having received the right to vote as a female graduate over the age of thirty, she voted for the first time. She then refused an invitation to stand for Parliament as a Liberal, saying that she voted Labour. In 1933 she was made a Companion of Honour for her work in the theatre. She died in her sleep at Shere in Surrey in 1937 at the age of 76. George Bernard Shaw declared that she should be buried in Westminster Abbey but she was cremated and her ashes scattered in the Garden of Remembrance at Woking. | <urn:uuid:5e9734d9-247b-4221-82e3-bb4f267c3d91> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.dulwichsociety.com/the-journal/autumn-2012/annie-horniman | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573699.52/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819131019-20220819161019-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.985569 | 2,365 | 2.578125 | 3 |
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Recently I observed two peahen fighting and they fought for a long time , Were they fighting for a specific male .I doubt as the breeding plumage have been moulted by majority of the peacocks in Delhi.
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Epstein-Barr virus and Burkitt’s lymphoma. Associations in Iraqi Kurdistan and twenty-two countries assessed in the International Incidence of Childhood Cancer
Infectious Agents and Cancer volume 17, Article number: 39 (2022)
Burkitt's lymphoma (BL) has worldwide variations in incidence that are related to the age of Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) infection. This study examined the age-specific incidence rate (ASIR) of BL and community EBV seropositivity in Iraqi Kurdistan and compared results with data from countries tabulated in the International Incidence of Childhood Cancer volume 3 (IICC-3).
The ASIR (95% confidence intervals) of BL in Sulaimani Governorate of Iraqi Kurdistan were calculated for the years 2010–2020. Specimens from 515 outpatients were tested for IgG and IgM antibodies to EBV viral capsid antigen.
In Sulaimani, 84% of BL occurred under 20 years of age, with an ASIR of 6.2 (4.7–7.7) per million children. This ASIR was not significantly different than that of Egypt, Morocco, Israel, Spain, or France. It was slightly higher than the ASIR of the United States, the United Kingdom, and Germany and markedly higher than for Asia and South Africa. In Africa and much of Asia, early childhood EBV exposure predominates, with nearly all children being infected by 5 years of age. In Sulaimani, just over 50% of children were EBV seropositive at 3 years old and 90% seropositivity was reached at 15 years of age. In Europe and North America, seropositivity is commonly delayed until adolescence or young adulthood and adult predominates over childhood BL.
In the Middle East, childhood BL is relatively common and adult BL is rare. In Sulaimani, EBV seropositivity increases progressively throughout childhood and reaches 92% at mid-adolescence. This may reflect the Mid East more widely. We suggest that the high childhood and low adult BL rates may be a regional effect of a pattern of EBV exposure intermediate between early childhood and adolescent and young adult infections.
Burkitt lymphoma (BL) has three recognized subtypes [1, 2]. Most BL is a sporadic disease . The sporadic disease is seen worldwide, with notable geographic differences in overall and age-specific incidence rates (ASIR) . In many parts of the world, sporadic BL is predominantly a childhood disease, but in Europe, North America, and parts of Asia, adult outnumbers childhood BL by more than 2:1 [4, 5]. An endemic type of the disease appears restricted to Equatorial Africa and New Guinea [3, 6]. The endemic BL is the most common specific form of childhood cancer in the affected regions and has a uniformly high age-specific incidence rate [2, 6]. The third subtype involves immunocompromised individuals, most frequently as a complication of HIV infection . Immunocompromise-related BL occurs among children and adults in Sub-Saharan Africa and overlaps with the endemic disease [6, 7].
BL is related to latent Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) infection, with the extent of the relationship varying geographically and with different disease subtypes. EBV-encoded small nuclear non-polyadenylated mRNA (EBER) is found in nearly all African endemic BL but in only 10-40% of sporadic BL in the United States (US) and Europe [2, 3]. In Egypt and Iraq, EBER is demonstrated in more than 70% of tumors [8,9,10,11].
EBV exists as a latent infection in more than 90% of the world’s population, but outside of Equatorial Africa, BL is not one of the more common childhood cancers . Because of this disparity, endemic BL is thought to be related to the chronic immune stimulation of EBV-containing lymphoid cells by co-infecting falciparum malaria rather than EBV latency by itself [2, 3].
EBV is a human DNA virus that infects different populations at different ages . In underdeveloped countries, including Africa, EBV infections are asymptomatic or only mildly symptomatic, and 95% or more of the population acquires the virus in early childhood before five years of age [12, 13]. In North America, Western Europe, Japan, and South Korea, EBV exposure is often delayed until adolescence, when it can cause infectious mononucleosis [12,13,14]. Despite the delayed presentation, the EBV serological prevalence in these countries is greater than 70-80% by mid-adulthood.
In a Qatar study, Smatti et al. examined blood donor samples from Qataris, Jordanians, Palestinians, Saudi Arabians, and Indians and found that more than 95% of persons from all countries were serologically positive by 19 years of age. The age of infection in the Middle and Near East is thought to be early childhood. Yet, studies from Bahrain and Tehran show primary infections in adolescents and young adults that indicate a regional change in the age of EBV exposure may be taking place [16, 17].
In a previous publication, we analyzed rates of lymphoma in Iraqi Kurdistan over the years 2010-2014 and suggested that our BL might be four times as frequent as it is in children of similar age in the United States (US) . BL in the Middle East may have elements of an endemic disease; nevertheless, no coexisting infection or promoting factor other than EBV has ever been identified [8,9,10].
To further evaluate the regional frequency of BL and its relationship to EBV, we estimated the ASIR in the Sulaimani Governorate of Iraqi Kurdistan over an 11 year period and performed EBV serological tests on 515 non-cancer outpatients. The findings were compared with data from countries tabulated in the World Health Organization's International Incidence of Childhood Cancer Volume 3 (IICC-3) to investigate how local BL incidence rates and ages of EBV exposure correspond to other regions of the world.
Database and calculation of incidence rates
Hiwa Hospital was established in 2005 for public cancer care in the Sulaimani Governorate and to develop a population-based cancer registry. The Pathology Department of Shorsh Teaching Hospital provides surgical pathology services and central pathology reviews for Hiwa patients. Clinical and pathology reports on BL from Hiwa Hospital and the Shorsh Pathology Department were collated for the period January 1, 2010 to December 31, 2020. Pediatric data for Egypt, Algeria, Morocco, Jordan, Israel, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, South Arica, Uganda, Cameroon, the US, Canada, the United Kingdom (UK), Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Japan, Korea, China, Thailand, Korea, and India were obtained for BL from IICC-3 tables . Adult data and EBV relationships were obtained from individual articles from these countries [4, 7, 8, 15, 19,20,21,22,23,24,25,26,27,28,29,30,31,32,33,34,35,36,37,38,39,40,41,42].
Pediatric patients were defined as 0-19 years of age. For Sulaimani, BL ASIR was calculated as the annual average number of cases. The population of Sulaimani at 2,095,851 was obtained from the 2015 Iraqi Cancer registry. The 0-19-year-old population was 910,510. Age-adjusted incidence rates (AAIR) were estimated using the 2001 WHO World Standard Population .
BL was diagnosed by flow cytometry on fine needle aspirations (FNA) or by immunohistochemistry on formalin-fixed, paraffin-embedded tissue sections. Histology on tissue sections or FNA cell blocks showed rapidly proliferating, undifferentiated lymphoid cells having abundant blue cytoplasm with cytoplasmic vacuoles [Fig. 1]. All tumors contained tingible body macrophages. BL was diagnosed when cells were CD20, CD10, and BCL6 positive with bright light chain restricted surface immunoglobulin and when the Ki67 proliferation index approached 100% . TdT was required to be negative. Weak or focal BCL2 was acceptable when other markers were characteristically positive.
EBV latency and MYC translocations in BL
BL EBV latency was assessed by chromogenic in situ hybridization (ISH) using the Novocastra (Leica Biosystems, Wetzler, Germany) probe for EBER. C-MYC/IGH translocations were analyzed by fluorescence in situ hybridization using a break-apart probe (Vysis MYC, Abbott Laboratories, Abbott Park, IL). EBER and MYC translocation studies used formalin-fixed, paraffin-embedded tissue of 24 BL.
EBV serological testing
Samples in serum separator tubes were obtained from 515 patients attending general pediatric and medical clinics from March 13-31, 2022. Specimens were used for serum chemistries and held at 4 °C for 48 hours. The specimens were de-identified for all information except age. The samples would otherwise have been discarded, and the Directorate of Health allowed their use.
Samples were analyzed by patient age for IgG and IgM antibodies against EBV viral capsid antigen (VCA) using the Abbot Architect model i1000 immunoassay system (Abbot Diagnostics, Wiesbaden, German). The results were instrument recorded as negative or positive, with positive but not negative results additionally provided as relative light units.
Data were entered into Excel worksheets and analyzed with Excel mathematical functions and Stata statistical software version 10.0 (StataCorp, College Station, TX). Uncertainty for ASIR was evaluated by comparing 95% confidence intervals in the different geographical regions. The calculation of ASIR 95% CI used the following formula:95% CI (ASIR) = ±1.96 X √(Ri2/Ni) where Ri2 = age-specific incidence in the specified age group, and Ni = the number of patients in the age-specific group . Differences were considered significant if 95% CI did not overlap.
BL in Sulaimani, general characteristics and incidence
In the 2010-2020 period, 74 cases of BL were diagnosed in the Sulaimani Governorate. The characteristics of the patients are shown in Table 1.
The BL patients were 88% male, 84% were 0-19 years old, and 38% were 0-4 years old. Only one patient was immunosuppressed, a 25-year-old HIV-positive hemophiliac male. In 70% of patients, the presentation was an abdominal tumor. Cervical lymph node enlargement was next at 14%. Two patients had soft tissue facial masses, but neither had any facial bone involvement. A 32-year-old woman presented with bilateral breast tumors. Two males, four and five years old, had primary kidney tumors. The abdominal tumors were diagnosed by FNA and flow cytometry in 37 patients and by core or incisional biopsies in 17 patients. All diagnoses in non-abdominal sites were established by biopsies.
Twenty-four tumors were tested for EBER and the MYC translocation, all from patients under 20 years old. The blocks were obtained from the first 40 patients with biopsies (not FNA cell blocks) obtained in 2012-2018 and were selected only for the adequacy of tissue. The tissue was from kidney, 2 cases; tonsil, 2 cases; cervical lymph, 8 cases; and abdominal tumor, 12 cases. EBER was positive in 20 cases (83%), and all 24 tumors (100%) were positive for the MYC translocation. The EBER negative cases were cervical lymph node, 2 cases, and abdominal tumor, 2 cases. One two-year-old patient with an EBER negative cervical lymph node was serologically EBV negative at the time of biopsy (Fig. 1). This was the only patient on which serological status was known. The other EBER negative cases were 4, 7, and 11 years old.
The ASIR (95% CI) for BL in Sulaimani was 6.2 (4.7-7.7) per million children 0-19 years old. Only 3% were 15-19 years old, with 97% being nearly equally divided between the ages of 0-4 and 5-14.
Incidence of pediatric BL worldwide
Table 2 lists by country the ASIR (95% CI) of pediatric BL, the frequency of males, and the proportion of patients in the 0-5-, 5-14-, and 15–19-year-old age ranges. The table provides the survey period and the number of patients in the IICC-3 registries .
The ASIR in countries close to each other were similar. The Equatorial African nations of Uganda and Cameroon harbor endemic forms of BL and have 0–19-year-old ASIRs of 21.6 in Uganda and 40.0 in Cameroon. In South Africa, rates of BL are much lower than in Uganda and Cameroon, and South African blacks have significantly lower rates than South African whites. This racial difference is also seen in the US, where rates of BL among blacks are half that of whites. Also, note that the recorded US and South African pediatric rates are the same for blacks and whites.
The countries of the Middle East have ASIRs ranging from 2.8 to 6.2 that resemble the rates in France (4.3), Italy (4.0), and Spain (4.8). In Israel, the ASIR is essentially the same between Jews (5.0) and non-jews (4.8). Saudi Arabia with an ASIR of 2.8 is low for the region, but the 95% CI overlaps with the rates in Turkey and Jordan, and the differences in ASIR between these three countries is not significantly different. Algeria, of North Africa, has an ASIR of 1 per million children that is significantly lower than nearby Morocco (5.0) to the west and Egypt (5.2) to the east. The Far East and India have very low rates of BL (< one child per million). The populous six regions registry in China with an ASIR of 0.4 recorded only 33 pediatric BL in the 23-year period, 1990-2013.
In all parts of the world, BL is a predominantly male disease, with the endemic BL of Equatorial Africa having somewhat less gender disparity than other regions. In all regions, 78% to more than 95% of pediatric patients have symptomatic tumors by 14 years of age. However, it is notable that Europe, the US, and Canada occupy the low end of this range, and in these countries, more than 16% of pediatric BL is found at 15-19 years old.
Pediatric versus adult BL and the relationship to the age of EBV infection ( Table 3 )
Europe, the US, and Canada have high developmental indices, and BL is more often an adult rather than a pediatric tumor [4, 5, 14, 27, 28, 32]. The increased frequency of adult BL seems to be determined by EBV exposure being delayed until adolescence and young adulthood. The shift to adult tumors does not seem to abrogate the development of the childhood BL. Despite adult BL becoming more common, Europe, the US, and Canada have rates of pediatric BL that are higher than most of the world, with the highest rates being in Italy, Spain, and France .
The Middle East has intermediate developmental indices, and BL is primarily a childhood cancer. In the Middle East, there is a seropositivity rate of more than 90% that seems to be reached at mid-adolescence. The proportion of EBER-positive tumors in Sulaimani, Egypt, Algeria, and Turkey is also high. The exception in the Middle-East seems to be Israel, where data regarding the frequency of adult BL is not reported. One study of Israeli university students indicates EBV seropositivity is frequently negative until adolescence and then increases to 87% by the mid to late twenties . Only 34% of Israeli childhood BL is reported to be EBER positive .
In the Far East, Japan and Korea have high development indices, EBV seroconversion often occurs in adolescents and young adults, and adult rates compared to childhood BL are high [35,36,37,38]. The BL in these countries is rarely EBER positive [36, 38]. In contrast, China, Thailand, and India have low rates of childhood BL, and adult BL is rare. Development indices are low to intermediate, and EBV infects over 90% of children by five years of age [39,40,41,42]. Curiously, however, BL in China seems to rarely be EBER positive .
Cameroon and Uganda have the endemic form of BL. The countries have very low development indices, and the populations are exposed to frequent tropical infections including falciparum malaria. Endemic BL does occur in adults but is rare. Cameroon and Uganda contrast with South Africa, where adult BL is nearly 3x more common than pediatric BL . In South Africa, 78% of patients have the combination of HIV and EBV infections, but rates of pediatric BL are markedly lower than Equatorial African and approximately half the rates of the US [6, 7]. The lower South African rates compared to the US seems to reflect the predominantly black population of South Africa and the mostly white population of the US.
EBV serology in Sulaimani outpatients
Serum specimens of 515 patients were tested (Table 4). The instrument recorded 423 IgG anti-VCA (82.1%) and 14 IgM anti-VCA (2.7%) results as positive. All positive IgM results except one were positive for IgG. The IgM positive and IgG negative patient was 13-years-old and likely a primary infection but was otherwise not identifiable. The pattern of EBV infection was unimodal. At one year of age, 47% of infants were IgG positive, and at four years, 63% of children were positive. Seropositivity was 88% at 14, and after 14 years of age, a plateau was reached. For adults 20-69 years old, 135 of 146 specimens were seropositive, a rate of 92%.
Outside of the very high incidence areas endemic to Equatorial Africa, there is striking variation in the frequency of BL that seems to be related to the age of EBV exposure. BL is rare in China, Thailand, and India, where nearly all children are infected by EBV before five years of age. In the Middle East, BL has incidence rates that are well below Equatorial Africa but much higher than any country in Asia. In the Middle east, the childhood BL has a high frequency of EBER positivity, and few tumors are reported in adults [8,9,10, 19, 21]. Data from Sulaimani, Qatar, and Bahrain indicate that nearly half of EBV seroconversion in the Middle East occurs between four and 15 years old [15,16,17]. In North America and Northern Europe, childhood rates of BL are somewhat lower than the Middle East, but BL is more common in adults than children [4, 5, 27, 32, 36, 37]. In these countries, much of the EBV seroconversion is in adolescents and young adults, and the frequency of EBER-positive tumors is low.
The variations in regional EBV exposure and evidence for tumor EBV latency confuse our understanding of the relationship between EBV and BL. EBV is an upper respiratory virus that enters the nasopharynx and infects epithelium and lymphocytes, with B cells being the primary target .
The early EBV infection stimulates lymphoblastic proliferation. The lymphoblasts enter the germinal centers and undergo somatic hypermutations in heavy and light chain genes [2, 45]. Random translocations between the chromosome 8 MYC oncogene and the chromosome 14 heavy chain or an alternative light chain locus complicate these hypermutations, with the MYC translocation being considered an essential carcinogenic event [2, 45]. The EBV-stimulated lymphoblastic proliferation usually becomes quiescent, and approximately 2% of cells enter a type 3 latency as memory B cells. In a type 3 latency, cells produce nuclear EBER but have little expression of other viral components, and viral replication is limited [2, 45, 46]. If infected memory B cells encounter their cognate antigen, they can transform into proliferating mature B cells, and if they bear the MYC translocation, they can become BL [2, 45].
The age of exposure to EBV affects latency and the risk of tumor development, with the early childhood exposure in much of the world being associated with a low risk of BL . The endemic BL is an exception, and the very high risk of lymphoma is attributed to coexisting malaria that stimulates B cells. This stimulation augments the frequency of somatic hypermutations and MYC translocations, with higher translocation rates increasing the risk of BL [2, 45].
Even in countries with a late age of EBV infection, overall seropositivity is at least 70-80%. The nearly universal nature of the infection and variable BL rates outside of endemic regions questions the role of EBV in the development of the tumor. The relationship of BL to germinal center MYC translocations means that virtually any antigenic stimulus could promote tumor development [2, 45].
While pediatric BL has a generally uniform histologic and clinical appearance, BL in adults can present challenges that may not be adequately addressed in current Middle East pathology practices. The WHO classification of lymphoid neoplasms was introduced into the region around 2010, and the complexity of the classification can be difficult for a general pathologist anywhere . BL is defined as a high proliferation rate mature B-cell lymphoma with an isolated MYC translocation [2, 5]. The distinction between BL and diffuse large B-cell lymphoma can be a problem in children and adults, and high-grade B-cell lymphomas of adults histologically and clinically overlap with BL [2, 5, 47]. To make matters even more complex, data on molecular profiling indicate that BL may not always have a MYC abnormality and that the germinal center CD10 and BCL6 positive phenotype, by itself, might be sufficient for the diagnosis .
Analyzing international data provokes as many questions as it provides answers. Detailed information is available through IICC-3 on virtually all pediatric cancers . For adults, the WHO Globocan website records international data for non-Hodgkin lymphoma, but there is no separation into subtypes . This is a problem for BL. Most adult BL occurs in immunocompetent patients, and increased adult BL rates may be related to the aging of populations having late exposure to EBV . But in Europe, North America, Japan, and Korea, it is notable that the higher frequency of BL in adults is associated with an accompanying change to EBER-negative BL in children, and in Europe and North America, the rates of childhood BL remain elevated.
BL is an important adult tumor, having a frequency approaching mantle cell lymphoma . The absence of details in Globocan requires investigators to depend upon regional publications. US studies using the SEER database are considered representative of the general population . In many other countries, the studies are hospital-based and may not embody the entire nation.
Recent investigations of BL emphasize molecular mechanisms related to MYC activity and rarely include an analysis of EBV latency . There also seems to be a declining interest in the relationship between the spread of EBV and lymphoma, although, outside of endemic regions, high rates of early childhood EBV infection are associated with low rates of EBV-positive BL [2,3,4]. When infections are more frequent in adolescents and young adults, rates of BL are moderately high, and the frequency of tumor EBV latency is low. These are clear relationships indicating that alternate pathogenetic mechanisms not involving EBV latency or MYC mutations can promote the BL phenotype.
In Sulaimani, several childhood and adult EBV-related tumors are recognized. These include nasopharyngeal carcinoma, NK/T-cell lymphoma of nasal type, and EBV-related large B cell lymphoma. As a group, they comprise less than 0.1% of our cancers. EBV-positive post-transplant lymphoproliferative disease occurs in approximately 1% of our kidney transplants, a frequency similar to the US [49, 50]. All of these tumors are occurring in a population that has a high EBV seroconversion rate that reaches its peak at about 15 years of age.
BL in the Middle East has an incidence that resembles countries with high indices of development. We believe this BL is a sporadic disease, with EBV being the only identifiable promoting factor. Most of the Middle East, including Iraq, has been malaria-free since the late 1990s, and non-Hodgkin lymphomas associated with other infections such as human herpes virus-8, Helicobacter pylori, and hepatitis B and C are uncommon [9, 51].
The reason that adult BL is rare in the Middle East is uncertain. If data from Sulaimani, Bahrain, and Qatar are representative of the Mid East, it may be related to a high rate of childhood EBV exposure but with a delayed plateau until mid adolescence [15,16,17]. This seems to be a third pattern of EBV infection between the early childhood exposure of countries with low developmental indices and the adolescent and young adult exposure of countries with high socioeconomic development. It is notable that until adulthood, rates of Middle Eastern BL resemble those of Southern Europe more than any other region of the world.
The determination of the Sulaimani EBV seropositivity used de-identified clinical specimens initially obtained for other diagnostic purposes. This is a limitation to any generalization about infection rates in the region. Nevertheless, the limitation is shared with other major studies of population EBV exposure that also analyzed stored clinical specimens or blood donations [12, 15, 16, 22, 26, 29,30,31,32, 46]. The social strata of patients seeking medical attention may be different than the general population, and socio-economic factors can influence infection [12, 14]. A study of EBV infection in a general population would raise issues of harm and confidentiality and be difficult to design short of a large project using stored specimens as a general health survey . This leaves the analysis of previously clinical specimens the most available, although less than ideal, method for inferring viral exposure.
Sulaimania and most of the Middle East have a unique frequency of BL. It has an incidence among children that is much lower than the endemic BL of Equatorial Africa but is high compared to the sporadic BL of most of the world. These findings are relevant to a regional pattern of Middle Eastern BL that may be transitioning to even higher rates, particularly among adults. The suspected transition may be related to a shift in the age of EBV exposure from early childhood to early adolescence.
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Muhealdeen, D.N., Shwan, A., Yaqo, R.T. et al. Epstein-Barr virus and Burkitt’s lymphoma. Associations in Iraqi Kurdistan and twenty-two countries assessed in the International Incidence of Childhood Cancer. Infect Agents Cancer 17, 39 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1186/s13027-022-00452-0
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The California Thrasher is a flagship species of the chaparral, a shrubby habitat found only in California and a small part of Baja California. This plant community features shrubs and small trees, most below about 13 feet tall. Key plants include chaparral whitethorn, buckbrush, ceanothus, chamise, toyon, coffeeberry, sugarbush, laurel sumac, holly-leaved cherry, lemonade berry, manzanita, and mountain mahogany. In the southern part of the range, smaller numbers nest in sagebrush habitats with California buckwheat, California sage, and coyotebrush. In the northern part of the range, and at higher elevations in the south, California Thrashers inhabit open woodlands of the chaparral transition zones, where trees such as golden-cup oak, blue oak, white oak, interior live oak, Douglas-fir, and pines (Jeffrey, Coulter, pinyon, and foothill pines) grow above the montane chaparral. California thrashers require underbrush with copious leaf litter, and do not inhabit open woodlands that lack it. Where chaparral approaches the Mojave Desert, California Thrashers breed in a mixture of scrub oak, Joshua tree, and California juniper and down into the juniper scrub, but they are replaced by LeConte’s Thrashers in desert with cactus species.Back to top
During the rainy season, which coincides with the breeding season, California Thrashers eat mostly insects and other arthropods. They forage by sweeping the bill through the leaf litter and looking for prey, which they seize with a quick pounce. They watch the ground for movement and often excavate by probing and gaping (inserting the bill into the ground, then opening it). They eat larval and adult forms of ground-loving beetles, earwigs, isopods (sowbugs or roly-polies), millipedes, spiders, Jerusalem crickets, moths, ants, wasps, and bees. As fruit ripens in late summer, rains cease, and insects become scarcer, their diet includes more berries, including poison oak, toyon, elderberry, blackberry, manzanita, coffeeberry, cascara, laurel sumac, and mistletoe. In orchards and lush backyards, they also accept offerings of grapes, pomegranates, figs, persimmons, oranges, suet, meat, and bread crumbs.Back to top
Nests are set about 7 feet above the ground in dense shrubbery.
Both male and female construct the nest, a bulky platform of twigs that is lined with roots, stems, bark, forbs, and weeds. Nests measure on average 10 inches across and 5 inches tall, with interior cup about 4 inches across and 2 inches deep.
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California Thrashers form long-term pair bonds. Courtship behavior is hard to observe in their dense habitat, but seems to involve males chasing females, which perch, raise the tail and head, and flutter the wings. In the early part of the breeding cycle, females sometimes join their mates in song. Pairs regularly forage together year-round as well. Both male and female defend the territory, year-round, occasionally chasing or fighting neighboring pairs while giving low chup calls. Pairs typically raise two broods of young per year. The parents chase away the young of their first brood as they prepare to nest a second time, although the male sometimes feeds young from the first brood as the female builds a second nest. Territory size varies from about 6 acres in optimum habitat to more than 25 acres in less productive habitat.Back to top
According to the North American Breeding Bird Survey, California Thrasher populations declined by about 1.6% annually between 1968 and 2015, resulting in a cumulative decline of 54% over that period. Partners in Flight estimates a global breeding population of 240,000, rates the species a 15 out of 20 on the Continental Concern Score, and includes it on the Yellow List for range-restricted species. If the current rate of decline continues, the species will lose another half of its population by 2050. As for most songbirds of chaparral, loss of habitat to clearing, development, and agriculture is the chief conservation threat that faces this species. Feral cats also kill and eat California Thrashers, particularly young birds. Because their territories tend to be large, California Thrashers often vanish when development causes habitat to be fragmented.Back to top
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Not long ago I read an interesting meditation on the circulatory system – specifically, how a drop of blood journeys without end from the center of the heart to the far reaches of the body, the fingers, the toes, etc., and then back again to the heart.
The purpose of this journey of circulation is to move the nourishment found in freshly oxygenated blood from the lungs into all the various parts of the body. As the blood makes its rounds with its deliveries of fresh oxygen to organs, muscles and other tissues, it naturally depletes, and ultimately returns to the heart which, through its muscular pumping action, re-oxygenates the blood and sends it on its way once again. And again. And so on.
What makes this scientific story a meditation is that it is a metaphor for the spiritual life. The heart, appropriately, is the temple of God, the church, the body of Christ. It is where we go to be fed with the gifts of the spirit: love and acceptance, care and support, relief and healing, encouragement and empowerment.
When we are filled and fulfilled, when we are cared for, healed and empowered, we can then return to the journey, wherein we take this enriched blood with us to nourish people and situations which can often be joyful and fulfilling, but also demanding of our resources.
What resonated so strongly with me about this metaphoric meditation is that it teaches that when life gets too difficult or demanding, we are invited to return to the heart. To put our focus there, to quietly breathe – in and out – and regain joy and peace.
It was the research of the HeartMath Institute that discovered the neural (brain) cells in the heart, and determined that the electromagnetic field of the heart is five thousand times more powerful than that of the brain.
While it is tempting to say, “Hmm. Let’s think about that for a moment,” perhaps it’s more appropriate to ask, “Hmm. How does that make you feel?” Then, instead of looking quizzically up to the ceiling, we might put a hand over the heart, close the eyes and take a soft, deep breath that ends with a sigh. Now, that feels right.
HeartMath has developed a series of breath work techniques that enable the individual to achieve a state of coherence, in which the nervous system is synchronized, and regenerating hormones are released.
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According to Bloomberg, the lawsuit alleges that the assault weapons ban violates the Second Amendment by preventing New York residents from buying common semi-automatic rifles, including the ever-popular AR-15 and its many variants.
The plaintiff gun-owners claim that semiautomatic rifles are ideal for home defense, and that any broad-ranging ban on New Yorkers’ ability to own them could endanger individual lives.
“AR-15 rifles are among the most popular firearms in the nation, and they are owned by millions of Americans,” the Firearms Policy Coalition wrote in its lawsuit, noting that about 44 million AR-15s have been sold across the country.
Bloomberg observes that the lawsuit was filed as New York continues to refine and redefine its firearm laws.
The recently-passed assault weapons ban restricts the purchase of semi-automatic rifles capable of receiving a detachable magazine, and which have at least one other military-style characteristic, such as a telescoping stock or flash suppressor.
Jonathon Lowy of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence told Bloomberg that the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn New York’s handgun-control statutes will allow firearm advocacy organizations to begin litigating against the state.
The Supreme Court ruling, Lowy said, “opened up the floodgates for the gun lobby and its allies to bring lawsuits against virtually every gun law in America.”
“It is more than reasonable for a state to determine that weapons of war should not be in the hands of civilians, and there are ample other sorts of firearms that can be used even more effectively to defend oneself at home,” he added.
However, firearm advocacy organizations suggest that people like Lowy fundamentally misunderstand the use and utility of semiautomatic rifles like the AR-15.
“The banned semiautomatic firearms, like all other semiautomatic firearms, fire only one round for each pull of the trigger. They are not machine guns,” the lawsuit states, adding that fully automatic rifles—such as those used by the armed forces—can fire up to 1,000 rounds per minute.
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Comet's collapsing cliffs and bouncing boulders
18 September 2019Scientists analysing the treasure trove of images taken by ESA's Rosetta mission have turned up more evidence for curious bouncing boulders and dramatic cliff collapses.
|Bouncing boulder on Comet 67P/C-G. Credit: ESA/Rosetta/MPS for OSIRIS Team MPS/UPD/LAM/IAA/SSO/INTA/UPM/DASP/IDA (CC BY-SA 4.0)|
Rosetta operated at Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko between August 2014 and September 2016, collecting data on the comet's dust, gas and plasma environment, its surface characteristics and its interior structure.
As part of the analysis of some 76 000 high-resolution images captured with its OSIRIS camera, scientists have been looking for surface changes. In particular, they are interested in comparing the period of the comet's closest approach to the Sun – known as perihelion – with that after this most active phase, to better understand the processes that drive surface evolution.
|Evolution of a bouncing boulder. Credit: Images: ESA/Rosetta/MPS for OSIRIS Team MPS/UPD/LAM/IAA/SSO/INTA/UPM/DASP/IDA (CC BY-SA 4.0); Analysis: J-B. Vincent et al. (2019)|
Loose debris is seen all over the comet, but sometimes boulders have been caught in the act of being ejected into space, or rolling across the surface. A new example of a bouncing boulder was recently identified in the smooth neck region that connects the comet's two lobes, an area that underwent a lot of noticeable large-scale surface changes over the course of the mission. There, boulder about 10 m-wide has apparently fallen from the nearby cliff, and bounced several times across the surface without breaking, leaving 'footprints' in the loosely consolidated surface material.
"We think it fell from the nearby 50 m-high cliff, and is the largest fragment in this landslide, with a mass of about 230 tonnes," said Jean-Baptiste Vincent of the DLR Institute for Planetary Research, who presented the results at the EPSC-DPS conference in Geneva today.
|Comet outburst 12 September 2015. Credit: ESA/Rosetta/MPS for OSIRIS Team MPS/UPD/LAM/IAA/SSO/INTA/UPM/DASP/IDA (CC BY-SA 4.0)|
"So much happened on this comet between May and December 2015 when it was most active, but unfortunately because of this activity we had to keep Rosetta at a safe distance. As such we don't have a close enough view to see illuminated surfaces with enough resolution to exactly pinpoint the 'before' location of the boulder."
Studying boulder movements like these in different parts of the comet helps determine the mechanical properties of both the falling material, and the surface terrain on which it lands. The comet's material is in general very weak compared with the ice and rocks we are familiar with on Earth: boulders on Comet 67P/C-G are around one hundred times weaker than freshly packed snow.
Another type of change has also been witnessed in several locations around the comet: the collapse of cliff faces along lines of weakness, such as the dramatic capture of the fall of a 70 m-wide segment of the Aswan cliff observed in July 2015. But Ramy El-Maarry and Graham Driver of Birkbeck, University of London, may have found an even larger collapse event, linked to a bright outburst seen on 12 September 2015 along the northern-southern hemisphere divide.
"This seems to be one of the largest cliff collapses we've seen on the comet during Rosetta's lifetime, with an area of about 2000 square metres collapsing," said Ramy, also speaking at EPSC-DPS today.
During perihelion passage, the southern hemisphere of the comet was subjected to high solar input, resulting in increased levels of activity and more intensive erosion than elsewhere on the comet.
|Cliff collapse before and after. Credit: ESA/Rosetta/MPS for OSIRIS Team MPS/UPD/LAM/IAA/SSO/INTA/UPM/DASP/IDA (CC BY-SA 4.0)|
"Inspection of before and after images allow us to ascertain that the scarp was intact up until at least May 2015, for when we still have high enough resolution images in that region to see it," says Graham, an undergraduate student working with Ramy to investigate Rosetta's vast image archive.
"The location in this particularly active region increases the likelihood that the collapsing event is linked to the outburst that occurred in September 2015."
Looking in detail at the debris around the collapsed region suggests that other large erosion events have happened here in the past. Ramy and Graham found that the debris includes blocks of variable size ranging up to tens of metres, substantially larger than the boulder population following the Aswan cliff collapse, which is mainly comprised of boulders a few metres diameter.
"This variability in the size distribution of the fallen debris suggests either differences in the strength of the comet's layered materials, and/or varying mechanisms of cliff collapse," adds Ramy.
Studying comet changes like these not only gives insight into the dynamic nature of these small bodies on short timescales, but the larger scale cliff collapses provide unique views into the internal structure of the comet, helping to piece together the comet's evolution over longer timescales.
"Rosetta's datasets continue to surprise us, and it's wonderful the next generation of students are already making exciting discoveries," adds Matt Taylor, ESA's Rosetta project scientist.
Notes for editors
EPSC-DPS is the joint meeting of the European Planetary Science Congress and the Division of Planetary Sciences, and this year is held in Geneva, Switzerland.
Cliff collapses on Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko following outbursts as observed by the Rosetta mission, by M. R. El-Maarry and G. Driver and Bouncing boulders on Comet 67P by J-B. Vincent et al. were presented in the Comets, asteroid-comet continuum, and our knowledge after Rosetta session at EPSC-DPS on Wednesday 18 September.
Browse Rosetta's images here.
For further information, please contact:
M. R. El-Maarry
Birkbeck, University of London, UK
DLR Institute for Planetary Research, Berlin, Germany
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A classic like the Lion King cartoon movies and live-adaptation has been one of the biggest inspirations when coming up with lion names. ‘Simba’ has been the most commonly used lion king themed name inspired by the popular lead character. It’s difficult to remember all of the character’s names so we have compiled a list of all Lion King inspired names for lions!
Lion Names Inspired By The Lion King Movie
- Simba (He is the son of Mufasa and Sarabi. The name “Simba” comes from the Swahili word for lion)
- Nala (Sarafina’s daughter and Simba’s best friend)
- Sarafina (Nala’s mother)
- Mufasa (Simba’s father. The first Lion King of Pride Rock featured)
- Vitani (Zira’s daughter and sister of Nuka and Kovu)
- Kovu (Zira and Scar’s son and chosen heir and Kiara’s mate. His name means “scar” in Swahili)
- Kiara (Simba and Nala’s daughter and therefore princess of the Pridelands)
- Nuka (Zira’s elder son, brother of Vitani and Kovu)
- Zira (Mother of Nuka, Vitani and Kovu. “Zira” means “hate” in Swahili)
- Scar (Mufasa’s brother)
- Sarabi (Simba’s mother)
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Sale of Goods Act, 1930
49. Termination of lien
(1) The unpaid seller of goods loses his lien thereon-
(a) when he delivers the goods to a carrier or other bailee for the purpose of transmission to the buyer without reserving the right of disposal of the goods;
(b) when the buyer or his agent lawfully obtains possession of the goods;
(c) by waiver thereof.
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Our BBQ-style Cooking 1 recognizes that grilling meat over an open flame is a cooking technique that requires substantial skill. This BBQ-based course teaches you to use a wide range of temperatures in order to prepare meat and fish to perfection. Learn the essential techniques used in such recipes as BBQ pork butts, grilled whole striped bass, jerk chicken legs, char siu, grilled flank steak, slow-cooked beef chuck ribs and more. Also learn to produce a number of accompanying side dishes, including coleslaw, grilled acorn squash, chili and lime corn on the cob.
Also check out our in-class course: HOSF 9372 BBQ-style Cooking 1
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On a lonely battlefield you meet your opponent for a skirmish that will decide the fate of your army. You must plan the battle, advance your men, attack and capture the enemy Flag.
Your Marshal is your strongest man, but vulnerable if not protected from the Spy. Your Scouts are weak but mobile and effective in discovering your enemy's manpower. You need the skills of Miners to disarm enemy Bombs, so don't lose them all early in the battle. Plant your Bombs skillfully. They will protect the most precious piece on the gameboard, your Flag.
Stratego is a game where skillful planning, clever deception and good memory work are used to defeat your opponent. Every time you play the battle is different. And now, new Tournament Rules can give you more variety than ever.
Each army consists of:
Place the gameboard between you and your opponent with the name Stratego facing each of you.
Hide a red piece in one hand and a blue piece in the other. Your opponent chooses a hand and plays with the color army the selected piece designates. The other color army is yours.
Set up your armies using the strategy hints and rules for movement and attacking that are discussed below.
Place your pieces on the gameboard with the notched end up. The printed side faces you so your opponent cannot see the rank of your pieces. Your opponent does the same.
Only one piece can occupy a square. Place them anywhere in the last four rows on your half of the gameboard. The two middle rows are left unoccupied at the start of the game, as shown in Figure 1.
Object of the Game
The object of the game is to capture your opponent's flag.
You and your opponent alternate turns. The red player moves first.
On your turn you can do one of the following:
Move - one of your playing pieces to an open adjacent space OR
Attack - one of your opponent's playing pieces.
Pieces move one square at a time, forward, backward or sideways. (Exception: see Special Scout Privilege, Rule 6).
Pieces cannot move diagonally. They cannot jump over another piece. They cannot move onto a square already occupied by another piece (unless attacking).
Pieces cannot jump over or move onto the two areas in the center of the gameboard that are indicated by the dotted lines. See Figure 1.
A piece cannot move back and forth between the same two squares in three consecutive turns.
Only one piece can be moved on a turn.
Special Scout Privilege: A Scout can move any number of open squares forward, backward, or sideways. But remember, this movement will let your opponent know the value of that piece.
You may wish to move your Scouts one space at a time to confuse your opponent. Scouts are the only pieces allowed to move and attack on the same turn. See Rules For Attack, below.
Remember, the Bomb and Flag pieces cannot be moved and must remain on the squares where they were originally placed throughout the game.
Attack Position: When a red and blue piece occupy adjacent spaces either back to back, side to side, or face to face, they are in a position to attack. See Figure 2.
How To Attack: To attack on your turn, take your attacking piece and lightly tap your opponent's piece. Then, declare the rank of your attacking piece. Your opponent then declares the rank of his/her defending piece.
The piece with the lower rank (and lower number) is captured and removed from the board. If your piece (the attacking piece) is the remaining and winning piece, it moves into the space formerly occupied by the defending piece.
If the remaining and winning piece is the defending piece, it stays on the square it was in when it was attacked.
When pieces of the same rank battle, both pieces are removed from the game.
Attacking is always optional.
A Marshal (Number 10) outranks a General (Number 9) and any other lower-ranking piece. A General (Number 9) outranks a Colonel (Number 8) and any lower-ranking (but higher numbered) piece.
A Colonel (Number 8) outranks a Major (Number 7) and so on down to the Spy which is the lowest-ranking piece.
Special Miner PrivilegeL When any piece (except a Miner - ranked 3) strikes a Bomb, that piece is lost and removed from the board. When a Miner strikes a Bomb, the Bomb is defused and removed from the gameboard.
The Miner then moves into the Bomb's space on the board. Bombs remain on the same square throughout the game unless they are defused. Bombs cannot attack or move.
Special Spy Privilege: A Spy has no numeral rank. If any piece attacks it, it is captured and removed from the board. But the Spy has a unique attacking privilege.
It is the only piece that can outrank a Marshal providing the Spy attacks the Marshal first. If the Marshal attacks first then the Spy is removed.
Place Bombs around the Flag to protect it. But place a Bomb or two elsewhere to confuse your opponent.
Put a few high-ranking pieces in the front line, but be careful! If you lose them early in the game you're in a weak position.
Scouts should be in the front lines to help you discover the strength of opposing pieces.
Place some Miners in the rear for the end of the game, where they will be needed to defuse Bombs.
End of the Game
The first player to attack an opponent's Flag captures it and wins the game.
If all of your moveable pieces have been removed and you cannot move or attack on a turn, you must give up and declare your opponent the winner.
Additional Tournament Rules
Here are three rule variations included for the Stratego player who wants an added challenge. Feel free to add one or any combination of these rules to the game.
When pieces of the same rank battle, the attacking piece wins.
When an attack is made the attacker is the only player who has to declare the rank of his/her piece.
The defender does not reveal the rank of his/her piece, but resolves the attack by removing whatever piece is lower-ranking from the gameboard.
Players keep their own captured pieces. Exception: when a Scout attacks, the defender must reveal the rank of his/her piece.
When you move onto a square in your opponent's back row you have the option of rescuing one of your captured pieces. Immediately pick any piece from the pieces your opponent has captured and return it to the gameboard.
Place your rescued piece on any unoccupied space on your half of the gameboard and your turn is over.
Scouts cannot make a rescue.
You cannot rescue a Bomb.
Only two rescues can be made by each player.
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Keep your children safe from PC and Online Security Threats
Children, very much like adults, are just as prone to computer and Internet security risks. Therefore, it is most important to always keep children safe and have all your data well protected.
The following are simple yet effective steps so that security threats could be dramatically reduced.
Implement the parental PC controls
It is always best to implement a kind of parental control when kids are making use of the computer. Luckily, there are ISPs available that could be purchased as separate software.
Nevertheless, bear in mind that a software program is really a very poor substitute for any authentic supervision that can be provided by a parent.
Through using Internet Explorer, it will allow anyone to most conveniently restrict or simply to not allow particular web sites to be seen. All this can be set up through passwords.
In order to see all these options, you should click on Tools on the menu bar, and then choose Internet Options, try to select the tab named Content, then click on the button named Enable under the Content Advisor.
It is also to your best advantage if you buy some software that will enable you to watch and monitor any and all the sites that your kids go to.
Partition your PC now, partition it right
It is also very much advisable to partition your personal computer into separate accounts. Many operating systems (these include the Mac, Windows XP, Linux) tend to provide users with the option to create different and various user accounts.
This functions well especially if you have that fear of your kid accessing, modifying or deleting your own files. Giving your child an account which is separate might decrease the access amount and the privileges that your child might have.
Use Anti-Virus, Anti-Spyware, Firewalls
Software that might provide anti-virus activities will protect computers from any viruses that might destroy data, and help to prevent slow performance of your computer, will help to prevent crashes and doesn’t allow any spammers to infiltrate your e-mail.
Basically, this functions through scanning the computer and any incoming emails. If there are any of them which might contain viruses, they will be automatically deleted.
An anti-virus program which is effective should have constant and routine updates as well as antidotes for any latest bugs that might currently be in the Internet.
Meanwhile, firewalls have the possibility to keep any hackers away from your own computer thereby preventing them from gaining access to any of your personal info without you’re your express permission.
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Craft beer lovers who make their way into The Ale Project bar in Mongkok have noticed something new lately: two door gods affixed to the bar’s sliding glass doors. It’s something you would normally expect to see on the entrance of a temple or an old village house, not on a bar that draws young beer aficionados, but these particular gods are a new spin on an old tradition: wood block prints painstakingly handcrafted by Marble Print & Clay, a printmaking studio founded by artists David Jasper Wong, Bambi Lam and Terence Leung in 2012.
The door gods came about by chance. The trio moved into a new studio in a Kwun Tong factory building at the end of last year, and their next door neighbour turned out to be Moonzen, a craft brewery with a cult following and a penchant for traditional Chinese imagery. Brewmaster Laszlo Raphael liked the studio’s work, so he asked them to craft a set of posters that could ward evil spirits away from the brewery and the outlets where Moonzen’s beers are sold.
“The idea of woodcut is really traditional and it matched with craft beer,” says Wong. “It’s handmade, so it’s really tough to do.” Lam spent hours painstakingly carving the fierce-looking gods into blocks of wood, which he and his partners then used to make a two-tone print.
“We had to do it about 600 times,” says Wong. “There’s no machine for this.”
Lam grins: “We are the machine.”
Hong Kong became an industrial powerhouse in the decades after World War II, a city where thousands of workshops and small factories churned out everything from garments to bamboo steamers. These were not state-of-the-art operations; most of them relied on the skilled hands of their workers, who stitched together loafers, welded mailboxes and moulded complicated neon signs, building up decades of expertise in the process. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, the boom ended almost as quickly as it began, as production moved to cheaper and larger facilities on the mainland.
Now a new generation of artists and designers are taking up the tools of Hong Kong’s traditional trades. Marble, Print & Clay is just one of many new studios that have opened in the city’s grimy industrial buildings, often sharing a floor with the longstanding workshops that remain. Marble, Print & Clay’s other next-door neighbour is a commercial silkscreening studio. “When we moved to Kwun Tong we were surprised how many old masters are here,” says Wong. “There are more than 10 [printers] in our building, one-man shops,” says Wong.
They have struck up a relationship. “They always give us their opinions,” says Lam. “They are all over 50 or 60,” adds Wong. He would like to start documenting their work before they retire.
Shoe Artistry has taken that collaboration one step further by hiring local shoemakers to make bespoke shoes. Since it was launched in 2012 by designers Kit Lee and Jeff Wan, Shoe Artistry has tried to bolster Hong Kong’s fading shoemaking industry, which once counted dozens of workshops like Ming Kee Shoes, which folded in 2011 after 40 years of business. Lee and Wan bought Ming Kee’s equipment and set out stirring up new demand for handcrafted dress shoes, pumps, sandals and more. “In Hong Kong you don’t see many companies doing this anymore,” says Wan.
In Wong Chuk Hang, Ditto Ditto’s twenty something designers create stationery with vintage letterpress machines. Though Hong Kong has a large printing industry, with groups like the Open Printshop trying to keep the craft alive, it was while studying fine art in the United States that Ditto Ditto co-founder Nicole P.S. Chan fell in love with the medium. “It’s hard to explain with words – you really have to touch and feel it,” she says.
Chan’s products have a whimsical quality, with hand-drawn illustrations that are etched onto a plate and printed with hand-mixed, pastel-toned dyes. Her aesthetic is reminiscent of Miroslav Šašek, the Czech illustrator famous for children’s books that explored different places around the world, something Ditto Ditto evokes in its series of Hong Kong postcards.
Ditto Ditto’s products are made on four letterpress machines, which imprint a raised ink surface onto paper, giving them an tactile quality that seems more authoritative than digital printing. When the studio launched in 2012, Chan bought a pair of hand-operated Chandler and Price presses, which she named Sylvia and Felicity. “She is very old,” says Chan, putting her hand on Sylvia. “More than 60.”
Printing each card by hand proved tiring for the diminutive Chan, so her next investment was a set of automatic Heidelberg machines built in the 1970s, which she named Will and Mill. Though the newer machines are automated, they have developed quirks with age. “The surface is a little uneven,” says Chan. “You start to know the machine and how to adjust it. This problem-solving part is what’s interesting to me.”
That’s the thing about making products by hand: each product is unique because the process of making it is inherently idiosyncratic. In 2011, Handsome Co. began making bags, watches and other products using recycled taxi parts assembled by local craftspeople, but co-founder Billy Potts soon realised the very process that made his products special made it difficult to meet demand. Though the design studio won a lot of attention when the bags were first launched, Potts eventually moved towards simpler products like wallets.
My reasoning was that if the items were smaller, the material could be used more efficiently and small operations such as die-cutters and seamstresses in Mongkok could handle it,” he says. Potts has started making the bags again, but with a 10-day lead time so each one can be made to order. “Craftspeople are still around, but they’re not factories, they’re individuals. They’ve all got personality quirks. It’s a very different mode of working [compared to mass production].”
Shoe Artistry ran into similar issues as its business began to grow. It eventually solved the problem by following a path familiar to earlier generations of Hong Kong businesses: it expanded its production overseas. It takes a master shoemaker about 32 hours to craft one pair of shoes, and there just aren’t enough shoemakers in Hong Kong, so Shoe Artistry now hires craftspeople in Guangzhou and Indonesia to fill some of their orders. “As long as the quality is there, as long as the comfort is there, we don’t mind working with people outside of Hong Kong,” says Jeff Wan.
That doesn’t mean it has strayed into mass production; each shoe is still made to order. Wan says this has revealed interesting differences between craft traditions. “In Hong Kong, the most obvious thing is flexibility – they don’t stick with one style like shoemakers in Italy or the UK, which make shoes the way they have always made them. In Hong Kong, they mix up styles and techniques in order to get things done efficiently.”
Wan hopes that tradition can survive. In addition to working with local shoemakers, Shoe Artistry hires apprentices and runs public workshops to teach people how to make shoes. “We still have younger people interested in what we’re doing,” he says.
After all, today’s young designers are the master craftspeople of tomorrow. Before moving to Kwun Tong, David Jasper Wong and Bambi Lam saw themselves primarily as artists. “We always wonder, what is printmaking? Is it art, like drawing, or is it a craft?” asks Lam. Wong says they have begun to answer that question: “We want to show art can be combined with commerce.”
Where to find these products
Marble Print & Clay: prints
Ditto Ditto: stationary made with vintage letterpress machines
Handsome Co: wallets and bags made with recycled taxi upholstery
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Pathophysiology of Peptic Ulcer Disease
Historically, our understanding of the pathophysiology of peptic ulcer disease focused on abnormalities in the secretion of gastric acid and pepsin, and on the suppression of acid as a treatment strategy. Today, gastric hypersecretionassociated with gastrinoma in Zollinger-Ellison syndrome, antral G-cell hyperplasia, an increase in parietal-cell mass, and a physiological imbalance between the antagonistic gastric hormones gastrin and somatostatinis still an important issue in peptic ulcer disease. Moreover, it is known that cholinergic hypersensitivity and parasympathetic dominance are related to the stimulation not only of hydrochloric acid but also pepsin, which is often neglected as a cofactor in the development of erosive injury to the gastric mucosa. Psychologic stress, cigarette smoking, alcohol consumption, use of nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) including aspirin, oral bisphosphonates, potassium chloride, immunosuppressive medications, and an age-related decline in prostaglandin levels have all been shown to contribute to peptic ulcer disease. It was, however, the isolation of H. pylori and its identification as the most important cause of peptic ulcer disease that led to exploration of the role of inflammation and its associated cytokine cascade in gastric acid secretion.
H. pylori evades attack by the host immune system and causes chronic, indolent inflammation by several mechanisms. H. pylori can damage the mucosal defense system by reducing the thickness of the mucus gel layer, diminishing mucosal blood flow, and interacting with the gastric epithelium throughout all stages of the infection. H. pylori infection can also increase gastric acid secretion; by producing various antigens, virulence factors, and soluble mediators, H. pylori induces inflammation, which increases parietal-cell mass and, therefore, the capacity to secrete acid. The H. pylori cytotoxin-associated gene CagA also has an important role: it interferes with gastric epithelial cell-signaling pathways, thereby regulating cellular responses and possibly contributing to apical junction barrier disruption, interleukin-8 secretion and phenotypic changes to gastric epithelial cells.
Understanding the pathophysiology of peptic ulcer disease is at something of a crossroads: mechanisms of injury differ distinctly between duodenal and gastric ulcers. Duodenal ulcer is essentially an H. pylori-related disease and is caused mainly by an increase in acid and pepsin load, and gastric metaplasia in the duodenal cap. Gastric ulcer, at least in Western countries, is most commonly associated with NSAID ingestion, although H. pylori infection might also be present. Chronic, superficial and atrophic gastritis predominate in patients with gastric ulcers, when even normal acid levels can be associated with mucosal ulceration. In both conditions, ulcer is associated with an imbalance between protective and aggressive factors, with inflammation being a leading cause of this imbalance.
The isolation of H. pylori in the early 1980s was one of the most exciting advances in the history of peptic ulcer disease, and it has dramatically changed the management of peptic ulcer. Eradication of H. pylori infection is now the mainstay of treatment for peptic ulcer disease, and has resulted in very high ulcer healing rates and recurrence rates that have dropped dramatically, especially for individuals with a duodenal ulcer. The greater recognition of the role of NSAIDs and aspirin in gastrointestinal-tract injury has led to the development of therapeutic and preventive strategies that rely on the use of antisecretory drugs, the prostaglandin analog misoprostol, or selective cyclo-oxygenase (COX)-2 inhibitors (coxibs).
During the 1980s, H. pylori infection was found in more than 90% of patients with duodenal ulcers, and some 70% of patients with gastric ulcers.[12,13] The declining incidence and prevalence of peptic ulcer in developed countries has paralleled the falling prevalence of H. pylori infection, especially in populations with high infection rates. Only H. pylori eradication is an effective treatment for both duodenal and gastric ulcers. Antisecretory drugs work well for controlling symptoms and allowing ulcers to heal, and the absolute benefit of eradicating H. pylori infection is small with respect to healing alone. In a Cochrane meta-analysis the eradication of H. pylori infection combined with the use of an ulcer-healing drug significantly increased duodenal healing to 83% (intent-to-treat analysis), with the relative risk of the ulcer persisting being 0.66 (95% CI 0.58-0.76) compared with the ulcer-healing drugs alone; but eradication was not significantly superior to ulcer-healing drugs for gastric-ulcer healing (relative risk 1.32; 95% CI 0.92-1.90).
Despite their well-accepted anti-inflammatory and analgesic benefits, NSAID use is probably the most common cause of gastrointestinal mucosal injury in Western countries. NSAIDs, including aspirin, significantly increase the risk of adverse gastrointestinal events, particularly those related to gastric and/or duodenal mucosal injury: erosions, ulcers and ulcer complications, especially bleeding. About 15-30% of regular NSAID users have one or more ulcers when examined endoscopically, and 3-4.5% of NSAID users have clinically significant upper gastrointestinal events, including ulcers and ulcer complications.
Patients taking low-dose aspirin for the prevention of a cardiovascular event, such as myocardial infarction or thrombotic stroke, are also at increased risk of gastrointestinal injury and complications. In asymptomatic patients taking low-dose aspirin (75-325 mg/day) for ≥3 months, endoscopically observed ulcers or erosions are reported in 47.83% of cases. The risk of upper gastrointestinal bleeding events is dose-dependent, with an odds ratio (OR) of 3.3 for 300 mg of aspirin (95% CI 1.2-9.0) and an OR of 6.4 for 1.2 g of aspirin (95% CI 2.5-16.5). In multivariate models adjusted for age, sex, and clinical risk, low-dose aspirin alone was independently associated with an increased risk of ulcer bleeding, with an OR of 2.4 (95% CI 1.8-3.3).
The injurious gastrointestinal effects of NSAIDs are largely caused by the inhibition of COX1 and its role in normal mucosal defense mechanisms (discussed above), and also through the inhibition of thromboxane A2, which compromises platelet function and results in gastrointestinal bleeding. Clinical trials have repeatedly demonstrated that coxibs are associated with fewer ulcers, less gastrointestinal bleeding and fewer ulcer complications than nonselective NSAIDs,[22,23,24,25] but concurrent use of low-dose aspirin blunts this benefit. It is expected that the withdrawal of several coxibs will lead to many patients switching back to nonselective NSAIDs, with an anticipated increase in cases of gastrointestinal bleeding, especially in elderly patients.
H. pylori infection and NSAIDs are independent risk factors for peptic ulcer disease that have additive or synergistic effects on adverse gastrointestinal outcomes (Figure 1). In a meta-analysis, the OR for the incidence of peptic ulcer was 61.1 in patients infected with H. pylori and also taking NSAIDs, compared with uninfected controls not taking NSAIDs. The OR narrowed to 18.1 when comparing H. pylori-infected patients with H. pylori-uninfected patients who were not taking NSAIDs.H. pylori infection also potentiates the ulcer bleeding induced by low-dose aspirin. Together, H. pylori infection and NSAID use account for approximately 90% of peptic ulcer disease.
Helicobacter pylori and nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs have synergistic effects on gastric mucosal damage. Both H. plyori infection and NSAID use have been found to independently and siginificantly increase the risk of gastric and duodenal mucisak danage and ulceration. H. pylori and NSAIDs act synergistically through pathways of inflammation in the development of ulcers and in ulcer bleeding.
Both H. pylori infection and NSAID use have been found to independently and significantly increase the risk of gastric and duodenal mucosal damage and ulceration. H. pylori and NSAIDs act synergistically through pathways of inflammation in the development of ulcers and in ulcer bleeding.
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Bundesliga stars Jadon Sancho and Marcus Thuram came to the fore on Sunday when they separately protested against the killing of George Floyd at the hands of US police.
The 46-year-old was choked to death on May 25 by white Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin after pushing his knee against African-American man's neck for nearly nine minutes.
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Floyd's death has sparked outrage across the US and has instigated a wave of protests both in the country and around the world.
The two young footballers joined in with the demonstrations while playing in the German top-flight, which is the only major European league currently in action.
After scoring in Borussia Dortmund's 6-1 win over Paderborn, England's Sancho pulled back his jersey to reveal the slogan 'Justice for George Floyd' written across an undershirt.
The in-demand winger netted his hat-trick in the Bundesliga but dedicated his performance to the killing of Floyd.
'Delighted to get my first career hat trick, a bittersweet moment personally as there are more important things going on in the world today that we must address and help make a change,' the 20-year-old wrote after the game on Instagram.
'We shouldn't fear speaking out for what's right, we have to come together as one & fight for justice. We are stronger together! #JusticeForGeorgeFloyd.'
Earlier on Sunday, Thuram also joined in on the protest by kneeling after scoring in Borussia Monchengladbach's 4-1 win over Union Berlin.
Kneeling during the national anthem has become a popular form of protest in the NFL, popularised by Colin Kapernick after the Black Lives Matter movement began to quickly spread in 2014.
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Myopic eyes have an increased risk of glaucoma. However, glaucomatous changes in a myopic eye are often difficult to detect. Classic structural and functional investigations to diagnose glaucoma may be confounded by myopia. Here, we identify some of the common pitfalls in interpreting these structural parameters, and the possible solutions that could be taken to overcome them. For instance, in myopic eyes, we discuss the limitations and potential sources of error when using neuroretinal rim parameters, and retinal nerve fibre layer and ganglion cell-inner plexiform layer thickness measurements. In addition, we also review new developments and potential adjuncts in structural imaging such as the assessment of the retinal nerve fibre layer texture, and the examination of the microcirculation of the optic nerve head using optical coherence tomography angiography. For the functional assessment of glaucoma, we discuss perimetric strategies that may aid in detecting characteristic visual field defects in myopic glaucoma. Ultimately, the evaluation of glaucoma in myopia requires a multimodal approach, to allow correlation between structural and functional assessments. This review provides overview on how to navigate this diagnostic dilemma.
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The Mercedes-Benz name is a combination of two names: Mercedes Jellinek and Karl Benz. Originally, Mercedes-Benz was founded by Karl Benz and Gottlieb Wilhelm Daimler and was part of Daimler Motoren Gesellschaft, better known as DMG. The company was first known by the name Daimler-Benz, as an homage to the founders.Aug 2, 2019
It’s widely acknowledged that the world’s very first proper car journey was undertaken in 1888 not by the creator of the Benz Patent-Motorwagen, Karl Benz, but by his wife Bertha Benz and their two teenage boys.
Mercedes (German: [mɛɐ̯ˈtseːdəs]) was a brand of the Daimler-Motoren-Gesellschaft (DMG). DMG began to develop in 1900, after the death of its co-founder, Gottlieb Daimler. … This engine name is the first instance of the use of the name Mercedes by DMG. The automobile design would later be called the Mercedes 35 hp.
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The word “Mercedes” is of Latin origin meaning “mercies” (the plural of mercy) from the Latin word merced-, merces, meaning “wages, reward”, which in Vulgar Latin acquired the meaning “favor, pity”. Hypocoristic forms of the name are Merceditas, Meche and Merche.
Means “mercies” (that is, the plural of mercy), from the Spanish title of the Virgin Mary, María de las Mercedes, meaning “Mary of Mercies“. It is ultimately from the Latin word merces meaning “wages, reward”, which in Vulgar Latin acquired the meaning “favour, pity”.
Mercedes is a Spanish feminine given name, derived from María de las Mercedes (“Our Lady of Mercy” or “Mary of Mercies”), which is one of the Roman Catholic titles of the Virgin Mary.
Nicknames: Merce, Mercy, Sadie.
Despite actually displacing 6.2 litres, Mercedes badged the car as a 6.3 as a nod to the old M100. Subsequent models that used the engine also went on to carry the “63” badge. Currently, the “63” badge denotes all V8-powered Mercedes-AMG models except the AMG GT.
Mercedes-Benz was founded in 1926 by Karl Benz, Gottlieb Daimler, Wilhelm Maybach and Emil Jellinek, whose daughter Mercedes is our original namesake.
The Mercedes-Benz brand was born under a lucky star: the current trademark comprising a three-pointed star in a laurel wreath was created in 1925 – in time for the merger between Daimler-Motoren-Gesellschaft (DMG) and Benz & Cie., which together became Daimler-Benz AG, in summer 1926.
That logo, as you’ve likely guessed, is the same one used for the Mercedes-Benz brand today. The company is now titled Daimler AG, and is commonly known simply as “Mercedes.” Daimler AG owns the Mercedes-Benz and Mercedes-AMG brands, among many more. It revived the Maybach brand as Mercedes-Maybach in April 2015.
Mercedes-Benz Manufacturing: Germany The Mercedes-Benz brand was founded in Stuttgart, Germany, which is where the headquarters remains to this day. The main production facilities are also located here, at a plant that employs around 19,000 people.Jul 24, 2018
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1. Sir Thomas Jones. Although there is no available record of the first person to drive a car in Nigeria, one of the first Nigerians on the record to have driven a car was a man called Thomas Jones, a wealthy Lagosian who is believed to drive a car before 1913.
The company was first known by the name Daimler-Benz, as an homage to the founders. … Jellinek named the new cars after his daughter, Mercédès Jellinek, whose Spanish name translated to “mercy.” The company later went on to have the “Mercedes” name trademarked 1902.
Mercedes is one of the few names attached to luxury living that we can wholeheartedly recommend, it being a legitimate Spanish appellation stemming from one of the epithets given to the Virgin Mary–Santa Maria de las Mercedes, or Our Lady of the Mercies.
Mercedes-Benz’s brand value maintained a steady growth rate between 2010 and 2018, two years of negative growth followed but in 2021, the value bounced back to reached an all-time high of 25.84 billion U.S. dollars.
Mercedes-Benz was originally founded in Germany but has since built facilities all over the world! Read on to learn more about where the luxury brand originated and where Mercedes-Benz vehicles are made.
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Together, the Mercedes-Benz star’s 3 points represent the company’s drive for universal motorization — but each point also has its individual meaning. The points represent land, sea, and air — environments the company believed they would one day dominate with Mercedes-Benz engines.
AMG® is short for Aufecht, Melcher, and Großaspach, the division of Mercedes-Benz that produces performance vehicles.
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We can’t deny the impact of mobile and cloud technologies on how we work these days. As flexibility becomes the new normal, organizations become more agile in making sure that everyone is productive, even in the changing nature of the work place. Indeed, this ‘work anywhere’ mentality has empowered businesses, big or small, in North America and beyond. With changing work styles comes an open invitation to innovate where collaboration is concerned. What’s keeping us from building something better then?
The Biggest Obstacle in the Tech World
A global research conducted by Citrix shows that one in five small businesses in the US, Canada and Australia are achieving productivity gains of over 30% by allowing people to work whenever, wherever and however they choose. Almost half agreed that social collaboration drives better results, and widespread accessibility to quality technology helps people and businesses collaborate better. Still, there are plenty of room for improvement where the tech community is concerned… if only people will trust each other to come up with ideas that will help solve pain points where work is concerned. Problem is, exposing your ideas in the open invites others to steal them. لعبه بلاك جاك To create healthy competition that will encourage innovative juices to flow is still a work-in-progress.. for the same reason we still see under-developed applications and intellectual property violations.
Developing an Innovation Strategy that Works
From the inception of the buzzword, everyone is out to ‘innovate’. But most of the time, they often end up having an unclear vision on developing and executing an innovation strategy that works. In the race to come up with the next big thing, many businesses are lost when it comes to their real purpose. In the middle of the race, you start looking at your product/service as another ‘me too’ copy of the best thing out there. Before you know it, what you invented becomes another book collecting dust on a shelf. To come up with a bright idea shouldn’t only be something that you’re passionate about, but it must also be grounded in reality. It must be adaptive. You have to measure your success rate and minimize risks. Think of possibilities as you connect the dots between ideas so you can come up with a fully-scalable solution..
Emerging Technology vs. Disruptive Technology
To Be, You Have to Become. Confusing, I know. What I meant here is that if you want to be a startup, you have to think and act like one. For the same reason that you want to come up with consumer applications banking strongly on user experience, you have to become someone who can deliver just that – to come up with something that’s technologically feasible, business viable, and humanly desirable. It won’t really matter if you’re working with emerging technology, of new and reliable ones.. or build something disruptive that will shift how people will collaborate in the new workplace. What’s important is your commitment in making sure that you come up with something that will generate profit – because the survival of your business depends on it. العاب بوكر اون لاين
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Winter is upon us!
The air brings us chilliness and wind. The ground is frozen, slowing, and suspending its growth. The grass turns brown, the trees stiffen and bare. It seems like earth pauses.
Maybe we might be wise to do the same.
For many of us, winter arrives with a bustle of activity: Holidays, parties, gifts, decorations, and so much busyness. A lot of this is fun and exciting, but the reality is that after the holidays are finished, we often find ourselves more tired out than we were before.
What if, instead of getting caught up in the pace of everyone around us this year, we intentionally approached this winter with a decision to pause? To rest? To rejuvenate?
What if we took a cue from nature and slowed down this winter, instead of thrusting forward?
While we can’t exactly hibernate and sleep for most of the winter (although sometimes we may wish that we could!!), we can take lessons from the pause of nature and the hibernation of bears to reconsider how we might approach the winter season through both rest and rejuvenation. The possibilities are endless. Shared below are some ideas for your mental, emotional, spiritual, and professional rejuvenation to help you get started.
Changes to help Recharge in Your Personal and Spiritual Life:
Mindfulness helps you to feel peaceful and accomplish more. Set aside time each day for quiet contemplation. Even a few minutes makes a big difference.
Find a variety of activities that you enjoy. Buy a gym membership or go running in the park. Lift weights or play volleyball.
Give your body good quality rest and sleep. Go to bed and get up at the same time each day, even on weekends. Darken your bedroom and block out distracting noises with a white noise generator.
Stress can lead to chronic inflammation. Experiment with relaxation practices like yoga, massage, or listening to instrumental music.
Enjoy Family Dinners.
It can be difficult to carve out family time in a busy schedule. Designate at least one night a week when you can sit down together and talk over a nutritious meal.
Changes to Help Recharge and Rejuvenate in Your Professional and Financial Life:
Learn New Skills.
Modern workplaces undergo rapid change. Continuous learning helps you to feel confident. Take a class that will certify you for project management or a popular software package. Shadow someone who has a job that interests you.
Tidy Up Your Work Space.
Banishing clutter makes it easier to think clearly. Develop a filing system that works for you and clear off your desk at the end of the day.
Pay Off Debts.
Becoming debt-free reduces stress and raises your future standard of living. Pay off your most expensive debts first and talk with a counselor if you need assistance.
Increase Your Savings.
Put money aside from each paycheck. You\’ll feel more secure preparing for your retirement or your children\’s college education.
Greet the spring with a sense of optimism and a host of constructive new habits. Your future will look brighter when you spend the winter taking steps to make your life more healthy, joyful, and meaningful.
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