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Metal Fabricator Apprentice ROBEY ENGINEERING SOLUTIONS LIMITED
This is a fantastic opportunity to join a successful engineering business based in Burton as their new metal fabricator apprentice.
Closing date: 19 Aug 2022
Apprentices are paid for their normal working hours and training that's part of their apprenticeship (usually one day per week).
Total hours per week: 40
Possible start date
22 Aug 2022
07 Jul 2022
Level 3 (A level)
What will the apprentice be doing?
As a welding fabricator, you will be responsible for joining metal using a variety of techniques, often to form new structures. Duties may include cutting and welding materials according to technical plans created by other construction professionals.
- Carrying out gas welding techniques to manufacture items and components in accordance with approved welding procedures and quality requirements
- Cutting materials into the required shapes, checking dimensions and thicknesses
- Welding or joining metal and other materials into a wide range of structures & Welding metals components and materials
- Following engineering plans, drawings and instructions
- Operating tools and machinery and welding equipment
- Visually inspecting welds and understand all types of testing
- Dismantling metal structures
- Cleaning tools, equipment and work areas
- Wearing safety clothing and using protective equipment
- Working on a construction site or in a workshop.
- Interpreting assembly drawings and instructions.
- Understanding the clients’ requirements and specifications.
- Working methodically to correctly complete the task, without taking shortcuts or improvising, responsible to your supervisor for all activities
- Following a sequence of operations to accomplish the task.
- Setting up the welding machines and other necessary equipment for the task.
- Use a grinder to smooth and clean as appropriately prior to and after welding
- Preparing reports of the work completed.
meet your targets and contribute to those of the team as a whole
- Performing quality control checks on the finished product.
- Attend additional training courses as identified by your manager
- Adhering to the company’s safety standards and working procedures, follow risk assessments and all H&S documents
What training will the apprentice take and what qualification will the apprentice get at the end?
An apprenticeship allows you to earn a wage, gain valuable work experience and industry specific competence. You will be expected to work towards the Metal Fabricator Level 3 Apprenticeship Standard, with support from your employer and the Chesterfield College Group.
Metal Fabricator Apprenticeship Standard: Level 3 Technical Certificate in Advanced Engineering Manufacturing, Portfolio Development covering the Knowledge, Skills and Behaviours required, Gateway, End Point Assessment
As part of your apprenticeship, and dependent on your prior attainment, you may be required to complete maths and English Functional Skills which is an integral part of your apprenticeship. Upon successful completion you will be awarded additional certificates of recognition for these qualifications.
What is the expected career progression after this apprenticeship?
- Full time job with the company
- Continued training and development
Requirements and prospects
Desired skills and personal qualities
GCSE or equivalent Maths (Grade 4/C or above) Essential
GCSE or equivalent Engineering (Grade 4/C or above) Desired
Things to consider
About the employer
TRAINING SERVICES 2000 LTD
Level 3 (A level)
Before you apply
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The James T. Callow Folklore Archive
It is the custom in Christian families to put
one lighted candle in the window on Christmas Eve
to symbolize that Mary and Joseph would be welcome
in your home if they were searching
for a place to stay like they were so long ago.
James Callow Keyword(s): HOSPITALITY
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Humans are hardwired for struggle. We adapt and find innovative ways of showing up the best we can under adversity. But, we are not wired to be in a constant state of crisis management. Our persistence through two years of stress, grief, pain, change, and uncertainty has come at a cost for many. It may have left you, your organization, and teams tired, depleted, and wobbly.
With warmth, energy, and research-based insight, workplace wellness expert Robyne Hanley-Dafoe shares how to plan for your own and your team's emergence from a crisis mode of work and re-entry into a more typical pace and norms. She will speak about the importance of acknowledging and learning from the difficult past everyone has been through and will explore a conceptual framework for re-entry readiness based on principles of psychological safety, resiliency, and productivity with purpose. Learn how to ease the burden and move forward with hope through practical self-care "comeback rate" practices that help return us to a state of feeling okay, engaging with forces that help us to recover, and developing a greater awareness of ourselves and others.
Robyne Hanley-Dafoe is a multi-award-winning psychology and education instructor who specializes in resiliency, navigating stress and change, leadership, and personal wellness in the workplace. She has worked within post-secondary education in a variety of roles, bringing wise practices for professional development, research, learning and authentic change. She holds a Doctor of Education from Western University.
You can’t always reset your day, but you can reset your brain, using regular practices and techniques to overcome the unexpected detours, disappointments, and demands that have been so much a part of our work and daily lives over the last two years.
Join brain fitness and wellness expert Jill Hewlett as she guides you through quick, fun, and effective “brain sculpting” techniques that you and your teams can use to quickly recognize signs of stress and shift into a sense of inner calm and balance. Jill will share practical insights from neuroscience and powerful tools such as Brain Gym to help build the neural pathways that influence a sense of positivity and motivation, even under challenging circumstances. You’ll learn how to make these techniques stick over the long term, and not only how to use them, but when. Be amazed by the results as you experiment with moving from reactivity to responsiveness, confusion to clarity, and stress to balance – skills we all could use to better navigate our workdays, care for our residents, and maintain our own overall wellness.
Jill Hewlett is an internationally-recognized speaker, trainer, and wellness TV personality. She is a Brain Gym® consultant of almost two decades and author of Common Sense, Uncommonly Practiced and Uncommon Sense … Put into Practice. Jill's work is based on a joy and passion for assisting others in connecting with their potential, implementing brain-building and wellness strategies, and making healthy and empowered choices and changes so they can create a fit brain, leading to a fit life. .
Give yourself the gift of laughter and take a breather from more serious concerns as we close out Convention through a virtual ride with “Cash Cab” guy, Adam Growe. Just like the Cash Cab television game show, Adam’s audience is treated to a hilarious mix of comedy act and spirited trivia competition among a small group of willing attendees. Everyone has a chance to earn points and prizes by playing along with the contestants in real time via a mobile phone or internet browser. Take this much-needed opportunity to tickle your funny bone and join your fellow convention-goers on a light-hearted trip down the trivia highway. It’s one ride you won’t soon forget!
Adam Growe has been performing on radio, television, stage, and at conferences and events for more than 30 years. In addition to hosting Discovery Channel’s Cash Cab, he is an accomplished stand-up comedian, appearing in shows such as Just for Laughs, Comedy NOW!, and CBS’s Star Search. | <urn:uuid:bd00c5bf-57af-45f3-ab12-133211ee2a2b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.advancingseniorcare.ca/website/21809/keynotes/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573172.64/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818063910-20220818093910-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.952695 | 853 | 1.617188 | 2 |
omb believes in the importance of place making in all that we do. Every project is an opportunity to create something meaningful. This requires design rigour in a new era of sustainability, in order to achieve simplicity and honesty in the design of spaces and structures that demonstrate thoughtfulness, integrity and restraint.
omb thrives on diversity. The thoughtful integration of multiple disciplines is key to our unique success and we strive for this on all projects. Cross pollination of ideas across projects is how we continue to be invigorated by our work.
We believe that good design is a team sport and our integrated design process creates a forum for everyone involved in the planning, design, use, construction, operation, and maintenance of a facility. We approach our own team in the same manner, where a thorough understanding of the inter-relationship between disciplines is critical to a project’s success.
Our approach is contextual. Each project is an opportunity to define the specific needs and aspirations of its community.
Simplicity is the essence of our design approach. It is a philosophy that aligns with good sustainable design practice, good functional planning practice and good business practice. We work hard to do more with less.
The diversity of experience and eclectic interests of our staff, their design and artistic talents, stimulate our architectural inspirations and provide the foundation for innovation in our projects. Our team has traveled extensively and has great respect for the world of design beyond Western Canada. While we vigorously seek contextual responses, we also source ideas of evolving approaches from around the world for our work.
We are committed to healthy environmental stewardship. We have adopted and implemented LEED Gold requirements on several of projects throughout the history of our firm. We believe that responsible design includes a clear understanding and commitment to sustainable design principles, and is a critical factor for improving the livability of our communities. We exercise this belief in our personal and professional lives and strongly endorse a sustainability vision that balances social, economic and environmental concerns. | <urn:uuid:41a4c227-80b9-4547-98bf-abf68a1ba78b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://it.archello.com/brand/office-of-mcfarlane-biggar-architects-designers | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570977.50/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809124724-20220809154724-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.939794 | 401 | 1.523438 | 2 |
Being the most populous African country, Nigeria is a well-known nation and has earned the moniker, Giant of Africa, even though current assessment in terms of economic stability and security would belie that epithet.
For young Nigerians, when asked what the Nigerian dream is, their answer is always a variant of the same phrase – to leave. To leave the country of their birth and go somewhere better, somewhere they can live their lives freely, to go somewhere sane where things work. And when you ask the older Nigerians, they say they want their children to go somewhere else because they are far too established and entrenched to just leave. For a lot of Nigerians, Canada is that place, it is that place where things work, it is that utopia where dreams come true as long as you work for it, and Nigerians are working hard to achieve that dream.
As of the last Canadian census in 2016, there were 51,800 Nigerians in Canada, and although the result of the 2021 concluded census has not yet been released, that number is more likely to have doubled considering 12,595 Nigerians relocated to Canada in the year 2019 alone. Some people believed this spike in immigration figures was not coincidental considering 2019 marked the beginning of the second tenure of Nigeria’s government.
So many factors have contributed greatly to the heightened urge of the average Nigerian to migrate to saner climes and why countries like Canada now have Nigerians as the dominant part of their African populace. Will Nigerians continue to emigrate? Yes. Will they continue to choose Canada? Most likely.
Presently, Nigeria is the leading source of permanent residents in Canada and the leading source of African immigrants. These residents have testified to an easier and more rewarding life to their family and friends and have stoked the embers of the “Nigerian dream” in them. Additionally, these residents have increasingly begun to use their social media pages to guide willing emigrants and to show them everything they would need to survive in their new country for little or no fee. Almost every YouTube user has opened a video and encountered an advert starting with “Do you want to move permanently to Canada? Or “The easiest ways to move to Canada.” As annoying as these videos may be, they are very crucial to the Nigerian starting her emigration journey since they usually contain hacks that make the process less cumbersome.
These videos further streamline the vision of the young Nigerian who knows he wants to leave the country but does not have a place or even a timeline yet, it brings the thought to the forefront of his mind and adds something else—suddenly, it is not just “I need to leave this country.” It is “I need to leave this country and go to a place like Canada”.
Another factor that is crucial to the ever-increasing number of Canada-bound emigrants is the fact that there are so many notable Nigerians that have made a name for themselves in different fields. With names like Stella Umeh the famed gymnast and Olympic medallist, Daniel Igali; journalist Ken Saro-Wiwa jr; Dax, the rapper; and Samuel Oghale Oboh who was the first black president of the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada, it goes without saying that Canada is the place where Nigerian emigrants can reach their full potential. They can continue up the ladder and be rewarded appropriately considering they are efficient without the drapes of nepotism, favouritism and corruption hanging over them. It is a place where things work and laws are enforced.
As Nigeria continues to prepare for its next presidential election, one thing is certain, regardless of if the country is able to turn around for the better after the forthcoming elections or if all remains the same, Canada will continue to gain Nigerian emigrants, and in about 10 years, Nigeria may be the leading source of black Canadians thereby overtaking Jamaica. | <urn:uuid:75b1d518-7854-437b-bca7-2a8b04447768> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.newsnaija.com.ng/canadian-immigration-in-10-years-nigeria-might-be-the-leading-source-of-black-canadians/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572833.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817001643-20220817031643-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.96758 | 804 | 1.851563 | 2 |
I was fascinated by the recent conversation with Jonathan Spitz in which he describes the inner workings of an essentially leaderless (or all-leader, depending on your interpretation) organization.His story of Orpheus initially conjured up mental images for me of often dysfunctional and combative meetings where, to borrow a tired but still applicable metaphor, there are too many cooks in the kitchen. But Spitz explains that by show time, “we’ve decided that the music is going to go this way…. everybody on that stage is working with all their passion to make that interpretation come alive.”In my career, I have twice worked with another conductor, Roger Nierenberg, who leads a very powerful experiential exercise, dubbed The Music Paradigm, in which participants are seated scattered in and amongst an actual, full-size professional orchestra, plucked from wherever the meeting happens to be held. Nierenberg leads the musicians through a series of exercises while drawing parallels between a working orchestra and corporate life.He initially asks the orchestra to just go ahead and play a piece of music, while he simply sits down and listens. At first, the musicians look a bit befuddled, but they soon get their bearings and start to play. The result, particularly while you are seated in the middle of the orchestra, is quite breathtaking. These are after all, professional musicians who perform together on a regular basis.But then Nierenberg takes up the baton, and starts guiding the musicians. And even to the untrained ear, the difference is striking. Suddenly, everything comes together in subtle but powerful ways that were missing before. The music is more nuanced, the timing tighter, the emotion of the music somehow even more powerful.Both of these stories illustrate to me the importance of leadership — however it may be arrived at — in creating a compelling vision, encouraging others to follow that vision and, above all, trusting in the natural talents of your team to deliver on that vision. A leader must know when to “conduct” and when to step back and allow the unique talents of his or her employees to flourish on their own.The difference between good leadership and truly great leadership can be as subtle as a wave of a baton, but in the right hands, the results can be dramatic.
/ Jan 08, 2015
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Prizes up for grabs in a new history competition
Children at the borough’s schools are being urged to take part in a new competition designed to inspire greater knowledge and interest in the borough’s rich history and heritage.
The Wandsworth GLL Schools Heritage Awards are aimed at four age groups - the under eights, eight to ten year-olds, 11 to 16-year-olds and those aged 17 and 18. There will be three prizewinners in each age group.
The winners of each age group can secure a cash prize of £1,000 for their school, sponsored by GLL, the not-for-profit social enterprise that runs Wandsworth’s 11 libraries.
These prizes, along with specially designed medals and certificates, will be presented to the winners by the Mayor of Wandsworth at a special town hall awards ceremony in May.
The initiative is designed to encourage an interest in local history, help young people develop a sense of place and promote teamwork in their research. The competition is open to all to pupils at all the borough’s schools and academies and the closing date for entries is March 23rd.
To coincide with the launch of the competition a logo (right) has been specially created to celebrate “The story of Wandsworth”. The logo shows a Viking ship and commemorates a 9th Century raid along the Thames to “Wandles Farm” where the raiders lost some of their weapons in the River Wandle.
On the sail of the longboat appear the symbolic 'tears of the Huguenots', which represents the sorrow of French protestant refugees who were forced to flee their homeland because of religious persecution. The Huguenots began arriving in Wandsworth in 1685 and having found sanctuary here began the dyeing, silk weaving, calico printing and hat-making businesses that the borough would became famous for.
The idea for the competition originally came at a community meeting at Ravenstone School in Balham and is now being enthusiastically pursued by keen historian and deputy Mayor of Wandsworth, Cllr Richard Field.
He said: “This will open up an exciting realisation in the rich heritage we find on our own doorsteps and in our streets. It’s a great opportunity for our students to not only experience a taste of our local history but also an understanding of what made Wandsworth borough what it is today.”
School pupils wanting to find out more about the borough’s rich and diverse history can find a wealth of information on the council’s website at www.wandsworth.gov.uk/heritage.
To find out more about the competition and obtain an application form, email Steve Murphy at firstname.lastname@example.org.
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About the Artist
A Swiss-born painter and graphic artist, Paul Klee was born on December 18, 1879, in Munchenbuchsee, Switzerland, into a family of musicians. His personal, often gently humorous works are filled with allusions to dreams, music, and poetry, and are difficult to classify. Primitive art, surrealism, cubism, and children’s art all seem blended into his small-scale, delicate paintings, watercolors, and drawings.
Klee grew up in a musical family and was himself a violinist. His childhood love of music was always to remain important in his life and work. From 1898 to 1901, Klee studied in Munich, first with Heinrich Knirr, then at the Kunstakademie under Franz von Stuck. Upon completing his schooling, he traveled to Italy in the first of a series of trips abroad that nourished his visual sensibilities. While in Italy (1901-02), he responded enthusiastically to Early Christian and Byzantine art. He settled in Bern in 1902.
Klee’s early works are mostly etchings and pen-and-ink drawings. These combine satirical, grotesque, and surreal elements, and some reveal the influence of Francisco de Goya and James Ensor, both of whom Klee admired. Two of his best-known etchings, dating from 1903, are ‘Virgin in a Tree’ and ‘Two Men Meet, Each Believing the Other to Be of Higher Rank’. Such peculiar, evocative titles are characteristic of Klee, and give his works an added dimension of meaning.
After his marriage in 1906 to the pianist Lili Stumpf, Klee settled in Munich, then an important center for avant-garde art. That same year he exhibited his etchings for the first time. His friendship with the painters Wassily Kandinsky and August Macke prompted him to join Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider), an expressionist group that contributed much to the development of abstract art.
A turning point in Klee’s career was his visit to Tunisia with Macke and Louis Molliet in 1914. He was so overwhelmed by the intense light there that he wrote: “Color has taken possession of me; no longer do I have to chase after it, I know that it has hold of me forever. That is the significance of this blessed moment. Color and I are one. I am a painter”.
In 1920, a major Klee retrospective was held at the Galerie Hans Goltz, Munich; his Schöpferische Konfession was published; he was also appointed to the faculty of the Bauhaus. Klee taught at the Bauhaus in Weimar from 1921 to 1926 and in Dessau from 1926 to 1931. During his tenure, he was in close contact with other Bauhaus masters, such as Kandinsky and Lyonel Feininger. In 1924, the Blaue Vier, consisting of Lyonel Feininger, Jawlensky, Kandinsky, and Klee, was founded.
Among his notable exhibitions of this period were his first in the United States at the Société Anonyme, New York, in 1924; his first major show in Paris the following year at the Galerie Vavin-Raspail; and an exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, in 1930. Klee went to Düsseldorf to teach at the Akademie in 1931, shortly before the Nazis closed the Bauhaus.
Forced by the Nazis to leave his position in Düsseldorf in 1933, Klee settled in Bern the following year. Seventeen of his works were included in the Nazi exhibition of “degenerate art,” Entartete Kunst, in 1937. Major Klee exhibitions took place in Bern and Basel in 1935 and in Zurich in 1940.
Klee died on June 29, 1940, in Muralto-Locarno, Switzerland.
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The attempt or act to artificially change the price of a security or a market movement with the intent to make a profit. One example is wash selling, in which an investor both sells then quickly re-buys the same security, hoping to create the impression of increased trading volume, and therefore raise the price. Another is churning, in which an investor makes both buy and sell orders through different brokers to create the impression of increased interest in the security and raise the price. Manipulation can be used to both increase and decrease prices, depending on the investor's perceived needs. Manipulation is illegal under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. See also: Antitrust, Fix.
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To cause a security to sell at an artificial price. Although investment bankers are permitted to manipulate temporarily the stock they underwrite, most other forms of manipulation are illegal.
Case Study Manipulation of security prices is not limited to industry professionals out for a quick buck. In early 2001 the Securities and Exchange Commission settled securities fraud charges with former burrito vendor Yun Soo Oh Park IV, known to his Internet followers as "Tokyo Joe." As part of the settlement Park agreed to return nearly a quarter of a million dollars in trading profits. According to SEC charges, to which Park did not admit or deny wrongdoing, the 50-year-old Korean native engaged in stock manipulation by recommending on Internet message boards stocks he already owned. He then sold his own shares as the recommended stocks rose in price. As Park's legend grew several thousand people agreed to pay an annual fee to receive an advance notice of his postings. The SEC also charged that Park was paid by a firm to recommend its stock. Park's lawyers claimed their client's actions were protected by free speech and not subject to federal securities regulation.
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Marine instrumentation is a critical component of your marine cockpit. Anchor Express offers a wide variety of marine instrumentation to choose from. These components include:
Compass - A compass can come in digital or analog format. An analog compass is a traditional compass using a magnet based in liquid. Our most popular line of analog compasses are from Ritchie Navigation. A digital compass is slightly more accurate using digital display to give more precise readings. We have digital compasses from Raymarin, Faria Beedle, and others.
Depth Instruments - Depth instruments are crucial for you know where the bottom is.
Speed Instruments - Speed instruments will give you "speed over ground" readings which are more accurate than speed via GPS.
Wind Instruments - If you are a sailor, you can really benefit from wind marine instrument. Put a wind transducer on your mast and you can get readings like wind direction and speed.
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Everything You Need to Know About Starting a Career in Aged Care
If you’re looking for a career providing quality care to people that are both meaningful and challenging, then you may consider starting a job as an aged care worker. Working with seniors can be extremely rewarding as you are able to help them maintain their independence and dignity while providing support and friendship.
The aged care system and industry in Australia have been growing rapidly in recent years, and there is a great demand for qualified aged care workers.
In this blog post, we will discuss what it is like to be an aged care worker, what the role of an aged care worker is, what job opportunities are out in the market, and how to get your foot in the door to start a career in aged care.
What should you expect when starting an aged care career?
When most people think of working in aged care, they imagine providing physical support services to seniors who can no longer take care of themselves. Direct client care, personal care, domestic assistance, and social support are just some of the duties you may be required to perform as an aged care worker. In some case, you may also be working around allied health professionals or even registered nurses.
However, while this is certainly a large part of the job, there is much more to it than that.
Aged care workers also play an important role in providing social and emotional support to seniors. This can include things like having conversations, playing games, and just generally spending time together. In many cases, the relationships that aged care workers form with their clients are just as important as the physical care that they provide.
Connectedness and companionship are crucial for seniors, and can often make a big difference in their quality of life. Hearing the stories of the elderly can be one of the best parts of the job. They have a lot of wisdom and life experience to share, and it is a privilege to be able to hear about their lives.
A career in aged care services requires a lot of patience, empathy, and compassion, to begin with.
Why do people choose to work in Aged Care?
There are many reasons why people choose to work in aged care. For some, it is a way to give back to the community and make a difference in the lives of others. For others, it is a way to use their skills and training to make a positive impact on the lives of those who are most vulnerable.
Other people choose to work in aged care because they have personal experience with caring for a loved one who is elderly, and they want to help others in similar situations.
Moreover, working in support services and aged care pays relatively well, and there are often a lot of opportunities for career progression. Flexibility is one of the great advantages of working in aged care. It’s not a 9-5 job, in fact, most aged care facilities are open 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.
This means that there are often shifts available to suit any lifestyle.
What is the role of an Aged Care worker?
The role of an aged care worker is to provide support, friendship, and assistance with day-to-day activities.
Aged care workers are also responsible for ensuring that their clients receive the best possible care, especially with their physical wellbeing. They do this by advocating for their clients, communicating with families, and working closely with other health professionals. Some of their daily tasks include:
Providing personal care, such as bathing, dressing, and grooming.
Assisting with meals, including cooking, shopping, and meal planning.
Providing transportation to appointments and activities.
Helping with light housekeeping tasks.
Providing medication assistance and wound care.
Assisting with transfers and mobility.
Monitoring vital signs.
Keeping clients safe and comfortable.
All these roles also need to apply to the proper health and safety guidelines for caring for the elderly.
What are the different types of Aged Care workers?
The type of aged care worker that is needed depends on the level of care required. Here are some different types of aged care services and jobs:
Community care workers.
Community care workers provide basic support and community services to seniors who live at home. This can include things like domestic assistance, personal care, and transport.
Facility-based care workers.
Aged care facility workers work in aged care homes and provide more comprehensive care to residents. This can include things like nursing care, wound care, and medication assistance. They also often have responsibility for the overall care of the facility too.
Specialist aged care workers.
Specialist aged care workers provide support for seniors with specific needs, such as dementia or palliative care. They often have additional job training in these areas and are usually working in a facility.
Residential aged care workers.
A residential aged care worker provides support and care to seniors in residential care facilities. Residential aged care is for senior Australians who can no longer live independently at home.
These are just a few jobs in the aged care industry that you can take. Other aged care career options include becoming a support worker, social worker, funeral services worker, counselor, diversional therapist, care assistant, and more. A lot of aspiring aged care workers start with an entry level job, and go further through experience.
How can you start a career in Aged Care?
If you’re interested in starting a career in any aged care facility, the best course to study would be the Certificate in Aged Care. This course will give you the skills and knowledge you need to provide support to seniors.
The topics and subjects include, but are not limited to, how to follow safety procedures for direct care work, how to recognise healthy body systems in a health care setting, how to work effectively in the community sector, how to provide behavior support in the context of individualised plans, and many more.
After completing this course, you will be able to get the basic skills needed as an aged care worker in a variety of settings, including nursing homes, community centers, assisted living facilities, and home health care agencies.
If you think a career in aged care is the right choice for you, then the next step is to the complete information for the Certificate in Aged Care. This course includes flexible payment plans and can be done 100% in the comfort of your own home or anywhere in Australia.
There are plenty of job opportunities in aged care services out there for those who are willing to go down this route.
With the right education and job training, you could be gaining valuable professional skills and making a real difference in the lives of seniors in no time.
Do you have what it takes to be an aged care worker? Enrolling in this course is the best way to start your aged care career.
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Florida voters simply made it more challenging to change its laws regarding gambling. What does that mean to the future of sports gambling from the nation?
Florida and Amendment 3
On Friday evening, as most of the country was watching to see whether there was likely to be an ideological change in Congress, many in the gaming industry were seeing a different race in Florida.
This race did not involve the election of an individual; the race was for Florida Amendment 3, a ballot measure that would change the power from legislators to voters to authorize new casino gambling in the nation.
The language of this measure has been as follows:
“This amendment ensures that Florida voters shall have the exclusive right to decide whether to authorize casino gaming by requiring that in order for casino gaming to be approved under Florida law, it must be approved by Florida voters pursuant to Article XI, Section 3 of the Florida Constitution. Affects articles X and XI. Defines casino gambling and clarifies that this amendment does not conflict with federal law concerning state/tribal compacts.”
Where did the gambling amendment come out of?
Only two counties in Florida permit for”card games, casino games, and slot machines” in non-tribal owned facilities.
In 2004, before the present tribal compacts, under the opinion of then-Gov. Jeb Bush, Florida voters in Miami-Dade and Broward Counties handed a ballot initiative that allowed for slot machines at racing and jai-alai facilities, which had operated in the 2 years prior.
The amendment effectively means that in order for the state to expand casino gaming beyond the tribal casinos and present racing and pari-mutuel facilities, voters in Florida would need to initiate the procedure by collecting enough signatures to get the petition added to a ballot.
“In Florida, the amount of signatures necessary for an initiative is equivalent to 8 percent of those votes cast in the previous presidential elections. Florida also includes a signature supply requirement, which requires that signatures equivalent to 8 percent of the district-wide vote at at least half (14) of the nation’s 27 congressional districts have to be gathered.”
For reference, the 2016 Presidential election had 9,419,886 votes cast. Eight percent of the vote total is 753,591 signatures required to be able to acquire a casino expansion measure on a future ballot. This is a daunting endeavor, without considering the need for geographic distribution, which can be required.
There are, however, a few Florida-based groups that may have the ability to back a campaign of adequate size to gather these votes at one time in the future. Two that come to mind are Disney and the Seminole Tribe. Really, the two Disney and the Seminoles were major backers for passing Amendment 3, supposedly putting in tens of millions of dollars to encourage the measure’s passage.
The resistance saw assistance from smaller gambling suppliers including West Flagler Associates and Hialeah Park, in addition to the Miami Dolphins, who (in)famously tweeted out an image that indicated the passing of Amendment 3″would block any chance for legal sports gambling from Florida.”
If the language of Amendment 3 appears complicated, that is as it is. The language used in the Amendment scored a grade-level rank of 24 (the equivalent of getting 24 decades of formal education or enough time to make a Ph.D.) based on Ballotpedia, which ranks the readability of all ballot measures. Amendment 3 was worded more complexly than many others, together with the typical ballot scoring between 19-20.
It does not take a Ph.D. to see that the Amendment doesn’t mention sports. So, does that imply that Florida can launch sports gambling shortly?
According to Ballotpedia, Amendment 3 defines casino gambling as card games, casino games and slot machines. There’s absolutely no mention of sports betting. Therefore, while it can appear that Amendment 3 leaves open the question of whether Florida can offer sports betting, it fails the much larger problem, that the State of Florida has a Class III gaming compact with the Seminole Tribe.
Sports betting is Class III gambling according to this Federal Register:
Class III gaming means all forms of gaming that are not class I gaming or class II gaming, including but not limited to:
(a) Any home banking game, including but not limited to —
(1) Card games such as baccarat, chemin de fer, blackjack (21), and pai gow (if performed house banking matches );
(2) Casino games such as craps, blackjack, and keno;
(b) Any slot machines as defined in 15 U.S.C. 1171(a)(1) and electronic or electromechanical facsimiles of any game of chance;
(c) Any sports gambling and parimutuel wagering such as but not limited to wagering on horse racing, dog racing or jai alai; or
While Amendment 3 doesn’t limit sports gambling, the present compact between the Seminole Tribe and the State of Florida may impose a few limitations.
What is in the Florida gaming compact?
The Compact, which was signed in 2010 between the Seminole Tribe and the country (it had been amended in 2015 to include authorization for extra games), stated:
“It is in the best interests of the Seminole Tribe of Florida and the State of Florida for the State to enter into a compact with the Tribe that recognizes the Tribe’s right to provide certain Class III gambling and supplies substantial exclusivity of such actions in conjunction with a sensible revenue sharing arrangement between the Tribe and the State that will entitle the State to significant revenue participation.”
From the”Covered Games” section of the compact, there is no mention of sports gambling, but There’s a statement that would seem to cover sports betting as inside the covered games section:
“Any fresh sport approved by Florida law for any individual for any use, except for banked card games approved for any other federally recognized tribe pursuant to [the] Indian Gaming Regulatory Act, assuming that the tribe has land in federal trust in the State as of February 1, 2010.”
The tribe and the state agreed that the”Tribe is authorized to run Covered Games on Indian Lands….” While Section IV of this compact excludes a number of games including blackjack and roulette (which were then allowed) there is no mention of sports betting, as explicitly excluded.
The streamlined identifies seven Seminole-owned casinos that can be enlarged or replaced but does not authorize new construction outside the existing lands. In addition to abiding by state-sanctioned gaming principles, the tribe, in exchange for”partial but Significant exclusivity,” agreed to pay:
$12.5 million per month during the initial 24 weeks of the arrangement;
After that, 12 percent of internet wins on all amounts up to $2 billion;
15 percent on net wins between $2 and $3 billion;
17.5 percent on internet wins between $3 billion and $3.5 billion;
As much as 25 percent on all amounts larger than $4.5 billion per earnings sharing cycle.
These obligations are due on the 15th of each month for twenty years by the initiation of the compact.
What about online gambling?
For those expecting for internet gaming, there’s a clause in the streamlined that says : if the state law has been altered to offer online gaming and tribal gaming revenue drops more than five percent from the previous twelve monthsthe tribe has to substantially decrease their payments into the country under the bonded minimums. But, this won’t apply if the tribe offers online gambling, subject to express authorization.
In the event that the Seminole Tribe loses exclusivity, the state of Florida will be looking for a new source of revenue. Part XII Section A. of the Compact states:
“If, after February 1, 2010, Florida legislation is amended by action of the Florida Legislature or an amendment to the Florida Constitution to permit (1) the operation of Class III gaming or other casino-style gambling at any place under the authority of this State that was not in operation at February 1, 2010, or (2) new forms of Class III gambling or alternative casino-style gaming which were not in operation as of February 1, 2010.”
If this happen, the tribe is eligible to cease some of their obligations until such gaming is no longer operated. In the same way, if existing non-tribal facilities in Broward and Miami-Dade counties expand their Course III offerings, the Seminole Tribe can decrease some of their obligations to the state also.
So, about sports gambling…
It’s unlikely that Florida will observe sports gambling being provided by any entity other than the Seminole Tribe.
The gaming compact negotiated between the state of Florida and the Seminole Tribe of Florida is rewarding for the nation and extremely helpful for the tribe. For an overview of how lucrative this compact is to get the State of Florida at 2016, the Seminole Tribe paid over $300 million to the nation. The chance that Florida would endanger even a portion of those payments to authorize something that would generate as little extra state revenue as sports betting is incredibly unlikely.
While Florida sports gambling fans shouldn’t hold their breath for widespread legal sports betting, the Seminole Tribe can, under the streamlined, get the capability to provide it in their casinos. While the Seminole Tribe has expressed an interest in being able to offer sports betting at its Florida Hard Rock properties, they’ve been quiet on the issue inside the state of Florida.
Amendment 3 did not foreclose on any hope of sports gambling in Florida. However, under the existing gaming compact terms, it would appear to be a costly undertaking for state lawmakers to permit someone other than the Seminole Tribe to offer it entirely, a decision that would surely leave facilities in Miami-Dade and Broward counties unhappy.
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Online enrollments are on the rise. Schools are e-reaching out. Attitudes are gradually e-shifting. Students are signing up for courses at a qualified distance with growing frequency and their classrooms, more likely than in recent past, are including elements mediated by the web. But even though our adoption of technology in general seems to have provided the supportive headspace for these educational realities to bloom, are today's students really able to take advantage of the e-learning opportunities they encounter?
In brief: no. When it comes to e-learning success, students have a long way to go. In fact, the distance is further than you might imagine. These are the findings of a recent study out of New South Wales, Australia, which asked university students and teachers to consider a range of learning competencies and how well they felt students were able to achieve them by way of a learning management system (LMS). Unlike other studies with similar concerns that have asked hypothetical questions about student preparedness levels for online learning, what is unique about this study is its alternative emphasis on student participation in e-learning, or teachers who have taught online, and the real, measureable behaviors that students perceivably were or were not able to perform.
Borrowing 58 standardized competencies from a previously used measurement process known as a hybrid behaviorally anchored rating scale, three Australia researchers asked students and staff to scale student attempts at e-learning objectives from 1 to 5: unprepared to very prepared. In this way student e-learning competencies—things like, "determines when it is time to 'listen,'" "uses search engines effectively," "reads and writes at an appropriate level," etc.—fell into a comparison of perceptions from both sides of the podium, where teachers have rated students and students have rated themselves.
Perhaps the study's most striking takeaway is that, on the whole, students and teachers identified student ill-preparation for 35 out of 58 competencies, or over 60% of e-learning objectives. Moreover, of the remaining 23 objectives for which students were perceivably "prepared," for none of them were they thought to be "very prepared."
In some cases, student and teacher opinions converged. For example, both felt that students were able to select appropriate technology for learning tasks, to use web browsers and search engines effectively, to download information correctly, and to "respond to others with respect": skills and an ethic notably prized in successful participants in online social culture. Both also felt that, less happily, students were particularly unwilling to have their ideas challenged or to understand their own thinking strategies in a virtual platform. In many other cases, though, the opinions of students and teachers differed, and widely. Where students thought themselves decent planners, good listeners, strong readers and writers, and thoughtful responders, teachers thought the far opposite. And where teachers thought students decently able to manage their time online, or to present information in a variety of digital formats, students felt themselves to be woefully unprepared. For other competencies regarding the online learning experience, particularly with regard to self-scheduling, self-starting, and interacting with classmates in an online learning community, a double-negative signaled student inabilities to take advantage of some of the proposed general strengths of the contemporary LMS.
So, what now? According to the researchers, the evidence suggests that current learning preparation and digital working proficiency are not adequate for diving into e-learning as if the transition between the classroom and the LMS were seamless. In their words, for student success, students need to be "apprenticed" into the form of learning online just as teachers seek to train them in its content; for e-learning to be socially constructive, students must learn the language and footwork to navigate it. It is not enough to imagine that learning happens independent of the environment in which it takes place.Parkes, M., Stein, S., and Reading, C. (2015). Student preparedness for university e-learning environments. The Internet and Higher Education, 25, 1-10.
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Over the next few weeks I’m running a series on San Francisco at the turn of the last century, culminating with the Great Earthquake of 1906.
My novel FORGIVEN is set in San Francisco in 1906. Here’s how I describe the city as Kula finds it: “The Spanish named San Francisco for a saint. The Celestials met their Demons on its streets. Called Golden Mountain by those in the Middle Kingdom, it perched precarious on a cracking plate. Children’s sad eyes pleaded in the stench and filth of its tight alleys, where hawk-nosed men slithered and the unwary were shanghaied. San Francisco’s gilded halls and palatial homes held wealth beyond dreams. For some, it was a prison. For some, it was release.”
In early 1848, Captain John Sutter, who had established a colonial holding in the Sacramento Valley, built a mill on the American River. The flow of water from the mill exposed a vein of gold, and by the following spring the first of tens of thousands of prospectors passed through San Francisco’s Golden Gate en route to the California gold rush. Development of the city followed out of dire necessity. And the very nature of the grizzled prospectors and the constant exchange of vast fortunes gave the city a bipolar air of wealth and desperation.
Women were so few in number – it was reported that no more than 300 women lived among the thousands of men in San Francisco in 1849 – that they were followed through the streets by adoring crowds (which must have been more than a little creepy).
San Francisco was first a seaport, with all that a constant turnover of sailors brings. The neighborhood of the Barbary Coast – so nicknamed after an infamous stretch of coastline in Africa – was home to corruption of every kind.
The wealthy of San Francisco naturally settled the hilltops, in particular Nob Hill, so named after the rich “nabobs” or “nobs” who built large mansions there. Cable cars, an 1873 invention of Scots immigrant and mechanical engineer Andrew Smith Hallidie, connected the growing neighborhoods and steep hills in this “Paris of the west”.
Chinatown grew in response to the influx of Chinese immigrants, who were encouraged to work on the railroads and were given property rights in Chinatown.
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Health and posture
'Despite considerable evidence that posture affects physiology and function, the significant influence of posture on health is not addressed by most physicians. In fact, neither comprehensive postural nor structural evaluation is a routine part of training in physical diagnosis, and most osteopathic physicians do not describe postural/spinal mechanics in their usual patient evaluations.
Observations of the striking influence of postural mechanics on function and symptomatology have led to our hypothesis that posture affects and moderates every physiologic function from breathing to normal hormonal production. Spinal pain, headache, mood, blood pressure, pulse, and lung capacity are among the functions most easily influenced by posture. The most significant influences of posture are upon respiration, oxygenation, and sympathetic function. Ultimately, it appears that homeostasis and autonomic regulation are intimately connected with posture. The corollary of these observations is that many symptoms, including pain, may be moderated or eliminated by improved posture.'
Research from American Journal of Pain Management 1994; 4:36-39. Postural and Respiratory Modulation of Autonomic Function, Pain and Health (John Lennon, BM,MM, C. Norman Sheeley, M.D., Roger K. Cady, MD, William Matta, Ph.D., Richard Cox, Ph.D. and William F. Simpson, Ph.D.) | <urn:uuid:e1ae705b-83eb-4d7c-a16c-eaee26ae690d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://posturehq.com.au/health-posture | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570767.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808061828-20220808091828-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.921501 | 279 | 2.390625 | 2 |
743 top medical experts on Chromosome Aberrations across 57 countries and 37 U.S. states, including 692 MDs (Physicians). This is based on an objective analysis of their Scientific Publications, Clinical Trials, Medicare, and NIH Grants.
- Chromosome Aberrations: Abnormal number or structure of chromosomes. Chromosome aberrations may result in chromosome disorders.
- Clinical guidelines are the recommended starting point to understand initial steps and current protocols in any disease or procedure:
- Narrower categories (#Experts): Abnormal Karyotype (586), Aneuploidy (1,210), Chromosome Breakage (580), Chromosome Duplication (544), Chromosome Inversion (356), Chromothripsis (279), Genetic Nondisjunction (116), Isochromosomes (264), Polyploidy (686), Ring Chromosomes (336), Sex Chromosome Aberrations (133), Uniparental Disomy (1,255).
- Clinical Trials : at least 34 including 1 Active, 15 Completed, 8 Recruiting
- Synonyms: Autosome Abnormalities, Cytogenetic Aberrations
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in the face of a measles outbreak in a district in the US has declared a-state of New York the state of emergency and radical measures are taken. Of the approximately 40 kilometers North of the metropolis of New York, located district of Rockland County had to offer, not against the disease vaccinated minors be allowed in the next 30 days, not in public places. Is defined this as the area where “more than ten people” together. This also includes the use of public transport.
“We must do everything in our Power to put an end to this outbreak,” said County administrator Ed Day. In addition, people need to be protected, which could not be vaccinated for medical reasons against measles and children who were too young for vaccination.
measles: How the disease progresses – so the vaccination does not work, 27 percent of people vaccinated against measles
In several regions of the US, it is the measles recent outbreaks come. The authorities make the resistance of Impfgegnern responsible. In the district of Rockland County, with its 300,000 inhabitants, 153 cases of measles were registered. Actually, the disease had been declared in the year 2000 for eradicated.
Despite large vaccination campaigns, 27 percent of people between the ages of one year and 18 years, according to district administrator Day still not been vaccinated. Particularly high is the proportion of non-vaccinated people in the areas where many Orthodox Jews live. Many Orthodox Jews oppose vaccinations for religious reasons.
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What do you fill planters with in the winter?
Cedar and shorter pine branches work well for this, or you could use something like euonymous or magnolia leaves. Spillers are the branches that drape over the edges of the urn. I tend to use juniper, cedar, or pine (or a combination of all three) for this.
How do I prepare my planters for winter?
10 Ways to Prepare Your Garden for Winter
- Clean up diseased plants. Leave the rest in place. …
- Remove invasive weeds that may have taken hold over the growing season. …
- Amend your soil for spring. …
- Plant cover crops. …
- Prune perennials with care. …
- Divide and plant bulbs. …
- Harvest and regenerate your compost. …
- Replenish mulch.
What is the best mulch for winter?
Great mulches for winter include bark chips, shredded bark, straw, evergreen boughs and other loose, coarse-textured organic materials. For many gardeners, mulch is as common place in our gardens and yards as are the very plants we grow.
What plants will survive winter in a container?
12 Best Winter Plants for Pots
- Erica carnea.
- Gaultheria procumbens.
How do I insulate my pots for winter?
Wrap pots in burlap, bubble wrap, old blankets or geotextile blankets. It isn’t necessary to wrap the entire plant because it’s the roots that need shielding. These protective coverings will help to trap heat and keep it at the root zone.
Should you put mulch down in winter?
The best time to apply winter mulch is just after the first hard frost. By putting mulch down at this time, you will help stabilize the temperature of the soil right around freezing. Applying mulch too soon may delay freezing and encourage heaving and thawing. … Most perennials will pop through the mulch in spring.
Can you put mulch in potted plants?
Similar to how mulch is important for outdoor plants, indoor potted plants can also benefit from a layer of mulch. … Adding a layer of mulch to any potted plant can be a simple and easy way to make plants look more aesthetically appealing and to help keep them healthy.
Should you mulch in winter?
Why Should You Mulch the Garden in Winter? Basically, the reason you should mulch in winter keep the ground frozen by shielding it from the warmth of the sun. Mulching will keep the plant at a steady tempreture and thus dormancy. Mulching in winter will also conserve whatever water is in the soil for future growth.
What plants do well in cold weather?
Plants that survive winter
- Coneflower (Echinacea) …
- Lily of the Valley. …
- Blue Spruce. …
- Wintergreen Boxwood. …
- Catmint. …
- Coral Bells (Heuchera) …
- Pansies. …
What are the best evergreen plants for pots?
10 top plants for evergreen pots
- Dwarf mountain pine (Pinus mugo ‘Pumilio’ group)
- Korean blue fir ( Abies koreana – check that it is a dwarf variety)
- Yucca (eg Yucca gloriosa Aureovariegata)
- Phormium (all kinds)
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FTC Warns Against Credit Card Interest Rate Reduction Scams
U.S. consumers are being inundated with prerecorded “robocalls” from companies claiming they can negotiate lower credit card interest rates – for a fee. The Federal Trade Commission urges extreme skepticism about these offers, because many of them are fraudulent.
In a new consumer alert, Credit Card Interest Rate Reduction Scams, the FTC says consumers have just as much clout with their credit card issuers as these companies do. It urges consumers to avoid paying middlemen, and negotiate directly with the credit card companies.
Credit Card Interest Rate Reduction Scams
Voice mail boxes across the nation are being clogged with prerecorded phone calls from companies that claim to be able to negotiate significantly lower interest rates with your credit card issuers if you just pay them a fee first.
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC), the nation’s consumer protection agency, says consumers who get these interest rate reduction robocalls should listen to them with extreme skepticism, and delete them. Many are scams.
The companies behind the sales pitches claim to have special relationships with credit card issuers. They guarantee that the reduced rates they offer will save you thousands of dollars in interest and finance charges, and will allow you to pay off your credit card debt three to five times faster. They claim that the lower interest rates are available for a limited time and that you need to act now. Some even use money-back guarantees as further enticement.
The FTC says that the companies behind these robocalls can’t do anything for you that you can’t do for yourself — for free. You have just as much clout with your credit card issuer as these companies, and you are just as likely to get turned down for a rate reduction regardless of their promises or supposed efforts to negotiate on your behalf. Indeed, FTC investigators found that people who pay for these services don’t get the touted interest rate reductions, don’t save the promised amounts, don’t pay off their credit card debt three to five times faster, and struggle to get refunds.
The FTC says that if you’re looking to reduce the interest rate you’re paying on your credit card purchases, your best bet is to handle it yourself for free: call the customer service phone number on the back of your credit card and ask for a reduced rate. Be calm, patient and persistent. And if you are tempted by the promises in a rate reduction robocall, the FTC says hold off — and hang up.
- Don’t give out your credit card information. Once a scammer has your data, they can charge your credit card for their own purchases or sell the information to other scammers.
- Don’t share other personal financial or sensitive information like your bank account or Social Security numbers. Scam artists often ask for this information during an unsolicited sales pitch, and then use it to commit other frauds against you.
- Be skeptical of any unsolicited sales calls that are prerecorded, especially if your phone number is on the National Do Not Call Registry. You shouldn’t get recorded sales pitches unless you have specifically agreed to accept such calls, with a few exceptions. See New Rules for Robocalls at ftc.gov/phonefraud.
- If your number is on the National Do Not Call Registry, a telemarketer may call you only if you have agreed to accept calls from the company the salesperson works for, if you have bought something from the company within the last 18 months, or if you have asked the company for information within the last three months.
- To report violations of the National Do Not Call Registry or to register your phone number, visit DoNotCall.gov or call 1-888-382-1222.
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The Government of India proposed to announce The New Income declaration Scheme, 2016 also called as revised IDS under the income tax Act. here we provide Information and Practical aspect regarding black money to white money with new IDS, 2016, which proposed after Demonetization of a rupee, banned of 500 and 1000 notes.
if you are thinking about New Income declaration scheme and want to learn about it more, not only taxation point of view but also a practical point of view. we also give you its consequences if you go with new income declaration scheme or want to convert your (unaccounted) white money to black money. we suggest you, do proper homework and full understanding and guidance before go with this new scheme.
Black money means your income on which you do not pay tax, which required under law. it is unaccounted money on which government authority not able to collect the tax.
White money is income on which you paid tax and government received revenue on such income. it also called accounted money because is show on books of account.
Why Govt. Introduce New Income Declaration scheme:
After demonetization of 500 and 1000 noted, many people careful regarding what money they have whether black money or white money, some people are converting money through various sources. it seems that after note ban Total deposits in Jan Dhan accounts have increased to Rs 64,252.15 crore.
hence government feels more panic regarding the account which is inactive and has a zero balance now fill with full of money.Income Tax Department on Friday found that undisclosed amount of Rs 1.64 crore deposited by people who never filed income returns into Jan Dhan accounts
It seems that after note ban Total deposits in Jan Dhan accounts have increased to Rs 64,252.15 crore. hence government feels more panic regarding the account which is inactive and has a zero balance now fill with full of money.Income Tax Department found that undisclosed amount of Rs 1.64 crore deposited by people who never filed income returns into Jan Dhan accounts. This might people have black money, they converting with new notes using people have Jan Dhan Account.
Income Tax Department found that undisclosed amount of Rs 1.64 crore deposited by people who never filed income returns into Jan Dhan accounts. This might people have black money, they converting with new notes using people have Jan Dhan Account.
So the government has to do something because of deposit amount in their own account then they have to pay tax with the penalty which is may go up to 60% To 90%, hence people are finding their own ways of converting Black money to white money. So government smartly planned to get whole money from taxpayer without hurting taxpayer.
What is New Income Declaration Scheme ?
With the introduction of an Income Tax Amendment bill in Parliament on 28 Nov 2016, the government has proposed a new income disclosure scheme under the name of the Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Yojana 2016 and simultaneously proposed plugging certain loopholes in the Income Tax Act which could have been exploited by black money holders.
The government has offered the carrot – the least tax option of the Garib Kalyan Yojana – and shown the stick and closed the loopholes: the hiked tax and penalties under Sections 115BBE and Section 271AAC and Section 271AAB.
One who declared his undisclosed income under this regime shall be required to pay
- tax @ 30% of the undisclosed income,
- penalty @10% of the undisclosed income.
- Further, a surcharge to be called Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Cess @33% of tax is also proposed to be levied.
- totaling to approximately 50%
- In addition to tax, surcharge, and penalty (totaling to approximately 50%), the declarant shall have to deposit 25% of undisclosed income in a Deposit Scheme to be notified by the RBI under the ‘Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Deposit Scheme, 2016’. No interest will be paid to the owner for this. After four years the owner can reclaim his money (25%)
comparison of Existing provision and amended provision:
|Particulars||Existing Provisions||Proposed Provisions|
|General provision for Penalty||Under -reporting -50% of tax & Misreporting – 200% of tax||No changes proposed|
|Provisions for taxation & penalty of unexplained credit investment, cash and other assets.||Tax (Section 115B8E)-Flat tax Rate of 30% + Surcharge + Cess (No expense, deductions and set-off is allowed)||Income Tax (Section 11588E) – Flat tax rate of 60% + Surcharge of 25% of tax(i.e. 15% of such income). So total tax impose 75%. (No expense. deductions and set-off is allowed) And Penalty (Section 271 AAC) if Assessing officer determines income referred to in section 11585E. penalty @10% of tax payable in addition to tax (including surcharge) of 75%|
|Penalty for search seizure cases||Penalty (271 AA13)(1) 10% of Income, if admitted, returned and taxes are paid. (ii) 20% of Income. if not admitted but returned and taxes are paid (iii) 60% of Income in any other case.||Penalty (271 AAB)(i) 30% of Income, if admitted returned and taxes are paid. (ii) 60% of Income in any other case.|
|Taxation and investment regime for Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan yojna. 2016 (PMGK)||New taxation and investment regime.||(a) Tax. Surcharge. Penalty payableTax @30% of income declared. Surcharge @33% of tax Penalty @10% of income declared. Total @50% of income (approx.) (b) 26% declared income to be deposited in interest. Free Deposit Scheme for four years.|
How much tax one would have to pay on Undisclosed Income under Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Yojana 2016
For Undisclosed income of Rs 10 lakh
- Tax @ 30% of the undisclosed income, Tax will be 3 lakh
- Penalty @10% of the undisclosed income, penalty will be Rs 1,lakh
- Surcharge @33% of tax i.e 33% of 3 lakh will be Rs 99,000
- Total tax & penalty payable: Rs 4,99,000
- And above that, 25% of undisclosed income in a Deposit Scheme i.e Rs 2.5 lakh will be locked in for 4 years without accruing any interest.
The Key Highlights of this new scheme are as follows:
- It’s a disclosure scheme called the Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Yojana (PMGKY) 2016 allows people to deposit money till April by paying 50 per cent of the total amount — 30 percent as tax, 10 percent as penalty and 33 percent of the taxed amount — that is 10 percent — as Garib Kalyan Cess.
- So the taxes and levies will equal nearly 50 percent of the deposit. 25 percent of the money that remains after taxes will be available to the account holder.
- The other 25 percent or rest of the black money that’s being converted will be used by the government for four years in a special new fund that will be called the Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Yojana and will be used to fund welfare schemes. No interest will be paid to the owner for this.
- If the owner refuses the option of the government bond mentioned above, 85 percent of the amount will be taken in taxes and penalties
- For the money that is found in raids, taxes and penalties will take nearly 90 per cent of the amount, leaving 10 per cent with the owner.
- It is almost certain to be cleared in this winter session of parliament because it is being considered by the Lok Sabha, where the government has a huge majority
- As a Money Bill, it will be reviewed by the Rajya Sabha, but cannot be rejected by the Upper House, where the government is in a minority.
Why Should you not go with this as follows, Person might feel that this scheme is good as, we can become free by paying 50% of tax now let’s analyze it
- If you deposited 10 Lakhs then you can withdraw only 25 % i.e 2.5 lacks rs. and further 25 i.e 2.5 lacks after 4 years without interest.
- The money you received after 4 years, its present value if 10% discounting factor ( generally minimum such amount of benefit given by mutual fund) is taken. then rs 2.5 lacks present value is rs. 170,753.36 that means your loss is 79,246.63 on interest, which is 7.92 % of 10 lakhs. which means you actually paid Tax of 57.92 % in term of present value.
- There is no guarantee that based on your this income, income tax department may suspect your previous year income and open case in scrutiny or income escaping assessment.
- There increase in chances to receive scrutiny notice on upcoming assessment years and overall year expense increase because of that.
- Paying Tax is your social responsibility, every person has to pay tax as it used for our and society benefit, Tax is revenue of government, it required to pay under law
- convert your 500 and 1000 rupee notes into new currency notes.
- you convert your Black money to white money using this scheme, such money you can invest and earn money rather than nothing used.
More Sources, Which helps you to understand better and proven our content :
Circular regarding Acceptance of Cash over the Counter – Income Declaration Scheme 2016 click here
Circular regarding Accepting 500 and 1000 notes for payment of Tax, penalty, surcharge under New IDS, Up to December 15, 2016, of Indian bank Association Click here
OLD – IDS 2016 [ ONLY FOR REFERENCE ]
OLD THE INCOME DECLARATION SCHEME, 2016 Click here
OLD THE INCOME DECLARATION SCHEME RULES, 2016 Click here
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One-third to two-thirds of all tropical carabids, or ground beetles, are arboreal, and evolution of arboreality has been proposed to be a dead end in this group. Many arboreal carabids have unusual morphological features that have been proposed to be adaptations for life on vegetation, including large, hemispheric eyes; an elongated prothorax; long elytra; long legs; bilobed fourth tarsomeres; adhesive setae on tarsi; and pectinate claws. However, correlations between these features and arboreality have not been rigorously tested previously. I examined the evolution of arboreality and morphological features often associated with this habitat in a phylogenetic context. The number and rates of origins and losses of arboreality in carabids in the subfamily Harpalinae were inferred with parsimony and maximum-likelihood on a variety of phylogenetic hypotheses. Correlated evolution in arboreality and morphological characters was tested with concentrated changes tests, maximum-likelihood, and independent contrasts on optimal phylogenies. There is strong evidence that both arboreality and the morphological features examined originated multiple times and can be reversed, and in no case could the hypothesis of equal rates of gains and losses be rejected. Several features are associated with arboreality: adhesive setae on the tarsi, bilobed tarsomeres, and possibly pectinate claws and an elongated prothorax. Bulgy eyes, long legs, and long elytra were not correlated with arboreality and are probably not arboreal adaptations. The evolution of arboreal carabids has not been unidirectional. These beetles have experienced multiple gains and losses of arboreality and the morphological characters commonly associated with the arboreal habitat. The evolutionary process of unidirectional character change may not be as widespread as previously thought and reversal from specialized lifestyles or habitats may be common.
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Market versus non-market assignment of initial ownership
We study the assignment of initial ownership of a good when agents differ in their ability to pay. Selling the good at the market-clearing price favors the wealthy in the sense that they may acquire the good instead of poor buyers who value it more highly. Non-market assignment schemes, even simple random rationing, may yield a more efficient allocation than the competitive market would - if recipients of the good are allowed to resell. Schemes that favor the poor are even more desirable in that context. The ability to resell the good is critical to the results, but allowing resale also invites speculation, which undermines its effectiveness. If the level of speculation is sufficiently high, restricting resale may be beneficial.
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Infertility is a weapon term for all situations that prevent women and men from having children. However, these problems can occur in different ways in a female or male spouse. There are different causes of female infertility which are widely discussed. The issues of male infertility on the other hand do not give much thought or importance to our society.
Today, low semen quality, genital infections, varicocele, etc. are some of the disorders for which men seek treatment for male infertility in Ahmedabad. And most of these disorders can be easily overcome by nurturing their overall health. If you are planning to start a family early, you should study the following factors in your regular life to ensure good fertility:
Follow a balanced diet:
- Reducing the intake of fats or carbs cannot be considered a balanced diet unless you try to lose more weight.
- Our infertility specialists in Ahmedabad state that a balanced diet includes foods high in monounsaturated fat, vegetable protein, high fiber, and low glycemic carbohydrates.
- So, be sure to include enough food, fruits, green leafy vegetables, beans, and nuts in your daily diet.
Maintain Ideal Body Weight:
- Obesity is the best cause of infertility in men and women alike. Excess body fat dexterity reduces the body’s ability to perform vital functions and negatively affects the reproductive system.
- Regular exercise to reduce excess fat and maintain an ideal weight close to your BMI ensures healthy management of the fertility system and improvement in semen quality.
Monitor your lifestyle choices:
- India best IVF doctor states that the growing number of Indian men having low-quality semen is mainly due to our current lifestyle. Sitting for the main part of the day, increasing stress, increasing smoking and drinking problems, and harmful environmental toxins are the factors contributing to lifestyle-induced male infertility disorders today.
- All men today should look at their habits and include more health-related activities in their routine. They should take necessary precautions to prevent smoking, drinking alcohol, and environmental pollution affecting their body and fertility system.
Perform timely fertility testing:
- The gravest problem with Indian men is their mentality of considering infertility test a taboo or something questioning their masculinity. We must recognize that infertility is a medical disorder with proper treatment.
- Then, for any other disorder, you may choose to do preventive, diagnostic tests, including semen analysis, hormone level checks, and a comprehensive physical exam to quickly detect any secondary problems of infertility.
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Chinese panda Lu Lu shoots to fame for record-breaking sex session at nearly EIGHT minutes long
- The pandas mated for a record-breaking seven minutes and 45 seconds
- Lu Lu has been bestowed the nickname 'The Enduring Brother' by admirers
- Lothario panda 'lasts longer in bed than the average American male'
A panda in China has been nicknamed 'The Enduring Brother' – for his record-breaking love-making.
Lu Lu and partner Zhen Zhen mated for an impressive seven minutes and 45 seconds, setting a new record for the year at the Sichuan Giant Panda Research Centre.
A video of their sexual antics means that 'stud' Lu Lu is now the talk of China, says The People's Daily.
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Panda Lu Lu (right) mated with female partner Zhen Zhen for nearly eight minutes, setting a new centre record
Lu Lu has been bestowed the name 'The Enduring Brother' after his sexual prowess hit the headlines
It also means the Chinese panda lasts longer than the average American man in bed, with your typical New Mexico man making love for just over seven minutes, according to research printed by The Daily Dot.
The pair were pitted against another couple of pandas, Yi Bao and Jin Xin, who only managed one minute and 20 seconds of love-making.
The average length of a 'romp' between two pandas is between 30 seconds and five minutes, making Lu Lu's efforts all the more impressive.
Breeders said they watch the creatures having sex so they can understand their mating habits, and encourage them to reproduce in the future.
A breeder at the Sichuan Giant Panda Research Centre watches close as Lu Lu and Zhen Zhen begin
They use poles made of bamboo to guide the pandas towards each other, when they have tracked when the pandas are in the amorous mood.
The female of the species are prone to making loud and strange noises, while male pandas leave traces of their scent to attract the opposite sex.
But timing is everything, because the female pandas are in heat once a year, for between two to four days.
Mating season for pandas usually begins in March and lasts until May, according to a report by the Shanghaiist.
Female pandas make strange noises while they are in heat, while the males leave traces of their scent around
Lu Lu and Zhen Zhen lasted longer than Yi Bao and Jin Xin, who 'made love' for one minutes and 20 seconds
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RNA-editing is an important post-transcriptional RNA sequence modification performed by two catalytic enzymes, “ADAR”(A-to-I) and “APOBEC”(C-to-U). By utilizing high-throughput sequencing technologies, the biological function of RNA-editing has been actively investigated. Currently, RNA-editing is considered to be a key regulator that controls various cellular functions, such as protein activity, alternative splicing pattern of mRNA, and substitution of miRNA targeting site. DARNED, a public RDD database, reported that there are more than 300-thousands RNA-editing sites detected in human genome(hg19). Moreover, multiple studies suggested that RNA-editing events occur in highly specific conditions. According to DARNED, 97.62 % of registered editing sites were detected in a single tissue or in a specific condition, which also supports that the RNA-editing events occur condition-specifically. Since RNA-seq can capture the whole landscape of transcriptome, RNA-seq is widely used for RDD prediction. However, significant amounts of false positives or artefacts can be generated when detecting RNA-editing from RNA-seq. Since it is difficult to perform experimental validation at the whole-transcriptome scale, there should be a powerful computational tool to distinguish true RNA-editing events from artefacts.
Substantial amounts of systematic artefacts: As simulation-test results, significant amounts of artefacts that consist of 0.29 % of total mapped sites are detected, which turned out to be indistinguishable even by the method combined with two state-of-art variant-callers and extensive a priori knowledges of genomic repeats
Resdeveloped at Seoul National University have developed RDDpred, a Random Forest RDD classifier. RDDpred reports potentially true RNA-editing events from RNA-seq data. RDDpred was tested with two publicly available RNA-editing datasets and successfully reproduced RDDs reported in the two studies (90 %, 95 %) while rejecting false-discoveries (NPV: 75 %, 84 %).
1) RDDpred takes raw alignments or raw RDDs 2) RDDpred arranges condition-specific training-data extracting positive/negative examples by mapping raw RDDs to public database (RADAR, DARNED) and MES-predicted sites, respectively. 3) RDDpred train the condition-specific classifier with arranged training-data and predicts true-editing against artefacts
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The activities of the Costal & Marine Research Laboratory (https://crl.iacm.forth.gr/en/ ) are aligned with the blue growth strategy, including expansively operational forecasting and data collection and assimilation in coastal and marine research, with applications in modelling of coastal processes, maritime spatial planning, operational oceanography, climatic change and risk assessment on coastal environment, lower atmosphere weather modelling and air-sea interaction. Applications will include, also expansively, natural and cultural resources, tourism, and marine safety. The collaboration with the University of Bologna (IT) and the participation to the European scientific networks, like MONGOOS and MEDSLIK-II, on operational oceanography and pollution forecasting on operational oceanography and marine pollution, are actions of high priority for the laboratory. Further, CMRL has part of the societal needs and market driven research, at regional level, a proof of it being (a) the just accepted for funding, from the RIS3Crete program, IT system (based on operational oceanographic, weather, and bioclimatic forecasting coupled with in situ/remote data assimilation) to support marine tourism planning; this is already under exploitation from a certain municipality to acquire the service for its municipal beaches; the objective being thus secure the funding for further extension of this IT system to support agriculture and maritime transport and safety, and exploit new services for new stakeholders, (b) collaborates with local stakeholders, public and private, for service and consulting provision. Finally, the medical subgroup of CMRL, will keep on investing its expertise in computational medicine to the development of (a) medical eHealth tools, (b) Virtual Reality and augmented reality tools for medical training, and (c) protocols based on early warning to mitigate the effect of environmental factors on human health.
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The University Library: a driving force for reform in legal education?
International Journal of Legal Information , Volume 40 - Issue Spring-Summer p. 1- 14
Information skills training offers opportunities for gradually embedding changes in legal education programs and to bring about the integration of legal knowledge, skills and experience. If shared goals are formulated in a spirit of close collaboration, curricular changes and revisions will potentially have a greater effect and be more likely to enhance long-term programs. The university library can serve as an ideal base for the use of information technology such as web portals and content integrated search engines, which in turn will help refocus attention on the use of library facilities. The harmonization and maintenance of this apparatus, however, requires both a new form of cooperation and a re-interpretation of the legal education curriculum. This article compares several library developments which could prove important for legal education from a Dutch perspective, and also examines library education in the law schools of the United States of America.
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“Houses are always a good investment,” said a Vancouver taxi driver to me on the weekend. The belief that house prices are a one-way bet is widespread, as is the related belief that owning is always better than renting.
Due to the strange absence of Vancouver traffic, however, my ride ended before I could ask him if his view had been shaken by the complete lack of interest in Whistle Bend lots in Whitehorse. The government opened a new wave of Whistle Bend lots to bidding last week, and received exactly zero offers.
It is remarkable that after all those articles about the housing shortage, including in this column, that not a single person wanted to build a new house to live in or as an investment.
Many people view houses as a unique kind of commodity. We all know prices for gas, gold or the Canadian dollar can go down. We see big, expensive things like cars on sale regularly. But there is a strong belief that houses are special.
Part of this is folk memory. In many parts of Western Canada where the population and economy have been growing relatively steadily for decades, house prices have indeed been a one-way bet. In the 1970s and 1980s when inflation was high, even when house prices just kept pace with inflation, it created a powerful illusion of increasing values.
And many house buyers notice a phenomenon which reinforces the belief that house prices don’t go down: even in a buyer’s market, sellers are remarkably resistant to cutting their prices below what they paid for the house. Economists call this “downward stickiness.”
It means that prices don’t adjust smoothly to supply and demand like they do in, say, the markets for corn or frozen orange juice. Orange juice traders don’t get fixated that they paid $1.25 a pound for frozen concentrated OJ, and then hold onto it if prices hit $1.20 and keep going down. If they think prices are going to fall further, they’ll sell immediately and cut their losses.
House sellers are more likely to stick to their price, even at the risk of having to take the house off the market. This is why you often see a fall in the number of house sales – but not so much the price – when the market gets weak.
There are quite a few Yukoners worried about the values of their houses right now. For them, decision-making is difficult. The house is such a big part of your net worth, but is also an asset to which we have such a strong emotional reaction. Orange juice traders selling an unlucky shipment don’t have to paint over the trim on the kitchen door where pencil marks show the kids’ heights as they grew up.
So when thinking about selling, it is good to be aware of all the conscious and unconscious factors affecting your decision-making.
One factor which any heartless orange juice trader would recognize is your belief about where the housing market is going. If you think the low offers you are getting are just a blip, and that the mining industry’s engines will roar back into life next spring, then holding onto the house could be a smart move. There’s a risk, but that’s business.
The danger comes when emotional or psychological factors are driving your decision, even if you dress them up in optimistic beliefs about next spring’s housing market.
One of these is pride. For the last decade, all we’ve heard at barbecues is Yukoners talking about how much money they made on their houses. People seldom talk about their losses. So by selling lower than hoped, today’s seller has to admit to themselves (and the spouses) that they are not as savvy as everyone else at all those barbecues.
As a trader or economist will tell you, however, this is not the right way to think about it. It doesn’t matter if you paid too much a few years ago, or if you made a good decision based on the facts at the time and just got unlucky. What matters now is maximizing value.
Sometimes to avoid a loss, people will hold onto their houses for years longer than they planned. Eventually, thanks to inflation, prices will rise to where the price you get for the house matches the original sticker price you paid. However, with inflation hovering around two per cent, it could take a decade to recover a 20 per cent drop in the value of your house.
And while this allows you to say, “We got what we paid for it,” this is only true in nominal terms. In inflation-adjusted terms you are still down 20 per cent.
Ultimately, the key factor is “opportunity cost.” What would you have done with the money if you had sold at a loss like an orange juice trader? If the answer is “nothing,” then holding onto it isn’t such a terrible decision. But if it means you gave up on a higher-paying job in Lethbridge, or delayed the purchase of your retirement home at Tagish for years, then you might be making a bad decision.
My father once advised me not to get emotional about used cars. It was sensible advice, and it applies to houses too. If you find yourself in a difficult price situation, try to channel your inner orange juice trader and avoid the pitfalls of price pride, money illusion or forgetting about the opportunity cost of holding your house too long.
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I wanted to share some SHOCKING things I learned this week about the BMI chart – body mass index. Are you using it as a guideline for healthy weight?
You might have seen this referenced in fancy scales and maybe at your doctor’s office. I know Nintendo Wii Fit had used it when creating avatars. Even life insurance companies were using this model to evaluate health.
I’ll start by saying I was never a fan while probably because I was always considered “overweight” even when I was fitting into size 5 clothing. I knew something was off.
Here’s some SHOCKING things revealed:
47% of people who are labelled as overweight according to BMI are metabolically healthy.
It was developed by a Belgium man mathematician – not a doctor or even in the health field – almost 200 years ago!!!
He took into account various body weights of WHITE MALES only. Which means it didn’t take into account gender or ethnicity.
This article goes into greater detail here.
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The Boarding House Explicatory Essay
Updated: Oct 21st, 2018
According to James Joyce, the narrator, Mrs. Mooney who was married to his father’s foreman, but is separated now from her husband owns the Boarding House. At first, she is a quite and self-determined woman who later reacts due to her husbands drinking problems and fighting him in front of customers. Mr. Mooney seems to have respect to his father in law because he was not drinking when he was alive, but after his death, he goes on drinking, and thus debts accumulate in their business.
Mrs. Mooney then decides to take the best action of being liberated. It is clear that her husband has controlled her life all through, but as soon as they are separated, she appears to become strong, autonomous, and controlling. However, as she is liberated and free from her husband, she starts to have power over others’ lives. Despite the fact that she was a victim, she also becomes a victimizer.
According to James Joyce, Mrs. Mooney is a woman who deals with morals as to how a “cleaver deals with meat”. The boarding house seems to be a hunting point for a man who can make a good husband to the daughter Polly.
She also uses her daughter to attract young men into her business as she says that they like the feeling of a young woman besides them. Mr. Doran, who is one of the guests, falls into the trap of Mrs. Mooney. She manipulates both Mr. Doran and Polly because she takes advantage of both Polly’s and Mr. Duran’s innocence.
It is clear that Mr. Duran is a victim for both Mrs. Mooney and her daughter, given that Mrs. Mooney as a businessperson wants to take advantage of him, knowing well that he has a good job and so she is able to extract money from him. On the other hand, Mrs. Mooney refers to him as a serious quite man and so it is easy to take advantage of him, as he is not talkative as the others.
Mrs. Mooney also takes advantage of the society and religion to which Mr. Duran comes from to make him marry her daughter. She knows well that Mr. Duran is a committed follower of his religion and acts according to its rules since such religions makes men to be responsible for their actions and in this case, marriage seems to be unavoidable after sleeping together.
Mrs. Mooney has made the boarding house a house of crime by making Polly her daughter to sleep with Duran and makes him to commit a crime, which is against his religious doctrines. In this case, Duran is trapped into the guilt of crime and the only way to overcome his guilt is through marriage due to the perceptions of the society. He is worried of the outcome and all he has gone through under Mrs. Mooney territory as a guest.
He is not sure of how the church leaders will deal with him since he has sinned and as a worker in the Catholic wine merchant office, he is afraid to lose his employment. Mrs. Mooney knows well that Mr. Duran is likely to lose his job and as the narrator says, “she did not think he will be dealt by the public, may be worse losing his job”.
Mr. Duran is now faced with reality and is not able to run away. Although towards the end of the narration he wishes that the roof would open up to pave way for him to fly away, but his guilt makes him go downstairs and is ashamed of the look he will get from Polly’s brother who wears a thick face. He gets into the trap and awaits the outcome of the act.
It is quite ironical to end with marriage as the whole story is laid down as a comedy. Mrs. Mooney has also made Polly a puppet and we see that he keeps moving her from her typing job back to her own after her attempt to marry her off to the well off bosses failed. Mr. Duran has been trapped in the Dublin society and he is with mixed feelings since there is no solid affection between him and Polly. Mr. Duran is not ready to marry due to his work but is afraid if Polly gets pregnant and commits suicide if he fails to marry her.
The mist that gathers on the glass and that he has to wipe it off with his handkerchief when Duran attempts to shave brings out his character containing obscured vision since he is unable to question the situation and deal with it. Another case that reflects his premonition and shortsightedness is when he is going downstairs, his eyeglasses are filled with moisture, and he is not able to see well but has to wipe them.
In conclusion, the main characters in the boarding house are controlled by social conventions. They do not have the power over their own lives as we see in the first part is that Mrs. Mooney gets married to a drunken and violent husband who beats her up in front of customers.
She is also materialistic in the sense that she set a criterion for the type of man to marry Polly, and is focused on a presentable and one with income. Her life is full of materialism since she has been able to trap Duran to marry her daughter and this way to get Polly off her hands or responsibility. Mrs. Mooney is only after her own interest since she does not care the feeling her daughter and Mr. Duran have and this seems to be a characteristic of the people of Dublin society.
The three main characters in this narration brings out the social interests of the society and it is clear that the society has those who takes advantage of others or the exploiters such as Mrs. Mooney and her daughter and also the victims, who are represented by Mr. Doran. Since surviving in Dublin society seems difficult mainly for women, it is only those who are crafty are able to survive just like Mrs. Mooney and her daughter.
Joyce, James. The Boarding House. London: Grant Richards, 1914.
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Ever wondered about the concentric designs your children bring home from camp and occasionally class?
“The word “mandala” is from the classical Indian language of Sanskrit. Loosely translated to mean “circle,” a mandala is far more than a simple shape. It represents wholeness, and can be seen as a model for the organizational structure of life itself–a cosmic diagram that reminds us of our relation to the infinite, the world that extends both beyond and within our bodies and minds.” – from What is a Mandala?.
Coloring or creating mandalas or circular patterns is part of quite a few religious and spiritual traditions. Many of us think first of Tibetan Buddhism, but but similar circle patterns appear in the Navajo and Aztec traditions, Taoism, and even Christianity. Why does it resonate so?
Without fail, our students of all ages love coloring mandalas. The activity is relaxing and focusing, and provides a great opportunity for discussions with older children (they tend to be less self conscious about participating in a discussion while coloring). This a recent article on the Huffington Post talks about the physiological benefits of the practice.
“When coloring, we activate different areas of our two cerebral hemispheres, says psychologist Gloria Martínez Ayala. ‘The action involves both logic, by which we color forms, and creativity, when mixing and matching colors. This incorporates the areas of the cerebral cortex involved in vision and fine motor skills [coordination necessary to make small, precise movements]. The relaxation that it provides lowers the activity of the amygdala, a basic part of our brain involved in controlling emotion that is affected by stress.'”
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This is documented in a paper by Jennifer Fitchett and Kestrel Raik, of the School of Geography, Archaeology and Environmental Studies at the University of the Witwatersrand.
In the 1920s and 1930s, jacaranda trees only started to bloom in mid-November, wrote Fitchett in a recent column in The Conversation. But gradually, over the decades, the date of bloom has shifted to October and then the early weeks of September.
This is referred to as a phenological shift and is being observed across a range of species globally. It is closely linked to changes in climate, with individual species responding to specific combinations of increases in temperature, changes in the timing and amount of rainfall, changes in frost occurrence, humidity and sunshine hours, the researchers note in their paper, which was published in the journal, Urban Forestry & Urban Greening.
The researchers describe how the cities in Gauteng host one of the world’s largest and most densely vegetated urban forests, with the City of Johannesburg alone recording more than 10-million trees.
Pretoria is colloquially called the Jacaranda City, with an estimated 33 630 jacarandas. The trees are classified as an alien invasive species because of their water consumption in the semi-arid region. Deliberate replanting is forbidden but existing trees are not removed.
“The spring blossoms transform the city-region into a purple vista, and remain a popular attraction for locals and tourists alike,” according to the paper. “The trees and their blossoms therefore fall into an unusual category of being very popular and a flagship species of a region due to their aesthetics, but because of conservation laws cannot be replanted. This heightens the concerns among the residents and visitors regarding the health and longevity of the trees and their flowers, as once the existing trees have died, they will not be replaced.”
Over the past century, the flowering seasons for jacarandas have been reported in local newspapers, and more recently documented by the public through social media platforms Instagram, Flickr, Facebook and Twitter. The researchers trawled these records, comparing the flowering dates to meteorological data from across the province.
“Analysing these reports of Jacaranda mimosifolia flowering, an advance of 2.1 days per decade is calculated for the period 1927–2019,” the paper says.
This advance unfolded against a backdrop of warming temperatures, ranging from 0.1°C to 0.2°C a decade for daily maximum temperatures and 0.2°C to 0.4°C a decade for daily minimum temperatures. This was driven by winter climatic conditions, of which maximum temperatures in June are the most marked.
“This advance reflects the response of the tree to regional climate warming, which poses threats to the species and the urban forest in the long term when thresholds for adaptation are surpassed,” according to the paper.
The advance in the flowering timing is consistent with global phenological trends, yet provides a “concerning outlook” for this species, the researchers warn.
Jacarandas comprise a key component of the extensive urban forest, which contributes to carbon sequestration and storage, and are part of the “aesthetic identity” of the cities, which has both intrinsic and economic value as a tourist attraction.
Although phenological shifts represent an adaptation in plants and animals, these advances in flowering dates cannot continue indefinitely, the researchers say, adding: “At a critical threshold, the flowering season will become unsuccessful.”
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If you have gotten through your teenage years, you know how many life lessons you had to go through and how difficult those years of your life may have been. Throughout those years, you began to develop your self-confidence, found your passion for the world around you, and even gained knowledge. Now that you are a young adult, you may be in your dream career, and you may have already even completed college, but there are still some things that you need to know. You can find a list of the five most important things in the information below.
1. Young Adulthood is the Time to Live
Just because you are a young adult does not mean that the world goes downhill as you are getting older. More than anything, it is the time of your life when you start to mature so you get to live in the world for the way that it really is. It is also the time when you can start to build your skillset and can surprise yourself with what you are really capable of. With this in mind too, it is okay to have fun, but do not waste all of your time trying to party every night.
2. Character Comes Above Everything Else
You should also know that your character means so much more than your looks, your job, or even your wealth. Even if you are the richest person in the world, you should be always willing to have integrity and to help others. Make sure that you always do the right thing, no matter who is watching. Make sure that you always follow through on your commitments as well and that you always are known as a trustworthy person.
3. Confidence is Key
It may sound cliche, but confidence really is key in the real world when you are a young adult. You will never know everything there is to know, and there will always be new decisions that have to be made. Never compare yourself to others as they do not always know what is going on either, they may just have more confidence than you at a certain moment in time. If you can display that confidence as well, you can have others looking at you for answers even though you may not have all of them.
4. Stick to Your Values
By the time you are a young adult, you should have a basic understanding of the values that are important to you. Due to these values, it may even be that you have to walk away from some people in your life. If someone is constantly encouraging you to do something that you know does not line up with your value perspective, it is okay to say no and even walk away if you need to. This will help you to get ahead in life and to even better yourself if the day comes.
5. How to Handle Emergencies
First on the list, and maybe the most important item on this list, that you should know as a young adult is what to do in case an emergency arises. To start, you should know that an emergency is not a cause for panic as this can only make the situation worse, especially when what is going on maybe chaotic already. If you have a motorcycle accident, for instance, you should know to contact the police to file a report and to contact a New York motorcycle accident lawyer for your injuries. If someone in your family becomes sick, you should know basic first aid steps and how to get in contact with paramedics or other medical care staff.
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• Management of measurements, monitoring and understanding for healthcare and wellbeing. While nonresidential building is expected to proceed to lag via much of 2021, healthcare is projected to rebound faster than most sectors. Aetna Better Health of Oklahoma has filed a protest in opposition to the state’s healthcare agency, calling the method for awarding contracts in the $2.1 billion Medicaid managed-care system “fatally flawed.” Regional health methods are still dealing with the fallout from delaying non-pressing procedures, depressed volumes, greater bills in addition to the physical and mental well being toll of COVID-19 on their staff.
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It took just one year and more than 2,100 donors to raise the $5 million needed to bring a world-class PET/CT scanner to the B.C. Interior.
The BC Cancer Foundation announced Wednesday that the critical tool in cancer diagnosis will be built in the next 18 months between the Kelowna General Hospital and the BC Cancer Kelowna building on Royal Avenue.
“It is going to be a beautiful facility with the scanner and a waiting room and exam rooms. This is a state-of-the-art diagnostic tool that tells the physicians where your cancer is,” explains Sarah Roth, president and CEO of the BC Cancer Foundation.
She says this technology will affect the more than 1,000 B.C. Interior patients who are currently forced to go the Lower Mainland – where the province’s only two publicly-funded PET/CT scanners are located – for a scan.
“Imagine you’re sick and you have to make that trip, stay overnight sometimes, sometimes you have to go back for a second scan, you’ve left your children at home. It is very disruptive for families,” adds Roth.
“Now that will be closer to home in your own regional cancer centre.”
PET/CT is proven in many circumstances as the most effective tool for obtaining a complete picture of a patient’s cancer, with an ability to detect cancer cells at an early stage – even before a tumour has formed.
Kelowna regional medical director for BC Cancer, Dr. Ross Halperin, says this scanner could be life or death for some his patients who are unable to make it the Lower Mainland for a scan.
“PET/CT technology enables us to make the more accurate diagnosis and provide the best treatment,” he says.
“A PET/CT scanner in the Interior means patients will benefit having access to crucial care much closer to home.”
He adds that this technology can save patients from unnecessary radiation treatment, chemotherapy, surgery and biopsies.
Kelowna couple Shane and Lisa Worman share a life together, share children and they also once had to share an oncologist. Shortly after Shane won his fight against cancer, his wife was diagnosed. She also battled it and won.
They are now both cancer survivors who call Kelowna home and felt they had to donate to this cause.
“Supporting cancer research and care is paramount to us,” says Shane. “Without it, Lisa and I wouldn’t be here today and we are proud to be to be able to help patients in our community have access to the best in cancer care right here in Kelowna.”
With one in two British Columbians being diagnosed with cancer in their lifetime, the purchase of the PET/CT scanners will ensure patients have access to the “gold standard in cancer imagining” and world-class cancer care.
“Thanks to thousands of generous donors, we are proud to say this vital technology will be closer to home for cancer patients across the Interior,” says Roth.
“We are so incredibly grateful to our supporters for helping to lessen the burden for families facing a cancer diagnosis.”
Constructions is set to being in the spring of 2019.
To learn more about PET/CT visit https://bccancerfoundation.com/PET-CT.
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“Thirdly: Also, non-acceptance is one thing and denial is something quite different. Non-acceptance is indifference, a closing of the eyes to something, an ignorant absence of judgement. It may mask many completely impossible things and the mind does not concern itself with them. As for denial, it is not non-acceptance, but the acceptance of non-existence; it is a judgement. The mind is compelled to work. So a devil like you takes hold of someone’s mind and leads it to denial. Showing the false to be truth and the impossible to be possible through such satanic wiles as heedlessness, misguidance, fallacious reasoning, obstinacy, false arguments, pride, deception, and habit, you make those unfortunate creatures in human form swallow unbelief and denial, although they comprise innumerable impossibilities.
“Fourthly: Also, if the Qur’an is supposed to be the word of man, it necessitates imagining to be its opposite a book that has self-evidently guided the purified, veracious saints and spiritual poles, who shine like stars in the heavens of the world of mankind, has continuously instructed all levels of perfected men in truth and justice, veracity and fidelity, faith and trustworthiness, and has ensured the happiness of this world and the next through the truths of the pillars of faith and the principles of the pillars of Islam; a book that through the testimony of its achievements is of necessity veracious, and pure, genuine truth, and absolutely right, and most serious – it necessitates imagining, God forbid, that it comprises the opposites of these qualities, effects, and lights, and not only is a collection of fabrications and lies, but also a frenzy of unbelief that would shame even the Sophists and the devils, and cause them to tremble.
“This impossibility necessitates the further, most ugly and abhorrent, impossibility that the person who, according to the testimony of the religion and Shari‘a of Islam that he proclaimed, and the extraordinary fear of God and pure, sincere worship that he demonstrated throughout his life, and as necessitated by the good moral qualities unanimously witnessed in him, and according to the affirmation of the people of truth and perfection whom he raised, was the most believing, the most steadfast, the most trustworthy, and the most truthful, was – God forbid, and again, God forbid – without faith, that he was most untrustworthy, did not fear God, nor shrink from lying. To imagine this necessitates imagining the most loathsome form of impossibility and perpetrating the most iniquitous and vicious sort of misguidance.
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What are the limits of legitimate economic espionage? The indictment of five PLA officers for stealing U.S. intellectual property brings economic espionage into the same spotlight lately enjoyed by diplomatic cryptography. The U.S. decision immediately produced a firestorm of criticism from China, as netizens and the government alike pointed out evidence of widespread hacking efforts on the part of the United States.
The United States attempts to distinguish legitimate from illegitimate espionage by concentrating on the theft of private secrets for public gain. Chinese hackers steal U.S. private property, and hand that property over to Chinese state firms. The United States, on the other hand, merely steals public (as in collectively owned) information for public gain. This includes intercepts of diplomatic communications that can give the U.S. an advantage in trade negotiations, as well as surveillance against foreign state-owned corporations. This last point is particularly important, as the United States intelligence community tends to regard (not entirely without cause) state owned firms as an arm of foreign governments.
These arguments aren’t quite wrong, but they do edge towards incoherence. For one, China is hardly the only country to employ espionage in furtherance of direct economic gain. As Robert Gates and others have pointed out, France regularly conducted economic espionage against its allies, with the fruits of intel benefitting major French firms. During the Cold War, the United States intelligence community regularly gathered intelligence about the Soviet military — data that eventually found its way to private defense contractors.
Indeed, even the idea that respect for intellectual property should cross international borders is a relatively recent phenomenon. The motivating concept for intellectual property protection is that legal defense for inventors can allow them to capitalize on a temporary monopoly over production. The granting of this temporary monopoly provides incentive for innovation, benefiting the entire public. However, over time the definition of “public” has changed. In the nineteenth century, “public” applied almost entirely to national communities, such that inventors who managed to copy or appropriate foreign intellectual property were regarded as national heroes. The change of “public” to refer to the international community is fairly recent, and is not fully accepted by many nations.
Ben Wittes and Dan Byman took a long stab at answering the question of appropriate limits on espionage in last month’s Foreign Affairs. They identify the problem with U.S. intelligence collection as the collapse of a decades-long compromise with U.S. intel agencies that began in the 1970s, and ended with 9/11. Changes in technology have opened a much wider space for the NSA to conduct surveillance, and rendered obsolete the rules on collection. Wittes and Byman suggest that the problem lies mainly in concern over potentially illicit activities by intelligence agencies, and that increased oversight and transparency are the answer. This might ameliorate the domestic problem, but does little to suggest viable rules of the road for international behavior.
None of this is meant to say that the U.S. Department of Justice was wrong to indict the five Chinese hackers, or that it’s wrong to pursue more robust efforts to defeat Chinese espionage attempts. But we can manage without the indignation, and without the suggestion that Chinese spying is worse by some order of magnitude than U.S. efforts. Indeed, Chinese efforts may appear more clumsy, but only because the U.S. NSA maintains such sophisticated capabilities for surveillance and analysis. However, as several writers have noted, because of Snowden and others, the United States no longer enjoys a “hypocrisy gap,” in which it can freely condemn Chinese behavior without enduring harsh scrutiny of its own intel agencies. | <urn:uuid:9d61c9bf-b271-42b7-a127-384445cd642f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://thediplomat.com/2014/05/what-are-the-limits-of-legitimate-economic-espionage/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572833.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817001643-20220817031643-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.957525 | 739 | 2.28125 | 2 |
Led by Yoshihide Suga, on Friday April 9 the Japanese government decided to add Tokyo, Kyoto and Okinawa to the areas subject to new restrictions to slow the spread of COVID-19. Starting from April 12, the measures are set to be in place for approximately one month.
Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike asked the central government to consider stronger measures on the evening of April 8, as cases have been rising in the capital. Tokyo has seen over 500 new cases a day for three consecutive days, including April 9.
Speaking following the cabinet meeting in the evening of April 9, Prime Minister Suga explained the reasoning for strengthened measures:
“There is the fear that the increase in infections will cause pressure on the medical system, and that is why we took this decision.”
These steps come as three other parts of the country are already under stronger restrictions, namely Osaka, Hyogo and Miyagi, which have all seen a surge in COVID-19 infections. Osaka registered 905 new daily infections on April 8, the highest level yet since the start of the pandemic.
The fear is that Tokyo might see a similar surge in cases. This is particularly a concern now, as April marks the start of the new financial and scholastic year when people often gather to celebrate, and the last week of April marks Golden Week, a time when many Japanese take extended holidays.
To address these concerns, the Tokyo Metropolitan government has asked the new measures stay in place until May 11, after the end of the Golden Week holiday.
On April 8, Governor Koike told reporters: “With the new variant, things are changing. Tokyo could see a rise in cases at any moment, such as we’ve seen in Osaka.”
The new restrictions apply to the 23 wards of Tokyo, plus neighboring areas such as Tachikawa and Musashino, which are both within the greater Tokyo metropolis. In addition, the city of Kyoto, and Naha, the capital of Okinawa Prefecture, are also included under the new measures.
One of the main causes for the recent surge in infections is attributed to the spread of COVID-19 variants. As of now, the Ministry of Health has identified four mutant varieties. They are from the U.K, Brazil, South Africa, and a recently discovered E484K variant which is spreading in the Kanto region of Japan.
As Prime Minister Suga pointed out: “In Osaka and Hyogo, the new variants represent about 70 percent of the new infections. As of now, Tokyo cases of mutant varieties have come up to 20 percent of infections. We are going to monitor the situation closely.”
Minister for Economic Revitalization Yasutoshi Nishimura provided a prequil to the decision on the morning of April 9, when he said: “We are assessing the actual effects of different variants, and as a result, we want to strengthen measures [to fight the virus].”
Professor Shigeru Omi, the head of the government subcommittee on COVID-19, echoed Minister Nishimura’s sentiments later on April 9 by saying that he felt “a strong sense of crisis with relation to the new variants of the virus.”
Professor Omi also suggested that dealing with the rise of infections might be trickier than in previous periods, due to the onset of “Corona Fatigue.” Japan ended the second state of Emergency on March 21, while noting the waning compliance of residents as the end of March approached.
“Everyone is used to COVID-19 now, and if we don’t send a strong message, I don’t think we can overcome this crisis, ” said the COVID-19 subcommittee chair.
Authority for the new restrictions falls under the legislative framework which was approved in February 2021, which makes it possible to impose stronger virus prevention measures at the specific city and regional level, without the need to call a nationwide state of emergency. Although the measures don’t include requests for restaurants and bars to close, they include requests to shorten business hours to close by 8 P.M., with the possibility of fines of up to ￥200,000 JPY ($2,000 USD) if they refuse to comply.
In addition, the government is asking people in Japan to take other precautions, such as to avoid travel between prefectures to limit the spread of variants, avoid going to karaoke at all times, and for restaurants, to refuse entry to those who don’t comply with safety measures such as wearing masks.
Finally, Mr. Suga encouraged everyone to take the necessary precautions in order to avoid another state of emergency:
“I have taken these measures so we don’t have to call a state of emergency…whatever we might say about the variants, what we need to do remains unchanged: I am asking everyone to wear a mask, wash your hands, avoid the 3Cs, avoid unnecessary movement between regions. I want to deal with this situation with the utmost sense of urgency.”
RELATED: Information on previous states of emergency can be found at this link.
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tokumei v0.9.1 Raxx.Blueprint View Source
Use an API Blueprint file as a router for Raxx server definitions.
Because are you really going to write the documentation afterwards.
defmodule MyApp do use Raxx.Server use Raxx.Blueprint, "./my_app.apib" end
In a blueprint file actions can be given names.
To work with
Raxx.Blueprint actions need to be named.
A module name is generated from these names and added as the handler for that route.
For example given the blueprint below the router will assume there exits a module
It will use this as the controller for all request to
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Disaster recovery and virtual machine migration
Reference persons ANDREA BIANCO
Research Groups Telecommunication Networks Group
Thesis type ANALYTICAL, EXPERIMENTAL, SIMULATIVE
Description The digital era created a huge amount of information in different media formats: this information is growing strongly as much as the need to store it reliably and to access it quickly. For this reason. Storage Area Networks and Disaster Recovery mechanisms are important design issues for future networks.
To guarantee data reliability and accessibility, the geographical distribution of storage resources is an important asset. This implies today exploiting available high-speed data networks and remote storage solutions. The distribution of storage resources permits the data virtualization, effectively decoupling the data and the service access from the physical devices. Furthermore, the full migration of application services is available thanks to virtualization solutions (e.g. XEN, WMware, OpenVZ, etc.).
A distributed network architecture, where both data and application services can migrate between hosts, is the basis for the introduction of new communication paradigms such as data mirroring, automatic on-line remote backup.
The main topics to be addressed are:
* Performance analysis of virtualization solutions (includes modelling, simulation and experiments)
* Design/analysis/simulation of a network infrastructure suitable for data and application services migration, to guarantee reliability, flexibility and improve performance.
Required skills Good knowledge of Linux-based systems and computer programming. Basic knowledge of operations research & optimization.
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Last week, we started our discourse on the above subject matter. This week, we will continue our thematic analysis. Let us today x-ray other countries that went through recession, depression, downturn, austerity, belt-tightening times and learn how their leadership galvanised the people for dramatic turnaround.
Some historical lessons
We will, therefore, delve into the history of a few economically successful nations who, yesterday, were in such precarious situation as we find ourselves in today. A leader does not lament. A leader leads. He solves problems. The windshield of a car is far larger than the rear mirror, to enable the driver see more of the front, rather than the rear. Let us see how other great leaders did it.
Russia – Glasnost and perestroika
Glasnost and perestroika (Russian words for “restructuring” and “openness”), were key elements of the campaign initiated by Soviet leader, Mikhail Gorbachev, to reform and revitalise the Soviet system. He first mentioned it in a speech at a meeting of the Central Committee of the Communist Party in April 1985.
Glasnost literally means “openness,” when Gorb a chev decided to open up the Russian state to public knowledge; perestrioita, on the other hand was a political movement for reformation within the communist party itself, in the 1980s, also associated with Gorbacks. It referred to the reconstructure of the political and economic system within the ruling Compliance Party.
Glasnost (coupled with the economic and political reforms of perestroika), summarised Gorbachev’s efforts to allow and stimulate more open discussion and criticism in political and cultural life. The term had both a symbolic and practical significance. Carrying the meaning of “speaking out” or “giving voice to,” glasnost was evident in the more open debate and discussion that existed in the final years of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
Many conservatives were initially sceptical about this policy in the Communist Party and tried to undermine it. However, particularly after the 27th Party Congress in February, 1986, public officials and citizens began to take Gorbachev’s call for more open, critical discussion seriously. Intellectuals in particular made use of the new freedom glasnost offered to criticise government and to engage in activities that were previously prohibited.
These changes were evident in the cultural realm, where previously banned works were published, and in the scientific and educational world, where Soviet scholars and experts were able to speak more freely and have more contact with their colleagues in the international community. The changes were also evident in discussions of economic performance, where experts openly acknowledged the serious problems of the Soviet economy. Glasnost led to greater openness in the state-controlled media and to the formation of a large number of independent groups. It contributed to the growth of national movements in the Soviet republics, and, ultimately, to the breakup of the Soviet Union in 1991.
Perestroika came to encompass a wide variety of political and economic policies. It was implemented along with glasnost. Perestroika at first mainly referred to efforts to reform the ailing Soviet economy by reducing the power of central authorities and introducing elements of a market-based system. A major part of the reforms involved expanding private ownership, which had long been shunned by the regime for ideological reasons. Perestroika also came to mean changes in other aspects of the Soviet system, including the bureaucracy and political life. Although the Communist Party was to remain the dominant political institution in the Soviet Union, other political groups were allowed to participate for the first time in Soviet history, and citizens had a greater role in choosing leaders in elections.
The most significant change was the Committee’s decision in 1988 to allow for small private businesses and cooperatives, which could exist either inside state enterprises or separate from them. But disagreement among the Soviet leaders and their economic advisers, and between Russia and the other Soviet republics, prevented the adoption of a realistic reform programme for the Soviet economy as a whole. This deadlock, as well as the drift of control away from state planners, led to a severe economic crisis by 1990. The effects of this crisis included declining production, growing inflation, pervasive shortages of consumer goods, labour unrest and, most importantly, a widespread loss of confidence in Gorbachev’s ability to handle economic issues.
Gorbachev did not achieve what he set out to do as Soviet leader, that is, to save the country’s existing social and political system by reforming it from within. And in some areas, notably economics, he produced few results. Nevertheless, Gorbachev’s political and foreign policies made a tremendous difference to the countries of the former Soviet Union, Eastern Europe, and in some respects the entire world. The cumulative effect of these policies was to loosen the grip of the Soviet Communist dictatorship, thereby allowing leaders throughout the Communist Eastern bloc to search out new ways of governing. On the international scene, Gorbachev’s policies put an end to the Cold War and the post-World War II division of Europe. Gorbachev is thus one of the most influential statesmen of the 20th century. What do we have in Nigeria? Muzzled opinion. Frightened masses. Government repression. Cronyism, nepotism. Exclusion, rather than inclusion. Divisiveness. Recession. Hunger. Thirst Starvation. Decimation of human rights and rule of law. Rule of the thumb. Contempt for intellectualism, intimidation of the judiciary, emasculation of the legislature, using the coercive, corrosive and awesome apparatchik of state.
China -The Great Leap Forward
In 1918, Future Chinese leader, Mao Zedong, joined a study group headed by his supervisor, Li Dazhao, Director of the library at Beijing University, to be acquainted with the writings of German political philosopher, Karl Marx. Mao would later revise Marxist ideology in hopes of adapting it to conditions in China. Thus highlights the need for a leader to study.
In 1949, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) headed by Mao Zedong came to power and founded the People’s Republic of China (PRC). During the first few years of its existence, the PRC focused on rebuilding from the ravages of war and redistributing land to 300 million poor peasants. Nigeria is only 185 million people. China is 1.3 billion people. The first five-year plan, implemented from 1953 to 1958, outlined changes for all economic sectors but particularly emphasised expansion of heavy industry. The government created hundreds of large, state-owned, industrial enterprises and by 1958 China had a solid industrial base. In the agricultural sector, meanwhile, the state organised workers into large, cooperative farms. Agricultural output increased, but not nearly at the same rate as industry.
Initially, the authors of the second five-year plan modeled it on the first. By the beginning of 1958, however, they had revised the plan to address the concern of Chinese leader Mao Zedong that agriculture was not growing as fast as industry. The revised plan was to be accomplished through an economic and social campaign intended to radically increase China’s agricultural production while maintaining high industrial growth. The campaign became known as the “Great Leap Forward.” Nigeria? Moral platitudes, adjurations. Ineffective liberal disquisition. Lachrymal effusion. Chest-beating and sloganeering.
Usa – The Great Depression
The Great Depression in the United States, was the worst and longest economic collapse in the history of the modern industrial world, lasting from the end of 1929 until the early 1940s. Beginning in the United States, the depression spread to most of the world’s industrial countries, which, in the 20th century, had become economically dependent on one another. The Great Depression saw rapid decline in the production and sale of goods and a sudden, severe rise in unemployment. Businesses and banks closed their doors. People lost their jobs, homes and savings, and many depended on charity to survive. In 1933, at the worst point in the depression, more than 15 million Americans, one-quarter of the nation’s workforce, were unemployed.
Emergence of the New Deal
The stock market crash in October 1929 marked the beginning of the Great Depression, a difficult economic period for the United States and other countries. Unemployment increased and the economic security of many people was threatened. Farmers lost their land, homeowners their homes, and workers their jobs. In the years following, the stock market crashed. Thousands of banks closed and many Americans lost their savings. The incumbent President, Herbert Hoover, lost the election of 1932 to Democrat, Franklin D. Roosevelt. Roosevelt campaigned on promises of a “New Deal” for the American people. In his first inaugural address, he declared:
“…In the event that Congress shall fail to take these courses and in the event that the national emergency is still critical I shall not evade the clear course or duty that will then confront me. I shall ask the Congress for the one remaining instrument to meet the crisis, broad executive power to wage a war against the emergency, as great as the power that would be given to me if we were in fact to be invaded by a foreign foe.”
Roosevelt’s course of action became known as the “New Deal”, the name given to the peacetime domestic programme of United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt, and especially to the innovative measures taken between 1933 and 1938 to counteract the effects of the Great Depression.
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New Year brings new stages of bridge work
The New Year has meant new stages of work on the restoration of the famous Union Chain Bridge.
Work on the 200-year-old structure, which connects England with Scotland near Horncliffe, got underway in October and will take around 18 months - during which time it’s completely closed.
The timber deck, or floor of the bridge, is now being removed piece by piece, and if all the individual timbers were laid end to end they would reach from the Union Chain Bridge to another famous crossing a few miles down river which is also being restored - Berwick Old Bridge.
The wire ropes installed in 1903 will also soon be de-tensioned before being cut into sections and lifted off the bridge. Works will then concentrate on removing the hangers and preparing the chains for removal – a symbolic moment when the bridge will temporarily no longer cross the river.
In September 2019 plans to fully restore the bridge received £3.14million from The National Lottery Heritage Fund.
It follows an ambitious funding bid put together by Northumberland County Council, Scottish Borders Council, Museums Northumberland and community group Friends of the Union Chain Bridge, after serious concerns about the condition of the world-famous structure.
Both councils committed match funding totalling £5.7m towards the £10.5m scheme, with other fundraising activities continuing to be progressed by the Friends of Union Chain Bridge in support of the project.
As well as conserving the historic structure, the project team has also developed a comprehensive programme of community engagement and education activities.
David Renwick, Director, England, North, The National Lottery Heritage Fund, said: “We are delighted to be able to support this project, which thanks to money raised by National Lottery Players, means that the Union Chain Link Bridge will continue to serve its shared communities, demonstrate the power of cutting edge engineering and to enrich the surrounding landscape for years to come.
“We are also pleased that our funding is being used as part of a collaborative approach alongside investment from the Borderlands initiative and other funders as part of the regeneration of the wider area."
Northumberland County Council Leader Glen Sanderson said: “This is the start of a crucial year for the project – one which will see the whole bridge be taken down and slowly be put back together again.
“We have some fantastic teams working on site using a range of innovative techniques as they approach a number of key milestones on this ambitious scheme.”
Scottish Borders Council’s Executive Member for Infrastructure, Travel and Transport, Councillor Gordon Edgar, said: “Work on this major project is progressing well and some very significant milestones are coming in the next few months as we start to truly move into the restoration phase.
“In addition to being a historic structure, this bridge is also an important link between communities on both sides of the border and I am sure they too will be delighted with the pace of progress of the works.
Built in 1820 by Captain Samuel Brown, the Union Chain Bridge is the oldest operational chain suspension bridge in the world still carrying vehicles - when it’s not closed to traffic for restoration!
The project team are currently recruiting archival research volunteers to help uncover the untold stories of the bridge.
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If you have a drain that smells like sewage, you may want to consider getting it cleaned. The overflow system for your drain is the most common source of this odor. However, the clog in the overflow system can also cause the drain to smell, so you may want to check this out as well. You can also check the P-trap for clogs to determine if it is clogged.
Getting rid of a drain smelling like sewage
A sewer drain may smell bad for a number of reasons. It may have a leaky seal, which can let sewer gases escape into the air. To prevent sewer gas odors, check the toilet for loose joints or bolts. If you are not sure what caused the smell, you can try DIY solutions like pouring some baking soda and vinegar down the drain. This remedy can help eliminate the smell and prevent recurrence.
The smell of sewage coming from drains is caused by a number of factors, including bacteria or a clog. A clogged drain can also contain sewer gases, which can seep into the home. It’s important to investigate the problem as soon as possible. Some drains can be cleaned with household products, while others may require professional plumbers. If you suspect a sewer gas leak, call a plumber right away and have them check the pipes.
A drain with a sewer connection can develop a foul odor after several hours or even days. The easiest solution is to refill the P-trap. Running water through the drain for 10-15 seconds should help. A plumber can help you replace the P-trap if necessary. In addition to removing the plug, running water through the toilet’s trap can also eliminate the odor. It is important to use hot water only when necessary.
Boiling water can also dislodge small clogs. Larger blockages can be removed by boiling water for a few minutes. Lemon juice and essential oils can also be used to clean the drain. If you are not comfortable working with a pipe waste cleaner, you can always try boiling water. This solution should remove the odor in your drain and keep it from recurring.
Detecting a clog in a plumbing vent
If you can smell sewage, it may be your plumbing vent. Detecting a clog in a vent can be difficult and dangerous if you are working on a roof. If you detect the odor in the vent pipe, call a plumber to have it fixed. It could also be a critter’s nest that has blocked the vent pipe. If you can access the vent pipe, flush the clog out, but if not, it’s best to call a plumber to inspect the problem.
The first sign you might notice is the smell of sewer gas. Sewage gas is highly flammable and can cause health issues. That’s why it’s important to have it fixed right away. You may even smell it right outside your house if you have an unobstructed vent stack. But it’s not just the smell of sewer gas that indicates a plumbing vent clog.
There are different causes for sewer odor. A sewer odor can occur inside your home or outside it, depending on how your plumbing vents are connected. The odor is more prominent during heavy water use or when the weather is windy. This is because sewer gas is forced upward, and therefore the smell is emitted outside your home. In addition to finding the cause, you can also take steps to prevent the odor from reoccurring.
Another common sign of a clog in a plumbing drain is the sound of gurgling drains or pipes. A slow drain is usually accompanied by gurgling sounds, and you may notice a gurgling sound when flushing a toilet or sink. If you hear this gurgling sound in your drain, it is a sign that your plumbing vent is clogged and needs to be cleaned as soon as possible.
Cleaning a clogged drain pipe
A clogged drain pipe can produce an awful odor due to bacterial growth. Food and waste can build up in the drain, causing a rotten egg odor to come up. To remove this smell, you can use a drain snake, hydro-jetter, or plunger. If you do not have one of these tools, a plumber can come in and clear the drain for you.
Another way to remove odor from drains is by using baking soda and vinegar. A mixture of baking soda and vinegar creates pressure, which can simulate an eruption. Pour baking soda down the drain, then pour plain white vinegar down the pipe. The mixture should be done very quickly and within a few seconds. This method can effectively dislodge blockages and scrub out odor-causing residue.
Another effective way to eliminate sewage-like odor is to make a vinegar and baking soda volcano. First, pour two cups of vinegar into the drain pipe. Once the baking soda and vinegar dissolve the buildup in the drainpipe, pour hot water into it. After 10 minutes, the mixture should have completely eliminated the odor. In addition to this, the baking soda and vinegar mixture can kill mold spores and disinfect the pipes.
Regardless of the cause of the odor, a blocked drain can be an unpleasant experience. The odor is not only overpowering, but it tends to stick around, making it hard to get rid of. To get rid of the smell and prevent further plumbing problems, make sure to take care of the problem at its source. Clean the drain before it gets worse. If you’re unsure about what caused the smell, you can always call a plumber and ask for a consultation.
Checking for clogs in a P-trap
If you notice your sink or shower drain smelling like sewage, it may be the P-trap drain. It can be difficult to detect a leak, but if you notice discolouration or distorted textures on walls, you may have a sewer gas buildup. To get rid of this odor, run water down the drain twice a month. If you don’t notice the smell immediately, you may have a dirty P-trap.
In addition to clogged vent pipes, you should also check the overflow area of your sink and wash machine. These vent pipes may contain bacteria or odors. Call a plumber if you discover a sewage smell in your sink or drains. If the smell persists, check the P-trap, bathroom, and washing machine. Broken vent pipes can cause an odor as well.
The easiest way to fix a sewage smell in a bathroom is to check for a clog in the P-trap. The P-trap is a U-shaped pipe underneath the drain that traps water to prevent odors from leaking into the bathroom. If it is not regularly used, you can fix this problem by running water into the sink and cleaning the P-trap with baking soda.
If you notice a sewage odor in a P-trap, you may have a more severe problem. A leak in the P-trap can cause the water inside to evaporate, allowing the sewer gasses to escape. However, if the P-trap is completely dry, you can repair it yourself with plumber’s tape. You can also repair leaks in the P-trap by replacing corroded washers.
Getting rid of a sewer odor in a bathroom or laundry room
If you’ve recently started to notice an unpleasant smell coming from your bathroom, you may want to address the problem before it becomes a major headache. Sewer gasses, such as methane, are incredibly dangerous. They can cause a range of unpleasant symptoms, from headaches and irritability to fainting and pneumonia. In extreme cases, you may even develop bronchitis.
The problem could be the cause of the odor, which is due to leaks in the drain. Sewer gases are highly flammable, which makes them a serious health risk. These gasses contain hydrogen sulfide, ammonia, and carbon dioxide. These gases are toxic to the human body and can also irritate skin and organs. Sewer gases also contribute to the odors in other parts of the home.
A sewer odor can be caused by several reasons, which range from clogged plumbing to a broken vent pipe. If the P-trap is dried out, running water from the faucet will help. If the vent pipe has broken, you’ll need to call a professional to help you remove the odor. Otherwise, you can use chemical air fresheners to mask the smell.
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If you are someone who happens to find they fluctuate from losing weight to gaining weight on a regular basis, there are some very easy solutions that you can put into place to avoid that problem. Part of that comes from taking part in a 30-day weight loss challenge. In this article, we’re going to break down the importance of undergoing a 30-day challenge for exercise, eating and general challenges to get you started. These kind of 30-days plans are very important and will make sure that you can spend the following month or so building up to the right kind of fitness levels for your own physical form. Have you looked in the mirror and decided that enough is enough? Are you ready to begin cutting weight and making it much more likely that you wind up in top shape in the near future? Then it’s time to take that all-important step.
Working out is without doubt one of the most important concepts to follow when you wish to get into good and lean physical shape. With a 30-day weight loss exercise plan, though, you can make sure you are targeting the right kind of results. You see, a 30-day plan has many benefits, including:
With these kinds of plans, you avoid the risk of running into fatigue issues and hitting a plateau, meaning results keep coming.
If you were to work out like a maniac but keep eating loads of chips, burgers and the like then you will not see any kind of meaningful results. With the help of this 30-day weight loss exercise plan, though, you can soon get through the whole process without anything like the stress that you may have assumed. With the help of a plan like this, you can enjoy:
Tools such as BMI calculators are a handy way of checking to see how such foods effect your weight.
You likely might find it tough to get into the right frame of mind to take this on normally, and do it alone. If you want to try and make sure you do it all at once, though, then the 30-day weight loss challenge for beginners is the perfect place for you to start out. Why? It ties it all together as one the one perfect package for you. Instead of making it hard for you to start improving your physical shape and form, you will soon find that our 30-day weight loss challenge for beginners makes a huge difference to the way that you go about your weight loss program. By bringing everyone together, you can make it much easier to start making positive adjustments to the way that you work and how you go about your day-to-day working needs.
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BY REVEREND GREG HOLSTON
It’s written in the Book of Ecclesiastes that “what has been, will be again. What has been done, will be done again. There is nothing new under the sun.”
What may appear as a new wave of activism is simply the rekindling of an eternal flame of justice. We’re witnessing the emergence of a stubborn sense of hope rooted in the spirits of our ancestors, breathing into us a courageous light in a world full of doubt and darkness.
We’re in a season of activism. The profound impact of the 2008 recession is still affecting our economy. Drastic demographic and climate shifts have created an air of uncertainty. But in the midst of this uncertainty, there is an immense opportunity for transformation.
We are witnessing a call for the revitalization of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference’s 1968 “Poor People’s Campaign: A Moral Revival.” This is a continuation of an inherited legacy of resistance against the perils of what Dr. King referred to as the triple evils of poverty, racism, and war, which still persist today.
Over the last several years, we have heard the deafening cries of black youth in response to the murder of Trayvon Martin, followed by Michael Brown, Rekia Boyd, Sandra Bland, Eric Garner, and countless others. Young people of color led the charge in Ferguson, Mo., and Baltimore, in cities and towns known and unknown, declaring the simple but profound sentiment that Black Lives Matter.
Adding to the chorus of hope and a desperate demand for justice, we soon heard the voices of women, DACA recipients, LGBTQ-identifying folk, immigrants, Muslims, and a sea of others proclaiming their right to unwavering respect and dignity. With the election of Donald Trump, despite waves of fear and anger, these voices have grown louder, stronger, and more urgent. We’ve seen hopelessness transform into action. People historically left behind are moving from the sidelines of democracy to transform broken systems that for decades have plagued our communities.
Christian, Jewish, Muslim, Buddhist, and Native American faith traditions all hold caring for the vulnerable, welcoming strangers, and protecting the poor, as pillars of our faiths. The universal commandment to love our neighbor as ourselves guides our moral compass and urges us to resist against racist immoralities that hold us bondage. We are challenged to spearhead a movement rooted in radical love for one another and a commitment to our personal and collective liberation.
As we continue this fight for the soul of America, we, people of faith, must lift up a prophetic voice that sets a new moral agenda for this nation.
POWER is putting our faith into action by building a movement for the people, by the people. A movement rooted in advancing our visions for our communities, confronting the evils that plague the fiber of this nation, and connecting with one another through love and empathy. No longer will we stand idly by as our neighbors continue to be casualties to systems that value profit over people.
We are not just praying for a better day, we are working to make that better day a reality. It is time for people of faith in this city, region, and nation to engage in a spiritual awakening that manifests itself outside of the four walls of our places of praise. Our ministry is well beyond congregational worship. In the words of Cornel West, we must never forget that justice is what love looks like in public.
It is our time, this is our season, for change.
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Four percent of United States residents suffer from dental phobias, meaning just as many people have a major fear of the dentist as there are people who fear snakes and heights. That is a lot of people afraid of a visit to the dentist. Even worse, many people with fear of dentistry (around ten percent of those with dental phobia) will actually avoid a visit to a general dentist because of it. This can allow their oral health to decline, and for a long list of other problems to occur. From tooth decay and gum disease to the loss of teeth, fear of a visit to the dentist is costly.
This is precisely the reason that Dr. Dennis Norkiewicz and Dr. Henry Konigsberg offer sedation dentistry to patients of L’Enfant Plaza Dental Arts. The doctors and their team of dental care professionals at their Washington, DC office, strive to offer painless, advanced general dentistry. They cultivate a relaxed and friendly environment, and count on sedation dentistry to help those with dental fear to overcome the issue.
Of course sedation dentistry is not only for those too tense or nervous to pay a visit. The option for sedation dentistry helps to guarantee that many, traditionally, uncomfortable treatments cause little to no discomfort at all. Even standard, preventative and general dentistry treatments can be done with sedation dentistry if desired.
Who Is a Candidate?
Does the idea of a standard dental cleaning and exam make you feel a bit fearful? Maybe the idea of a filling causes you a lot of anxiety or dread? If so, at L’Enfant Plaza Dental Arts the entire team is ready to help you with your fears by discussing your options for sedation treatments. They use only oral sedation, meaning you are fully conscious, though usually a bit drowsy, and will feel completely calm.
Take Care of Oral Health with Sedation Dentistry
Sedation dentistry can be used for general dentistry treatments, certain cosmetic dentistry treatments, restorative dentistry, and more. For example, patients undergoing oral surgery may request sedation options, but so can the patient undergoing routine cleanings or exams.
It is important that you express any concerns you might have about dental care in order to allow the dental team to give you the sort of comfort you require. Oral sedation is best done prior to the visit, meaning you will need someone to drive you to and from the appointment. Although you may feel as if you are awake, oral sedation can be deceiving and many patients are so relaxed by the single prescription treatment that they even nod off during their visit. This makes it unsafe to drive once you have taken the oral sedation treatment.
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Nothing speaks of happiness and compassion better than doing things for others. In fact, I’d be surprised to find a better way of collecting smiles. Of course you know that World Smile Day is celebrated on the first Friday of October every year, thanks to the creator of the smiley, Harvey Ball. What a lovely symbol of kindness and affection, eh!
As we celebrate the ten-day Dussera festival, also known as Navratri, the city is full of joyous events marked by cultural programs, delicious food, new clothes and loads of shopping. And during this festival, we are also celebrating Daan Utsav, or the Joy of Giving Week from October 2-8.
I did not write this post in time for World Smile Day, as I was outside, busy collecting smiles.
There used to be a time when our family planned weeks ahead, made budgets for the shopping and outings to enjoy during the 10-day festival. We arranged dolls, made a special food offering every day of the festival and invited people over. Return gifts for visiting were the done thing. We dressed in our best finery, visited temples for special poojas and prayers.
Over the years though, thanks to my Mother’s generous heart, we tweaked the way we celebrated festivals. We started giving to welfare homes around our area. Old tradition gave way to the new tradition of giving and making lives better.
Today, I am happy to say that over the past few years, festivals are purely a “giving” affair at our place. Be it birthdays, anniversaries, special celebrations or festivals, we donate. We try and make a different by sharing what we are blessed with.
This year, as I am on a major decluttering drive, I am able to make it even better by adding plenty of “kind” to the cash giving.
I am pleased to look back at the “then” and “now”
Then, we bought new clothes.
Now, we give away what we have.
Then, we prepared sweets and savories for distributing among friends and families.
Now, we sponsor meals at welfare homes.
Then, we planned a major special purchase from our wishlist at home.
Now, we sponsor a child’s education or medical costs.
Then, we visited temples.
Now, we spend time with the elderly and children in welfare homes.
Then, we planned holidays during the 10-day vacation.
Now, we save the money and donate it to a cause.
Then, we made a budget for our expenses.
Now, we make a budget for “giving”
Then, we referred to the color of the day for each day of Dussera so we could wear it.
Now, we gather things of that color to give away or gift.
The transition is easy.
This year, I am giving away clothes, toys, linen, kitchen containers, books and a load of other things.
And that’s how we’re celebrating festivals.
I am proud that my son reminds me to sponsor a meal at our local welfare home on his birthday, which is next month, and also checks to confirm that we did the same for our birthdays.
Life is definitely better when we share what we have.
Life is great when we give and collect smiles.
And of course, I have smiles to go before I sleep!
How are you celebrating festivals?
#DaanUtsav (earlier called the Joy of Giving Week) is India’s ‘festival of giving’. Launched in 2009, the festival is celebrated every year – commencing on Gandhi Jayanti – from October 2 to 8. From auto rickshaw drivers to CEOs, school children to celebrities, homemakers to opinion leaders and media personnel, millions of people from all walks of life come together during this week to give their time, money, resources, or skills back to society.
They do this by creating or participating in events of their choice. A giving event could be as simple as a family taking out their maid’s children for an ice-cream party, or as large as a ‘Gift Compassion’. The latter is an event that has over 10,000 schoolchildren every year across India making and exchanging gifts with their peers from different socio-economic backgrounds. | <urn:uuid:20176412-dc48-415e-972b-8095dabafe41> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://vidyasury.com/2016/10/collecting-smiles-world-smile-day.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570767.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808061828-20220808091828-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.960053 | 917 | 1.726563 | 2 |
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Presented paper, herein, is on phase equilibrium of light and heavy crudes known to be closely related to enhanced oil recovery (EOR). In miscible gas injection, the advancing gas (or injecting fluid) develops with petroleum fluids a miscibility front in the reservoir fluids that further reduces the viscous forces holding crudes stranded. The present work presents a phase equilibrium scheme upon which heavy oil swelling and light crude vaporization were found when carbon dioxide (or methane) was used as advancing gas. Heavy crude swelling was observed to be not only dependent on gas solubility but also on the chemical composition of the crude oil. Although a small fraction of injecting gas was distributed in the reservoir water, the initial water–oil ratio was seen to alter the bubble-point pressure from 10 to 30 % depending of the injected gas. In order to mimic miscible-like behavior during gas injection, a dynamic description of methane and carbon dioxide was proposed. Alteration of PVT parameters below and beyond the bubble-point pressure was highlighted therefrom.
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The advent of virtual diplomacy while helping to prevent the spread of the coronavirus has removed the facet of personal connections that have been produced by face-to-face meetings
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The Covid-19 pandemic may have permanently changed the way diplomacy is conducted. Diplomacy has traditionally relied on physical contact in both formal and informal settings. Physical diplomacy has included the presentation of credentials of accreditation by ambassadors to heads of state; participation in global summits and bilateral, trilateral, quadrilateral, etc. meetings; diplomatic receptions, and so on.
In the era of Covid, virtual diplomacy was on display in India on May 21 when India's President Ram Nath Kovind accepted the credentials of the ambassadors of Australia, Mauritius, Rwanda, Cote d'Ivoire, North Korea, Trinidad and Tobago, and Senegal via video conferencing. The unusual method for the presentation of credentials, which would have normally taken place in a formal ceremony at the Rashtrapati Bhavan presidential residence in New Delhi, was the first of its type for India, and, possibly, the world.
The United Arab Emirates ambassador in London, rather than host a diplomatic dinner for Members of Parliament at his residence, arranged for a virtual dinner, which saw prepared food, paid for in advance by the UAE embassy, delivered to the homes of the guests, all of whom joined the virtual dinner via videoconferencing. But UAE Ambassador Mansoor Abulhoul admits that there is a pent up demand for traditional diplomacy, writing recently, "For all that Zoom, Twitter, and Instagram have changed the way we work in recent weeks, none of them are as powerful as old-fashioned, face-to-face diplomacy."
The advent of virtual diplomacy, while helping to prevent the spread of the coronavirus, has removed the facet of personal connections that have been produced by face-to-face meetings between presidents, prime ministers, monarchs, foreign ministers, and others. It was the camaraderie developed in summit meetings between President Richard Nixon and both Chinese leader Mao Zedong and Soviet General Secretary Leonid Brezhnev, as well as between President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, that helped to defrost chilly Cold War relations between the superpowers.
Since the Covid-19 outbreak, major international meetings have been held virtually. These have included the G-20 Summit and the Spring 2020 meetings of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, as well as formal virtual meetings of the European Parliament and the World Health Organization's Assembly and informal videoconferences of the UN Security Council. The World Health Assembly videoconference was boycotted by Donald Trump, who, with his freezing of U.S. financial assistance to the organization, has forfeited a longstanding U.S. presence within WHO to China and India.
The G-7 Summit, originally scheduled to be held in person at Camp David, the U.S. presidential retreat in Maryland, was changed to a virtual meeting. However, Donald Trump changed course and announced that the G-7 would be held in person at Camp David. However, it was uncertain whether any other G-7 leader would attend, particularly since Trump's Mar-a-Lago private club in Palm Beach, Florida became a Covid hot zone during a March summit between Trump and Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, both Covid public health protection skeptics. Members of the Brazilian delegation tested positive for the virus as did the Republican Mayor of Miami, an invited guest at the summit meeting. In April and May, Covid-positive cases were reported in the West Wing of the White House, as well as in the president's private residence.
In a recent interview with "Japan Times," Masahiro Kohara, a former Japanese diplomat and current foreign policy professor at the University of Tokyo, summed up the current dilemma for diplomacy among world leaders. Kohara said, "I think the fact that they can't [meet in person] in the middle of a crisis is a disadvantage," adding, "On the one hand, holding an online meeting means world leaders can convene a meeting at any time. But on the other hand . . . when they are at odds over an issue, they try to seek compromise outside a meeting setting, including over meals. It's hard to do that online if there are no such components. The more complicated an issue is, it's much harder to resolve online."
Kohara also brought up another issue, shared by diplomats and network security officials around the world. Reliance on what have become known as "Zoom diplomacy" or "Zoomplomacy," references to the Zoom video conferencing application that has become popular during the pandemic, has introduced several security problems. Kohara and others believe that videoconferencing can only be a reliable alternative to physical summits and bilateral meetings if the communications infrastructure is secure.
There are those in the digital freedom community who argue that certain plenary international summits and meetings should be available for view by the public. Security specialists, however, caution against widespread access to such conferences, fearing that security loopholes could be penetrated by hackers.
While Zoomplomacy may be a rather easy technical task for the governments of the United States, Britain, Japan, China, Russia, Germany, and France, it becomes a burden for lesser-developed countries lacking required bandwidth to participate in virtual conferences. There are reports that Sudan was unable to participate in a recent United Nations videoconference on climate change because of a lack of required bandwidth in Khartoum. The Bhutan representative, although able to initially connect to the conference from Thimphu, was forced to deal with frozen video connections.
With traditional diplomatic meetings, including the annual plenary session of the UN General Assembly in New York, participation was based on various criteria, including official status as either a member, observer, or special guest of the UN. For the New York venue, the United States has increasingly interfered in the granting of diplomatic visas for certain participants from UN member and non-member nations like Iran, Venezuela, Cuba, Abkhazia, and Palestine.
Virtual General Assembly and other large plenary meetings of UN specialized agencies and other international organizations might become more welcoming to non-members that otherwise comply with the definition of a "state" pursuant to the 1934 Pan-American Conference's Montevideo Convention on the Rights and Duties of States. The convention states that a legally defined state is one that has (1) a permanent population; (2) a defined territory; (3) a government; and (4) a capacity to enter into relations with the other states.
In the era of virtual diplomacy, statehood could be applied to "dependent sovereignties," including governments-in-exile, quasi-states, or virtual micronations that are supported by permanent, although small, populations; possess either diplomatically-protected or some other physical territory, and are recognized by one or more other states. If the UN can grant physical observer status in New York to the Sovereign Military Order of Malta, which maintains small extraterritorial properties in Rome and in Malta, why not comparable virtual status for the Italian enclave of the Principality of Seborga, which has an area of 4.9 square kilometers and a population of 315? A strong case for cyber-representation at virtual international conferences can also be made for the Navajo Nation of the U.S. Southwest, the Nuxalk Nation of British Columbia, and Norfolk Island and the Aboriginals and the Torres Strait Islanders of Australia.
Since participation in virtual diplomatic conferences and meetings would not require diplomatic passport, visas, or other requirements for physical access to venues, could virtual international summits be opened to such "dependent sovereignties" as "cyber-credentialed" observers or guests? Indeed, it is a new and fascinating area of study for diplomacy and international law.
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The recent, tragic, fire in Camberwell has heightened concerns about fire safety, so I thought it would be worth using the blog to highlight the (I think) good situation in Wandsworth.
For a start, there aren’t any blocks in Wandsworth that bear direct comparison with Lakanal House, the scene of the Camberwell fire. Although there are some blocks with a similar, ‘barrier’, design none are more than ten floors high and only one has a single staircase, but this does have an open access balcony and private balconies to the rear. If there were a fire in the tallest of these blocks the Fire Brigade able to get a ladder to the top.
The council also undertake a number of tests and inspections to make sure our blocks are safe. For example dry risers get checked weekly and a full, wet, test every year and risks and blockages in communal areas are checked and removed daily. New tenants get smoke alarms and existing tenants can get new ones installed for free on request – the housing department are working with the Fire Brigade to target properties where they have no record of an alarm being fitted.
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In the absence of any Archives Nationales in Monaco, this exhibition restores to the public the documents and the sources which make it possible to write the history of the country’s architecture. Since a complete saturation of the territory, this latter has been wavering between three tendencies which tally with experimental trends producing projects involving “realistic utopias” : verticality (first additional height, then actual high-rise buildings), excavating the ground, and the creation of man-made lands.
The Villa Sauber offers a circuit through the emblematic neighbourhood of Monte-Carlo. The exhibition draws on more than 600 historical plans mostly hailing from the Société des Bains de Mer, sheds light on the work of the architects involved – over and above the famous signature of Charles Garnier – and underscores the extraordinary capacity for renewal which hallmarks architectures associated with vacationing and holidays, all created and turned towards a versatile public with fluctuating desires. To take just this one example, between 1863 and 1910, no less than ten architects, including Henri Schmit, would follow in each other’s footsteps to enlarge, transform, embellish, rectify, unify and even plan the Casino-Opéra de Monte Carlo.
The Villa Paloma explores, inter alia, Eugène Beaudoin’s urban development proposals of the 1940s, Le Corbusier’s mysterious sketch, and the idea mooted by a surprising stranger, Henry Bulgheroni. After the Second World War, in a context aligned with the European issue of reconstruction, Monaco also had above all to deal with the total saturation of its territory. There duly appeared for Monaco various new urban planning solutions, in a period replete with visionaries. Starting in the 1960s, we thus discover utopian proposals such as La Vénise Monegasque/Venice in Monaco, Yona Friedman’s transparent and suspended bridge-city, Archigram’s Features Monte-Carlo, a rejection of deliberately buried architecture but offering a masterly response to exaggeratedly multi-faceted specifications, Paul Maymont’s Thalassopolis, a city that could be extended ad infinitum over the water, Edouard Albert’s L’Ile artificielle and the Quartier Marin, designed together with Jacques-Yves Cousteau, and Manfredi Nicoletti’s La Ville satellite and the Marinarium. More recently, Jean Nouvel came up with a Centre de l’homme et de la mer, and Emilio Ambasz devised Public Park and Residencies. Real urban development is reinstated in the exhibition thanks to a sizeable collection of illustrative material and filmed reports, emphasizing the ceaseless energy of the works begun in the 1960s, which have never been interrupted since.
It has taken Nathalie Rosticher Giordano two years to locate and process archives in Monaco’s institutional collections and administrative archives, in the private collections of architects, promoters and other interested parties, but also in Parisian institutions.
The exhibition extends beyond the museum walls, and the city thus assumes a new dimension, at once a place of memory, a place where people live, and a space of projections.
This project will be on view in three venues: in the two NMNM Villas – Villa Paloma and Villa Sauber – and at the Monte Carlo Train Station, where a 1:200 model of Monaco will be on display.
This exhibition is curated by Nathalie Rosticher Giordano – Chief Curator of the NMNM. The collective Martino Gamper and Åbäke (London) is responsible for the exhibition’s sets and graphic design (signs, communication and publications).
Villa Paloma : 19 January – 12 May 2013
Villa Sauber : 19 January – 30 December 2013
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This past Thursday, Olivia’s La Cala hosted an evening of dinner and live entertainment, with proceeds going to Plastic Free Seas Worldwide, followed by a Saturday morning beach clean in La Cala de Mijas.
In 2017, founder Craig Webb introduced a monthly beach clean program, Plastic Free Seas Worldwide, that aimed to rid the Costa del Sol of harmful waste and plastics through volunteer efforts.
Plastic Free Seas Worldwide held its first beach clean at Torrenueva; fifteen volunteers attended and 120 kilogrammes of plastic were collected. After a few months, Plastic Free Seas had over 50 volunteers at every event. Their biggest beach clean to date saw 117 volunteers remove over half a tonne of plastic from Cabopino Port.
In October 2018, Plastic Free Seas recorded, so far, that 7,500 pounds of plastic had been removed due to their collective beach cleans.
“It’s been fantastic, we even cleared a fridge from the beach.”
– Plastic Free Seas founder Natasha Wegloop to The Olive Press
On Thursday the 22nd, Olivia’s La Cala hosted an evening of dinner and entertainment supporting Plastic Free Seas Worldwide. Olivia’s owner Elliot Wright, an ambassador of Plastic Free Seas Worldwide, also joined almost one hundred volunteers this Saturday on the beach in La Cala de Mijas to collect bags full of plastics and debris from our beautiful coast.
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Masako Tamaki, Aaron Berard, Takeo Watanabe, Yuka Sasaki; REM sleep facilitates post-sleep visual perceptual learning (VPL) by eliminating anterograde interference from pre-sleep VPL. Journal of Vision 2018;18(10):255. doi: https://doi.org/10.1167/18.10.255.
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The role of REM sleep in VPL has remained elusive. We have previously found that both REM sleep and wakefulness stabilize VPL: If two different types of visual training occur successively with no interval, the first VPL training is retrogradely interfered with by the second VPL (Seitz et al, 2005; Yotsumoto et al, 2009). However, if REM sleep or wakefulness occurs during the interval, no retrograde interference was observed, indicating that REM sleep and wakefulness allow VPL to stabilize. Does this indicate that REM sleep and wakefulness have the same role in VPL? To address this question, we examined whether both REM sleep and wakefulness between the first and second types of visual training eliminate anterograde interference (from first on second VPL) as well as retrograde interference (from first on second VPL). Two blocks of training on the texture discrimination task with orthogonal orientations of background lines (1st-TDT and 2nd-TDT) were separated by a 2-hr interval. During the interval, subjects either slept (sleep group, n=12) or stayed awake (wake group, n=9). Performance was measured before and after trainings for both 1st-TDT and 2nd-TDT. The results showed that no retrograde interference occurred in the subjects from the wake group and those who showed REM sleep from the sleep group (REM-present), consistent with our previous findings. However, anterograde interference was observed for the wake group, but not for the REM-present group. Moreover, the amount of VPL of the 2nd-TDT was significantly correlated with the REM-sleep duration. These results suggest that REM sleep facilitates new VPL after sleep by eliminating anterograde interference from pre-sleep VPL. It has been reported that REM sleep prunes newly formed but unnecessary dendritic spines, which leaves room for the formation of even newer spines. This spine dynamics during REM sleep could account for the current results.
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The legal team for 17-year-old Kyle Rittenhouse has called him a member of the “militia” and a “minuteman,” referring to the patriot forces that fought the British at Lexington and Concord in 1775. This terminology, though archaic, is fairly common in gun circles, with more and more radicals acting as if the U.S. Constitution deputized them to form paramilitaries.
In the case of Rittenhouse, before he allegedly shot three protesters in Kenosha, Wisconsin, with an AR-15-type rifle on the last Tuesday of August, he was reportedly patrolling the city streets with members of the radical Boogaloo Bois militia.
We need to step back from this militia nonsense. These private paramilitaries are illegal and should be treated as such by the authorities.
And they were not the only ones brandishing long guns and strutting about in defiance of a curfew amid the roiling protests following the police shooting of Jacob Blake. There was also the Kenosha Guard, a brand-new creation by a local private investigator who claimed he didn’t “need the government’s permission” to command a militia.
This isn’t true. Yet, this lack of understanding of what a militia is under U.S. law and how it’s supposed to operate is being exploited by private armed groups. It’s critical that our local officials and law enforcement understand this because these groups court tragedy.
Creating a militia is not the same as exercising your Second Amendment right to, say, arm yourself with a gun and protect your shop from looters. A militia operates under the authority of the president or a governor; if it doesn’t, it’s just an armed mob. And while it’s likely that, in their own minds, these private paramilitary members think they are keeping the peace, what they are really doing is infecting protests with a greater potential for violence.
The idea of ordinary citizens being called forth to defend the community in times of emergency has deep roots in Anglo-Saxon and republican tradition, which emphasized political engagement, civic virtue and the ideal of the financially independent landowner. Colonial-era republicans saw the militia as the healthy alternative to a professional standing army (or, as we lovingly call them today, “the troops”), which was then associated with tyranny.
Favoring a stronger national government, the Federalists, in contrast, were not keen on the militia, given its middling performance during the Revolution, and wanted an army. George Washington himself referred to the militia as “a broken staff.” But the concept survived in the Constitution’s militia clauses and the Second Amendment to meet the republican objections of Anti-Federalists like Patrick Henry, famous for his rallying cry, “Give me liberty, or give me death!”
To further appease the Anti-Federalists, the Constitution divided control over the militia. Congress oversaw the arming, organizing and disciplining of the militia, while the states did the training and officering. The governors were normally in control of their own state militias, but the president could call them up to repel invasion, enforce the law and put down rebellions.
In all, it was a nice idea. But, once again, the militia largely disappointed during the War of 1812 and, in the following decades, enthusiasm for a mandatory and universal force waned, with citizens showing up to militia muster with broomsticks and corn stalks instead of rifles. Only the Southern states really kept up with the militia — because they needed it to enforce slavery.
In 1903, we officially divided the militia into an “organized militia,” i.e., the National Guard (and, later, state defense forces), and the “unorganized militia.” This other militia includes every able-bodied male age 17 to 45 and serves as a reserve body that, at least theoretically, could be called up for service by the president. (States have their own rules for militia membership; Illinois, for instance, now counts women in its state militia.)
So, does being part of an unorganized militia give you and your buddies the right to sling AR-15s across your chest, don cammies and patrol the streets of Kenosha and other cities as the self-declared Super-Patriot Constitutional Militia for Liberty and Tricorn Hats? No, because a militia is not an armed gang; it operates under orders from a legal authority that a self-governed group does not.
David Kopel, research director of the Independence Institute, does note that in the early and mid-1800s, there were privately organized militias: They were “like the Elks Club.” But they had to be organized like the regular militia, and even when they served as an intact unit, they did so under federal control. They also had to have state charters.
Indeed, Amy Swearer, a legal fellow at The Heritage Foundation’s Meese Center for Legal and Judicial Studies, notes that “there isn’t an affirmative right” to form one’s own militia. She cites Presser v. Illinois, in which the Supreme Court ruled in 1886 that a German immigrant didn’t have a Second Amendment right to march his socialist militia in Chicago without authorization from the state.
There are also state laws and constitutions that need to be obeyed.
“The laws of all 50 states prohibit, in one way or another, private militias that are not answerable to civilian governmental authority,” said Mary McCord, the legal director of the Institute for Constitutional Advocacy and Protection, at Georgetown University.
These prohibitions can come as constitutional provisions asserting civilian control over military forces or criminal statutes that ban private citizens from associating as a military unit or drilling in public. Indeed, following the 2017 “Unite the Right” march in Charlottesville, McCord relied on Virginia law to successfully sue right-wing and left-wing militias on behalf of the city and local businesses.
As for those private paramilitaries that took to the streets in Wisconsin, McCord points to Article I, Section 20 of the state constitution, which succinctly states, “The military shall be in strict subordination to, and governed by, the civil power.”
Of course, it’s easy to identify illegal private paramilitaries that move in formation and wear patches with emblems on their military-type uniforms. And it’s just as easy to know when it’s mom and pop arming themselves to protect their family business from arsonists, which is allowed under the Second Amendment. But what about more ad hoc groupings of armed strangers? When is a private militia a private militia?
There will always be gray areas. But that doesn’t mean the authorities shouldn’t act more forcefully to rein in groups that are clearly breaking the law, like the Boogaloo Bois and the Kenosha Guard.
After all, the militarization of political protests is profoundly dangerous. As is, we are a divided society. A paper published in January 2019 found that nearly 20 percent of Republicans and Democrats believed that many on the other side “lack the traits to be considered fully human — they behave like animals.” So, when armed factions insert themselves into an already tense environment, the chances for bloodshed rise exponentially.
We saw this just now in Kenosha.
And we nearly saw it a hundred times over in Louisville, Kentucky, on July 25. That’s when more than 300 members of an African American paramilitary, the NFAC ("Not F***ing Around Coalition”), stood only yards away from a heavily armed, far-right Three-Percenter outfit during a protest over the police killing of Breonna Taylor in March.
Enthusiasm for a mandatory and universal force waned, with citizens showing up to militia muster with broomsticks and corn stalks instead of rifles.
Passions were running high that afternoon. People were shouting slogans. Then a shot rang out.
One NFAC militiaman had collapsed from the heat, the group’s leader later said, and his shotgun discharged, wounding three. Thankfully, the accident didn’t ignite a running gun battle between two groups claiming to exercise their Second Amendment rights. Next time, we might not be so lucky.
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Japan’s public restrooms have in international reputation for being clean and well-maintained, but apparently that still wasn’t good enough. Shibuya’s public restrooms are currently undergoing a huge facelift in a project called Tokyo Toilet. Sixteen renown designers have been hired to redesign 17 public restrooms in locations all throughout Shibuya.
The project was spearheaded be the Nippon Foundation, who explains that “toilets are a symbol of Japan’s world-renowned hospitality culture.” All the toilets will be wheelchair-accessible and will be maintained by dedicated cleaning crews so that they “stand the test of time.”
Some locations are still under construction and won’t be completed until 2021 but below are the locations that have already opened. There’s also a handy map showing the location and status of each restroom.
Haru No Ogawa Community Park by Shigeru Ban
Architect Shigeru Ban, whose designed occupies 2 locations, created a bathroom whose walls are transparent when unoccupied. “There are two things we worry about when entering a public restroom, especially those located at a park,” explains Ban. “The first is cleanliness, and the second is whether anyone is inside.” Ban’s design solves for both, and also serves as a beautiful lantern that illuminates the park at nights.
Higashi Sanchome by Nao Tamura
NY-based designer Nao Tamura’s bathroom design was informed by her time in New York and the city’s respect towards the LGBTQ+ community. “The bathroom is a place where we address physical needs universal to all mankind, regardless of age, sexual identity, nationality, religion, or skin color,” says Tamura, and her design seeks to address those needs with an emphasis on security, privacy and urgency.
Designed to fit into a small triangular lot, Tamura’s restroom was inspired by Origata, a traditional Japanese method of decorative wrapping. “A symbol of gift-giving, this motif embodies the spirit of hospitality towards Shibuya ward’s multinational visitors, and carries my vision to create a safe space that envelopes all users.”
Ebisu East Park by Fumihiko Maki
Architect Fumihiko Maki’s restroom occupies a park commonly known as “Octopus Park” because of its playground equipment and the new facility was nicknamed “Squid Toilet.” The park is a popular spot for kids and adults so “we wanted this facility to function not only as a public restroom but as a public space that serves as a park pavilion equipped with a rest area,” says Maki.
The design uses a decentralized layout with multiple areas and lines of sight that promote good ventilation and plenty of sunlight. A cheerful roof integrates the different sections.
Ebisu Park by Masamichi Katayama
Some of Japan’s oldest toilets were known as kawaya, or river hut. Primitive in design, they were simple yet functional and often made of hardened soil and wood bundled together.
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What to Do If Your Engine Stopped Working? While driving, if your engine locks up while you’re on the highway, put your gearbox in neutral and coast to a safe location off the road. If it happens while you’re already parked, there’s no way you’re getting out of it. Try starting and stopping your car a couple of times.
If your engine seizes up while you’re driving, there isn’t much you can do to fix it short of a costly engine repair or complete engine replacement. If you have an engine that has seized as a result of being idle for an extended period of time, remove the spark plugs from all of the cylinders. Fill the cylinders with engine oil and let it to sit for a few days before using it again.
- Are you convinced that there are some items from which you will not be able to remove a seized engine?
- If the engine appears to be locked up, remove all of the spark plug holes and squirt or pour some liquid, such as Plus Gas or diesel fuel, into the hole until the problem is resolved.
- In order to get as much air into the hole as feasible, make all effort imaginable.
- Is it expensive to repair a seized engine?
- 1 Why does my car lock up when I start it?
- 2 What are the symptoms of a locked up motor?
- 3 What happens if my engine locks up?
- 4 What would cause an engine to lock up?
- 5 How much does it cost to fix a locked up engine?
- 6 How do you unstick an engine?
- 7 How long does it take for an engine to seize without oil?
- 8 Is it worth fixing a seized engine?
- 9 Is it worth fixing a blown engine?
- 10 What causes an engine to lock up?
- 11 What happens when an engine gets seized?
- 12 How to unseize an engine?
Why does my car lock up when I start it?
The most common reason of engine locking up is a lack of engine oil in the engine. Low engine oil levels result in friction, overheating, and other difficulties, all of which contribute to engine failure in the long run. The collection of water or rust inside the engine may potentially be the source of the problem.
What are the symptoms of a locked up motor?
In addition to booming banging or clunking noises, it has previously been mentioned that an engine that has been stuck can make a rattling noise. The noise is caused by the state colliding with the flywheel and causing it to spin. Another sign of a seized-up motor is the presence of fumes or even flames emerging from below the hood.
What happens if my engine locks up?
If your car’s engine locks up while you’re traveling, it will almost certainly come to a halt. You could also notice that your engine is running very rough or making a peculiar banging noise, which are both signs of a seized engine. The most typical reason for an engine to seize while driving is a shortage of oil in the engine cylinders.
What would cause an engine to lock up?
Inadequate oil supply is the most prevalent reason of an engine that has seized. Oil provides lubrication for the pistons, allowing them to move freely within the cylinders. In the absence of it, metal would scrape against metal, creating considerable heat. If you use too much, items might fuse together, resulting in the engine seizing.
How much does it cost to fix a locked up engine?
The cost of repairing a seized engine is likely to be between $3,000 and $5,000. The lack of oil or damage to the engine causes the engine to seize and either not operate correctly or refuse to turn over. Because the problem might be caused by a variety of different components, it’s difficult to estimate the precise cost of repair.
How do you unstick an engine?
To liberate the engine, turn the bolt counter-clockwise until it breaks free. If you are unable to get the engine to turn, inject penetrating oil into the walls of each cylinder through the spark plug wells until the engine turns. Allow for a couple of hours for the oil to make its way through the piston rings before attempting again.
How long does it take for an engine to seize without oil?
- How long does it take for an engine to seize if there is no oil in the system?
- When an engine is not running properly, it will only operate for approximately 15 minutes, and even when broken down, it will do major harm since it will be unable to burn gasoline.
- Due to the lack of lubricating chemicals in the engine, all metallic components scrape against one another, causing tremendous wear and tear on all metal components.
Is it worth fixing a seized engine?
Repairing a cracked engine block will cost you money. A seized engine is virtually inoperable in most situations. It is not going to work at all. The cost of replacing the engine might be in the neighborhood of $5,000.00 or more. That might be nearly as much as the current market value of your vehicle.
Is it worth fixing a blown engine?
If you do have a blown engine, the extent to which the damage can be repaired will determine whether or not it can be repaired. If the damage is minor and just a few pieces need to be replaced, the problem can be remedied very easily. It is conceivable, though, that you will require a total engine replacement if the damage is severe and difficult to fix.
What causes an engine to lock up?
- Make sure to check your oil level on a regular basis and to get it replaced at a technician or auto shop when needed.
- Continue to monitor your water pump to verify that it is operating correctly.
- Pay attention to your timing belt and make sure it is changed every 60,000 miles or so.
What happens when an engine gets seized?
- Most of the time, when an engine ″seizes up,″ it means that it has been frozen to the point that the crankshaft will not revolve in the bearings.
- This is caused by heat, and most of the time the automobile has been driven until the oil is low or out of oil.
- It is possible that the pieces that have seized or melted together include main or rod bearings, piston rings, or other components.
- The engine will not turn over by hand and will most likely require a complete rebuild or the installation of another engine.
How to unseize an engine?
- It is probable that the piston has seized if a visual examination on the piston reveals some deformation.
- Physical inspection
- Start it and listen for noises – attempt to turn the key in the ignition and keep your ears open for grinding, ticking, or other sounds that indicate you have a seized engine in your vehicle.
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There may be instances when you would need to find the owner of a car or an address where the vehicle is registered. Such would be the case if you want to check the vehicle's records before buying, if you want to conduct an investigation for accident and insurance claims or verify a ticket you received for a car …
Vehicles must be registered with the New Jersey Motor Vehicle Commission (MVC) to be legally driven on state roads and highways. Whether you are new to New Jersey or are registering a recently purchased vehicle, DMV.ORG will help you get out on the road. Registration by phone. Our phone lines are now open.
Generally speaking, however, the bulk of what you need to do to register a car remains the same. All US states require that you have a valid vehicle registration if you want to legally drive. Typically, you're also required to carry the registration card in your vehicle.
2020-12-08 · After buying a car, it may seem like your work is done. But one of the most important tasks to tackle afterward is vehicle registration. Vehicle registration connects a car to its owner. Each state requires you, by law, to get your car registered with your state’s Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) or transportation agency.
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Even if the old owner doesn't send off the log-book.. it will be still actually registered (albeit to the wrong person). And if the vehicle is scrapped or exported it would show up as such. Interested in Who owns a car… I was in a set up/sting if you will by a corrupt police officer In cahoots with at least a single tow man.
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2020-03-09 2020-11-02 2020-03-06 There is no current means to find out if someone has a car registered in your name without having the license plate number and vehicle identification number of the vehicle in question; the best you can is to find out how many vehicles are in your name. This it protect a person from someone else doing the research and using it against them. 2008-03-27 If you are driving a vehicle on public roads in Victoria, it must be registered. Learn more about registering a vehicle in Victoria. Limited use permits.
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Frank Lloyd Wright died in 1959 during his most prolific period of design and project commissions. Projects during his last several years included the Guggenheim Museum in New York City and the Marin County Civic Center. One of his last designs was of the Greek Orthodox Annunciation Church built in Wauwatosa, Wisconsin. Common to these three projects is the circular design element.
Designed in 1956, construction of the Greek Orthodox Church did not begin until after his death in 1959 and was completed in 1961.
While this shallow, domed design is not as attractive to me personally as most of his earlier work, there are some unique design attributes.
We’re getting blasted with a blizzard as I write this blog entry. As the storm was taking some time to organize, I was able to get out into the night’s snow. This is the receiving dock at what remains of the Pabst Brewery.
During the ’50s and 60’s many commercial buildings incorporated some sort of lattice grille into the front of the office building in an effort to simplify the geometry. Some attach this technique to the mid-century architectural movement, popular at the time. It’s been a long time since 1960 or so and the grille is showing it, but the effect is still striking.
The Charles River runs through some of the most beautiful, rich and exclusive Boston area. Take a walk down below some of the bridges that span the iconic river and you see a different, equally stunning part of Boston.
There’s a fella that liked this bridge just south of MIT so much that he decided to call it home. Just on the other side of the bridge is a NASA facility.
I was up early this weekend shooting in downtown Milwaukee during the earliest light before sunrise. Once I was finished before the civil dawn, I thought I’d take the time to capture the sun rising over a low cloud-deck above Lake Michigan. This landmark Art Museum building, designed by Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava, makes an interesting foreground subject for a lakefront sunrise.
Here’s what the inside of this building looks like from a photo I took earlier this year:
This is what the building looks like when the wings are lifted:
I’m not normally taken to mentioning products, plug-ins, or presets. FocalPoint 2 from onOneSoftware is an exception I don’t mind making. All of us don’t have the resources to buy $2,ooo f1.2 or tilt/shift lens that provide ultra shallow adjustable Depth Of Field. This plug-in for Photoshop gives you tools that you otherwise might not be able to afford. Here are a couple of examples where DOF was adjusted in post -processing using this plug-in:
I recently took a trip to the International Crane Foundation – near Baraboo/Lake Delton, Wisconsin. All fifteen of the world’s Cranes are housed in this facility. These birds are indescribably beautiful and graceful. No other opportunity or venue exists, that I’m aware of, allowing such close examination of the birds in surroundings that are comfortable for the animal and human visitor.
Here are a couple of photos of a Sandhill Crane, the most common crane in North America.
The bird that I found most compellingly photogenic is the Siberian Crane. This bird looks like an evil monk: | <urn:uuid:90010534-8b69-43f3-860a-801c4dcf3a16> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://ericksonphotography.net/?paged=2&author=1 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570977.50/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809124724-20220809154724-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.965567 | 709 | 1.875 | 2 |
Sexually Transmitted Disease in Adolescents
This case—sexually transmitted diseases in adolescents—is one of a series of teaching cases in the Case-Based Series in Population-Oriented Prevention (C-POP). It has been developed for use in medical school and residency prevention curricula. The complete set of cases is presented in this supplement to the American Journal of Preventive Medicine.
Sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) are common among adolescents. This case focuses on the population-based prevention of STDs. The case begins with clinical, diagnostic, and laboratory management of an adolescent female diagnosed with gonorrhea. Students then examine how the diagnosis of an STD can be used as an opportunity to provide preventive care and counseling on safer sexual behaviors. Questions addressing HIV testing and counseling are included in this section. Students proceed to explore how the diagnosis and reporting of an STD calls for interaction, such as partner notification, between clinical providers and public health departments. Finally, students are provided with actual information from local focus groups on attitudes and behaviors of high-risk adolescents. At the conclusion of the case, they are asked to interpret the data and formulate strategies to decrease gonorrhea rates in the community.
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From Sino-Korean 慧 (hye) meaning "bright, intelligent" or other characters which are pronounced in the same way. Although it does appear rarely as a single-character name, it is more often used in combination with another character. A notable bearer was a 6th-century king of Baekje.
Hye is baby girl name mainly popular in Christian religion and its main origin is Korean. Hye name meanings is Intelligent woman.
You probably have google this question: My baby name is Hye and how can I combine the name Hye with other names and create unique & new name? We tried to suggest Hye name combinations. You can see how it looks the name Hye as first name or Hye as last name. You can combine the middle name for Hye and create a unique name.
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Hye has the numerology 2. People with numerology 2 are known to be one of the most cooperative and that is because they are very quick to adapt to whatever environment they choose to be in. They do not keep overthinking everything rather they start to work immediately.
The gender of this Hye is Girl these people are also very inclusive of everyone which makes them considering and they do not let the people around them feel left out. They are always very compassionate and affectionate towards everyone and that is why they are heart of any get together. The meaning of this Hye is Intelligent woman.
These people are always the first ones to mediate whenever something serious occurs and they are also very good at partnering with people which definitely makes them one a kind. | <urn:uuid:b6803584-a159-41e5-a3dd-b24f4cb3918d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.kidpaw.com/names/hye | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570767.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808061828-20220808091828-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.973236 | 383 | 2.390625 | 2 |
This book was developed with the kind assistance of The World Health Organization (WHO) in Geneva, Switzerland.
Carter Roberts is one of the increasing number of children in the USA who have recently been paralyzed or have died, due to the New Polio (Acute Flaccid Myelitis).
As this 3rd Edition goes to press in late June 2022, we note that 2 articles have appeared this month in prestigious publications, both confirming what we have been saying since the 1st Edition in 2019.
1. The New England Journal of Medicine published on June 1, 2022. The study Enterovirus D 68 in the Anterior Horn Cells of a Child with Acute Flaccid Myelitis by (a) Matthew R. Vogt M.D, Ph.D. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine, N.C. and (b) Peter F Wright M.D. and (c) William F. Hickey MD, Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center Lebanon N.H, USA.
This research paper in the NEJM describes the autopsy findings of a child who died of Paralytic Polio, i.e. “Acute Flaccid Paralysis”, following an Enterovirus D68 infection. Thousands of cases have already been reported in S.E. Asia since 1989.
2. Forbes Magazine: The image at the top of this page accompanied the June 10, 2022, article by William A. Haseltine in Forbes Magazine, entitled There May Be A New Polio Epidemic On its Way. The author uses the surrogate (CDC) name 'Acute Flaccid Myelitis' in place of Polio, which we refer to as The New Polio. This informative Forbes article, the first in a series on enteroviruses, describes the illness that we have correctly called in our writings the New Polio, or Poliomyelitis. | <urn:uuid:5dd8e8e2-37cc-40f9-89e1-09bc3865dd2b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://nightingalepress.ca/products/m-e-and-the-return-of-polio-to-the-usa-3rd-edition | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573699.52/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819131019-20220819161019-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.938406 | 394 | 2.296875 | 2 |
The former Economist editor turns his hand to filmmaking in an attempt to find the cure for Italy’s “lost decades.”
Ihad always subscribed to the old print hacks’ joke: “You have a great face for radio.” And I had always believed that whatever the lure of large TV audiences, the trade off of shallowness for reach was not worth it. Words, in inky print or bits and bytes, were where the real action was. Then I discovered Italy, an Italian director friend, and some themes from Dante Alighieri. The result: a film.
The argument I used to convince Carol, my ever tolerant wife, was that making a film about Italy represented the least bad sort of mid life crisis. Other men buy red sports cars, or start consorting with scarlet women. I had decided to buy some smart suits, get a haircut, and to hurtle around a rather beautiful country in a rather uncomfortable minibus along with a camera crew and my guide in this adventure, the aforementioned director, Annalisa Piras.
Thus it was that we or, really, she, with some amateur input from me, plus my face and voice made a 98 minute documentary called Girlfriend in a Coma. The title was inspired by a pop song from Britain in the 1980s, roughly when I was living in Japan (my excuse for not having heard of it…), by The Smiths.
The idea the title conveyed was that this was Italy viewed through the eyes of a foreigner, one in love with the country hence, the girlfriend but who was saddened by her condition. I felt a bit unfaithful my original such “girlfriend” is Japan but we journos are allowed to be a bit promiscuous, after all.
Girlfriend is in a sense a classic work for a foreign correspondent, using the advantage of being an outsider with fresh eyes, though it is also crucially a joint venture, blending the passion and patriotism of Annalisa (albeit an exile who lives in London with her family) with the view of the foreign hack. Her patriotic input also explains why we have tried to make the film not just a one off but a campaign, aiming to “wake Italy up” from its coma through debates on social media and in civil society groups, schools and universities.
Why Italy? you might ask. Well, why not? I might answer. The more serious answer is that I had become engaged with Italy while I was editing The Economist, as in 2001 we had taken a look at the country’s media mogul turned wannabe prime minister, Silvio Berlus coni, and had not liked what we saw: a symbol of the danger of corporate wealth taking over a democracy.
We said on the cover that he was “unfit to lead Italy.” He riposted that we were communists, one of his newspapers pointed out that I look like Lenin, and he sued us for libel. There’s nothing I like more than a good punch up, and it made me intrigued as to how a country that has so much right about it could go so wrong politically, morally and in its economy, over more than 20 years. Italy, like Japan in its different way, has “lost” two decades. So the film tries to explain why, say who is responsible, and show how Italy is not an exception but a warning for the rest of the West.
The whole venture was much tougher than I expected. It took longer, cost a lot more, and was a lot more difficult than I had realized. Not so much the performance (though I now have greater sympathy for actors, understanding that their most crucial item of clothing, given all the standing about, is thermal under wear), but the conception (how to blend images and words) and the execution (how to edit, to choose, and to build a narrative from 100 hours of film and some brilliant animation).
We also made things hard for ourselves in commercial terms. We chose to remain independent and not to involve broad casters as co-producers, in order to keep editorial control. Since we were operating on a shoestring, essentially from Annalisa’s loft, we had no credibility or influence with the film or TV industry. And since we were making a film about a country whose own media and film industry is very incestuous and resistant to outsiders, we were shunned by our best potential market, Italy itself, whether by film distributors, free to air TV channels or film festivals.
Then we had a bit of luck. Knowing an Italian election campaign in February 2013 gave us a good chance to get noticed, we organized a small tour of screenings in Italy in the run up to the vote, to be opened by a premiere cum launch party for which we booked a cinema in a rather cool contemporary art museum in Rome, Maxxi. The luck was that 14 days before the event, the director of the (privately run, but state funded) museum, Giovanna Melandri, decided to ban our premiere.
She is a political hack, though from the left rather than Berlusconi’s camp, and came up with the lovely line that it wasn’t right to show a “political” film during an election campaign. Being banned, of course, is the best thing that can happen to any writer or artist. Suddenly we became headline news, martyrs to the cause of free speech, and subjects of an online petition that within four days had got 30,000 signatures calling for our premiere’s reinstatement.
ITALY, LIKE JAPAN IN ITS DIFFERENT WAY, “LOST” TWO DECADES
We would never have been able to organize such good publicity ourselves. The premiere was taken over by the Italian news magazine, L’Espresso, in a venue five times larger than the cinema in Maxxi. Our tour of screenings multiplied, as people queued up to organize them all over the country. At last, a private free to air TV channel that had previously ignored our approaches, La7 (then owned by Telecom Italia) bought the terrestrial broadcast rights.
The post screening debates, with audiences young and old, were lively, engaged, sometimes critical, but always in the end supportive, because we were counted as being against “the system,” which many Italians have come to hate. Yet at the now more than 50 such debates we have attended, mostly in Italy but also in London, Paris, Brussels and Berlin, one character in the film drew more criticism than any other.
This was not a politician, nor the Catholic Church, nor a media magnate. It was the Carlos Ghosn of Italy, a Canadian Italian called Sergio Marchionne who since 2004 has been CEO of the FIAT car company and has done a huge amount to make it viable as a multinational firm, chiefly by buying Chrysler cheaply and turning it round.
The criticism revealed a deeply ambiguous view of globalization and modernization. What Marchionne has tried to do is to take a failing Italian national champion and make it globally competitive trying to match productivity and management methods used in Germany, Britain, America and, yes, Japan. And he has tried to rock the boat for the business establishment, quit ting the business federation Confindustria just as Rakuten’s Hiroshi Mikitani quit Keidanren except that FIAT is part of the old establishment.
Yet that still doesn’t make him popular. He is a hero in Detroit but a villain in Italy, for his tussles with trade unions and for the uncomfortable message he puts out about what change means in an age of globalization. If Shinzo Abe ever gets round to really doing anything about his “third arrow” of structural reforms he may well feel a bit of sympathy for Marchionnesan.
So what’s next? Obviously, not another film? Hmm, well, that mid life crisis just won’t go away. We’re at work on a film now about the current threats to the European Dream, this time with the BBC as co-producers. And to support that and other projects, we’ve set up “The Wake Up Foundation,” a non profit dedicated to research and communication, through films and words, about the sources of Western decline. I’d love eventually to do a film about my real girl friend, Japan. No peace for the wicked.
The author on the streets of Italy; FIAT CEO Sergio Marchionnne being interveiwed in the film…
…Silvio Berlusconi featured on The Economist cover in the documentary; behind the scenes dring filming
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|The black legged tick, Borrelia bugdorferi from CDC|
The black legged tick is not the only tick to worry about, there are other ticks that carry disease. In addition, there are other diseases carried by ticks. The Center for Disease Control and Prevention, CDC, reports 10 other groups of diseases spread by ticks. Ticks can carry more than one disease and Lyme disease patients are sometimes co-infected with another tick-borne disease, complicating diagnosis and treatment. Other tick borne diseases include: anaplasmosis, babesiosis, ehrlichiosis, powassan, rickettsia parkeri rickettiosis, Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever, STARI, tickborne relapsing fever, tularemeia, 364D Rickettsiosis. These diseases cause everything from chills, rash, fever and flu like symptoms to kidney failure and even death. Co-infection can make diagnosis trickier and may call for different treatment. There is still much we do not know about tick borne illnesses and the bacteria that cause disease continue to evolve developing resistance to treatment.
Lyme disease is caused by the bacterium Borrelia burgdorferi through the bite of infected black legged ticks (also called the deer tick). Early symptoms can include fever, headache, fatigue, and a characteristic bull’s-eye skin rash and is often mistaken for flu. The Mayo Clinic reports that with treatment with appropriate antibiotics in the early stages of the disease that most people recover completely. However in some individuals and in later stages, response to treatment may be slower, but the majority of people with Lyme disease are reported to recover eventually. Left untreated, Lyme disease can cause: Chronic joint inflammation (Lyme arthritis), particularly of the knee, neurological symptoms, such as facial palsy and neuropathy, cognitive defects, such as impaired memory and heart rhythm irregularities. Lyme disease is serious and to be avoided and the best way to do this is to prevent tick bites. You could completely avoid the outdoors in the warmer months of April to September or you can take precautions.
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Start with trying to avoid direct contact with ticks. Avoid wooded and bushy areas with high grass and leaf litter. During the warms months of the year apply bug repellents that contain 20% - 30% DEET (N, N-diethyl-m-toluamide) on exposed skin and clothing for protection that lasts up to several hours. Before sending the kids out to play parents should apply bug repellent to their children. Use products that contain permethrin only on clothing. Treat clothing and gear, such as boots, pants, socks and tents. It remains effective through several washings. Pre-treated clothing is available and remains protective for up to 70 washings, though some field studies indicate that treated socks should be replaced more frequently.
After playing outdoors, working in the garden or playing with pets you will need to make sure there are no ticks on your body. Remove all outdoor clothing upon entering the home. I strip in the mudroom, leaving my shoes and outdoor gear in it racks and tossing my clothes into the laundry room floor. Examine gear and pets. Ticks can ride into the home on clothing and pets, then attach to a person later, so carefully examine pets, coats, and day packs, all outdoor equipment should remain in the mud room or garage. Wash your clothes in hot water and tumble clothes in a dryer on high heat for an hour to kill remaining ticks. (Some research suggests that shorter drying times may also be effective, particularly if the clothing is not wet.)
Then it’s off to the bathroom to make sure there are no ticks on your body. Start with fine combing your hair and bathe immediately to wash off and more easily find ticks that might be crawling on you. While bathing conduct a full-body tick check under the arms, in and around the ears, inside the belly button, behind the knees, between the legs, around the waist, and especially in your hair. Ticks are very small as you can see in the diagram below from the CDC, be diligent. | <urn:uuid:9706f71d-6408-4d1f-aaa1-ffe002bac1d5> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://greenrisks.blogspot.com/2014/04/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570977.50/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809124724-20220809154724-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.954852 | 866 | 3.515625 | 4 |
Baby buntings help to prevent heat loss in infants.
The Dynarex Baby Bunting provides containment during transport and are available in a soft fabric or a reflective foil. A reflective hood is also included on he foil bunting that is designed to further aid in preventing heat loss.
- Used to help prevent heat loss
- Provides containment during transport
- #3536 Features a zipper for convenience and soft fabric for infant comfort
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Williams Case – Teacher MisassignmentsInformation on the landmark Superior Court case to provide all students equal access to instructional materials, safe schools, and quality teachers.
State law, California Education Code (EC) Section 33126 , establishes the specific definitions of teacher vacancy and teacher misassignments and requires the California Department of Education to include related data with the School Accountability Report Cards. It is the California Commission on Teacher Credentialing that is responsible for the certification of teachers (For more information, see the link below to the CCTC website). EC Section 44258.9 describes the legal requirements for monitoring of educator assignments in California.
EC Section 33126 (in part):
(a)The school accountability report card shall provide data by which a parent can make meaningful comparisons between public schools that will enable him or her to make informed decisions on the school in which to enroll his or her children.
(b)The school accountability report card shall include, but is not limited to, assessment of the following school conditions:
(5)The total number of the school’s fully credentialed teachers, the number of teachers relying upon emergency credentials, the number of teachers working without credentials, any assignment of teachers outside their subject areas of competence, misassignments, including misassignments of teachers of English learners, and the number of vacant teacher positions for the most recent three-year period.
(A)For purposes of this paragraph, “vacant teacher position” means a position to which a single-designated certificated employee has not been assigned at the beginning of the year for an entire year or, if the position is for a one-semester course, a position of which a single-designated certificated employee has not been assigned at the beginning of a semester for an entire semester.
(B)For purposes of this paragraph, “misassignment” means the placement of a certificated employee in a teaching or services position for which the employee does not hold a legally recognized certificate or credential or the placement of a certificated employee in a teaching or services position that the employee is not otherwise authorized by statute to hold.
EC 44258.9 (in part):
(a) (1) The Legislature finds and declares that continued monitoring of teacher assignments by county superintendents of schools will help ensure that local educational agencies meet the reporting requirements of the federal Every Student Succeeds Act (Public Law 114-95), or any other federal law that effectively replaces that act, and will ensure that the rate of teacher misassignments remains low. To the extent possible, and with the funds provided for that purpose, each county office of education shall perform its duties as a monitoring authority[.]
(2) The commission and the department shall perform the duties specified in this section.
(3) Teacher assignment monitoring and the requirements of this section shall be executed in a manner consistent with the statewide system of support and the school accountability system […], and the state plan approved by the state board that is required for compliance with the federal Every Student Succeeds Act, or any other federal law that effectively replaces that act.
School Accountability Report Card (SARC) California public & nonpublic, nonsectarian schools annually provide information to the community to allow public comparison of schools for student achievement, environment, resources & demographics.
California Education Code Section 33126 : The specific state law that establishes the definition of teacher vacancy or misassignments.
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Creating a campaign
Work with the system for advertisers starts with the creation of the campaign. The advertising campaign is the main tool of the system. A campaign represents a container to which is added one or more ads.
With the campaign to regulate prices, to target the right audience, to set limits, budget, time, and regions of broadcast and other critical parameters. In one campaign can be as one, and several similar ads.
On the page of the Campaign, click Create an ad campaign:
Information about the campaign.
In the first step you'll need to specify the name of the campaign, it can be anything, a link to the advertised source (URL) and choose the subject of advertising. The group is required for convenience only, in the case when campaigns will be a lot of groups it is convenient to store.
Select the ad format.
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It is mandatory for anyone who is in contact with Lithium batteries to have relevant first aid and emergency products available onsite.
As the energy density of batteries increases, battery safety becomes even more critical if the energy is released unintentionally. Accidents related to fires and explosions occur frequently worldwide.
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If a brother or sister is naked and lacks daily food, and one of you says to them, ‘Go in peace; keep warm and eat your fill,’ and yet you do not supply their bodily needs, what is the good of that?” vss. 15-16James 2:14-17
Many followers of Jesus are familiar with the slogans, “grace alone, faith alone, and scripture alone.” But they’ve probably never ever heard anyone say, “works alone!” It seems a contradictory phrase, one that doesn’t fit with the spirit of the Reformation, and yet that’s exactly what James is saying here. (Which is why Martin Luther would have preferred to leave the book of James out of the bible!) James had seen what people were doing in their congregations–to put it in another way, they talked the talk, but they didn’t walk the walk! And he’s right! Forget about proper theology and complex theories of atonement, if we’re not doing something about the physical needs of hurting people before we start preaching at them, we’ve missed the point of Jesus. God bless those congregations who work closely with social service organizations to help the broken and needy. God bless those politicians who put the poor at the top of their legislative agenda. God bless each of us when we gladly share our wealth with those who need it the most. If we don’t do all we can to meet the bodily needs of others, “what is the good of that”?
James could not be more clear–and he too lived by grace!
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Posted on June 1, 2018
Psycho is a psychological horror film directed by Alfred Hitchcock. The film was based on the 1959 novel of the same name by Robert Bloch.
It was a low-budget (800k) black-and white film that helped lead to the creation of the slasher film genre.
The Story (SPOILERS)
The film revolves around Marion Crane, a secretary that steals money from her employer. Her plan is to use the money to get married to her boyfriend Sam.
The character is played by Janet Leigh. The film becomes suspenseful due to her running away with the stolen cash (a MacGuffin, a film technique that Hitchcock was popular for).
After driving through the night, she pulls over on the side of the road and falls asleep. She is woken by a state patrol officer.
Marion stops at an automobile dealership and trades in her car (to shake the tailing police officer). Frightened and tired, Marion drives closer to California but is slowed by a violent rainstorm.
She pulls into the Bates Motel for the night.
Marion enters the office and meets the proprietor, Norman Bates. He mentions the lack of business due to being bypassed by the new interstate.
She proceeds to check herself in under a false name. He invites her to dinner (sandwiches) and they eat in the motel parlor.
The parlor is covered with stuffed animals, and Norman tells her about his life.
Norman is a lonely person who looks after his mother, who is mentally ill. She forbids him from having a decent life and he notes that “a boy’s best friend is his mother”.
They conclude their conversation with Marion deciding to go back to Phoenix and return the stolen money. She unknowingly states that she signed in under a false name, leading to Norman’s fascination and voyeuristic intent.
The Shower Scene
As Marion showers, a shadowy figure stabs her to death with a chef’s knife. Unlike similar horror films, Psycho never shows gore or actual stabbing.
It focuses more on the action of the killing, showing blood circling the drain and a close up on Marion’s unblinking corpse. The shrieking violin score accompanies the scene, adding to the action.
The blood used in the scene is chocolate syrup, which appeared more realistic on black-and-white film than stage blood.
Norman discovers the murder and figures that his mother is responsible. He cleans up the crime scene and puts Marion’s corpse and possessions (including the stolen money) into her car.
Norman sinks it in the swamps near the motel.
A week later, Marion’s sister Lila confronts Sam about the whereabouts of her sister. A private investigator named Milton Arbogast tells them that Marion is wanted for stealing the money.
He checks several motels and confronts Norman. After hearing that Marion met Norman’s mother, he goes to the Bates’ home in search of Norman’s mother.
As he searches the home, he is murdered and falls down the stairs.
When Lila and Sam are not updated by the investigator, Lila and Sam go to the local sheriff. He informs them that Mrs. Bates killed herself ten years ago.
Terrified, Lila and Sam go to the motel and meet Norman.
Sam distracts him while Lila sneaks up to the house. Lila finds Mrs. Bates in the cellar and discovers that she is a mummified corpse.
Lila screams as Norman charges to attack her, holding a knife and wearing his mother’s clothes and a wig. Before Norman can attack her, Sam tackles Norman.
At the courthouse, a psychiatrist explains Norman’s reasoning. He murdered his mother, and due to his guilt, developed a second personality.
This personality was responsible for the murderous actions of the film. The psychiatrist says the “Mother” personality has overtaken Norman’s mind and the film ends with Norman debating his actions.
Bloch’s 1959 novel loosely alluded to the Plainfield, Wisconsin serial killer Edward Gein. When police searched his home, they found furniture, silverware, and even clothing made of human skin and body parts.
Gein served as a model for several famous villains, most notably Norman Bates (Psycho), Leatherface (The Texas Chain Saw Massacre), and Buffalo Bill (The Silence of the Lambs).
Psycho is a classic film. While it may deter some by being in black-and-white, the masterful shot direction, captivating dialog, and intense structure still offers a satisfying experience.
The historical magnitude of this film provides justification to film-making as an art form. There isn’t an endless stream of physical action, but instead a focus on rising tension.
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You might remember the TV advertising campaign "Can You Hear Me Now." However, if someone calls you and asks that question, it could be one of many scam phone calls. In the time it takes for you to answer the question, you could have already fallen victim to a scam. The elderly are especially vulnerable to this type of phone call.
Recent reports show that consumers lose about $50 billion each year to scammers, with phone scams targeting seniors accounting for a large percentage of that total. History has shown that phone scams seem to be the easiest to orchestrate, but there are many ways consumers can be scammed via email, postal mail, or even face to face.
Here are some of the most recent scams that are targeting seniors:
"Can You Hear Me Now?" - Callers claiming to be from the IRS ask the question, "Can you hear me now?" The scammers record the consumer's response, and if the consumer says "Yes," the caller hangs up and calls back. During this second conversation, the caller asks the consumer if they are aware of the owed money and that the consumer must provide payment. The caller then uses the previous 'yes' recording to manipulate the phone records to show false proof of the consumer acknowledging and agreeing to provide the payments.
"Grandparent Scam" - Callers claim to be a grandchild who has been arrested and needs money to make bail. Sometimes they need money to repair a car after an accident. The caller warns that telling mom or dad can make the problem worse. You're asked to wire money or purchase gift cards that can be emailed. There are several variations to this scam. Often, the caller has the name of a grandson or granddaughter or can get you to tell them their name. They use that information in the conversation to gain the person's trust.
"Debt Collection" - Via telephone calls or postal mail, phony debt collectors demand money to cover unpaid debts. Often the victim is threatened with legal action if payments are not made. Always be careful with so-called debt collectors.
"Windows Error" – These people call and say your computer is sending out error messages on the internet. No, Microsoft will not contact you and tell you that your computer is sending out error messages.
"Apple Account" - Similar scam, but now it is Apple Support calling. Apple will not call you.
"Utility scam" - In this scam, they will say there was a billing error, and you are owed money. The scammer then asks for your account number. Your utility will not call you, and even if they did, they would know your account number - they called you.
"Internal Revenue Service" - You get a call claiming to be an IRS agent (or some other federal agency), and they give you their badge number. They then tell you that you owe money to the IRS, and unless you pay right away, a warrant for your arrest will be issued. The IRS will not call you as they communicate by mail.
"Car Warranty Expiring" - There are ligament companies that offer extended car warranties, but these companies call and ask you to "confirm" information. They are scams.
"Card Services" - Perhaps one of the most annoying as computers dial millions of numbers with a fake caller ID. The recorded voice says you qualified for a lower interest rate from your bank and asks you to press one. If you do, a live operator tries to get you to give them your name and account numbers. The goal is identify theft. The real bank would already know your information and probably would never do a blind call.
Elderly Can Be Duped Easier
These people can scam the best of us, but older people can fall for these much easier. Speak with older family members about these scams. It is always harder when you age to keep up with new technology, and sometimes they become too trusting.
The AARP has a fraud network that keeps up with the many scams - just click here.
Prepare for Your Future Aging
Before you get older, prepare for the many consequences of aging. Your health, body, and mind will deteriorate in the decades ahead. There is a good chance you will need long-term care services. People need long-term care due to an illness, accident, or the impact of aging.
The cost of long-term health care is not paid for by traditional health insurance or Medicare. Only Long-Term Care Insurance and Medicaid (the medical welfare program) offer long-term health care benefits. If you have savings, you need to take action now to protect them.
You can take action now to prepare for a future successful retirement. Be sure to start saving money in your employer's 401(k). Take better care of your health to reduce needed care sooner than later. Adding an affordable Long-Term Care Insurance policy is critical in retirement planning.
Licensed Agents Will Have to Ask Questions
Keep in mind that in order to get accurate quotes, a licensed Long-Term Care Insurance specialist will have to get your date of birth, address, gender, and health information. States require that agents determine "suitability," so they will ask financial questions.
These questions are not scams and are required to help you get accurate information and quotes. If you apply for Long-Term Care Insurance, you will have to provide even more information for the underwriting process.
Be prepared for real scams and be prepared for the costs and burdens of aging. Scams can happen to people of all ages. Aging happens to everyone. The consequences are real. Being prepared will make getting older easier.
About the Author
An LTC News author focusing on long-term care and aging.
Contributor since August 21st, 2017
Being prepared for future declining health and aging has never been more critical than right now. Long-term health care costs are skyrocketing due to increasing demand, labor shortages, and high labor costs.
If you want to ensure you obtain quality care in the setting you desire, including in-home care, then getting affordable Long-Term Care Insurance is a vital part of your retirement planning.
Long-term care is a cash flow issue, but it is also a family issue, and the consequences on loved ones can be dramatic. Family caregivers find it hard to juggle their careers and family responsibilities with that of a caregiver for an older parent. The burden is something most people have said in surveys that they don't want to place on their family.
LTC Insurance provides guaranteed tax-free benefits to access your choice of quality care options, including care at home. You will protect your income and assets and reduce the stress and anxiety otherwise placed on loved ones.
Planning Tools and Resources on LTC NEWS
You can find many tools and resources on LTC NEWS to assist you in your research for a planning solution or help your family find the appropriate care for a loved one at the time of crisis.
To help you plan the costs and burdens of changing health and aging, LTC NEWS has put in place several resources, including:
- The LTC NEWS Cost of Care Calculator will show you the current and future cost of long-term health care services where you live. Plus, each state has vital state-specific information you should know - Cost of Care Calculator - Choose Your State | LTC News
- The Ultimate Long-Term Care Guide is an outstanding read to help you get a good overview of the topic area.
- Compare the major insurance companies that offer Long-Term Care Insurance products here - Top Insurers for Long-Term Care Insurance | LTC News.
- A detailed tax guide that includes available tax incentives can be found by reviewing the Long-Term Care Tax Benefits Guide.
Find all the resources on LTC NEWS - Resources for Long-Term Care Planning | LTC News.
Seek Professional Guidance
Insurance rates are regulated, so no insurance agent, agency, or financial advisor can give you special deals. However, insurance companies' premiums vary over 100% for the same coverage.
Experts suggest using a qualified Long-Term Care Insurance specialist to help you navigate the many options available to you and your family.
A specialist who works with the top companies can match your age, health, family history, and other factors and find you the best coverage at the best value. A specialist will save you money, and you will have peace of mind knowing they are making the appropriate recommendations - Work With a Specialist | LTC News.
Finding Quality Care for Mom or Dad
Start by reading our four guides -
- Finding Quality In-Home Care | LTC News
- Adult Day Care Centers (ADCCs) | LTC News
- Assisted Living and Memory Care Facilities | LTC News
- Finding a Quality Nursing Home | LTC News
If they are lucky enough to own a Long-Term Care Insurance policy, be sure they use it. Sometimes families wait, thinking they can save the benefits for a rainy day. Waiting on using available Long-Term Care Insurance benefits is not a wise idea.
Get Help in Filing a Long-Term Care Insurance Claim
Quality care obtained early will help provide a better quality of life and reduce the risk of a deep decline and facility care. If you need help in starting the process of a Long-Term Care Insurance claim, LTC NEWS can help.
LTC NEWS provides free assistance with no obligation to help you or a loved one complete the claims process with a Long-Term Care Insurance policy. We have teamed up with Amada Senior Care, who will do all the work, free with no obligation.
You can also get support in finding quality caregivers and get recommendations for a proper care plan, whether a person has a policy or not. - Filing a Long-Term Care Insurance Claim | LTC News.
Benefits of Reverse Mortgages
Today's reverse mortgages for those aged 62 and older could be an ideal resource to fund a Long-Term Care Insurance policy OR even provide money to pay for care if you, or a loved one, already needs help and assistance.
Some people have much of their savings invested in their homes. With today's reverse mortgages, you can find ways to fund care solutions, care itself, even help with cash flow during your retirement.
Learn more by asking questions to an expert. LTC NEWS columnist and host of the TV Show "62 Who Knew" will answer your questions regarding caregiving, aging, health, retirement planning, long-term care, and reverse mortgages.
- Just "Ask Mike." - Reverse Mortgages | LTC News.
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The crossroads of technology and the liberal arts — And what that means for developers & designers
In March of 2011, Steve Jobs gave one of his last addresses at an Apple Special Event. During the event, Jobs spoke about Apple’s unique and deeply inspirational philosophy of combining technology with the liberal arts.
It’s in Apple’s DNA that technology alone is not enough — That it’s technology married with liberal arts, married with the humanities, that yields us the result that makes our hearts sync.
There’s no doubt that this mantra is what helped skyrocket Apple to stardom, leaving other tech giants such as Microsoft, IBM, and Samsung in the dust. This ideology is the essence of Apple’s identity, and it should be the driving motivator for all developers and designers. Here’s why…
Humanities, as it sounds and looks, is the study of humans. That includes the art, literature, and culture of humanity as a whole. In the early days of tech and computer engineering, humanity was often overlooked in the architecture of computer systems and designs. Rather than making computers more like humans, our initial approach was to make humans more like computers. To use the computer, you had to be somewhat of a whiz and think the same way a computer thought. Of course, this began to change (much thanks to the like of Steve Jobs and Apple). And once this started to change, the world began adopting computers for everything. Fast-forward to the present, modern operating systems allow a normal person to interact with the computer in an intuitive way that is native to our human operating system. Not everyone can think the same way a computer can think. And, because of that, it is critical that we design and create applications with that in mind.
It has been said that Steve Jobs preferred to hire engineers that had backgrounds beyond just tech. This doesn’t mean someone who has lived and loved computer science their entire life would not make the cut. What it does mean, however, is that a truly great developer or designer should take inspiration from the liberal arts. While technology has drastically changed in the past hundred years with the development of once unfathomable milestones, humans have not really changed. We are still motivated by love, happiness, compassion, greed, sadness, and fear (just to name a few). Technology will continue to change over the next hundred years as well. Humans, however, will not evolve all that much. The humanities are the constant in the equation for groundbreaking innovation. True innovation and discovery happens when we focus on the foundational mechanics of human interaction.
What does this all mean?
For us to become truly great designers and developers, we should focus on developing and designing with humans at the center. Now, I could go off about how we should engineer with our end user in mind. And, I’m sure every product manager on the planet is hoping I go off on that tangent. But, I’m not going to. Rather, I’m going to wrap up my soapbox with one piece of advice. That is, find passion outside of technology. By finding inspiration from the humanities (outside of technology) we can explore more paths that will help us connect humanity. For example, try learning an instrument. Or, write some poetry. Whatever it is, take some time to get in touch with what makes you truly human. And, enjoy it. By so doing, you will slowly find greater inspiration in the design and architecture of your software. And, more importantly, you will find greater purpose and satisfaction. | <urn:uuid:0c7f89fc-86ec-4207-aade-d25acd1906fd> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://youngbloodcyb.medium.com/the-crossroads-of-technology-and-the-liberal-arts-and-what-that-means-for-developers-designers-b8714f61e8f0?source=post_internal_links---------2---------------------------- | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573699.52/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819131019-20220819161019-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.960973 | 738 | 2.90625 | 3 |
Think your job is stressful? If you’re not a firefighter, military professional, or airline pilot, be thankful. All three professions are considered more stressful than most careers out there.
Want a less stressful job? According to CareerCast, a job search website which compiles an annual list of the most and least stressful jobs, you might want to try a career in hair-styling or audiology. Among the other low-stress jobs on the list are careers as a librarian, tenured professor, jeweler, and seamstress.
CareerCast devised its rankings based on 11 different factors, from how much a person in a given career must travel for work, whether the job is subject to tight deadlines, workplace hazards, etc. In some cases (such as with enlisted military personnel), your career can even put your life at risk on a daily basis.
Careers with the most points were ranked as the “most stressful” jobs, while those with less points were considered to be less stressful careers. Jobs were given more points if they were stressful in more than one way, or if a given stressor was considered a major part of the job. Careers in which a given stressor was only sometimes part of the job were given less points, and careers in which a given stressor was only an occasional aspect of the job were given no points in that category.
While many of the careers on our list may not surprise you, others, such as those in the media, might be more unexpected.
10. Taxi Driver
- Median salary: $22,820
- Outlook: 20% job increase
Taxi drivers have a stressful job for a variety of reasons. For one, their clientele is oftentimes demanding and they are often pressured to deliver their fare to a destination by a certain time, despite traffic, weather, and other considerations. Further, many taxi drivers don’t have set schedules, and evening and weekends are very common.
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the demand for taxi drivers is forecasted to grow as more and more people flock to cities. Taxi drivers, the Bureau notes, “generally complement public transportation systems because people who regularly take the train or bus are more likely to use a taxi than would people who drive their own car. Therefore, as public transport systems grow, the demand for taxis should grow.”
9. Police Officer
- Median salary: $55,270
- Outlook: 7% job increase (slower than average)
It’s not exactly a great time to be a cop; public perception of the occupation couldn’t be further from the days of “Officer Friendly.” Aside from the public’s perception of the job, “police and detective work can be physically demanding, stressful, and dangerous,” to boot, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Police officers also have “one of the highest rates of injuries and illnesses of all occupations,” and “working around the clock in shifts is common,” so don’t expect a 9-5 if you choose to go into this profession.
8. Reporter (Newspaper)
- Median salary: $35,870
- Outlook: 6% job increase
Newspaper reporters are notoriously stressed; they often have very little time to research and report a story, so strict deadlines are often a fact of life for those in this profession. While being a reporter isn’t physically demanding and (usually) doesn’t threaten your life, reporters’ work is published for public consumption, so their work is also often subject to criticism.
7. Senior Corporate Executive
- Median salary: $168,140
- Outlook: 5% job increase
Life is lonely at the top, they say. Senior executives often get paid extremely well, but it certainly comes at a steep price; executives work long hours (including weekends) and travel often for their jobs. The Bureau of Labor Statistics notes that, as of 2012, around half of all senior executives worked more than 40 hours a week. Additionally, because senior executives run their respective companies, they are constantly under scrutiny and are often held responsible for the success or failure of the company as a whole.
6. Public Relations Executive
- Median salary: $54,170
- Outlook: 21% job increase
Like top executives, PR specialists often work incredibly long hours, and overtime is very common in this field. Further, because public relations specialists and managers are responsible for how their organization or company is perceived, they are constantly under pressure. PR executives also frequently travel to give speeches or meet with clients of the organization they’re representing, so time away from home is common, too.
5. Event Coordinator
- Median salary: $45,810
- Outlook: 44% job increase
Event planners may spend most of their time in a fairly run-of-the-mill office environment, but they also spend a lot time traveling to and from event sites, as well as scoping out prospective event sites for future occasions. During events, coordinators work extremely long hours, as they must be present to oversee the event from set up to clean up. Because of the nature of their work, they often work weekend or holiday events, and may not be able to spend that time with their families and friends.
4. Airline Pilot
- Median salary: $114,200
- Outlook: 11% job increase
Due to industry safety regulations, airline pilots are not permitted to fly for more than 8 hours at a time in any 24-hour window. Yet because of the nature of their work they are frequently away from home and must often travel during weekends and holidays. Their schedules are often variable, and they experience a certain amount of strain on the body due to “jet lag.” Being a pilot might sound glamorous, but most of a pilot’s time is spent between the airport and the hotel; they aren’t always able to enjoy the sights and scenes of the destinations they travel to.
- Median salary: $45,250
- Outlook: 9% job increase
Firefighters often have previous military experience because their jobs are so physically demanding. You must be able to pass a battery of tests which measure physical fitness as well as stamina to become a firefighter, and their work can be extremely dangerous. In certain situations, firefighters risk their own lives in hopes of rescuing others. Firefighters also remain on call, sometimes on 24-hour shifts, and most work more than 40 hours a week.
2. Military General
- Median salary: $196,300
- Outlook: Not available
While military generals don’t personally risk their lives nearly as much as the soldiers on the ground, generals are often responsible for the lives and safety of many other people, a stress which is often more demanding than simply risking one’s own life. Generals must be able to remain calm whilst directing troops, as well as anticipate possible dangers, and strategize the troops activities several days in advance. Like soldiers, generals are often away from their families for long stretches of time.
1. Enlisted Military Personnel
- Median salary: $28,840
- Outlook: Not available
This one might seem a bit obvious, but jobs in the military score highly in almost every area which is a source of stress: long hours away from home, lots of travel, and risk to one’s own life all characterize a soldier’s day-to-day existence. Being a soldier is immensely physically demanding, but it also takes a toll on one’s emotional and psychological health as well. According to the Department of Veterans’ Affairs some 30% of Vietnam veterans and around 20% of Iraq veterans return home with post traumatic stress.
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Black History month started as a week to celebrate black history, called “Negro History Week”. A week to “ Honor and celebrate the contributions of Black Americans in the United States” (February 1) turned into a whole month called Black History Month. Black History Month is important in today 's education as kids know little
Smiles spread from one side to the other, overjoyed to be there. Rebecca had waited all week to go. She loved going to the fair, it brought back the best memories of her childhood. She knew the first thing she wanted to do was get some
The college student activism movement onto college campuses in 1966 when the first black union was formed by San Francisco State University students. This union got a black studies program at their institution. At Cornell University in New York, students conducted a sit-in for three days in the administration building and marched out with rifles and shotguns, clearly mirroring Black Panther ideals. Students around the U.S. seemed to be inspired by these groups forming and joined together to be a generation of resistance. The black freedom struggle was the initial way for black and white college students to involve themselves in politics.
Speech for NJHS Induction Ceremony Good evening students, faculty, and family members! Thank you, Mrs. Reece and Principal King, for inviting me to this year’s National Junior Honor Society induction ceremony. Students, tonight we honor your achievements in the areas of Scholarship, Citizenship, Responsibility, Community Service, Character, and Leadership as we recognize and celebrate the choices, and at times the sacrifices, you have made. Ralph Waldo Emerson said, "The reward of a thing well done is to have done it."
Black History Month highlights the accomplishments and contributions of African Americans throughout history. The Multicultural Student Center reflected that goal. In a Feb. 16 event called Past and Present Heroes, MSC honored African Americans from the 1800s to present day. It was a timeline that attendees walked through, with posters displayed on the walls and videos about historic African American figures.
In addition to Student Council, I am responsible and dependable as a student and fellow peer. However, the reason why I feel I need to improve my leadership is because I need to demonstrate more leadership within the classroom. I will do this by speaking up more, offering opinions, giving feedback to the teachers on common issues all the students are facing, and so
Eric Klein influenced me to apply to Syracuse University, he is a currently in his senior year at Syracuse University. I have grown up being around Eric and his family. Most of the Klein family has attended Syracuse University. Including, Scott Klein, Debbie Klein, David Klein and now Eric Klein. The Klein family is very successful in everything they do, and that is also a huge influence on applying to Syracuse.
The Greensboro Sit-Ins You are one of the many people to enter your local Woolworth’s to join the protests. That was a very common situation in February of 1960. Sit-Ins became a highly influential factor in Civil Rights. They were created and popularized in Greensboro, North Carolina in 1960, during the Greensboro Sit-Ins. The Greensboro Sit-Ins were a series of protests led by four young black college students that were committed to equality in civil rights.
The activities and events we host are always very fun and exciting. I have been a volunteer since my freshman year of high school, which is when they allow you to be a volunteer. Before that you may participate in the activities. I feel that this volunteer project does benefit both me and the recipients, because I get to experience such an amazing act of kindness that changes a person 's life forever. It also benefits the recipients, because they get to have their lives changed forever.
I think that this activity gave me the extra push I needed because over Thanksgiving break I spoke up to one of my family members for the first time ever when they said something negative about Black people. I know that I still have an incredible amount of progress to make, and that it is something that I should have been doing all along, but I am still glad that I finally made a step in the right direction. In addition to continuing to speak up against people who are participating in racism in my presence I also need to continue to be aware of current events in the future. Every once in a while we would have a discussion in class about what’s been going on in the media, and almost half of the time I was not aware of what was going on until somebody brought it up in class. | <urn:uuid:8090a47b-4d27-44f9-82f4-3c861457e0e7> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.ipl.org/essay/Black-History-Month-Importance-PKV2ZA3RC4D6 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570767.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808061828-20220808091828-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.979925 | 1,197 | 2.96875 | 3 |
Jesus . . .
In the pre-existent Godhead three in One,
All praise to the Father and Spirit
and . . .
Can I take a moment to exalt the Son?
He has no beginning. Neither will He fade.
I KNOW why the caged bird sings . . . because Jesus broke the chains.
And the nightingale hums a glorious tune which echoes through eras of doom.
It’s the only hope, why we couldn’t elope; had to patiently await our Bridegroom.
Son of God. Son of Man.
Worthy of all Praise!
It was prophesied The Root of Jesse would come:
Messiah who saves. Creator of all things. Image of the invisible God.
He is the True Word manifested in the flesh.
Jehovah Tsidkenu —The Lord our Righteousness.
Before Abraham was . . . before Moses received the ram . . .
before day separated from night . . . He is the true light.
He was there, since He is The I AM.
Yet He headed South,
left his aeonian house
to come in the form of a tender babe,
by way of a virgin’s womb.
There was no space in the room
so A Savior was delivered amidst cattle and hay.
In His living He modeled perfection . . .
Immaculately displayed submission . . .
Showing, He is the Way.
Keeping each command faithfully
holding fast to the divine mission.
He constantly retreated to pray,
Modeling humanity’s need for the Father
and He bears with us in sympathy, refused to respond sinfully.
Where Adam failed, The second Adam completely conquered!
Came as a carpenter but was crafting more than a chair out of wood
but a mercy seat, nails through His feet with a hammer allowed by God.
It was there on that day when His body was torn
our substitution was fully secured.
Our Lamb of God, with a face like flint,
Gulped down wrath mere man couldn't have endured.
They thought He was done when He said it is finished
not knowing His blood screamed from the ground
testified to His innocence, much greater than Abel
that God was able to turn it around.
So in three days
The Son who reigns,
was raised for one race,
and now raises us in His Son rays
to shine on us, His grace.
Ascended to the right hand of the Father
He’s our Federal Head, of the church.
We bow because He is our Shalom,
our Advocate who removes our curse.
Our Shadow from the heat, Tree of Life, Corn of Wheat,
Rock of Ages, Fruit we now bite,
Manna that we eat. He is the Light, our High Priest.
In the night, He’s our triumphant knight.
Lion of Judah will return, reigning gloriously
all things placed under His feet.
Every knee will bow and every tongue confess
that He righteously reigns victoriously.
Many men will try to hide when He shatters the sky
shows Lord of lords and King of kings on His thigh.
He will judge perfectly
separate the chaff and wheat
since He is too Holy to allow sinners to just slide by.
And satan will be destroyed in the fiery lake.
We will say, “Away with that snake.”
Since Christ has crushed his head exhaustively
he will no longer be able to tempt
the penalty, power and presence of sin
will be demolished forever we will be free.
He has prepared a place for us
with no more pride, no more lust,
so that we can enjoy Him our Treasure in Love
through His Gate we cannot wait
we will forever seek His face
with no more heavy weights keeping us away from things above.
So dear Alpha and Omega,
please completely captivate us
show us Your glory so that we may rightly revere our Faithful Friend
be utterly amazed by Your wonder
Your Righteous Word, a roaring thunder
we bow before You. Hail Jesus, our Amen.
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Investors looking for a bargain property would do wise to pay attention to the sticker price and not the hype. A new study by Trulia found that properties listed as bargain buys in nearly half of the country’s largest markets are actually nothing of the kind.
“To no surprise, we found that not all properties listed as bargains are actually a good deal,” said Trulia economist Ralph McLaughlin.
In fact, Tulia found that properties described as bargains are actually listed for appreciably lower prices in only 55 of the 100 biggest U.S. housing markets. Whereas there are some genuine bargain markets‒‒particularly in the South and Midwest, which Trulia loving dubbed the Bargain Belt in a December report‒‒several markets throw words like “bargain,” “value,” “deal,” “under-valued,” “fixer-upper,” and “underpriced” around rather loosely for Trulia’s tastes.
Perhaps unsurprisingly, seven of the 10 least bargain-friendly markets are along coastal areas on the West Coast and in the Northeast. The Riverside/San Bernadino, California market, one of the country’s fastest-growing market for millennial buyers, offers the worst discount on bargain properties compared to median prices, a mere 2.1 percent. That means that in a market where the median home price is $310,000, bargain-hunting buyers will save just shy of $6,500.
Similar non-bargains exist in Seattle, Washington and Portland, Oregon, as well as in Orange County, California, and Montgomery-Bucks-Chester County, Pennsylvania.
However, investors and homebuyers looking for actual bargains can still find them in Trulia’s Bargain Belt, where discount properties are on average 10 to 20 percent less than median sale prices. Best bets for actual bargains, according to Trulia, are in Dayton and Toledo, Ohio, where, on average, properties marketed as discount investments come with 19.6 percent and 18.1 percent markdowns, respectively.
In real numbers, that means that buyers could save roughly $20,000 off the median sale prices, which hover around $112,000. Other markets with above-10-percent discounts are Knoxville, Tennessee; Buffalo, New York; Omaha, Nebraska; Baltimore, Maryland; New Haven, Connecticut; Camden, New Jersey; Madison, Wisconsin; and Fairfield County, Connecticut.
“The B-word gets thrown around a lot in real estate,” McLaughlin said. “But talk is cheap.” And clearly, not all properties follow suit.
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Sometime back we were discussing options to find business incubation for our idea. We researched fairly and part of this article was the result of that research.We thought why not complete the research and publish it out for everyone’s use.
Startup incubators are a growing trend and a great thrust to support first time entrepreneurs across India. There are all kinds of efforts in this direction – Govt supported Institute based technology incubators, Private business incubators started by industry veterans and startup accelerators supported by companies and VC funds. Individually there are differences between how they incubate, structure the program, operate, support/fund and accelerate the ventures. We have tried to cover the fundamentals of each of them succinctly, but readers will do good to dive in each entity to understand more.
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Ancient Rome was one of the greatest country and empire that have been ever existed in the history. Started as the small village in Italy it became the biggest and most powerful Empire of antiquity. Borders of the Roman Empire stretching from the deserts of Africa on the South to the Northern England and from Spain on the West to Euphrates on the East. However, it would be all impossible without Roman army, which conquered dozens of nations and brought a glory to Rome. Roman army was in war campaigns all the time. Thus, it was the most experienced army in antiquity.
Roman army almost the entire period of its existence was the most advanced among the ancient nations of the world. It started as the militia and through the years became a professional regular army with infantry and cavalry, with numerous auxiliary units and allied units. In Roman army the main fighting force has always been infantry. The main advantages of the Roman army were discipline, mobility, flexibility and tactical skills, allowing it to operate in a different terrain and harsh weather conditions.
In the days of the early Republic legion consisted legion consisted of 4,200 infantry and 300 cavalry. This army was not yet professional. Warrior served in the army only when it was necessary. Warrior himself had to provide himself with equipment, which led to a wide variety of weapons and armor.
Roman legion at that period based not only on a property qualification, but on the basis of different ages. The youngest and poorest soldiers were supposed to be armed with a sword, 6 darts, bows and arrows with the stock sling for throwing stones. This light infantry was called "velites" and used as skirmishers. These soldiers had no armor or helmet and were protected only by light shield. First time velites recruited separately from the legion.
Next by age and economic status group of soldiers was called hastati .They were armed with a sword, heavy (Gast) and light throwing (Pilum) spears and full protective arms. The third group is the principes –it were the heavy spearmen that were armed as well as hastati but had already experienced fighters. In the battle they placed behind the rows of hastati-to be able to help to younger warriors. The oldest and experienced in combat veterans were called triarii – they had instead of pilum a long spear. In combat, they placed in the third row, behind the principes and was the last reserve of legion.
In the first half of III century BC was a new reorganization of the Roman army. First was introduced uniform for maniples. Previously, each maniple consisted of hastati, principes and triarii, now it manned by only one of these types of infantry. Maniples ceased to be mixed and become specialized. In addition to the number of maniples in legion rose from 10 to 30. Legion now consisted of 30 maniples (10 hastati, 10 principes and 10 triarii). In the first two groups, the structure was the same -up to 120 heavy infantry and 40 velites. In Triarii maniple number of infantry was 60 triarii and 40 velites. Each maniple consisted of two centuriae, but they had no independent significance, because of the smallest tactical unit remained maniple. Three hundred cavalry of legion were divided into ten turma, 30 people each. The horsemen were armed by the Greek pattern: armor, round shield and spear. Each cavalry turma had three decurion - "foreman" and three selected guard – optiones. First decurion commanded the turma. Thus, in legion were 4,500 people, including 1,200 velites and 300 riders.
However, during the second Punic War it is evident that the military system of Rome is far from ideal. Despite the fact that military service is paid, wages are basically went to operating costs.
In 107 B.C. Marius was elected consul, who focused all his attention on strengthening the Roman army. He provided access to the legions to all volunteers who had Roman citizenship, regardless of their property. Capite censi-the poorest people of Roma have flooded the legions. These people are not eager to get rid of soldiers of life - on the contrary, they were willing to serve all life. Many people were able to make a career from simple soldier to centurion.
In the old system legions were formed anew in each campaign, thus they lacked a sense of cohesion. However the Gaius Marius reform has changed this situation. Each legion got its flag- the famous Roman eagle "Aquila", which became a symbol of victory and power for many centuries.
Around the same time radically changed structure of the Legion. During the Second Punic War in the formation of the legions due to lack of manpower Romans canceled the age principle of separation in hastati, principes and Triarii. Now, all the soldiers were armed with a sword and pilum and were defended by one type of armor. Maniple lost its former tactical value and was increased up to 120 legioners and combined into a cohort where were three maniples. Tactical unit became the cohort. Thus, the legion became consist of ten cohorts. Separation on centuries preserved as rank of centurion, and in the camps and forts soldiers were still housed in centuria.
Military commanders changed significantly throughout the Roman history. At the time of the monarchy, the hoplites army was guided by kings of Rome. In the early and middle Roman Republic, military forces were under the command of one or the two consuls, who were elected annually. During the late Republic, representatives of the Roman Senatorial elite, as elected members of the traditional social institutions, known as the cursus honorum, primarily quaestors (often appointed deputy field commanders), then - as praetors.
After the end of the term of office as praetor or consul, a senator could be appointed by the Senate propretor or proconsul to manage one of the provinces. Junior officers (up to the level of centurion) were appointed by their commanders from among their subordinates or from the recommended by political allies representatives of senatorial elite. From the time of Augustus, whose most important political priority was to take an army under constant and sole control, the Emperor was the legal commander of each legion but commanded through legate (Latin legatus), whom he appointed from the Senatorial elite. In the province, where was only one legion, the legate commanded the legion (legatus legionis) and served as governor of the province, while in the province with more than one legion, each legion was guided by the legate. Legates were guided by the governor of the province (or legate of higher level). During the last stages of the imperial era, this model was canceled. Governors were deprived of military power and command of the army group was transferred to the provincial generals (Latin duces), appointed by the emperor. These were not the representatives of the Roman elite and the people who climbed the ranks and had a working knowledge of warfare. Increasingly, people have tried (often successfully) to usurp the power of the emperor, who appointed them. Reduced resources, increasing political chaos and civil war eventually made the Empire vulnerable to attack and acquisitions neighboring barbarian tribes.
Goldsworthy, Adrian. The Complete Roman Army. London: Thames & Hudson, 2011.
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Decorating your home with your family is probably one of the most exciting things to do during the holiday season. You don’t have to spend extra money on some expensive and fancy decors. You can make your own Christmas ornaments with materials from the nature, such as pinecones, acorns and leaves. Here is a nice DIY project to make pinecone fairy ornaments. They are so adorable and cheerful! It’s also a wonderful craft to work with kids. Crafting with kids is a lovely holiday tradition and it’s great to see their excitement at having their own handmade ornaments for the holiday decorations. Happy holiday crafting!
Check out the detailed instructions on how to make these pinecone fairy ornaments via the following link…
DIY Pinecone Gnomes via we bloom here
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This web page contains information about Croatian surname or family name BARBIR. Anyone who knows anything about the origin of this surname or about the history of BARBIR family may leave the message in the comment section of this page. Thank you!
Frequency in population of Croatia: 1.227 (423rd Most Frequent)
Largest number of persons with that surname in:
Ploče (277), Draževitići near Vrgorac (161), Grad Zagreb (81), Metković (71), Split (61), Varaždin (50), Rijeka (32), Makarska (27), Bjelovar (24), Slavonski Brod (24)
Possible meaning: root of this surname is a latin word barba with the meaningbeard. It is believed that this is a family name with the occupational origin of a barber.
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Clive Barker b.Luton, Bedfordshire 1940 -
Clive Barker studied painting at Luton College of Technology and Art from 1957 until 1959 quitting the course before it’s completion as it failed to live up to his expectations. Instead he chose to work on the assembly line at Vauxhall Motors.
After eighteen months he moved to London working at a pawnbroker’s by day and painting by night. His early sculptures use leather and chrome plated metal, materials with which he had become well acquainted. In the late 60s he selected objects from everyday life such as Coke bottles, buckets, even his father-in-law’s false teeth which were then given to fabricators to cast in metal and chrome. Not only were the items given a certain aggrandisement but spectators became participants as their reflections and that of the immediate environment constantly changed as the sculptures were viewed from one angle then another.
Pop can be an art about art. Another important strand to his work at the time was the tools of the artists’ trade. Two Palettes for Jim Dine and Gold Paint Box are prime examples.
For many of the general public an art gallery was a no go area. They might have only seen masterpieces as reproductions in books or magazines. Van Gogh’s Chair (1966), acknowledged to be one of Clive Barker’s finest examples of his ‘homage’ works, is not a three dimensional adaptation of the actual painting but is yet another reproduction, more ‘perfect’ even than the original.
During the next decade following the discovering of his father’s gas mask in an attic, a more sombre theme developed. This object was incorporated into several sculptures and along with War Head, the lower part of a toy tank fused with the upper half of a human skull, are in the collection of the Imperial War Museum.
A series of life-masks of Francis Bacon followed, one which is in the collection of the National Portrait Gallery.
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World's first 3D printed plane THOR unveiled by Airbus
The world’s first 3D-printed aircraft THOR was unveiled by European aerospace company, Airbus at the International Aerospace Exhibition held in Schoenefeld, Germany.
The THOR is short for Test of High-tech Objectives in Reality. It resembles a large, white model airplane but is windowless.
Key features of THOR
- THOR has just 3 parts. It is lighter, faster and cheaper.
- It is windowless small pilotless propeller aircraft.
- It weighs 21 kilo grams and less than 4 metres long.
All it parts (except the electrical elements) are 3D printed from a substance called polyamide.
THOR’s inaugural flight was conducted near Hamburg, Germany in November 2015. Aerospace companies like Airbus and Boeing already are using 3D printing technology to make parts for their huge passenger jets A350 and B787 Dreamliner.
About 3D printing technology
- 3D printing is a process of making 3-D (three dimensional) solid objects from a digital file with extreme precision.
- This technology is also termed additive manufacturing as the 3D printed object is created us additive processes i.e. by laying down successive layers of manufacturing material on each other until the entire object is created.
- This technology has limitless possibilities and can create almost anything with just raw material and a computer generated model.
Month: Current Affairs - June, 2016
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If your loved one was a United States veteran, their casket might feature a ceremonial American flag.
During the funeral ceremony, the flag is draped over the casket, fully open, with the union blue field facing the head and placed over the left shoulder of the deceased. But after the funeral, the flag has to be removed from the casket and folded according to a specific, traditional procedure.
Jump ahead to these sections:
- Steps for Folding a Flag for a Casket
- What Can You Do With the Flag After the Funeral?
- The Meaning of Folding the Flag
This folding and presentation of a veteran’s funeral flag are a tribute to the veteran, as well as his or her living family members. If you’re holding a military funeral, a uniformed officer will perform the flag-folding ceremony according to tradition.
If you’re not holding a military funeral, you can still apply for a burial flag if your loved one meets the VA’s eligibility requirements. After the funeral, you’ll likely need to fold the casket flag yourself.
Whether you need to fold a flag for a casket and want to do it properly, or you just want to know what to expect at a military funeral, here’s a step-by-step guide for folding a flag for a casket.
Steps for Folding a Flag for a Casket
If you find yourself folding a casket flag, you’ll want to make sure you do so correctly.
Every fold has meaning, and it’s essential to follow the flag-folding protocol down to the smallest detail. To simplify the process, you can follow the steps laid out below.
1. Wash your hands or wear clean gloves
You want to avoid dirtying the flag in any way, so it’s a good idea to start with clean hands. If you want to go an extra step, you can wear a pair of clean gloves, like the Honor Guard would at a military funeral. But this isn’t necessary.
2. Find a clean surface or ask someone to help you
You can fold the flag yourself by laying it down on a clean, flat surface. Make sure there’s no debris or sharp corners that could snag and tear the flag.
Alternatively, you can ask a friend or family member to help you hold the flag up in the air as you fold it. This is the way the Honor Guard performs the flag-folding ceremony at a traditional military funeral.
3. Lay out or hold up the flag correctly
It’s essential to start with the flag right-side-up and arranged correctly. Here’s how to make sure you have the flag in the proper position:
- If you’re folding the flag by yourself, lay it out flat with the field of blue at the upper lefthand corner. Smooth out any wrinkles, and remove any lint or debris you find.
- If you’re folding the flag with a partner, stand facing one another. Hold the flag out flat between you, as if it were laying on a table.
As the person doing the folding, you should hold the end that’s all stripes with both hands. Your partner should hold the field of blue in their left hand and a striped corner in their right.
This means the stars are at the top lefthand corner for someone standing to your left or your partner’s right.
Have your partner hold their end of the flag taut while you do the folding in the following steps.
4. Fold the flag lengthwise
For the first fold, pull the bottom of the flag (the stripes) up over the top to create a fold lengthwise. You should see only stripes after the fold is complete.
5. Fold the flag lengthwise again
Next, fold the flag lengthwise once again, joining the two open edges. Make sure that the Union blue field of stars is now on top and to the left. If you’re working with a partner, they should be holding the end with the stars.
6. Create a triangular fold
Now, bring the striped corner at the bottom right (the folded edge) up to the open edge.
You should be folding the end diagonally to create a triangular fold at the right side of the flag.
If you’re working with a partner, the fold would be at your end, to your left.
7. Fold the triangle inward
Next, fold the pointed end that you’ve created over the top of the flag, bringing the straight edge parallel to the open edge of the flag.
The folded end of the flag should now be straight again.
8. Continue folding the flag into triangles
Continue folding the right side of the flag into triangles using the same diagonal method described in the steps above. The diagonal fold will alternate from top to bottom as you go.
Keep going until only the field of blue is visible. The field of blue should be in the shape of a triangle, with a right angle at the top lefthand corner.
What Can You Do With the Flag After the Funeral?
If you hold a military funeral, a uniformed officer will present you with the folded flag. It’s then yours to keep as a lasting tribute to your family member.
And of course, if you folded the flag yourself and displayed it at a non-military service, the flag is yours to keep afterward.
So what can you do with the flag after the funeral or memorial service is over? Here are some ideas:
- Display the flag at home. You can place the flag inside a glass case and hang it on a wall or place it on a shelf. You might consider placing your veteran’s honorary medals and other regalia around the flag, as well as a picture of the deceased.
- Fly the flag. There’s much debate around whether or not it’s OK to fly a veteran’s funeral flag. Many people believe that once a flag is folded, it should remain folded. But others think of flying the flag as an honor to the departed veteran. The U.S. Flag Code doesn’t mention whether or not you should fly a funeral flag.
- Donate the flag. Another option you have is to donate the flag if you no longer want it. The flag will go to another veteran’s family for their military funeral honors.
The Meaning of Folding the Flag
Flag etiquette is an essential part of American tradition in both civilian and military life. It ensures that the flag of the United States is always treated with respect and dignity. But why does the flag-folding procedure have to be so complex?
There’s a special meaning associated with each of the folds in an American flag, although the exact origin of the flag-folding procedure we use today is unknown. The flag-folding ceremony is thought to represent specific religious principles that were prevalent when the nation was founded, as well as patriotic ideals.
According to the American Legion, these are the meanings associated with each fold:
- First fold: A symbol of life.
- Second fold: A symbol of eternal life.
- Third fold: In honor and remembrance of veterans who gave their lives.
- Fourth fold: Representative of a person’s weaker nature and guidance from God.
- Fifth fold: A tribute to the country.
- Sixth fold: A symbol of where people’s hearts lie, in allegiance to the flag.
- Seventh fold: A tribute to the Armed Forces.
- Eighth fold: A tribute to “the one who entered into the valley of the shadow of death, that we might see the light of day.”
- Ninth fold: A tribute to women and mothers.
- Tenth fold: A tribute to fatherhood.
- Eleventh fold: Represents the lower portion of the Star of David.
- Twelfth fold: An emblem of eternity.
- Thirteenth fold (or when the flag is fully folded): A reminder of the nation’s motto, “In God We Trust,” and a representation of a tri-fold hat worn by patriots during the Revolutionary War.
Honoring a Veteran
Ultimately, you may or may not adopt the meaning of each of these folds. But the meaning of the ceremony remains the same: honoring a veteran who served the nation and a loved one who will be dearly missed.
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- “Flag presentation protocol and the meaning of the folds of the flag-draped coffin.” National Guard Association of Mississippi. https://www.ngams.org/retirees/retiree-news/flag-presentation-protocol-meaning-folds-flag-draped-coffin/
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Yvonne Leung 1,2, Jiahui Wong 1,2, Mathew Gancarz 1, David Gratzer 2, Mary Jane Esplen 1,2
1 de Souza Institute
2 Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto
The proliferation of online patient support groups (OSG) to meet the demand of mental health services warrants research on their safety and efficacy. This project will build on an existing natural language processing system to design an ‘Artificial Intelligence Co-Facilitator (AICF)’ to enhance the safety and quality of therapist-led text-based OSG in cancer populations. AICF will monitor each participant by analyzing their texts posted during OSG sessions to: a) identify those at-risk for significant distress and/or dropout and alert therapists for follow-up, and b) generate discussion summary and emotion profiles (e.g. anger, depression, anxiety) for psychosocial service tailoring and better client-treatment matching.
The current project will build on the ‘Patient-Reported Information Multidimensional Exploration (PRIME)’ framework designed to provide active surveillance for prostate cancer patients. PRIME is an automated ensemble of deep learning and natural language processing (NLP) techniques to impose structure on unstructured texts. Existing data of OSG participants with breast or gynecological cancer will train PRIME to recognize patterns associated with distress and/or dropout. Therapist feedback will guide the improvement of AICF until a high level of performance is reached. Next, 320 women with breast or gynecologic cancer will be recruited for usability testing. AICF performance will be compared to standardized measures on its ability to describe participant emotional states and predict significant distress and dropout.
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ONCE upon a time there was a dear little girl, whose mother made her a scarlet cloak, with a hood to tie over her pretty head; so people called her (as a pet name) "Little Red Riding-Hood.” One day her mother tied on her cloak and hood, and said, “I wish
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CRICKET GLOVES SIZE GUIDE
There are millions of fans of cricket all around the world, making it one of the most played games today. The fans not only enjoy playing the game, but also exploring it and having fun with it. Furthermore, in order to play the game well, one must make wise decisions regarding their cricket equipment choices. Cricket bat gloves are beneficial for enhancing player performance. It increases grip, aids in avoiding uncomfortable and painful blisters on the fingers and palms, and prevent from heat. To determine your recommended glove size, measure in a straight line from the tip of your longest finger to the start of your wrist.
Cricket gloves are classified into three types based on how they are used by cricket players.
- Cricket Batting gloves
- Cricket wicket keeping gloves
- Cricket inner gloves
1. Cricket Batting gloves
Batting gloves are worn by cricket batsmen during the batting phase of the game. When hitting the cricket ball, batting cricket gloves provides comfort, blister prevention, improved grip, and shock absorption.
2. WICKET KEEPING GLOVES
Wicket keeping gloves are worn by cricket wicketkeepers during the fielding phase of the game. Wicket keeping gloves help cricket players catch and field cricket balls that have been hit by a batsman or thrown by a teammate.
- Inner gloves
Both cricket batsmen and wicket keepers wear inner gloves. Though inner gloves are optional for cricket batsmen, they are required for cricket wicket keepers. Inner gloves will act as the first line of protection between your hands and your wicket keeping gloves, providing extra padding and a better fit. Inner gloves are available in a variety of sizes, including men's batting gloves, youth batting gloves, and boys' batting gloves.
Size Guide for Cricket Batting Gloves:
The right batting gloves can also be the deciding factor in player performance. The gloves, obviously, allow you to hold your bat perfectly and play your strokes freely. Gloves are typically measured in centimeters, with the length measured from your wrist to the tip of your longest finger in an orderly fashion. Glove sizes can also differ from one manufacturer to the next. CA Sports is combining these accessories and providing a wide range of measurement chart options. Below is one of the measurement charts that you can use to help you with your shopping.
Right-Handed or Left-Handed
Broken fingers are one of the most visible fractures that cricketers face. It is critical to protect your hands when batting. Modern gloves are extremely light and provide excellent protection, particularly to the bottom hand. When a ball bounces quickly off the pitch, it usually hits the bottom hand.
All gloves protect the bottom hand's thumb, the right hand for a right-handed batter, and the left hand for a left-handed batter. Some gloves protect the first and second fingers on the bottom hand. The most common injuries are trigger finger, carpal tunnel syndrome, fractures and tendonitis; therefore, having the proper size gloves for both hands is critical. When hitting, the gloves you choose must protect your hands.
Choose the Correct Type of batting gloves
There are two types of batting gloves .
- Traditional Batting Gloves (Sausage finger gloves)
- Modern Batting Gloves (Split finger gloves)
Traditional batting gloves
Traditional Batting Gloves3 don't have finger cuts, though present day gloves do. Traditional cricket gloves have a solitary full-length finger cushioning. They are normally loaded up with cotton, making them weighty ordinarily.
Sausage finger gloves
Sausage finger gloves can be a good option if you play in environments where the ball bounces a little higher. These gloves provide adequate protection for the fingertips. For young and beginning cricket players, choosing a traditional vintage sausage-styled finger part to cover every millimeter of your fingers is a sensible decision. Here is a picture of a sausage finger gloves by CA Sports.
Modern Batting Gloves
Modern batting gloves are more adaptable and give progressed hand security. Flexibility, sensation, and ventilation can all be considered components of comfort. Modern batting gloves enables cricketer to tackle harsh bowling. They give a up-to-date modern look.
Split finger gloves
Split finger gloves provide additional flexibility as you see in picture. These
gloves are for you if you're a wrist player who needs the same flexibility in your gloves as you do in your playing shots. These cricket protective equipment items by CA enhance grip and develop finger chamber protection, implanted for greater control. The leather palm and PU foam on the back of the hand provide comfort and ease while boosting shock absorption.
Cost of gloves
Naturally, the price of gloves varies depending on the glove quality you want to use. A quick explanation of how and why gloves fall into specific pricing ranges. The finest sheepskin or Pittard leather is used to create the nicest gloves. They are incredibly comfortable and long-lasting, and they do a great job of absorbing sweat. For increased protection, these gloves occasionally feature soft back fill and high impact pro guards included into their design.
CA Sports offers a large selection of gloves. CA Sports gloves are available with the lowest prices and the most technologically advanced gloves, Gloves in the medium price category made for cricket players at all skill levels. The padding on the face and fingers is made for prolonged play. Your fingertips will be protected while handling bouncy balls thanks to anti-moisture sheepskin and finger protection on the first two fingers. Additionally, the towel's stripes make it the ideal choice for all types of batsmen. They provide the gloves that are reasonable in price, Straight-line geometry design, Durable and ensure quality, made of sheepskin, double protection layer and enhanced finger chamber defends finger bones .Some CA sports gloves picture are shown here..
Batting Gloves Grip
The batting glove should be tight on the hand while remaining comfortable. Slippage can be caused by loose gloves, while movement will be impacted by tight gloves. Grip and protection are the two main benefits of batting gloves. When grasping the bat, batting gloves may improve grip. Some models provide for better control while setting the bat because their palms have a sticky covering.
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For yourselves, brethren, know our entrance in unto you, that it was not in
But even after that we had suffered before, and were shamefully entreated, as ye
know, at Philippi, we were bold in our God to speak unto you the gospel of God with
For our exhortation was not of deceit, nor of uncleanness, nor in guile:
But as we were allowed of God to be put in trust with the gospel, even so we speak;
not as pleasing men, but God, which trieth our hearts.
For neither at any time used we flattering words, as ye know, nor a cloke of
covetousness; God is witness:
Nor of men sought we glory, neither of you, nor yet of others, when we might have
been burdensome, as the apostles of Christ.
But we were gentle among you, even as a nurse cherisheth her children:
So being affectionately desirous of you, we were willing to have imparted unto you,
not the gospel of God only, but also our own souls, because ye were dear unto us.
For ye remember, brethren, our labour and travail: for labouring night and day,
because we would not be chargeable unto any of you, we preached unto you the gospel of
Ye are witnesses, and God also, how holily and justly and unblameably we behaved
ourselves among you that believe:
As ye know how we exhorted and comforted and charged every one of you, as a father
doth his children,
That ye would walk worthy of God, who hath called you unto his kingdom and
For this cause also thank we God without ceasing, because, when ye received the
word of God which ye heard of us, ye received it not as the word of men, but as it is
in truth, the word of God, which effectually worketh also in you that believe.
For ye, brethren, became followers of the churches of God which in Judaea are in
Christ Jesus: for ye also have suffered like things of your own countrymen, even as
they have of the Jews:
Who both killed the Lord Jesus, and their own prophets, and have persecuted us; and
they please not God, and are contrary to all men:
Forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles that they might be saved, to fill up their
sins alway: for the wrath is come upon them to the uttermost.
But we, brethren, being taken from you for a short time in presence, not in heart,
endeavoured the more abundantly to see your face with great desire.
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"A combined pultrusion and filament winding process is developed to fabricate composite rebars. A pultrusion machine is designed and constructed, and a filament winding machine is installed and modified. Experience in building the machines is reported. To optimize the working process, the parameters in the pultrusion process were analyzed using a three dimensional heat transfer model. A FORTRAN program was developed for this purpose.
The ductility of composite rebars has been a major concern. A combined pultrusion and filament winding method is used to fabricate composite rebars. Materials chosen are carbon fibers and epoxy resin. The rebar made has a kind of pseudo-ductility. This is realized by a mixture of carefully chosen different kinds of carbon fibers and winding angles. Properties of composite rebar made are analyzed. Optic fiber sensors were embedded into the composite rebar for structural monitoring purpose"--Abstract, page iii.
Avula, Xavier J. R.
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
M.S. in Engineering Mechanics
University of Missouri--Rolla
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According to the new market research report “Low Temperature Powder Coatings Market by Substrate (Non-metal, Metal), Resin (Polyester, Epoxy, Hybrid), End-use Industry (Furniture, Appliances, Automotive, Retail, Medical), & Region – Global Forecast to 2025″, published by MarketsandMarkets™, the global Low Temperature Powder Coatings Market size is projected to grow from USD 3.4 million in 2020 to USD 3.9 million by 2025, at a CAGR of 3.2%.
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The growth of this market is attributed to the continued growth of the furniture industry, which is the largest consumer of low temperature powder coatings. Metal and non-metal are the two types of substrates for the application of low-temperature powder coatings. Non-metal substrates include wood, plastics, glass, and composites.
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Non-metal substrate dominates the global low temperature powder coatings market. Low temperature powder coating can be used to coat many non-metallic substrates such as wood & MDF, plastics, glass, and composites. Compared to liquid paints, powder coating is known for strong adhesion, excellent durability, and the absence of runs and low VOCs during application. Low temperature powder coatings technology enables the coating of non-conductive and non-metallic substrates by using a low-cost surface treatment that does not emit VOCs or other hazardous by-products.
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Europe is the world’s largest low temperature powder coatings market, with the US being the dominant market in the region. The increasingly stringent regulations regarding the use of low/no VOC coatings and the switching of coating technologies may impact the demand for low temperature powder coatings. The low temperature powder coatings market in Europe is expected to grow fastest due to the presence of major players and technological advancements in the region. The economic slowdown has affected most of the industries in Europe, but the demand for low temperature powder coatings has not been impacted much and is estimated to increase slowly with a growing realization about yearly cost savings with this technology.
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‘Digital finance to add $3.7tr to emerging economies’ GDPs’
*Govts urged to implement positive regulations
*Experts seek ubiquitous broadband infrastructure to aid growth
It is estimated that digital finance could add about $3.7 trillion to emerging countries’ gross domestic product (GDP) by 2025, if is widely adopted, and represents a six per cent increase above business as usual.
In low-income countries with very low financial inclusion rates, such as Nigeria, Ethiopia, and India, GDP could increase by as much as 12 per cent. Financial inclusion facilitates the delivery of financial services at affordable costs to sections of disadvantaged and low-income segments of society.
Through digital finance, access to financial services can be expanded to other sectors, including agriculture, transportation, water, health, education, and clean energy.
However, entrepreneurship, investment and economic growth suffer when savings are stored outside the financial system, and credit becomes scarce and expensive.
Fortunately, a recent report by the McKinsey Global Institute (MGI), said digital technologies especially with mobile phones can rapidly fix this problem and foster faster, more inclusive growth.
Mobile phones and the Internet are believed to be capable of reducing the need for cash and bypass traditional brick-and-mortar channels like banks.
MGI said this dramatically reduces financial-service providers’ costs, and makes their services more convenient and accessible for users – especially low-income users in remote locations.
The report informed that digital finance can boost GDP in several ways. Nearly two-thirds of the expected growth would come from increased productivity, because businesses, financial-service providers, and government organisations would be able to operate much more efficiently if they did not have to rely on cash and paper recordkeeping.
Another one-third would come from increased investment throughout the economy, as personal and business savings were moved into the formal financial system, and then mobilised to provide more credit. The remaining gains would come from people working more hours – the time they would have spent travelling to bank branches and waiting in queues.
As for financial inclusion, digital finance has two positive effects. First, it expands access. In emerging markets in 2014, only about 55 per cent of adults had a bank or financial-services account, but nearly 80 per cent had a mobile phone. That 25-percentage-point gap could be closed by making mobile banking and digital wallets a reality.
But a gender gap will also have to be closed: worldwide, about 200 million fewer women than men have mobile phones or Internet access.
Secondly, digital finance reduces costs: MGI estimates that it would cost financial-service providers 80-90 per cent less – about $10 per year, compared to the $100 per year it costs today – to offer customers digital accounts than accounts through traditional bank branches.
Understandably, using purely digital channels thus makes it feasible to meet the needs of low-income customers. Financial inclusion becomes profitable for providers even when account balances and transactions are small.
With digital finance, as many as 1.6 billion unbanked people – more than half of whom are women – could gain access to financial services, shifting about $4.2 trillion in cash and savings currently held in informal vehicles into the formal financial system.
According to MGI, this would allow for an additional $2.1 trillion to be extended as credit to individuals and small businesses.
It disclosed that businesses could also save on labour costs to the tune of 25 billion hours yearly, by swapping cash transactions for digital payments. And governments could take in an additional $110 billion yearly– to invest in growth-enhancing public goods like education – because digital channels make tax collection cheaper and more reliable.
To bring this to fruition in Nigeria, experts in Nigeria’s ICT space have called for accelerated broadband deployment and availability of smart phones.
Speaking to The Guardian on phone, the President, National Association of Telecommunications Subscribers of Nigeria (NATCOMS) Chief Deolu Ogunbanjo, described the news as a good one for Nigeria.
Ogunbanjo said Nigeria needed to get its National Broadband Plan (NBP) moving, stressing that the country must do everything to go digital.
He advised government to ensure that the planned data price hike never materialise, “as this will definitely prevent so many people from coming online,” adding that subscribers are ready to go digital any time.
On his part, the Director-General, Delta State Innovation Hub (DSIHUB), Chris Uwaje, noted that there are many angles to the MGI’s report, which include the need to create jobs and improve the level of national infrastructure.
Uwaje, a former President of the Institute of Software Practitioners of Nigeria (ISPON), said it can be deduced from the report that smart phone will take over the reins of things as far as digital transformation is concern.
He said digital economy speaks to all youth, saying the process will enable Nigeria to drive financial inclusion.
According to him, we still import innovation and technology in Nigeria, “it has become important for us improve on our local content development. Digital economy is a basket, people will put in money and some will utilise it. It is a nation that creates that will benefit most.”
Uwaje said Nigeria must establish a technology bank, which will be able to sponsor innovations and others. He said the MGI report is looking at creativity.
Meanwhile, the report citing Kenya as example, noted that new mobile-money services are already demonstrating digital finance’s potential. For instance, M-Pesa, which transforms one’s phone into a mobile wallet – has leveraged powerful network effects to bring about a vast expansion in the share of adults using digital financial services.
It disclosed that the share grew from zero to 40 per cent in just three years, and had risen to 68 per cent by the end of last year.
However, for improved performance, across board, everyone needs a mobile phone with an affordable data plan. While businesses can help, the Institute posited that it is incumbent upon governments and non-governmental organisations to extend mobile networks to low-return areas and remote populations.
Besides, it said that governments must also ensure that networks between banks and telecommunications companies are interoperable; otherwise, widespread use of mobile phones for financial services and payments would be impossible.
Governments must establish universally accepted forms of identity as well, so that service providers can control fraud.
In emerging economies, one in five people are unregistered, compared to only one in ten in advanced economies. Nearly 20 per cent of unbanked women in emerging countries do not have the documentation necessary to open a bank account. Even when people have recognised identities (IDs), they must be amenable to digital authentication. Digital IDs that use microchips, fingerprints, or iris scans could prove useful and are already gaining popularity in emerging economies.
According to it, it is also important for governments to implement regulations that strike a balance between protecting investors and consumers, and giving banks, retailers, and financial-technology and telecommunications companies room to compete and innovate.
“Because regulations often shut out non-bank competitors, governments should consider a tiered approach, whereby businesses without a full banking license can provide basic financial products to customers with smaller accounts. A good model for this is the United Kingdom’s “regulatory sandbox” for financial-technology companies, which imposes lower regulatory requirements on emerging players until they reach a certain size.
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Gyms are reopening and fitness fans are cautious, but excited nonetheless! However, your workout routine at home may not have looked the same as your routine at the gym. Our physiotherapists are here to answer all your questions about returning to the gym safely — without injury.
When summer finally arrives, many of us are eager to load up the car and escape from the city. A weekend in the great outdoors can be just the thing to de-stress and enjoy time with loved ones.
Unfortunately, roughing it can be hard on the body. Sleeping in a tent without a proper bed or sitting in a canvas camping chair can bring on aches and pains, as can hauling heavy gear in and out of the car. Folks who enjoy hiking, climbing, and similar pursuits can experience muscle soreness or even strains or sprains.
Updated: February 2022
Many of us may suffer from sore muscles, back and shoulder pain, or even a stiff neck even though our daily lives aren’t physically demanding. The culprit is often bad posture, a side effect of spending a lot of time at a desk or glancing down at your mobile device throughout the day.
Updated: January 26, 2022
When the snow flies, many of us are eager to hit the slopes or go skating at the neighbourhood outdoor rink. Even those who are not winter sports enthusiasts will still spend a good amount of time outdoors shoveling snow from sidewalks or driveways and enjoying winter activities. Unfortunately, the snow and ice that come with Alberta winters can result in some additional hazards.
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Many of the clients of our Indiana SSI attorney have worked years and years before developing impairments that leave them unable to work. These individuals earned work credits when paying Social Security taxes and are thus qualified for the Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) program. As an insurance program, it does not have any kind of asset limitation.
Someone could have a million dollars in the bank and if they worked long enough to earn sufficient credits and become disabled, they can receive monthly SSDI benefits. Under SSDI rules, these individuals can engage in part-time work and earn some modest income without seeing any reduction in their monthly benefits.
Other individuals have congenital or developmental disabilities which make them unable to ever work a regular job. These individuals can still be eligible for Social Security’s Supplemental Security Income (SSI) program, even if they have never earned any work credits by paying Social Security taxes. However, this program has resource limitations which can make someone with any meaningful assets ineligible.
Learning More About ABLE Accounts
Without taking advantage of the ABLE account described in this blog, a non-married individual with more than $2,000 in the bank would be ineligible for SSI. Without an ABLE account, the SSI program also seems to penalize efforts to engage in some part-time, supported employment. If someone on SSI is able to work but does not have an ABLE account, any income after the first $85 is reduced by fifty cents on the dollar.
A year ago, I wrote a blog about how SSI’s asset and income limitations are outdated, as they have not been increased in several years. (For example, the $2,000 resource limitation has not been changed since 1989.) After writing this blog, I was happy to see that Congress members had proposed a Supplemental Security Income Restoration Act to address these antiquated rules and make other positive changes to the SSI program. Unfortunately, this proposal has not seemed to gain much traction and SSI’s asset and income rules have not been changed.
Achieving a Better Life Experience
Nonetheless, the ABLE account (Achieving a Better Life Experience) can enable someone who has been disabled since an early age to establish an account that provides for some financial security without losing eligibility for SSI benefits. It can also allow the disabled person to engage in some part-time work without the significant monthly SSI benefit reduction which would otherwise occur. If you are the parent of a young child who may never be able to work a regular, full-time job, I would certainly encourage you to read on and consider the advantages of such an account.
An ABLE account is available to someone who became disabled before their 26th birthday. Such a person can have up to $100,000 in the ABLE account and remain eligible for SSI, as the funds in the account are exempt from being considered resources which would count towards SSI’s asset maximum.
Contributions to the account may be made by any person. The total annual amount of contributions cannot be more than the amount of the IRS’s gift tax exclusion amount. ($16,000 in 2022) The good news about contributions to an ABLE account is that, for SSI purposes, they are considered very differently from a regular gift. For example, if a family member paid rent for an SSI recipient, the rent payment would be considered “gift” income to the SSI recipient and would result in a deduction from the monthly SSI benefit. (A gift of even $1,000 could prevent the SSI recipient from even getting a benefit that month.) If the family member contributes to the ABLE account, however, this contribution would not be considered income to the SSI recipient and would not reduce or eliminate the monthly SSI benefit.
Qualified Disability Expense (QDE)
Then, the disabled SSI recipient could use funds from the ABLE account to pay the rent! This is because housing is considered a Qualified Disability Expense, or QDE. Other QDEs include utilities, education, transportation, healthcare, and basic living expenses. So, as you can see, a disabled individual can use the ABLE account to pay for a wide range of life’s necessities. An individual can withdraw ABLE funds at any time for qualified expenses and this will not affect their SSI benefits.
This is a significant advantage of the ABLE program. Without using this method, the rent paid by the family member would count as unearned income, which results in a dollar-for-dollar reduction in the monthly SSI benefit after the first $20.
ABLE accounts also have tax advantages, as investment income from the ABLE account is not taxable if used for QDEs. In this way, the ABLE account is a lot like a college 529 plan – as long as the earnings from investment growth are used for the account’s intended purpose, they are not taxed. So just like tuition payments made from a college 529 would not be taxed like a capital gain, QDEs are not taxed upon withdrawal from an ABLE account.
If the disabled individual is able to work and earn some income, these amounts (as long as they do not exceed the federal poverty level for a one-person household) can be contributed to the ABLE account, as well. These contributions can even go over and above the (current) $16,000 gift tax exclusion amount that can be contributed to the account by others. The amounts contributed by the disabled individual him/herself are then excluded from being considered as earned income by Social Security, meaning they would not reduce the individual’s monthly SSI benefit. This can make a major difference for this person, as the monthly SSI benefit would not be reduced like it otherwise would (a reduction of fifty cents on the dollar for all income over $85.) The disabled individual can then withdraw funds from the account to pay for qualified expenses.
As I’ve written before, I would encourage all parents of a disabled young adult to help their child pursue disability benefits right away, even if the parents have the means to support the child. One day they may not be able to provide this support, and the benefits can provide peace of mind in this regard. If these parents have established some kind of financial account for the child, they may think that SSI’s strict asset maximum would preclude the receipt of SSI benefits. However, the ABLE account program was designed specifically for this situation and can enable a disabled young adult with a financial account to still obtain SSI. If the young adult intends to participate in some kind of part-time, supported employment, the SSI can act as a meaningful supplement. (After all, the name of the program is Supplemental Security Income.) If this is your situation, we would be happy to talk with you about how your disabled young adult child can take advantage of the synergy between SSI and an ABLE account.
One further note: As stated earlier, the ABLE account is only available to someone who became disabled before age 26. While it can solve many of SSI’s problems for these individuals, SSI’s unfair asset and income rules still apply to someone who becomes disabled later in life but, for whatever reason, did not earn the work credits for SSDI. Under SSI’s current rules, these individuals often do not receive income to afford life’s basic necessities. We still need SSI reform so they can do so. | <urn:uuid:9df4f4cc-59c1-4513-984d-bc2d527112fd> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.2keller.com/library/able-accounts-and-ssi-in-indiana-disability-attorneys-in-granger-in.cfm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573172.64/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818063910-20220818093910-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.970769 | 1,548 | 1.867188 | 2 |
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