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FEATURE Image: Paul Gauguin, Tahitian Idol-The Goddess Hina, 1894/95 – woodcut in black ink, over ochre and red, with touches of white and green inks, on tan wove paper, 5.78 x 4.72 inches (147 x 120 mm). The Art Institute of Chicago, Edward McCormick Blair collection. By John P. Walsh To take a look at … Continue reading PAUL GAUGUIN (1848-1903): 3 monotypes produced in Paris, 1893-1895, inspired by Tahiti – Tahitians Fishing; Tahitian Landscape; Tahitian Idol-The Goddess Hina.
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Community Preparedness, Recovery and Resilience: An Introduction is a free online social sciences course offered by Coventry University in the United Kingdom. This course is intended for anyone who is interested in learning more about the impact of natural disasters and how communities can prepare for disasters. There are no educational prerequisites or work experience requirements for enrollment.
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Airbus A380 engine failure caused by lack of scientific knowledge
Air France’s Airbus A380 uncontained engine failure during the flight AF066 in September 2017 resulted from the lack of scientific understanding about the alloy used for the engine parts, the Bureau of Enquiry and Analysis for Civil Aviation Safety (BEA) said in a full report on September 25, 2020.
Air France Airbus A380 engine explosion
On September 30, 2017, the Airbus A380 (registered F-HPJE) flight AF066 was en route from Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport (CDG) to Los Angeles International Airport (LAX). The aircraft was carrying 497 passengers and 24 crew members when its engine No. 4 failed with an explosion five hours into the flight over southern Greenland.
A visual examination found that the first rotating fan assembly at the front of an engine and the air inlet and fan case had separated mid-flight and caused minor structural damage to the aircraft. The A380 landed two hours later at the Canadian Forces Base Goose Bay (YYR) without any injuries or further events.
The wasteland search for the Airbus A380 engine parts
After the incident, the BEA conducted a three-phase search operation to gather the scattered engine parts. It took several visual scanning and aerial radar campaigns to detect the parts using synthetic aperture radars (SAR) and ground-penetrating radars (GPR) before finally retrieving the pieces.
Overall, it took the researchers 21 months to collect the missing parts before conducting the final analysis.
The A380 engine flaw science was not aware of
The GP7200 engine was built by Engine Alliance, a consortium of General Electric and Pratt & Whitney, using titanium alloy Ti-6-4.
The analysis released by the French authority on September 25, 2020, clearly emphasized that the incident was no fault of the engine manufacturer or Airbus. At the time, the scientific community was not aware of Ti-6-4 titanium alloy’s susceptibility to cold dwell fatigue.
Metal alloys that are used for aircraft engines are often expected to operate at over 300˚C (572˚F), according to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). However, if the motor performs at a lower temperature than that, it becomes susceptible to ‘cold’ dwell fatigue, significantly reducing the expected engine cycles to failure. In the case of Air France A380, the engine failed after 3,544 flight cycles when the estimated minimum life of the titanium part was 15,000 cycles.
Scientists have known about the cold dwell fatigue phenomenon in other titanium alloys like IMI 685 or Ti-6242 for about 40 years. Nevertheless, the “Ti-6-4 was not considered sensitive to cold dwell fatigue (...) up until the failure of the (GP7270) engine No 4 fan hub,” the BEA report said.
The analysis concluded that both the European Union Aviation Safety Authority (EASA) and the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) should ensure that the design, sizing, and manufacturing criteria for Ti-6-4 alloy engine parts are revised. BEA also recommended both authorities to adopt a new in-service inspection program to detect possible indications of cold dwell fatigue in the same alloy engines.
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The most loved and revered scripture in philosophical literature. The highest summit of “Perfection” is Self-realization, the goal of life. “Be ye perfect as your Father in Heaven,” said Lord Jesus. This book, through the teachings given by Lord Krishna to the ideal aspirant Arjuna, summarises beautifully the quest, the goal and the journey.
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The UK government has set a new target to increase the number of electric car chargers more than ten times to 300,000 by 2030 after heavy criticism that the rollout of public infrastructure is too slow to match rapid growth in sales.
The Department for Transport (DfT) said it would invest an extra £450m to do so, alongside hefty sums of private capital. Sales of new cars and vans with petrol and diesel engines will be banned from 2030.
There were 420,000 pure-electric cars on UK roads at the end of February, according to the comparison website Next Green Car. There were, however, only 29,600 public charge points in the UK on 1 March, according to data company Zap-Map.
The £450m local electric vehicle infrastructure fund would focus on charger hubs and on-street chargers, the DfT said.
BP also confirmed it would spend £1bn on new UK charger infrastructure as part of its plans to diversify revenues. The company relies overwhelmingly on fossil fuels for its profits, and is under pressure from investors and activists to show how it will reach net zero carbon emissions.
Boris Johnson linked the move to electric cars to the push to reduce dependence on foreign fossil fuel supplies. Fuel prices have hit record highs with Russia’s invasion of Ukraine expected to add further to a cost of living crisis because of global reliance on its exports of oil and gas.
“Clean transport isn’t just better for the environment, but is another way we can drive down our dependence on external energy supplies,” the prime minister said.
The car industry has consistently complained that the government is not doing enough to provide chargers, meaning many customers were holding back from buying battery electric cars for fear of being unable to top up.
Sales of electric cars made up 18% of new-car registrations in February, according to the Society for Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT), a lobby group.
London and the south-east of England have better access to public chargers than poorer parts of the UK, although many electric car owners are likely to rely on private chargers at their homes.
Car industry bosses responded with relief to the government pledge, which added to previous plans to invest £950m in rapid chargers. However, Mike Hawes, the SMMT’s chief executive, said he wanted binding targets on the charger rollout.
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In the air, on the ground, on every wall, every phone, virtually everything we touch, there lurks an invisible world of microbes. Now, a new project at the University of California-Davis will help scientists understand how microbes grow both on Earth and in space.
“Microbes run the planet! Because even though they’re small, they make many contributions to every ecosystem on the planet,” said Jonathan Eisen, an evolutionary biologist at UC-Davis Genome Center.
Microbes support all kinds of life and even protect us from dangerous infections. They make food for ocean life and feed growing crops in the soil.
That is why Eisen is enlisting citizen scientists to create the first-of-its-kind library of microbes.
“We’d like to get a community of people interested in microbes, and get them to help collect this information,” said Eisen.
Eisen and his team are collaborating with "science cheerleaders" who are swabbing shoes and cell phones at sporting events, schools and homes across the country.
“What we do at these events is ask people to take a swab out of a tube, and then just swab the surface of their cell phone,” said Jenna Lang, a microbiologist at UC-Davis.
The samples are sent back to the lab where microbiologists will identify and grow the microbes in a petri dish to test their ability to form colonies. Then, scientists here on Earth will send the microbes to the International Space Station This will help researchers better understand how microbes grow in space.
“It’s neat to be able to involve people who maybe didn’t go down the path of getting a PhD in microbiology, but they’re really interested in science,” explained Lang.
You can follow the space competition by signing up at www.spacemicrobes.org.
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Bike computer collects data from sensors, then makes arithmetic operations and shows the result: speed, cadence, heart rate, travel time, etc. Sometimes – power, but it is usually a separate device. Frankly, it’s nonsense, when such a simple device is called as computer. It is rather a calculator, which is not much different from the first mechanical meters of wheel revolutions. But what it would be if real computer, for example, such as in smartphones, work “on board” during cycling?
Usual, the most primitive bike computer continuously shows two figures. Speed is always displayed, and the second “digit” is subject of choice, such as distance traveled or average speed (or “travel time” as shown on photo). At first brevets two “digits” was not enough for me. It was very important do not miss turns on crossroads that were indicated in the legend with bind to traveled distance. And when we rode together with friend we were need to see the usual time, as we changed order every 5 minutes. Therefore it was necessary to fasten additional wristwatch to handlebar. Thus the next bicycle computer was bought a with three indicators, two usual numbers plus the time. But alas, it turned out that usage was not very convenient, and besides wireless connection had much malfunction. Now we use inexpensive computers with speed and cadence sensor by protocol ANT+, data transfer is reliable. Bike computer shows as usual two digits (I use speed and cadence), and may show the third digit, but only for a pulse. The pulse sensor I do not have, not “riped” yet. On brevets put also Garmin Edge Touring, which in addition to the map can show at the bottom another two digital indicators. So total of four digits before eyes. Garmin can be configured to display many indicators instead of the map. So sometimes in the network and in reality somebody advice that a GPS device is enough as bike computer. Leave it outside the scope of this article, I will only say that disagreed with the opinion that GPS may fully replace the measurement of the distance by “curvimeter” with magnets, ie by bicycle wheel.
Such long introduction was done only for simple point that two digits that usual bike computer show is not enough for me. And then how many and what kind?
Begin with parameters that I would like have permanently before eyes on main display of “ideal bike computer”.
- Current speed. Yes, perhaps the main parameter of any bike computer. Need.
- Current cadence. Yes, need, at least to me. For a long time I rode without this indicator, because can estimate how much is cadence.
But it convenient to see the cadence data when force pedaling , for example when climbing, in order to keep “red zone” (cadence < 60) under control. And sometimes want to twist 100+ to practice skill. So, often look at cadence data and do not want to refuse 🙂
- Slope (incline or decline), preferably in a percentage as indicated on road signs. Sometimes bicycle rolls good, and sometimes do not roll. Usually it is simply because of small up or down. Relief sometimes looks deceptively. And in general, such information would allow better control of forces.
- Wind, direction and strength. The wind could effect to the ride very strongly. The data before the eyes would help to distribute the forces (relax when tail wind and be prepared for headwind). And be aware what wind will be after turn of direction. Thus, I would like to have two parameters: speed of projection of wind to head, and direction of the wind relative to current course.
- Power generated by legs. It addressed to huge range of special devices for direct measurement of pedalling power. Usually such devices have a pretty essential price (which, however, decrease) and aimed for sport. I would be glad to see power and without sports orientation, because want to control more flexible the ratio of forces on the pedals and cadence. In other words, same power could be reached with high cadence and low forces on pedals or vice versa. So optimum ratio cadence/force depend not only on individual abilities but also depend of tiredness, mileage, trainings, etc. So power indicator is quite useful for me.
- Рower expenditure. It is desirable to have several indicators here. To begin with four: the power consumption because of the resistance of the tires-road, of the aerodynamic drag, shaking, and power consumption to the hill (or vice versa, additional power input on downhill). Plus parameters which effect to power consumption, and to the movement.
The slop is already listed separately, so need to add coeff. of rolling resistance and total aerodynamic drag (ie frontal area multiplied by the drag coeff.). Learn more about all of these factors here: “(Calculation of necessary power on wheel depend on given speed)“, which shows howpower on the pedals related through these parameters with speed when steady movement.
- Astronomical time (ordinary watches). As pointed out, perhaps it is quite useful.
Thus, just for better optimization of time and force I would like see permanently 13 parameters! And, of course at a price much lower than my bicycle, or rather, much less than the price of a inexpensive smartphone (price of my smartfone is about 100$). As I know, many cyclists optimize forces based on zones of the pulse. So inspite of I do not use it, but the heart rate is also desirable as one more parameter before eyes. But pulse is another story that is very well described in Internet, so I leave all about the heart rate monitor beyond this note.
Now let’s see which of these indicators are widely used in bike computers, which is easy to include, which is not easy, but it is possible and what is not in use.
I like the current trend where wireless sensors using standard protocols so that data can be used at once by multiple devices, and from different manufacturers.
That is, the speed and cadence sensor, which is already put on my bike can be used in this hypothetical new bike computer immediately. Angle sensor (more precisely it measure angles in three dimensions) is in smartphone, you can test it by program “level”. Since “ideal bike computer” will assume be on the basis of a smartphone, I think that the angle sensor is not a problem. As the acceleration sensor (also called an accelerometer, g-sensor) that can be used to measure the shaking (or perhaps to control acceleration in movement and even for additional calculation of mass, so need to understand more about possibilities of this sensor). Incidentally, smartphone processor include also integrated GPS receiver, but for this ‘package’ of indicators it is not necessary.
Now let’s see what is not included to simple bike computers and to smartfones.
Power generated by the legs. Now there are 4 kinds of sensors in the market. In the hub of the rear wheel, in the big stars, in the crank and in pedals. As far as I understand, they capture the slightest bending of parts of transmission under stress with the help of piezoelectric ceramics, and according to preliminary calibration converted it into effort indices. As already mentioned, the sensors are expensive (compared to the cost of a decent bike), the typical price range – 1000 euros. Furthermore, the sensors have to be embedded to transmission. For example sensor on crank is glued to the inner surface of a rod. Therefore, it is not very related to conception of bike computer, which can be installed or put on to another bike in a few minutes. As I’ve mentioned sensors becomes cheaper. The fastest price drops have sensors on the cranks. When they still fall in the price of five times, the situation may change, but for now I think, a direct measurement of the power should be left outside the scope of note.
Wind. Air flow measurement device is called an anemometer. Such hand-held, portable devices is quite a lot, because there are hobbies, such as paragliding, where information about the wind is much more important than in cycling. In principle, for mentioned above calculations is enough to measure the speed of only headwind flow, so such device will be enough. But I would like to see and the wind direction in relation of course of the bike. I have not find such solution for paragliding (that is strange enough). The weather stations determine wind direction usually by an additional sensor. In our case, the problem, in my opinion is simplified, since the main mode of measurement of flow occurs from a bicycle with a known speed, and with a fairly decent speed in comparison to typical values of the wind speed. I think that it is sufficient to use the same XY diagram, which is used for stereo recording of sound (such as in this article: “Recording Classical Guitar“). The idea is that you need two “directed” microphone nearby, approximately at right angle to each other. This is sufficient for determination of place of sound source.
I think that it is possible to find the directionof the wind with the help of two sensors located on the edges of a triangular prism, attached to head tube. With protection from the rain, of course. Type of sensors probably better not to choose based on the fans, because the air pressure will be big enough. Therefore, most likely it is possible to get a pressure measurement based on the membrane (as in microphone). Air pressure sensor can be and should be calibrated on the move by the known speed of bike.
Here is an example of such a sensor for a bicycle but only in the direction of head-flow. This is a device for indirect measuring the power of pedaling PowerPod. Below I consider it more detaily as it very similar to conceptopn of “ideal bike computer”. And maybe more 🙂 .
The same manufacturer makes a few years the device iBike Newton+ (as it is called now, earlier were a couple of other names), which is positioned as “indirect” power meter. It made about the same as the PowerPod (you can see port for air flow), but with a display. Reviews on the network is quite controversial, and the cost is high, comparable to the “direct” power meters. As far as can understood from the network, parameters of cyclist and bicycle are directly entered to device, while angle and wind sensor are calibrated. So, may be all already done, but I just do not understand ?. But I will mark the fundamental difference of the conception of “ideal bike computer” which is by no means not positioning as a power meter. Power is only estimated, “for information”. Parameters of cyclist and bicycle are adjusted all the time, because it just can not be known exactly, even curb weight may change during a trip. These parameters, as well as power, too, only “for information”. But the cost of the “ideal bike computer” should be like cost of bike computer, not like cost of power meter, otherwise what’s the point?
The main idea of the theme of “ideal bike computer and estimated power” is that no need directly measure the power. Instead, with good real computer on board power can be approximately calculated “on the fly”. Thus we can constantly have before our eyes, and generated power, and how this power is consumed, and parameters of rolling resistance and air drag. In principle, nothing new in this idea. So to say “indirectly” definition of power is offered for a long time and in many different ways (below will focus on this). But I have not met yet cheap and want to say working solutions.
Of course, the direct measurement of power that go from leg to transmission is accurate (and for “today” expensive) method. It must be in serious approach. But in this note I want to discuss about the inexpensive cycle computer of “new generation”. In this case the requirements to determination of power can be much lower, the data may be of estimation level, just for optimization of efforts.
Here is an example from the forum. Amateur cyclist Oleg Parikov was preparing couple of years ago for an amateur race with separate start (time trial). He had two sets of wheels of the same level, but he wanted to choose the ones that roll faster.
Yesterday decided to get ZIPP gathering dust and rehabilitate them at least in my eyes …
Have shoe them in the Conti Supersonik 20mm. Inner tubes respectively supersonik. And went test to a Luzhniki.
Two rides of 20 minutes. The track is the same. Wind environment too. The main condition – ride in both courses in the same pulse zone. For myself, I identified by 143-150.
Going beyond the upper limit – meant to slow down.
So under the same conditions for 20 minutes ride Zippy brought to Eurus 600!!! meters.
Here is a link to the post (in russian).
Of course in this case if the bike was equipped with a power meter, no beed to use the heart rate monitor. It would be possible to keep the same pedal power and fix achieved speed. Such examples also exist, below is a more detailed description in this notes: “Finding cycling perfomance parameters using another’s power meter“, where described how from such measurements can be determined an objective parameter of rolling – coefficient of rolling resistance.
Now, going back to the main idea (ideal bike computer and estimated power), consider whether it was possible to choose the best of the two sets of wheels without using the heart rate indications or power meter. Of course it is possible! Just ride down from the hill with such slope and length that to reach a constant speed without pedaling . The best will be those wheels, which at equal aerodynamics and weight speed will be greater. In this way Frank Berto “discovered” that on real road coverage is not necessary to inflate the tires to the maximum (more details in this article: “Calculator of tire pressure (road bicycle)“).
Now I underline the principle that want to use in the conception of an ideal bike computer. In the process of riding the bike often are cases when the pedaling power is accurately known, because zero. In this case the cyclist can move in a different situations: from the hill, up the hill, in a straight line, in a group, but not pedaling. Let it occurs for a short time. But suffciently powerful computer on board must calculate change of speed in the inertial motion and retrieve the same information as that when moving with steady speed.
Now I go back to the test for the choice of wheels, with a hypothetical ideal bike computer. Hill not needed, it can be replace by computation. You just need to achieve the desired speed and then “throw the pedals”. The movement will start to slow down. The slowdown depends on the aerodynamic resistance and road resistance. If the aerodynamic resistance in the same, there remains only the dependance on rolling of wheels, which ideal bike computer will show, and in an objective parameter: coefficent of rolling resistance. Mark that even no need to go the same speed at the entrance of such a segment of inertial motion. The computer not needed the same speed for calculations. And the coincidence of aerodynamic drag, in general, also not necessarily 🙂 Such coincidences are necessary if you have not computation power, and therefore have to provide conditions when the difference can be measured directly.
Oddly enough, in the field of indirect estimation of the energy produced by man is already done pretty much.
I will dwell on two approaches.
The first approach is the calculation of calories burned. I often have the impression that the purpose of any “fitness” is to determine how many calories were burned. Then immediately transfer this amount to cups of coffee, cans of beer, ham sandwiches, and with a great sense of deep satisfaction to recover calories. It is believed that most accurate number of calories burned could be determined from the heart rate reading.
Here, the reference to article by DC RainMaker “How calorie measurement works on Garmin fitness devices“. The article is based on interview with Garmin engineers. A brief conclusion is so. If Garmin device is equiped with heart rate sensor, the measurement of calories burned is based on the pulse readings (in algorithms is put quite a lot of scientific and practical information). This also applies to Garmin devices for practicing on bike. But if the heart rate monitor is not connected, then the calculation of calories burned while cycling is done based on physical consideration of the movement of mass (cyclist plus bicycle) both horizontally and vertically (ie taking into account the slops). Then the figures in “joules” are recalculated into “food” calories based on the efficiency of use of food energy by human . (By the way, this efficiency depending on the source is 21-26%, so only a quarter of the sandwich go to compensation after exercises, and the remaining 3/4 go to what places on the body? 🙂 )
My navigator Garmin (more info here: “Garmin Edge Touring: navigator for cycling“) is unable to connect the heart rate monitor, so the calories that it issues in the description of each ride can be converted to joules and by dividing to travel time, it could be the average power on the pedals.
In principle it can be done on the fly so it is possible to determine the current power based on algorithm of Garmin. Frankly, I did not succeed in analyse of this algorithm. I have tried to analyse a number of different races over a distance of 60 to 150 km, but was unable to decrypt the calorie counting method. But it does not matter in this case because such attempts were done in the network, and the general conclusion is that the Garmin algorithm does not coincide with the data from power meters on the pedals. But here I want to point out that the approach of an independent evaluation of energy when riding has already been “inserted” in the cycling computer for a long time ago. Apparently there is a lot of science, so I think with some adjustments it is possible to “calibrate” and use.
The second approach – a direct calculation of generated power from the movement characteristics. This is done, for example in the application “Strava” with certain assumptions, for example it is considered that there is no wind, and the parameters of rolling resistance and aero drag is taken average. More here: How Strava measures Power.
I formulate once again the general principle. Ride on the bike is firmly described by simple physical equations. The power generated from the pedals firmly moves the mass. It exactly firmly, not as a pulse that can jump just before the start. And really “food calories” began to burn. You not yet started, but a cup of coffee has earned 🙂 Point here the parameters that are firmly bind by equations. There are curb weight (cyclist, bicycle, water bottle, tools), power on the pedals (multiplied by the transmission efficiency), slope (incline or decline), the rolling resistance, shaking on a bad road, the front area and the drag coefficient, speed of headwind and the bicycle speed. If all these parameters are known, then solve the equations is not necessary. If not known any single parameter, it can be accurately calculated. In our case several parameters are known, and some may change slightly in the process. Therefore, in network skepticism is dominated regarding the possibility of “unraveling” of parameters without additional power sensors. Indeed, it is not easy to unravel parameters. However, in the linked notes below and in text above it is shown that when riding on a bicycle often take place sharp predominance of some one parameter. Therefore, when develop data by “hands” parameters can be separated and determined. And if it can be done in a calm atmosphere, so it is possible to bring this into a powerful computer on board, and do it automatically “on the fly”.
I dwell on similar calculations that were made previously on this site.
How cycling power spent during moving a bike – here considered how spent power generated on the pedals under steady motion, taking into account the tire-road resistance, air resistance, including wind and slopes.
Calculation of necessary power on wheel depend on given speed – here you can “touch” the numbers, enter the desired speed and the parameters that affect the movement and calculate what power it needs.
Finding cycling perfomance parameters using another’s power meter – here on the basis of published data in the network about achieved constant speed at varying power shown how you can quite accurately determine the unknown parameters for resistance road-tires and aerodynamic drag. The fact that at low speeds a predominant contribution of one parameter, and on high speed another. Therefore, they are well matched. In this paper, I picked up “by hand”, but it is possible to automate. Found coeff. rolling resistance that perfectly coincided with independent sources, more info here: How speed depends on tires quality.
29er (Niner), how much faster? – here described postprocessing of real measured speed on the track for MTB-marathon on a bike with a wheel diameter of 26 inches. Transfered data to power on pedals. For this it was determined the resistance in movement on paths with different surface. For this purpose particular cases considered when the power was precisely known. That is equal to zero on the slopes when the pedal were not twisted. With these cases, and some of the assumptions could separate the parameters affecting the rolling resistance and aerodynamics. Then was made a “reverse” calculation from power to speed of the for a hypothetical the same bike, but with wheels 29 inches. For this purpose bulky, but automatic (ie, not numerically) calculations were done, in particular the decision of the cubic equation.
Calculator. Niner, speed increase – here implemented a reverse calculation speed by the issued power and other parameters, but without taking into account the wind.
Why hills lower average speed – here considered how to take into account the inertia.
Thus, having good on-board computer system it would be possible to work like this.
- Identify segments with steady motion (at a constant speed on a constant slope, wind and road condition). Next, determine the power on the pedals with simultaneous determination of parameters of resistance tires-road and aerodynamics. The unknown parameters are taken for the beginning as average, or from previous calculations, and then adjusted on the fly.
- Extracting information from particular cases. On low speed when driving uphill – aerodynamics not makes a significant contribution, so it is possible to measure the resistance of the tire-road. High speed – on the contrary. And most important: as soon as the cadence sensor provides information that the pedals are not spinning, so at this moment power is known and is equal to zero. All this to be used also for permanent calibration.
- Consider the inertia, that is to handle cases where speed is not established.
- Additionally, take into account the power consumption by the shaking based on acceleration sensor. May be it is possible take the curb weight adjustment here.
Interestingly, mentioned above device PowerPod brings collected data from the speed sensor and oncoming air flow to watts of pedalling. And quite accurately. However, its cost is quite high, may be for now. Here is review by DC RainMaker. The first five minutes of the trip goes to the calibrating of flow (and may be of other sensors too), and then the power output is in good agreement with the measured by conventional sensors in the transmission. It was noted however, that the power is generally slightly overstated and not match on the cobble. Judging by the fact that the cadence sensor is optional, cases of “power is known and is equal to zero” is not processed. Weight required in the calculations may be is taken from the profile of Garmin, which show the data from the device. Very small information is available in the network so it’s difficult to draw conclusions about the know-how of this approach. The official site of the manufacturer does not explain details (better still to say, explains nothing, as well about their product iBike Newton which looks like PowerPod + display + software), and immediately sent to the review of DC RainMaker.
Imagine now how it can be implemented. For the pilot version is enough to make wireless sensor of oncoming air pressure and wind direction. Speed and cadence sensors such as on my bike is already there, and the others discussed sensors and the computer is in the inexpensive smartphone (for example, in my (price 100$) precisely is). Therefore it is possible to begin write an application for smartphone. The next variant need to be on a separate device, because my budget smartphone has three shortcomings: the screen, which consumes a lot of energy, poor protection from rain and fragility. Besides tilt and acceleration sensors must transmit information from the bicycle, not from the smartphone in the pocket. Of course this is not the only difficulty, from fantasy to a pilot version – is a great way. I stress once again that the creators of the closest decisions iBike Newton improve it for more than 10 years. But now everything is faster 🙂
Sometimes it is possible to make all easier, if you select “scenario”. For example, when riding on a mountain bike in the forest (such course with “ski loops” described here: “Course for MTB type XCM (marathon) in Alfa-Bitsa (Moscow)“). In the forest there is no wind, so the wind sensor is not needed, and the wind does not need to be taken into calculations. Further, cross-country loops cosist on climbs upward, when the contribution of aerodynamics is small, and runs down when the pedal is not twisted. If you make a only one assumption: the resistance of the tire-track on the rise and descent of the same, the following parameters separated very good and easy. The only thing, you need to stand on the scales with the bike before ride and to press the button “forest” before start. Then, in motion will be immediately issued power in legs, coefficient of rolling resistance (it is possible so to choose the optimal tire pressure precisely for this route) and the aerodynamic drag on the slopes (you can finally understand whether it plays a role in MTB ?). A wind sensor can not be rearranged to MTB from road bike ?
Finally, a couple of thoughts about the development. Firstly, GPS use. It can be used for additional calibration, but it rather refers not to the development but to realization of what described above.
It is interesting if this ideal bike computer memorize passed distance with a help of GPS, and divided it into sections with constant conditions (slope, coverage of the road). Then for the next trip at the same distance a computer can not only more accurately determine the parameters, but to issue recommendations. For example: “You have enough inertia to fly up to half of this hill. And now you have enough power to keep speed for next third. Attention, now begin to twist with a power of 300 watts. Now stand up and pedalling standing, soon will be descend, enough for recover…” Recommendations of course are customized based on already available data. Or for example, “something bad today with wheels roll, maybe check up the tire pressure?” 🙂
The next step: the perfect bike computer will also be able to analyze and a new distance, if to upload track. Elevation can be considered well-known, more in this article: “Sports GPS-tracker: field testing“. Therefore, the new distance can also be divided into segments, for each of which bike computer can make recommendations in accordance with the current driving style.
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All objects in motion have kinetic energy. The amount of kinetic energy depends on the speed they are moving and their mass and is measured in joules. When you compare two or more objects moving at the same speed, the heaviest will be the one that has the greater kinetic energy. Objects with more kinetic energy can do more work, which is why high speed collisions or collisions involving larger vehicles are more destructive.
When an object speeds up or slows down, its kinetic energy increases or decreases. When energy is transferred, it means that work has been done - the forces which cause a change in speed therefore do so by doing work. If friction and air resistance are ignored, the kinetic energy changes by an amount that is equal to the work done by the applied force.
Friction and air resistance reduce the amount of kinetic energy by transferring it into heat energy. The law of conservation of energy means that the work done is therefore equal to amount of heat transferred plus the kinetic energy of the object. Kinetic energy can be stored by using a heavy wheel called a flywheel. This spins at high speed on low-friction bearings but most of the time, kinetic energy is transferred from other forms of energy only when it is needed.
In senior high school, you should be able to discuss the transfer of kinetic energy in particular situations. Examples might include the space shuttle re-entry or meteorites burning up in the atmosphere. It could also include braking systems as they are designed to transfer kinetic energy into heat energy to slow or stop a vehicle. Most vehicles currently use non-renewable fossil fuels as the source of energy that is transferred into kinetic energy.
As humans are becoming more aware of the damage caused to the Earth by large scale burning of fossil fuels, car manufacturers are designing electric cars. There are even cars that produce their electricity from solar cells, some is used to charge the batteries and the rest is transferred directly into kinetic energy without first being stored. These do not emit (give out) gasses into the atmosphere but the electrical energy needs to come from somewhere. Most electricity is generated from the burning of fossil fuels so they do cause pollution at the power station. The parts all need to be manufactured, which uses up the Earth's resources and creates more pollution at the factories - there is no such thing as an environmentally-friendly vehicle.
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The Tang Po Lakes, consisting of a great number of small lakes and swamps, which had widely spread upon the Central Hebei Plain during the Northern Song Dynasty, was an awesome geographical landscape in North China in history. It has a significant meaning for understanding the regional environmental change in the North China Plain. The researchers employed an interdisciplinary procedure to unveil the spatial pattern and changing process of the Tang Po system in history. Based on GIS, this paper integrated the traditional historical geographic method, which mainly focused on the scrutiny of all sorts of historical records, with analysis of modern soil survey, archaeological survey, remote sensing images, and the references in the published research. In this way the spatial distribution of Tang Po Lakes on the Central Hebei Plain during the Northern Song Dynasty has been carefully examined and scientifically reconstructed for the first time. The paper showed that the Northern Song government constructed the Tang Po system at the end of the 10th century by fully taking advantage of local natural lakes and swamps originally located in the depression zone of the Central Hebei Plain which adjoined to its northern border, in order to prevent the invasion from the Liao Dynasty in north. In the mid-11th century, the Tang Po system reached its maximum extent, which spanned more than 260 kilometers from the eastern coast to the western mountain foot. The Tang Po system, which was composed of many small lakes, swamps, pits, diches, and even rice paddies, could be divided into nine sub-regions, and watered by the Tanghe River, the Shahe River, the Shenshui River, the Yishui River, the Hutuo River, and the Yuhe River. The whole Tang Po system was deliberately connected and maintained by the complex artificial facilities, such as dams, embankments, reservoirs, sluice gates, and channels. In the early 12th century the Northern Song Dynasty was in decline, the Tang Po system collapsed and was broken into three separate parts which had existed till the late Qing Dynasty. The Tang Po system of the Northern Song Dynasty has ever been the biggest man-made lake system in Chinese history, which had a magnificent impact on the regional water system and local environment of the Central Hebei Plain. | <urn:uuid:d47e138b-ff80-428d-9a59-914e629a82a0> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://www.geog.com.cn/EN/volumn/volumn_4173.shtml | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570767.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808061828-20220808091828-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.964117 | 456 | 3.140625 | 3 |
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Related to Wenckebach block: Mobitz block
1. to obstruct.
2. heart block.
1. any interruption of the conduction of electrical impulses from the atria to the ventricles; it can occur at the level of the atria, the atrioventricular node, the bundle of His, or the Purkinje system. See heart block.
2. a type of heart block in which the blocking is at the atrioventricular junction. It is first degree when atrioventricular conduction time is prolonged; it is called second degree or partial when some but not all atrial impulses reach the ventricle; and it is called third degree or complete when no atrial impulses at all reach the ventricle, so that the atria and ventricles act independently of each other.
atrioventricular block, complete see atrioventricular block.
atrioventricular block, first degree see atrioventricular block.
atrioventricular block, partial see atrioventricular block.
atrioventricular block, second degree see atrioventricular block.
atrioventricular block, third degree see atrioventricular block.
AV block atrioventricular block.
Bier block regional anesthesia by intravenous injection, used for surgical procedures on the forearm or the lower leg; performed in a bloodless field maintained by a pneumatic tourniquet that also prevents anesthetic from entering the systemic circulation. Called also intravenous block and IV block.
bifascicular block the combination of complete right bundle branch block with either left anterior fascicular block or left posterior fascicular block. This is an imprecise though commonly used term; specific terms defining the structures involved are preferred.
bundle branch block (BBB) a form of heart block involving delay or failure of conduction in one of the branches in the bundle of His, as determined by an electrocardiogram. It may be complete or incomplete, transient, permanent, or intermittent, and is also named according to involvement of the left or the right bundle branch. It is impossible to determine if bundle branch block is complete or not. When associated with acute anterior wall myocardial infarction, bundle branch block identifies a high-risk patient. See accompanying table.
bundle branch block, bilateral heart block characterized by conduction disturbance in the right and left bundle branches; it may be alternate, intermittent, or permanent. Complete bilateral bundle branch block results in complete (third degree) atrioventricular block.
bundle branch block, complete heart block characterized by absence of conduction in a bundle branch or conduction delay, causing ventricular activation to occur largely or exclusively through the contralateral bundle.
bundle branch block, incomplete heart block characterized by delayed conduction within a bundle branch, resulting in a delay in activation of the ipsilateral ventricle.
bundle branch block, right heart block characterized by a delay or failure of impulse propagation through the right bundle branch; it may be either complete or incomplete. See accompanying table.
caudal block caudal anesthesia.
cervical plexus block regional anesthesia of the neck by injection of a local anesthetic into the cervical plexus.
entrance block a zone of depressed conduction surrounding a pacemaker focus, protecting it from discharge by an extraneous impulse but not necessarily from discharges by electrotonic influences.
epidural block epidural anesthesia.
exit block heart block characterized by failure of an expected impulse to emerge from its focus of origin and propagate; this usually occurs with a parasystolic focus, but is also seen with sinus, junctional, and ventricular rhythms. In cardiac pacing it means that the pacemaker stimulus is not of sufficient amplitude to stimulate the heart, such as when there is a very high threshold.
fascicular block heart block characterized by certain abnormal QRS waveforms ascribed to conduction disturbance in the anterior and posterior divisions of the left bundle branch.
fascicular block, left anterior heart block characterized by delay or interruption of impulse conduction in the anterior superior division of the left bundle branch, resulting in asynchronous activation of the left ventricle.
fascicular block, left posterior heart block characterized by delay or interruption of impulse conduction in the posterior inferior division of the left bundle branch, resulting in asynchronous activation of the left ventricle.
femoral block regional anesthesia of the posterior thigh and the lower leg by injection of a local anesthetic around the femoral nerve just below the inguinal ligament at the lateral border of the fossa ovalis.
field block regional anesthesia by blocking conduction in nerves with chemical or physical agents.
heart block see heart block.
intravenous block Bier block.
intraventricular block impaired conduction within the ventricles due to absence of conduction within the bundle branches, their ramifications, or the ventricles.
intraventricular block, unspecified any heart block characterized by an electrocardiographic pattern of intraventricular conduction disturbance and not qualifying as a bundle branch block or a fascicular block.
interventricular block bundle branch block.
IV block Bier block.
lumbar plexus block regional anesthesia of the anterior and medial aspects of the lower limb by injection of a local anesthetic into the lumbar plexus.
mental block blocking (def. 3).
metabolic block the blocking of a biosynthetic pathway due to a genetic enzyme defect or to inhibition of an enzyme by a drug or other substance.
Mobitz type I block a second degree atrioventricular block in which the P-R interval increases progressively until an atrial impulse is blocked. Called also Wenckebach's phenomenon or block.
Mobitz type II block a second degree atrioventricular block in which the P-R interval is fixed, with periodic blocking of the atrial impulse to the ventricle.
nerve block regional anesthesia by injection of an anesthetic close to the appropriate nerve.
paracervical block regional anesthesia of the inferior hypogastric plexus and ganglia produced by injection of the local anesthetic into the lateral fornices of the vagina.
paraneural block perineural block.
parasacral block regional anesthesia by injection of a local anesthetic around the sacral nerves as they emerge from the sacral foramina.
paravertebral block paravertebral anesthesia.
perineural block regional anesthesia produced by injection of the anesthetic agent close to the nerve. Called also paraneural anesthesia or block and perineural anesthesia.
presacral block regional anesthesia produced by injection of the local anesthetic into the sacral nerves on the anterior aspect of the sacrum.
pudendal block regional anesthesia produced by blocking the pudendal nerves, accomplished by injection of the local anesthetic into the tuberosity of the ischium.
retrobulbar block that performed by injection of a local anesthetic into the retrobulbar space to anesthetize and immobilize the eye.
sacral block regional anesthesia produced by injection of the local anesthetic into the extradural space of the spinal canal.
saddle block regional anesthesia in an area corresponding roughly with the areas of the buttocks, perineum, and inner aspects of the thighs, by introducing the anesthetic agent low in the dural sac. Called also saddle block anesthesia.
sinoatrial block a type of heart block characterized by partial or complete interference with the propagation of impulses from the sinoatrial node to the atria, resulting in delay or absence of the atrial response.
spinal block spinal anesthesia.
subarachnoid block spinal anesthesia (def. 2).
trifascicular block an imprecise term referring to heart block characterized by failure of conduction, partial or complete, in all three of the fascicles of the intraventricular conduction system; i.e., there is simultaneous right bundle branch block, left anterior hemiblock, and left posterior hemiblock. In the setting of acute anterior wall myocardial infarction, this is an ominous sign. More precise terms referring to the specifically involved structures are preferred.
vagal block (vagus nerve block) regional anesthesia produced by blocking of vagal impulses by injection of a solution of local anesthetic into the vagus nerve at its exit from the skull.
Wenckebach block Mobitz type I block.
wrist block regional anesthesia of the hand by injection of a local anesthetic around the median, radial, and ulnar nerves at the wrist.
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a obstruction in any cardiac tissue (most often the atrioventricular junction) in which there is progressive lengthening of conduction (decremental conduction) until the beat is dropped.
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Wenckebach blockMöbitz I block, secondary AV heart block, Wenckebach AV block, Wenckebach phenomenon Cardiology A heart block in which there is progressive prolongation of the P-R interval until a beat is dropped, usually attributable to a block at the AV node. See Möbitz II block.
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Wen·cke·bach block(ven'kă-bahk blok)
A first-degree atrioventricular block in which there is a progressive lengthening of conduction, as manifested in prolonged P-Q interval on electrocardiography, until one QRS complex and T wave are missed.
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Wenckebach,Karel F., Dutch internist, 1864-1940.
Wenckebach block - Synonym(s): Wenckebach phenomenon
Wenckebach period - a sequence of cardiac cycles in the electrocardiogram ending in a dropped beat due to A-V block.
Wenckebach phenomenon - progressive lengthening of conduction time in cardiac tissue, with ultimate dropping of a beat. Synonym(s): Wenckebach block
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Car engine problems are more frequent than you expect. While some of the most common issues can be caused by mishaps that are easy to spot, such as leaking coolant or oil deposits, when your car gives you an engine warning, it could be synonymous with big problems.
How should you react when your car encounters engine issues? Here are 5 crucial questions you need to ask yourself to figure out the best solution.
DO I UNDERSTAND THE PROBLEM?
Ultimately, you need to be familiar with your vehicle and its specific requirements and technology. That’s precisely why it’s a good idea to read through the car manual and even invest in dedicated mechanic documentation. You may never need to repair your car yourself, but you can use the information available to get a better understanding of the situation.
You will also find the knowledge useful when talking to a mechanic so that you can see eye-to-eye with their statement and estimation.
IS IT WORTH THE COSTS?
How much does it cost to get your car engine fixed? Ultimately, there is no strict answer, and it will depend entirely on the type of issue you encounter. A blown transmission repair, for example, could cost as much as $7,000, while another issue could be more cost-effective to fix. So, first of all, you want to establish how the repair cost compares to the overall vehicle value. For all vehicles, engine repair works could be more expensive than the car itself. In this case, it may be cheaper to buy another vehicle.
A new engine typically costs anything between $4,000 and $6,000. For new vehicles, the cost of engine repair is under the value of the car. However, you shouldn’t have to worry about engine problems in a new vehicle. So it’s worth taking into consideration the manufacturer’s warranty, as you may be able to get it fixed for less.
ARE REPLACEMENT PARTS EASY TO FIND?
Even if repair costs are affordable, it doesn’t mean replacement parts are available on the market. You may want to discuss with your mechanic whether the parts you need will be easy to find. Indeed, specialist Anderson connectors for the battery, for instance, may require a special order, which could delay the repair work.
Several parts were hard to source during the pandemic, which affected mechanic repairs. Supply problems are still likely to be around, so it’s worth checking you can get your car back rapidly.
WAS IT PREVENTABLE?
What was the underlying cause for the issue? Sometimes, parts may break naturally as they experience wear and tear over time. User error could also play a role in the engine issue, such as using the wrong engine oil for your vehicle. But, if your mechanic is unable to tell why the issue occurred, it could happen again in the future.
CAN I AFFORD IT?
Last but not least, your vehicle budget may make it challenging to face unexpected costs. If you don’t have emergency savings, it can be helpful to ask about financing or car loan options that can help with the invoice.
Engine repairs could drive your car expenses through the roof. If you notice the engine warning light on your dashboard, the sooner you act, the more likely you are to reduce damage risks. Make sure to clarify the type of engine fault and its cost before deciding whether you are ready to get it fixed.
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The two detectives. Carol and Brian, get an anonymous call from a person who reports criminal in his street. Namely, for him as a worried neighbor, is not the same to see how someone is robbing the houses in his street every day. He is worried about the neighbors but also he is worried about himself because the robbers can choose his house to be their next stop. After the call, Carol and Brian come to the place of crime, to start their investigation. They will have check out all the houses that have been robbed already, looking for some evidences about the crimes. Also, they will be looking for something that can give them a clue and direction for their next steps, hopping that they could predict the future moves of the criminals. Now it\'s also up to us, to help the detectives in their investigation. Let\'s search the whole neighborhood like real pros and see how we can help. Everyone who lives there will be very thankful if we can help bring back the neighborhood as it was before - a quiet and safe place for living. | <urn:uuid:5077f441-15ab-4ea2-8a2b-20288b481fec> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://hiddengame.net/game/crime-report | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570767.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808061828-20220808091828-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.986032 | 228 | 1.523438 | 2 |
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America confronts a paradoxical crisis of spending more on health than any nation, yet falling behind comparably developed nations on major population health indicators. Social disparities in health are key to understanding and alleviating America's problematic levels of population health and health spending. An innovative network of researchers will seek to understand levels and trends of population health and health disparities as a way to create a healthier population that spends less on health care. The Network is focusing especially on multi-level explanations for health patterns and trends across the life course. | <urn:uuid:4173e952-b965-4943-a7ec-49c2e11fe09f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.cpc.unc.edu/research-themes/projects/network-on-life-course-dynamics-and-disparities-in-21st-century-america/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570767.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808061828-20220808091828-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.898861 | 120 | 2.0625 | 2 |
A small immersion heater is rated at 380 W. Estimate how long it will take to heat a cup of soup (assume this is 295 mL of water) from 18.2oC to 48.4oC.© BrainMass Inc. brainmass.com December 24, 2021, 5:37 pm ad1c9bdddf
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The power of the heater in Watts (P), indicates how many Joules the heater produces in one second.
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At Taylor Janis, we understand womens’ rights in the workplace.
We also understand that many companies in Alberta, BC, and Saskatchewan are under the impression that the rules do not apply to them; or that they can find creative ways around their obligations. This is particularly true regarding maternity leave rights, as, unfortunately, many women are vulnerable during this time, to employer abuse and discrimination; abuse and discrimination which may significantly affect their careers and livelihoods.
Below is some general information about your maternity leave and pregnancy-related rights in the workplace.
YOUR EMPLOYMENT RIGHTS WHILE PREGNANT AT WORK
The BC Human Rights Code prohibits discrimination based on gender. Pregnancy is included under the ground of gender, thus the law prohibits discrimination based on pregnancy.
In most cases, it is contrary to the Code to:
- ask on job applications or in job interviews if you are pregnant or plan to have children
- lay you off or demote you because you are pregnant
- harass or bully you because you are pregnant
- prevent you from using your benefit plan for the health-related part of your maternity leave
- ask you to pre-pay your benefit premiums or to pay your employer’s share of premiums for the health-related part of your maternity leave
Your pregnancy may prevent you from doing your job. Where possible, your employer should try to modify the workplace so you can work without harming yourself or the baby you carry.
For example, a pregnant store clerk may not have to carry heavy boxes from the stock room if there is someone else on staff who can be asked. The clerk would then be expected to assume additional less-physically demanding duties in exchange for not carrying heavy boxes.
Negative comments or reactions from customers or staff about your pregnancy cannot be used as a reason to fire you, lay you off, or demote you.
YOUR EMPLOYMENT RIGHTS AFTER PREGNANCY
- During your maternity leave or pregnancy-related absence, you
are entitled to the same employee benefits that they received during employment. Contributions towards employment benefits such as a pension, health insurance, life insurance, disability, dental, medical, etc. should be paid during maternity leave if you were receiving these benefits during employment. If you were responsible for a portion of the cost of benefits during employment, you continue to be responsible for that portion while you are on maternity leave.
- While on maternity leave, you should be made aware of job opportunities that become available so that, if you wish, you can compete for them.
- Your seniority and years of service continue to accrue during your maternity leave, as this is not considered a break in the employment period.
- You should be able to use any normally available medical, dental, and health benefits while on maternity leave.
- While on maternity leave you should be informed of any changes to your job, and be given the same opportunity to participate in any work-related discussions or consultations as employees who are at the workplace.
- During your return to work post-pregnancy, you should return to the same job or a similar job, if the original job no longer exists.
- You should receive any wage increases that came into effect while you were on maternity leave.
- If you breastfeed, you should be provided with accommodation for this purpose. This accommodation can include: Providing a suitable clean place to breast-feed or express milk and to store milk; Providing longer or extra breaks for the purpose of breast-feeding or expressing milk; or, other necessary accommodations.
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After pausing the deal, the city has agreed to purchase 468 cluster site apartments from a reputed slumlord as part of a plan to rid its reliance on renting costly and often poorly managed apartments from private landlords.
All told, the city will pay $173 million for 17 buildings in the Bronx and Brooklyn, according to the Department of Homeless Services. The purchase is part of Mayor Bill de Blasio's "Turning the Tide on Homelessness" initiative, which seeks to phase out cluster sites by 2021. Following the conversion of the units in the proposed deal, there will be approximately 1,400 cluster units remaining, down from a high of 3,650 cluster units in 2016.
“Homeless families have for decades been haphazardly sheltered in temporary accommodations that are too often poorly maintained and disconnected from services,” said Mayor de Blasio in a statement on Friday. “We’re converting these buildings into higher quality, permanent affordable housing for formerly homeless New Yorkers turning their lives around.”
Under the deal, the city will provide the financing but the buildings will be bought and controlled by a team of nonprofit entities that specialize in managing affordable housing. Many of the units are currently occupied by homeless families. Upon the conversion of the units, those who are ready will be given the opportunity to become a rent-stabilized tenant. Meanwhile, non-homeless tenants will be entitled to remain in their apartments with rent-stabilized leases.
Despite widespread support by homeless advocates, the administration announced it halted the deal in January, around the same time two news reports scrutinizing the owners were published. A Daily News story revealed that the owners who stood to benefit from the sale were members of the Podolsky family, notorious slumlords who have made hundreds of millions in dollars over the years by renting run-down shelter properties to the city.
Prior to that, the Wall Street Journal reported that federal prosecutors were investigating brothers Stuart and Jay Podolsky for tax evasion and overbilling practices related to hotels they own that are rented by the city for homeless families.
An editorial in the Daily News criticized the administration for allowing a slumlord to profit from misdeeds.
But homeless advocates came to the deal’s defense, arguing that the ends justified the means. By buying the portfolio, the city would ensure the units’ permanent affordability and put them in hands of nonprofit providers who would renovate and manage them much better than the prior owners.
“It’s a huge step forward,” said Joshua Goldfein, a staff lawyer with the Legal Aid Society, which represents tenants who live in the buildings. “The buildings will remain rent-regulated and affordable.”
Regarding the property owner’s reputation, he said, “The unsavory characteristics of the seller are a political consideration but from a business point of view, they’re irrelevant.”
It is unclear how delaying the deal, which was initially announced in December, may have affected the price. Goldfein said the city has been in negotiations for years for the portfolio.
Early on, the buildings’ market value was estimated to be between $40 million and $60 million, according to the Daily News. But the story reports a city official saying that the Law Department retained a third-party appraiser, Metropolitan Valuation Services, who valued the buildings at $143.1 million.
The Podolsky brothers were reportedly seeking $200 million.
George Arzt, a spokesman for the Podolsky family, did not immediately respond to a request for comment. In a Daily News story on Friday, a Podolsky spokesman said the brothers were “delighted” at having reached a “fair resolution.”
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The global mission to reach net zero will result in increased levels of mining for raw materials, with increases in demand for graphite, cobalt and lithium projected to increase by 500%.
That is the verdict of experts including Professor Richard Herrington, Head of Earth Sciences at the Natural History Museum – in a recently published research paper, he revealed that green technologies generally require non-renewable raw materials in their construction.
He highlights that these materials will need to be mined or reused and recycled. He claims that although the aim is to adopt an entirely circular economy approach, the world is ‘not anywhere near’ achieving this.
Lithium, cobalt and copper are some of the vital raw materials that are needed for electric vehicles (EVs) and according to the International Resource Panel, recycling only accounts for 1% of the present demand for lithium.
The UK has set a target of all new cars becoming electric by 2030 but switching the single nation’s 31.5 million petrol and diesel vehicles to electric models would require twice the existing annual global production of cobalt, a year’s production of neodymium and around 75% of the world’s annual production of lithium.
EVs are not the only low carbon technologies that require such materials – photovoltaic cells for solar power require many raw elements and rare earth metals, as do wind and hydropower projects.
The research has revealed that even relatively minor increases in the need for these minerals would mean a vast expansion of mining; a 9% increase in aluminium demand by 2030 would require 103 million additional tonnes to be mined, more than the global production of 2019, according to the World Bank Report.
The report stated: “The ambition remains to recycle and reuse as much as we can; however, new-mined resources will be required in the short term to enable green technologies and infrastructure.
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AROUND 180 PARTICIPANTS ATTENDED THE THIRD WEBINAR ON THE REQUIREMENTS OF THE HABITAT DIRECTIVE IN PROJECTS, ORGANISED IN COOPERATION WITH DG REGIO AND DG ENVIRONMENT ON 18 MARCH 2021.
The webinar targeted Managing Authorities in Member States, as well as relevant Environmental Authorities and Project Promoters.
The JASPERS Networking Platform was created to complement JASPERS project advisory operations by implementing knowledge sharing and capacity building activities, as well as fostering dissemination of good practices and exchange of experiences among all EU Member States, pre-accession Countries and other JASPERS Stakeholders.
The JASPERS Networking Platform is open to relevant authorities from all EU Member States (EU 28), as well as pre-accession Countries.
This webinar is part of a series of trainings on the Habitats Directive and project preparation. The first training was delivered with the format of a workshop in December 2019 and two subsequent webinars were organised in June and in September 2020.
The Birds Directive and the Habitats Directive form the backbone of biodiversity policy and the legal basis for our nature protection network. The aim of the Natura 2000 network is to ensure the long-term survival of Europe's most valuable and threatened species and habitats, listed under both directives. Projects need to be developed respecting the sites’ integrity.
Panellists from DG REGIO, DG ENVIRONMENT and JASPERS brought to the participants’ attention the key requirements under of Article 6(3) and 6(4) of the Directive 92/43/EEC (Habitats Directive) in the context of Major Projects’ preparation. A Member States’ experience in setting up site-specific conservation objectives was presented by representatives of the Romanian Ministry of Investments and European projects, EPC, the National Company for Administration of Roads Infrastructure, and JASPERS.
The presentations focused on the importance of Site-specific conservation objectives (SSCO), including setting up of SSCO, undertaking Appropriate Assessment (AA) in view of the SSCO and the necessary completeness of the Major Project application, including Appendix 1 Declaration, also known as Natura 2000 Declaration. During the presentations, panellists had the opportunity to provide the participants with guidance on how to address gaps and challenges during project preparation in relation to SSCO (e.g. lack of SSCO and/or poor quality of SSCO).
A BRIEF SUMMARY OF THE WEBINAR IS UNDER PREPARATION AND WILL SOON BE AVAILABLE ON THIS PAGE.
For more information please see the detailed agenda and presentations available on this page.
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Having already revealed the movement last year, Russian watchmaker Konstantin Chaykin has finally taken the covers off the prototype of the Mars Conqueror wristwatch on International Day of Human Space Flight, the annual commemoration of Yuri Gagarin’s pioneering space flight on Vostok 1 in 1961.
While most sci-fi inspired watches are usually conventional time-telling devices underneath the spaceship cases, the Mars Conqueror is actually an extraterrestrial timekeeper. The watch displays local time as well as UTC, equivalent to Greenwich Mean Time (GMT), and also average solar time on Mars, along with several other astronomical indications.
Time on Earth, both local and UTC, are shown in the centre sub-dial, while Martian time is on the left sub-dial, shown in sols, or Martian solar days. A Martian solar day is about 39 minutes 35 seconds longer than an Earth day, and a Martian year is made up of 668 sols.
The rightmost sub-dial shows the Martian date, expressed approximately with a monthly scale, as well as the relative distance between the Earth and Mars that varies throughout the year.
Earth time is set via the crown, which also winds the movement. The Mars indicators are set via screws on the case back.
It’s powered by an unusual, triangular movement, the cal. K20-1, which is actually comprised of a large and complex Martian time module on top of an ETA 2836-2 base movement. The module alone is made up of 175 parts, including 30 wheels.
The cal. K20-1 sits inside a titanium case that echos the shape of the movement and is inspired by instrument panels inside Soviet spacecraft of the 1960s. It measures a 51.2mm wide and 32.6mm long, and is 8mm high. A small porthole on the back reveals the ETA base movement.
The watch pictured is the “Mk I” prototype, which will be improved before the watch enters production. Amongst the tweaks Mr Chaykin will make is eliminating play between the wheels that drive the Martian time display, as well as redesigning its rocking bridge so Martian time can be set independently without affecting the UTC time display.
Exotic as it is, the Mars Conqueror is not a first. An American watchmaker created a series of low-cost watches showing Martian time in 2004, to commemorate NASA’s Mars exploration mission that year.
The Mars Conqueror “Mk II” will be launched in the fall of 2019 as a limited edition. Stay tuned for more details.
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How The Humble Lamp-Post Could Help Power Our Cities6 November, 2018 / Articles
As more than two-thirds of us will be living in cities by 2050, scientists and tech firms are looking at new ways to harness renewable energy within the built environment. But at what cost?
One day, your office windows will be harvesting energy from the sun, while the lamp-post down in the street is storing energy in its concrete.
Vertical wind turbines will spin as traffic whooshes past, and pavements and roads will generate small amounts of energy from all those commuter feet and heavy buses and lorries pounding down them.
Fleets of driverless taxis will give back surplus energy to the grid, and cities generally will make much more efficient use of the energy they consume.
That, at least, is the vision of many technologists, environmentalists and city planners.
But how realistic is it?
New materials certainly show promise. Cement mixtures made from power station waste could turn buildings in to batteries, for example.
These potassium-geopolymetric (KGP) composites are cheaper than ordinary cement and can store electricity. A six-metre tall lamp-post made from KGP and equipped with a small solar panel could hold enough energy to power itself throughout the evening, researchers say.
“We have shown that KGP cement mixtures can be used to store and deliver electrical energy without the need for expensive or hazardous additives,” says Lancaster University professor Mohamed Saafi, who is heading up the research.
Large numbers of buildings made with KGP could also be used to store and release excess energy – smoothing demands on urban electricity grids.
New materials are also helping to make solar panels cheaper and more cost-effective to make.
Solar is the most common renewable energy source in cities as costs have continued to tumble – from about £3 a watt a decade ago to 40p a watt now.
In the UK more than one in three firms is already producing some of their own electricity, mostly using roof-based solar panels.
But making silicon-based solar panels is very energy intensive, requiring temperatures of 1,400C and above. The silicon needs to be 99.9999% pure.
But panels made from a class of materials called perovskites can be made much thinner, more cheaply and much lower temperatures, says Nitin Padture, professor of engineering at Brown University in the US.
And as they are partially transparent they could also be used for windows. The drawback is that most of them contain lead, a toxic metal. But one option Prof Padture and his team are now studying is replacing the lead with titanium.
“Titanium is quite common but no one had thought of using it to replace lead in perovskite solar panels,” he says.
“We’re not looking to replace existing silicon technology just yet, but instead we’re looking to boost it.”
When it comes to wind – the other most common renewable energy source – conventional turbines don’t work well in built-up areas because wind directions vary greatly.
So researchers Nicolas Orellana and Yaseen Noorani have come up a spherical wind turbine to address this problem of varying winds. Their O-Wind turbine, which has now won the UK’s 2018 James Dyson Award, is a spherical device that spins when wind hits it from any direction.
Another solution from Turkish firm Devici Tech is to use vertical wind turbines along roads where they can be powered by the slipstream from passing traffic.
It says its Enlil turbines, currently being tested in Istanbul, can handle the power needs of two homes. The turbines can also incorporate solar panels and earthquake sensors, the company says.
But not all urban energy-harvesting projects seem to make commercial sense.
In France, for example, engineering firm Colas has been pioneering photovoltaic roads at sites across the country, as well as in the US and Japan.
Colas’s first site, a single-lane 0.6-mile route in Normandy, cost £4.3m. By comparison, one mile of a two-lane road in the US costs up to £3.8m.
Also there’s a question over how good at energy producing they are. The solar panels are flat on the ground rather than angled towards the sun, and can be blocked by heavy traffic, as well as snow, mud or water.
In 2014, a small 70m solar bicycle path was built in Amsterdam for £2.6m. It produced 3,000 kilowatt-hours (kWh) of electricity in its first year.
But for that money the city could have simply bought 65 million kWh of electricity on the open market.
Another technology struggling to justify itself commercially is piezo-electricity.
If you squeeze certain materials such as quartz, you can make electricity flow through them. So cars and lorries trundling along special road surfaces equipped with piezo-electric devices could generate energy. Pedestrians could do this on specially-made pavements.
In 2009, Israeli firm Innowattech experimented with energy-capturing roads, and now a US firm, Pyro-E is to demonstrate similar technology on a short stretch of road in Fresno, California.
Yet while it is technically feasible, it is currently prohibitively expensive.
Some calculate that in the US, a kilometre of a two-way street would need 13,000 piezoelectric devices, adding $400,000 (£307,000) to construction costs. Even without considering the manufacturing or installation costs, it would take about 12 years to earn back this amount.
UK firm, Pavegen, has developed electricity-generating pavements that can produce two to four joules of energy with each step you take.
Its pavements, which cost about £2,350 per sq m, have now been installed in more than 200 locations worldwide, such as transport hubs and shopping centres, the company says.
That might sound expensive, but then so were solar panels when they first came onto the market.
“We believe it’s people not technology alone that will transform our cities for the better,” says Laurence Kemball-Cook, Pavegen’s founder and chief executive.
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South Cobb High School
Revised Community Service Guidelines
Community service is defined as work done by a person or group to benefit others.
In order to receive community service cords for graduation, students must submiet signed community service logs/documentation of completion of at least 265 hours by March of their Senior year.
- Only hours accumulated in high school will be accepted.
- Students cannot receive academic credit, salary, or any other money for services rendered.
- Students may not receve community service hours for athetic games or practice(Including serving as team managers), rehearsals, competitions, or performances in school related events.
- There is no doubling of hours.
- There is a fee for the Community Service Cord.
- Deadline for Seniors to submit coummunity service hours is March 4, 2022. Late documentation will not be accepted.
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From Islamophobia to Separatism:
Behind the War of Words
Since 2011, I have studied, mainly in an academic context, the uses of the term Islamophobia, the scope of the phenomenon and its particularities, political and legal mobilizations against this form of discrimination (especially those led by mothers banned from accompanying their children on school outings in France because they wear hijab), and hate crimes and hate speech in Quebec. I have received funding to carry out field research, published articles on the subject, participated in public talks, and done media interviews.
Ten years have passed and I observe that the question still holds an extraordinary place in France: it arouses great interest and remains a focal point of public debate; indeed, it has only increased in intensity, becoming ever more polemical and sensitive. Those who dare broach it somehow become “suspect” themselves, even when this is precisely their topic of inquiry: the conflations, shortcuts, and exclusions faced by Muslims. Whether expressed openly or implicitly, this suspicion has overshadowed my career, despite the academic rigor of my work.
For Qalqalah قلقلة, I have chosen to go beyond the neutrality that is demanded with particular insistence of us as racialized researchers working on racism. Although it is based on referenced, factual data, my analysis here is meant to highlight the seriousness of the current situation. It is in fact urgent to reappropriate the terms of the debate as it is imposed in France, with its vacuous terminology, racist logic and perpetual blackmail. This work of reappropriation lies at the heart of this article.
For several decades now, we have witnessed the development of a multitude of new words in French to designate, more or less explicitly, a group marked by increasingly blurry boundaries: Islamists, extremists, radicalized, “communautaristes” (essentially, advocates of closed, illiberal communities, TN), Islamo-leftists, separatists … No one is able to define these neologisms but everyone understands that these internal enemies are hiding among the “Muslims of France.” These words refer to a very broad range of people: depending on the context, they may mean those who practice Islam, those who wear the hijab, those who have an “Arab-sounding” name, those who are racialized, those who live in poor neighborhoods, those who are perceived as foreigners, etc. At the same time, and to “avoid generalizing” (!), these same discourses make a point of distinguishing between “good Muslims,” who love France, and “bad Muslims,” who refuse to integrate and embrace the values of the Republic. In short, a permanent confusion is maintained between the “Muslim” group in general and all of these ill-defined words describing people with some kind of link to Islam (Islamists, fundamentalists, separatists …).
Such conflations are precisely what fuel Islamophobia: with its speech marked by prejudice, hostility or even hatred; and, even more significantly, acts of discrimination and violence, and specific laws targeting this very ill-defined group. Starting with two examples of public debates over the word Islamophobia, which describes a social phenomenon, and the term separatism, which aims to enshrine these conflations in law, we will expose the power relations currently at play in France.
Use of the Word Islamophobia:
a War between Two Camps
Let’s begin at the beginning: Islamophobia is a form of racism. Like numerous other sociologists, I analyze Islamophobia through theories of racism, defining it as a social construct distinguishing groups according to markers of belonging, such as skin color, national origin and religion. Racism is a power relationship involving:
an ideological construct (biological racism, replacement theory);
prejudices (generalizations, stereotypes, etc.);
- discriminatory practices (inegalitarian treatment, exclusions);
- institutional (police, justice system, prison, etc.) and social (insults, vandalism, assault) violence.
Islamophobia in France is part of this racial process; the legacy of orientalism, colonization, the history of immigration, and anti-Arab and anti-African racism. The term has been fiercely challenged, although in the end it has become established in everyday language. For example, as the term began to spread in French in 2003, its detractors immediately charged it with being an invention of Iranian mullahs aimed at preventing all criticism of Islam. While this false origin of the word, referring to a foreign regime already demonized by the press, has been refuted many times, its echoes continue to reverberate.
In reality, the neologism dates back to the colonial period. It was used for the first time in French at the beginning of the 20th century by administrators, ethnologists and scholars, to address the place of Muslims in Africa. The term served to describe “government Islamophobia” involving the differential treatment of Muslims in the colonial administration; that is, the fact that they were accorded lesser rights than the French because of their religious affiliation. There was also an issue of “scholarly Islamophobia”, referring to the prejudices and orientalism of French scholars writing about Islam and the prophet.
After the 1910s and 1920s, the word all but disappeared, apart from a few rare occurrences. The more recent spread of the term Islamophobia, this time in English, dates from 1997 when a report on the issue was published by the Runnymede Trust, a British anti-racist think-tank. The study, called “Islamophobia, A Challenge for Us All,” made waves and the neologism was accordingly discussed, criticized, and analyzed in anglophone literature.
In France, the word didn’t really catch on until a few years later, during debates over the law to ban religious symbols in public schools (2003-2004). Activists, as well as academics, journalists and people directly targeted by this form of racism, took it up. In 2003, the Collectif contre l’islamophobie en France (Collective against Islamophobia in France, CCIF) emerged. It was to become the main organization fighting discrimination against Muslims in France.
Today, the term Islamophobia continues to face intense opposition, but in my view, this is no longer a semantic debate. It is a real war waged against the use of the word, whose goal is to deny the existence of the phenomenon and disqualify those denouncing it. Over the past several years, charges against the word have intensified. Following the 2015 attacks and then the assassination of Samuel Paty in 2020, people denouncing Islamophobia have been accused of complicity with terrorists.1 A government body recently asserted, “Professor Samuel Paty suffered his tragic fate because he was accused of Islamophobia […]. It is thus with clarity of vision that the State refuses to use this term ‘Islamophobia,’ which is nothing other than a weapon of the Islamists against freedom and the Republic.”
The disqualification of the word has thus taken the form of blackmail to prevent the denunciation of racist speech and laws, discrimination, and violence against people perceived as Muslim. Anyone who talks about Islamophobia becomes suspect of “complacency” with “Islamists”, of denying the dangers of fundamentalism – in short, of “complicity” with terrorists.
The dissolution of the CCIF in 2020 is undoubtedly one of the most symptomatic affairs of this process. This organization, recognized throughout Europe and internationally, published serious statistical reports on Islamophobic acts in France, offered mediation, and waged legal battles for more than 15 years. It was accused by the French government of being an “Islamist front organization” and of promoting hatred. Although the accusation was neither defined nor substantiated, it succeeded in tarnishing the organization’s reputation and resulted in its dissolution, which was eventually approved by the Conseil d’État (state council) on 24 September 2021.2 In addition to sending a clear message to anti-Islamophobic activists, this affair stigmatized anyone who dared defend the organization.3 The list of organizations and individuals demonized in this way continues to grow. People are thus blackmailed into choosing their camp: this is no debate over opinion but the imposition of a binary ideological vision pitting those defending the Republic against those criticizing it, characterized as “anti-republican.”
Despite the blackmail and the cost of fighting Islamophobia, the word has become established, drawing its legitimacy from three sources: testimonies, independent studies, and empirical data documenting the phenomenon; reports from diverse international bodies (UN, EU, numerous NGOs); and finally, activists and Muslims who have chosen not to give in, but to continue using the term. As in all struggles for social justice, the way in which those directly affected chose to name themselves and to name the racism they face must be recognized and respected.4
Separatism: from State Laws
to Discriminatory Practices on the Ground
Alongside challenges to the term Islamophobia, new words, such as “separatist,” have emerged. These not only circulate but have become enshrined in law, a phenomenon specific to France.
In France, religious neutrality, downstream of the 1905 law separating church and state, only affected the state and state officials. The latter were to refrain from manifesting religious opinion in the exercise of their duties; hence the ban on civil servants’ wearing “religious symbols”. In 2004, the first law prohibiting the wearing of religious symbols at public schools, this time by students, broadened the ban. Following a bitter debate, this law opened a door that has not yet closed. Today we witness a proliferation of legal measures pertaining to religion, increasingly restrictive and specifically targeting Islam and women, as well as exclusions in various contexts, even where such exclusions are illegal.
For example, symbols banned in the context of the national education system were extended after 2004 to include headbands and long skirts on students, as well as on parents accompanying school outings. The debates around each of these measures, often very mediatized, triggered concrete acts of discrimination on the ground, which went far beyond the written texts. For example, the day after the 2004 law was adopted, a bus driver refused to allow a woman wearing hijab to board the bus he was driving. Moreover, the prohibitions sometimes fall into gray areas, particularly in the workplace. For instance, the Baby Loup affair was a long legal saga involving an employee of a private daycare who was fined for wearing the hijab when she returned after a leave of absence. The 2016 labor law also includes neutrality provisions allowing companies to restrict the “display of employees’ beliefs” in such an imprecise way that it is difficult to determine the extent of the resulting discrimination in the hiring process and within the company.
The separatism law is the latest child of this French legislative inflation. The original content of the law, adopted by the National Assembly in February 2021, was a jumbled grab-bag of provisions, from bans on polygamy (already banned for years) and virginity certificates (very rare in France), to stricter supervision of home schooling and control of organizations. In April, discussions in the Senate introduced several cherished demands of the far-right: a ban on religious symbols when accompanying school outings, in sports competitions, and for minors in public space; a ban on religious practice within universities; a ban on foreign flags during civil marriages; greater regulation of places of worship; the dissolution of all groups organizing non-mixed meetings (“which exclude a person based on color, origin, or belonging to an ethnicity, nation, race or specific religion from participating in a meeting”), etc.
In the final version of the law “confirming respect for the principles of the Republic” adopted on 23 July 2021 (by 49 votes against 19), the most liberticidal amendments had been withdrawn, such as the ban on minors wearing religious symbols in public space. However, the damage was done: the abandoned amendments had been discussed in the media, once again giving free rein to racist discourse. As in the past, these proposals may make a come-back and, in the meantime, give rise to concrete discriminatory practice on the ground. Moreover, this law entrenched the confusion between the threat of Islamic radicalism, the non-respect of republican principles and the visibility of Muslim religious practices. The provisions proscribing “separatism” do not target groups fomenting violent acts, but religious, cultural and political practices perceived as anti-republican. In short, this law establishes a new hollow term legitimizing a constant suspicion of Muslims.5
Refuse the Blackmail!
In all Western countries (and elsewhere), we see a rise of xenophobia and Islamophobia, with the development of far right ideas and movements, sometimes very violent, which have led to deadly attacks.6 Similarities can be observed in different democracies; in the forms taken by reactionary ideas, imperialist policies, militarization of the police, mass surveillance, repression of political dissidence, racism in general and specifically Islamophobia. Fortunately, these very real dangers posing an ever-increasing threat to social justice and fundamental freedoms have been met with an intensification of transnational struggles and resistance to racism, sexism, and police violence—from Black Lives Matter, #MeToo, to denunciations of Israeli apartheid and imperialist wars.
In France, similar to the war-like rhetoric developed during the COVID-19 pandemic, discourses around Islamophobia and separatism adopt an alarmist tone, naming internal enemies who must be combatted. The racist conflations accompanying this rhetoric are all the more disturbing because they impose a binary on political positioning, with the perpetual blackmail of loyalty to the Republic. If you believe that Muslims are victims of discrimination or if you qualify a remark as Islamophobic, if you talk about State racism, if you evoke the colonial heritage or police violence, then you are complacent with “the enemy”: you are against secularism, against the Republic, and against the very identity of France; you become suspect, a potential separatist. | <urn:uuid:31a00e9f-58e5-472e-8ec7-66a88da84f5d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://qalqalah.org/en/essays/from-islamophobia-to-separatism | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570977.50/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809124724-20220809154724-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.957287 | 2,945 | 2.078125 | 2 |
We report the construction of two age-of-acquisition (AoA) norms for 3300+ characters in simplified Chinese, which make up about 99% of the texts used in daily life. We determined a character’s AoA according to the time in which the character is formally learned in two sets of leading textbooks of Chinese in compulsory education, published respectively on the basis of the 2001 and 2011 national curriculum. Apart from having a significantly larger coverage of characters than previous norms, the current norms also outperformed them in explaining accuracy and reaction times in four large-scale databases for character decision, character naming, or character handwriting, even after controlling for the effects of frequency, number of meanings, and number of strokes. The explanatory advantage of the current norms suggests that, compared to earlier norms, the current norms capture more up-to-date character AoAs; these findings also highlight the diachronic nature of some lexical variables such as AoA and frequency. The developed objective AoA norms can be used for subsequent research on Chinese character recognition or production.
Scopus Subject Areas
- Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
- Developmental and Educational Psychology
- Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous)
- Psychology (miscellaneous)
- Age of acquisition
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Title: Marjorie's three gifts
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- Louisa M. Alcott (Author)
Abstract: This book is a collection of two short stories. The first, "Marjorie's Three Gifts" tells of a surprise party which is held in Marjorie's honor. The second, "Roses and Forget-me-nots", is about two meetings between Lizzie, a very poor girl, and Belle, who is rich and lacks for nothing.
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Published in: United States
Contributed by: Boston Public Library
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The Human Rights Based Approach (HRBA) Toolbox is made for Sida staff but is also useful for our partners and other stakeholders. It includes technical briefs on how to apply the HRBA in different thematic areas.
HRBA is empowerment and capacity development
The HRBA puts the human rights of persons living in multidimensional poverty and under oppression, and especially the most marginalised and discriminated among them, at the centre of development cooperation. The approach aims to enable persons living in poverty and under oppression to take steps out of that situation, and pinpoints actors and institutions responsible for respecting, protecting, and fulfilling those human rights.
The HRBA always includes:
- Empowerment of women, men, girls, boys and non-binary persons living in poverty and under oppression – the rights holders - with for example hope, assertiveness, knowledge, skills, tools, networks, communication channels, and access to justice to enable them to claim their rights individually and collectively.
- Capacity development of those with obligations to respect, protect, promote and fulfil human rights - the duty bearers - through for example increased knowledge, human and financial resources, and tools.
PLANET to apply the HRBA
Sida uses the tool PLANET to organise the HRBA principles and aspects to consider when you apply the HRBA in practice. The letters in PLANET are all interlinked in one way or another and need to be considered holistically.
The following are key questions to ask when applying the HRBA:
- Participation: Do all relevant stakeholders engage actively, in a way which allows rights holders to contribute meaningfully and influence outcomes?
- Link to human rights obligations: How are relevant human rights standards and recommendations from international and regional human rights mechanisms identified and used in formulating objectives and to advance processes and outcomes?
- Accountability: Who are the duty bearers at different levels, and do they have sufficient capacity and interest to be accountable to rights holders? Are there mechanisms for participation and complaints in place for rights holders, civil society and other stakeholders to hold the duty bearers to account?
- Non-discrimination and equality: Are rights holders and the root causes of the non-realisation of their human rights identified and taken into account, particularly those most subject to discrimination and marginalisation?
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Applying HRBA can contribute to positive change. There are however also risks of doing harm when working to change power, capacity and interest dynamics. Identifying risks from the very start can make a substantial difference to the outcome. A conflict sensitive approach will help both to identify risks of doing harm and opportunities for confronting unjust power structures and narrow interests that stand in the way of managing difficult change processes in a constructive and peaceful way.
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The HRBA provides a legal ground that guides Sida’s work for people living in poverty and under oppression. The HRBA is based on human rights norms and principles agreed upon by the member states of the United Nations (UN) and specified in international and regional legally binding human rights treaties, and in national laws.
The UN treaties include specific human rights standards that are interdependent and indivisible, and relate to all women, girls, men, boys and non-binary people. Examples of such standards are the right to education, freedom of expression, and water and sanitation. By ratifying a human rights treaty, a state takes on the responsibility to integrate it into its laws and realise the human rights standards it contains.
The HRBA is one of five perspectives that are compulsory to apply in Swedish development cooperation. Sida is governed on applying the HRBA and the other perspectives through the Government Ordinance with instructions to Sida.
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- European Consensus on Development which commits the EU and its member states to implementing a HRBA to development cooperation;
- UN Common Understanding on HRBA.
Monitoring provides a wealth of information
The extent to which human rights standards are realised is followed up by monitoring bodies, such as UN treaty bodies and regional committees, special rapporteurs and independent experts, peer reviewers, as well as National Human Rights Institutions and civil society organisations.
The monitoring bodies formulate their findings in a variety of ways, such as reports, observations and recommendations. They provide a wealth of information which can be used in international development cooperation – in context analysis, policy and strategy, as well as in planning, implementation and follow-up of development interventions.
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CBT-CP has been found to be effective for decreasing catastrophizing, pain interference, pain intensity, and depression scores. Although CBT-CP is an evidence-based treatment, there are times in which a clinician and client may feel stuck. Thus, this presentation discussed Dialectical Behavior Therapy strategies that may be usefully employed during the course of CBT-CP. | <urn:uuid:5eb98a4f-de29-4e40-afc7-0401dae15c97> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://ssw.umich.edu/continuing-education/catalog?format=asynchronous | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573699.52/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819131019-20220819161019-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.927741 | 165 | 1.53125 | 2 |
Located in western Japan’s Chugoku region, Okayama Prefecture is known as the land of the sunshine for its pleasant climate. It is just an hour from Kyoto and thirty minutes from Hiroshima by bullet train.
Okayama has a rich history of art, culture, and nature, with many attractions that are unique to the region. More recently Okayama has found fame as a producer of high-quality denim; especially in the town of Kojima, known as Japan’s ‘denim capital’.
In the postwar years, a school uniform manufacturer named Maruo took contract work to re-cut discarded old American jeans to fit Japanese bodies. This progressed into Maruo making their own jeans, less expensive than American imports and the region thrived.
Historic places of interest include the Kurashiki Bikan Historical Quarter, a picturesque old village encompassed by a willow-lined canal with traditional wooden boats – often called the “Venice of Japan.” In Okayama City, the Okayama Korakuen Garden, completed in 1700, has been awarded three stars in the Michelin Green Guide Japan.
The Okayama area was one of my favorite destinations in my educational tour through the Setouchi Region. What resonated with me was the merging of the “East meets West” dynamic.
The Kurashiki Bikan Historical Quarter harmoniously blends Western and Japanese cultures where streets are lined with white-walled, black-tiled rice storehouses and visitors can explore the city in traditional punt-style boats, perhaps in a kimono or yukata (kimono-like garment with a half-width collar usually worn by men.)
The rickshaw is the transport of choice and very knowledgeable guides educate and entertain travelers. I found the best shopping of local handicrafts for textiles and lacquerware in Kurashiki.
Two notable museums to visit in Kurashiki are the Ohara Museum of Art, Japan’s first for Western art, and the Bizen Osafune Japanese Sword Museum.
Okayama Castle symbolizes local history in the prefecture’s capital Okayama City. Nicknamed ‘the Crow Castle’ due to its black exterior, the 16th-century building was reconstructed in 1966 after its destruction in World War II. Visitors can dress up as feudal lords and princesses by renting authentic period costumes.
With its iconic reddish tone, Bizen pottery is one of Japan’s oldest crafts, and Okayama is home to many traditional kilns. Imbe village in Bizen City is the place to discover more about the art form–over 250 masterpieces are shown in its Bizen Pottery Museum, while at Gallery Shozan, visitors can try making bizen-yaki themselves.
For the style-conscious, a visit to Kojima, Japan’s ‘denim capital’ is a must. I visited a boutique ryokan that had its own denim gift shop where you can have customized garments made to order during your stay. Until I visited, I did not recognize Japan’s obsession with denim and was amazed at the many boutiques that only specialized in denim products that lined its famous ‘Jeans Street.’
Okayama has earned the nickname ‘the fruit kingdom’ not only for its grapes, but for its peaches, strawberries, and fruit parfaits. You can enjoy these at the Kurashiki Momoko, in Kurashiki’s Bikan Historical Quarter, where the jellies, puddings, and jams also make delectable gifts.
Kakushi sushi may be Japan’s most delicious culinary joke. At first glance, it is a very plain dish of chopped egg over white rice. But when the plate is flipped, a cornucopia of treats is revealed, such as mackerel, dried tofu, shrimp, lotus root, and pickled vegetables.
The name means hidden sushi, and the dish legendarily originated to defy a decree by the Edo-period lord that only one topping should be served with rice at a meal.
Where to Stay
Okayama boasts high-quality accommodations, and I strongly recommend a traditional Japanese ryokan stay here.
I stayed at Ryokan Kurashiki, in historic Kurashiki town, and was transformed back in time with window views of thatched-roofed houses and kimono clothed visitors strolling along the canal. My suite, 260 years ago was used for rice storage, and today is a lovely spacious Japanese tatami mat room with private bath.
Hyogo Prefecture sits at the heart of Japan’s main island, Honshu, and given its large size, the climate and topography vary greatly in different areas. Its northern coast on the Sea of Japan experiences strong winds, rainfall, and heavy snow, while to the south where Hyogo meets the tranquil Seto inland sea, the climate is much more temperate.
With Kobe as its capital, Hyogo connects eastern and western Japan through a modern rail and road network. The prefecture has more than one thousand castles of which the imposing Himeji Castle is a UNESCO-listed treasure.
Hyogo has no shortage of exciting destinations and activities for city, nature, and culture fans. Its capital Kobe is famed for its exquisite beef, but there’s plenty to do before dinner! The city is home to a bustling Chinatown and an entertainment district that makes for vibrant evening exploration.
Kobe is considered the hub of the prefecture’s art scene. Designed by world-renowned Japanese architect Tadao Ando and opened in 2002, Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art is worth visiting for the elegant building along. Being a novice of modern art, I was impressed with the multitude of sculptures, prints, and paintings that I thoroughly appreciated.
Hyogo is rich in castles and temples and is home to Japan’s iconic, UNESCO-listed, 400-year-old Himeji Castle, or the White Heron as the locals call it due to its white appearance. This castle is widely revered as the most spectacular castle in Japan for its imposing size, beauty, and well-preserved grounds.
Not far away is Shoshazan Engyoji Temple, known as one of the three great dojos, or places of meditation. Those who hike Mount Shosha to reach it can regain their strength here as visitors can stay for up to two nights and live like a monk.
Connected to the mainland by the Akashi Kaikyo Bridge – the longest suspension bridge in the world – Awaji Island is also a rewarding destination for visitors.
Gourmet beef eaters all over the world consider Kobe beef a culinary delight; being prized for its buttery and smooth flavor. Only 3,000 Hyogo-raised Tajima beef cattle per year meet strict certification standards such as having to be aged between 28 and 60 months and having to possess the highest marbling score. My guide and I went to a Kobe steakhouse and were presented with a platter of this prized and flavorful beef which we thoroughly enjoyed.
The legend surrounding Kobe beef has long been a source of fascination. Folklore tells of cows enjoying classical music, daily massages with sake and diets based on beer.
Sake is another classic Japanese dining tradition and Hyogo is known for its innovative producers, many of which can be visited on tasting tours in the Nadagogo area of Nishinomiya. This is the largest sake producing region in Japan with breweries in the area accounting for just over one-quarter of the sake production in the entire country.
Places to Stay
Hyogo’s capital Kobe offers a wide range of choices. Hotel La Suite Kobe Harborland offers luxurious, individually decorated rooms in the city center with fantastic views across the port.
However, I would recommend visiting Kobe as a day trip from Kyoto or Osaka; the bullet train will get you there in 50 minutes from Kyoto or 15 minutes from Osaka.
Stay tuned for part three…
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On December 1, 2017, cervical cancer screening in Australia changed from two-yearly Pap testing to five-yearly HPV testing.
Why did cervical screening change to five-yearly HPV testing?
We now know that 99% of cervical cancer is caused by persistent infection with certain types of HPV (human papillomavirus).
HPV is a common infection in females and males, with hundreds of different HPV types that affect different parts of the body.
Most HPV infections clear up by themselves without causing any problems. However, if they are not cleared naturally by the body, some types of HPV can lead to the development of different cancers.
Cervical cancer is most commonly associated with persistent infection with HPV types 16 and 18 (often called high-risk HPV).
How does the cervical screening test work?
All women aged 25 years and over are eligible for regular HPV testing as part of the Cervical Screening Program.
Sample collection for HPV testing is the same as having a Pap test - a doctor or healthcare professional collects a sample of cells from your cervix, and this sample is then sent to our pathology laboratory for testing.
From July 2022, self-collection became an option, which you can discuss with your doctor.
The laboratory performs an HPV test, and if HPV is found to be present, a cytology slide will also be made. This slide is examined under a microscope to see if there are any abnormal cells.
A cytology slide is also made for women who have had a previous abnormal Pap test, or who have symptoms such as abnormal bleeding.
Test results and repeat testing
Once all the testing is complete, the laboratory sends the result to your doctor with a risk category that indicates when you should have your next test. For more a more comprehensive explanation of the risk categories, please see the table below.
Remember, women of any age who experience symptoms, including pain, bleeding or discharge, should see their doctor or healthcare professional.
Frequently asked questions
The new cervical screening guidelines allow for additional testing in certain circumstances. This includes women who experience any abnormal bleeding, and young women who were sexually active before they received the HPV vaccination. Our laboratory will classify your results as 'symptomatic'. Your doctor will notify you of the result and any further investigations that may be required.
Yes. The vaccine does not protect against all types of HPV infection that are known to cause cancer, so you will still need to have the cervical screening test.
In the new program, liquid-based cytology tests, like ThinPrep®, only receive a Medicare rebate when HPV is identified in the initial test, or for patients who have symptoms or a history of previous abnormality.
If you would like the added reassurance of a second test, even if your HPV result is 'low risk', please ask your doctor whether adding a privately funded liquid-based cytology test, such as ThinPrep®, is appropriate.
The HPV test offered under the screening program will only be funded every five years for women who are 'low risk', with no symptoms or abnormal history.
If you prefer not to wait five years for your next screening test, more frequent cervical screening can be done, but it will not be eligible for a Medicare rebate unless it meets the specific criteria for increased testing. Again, please discuss this option with your doctor.
It is worthwhile being aware that all screening tests have an inherent, but low, probability of error. It is expected the new cervical screening test will increase detection of abnormalities compared to the previous Pap test. Please consult your doctor if you have any new or abnormal symptoms or concerns, even if you have had a recent 'low risk' cervical screening test result.
The resources below are provided to help you understand the changes introduced with the National Cervical Screening Program.
For further information on the new program, and for any questions you might have, please speak to your doctor.
Pap smears vs HPV testing video
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Filton falls within the rural country of South Gloucestershire and that is where it belongs, according to readers.
As part of an ongoing series looking at areas which straddle the ward boundary between Bristol and its leafy counterpart, we asked readers which side of the invisible border they believed Filton belonged to.
And in what turned out to be an incredibly close poll on the Bristol Post website, 54 per cent said the town – which is roughly five miles north of the city centre – was firmly part of South Gloucestershire while 43 per cent voted for Bristol.
Just three per cent of readers, meanwhile, agreed with the suggestion by a local historian that Filton should be considered separate to either county.
Over on Twitter, a poll by live blog editor Natasha Davies found 58 per cent of voters agreed Filton is part of South Gloucestershire.
It should be noted that the town, famed for its airfield and factories, does technically belong to South Gloucestershire, which was formed in 1996 following the abolition of the county of Avon.
Other areas which are sometimes mistaken for Bristol including Downend, Kingswood and Stoke Park also belong to the county.
Commenting on the article, readers rejected the notion that Filton should be considered part of the city while others called for the introduction of a “Greater Bristol unitary authority”.
User armchairfc posted: “I have lived in Filton for 44 years and it’s never been Bristol.
“Go along the Filton Avenue and just past Eden grove is a big sign saying ‘Welcome to South Gloucestershire’, which is the start of Filton.
“You see the same sign by the old Frenchay hospital roundabout.”
Sprout1883 posted: “Time for a Greater Bristol unitary authority.
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The accounting cycle is several steps implemented during an accounting period. This process is implemented to manage company financial transactions.
The 1st step is to set up an accounting system. At the end of an accounting cycle, the books are now ready to be closed. Developing a chart of accounts is part of setting up an accounting system. This is where the company files its financial data. This source document in any account is the proof that a transaction has taken place, and it should be recorded as an entry quickly. Examples of this include purchase orders, invoices, and canceled checks. An entry is made to create a formal record. When you use dual accounting, two entries are made. A debit and a credit are entered for the transaction. A general ledger should also be constructed for a small business. This is the primary accounting record.
The next step is to prepare a trial balance. This is accomplished by totaling all credits and debits from the period in which they occurred. Adjusting entries include things like depreciation, accrued revenues, prepaid expenses, and accrued expenses. All of these items have an impact on the monthly balance.
Preparing the financial statements is the last step of the accounting cycle. All of this information from the ledger and the accounting journals are used to develop an income statement, A statement of cash flow, and a statement of retained earnings.
Closing entries are also a part of the accounting cycle. Closing entries come at the end of the accounting cycle. They are used to establish a balance of temporary accounts for the next statement. These include liabilities and expenses.
Developing and preparing one's accounting system is complex. It is also time-consuming and a huge undertaking for any business, especially a small business. It's always wise to either use a CPA or outsource an accounting services company, like AccountingDepartment.com. Don't be afraid of the expense either. Outsource accounting firms offer many packages that you can choose from. You should be able to find a package that meets your budget and company goals.
Having a good accounting system in place is the lifeblood of your business. With good records in place, you'll be able to make more sound business decisions.
An outsourced accounting firm will be able to adapt to your company's unique accounting needs. You will have much more time to focus on your business. The burden of keeping the books will be eliminated from your daily tasks. Let an outsourced accounting firm streamline the process for you. They have a lot of expertise and top-notch software technology. With the help of an outsourced accounting firm, you have much more time to focus on the revenue-generating aspects of your company. In addition, an outsourced accounting firm will assist you in reducing your tax liabilities. It doesn't get any better than that.
It cannot be understated how important it is for a company to have accurate and detailed financial records, and the accounting cycle is a big part of it all for any small business. The bottom line for any business is to generate revenue and make a profit. With a good accounting system in place, your business will be on its way to success. | <urn:uuid:d3aaa935-69e3-4351-91c6-1e3c28603ddf> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.accountingdepartment.com/blog/the-accounting-cycle-for-your-small-business | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570977.50/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809124724-20220809154724-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.965949 | 642 | 2.796875 | 3 |
Why Bilingual SLPs are Important
Speech-language pathologists, or SLPs, are critical members of school communities. For students who need speech-language services in languages other than English, a bilingual SLP is a necessity. These specialists provide essential supports for students, helping them achieve their potential, no matter what language and communication barriers they may face.
What is a Bilingual SLP?
A bilingual SLP is someone trained and certified in speech-language pathology who can also address bilingual students’ needs and challenges. These pathologists provide invaluable support to students, their families, and professional school teams. They help to treat a wide variety of disorders, ranging from communication to speech and language challenges. Bilingual SLPs need to identify differences between standard difficulties of learning a new language versus language disorders and have a deep cultural understanding of their students.
Who Bilingual SLPs Help
Bilingual students often face multiple challenges at the same time. They are learning a new language, which can be hard enough. If they also have a communication or language disorder, they need a guide, which is where the bilingual SLP shines. By communicating with students in their native language, bilingual SLPs can diagnose, treat, and help students manage their unique challenges. Beyond helping students, these specialists are valuable resources for parents, families, teachers, and administrators, full of strategies and approaches to help the team deliver quality services.
What Does an SLP do?
A bilingual SLP must be trained in speech-language pathology and meet all the requirements needed to be a school-based specialist. Some of the roles and responsibilities of an SLP include:
- Developing services that adhere to IEP goals, including academic, social-emotional, and vocational
- Helping students with communication, speech, and language issues
- Tailoring services to ensure students achieve success in academic classes
- Increasing student literacy by aligning speech-language services with strategies to improve communication
- Separating speech and language disorders from other factors, such as second-language acquisition
- Administering assessments to identify children who need services and creating treatment plans for students
- Developing and tailoring interventions
- Collecting and analyzing data and designing programs using this information
With so many roles, SLPs are crucial members of school teams, able to maximize student success in many ways.
How to Find a Bilingual SLP
Bilingual SLPs add another layer to the services that students receive. Employers looking for a bilingual SLP need look no further than Bilingual Therapies, where we match only the best bilingual SLPs with schools across the country. We provide support, training, and continuing education opportunities to ensure that candidates meet rigorous standards. As school districts express their specific SLP needs, we pair our highly-qualified candidates with them, ensuring a perfect fit for all involved.
Schools strive to provide exceptional services to all students at their sites. Bilingual SLPs can help achieve this goal, acting as an essential resource and integral members of school communities for students, their families, educators, and specialists. Here at Bilingual Therapies, we provide the support, guidance, and educational options to our bilingual SLPs, to maximize their impact. Contact us today for all of your staffing needs, and ensure that your students receive the bilingual SLP support they deserve. | <urn:uuid:920a5620-8d8e-461a-93f2-50c276e40c68> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.bilingualtherapies.com/resource/why-bilingual-slps-are-important/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570977.50/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809124724-20220809154724-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.947442 | 686 | 3.390625 | 3 |
The most important authorities at a glance
Mostly unpopular, but absolutely necessary for a study stay in Germany: We are talking about the official procedures that await you in preparation for and during your studies in Germany. We have compiled a list of the most important German authorities for you.
Immediately after arrival in Germany, in addition to registering with the Residents' Registration Office, a residence permit is issued by the Foreigners' Registration Office. For assistance as well as information on the required documents, foreign students can contact the International Office.
What is the International Office responsible for?
The International Office is the central point of contact for all organizational questions related to studying abroad. In addition to advising on study, internship and research opportunities abroad, the International Office assists international students with application, enrollment, housing and study planning, financing, and language preconditions for studying in Germany.
In addition, the International Office usually takes care of the admission as well as the preparation of the admission of international students who wish to study in Germany. This includes, among other things, checking the documents submitted, such as the university entrance qualification and proof of the required German language skills. If the relevant evidence cannot be submitted, a university language test is first required. If you have any questions regarding admission to the TU Dresden or organizational concerns, you can contact the International Office of the TU Dresden directly here.
Residents' Registration Office
The Residents' Registration Office - or Bürgerbüro - is responsible, among other things, for registering and re-registering your place of residence in Germany and for issuing passports and identity cards.
What do foreign students need to apply for at the Resident Registration Office?
Within two weeks after arrival in Germany, foreign students must register their residence in Germany at the responsible Residents' Registration Office. For the registration you need a passport, possibly with a visa, the completed application form as well as the confirmation of residence from your landlord. You can find a template for the landlord's confirmation online at the relevant Residents' Registration Office. Under certain circumstances, a certificate of enrollment may also be required. After registration, you will receive a registration certificate, which you can now use to apply for your residence permit.
You can make an appointment for the registration - usually also at short notice - online at the responsible citizens' registration offices of the city of Dresden.
Department of Foreigners
The Department of Foreigners is primarily responsible for the implementation of the law regarding foreigners in Germany. This includes, among other things, the issuing of residence permits, expulsions or deportations, and the issuing of passports for foreigners.
When do foreign students have to present themselves at the Foreigners' Registration Office?
Foreign students from EU countries do not need a visa or a residence permit to take up studies in Germany. Applicants from non-EU countries, on the other hand, must contact the competent foreigners authority of their place of residence immediately after their arrival in Germany for registration under foreigners law and the issuance of a residence permit.
Students from non-EU countries who stay in Germany for more than three months in the course of their studies require a valid residence permit in addition to a visa. The residence permit for study purposes is usually limited to a maximum of two years and must be renewed annually. For the annual renewal, proof of financing must also be provided, whereby the required amount of money must actually be available. Furthermore, the residence permit is tied to the course of study specified therein, which is why changing the course of study or dropping out can lead to the loss of the right of residence. After the successful completion of the studies, there is the possibility to find a suitable job in Germany for 18 months and to apply for a new residence permit for this period.
To apply for a residence permit at the Aliens' Registration Office in Dresden, you will need the completed application form, your passport, if applicable with visa, a biometric photo, the current registration certificate, your rental contract or other proof of accommodation, a current certificate of study, your health insurance as well as proof of financing. You can find all information about making an appointment at the Immigration Registration Office in Dresden here. | <urn:uuid:bbc9c56a-d55f-4f11-b833-efc3e1dbe163> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://tudias.de/en/service/authorities.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573699.52/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819131019-20220819161019-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.942979 | 858 | 1.695313 | 2 |
Manne Siegbahn Memorial Lectures
Geoffrey W. Marcy (San Francisco State University and University of California, Berkeley, California, U.S.A.)
FR4 Oskar Kleins Auditorium
Thursday 03 October
08:00 - 18:00
During the past 12 months, astronomers have finally discovered planets orbiting Sun-like stars. All were discovered by precise Doppler measurements of the host stars. Some of these planets have properties similar to the nine planets in our own Solar System. But many of the planets have properties that are totally unexpected.
Several of the planets are more massive than even Jupiter and some orbit their host star in very small orbits, smaller than Mercury’s orbit. Equally unexpected is that two of these “planets” have non-circular orbits.
Current theory of the formation of planetary systems is suddenly challenged to account for these new planetary properties. The character of the new worlds spawns many questions about the uniqueness of our Solar System and the prevalence of Earth-like planets.
These questions are now being addressed with the Keck 10-meter telescope, which will hunt for Saturn-like and Neptune-like planets. | <urn:uuid:d5563e85-5d2d-4e5c-bfb4-53ce048525f1> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.albanova.se/event/discovery-of-planets-orbiting-sun-like-stars/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570767.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808061828-20220808091828-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.924302 | 262 | 3.125 | 3 |
The term perfume is associated with fragrance – an arousing odor, pleasant scent, erotica, sensuality.
The French use of the term perfume dates back to the 16th Century and is derived from the Latin per– “through” + fumare -“to smoke”. It describes the activity used to spread scent in churches, public places and homes by burning aromatic plants – incense – and thus “through smoke”
Today the production of perfume is part of a multi billion-dollar industry. In ancient times it also played a major role in the prosperous trading of merchandise between the east and the west…
Read more about the ‘Scent of Perfume’:
|Scent and Smell
The sense of smell is one of our 5 senses. It enables us, with the help of organs in our nose, through a process of memory and associations, to recognize our world and to understand and adapt to our environment… go to page...
Perfume is a man made product, mostly in the form of liquid, which is composed of several, sometimes hundreds, of components that produce a pleasant smell by having their odor molecules float in the air…go to page...
|The History of Perfume
Perfume and incense are mentioned many times in the bible, as well as in remains of records that describe production in ancient Egypt, the land of Israel, India, Mesopotamia and the Far East. The Greeks, followed by the Romans, refined the process of production and emphasized their use for body care...go to page...
|The Ancient Perfume Route|
The perfume and incense trade route played an important role in the connection between the East and the West – providing commercial activity that also included spices and precious stones. Fortresses along these routes protected the convoys, carrying the expensive merchandise, from robbers…go to page...
|Some Stations Along the Perfume and Incense Route
The Incense Route, from Petra through the Israeli Negev to the port of Gaza along the shore of the Mediterranean, stretches across some 150 kilometres. This route is recognized as a world heritage route by UNESCO...go to page...
|Collectibles - Overview of the History of Perfume Bottles
Together with the production of perfume, a secondary industry emerged that was dedicated to manufacturing containers for storage and delivery of this valuable product...go to page...
|Perfume Bottles: The Ancients
From ancient times, one finds remains of magnificent jugs, vials and bottles made of substances such as clay, alabaster, precious metals and, of course, glass... go to page...
|Perfume Bottles: Byzantine, Islamic, Venetian - Middle Ages
Toilette vessels typical of the Byzantine period were strongly influenced by middle-eastern designs... Early Islamic containers were often covered with crimped and wavy coils and other types of applied decorations...The glass industries of Venice were probably influenced by Byzantine craftsmen who arrived in Venice after the fall of Constantinople...go to page...
|Perfume Bottles: 17th Century to Modern
The design and manufacture of perfume bottles has been, for many years, a profitable industry by itself. Consequently, unusual perfume bottles attract the attention of collectors who relate to the bottles in terms of their own unique beauty and consider them an item of art... go to page...
|Perfume Bottles - Private Collection 1
See examples of a private collection of Jean Paul Gaultier - Female Body Shaped perfume bottles
|Perfume Bottles - Private Collection 2
See examples of a private collection of Japanese and Chinese Perfume and Snuff Bottles
This docuweb includes: Scent and Smell ; Perfume Basics ; The History of Perfume; The Ancient Perfume Route; Some Stations Along the Perfume and Incense Route; Collectibles – Overview of the History of Perfume Bottles; Perfume Bottles – The Ancients; Byzantine, Islamic, Venetian – Middle Ages; 17th Century to Modern; Private Collection 1; Private Collection 2 .
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WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. – An analysis of four studies involving more than 14,000 patients found that long-term use of the diabetes drug rosiglitazone (Avandia®) increased the risk of heart attack by 42 percent and doubled the risk of heart failure, according to a new report from researchers at Wake Forest University School of Medicine and colleagues. There was no effect on death from cardiovascular causes.
The analysis, reported in the Sept. 12 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association, is one of the first to evaluate how long-term use of Avandia affects risk of heart attacks, heart failure and mortality. It involved studies that followed patients for at least a year.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration recently required that Avandia and another drug in the same class carry the agency’s toughest “black-box” warning because of an increased risk of heart failure. The agency is currently evaluating whether a warning about heart attack risk should also be included for Avandia. Earlier this year, an analysis of 42 short-term studies found an increased risk of heart attacks.
“The public health impact of potential harm with rosiglitazone is substantial,” said Sonal Singh, M.D., lead author and an assistant professor of internal medicine at Wake Forest. “Regulatory agencies should urgently evaluate whether this drug should remain on the market.”
Singh said an estimated 3.5 million people in the United States take Avandia. He said that while caution should be taken in estimating event rates based on the analysis, the findings suggest that the drug may cause more than 4,000 excess heart attacks and 9,000 excess cases of heart failure a year.
The researchers pooled data from four studies that randomly assigned participants with type 2 diabetes or impaired glucose tolerance to receive Avandia or either another type of diabetes drug or a placebo, or inactive drug.
Based on the analysis, the researchers estimate that for every 220 diabetic patients treated with Avandia for one year, one will have a heart attack linked to the drug. And, there would be one case of heart failure for every 30 people taking the drug for one year.
“There is no need for physicians, health plans or patients to wait for regulatory action,” said Curt Furberg, M.D., Ph.D., a co-author of the report. “On the contrary, they should take prompt action and restrict the use of Avandia, especially since safer alternatives are available.”
Avandia received regulatory approval in 1999 and at that time no serious adverse events were recognized. However, since approval, Avandia has been linked to heart failure, vision loss, heart attacks and fractures in women.
The current analysis looked at potential links between the drug and heart attacks, death from cardiovascular causes, and heart failure, which is the inability of the heart to meet the body’s demands.
Yoon K. Loke, M.B.B.S., M.D., with the University of East Anglia in the United Kingdom, is also a co-author.
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Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center is an academic health system comprised of North Carolina Baptist Hospital and Wake Forest University Health Sciences, which operates the university’s School of Medicine. U.S. News & World Report ranks Wake Forest University School of Medicine 18th in primary care and 44th in research among the nation's medical schools. It ranks 35th in research funding by the National Institutes of Health. Almost 150 members of the medical school faculty are listed in Best Doctors in America. | <urn:uuid:c3080821-c6cb-469e-aec3-82a09028d1c5> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://newsroom.wakehealth.edu/news-releases/2007/09/longterm-use-of-diabetes-drug-increases-heart-attack-risk-by-more-than-40-percent | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570767.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808061828-20220808091828-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.938576 | 804 | 2.046875 | 2 |
Suryaprakash Sambhara, DVM, Ph.D
Chief, Immunology Section, Influenza Division, CDC, Atlanta, USA
Making sense of pathogen sensors of Innate Immunity: Utility of their ligands as antiviral agents and adjuvants for vaccines.
Currently used antiviral agents act by inhibiting viral entry, replication, or release of viral progeny. However, recent emergence of drug-resistant viruses has become a major public health concern as it is limiting our ability to prevent and treat viral diseases. Furthermore, very few antiviral agents with novel modes of action are currently in development. It is well established that the innate immune system is the first line of defense against invading pathogens. The recognition of diverse pathogen-associated molecular patterns (PAMPs) is accomplished by several classes of pattern recognition receptors (PRRs) and the ligand/receptor interactions trigger an effective innate antiviral response. In the past several years, remarkable progress has been made towards understanding both the structural and functional nature of PAMPs and PRRs. As a result of their indispensable role in virus infection, these ligands have become potential pharmacological agents against viral infections. Since their pathways of action are evolutionarily conserved, the likelihood of viruses developing resistance to PRR activation is diminished. I will discuss the recent developments investigating the potential utility of the ligands of innate immune receptors as antiviral agents and molecular adjuvants for vaccines.
Andrey Panteleyev, Ph.D.
Vice Chair, Division of Molecular Biology, NBICS Centre-Kurchatov Institute, Moscow, Russia
The system of PAS proteins (HIF and AhR) as an interface between environment and skin homeostasis
Regulation of normal skin functions as well as etiology of many skin diseases are both tightly linked to the environmental impact. Nevertheless, molecular aspects of skin-environment communication and mechanisms coordinating skin response to a plurality of environmental stressors remain poorly understood.
Our studies along with the work of other groups have identified the family of PAS dimeric transcription factors as an essential sensory and regulatory component of communication between skin and the environment. This protein family comprises a number of hypoxia-induced factors (HIF-alpha proteins), aryl hydrocarbon receptor (AhR), AhR nuclear translocator (ARNT), and several proteins implicated in control of rhythmic processes (Clock, Period, and Bmal proteins). Together, various PAS proteins (and first of all ARNT – as the central dimerization partner in the family) control such pivotal aspects of cell physiology as drug/xenobiotic metabolism, hypoxic and UV light response, ROS activity, pathogen defense, overall energy balance and breathing pathways.
In his presentation Dr. Panteleyev will focus on the role of ARNT activity and local hypoxia in control of keratinocyte differentiation and cornification. His recent work revealed that ARNT negatively regulates expression of late differentiation genes through modulation of amphiregulin expression and downstream alterations in activity of EGFR pathway. All these effects are highly dependent on epigenetic mechanisms such as histone deacetylation. Characterisation of hypoxia as a key microenvironmental factor in the skin and the role of HIF pathway in control of dermal vasculature and epidermal functions is another major focus of Dr. Panteleyev’s presentation.
In general, the studies of Dr. Panteleyev’s laboratory provide an insight into the PAS-dependent maintenance of skin homeostasis and point to the potential role of these proteins in pathogenesis of environmentally-modulated skin diseases such as barrier defects, desquamation abnormalities, psoriasis, etc. | <urn:uuid:9c6ec48c-3a1f-4991-b308-4c23e6674609> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.amritabioquest.org/conference/2013/schedule/full-schedule/action~agenda/time_limit~1376073000/tag_ids~73,63/request_format~html/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570977.50/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809124724-20220809154724-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.936744 | 766 | 2.1875 | 2 |
|No such thing as a small change|
Timeouts: Any alternative to alarm in Win32?by jbbarnes (Novice)
|on Dec 03, 2008 at 10:44 UTC||Need Help??|
jbbarnes has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:
It seems that ActiveState's Win32 implementation of alarm will not terminate blocking system calls. Consider this brief example:
You can run this such as "test.pl smtp.myisp.com:25" to return your ISP's mail server ID. Under Linux, the alarm will break in after 5 seconds with no response. Under Win32, using alarm will not interrupt the process.
Every Perl networking book I have recommends this technique to handle timeouts, but you are stuck with a 20+ second wait under Windows.
Is there any other way to get control back faster? Perhaps a way to specify a timeout value associated with the read command?
Thanks for your advice.
UPDATE: Thank you for all the very quick and helpful answers. Yes, a lighter-weight solution is preferable. But if not possible, then any solution is better than none. This is part of a project replacing a Windows .exe with cross-platform code. So it needs to run on both Linux and the older Windows boxes. So far it has been very successful, until this snag.
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Happy belated Thanksgiving, and welcome to the holiday season. The long-awaited end of this semester is coming in just two weeks!
Speaking of long-awaited events, the month of November gave us verdicts in two of this year’s most highly publicized trials. On Nov. 19, 18-year-old Kyle Rittenhouse was acquitted after killing two men and injuring another during the August 2020 protest in Kenosha, Wisconsin. And, on Nov. 24, three White men were convicted for the February 2020 murder of Ahmaud Arbery, an unarmed 25-year-old Black man, in Glynn County, Georgia.
I will begin by discussing the latter case. On Feb. 23, 2020, Arbery was jogging on a residential street in Satilla Shores, an unincorporated community about 80 miles southwest of Savannah. Believing that Arbery may have committed a burglary, 50-year-old William Bryan began to follow him in a vehicle and record on his cell phone. Bryan’s video shows the encounter between Arbery and two other White men, father and son Gregory and Travis McMichael, aged 64 and 34, respectively. Also believing that Arbery was a burglar, the McMichaels attempted to conduct a citizen’s arrest (legal in Georgia at the time), which the confused Arbery resisted. A struggle ensued, and it ended with Travis McMichael fatally shooting Arbery at point-blank range.
Though Bryan’s full video was not released until May 2020, the outrage over three White men killing an unarmed, innocent Black man was swift and severe. Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp (R) said “Georgians [deserved] answers” about the shooting, while then-presidential candidate Joe Biden told a crowd that Arbery was “essentially lynched before our very eyes.”
With such bipartisan outrage, one would think Georgia attorneys would line up to prosecute Bryan and the McMichaels to the fullest extent of the law. After all, securing a conviction in this racially-charged case would undoubtedly boost the career of any successful prosecutor in the increasingly progressive Peach State. Indeed, Kemp signed expansive hate crime legislation and repealed Georgia’s 1863 “citizen’s arrest” law within 15 months of Arbery’s death.
However, lead prosecutor Linda Dunikoski surprised most observers by adopting a cautious approach that largely avoided any racial issues. Dunikoski, a senior district attorney in Democratic-leaning Cobb County, recognized focusing on the fact that Arbery’s killers had actively pursued him for several minutes was the best way to win over the conservative, mostly White jury. Only once during the entire trial did Dunikoski claim Arbery was killed “because he was a Black man running down the street,” and her strategy even won the praise of Bryan’s attorney, the Brunswick-based Kevin Gough.
“She found a clever way of bringing the issue up that wouldn’t be offensive to the right-leaning members of the jury,” Gough told The New York Times last week. “I think you can see from the verdict that Dunikoski made the right call.”
Officially, Bryan and the McMichaels each faced five state charges, including malice murder, felony murder and false imprisonment, as well as three additional federal charges. Travis McMichael was convicted on all eight charges, while Gregory McMichael was convicted on all charges except malice murder. Bryan was found guilty of felony murder, aggravated assault and criminal attempt to commit a felony.
Now to the Rittenhouse trial. After the Aug. 23, 2020 police shooting of Jacob Blake, a 29-year-old Black man, protests occurred in Kenosha. Some demonstrators looted stores, set fires and caused more than $50 million worth of damage in just four days.
Enter Kyle Rittenhouse, then a 17-year-old high school student from Antioch, Illinois. Apparently feeling a responsibility to restore order, Rittenhouse drove 20 miles northeast to Kenosha on Aug. 24, where he met up with his friend, 18-year-old Dominick Black. Black, a Wisconsin native, had purchased a gun for Rittenhouse, which he had agreed to give to him on his 18th birthday. (For this, Black was charged with a felony and was the first witness called by prosecutors.)
When unrest broke out the next evening, Black and Rittenhouse armed themselves and travelled to a used car dealership for reasons that are still unclear. Witnesses testified that the dealership asked Rittenhouse to defend their property from riots, but the owner’s son denied this. Regardless, what happened next is clear — Rittenhouse fatally shot two men, 36-year-old Joseph Rosenbaum and 26-year-old Anthony Huber. He also wounded another, 26-year-old Gaige Grosskreutz, who testified he was filming the unrest for the American Civil Liberties Union and thought Rittenhouse was an active shooter.
For his actions, Rittenhouse faced several charges, including first-degree intentional homicide, which could have imprisoned him for 60 years. Several of the smaller charges, such as underage possession of a dangerous weapon and failure to comply with Kenosha’s emergency curfew, should have resulted in no-doubt convictions for Rittenhouse.
However, the case’s lead prosecutor, Kenosha County Assistant District Attorney Thomas Binger, found his case weakened by a brilliant defense team. For one, Judge Bruce Schroeder dismissed the underage gun possession charge after Rittenhouse’s lawyers argued that Wisconsin law only prevents minors from carrying rifles if the barrel is less than 16 inches long — the length of Rittenhouse’s barrel exceeded 16 inches.
When this approach failed, Binger’s team pivoted, attempting to assert Rittenhouse had “provoked bloodshed” by coming to the riot fully armed and leaving the scene “like a hero in a Western, without a care in the world for anything he’s just done.”
Based on the evidence I’ve seen, I’m inclined to agree with this characterization of Rittenhouse’s actions. But my own deductions do not translate into laws on the books in Wisconsin, on which a jury must base its verdict to ensure a fair trial. Specifically, once a defendant has made a self-defense claim in Wisconsin, prosecutors must “disprove it beyond a reasonable doubt.”
Binger could have certainly done this, had his own legal strategy not actively worked against him. For one, Binger relied too heavily on unclear drone footage in building his case, particularly the video of Rittenhouse shooting Rosenbaum. I’m not going to analyze this footage more than the courtroom already has, but it raises more questions than it answers. Was Rosenbaum really within arm’s length of Rittenhouse’s gun when the teenager turned around and shot him? Did Rosenbaum actually lunge for the gun? Different sides interpreted the footage differently, meaning that nothing here was “disproven beyond a reasonable doubt.”
Even some of Binger’s witnesses seemed to undermine his argument. The testimony of another armed citizen, Ryan Balch, painted the picture of a hostile Rosenbaum, who Balch said was “hyperaggressive and acting out in a violent manner” before Rittenhouse shot him. And the testimony of Grosskreutz seemed to confirm that Huber was trying to harm Rittenhouse. In another key moment for the defense, Grosskreutz confirmed Rittenhouse only shot him when he pointed his own gun at the teenager, in an apparent attempt to disarm him.
Some will argue that Judge Schroeder inherently favored the defense. This is a topic that deserves its own column as I can certainly understand the argument. The optics of both Schroeder yelling at Binger over Rittenhouse’s Fifth Amendment rights and his MAGA-adopted “God Bless The U.S.A.” phone ringtone are terrible. I encourage anyone interested in these issues to read MSNBC opinion columnist Jessica Levinson’s take on Schroeder’s conduct as she discusses it in greater detail than I ever could here.
So, what is the lesson in this? Beyond the obvious that Binger could learn a thing or two from Dunikoski, prosecutors must be just as shrewd and thorough in their work as defense attorneys. After all, they operate within a justice system that is theoretically designed to free 100 guilty men before it convicts one innocent man. They must base their arguments in reason and not emotion, as Binger could never recover from the inherent emotional undertone of calling Rittenhouse a remorseless Western outlaw. In a courtroom, what is true and what is proven are often two completely different things.
I will release my final column of the semester next week. Given that Jussie Smollett and Ghislaine Maxwell are currently facing trial, and that the Supreme Court is hearing a challenge to Roe v. Wade, I’m sure I’ll have plenty more legal news to discuss soon. | <urn:uuid:b4765c80-47c2-4394-9e6c-7f309baedf4d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://dailycampus.com/2021/12/02/carsons-commentary-prosecutors-approaches-determine-arbery-rittenhouse-verdicts/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570767.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808061828-20220808091828-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.968247 | 1,917 | 1.65625 | 2 |
Branding & Marketing Companies: What Are the Differences?
If you’re a rising star, you need someone to help build your image. You need a trusted confidante who knows just how to dress you on the red carpet, find your best angle, and choose the right Instagram filter for your selfies.
But this can’t just be a buddy who knows you well; it should be an agent who knows the biz.
That means a marketing or branding company.
What is a branding company? What is a marketing agency for nonprofits? In this guide we’ll cover all your questions about what a branding and marketing company can do for your organization or nonprofit.
What is a Brand Agency?
Brand agencies focus on creating, developing, maintaining, and improving brands. They are there to understand your business, clarify your goals, and elevate you to the next level of brand recognition.
What Do Branding Agencies Do?
Brand agencies drive your nonprofit’s branding strategy—they control messaging, image, and overall, write a story your ideal audience wants to hear.
Here are a few actions agencies take to elevate their clients.
- Hone your nonprofit’s image, voice, and story. Where did you start? Why are you here? Who and what do you stand for? Brand agencies will zero in on the heart of your business and present it to your audience in its best light.
- Plan how that brand will be positioned in the marketplace. Who will be exposed to it? What kind of messaging will be used? What are the presentation guidelines of your brand? A brand agency will place you in the perfect position for success in your field.
- Manage the brand as it grows and becomes exposed to wider audiences. Brand agencies will make sure those guidelines are adhered to while adjusting according to new audience insights.
- Measure the brand’s growth. Brand agencies are there to track the ups and nix the downs. They find what works and put it to good use.
What is a Marketing Agency?
The goal of working with a marketing firm is to convert your target audience into customers or donors, retain your current audience, improve sales and revenue, and grow your brand. They follow a similar 4-step process as brand agencies, but focused toward your monetary goals, whether that be making money or raising it for a cause.
Marketing agencies specifically geared towards nonprofits understand how precious an organization’s resources are. They are deeply familiar with ensuring every dollar spent on a campaign is spent well, while maximizing return on investment.
What is Marketing for Nonprofit Organizations?
A beautiful thing happens when marketing is applied to nonprofit organizations.
If your nonprofit is a flower in a field, ripe with pollen that can make a change in the world, you need to attract the right pollinators for the job. Marketing makes sure volunteers and donors buzz and hum their way over to you and recognize you for your fantastic ideas. With the help of marketing, your message and mission can spread all over.
Nonprofit marketing is the creation of copy, logos, taglines, and media campaigns. It’s message-focused. It exposes your budding nonprofit to those vital people and organizations that can push you from online donations to hosting whole fundraisers.
What is Branding in Marketing?
A fantastic example of branding in marketing is the story of how the iconic dancing penguin became Penguin Books’ logo.
The creator, Allen Lane, was unsatisfied with the book selections at a train station’s bookstore, finding every novel either so-so quality or overpriced. While working on his logo for his own publishing company, a typist suggested a penguin for its attitude, “dignified, but flippant.” Lane immediately sent his designer to the zoo. Thus, the penguin on the spine of endless wonderful books was born.
A brand is not just a name and logo. It’s the attitude, the tale of your business, rising from considerable need or exceptional ideas.
When the story is told well, people are hooked, and an image lasts forever. And when it comes to marketing, that kind of branding power is invaluable. Especially for non-profits.
Why Hire a Marketing Company to do Your Branding?
The same reason you would hire contractors to build your house.
If branding is the style of your home—a bungalow, condo, craftsman, modern, or mid-century—then marketing is the execution of that style, from the roof to the windows to the smallest detail in the crown molding. Branding is the big idea, while marketing works to make it come to life.
If you’re trying to build a home for your nonprofit, you want to feel sure those four walls will stand for a long time, withstand any weather, and house generations to come. Building a home takes expertise, experience, and passion for the art of construction.
So go with the professionals. Someone who will understand your non-profit and what its goals are. Someone like us—Puzzle Pieces.
At Puzzle Pieces Marketing, we don’t just do branding or marketing. We offer the best of both worlds to our non-profit clients. We want to help guide people to your organization so you can enact real change in the world. So whether you’re building homes for the homeless, saving the bees, or just trying to make the world a better place, we can help you get the message out.
The Branding Journal. What is a branding agency? https://www.thebrandingjournal.com/2016/06/what-is-a-branding-agency/
Looka. The Origin Stories Behind 5 Famous Brands. https://looka.com/blog/famous-brands-origin-stories/
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Full subtractor circuit
Full subtractor circuit diagram
FullSutractor is a combinational logic circuit. It used for the subtraction of 3 binary bit.
As seen in circuit diagram Cct have two input A & B and third one is Borrow in (bin)
And two output Difference and Borrow out (bout).
As seen in the truth table 3 input ean(0-7) 8 possible combinations.
Let us take 6th combination and do subtraction A-b=result1 (1-0=1) , result1-bin=output(1-1=0) hence prove that difference is at logic 0 and u see we do not borrow so bout is at logic 0.
Result of all combination are shown in table.
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UN-Habitat was a pioneer in the collection of urban indicators data. In 1991, UN-Habitat initiated the Housing Indicators program, this program evolved in 1993, to the Urban Indicators Program, in order to focus more on urban issues, to compile and monitor data on a sample of urban cities around the world. Afterwards, the program was expanded to include specific indicators of the Habitat Agenda adopted in 1996 in Istanbul. The Global Urban Indicators Database produced in 2003 and updated annually addresses the Habitat Agenda’s key issues, with a specific focus on the Global Development Goals, particularly, MDGs, SDGs, Paris Climate Agreement, New Urban Agenda, etc. (https://data.unhabitat.org/). Indeed, GUO was responsible for the monitoring of the slum target as part of the Millennium Development Goals and the Habitat Agenda. Since its development, the evidence from the urban indicators database has been very useful in the development of the world cities report and other regional reports (Africa, Asia, LAC), UN-Habitat’s flagship products.
Tools and methodologies
Urban Observatory model
To help find creative solutions to the urban information crisis, UN-Habitat developed the urban observatory model for urban data collection and analysis, in partnership with cities around the world. Urban observatories are well-positioned to address the frequently expressed need for reliable, high resolution urban datasets specific to the cities and immediate city-regions in which they operate. They assist in strengthening data capacities at national, sub-national, and local levels, providing platforms to facilitate effective knowledge exchange and promote evidence-based governance built on a shared knowledge base.
Over the years, UN-Habitat has been providing systematic guidance on setting up these observatories to many countries leading to the development of a global network of local, national and regional urban stations, the Global Urban Observatory Network (GUO-Net), a worldwide information and capacity-building network to help implement the New Urban Agenda at the national and local levels. DAU has conducted several regional workshops (Africa, Asia, Arab States, Latin America, etc.) to enhance the capacities of Local Urban observatories and share with them new tools and approaches that are suitable for global monitoring of NUA and SDGs targets.
This critical mass of urban observatories constitutes a very important asset for the monitoring and reporting of the international agendas such as the NUA and the SDGs as they lead the local level engagements on collecting, analyzing and interpretations of data for urban indicators through consultative and inclusive processes.
The National Sample of Cities
Many urban SDG indicators require data collection at the local/city level. This means that countries are compelled to define and identify the number of cities they have, collect data on all these cities and aggregate upwards the national level average performance of these city-specific indicators. For many countries, it is not possible to collect information and report on all their cities, and this is particularly true for those that have limited resources (financial, institutional, human and systems). For such countries, UN-Habitat recommends the application of the National Sample of Cities (NSC) approach which will allow them to systematically select a sample of representative cities from their territory to prepare more systematic national level reporting.
The NSC is a carefully constructed consistent sample of cities that considers sub-regional and city specific characteristics and variances to monitor the dominant pattern in the country’s cities in an aggregated manner in a given country, thereby helping measure national progress in a more systematic and scientific manner.
Spatial Data Integration Models
A clear understanding of urban patterns and trends require use of Earth Observation and Geospatial Information (EO & GI) technologies, which are central to not only the production of data but also critical for translating multiple data into easy to understand products for decision makers and the public. Today, EO & GI technologies are no longer an optional consideration but a must in every data management strategy at all levels. Within the monitoring and reporting frameworks for global agendas such as the SDGs and the NUA, these technologies are deeply entrenched into the data needs, with at least seven (7) of SDG 11 indicators requiring some form of spatial data collection and analysis at local/urban level. These include indicators 11.2.1 on public transport; 11.3.1 on urbanization trends and urban land consumption patterns; 11.5.1 and 11.5.2 on disaster risk reduction; 11.6.1 and 11.6.2 on urban solid waste and air quality patterns; 11.7.1 on urban access to public space; and 11.b climate change and resilience. Computations required for these indicators can be attained through spatial analysis techniques using remote sensing and geographic information systems. In addition, these technologies are invaluable for understanding the spatial manifestation/ distribution of phenomena across all the 232 SDG indicators, and helping in sustainable urbanization and development decision making processes.
The Global Urban Monitoring Framework
The Global Urban Monitoring Framework (UMF) was endorsed by the UN Statistical Commission in March 2022 for implementation as part of the Harmonized Global UN Systemwide Strategy for monitoring the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and New Urban Agenda (NUA) and other regional, national, and subnational urban programs. It harmonizes existing urban indices and tools, including the widely implemented City Prosperity Index (CPI). The framework aims at ensuring thematic integration and inter-linkages among various dimensions of development, disaggregation of data, and inclusion of groups that are traditionally excluded. It promotes working at different scales and functional urban areas, including ecological functional areas, enabling city comparability, and the possibility of more in-depth policy analysis.
The UMF also serves as a monitoring tool for UN-Habitat's SDG Cities Flagship Programme and supports reporting through the Voluntary Local Reviews (VLRs) and the preparation of urban data for the UN Common Country Assessments. It comprises of a set of metrics that guide stakeholders to evaluate progress of cities and urban areas by indicators, domains, city objectives, and against other cities globally.
The framework was developed in response to the request of the United Nations Statistical Commission that called for a peer review mechanism of existing urban indices and monitoring tools, as well as the need to develop and adopt an urban monitoring framework. Its development involved a consultative process led by UN-Habitat and involving 36 partners from the UN system, cities and local governments, national governments, civil society, and academia and research organizations, among others.
Several cities are already implementing the framework with the guidance of UN-Habitat. The framework is designed to allow adaption in its implementation.
City Prosperity Initiative
UN-Habitat’s City Prosperity Index (CPI) is a practical and flexible framework developed for the formulation, implementation and monitoring of policies and practices on sustainable development to increase prosperity and sustainability of cities. The CPI integrates indicators for urban SDGs to address, in a single framework, the environmental, social and economic components of city prosperity and sustainability. The CPI relies on six dimensions that are contextually specific and globally comparable: productivity, infrastructure development, quality of life, equity and social inclusion, environmental sustainability, governance and legislation. The index, which is computed using city level data measures how cities create and distribute socio-economic benefits and prosperity. The level of prosperity of a city is measured through the extent to which the city has achieved all these six dimensions of prosperity.
Since 2012, UN-Habitat has been working with various local, national governments and international organizations in the adoption of the CPI as a single, harmonized monitoring framework for the global agendas. By 2019, CPI has been applied to evaluate urban performance in 539 cities in 54 countries spread across all world regions, with most of these cities using the information generated for data-driven and informed decision-making processes (See map below). Countries using this tool are able identify, quantify, evaluate, monitor and report on progress made by cities in a more structured manner.
Monitoring and reporting of SDGs and NUA
As the UN focal point for sustainable urbanization and human settlements, UN-Habitat has been designated as a custodian agency for 9 of the 15 indicators under SDG 11, and supports the monitoring and reporting of 4 indicators in other goals.
As such, the Agency is leading the methodological developments of guides and tools for the urban-related SDG indicators and targets, as well as working with other UN agencies and various stakeholders to strengthen the capacity of countries and cities to efficiently monitor and report on these indicators.
Specifically, since 2016, UN-Habitat and other custodian agencies in collaboration with various stakeholders developed new and relevant guides, materials and refined urban concepts and definitions, but also supported Member States to set up the required monitoring systems for Goal 11 and other urban SDGs, creating the conditions for producing and using urban data for policy-making and informing transformative actions. These guides and materials include a global framework for monitoring human settlements indicators, a technical note on the national sample of cities methodology, a guide on setting up urban observatories, a technical note on the City Prosperity Index, as well as nine training modules on SDG 11 indicators . These tools are now being used as training materials for the country-level and regional workshops on Human Settlement Indicators.
Equally important is the significant progress being made in the harmonization of urban data production for better comparability. Wide consultations between UN-Habitat and other partners were conducted to adopt a standalone functional definition of cities and urban areas to enable countries to better compare and aggregate data in a consistent manner. UN-Habitat has also developed the National Sample of Cities approach to ensure a systemic reporting, higher comparability within and among countries, and to enable the aggregation of regional values. In parallel, the agency is now finalizing the NUA indicators framework which will be used to track progress for implementation of the NUA among member states.
Significant progress has been made in the development of national capacities to collect, analyze, and use urban data for monitoring progress in the implementation of the urban SDGs. Since 2016, 26 capacity development workshops have been organized with nearly 1000+ participants drawn from over 50 countries where national statistical offices, local and national governments, civil society, academia, public and private institutions, and representatives from special groups such as youth, women and persons with disabilities were trained.
Specifically, UN-Habitat and partners have jointly conducted a number of regional and international workshops, including: an international workshop on human settlements indicators linked to SDGs in Naivasha, Kenya, in February 2017 (93 participants from 31 countries), a regional workshop on human settlements indicators for Africa organized with ECA in December 2017 (38 participants from 11 countries), a regional workshop on human settlements indicators for Asia Pacific countries organized with ESCAP in March 2018 (46 participants from 14 countries), a regional workshop for Arab States organized with ESCWA in July 2018 (32 participants from 11 countries), an international workshop on human settlements statistics in Kuala Lumpur, in February 2018 as part of the World Urban Forum (85 participants from 27 countries), and 5 regional workshops on global city definitions in October and November 2018, January, March and June 2019 (about 160 participants from about 70 countries ) .
At the local level, UN-Habitat has been supporting a few city authorities and local development partners to put in place strategies to localize the monitoring of SDGs and NUA, including aligning plans, setting up inclusive monitoring partnerships and deploying SDG urban tools to better articulate data and policies. For example, as part of a development account project on urban SDGs, UN-Habitat, ECA and ECLAC have reinforced national and city level capacities of urban monitoring in Botswana and Tunisia in Africa; Ecuador and Colombia in Latin America and the Caribbean, enabling the 4 countries to serve as centers of learning for many other countries across Africa and beyond, in addition to enhancing their own internal systems of reporting on the progress on spatially-dependent urban SDGs indicators and the NUA. | <urn:uuid:ef7c1986-78e3-453f-964d-c18896cb7d93> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://unhabitat.org/fr/node/143968 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572833.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817001643-20220817031643-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.918956 | 2,493 | 2.984375 | 3 |
Tin oxide nanoparticles (scattered fragments) congregate in a cohesive circle, taking on the appearance of a volcano. The Functional Materials Development Center, directed by chemist Elson Longo, has developed a sensor for gaseous pollutants based on this compound. “Tin oxide is much more sensitive and selective than the available alternatives,” says Longo. The photograph, entitled Água da morte, is part of the Nanoart series which was displayed at the Museum of Tomorrow in Rio de Janeiro.
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While these words, spoken by Abraham Lincoln in Gettysburg, were related to the cause of democracy, they sprang to my mind as I considered the international COVID crisis.
Considering the fact that much of the funding for research towards finding a vaccine has been bankrolled ‘by the people,’ should it not be universally ‘for the people?’ Perhaps I am idealistic, but if we could find our way to waiving trade-related aspects of intellectual property rights, and if manufacturers around the world were able to ramp up production of the vaccine to ensure that
*everyone* young and old, rich and poor, weak and strong could be vaccinated, wouldn’t we all be safer?
Sure, Canada might lag behind other developed nations in immunizing our population, but let us not lose sight of the overall picture. The ‘me first’ approach to obtaining and stock-piling vaccines by the world’s wealthiest countries, is not the answer. To bring this pandemic to an end, the majority of the world needs to be immunized. | <urn:uuid:de9ad37f-476c-4096-a202-40a709f0b514> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://oshawaexpress.ca/by-the-people-for-the-people/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570977.50/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809124724-20220809154724-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.957759 | 232 | 1.671875 | 2 |
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Fuzzy Matching: Microsoft Visual Studio application designed with some enhanced new feature called Fuzzy Matching, which is used here for showing the typing name or the misspelling in the result based on the fuzzy match.
Reference Window Changing: In the Main method, you will write as (Customer cust = new Customer();) and just place the cursor in the word Customer then press the Shift+F12 it will show the reference Window, which can be changed according to “Find Symbol Results”.
Reference Filtering: When you get the reference to the class or property, where you will give all the referenced issues without any option to filter those things. Now you can able to filter all the benefits in the references Window.
Grouping: The Grouping is the unique feature of the application, with the “Group By” feature you can able to modify all the references that displayed. Moreover, the app will offer some advantages that shown below, which is used here for the immediate navigation to the reference.
Search: The search box of the application located on the top right corner of the text Window, with the help of this feature you can able to search the “references” results.
Sorting: Now the programming app that allows you to click the results that post headers from Code, File, Line, Col and Project and it has become your reference result recorded by these columns.
Colorization: Here you can able to mark your references that shown in different colours, which is used here to guide you in a clear understanding of the recommendations.
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Pneumatic tool oil
Fewer power tools have revolutionized the speed and production of wood products and carpentry like the compressor and nail gun. From rough framing to finish nailing to roofing, this modernization has helped carpenters improve turnaround time on projects spanning all aspects of their work. The process of connecting a nail gun to a compressor is simple, but can be dangerous if done improperly.
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Inspect the safety on the barrel. This safety slides back, allowing the trigger to engage, shooting the nail. If it seems stuck, stop and check it for blockages.
Test the trigger. With no air pressure on the gun, the trigger should be loose with a lot of play.
Test the quick disconnects. When the collar is pulled back, it should snap back in place.
Connecting the Tools
Connect the air hose to the compressor, making sure that the quick disconnect collar snaps back. The air line should become rigid and is now pressurized.
Place three to four drops of pneumatic tool oil into the male quick disconnect of the nail gun. This helps lubricate the slides of the gun and prevents jamming.
Connect the male connector of the gun to the air hose, making sure the collar clicks. Make sure that the safety does not engage while the air connects.
Disconnect starting from the gun backward.
Use two hands when connecting to keep control of the hose and compressor.
Check for air leaks at threaded unions.
Try to empty the gun after each use.
Always treat the gun as if it is loaded.
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As the outcome of a meeting with LEWP on December 17, the NYC DEP announced plans to make clear water releases from the Ashokan Reservoir for downstream benefits. Mary McNamara, outreach coordinator for LEWP, commented on the historic nature of this announcement: “In the history of the Ashokan Reservoir…there have never been clear water releases for the health of the receiving water bodies.” LEWP will be part of a working group that will advise the DEP about managing reservoir releases. DEP’s announcement was encouraging news, but concerns remain over the ongoing turbid releases in the lower Esopus Creek. Read entire article in the Daily Freeman.
The NYS DEC is paying more attention to the way NYC DEP manages its Ashokan Reservoir after LEWP outlined concerns in a letter to state regulators. These concerns became more urgent with ongoing turbid releases from the reservoir which started in October. Read more at Times Herald-Record.
The Lower Esopus Creek Watershed Partnership is advocating for DEP to change the way it operates its Ashokan Reservoir in order to improve conditions on the Lower Esopus Creek. Since the Ashokan Dam cuts off the lower Esopus from its headwaters, the health of the creek downstream of the dam depends on how DEP manages the reservoir. To improve the health of the Lower Esopus, LEWP recommends that DEP make minimum daily releases from the Ashokan Reservoir into the lower creek. Read more at the Times Herald-Record. While calling attention to the role LEWP is playing as an advocate for a reservoir release strategy, the article is a little misleading as to the timing of LEWP’s letter, which was sent in July, months before DEP started releasing turbid water from the reservoir. The turbid discharges did not prompt LEWP’s letter, but these unprecedented releases make more urgent the need for a reservoir release plan, which LEWP advocated in the letter. | <urn:uuid:92e3ae3c-6a5e-4317-a942-57991d4992d5> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://loweresopus.org/tag/esopus-creek/page/4/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570767.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808061828-20220808091828-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.95034 | 419 | 2.046875 | 2 |
Elevation: 6,412 ft
This peak is not in the book. Published July 2019
Peak 6412 is located in the center of the southern section of the Soldier Mountains on a north/south trending ridge line that rises between Hunter Creek in the west and Maxfield Creek in the east. The main Soldier Mountains Crest and Deer Mountain provide the stunning backdrop for this summit. USGS Deer Mountain
FS-058 climbs up Hawks Gulch to the peak’s South Ridge at just under 6,000 feet. At this point, FS-058 meets an unnumbered road which follows the peak’s South Ridge toward the summit. See the Southern Soldier Mountains Access page for details on reaching FS-058.
South Ridge, Class 1
The unnumbered road leads to the summit in 1.5 miles with 407 feet of elevation gain. The road’s purpose is to service a range fence that parallels the road. While it is passable to 4WDs, it is not clear whether it is open for private vehicle use because the road does not show up on the Forest Service Motor Vehicle Use Map. It any event, it is a short walk to the summit from FS-058. | <urn:uuid:7c034d7f-6498-4eff-ba9f-9d486892af84> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.idahoaclimbingguide.com/bookupdates/peak-6412/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570767.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808061828-20220808091828-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.923174 | 261 | 1.726563 | 2 |
According to Gandhi, nonviolent social change requires building a new society in the shell of the old, which he termed constructive programme. 'Nonviolence for Gandhi was more than just a technique of struggle or a strategy for resisting military aggression,' Robert Burrowes explains in his 1995 study, The Strategy of Nonviolent Defense: A Gandhian Approach. Rather, 'it was intimately related to the wider struggle for social justice, economic self-reliance, and ecological harmony as well as the quest for self-realization.' As Burrowes describes it: 'For the individual, constructive programme meant increased power-from-within through the development of personal identity, self-reliance, and fearlessness. For the community, it meant the creation of a new set of political, social, and economic relations'. In cases where political revolutions have taken place but the population was not organised to exercise self-determination, creating a new society has been extremely difficult, and a new dictatorship usurping power has too often resulted.
Gandhi posited three elements needed for social transformation: personal transformation, political action, and constructive programme. He saw them as intertwined, all equally necessary to achieve social change. The core elements that Gandhi saw as necessary for transforming and liberating India involved programmes to embody equality, liberate education, promote economic self-reliance, and create a clean environment. Equality meant creating ashrams, political campaigns, and cooperative enterprises across social divides. They would cut through communal lines (Hindu/Muslim/Sikh, etc.), gender inequality, and caste distinctions—especially 'untouchability'—and include members of the 'hill tribes' and people suffering from leprosy. Gandhi began education projects: literacy campaigns to promote basic reading and math skills, political education, knowledge about health, and nonviolence training for students. His economic self-reliance campaigns involved, most famously, spinning homemade cloth, which was done throughout India. A constructive programme that was often done collectively, it was also a campaign of non-cooperation with Indians’ systematic dependency on the British for cloth. Economic self-reliance also involved diversifying crops, creating village industries, and developing labour unions. Environmental efforts involved the whole community in village sanitation, which meant, for Hindus, overtly flouting caste norms.
The process of working on constructive programme has fundamental benefits, the first of which is providing immediate assistance to those in greatest need. As people come together in community, not individual, action, they build constituencies for social change. Gandhi saw constructive programme as training for civil disobedience, which often included non-cooperation. Constructive work provides opportunities to develop the skills needed to build a new society.
Examples of Constructive Programmes
Since the year 2000, Sincelejo, a small Caribbean town in Colombia, has been the second largest city receiving displaced people from the Colombian conflict. The youth in this town have faced forced recruitment by the state army, the rebel groups, and the paramilitary. Many of them have joined these forces because of economic reasons, to support their families. The conscientious objection group from Sincelejo started creating alternatives against forced recruitment, first by giving workshops on peace culture, nonviolence, and conscientious objection. Then, as they realised that economics were a main reason why the youth in Sincelejo were recruited, they started creating economic alternatives by forming their own small enterprises. The group now produces cartons and boxes, organic vegetables, margarine, t-shirts, and bakery goods which bring an income to them and their families. The main aims of these effort are:
- to prevent the recruitment of youth
- to form a support network to prevent forced recruitment
- to form youngsters in nonviolent methods for resolving conflicts
- to come up with economic strategies to support the basic needs of their families.
Far-sighted as is Wangari Maathai, the founder of the Green Belt movement in Kenya, not even she could see in 1976 where a simple constructive activity such as tree-planting would lead. She first proposed this to the Kenyan National Council of Women as an activity to carry out in cooperation with the government forestry commission that provided the seeds. Through this, she argued, women could address some of the economic problems urgently affecting their lives. She had no idea that the expansion of this network would lead in the 1990s to the Green Belt Movement being in the forefront of national campaigns against corruption and for multi-party democracy, in which she herself was beaten and jailed, or that later that she would be a leading spokeswoman in the world campaign to write off 'third world' debt.
The nonviolence movement in the West has not emphasised constructive programme, but has focused more on protest, yet examples of constructive programmes in the United States include community land trusts for permanently affordable housing, worker-owned cooperatives, battered women’s shelters and rape crisis centres, an amplified interest in alternative public schools, urban gardens, local food production without pesticides, the viral spread of free and open-source software and art, and affordable renewable energy. Constructive programme is more than constructing new things. Many aspects of Gandhi’s program focused on moving toward equality. In the United States that means serious anti-oppression work, as well as dealing with economic inequalities. While there is poverty in the United States and a growing gap between the rich and the poor, constructive programmes need to support reducing materialistic consumption. | <urn:uuid:f294c8e7-7b0e-436d-88b0-35baf9b10e95> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.nonviolence.wri-irg.org/en/resources/2008/constructive-programme | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573699.52/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819131019-20220819161019-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.966023 | 1,105 | 3.71875 | 4 |
Euthanasia laws: medical experts fear death drugs could turn WA into a ‘suicide tourism hub’
Doctors have demanded stronger safeguards around planned euthanasia laws, warning death drugs could be used to commit murder and cautioning WA could become a hub for suicide tourism.
In a fiercely critical submission to the McGowan Government’s expert panel on euthanasia, Australian Medical Association WA also called for a ban on anyone with a mental health condition having access to assisted suicide and warned loose terminology could allow someone with diabetes to gain permission to kill themselves.
The submission is likely to play a major role in whether the Government’s euthanasia legislation passes, with undecided MPs looking to the peak doctors’ body on how to vote.
The AMA paper cautions that a push to allow patients to take death drugs at home could lead to medication being misused.
“It is easy to foresee circumstances where the medication is then used on a patient who no longer had capacity to consent to administration of the medication or to commit murder for financial gain,” the AMA says.
Doctors complained the suggested wording around WA’s regime allowing people to suicide if they faced a “reasonably foreseeable death” could allow people with a range of conditions to take their life.
“Without a specified timeframe, voluntary assisted dying could be accessible for people living with chronic diseases like diabetes mellitus or renal failure for example,” the AMA said.
Doctors urged the Government to ensure any regime was restricted to WA residents to avoid “voluntary assisted dying tourism”.
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Marco Augustin, Stanislava Fialova, Roberto Plasenzotti, Michael Pircher, Christoph K Hitzenberger, Bernhard Baumann; Multi-Functional OCT for Long-Term Study of Retinal Changes in a VLDLR Mouse Model. Invest. Ophthalmol. Vis. Sci. 2016;57(12):2194.
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To demonstrate the feasibility of using multi-functional optical coherence tomography (OCT) for identifying and tracking retinal changes in three contrast channels – Reflectivity, Polarization Sensitive (PS) and Motion Contrast. To show long-term functional and morphological changes in the very-low-density-lipoprotein receptor (VLDLR) mouse model.
A PS-OCT system was utilized to image the posterior eye of VLDLR mice. Three dimensional images, comprising 512 A-scans × 400 B-scans repeated 5 times at each B-scan position, covering a field of view of 28° × 28° (corresponds to approximately 1 × 1 mm) were acquired. OCT angiography based on motion contrast was calculated from the phase variance between each set of repeated B-scans. Averaging of repeated B-scans was used for speckle noise reduction in the reflectivity images. For degree-of-polarization-uniformity (DOPU) images, a 3D temporal kernel of 3 × 9 × 5 (z × x × t) was used. To differentiate between different slabs of the retina, an automated layer segmentation algorithm based on graph theory was developed. This algorithm segmented five borders/layers in the retina and enabled the assessment of changes in different slabs. Contrast specific projections within these slabs, e.g. minimum DOPU projection, were used to generate maps highlighting various aspects during disease progression over time. Disease progression was studied in both eyes of 8 VLDLR mice within the age of 26 to 257 days. The mice were imaged every 4 to 6 weeks.
Follow-up measurements and analysis of VLDLR multi-functional image data revealed visible changes in all three contrast channels. Multiple lesions were present in all 16 eyes at the initial measurement in the reflectivity images. The lesions were tracked over time within two different positions around and close to the optic nerve head. Vascular changes such as anastomosis of retinal and choroidal vessels were observed. Depolarizing deposits in the inner retina region were noticed in en-face DOPU maps with disease progression.
In this work, we demonstrated the potential of multi-functional OCT offering threefold image contrast. In the VLDLR mouse model, severe pathological retinal changes were revealed in each of the investigated contrast channels. These retinal changes can be tracked and observed over time in longitudinal studies.
This is an abstract that was submitted for the 2016 ARVO Annual Meeting, held in Seattle, Wash., May 1-5, 2016.
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On 15 September 2021, after 18 months of virtual meetings, a growth in online events and months of home working, 550 delegates from across the UK rail sector rallied at Newark Showground to attend the sixth Big Rail Diversity Challenge.
As industry charity Women in Rail’s annual flagship event, The Big Rail Diversity Challenge is the only rail industry event showcasing the diversity the UK railway industry is seeking to achieve, with teams being gender balanced and comprising people from diverse background including (and by no means limited to) race, ethnicity, religion, gender, socio economic background, and any form of disability.
Delegates took part in a plethora of physically and mentally demanding challenges – including Build a Scarecrow, Haka and It’s a Knockout! – aiming to show that gender balanced, and diverse teams work better together, are more innovative and creative, and to raise awareness of the business benefits of fostering a diverse workforce and an inclusive culture.
“The Big Rail Diversity Challenge is an important step in the rail industry agenda. It openly demonstrates that the rail industry is a dynamic, creative and exciting sector and, by encouraging participants to work together in gender balanced and diverse teams, it outlines rail’s commitment to improving diversity within its workforce and to fostering a more inclusive culture. The event is also a great fun and a fantastic way to team build and network with peers and colleagues, regardless of their grade and role!” comments Adeline Ginn MBE, Founder of Women in Rail.
Amongst the challenge suppliers, rail industry charity Railway Benefit Fund had participants supporting one another through the toughest of times, blindfolded and carrying ‘beans’ through an inflatable obstacle course as part of their Bring on the Beans challenge, whilst British Transport Police had teams ‘Look Beyond the Obvious’ whilst uncovering hidden rail stations amongst ice creams, sandcastles and other coastal attractions in a beautiful bespoke drawing, courtesy of one of their artistic colleagues.
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Bloggers: How do you know when you've become part of the official media? When individuals, businesses and governmental institutions start sending you press releases. Reporters get them all the time.
I end up deleting many of the press releases I get, but occasionally one catches my eye. Here's one I just got from the health department that I thought I'd pass on. If you read between the lines, you'll discover the hidden message: Eat local.
Health Department advises consumers to discard bagged spinach following e.Coli outbreak
For Immediate Release: Sept. 15, 2006
Media Contact: Communication Office
Vermont Department of Health
BURLINGTON – The Vermont Department of Health issued a health advisory today about an outbreak of E.coli traced to prepackaged, bagged spinach that has caused illnesses in eight states including Connecticut and one death in Wisconsin.
“There have been no reported cases of E.coli in Vermont related to the recent foodborne outbreak, but we advise that consumers and restaurants discard any bagged, fresh spinach at this time,” said Patsy Tassler, an epidemiologist with the Vermont Department of Health. “Anyone who experiences symptoms of illness after eating bagged spinach should contact their health care provider immediately.”
The federal Food and Drug Administration is working with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to trace the spinach back to its grower and vendors. More than 50 cases of illness have been reported to the CDC.
The warning applies to bagged spinach only and not to frozen block spinach, spinach from local markets or mixed bags of lettuce that also include spinach.
E.coli is a food-borne virus that causes severe diarrhea, often with bloody stools, and abdominal cramps. Some infected people experience only mild diarrhea and no other symptoms.
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Then after fourteen years I went up again to Jerusalem with Barnabas, taking Titus along with me. I went up in response to a revelation. Then I laid before them (though only in a private meeting with the acknowledged leaders) the gospel that I proclaim among the Gentiles, in order to make sure that I was not running, or had not run, in vain. But even Titus, who was with me, was not compelled to be circumcised, though he was a Greek. But because of false believers secretly brought in, who slipped in to spy on the freedom we have in Christ Jesus, so that they might enslave us — we did not submit to them even for a moment, so that the truth of the gospel might always remain with you. And from those who were supposed to be acknowledged leaders (what they actually were makes no difference to me; God shows no partiality) — those leaders contributed nothing to me. On the contrary, when they saw that I had been entrusted with the gospel for the uncircumcised, just as Peter had been entrusted with the gospel for the circumcised (for he who worked through Peter making him an apostle to the circumcised also worked through me in sending me to the Gentiles), and when James and Cephas and John, who were acknowledged pillars, recognized the grace that had been given to me, they gave to Barnabas and me the right hand of fellowship, agreeing that we should go to the Gentiles and they to the circumcised. They asked only one thing, that we remember the poor, which was actually what I was eager to do.Galatians 2:1-10
When Paul went down to Jerusalem, he met with the acknowledged leaders of the faith, which included James, John, and Peter (v. 9), and shared with them the Gospel that he had been preaching to the Gentiles – the facts of his Gospel, if you will. But Paul wasn’t doing this to check and make sure that his Gospel was correct, as the phrase, “in order to make sure that I was not running, or had not run, in vain” might suggest. He went to Jerusalem because God told him to in a revelation (v. 2). And when he got there, he met with the leaders in private, not to make sure that they might correct him, but that any disagreement between leaders in the church might be kept out of the eyes of those most likely to be swayed by these disagreements. They did this in order to maintain unity.
This idea of unity is important here, because the disagreement touched upon the idea of inclusion. If the people who Paul converted to the freedom in Christ were then required to follow the Mosaic Law, then they would be “enslaved” to the requirement to follow the entire law, and not just the requirement to get circumcised. It would force them to lose their freedom in Christ, which, according to Paul, comes merely through belief in the death and resurrection of Christ (see Galatians 3:1-14, and Ephesians 2:8-9). The reason that this is important, is that Christ is the lord of the whole world, and no longer the salvation of Israel alone. If the Gentiles were required to come to faith in the faith of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, then the “family of God” would be dependent upon more than faith – it would divide people based on nationality and race1.
It seems that the people who were demanding that all Christians become circumcised like the Jewish believers, were the ones who had cast doubts about Paul’s authority to preach the Gospel in Galatia. And, it appears, that people of the same mindset (“false believers”) were present at this meeting of the Jerusalem leadership and Paul. And so, basically, Paul is continuing the defense of his credentials, stating again that his credentials are valid, and that he would not even “submit to them even for a moment.” As proof that he did not yield, he tells us that not even Titus was compelled to get circumcised by these acknowledged leaders of the faith. Paul is, in a certain way, saying, “You want proof of the result of this discussion? Talk to Titus. He can prove what I say is true,” since there really is no way to fake being circumcised.
As more proof, Paul lets us know that these people “added nothing to me.” Or, stated differently, they found no fault with his Gospel, and therefore did not need to correct him. Moreover, they saw, they recognized, that Paul had “been entrusted with the Gospel for the uncircumcised, just as Peter had been entrusted with the gospel for the circumcised.” And so they all agreed that Paul and Barnabas would go to the Gentiles, and Peter and the others would work on sharing the Gospel with the Jews.
The final verse, v. 10, seems almost out of place, which give it a bit of added emphasis. “They asked only one thing, that we remember the poor, which was actually what I was eager to do.” They agreed on this fact that the church should remember the poor. It seems that no matter what church we go to, no matter where they place their theological emphasis, the church still has an outreach program to those less fortunate. Given the vast number of denominations not just in the world, but in the United States alone, it seems that this desire to help those in need might be the one thing that we can all agree on, whether we disagree on everything else or not.
The Only Opinion that Matters
Several years ago, I remember reading a news article about a well-known Hollywood actor who had been pulled over for driving while under the influence. Apparently, in trying to get out of the ticket, he got angry with the police officer, and questioned him, asking, “Don’t you know who I am?” It was a question based entirely on the perceived self-importance of the one asking. Naturally, the police officers did not care who the driver was. The important fact in the situation was that the driver had been driving impaired, and, of course, a ticket was written.
Trying to take advantage of our position, or our perceived importance is nothing new. But in Paul’s case, those that had come through the churches in Galatia had tried to tarnish his reputation and question his authority as an apostle. But Paul won’t have any of it. He tells a story of how the acknowledged leaders in Jerusalem not only agreed that the Gospel he preached was correct, but that they agreed that he was a fellow apostle, and sent him off with their blessings. He finishes off this story with stating that “those who appeared to be something – whatever they were doesn’t matter to me – because God doesn’t play favorites.”
Paul didn’t care whether they were the Emperor of Rome, the leaders of the local gathering, or those who were perceived to lead the entire faith. The only opinion that mattered to Paul was what God thought of him, and whether he was doing what God had commanded him to do. Our own concern should be to follow the idea stated in the Lord’s Prayer: “Your kingdom come, your will be done.” If we are doing what God has asked of us, it should not matter what others say about us. It shouldn’t, though in practice it is not always so easy. But we must continue in our path, seeking to do what we believe to be God’s will in our lives, despite whatever others might say.
Important Words and Phrases
ψευδάδελφος, ου, ὁ – pseudodelphos – literally, fake brothers; from ψευδής, ές and ἀδελφός, οῦ, ὁ; Paul primarily uses “adelphos” to refer to spiritual brothers, roughly 130 times, so the false brothers are false spiritual brothers, those who do not believe according to what was agreed upon by Paul and the others. 2
ὑποταγή, ῆς, ἡ – hypotage – This word means “submission” or “subordination,” as well as “slavery.” Occurs only in Paul in the New Testament, and in 2:5 refers to submission. 3 The thing is.
διαφέρει – “made no difference,” from διαφέρω diaphero – I surpass, excel – In the phrase in Gal. 2:6, it means “to be of no account,” or “makes no difference.” 4
- N. T. Wright, “Paul for Everyone: Galatians and Thessalonians,” pp. 16-17
- Theological Dictionary of the New Testament, Abridged in One Volume; pp. 22
- TDNT, I Vol., pp. 1160
- TDNT, 1 Vol., pp 1254
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NEARLY a third of all Irish people living abroad are planning on coming home to Ireland this Christmas, according to a new survey.
The National Public Health Emergency Team (NPHET) are expected to keep Ireland's Covid-19 international travel restrictions in place in the run up to Christmas, despite the country coming out of full lockdown on December 1.
That being said, three out of every 10 Irish people living abroad say they intend to come home for the holidays.
A survey conducted by FRS recruitment found that Irish people living in the UK were most likely to pop home, with 41% saying they expect to spend Christmas in Ireland.
Meanwhile 14% of Irish folk living in the US and Canada say they're planning on coming home for the festive season.
Elsewhere, just 7% of those living in Australia and New Zealand say they're planning a Christmas homecoming, while just 5% of Irish people living Asia are planning the same.
The study surveyed over one thousands Irish people living all around the world and was conducted between November 14 and 20.
Nine out of 10 Irish people who participated in the survey say they have previously travelled back to Ireland for Christmas in the same, and many look unlikely to break that tradition, in spite of the pandemic.
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I’ve toured six potential childcare/preschool facilities for my daughter. The journey has been tough for us as a family because we had had the perfect daycare up until a few weeks ago. At the same time, I have been determined not to dwell on what we lost and focus on the opportunity of finding a new place that could engage my daughter’s curiosity, while still providing the nurturing environment to which we had become accustomed.
I’ve toured a mix of home-based daycares and preschools. Now that my daughter is mobile and more precocious, I’m a little more concerned about safety and security; she wants to run outside our building without holding an adult’s hand and eat inedible things like scented lip balm. In my previous posts, “4 Steps to Finding Daycare and “Five Topics to Address with Potential Daycare Providers,” I had shared my experiences on search and selection for childcare, and now I’m adding to it with safety and security topics to address with potential childcare providers and preschools.
Facility safety (Indoor and outdoor spaces)
For facility safety, I’ve expanded my reach beyond the usual things like cameras, clearly marked exit signs, and posted emergency escape routes. I am also looking at the entrance to the school. Does a parent need to be buzzed in or can they freely walk into the school? Is the entrance for the school easy to access for drop-offs in the morning and pick-ups in the afternoon?
For outdoor play areas, I’m looking at the condition of the play equipment and fencing. Is the area clean and free of debris so children don’t trip or hurt themselves? Is the fencing tall and well-maintained? In addition to these, I’ve also examined how much space the children have to move. Do the children look cramped in the indoor and outdoor spaces?
In the event of an emergency, it should be easy for providers and children to evacuate from their facility. An easy way to look at facility safety is consider the facility safety of your own workplace or home. For example, I appreciated that our building landlord installed bright exterior lights a few years ago, so that our apartment building was lit up at night. If I feel safe at work, at home, or at my daughter’s preschool, I can feel good that my daughter will be safe, as well.
Personal safety (Allergens, illnesses, field-trips)
Personal safety encompasses all the things that could affect a child personally, like allergens and illnesses. As a parent who has pet allergies (with a child who does not have pet allergies), I am always asking potential providers about cleanliness, like how often they clean carpets and mop floors. I also ask how the providers address ailments like the flu or lice. If they provide meals, how do they address food allergies? At one place I toured, the facility asks that parents only bring fruit or popsicles for celebrations to avoid allergenic foods. Or for me, I ask about the use of animals (dogs, cats, etc.) in education. If my daugher may be returning home from preschool with animal dander on her clothes, I need to know.
As a child, I loved field-trips, because they were an opportunity to leave school to learn something new. As a parent of a toddler, I’m a little wary of them, especially if my husband or myself are not involved. Two of the places I toured had daily field-trips off-property. For these providers, I asked how they kept the children safe and how they transported children off-site. I’ve seen some daycares and preschools put logoed shirts on the kids and have them hold on to a rope while they walk to Golden Gate Park, but that doesn’t work for me, especially when the average ratio of caregiver to child (for toddlers) is 1 per 12. For now, I am perfectly fine if my daughter does all activities on campus, unless, of course, I am present.
Communication safety (communication, social media)
How does the daycare/preschool communicate with parents? Text? Email? Telephone call? Is there a dedicated person to call about questions. How do they share information about my child with me? Does the daycare or preschool have an “open door” policy? At my last daycare, most communication was done face-to-face or text (if my daughter was not coming into school due to an illness). These days, it seems like providers are using all forms of communication methods to share information, which ensures that both parents and providers can stay in touch. One that is particularly popular is using social media like Facebook or Instagram to showcase activities that the school does. As a parent, I’m not a fan of my daughter’s image being posted without my permission. Social media postings were not noted on several applications, so I asked the providers about that. Most allowed families to “opt-in.”
For all of us, the joys of having children are coupled with the inherent fears we have for them. We want to protect them from all that can harm them and still allow them to learn and grow. Knowing that our children are safe and secure while they are not in our own care gives us the peace of mind that money can’t buy. | <urn:uuid:68bfa1c4-edb4-4011-8dc8-11b41229108a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://sanfranciscomoms.com/childcare/addressing-safety-security-concerns-childcare-search/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570977.50/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809124724-20220809154724-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.969486 | 1,134 | 1.5 | 2 |
5 Things You Need To Know About Alcohol And Your Liver
Jeanene Swanson from The Fix Magazine writes excellent articles about addiction, and has taken particular interest in the role of nutrition in addiction recovery. She regularly consults Nutrition in Recovery for insight into this important link. Her most recent article interviews Nutrition in Recovery’s Kristie Moore for information about alcohol and the liver.
Below is an except from the article which can be found in its entirety HERE
The importance of nutrition
A key problem for many alcoholics is a poor diet, which can both lead to malnutrition and exacerbate it. New frontiers in research are just beginning to discover how gut bacteria—or the gut microbiome—is affected by alcohol, which can change gut permeability and lead to problems absorbing and digesting food. “Several studies have demonstrated the importance of gut-liver axis,” says the abstract of a recent paper in the World Journal of Gastroenterology, with new treatments focusing on antibiotics, prebiotics, probiotics, and synbiotics.
“Malnutrition also increases oxidative stress, which is known to promote liver disease by the depletion of circulating antioxidants, including vitamins A, C, and E, and glutathione,” Moore says. “Altered fat metabolism leads to the increased production triglycerides that are deposited in the liver, contributing to fatty liver. Those suffering from malnutrition are also at higher risks of infection due to a suppressed immune system due to an altered protein status.” | <urn:uuid:e92c6960-6152-41d7-883c-0863cc449f1e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.nutritioninrecovery.com/nutrition-news/alcohol-and-your-liver/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570767.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808061828-20220808091828-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.933028 | 306 | 2.46875 | 2 |
Some of us love them and some of us love to hate them! Our students feel the exact same way. Only here is the challenge…we can’t go without them. Worksheets are fantastic for independent practice, formative assessments, and so much more! So how do we go about adopting them while changing with the times?
The answer is actually pretty simple. Games.
What kid today doesn’t love games? They all talk about their Ipads and Xboxes as if they are a third limb on their body. In some way, I can’t help but wonder if gaming is just a part of their DNA now (too far?). All this to say that kids LOVE game and in order to increase their engagement in school, we can leverage this love for everyone’s benefit.
Test Your Luck is the ultimate answer to this new and developing dilemma! It is fun, easy, and the results speak for themselves.
So how do you play? Great question!
Simply, project the game board onto your whiteboard. Students work alone or in teams to complete challenges or tasks you have created. It can be something as simple as a worksheet or task cards you already have.
Students then complete a desired amount of problems and come check with you for accuracy. If the problems are correct, they are able to choose a number on the board and write their name/initials in the square. Each child fills their own square.
Repeat this for each challenge or worksheet. Students will fill in a square for every task they complete. It is ok not to have enough squares for every child to fill it in for every correct question. This will create a sense of urgency for students to finish, so they have more chances to win.
You will determine winners at the end by choosing numbers using a random number generator found on Google. Whoever’s name is on that number square wins! You can pick as many numbers as you like.
Easy enough, right?!
I dare you to give it a try with your students to see if it increases their engagement and classroom performance! I assure you that it will!
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Looking for something fun to wrap up the school year? Try my Digital Memory Book! This is a fun way to create something beautiful and it will last forever. Easily share with family members digitally for safe keeping!
In case you missed it, check out my blog about STEM Activities for the End of the Year!
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Joseph A. Carriero, FIDSA
US industrial design educator who chaired the industrial design department at the Philadelphia Museum School of Art (now the University of the Arts).
In 1957 he founded and served as the first president of the Industrial Design Education Association (IDEA).
In 1973 he was chairman of the Department of Design and Environmental Analysis, New York State College of Human Ecology, Cornell University, New York. Under a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, he conducted a survey describing 41 schools and programs titled, Industrial Design Education in the USA: A Factual Summary, which was published by IDSA. | <urn:uuid:7ed5c972-3ac3-4b61-b2c2-4de7396b7e9a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.idsa.org/content/joseph-carriero-fidsa | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570767.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808061828-20220808091828-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.940571 | 134 | 1.726563 | 2 |
Ocumetics Technology Corp claims to have developed a painless eight-minute procedure that would give you vision that is supposedly three times better than 20/20. The "bionic" lenses would give even 100-year-olds better vision than anything currently available. Does this sound too good to be true? Well, we can’t tell, as it has yet to undergo any clinical trials.
“Freedom from glasses and contact lenses is a goal that is now a reality,” Ocumetics says on its website. The CEO, Dr Gareth Webb, a Canadian optometrist, invented the "button-shaped" lens and has been working on the product for eight years of research, costing $3m.
"This is vision enhancement that the world has never seen before. If you can just barely see the clock at 10 feet, when you get the Bionic Lens you can see the clock at 30 feet away," Webb told CBC.
The procedure is similar to cataract surgery. It involves removing your original lens and replacing it with an Ocumetics' Bionic Lens, which is folded into a syringe in a saline solution and injected directly into your eye. Webb says that the specialized lens would also prevent people from developing cataracts as the procedure replaces natural lenses, which decay over time.
He presented his lens to a group of leading ophthalmologists in San Diego earlier last month. Webb told CBC that responses have been positive, with some eager to get involved in clinical trials.
"There's a lot of excitement about the Bionic Lens from very experienced surgeons who perhaps had some cynicism about this because they've seen things not work in the past. They think that this might actually work and they're eager enough that they all wish to be on the medical advisory board to help him on his journey," Dr. Vincent DeLuise, an ophthalmologist who teaches at Yale University, told CBC.
The Bionic Lens would make contacts lenses, glasses and laser surgery obsolete, Webb says. If they do pass those all-important clinical trials, he suggests they could be available in two years’ time. In the meantime, I’d recommend holding onto your glasses and contact lenses. | <urn:uuid:a64a3918-4407-4aad-92d0-d27ff08801ee> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.iflscience.com/can-procedure-give-you-superhuman-vision-28407 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570767.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808061828-20220808091828-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.979728 | 456 | 1.96875 | 2 |
The May job market report disappointed, but it was hardly a disaster. Nonfarm payrolls were reported to have risen by 75,000 in the initial estimate, following a 224,000 gain in April. Still, downward revisions to the two previous months suggests that the underlying trend in job growth is slowing. Trade policy appears to have something to do with that. Despite the “dismal” job market data, stock market participants were encouraged by increased prospects that the Fed will lower short-term interest rates this summer. Fed action is likely to be conditional on a further escalation of trade tensions, but there’s a good argument to be made for an “insurance” move.
There is a lot of noise in estimates of the monthly change in nonfarm payrolls (reported accurate to ±110,000). Large swings are common. Seasonal adjustment can be tricky. It looks like some of May’s strength was pulled into April. Private-sector payrolls averaged a 149,000 gain in the last three months, a +158,000 average for the first five months of 2019 (vs. +215,000 in 2018 and +172,000 in 2017).
Average hourly earnings rose 0.2% in May (+3.1% y/y), although somewhat stronger for production workers (+0.3% m/m, +3.4% y/y). Still, with the unemployment rate remaining at 3.6% (2.9% for those aged 25-54), it’s surprising that wage growth hasn’t been stronger.
Working part-time do so voluntarily. These could be students or someone taking care of a child or other family members. The percentage working part-time for economic reasons has been trending lower. However, the Fed’s Beige Book noted that “solid hiring demand was noted for retail, business services, technical, manufacturing, and construction jobs and by staffing agencies in general.” However, “stronger employment growth continued to be constrained by tight labor markets, with districts citing shortages of both high- and low-skill workers.” Competition for workers resulted in some wage pressures across a wide range of occupations, according to the Beige Book, “and induced improvements in benefits to attract more workers and to improve retention of existing employees.”
It’s difficult to determine how much of the recent slowing in job growth is due to trade tariffs. Manufacturing payrolls have been little changed over the last four months, consistent with the softening seen in new orders and industrial production. There is no such thing as “U.S. manufacturing.” Our firms get parts and supplies from around the world. Tariffs, and even the threat of tariffs, are disruptive to supply chains. | <urn:uuid:26fd8919-2b35-4e82-9beb-93d77e9582e5> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://api.advisorperspectives.com/commentaries/2019/06/11/the-may-employment-report?firm=raymond-james | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570977.50/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809124724-20220809154724-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.967967 | 574 | 1.585938 | 2 |
When to get life insurance and when to drop it.
For most people, life insurance is a necessary part of an overall financial plan. It is needed to protect your assets and income, and the people you care about. But life insurance is not for everyone and you may not need it (or not very much of it) for your entire life. For that reason, it needs to be evaluated at different times in your life. Also, make sure you get the right kind of insurance or you will end up paying a lot for what you get. Let’s look at it by stage of life.
- Life insurance for children.
Many children are born into this world and seem perfectly healthy. This was the case for my brother, who was later diagnosed with Becker’s muscular dystrophy. In cases like this, sometimes the only insurance that child can ever be approved for is the policy his or her parents took out at birth. Particularly if you have genetic issues in your family, getting early insurance can be a good idea.
- Young adults
You’ve graduated from college, landed that first job, and life is good. You’re young and healthy with no dependents. Why consider life insurance? Most deaths in young adults occur by accident. A funeral can cost $6-$10,000, and the cost to a grieving family of a young person is probably on the higher side, and certainly not a planned expense. Consider getting enough insurance to cover funeral expenses when you are young and single. Term insurance is very cheap at this age. You may even get enough coverage as an employee benefit. You don’t need anything else. Your beneficiary should probably be the person who would pay for your funeral.
- Greater responsibilities
Now you have met your soul mate, gotten married, and are thinking about children or have some already. Maybe a house is part of your ‘portfolio’. You have more to think about than yourself. Insurance is your safety net. It not only will pay for the cost of a funeral, it now needs to cover income loss until your spouse and children can get back on their feet. Mortgage insurance is a special type of life insurance that will pay off your mortgage if you die. You also need to think about future college costs for children. I still feel that term insurance is the most cost effective way to go. Yes, you get nothing back if you live. But you are not paying high premiums to add an investment component that you can get just as easily outside of an insurance policy. If you haven’t maxed out your 401k, Roth, SEP, etc. then don’t pay for whole/universal/variable life insurance. Make sure to update beneficiaries when life events occur.
- Empty Nest
The kids are grown, your house is paid for, you have built a solid nest-egg to carry you through retirement. If you were to die, you have enough money invested that the cost of a funeral is once again all you would have to worry about. Term insurance gets more expensive the older you get. When the policy term expires, the renewal rate goes up. Many people at this stage of life elect to drop life insurance all together. The high premium payments are better used to invest for the future. Ditto for annuities. Funeral or burial insurance can cover those related costs.
- Special Needs
There is a type of insurance for just about every imaginable risk in life. If you have a disabled child, a business, or a host of other concerns, you will need to explore insurance options in more depth. Just remember that there is usually more than one way to skin the cat and you need to do your research before making any long-term financial choice.
My personal view is that term insurance is the best way to go for protection. Permanent life insurance, which has a death benefit and an investment component, and annuity policies have their place, but are appropriate less often. Many in the investment world agree that it is better to split your protection from your investing. As a daily money manager, I identify when clients have missing pieces in their portfolios and refer them to the appropriate professional for advice or review. Seek a Certified Life Underwriter (CLU) to specific advice for your insurance needs. | <urn:uuid:47755c37-1209-4860-a162-90844fb00994> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://papertigresspfc.com/life-insurance-stage-life/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570977.50/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809124724-20220809154724-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.967499 | 880 | 1.59375 | 2 |
Friday, March 11, 2022 is International SEL Day and educators, community partners, and families across the globe will take time to build a greater awareness for the importance of supporting children’s wellbeing and mental health through social emotional learning.
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According to a report in 2018, nearly half of the population in East Africa could not access drinking water and Tanzania caught the average with 49.2% accessible rate.
The main problem is basically investment. Installing the pipe to transport the water needs large investments and since it does not seem profitable by the investors, governments step into funding to cover expenses through supplying bonds. Nevertheless, most of the countries in Africa could not find enough amount of financing. For instance, one report in 2014 indicates that Tanzania has less than 50% of the funds needed to meet Millennium Development Goals (MDG) requirements but have a high-level capacity for investment and it makes Tanzania one of the most applicable countries in Africa.
The latest Glaas report shows that Tanzania is located in the most aided region and got 316 million USD financial aids in 2017, ranked 3rd in Sub-Saharan Africa. Also, Tanzania prepared its financial plans and these financial plans consistently using in the decision-making process. Furthermore, the country has the data for decision-making such as resource allocation, sector review and/or planning processes, national standard or regulation development, targeting surveillance activities both in water-sanitation and drinking water areas.
To reach the national goal Tanzania needs a budget of 237 million USD dollar annually and government finance 154.2 million USD which means Tanzania needs to increase its funding approximately by 35%. Financing of the investments for drinking water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) are met between 50%-75%. Tanzania also pursuing regulations and standards in order to attract investors such as on-site sanitation and drinking water standards, audited by the governmental bodies and also by independent observers. Although a sufficient budget is clearly indicated in the plan the government could only bear the implementation expenses between 50%-75% due to lack of foreign-domestic private investments.
Another problem is in the human resources sector. Because of the lack of education in maintenance, designing and construction Tanzania has only between 50%-75% of needed human resources.
Related to water sector development plan for 2018, the approved budget is 319.5 million USD and 42% of the shares are funded by foreigners while 58% of the shares belong to local funders.
As explained by the numerical data above, Tanzania has to foster investments in every area of the water supply and sanitation such as maintenance, protection of the water resources, management and development.
The type of investment might be diversified. For instance between 2018-2020, a project led by Water and Development Alliance (WADA) and its key partners in order to provide safe water access through solar power systems.
To sum up, Tanzania is getting more and more attention by years but still, the country struggles with investments and educated human resources and government seems to be the only investor but it is not enough to bear all the expenses. Although Tanzania published guidelines in WASH investment plans, due to lack of profitability it does not attract private investments. USAID defines the reason, while the legal framework is well-defined implementation is not effective at all. Also, investment should be focused on sanitation as well as a water supply but research shows that it is biased in favour of water supply. So it is important to invest in water sanitation since it has added value potential. Performance-based investment plans would run to expand sanitation services. Another reason could be collaboration intention of public agencies with private sector investments. The government enjoys from private sector contemporary technologies and provide technology transfer. Due to lack of integration of water sanitation with healthcare, nutrition and food security investments were not fully effective. For example, water sanitation ameliorates food security so it helps to reach Tanzania Development Vision 2025.
Climate encompasses the statistics of meteorological conditions, that is, temperature, humidity, atmospheric pressure, wind, rainfall, atmospheric particle counts and other meteorological element in a given region over a long period of time. Climate change is attributed directly or indirectly to human activities that alert the composition of global atmosphere and which is in addition to natural variability observed over comparable time period. Variability may be due to internal natural processes within the climate system or variation in anthropogenic external forces. A national park is predominantly unaltered area of the land and/or sea characterized by exceptional and varied natural assets comprising one or several preserved and predominantly unaltered ecosystem and is primarily set aside for conservation of original natural assets.
Tanzania is the largest country in East Africa, covering the area of 945209 km2, 60000 of which is inland water. It’s shares the boundaries with eight countries such as Kenya, Uganda, Malawi, Mozambique, Congo, Burundi, Rwanda and Zambia. Tanzania lies close to the equator in East coast of Africa between parallel 1 S and 12 S and meridian 30E and 40E. By being close to the equator, climate variations in temperature are not very extreme. Tanzania is among of African countries in terms of biodiversity of both flora and fauna species in its terrestrial and marine ecosystem, it has numerous vegetation cover distributed along the diverse landscape. It is a home of endemic plants and animal’s species most of which are of world importance. It has 16 national park such as Kilimanjaro, Lake Manyara, Tarangire, Mikumi, Saadani, Saa nane Island, Katavi, Gombe, and etc.
Climate trend in Tanzania
Rainfall pattern in country is subdivided into: tropical on the coast where is humid and hot (rainy season is March-May): semi-temperate in the mountains with short rains in November-December and long rains in February-May: and drier in the plateau region with considerable seasonal variation in temperature. The mean annual rainfall varies from 500 mm to 2500 mm and above, the duration of dry period is five to six months. However recent rainfall pattern has become more unpredictable with some areas receive extremely maximum and minimum rainfall per year.
Temperature in Tanzania also varies according to geographical location, relief and altitude. In the Coastal regions temperature ranging between 27℃ to 29℃, while in central, Northern and Western parties, temperature ranges between 20℃ to 30℃ and higher between month of December to March. In the Northeast and Southeast where there is mountainous and Makonde plateau, the temperature occasionally drops to 15℃ at night during months of June and July.
The following are the effects of climate change to National Parks in Tanzania.
Water shortage for large mammals especially in the period of law rainfall is the main challenge to facing wildlife, the places that naturally used to dry water during dry season are no longer used to dry water and thus water dependent animals such as hippopotamus, crocodiles, buffaloes are found crowded in few remaining water ponds elephant eg in Ruaha National Park. Seriously lack of surface water led to considerably hippopotamus and buffaloes’ mortalities. Suffering from lack of water, wildlife physiological functions are impaired and they are becoming easy targets to poachers and predators. Thus, with changing climate and associated decrease in water availability due to reduced amounts and altered seasonal distribution of rainfall, the existing water related problems are likely to be compounded (Elisa at all., 2011, cf. Kangalawe, 2010).
Due to climate change, wild animals from National Park are roaming around the adjacent villages to search for pastures and water. So many events of crop raiding occur and thus cause human-wildlife conflicts. The animals commonly involved in these conflicts are hippopotamus, buffaloes and elephants and this may be aggravated with changing climatic conditions example is in Lake Manyara National Park.
Affects nature-based tourism
Tourism has close connections to environment and considered to be highly climatic sensitive sector. Climate variabilities determine the length and quality of tourism seasons, thus play a major role in the destination choice and tourist spending. Climate affect a wide range of environmental resources that are key attraction to tourism such as snow conditions over mount killimanjaro, wildlife productivity and biodiversity. Climate also has an effects on environmental conditions that can deter tourists including infectious diseases, wild fires, waterborne pest and insects.
Glacier retreat in Mount Kilimanjaro
The early retreat of glaciers on the Kilimanjaro was due to natural climatic shifts whilst the warming up of the Earth after the industrial era has led to current faster recession of the glaciers. There is no argument today regarding the retreat of Kilimanjaro glacier; the glaciers have been retreating in unprecedented scale in the recent years directly because of climate change. The retreat of the glaciers is probably the most iconic indication of climate change impacts in Tanzania (Ibid). The most recent available data shows that the glaciers were about 4.2km2 in 1976 (Hastenrath and Greischar, 1997). In 2000, the remaining glaciers were only 2.6km2 (Thompson, et al., 2002).
Climate change is altering environmental niche and cause species to species their habitat range, as they track their ecological niche. Species shifts allow species to persist but may negatively affect existing species in these areas because the shifted species may be a primarily source of food to the existing species..
Speciation is an evolutionary process by which new ecological species arise. Due to various natural processes including geographical separation and drift, some species become separated. In consequences, under changing climatic conditions and due to natural selection, new species are established. Climate change and invasive species pose ecological challenges to the world. The impact of climate change and rise in average global temperature can have a profound effect to the specie’s geographical ranges that are often set primarily by climate and the host environment. Climate changes alter destination of habitat and increase vulnerability to invasion because of resource scarcity and increased competition among native flora and fauna. Example, Argemonemexicana in Ngorongoro CA.
Strategies for climate change
Enhance resilience of wildlife Ecosystem to impacts of climate change.
This can be done through promoting wildlife management practice that increase resilience to climate change, establishing a wildlife climate change related monitoring and information management system and enhancing protection and conservation of wildlife habitats.
Ensure water quality availability and accessibility in a changing climate.
This can be achieved by protection and conservation of water catchment areas, invest and promote appropriate water management technology, invest exploration and extraction of underground water and conduct vulnerability assessment in water resources.
Undertake research on climate change impacts.
Undertake a detailed and coordinated research on climate change impacts, vulnerability and adaptation, mitigation measures and develop technology that will ensure sustainable response system for minimizing impacts and risks associated with changing in climate.
Adequate financial resources for climate change adaptation.
This can be done through effective and efficient system for planning and mobilization and management of climate change funds.
Climate, tourist attraction, wildlife habitat is closely associated to National Parks. Change in climate have directly influenced tourism seasonality and indirectly affect natural attractiveness of the parks by changing tourism flagship species and natural landscape. Decreasing rainfall and increasing temperature have led to more drier conditions and increased aridity resulting to shortage of water for wildlife.
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B Nyamboge Mwema Nyawangwe – Art in Tanzania internship
As well as it is known COVID-19 is a global pandemic in the whole world today. Tanzania is among one of the many countries that has been affected in many ways and one of the major areas is in the economic sector. Since last April to May 2020 there was a huge rise of cases regarding COVID-19 which led to lockdowns including shutting down of various public places like schools. The average has reduced highly since last year since and people are no longer quarantined, despite that, the recently new president ordered for more research/investigation with regard to COVID-19 and measures to prevent it from spreading are still taken. Despite Tanzanian boarders being still open several measures are still undertaken by the government and individuals to protect against the spread of COVID19. Some of these measures include the one’s set by WHO like wearing face masks, social distancing in public places and washing hands or using hand sanitizers.
Given the fact that majority of Tanzanian’s are backward economically and can’t afford means of protections such as hand sanitizers, face masks etc., this people are forced to stay at home as to avoid crowds, hence a lot of people have failed to keep up with their daily jobs. This is especially to rural people who are self-employed hence when they don’t work means no income generated and therefore reduction of expenses reducing general revenues. Some companies also have been forced to deduct workers’ salaries and also expel some workers as to keep up with the financial flows.
Despite the rate of COVID-19 gradually falling but other countries are still highly affected by the disease which is more likely contributing to affecting Tanzania economy, currently and the future. Some of the major areas directly linked with the economy have shown this impacts.
In Public financing/ Government.
The government is facing and will continue facing problem in public budgeting and social services delivery to its people, this is because it has increased demand for public expenditure mainly in procuring tools needed due to COVID-19 such as sanitizers, medical equipment’s and so forth. The government revenues are expected to keep failing due to variety in cash flow obtained in direct and indirect taxes, levies and fees. As it is known with COVID-19 most of companies decreased workers and also most of workers payments were declined also others were forced to stop working naturally due to factors within.
In tourism sector;
One of the major sources of the government income in Tanzania is through tourism. Which has far more tattered, very few tourists are coming to the country due to restrictions set in countries hence the demand has quite declined. The government has reckoned that this year probably only few tourists will come to Tanzania for the holidays which is about a quarter of the normal rate. Places like Zanzibar has been so much affected since most of their economy depend on tourism. The chain that links from the places that tourist visited and stayed like hotels to the people working there and the suppliers of products or services their jobs have frozen due lack of tourist.
Tanzania mostly depends on exported products and very few are made within. Trade global chains are disrupted, and some factories have been shut down, most of products are running out hence sellers lack products to sell and money circulation has been declining. Most of the country boundaries have been closed not allowing products to go out or come in for some time. This has also led to rise of prices of some products causing some people not to afford them which leaves these products unsold especially those that are not basic needs or that are luxurious products. Export and import of products has been generally affected due to shutdown of some factories which has highly affected the economy.
In banks and financial institutions;
This are among major helpers of the economy that have been highly affected due to COVID-19, there has been reduction of bank deposits given all factors generated that has causes slow generation of income, Foreign financial flows have fallen due to no transactions of money from other countries due to the lockdown hence lack of foreign currency within, also there has been deterioration between the customers and bank relationships since it has been hard to establish a common ground due to operational challenges from both sides.
As for Tanzania as long as COVID 19 continues to exist despite it being within the country or outside its impact on the economy will always be valid and continue to affect the major sectors of the economy, which will keep causing decline of general income gained by individuals and the government at large. Such hard times require hard decisions on best measure as to what should be undertaken as to try and maintain the economy to avoid great depression.
Already some measures have been taken as to help overcome the economic problems generated due to COVID-19 for example in banks and financial institutions follows the Bank of Tanzania policies measures, this is by issuing relief packages towards their customers especially the small and medium enterprises which include payment holidays ranging from 3-6 months and restricting of loans to extend repayment periods.
Managing periods in Tanzania is challenging due to a lack of access to menstrual products and sanitation services. Over 50% of Tanzanians do not have access to improved sanitation and access to clean drinking water is often limited (Moloney, 2020). With a lack of access to menstrual hygiene products, information, and appropriate sanitation services, women and girls are put at risk for poor physical or reproductive health (Moloney, 2020). This also has detrimental effects, as it limits opportunities for girls and women in Tanzania (Moloney, 2020).
Water facilities are not available in 38% of Tanzanian schools, the water facilities are not operational in 46% of the cases, and 64% of school latrines do not have a place to dispose of sanitary pads (Maji Safi Group, 2020). 85% of girls are forced to use unhygienic solutions such as strips of cloth, which can spread fungi and infection due to a lack of sanitation services and menstrual products (Maji Safi Group, 2020). The severe lack of resources often forces girls to use other unsanitary options such as leaves, pieces of a mattress filling, or used cloth (Maji Safi Group, 2020). Using these options could result in infections (Maji Safi Group, 2020).
Because of misinformation, menstruation has negative connotations, girls often face stigma and are made to feel ashamed of themselves and their bodies (Moloney, 2020). Girls often isolate themselves at home during menstruation, sometimes even missing school (Maji Safi Group, 2020). According to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), about one in ten African teenage girls that reside in remote areas miss school during their menstruation cycle and eventually drop out of school due to issues that surround period poverty (Maji Safi Group, 2020). According to a study by Tawasanet Menstruation and Health Management, 62% of female students miss school due to physical illness that is a result from menstruation (Maji Safi Group, 2020). As a result, these young women face negative long-term socio-economic and educational effects (Maji Safai Group, 2020).
Pads and menstrual products are also often expensive—for example, sanitary products costs a typical Tanzanian woman 3.4% of her monthly salary, compared to 0.15% for the average American woman (Kottasová, 2018). For some women in rural communities, it can cost even more—even as much as 10% of a woman’s salary (Kottasová, 2018). Period poverty also negatively impacts the economy, as female workers may have to miss several days of work a month when menstruating (Kottasová, 2018). The Tanzanian government reports that 60% of women live in “absolute poverty”, and due to period poverty, women who are already economically disadvantaged to begin with face greater economic hurdles due to factors such as missing and dropping out of school and missing days of work due to being unable to afford menstrual and sanitary products (Kottasová, 2018).
Increasing education on menstrual and reproductive health is essential in combating period poverty in Tanzania (Moloney, 2020). Many organizations are dedicated to ending gender-based discrimination and destigmatize female hygiene, such as the Maji Safi Group, which uses a comprehensive approach which includes community outreach, providing learning materials, after school programs and employing Tanzanian women as community health educators (Moloney, 2020).
Ginger is grown in Kilimanjaro, Kigoma,Ruvuma, Morogoro, Kagera and Mbeya region.
Currently, Ginger in Kilimanjaro is widely grown in Same District, particularly on the slopes of Usambara Mountains the ancient range in northeast Tanzania, which is part of the Eastern Arc.
Ginger is a versatile botanical plant that has been used for centuries in traditional Chinese medicine. Drinking ginger tea can provide you with many health benefits. Not everyone can benefit from ginger tea. However, you should check with your doctor if you are pregnant or breastfeeding, using blood thinners, have bleeding disorders, heart disease or high blood pressure before using ginger or its products, according to the Physicians’ Desktop Reference.
Apart from enhancing flavor in cooking as spice condiments ginger also has been used by Humans for medical purposes
Ginger root contains gingerol, which increases the motility of the gastrointestinal tract, according to Nutrition. Gingerol also contains anti-inflammatory and antibacterial properties.
Nausea and vomiting relief
According to the University of Maryland Medical Center (UMMC), ginger has been a treatment for upset stomach, diarrhea and nausea for more than 2,000 years. Although you can eat ginger raw, as a candy or cooked, the tea form is most common for medicinal purposes. In a study reprinted on the UMMC website, a gram of ginger daily for up to four days was shown to help relieve nausea. This relief was greater for pregnant women than for people with motion sickness or nausea from a surgical operation.
Increase Vitamin C Level
Vitamin C is a water-soluble vitamin that the body cannot produce or store; you must take it daily to avoid vitamin C deficiency. The lemon in ginger and lemon tea contains vitamin C, although the amount varies according to how much you add to the tea. Vitamin C is a factor in preventing certain cancers, such as mouth, stomach and breast. This vitamin is also an antioxidant that helps protect the cells against free radical damage, harmful molecules that form in the body due to anything from cigarette smoke to chemicals in foods.
Cold and Flu relief
Ginger and lemon are both known for their vitamin C content. When you have a cold or flu, stock up on these antioxidants to help boost your immune system and recover quickly. Ginger with honey can relieve coughing, sore throat and runny nose, according to Organic Facts. Lemon is also a traditional remedy for colds and sore throat. Brew lemon and ginger tea and add honey for a cold remedy.
Ginger tea may offer antiviral properties, Balch writes. Fresh ginger root may help destroy virus cells that cause common colds, influenza, cold sores and genital herpes. It may also help fight the spread of established viruses, speeding recovery from colds and flu, and reducing the frequency and severity of herpes outbreaks.
The chemicals in fresh ginger tea may help shrink cancerous tumors, according to Castleman. This may help prevent the spread of cancer and may increase your chances of cancer remission. However, scientific studies have only been conducted on animals, so the anti-cancer benefits of ginger tea for humans are unclear.
Fresh ginger tea may help reduce inflammation of muscles and connective tissues. This may help ease pain and stiffness associated with arthritis. However, ginger tea cannot prevent the degradation of muscle and bone cells associated with rheumatoid arthritis.
Lemon ginger tea may benefit your digestive health and function. A compound found in ginger root called gingerol, may stimulate mobility in your intestines, relieving constipation. Gingerol may also have anti-bacterial and anti-inflammatory properties, which helps keep your gastrointestinal tract healthy. Ginger may also alleviate some of the symptoms of gastrointestinal distress, such as an upset stomach, nausea, and diarrhea. Ginger root extracts, including those in lemon ginger tea, have been used during pregnancy and after surgery for the treatment of acute nausea.
With the observable changes to weather patterns, such as shifts in rain patterns, and intensified storms, rural communities in Tanzania are struggling to maintain their agricultural way of life. Continuing to produce the crops and quantities needed is becoming gradually more challenging. It is understood and observed that rain patterns have been abnormal in recent years but the other environmental factors negatively affecting crops are far less noticeable. As most know, crops need water, sunlight, and soil to grow, and healthy crops make healthy people. Yet in reality the equation is far more complex than that. Some crops can easily be over watered or receive too much direct sunlight, and air quality affects their growth as well. However, the most important element in crop production is actually the soil. Soil is not only what holds and supports the plants, it is also what provides nutrients to the crops. Healthy soil can retain far more water than thin dusty soil, combating the issue of inconsistent watering. Healthy soil also helps to protect the plants from illness, bacteria, and underground pests. The most important aspect of healthy soil is that it gives nutrients and vitamins to the plants we eat. Continuing to grow crops in the same plot of land season after season removes all the nutrients from the soil causing the crop yield to decrease and human health to suffer. With the changes in the environment, variability of rainfall, increase in annual temperature, and prevalence of harmful plastic derived chemicals, the best way to ensure crop health does not drastically decrease is to: improve the health of the soil. Soil health can be drastically improved with the use of natural fertilizer, and natural fertilizer can easily be made with little to no cost by composting food waste. The widespread lack of a thorough waste management system — especially in agricultural regions, causes food waste to pile up near common living spaces or even spaces where food is prepared. This negatively affects human health in several ways. This form of waste management emits a greenhouse gas called Methane that amplifies changes in weather patterns by changing the chemistry of the atmosphere at an unnatural speed. But more importantly for the community, food waste attracts a large number of insects. Cholera is a very common and severe illness in these areas, and it is largely spread by flies. Flies feed on both human waste and rotting food, so when these materials are close to fresh food, illness occurs more frequently. With better managed food waste illness would be less frequent and far less severe.
Common waste consists of fresh fruit and vegetable peels, cooked starchy food waste, and scraps of cow, chicken, goat, and fish. All these things attract vermin and insects, but they also are all organic materials that are high in nutrients. If these materials were to be property composted human health would improve from both the improved crop yield and the reduction of illness.
Composting is the process of using food scraps and other natural materials such as grass clippings and coconut husks to create a natural nutrient rich fertilizer. Composting takes attention and effort, but it is an extremely effective way to increase water retention in soil, crop production, and crop health. If the plastics were removed from these images, all the materials could be the start of a healthy nutrient rich fertilizer. Properly combining compostable materials initiates a thermal reaction between the materials that causes them to break down while producing nutrients. The main things needed are airflow, warmth, moisture and a three to one ratio of ‘brown’ and ‘green’ ingredients. Direct sunlight can also increase the speed of the process. Brown ingredients refer to carbon rich materials such as dry leaves, sticks, and ash.
While green ingredients are nitrogen rich materials like food waste, manure, and fresh grass clippings. The reaction that causes composting to be successful is dependent on the interaction between carbon and nitrogen rich materials, so it is very important to pay attention to what you are putting into your compost. Composting can be done on a small scale in trash cans or buckets, but it is important to put small holes in whatever container you use so heat and air can flow through. It is also important to use a lid. Thin layers are best because the ‘brown’ and ‘green’ materials need to be touching. Whenever you have food waste put it in your compost container and cover with a ‘brown’ layer, then put on the lid. The smaller the food scraps are the faster the fertilizer will form, so tear and grind materials when able. It is important to keep the compost moist — but not wet– so you should only add water as needed. If the compost appears slimy or smelly add extra ‘brown’ materials or even some dirt. Mixing or stirring the layers every three or four days speeds up the process. If you are using a bucket you can simply roll it gently with the lid on. It is very important to make sure no plastic contaminates the process. Only the materials listed below should be incorporated.
If you would like to compost on a larger scale to suit your level of crop production and food waste, outdoor compost piles are easy to start and maintain. The simplest way to start an outdoor compost pile is to place a pole or branch in the ground and create layers of materials around it. The first layer should be of larger ‘brown’ materials like tree clippings and hay, then you can add a thin layer of food waste, and more ‘brown’ materials on top. You can collect the food waste in any closed container, just be sure that no other unnatural trash contaminates it.
Several households can contribute their waste to the same pile. So, when you need to empty your jar of rotting food scraps, take it to the outdoor pile and create another layer. Whenever you add the ‘green’ ingredients add a ‘brown’ layer on top to ensure the reaction will occur. Covering the food waste with dry leaves and other materials also helps to prevent pests from disturbing the pile. When your pile has formed you can remove the pole in the center which the layers were formed around, this will allow heat and air to flow efficiently throughout the pile and it will increase the speed of the process. When the pile is first formed you should cover it with a tarp or rice sacks weighed down by a few rocks, this insures that it does not become too moist and it traps all the materials, forcing the reaction to occur. A few days after food waste has been added you can stir the pile to help the layers mix and breakdown. When your compost appears to be dark thick dirt the process is complete, and you can utilize the fertilizer wherever your crops are growing. Continuing the process will gradually yet significantly improve your garden or field of crops. The more fertilizer added, the better your crops will be. Improving your soil improves your health, making plentiful and vitamin rich foods.
Indoor air pollution is when the condition of air surrounding building settings both inside and out is detrimental to the health of living beings. It is especially dangerous in comparison to outdoor air pollution because of how confined the space is within a building as opposed to the space outside.
Some of the causes of indoor air pollution are a result of the materials used to construct the building, practices followed in and around the building, and natural contaminants. Asbestos can be found in roofing panels and shingles, insulation materials, water supply lines, and cement pipes. Formaldehyde can be found in wood products, press fabrics, glues, paints, pesticides, cosmetics, and detergents. Radon gas can be found within the ground beneath homes and slip in through any cracks or openings in the home. Tobacco smoke can accumulate if smoking is done around or within the home. Biological pollutants such as bacteria, mold and animal dander can enter the home from outside. Appliances such as stoves and heaters can release carbon monoxide and nitrogen monoxide.
Asbestos is a material that is harmful to health and has been made illegal to use as a building material in many countries. Formaldehyde will gather within a home if there is no proper ventilation. Radon gas can leak into homes if the gas in the ground is not removed or reduced. Tobacco smoke will increase if continued smoking is done inside or around the home. Biological pollutants grow if the environment in the home has damp or humid areas. Appliances that are used without proper ventilation can cause more harmful gases to reside within the home.
What are other household pollutants?
Charcoal is often used for cooking and heating because of its availability and modest price. Without proper ventilation smoke from charcoal that stays trapped in the homes causes harm to the residents in the building. Organic waste and poor sewage treatment are more biological pollutants that are often improperly left within and around the homes releasing many harmful gases into the air. Along with a lack of practical toilets, the buildup of waste makes the increase of indoor air pollution more potent.
What does it affect?
The main complications that arise from indoor air pollution is the effect it has on human health as those areas inside and outside the buildings become a very unsafe environment to live in. Both short term and long-term illnesses can develop due to indoor air pollutants. Eye, nose and throat irritation, headaches, dizziness, and fatigue are some of the more milder health issues. Long-term illnesses include respiratory diseases such as asthma, allergies and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, heart conditions such as angina, arrythmia, heart attacks, heart failure and hypertension, and cancer. Pneumonia, stroke, ischaemic heart disease, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and lung cancer can become fatal health risks.
The ones most affected are usually women and young children who spend more time in and around their homes. Older adults, people with existing heart conditions, and those with breathing/lung problems and illnesses are also at risk.
Different instruments for cooking, heating, and lighting are powered using kerosene, biomass, coal, and charcoal. To collect some of these materials, it exhausts a lot of time especially for women and children. This takes away time that could be spent to work or attend school. Individuals can become injured from gathering the fuel and can develop musculoskeletal damage. Safety can become a big issue as kerosene can be accidently consumed and often results in childhood poisoning. Severe burns can also occur. A lot of the black carbon and methane released from these instruments can contribute to climate change pollutants.
What are some solutions?
Eco-friendly stoves are one way to reduce emissions of gases if alternative methods to burning wood or charcoal are applied. Solar power and other natural fuel sources like biomass, volcanic rocks and briquettes can be used. These energy sources are sustainable as they last for a long time and do not emit the harmful gases that contribute to air pollution. Solar panels can be installed and hooked up to the stove to supply energy. Solar energy is a large potential power source as the geographical location increases the amount of sunlight that can be captured. Volcanic rocks can be heated up and then used. These rocks can be reused for up to two years. Briquettes are made from dried pruned branches that are then carbonized and combined with a natural binder. The briquettes produce low carbon emissions.
Heating is usually done with traditional fireplaces that typically require coal, charcoal, or wood. A more ecofriendly alternative that will not emit those harmful pollutants is an electric fireplace. Smoke which contains carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide, two very harmful gases, will no longer be released. These fireplaces are more effective at heating up the home as chimneys and specialized vents aren’t needed. The heat cannot escape from the homes through those spots, which normally occurs in traditional fireplaces. LED bulbs are used which drains less electricity comparatively to standard bulbs and can last up to 50,000 hours. These fireplaces can be positioned in any room in the house and demands little maintenance.
Proper ventilation and air circulation allow gas buildup to leave the home and biological pollutants to not accumulate. Many household gases can be harmful as appliances that require the burning of materials to run release a lot of gases. Some of the chemicals in the house from the framework and structure of the building also release gases that do not leave the home. With proper ventilation using ducts, pipes and placing items within the home in certain locations, reduces the stockpiling of gases. Interior doors should be left open, and furniture should be kept away from outside walls. Humidity and dampness can also lessen as this limits the creation of a habitat for more biological pollutants to grow.
Composting organic waste is one way to prevent harmful gases from transpiring in your home. Dry composting toilets take human waste and turns it into compost. This eliminates the need to have a sewage system as proper or lack thereof of such systems has greatly minimized appropriate sanitation methods and organic waste disposable. Other organic waste such as food scraps can also be composted in green bins.
What will be impacted?
Shrinking and possibly eliminating indoor air pollution with these potential solutions means that the risks will no longer be present. The health of the residents is severely impacted and if the pollution were to decrease, the improvement in their health will allow them to live much more comfortable and longer lives. They will be able to pursue education and work to further enhance their futures.
By Greenford R Chinjeru – Art in Tanzania internship
COVID-19 is an infection disease that spread by virus and it dangerous and deadly. It has killed many people and affected the global economy. The disease has affected movement of people and goods from one county to another. Many countries people and their movement has been restricted. This has affected the world economy including the banking business.
The following are the effects of the COVID-19 in banking business in Tanzania
Reduction of deposits, in banking business bank use their customers deposits to provide loans and credit to other so as when their return their return with interest and the get profit through it. But due to the COVID-19 the number of people who deposit their money has decreased. This is because people has been advised to stay at their homes so in order for them to survive they have to use their saving and that include stopping deposits and just to use their cash in hand savings.
Increase of expenses, due to the spread of the disease, the banks as the places where many people came and go, has been taking measures to prevent the spread of the disease between the customers and their employees. These measures costs weren’t in the budget in the first place but for the safety of the people it had to be implemented.
Interference of banker and customer contract. There are contractual agreements between customer and banker but and due to the COVID-19 some of those agreed clauses have been hard to implement to the safeguard the health of all parties. There have been times that a customer has had an obligation to return the loan to the bank when the time required but the customer has failed because of getting sick and being forced to quarantine and the bank can’t sue him for it that because that is global problem.
All in all, COVID-9 has affected our county in so many ways especial in economy as during times of quarantine the government had to use their revenue to help people who were infected and purchase medical machine to ensure the safety of the people and the country.
Environment is a famous word in current days, as it used to refer to different settings, ranging from local to international ones. The origin of term environment is from the French word “environed “which means surroundings, so people may use environment to refer to everything found in a certain location.
-Also, in geography some words like nature, habitat, domain and surrounding are used as synonym of the term environment.
Meaning of environment
Our environment is the set of complex physical, chemical and biological elements, conditions and factors that affects an organism and determines its form of survival. It is comprising of all surroundings in which an organism lives and interacts with living things and non-living materials like water and air.
-The environment is dynamic depending on interaction of living organisms with non-living materials. Also, the environment is regarded as the sum of total conditions surrounded human beings at a certain time and space.
Natural resources are derived from the environment, So the interaction between human beings and other living organisms has more to do with the environment(which can be good or bad for the sustainability of the environment)
N.B The interaction on the earth is what creates the environment, and environmental interactions are continuous. See the diagram below:
Components of the environment
From above explanation you can see that everything surrounding human beings in a particular time and space is a component of our environment. But geographers have tried to categorize all these environmental components into three, which are;
(a) Physical components, includes all naturally occurring environmental elements like air, water, mountains etc.
(b) Biological components i.e., abiotic and biotic components, including all living and non-living things. See diagram below;
( c) Cultural components, includes all man-made parts of the environment such as buildings, population, farms etc.
Diagram shows the three environment components;
IMPORTANCE OF THE ENVIRONMENT
Our environment has a vital role to our daily survival. The environment plays an important role in the survival of all living things by:
(a) Supporting agriculture for food production•Climate and soil are essential during farming
(b) Temperature modification and climatic change control•The presence of trees and water bodies are essential for temperature regulation, also good agricultural practices have a lot to do with controlling climatic change.
(c) Natural resources are derived from the environment.•Resources like medicine, air, water and minerals are essential human needs obtained from natural resources derived by the environment.
(d) Minimize and or prevent disasters•swamps and marshes act as reservoirs of more water which may lead to flood, also air and plants absorb much gases emitted from human activities which will have more contribution to global warming.
(e) Absorption of our pollutants•Environmental components like air, land and water absorb pollutants, such as poisons, radiations and chemicals which effects our healthy survival.
(f) Food web and food chain advantage•All food is obtained from environmental components, so without the environment there is no potential for life.
(g) Disease preventionEnvironmental components like air, water and minerals are required by the human body for proper growth and rescue our bodies from different diseases. E.g., the use of table salt decreases the chances for disease like goitre.
So, We can conclude by saying, the environment gives us life.
See the diagram as it shows how living organisms interact with environmental components.
It shows the mutual benefit in the ecosystem.
The environment of Tanzania includes its’ land and marine surfaces which covers approximately kilometer squares 947.303. That also includes its’ natural resources endowment found in Tanzania mainland and Tanzanian Islands.
As our discussion focuses on the environment in Tanzania, we need also to get insights about different things which form the whole environment of Tanzania.
Below are major components of Tanzania’s environment including its’ natural resources:
(a) Population, which is approximated at 56. 3 million by 2018
(b) Water bodies, which covers 6.49% of whole Tanzania land. These water bodies include;
(i) Some part of Indian ocean
(ii) More than 20 lakes include Victoria, Tanganyika, Nyasa, Rukwa and Natron among others.
(iii) More than 75 rivers include Kagera, Malagalasi;Pangani, Wami, Rufiji, Ruvuma, Tarangire and Songwe
(iv) Natural ponds and artificial lakes
(c) Seven World Heritage Sites (as per UNESCO) which are: Ngorongoro Conservation Area, Serengeti National Park, Kondoa Rock Art Site, Stone Town of Zanzibar, kilimanjaro National Park, Selous Game Reserve and Ruins of Kilwa Kisiwani and Ruins of Songo Mnara
(d) Sixteen National Parks including lake ManyaraNational park, Ruaha National Park and Serengeti National Park
(e) Seven Historical Sites includes Kilwa Kisiwani, Mbozimeteorite and Olduvai Gorge & Laetoli among others
(f) Islands includes Saanane island National Park, Zanzibar island, Pangani town and Ukerewe island
(g) Marine Parks and Reserves like Chumbe island Marine Sanctuary, Dar es Salaam Marine Reserves and Tanga Coelacanth Marine Park among others
(h) Wildlife Management Areas which includes IpoleWMA, Mbomipa WMA and Buninge WMA among others
(i) Cave, Gorges and Rocks like Amboni cave, Kalambofalls, Nyombe region, Nyumba Nitu Natural forests and Kaporogwe falls
(j)Twelve Tanzania Forest Reserves
(k)Thirty two Game Reserves
(l)More than two thousand mountains and highlands includes mount Meru and Kilimanjaro among others
(m)More than twenty mines includes Geita Gold Mine(GGM-Geita), Bulyakulu & Mwadui (Shinyanga) and Kabanga Nickel(Kagera)
(n) More than five famous and important Cities and Towns includes Mwanza( Rock City), Arusha (Tourist City), Mbeya(Green City) and Dar es Salaam (island City) among others
(o)Biological diversity includes more than 75 endemic species like Kihansi Tod and horned chameleon
(p) Agricultural land and rangelands
From above it seen how Tanzania’s environment is endowed with ample valuable natural and man-made resources.
Tanzania’s environment is engine for sustainable development for Tanzania and the World at large. While Tanzania is blessed with more natural and man-maderesources that are distributed throughout the Country, the friendly and sustainability exploitation of these resources can be advantageous to Tanzanians.
Furthermore, We are born to create a better future. We need to use our environment and its’ God given resources for sustainable development.
See the following maps:
Tanzania Lakes and Rivers:
Locations of the major national parks
MAJOR ISSUES ASSOCIATED WITH ENVIRONMENT IN TANZANIA
These issues are related to unsafe exploitation of above resources. These issues include:
(a) Illegal and unsustainable wildlife exploitation
(b) Overgrazing and unsustainable range management
(c) Poor agriculture practices like bush burning, vertical ploughing across steep slopes, failure to adopt crop rotation, failure to maintain adequate vegetative cover, inadequate use of organic fertilizer and lack of sufficient conservation measures
(d) Land conflicts
(e)Poor mining techniques
(f)Climatic change includes melting of ice at mount Kilimanjaro and fall of water depth at Ruaha river
(g)Major Six environmental problems in Tanzania which are;
(ii)Lack of accessible good quality water for both urban and rural inhabitants
(iii) Environment pollution
(v) Deterioration of aquatic systems
(vi) Loss of wildlife habitats and biological diversity
-The joint measure is required to be taken from local,
National and International levels to remove or reduce the above harmful issues relating to resource use for sustainable and inclusive development of Tanzania and the world at large.
REASONS FOR ENVIRONMENT CONCERN IN TANZANIA
From above circumstances it is clear how much Tanzania needs to have strong environmental concern which shall focus on eliminating the negative impacts on Tanzanians from endowed natural resources
The reasons for environment concern in Tanzania include the follow but not limited to:
(a) Despite 55% of Tanzania’s land is potential for agriculture but only 6% of Tanzania total land is under agricultural activities. So, Tanzania and the world at large are needed to set strategies to enhance and expand agricultural activities in Tanzania. (b) With more natural and artificial resources Tanzania is still depend on agriculture, which accounts more than 40% of Tanzania GDP and employs more than 75% of Tanzania workforce
(c) Energy use of power, although Tanzania is endowed with much fossil fuels, waterfalls and rapids, more than 90% of Tanzania depend on forest related materials as their source of energy.
(d) Population distribution, with 47.7 kilometers squares population density, but by actual sense Tanzania population is unequal distribution where there are disparities in internal population densities between urban and rural areas as result of rural-urban migration associated with unequal distribution of man-made resources.
-Also, more people are living in highland areas and interacting regions like near lake Victoria, therefore government of Tanzania needs to deal with this environmental issue
(e) Also, from the major six environmental problems affecting Tanzania, the environmental solutions are required to rescue Tanzania’s environment from other disasters that may arise as result of those six environmental problems.
Conclusions and remarks
– We are a large cause of environmental dynamism, so our actions must first assess its negative or positive impacts to our environment.
– As part of dynamic environment, we are supposed to educate ourselves about all issues related to the environment and to take precautions toward any action that might harm our environment.
– The Government of Tanzania is required to sharpen the implementation of environmental and natural resource related laws, policies and declarations.
When wandering through the alleys and byways of Stone Town, every once in a while you’ll come up to a little square, a little breathing space. It’s at one of these that I am to meet Kasim Nyuni and Saleh, the driving forces behind an upcoming art gallery. When I get there – through the able guidance of my fellow AIT volunteer Sue Wagstaff – we find Kasim negotiating with a carpenter in rapid Swahili. The whitewashed house with the L-shaped patio will not only serve as an art gallery, but also as a cafe and Bed & Breakfast, Sue explains, so new furniture is required.
When we sit down to talk, Kasim and Saleh explain to me that this won’t be a regular art gallery. All the art for sale will be produced by recovering addicts and the proceeds will flow back to the NGO that supports their recovery. “Quitting drugs isn’t enough,” explains Kasim, “You need to change your outlook on life.” Kasim, himself a former addict, has devoted his life to helping others recover from their addictions. In the sober houses, recovering addicts can take part in various activities: English classes, computer classes, art classes. “People don’t come to us because they want to be artists, they come to us because they want to stop being addicts. But in the course of their programme, we often discover their talent and help them develop it.”
Meeting the “fundhi”, the carpenter
Sue, who worked as an AIT volunteer at the sober house last year, is back to help them set up the art gallery, as well as teaching art at the sober house. “These aren’t trained artists,” she explains, “They’ve been on the street, on the outside, their art comes from a different place entirely.”
Soft-spoken Saleh is one of the many who have been helped by Kasim. Once an addict, he is now a fashion designer and painter, who in 2013 exhibited his designs at the Zanzibar Fashion Week in front of hundreds of people. “During the show, we shared my story with the audience. It was great to feel their support. It’s important that we fight prejudice against addicts,” he says, “We want to show the community that we can change, that we can be valuable and productive members of society.”
Kasim agrees. “Addiction takes everything from you. Addicts are disconnected from their families, from the community. We help them bridge that gap.”
Through the art gallery and cafe, Kasim and Saleh want to generate some income for the organisation, so they are less dependent on donations and subsidies. Equally important, however, is that they try to involve the Stone Town community. “We want to keep the prices at the cafe as low as possible, so ordinary Zanzibari can come, have a cup of coffee and see what our recovering addicts can achieve.”
From left to right: Kasim, Sue and Saleh
“Every morning I wake up and I think ‘What can I change today?’” says Kasim. It seems to me that, slowly but surely, they are teaching the people of Zanzibar that addiction is a disease, not a sin, and that it can be overcome.
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Let us now understand doing (causing) in terms of a classification. Since a doing (causing) is always either in relation to being or in relation to not-being, (as has been said), we will be obliged to add “to be” or “not to be” to the distinct modes of doing (causing) in order for them to be clearly distinguished.The Latin for 'doing/causing,' Brandon notes, is facere, which means 'making something so.' It can be substituted for any verb, even one that means making something not to be so. Anselm then delves into six ways to make something be/not be:
- when a cause causes to be that which it is said to cause
- when a cause does not cause to be that which it is said to cause
- when a cause causes something else to be
- when a cause does not cause something else to be
- when a cause causes something else not to be
- when a cause does not cause something else not to be
1. John makes Bob dead (directly)
When someone who kills a man with a sword is said to cause him to be dead, [it is said] in the first mode. For he directly (per se) causes the very thing which he is said to cause.2. John does not make Bob not to be dead (directly)
If I say, "John makes it so that Bob is dead", I could also mean that Bob is dead, and John is able to make him not-dead, but is not doing so. For example, if in Game of Thrones Thoros of Myr could make Beric Dondarrion not to be dead by his magical powers but does not do so, we can say that Thoros made it so that Beric was dead.3. John makes Bob dead (by making something else make him dead)
If I say, "John makes it so that Bob is dead", I could also mean that John arranged it so that something else would make Bob die -- for instance, by hiring an assassin.4. John makes Bob dead (by not making something else make him not dead)
John can make Bob dead by not giving Bob a weapon to defend himself when the assassin comes, or by otherwise not stopping the assassin.5. John makes Bob dead (by making something else not make him not dead)
John can make Bob dead by taking away a weapon that Bob already has so he cannot defend himself when the assassin comes.6. John does not make Bob not to be dead (by not making something else not make him dead)
John can make Bob to be dead by not taking action to make him not dead. For example, if John does not disarm the assassin or did not hide Bob when the Gestapo came for him. That is, he does not cause something else not to be.These six modes can apply universally, since doing or making [like facere] can substitute for any verb. We can vow or make a vow; we can steal or make something to be stolen. This can have great utility in plotting stories. Think of all the ways people made Robb Stark dead at the Red Wedding: by skewering him with arrows or stabbing him [Roose Bolton], by hiring those who did [Tywin Lannister], by disarming him beforehand [Walder Frey], by not warning him, by sending away sympathizers who might have warned him, by killing the direwolf and the Stark bannermen who might have defended him, and so on. Each bore some share of responsibility for the death, even if they did not strike the actual fatal blow.
"[W]hen a problem about the faith comes up it is not only the heretical person who is condemned but also the person who is in a position to correct the heresy of others and fails to do so."
-- Sentences against the Three Chapters, II Constantinople
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Free Guest Post & Article Submission site list (Updated)
Check the Top Free Article Posting Sites List for your article submission and generate backlinks for your website.
Want to Add your Site to this list ?
What is Guest Posting?
Publishing your article on another website related to your niche is considered an essential strategy in digital marketing.
● Attract traffic to your website
● Promote your domain authority using external links to higher-authority domains
● Build more relationships with peers in your industry
This method also goes for brand awareness, and if you want to reach a wider audience, then guest posting is the only answer to accomplish this in less time.
You always post quality content on your blog or website, so, usually, you will gain your audience base. But, if you want to hit a new audience, then start guest posting to reach your company.
Benefits Of Guest Posting
There are many benefits that this service will provide you. Overall, it has the potential to grow your business and customer base.
Experts are also available to provide you high quality and cost-effective service, and these experts will also guide and assist you to increase your web traffic.
If you want to grow your business and customer base, now is the time to start acting.
Keep Your Blog ActiveBy allowing others to publish posts on your blog, and you will be able to keep your website active and take the day off to focus on other areas of your business.
Additionally, you will keep your readers intrigued with fresh content and receive quality information. Guest blogging can increase social interest in your blog. You will reach a new audience when the author pushes his proposal.
- Build Industry Relationships
You can increase the reputation of your brand in the niche through this service. The essential but secondary benefit of guest posting is that it helps you connect with other websites and business owners in the same field or line.
While many business owners and web admins can see the value of guest blogging when they are publishing their articles on another’s blog, only a few have acknowledged them.
Guest posting is beneficial for both the host and the guest blogger. This practice allows you to expand your audience and get free content.
- Build Relationships
By accepting guest posts, you will gain a chance to establish relationships with Internet marketers and bloggers popular with your niche.
When you accept a guest post, you can also let the other blogger know that you are interested in posting the article on their website. This way, you will create a list of websites where you can publish your posts.
More quality content means getting more traffic and earning money. As long as you carefully choose the posts, you allow on your blog, this practice can only bring you benefits. You might be surprised by the value you can add to your blog with guest posts.
- It gives you access to a broader audience.
Guest posting allows you to gain access to another site’s audience, which is why they are considered an essential part of your marketing mix.
A guest post can introduce you and your business to many readers and throw links back to your website, which may attract new visitors.
- Get High-Quality Content
People always try to give their best work while writing posts for others. Web admins need a constant flow of content to update their suite and feed their readers for new stuff.
Guest bloggers give you a break from this constant pressure by giving you free health content. Accepting guest posts allows you to keep the content flowing in your blog without requiring you to spend hours writing articles or paying freelance writers for it.
- Get Popular and Traffic
The more people who write posts on your blog, the more content you will have. It can help you get more traffic and gain popularity online. Many people link their guest posts to their blogs and share them on social networking sites.
The best part about guest blogging is that you are getting free help to promote the content. In addition, this strategy can help you get high credibility backlinks and credibility.
Do’s and Don’t Of Guest Blogging / Posting.
There are many ways to market a blog and get traffic, but one of the best and most effective ways can help you get your blog in the headlines.
There are many reasons for this, and one of the primary reasons is that guest blogging can help you activate multiple things at the same time, i.e., traffic and awareness.
However, you need to realize that not all guest posts work as there are things you have to do and things you have to avoid as far as guest blogging is concerned.
We hope that by the time you finish reading this, you will get better results from guest blogging.
Do’s Of Guest Blogging
1. Do Your Best
Many people may not realize this yet, but this is a great thing we discovered that will work wonders when trying to get results from your guest postings. Always make sure that you do your best to make your blog post the best.
It can be in any format, be it audio format, video format, or even text format. Still, as long as it contributes immense value to the blog and the blogger’s audience is within your niche, you must submit. After that, there will be no problem doing it.
2. Proofread Your Guest Post
You have put your time and effort into publishing an article, but the blogger rejected your composition because it contains too many mistakes. Such a depressing situation, isn’t it?
If you want to avoid such uncomfortable situations, you should re-read the article to see what you can do to improve it because sometimes, re-reading your writing will help you understand your flaws and fix them better—Will help create.
Don’ts Of Guest Blogging
1. Don’t Duplicate Your Guest Post
Another primary function of guest blogging is not to submit the same guest post to different blogs. It doesn’t matter if you change the title of the article or change a part of it.
Posts should be individual, so you should always make sure that you only submit authentic and unique content to other blogs.
2. Don’t Spam Your Guest Post With Links to Your Blog
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This means that your post should only link to your blog when it is relevant, which in most cases is in your author bio.
List of Search Queries to Find Guest Posting Sites
General Search Queries:
● “Guest Posting Sites”
● “Guest Posting Sites List”
● “Free Guest Posting Sites List”
● “Blogs that accept Guest posting”
● “List of guest posting sites”
● “Write for us.”
● “Guest Posting”
● “Guest blogging”
● “Guest blogging Sites”
● “Contribute to our site.”
● “Blogging Sites”
● “Guest Post”
● “Guest Article Sites List”
● “Blogs for guest posting”
● “Guest posts wanted”
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Rox Orange is a robust regional variety developed by the Wisconsin Agricultural Experiment Station for syrup with a Brix of 10.3. High quality seed heads ensure a good seed crop as well. Sturdy 8-foot tall plants typically reach boot to early heading stage by 75 days and hard dough stage at about the 105 day mark. Plant roughly 50 row feet with an approximate syrup yield of a quart.
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before God made the earth and its fields(Proverbs 8:26) Good News Translation
or even the first handful of soil.
While as yet he had not made the earth, nor the fields, nor the highest part of the dust of the world.(Proverbs 8:26) King James Version
IF Eden was at the top of a mountain that filled the whole Earth, and a river from Eden watered the surface of the whole land, THEN the concept of elevation will be found in the scriptural context.
We’re closing the loop on the idea that the topography of the dry land on the third day was a mountain that filled the whole Earth, the summit: Eden. We’re also deducing the original Earth’s hydrological cycle.
We all have the same evidence. Our choice of paradigm determines what we think it’s evidence of.– Matty’s Razor
A river flowed out of Eden to water the garden, and there it divided and became four rivers. The name of the first is the Pishon. It is the one that flowed around the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold. And the gold of that land is good; bdellium and onyx stone are there. The name of the second river is the Gihon. It is the one that flowed around the whole land of Cush. And the name of the third river is the Tigris, which flows east of Assyria. And the fourth river is the Euphrates.(Genesis 2:10-14) ESV
The Psalms and Proverbs are generally regarded, even by supposed Biblical literalists, to be metaphors or similes that teach spiritual truths but which have been rendered as flowery poetic language. However, by applying Hypothesis 22 we can take them as a flowery poetic rendering of accurate physics that provide details about the process of creation or other scientific phenomena. Here’s an example:
“The Lord created me first of all,(Proverbs 8:22-31) Good News Translation
the first of his works, long ago.
I was made in the very beginning,
at the first, before the world began.
I was born before the oceans,
when there were no springs of water.
I was born before the mountains,
before the hills were set in place,
before God made the earth and its fields
or even the first handful of soil.
I was there when he set the sky in place,
when he stretched the horizon across the ocean,
when he placed the clouds in the sky,
when he opened the springs of the ocean
and ordered the waters of the sea
to rise no further than he said.
I was there when he laid the earth’s foundations.
I was beside him like an architect,
I was his daily source of joy,
always happy in his presence—
happy with the world
and pleased with the human race.
This passage is a chronologically accurate synopsis of the six days of creation. It’s where we find the idea that God created gravity on the second day. “when he drew a circle on the face of the deep,” is when God metaphorically set a compass on the deep. We draw a circle using a compass, which has a point, the focus, and draws a circumference. The focus is the foundation of the Earth, a gravitational singularity. The circumference is the location of the firmament. This isn’t the only way that we can deduce that gravity was created on the second day, but it’s where we begin to construct the doctrine. This is the subject of a large part of the Daily Devotion for February.
The piece of this puzzle which we’re interested in today is “the highest part of the dust of the world,” which looses a lot of meaning in the way it’s rendered in other versions than the KJV, like “the first of the dust of the world,” in the ESV, “the first handfuls of soil” in the GNT. If you know the wisdom and grace of God then you ought to know that if you go looking, seeking for something, then if it’s in God’s will you’ll find it. In this case it’s the Hebrew word rosh from which we get highest part or first.
Highest part: וְ֝רֹ֗אשׁ – rosh
- I. head of men and animals.
- II. head, chief, leader; chief of a family; chief priest, high priest.
- III. chief city metropolis.
- IV. chief, top, summit, of a mountain, column.
- V. first, chief, principal of anything; head-stone of the corner; chief, highest joy; most precious spices.
- I. head, first, foremost, beginning; Ge. 2:10 beginnings of streams; beginnings of the ways, cross-ways; of time, first of the months; from the beginning.
- VI. whole, number, capital, amount, sum, to make the sum, to number.
- VII. body, band, company.
- VIII. a poisonous plant, according to some, hemlock; others, colocynth. Gesenius, the poppy, whence opium; and then poison for general.
As you can see rosh is attached to a lot of meanings, all context dependent. The simplest way to understand rosh is the meaning head, as in the head of a tribe of people or the head of a statue. As such, most commentaries view the phrase the highest part of the dust of the world, as referring to the human race. The idea is that humanity is the most complex and intricate of all of God’s creation, as such it’s the top, topmost or summit of His achievement.
- Call upon the name of Jesus Christ,
- believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead,
- confess your sin.
We almost hate to do this to you but a literal interpretation of the phrase, in the context of the topography of the dry land, means that the highest part of the dust of the world, refers to the highest part (summit) of the dust of the world (a mountain that fills the whole Earth). It’s not poetry for the sake of being poetic, it’s a poetic rendering of the physical topography of the Earth.
|22||רֵאשִׁית – reshith||in the beginning|
|23||רֹאשׁ – rosh||from the beginning|
|26||רֹאשׁ – rosh||highest part|
To make this connection even stronger we can look to Genesis chapter 2 and see that the word root is used again, in the same context of physical topography, to describe the beginnings of the rivers Pishon, Gihon, Euphrates and Hiddekel. Here the word rosh is rendered heads, in this case the beginning of streams or headwaters of the four rivers.
This is an early sketch of ours which dates back to about 1999. The idea that there’s a mountain that fills the whole Earth is a theme that gets picked up by Daniel, it’s part of the doctrine of an absolute frame of reference, and which leads into unfulfilled prophecy about the Millennial Kingdom. The Daily Devotional for the month of November is where we discuss this in-depth, and We see very clearly that the mountain that filled the whole earth as seen in Daniel’s vision is a re-establishment of the original form of the earth as it was on the 3rd day of creation.
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The Witch's Runes are simple pictograms that match concepts with symbols that are more understandable in this modern world. I came across the Witch's Runes in my late teen years, and they made an impression on me. They were few in numbers, simple for me to tell apart from one another, and easy to understand. In some ways, the Witch's Runes were a groundbreaking introduction to the concept of abstract symbolism itself for me. Since the Witch's Runes are not an ancient script, they have no special pronunciation or sound; the titles of the runes are in English. There's a lot less to learn here, but they more often than not be used interchangeably with the Elder Futhark in divination. If you feel comfortable with the Elder Futhark, begin learning the Witch's Runes in addition to them and notice how the two compare and contrast in your own practice. If you're still struggling with the Elder Futhark, you can tarry on, or you can take a step back and learn the Witch’s Runes first if time and memorization are a hurdle for you. The version I use is detailed in Witch's Runes: How to Make and Use Your Own, by Susan Sheppard.
Rune Number: The Witch's Runes are presented in a specific order, much like other rune rows, even though they are not a script.
Rune Name: The Witch's Rune name is in English and is directly represented by the image.
Think: Pictograms are not exact portraits of their concepts, especially since there are intangible nuances for each rune. I'll give you some imagery associated with each rune that may help you associate them with their meanings. If you have other imagery that works for you, go with it.
Remember: This will be a list of some overt meanings for the runes that work for me. You may add to these meanings over time or change those that don't seem to fit, so don't forget to make a rune journal entry for each Witch's Rune.
Rune Number: 1
Rune Name: Sun
Think: The brightness of the sun illuminates all things and chases away the shadows of doubt and depression. The sun helps plants grow and flourish.
Remember: Positive. Huge manifestations are coming. Powerful, unstoppable, masculine energy is in play. Plenty of attention is being paid to you. Overwhelming growth is happening.
Rune Number: 2
Rune Name: Moon
Think: Things are a little bit loony. The moon waxes and wanes in cycles and the full moon looks like a circle in the sky.
Remember: Negative. Past cycles are repeating themselves. However, pay attention to your intuition. Your dreams may have special messages for you during this time. There may be much secrecy and mystery going on. The moon can be a motherly, nurturing influence who gives advice that simply must be followed.
Rune Number: 3
Rune Name: Flight
Think: Positive. Birds in flight can swiftly travel long distances. Birds call to each other in the trees, communicating and learning the songs of one another.
Remember: Communications, news, and travel are in store. Important documents may be signed. Things are moving very fast, so you had better hit the ground running. A bridge has been crossed. There may be distant family or friends to whom a message must be communicated.
Rune Number: 4
Rune Name: Rings
Think: Unbreakable bonds are between these rings.
Remember: Positive. You can't do it alone, so form the right and lasting alliances. There may be a business partnership, a marriage, or other team formation. Seek out a partnership if none exists in the matter at hand.
Rune Number: 5
Rune Name: Romance
Think: The symbol looks like a trillium flower to me, as if offered by some loving romantic. The three loops join together in sharp points, representing the pain of coming together.
Remember: Negative. Passion has turned into obsession. Sex and romance are afoot. Diverse people are brought together in one union and so squabbling is natural. People who once had diverging views are now attempting reconciliation, but there may be spite or jaded attitudes all around. There is a raw, magnetic attraction that draws people together.
Rune Number: 6
Rune Name: Woman
Think: This rune somewhat resembles a vulva and the crease between two legs. It is also the inversion of the arrow, which is the man rune.
Remember: Negative. This represents the passive, receptive energies that are often categorized as feminine. The rune can also represent a literal woman pertaining to the situation. Other feminine characteristics include nurturing, creativity, birth of something new, and cleansing energy.
Rune Number: 7
Rune Name: Man
Think: This rune resembles a phallus, a hunter's spear, or a straight road ahead.
Remember: Positive. This rune represents the active, dynamic energies often associated with masculinity. Actions may be decisive but reckless. The rune represents a quick and just outcome, and sometimes has an element of surprise. Something new may be initiated. Come up with a strategy to achieve your goal.
Rune Number: 8
Rune Name: Harvest
Think: This rune resembles a planter with a healthy plant that has fruiting berries ripe for the plucking.
Remember: Positive. The harvest rune represents the fruition of a job well done. There is abundant wealth, family happiness, and reaching the next level of development in the situation at hand. All your hard work will be mightily rewarded. Make no mistake, though, that good things take time to develop. Don't rush ahead foolishly or slack off.
Rune Number: 9
Rune Name: Crossroads
Think: This rune resembles intersecting roads or crossed spears.
Remember: Negative. The path is blocked by obstacles that can only be overcome by changing direction. Be flexible, but know that sacrifices must be made or else they will be taken by the random happenstance of the universe. Things may take longer than expected. Choose your battles.
Rune Number: 10
Rune Name: Waves
Think: Water is not always clear, and waves often obscure the depths. Roiling waters represent the uncontrollable waves of emotions. The land of the dead lies beyond a body of water in many myths.
Remember: Negative. Things are unclear, so a time of reflection is needed to see the situation for what it truly is. There may be a liar in your life, or somebody who is completely delusional. Great spiritual forces of mystery are at work, and so you may feel pushed and pulled by these powerful energies. Misunderstandings become emotional. Great art can come from great angst. Spirits and ancestors may be influencing you.
Rune Number: 11
Rune Name: Star
Think: This looks like an asterisk, which is sometimes called a star. Stars guided sailors at night. When you wish upon a star, your wish will come true.
Remember: Positive. A hope, a wish, or a long-term dream that you want to make into a reality. This is a lofty goal, and it's okay to dream big and have high expectations. Even when expectations are unreasonable, there may be a hidden manifestation of at least one version of the original goal. The star can represent a gift or a windfall as well as a guiding light.
Rune Number: 12
Rune Name: Scythe
Think: This rune looks like a meat hook or scythe, and the cutting blade will cause damage that requires healing.
Remember: Negative. Warning, there is danger ahead. Slow down and be cautious about your progression forward on this path. You may need to cut out negativity and get rid of people and things that no longer serve you. There may be a parting of ways from what you once knew, such as a break up or being fired from a job. Avoid risky choices and sabotaging a good thing. You may have an enemy nearby.
Rune Number: 13
Rune Name: Eye
Think: All eyes are on you, and here is one of them. Looking at somebody's eyes is how to see his or her personality.
Remember: Positive. Self. You must be independent and take time to yourself to know what you truly want and need. You are being watched. This rune has protective energy and wards off the evil eye. You can see through any malicious plans and get them straightened out before they affect your situation too much. | <urn:uuid:6849ded6-0454-4013-95aa-17fa6e144fdb> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://llewellyn.com/journal/article/2599 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570767.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808061828-20220808091828-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.953409 | 1,763 | 1.71875 | 2 |
Bait And Switch
My apologies, but this is going to be a three part article. I have come to the conclusion that each topic warrants separate treatment. In this article, I will discuss the rating of CDO tranches. In the next, I will discuss the rating of Synthetic CDOs and those illusive “Super Senior” tranches.
Portfolio Loss Versus Tranche Loss
In the previous article, we discussed how rating agencies model the expected losses on the portfolio of bonds underlying a CDO. The end result was a chart that plotted losses against a scale of probabilities. This chart purports to answer the question, “how likely is it that the portfolio will lose more than X?” So if our CDO has a single tranche, that is if the payment waterfall simply passes the cash flows onto investors, then this chart would presumably contain all the information we need about the default risks associated with the CDO. But payment waterfalls can be used to distribute default risk differently among different tranches. So, if our CDO has multiple tranches, then we need to know the payment priorities of each tranche before we can make any statements about the expected losses of any tranche. After we know the payment priorities, we will return to our chart and rate the tranches.
Subordination And Default Risk
Payment waterfalls can be used to distribute default risk among different tranches by imposing payment priorities on cash flows. But in the absence of payment priorities, cash flows are shared equally among investors. For example, if each of 10 investors had equal claims on an investment that generated $500, each investor would receive $50. Assuming each made the same initial investment, each would have equal gains/losses. However, by subordinating the rights of certain investors to others, we can insulate the senior investors. For example, continuing with our 10 investors, assume there are 2 tranches, A and B, where the A notes are paid only the first $500 generated by the investment and the B notes are paid the remainder. Assume that 5 investors hold A notes and that 5 investors hold B notes. If the investment generates only $500, the A investors will receive $100 each while the B investors will receive nothing. If however the investment generates $1,500 the A investors will receive $100 each and the B investors will receive $200 each. This is just one example. In reality, the payment waterfall can assign cash flows under any set of rules that the investors will agree to.
If the investment in the previous example is a portfolio of bonds with an expected total return of $1,000, then the payment waterfall insulates the A investors against the first $500 of loss. That is, even if the portfolio loses $500, the A investors will be fully paid. So, the net effect of the payment waterfall is to shift a fixed amount of default risk to the B investors.
Rating CDO Tranches
As a general rule, rating agencies define their various gradations of quality according to the probability of full payment of principal and interest as promised under the bonds. Assume that Joe’s Rating Agency defines their rating system as follows:
AAA rated bonds have at least a 99% probability of full payment of principal and interest;
AA rated bonds have at least a 95% probability of full payment of principal and interest;
A rated bonds have at least a 90% probability of full payment of principal and interest; and
Any bonds with less than a 90% probability of principal and interest are “Sub Investment Grade (SIG).”
Assume that the bonds underlying our CDO collectively promise to pay a total of $100 million in principal and interest over the life of the bonds. For simplicity’s sake, assume that the CDO investors will receive only one payment at maturity. Further, assume that we have conducted several hundred thousand simulations for our CDO and constructed the chart below:
It follows from the data in the chart that the probability that losses on the CDO will be less than or equal to: $35 million is 90%; $40 million is 95%; $65 million is 99%. We define the tranches as follows: tranche A is paid the lesser of (i) $35 million and (ii) the total return on the CDO pool (the green tranche); tranche B is paid the lesser of (i) $25 million and (ii) the total return on the CDO pool less any amounts paid to tranche A (the yellow tranche); tranche C is paid the lesser of (i) $5 million and (ii) the total return on the CDO pool less any amounts paid to tranches A and B (the blue tranche); and tranche D is paid the lesser of (i) $35 million and (ii) the total return on the CDO pool less any amounts paid to tranches A, B, and C (the red tranche).
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Say you are an executive director of a company. That company has various contracts with other people. The decision of whether to perform those contracts is yours. What are your legal obligations?
First it is the company, not you, who is subject to the legal duty to perform those contracts. If the contracts are not performed the only claim is against the company not you (indeed, because of the duties to the company you are under you cannot be separately liable for procuring a breach).
Second your overriding duty is to act in the interests of the company. Usually that will mean that you must make the decision to perform contractual obligations the company is under. In some, albeit rare, cases you are not merely permitted but required to decide that it is not in the company’s best interests to go ahead and perform. This will, of course, have adverse consequences, such as loss of commercial reputation and legal liability for breach, but those consequences may be less severe than those of performance. Any claim that the counter-parties have will be against the company, not you, as it is the company that is the duty bearer.
Nick Cohen, one of the most able journalists in the United Kingdom, has written highlighting a recent change to the ministerial code of conduct. The May 2010 code stated
1.2 The Ministerial Code should be read alongside the Coalition agreement and the background of the overarching duty on Ministers to comply with the law “including international law and treaty obligations and to uphold the administration of justice” and to protect the integrity of public life
The October 2015 code states
1.2 The Ministerial Code should be read against the background of the overarching duty on Ministers to comply with the law and to protect the integrity of public life.
This Guardian reports the following response
Philippe Sands QC, a professor of law at University College London, said the change was “shocking. Another slap to Magna Carta and the idea of the rule of law. A government that wants to ditch Europe and sever the connection with the European convention on human rights now wishes to free itself from the constraints of international law and the judgments of international courts.”
A legal challenge against the change will be lodged on Friday by Rights Watch, an organisation which works to hold the government to account. Yasmine Ahmed, its director, said: “This amendment to the ministerial code is deeply concerning. It shows a marked shift in the attitude and commitment of the UK government towards its international legal obligations.” ”
I do not think Professor Sands’ fears are well founded, nor that any legal challenge will succeed.
The party subject to the international legal obligations that it enters into, such as those under the European Convention on Human Rights, is the United Kingdom. Individual ministers and civil servant, from the Prime Minister down, are not subject to those duties. This is reflected in the fact that if an individual wishes to bring a claim before the European Court of Human Rights the counter-party is, and can only be, the United Kingdom as a signatory state, and not any individual however eminent or even a department.
Individual ministers are subject to duties which they owe to the state (“the Crown”), both legal and by convention in our domestic order. Like company directors they must also make decisions in the best interest of the United Kingdom, which is the corporate entity that they serve. In almost no case will it be in the United Kingdom’s interest to break its international legal obligations, and ministers should seek to ensure that this does not happen.
Almost none. In some rare cases, just as with human beings in any domestic legal order, the right thing to do is to break the law. The reason for this is that the law is never perfect. Law has great weight in our reasoning about how we should behave, but sometimes breaking the law is the right thing to do.
To give a contentious example, public international law provides no grounds for intervention in another state’s affairs in the case of genocide. The law’s position is one of state sovereignty. If therefore genocidal murder is taking place in a near neighbour state, say in a former constituent part of Yugoslavia, the positive law provides no grounds for military intervention and to do so would be unlawful insofar as the intervening state is concerned.
It is important in such circumstances for ministers to realise that, as with company directors, the UK’s legal obligations do not fall on them personally and that they will not be subject to any sanction for breach. Their duty is to act in the best interest of the United Kingdom. In some, albeit extremely rare, cases that may require them to place the United Kingdom in breach of its international obligations.
The confusion between the duties of the UK state and individual ministers bedevils discussion of the second Iraq War. Even if we accept that the UK violated international law in the invasion of Iraq, and I think it did, that does not answer the question of whether Blair or any other minister breached their legal duties. It certainly does not show that they committed any crime, nor, as the current leader of the opposition has ludicrously suggested, that they should be tried before the international criminal court.
The new draft of the ministerial code is better than the old. It does not confuse the party which is subject to the duty of compliance with international law, and correctly states the reasoning any minister must go through in considering how to act.
In this morning’s Guardian the former Treasury Solicitor has taken the very unusual step of writing to criticise the change discussed above. Adam Wagner, the most energetic, able and articulate practitioner defending the Human Rights Act, points out that the new ministerial code gives 91 words to air miles, but none to international law. The problem with the old version was that it was wrong, with the new that it is silent on international law specifically.
What would a section that accurately, and succinctly, explained the minister’s duties with regard to international law look like, if as argued above the earlier version was misleading? I would suggest the following
“The UK is under a duty to comply with international law. It is in the UK’s interest that it does so. Ministers are under a duty to act in the UK’s interests.”
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A native culture thousands of years in the making, pioneering exploration and dramatic landscapes, this is Chilean Patagonia.
For many an adventurous traveller, Torres del Paine National Park is a bucket-list destination, and with good reason. Its landscapes, carved out by glacial activity during the Ice age, are dominated by the iconic “Torres” or “Towers” which can be seen from many corners of the park.
In southern Patagonia, you will find Torres del Paine National Park with its iconic peaks, mirror-glass lagoons and mighty glaciers. Not to mention the endless walking trails, opportunities to see native fauna such as the Andean Condor, adrenaline-packed outdoor sports and a rich cultural heritage.
From Sir Francis Drake, Lady Florence Dixie to Charles Darwin, many have passed through these lands, though few have wanted to leave.
We would like to invite you to discover the Torres del Paine National Park in Chile with Tierra Patagonia. We are an award-winning luxury eco-lodge, situated on the shores of the Sarmiento Lake, with sweeping views of the park.
Wider Patagonia covers nearly 400,000sq miles (roughly 1,000,000sq km) of unforgiving gorges, deep mountain lakes and the southerly ends of life on land itself. Torres del Paine National Park occupies 700sq miles (1,814sq km) of those varied landscapes. Amid the carpet of lush Pine and Lenga forests, Torres del Paine is home to no less than four giant glaciers: the Grey; Pingo; French and Dickson, all with their own picturesque glacial lakes and surrounding rock formations. Chilean Patagonia is generally more mountainous than its Argentinian neighbor, with the three iconic Torres spires ranking among the most famous of them all.
Torres del Paine National Park is teeming with native plant species and perfectly well-adapted animal life. Swathes of Beech, Lenga and Coihue trees fill forests while Firebush, Winter’s Bark and Fuchsia shrubs line walking trails and occupy the plains. Orchids, Irises and Lupins hug the riverbanks and punctuate woodlands, blossoming during the warmer months along with countless naturally-sown herbs.
Wildlife also abounds here, with the park hosting over 100 bird species, 30 different mammals, reptiles and infinite varieties of insect. Some of the better-known residents include Andean Condors, Pumas, Rheas, Patagonian Grey Foxes, Hawks and Eagles, Lizards, Flamingos and Frogs, among many more.
Birdwatching and horseback rides are a great addition to any itinerary, in among the adventure activities which Tierra Patagonia is well-known for. On these excursions you’ll discover many dramatic viewpoints, nesting sites and natural habitats easily explored in the company of our expert local guides.
Undeniably one of the world’s great destinations for all manner of outdoor activities, the Torres del Paine National Park in Chilean Patagonia has it all. From gentle walks and photography tours to kayaking, biking, horse riding and hiking, there is an activity for everyone. There are two main reasons why this region is so sought after: one is the abundance of outdoor adventures across the varied terrain and mixed natural environments, and the other is the enjoyment of its natural beauty. Expend as much or as little energy as you desire, with a vast range of excursions and outings aimed to suit the interests and physical fitness of all ages and abilities.
Tierra Patagonia has been a part of Chilean Patagonia since 2011, however, human inhabitation of what is now the national park stretches far beyond that. The Tehuelche tribespeople were one of the main groups who occupied these lands more than 1,000 years ago, adapting over time to the pressures of harsh winters and all too short summers. Evidence suggests that nomadic tribes of fellow hunter gatherers – such as the Selk’nam, Yaghan and Kaweskar – traveled between Torres del Paine and the neighboring Tierra del Fuego National Park, fishing in the lakes and foraging in the forests.
Outside exploration of the region took hold in the late 19th century, as groups of pioneering Chilean cowboys from the north roamed and settled, as did European visitors from the early 20th century onwards, all of whom now play their own part in Patagonian history and heritage.
To live and prosper in Patagonia requires ingenuity and adaptability, with the estancias and working horse ranches of the region playing a vital part in the survival of its people, particularly in the 18th and 19th centuries. Here, skilled herdsman relied heavily on their relationship with the horses to farm and graze huge expanses of land. The gauchos group cattle and round sheep while also using the strength and dexterity of trusty steeds to access otherwise inhospitable grounds.
Covering distance at speed was also essential, and it is for these reasons that the culture of horse ranches and estancias features heavily in the psyche of people here to this day. Leisurely, recreational rides are far more suited to the 21st century traveler, of which there are an endless number of trails and routes available for anyone keen to enjoy a taste of this traditional way of life. | <urn:uuid:c66ee375-0820-478d-a5f2-1ab63591d731> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://tierrahotels.com/patagonia/plan-your-trip/discover-torres-del-paine-patagonia/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570977.50/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809124724-20220809154724-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.945043 | 1,135 | 2.6875 | 3 |
Monterey Bay’s Ecological Renaissance
Stephen Palumbi surfs and plays in a rock band, but mainly he’s a marine biologist. So when he takes a visitor on the trail that winds from Hopkins Marine Station along the rocky shoreline of Monterey Bay, he mostly talks about the bay. Here’s where otters gather, and farther out, that’s where humpback whales tend to feed. As gulls squawk, Palumbi, the marine station’s director, points to a tawny crescent beach crowded with seals and newborn pups. “Seals, seabirds, otters, whales—the bay is better off than at any point in the last 150 years,” he says.
A few generations ago this would have been counted a big surprise. Then, Monterey Bay was one of the most polluted places on the Pacific Coast—“an industrial hellhole,” he says. Now it’s a kind of paradise. And one with a remarkable lesson.
The dire state of the world’s oceans can make even the most environmentally minded shut down.
- Garbage: We’re filling the oceans with trash, most famously in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, the vast (twice as big as Texas, per some estimates) coagulation of plastic floating between California and Hawaii.
- Overfishing: We’ve taken 90 percent of large fish like shark and swordfish; 85 percent of the world’s fisheries are harvested at capacity or are in decline.
- Hot water: Because oceans are absorbing more carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, marine temperatures are rising—bad news for species evolved to live in cooler waters.
- Acid seas: Pollution and climate change can reduce the oxygen in oceans to deadly levels for marine life. They can also raise acidity, which destroys coral reefs; already 20 percent of the world’s reefs have died, with another 60 percent at grave risk.
If it’s any consolation, even people who have built careers in conservation can feel overwhelmed. “I’m as subject to bad news as the next person,” says Julie Packard, executive director of the Monterey Bay Aquarium for the last 30 years. “I listen to the NPR reports on coral reefs and climate change—it’s hard. But the only thing that is going to lead to positive change is that we all get involved. Because really, what’s the alternative?”
The one place on the planet where the oceans’ problems might be solved is the place Packard and Palumbi call home: the 120-mile indentation on the central California coast called Monterey Bay. It’s a special spot, the bay. Famously beautiful, its 455 square miles nurture one of the most diverse ecosystems in the world, including dozens of species of marine mammals, still more of seabirds, hundreds of species of fish, and one of the largest kelp forests in the world. The bay’s most dramatic feature is not visible from shore: Monterey Bay Submarine Canyon, a chasm that in depth and complexity is the undersea equivalent of the Grand Canyon.
Put it another way: If you were a marine scientist who wanted to study stuff that nobody had ever seen—and which might help you better understand the world’s oceans—Monterey Bay would be the place to do it.
Today, the area hosts the largest concentration of marine science research and policy institutions in the world, nearly three dozen. With them comes one of the planet’s largest gatherings of world-class marine scientists, some 200 to 300, estimates Palumbi. This assemblage of marine knowledge is akin to Silicon Valley’s cluster of high-tech expertise, says Meg Caldwell, executive director of the Monterey-based Center for Ocean Solutions. “You have all these experts just a 20-minute drive away.” It all comes back, she adds, to the bay’s wealth of marine environments from deep sea to beaches to kelp forest. “Really, the biodiversity is phenomenal. It’s like having Africa’s Serengeti in our backyard.”
How did it get better?
We’ve now stopped at a bend in the coastal trail, and Stephen Palumbi tells a story. It was 1947, and a college student named Merilyn Derby had just arrived at Hopkins to study marine biology. The day was sunny, the bay was inviting, and Derby grabbed a swimsuit and jumped in the water. It was cold, recounts Palumbi, but Merilyn expected that. What she didn’t expect came next. “Fish heads,” Palumbi says. “And fish tails. And guts. She jumped out of the water.”
That was what Monterey Bay was like for decades: a befouled nightmare. But it wasn’t the bay he saw when he moved here from Harvard in 2002. “It was so beautiful,” he says. “I found myself asking, ‘How did such a big place get ruined? Then how did it get better?’ ”
Palumbi began interviewing people like Derby for what became The Death & Life of Monterey Bay, his book (coauthored with Carolyn Sotka) published in 2012. He learned just how bad Monterey Bay had been. Start with 19th-century fur hunters, who decimated the bay’s sea otter population. Without the otters, sea urchins (the otters’ favorite food) multiplied wildly, devouring the bay’s kelp forests—which led to the demise of the fish and other life that depended on kelp to survive.
Next went the bay’s gray and humpback whales, hunted to near extinction, then the abalone. “A collapse of wildlife,” says Palumbi. Just one fish remained in abundance: sardines. When entrepreneurs realized the shiny silver fish could be caught and processed and sold to grocery stores, canneries sprang up along the bay shore. These supplied jobs and inspired one of local boy John Steinbeck’s most famous books, Cannery Row. But as Derby discovered, their industrial waste turned the bay into toxic soup: “They were dumping 100,000 pounds of fish guts and tails and heads into the bay every day,” says Palumbi.
The bay’s decline was rapid and seemingly irrevocable. Yet, improbably, it did recover. In part, it healed itself. Once the sardines had been fished out, the canneries closed. Without the canneries, the water became cleaner. That allowed sea urchins and abalone to return; these, in turn, lured the few remaining sea otters up from Big Sur to feed on their favorite foods in Monterey Bay. With fewer sea urchins, the kelp forest sprang back.
The need for human help
Yet that wasn’t the entire story. Palumbi found that at crucial moments the bay has received human help. One heroine stands out: Julia Platt, a marine scientist (the first American woman to earn a doctorate in marine biology) who became mayor of Pacific Grove, California, in 1931. Her training made her understand just how badly the bay had declined. She fought the canneries, and when she lost that battle, turned her energy to establishing the first community-sponsored marine preserve in the country, just offshore from Pacific Grove. It was in this protected zone that, decades later, abalone first reappeared. “Instead of giving up,” says Palumbi, “she said, ‘What else can I do to leave the ocean better than it was before?’ ”
Today, generations after Platt turned Pacific Grove City Council meetings into marine biology seminars to get her preserve established, research institutions dot the Monterey Bay coastline the way wineries dot Napa Valley. Each facility tends to focus on specific kinds of scientific questions. Palumbi’s Hopkins Marine Station studies how marine organisms react to their environment. Long Marine Laboratory zeroes in on marine mammals. Some of the most cutting-edge research occurs at MBARI (Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute), command center for a fleet of robotic vehicles that delve as far as 2 miles down into Monterey Canyon, “past cliffs and to the deep sea floor, the abyssal plain that goes all the way across the Pacific,” says MBARI researcher Jim Barry. The vehicles, he explains, give access to part of the planet that would otherwise be as hard to explore as the surface of Mars.
Much of the current research is tied to the crises the Pacific faces. Because Monterey has been studied so thoroughly for so long, it’s an ideal place to determine how quickly climate change is affecting the ocean, by comparing what’s living here now with what lived here, say, 50 years ago. (The answer: more warm-water species now.)
Some research may help us manage or mitigate the effects of climate change on the oceans. Working in American Samoa, Palumbi discovered coral reefs that “can survive the hottest Pacific water we know about and still do quite well,” he says, “whereas other corals die at those temperatures.” The heat-resistant reefs are the ones that must be protected from development at all costs, he argues, because they’ll provide homes for fish even if the other reefs around them are dying.
Bay researchers have also changed the way we eat. Monterey Bay Aquarium’s Seafood Watch is among the most effective consumer-awareness programs ever devised: Since its founding in 1999, its 40 million pocket guides and 1 million downloaded smartphone apps have advised North American consumers which fish to buy and which to avoid. And the aquarium successfully pushed for California’s recent ban on the shark fin trade: “A huge victory,” says Julie Packard. “Now we’re starting to look at options on trash—legislation that sets targets for reducing marine plastic waste. I think we can have a huge impact on that.”
The biggest impact is in the heart
Never discount the power of beauty. Monterey Bay was saved in large part because Julia Platt and her voters judged it beautiful enough to merit saving. Today the bay’s scientists and conservationists hope they can spark similar passion to save all the planet’s oceans.
Says Packard, “Growing up, I was lucky enough to spend a lot of time in rural California. So I had a real connection to the outdoors. Now I realize that when you’re talking about nature, you’re talking about the ocean—because most of nature is the ocean.” The trick, she continues, is to make people feel how vital the oceans are to their lives. “At first we thought the aquarium was going to be all about conveying facts to people, and they would understand them. Now we realize what’s important is the emotional impact—what you feel when you see our huge sunfish or the cathedral light of our kelp forest exhibit. The biggest impact is in the heart, not the head.”
Palumbi is heading back on the trail toward Hopkins Marine Station. It’s later in the afternoon now. The bay sparkles. He talks about the ways Monterey Bay and the research done here can affect the rest of the world. “I tend to be an optimistic person,” he says. The changes the oceans are experiencing are grave, alterations not experienced in the last 50 million years. But, Palumbi says, we still have a chance, if we can halt the things we do that are damaging the atmosphere and so damaging the oceans.
“I go all over the world and give talks about the problems the ocean faces,” he says. “And then I come back here. There are so many places where you can say, ‘Oh, this got bad, and then that got bad.’ But Monterey Bay is one of those rare and special places where the tape ran backward. Where you can see things get better. It helps to have a good example.”
Sea science: How Monterey researchers study our changing oceans
- Long Marine Laboratory, Santa Cruz. The problem: Declining fisheries. How their research helps: Finding out if establishing marine reserves truly results in more fish.
- U.S. Geological Survey, Santa Cruz. The problem: Tsunamis like the one that hit Japan in 2011. How their research helps: Identifying our most vulnerable coasts so we can prepare.
- MBARI, Moss Landing. The problem: Warming oceans. How their research helps: Proving, alas, that warmer water temps affect sea life in California as well.
- Monterey Bay Aquarium, Monterey. The problem: Shrinking sea otter populations. How their research helps: Pollution? Disease? Determining why otter populations are still smaller than they should be.
- Hopkins Marine Station, Pacific Grove. The problem: Threatened coral reefs. How their research helps: Finding reefs that cope with a warmer Pacific Ocean.
Get a nerd’s-eye view
How to see the same creatures and ocean features the Monterey Bay scientists study—on land or out on the water.
Monterey Bay Aquarium. The best in the world, with mesmerizing exhibits of sea otters, jellyfish, and more. New in summer 2013: Cindy’s Waterfront cafe from star chef Cindy Pawlcyn. montereybayaquarium.org
Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary Exploration Center. This center lets you explore a two-story version of the Monterey Submarine Canyon; the deck has a fine view of Santa Cruz Wharf and the bay. montereybay.noaa.gov
Elkhorn Slough National Estuarine Research Reserve. One of the largest tidal marshes in California, a haven for egrets, herons, and sea lions, all easily seen from reserve trails or a kayak. elkhornslough.org
Kayak tours. Nothing gets you closer to the bay’s marine life than a kayak. Outfitters include Monterey Bay Kayaks (montereybaykayaks.com), Kayak Connection (kayakconnection.com), and Adventures by the Sea (adventuresbythesea.com).
MBARI. July 20 is the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute’s annual open house—the one day you can see its impressive fleet of robotic underwater vehicles. mbari.org
Long Marine Lab/Seymour Marine Discovery Center. This center in Santa Cruz has one of the world’s largest whale skeletons, plus guided tours on which you see the lab’s two on-site dolphins. seymourcenter.ucsc.edu
Whale-watching. Humpback and blue whales frequent the bay from May into December; grays from December to April. Outfitters include Monterey Bay Whale Watch (gowhales.com) and Princess Monterey Whale Watching (montereywhalewatching.com). | <urn:uuid:aa64db48-1ce9-48e2-a312-3eb81fa79c4f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.sunset.com/travel/california/moneterey-bay-aquarium | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572198.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815175725-20220815205725-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.943246 | 3,213 | 3.015625 | 3 |
What are some best practices in Supply Chain Management?
A body dealing with thousands of companies in producing goods and delivering final products as per the tastes of their users/customers is not a joke. Such places need heavy and serious leadership and management for their various operational tasks.
Yes, we are talking about the “Supply Chain Management” responsible for producing goods and timely deliveries. Supply chain management operates 24/7 hours with a vision to span businesses and external vendors. Effective supply chain management handling minute to major tasks requires an efficient team, first forming good organizational performance management.
However, starting from base level (dealing with raw materials) to advanced level (dealing with production and delivering), there are some specific attributes of the supply chain that form the foundation of a good strategic business plan of supply chain management: Integration, Operations, Purchasing, and Distribution.
What is Supply Chain Management?
Supply chain management is the circling process of handling raw materials, manufacturing on-demand products, monitoring operations and management, and timely delivery of final products to the consumers.
There are initially five major components of a systematic supply chain management viz.,
- Delivery and Logistics
When supply chain management is effectively operating, it minimizes costs, time wastes, delays in production and delivery. On-time production and delivery ensure stacked retail shelves, thus boosting sales and order.
The supply chain is an actual game-changer and a modifier of any business, for it maintains the face of a company for its consumers. The more effective the supply chain of a company is, the more reputation it gains with long-term sustainability.
Best practices in supply chain management for any industrial sector
The multitude of tasks in supply chain management requires some cost-effective and efficient strategic business plans that may offer rich results in favor of both you and your customers. Best supply chain practices must be such that it relates to all industry types and sizes.
- Creating trusted bonds with your clients
When strong partnerships are formed, the relationship gets a bigger recognition. When the relations among suppliers, distributors, vendors, and customers are established with a strong and clear understanding of each other’s goals, it ensures faster operations and improved organizational performances.
For efficient supply chain management, it is necessary to have trusted suppliers and customers to manage and boost production.
Since the COVID-19 scenario, there has been a clear downfall in this process. But with things getting normalized slowly and gradually, it is now important to restart expanding relationships to ensure multiple resources.
Moreover, having multiple resources assures timely production of goods and services alongside timely deliveries.
- Voluminous purchasing reduces the cost
Another efficient and strategic business plan to manage supply chain operations to ensure low-cost productivity is to purchase bulk commodities. With care and attention, this process is a great way to deal with inventory moves.
Although buying goods in bulk isn’t a rule in every management task, most vendors accept the two purchasing patterns: Standing and Blanket.
“Blanket order purchasing” refers to the multiple orders of delivery in a period of time, often to take advantage of the pricing. It is one of the most preferred purchasing patterns. Typically, the purchase order time period is one year, and the deliverable can increase quantities per requirements.
On the contrary, “Standing order purchasing” refers to repetitive orders from a specific supplier over a fiscal year. Businesses that are very certain about the requirements of their products follow this order.
- All parties must follow the JIT agreement
The best way to manage the supply chain is through timely and orderly task completions. Just-in-Time agreement (JIT agreement) addresses or handles your production and delivery schedules. Not just for dealing with consumers or vendors, monitoring the availability of materials without overexerting your storage space also requires a JIT agreement with the manufacturers and suppliers.
This, in turn, ensures brand reputation and long-term sustainability in the market.
- Managing risks and compliance
You cannot predict certain crises or future risks in enterprises or any organizational management. Additionally, you can also expect great rewards and bigger opportunities when contacting outside vendors or breaching an initial GPO contract along with penalties.
Due to increased competition and global purchasing resources, working with suppliers and monitoring social and ethical performances seem more complicated.
Therefore, today’s market economy requires constant monitoring of possible risks and compliances.
- Recruit professionals in your team
An all-time strategic business plan for all kinds of operations and managerial tasks calls for promising teams. When that is the case, supply chain management which is the sole of business longevity requires more than bright and professional teams to align tasks and prevent errors.
An efficient team that can understand business priorities keeps a tendency to deliver timely work and strong management.
- Enhance Demand Forecasting
Demand forecasting is a major element when drafting a strategic business plan in any sector. Having too much in stock or having limited supply both are serious concerns in terms of cost management. Here are two scenarios;
First, when there’s an adequate supply of products and enough stock stacked in your company but low sales, it is a wastage of money and resources. The second vice-versa situation is when you have high demand but low supply or inadequate stock. That, too leads to crisis issues and business failures. Both of these instances are consequences of inaccurate demand forecasting.
Accurate demand forecasting ensures businesses boost sales and maintain consistency. Business intelligence analysis in any organization enables firms to work orderly. Demand forecasting also empowers the firm to have the correct amount of stocks to meet current and future demands based on past sales, market trends, and competitions.
Improving Supply Chain Management
Supply chain leadership and management demand managers to find creative and innovative business ideas or strategies to improve manufacturing, purchasing, storing, and delivering goods into a competitive marketing globe. Overcoming challenges, mitigating risks and compliances, implementing powerful strategy formulations accomplish the goals and vision of the business.
Expert Mind Solutions offers a variety of business skills training courses and consultancy services to enhance organizational performances. The right understanding of tools and technology strikes better opportunities for improvements and operational tasks.
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Application Software Developer is responsible for developing, different kinds of applications that must run on embedded devices/systems like Mobile phone, Set Top Box, Smart TV, Smart Watch, either directly or a companion device or on the web and also standalone applications which run on desktop/ laptops that may pair up with the embedded devices and systems for configuration and control.
Application Software Developer is responsible for design and development of the databases, both relational and non-relational databases. Application Software Developer is also responsible for developing the applications functionality, with both frontend user interface and backend logic.
Application Software Developer has to face challenges in developing the backend logic, where several algorithms have to be developed for the applications to achieve their functionalities. Design and development of the frontend requires understanding the product (mobile / TV / Web) and the end users, and following the design guidelines with the given limited H/W and S/W resources.
Above all, it is the developer’s responsibility to take care of performance and optimizations to make the application work smoothly on different platforms.
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For the third year in a row, Fr. John Kowalczyk gave a three hour workshop at the Drexel Medical College 27th Forensic Conference, held on Wednesday, December 4th 2019.
Fr. John Kowalczyk stated the following: “Working with mentally ill inmates who are in the (RHU) Restricted Housing Unit or Solitary Confinement, one will be confronted with inmates who have been isolated from the normal prison setting.” Fr. Kowalczyk stated, “One has to minister with compassion and unconditional positive regard with an open heart and become an instrument in restoring his humanity with kindness and dignity. This restoration will aid and help restore purpose, direction and meaning into his already broken life.” Fr. John has been involved in this “Out-of-Cell” program with inmates for the past five years in SCI Waymart.
During the Three Hour Workshop, Fr. John made the following five educational objectives:
- Examine the trauma of the mentally ill inmate who finds himself in solitary confinement.
- Explore the impact of a chaplain with a caring heart as a necessary tool to work through this isolation of the RHU.
- Analyze the concept of guilt and feeling of helplessness from a spiritual dynamic when the mentally ill inmate finds himself isolated, broken and separated from his familiar mental health unit.
- Recognize the importance of offering prayer when one appears out-of-control and the life of the inmate appears unmanageable.
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Is your lawn irrigation system leaking? A leaking irrigation system that’s left unchecked can result in increased water bills and expensive and significant repairs or replacements. Continue reading to identify four signs indicating that your lawn irrigation system is leaking.
If sections in your lawn look like they haven’t been watered or are dryer than the rest of your lawn, this results from uneven watering, which is an obvious sign indicating that your irrigation system may be leaking. This is especially noticeable during the warm seasons, when you’ll see sections in your lawn that are taller and greener than others, typically indicating that your underground sprinkler pipe is damaged or broken, causing your system to leak.
Increased Water Bill
If there’s an unexplained increase in your monthly water bill, this is a sign indicating that your irrigation system is leaking. Your irrigation system’s water usage should typically be consistent with slight fluctuations depending on the season. However, if you’re experiencing significant increases in your water bill with each passing month, it can result from a leak somewhere in your lawn irrigation system. Installing an irrigation meter is a helpful way to monitor and determine whether the increase in your water bill is being caused by your lawn irrigation system or another water source.
If there are pools of water, wet spots, or flooded areas in various sections of your lawn, especially around your system’s sprinkler heads, this is a sign indicating that your irrigation system is leaking. Although it’s common for your lawn to be wet after your irrigation system completes its cycle, the sections closest to the leak typically experience an increased amount of water compared to the rest of your lawn from flowing water at the leak’s source, resulting in overwatering. Listed below are signs that areas in your lawn are being overwatered:
- Wet spots or patches
- Pools of water
- Fungus growth
- Wet concrete
- Water bubbling from the ground
Low Water Pressure
The water pressure for your lawn irrigation system should be fairly consistent with each cycle after installation. However, if your irrigation system is experiencing low water pressure, it could mean that the water flow is off, which is another sign indicating that your system is leaking. You can identify low water pressure in your irrigation system by looking at the amount, intensity, and coverage of the water released from your sprinkler heads.
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MANGALURU: A deemed university in Mangaluru and a rural health centre in Pavagada are coming together to tackle the dreaded fluorosis problem dogging Tumakuru region since decades.
Swami Japananda, chairman of Pavagada Integrated Rural Health Centre of Sri Ramakrishna Sevashram of Pavagada, will sign a memorandum of understanding (MoU) between his organization and Nitte University Oral Biology Fluoride to tackle Pavagada Fluorosis.
While Nitte University will provide startup support to take the project forward, the organization will monitor the functional status of de-fluoridation plants.
This modalities will be discussed at a workshop and expert work-group meeting scheduled to be held on Friday at AB Shetty Memorial Institute of Dental Sciences of Nitte University.
The group will discuss about tackling Pavagada Fluorosis followed by a Continuing professional development and work-group meeting initiated by Prof Chitta Ranjan Chowdhury, lead of fluoride team and head of oral biology and genomic studies at Nitte, and his team has been making efforts to combat the long-standing public health issue. His team is working towards developing and implementing a cost-efficient model to tackle the problem in Pavagada which is one of the fluorosis endemic areas in the state.
This action-based initiative is expected to reduce the prevalence of fluorosis significantly once all 19 de-fluoridated plants begin functioning.
This is the third work-group meeting which is progressing to an implementation phase, said Prof Chowdhury adding the team aims at a zero-tolerance of fluorosis at Pavagada in five years.
Unfortunately, a spatial distribution mapping of drinking water fluoride levels in the state Karnataka done by prof Chowdhury’s team has not found any takers in the state government. The map estimates the concentrations of fluoride in drinking water throughout different zones and districts of the state.
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It has happened, PnP is now accepting BitCoin as payment, albeit for a limited time and not at all stores. I wonder what fees will be involved and how long it will take a transaction to take place. This is a good thing because having such a big retail company backing a CryptoCurrency means that access into this model will be all the more easier for us South Africans. I do not know why I would have a reason to purchase BitCoin and use it at PnP other than as a novelty or if I had been donated or earned some CryptoCurrency, beside it is such a volatile market that I could stand to loose a couple hundred bucks because I chose the wrong queue to pay at – or score, who knows.
Personally I think that everyone should at least get their foot in the door, be it for 0.005 or even 1 BitCoin, or any other CryptoCurrency.
I signed up with luno for a small number of satoshi (unit of bitcoin currency) and used some to buy into electroneum as a form of mobile mining.
Up until now, South Africans would have to convert Rands to Dollars or some currency accepted by Crypto Exchanges like CoinBase, Kraken or Gemini, but there are limits, fee and difficulty in setting up accounts to make the transfer. There is a claim that converting to Dollars to buy BitCoin will giving you more Rand value of BitCoin in the end, but I think that one would have to make big transfers to make this significant and the timing would need to be accurate i.e. watching the USD/ZAR exchange rate and BitCoin price very closely.
Now South Africa has luno, which is good because or the easy entry. Bear in mind that it might take a few days to verify you identity and make your first deposit before you can convert to BitCoin, also ready the fine print – there are fees. Just when you thought that the idea of decentralization would take out the middle man luno is the middle man, but one could very well make transactions using the wallet address without luno, anyway that is something I have yet to figure out. | <urn:uuid:acbede2c-70f2-4185-80d5-295f5d87fc66> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://phillipgibb.com/category/bitcoin/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573699.52/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819131019-20220819161019-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.971337 | 440 | 1.507813 | 2 |
The Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi addressed a webinar on positive impact of Union Budget 2022 on the education and skill sectors. Concerned Union Ministers, key stakeholders from education, skill development, science, technology and research were present on the occasion. The webinar was part of the new practice of discussion and dialogue with the stakeholders before and after the budget.
The Prime Minister started by emphasizing the importance of the young generation in the process of nation building. He said “Empowering our youth who are future nation builder, is empowering India’s future”.
The Prime Minister elaborated on five aspects that were highlighted in the Budget 2022. Firstly, Key decisions have been taken for universalization of quality education i.e expansion of education with improved quality along with enhanced capabilities of the education sector. Secondly, attention has been given to skill development. Focus is on creating a digital skill ecosystem, skill development as per industry demand and better industry linkages. Thirdly, inclusion of India’s ancient experience and knowledge of urban planning and designing into education is important. Fourthly, Internationalization has been emphasized. This involves arrival of world class foreign universities and encouragement of institutions of GIFT City getting Fintech related institutes. Fifth, focus on Animation Visual Effects Gaming Comic (AVGV) where there is huge potential of employment and there is a big global market. “This budget will help a great deal in realizing the National Education Policy”, he said.
The Prime Minister mentioned that it was digital connectivity that kept the country’s education system going during the pandemic. He noted the decreasing digital divide in India. “Innovation is ensuring inclusion in our country. Now going even further, country is moving towards integration”, he said. He stressed that measures like e-Vidya, One Class One Channel, digital labs, digital universities are creating an educational infrastructure which will go a long way in helping the youth of the country. “This is an attempt to provide better education solutions to villages, poor, Dalits, backwards and tribal people in the country’s socio-economic set up”, he added. In the recently announced National Digital University, the Prime Minister saw an innovative and unprecedented step that has the potential of fully addressing the problem of seats in the universities. He called upon Education Ministry, UGC and AICTE and all the stakeholders of the Digital University to work with speed on the project. He emphasized the need to keep international standards in mind while creating institutes.
On the International Mother Language Day today, the Prime Minister underlined the link between education in the medium of mother language and the mental development of children. He informed that in many states medical and technical education is also being imparted in the local languages. The Prime Minister called for momentum in creating best content in digital format in local Indian languages. He emphasized that such content needs to be available via Internet, Mobile phones, TV and radio. He reiterated the requirement to keep the work with regard to content in sign languages going with due priority.
The Prime Minister said “dynamic skilling is critical from the point of view of global talent demand for Aatmnirbhar Bharat.” He highlighted the need to prepare the ‘demographic dividend’ of the country as per the demands of the changing job roles. Digital Ecosystem for skilling and Livelihood and e-Skilling labs were announced in the budget with this vison in mind, he said.
In conclusion, the Prime Minister explained how recent changes in the budgetary process are turning budget as a tool of transformation. He asked the stakeholders to implement the budget provisions seamlessly on the ground. He said that by advancing budget by one month in recent times, it is being ensured that when it is implemented from first April, all preparation and discussion is already undertaken. He asked the stakeholders to ensure optimum outcome from the budget provisions. “In the context of Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav and National Education, this is the first budget, which we want to implement quickly for laying down the foundation of the Amrit Kaal”, he continued “budget is not just an account of statistics, budget, if implemented properly, can bring great transformation even with limited resources”, he concluded. | <urn:uuid:03f77823-ab4d-46f3-afbf-ae9401281702> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.kamalsandesh.org/news/pm-addresses-webinar-positive-impact-union-budget-2022-education-skill-sector/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573699.52/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819131019-20220819161019-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.952482 | 879 | 1.921875 | 2 |
Making your MacBook last as long as possible is always the goal, seeing as they are so expensive. After all, who wants to replace their laptop every year? Now anyone we know.
That’s why learning the tips and tricks for making your MacBook last longer will help prolong your need to and get another one. This way, when you do trade your old laptop in for cash, you can invest in the very best model available since you’ve had so much time to save up for a new laptop.
So, let’s take a look at the best ways to make your MacBook last longer.
1. Avoid Using All the Storage Space
The fuller your laptop gets, . With your storage at capacity, your computer will also experience serious strain that will reduce its lifespan. Aim to keep at least 5-10% of your laptop’s storage free.
2. Run All Updates
We all know how annoying updates are. They interrupt your screen time and take forever to run. But they are important to making sure any bugs have been patched and your software isn’t vulnerable to malicious activity.
Run your laptop’s updates whenever they’re due. And, do them overnight so you aren’t tempted to delay running them (and actually forget).
3. Don’t Charge it Constantly
Keeping your laptop plugged in all the time strains the computer because it’s forced to draw energy from the outlet into the computer. Only charge your laptop when it needs charging, and when it hits 100%, unplug it.
4. Give it a Rest
You might not always think to turn your MacBook off every now and again, but it’s good to give your laptop a rest. Especially if you’ve just wrapped up a lot of work that involved a lot of files. Your computer needs rest just, like you do.
5. Empty Your Trash
Trashing files, documents, and images is easy to do and even easier to forget about. But remember, just because you place something in the trash doesn’t mean it’s permanently erased from your laptop.
In other words, those trashed files are taking up space and dragging down your computer’s performance. All of this strain will eventually wear your laptop down, forcing you to have to buy a new one before you’re ready.
6. Use a Laptop Stand
Using a tilted laptop stand will allow your computer to breathe more and prevent it from overheating. Plus, it’ll help with your posture, which is great if you use your laptop a lot.
7. Update the RAM
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Crucial Sides Of An Home Healthcare AgencyOn by
Home heath care treatment is health related or consultant health care provided specifically by the properly trained qualified health worker throughout the patient’s residence, instead of main maintenance supplied in nursing facilities or crew centers including treatment centers. Home heath care treatment is also sometimes generally known as domiciliary or non-commercial maintenance, public help or perhaps-household assistance. Perhaps it is provided by everyone except for an accredited doctor, like members of the family and friends. The definition of home health care commonly refers to a sort of health care which will take place in the home, as an alternative to in a medical center or other medical facility. If you have any kind of concerns regarding where and ways to make use of start a home care business, you could call us at our own webpage. Several options are available to sufferers as well as their care providers for property medical, like support by way of diet, physical exercise, drugs operations, physical therapy, and intellectual conduct therapy.
A health professional or physiotherapist will initially visit the home to determine the extent and condition on the patient’s signs and symptoms. They is likewise seeking indications of any diseases or conditions that could get a new individual while at your house. Over the primary check out, the registered nurse or physical therapist will examine the needs of the person and formulate a customized program of treatment, usually in line with the results of the initial go to. Patients in addition to their people might also be related to developing the program. The very first check out typically starts off with a walk-in check-up, our blood do the job checks, clinical by and assessments-sun rays, and therefore the in depth read review.
A house medical company handles the many necessary agreements for your very first go to. The agency will arrange for the required exams and/or procedures and also personalized take care of the individual. Medicare piece B includes a few of the products and services given by the company. Their residence health care bureau will pay for their hospital costs, as well as the cost of their an elderly care facility keep whenever they will need 1, read review if an individual getting attention under this plan is put in the hospital. The companies never fork out any deductibles regarding their providers. Medicare part A will cover a few of the providers supplied by the agency, however the service can pay any premiums necessary for the government for that products and services.
Some conditions can cause a concise-expression relax in a medical facility. Some illnesses may also result in a lengthier period of stay, like chronic Hepatitis A illness. Because of these affected individuals, your house medical organization might plan for admittance to an outpatient facility, wherein a tolerant could well be admitted for your short-term. Following your hospital stay, the affected person might be released coming from the service and grow positioned in a long-term-term proper care service, or nursing home. The company will help to provide transport both to and from the area, and will help arrange for somebody to accept the short-phrase sufferer property after discharge.
Some diseases will require a prolonged duration of hospitalization. Some ailments may result in more intrusive processes, like surgical procedure. An organization might help arrange for an inpatient home healthcare program, that could be helpful in the management of such a long-term an elderly care facility maintenance scenario. Agencies will also help with travelling for those sufferer in between the residence and clinic, and will request someone to accept the affected individual house following your procedure has become accomplished.
Many firms deliver affected person treatment systems which can be customized to fulfill a patient’s desires. These systems can contain your nursing home care guidance plus the household heath care treatment process. An bureau can deal with transportation, house overall health upkeep, and may make plans for the health professional to become in the bedside of your affected person 24 hours a day, a week weekly. Some agencies may have a area administrator, or even a professional registered nurse in the house to answer crisis situations.
Some providers operate very closely with doctors to synchronize the care of their client’s conditions. The doctor may possibly claim that an firm acquire the guy into just one pastime, for example physical therapy or occupational therapy treatment. Other diseases can involve additional demanding in-house activities. Agencies might provide residence health care services can sometimes include household overall health servicing, and may also plan for somebody to be at the bedside from the individual 24 / 7, a week a week.
Each time a affected individual carries a critical condition and its incapable of connect correctly or is not able to keep to the doctor’s guidance, an in home heath care treatment providers supplier might be known as when to provide oral directions. Some providers provide residence health and wellbeing providers including improving the health care professional and medical staff from the healthcare facility to obtain the medical professional on the right handle in the tolerant and after that getting in touch with your doctor lower back as soon as the physician is accomplished with their papers. This gives the sufferer to be able to obtain support even though they generally do not need to speak to the doctor, or perhaps the health professional or even the other person who is commonly related to a patient’s check out. If the certain drugs should be modified, and therefore the your home physician is going and change the medicine.
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Work on clearing the path for the controversial High Speed 2 (HS2) rail project has started - and is causing quite a flap among local residents.
Stump grinders and excavators arrived at Crackley Gap in Kenilworth last week to clear the way for the HS2 route, which will run by Kenilworth at the back of the University of Warwick campus and the Kenilworth Greenway.
It is part of the first stage of works to build the £50billion line from London Euston to Birmingham Curzon Street which will speed up trains between the two cities.
But residents have condemned the work to clear vegetation along the route as they say wildlife will be harmed.
Residents are angry the work is being carried out in the midst of bird nesting season.
Trees and under-brush have been cleared from May 14 to prepare the ground for the construction of the railway, on which trains will run at 130mph.
A Kenilworth resident, who wants to remain anonymous, told CoventryLive: "They have started chopping down trees and hedgerows on fields around Greenway and on university land.
"This is right in the middle of bird nesting season."
New wildlife habitats created
A spokesperson for HS2 said: “As we deliver HS2, we’re very keen to respect the natural environment and improve conditions where we can.
"This includes working with ecological specialists to ensure no bird nests are disrupted by our work near Crackley Lane.
"We are also creating new wildlife habitats in the wider area, which will be part of an extensive ‘green corridor’ of woodlands, habitats and community spaces alongside the railway.
“All directly impacted people have been notified about HS2’s vegetation work in the area.
"We have also spoken to various local community groups.”
How birds are protected
The spokesperson added that vegetation work during the bird nesting bird season is carried out with an ecological specialist on location.
They check and monitor the area before and during any work.
If active nests are found, work would stop immediately and the specialist would ensure the nest is protected.
Warwickshire Police said they are not currently pursuing any wildlife crime incidents at Crackley Gap.
The government is currently seeking tenders for 60 train engines to run on the London-Birmingham line, as it expects to open the railway in 2026.
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You possibly can teach your little one various basics that are needed to get enjoyable throughout enjoying free educational video games. Parents may also devise their very own video games for his or her youngsters. The primary player with all 10 plague playing cards, wins. The one participant of this sport may be lacking, but it is the multiplayer that shines to make this recreation a prize to be had.
Time4Learning is also meant to be fun for the parents. If the stone of 1 participant lands on a sq. occupied by the stone of the opponent while on the middle row, the opponent’s stone is faraway from the board and should start once more. Boggle, Scrabble, and Scribbage can create the aggressive edge in children by letting two or extra kids play against one another.
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Centre's fiscal deficit at 12.3% of full year target in May: Official data
New Delhi: The central government's fiscal deficit at the end of May stood at 12.3 per cent of the annual budget target for 2022-23, mainly due to higher expenditure, according to official data released on Thursday.
Fiscal deficit is the difference between total expenditure and revenue of the government. It is an indication of the total borrowings that are needed by the government.
The fiscal deficit was at 8.2 per cent of the Budget Estimate (BE) of 2021-22 during the corresponding period.
In actual terms, the deficit was at Rs 2,03,921 crore at the end of May, as per the data released by the Controller General of Accounts (CGA).
The country's fiscal deficit is projected at 6.4 per cent of the GDP for this fiscal ending March 2023 as against 6.71 per cent for the previous year.
As per the data, the total receipts of the government at the end of May was at Rs 3.81 lakh crore or 16.7 per cent of the BE for 2022-23. The collection was about 18 per cent of the BE of 2021-22 in the corresponding period last fiscal.
In May, the tax (net) revenue was at 15.9 per cent of the BE of 2022-23. It was 15.1 per cent of the BE 2021-22 in the year-ago period. In actual terms, the net tax revenue stood at Rs 3,07,589 crore during April-May 2022-23.
As per the data, the central government's total expenditure at the end of May stood at Rs 5.85 lakh crore or 14.8 per cent of this year's BE. It was 13.7 per cent of the BE in the corresponding period. For 2022-23, the fiscal deficit of the government is estimated to be Rs 16,61,196 crore.
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All babies born in the UK from the 1 August will be offered the Hepatitis B jab to protect them from infections that cause cirrhosis and liver cancer. The new vaccine will be added to the 5-in-1 jab that is given to babies across the UK when they are eight, 12 and 16 weeks old. This single jab already contains vaccines to protect against five separate diseases: diphtheria, tetanus, whooping cough (pertussis), polio and Haemophilus influenzae type b (known as Hib – a bacterial infection that can cause severe pneumonia or meningitis in young children).
Public Health England (PHE) said the decision to inoculate all babies, rather than just those deemed at high risk, was taken because a "cost-effective combination vaccine" was now available. Several other countries already offer the Hep B jab after the World Health Organisation recommended in 1992 that all babies should be immunised against the virus. Hepatitis B virus is found in the blood and bodily fluids of an infected person.
According to the NHS, the vast majority of people infected with hepatitis B in adulthood are able to fight off the virus and fully recover within one to three months. Most will then be immune to the infection for life. But on the other hand, babies and children with hepatitis B are more likely to develop a chronic infection. Chronic hepatitis B affects around 90 per cent of babies with hepatitis B.
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In business, we’ve used Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) for years. But I’m now seeing recommendations that consumers VPN software to make your Internet connections more private so sites can’t snoop on your surfing and other communications. As someone who runs a website that uses IP address reputation as a guide to know who is and is not reputable on my site, using a VPN often assigns you an IP address that’s less than stellar. As a result, if you attempt to access sites that check for reputation, such as your bank, you may find yourself blocked.
I’m not against the concept of consumer-based VPN software, but I’m not convinced it’s the security panacea many think it is. Users think it’s keeping sites from tracking them, or keeping them safe when surfing on coffee shop Wi-Fi. They think it keeps prying eyes from reviewing our web traffic. But all VPN software is not created equal. I recently read new research from Consumer Reports that tested various VPN platforms; I was surprised to find that the top VPN providers included vendors I’ve not even heard of.
As the publication points out in the article and related white paper, ultimately you decide who or what you trust while online. Do you trust your ISP or a VPN vendor to watch what you connect to? If you don’t trust your ISP, you might want to change to a different ISP, one that has a better reputation. Also consider that nearly all of the websites we visit now support https:// and thus, the transmission to that site is protected by an SSL certificate and can’t be intercepted if you go online using public WI-Fi. As pointed out a while back in Wired, concerns about the use of public Wi-Fi are now lessened as we’ve moved to an always-https:// world.
One security suggestion I have is to use different browsers based on what you are doing online. Use one for more sensitive tasks such as online banking, and another browser for generic surfing. As Consumer Reports notes, instead of focusing on a VPN, consider “using a password manager, setting up multifactor authentication, enabling HTTPS-only mode on your web browser, and blocking ads or trackers with a tool like Privacy Badger or uBlock Origin.”
Microsoft is in the early stages of beta testing a setting in its Edge browser that will proactively protect against zero-day attacks. Given the increasing number of zero-days in Chrome, which Edge is built on, this is a wise move by Microsoft. Included in version 98.0.1108.23 released on Jan. 14, the zero-day protection, as Microsoft notes, can “enhance your security on the web.
“[It’s] a browsing mode in Microsoft Edge where the security of your browser takes priority, giving you an extra layer of protection when browsing the web. Administrators can apply the following Group Policies to end-user desktops (Windows, macOS, and Linux) to help protect against zero days. These policies also make [sure] that important sites and line of business applications continue to work as expected. This feature is a huge step forward because it lets us mitigate unforeseen active zero days (based on historical trends). When turned on, this feature brings Hardware-enforced Stack Protection, Arbitrary Code Guard (ACG), and Content Flow Guard (CFG) as supporting security mitigations to increase users’ security on the web.”
There are three new group policy and registry settings to control this, but you can try it out on a standalone basis by downloading the Edge canary channel version. In the browser, click on the three dots in the upper corner and click on settings. Now click on Privacy, search, and services. Scroll down to Enhance your Security on the web and choose whether you want to use Balanced security or Strict. Note that this setting is also available in the regular version of Edge, though it does not appear to have the same protections as in the beta version. (Remember to also enable I the super-duper secure mode wrote about.)
When reviewing options for privacy and security, remember there is a variety of privacy focused software listed on “Nomoregoogle.com.” Often, I see the obvious side effects of online tracking in my search engine process: I’ll search for an item and the next time I go online, I see exactly what I searched for pop up in ads. Thus, review your options for search engines other than Google. I routinely try different search engines using the same terms to see what results come up. You’ll usually see different offerings based on which search engine you use.
So when do I use VPN software? Honestly, it’s when I want to pretend to be located in another country to get around arbitrary geo-blocking that limits access to certain websites. (There are videos I like to watch that are blocked from the United States; when I use a VPN that broadcasts an IP address from another country, I can access the video.) But, like Consumer Reports, I’m of the opinion that a VPN does not protect my Internet surfing from prying eyes. Instead, it simply moves that risk from your ISP to the VPN vendor. As Consumer Reports notes, instead of using VPNs, prioritize blocking ads or trackers with tools like Privacy Badger or uBlock Origin.
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Below are example software Sketches (The Software Behavior part) that operate all the parts of the YourDuino MakerSpace STARTER SET.
The Diagram below shows the way the different electronic parts relate to the software examples:
GETTING SOFTWARE SKETCHES:
You will Copy and Paste the Software Sketches below, upload and run them. Here's how:
- On the page, position your mouse cursor just before the beginning of a sketch, then hold the left button down and move slowly down over the sketch and over the end " THE END "
- Press <Ctrl> C to COPY. (<Command> C on MAC)
- Switch to the Arduino IDE software.
- Click on File > New (You will get a new window)
- Use your mouse cursor and left button to highlight the small example shown there. Leave it highlighted so you will replace it.
- PASTE the sketch by pressing <Ctrl> V (<Command> V on MAC)
- Check that the beginning and end of the sketch are right.
- Click Verify on the IDE and make sure there are no errors. If problems, see "About Libraries" Here.
- Click Upload on the IDE with your USB cable connected and the right Port selected. It should say "Compiling Sketch" and then "Uploading Sketch" and then "Upload Complete". You should see the Tx and Rx LEDs on the RoboRed board blink for a second or two during the actual upload..
- Your sketch should start running!
ACTION OUTPUTS Software Sketches:
SENSOR INPUTS Software Sketches:
MORE COMPLEX INPUT AND OUTPUT Software Sketches:
Use the following Sketch Starter Template when you write your own Sketches from the beginning:
Software Sketch and "Snippet" Examples on the Arduino Website
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In medical coding compliance, the coding of diagnoses and procedures means they have complied with all coding rules and guidelines. In particular, its five essential components cover detection, correction, prevention, verification, and comparison.
After all, coding errors associated with a fraudulent claim can be subject to penalties. They may include a base fine plus at least three times the amount of the claim.
Whether it is an honest billing mistake or a false claim, ignorance of the law definitely excuses no one. In medical coding and billing, ignorance of healthcare laws is not a defense against a false claim.
Most importantly, compliance watchdogs do not require if one has a willful intent or none to defraud for them to consider a claim as false. However, the lack of adequate safeguards can turn any coding error into a false claim.
Consequently, the best policy is to assume that there are no honest mistakes when it comes to coding compliance.
With its compliance and auditing software, Healthicity has elevated the level of providing healthcare technology solutions to various business enterprises.
Healthicity provides audit management and automated tools for better auditing and quality assurance of healthcare services. Hence, its solutions greatly reduce the chances of coding errors, billing mistakes or false claims.
Since late 2015, Healthicity has provided a simple but elegant, intuitive user interface design. Hence, it has transformed the way healthcare clients work and interact with computer software.
The American Academy of Professional Coders (AAPC) announced that Healthicity is a sister company and enterprise-centric brand for software services. For more than 30 years, AAPC has served medical coders, billers, auditors, compliance managers and administrators.
While AAPC has been into training and certification, among others, Healthicity is focused on auditing, compliance, and analytic solutions for enterprises.
There are many benefits in the implementation of a comprehensive coding compliance system, aside from meeting compliance requirements.
Moreover, it reduces any chance of double or triple damages and penalties. Also, it reduces billing delays and avoids bill resubmissions.
Further, coding compliance reduces the tendency to code defensively, and corrects both over- and under- coding. Finally, it improves the performance on severity adjustment healthcare provider report cards.
Therefore, it does not need to be a financial burden on hospitals and healthcare providers. Its positive benefits far outweigh the cost of its proper implementation.
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In this article I will review the book Complete Arabic, which belongs to the famous Teach Yourself series. The book can either be purchased separately or in a pack that includes two CDs with audio material. I have used this book to teach a one-on-one course and would recommend it to the beginning learner who can already read whole words in Arabic script.
What kind of Arabic? This is probably the first question you should ask when considering an Arabic textbook. The variety emphasized in this book is what I call “informal Standard Arabic”, which is Modern Standard Arabic without many of the case and mood endings that are not found in the modern dialects and that are usually omitted in Standard Arabic in everyday use. This is exactly the type of Arabic I like to focus on in my own teaching. While Complete Arabic teaches Standard Arabic rather than a spoken dialect, you won’t end up sounding like a pedant, a schoolmarm, or a book.
Insufficient introduction to Arabic script. One of the few drawbacks in this book is its presentation of the Arabic writing system, which is only introduced very superficially as part of an 18-page introduction (before Unit 1) entitled “Arabic script and pronunciation guide”. This makes the book inappropriate for the absolute beginner. Athough plenty of transliteration is used throughout the book, even in Unit 1 there are exercises entirely in Arabic script, and in Unit 2 there is 50-word text you are expected read in Arabic script. (The vocabulary lists that accompany the texts include both Arabic script and transliteration, so you do not need to be entirely proficient in reading Arabic.)
The situation with writing is even worse for the absolute beginner. Although some of the exercises require you to write in Arabic, the book does not explain or illustrate how to write the Arabic letters.
For these reasons, as much as I like this book, I recommend first learning to read a bit before starting. Working through my own textbook, Bite-Size Arabic: Learn to Read and Write Arabic Using the Tiniest Bit of Vocabulary and Grammar, would be an excellent way to prepare yourself for Complete Arabic.
Transliteration. Quite a bit of transliteration is used throughout the book, all the way to the end, which many independent learners will appreciate. While most texts and conversations are presented entirely in Arabic script, vocabulary lists and grammar are presented with transliteration alongside Arabic script.
The transliteration system used isn’t pretty, and I particularly dislike the author’s choice to use the ː character (which resembles a colon) to represent the letter ayn (ع ʕayn). While there are several familiar ways of transcribing this sound, the one used here is entirely idiosyncratic and even misleading, given that in the IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) the ː symbol is used to represent gemination (consonant doubling or vowel lengthening). This is just a personal gripe and should not be taken as a decisive factor in deciding whether or not to use this book. Every book has a slightly different transliteration system, and, in the end, transliteration is only a crutch you will use until you become so well versed in Arabic script that you no longer need it.
A nice feature of the transliteration in this book is that it often uses an accent mark to indicate which syllable should be stressed. Few books I’m aware of do that.
Content. I like the way the book is laid out. Each unit contains several different texts and dialogues, rather than one monolithic text at the beginning of the lesson. There are many illustrations, making the presentation more interesting and engaging. The grammar is explained in easy-to-understand language, accompanied with easy examples in both Arabic script and transliteration. All this helps make the book appropriate for self-instruction. (It is less obvious whether the book would also be good for use in a classroom setting.) The exercises are varied and not tedious or overly difficult.
A wide variety of practical topics and situations are covered, such as meeting people, telling time, talking about your family, giving directions, and Islamic festivals.
Several useful items are included at the end of the book, such as an answer key to the exercises, a glossary, and even a summary of the grammar.
According to the back cover, this book will get you up to CERF level B2 (which roughly means high intermediate).
Coping skills. An aspect that I really like about this book is its emphasis on coping and comprehension skills. There are many exercises where you are given questions in English about a short text. For example, you are presented with a newspaper ad for a job opening. You don’t know all of the words, but can you figure out what some of the requirements for the job are using what you know? The goal is not to understand every word or construction in the text, but to use your current knowledge to extract useful information. These sorts of exercises train you to cope with real-life situations.
Summary. This is a great textbook for the beginning learner who has already learned the Arabic alphabet and can read a bit. The material is varied, practical, relevant, and presented in a pleasant way. A special feature of this book is its focus on coping and comprehension skills that will prepare you for actual encounters with Arabic speakers and texts. | <urn:uuid:0416baa1-deaf-471c-acc7-77a2671708c7> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://drbulbul.com/2017/11/29/complete-arabic-a-review/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570767.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808061828-20220808091828-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.951095 | 1,122 | 2.5625 | 3 |
The city has distributed a total of 13.8 million grab-and-go meals since the public school system went remote in mid-March, and plans to continue the meal program through the summer and beyond “as long as the need persists,” the city Department of Education said on Friday.
Most of the meals distributed have been in Brooklyn, with 3,778,715 meals distributed through May 8th, the DOE said. The fewest meals have been distributed in Staten Island at 439,262.
In a DOE chart tracking distribution since the program began on March 16th through May 8th—when the total meal count was 11,929,962— demand has steadily soared almost consistently in all five boroughs as food insecurity grows amid the pandemic.
The grab-and-go meal program was launched by the city to feed the 1.1 million students in the public school system, many of whom might not have reliable access to food sources during the coronavirus pandemic. On April 3rd, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced the program would expand to allow anyone, student or not, to pick up food.
Mya Abdelwahab, 16, and Nicole Soret, 17, juniors at the Young Women’s Leadership School in Astoria, were already working on their “Femstrate” project about the lack of enforcement of a state law that guaranteed free menstrual supplies in middle and high schools.
“In 2018, New York state passed the law that all middle school, high school public bathrooms need to supply pads and tampons through dispensers. And we didn't see that happening in our school,” Mya said in a phone interview.
Then the pandemic hit the city, and they decided to pivot their project from accountability to action. They lobbied the city to ensure menstrual supplies distribution would continue through the grab-and-go meal sites.
"There are currently about 563,250 female students in New York City, 73 percent of whom are economically disadvantaged. With over 450,000 New Yorkers currently filing for unemployment due to the coronavirus pandemic, the added monthly cost of menstrual pads and tampons could cause undue hardship for many families," the students wrote in a letter to de Blasio and Schools Chancellor Richard Carranza on April 6th. They pointed out the menstrual supplies are "already within the current school year approved budget."
“We just wanted to make sure that everyone got what they needed, at such a scary time. So that kind of felt most obvious for us to do and help,” Mya said.
Sourcing was not an issue since many schools already had the supplies in stock, Nicole said. “It was more difficult ...getting the DOE to take action, obviously because things are kind of chaotic right now with the pandemic. It makes sense that it would take a little while but that was obviously one of the more frustrating aspects of this doing this project,” Nicole said.
Their Global Exchange class teacher Emily Fields said the DOE “took it in an appreciative way—like ‘thank you for reminding us.’ I mean, this just wasn't something we thought of and we should be. But now hopefully, if this ever happens again, this is part of the plan.”
The students now plan to bring the distribution to sites beyond the DOE in their new campaign to partner with community-based organizations.
A spokesperson for the DOE said the agency would start rolling out distribution this week.
“Thank you to the young people who brought this need to our attention. Supporting the health and wellness of our students is important and we are proud to provide access to feminine hygiene products in schools. Because of the advocacy of these young people, we are making the feminine hygiene supplies in our schools available to the public at many meal hubs across the city,” said Nathaniel Styer, DOE spokesperson, in an email statement.
The menstrual products will be available at 211 sites—Fields said these sites were likely chosen because they are middle and high school buildings that already had supplies in place.
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The market is driven today by a copy and paste system, done for you scripts, and other automated selling systems. Businesses wanted to get those "low-hanging fruits" into their business virtually overnight. And implementing the copy and paste system in their digital marketing thing compromised the human connection that is vital in getting more clients.
The result today is, more clients are becoming smart and demanding more from companies in terms of quality and customer experience. We've evolved into online creatures with improved ad-sensing abilities. It's as if we instinctively know which pieces of content out there won't contribute to our survival.
To humanize digital marketing, a well-written simple yet effective social story can help you leverage your marketing efforts. This is to ensure that customers understand your products and services.
In other words, the best way to resonate with your ideal customers is to talk to them as real humans like to interact. The best way to stand out and cut through all the noise online is to show up with a message your customers want to read.
In this article, we will be looking at what many brands are calling the social story selling system. What is it and, more importantly, will it move the needle for your business?
What Is a Social Story Selling System?
The Social Story Selling System is a business strategy that helps you control your customers. It helps you build a client base and produce money in your bank account too.
Social Story Selling System is not only about selling the product; it is more about sending direct messages to your personal clients that they can be able to achieve something with the help of "Product S/he wants to buy".
These direct messages will make them feel that they are in control of their own life, which will motivate them to have a long-term commitment with you for the "Product they want to buy".
Social Story Selling Systems will also help you to build healthy relationships with your customers. Sometimes it happens that customers are not ready to buy the product so early. If you implement a Social Story Selling System, you will have opportunities to have a conversation with them about the product which will help you to understand their needs.
This will also help you to take some extra time for this customer. Some customers are not ready yet, but they want to buy in the future so during your conversation you can ask them if there is anything else that they need from you (in terms of service or product).
Social Story Selling System helps you to identify your unprofitable clients. In this technique, you can motivate them to have a long-term commitment to you.
The best way to stop chasing clients is through a relatable social story selling technique. You can share your story about when you were in the same position before so that they will feel connected to you.
How Is The Social Story Selling System Any Different From StoryBrand?
Much like the StoryBrand marketing approach, the Social Story Selling System uses the story structure to help brands create a connection with their ideal customers.
One notable difference between both approaches is the way StoryBrand helps brands simplify their marketing systems. StoryBrand enables you to make the story short and sweet, eliminating the extras and getting into the meat of the story, so your customers don't have to burn lots of brain calories just to get to the solutions they're seeking.
While the Social Story Selling System is designed to turn the customer's purchasing journey into a story, StoryBrand gives you the edge by making the story shorter, clearer, and easier to share.
What Does It Mean to Sell a Story?
The power you possess over your business is driven by the stories you tell. When you publish a story, people will read it. They also pay attention to the advertisements that are displayed in the same publication. For that reason, when they see an advertisement in your publication, they may think that that product or service is interesting to them and this sometimes leads to sales.
Social story selling amplifies the relatability of the product or service to the consumer. With social story selling, the consumer thinks of themselves as the protagonist in the story they are reading. They feel that they can relate to the characters and their experiences which makes them more interested in your product or service. This works because consumers will buy things that make them feel good about themselves.
With social story selling, you sell not by directly promoting your product or service to consumers, but by promoting it indirectly through a story. Instead of telling the consumer about what they would gain from buying your product or service, you're controlling business media when you tell them a story that persuades them to buy because it would make them feel good and improve their self-esteem.
Feeling Good vs. a True Transformation
The Social Story Selling System creates a purchasing journey where the customer comes out on the other side feeling good. The StoryBrand marketing approach invites the customer into a journey of transformation where there are real risks involved.
The StoryBrand Framework clearly outlines the problem of the customer and breaks it down into three parts:
- External - the literal problem that stands in their way.
- Internal - the feeling you get living with a problem
- Philosophical - the reason why it's just wrong for you to have a problem like this.
It's only when you take a good look into the problem that you can show up with a solution that changes your customer's life for the better.
What Can Stories Do for Your Business?
Stories enable you to create a healthy relationship with your customer and also to achieve long-term commitment from them. It will help you to know your customers' needs and wants so you can help them to achieve their goals.
It will also help you to build trust with your customer. The StoryBrand Framework makes a necessary tweak to the Social Story Selling System by explaining in detail how you can establish your brand's authority in a more sustainable way.
It positions your company as the guide and your customer as the hero of the story. To be considered as the most qualified guide, you need to have empathy – let them know that you understand what they're going through. On the other side of the deal, you have to carry authority – let them know that you've done this before and you're willing to do it for them.
Why Is Storytelling Important in Sales?
Sales are all about meeting people where they are and making it easier for them to listen to you. We tell stories because they make listening to us easier. A story is more than words; it's the context of those words. A social story is more than the sum of its parts, and that's why it can be used in such a wide variety of ways today.
Social stories are used as a learning tool, to introduce a specific situation or experience, and to prepare someone for a situation that may cause anxiety or stress. For example, social stories can help individuals transition to a new environment feel more comfortable and prepared for the next stage of their life.
Donald Miller's StoryBrand approach to marketing takes it a step further by calling customers into a leap. There's always a risk to buying anything, but when the steps are easy to understand, and you have a guide right by your side, you can be more confident to face possibilities.
It's not just a more comfortable stage in life, it's a necessary change that takes your customer's current identity and transports it into a reality where they become the best version of themselves.
Storytelling in sales is just another way for you to help them connect with your product and build trust in you as their representative and you'll stop chasing clients when done right.
How Storytelling Changed Digital Marketing
The social story selling formula is a brilliant system that is used to sell your product or service by using stories. Part of the reason why it works really well is that humans are storytelling creatures - we find storytelling as an essential part of our lives.
Studies have shown that storytelling has been used as a tool since the early days. They understand how powerful a story can be in influencing their prospects and eventually making a sale. That is why cool companies try to craft stories that will attract their target market's attention so that they can have the chance of converting them into buyers.
Aside from being used as a tactic in digital marketing, story writing has also been taught in schools to children so they can easily learn how to write interesting stories.
When you put The Social Story Selling System side-by-side with the StoryBrand Framework, you can see that the differences between both approaches give brands like yours the freedom to choose which works better.
Both methods may advertise themselves as an applicable approach to just about any kind of brand, business, or organization, but here at ROI Online, our weapon of choice will always be the StoryBrand Framework.
For us, the approach is more simplified, the Framework enables us to apply the StoryBrand principles in a more uniform way across our client base, and most importantly, it delivers the results our clients are looking for.
If you want to apply the proven principles of the StoryBrand Framework to your business, click on the button below to schedule a call with one of our StoryBrand Certified Guides.
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Acts 27:39-44 — Shipwreck
39 When it was day, they did not recognize the land; but they observed a bay with a beach, onto which they planned to run the ship if possible.
40 And they let go the anchors and left them in the sea, meanwhile loosing the rudder ropes; and they hoisted the mainsail to the wind and made for shore.
41 But striking a place where two seas met, they ran the ship aground; and the prow stuck fast and remained immovable, but the stern was being broken up by the violence of the waves.
42 And the soldiers’ plan was to kill the prisoners, lest any of them should swim away and escape.
43 But the centurion, wanting to save Paul, kept them from their purpose, and commanded that those who could swim should jump overboard first and get to land,
44 and the rest, some on boards and some on parts of the ship. And so it was that they all escaped safely to land.
loosing the rudder ropes (v.40) — Ancient ships had two paddle-rudders, one on either side. These had been hauled in and lashed up while the vessel lay anchored. They were now unloosed and adjusted in their proper places again, being required to steer the ship straight for shore. — Walker, page 563.
mainsail (v.40) — Most commentators seem to feel that it was a “foresail,” rather than the mainsail that was hoisted to the wind at this time. We question this, however, for the following reasons: First, there is little or no proof that the word artemon must or may signify a foresail. Second, there is no indication, and little probability, that the ship had a foresail. Third, we know that the mainsail had been lowered (v.17) and that this was then used as a storm sail, or that a small storm sail was set. Finally, it was naturally their purpose to run the ship as far ashore as possible. It would appear, therefore, that a larger sail would afford the force needed to accomplish this.
Even so, they failed to achieve their purpose, for, heading toward shore they ran aground on a shoal formed by two opposing currents (v.41, “where two seas met”). — Stam, page 188.
stern was being broken up (v.41) — tense indicates continuous action — the waves broke up the ship piece by piece — it didn’t happen all at once
kill the prisoners (v.42) — In Rome, if a guard allowed a prisoner to escape, the guard was killed
willing (v.43) — determinative will — the centurion prevented Paul from being killed
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Gachagua versus Karua: The big debate
Gachagua versus Karua: The big debate
By Macharia Gaitho for Kenya Editors Guild
There is no doubt that in many democracies, the highlight of any run-up to presidential elections is a public debate among candidates. The presidential debate is an American innovation dating back fairly recently – 1960 when rising Massachusetts Senator John F Kennedy, the Democratic Party nominee, took on then Vice President Richard Nixon, Republican, in the first nationally televised event.
Nixon was expected to dominate the debate given his proven proficiency in radio debates as well as great experience in government and foreign policy expertise.
But it turned out he was not well prepared. He was unfamiliar with the new format of television, refusing make-up that made him sweat profusely under the studio lights and also gave him an unhealthy-looking skin colour. He also wore a suit that clashed with the set background.
As Nixon struggled with the confident, younger rival ran away with the debate, which many consider the turning point that pulled Kennedy ahead and on to a narrow election victory shortly afterwards.
After the 1960 Nixon-Kennedy debate, there was a respite for 16 years until 1976 when President Gerald Ford, Republican, faced off in a series against his Democratic challenger, Georgia Governor Jimmy Carter.
The impact of televised debates was demonstrated in the second one on foreign policy, when Ford made a major blunder in the middle of the Cold War by declaring “There is no Eastern Bloc and there never will be under a Ford administration.” He had approached the debate leading in the opinion polls, but after that, President Ford slipped backwards and Carter won a very close election.
It wasn’t until 1984 that vice presidential debates were incorporated in the package. They have been largely sideshows and have had little impact on the election, but they have had their memorable moments. They also take on added significance when seen not just as a duel between the lieutenants, but as a measure of the presidential gravitas of the two deputies a heartbeat away from the presidency.
That is the importance of the debate between Kenya Kwanza and Azimilo la Umoja running mates Rigaathi Gachagua and Martha Karua respectively.
While the face-off between Deputy President William Ruto and Former Prime Minister Raila Odinga will no doubt be the main event, the duel between their respective deputies could be just as captivating for a number of factors.
More than any other election under the 2010 Constitution when the concept of running mate was introduced, the post has assumed much greater significance in terms of what it brings to the ticket from regional numbers, the appeal of the nominee across ethnic boundaries, gender factor, record and background, charisma and electability.
Both Dr Ruto and Mr Odinga selected a running mate from Central Kenya for obvious reason. This was so because there was a need to secure the largest ethnic vote basket in the country that was considered up for grabs in the absence of successor to President Uhuru Kenyatta from the mountain.
By the time they unveiled their respective nominees within a day of each other in the middle of May, Dr Ruto was already seen to be running away with the huge Central Kenya vote despite the fact that President Kenyatta had abandoned him and instead thrown his weight behind the veteran opposition chief Odinga.
While Mr Odinga’s selection of Ms Karua was widely hailed as it caused ripples across the political landscape, Dr Ruto’s naming of Mr Gachagua elicited a collective groan, even from within Kenya Kwanza where he had trailed in a number of internal polls.
Ms Karua ticked so many boxes: The first woman on a major party ticket; reform credentials with a record in the trenches alongside Mr Odinga during the multi-party campaign in the 1990s; reputation as a clean politician during decades as MP for Gichugu and minister; and tough as nails, often referred to as ‘Iron Lady’ or ‘The only man’ in President Kibaki’s government.
Dr Ruto’s choice, by contrast, came only with two major credits, his mobilisation skills and reputation for spending generously in the search for votes. The former district officer, who handily won the Mathira parliamentary seat on his first attempt in 2017, was also recognised for his experience in government administration, and his tough no-holds-barred approach, especially when taking the fight to President Kenyatta’s doorsteps in central Kenya. It is also presumed that he knows where many of the skeletons lie hidden given a long stint as Mr Kenyatta’s personal assistant.
While the principal duel for State House is between Dr Ruto and Mr Odinga, what cannot be overlooked is the race to fill the central Kenya void after President Kenyatta’s exit.
The debate between Mr Gachagua and Ms Karua might help provide clarity, because in many ways it will be about the presidential prospects of the two.
Ms Karua generated an excitement that no doubt boosted Mr Odinga’s campaign, though it remains to be seen just how much she brought in actual votes, especially from the central Kenya region.
While Mr Gachagua is still acknowledged as a great mobiliser, the jury is still out on whether he added any votes from a region Dr Ruto had already captured.
A face-off will be an intriguing contest between two tough and strong-willed politicians, both armed with sharp-tongues not used to taking prisoners.
Sharp and articulate, Ms Karua on the campaign platform speaks in measured and careful tones, often sounding like a schoolteacher trying to explain a point to slow students.
Mr Gachagua, by contrast, is the rough-hewn, garrulous performer with a penchant for verbal gaffes that often has Dr Ruto wincing.
It is no accident that while the Azimio campaign has gone out of its way to feature Ms Karua alongside Mr Odinga in billboards and TV advertisement, the Kenya Kwanza debate has preferred to keep Mr Gachagua out of sight.
A debate will be the perfect opportunity for him to prove the sceptics wrong, if he can hold his own and show that he was not a terrible mistake that called into question Dr Ruto’s judgement.
And for Ms Karua, a good performance will prove that the hype around her was indeed justified, and also place her in a strong position to fill the vacuum left by President Kenyatta, with an eye on 2027.
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One of the principal casualties of Kabul is the establishment’s grand vision of a U.S. foreign policy for the new century — where liberalism and democratic capitalism have won the battle for the future, and the U.S., victorious in the Cold War, would lead the world in the realization of a New World Order where we would write the rules and police the planet.
As President Lyndon Johnson and the best and brightest of the 1960s were broken on the wheel of Vietnam, the Biden presidency may well be broken on the wheel of the Taliban’s triumph in Afghanistan.
Less than a week into the chaotic U.S. withdrawal at Hamid Karzai International Airport, a CBS poll found that Americans, while still approving of President Joe Biden’s decision to get us out of this “forever war,” were stunned by how badly botched the withdrawal was being executed.
By 75-25, Americans believe the withdrawal is going badly. And those who believe it has gone “very badly” outnumber by 9-1 those who believe it has gone “very well.”
Biden’s own approval rating has plummeted to 50%, the lowest of his presidency. Yet, the disastrous debacle at Kabul airport is by no means played out. It may yet become worse, far worse.
For it is difficult to believe the United States can get all its citizens out by Biden’s deadline of Aug. 31, and impossible to believe we can withdraw all of our imperiled Afghan allies from that 20-year war who today live in terror for themselves and their families.
And there is a certainty — indeed, it is already happening — that some of those left behind will be subjected to atrocities by rogue elements of the Taliban, if not its leadership. Those atrocities will make for film and footage in the Western press, underscoring the failure of the United States to rescue allies it left behind.
And, with reports already emanating from Afghanistan about food shortages, the country could become a human rights hellhole by fall.
Consider. The Taliban may have been able to overrun 15 provincial capitals and Kabul in a week. But the government officials running those cities cannot readily be replaced by Taliban fighters whose vocation for the last two decades has been fighting a terrorist-guerrilla war.
While the triumphant Taliban have no interest in a renewed war with the United States, they do have an ideological interest in trumpeting their triumph over the superpower and rubbing America’s nose in its defeat.
What, then, are the consequences of America’s humiliation?
Biden’s reputation as a capable veteran of half a century at the highest levels of the U.S. government is being daily deconstructed.
The United States is being portrayed in the world’s media as “a pitiful, helpless giant,” in former President Richard Nixon’s phrase. And that is the America whose public face today is that of Joe Biden.
As for the American people’s appetite for intervention in future wars for democracy and nation building, that is almost surely gone.
Nations that have relied on the U.S. to come fight their wars for them should probably be raising their defense budgets.
Billions of dollars in U.S. military equipment — armored vehicles, Black Hawk helicopters, drones, artillery, mortars, thousands of rifles and thousands of tons of munitions — have been lost. Some of this will end up in Russia and China, with some of it transferred to ISIS and al-Qaida.
And, lest we forget, other dominos did fall in the wake of America’s strategic defeat in Vietnam. Cambodia fell to Pol Pot’s genocidal Khmer Rouge. Laos fell to the Communists.
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Ethiopia fell to the Derg in East Africa. The former Portuguese colonies of Mozambique and Angola fell to the Communist bloc. Marxists took over Grenada in the Caribbean. The Sandinistas took Nicaragua.
At the end of the 1970s, our Near East ally, the shah of Iran, was overthrown, and an anti-American Islamic republic led by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini was established.
In 1979, the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan.
Across the Atlantic, “Euro-communism” took root.
The perception that President Jimmy Carter did not understand the character and purpose of our Communist enemies, and that Ronald Reagan did, was high among the reasons the country took its gamble on the Gipper.
That another casualty of the Afghan fiasco is Biden’s credibility is his own doing. Repeatedly, in recent days, what Biden predicted would never happen did happen. And the president made statements seemingly disconnected to the events on the ground in Kabul.
Often last week, Biden gave off the image of a befuddled man who did not understand what was going on or know what he was doing. Nor are Republicans alone in making the point. Democrats and NATO allies are saying the same thing.
One of the principal casualties of Kabul is the establishment’s grand vision of a U.S. foreign policy for the new century — where liberalism and democratic capitalism have won the battle for the future, and the U.S., victorious in the Cold War, would lead the world in the realization of a new world order where we would write the rules and police the planet.
Biden depicted that new world struggle as between democracy and authoritarianism, and America as leading mankind toward the triumph of democracy.
The debacle in Kabul begins Biden’s leadership of that struggle with America’s worst humiliation in living memory.
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