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Castleton State College’s physical education program is all about getting kids moving and the department was recently recognized for getting dozens of Special Olympians and its own students doing just that. The department was recently named Youth Organization of the Year by Vermont Special Olympics. The VSO recognizes non-profit organizations around the state that volunteer time and expertise to the program.
“It’s a way for us to recognize those who go above and beyond,” said Vermont Special Olympics Program Director Dona Diaz. “We couldn’t do it without the support of Castleton.
The physical education program was acknowledged for its dedication and hard work on behalf of the VSO and its special athletes. Lisa Pleban is the associate professor and coordinator of the Physical Education Teacher Program at Castleton who helped lead the effort.
“We don’t do it for the recognition, we do it because it’s an important experience for our students,” said Pleban. “They learn to be great role models.”
The Vermont section of the Special Olympics, like all state level sections, is made up of various schools, dedicated volunteers and the athletes and families that use the program’s services. The program at Castleton is just one of many statewide that hosts Special Olympics.
“One of our goals is to get our students working with all kinds of people, not just school children, and to keep building those relationships after they graduate,” Pleban said.
Physical education majors like senior Courtney Chadburn volunteer their time and knowledge to help run activities like the unified sports games. The games are scheduled events and sporting contests for these special athletes, including basketball, that help build team bonding and sportsmanship. More importantly, organizers say, it’s a chance for the kids to have fun.
“We set up events, referee and coach the games, and get the athletes water,” said Chadburn. “The greatest part is getting to know them and their personalities.” Although students not involved with physical education program seem to know little about the school’s involvement with the Special Olympics, all interviewed applauded the effort when told about it.
“I think it’s awesome that our students give back to others less fortunate,” said junior Chris North. “It sounds like a rewarding experience.”
Those involved with program say North is right.
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The Crowd Is "Untruth"
From Soren Kierkegaard's "That Individual": Two "Notes" Concerning My Work as an Author, published posthumously in 1859.
"There is a view of life which conceives that where the crowd is, there also is the truth, and that in truth itself there is need of having the crowd on its side. There is another view of life which conceives that wherever there is a crowd there is untruth, so that (to consider for a moment the extreme case), even if every individual, each for himself in private, were to be in possession of the truth, yet in case they were all to get together in a crowd -- a crowd to which any sort of decisive significance is attributed, a voting, noisy, audible crowd -- untruth would at once be in evidence...
"[A] crowd in its very concept is the untruth, by reason of the fact that it renders the individual completely impenitent and irresponsible, or at least weakens his sense of responsibility by reducing it to a fraction. Observe that there was not one single soldier that dared lay hands upon Caius Marius -- this was an instance of truth. But given merely three or four women with the consciousness or the impression that they were a crowd, and with hope of a sort in the possibility that no one could say definitely who was doing it or who began it -- then they had courage for it. What a falsehood! The falsehood first of all is the notion that the crowd does what in fact only the individual in the crowd does, though it be every individual. For 'crowd' is an abstraction and has no hands: but each individual has ordinarily two hands, and so when an individual lays his two hands upon Caius Marius they are the two hands of the individual, certainly not those of his neighbor, and still less those of the crowd which has no hands...For every individual who flees for refuge into the crowd, and so flees in cowardice from being an individual (who had not the courage to lay his hands upon Caius Marius, nor even to admit that he had it not), such a man contributes his share of cowardliness to the cowardliness which we know as the 'crowd.'
Take the highest example, think of Christ -- and the whole human race, all the men that ever were born or are to be born. But let the situation be one that challenges the individual, requiring each one for himself to be alone with Him in a solitary place and as an individual to step up to Him and spit upon Him -- the man never was born and never will be born with courage or insolence enough to do such a thing...
The crowd is untruth. Therefore was Christ crucified, because, although He addressed himself to all, He would have no dealings with the crowd, because He would not permit the crowd to aid him in any way, because in this regard He repelled people absolutely, would not found a party, did not permit balloting, but would be what He is, the Truth, which relates itself to the individual...it is not so great a trick to win the crowd. All that is needed is some talent, a certain dose of falsehood, and a little acquaintance with human passions..." | <urn:uuid:9afe1340-4561-43db-8458-7f8b2581f013> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.philosophicalsociety.com/Archives/The%20Crowd%20Is%20Untruth.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571210.98/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810191850-20220810221850-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.985147 | 682 | 2.34375 | 2 |
Galicia, Spain — The regional government of Galicia has issued its first estimate of the land destroyed by the forest fires which have been raging in the region: some 77,000 hectares destroyed in the past eleven days, 38,000 of them in Pontevedra province alone. A Coruña was next with 28,000 hectares. More exact figures will be released once detailed measurements are taken.
The biggest fire, some 8,000 hectares, was in Cerdedo in Pontevedra province, where two women died after their car was trapped by the blaze. A man was also found burnt to death after that fire.
The European Union, however, says the total amount of land destroyed was higher. EFFIS, the European Forest Fire Information System, says fires larger than 50 hectares destroyed 86,232 hectares in Galicia between 31st July and 14th August, basing their figures on satellite images. Thats more than the total across the European Union from 1st January until 31st July, when some 64,500 hectares were destroyed by forest fire.
The Partido Popular continues to maintain that 175,000 hectares were destroyed in the region.
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Just over twenty years ago, the final part of the Apple II History was uploaded to the A2 Roundtable on GEnie. From a series of newsletter articles explaining the various models of Apple II computers released by Apple, it had evolved into a much longer work, that also delved into the Disk II drive, DOS, ProDOS, software, peripherals and other hardware, and many other topics. These articles were written to be available to reprint in newsletters for Apple II user groups around the country (and eventually around the world), and in general was well received.
In all the years since the release of the original version of the History it has become a much more polished document, and one that better tells the story of how the Apple came about, evolved, and affected the company which produced it. I have also learned more of the story of what happened after 1995, when a combination of a hard drive crash on my IIGS and lack of functioning backup discouraged my further participation in the Apple II community for several years.
As I’ve made revisions and corrections to the chapters over the years, I have had many who have wanted a print version of the History. For a while I resisted these suggestions; my thought was that since it had been online for so long and continued to be available on web pages, why would anyone want to buy a book? Regardless, the requests continued to appear at times.
So, for the past year, I have been working on revisions and updates to the history, and a re-ordering of the information to be able to offer it as a book. The result is the best version of the History than I’ve ever had, and with the rising interest in retrocomputing in general, the time is opportune to produce a print book.
I am pleased to announce that I have a publisher. Variant Press of Winnipeg, Manitoba, has agreed to print the Apple II History as a book. Entitled Sophistication & Simplicity: The Life & Times of the Apple II Computer, the book is scheduled to be available in April 2013, running over 500 pages. It will have the text of the Apple II History as found on this web site, including some revisions not posted here, many of the pictures that appear here in the various chapters (as well as a few not found on the web site), and include a never-before-released chapter dealing specifically with KansasFest and the Apple II story in the years after Apple abandoned the platform.
Variant Press has previously published the story of Commodore, in Brian Bagnall’s book, Commodore: A Company On The Edge, and plans to continue that story with Commodore: The Amiga Years (to be released in the summer of 2013). Variant has also published books on Lego Mindstorms programming.
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Many people like eggplant very much in food. People especially like to eat brinjal Raita. Although this vegetable also has its disadvantages.
In some special circumstances, people should avoid brinjal. Today we are going to tell you in this story which people should avoid eating Eggplant.
Which People Should Not Eat Brinjal
Even those people who have a fever should not forget brinjal Diseases. At the same time, people who have eye irritation should also avoid eating aubergine. Apart from this, emesis, nausea, vomiting, and yellow bile come out, they should avoid edible fruit.
Eggplant Damage To The Body
At the same time, if you feel too much heat in the body or have any type of skin disease or any kind of allergies, then you should stop using brinjal. On the other hand, if you are on anti-depressant drugs, then you should avoid eating eggplant. Because it can affect with your medicines.
Oxalate is found in eggplant, which should be less in people with kidney stones, in such cases, people with brinjal stones should not eat it. Eggplant is also deficient in calcium, so bone and teeth are also weak by eating it.
When Should We Eat Brinjal?
Oxalate is found in aubergine Diseases, which should be less in people with kidney stones, in such cases, people with brinjal stones should not eat it. We consider edible fruit as a common vegetable but it does a lot of damage to our body.
When you are safe, you should try brinjal, it contains a lot of vitamins that help you fight against diseases. Aubergine normal people should eat. Understand the changes in the body and work on them and seek the advice of the doctor to remove them. More You Like Fast Weight Diet: 4 easy ways to lose weight
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Update, October 25: Delaware County District Attorney Jack Stollsteimer said on Thursday of police reports of a rape on a train in Philadelphia: "The narrative that there is a group of people callously filming and didn't act, is simply not true." Stollsteimer told reporters that surveillance footage did show two passengers filming, and that one of those passengers shared their recordings with police.
Original story: It's late. You're a woman, alone, on your way home. Even though you've done nothing wrong, you're worried for your safety. At least, you tell yourself, there are people around. It's a thought many of us have used to comfort ourselves when walking as a woman at night—nothing too bad can happen with so many witnesses. Someone will help me.
That wasn't the case last week in Philadelphia, police say, when a woman was raped on a train in front of a group of strangers who did not intervene or call 911. Reports say there were “several” passengers in the car who observed as a man, Fiston Ngoy, assaulted and then raped an unnamed woman. Ngoy was not armed. Police Superintendent Timothy Bernhardt told The New York Times that investigations have turned up reports—so far unconfirmed—that some passengers filmed the rape on their phones.
A transportation worker eventually boarded the train and called 911, a spokesperson for SEPTA (Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority) told the Times. Shortly after, a police officer entered the car and arrested Ngoy. Bernhardt said footage from the train shows that the passengers could have intervened but did not.
It's a story that seems to illustrates two distinct, extreme evils—direct violence, and passive acceptance of that violence by regular people. The story has captured national attention, twinning horribly with the recent Gabby Petito homicide story. Under these conditions of violence against women from strangers and partners, in public and in private, how can any woman or gender minority person feel safe?
The horrific reports have inspired comparisons to the famous case of Kitty Genovese, a young woman who was murdered in New York City in 1964 on her way home from work. The front page New York Times report of the event bore the headline “37 Who Saw Murder Didn't Call the Police; Apathy at Stabbing of Queens Woman Shocks Inspector.” The story provoked an uproar and led psychologists to coin the term “bystander effect.”
But decades later, subsequent investigations of the case led the Times to acknowledge “errors” in its own investigations. “The article grossly exaggerated the number of witnesses and what they had perceived,” a 2016 piece in the Times reported. “None saw the attack in its entirety. Only a few had glimpsed parts of it, or recognized the cries for help.” In fact, two neighbors called the police after the event.
The news about the rape on the Philadelphia train is still emerging. So far, reports have been released only by law enforcement officials and SEPTA. Increasingly, journalists have pointed out that it's inappropriate to take police accounts as the final word on crime reporting—think of the way Minneapolis police first shared the news of George Floyd's murder: “Man Dies After Medical Incident During Police Interaction.” | <urn:uuid:157b4f41-c053-4b57-b5d2-f83527b38994> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.glamour.com/story/bystanders-didnt-intervene-as-a-woman-was-raped-they-may-have-filmed-it-police-say | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571210.98/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810191850-20220810221850-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.969296 | 680 | 1.929688 | 2 |
New Delhi: Union Health Minister Manuskh Mandaviya announced on Friday that 16,000 passengers from ‘at risk’ countries had RT-PCR tests performed, and 18 samples had been sent for genome sequencing to determine whether they had the Omicron variant of the virus or not.
The minister stated that Karnataka, where two samples tested positive for the Omicron strain, has been instructed to take all precautions to prevent the spread of infection.
“So far, RT-PCR testing has been performed on over 16,000 passengers arriving on 58 flights from ‘at risk’ countries. Eighteen of these tested positive for in RT-PCR testing, and their genomes are being sequenced to determine whether or not they have the Omicron variant “The minister stated this during his response to the Lok Sabha’s marathon debate on the COVID-19 situation.
According to the minister, RT-PCR tests are being performed on passengers from “at risk” countries, and revised guidelines for travel from these countries have been issued.
According to him, there are 373 cases of Omicron, which is classified as a variant of concern by WHO, in 29 countries. According to Mandaviya, Prime Minister Narendra Modi met with officials after South Africa reported the new variant to WHO, and the Union Health Secretary met with states.
According to the minister, all COVID-19 positive cases at airports will be sent for genome sequencing.
He stated that a South African national who had been detected with the Omnicron variant was found to be COVID-19 negative in a subsequent test in Bengaluru and returned to his home country on November 27. The minister stated that his 12 primary contacts and 200 secondary contacts had been identified and tested negative for coronavirus.
He stated that three family members and 160 other contacts of 46-year-old Indian nationals in Bengaluru who were also found to be affected by the Omicron variant had been tested, and that five positive samples had been sent for genome sequencing.
Mandaviya stated that 75 members participated in the nearly 12-hour debate.
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A TVTA mystery toy special! NASA formed in 1958 and West Germany ceased to be in 1990 – so this toy set which I picked up for under a tenner at my local vintage toy shop was produced anywhere between those two dates, likely the 1970s following NASA’s successful lunar missions.
The figurines are approx 1 inch tall, and like the lunar module and rocket vehicle have ‘W GERMANY’ stamped on them as COO (Country Of Origin). The red pilot figure has no COO stamp but has the same uniform as the others, and was likely meant for a vehicle that’s missing from the set? I made this quick dio using card, rocks and sand.
Edit: 20/11/17. Thanks to TVTA agent Arohk over on the TIG forum I’ve found out the origins of these toys. Fast forward to the end of this post to find out!
Mystery solved! The figurines and “Luna Station play set” were originally made by Jean Höfler in the early 1970s, with the figurines eventually being licensed out to Plong bubblegum in North America. The following images are all courtesy of the excellent site: blechroboter.de
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Cava deserves some more time in the spotlight and I’m here to tell you all about this wonderful Spanish fizz and why you need to be drinking more it.
Sparkling wine from Spain can only be called Cava if it produced in a specific approved region called a D.O (Designation of Origin) and the main winemaking area for Cava is a region called Penedés.
Cava is made using the ‘Traditional Method’ which means secondary fermentation happens in the bottle (creating the fizz). This is the same way that Champagne is made but different to Prosecco- where secondary fermentation usually takes place in a steel tank.
Even though Cava and Champagne are made in the same way, the region where Cava is produced is much warmer and a wider variety of grapes are used to produce many different styles which means there is something to suit everyone’s taste 😉.
There are different types of Cava according to how much sugar has been added to it (dosage) and different categories of Cava according to how long it has been aged for. I will talk about this a bit more detail further down.
Pictured above is a bottle of Anna Cordiniu Blanc de Blanc which is a blend of 70% Chardonnay, 15% Parellada, 8% Xarel·lo, 7% Macabeo.
Having been aged for 15 months it comes under the youngest style of Cava where the minimum ageing 9 months and goes up to 18 months.
Delightfully crisp, bursting with citrus, apple and peach flavours as well as tropical and floral notes. Honey, pastry and brioche aromas add a lovely richness and depth to it. For around £13 a bottle this is an excellent value alternative to Champagne.
Cava Grape Varieties
The bottle pictured above is Pere Ventura Gran Reserva is made from a blend of Macabeo, Xarel-lo and Parellada grapes- although it is made in the same way as Champagne, it is the use of these indigenous grapes that gives this and other Cava’s its own identity.
There are quite a few local grape varieties permitted in the use of Cava production and also in more recent years Chardonnay & Pinot Noir, but it is these three varieties that are essential.
Macabeo contributes floral and fresh aromas to the wine, whereas Xarel-lo has naturally high acidities which helps with structure and finesse and then we have Parellada, giving Cava its delicious aromatic notes. So when blended together, you have all the hallmarks of a great sparkling wine.
The Pera Ventura Tresor is rich is intense with flavours of ripe pear and apples, citrus and blossom with notes of toasted almonds and brioche.
This award winning wine is at a fabulous price tag of £11 available from online Vinello.
Cava Ageing Categories & Dosage
When looking to pick out a bottle of Cava, like all wines there are clues on the bottle label that can help you choose which style you might like the most.
One of the things to keep a look out for is the terminology for the different ageing categories of Cava as this affects its final flavour style.
Cava de Guarda: Has to be aged for at least 9 months, making it the youngest Cava category with a distinctively fresh and fruity flavour profile, plus lively bubbles.
Cava de Guarda Superior: there are three subcategories within this:
- Reserva: min 18m bottle ageing. Blossom and stone fruit notes are complemented by hints of spice and toast.
- Gran Reserva: min 30m bottle ageing. Layers of complex notes such as dried apricot, hazelnut, baked apple, smoke, and buttered brioche
- Cava de Paraje Calificado: min 36 months bottle ageing. As you can imagine this last category of Cava is going to be rich and complex, distinctive, nuanced tertiary notes of dried fruit and toasted nuts, plus truffle and aromatic herbs. Creamy mouthfeel with ultra-fine bubbles.
Disgorgement is the term for the process which removes the final sediment from the bottle of the sparkling wine. Once this is done the bottle will need a little top up before sealing it and completing the process. This little top up is called licor de expedición (expedition liqueur)– and is made up of wine and sugar. How much sugar added also contributes to the final style of Cava and can be found on the label, another little clue to help you pick out the right bottle.
The image below shows the range from dry (no sugar to very tiny amounts added) to sweeter categories of Cava according to the sugar that is added in the final stage. The terms along the top are the ones to look out for on the wine label
The bottle in this next photograph is Vins el Cep MiM Natura, Reserva 2016
So using the information about the different ageing categories and style of Cava according to the dosage we know this is Reserva wine which will have been aged for 18 months and it is a Brut Nature which is the driest style, which happens to be one of my favourites.
Cava & Food Pairing
Having evolved in the Mediterranean region for centuries, Cava’s indigenous grapes and flavour profiles can pair with a vast array of dishes, and each brings its own personality to the table. The three main grape varieties in Cava blends or varietal wines are Macabeo, Xarel·lo and Parellada.
Dry and younger styles of Cava are great as an aperitif, with salted snacks like crisps and nuts or with seafood, a great match with the prawns and squid.
Older styles such as Reserva or Gran Reserva is great for pairing with cheeses like Manchego or an aged cheddar as well as charcuteries and jamon.
If you’re looking for something to pair with puddings or some fizz for an afternoon tea look for a Seco or Semi-Seco Cava, the extra sugar in this style will work well with sweet treats.
The bottle of Freixenet Cava is one I’m sure you have all seen in the Supermarket on many an occasion, having won many awards this is a great value fizz at around £10. It falls into the youngest Cava de Guarda category so you expect something fresh, fruity and lively.
The Vallformosa Gran Baron Cava is soft fruity and rounded with nutty almond notes sure to be a crowd pleaser it also £10 from Amazon.
So in summary, if you are looking to find the perfect bottle of Cava have a look on the label for:
- The Grape Varietes
- The Category: Cava de Guarda, Reserva, Gran Reserva…
- The Style according to dosage: Brut Nature, Extra Brut, Brut, Seco, Semi Seco
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Cryptocurrency books aimed at novice users or non-users tend to follow a very similar pattern. Almost all start with an obligatory “history of money” and explain why fiat is, let’s say, “flawed,” — to be polite. Then Bitcoin (BTC) in introduced, wielding a fistful of shiny new tech that can address some of these issues.
The books go into mining, wallets, exchanges, Ethereum and smart contracts, altcoins and decentralized finance — also known as DeFi. Once the authors are sure that the reader is sold on the idea of buying into crypto, they wrap it nicely up with a (foregone) conclusion and settle smugly back down.
However, even equipped with the desire (and know-how) to buy their first cryptocurrency, the reader may still feel there is a barrier to taking the next step. In fact, once the purchasing decision has been made, a whole new raft of questions crop up tha a savvy crypto convert will want answered.
How much should I spend? What strategies are open to me? Should I invest or consider trading? How can I maximize gains while minimizing risk? Few books delve deep enough into such territory to give a reader the confidence to enter the market with at least half anTitle: Can crypto trading and investing be taught in just one book?
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Inside Mortgage Finance Publications – Nonconforming – Impac Mortgage Holdings is shifting its focus on originating non-qualified mortgages amid losses and layoffs due to a tough conforming.. from Inside.
Conforming Loans Vs. Non-Conforming Loans [Updated for 2017] – If a loan is for an amount above the conforming loan limit, like a Jumbo loan, it is considered a non conforming mortgage loan. Just like how conforming loans are conventional loans, non-conforming loans are often referred to as unconventional loans.
Non-Conforming Loan Programs – MortgageDepot.com – Everything you need to know about conforming and non-conforming loans from Mortgage Depot. The SBA works with lenders to provide loans to small businesses. (800) 535-0270
What is a Non-Conforming Loan? – thebalance.com – Non-conforming loans, also called jumbo loans, are mortgage loans that are made on properties that are not eligible for insurance by the government programs, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.Banks and other financial institutions make loans insured by these agencies who then package them and sell them to investors.
Jumbo Vs Conventional Jumbo Loan and FHA Loan Limits By State | Bankrate.com – What are the FHA and jumbo loan limits in your state?. is insured by the Federal Housing Administration and requires lower minimum credit scores and down payments than many conventional.
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Conforming and Non-Conforming Loans: What's the Difference? – The usual conforming loan limit is $424,100, but this figure may be higher for more expensive areas like New York or San Francisco. Read about the down payment, debt-to-income and credit score differences between a conforming and nonconforming mortgage loan.
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The Difference Between Conforming and Non-conforming Mortgage. – Any loans that aren’t government-backed, such as FHA, VA, or USDA loans and don’t fall under the Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac guidelines are non-conforming loans. This could mean several things. For instance, any loan amount above $453,100 in a standard cost county is non-conforming.
Jumbo Loans In Texas texas jumbo home loans & Mortgages | Lone Star Financing – A jumbo mortgage is a home loan with an amount that exceeds conforming loan limits imposed by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. In Texas, that value is $424,100. Texas Jumbo Home Loans have no PMI (private mortgage insurance), so the down payments are larger and the credit score requirements are typically no lower than 700.What Is A Jumbo Mortgage Jumbo mortgage – Wikipedia – In the United States, a jumbo mortgage is a mortgage loan that may have high credit quality, but is in an amount above conventional conforming loan limits. This standard is set by the two government-sponsored enterprises, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, and sets the limit on the maximum value of any individual mortgage they will purchase from a lender.. Fannie Mae (FNMA) and Freddie Mac (FHLMC.
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Medicine has achieved many wonders. It has resulted in the prolonging of the man’s existence. It has resulted in men dealing with illnesses. Medicine ‘s the reason that we’re living, an appropriate existence. If you feel I’m speaking about medicinal drugs only, you’re wrong. There are several foods that behave as medicines. What people don’t understand that the medicinal meals are among them! It wouldn’t be ironic to condition the the majority of the healthy good is actually non-animal products, and therefore are frequently within the raw natural condition.
A few of the food medicines given in the following paragraphs are healthy and attractive. Milk and milk derived items like yogurt are the food that functions as medicine. The dietary worth of yogurt and its anti-microbial feature is known for a long time. The merchandise furthermore is very economical, and you don’t need to organize it. Onions will also be food that could make you healthy and strong. The onion is really a bloodstream thinner, a helpful quality if you suffer from from bloodstream clotting. The onions could be eaten raw or along with other food.
Green spinach may be the food you’ll need to avoid various cancers from happening. ‘Super food’ may be the expression used to explain the veggie by a lot of because of its values and nutrient content. The benefits of green spinach are listed below
1. The veggie can lower the amount of cholesterol
2. It’s an excellent source of vitamin
3. It has elevated levels of minerals
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How to Earn your CoderDojo iDEA Badges (UK & IRL)
The Duke of York Inspiring Digital Enterprise Award, known as iDEA, aims to equip young people in the UK and Ireland with digital and enterprise skills. Inspired by The Duke of Edinburgh Award (which has supported 8 million young people since its inception), iDEA helps young people learn how to make, create, build and grow in the digital world.
Although the iDEA badges are open to anyone, some early piloting in Dojo’s has found that the content and subject matter is probably best suited for age 13 and above – but don’t let that stop anybody giving it a go! CoderDojo Founder, Bill Liao is a fan of the initiative which he believes empowers learning through achievements. Youths can apply what they learn to supplement their Dojo coding skills.
How does it work?
Learners take part in a series of challenges in order to win awards. For every new skill and learning experience mastered, iDEA learners are awarded a digital badge. Each badge carries a number of points. When participants earn enough points, they are awarded the Bronze, Silver or Gold Inspiring Digital Enterprise Award.
There are badges which can help you to be safe online, and pick up tips and techniques on topics such as web design, cyber security, cloud computing, animation and how to use colours in digital creations.
How might it benefit our ninjas?
iDEA is a good way for them to gain external recognition their wider understanding of the digital world, and also a way for them to test their knowledge. In the ever increasing competition for Further and Higher education it’s exactly the sort of external recognition which can be added to personal statements and CVs to verify extra curriculum effort.
Specifically to support the launch of this initiative those who achieve the Bronze level might also win the chance of attending an award ceremony with the Duke of York at the Palace!
How does it fit with other badges?
The iDEA scheme is not intended to replace any existing badge schemes but instead is aim at complementing them, encouraging participants to broaden their skills, and achieve a similar recognition to those already taking up the Gaisce programme or the Duke of Edinburgh’s (DofE) award activities (in fact your ninja’s could even use the iDEA badges to underpin the “new skills” development under DofE!).
The existing CoderDojo badges available through the Zen Platform are still a great way for rewarding & recognising ninjas skills both within and across Dojos. iDEA provides a broader suite of content for digital skills and focuses on external recognition.
Both of these (and other) badge schemes can also support some of the possible outcomes being investigated under the CoderDojo Erasmus research project, which is looking into recognition of prior learning when kids move on within Further/Higher education.
How do we get involved?
Anyone can take part in the programme. All participants need is to be online at idea.org.uk – iDEA works on all modern devices, browsers and operating systems. Ultimately, iDEA aims to be a nationally recognised Award that will help people stand out from the crowd and become economically active. Give it a try you’ve got nothing to lose!
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As boarding gates reopen for passengers, focus surrounding long passenger lines, contactless boarding options, and speeding up passenger processing times have been widely explored and discussed.
Industry service provider Thales has been assisting this journey with the introduction of biometric solutions, contactless boarding and much more. A new solution called ‘Fly To Gate’ aims to enhance passengers’ travel experience, while offering a secure and contactless airport experience, using a digital token .
The digital token can be used to authenticate an individual in less than a second – with or without a mask – at different points throughout the airport, reducing passport control and boarding times by an average of 30%.
Frankie Youd: Could you provide an outline of how the Thales token technology works? what would the passenger experience be and what technology is being used?
Philippe Faure: Thales’ Fly To Gate solution is designed to enhance the travel experience for passengers through increased convenience, while at the same time boosting security at five main points around the airport. The focus of the technology is using identity verification and facial biometrics to create a seamless journey for passengers, removing the need to show a ticket or ID at each checkpoint.
Passengers simply check in via their airline’s mobile app and then are instantly verified with face recognition software, using a combination of a selfie, liveness detection, and a document authenticity check.
The facial recognition software checks multiple points on the passenger’s face and can work with or without a mask. Once verification is complete, a temporary digital token is created for each passenger, enabling them to be identified at check-in, bag drop off, security, passport control, and the boarding gate – all without showing any documents. The technology works in real-time – with the token erased once the flight has taken off – and reduces boarding times by one third at the gates.
When is this technology available, have there been trials?
Thales supplies the software for the Fly To Gate solution and physical infrastructure, such as the border kiosks to the airport, all of which is now available to the market.
We’ve run a number of pilots across Europe (Spain, France) and the US (Dallas, LA), all of which have really helped demonstrate the efficiency and security of the system.
Also, in the EU a new regulation asks members to get equipped with an Entry-Exit System (EES) before mid-2022. The technology is available now – EES kiosks deployment already started in France – and is based on Thales expertise in ID verification and biometric authentication.
Cybersecurity is a key topic of discussion, how is security ensured for the passengers using this technology as well as the airports?
All our solutions are GDPR-compliant and designed by default with all the protection they need in terms of cybersecurity. Highly sensitive biometric data is processed in a secure manner using ultra-sophisticated encryption mechanisms.
It means that should hackers access any data, they can’t use it outside of the system, rendering it obsolete. Furthermore, the digital token created by the Fly to Gate system (which is a mathematical representation of the traveller) is destroyed after take-off.
All of this is explained to travellers before they use the solutions, and they must give their consent. Trials have shown that travellers are enthusiastic about new technologies if these are explained to them well and it appears clear their data are well protected.
This re-affirms the importance of airports and their partners, such as Thales, providing transparent and reassuring information to passengers, with an ultimate view of bringing them on that digital transformation journey.
Passport and document fraud was an issue before introduction of paperless technology, do you think technology such as this will see an increase in attempted cybersecurity attacks?
Document forgery is a lucrative business and it’s not uncommon for individuals to hold several identity documents. That’s why international regulations call nations to provide citizens with electronic documents, with a chip to serve like a vault to store and secure all sensitive and personal data. Electronic documents in polycarbonate are clearly reducing the risk of forged document.
While hackers will always try to disrupt, the future of identity authentication is likely to be near-paperless and technology like biometrics is the best way of combatting the levels of identity fraud we’ve seen historically.
What are the benefits of this token technology over other contactless schemes available?
Whereas other touchless schemes may focus on one particular area, our Fly To Gate solution is designed to enhance the whole customer journey, from check-in – which can be performed at home – through to take off.
Through biometrics, liveness detection and document authenticity check, the process is simplified for both passengers, airports, and airlines, increasing efficiency, and providing integrated security too.
All of this can create a complete self-service experience for passengers, which reduces processing times by 70%, including biometrics saving 30% in boarding times.
Do you think that technology such as this will be a staple for the industry in the future?
Airports are facing multiple challenges at the moment, from the public health crisis to new regulations on freedom of movement in the Schengen Area. As such, their reliance on technology to facilitate and enhance the travel experience, while also increasing security and fuelling efficiency for airports, is only set to grow.
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Jul 07, Some Autumn Blaze Maples that are sick and dying. This is what mine looked like last year: If you can get one to grow, they are beautiful trees. If yours suffer from yellowing of the leaves like mine, there may yet be hope.
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'Princeton Gold' Norway maple develops a pleasing oval crown, and is predicted to grow approximately 35 feet tall and 30 feet wide. But it’s the eye-popping, grab you by the carambola tree cutting collar, fluorescent yellow foliage that has everyone bushmulching.barg: fall. Maple decline is common in urban environments. Maple tree decline is a progressive condition that typically signals the end of the tree's lifespan.
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Until today the paradigm has prevailed among governments and international organizations that it is possible to save the environment and biodiversity while maintaining the growth of the economy. But this idea is just a statement of intent that is not supported by data collected since the 20th century.
This is the conclusion reached by a group of twenty-two academics from institutions such as the University of Oxford, the Center for Ecological Research and Forestry Applications of Barcelona (CREAF), the University of Leipzig or the Humboldt of Berlin, among others. The group, led by the Spanish Iago Otero, from the University of Lausanne (Switzerland), believes that an urgent change in paradigm is necessary, and for this it proposes a battery of shock measures to limit the effects of the economy on ecosystems.
The team led by Otero has elaborated its thesis in an article published in April by Conservation Letters magazine, coinciding with the covid-19 pandemic. Otero explains to EL PAÍS that the current crisis confirms the conclusions of the text on the priority that safeguarding biodiversity should be: “A well-preserved nature would protect us from diseases like this. Behind the pandemic is deforestation, the expansion of agriculture or the trade of species, which put more people in contact with animals that carry the viruses ”.
The measures proposed by the twenty-two scientists are summarized in seven points: limit the exploitation of natural resources and prohibit their extraction in areas of high ecological value; restrict the construction of large infrastructures that break the integrity of green spaces; promote local agriculture and limit the expansion of cities, while favoring urban planning with a greater demographic concentration; compensate for the destruction of jobs with the creation of new jobs by reducing working hours; hinder the promotion of those products from agricultural overexploitation and nature.
The authors of the study assume that their proposals would face a multitude of "cultural and social barriers" because they go against "the prevailing imaginary of unlimited growth." "They are proposals to be debated," says Christoph Plutzer, professor at the University of Vienna and one of the signatories of the document. The only measure that requires “immediate action”, according to Plutzer, is to consolidate new indices that replace GDP and that assess social welfare and levels of environmental protection.
These academics emphasize that so far an increase in GDP has not been sustained by reducing the consumption of natural resources. In developed countries that has been achieved, they add, has been at the cost of an increase in natural exploitation in developing societies. The report provides data that would show a coincidence in the levels of evolution of world GDP since 1960 with that of farms, the use of pesticides and fertilizers, and with the demand for meat consumption. "The total amount of human production of materials grew in the last century in unison with global GDP, replacing ecosystems on a massive scale."
Another effect of global trade is the proliferation of invasive species, which are the second cause of extinction of flora and fauna. The effects of climate change on biodiversity are also evident, and the document highlights the forecasts for the European continent: it is estimated that 58% of the special plants and vertebrates will lose their habitat in the next sixty years. The article concedes that it is feasible to achieve GDP growth by reducing the use of natural resources and the emissions of polluting gases, but until today it has not been achieved - except in specific moments of economic crisis -, not even at the pace necessary to meet the objectives. to leave the increase in global warming to around 1.5 degrees.
The so-called European Green Deal, the plan of the European Commission and the main EU member states to eradicate polluting emissions from the economy, shares objectives with the article published in Conservation Letters. The main difference is that its authors defend the need to decrease in terms of GDP to build a “post-growth” society. "Our work proposes going beyond economic growth," says Otero, "this requires stopping using GDP as a guide indicator."
The first solution proposed in the study is to impose international limitations on the amount of natural resources used for the production of traded goods. "Different quotas could be applied to each country depending on its historical consumption and excesses in carbon dioxide emissions", says its text, adding that "the caps can be complemented with specific moratoriums for the exploitation of resources in highly biodiverse areas. delicate". Another proposal is to break up jobs into reduced working hours. "Under certain circumstances, the shorter working day is related to lower carbon emissions and other harmful effects on biodiversity."
Relocating the economy to reduce the distance between the centers of production and consumers is another key measure, according to the report. This requires stopping the geographical expansion of cities in favor of farms close to cities, thus avoiding the destruction of natural areas in other regions. They also ask to put an end to the development of large infrastructures and transport networks that break the integrity of spaces of ecological value.
By Cristian Segura
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CLIMATE concerned residents in Stratford are continuing to lobby MP Nadhim Zahawi to back a new climate bill.
Members from Extinction Rebellion, Stratford Climate Action and Friends of the Earth have been holding vigil outside the MP’s office for a number of weeks. They post letters urging Mr Zahawi to support the Climate and Ecological Emergency Bill which aims to garner action against climate change, recognise damage caused by consumption and to give local people a voice.
The private members bill – meaning it is introduced by non-ministerial MPs and Lords – is backed by scientists, academics and lawyers.
Campaigners say supportive residents have inspired them to continue the vigils, which are followed by a walk through town with flags and placards, every week until the second reading of the bill in March.
They aim to influence the MP, who as business minister is at the top table for political decision making, and gather support from constituents while speaking to them during their demonstrations.
A spokeswoman said: “We ask people to contact Mr Zahawi, to ask him to support this bill that will legally require this and subsequent governments to the deal with the climate and ecological emergency, in a manner appropriate to the seriousness of the crisis.
“We as concerned residents know that this is the most serious situation facing humanity. We know the clock is ticking and time is running out for governments to take action to decarbonise and restore ecology in order to prevent tipping points being triggered resulting in the dire consequences of runaway global warming.”
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GRHC: Urban Agriculture Technology, Design and Planning Symposium – Virtual
March 16 @ 1:00 pm - 5:00 pm EDT
Our current climate demonstrates the need for strong local economies and resilient solutions. Urban agriculture is a productive form of green infrastructure that supports local economies, creates jobs, improves access to fresh produce, and increase biodiversity. GRHC brings together urban and rooftop agriculture experts to share the benefits and challenges around urban agriculture to advocate for green roof and policy implementation and drive the industry forward.
Learn how agrivoltaics is redefining urban agriculture with Jennifer Boussolot and explore the compelling case study with Roxanne Miller of the award winning IGA’s rooftop farm project. The first grocery store rooftop garden in Canada!
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As President George Bush prepares to leave for state visits to Japan, Korea, China, and Mongolia November 15-21, the U.S. relationship with China is coming under increasing scrutiny. China’s stunning economic rise has made it a formidable potential competitor to the United States in areas from trade to diplomacy to military supremacy. Yet the relationship is a critical one. "These two very different countries will have to cooperate closely in the decades, indeed centuries, to come," wrote Financial Times columnist Martin Wolf in a September op-ed. And the United States, which has long had special security and trade relationships in Asia, can’t take its position in the region for granted. "China has dramatically improved its relations with neighboring countries, particularly in Southeast Asia," says Nicolas Lardy,senior fellow at the Institute for International Economics and an expert on the Chinese economy. As a result, "these countries’ foreign-policy positions are now taking into account China instead of the United States," he says. "It’s a sea change. The center of gravity has shifted."Below are summaries of some of the most important bilateral issues between China and the United States:
China’s economy has grown at an average rate of 10 percent per year for the last fifteen years, the highest growth rate in the world. The staggering growth has lifted hundreds of millions out of poverty and transformed an agricultural society into one of the world’s most dynamic, industrial markets. Total trade in 2004 was more than $1.1 trillion, making China the world’s third-largest trading nation, after the United States and Germany. China today has the greatest openness to trade of any large economy: the ratio of trade to China’s gross domestic product (GDP) was 70 percent last year, compared to less than 25 percent each for the United States and Japan. The United States is one of China’s largest trading partners, and the two countries have managed their complex trade relationship: They reached an agreement November 8 to limit imports of Chinese textiles from flooding U.S. markets. But tensions are still rising among U.S. officials over the U.S. trade deficit with China, $162 billion in 2004. Protectionist pressures are growing as politicians accuse China of keeping out U.S. exports while flooding the U.S. market with low-priced Chinese goods. But, since the overall U.S. current account deficit is $665 billion, some experts say it’s unfair to pin the blame on China for massive U.S. consumption. Bush will stress the importance of trade ties with the region during his visit to the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum in Busan, South Korea November 18-19.
Anger has been building in the United States over China’s alleged manipulation of its currency. For the last decade, China had pegged the value of its currency, the renmenbi, to the U.S. dollar at what critics called artificially low rates. Manufacturers accuse China of undervaluing its currency—which makes Chinese goods cheaper in the United States and U.S. goods more expensive in China—by as much as 40 percent and say the currency rates contribute to the giant U.S. trade deficit with China, projected to exceed $200 billion this year.
In July, mounting pressure caused China to revalue the renmenbi upward by 2.1 percent and change its peg from the dollar to a basket of international currencies. But advocacy groups like the China Currency Coalition accuse Beijing of exercising a deliberate policy to force American manufacturers out of business. They say China is still interfering to keep a fixed exchange rate: Their graph shows that the value of the renmenbi against the dollar has stayed basically unchanged since July. But others say the fuss over China’s currency is overblown. The Carnegie Endowment’s Albert Keidel writes in this policy briefthat the renmenbi is not undervalued and points out that China has a trade surplus with the United States but a trade deficit with the rest of the world. "Focusing on China’s currency is a distraction," Keidel writes. "If the United States wants to improve its economy for the long haul, it had best look elsewhere, beginning with raising the productivity of American workers."
The Pentagon’s annual report to Congress on the strength of the Chinese militaryestimated that China currently spends some $60 to $90 billion on defense, two or three times its officially published estimate. The nation has a standing army of 2.3 million, and is in the middle of a strategic and well-funded military modernization plan. China’s army could soon legitimately challenge that of the United States, experts say, which has attracted attention and raised concerns worldwide. In a June speech at the International Institute for Strategic Studies in Singapore, U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld questioned China’s military buildup. He asked why China is increasing its arms purchases, investment, and deployments when it has no clear enemies and criticized the fact what while China’s economic growth has fed its military spending, a growth in political freedom has not followed. "With a system that encouraged enterprise and free expression, China would appear more a welcome partner and provide even greater economic opportunities for the Chinese people," Rumsfeld said.
China has also taken steps to show it is establishing control over security in the region. China—along with Russia, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan—is a member of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), which cooperates to address security threats in Central Asia. China conducted its first-ever military training exercises with Russia in August under the auspices of the group. SCO has grown in influence over the past year, and now counts Mongolia, Pakistan, Iran, and India as observers.
China must also be aware of its location. The nation is surrounded by distrustful neighbors —India, Russia, Japan, South Korea, Vietnam—that could unite against it to check its power if it acts too aggressively. Certainly, a Chinese invasion of Taiwan—a constant threat from Beijing to counter talk of independence from Taipei—would draw a strong and possibly punitive response both regionally and internationally. That awareness has contributed to a scaling back of provocative rhetoric on both sides of the Taiwan Strait, experts say. "Tensions seem to have subsided quite a bit," Lardy says. But China still has to walk a fine line on the Taiwan issue, trying to rein in the island’s ambitions for independence while reaching out to reassure its neighbors. The debate over whether China is a military threat continues. Richard C. Bush III, director of the Center for Northeast Asian Policy Studies at the Brookings Institution, testified before Congress in September on the impact of China’s military modernization on the cross-strait balance of power.
China and the United States are leading efforts to prevent North Korea from developing nuclear weapons. China hosted the fifth round of six-party talks on the North Korean nuclear issue—with the United States, Russia, South Korea, North Korea, and Japan—held November 9-11 in Beijing. In preparation for the talks, Chinese President Hu Jintao went to Pyongyang for a three-day visit in late October. The visit was seen as both a reward for North Korea’s September agreement to give up its nuclear weapons program in return for aid and security guarantees, as well as pressure on Pyongyang to continue its cooperation in the current round of talks.
China is actively pursuing a foreign policy of "peace and development to bring harmony, security, and prosperity to all," the official Xinhua News Service wrote October 1. Wu Jianmin, one of China’s top diplomats, told Xinhua September 12 that China was entering a "golden age" of diplomacy, where it has closer ties and better relations with more countries in the world than ever before. In 1971, China had diplomatic relations with sixty countries; today, that number is 160. It is reaching out to its neighbors as part of Beijing’s "friendly neighborhood policy." Chinese leaders, including President Hu Jintao and Premier Wen Jiabao, have actively courted friends in the region. In April 2005 alone, they visited Brunei, Indonesia, the Philippines, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, and Indonesia. This activity is in contrast to the United States, which critics say has neglected important relationships in Asia to focus on Iraq and the Middle East. Bush’s Asia trip will last six days; he will spend only two days in China. "For the president to spend so little time in China is almost like [the Bush administration’s] checking off a box," Lardy says.
In contrast, Chinese officials have actively wooed new friends and allies. Southeast Asian nations that are members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) have responded: Trade between China and the ASEAN nations reached $105.8 billion in 2004. China has also dealt with a longtime border dispute with Russia, established business and diplomatic relations across Africa, and launched the China-Arab Cooperation Forum and the China-Latin American Cooperation Forum to improve relations with those regions.
With its confident new diplomatic posture, China is becoming more assertive. Recently, the SCO pushed the United States to withdraw its troops from Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan, reflecting Chinese and Russian tensions over the U.S. military presence in resource-rich Central Asia.
Wu says China’s new engagement with the world is paying off. "Increasingly vigorous foreign affairs have made unprecedented contributions to expanding China’s influence on the international arena," he told Xinhua. "They have won a peaceful and stable environment for China’s development, [and also have helped] support China’s economic development."
China’s massive economic growth has caused a corresponding spike in its energy needs. Although much of the international world is focusing on China’s increased consumption of oil, most of China’s economy is actually run on coal. Some 67 percent of China’s energy needs are met by coal, while only 24 percent of its energy consumption is oil. In fact, "China is by no means anywhere near where [the United States is] as oil importers," says Kenneth Lieberthal, a China expert and professor of political science at the University of Michigan. China imported 117 million tons of oil last year, while Japan imported 200 million tons, and the Untied States and Europe imported 500 million tons each, according to the Chinese State Information Center. China consumed 6.31 percent of the total world oil trade, while Japan accounted for 11.3 percent, and the United States consumed a whopping 29.6 percent, according to the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC), China’s economic planning agency.
While China still consumes far less oil than the United States, increased production in industries like steel, aluminum, and cement—which all feed China’s export growth as well as its frenetic construction boom—have driven up its energy consumption. In response, China is going around the world to stake out reliable supplies of oil. China has struck energy deals with countries including Uzbekistan, Iran, Sudan, Myanmar, Chad, and Venezuela. China offers powerful incentives for these countries’ energy resources: economic and military aid, access to Chinese markets, and support at the United Nations. China wields a powerful veto on the UN Security Council, and has used it to block punitive action against Sudan, for example, over the crisis in Darfur. "It’s logical that China will take positions on sanctions" against its energy allies that the United States and other countries might not agree with, Lieberthal says.
China has used soft loans, debt relief, and development aid to strike energy deals in Africa. Its innovative deals also include Chinese construction of roads, bridges, and power stations to critical energy resources, according to the Institute for the Analysis of Global Security, a nonprofit organization that examines the links between energy and security. China has invested more than $8 billion in Sudan, which now supplies over 7 percent of the nation’s oil. Some 4,000 unofficial Chinese forces reportedly protect those resources. China has sunk another $70 billion into Iran’s oil and gas industry, which now supplies 11 percent of China’s energy needs. Experts say these investments—and China’s drive to lock down oil resources for itself without regard for the authoritarian regimes that control them—may lead to conflict with the United States in the years to come. "China currently imports 40 percent of its oil needs," Lieberthal says. "By 2020, it’ll be importing 70 percent of its oil requirements. That will put new energy demands on the world market and gets China in bed with what America considers bad actors."
China’s Communist-led government is pursuing a policy of ever-increasing economic development while preserving social stability, which translates into a tight rein on political protests or freedom of speech. Recent moves to censor the Internet and punish reporters have led to international protests and demands for more openness.
But Lieberthal says that’s not how this government works. The current leadership’s formative years were during the Cultural Revolution from 1966-76, he says. That time of great social upheaval caused this generation of leaders to view chaos as the deadliest threat and value stability at all costs. However, maintaining this policy is a challenge during a period of such dramatic change; some 140 million people have moved from rural areas to cities in the last two decades, the largest internal migration in history.
The United States has also had to tread carefully with China. Despite Washington’s stated goals of encouraging transparency and anti-corruption initiatives in China, its engagement with Beijing—and the web of significant security, economic, public-health, and trade relationships between the two countries—means the United States is not applying much political pressure to open up Chinese society, Lieberthal says.
Income inequality, corruption, and abuses of power are flourishing along with China’s burgeoning economy. The World Bank ranks China in the 40th percentile for its application of the rule of law (100 percent is the highest). The country ranks in the 40th percentile on control of corruption, a significant drop since 1998, when it ranked in the 61st percentile. When judged on "democratic voice and accountability," China fell to the 8th percentile. These factors are contributing to what the Carnegie Endowment’s Keidel calls the economic basis for social unrest in China.
It remains to be seen whether the Chinese experiment of market reforms married to a repressive political system can coexist for long. "Can they do it? No one knows," Lieberthal says. "It’s one of the biggest gambles in history, and we all have stake in how it turns out." | <urn:uuid:8e0f58ea-a770-42f1-ae04-ac00b90be2c1> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.cfr.org/backgrounder/us-china-relationship-policy-goals | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571210.98/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810191850-20220810221850-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.958324 | 3,110 | 2.546875 | 3 |
To the Editor: In their recent article in the September 10 issue (“Effects of Prolonged Thyrocalcitonin Administration on Paget's Disease of Bone”), Haddad et al. found no change in urinary excretion of sodium and phosphorus and a transient hypercalciuria in two of the three patients studied. Intramuscular administration may explain the differences between these results and those observed by others.1,2 It is likely that urinary excretion of sodium, calcium and phosphorus increases as long as the level of calcitonin in plasma is sufficient. Thereafter, the homeostatic mechanisms produce a compensatory diminution of the renal excretion of these electrolytes. The amount. | <urn:uuid:994bde6f-e95f-4d97-9fb9-74b6dfd92f08> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://profiles.wustl.edu/en/publications/urinary-effects-of-calcitonin | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571210.98/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810191850-20220810221850-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.912546 | 147 | 1.71875 | 2 |
Cows by Peter Kocan
Cows graze across the hill,
Measuring the day
As their shadows tell
Irrelevant time. Their gait is half-way
Between moving and standing still.
The sun is gentle on the green
Of their meadow, their mouths deep
In its heavy warmth,
A watcher could fall asleep
In the depth
Of that untroubled scene.
From each dewdrop morning
To every day’s end
They follow the cycle
Of the rhythm of the world turning
In its season. A miracle
Of normalcy is a cow’s mind.
Beyond thought’s prickling fever
They dwell in the grace
Of their own true concerns,
And in that place
Know they will live forever
With butterflies around their horns.
“There is a field near the main kitchen where cows from the hospital dairy graze. There’s a peacefulness about cows.
At weekends you take a book and sit under the tree near the field and read a little and listen to music on your transistor and watch the cows.
Sometimes you lean on the fence and click your tongue at the cows and they will wander close and sniff at you and
examine you with big peaceful eyes but with a dubious look also, as if they’re wondering what your game is.
You don’t stay leaning on the fence too long. It’s a bit too visible there.
It might look odd.
Other people don’t spend their time looking at cattle. Looking at cattle is
probably a symptom of something. ”
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As momentum builds around the country for bans on plastic straws and utensils at foodservice outlets, some organic and natural retailers are taking it right in stride.
In Seattle, one of the cities that has banned the use of plastic straws and utensils, PCC Community Markets had already transitioned to compostable straws, utensils and packaging back in 2015. The 12-store retailer recently expanded its commitment by pledging to eliminate plastics from its delis by 2022.
The company views its shift away from plastic as part of its pursuit of a triple bottom line, in which its social and environmental impact is as important as its financial success, said Darrell Vannoy, VP of merchandising and procurement at PCC.
“As a community-owned food market, we take our member and shopper feedback to heart,” he said. “One of the top requests we get from our shoppers is to use less plastic. We answered that call initially in 2007 when we eliminated plastic shopping bags from our stores, and we were thrilled to be able to do it again in 2015 when we moved to compostable items. Our newest goal is a continuation of our commitment and legacy in this area.”
Adrian Martinez, assistant store director at Vintage Grocers in Malibu, Calif., which as of June 1 restricted any business serving prepared food from offering plastic straws, stirrers or utensils, said his team was prepared for the transition, which has been supported by its customers.
“It’s evident that the residents surrounding our 4-year-old store in Malibu are forward-thinking and more embracing of the ban, making the transition on our end much more seamless and accepted,” he said.
The company replaced plastic items with paper straws, birch wood cutlery and compostable coffee cup tops, Martinez explained. “Overall, customers were thrilled to see the change, and Vintage Grocers is looking forward to continuing the efforts of this important movement,” he said.
Joe Cimino of natural and organic retailer Pacific Coast Greens, also located in Malibu, said his customers also understand the need to protect the environment. The store has an extensive prepared foods offering, including burgers, burritos and sandwiches, plus smoothies, juices and a coffee bar.
“We're literally 100 feet from the ocean,” he said. “We see first-hand the effects of plastic in the ocean.”
The store has switched to using paper straws and biodegradable cutlery, and is still adjusting to the transition, Cimino said. Although some customers have commented that the paper straws can clog after several minutes of use, and the cutlery takes some getting used to, overall he said customers seem to appreciate the effort.
“We get a lot of feedback from our customers,” said Cimino. “First and foremost, I think all of our customers understand that this is better for the environment.”
Cimino said the paper straws cost about four times as much as the plastic straws the store had been using, and the compostable fiber cutlery costs about three to four times as much. Other options, such as cutlery made from bamboo, were deemed too expensive, and the company didn’t think it would be wise to switch to glass straws at a beachfront location.
“You don't want to upset customers with an inferior product, and you also want to make sure costs are reasonable,” said Cimino. “We looked at a lot of different products to see what worked best for us. Some were basically too flimsy and wouldn't work, and some were flat-out too expensive.”
At PCC Community Markets, Vannoy said the biggest challenge in replacing plastic straws and utensils was to find compostable replacements that withstand high temperatures without breaking down.
“Ultimately, we wanted to make the change positive and seamless for our shoppers, and finding products that could stand up to foods of all temperatures was critical,” he said.
In order to educate its shoppers and staff about the transition, PCC ran a story about it in its monthly newspaper, The Sound Consumer, explaining why it was making the change, what choices we considered and how it planned to continually improve.
PCC also has signs in its stores, including signs at the compost station with graphics that help shoppers compost the appropriate materials. In addition, the retailer’s staff help communicate the message, and some of the compostable items come with a “compostable” message on them already.
Replacing plastics in the deli
PCC is still searching for the right packaging to replace the plastics used in its delis, Vannoy explained. He said the packaging must meet the following criteria:
• It must be compostable. “With their lower carbon footprint, we believe compostables are the right alternative to petroleum-based plastics,” said Vannoy. The materials must be approved and accepted by Cedar Grove, the company’s main composting partner in the Puget Sound Region.
• It must be functional. “It can’t denigrate or melt when there’s hot or cold food in it,” he said. It also must be able to maintain its integrity for a few days in the refrigerator, he added.
• It must be affordable. “We need to be mindful not to add unnecessary costs,” said Vannoy, citing the slim margins in retail and the need to meet both financial and environmental goals.
• It must be aesthetically pleasing. “While what’s inside the container is most important, we do know the packaging needs to look good for consumers to want to bring it home,” he said.
Vannoy said he anticipates that specialty items such as deli platters, deviled egg trays ad meat film will require innovation on the part of suppliers, and with it, added cost.
“We are fortunate to have vendors and staff members willing to explore new solutions that could change the way our industry thinks about deli packaging,” he said.
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Shrewsbury College students and staff will be hosting an African themed charity night in aid of Ugandan children’s charity, Omushana.
Omushana aims to make a positive contribution to children’s lives by improving their educational opportunities, welfare, confidence and enjoyment. The project was founded in 2014 by Gill Castle, from Shropshire and Emmy Gongo from Uganda.
Gill has been working closely with Progression Specialists Phil Castle and Lesley Urquhart from Shrewsbury College to raise awareness of the charity by organising a fun filled African themed evening later this month.
“We organise a wide variety of charity events throughout the year with the enrichment students at the College and when Gill came along to our Christmas Fayre last year, we were extremely interested in helping out in any way we could,” said Lesley.
“The evening will consist of an African-themed buffet, prepared, cooked and served by our Catering students and entertainment will be offered throughout the evening.
“Our enrichment students are currently working on making animal silhouettes, posters and table pieces to decorate the restaurant, and Gill will be bringing items from her recent trip to Uganda to sell, including, paper bead jewellery, woven baskets and animal wood carvings.
“We welcome and encourage anyone wanting to attend to come along and enjoy what promises to be a fantastic evening, for a fantastic cause,” she added.
The Omushana African charity night will take place on Thursday, 1 May at 7pm at Origins Restaurant at Shrewsbury College, London Road.
Tickets cost £15 single or £25 per couple. To book your ticket please email Phil Castle, email@example.com
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Obama urges 'political courage' to save Affordable Care Act
BOSTON — Barack Obama on Sunday night called on members of Congress to exercise the “political courage” to not repeal Obamacare — his first public comments about the law since the House voted to repeal it on Thursday, and a rare entry into the current political debate since leaving office.
“I hope they understand that courage means not simply doing what’s politically expedient, but doing what, deep in our hearts, we know is right,” Obama said, in a speech here at the John F. Kennedy Library accepting the Profiles in Courage award in honor of what would have been Kennedy’s 100th birthday.
“I expect to be busy, if not with a second career, at least a second act,” Obama said, promising more involvement.
Citing those who lost their seats after voting for the healthcare law in 2010, Obama described his “fervent hope” that current members “recognize it takes little courage to aid those who are already powerful, already comfortable, already influential — but it takes some courage to champion the vulnerable and the sick and the infirm, those who often have no access to the corridors of power.”
The contrast of an Obama celebration days after the House vote on his signature law and President Donald Trump’s repeated assertions that it’s “dead,” was on the minds of many in the room.
“It’s ironic, isn’t it?” said former interim Massachusetts Sen. Mo Cowan on his way into the event earlier in the evening.
“I think it is altogether fitting that we’re here this evening,” said Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.). “Barack Obama was able to pass the Affordable Care Act, a continuation of the vision of President Kennedy and Ted Kennedy. Today, Donald Trump is trying to destroy that vision.”
Some of that seemed to be on the mind of Arizona Sen. Jeff Flake, the lone Republican member of Congress who joined the library for the event (he’s on the award committee), held in a white-and-gold draped tent behind the library building. A moderate who had a good relationship with Obama in the White House and is now one of Democrats’ top two Senate targets for next year, Flake said he wants to start the Obamacare conversation from scratch.
“I wouldn’t expect the House bill to come through intact,” he said, also repeating that he opposes Trump’s border wall. “We’ll see. It’ll be a long process.”
Flake said he’s been happy to see Obama’s overall approach since the morning after the election to move toward unifying the country. Asked if he feels Trump has been unifying, Flake said, “at times. At times, not so much.”
Obama avoided any explicit comments about Trump, though he also made a passing mention of immigration reform, praising “Dreamers,” as the children brought undocumented by their parents to America whom he protected from deportation via executive orders while in office, “who push down their fears to keep working and striving in the only country they’ve ever called home.”
And lamenting politics “filled with division and discord,” Obama said, “everywhere, we see the risk of falling into the refuge of tribe and, and anger at those who don’t look like us or have the same surnames, or pray like we do.”
Obama has been edging slowly back into public after going dark for the first few months after leaving office. He made his first appearance, at a discussion with young leaders at the University of Chicago two weeks ago, and has since started doing paid speeches. Sunday was his first major speech as a former president, and he will now depart for an event at the Milan food summit with his friend and former White House chef Sam Kass and several other private events. He last week publicly endorsed French presidential winner Emmanuel Macron, and will travel to Berlin at the end of the month for an event with his friend and soul sister German Chancellor Angela Merkel, facing her own election campaign in the fall.
Like many Democrats, Obama found his own understanding of American politics challenged by Trump’s election, and continues to oppose the path that the new president is taking, demanding to see it as a hiccup rather than a new reality. He delivered the political but non-partisan call to action that he’s trying to thread, tying that to the spirit of Kennedy, calling the current environment a turning point in world history that demands the courage that the award is meant to recognize.
“At such moments, we need courage to stand up to hate — not just in others, but in ourselves,” Obama said. “At such moments, we need courage to believe that together, we can tackle big challenges like inequality and climate change.”
As he did at the Chicago event, Obama spoke about the need for more people to get involved in their communities and in politics, with a particular emphasis on young people.
The Kennedy family was happy to hear that message.
“One of the heartbreaking parts of our current political dynamic at the moment is that so many young people feel that politics isn’t a constructive path to address those concerns,” said Rep. Joe Kennedy III. “Yet many of those same young people looked at President Obama as somebody who inspired them and was willing to take on those challenges and was energized by them.”
As for Obama’s own record, historian David McCullough said, “We’ll have to wait 50 years for the dust to settle.”
“It really takes a great deal to chip away at a mountain — I think he built quite a mountain over time,” Cowan said.
The event was largely an Obama celebration, complete with James Taylor mini-concert — “It’s frankly a relief” to be with Obama and not thinking about Trump, the musician said as he kicked off a set that ended with a rendition of the French national anthem in honor of Macron’s win.
David Letterman, in blue-tinted glasses and the raggedy mass of a beard he’s grown since retiring from his late night show, said of the award, Obama “should get it every year.”
Despite his own dismay at Trump, Letterman said he didn’t need to hear Obama talk about the new president, but did want to hear Obama talk about inspiring a new generation to get involved.
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26 No. 4
|Up for Discussion
||A forum for members and member organizations to share ideas and concerns.
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Questionable Stereoformulas of Diastereomers
The comments below have been received in response to the ideas of using "thick" and "hatched" bonds to represent relative configurations expressed by G. Kaupp and M. Reza Naimi-Jamal in their article in the Jan-Feb 2004 Chemistry International (in print page 15). These comments add to the debate and will be considered in the course of the recently initiated IUPAC project on Graphical Representation Standards for Chemical Structure Diagrams, chaired by William Town—see project announcement (in print page 23).
by H.D. Flack
Kaupp and Naimi-Jamal's comments and suggestions are to be taken very seriously for the reporting of crystal and molecular structures determined by X-ray diffraction. We take this opportunity to express our point of view on some matters that relate directly to this subject.
matter what graphical representation is finally agreed upon
for molecular diagrams, we consider it essential that these
must be usable by a human chemist or crystallographer and
allow for a high degree of automatic checking by a computer.
Editors, co-editors, and editorial staff do not have the time
to go around checking the stereochemistry and labelling of
every diagram in every paper. Automation provides a very cost-effective
aid in the process of verifying scientific communications.
The molecular diagram must be machine-interpretable. Molecular
diagrams, molecular identifiers, and molecular names must
be designed so that they are in one-to-one correspondence
with one another. Moreover, any caption labelling of a molecular
diagram must be compatible with the presented molecular diagram.
In terms of the reporting of molecular structures from crystal-structure
determinations, we distinguish three distinct cases: enantiopure
compound of known absolute configuration, enantiopure compound
of unknown absolute configuration, or racemate.
The “Basic Terminology of Stereochemistry,” (1996) Pure Appl. Chem. 68, 2193–2222, gives the terminology for attributing distinct names to the compounds in these three classes. However Kaupp and Naimi-Jamal’s suggestions for molecular diagrams do not produce graphical representations of enantiopure compound of unknown absolute configuration distinct from racemate, and conversely. However the physical state of these two classes is very different and such properties as the melting point, optical activity, and CD spectrum would be different.
Although we have noted elsewhere [H.D. Flack (2003), Helv. Chem. Acta 86, 905–921] that the IUPAC naming of racemates may readily be extended to take account of enantiomeric mixtures in rational proportions other than 1:1, it is completely unclear to us how molecular diagrams should be presented in such cases.
The late André Collet brought to our attention that the definition of absolute configuration as given in the “Basic Terminology of Stereochemistry” (1996) is inadequate in one important respect. Essentially, his argument is that it is useless to specify a stereo-configuration by a molecular diagram or molecular name unless it is accompanied by an appropriate physical characterization of the bulk compound. [see H. D. Flack and G. Bernardinelli (1999) Acta Cryst. A55, 908–915 for a full and open-access discussion.]
Flack <[email protected]>
is professor at the Laboratoire de Cristallographie, at the
University of Geneva, Switzerland. <www.flack.ch/howard/cristallo/Howard.Flack.html>
by Michinori Oki
someone interested in conformation, I cannot agree with Kaupp
and Naimi-Jamal's suggestion because it is quite different
from common practice.
paper states that “wedged chemical formula should be
used only for indication of absolute configuration.”
We had known that IUPAC wanted to indicate stereochemistry
by using solid or hatched lines as shown in the figure below.
But this is very inconvenient in discussing conformations.
reprinted from Jan-Feb 2004
CI. According to Kaupp and Naimi-Jamal, formula
A, or even more distinct formula B (traditionally with
exactly the same meaning), will then rightfully look like
formula C (alternatively like formula D), if it is not
the (1R,4S,5S)-enantiomer, but the racemate of this diastereomer.
therefore have used wedges to indicate that the bond in question
is directed to the rear of the paper and the solid wedge directed
toward the eye. Incidentally, normal lines or solid or hatched
lines, if they do not change in width, mean that these are
in the plane of the paper. Therefore, the formula C below
does not provide any information about conformation. However,
if one use wedges, it is easy to recognize that a bond in
question is is antiperiplanar (ap) or synclinal (sc) to a
given bond that is attached to the neighboring carbon. I hope
that IUPAC does not adopt Kraupp’s proposal, unless
the usage of formula C is confined to indication of configurations.
Rather, wedges should be recommended for indication of the
direction of a bond in question.
Michinori Oki <[email protected]> is an IUPAC Fellow who recently retired from the Okayama University of Science, Japan.
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The Guardian reports this morning that:
Britain is facing the highest risk of a recession since the financial crisis and needs urgent plans to combat the next downturn, according to an alarming assessment of the nation’s economic health.
Preparations need to be made to reduce the impact, the study by the Resolution Foundation thinktank warns. It states that both uncertainty around Brexit and the global economic slowdown have led to the highest recession risk since 2007.
I happen to agree with that, an so do many commentators from Mark Carney at the Bank of England onwards.
What I do not agree with is this:
James Smith, its research director, warned against complacency. “Policy-makers can’t prevent recessions from happening, but they can limit their damage with the right policy response. The problem for the incoming government and the Bank of England however is that many of the tools used to fight the last downturn — from big interest rate cuts to £375bn of QE — are either spent or severely blunted. So whether or not a downturn starts in the near future, planning for it certainly should.”
So what?, is my point with regard to this. The recession we will have now is not the same as we had in 2008. And the answer has to be different.
As the FT noted in 2015:
Mr Murphy said on Thursday that people’s QE would be essential by 2020 because the economy would probably have taken a battering by then. “ China’s currency devaluation is likely to export deflation, to prick the housing bubble and to prick the investment bubble,” he said. “But if it is not China, it will be something else – there are significant other problems which the chancellor is doing nothing about.”
And yes, it is China now: it has just reported its lowest growth in 27 years. Admittedly, I did not allow for Trump, but I covered the risk.
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On the heels of a Daily News report Thursday that detailed the Kingsbridge National Ice Center proposal by Wall Street banker Kevin Parker and other hockey fan investors, rival bidder Young Woo & Associates announced a new partnership with the rock climbing gym Brooklyn Boulders.
The Gowanus gym has joined Young Woo's bid for a mixed-use armory with stores, a movie theater, restaurant stalls and a creative market for entrepreneurs.
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The ice center proposal was out of the gate early, turning heads this spring after Bronx officials were bused to tour a youth hockey program in Philadelphia. Parker and his group want to create a similar program with academic tutoring for Bronx youth.
But the Young Woo bid has also emerged as a contender. It includes plans for a flexible town square that would host cultural events and sports in addition to a weekend market, and an agreement with Crunch fitness club.
The ice sports complex boosters and Young Woo both claim they dont need taxpayer dollars, but city officials are cautiously vetting the finances of both bidders.
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The ice sports center developers want the New York Academy of Sciences to oversee their tutoring program, and Young Woo has co-opted market operator USM and world music promoter Putumayo, along with Brooklyn Boulders and the New York Gauchos, a Bronx youth basketball program known nationally for grooming NBA stars such as Kenny Anderson, Chris Mullin, Jamal Mashburn and Taj Gibson.
The administration previously selected The Related Companies to redevelop the armory as a big-box shopping mall but the plan was shot down by the City Council in 2009 over wage concerns.
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[Python-ideas] Yield-from: Details to be decided
greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Fri Feb 20 23:15:59 CET 2009
I've got to the point in the implementation where I
need to decide what to do if you send() a value to
a generator that's delegating to something that
doesn't have a send() method.
* Ignore the value and call next() instead
* Raise an exception
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|Historic Years||2016 - 2020|
|Forecast Years||2021 - 2028|
|Segments Covered||By Product Type, By Application, and By End Use|
|Forecast Units||Value (USD Billion), and Volume (Units)|
|Quantitative Units||Revenue in USD million/billion and CAGR from 2021 to 2028|
|Regions Covered||North America, Europe, Asia Pacific, Latin America, and Middle East & Africa, and Rest of World|
|Countries Covered||U.S., Canada, Mexico, U.K., Germany, France, Italy, Spain, China, India, Japan, South Korea, Brazil, Argentina, GCC Countries, and South Africa, among others|
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The occupant classification system (OCS) market is projected to grow rapidly in the future, owing to the increasing awareness of vehicle safety systems in China and India. As per the WHO, around 1.24 million mortalities are caused by road accidents annually. Car accidents are the major cause of death worldwide, which is likely to force the automotive suppliers to offer improved vehicle safety in their vehicles. There is a significant need to identify the position and weight of the occupant to prevent any kind of injuries owing to airbag impacts. The growing deployment of developed smart airbag systems which is further likely to lead towards the advancement of the passive occupant detection systems and is expected to fuel the global occupant classification system (OCS) market.
This market is likely to grow in most of the developed regions, such as European countries as well as in the U.S. In these regions, governments have made these systems compulsory in all car/vehicle models. Countries like China and India have huge growth potential in this sector, as there are promising airbag safety rules in Asian countries. While there are considerable growth prospects for the global occupant classification system (OCS) market, some aspects can restrict the market development to some extent. Several governments are likely to offer mandatory regulations for these kinds of systems, which will force the automotive suppliers to execute these systems in their cars in a cost-effective manner. This will increase costs and may negatively impact automotive sales.
Global Occupant Classification System (OCS) Market: Segmentation
By sensor, the occupant classification system (OCS) market is fragmented into seat belt tension sensor and pressure sensor. In terms of component, the occupant classification system (OCS) market is bifurcated into sensors and airbag control units. In terms of light-duty vehicle class, the global market is classified into mid-size, economy, and luxury. The occupant classification system (OCS) market is also segmented into EV Type.
Global Occupant Classification System (OCS) Market: Regional Analysis
The occupant classification system (OCS) market in the Asia Pacific region is anticipated to hold the largest market share and show a considerable CAGR in the upcoming years. This regional dominance can be accredited to the escalating vehicle production in the region and the rising implementation of highly developed safety and security technologies in vehicles. The growth in the number of leading OEMs and automotive component producers in the emerging economies of India and China will also fuel the occupant classification system (OCS) market in the Asia Pacific over the estimated timeframe.
Global Occupant Classification System (OCS) Market: Competitive Players
Some main participants in the occupant classification system (OCS) market are Bosch, ZF, TE Connectivity, IEE Sensing, and Aptiv, among others.
Global Occupant Classification System (OCS) Market: Regional Segment Analysis
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500 Glen Dr, Vancouver BC
Originally constructed by the Downer family in 1904, the James and Lillian Downer Houses, along with 512 Glen Drive and 520 Glen Drive, (also constructed by the Downers) are part of a streetscape telling a story of how early immigrants (in this case, from England) maximized the development potential of their properties.
The “duplexes” incorporate generous three bedroom units with porches and small yards, indicating the economic prosperity at the time of their construction.
The residence first appears in city directories in 1912 as 500 Glen Drive, with James F. Downer listed as the resident. James worked as a packer at the B.C. Sugar Refinery.
The address was officially revised from 1106-1110 East Pender Street to 500 Glen Drive in 2018.
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In 1835 the agricultural worker Rivière (1815-40) carried out the murders in a small village in Calvados (14), Normandy, where he was born. He was sent to Beaulieu prison in Caen, where he killed himself in 1840.
Pierre's mother had shown little interest in him after the birth of his sister Victoire, and his parents – living in Aunay-sur-Odon – split up when he was four years old, which had a strong mental effect on him. Inexplicably, his mother then gained custody of Pierre, who was very attached to his father. The couple continued to meet and have children.
When Pierre was ten his mother (described by Pierre as 'hysterical') threw him and his sister Aimée out of the house and they went to live with the father. In 1934 Pierre's mother, who was financially bleeding her husband, violently threatened the father in front of her son. Wanting to defend his father, on 3 June of that year Pierre took a billhook and slit the throats of his mother (who ws pregnant at the time), his sister Victoire, and his young brother Jules. He spent a month wandering about 600 km living on grasses and roots until he was discovered.
Pierre didn't tell any lies, told those examining him that he had wished to protect his father, and his very well-written forty-page 'autobiography' is a highly remarkable piece work. Pierre's lawyer gathered doctors together, who came to the conclusion that the balance of his mind had been disturbed since he was four. On 12 November 1835 Pierre was found guilty of murder, although the death sentence was commuted to life imprisonment.
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According to the audio presentation, all of the following are ways in which officials tried to make Manzanar as much of a self-contained community as possible except for which two statements?
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Statement 2: They offer a variety of stores and shops for people to shop at.
Statement 3: They created a golf course, though there is no grass.
Statement 4: They established schools for the children of Manzanar so as not to interrupt their education.
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...this volume constitutes a very interesting, relevant and necessary insight into the legitimacy of courts entrusted with the task of reasoning and balancing rights. All chapters are of a very high academic standard and can be used not only by legal professionals but also by undergraduate and postgraduate students.
…every university library should have this book in their catalogue. It can be recommended to a broad spectrum of law specialists interested in human rights and comparative law, European and international law as well as constitutional and administrative law.
Kanstantsin Dzehtsiarou, Public Law
This book is available on Bloomsbury Collections where your library has access.
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Essential Requirements of Effective Communication
When both the sender and receiver perceive the meaning of communication almost in the same way, it is called effective communication. Proper performance of organizational activities and thus attainment of its goals largely depends on effective communication. Effective communication requires some conditions or elements or factors. These are discussed below:
Pre-thinking about the message is an important quality of good communication. Communication should always be in common and easily understandable language so that it may not be misunderstood by the persons receiving it. Pre-thinking enables the sender to develop a creative message and to transmit it efficiently.
- Specific objective:
Communication occurs with specific objectives. The message to be communicated should be adequate and complete in all respects since incomplete information turns out to be dangerous from the viewpoint of business. Therefore, the communicator must know the objective of communication and must arrange the message accordingly.
Proper attention should be given to the timing and timeliness of the communication. The usefulness of any message depends on its timely transmission. Even in an emergency one dare not overlook the situational, psychological, and technical aspect of timing. If the message is not transmitted inappropriate time, its utility is lost. So the communicator should consider the time of communication. Moreover, it is also necessary that information should be given in time as out-of-date information is as bad as or worse than none at all.
Another important quality of good communication as the message should be concise. It implies that first of all the communicator must be clear in his mind with the information he wants to communicate. A concise message is one that contains only relevant and necessary facts to avoid repetition and organize properly.
Good communication transmits a complete message so that the receiver can understand the full meaning of the message. The adequacy of information being transmitted depends upon the intellectual capabilities of parties concerned. The sender should not sacrifice completeness to attain conciseness.
Persuasiveness is another important quality of good communication. Self-contradictory messages always create chaos and confusion in the organization which is highly detrimental to the efficient running of the enterprise. It helps to develop a positive attitude of the receiver towards the message.
Business communication becomes effective when it excludes irrelevant facts. Concreteness is essential to express the communicator’s view to the receiver unambiguously. All aspects of oral or written communication must be carefully examined.
Feedback is an important method of ensuring effective communication. Good communication always keeps the provision of feedback. It refers to the confirmation of the idea communicated whether the message has been understood by the receiver in the same sense in which the sender makes or whether the recipient is agreed or disagreed to the proposal of the communicator, makes it essential on the part of the sender to confirm it from the receiver. Feedback ensures that the message has reached the intended receiver.
- Mutual Interest:
When communication considers the interest of both sender and receiver, it is treated as good communication. This will provide additional insight and objectivity to the message. If the ignores the interest of the receiver, communication may fail to attain its goal.
- Use of appropriate language:
Good communication always uses appropriate language. The communicator must be careful about the language he uses while speaking or writing. Appropriate language avoids ambiguous and complex words, misleading non-verbal cues technical jargon, poetic words, etc.
- Considering the receiver:
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GEG gets almost sensible with chemtrails, but then suggests that any attack against a plane would be a "false flag".
There is no one more concerned than I am about the damaging effects of pollution and toxic waste in our atmosphere as a byproduct of the industrial age, and no one is more convinced than I that this is being greatly increased by the high-altitude spraying of aluminum, barium, and strontium compounds for the purpose of weather modification. Geoengineering is what they call it, and it is claimed by its advocates that the resulting damage to crops, wildlife, and human health is worth it because it will reduce the greater horrors that are associated with global warming – or so we are told.
By now, most of you know my position on this. In brief, it is that (1) the planet now is in a cooling stage. (2) It recently went through a brief and relatively minor warming stage directly related to sun-spot activity. (3) Previous periods in history experienced warming cycles that were more severe than the recent one. (4) CO2 is a beneficial greenhouse gas, not a harmful one. And (5) the global-warming myth was created as a political ploy to frighten us into accepting ever-increasing government control over all aspects of our lives in the name of environmentalism.
Largely as a result of the production of two excellent video documentaries on this topic (What in the World Are They Spraying? and Why in the World Are They Spraying?) there is a surge of awakening to this fact and a rising tide of public indignation. The awakening is wonderful to see because it is making it increasingly difficult for those who are implementing this program to conceal it in plain view. The indignation part also is welcome because it is a measure of the public resolve to confront our political representatives and demand full disclosure. Indignation, however, based on false assumptions can be a dangerous thing because it could lead to actions that would injure innocent people and seriously damage our movement.
DESTROY CHEMTRAIL PLANES IN FLIGHT??
An excellent example showed up on my desk several weeks ago in the form of an email from an angry citizen. He wrote:
"Its too late to try going through our corrupt gov. We need to take the planes down.
They should not be allowed to take off. The scientists who think they're doing something good for the planet need to be shown the truth. Let the people know where these planes are taking off from, and we will stop them. I've heard that a laser pen can take down a plane, hopefully, before it gets over populations. I, my friends, and family all have a sinus infection that antibiotics won't touch. I've had it three years in a row now. Chemtrails: I will do what ever it takes to stop them."
This was my reply: "We have tracked hundreds of these planes and learned that almost all of them are commercial flights loaded with passengers. They are not tankers. It appears that the chemicals either have been added to the fuel or sprayed into the atmosphere by seeder planes so the chemicals (which would have to be transparent gas) interact with moisture in the exhaust of commercial planes. Either way, the pilots know nothing of this effect – and certainly the passengers don't either. To put it mildly, it is not a good idea to advocate shooting them down."
CHECKERBOARD SKY IS NOT PROOF OF CHEMTRAILS
Another point that needs to be understood is that there is a logical explanation for the checkerboard patterns often seen in the sky that does not necessarily support the conclusion that they are evidence of chemtrail spraying. There usually are significant movements of air at the altitudes where chemtrails appear. Let us assume that the wind is blowing at 30 miles per hour and that it is moving at 90 degrees to the direction of flight. Let us also assume that there is a new flight that moves along the same path every fifteen minutes, which is not unusual in heavily traveled flight paths. In that case, the trail left by a plane will be blown sideways by 7.5 miles by the time the next plane arrives along the same path. That creates two parallel trails 7.5 miles apart. When the third plane arrives along the same path, the wind will cause three parallel trails, and so on. The casual observer might conclude that three planes have traversed the sky parallel to each other or that the same plane flew back and forth in different sectors of the sky but, in truth, there were three planes following each other along the same flight path.
Now let's assume that the wind is blowing at 45 degrees to the direction of these planes and that their flight path is intersected by another flight path for planes traveling at 90 degrees to the first flight path. This, also is common. Of course, the two paths are separated from each other by a substantial difference in altitude but, to an observer on the ground, it may appear that they are at the same altitude.
If we imagine that the planes in the second flight path also are flying one after the other, we can see that they, too, will leave parallel trails but they will be at 90 degrees to the first set of parallel trails. The result will be a checkerboard in the sky that looks like the planes flew back and forth at various points but, in truth, the pattern can be created by multiple planes flying only two stationary paths that intersect each other.
That still leaves open the question of exactly how these chemicals are delivered into the atmosphere. To be perfectly honest, I must tell you that I do not know. I have a few favorite theories but, as of now, there is not sufficient proof, especially for the skeptics. However, we have the assistance of a professional team of scientists and engineers who are working on the puzzle and, as soon as we have their report, we will publish it – even if it should conclude that they, too, do not have the answer. There is much yet to learn and much to do.
WHY IS A DATA BASE OF THREATS BEING BUILT?
It has come to my attention that so-called debunkers of chemtrails are putting quite a bit of effort into creating a data base of comments on the Internet that advocate violence against pilots or planes. Why are they doing this? The answer is obvious. They are anticipating that, sooner or later, some misguided hothead, egged-on and equipped by an agent provocateur, will do something sufficiently horrible to justify putting the blame on our movement. They probably are hoping to haul into court all outspoken chemtrail opponents as being responsible for the tragedy because they "enflamed passions" with "conspiracy theories" and, therefore, must be punished. Perhaps they are hoping that even the mere threat of doing this will be enough to silence our movement.
I urge everyone to take this possibility seriously. We are up against professionals who are expert at neutralizing and marginalizing their opposition. Using an event of this kind for that purpose is a well-honed weapon in their arsenal. Let's not participate in a witch hunt that would make it easy for those who want to silence us. Tell everyone you know that these planes are piloted by men and women who have no idea of the role they play in this scenario. Tell them that the planes are loaded with innocent passengers who do not deserve to be victims of attacks against the planes they occupy.
Thanks again for being part of our crusade.
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|E Minor Major 7 chord intervals and notes|
|Intervals||1 - b3 - 5 - 7|
|Notes in E m-maj7||E - G - B - D# (Eb)|
The m(maj7) chords are not used too often, but if used, they will be a passing chord usually to a m7 chord.
E Minor Major 7 Chord Charts, Fingering, Voicings
Here are 6 voicings of the Em-maj7 guitar chord, with a chord chart to each voicings' fingering.
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Did you know that relaxation techniques are a great way to reduce pain? The ironic thing about pain and stress is that together they can compound the levels of pain and stress that you feel. If you have pain, then it is stressful on your body, but this stress causes your muscles to tense up even more, making your pain worse. Professionals and researchers believe that it is very beneficial for someone in pain to find ways to relax their mind because it can improve the pain perceptions their body feels. Many people have found relaxation by practicing meditation, exercise, yoga, tai chi, etc.
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The 1940 Air Terminal Museum at Hobby Airport In Houston will partner with local artist GONZO247 to paint a 1969 Hawker jet, which is parked outdoors at the museum’s entrance.
The air terminal originally opened in 1940 and was completely abandoned in 1978 and left vacant until it re-opened as the Terminal Museum in 2004. For this project, the museum collaborated with organizations across Houston for suggestions on symbols and icons of the city to be included in the mural. Painting will begin on Thursday, May 23, 2019 and will probably end on Sunday, June 2.
States Amy Rogers, Executive Director of the Terminal Museum: “The true success of the art project will be measured by the ways we are able to engage the public at large and build bridges in the Houston community.”
Mario E. Figueroa, Jr., publicly known as GONZO247, was born and raised in Houston and is an early pioneer in local graffiti and street culture. He has participated in over 300 exhibitions and murals over the last 30 years. GONZO247 says of the project, “When I first saw the jet, I couldn’t believe that it was going to be my canvas! I have transformed cars and even beer silos, but this is a project of a whole different scale.”
The 1940 Air Terminal Museum is located at 8325 Travelair Street, Houston, TX 77061 (west side of Hobby Airport) and is open Tuesday – Saturday 10am-5pm and Sunday 1-5pm. Follow the transformation of the jet on Instagram @1940atm. There will be live demonstration by GONZO247 on Saturday, June 1 at 11am. | <urn:uuid:40960972-9dab-45cf-8f9b-c17e59f2003b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://glasstire.com/2019/05/23/historic-air-terminal-partners-with-houston-artist-gonzo247/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570977.50/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809124724-20220809154724-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.962339 | 352 | 2.09375 | 2 |
With every New Year, there are new cosmetic treatments as both men and women are constantly on the lookout to enhance their appearance. We’ve heard of botox treatments, skin lifting, permanent hair removal through laser and also permanent make-up. The latest addition and quite the raging trend of the year is microblading. If you’re new to this term, read along to understand what is microblading.
So what exactly is microblading?
Microblading is a tattoo technique. It is semi-permanent in nature and needs timely touch-ups to help maintain the effect. Microblading is done on the eyebrows to give them a naturally fuller look. It works really well and makes it almost impossible for anyone to make out the difference. Microblading had turned out to be a boon for those with scanty eyebrows genetically or who have lost hair on the eyebrows as a result of alopecia, scars, surgeries, or any other similar issue. The colour of the hair can be made to match your original hair colour using varied shades, so the appearance is made to look as natural as possible.
How is microblading done?
The procedure gets its name for the tool used to do it. A microblade is a small hand-held tool with nine fine needle with sharp and small points. The needles are used to repeatedly break through the first layer of skin and transfer very small amounts of pigment of the same colour as your hair. The pigment is applied in feathery strokes in the direction of your hair growth that creates fine hair-like lines on the skin. This is done through the length of the entire eyebrow to give an appearance of naturally fuller looking eyebrows. Microblading procedure requires at least two sittings and costs somewhere around $600 to $800. As mentioned before, it is semi-permanent and so the colour may fade over time requiring you to get it done again at frequent intervals. Ready-made Microblading starter kits are available that are easy to understand and use.
How long does microblading last?
So now that we know what is microblading, the next important question is how long does it last. Microblading lasts for two to three years. It might start fading after the first year, but that depends on the pigment used, your skin health and texture. Oily skin produces more sebum which causes the pigment to wash away faster. So you might need frequent touch-ups just like tattoos and body art. For dry or combination skin, a touch-up post 8 or 9 months works well.
How long does it take to heal?
It typically takes around 10 to 12 days to heal. The colour pigment is absorbed by your skin as the scars heal. During this time, the skin might turn red and be sensitive to touch. An ice pack massage will help soothe the discomfort.
How to get started with microblading?
If you wish to get started as a microblading artist, then you need to know the art inside out. Get your facts right and study the process until you are entirely familiar with it. Since it is a long-term commitment, it requires you to submit your time, money and effort into it as you will with any other new course or diploma you take up.
Microblading is a form of tattooing which is going to stay on your client’s face for quite some time. You can’t go wrong with it. So you will need to get trained professionally. Get a certification and a license to get started with it.
You can always begin with a full-fledged course to teach you in-depth about the procedure. The government certified course will give you certification that deems you fit to start a business of your own in the field. The next step is getting a license. This varies from state to state and you will need to find out the rules for your own state. Always choose an institute that has global recognition in the field, otherwise if you move to another state or city, your certificate will not hold any value.
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In celebration of the 24th anniversary of Germany’s unification, the German Senior National Representative, Colonel Peter M. Baierl and the German contingent based in Stavanger, Norway, hosted a festive reception on 3 October for all JWC staff, represented by 16 Nations, and their families.
“The Day of German Unity” (Tag der Deutschen Einheit) is a national holiday in Germany and it commemorates the anniversary of the German unification that went into effect in 1990, a year after the Iron Curtain was torn down.
Welcoming the guests, Major General Reinhard Wolski, Commander JWC, provided insight into the events that led to the fall of the Berlin Wall on 9 November 1989, an event which is as much a part of world history as it is a milestone of German history.
Major General Wolski said: “We are truly grateful for the support European countries provided to Germany and its people during that fragile phase before 3 October 1990. Undoubtedly, the United States of America has been always the earliest and greatest supporter of the re-unification idea and its swift realization, and General Watkins, Roger, a special thank-you to you and all American people.”
Major General Wolski then noted that because the German unification was based on great effort and support from other nations, Germany today actively participates in multi-national operations to defend or restore peace and human rights when called upon by organizations such as NATO, the UN or the European Union.
“Germany, as of today, is engaged in 12 coalition operations around the world,” Major General Wolski said, adding: “The gift of freedom in peace and unity is the reason why Germany assumed responsibility for making Afghanistan, Kosovo and Bosnia a better place --- together with you, our partners and friends. Thank you.”
Another highlight of the celebration was the guest appearance of Das Musikkorps der Bundeswehr (established in 1957) which later in the evening performed a joint concert with the Royal Norwegian Naval Forces Band (Sjøforsvarets Musikkorps) in Stavanger’s Kuppelhallen (details below).
Following the band’s performance, the guests enjoyed the anniversary reception featuring traditional German culinary specialties along with German wines, a splendid anniversary cake baked by Tanja Eissfeldt, as well as various cultural presentations.
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Outstanding joint concert by the Royal Norwegian Naval Forces Band and the Concert Band of the German Armed Forces
The evening performance in Kuppelhallen was an outstanding example of cooperation through music: “Thank you and well done to all that took part in this event; the concert was outstanding,” Major General Reinhard Wolski said.
“I would like to extend my sincere thanks to Mr. Terje Boye Hansen from the Norwegian Naval Band as well as Lieutenant Colonel Christoph Scheibling from the Musikkorps der Bundeswehr. We had the opportunity to listen to an extraordinary entertaining programme tonight. And those who are not here missed a great performance.”
Major General Wolski then praised the young Norwegian recruits who were present and said: “We hope you enjoyed the concert, but even more important than this, thank you very much indeed for serving your country and NATO; you can feel very proud about this honourable duty.”
Major General Wolski also thanked the Chief of Madla Camp for their outstanding support to the Joint Warfare Centre (JWC). He said: “Stavanger is home to both the JWC and Camp Madla, and without your support JWC’s mission would be quite impossible; so thank you very much for your strong support and cooperation.”
Following Major General Wolski’s speech, the concert concluded with the national anthems of Norway and Germany.
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Raspberry Pi Compatible
The Raspberry Pi 3B+ is a single board computer about the size of a credit card. It can run Raspbian or Ubuntu Linux, Windows 10 IoT core or even a dedicated media centre OS. Use it to start learning about Linux or IoT.
The bank of GPIO pins allows you to interact with the real world using Scratch or Python. It's even possible to connect an Arduino board to the Raspberry Pi 3B+, or even connect Arduino modules to the GPIO pins. You could use our huge range of duinotech modules to turn your Raspberry Pi 3B+ into a connected sensor hub.
Modular compliance certification allows the board to be designed into end products without the need for further wireless compliance testing.
- Quad Core 1.4GHz Broadcom BCM2837B0 64bit CPU
- Dual band 2.4GHz / 5.0GHz wireless
- Bluetooth 4.2/BLE
- Faster Ethernet
- PoE capability via a separate PoE HAT.
- 1GB LPDDR2 SDRAM
- Extended 40-pin GPIO header
- Full-size HDMI
- 4 USB 2.0 ports
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German automaker Volkswagen Group admitted to flagrant violations of U.S. consumer and environmental laws in 2016, and agreed to pay $17.4 billion for rigging more than a half million vehicles to evade pollution regulations, deceiving customers and lying to the government about its unlawful conduct.
Volkswagen’s stark admission and the huge legal settlements, which funnel unprecedented resources into programs to reduce air pollution and compensate car owners, were the result of a painstaking investigation led by Phillip Brooks and Byron Bunker of the Environmental Protection Agency and Josh Van Eaton from the Department of Justice.
The three men, each with separate expertise in the regulatory, technical and legal aspects of the inquiry, led teams of scientists, engineers and attorneys who gathered the facts and built a rock-solid case documenting blatant violations of the Clean Air Act. The team conducted lengthy negotiations resulting in the largest penalty ever assessed against a car manufacturer. Their inquiry also helped lay the foundation for subsequent criminal investigations that have resulted in indictments against senior Volkswagen executives and a total of $4.3 billion in civil and criminal penalties and fines.
Other settlements with Volkswagen involved U.S. Customs and Border Protection to address import violations, and the Federal Trade Commission, which filed a separate complaint against the company for false advertising.
The case was extremely difficult and complex, but the three men showed a “doggedness” to get to the truth and hold Volkswagen accountable, said Cynthia Giles, a former assistant administrator at the EPA. The trio “never wavered from the bottom-line goal of solving the public health threat,” she said, and insisted that VW not just comply with the law, but also admit to its wrongdoing and pay penalties commensurate with the harm caused.
The case had its genesis in 2014 when an independent organization comparing emissions of European and American diesel engines found that Volkswagen diesels were emitting up to 40 times more nitrogen oxide when driven on the road than when tested in the laboratory. When the EPA pressed VW for an explanation, the company agreed to recall some vehicles, but insisted that the results were merely technical glitches.
After further testing showed that there was still a disparity between lab and on-road emissions, the EPA and the California Air Resources Board, which enforces its own stringent environmental standards, withheld certification for VW’s 2016 vehicles until the issue was clarified.
With the looming threat of being barred from selling diesel vehicles in the U.S. because of the high pollution levels, Volkswagen admitted that the issue was not a technical problem or an innocent mistake, but that the company had installed software intentionally to fool regulators on true emission levels that violated federal standards. The devices used by VW detected when a car was being tested in a lab and lowered emissions to legal levels to comply with the law.
“The company officials chose not to come clean until they realized they couldn’t sell vehicles in the U.S. and it would be a big problem,” said Bunker.
Prior to the first legal settlement, but after EPA had enough facts in hand, agency officials issued a notice of clean air violations accusing VW of causing tons of nitrogen oxide to enter the atmosphere. The revelation prompted cars owners around the country to file some 500 class-action lawsuits claiming they were deceived into buying polluting cars they thought were environmentally friendly. Numerous states and car dealers also filed lawsuits.
“I knew this would be a big deal, but I had no idea how big,” Bunker said. “The owners felt misled and complicit. It was a personal thing for them. People were embarrassed to be driving Volkswagens.”
Bunker directs the EPA office that conducts tests to ensure compliance with clean air regulations, and helped nail down the details of the violations by the company. Brooks leads the EPA air quality enforcement office and Van Eaton is a trial attorney who took charge of the civil litigation. Together, they developed enforcement, legal and negotiation strategies, and spent months going toe-to-toe with the company until they agreed to a comprehensive and stringent settlement.
John Cruden, a former assistant attorney general, said Van Eaton “became an expert on the law of emissions for trucks, cars and diesel engines,” coordinated the litigation, and kept five federal agencies, and the states and attorneys handling the class-action lawsuits, apprised of the proceedings.
Janet McCabe, a former acting EPA assistant administrator, said the three men and their colleagues were dedicated to ensuring that the law was enforced. After six months of lengthy negotiations, during which “people were willing to stand up and walk out of the meetings,” she said, the government and Volkswagen agreed on a settlement that addressed the violations of the law, mitigated environmental damage and compensated individual car owners.
Brooks said the team hopes that the impact of the settlement “will pay dividends for years to come.” He said the EPA has already changed testing procedures to prevent deception, allowing them to more effectively enforce regulations.
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Our Top 5 Apps for Teens
- 2019-07-12 11:50
We are not going to speak about adolescent age now. Of course, teens can be uncontrolled and unfocused and the “messy room” syndrome is well known as an attempt to live on their own terms. Experts recommend to survive this period.
But in addition to psychological reasons, there is a quite clear explanation of young people’s disarray: this is a natural part of growth change, which a young person cannot cope with easily. She has to deal with new rules, plenty of tasks, a tough schedule of activities, an increased number of people to communicate. This new reality requires to behave in a more mature way and there is no sufficient experience.
Follow Routine Easily
In order to compensate for disorganization, we highly recommend using mobile applications. It is quite possible to remove anxiety, not to be overwhelmed and exhausted. Modern products make teens organized and, as a result, they start studying better, have a sound sleep and form their stable personal habits: responsibility, accuracy, readiness, and more.
Moreover, technology suggests challenges and develops useful skills in an easy and playful manner. There are even homework apps. In fact, you can be lost in that wide diversity, and we are going to narrow the search and represent some popular and reliable products which are definitely worth your attention.
One of the most required applications for teens is Evernote. They even call it a second brain due to its diverse and smart tools allowing to arrange issues du jour. It is created with a focus on visual comprehension and is packed with very useful options. You can take notes with it, create lists, scan in handwritten papers with your camera, make sketches, and more. All important papers will be properly arranged and kept always within reach on your mobile device.
It will be difficult to lose an essential document from now on. The files are stored in folders. There is a simple and efficient searching system. You are suggested to use keywords to find what you need at the moment regardless of the format: whether it is typed or written, an image or a text. The app provides reliable protection of data. It runs in a fast and smooth way. In addition, you can use a browser extension on a computer and mobile application on the go simultaneously. The content is synchronized easily and accessible on any device with iPhone and Android operating systems.
This application is good for school work. Download iHomework to stay the best in this activity. It allows to perform the tasks easy, to enter class schedule, contacts, and more. If you want, you can attach syllabus. The app allows to track all tests, assignments, and any information that matters including grades. It is very convenient to plan out a schedule for a day or any period, set reminders and get a notification in time. If there is a need, you can take a weekly or monthly view to ensure that you are ready for all coming events. This stunning tool is available only for iPhone. If you have an Android device, try its alternative – iStudiez.
Now it is high time to develop good habits with the help of Streaks created exactly for teens to learn to be organized. We would say that it delivers a simple and almost addicting way to track your goals and understand whether you complete the challenges and achieve the results. You can view the time left to perform some work. That helps to stay concentrated on those specific tasks. It is good not only for studying, it is also very useful for building healthy habits. It will make you more responsible. You will keep your rooms and any space around clean, do homework on time, learn a specified amount each day. It is available both for iOS and Android.
This marvelous application is not large and complicated. Its purpose is to teach users to stay on-task, when business before pleasure. You will learn to balance study and rest. And that could be not so easy as it seems without external help. There are mates which always will tempt to join them for a walk. Here the application comes.
You are suggested to enter tasks and to-do lists into the app. In order to classify them in accordance with urgency, importance, or class, you should apply color-coding. When it is time, select a task and spend your efforts to perform during a given time. The app counts down that time and suggests the time for a break. You can adjust these ratios but default settings are 30/30. This is a healthy balance between free and homework time making you forget about procrastination. The app can be used only on the iPhones. For Android devices there is Do Now with similar functions.
Plan It Do It Check It Off
And at last, we would like to offer you Plan It Do It Check It Off. The application is based on visual perception providing pictures and images for time arrangement. It looks like Instagram a little bit. You can customize the app as you like, add audio and follow your task list without failures and delays. There are features suited for teens with learning disabilities. You can use this app only on iPhone.
It Really Works
There are really a lot of apps developed to help teens with the organization of their life. With them, you are able to train important skills and follow routines easily and with pleasure. When you use them, you become successful and taken seriously by people around you. You can select several of them and benefit from their functionality.
We suppose that you definitely should pay your attention to some visual schedulers, calendaring and storyboarding apps. Almost any software can be customized. You are offered to add stories, events, contacts, and activities that are essential in your life. And be sure that they help you to complete work on time, to create plans and to follow them. You will change your mind and become more reliable and responsible.
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Published: January 04, 2019
Natural Disasters, 11th edition focuses on explaining how the normal processes of Earth concentrate their energies and deal heavy blows to humans and their structures. Students have a natural curiosity about natural disasters and why they occur. This text explains why natural disasters occur by interweaving the themes of Energy sources, Plate tectonics, climate change, Earth Processes, geologic time, the complexities of multiple variables operating simultaneously throughout the text. Detailed and interesting Case histories are also intertwined with current content to give students a broad historical understanding of our dynamic and evolving planet. | <urn:uuid:99c7fbf3-668e-48ed-be65-ee1bad11796e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://shop.mheducation.com/store/services/loginview?flow=sampling&isbn=9781260504248 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571210.98/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810191850-20220810221850-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.91709 | 133 | 3.453125 | 3 |
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Knowing the liquid-water fraction (LWF) in the rain/snow transition zone has useful applications in hydrology, road transportation, and aviation. Several control parameters that dictate the LWF are identified through a series of idealized, two-dimensional experiments using a spectral-bin microphysical model. These are the stability, the drop-size distribution (DSD), and the degree of riming (RF). The most important of these is stability. Though DSD and RF have secondary impacts, they are still non-negligible. In real case studies, stability can be determined from numerical-model output, but DSD and RF are unknown. Therefore, several sets of experiments are conducted to gauge the effects of DSD and RF variations on the rain/snow transition zone for actual case studies of orographic precipitation in the western United States. Each experiment uses a unique combination of DSD and RF, which are assumed to be constant across the entire domain. These experiments show that DSD and RF have nontrivial effects on the LWF and depth of the rain/snow transition zone. In some case studies, the depth of the transition zone varies by as much as 450 m. | <urn:uuid:0d9062b5-f3a9-4e35-ad2c-63e4f733ca5a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://caps.ou.edu/reu/reu15/finalpapers/Bartolini-finalpaper.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573699.52/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819131019-20220819161019-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.932657 | 259 | 2.34375 | 2 |
Holtz-Bacha, Christina. “The kiss of death. Public service media under right-wing populist attack.” European Journal of Communication (2021): 0267323121991334.
With the surge of populism in Europe, public service broadcasting has come under increased pressure. The established media are considered part of the corrupt elite not serving the interests of the people. The public service media, for which pluralism is at the core of their remit, are a particular thorn in the side of the populists. Therefore, they attack the financial basis of public service, which is supposed to guarantee their independence. The populist attacks on the traditional broadcasting corporations meet with the interests of neoliberal politics and of those political actors who want to evade public scrutiny and democratic control and do no longer feel committed to democratic accountability. The assaults on the public service media are thus an assault on freedom of the media and further increase the pressure on the democratic system. | <urn:uuid:161b3ba6-4b45-4959-a7be-00d5bb5cf696> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.illiberalism.org/christina-holtz-bacha-the-kiss-of-death-public-service-media-under-right-wing-populist-attack/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571210.98/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810191850-20220810221850-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.947107 | 197 | 1.53125 | 2 |
The high indices of happiness in Denmark and Switzerland are the result of socialist policies, says Correa
President Rafael Correa highlighted the achievements of social policies in Denmark and Switzerland, which were named countries with “the highest happiness index” by the World Happiness Report.
In his Twitter the president wrote: “In the 3rd edition of the World Happiness Report, Denmark is ranked in 1st. place as the world’s happiest nation. The key? According to Jeffrey Sachs, one of the authors of the report, the happiest countries are also the most egalitarian.”
The president ensures that universal policies such as free health and education are present in these governments, both financed by high taxes, which guarantee the welfare in these countries. | <urn:uuid:8c088381-2210-4d00-8136-55309e240fb9> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.ecuadortimes.net/the-high-indices-of-happiness-in-denmark-and-switzerland-are-the-result-of-socialist-policies-says-correa/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571198.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810161541-20220810191541-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.965177 | 152 | 1.96875 | 2 |
Somalia is taking steps to attract foreign investment to its energy sector but challenges remain, most notably in how the federal government can integrate its policies with those of the state governments.
Somalia’s Upper House has voted to approve the Petroleum Law, following its third reading on January 6. A statement said 28 of the senators had voted in support of the law, which was approved by the lower house in May 2019.
This law will go some way to sorting out the difficulties of investing in Somalia but, crucially, it remains unclear who companies would need to talk to in order to gain access. Is it the central government, based in Mogadishu, or the governments of one of the states where work would actually take place?
The relationship between the states and the government remains testy. Somaliland maintains it is an independent state, while Puntland is on the inside but sticks to its own line. As the country heads towards a licence round, which may be held this year, potential explorers will be watching with interest.
Somali Minister of Petroleum and Mineral Resources Abdirashid Mohamed Ahmed described the vote as a “major step forward for Somalia and its people as the Petroleum Law is approved by the Upper House and moves closer to completing its legislative process”. The next step for the bill is for it to be signed into law by the president – although the state of Puntland has come out against this.
The law states that any oil discovery belongs to the Somali people and that the revenues resulting from such are to go to the long-term needs of the population. The new law provides amendments to the previous law, from 2008.
Notably, it sets out a revenue-sharing agreement that intends to set out how cash will be shared by the federal government, the six member states and local communities. The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has supported the passage of the Petroleum Bill, while also putting forward a clear strategy for auctioning blocks, “before the planned oil exploration licensing is implemented”.
The Petroleum Law also sets up a Petroleum Registry for those holding legacy rights in the country. Shell EP Somalia and Mobil Exploration Somalia Inc. (MESI) hold exploration and production rights over five offshore blocks: M3/4/5/6/7. These were secured under a concession agreement with Somalia’s federal government, which has been under force majeure since 1990. The two companies were reported as having paid $1.7 million in retrospective charges late in 2019, local news sources reported.
These have been held for 30 years under force majeure, declared by the companies as the country descended into anarchy. One of the stated aims of the legislation is to provide “fair treatment” to those holding rights before 1991, when the government of Siad Barre fell.
The new legislation also sets up the Somali National Oil Co. (SONOC), which is intended to participate in operations.
Once the Petroleum Law has been signed off by the president, Somalia will publish a new model production-sharing agreement (PSA). This will replace the existing model PSA, which dates from January 2019.
Statements from Somalia’s oil ministry in May 2019 suggested the acquisition of more seismic data and exploration drilling may come in 2020 and 2021.
“In theory, the revenue sharing arrangements in the new petroleum law present a helpful step to resolving the issues. However, in practice, it remains to be seen whether these will be acceptable to the Somalia regional governments,” said Herbert Smith Freehills’ partner Rebecca Major.
“There are some similarities to Iraq and the Kurdistan region, where the relationship between the federal Baghdad government and the Kurdish regional government regarding the oil and gas reserves in the Kurdistan region have been the subject of discussions for many years. International investors will need to feel sufficiently comfortable about the position before they will invest,” she said.
Shell, for one, is biding its time. “We note the recent developments regarding the country’s new Petroleum Bill, and we have an ongoing and constructive dialogue with the authorities about it. We will consider carefully any further implications for Shell when the new law comes into force and we continue to monitor the security and operating environment in and surrounding Somalia,” a Shell spokesperson said. The super-major will not participate in the planned licence round.
The absence of a central government for so many years led to the emergence of regional powers. Puntland plays an uneasy role within Somalia, while Somaliland maintains that it is an independent state.
Developing hydrocarbons is one of the areas where such tensions come to the fore. A senator from Puntland, Mohamud Mashruc, has spoken out against the new bill this week, saying it politicises the oil and gas sector, giving control over potentially lucrative contracts to the federal minister. As such, the senator said, Somali President Mohamed Farmaajo should not sign the bill.
Puntland President Sa’id Abdullahi Deni, in a speech marking his first year in office, rejected the petroleum bill passed by the Somali legislature. Puntland had not been consulted on the issue, Deni said, tying his complaints in with broader discontent on proposed changes to the constitution.
The state has form in finding its own way in hydrocarbon works. Puntland awarded a contract to ION Geophysical in 2015 for the acquisition of 8,000 km of seismic data on its offshore, while also dividing the area up into 25 blocks.
Somaliland goes further, claiming autonomy even though it lacks international recognition. The state has issued licences to companies including Genel Energy and RAK Gas.
Genel holds 40,300 square km in the country, with a targeted resource of around 2 billion barrels of oil and a farm-out process that began in the second half of 2019. Genel has drawn parallels between Somaliland and the rift basins of Yemen. RAK Gas has the 24,200 square km Berbera area, where it acquired 17,000 line km of Full Tensor Gravity Gradiometry (FTG) data in 2018.
Mogadishu aims to sidestep opposition by offering areas further offshore, with most beyond the territorial claims of the states.
The East African state held an exhibition in February 2019 in London showing off some of its potential, with the petroleum minister in attendance.
Backing the showing was Spectrum, which acquired 20,185 km of 2D seismic on the offshore, following a 20,500 km shoot from 2014. The survey ran from water depths of 30 metres to 4,000 metres. Spectrum was acquired by TGS in August of last year.
The London presentation was intended to set the stage for a licence round, which was scheduled to be launched on November 7, 2019. This did not take place but it does set the stage for a future offering, which may come in 2020. The offering covered 15 blocks, with a total area of around 75,000 square km.
A report from TGS has identified a number of potential source rocks, although with only two wells drilled offshore little has been done to test the hypotheses. Some sources have suggested the area may be oil prone with rocks, with more than 80 slicks identified during one study. The seismic company described Somalia’s offshore as “the illusive oil-prone gem in East Africa’s otherwise prolific petroleum systems”.
“Given the success of frontier basin such as Guyana, and given its proximity to proven petroleum provinces, Somalia is sure to pique the interest of majors and Independents alike. The country recently reached an agreement with Shell and Exxon on historical fees for offshore blocks, and with the passage of the petroleum law through parliament last year and now passed through the upper house, the country is preparing well for an auction later in the year,” said Gneiss Energy’s commercial director Doug Rycroft. “We expect there to be significant interest from regional players given the potential for transformational organic growth through frontier exploration.”
Somalia has said the blocks on offer do not include any of the areas under dispute with Kenya. The two states have taken their clash over the maritime border to the International Court of Justice (ICJ). Oral proceedings on this case have been pushed back to June 2020. In the case of Ghana and Cote d’Ivoire, which had a similar maritime border dispute, it took around seven months between the oral proceedings and the delivery of a judgement.
Broadly, Somalia’s position is that the maritime border extends along the same direction as its onshore border, approximately southeast. Kenya asserts that the maritime border should move further out into the Indian Ocean, to the east.
The Somali state with claims in the disputed area is Jubaland. This state is seen by Kenya as a buffer zone against the instability of central Somalia and the politics of Nairobi and Mogadishu sometimes clash in this state.
Somalia took a step towards exploring its offshore in 2013, when it signed a study deal with Soma Oil and Gas, a UK-registered company backed by Alexander Dzhaparidze, the owner of Eurasia Drilling Co. Soma was involved in the acquisition of 2D seismic in 2014-15 covering around 20,000 km, with Spectrum acquiring another 20,500 km in 2016. Spectrum was acquired by TGS in 2019. The seismic company has played an instrumental role in supporting Somalia’s licence round aspirations.
The seismic shoot did not run entirely smoothly. The Puntland Petroleum and Minerals Agency (PPMA) warned Spectrum and China’s BGP that carrying out work in the state’s offshore was illegal and unconstitutional.
In addition, Soma was itself the target of sustained scrutiny from the UK’s Serious Fraud Office (SFO) over allegations that it was engaged in corruption in Somalia. The investigation was dropped in late 2016, with the SFO saying there were “reasonable grounds” to suspect corruption had taken place but that it was unlikely to be able to secure a conviction.
Somali Prime Minister Hassan Khaire was appointed in early 2017. He had previously worked at Soma as an executive director and his departure effectively marked the end of the company’s operations.
Approval of the federal government will be tested at the end of 2020, or early 2021, when direct elections are due to be held. Recently there has been an uptick in violence perpetrated by the Al-Shabab group, with a truck bomb detonated in Mogadishu on December 28 killing more than 80 people. The terrorist group has also carried out an attack against a US air base in Kenya’s Lamu region, demonstrating it retains the ability to carry out ambitious cross-border raids.
The country’s federal government has taken steps to make progress on tackling the question of natural resources but companies will remain reticent until more clarity has been achieved – or at least until someone has been brave enough to test the Somali hypothesis. | <urn:uuid:e40c1395-6e9c-433f-a445-b007668f307a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://somalilandstandard.com/new-oil-law-in-somalia-tests-uneasy-peace/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573699.52/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819131019-20220819161019-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.966904 | 2,298 | 1.914063 | 2 |
U.S. special envoy Brian Hook: “This is the worst political crisis the regime has faced and its 40 years.”
Tehran may have killed more than 1,000 protesters during the deadly clampdown against anti-regime protests, the U.S. State Department said. “As the truth is trickling out of Iran, it appears the regime could have murdered over a thousand Iranian citizens since the protests began,” the U.S. Special Representative for Iran, Brian Hook, disclosed on Thursday.
“Thousands of Iranians have been injured, and at least 7,000 more arrested,” special envoy Hook said. “This is the worst political crisis the regime has faced and its 40 years.”
A video footage cited by the U.S. State Department showed Iranian security forces encircling a group of unarmed protesters, shooting indiscriminately at them from machine guns mounted on pickup trucks and mowing down at least 100 demonstrators in this single incident.
Anti-regime protests began in mid-November after Tehran announced rationing of gasoline and a sharp hike in fuel prices. What began as discontent over deteriorating living conditions turned into nationwide anti-regime protests, hitting around 20 major cities across Iran, including the capital Tehran. Protesters called for the end of the Islamic regime, setting fire to propaganda billboards, banks, and regime’s offices.
The Iranian regime called in the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), a U.S.-designated terrorist group, to quell the protests. Pro-regime forces deployed snipers, machine guns, and helicopter gunships to kill anti-regime protesters. Video evidence showed “security forces shooting unarmed demonstrators from behind while they were running away, and shooting others directly in the face and vital organs,” The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet, confirmed on Friday.
Reuters news agency reported U.S. special envoy’s remarks:
Iranian security forces may have killed more than 1,000 people since protests over gasoline price hikes began in mid-November, U.S. Special Representative for Iran Brian Hook said on Thursday, adding that many thousands were also wounded in the unrest.
“As the truth is trickling out of Iran, it appears the regime could have murdered over a thousand Iranian citizens since the protests began,” Hook told reporters at a briefing at the State Department.
Among those were at least a dozen children, Hook said, but cautioned that the numbers were not definitive as Tehran blocked information. He said that “many thousands of Iranians” had also been wounded and at least 7,000 detained in Iran’s prisons.
While forces loyal to the Islamic regime are gunning down unarmed Iranians on the streets, the country’s so-called Supreme Leader Khamenei has called for the detained protesters to be treated “with Islamic compassion.” The regime is complying by raping and torturing detainees arrested in the wake of recent protests, media reports suggested. Iranian state-controlled TV channels aired forced confessions extracted from detained dissidents.
Amid popular unrest at home, Tehran is advancing its nuclear-capable ballistic missiles in violation of the United Nations Security Council resolution, Britain, France, and Germany stated in a statement on Wednesday. In recent months, the Islamic regime has launched military operations in neighboring Arab countries, attacked oil tankers in international waters, and repeatedly vowed to annihilate Israel.
While President Donald Trump pursues a policy of “maximum pressure” against the regime, European countries have responded to this blatant aggression by appeasement. Last week, more European Union member states — including Belgium, the Netherlands, and three Scandinavian countries — joined the Iranian payment mechanism that aims to bypass U.S. sanctions. Britain, Germany, and France are the leading promoters of the set up, which Washington sees as a money laundering and terrorism financing scheme.
U.S. special envoy Brian Hook on deadly Iranian clampdown
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The Partnership is actively involved with making access to fresh, healthy and affordable foods easier for Mississippians.
Lack of access is not an issue that can be solved through a single-focused campaign. Rather, there are multiple factors that make lack of access to fresh, healthy and affordable foods a daily struggle for over 800,000 Mississippians including 200,000 children.
Factors contributing to lack of access to fresh, healthy and affordable foods:
- Too few grocery stores in the state
- Transportation boundaries
- High caloric options outweigh healthy options in rural areas
The Partnership is currently working on food access issues through a United States Department of Agriculture Farm to School grant. For more information on this please contact Constance Shelby (link to her email)
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Foldr: How to configure teacher logins
Foldr is a third party single sign-on (SSO) method. We collaborated with Foldr's developers to provide the guide you see below.
How does the Teacher Login Work?
On their login page, instead of seeing a username/password box, teachers will see a Login and continue button instead. When they click the button, one of two things will happen:
- If there is an existing login session on Foldr for the user, and their email matches an existing teacher account, the teacher will be instantly logged in.
- If there's no existing login session on Foldr for the user, they will be sent to the Foldr login page where they can log in. When they log in and there is an existing Teacher account with a matching email address, they'll be logged into the system with that account.
In order for authentication on teacher accounts to work, teachers must have an email address in your SchoolCloud system. You can check this via Data > Teachers.
This email addresses must be the same as that set on that teacher's user account in Foldr.
In order to set up Foldr to handle requests, follow the steps below:
- In your Foldr Admin panel, go to Single Sign-On.
- Go to the Identity Provider tab if you're not there already.
- Make sure that the Enable Foldr Identity Provider? option is turned on.
- Click Add New Service Provider then select Parents Evening System from the list.
- You'll then be taken to the Add New Service dialog. Most of the data will already be filled in but a few changes are required on the SSO tab.
Go to the SSO tab and change any instances of YOURNAME to be your system name, which is the part of your SchoolCloud system URL that appears just before ".parentseveningsystem.co.uk".
For example, the system name for the link https://greenabbey.parentseveningsystem.co.uk would be greenabbey
- Under the Permissions tab, you can choose who can use the service via the Add user or group button. You can use this to allow/deny users access to SchoolCloud.
Only teachers would need access, so if you have a group for your teachers, this would be perfect. Alternatively, you can use the contextual search on the pop-up to select the users you need. As you type, suggestions will appear. While testing, you may wish to enable the app for everyone.
- Click Save Changes at the top to return to the main Single Sign On page.
- Double click the Parents Evening System app to open it's settings again.
- On the Info tab for the service, copy the Metadata URL as you will need this later.
Now that you've setup Foldr, you need to set SchoolCloud to work with this authentication method:
Log into SchoolCloud as an admin and go to Settings > Teacher Authentication. Select SAML and you will see two text boxes, one for the Metadata URL, the other for the Entity ID.
- Enter the Metadata URL you copied in step 9 of the last section.
- The entity ID is the Issuer/Sign-in URL (e.g. https://greenabbey.minnow.it/sso/A1AA1/ ).
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Lessons the American people can learn from the president's illness
While the nation watches and waits to see how President Donald Trump will fare as he's treated for COVID-19, doctors say there are lessons the American people can learn from his infection in the midst of a pandemic that has so far killed more than 200,000 Americans and infected 7.3 million.
Key among them is that no one is invulnerable to a disease that doesn't pick and choose whom to infect based on political affiliation or status.
"I remain eternally optimistic that this will be the week that more Americans recognize the severity of this epidemic and just how many more Americans might die this fall and winter, and begin to take greater responsibility for it," said Dr. Theodore J. Iwashyna, director of health services research and the Alpheus W. Tucker, MD, Collegiate Professor of Internal Medicine at the University of Michigan.
"I hope that some will do so and I hope that our leaders will use this as an opportunity to remember that this is about a virus whose transmission can be reduced, not as an excuse to score political points."
Trump announced early Friday morning that he and first lady Melania Trump had tested positive for the novel coronavirus.
Nearly a dozen others who were in close contact with the president or other White House officials also have tested positive for the virus, leaving the nation reeling just a month from Election Day.
Dr. Trini Mathew, an infectious disease specialist and epidemiologist for Beaumont Health, said the Trumps are getting the highest-quality medical care, and it's not time to panic. But, she said, it is time for ordinary people to take a hard look at their own lives, and do what they can to prevent the spread of COVID-19.
"This news just shows that the virus can infect anyone and therefore, we need to be serious," she said. "It's not just protecting ourselves as an individual, but it is also protecting others around us. This is what this news headline is showing us, right? One person around the POTUS being positive, and then potentially infecting others.
"That's exactly what we know with infections and viruses. ... They get transmitted from one person to another person. And I hope that this is a good reminder for all of us to think about it. This pandemic is not over. This is a serious disease."
Wear a mask, social distance
The president is being treated at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, and his physician, Dr. Sean Conley, said Saturday that he is "doing very well."
Trump, he said, had a mild cough, congestion and fatigue Thursday, "all of which are resolving."
"He is receiving outstanding multidisciplinary care. ... We are monitoring him very closely," Conley said.
Mathew urged people who may have been skeptical about wearing a mask in the past to start wearing one now.
"Frequently, I do see people not wearing the mask or not wearing the mask correctly," she said. "It can inadvertently slip down the nose and then only protect the mouth. So I think those who are wearing masks also need to be cognizant of that, how to wear the mask correctly, and also to be careful where our hands are when we are having the mask on. We may have contaminated our hands and touched contaminated objects around us, and then touch our masks.
"I think this is a good time for us to all be calm and think through the process of how we wear masks, how we wash our hands. and what we can do to protect ourselves."
"In general, public health guidelines are incredibly important," he said.
"I still wear a mask whenever I go out. I try to maintain social distancing. And I am working from home whenever I'm not in the hospital. When I'm in the hospital, as a physician, I use PPE (personal protective equipment) all the time. We do know that PPE works.
"We know that the rate of health care worker infection among people who have had access to PPE has been incredibly low. ... PPE works if people wear it. It doesn't work if you don't."
Testing isn't a panacea
Though at least 10 people close to the president have now tested positive for the coronavirus, many — including Vice President Joe Biden, who shared a debate stage with the president Tuesday night — have gotten negative test results.
Mathew said people ought to remember that a negative test isn't a panacea, and test results don't always give an accurate picture of whether someone is infected.
If you're told by public health officials that you've been exposed to a person with COVID-19 and must quarantine for 14 days, it's important to follow through, even if a test comes back negative.
"There are chances for a test to be false negative, especially when patients have all the signs and symptoms of COVID," Mathew said. "We saw that with the first COVID surge ... and that is because of when the testing was done in the continuum of the disease.
"Now the flip of that is as the prevalence in the community comes down, there's always a possibility that someone may have a false positive test."
After a close exposure to a person with a known case of COVID-19, it makes sense to get tested, she said. But the timing of the test matters.
"A negative test does not exclude that they have been infected," she said. "I just want to emphasize that piece that even if people decide to get themselves tested after an exposure, a negative test does not exclude an infection or exclude them from quarantine.
"The reason is because that test result depends on many factors. One factor is the continuum of the disease. Was the sample collected when the disease is really taking a foothold ... and manifesting and viral replication is occurring? Another piece for people to remember is how the test is being done. It's what they call operator dependent.
"For example, with the nasopharyngeal swab, did you ... get a good swab? Did you collect it well? Because that would also influence our results."
That's why it's important for doctors to look at the full picture when interpreting the results of any test.
"This concept about false negative and false positive can occur with any testing," Mathew said. "Even if the test is initially negative, but we see that the patient is continuing to have certain signs or symptoms or maybe getting worse, we repeat those tests."
Flu season amid a pandemic
The nation could see another crisis as fall settles in, Mathew said, because it brings with it flu season. It's also the time of year when other respiratory viruses ramp up.
People should catch up on vaccinations that may be overdue and get the flu vaccine, she said.
That's especially true, Mathew said, for anyone who is considered high-risk for severe illness from COVID-19, such as people who are obese or have diabetes, heart disease or kidney disease.
"These are the groups of people that we've always been concerned about having potentially worse outcomes once they get infected with a viral infection," she said. "We want to keep our immunity up in case we have to also fight COVID.
"So get your flu shot. Do not to be on the fence on that. We always know that there has been controversy, and that it doesn't offer 100% protection, but some protection now is better than no protection."
Illness is not a punishment
Since the pandemic began, Trump has repeatedly disregarded public health guidelines, such as wearing a mask and adhering to social distancing recommendations put in place to stop or slow the spread of COVID-19.
He mocked former Vice President Joe Biden during Tuesday's presidential debate for wearing a mask and has refused to wear one himself when he's in close contact with other people.
And yet, Iwashyna, who also is a research scientist at the VA Ann Arbor Healthcare System, said it helps no one to suggest the president deserved to get sick or blame the president for his own infection.
He tweeted Friday morning: "Illness is not a metaphor Illness is not a judgment Illness is not a test of character," and explained that those ideas come from the late writer Susan Sontag and her book, "Illness as Metaphor."
"It references the way we used to think of tuberculosis as a sign of a fine artistic temperament and the wasting young women, all pale, as a sign of proof of their goodness.
"And then we saw AIDS as evidence of the moral wrongness of the gay community and African communities and so that it was a judgment and plague upon them.
"And then we saw with Sen. (John) McCain dying of cancer that people talked about his strength and his fighting, as if metastatic cancer was something that if he were just a strong enough person, he could fight off.
"As an ICU (intensive-care unit) doctor, I can tell you that's not the way biology works. Indeed, it's profoundly unhelpful for patients to think of illness as a test of character and a judgment upon them."
That Trump has COVID-19, he said, should not be seen as anything other than what it is.
"It's a virus that is able to get into certain kinds of cells and infect them," Iwashyna said. "And some immune systems are able to clear it and some aren't. That's just true.
"As a physician, I would care for anyone who was sick, regardless of whether I agreed with them or not. And so I would hate to think of anyone using this moment to say it's a judgment on someone they disagree with any more than the 200,000 other Americans who died of this disease had a judgment cast upon them.
"There are certainly institutional public health and political choices that could have been made to reduce the risk of transmission that were not made. But it's a virus, and the outcome of infection with this virus for these two people are going to be the result of chance and hopefully the superb medical care that they're able to get access to as a result of eight months of incredibly intense research."
Personal responsibility matters
The hope, Mathews said, is the news of the president's illness will help people see that their actions can have a ripple effect.
"I know we have gone through many months of talking about COVID and all of us are in the state of fatigue, and we may be getting less and less vigilant," she said. "But it is our individual personal responsibility to not just protect ourselves but others around us because our actions really do influence others' health."
That's true, she said whether it's COVID-19 or other infectious diseases like the flu or measles. Just as refusing to wear a mask makes it more likely you may contract COVID-19, and spread it to other, more vulnerable people, refusing a flu vaccine may mean you contract the flu and do the same.
"We, in society, are interconnected, Mathew said. "And this is exactly what this pandemic has shown us, that individual responsibility really is important because it impacts all those around us — the social networks we have, the people we like to be with — our actions influence those other people."
Iwashyna said Americans should look to other parts of the world that are doing a better job controlling the spread of COVID-19, and take away valuable lessons.
"We as Americans want to believe that somehow because of our great nation everything is different here," he said. "It's not. Viruses are still viruses. And the epidemic is not over here.
"The epidemic is not over here because we have chosen, as a group as a society, not to engage in the public health practices that have worked in every other nation that has imposed them.
"There's a possibility that it's going to be a very bad fall and winter and I think this just reminds us about our common humanity and that power and privilege will not necessarily protect one. ... We are all at risk and we all need to do this together."
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Olaf Scholz is facing heavy criticism for appearing to compare climate protesters who interrupted him to Nazis.
Speaking at a panel event at a Catholic celebration in Stuttgart on Friday, the German chancellor was heckled by a group of activists.
The SPD leader had been speaking about how jobs would be lost in the open-cast mining industry as a result of Germany's plans to phase out coal-fired electricity generation.
Several activists interrupted the discussion, with one yelling out “bulls---”.
Mr Scholz hit back with an off-the-cuff remark, saying: “I'll be honest, these black-clad interruptions at various events always by the same people remind me of what only used to happen a long time ago, and thank God (for that).”
Luisa Neubauer – a prominent German climate activist known as the country's Greta Thunberg – said the comparison between climate protesters and Nazis “left her speechless”.
“He stylizes climate protection as an ideology with parallels to the Nazi regime. In 2022. Jesus. That's such a scandal,” Ms Neubauer said on Twitter.
Mr Scholz’s rebuke was applauded by many in the approximately 1,800-strong crowd attending the panel event, titled "Times of Change and Cohesion - Society and Politics in Uncertain Times".
Mr Scholz continued, saying he recognised the tactic as a means of preventing objective discussion.
It is a "practiced appearance. I've also been to events, there were five people, dressed alike, everyone had a practiced posture, and (they) do it again every time."
“(This is) an attempt to manipulate events for your own purposes. You shouldn't do that,” Mr Scholz said.
Targeted disruption of political opponents' events was a specialty of the Sturmabteilung (SA), the Nazis' paramilitary combat unit, in the lead-up to the Second World War.
The members of the SA would frequently wear brown clothing, which gave them the nickname “brown shirts”, and they are seen as having played a significant role in Adolf Hitler’s rise to power.
Nazi comparisons 'completely absurd'
Christiane Hoffmann, a government spokesperson, hit back at the Nazi comparisons on Monday, saying they were “completely absurd”.
However, she did not elaborate on what Mr Scholz had meant with his interjection, saying “the chancellor's statements stand for themselves and I will not interpret them here.”
“The chancellor made himself very clear.
“It is of course the case that vehement disruptions to public panel events are not at all a contribution to a substantive discussion. On the contrary, they prevent objective discourse.”
German writer Nora Bossong, who sat alongside Mr Scholz, said the activists were “acting against their own interests” by interjecting, saying her history of making “semi-legal” demonstrations on behalf of climate organisation Greenpeace had taught her not to disrupt such events.
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Internecine civil wars are underway almost everywhere within the West, and most virulently in the United States of America. They are not yet kinetic wars, but wars of grinding prepositioning, the kind which lead to foregone conclusions without a shot being fired. They are wars of survival, nonetheless, because the basic architecture for national strength is being altered incrementally or dramatically. And, in many cases, consciously.
Almost all of the strategic restructuring of states is occurring in large part as a result of an accumulation of wealth; an accumulation and value of which is seen as permanent. This has resulted in the hubris — expressed by those who did not earn it — of triumph in the Cold War. This is a Western phenomenon because the widespread growth of wealth, the creation of freedoms classically associated with democracy, resulted — as it must inevitably result — in complacencies which in turn led to a “vote too far”: the extension of the democratic franchise to those who do not help in the creation of wealth.
Once the voting franchise of the West reached the point where those who sought benefits outweighed those who created benefits, the tipping point was reached. The situation of de facto “class warfare” thus emerges automatically under such circumstances, and the envy of those who take against those who provide erupts into “rights” and “entitlement”. By deifying “democracy” above justice, the enfranchised non-producers could always outvote the producers. We are at this point. The result can only be collapse, or restructuring around a Cæsar or a Bonaparte until, eventually, a productive hierarchy reappears, usually after considerable pain.
The United States of America
Virtually every conscious step of the Administration of Pres. Barack Obama and the overwhelming Democratic Party majority in Congress has been to increase the size and role of government in the economy and society, and to decrease, limit, and control the position of private enterprise and capital formation. Given that this progressively contracts and ultimately eliminates production, and reduces the inherent asset base of the country — its raw materials and productive intellect — to a null value, the tradable value of the US currency will inevitably decline. We cannot be swayed by the enormous wealth of the North American continent. Almost all areas have an inherent wealth of some kind, but assets left idle in the ground or infertile in the brain define countries which fail, or are not victorious in their quest for unbridled sovereignty.
Thus, a decline in currency value is exacerbated, or accelerated, by the increasing supply of money, inextricably depreciating its value, particularly at a time of decreasing productivity in vital perishable and non-perishable output.
The US Obama Administration has focused entirely on an agenda of expanding government — the seizure of the envied (and often ephemeral) “wealth” of the producers — without addressing the process of facilitating the production of essential commodities and goods. Even the USSR and the People’s Republic of China, during their communist periods, focused — albeit badly — on the production of goods and services, when they realized that the “wealth” to be “redistributed” existed only as the result of production and innovation. The US, meanwhile, heavily as a result of policies of the former Clinton Administration, has “outsourced” production, and the State — that is, the Government — cannot easily, in the US, become the producer.
Pres. Obama has addressed the US’ economic crisis by expanding government, and government-related, employment in non-productive sectors, while at the same time blaming and punishing the private sector for all of the US’ ills. Empowered by the extended franchise, this was the politics of envy now becoming enabled.
Moreover, the populist, short-term response to the major oil-spill in the Gulf of Mexico was clearly geared toward (a) transforming a crisis into an opportunity to pursue a green energy agenda by highlighting the evils of the fossil fuels on which the US remains dependent; (b) ensuring that the President was not blamed for the poor crisis response; and (c) ensuring that the Democratic Party did not suffer from the crisis in the November 2010 mid-term Congressional elections.
The result of all the Obama initiatives has been to expand government and reduce or absolutely control and tax the private sector, even though, without the private sector, the US has no viable export or self-sustaining capability. The net effect has been to mirror — and overtake — the situation in which, for example, Germany found itself a decade ago: without the ability to retain capital investment or attract new capital investment.
And in order to restrain capital flight from the US, the Obama Administration seeks to further control worldwide earnings of US corporations and citizens. For other reasons, the US, believing that it still dominates the technology arena, has imposed greater and greater restrictions on international exports of technology through its ITAR (International Traffic in Arms Regulations) and the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.
All of this conspires to limit investment in US manufacturing and restrict foreign interest in US exports because the regulations are being enforced merely for political punitive reasons. The US is making itself increasingly unappealing to foreign investors and has, as this writer has noted, made the appeal of the US dollar as the global reserve currency evaporate, saved, for the moment, only by the lack of a ready alternative. That situation will change within a very few years.
Thus, the US has, in the space of a couple of years: (i) so dramatically inflated money supply that the value of the dollar is only shored up by the lack of international alternative currencies to act as reserve trading currencies; (ii) so dramatically inflated public debt, without stimulating economic growth, that US economic performance will continue to decline on a national and a per capita basis while competitive economies, such as the PRC and Russia, will grow, reducing strategic differentials; (iii) severely punished the private sector, thereby reducing the opportunities and incentives for strategic capital formation, and in particular punishing the industrial production and energy sectors, almost ensuring major dislocation to the delivery of US basic needs in the near-term; and (iv) so blatantly reduced its strategic capabilities through all of these actions and in its diplomatic and military posture as to guarantee a reduction in US strategic credibility. Concurrent with all of this is an increasingly punitive taxation framework.
The near-term impact will include rising domestic energy prices, possibly even before the November 2010 mid-term Congressional elections, which could result in the Democratic Party losing its substantial majority in both Houses. Even on this matter, Democratic Party ideologues have attempted to suggest that this is exactly what the country needs: expensive energy in order to facilitate change to “green” solutions. This defies the historical reality that pre-eminent powers must always have vast energy surpluses and use.
So much damage has been done to the US strategic posture in just two years (although building on a base of inefficiencies which have been growing since the end of the Cold War), in many respects equal to the 1917 Russian Revolution (but without the bloodshed), that it is difficult to forecast whether — because of a changing global environment — the US can, within a decade or two, recover its strategic authority and leadership.
Domestically, the massively statist and interventionist approaches of the Obama Administration have polarized the country, and the response will be reactive rather than innovative, inducing a period of isolation and nationalism, but with grave difficulty in rebuilding confidence from the international investment community.
Artificial, wealth-induced complacency following the end of the Cold War led to fury when economic collapse inevitably occurred in 2010, leading to draconian restraint in public spending in many societies, but particularly Greece and Spain. It is said that tourists are warned not to feed bears in Yellowstone National Park (in the US) because the bears do not understand when the tourists have run out of food. State-fed populations in Europe, the US, and Australia (see below) equally do not understand when the free ride is over, and work must recommence.
Germany, France, and the United Kingdom have begun the arduous path back to recovery, but the euro may, as a currency, have been irrevocably damaged, and the European Union itself may have spent the term of its virility. Clearly, the wealth-induced complacency, which had the compounding effect of allowing a decline in a sense of national survival and national identity among the European Union (EU) component states, has led now to a revived — but as yet unrealized — sense of nationalism.
This is beginning to lead to the recognition of the cohesive national efficiency required for survival and competitiveness. It can be said that the EU destroyed nationalism, without replacing it with any mechanism to create a new sense of social cohesion, thus removing Europe’s capability for economic competitiveness, self-defense, or ability to define a new culture (and identity) to replace the national identities.
Had the British Labour Party Government of outgoing Prime Minister Gordon Brown persisted in office with his slavishly doctrinaire governance — and demonstrably unworkable socialism, led by a privileged élite of Labour mandarins wallowing at the trough — it is possible that an economic recovery in the UK would have been problematic. It may still be problematic. And in this, Brown was a prototype Obama, with his rank sense of entitlement.
Even now, the British political psyche is fractured along geographic lines, and, wealth-induced, considers itself effectively “post-industrial”, and therefore beyond the need for a manufacturing (or even agricultural base). Thus, even though the UK is now far more dependent on a maritime trade base than at any time in its history, it is incapable of defending or projecting that maritime base; neither does it have the wherewithal to trade.
The Australian Government has — like the Obama Administration in the US and the Brown Administration in the UK — demonstrated its absolute lack of experience in management, economics, or real-life work skills. A decision by Prime Minister Kevin Rudd to impose a new “super tax” of some 40 percent on resource companies — miners, who produce most of Australia’s export wealth — suddenly highlighted the reality that the mining companies did not need to put their investment into Australian projects.
This “tax and spend” approach so damaged Prime Minister Rudd’s popularity in the run-up to a November 2010 election, that his deputy Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, an extreme left-wing feminist, mounted a rapid campaign within the ruling Labor Party to overthrow him. But apart from some temporary back-peddling on the Resources Super Profits Tax until the next election is out of the way, don’t expect incoming Prime Minister Gillard — the first Australian female head-of-government and the most left-wing ever — to back off her punitive stance against the private sector.
The Australian Government’s punitive tax approach, initiated by Rudd but likely to continue for as long as Labor governs, also highlighted the fact that foreign investors did not need to invest in Australia, and that capital could move — as it always does — away from draconian tax regimes. As Chilean Mines Minister Laurence Goldborne said in June 2010, “Just because you have resources doesn’t guarantee investment.” This is something which the governments of most African states know.
In Australia, the realization of the over-reaching greed — and envy-inspired approach of the proposed new tax laws — in turn led much of the ruling Australian Labor Party (ALP) and the profoundly leftist Australian media to begin their drift away from Rudd, leaving him with the prospect that he could either be abandoned as party leader before the late-2010 general elections, or be faced with the prospect of becoming Australia’s first one-term Prime Minister.
Gillard’s unbridled ambition also saw to that. The question remains as to whether she will be able to win the November 2010 general election. A more important question remains, however, as to whether the markets will still be there when the ruin of trust in Australian export and investment reliability is addressed by a future government. The People’s Republic of China (PRC), Australia’s major export client state, and Russia are now developing vast iron ore reserves on their mutual border, possibly — in the near future — obviating the need for much of what Australia exports.
In the meantime, both Kevin Rudd and the opposition Liberal Party have essentially embraced the move by Australia to see itself as a pseudo-post-industrial society, gradually eroding the independent and innovative manufacturing sector which had been a hallmark of Australian economic growth. A pseudo-post-industrial society is one which believes that it can live solely on the intrinsic value of its currency, without the necessity to sustain a balanced agricultural and industrial base to preserve sovereign independence. A true post-industrial society — something thus far a utopian dream — can produce all of its food and goods with a minute fraction of its population, which would largely be left to address intellectual pursuits.
Australia, thus, faces a major challenge to its comfort, wealth, and security when value perceptions, investment, and clients evaporate. We see, then, in the very deliberate acts of envy and entitlement politics, the seeds of national collapse in Australia, the US, and Western Europe.
Some of the Western powers have slumped before, and recovered. The United States has yet to demonstrate this resilience. Other Western societies have slumped, and have yet been protected by a strong regional system so that their societies could prosper under foreign protection. The Netherlands, Spain, and Portugal, for example, retained stable and individual prosperous societies and yet never recovered their strategic leadership, relying, instead, on the power of their region for economic and security protection. States which remain dependent on others for their protection never fully regain their wealth and freedom.
States such as New Zealand depend on their greater neighbors for protection. But wither New Zealand if Australia fails? Wither the Netherlands today if the European Union fails? And wither the United States if its fortunes erode? Re-birth is, as Britain has found through history, as did Rome, more arduous than that first, pure flush of strategic victory.
The West is at its watershed, not because of a threat from a less-productive society. The collapse of the West is not because Islam is at the gates. Islam is at the gates because of the collapse of the West.
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The article below was sent to us recently by a comrade in Japan: it describes the emergence and decline of the squatters' and day-workers' movements which have marked the life of several Japanese cities - more particularly Osaka in this case - since the collapse of the Japanese economic "bubble" at the beginning of the 1990s, to the present day.
Our regular readers may be surprised by the somewhat "literary" style that the comrade adopts. This does not in our view detract from the significance of the events that he describes, and indeed it rather enhances some interesting reflections on the way in which the capitalist productive process organises geography and time.
Historically, there has always been a deep divide between the workers' movement in the industrialised West and the East - in Japan and China in particular. This was largely inevitable given the late arrival of the Japanese and Chinese working class on the historical stage (see our articles in the International Review) and the barriers of language.
The bourgeois media in the West have always worked to emphasise this divide (though usually with more subtlety than Edith Cresson (French Prime Minister 1991-92) who described the Japanese as "yellow ants"!). Japanese workers have been shown as going on "strike" by putting "unhappy flags" on their machines while continuing to work. There was even a short-lived vogue amongst management theorists for Japanese-style "quality committees" where the workers themselves could suggest improvements in the production process. The Japanese workers were presented to their class comrades in the West as hardworking and patriotic contributors to the Japanese "economic miracle", from which it has usually been implied that they profit at Western workers' expense.
Not only that: the workers in Japan supposedly enjoyed the supreme happiness of being guaranteed "jobs for life" thanks to the paternalistic attention of the Japanese mega-companies - something which supposedly set them completely apart from workers in the West.
The article below has the merit of blowing a hole in this completely fraudulent picture of Japan. Here we see the masses of impoverished day workers in struggle against the barbaric exploitation inflicted on them by the almost indistinguishable forces of the state, the bosses, and the mafia (yakuza). But we also - and the author is absolutely right to point this out - see that this is not limited to the most downtrodden sectors of the working class: the whole Japanese "economic miracle" has been founded on the increasingly ferocious exploitation of the entire workforce: factory workers and office workers, but also technicians and scientists as skilled jobs are proletarianised.
In our view, the events described in this article are more than just riots. They are clearly a workers' struggle, fought on the terrain of the working class: initially sparked off by an expression of solidarity with a victim of police aggression, drawing in workers and their families from the entire Kamagasaki area, and directed not only against the police but against employers trying to swindle workers out of their wages.
Western readers may recognise some similarity between the events described below, and the situation in certain European countries during the 1970s. The internal immigration towards cities less touched by the crisis, leading to a housing shortage, property speculation, rack-renting, and the squatting of empty property, was a large-scale phenomenon in London and some Dutch cities during the 1970s for example, although not on the same explicitly working class basis: the social composition of the squatters' movements in Britain and Holland was much more mixed.
Western readers will also recognise the manner in which the Japanese state has dealt with the movement in Kamagasaki: "NGOs replaced the direct discipline of police batons as their mediating roles were appreciated by the city in halting unrest (...) newly radicalized unions, who quickly transformed into facilitators of ritual action: such as protest marches completely surrounded by police". This is precisely the role that has been played historically by the trades unions, ever since they betrayed the working class by giving their support to the imperialist slaughter in 1914. Especially under bourgeois democracy, where they benefit from the appearance of separation from the state, the unions are able to achieve results that the police cannot, by sabotaging the struggle and preventing its self-organisation and extension rather than by open repression. A classic example is the role played by the newly formed Solidarnosc union in sabotaging the workers' struggles in Poland in December 1980, delivering the proletariat, bound hand and foot, to the state repression that followed a year later. In Osaka, once the NGOs and the unions have done their work, the squatters' tents which had once symbolised workers' resistance have become nothing but an empty shell, easily emptied by the police.
The value of this article lies - amongst other things - in its clear demonstration that the workers in Japan face the same problems, and the same enemies, as workers in other parts of the world: one more demonstration that the class struggle is international, that the working class is a world class.
All this being said, the article also contains a certain number of ambiguities, or perhaps we should say internal contradictions, which in our view detract from the force of the argument. There are three which seem to us particularly important.
1 - The first, is the role of the unions and of the left generally. While the article in effect denounces the union sabotage of the struggle (see the quote above), elsewhere it seems to suggest that there is a fundamental opposition between the unions, the left, and the "neo-liberal project", and that the collapse of the former in Japan made possible the success of the latter.
But the attacks on the working class from the late 1970s onwards were by no means a Japanese, they were a global phenomenon. The onset of the first post-war crisis in the late 1960s led to an enormous world wide wave of workers' struggles - of which May '68 in France was only the most impressive moment. The end of this wave of struggle was inevitably followed by a capitalist counter-attack, whose aim was to make the workers pay the price of the crisis that had opened up from the late 1960s onwards. The role played by "the left" in the resulting defensive struggles of the working class - when left governments were not directly imposing austerity themselves, as the "Socialist" and "Communist" government did under Mitterrand in France - was to sabotage the workers' efforts to react by making sure they never escaped the narrow boundaries of corporatism and nationalism (the "coal not dole" slogan and the campaigns against imports of Polish coal during the British miners' strike in 1985 are a clear example). The idea that the workers' struggle "re-composes" into unions and that the result, "far from being exterior to the ‘being' of the class which must affirm itself against them, [is] nothing but this being in movement", obscures the profound opposition between the permanent union structure and the needs of the working class in struggle: this is easily verified in practice by anybody who has tried to oppose workers' initiative to the union line during a mass meeting. More profoundly, this opposition arises from the impossibility today (contrary to the period prior to 1914) of the working class creating permanent mass organisations.
2 - The article's second ambiguity lies in the suggestion that it might be possible to create an "autonomous" space outside the institutionalisation imposed by the capitalist state (notably in its "welfare" version). This, it seems to us, contradicts the article's otherwise striking descriptions of capitalism's totalitarian domination of social life, from housing, to transport, to work, and right down to the helping hand and the friendly smile transformed into waged activity. It is this second emphasis in the article which seems to us correct: the idea that it is possible to create "islands of communism" or even "islands of autonomy" within capitalism, is simply an illusion. The experiment was tried repeatedly at the very beginning of the workers' movement, in the days of the Utopian socialists Fourrier, Cabet, and Owen: it was tried, and failed - 200 years on, the illusion belongs firmly in the past, not in the present. This is true even for more limited experiments: as Marx pointed out, in any society the dominant ideology is the ideology of the ruling class, and it is impossible to achieve "autonomy" from this. It will take whole generations after the revolution for humanity to "rebuild" itself, to rid itself of all the ideological muck accumulated in millennia of class society.
We can be inspired and touched by the spontaneous humanity of the homeless in Tennoji Park (see note 8 of the article), but this does not provide an organisational lesson for the struggle of the proletariat as a whole.
3 - The contradiction we have just described is at its most ambiguous in the final paragraph, where on the one hand the author advocates a struggle with "no commitments, no demands as such, no gathering points and thus no encirclement", yet at the same time posing the question of "how an autonomous space can develop against the crushing weight of capitalism". But what is a "social space" with "no gathering points"? What could it be? Surely nothing other than a contradiction in terms.
In Russia in 1917, the Russian workers did not confront the Cossacks (the riot police of their day) on their own terms, they dissolved the Cossacks' power. They were able to do this because the proletariat represented a massive and organised force able to take decisions as a class and to present a vision of the future that stood firmly and radically against the barbarity of capitalism. The road to revolution leads not through riots born of and ending in despair, but through massive, open, conscious struggle, able to assert its own perspective against capitalism's "no future", to the point where even the riot police begin to doubt themselves.
International Communist Current
You must help yourself: neo-liberal geographies and worker insurgency in Osaka
"I realize as the train pulls in that the station is on fire. The platform is aflame and below the streets are empty with people running past occasionally. Something is happening. I pick up some rocks and start throwing them at a police line."
-anonymous rioter at Kamagasaki
"You must help yourself."
-Ilsa, She-Wolf of the SS
Confronting the riot police
October 2nd, 1990. The day started as any other does in Osaka's Nishi-Nari ward, men lined up around the yoseba employment center, in the thousands, waiting for work. If it came, they would load into the cars of construction contractors in groups, with parachute pants and wrapped heads. For eight hours they might wave light wands ‘guiding pedestrians', dig concrete roads, re-pave highways or variously break their backs in the sun. This proletarian fate was ceded by the city's bourgeoisie over a period of thirty years of continuous unemployed unrest; all the union officials touted it as labor ‘won' from an inhuman system. After all, without work, one does not eat, and once conditions have worsened to the point that this phrase becomes dictatorial, one works in a fervor; for work leads to ‘independence'. Work might one day lead out of the slum.
If work didn't come, the men wait out lunch and line up for the daily workfare handout, set aside for ‘unsuccessful job-seekers'. This yoseba is in Kamagasaki, a neighborhood of poverty and celebration, a breathing lung, where the yakuza patrol day-workers with icy looks and stashed weapons; at occupied ‘triangle' park, men, dogs and blue canvas spill out into the street sides. Udon and soba are served at improvised stool stands roofed with canvas. Women and men prepare boxed lunches, noodles and Okinawan fare at shops lining the crowded avenues. Just to the east the brothel neighborhood of Tobita sits in expectant dormancy, for the night will soon fall. The slum is quiet.
For the city hall and the construction capitalists, it was just another Tuesday.
There were multiple flashpoints, like any riot, origins that became history for the individuals and groups that experienced them. For most, the riots began with friends running past, heaving paving stones at the police. But most will point to an account of an old homeless man in the Namba theater district, north of Kamagasaki. Police on patrol had stopped at his improvised blue canvas house, berating him to leave the sidewalk. The man (known by most as 'a bit bizarre') unleashed his dog, which quickly sunk its teeth into a senior patrolman. After a struggle, he was surrounded by police and beaten as a crowd gathered, consisting of other homeless people and some day-workers. Hauled away and arrested, the angry crowd followed the car to the Nishinari police station.
News spread on sprinting legs to the enormous yoseba hiring hall in the south, circulating among groups of day laborers. Without any particular confrontation, a few ‘troublesome' workers were pulled aside by the yoseba police patrol and in front of thousands, beaten. The neighborhood exploded. Yoseba day-workers, witnesses in their thousands, took their comrades back and drove the police from the hiring hall, swarming outward like blood through Kamagasaki's lungs. Crowds formed here and there, with a general movement towards the police station, from which the police re-emerged. A rain of stones fell. After the volleys reached a temporary abatement, barricades were quickly erected, bicycles ignited with cheap lighter fluid, stacked and burned, dumpsters dragged into the street. Capital's tendency to crisis, the proletarian form, was erupting.
Workers in the streets
The police retreated in order to barricade the neighborhoods, to shut off the arteries that connect Kamagasaki to the north, south, east and west. A classic siege strategy was put into action punctuated by sudden, violent streams of steel-shield armed police into the neighborhoods. Mobile riot squads surrounded the area with armored buses and paddy wagons, and soon lined the boulevards in columns with five foot steel shields. All the forces of government and private capital arrived to contain thousands of revolting workers and rapidly arriving allies, to circumscribe a space that was impassable for the surging rage of the rioters. Media vans pulled up and were stoned if they attempted to penetrate the riot line and ‘get the real story'. In several cases cameras were sought after and smashed. All footage of the events comes from behind police lines. Advances by the cops were met with volleys of objects flung from the parapets of apartment buildings by the unemployed, workers and housewives. At times, the riot constituted itself as a castle pocked with archers. When the first barricaded day slipped into night, the cars of the construction barons were smashed and degraded. Parks that had been evicted of squatters had their locks broken and were re-taken.
The insurrection faced its own limit, against the borders of space drawn by the state and its own projectuality. Discussions arose everywhere on where to go next. Many feared that the riotous action would blacklist the neighborhood from construction contracts, that the yoseba would close like the one in Tokyo had just a year earlier, that poverty would worsen. Most gazed over the surrounding steel buses of the riot police and saw the impossibility of expansion, of the riot spreading to other sectors. NGO workers and city hall mediators arrived urging people to ‘calm down', that police violence could be ‘addressed'. But these particular beatings were only moments on a continuum of violent surveillance and control. There was no doubt that the situation was in fact rapidly worsening as police ran wild in the streets, smashing skulls and faces with steel pipes and shields. The Kamagasaki population was at open revolt with the organs of repression, most saw no way back to ‘normality'. Buses and sound-cars of the unions and organizations of the unemployed mobilized from their garages and circled the neighborhood, providing a temporary barrier; they eventually moving through police lines, broadcasting messages to a wider portion of the city. Night fell again.
"I edged back to the crowd. From behind me, someone yelled ‘Aim for the lights!'. Stones were thrown aiming towards the lights of TV cameras stationed behind the riot squad.
I entered the crowd. No one took any notice of the camera that I held in my hand. After a while, a man spoke to me. ‘Are you from the news papers?' When I answered no, he said, ‘If you are, you are going to get killed.'" (-anonymous observer at Kamagasaki )
As the riot entered into its third, fourth day the city's strategy was in continual escalation. The rioting, unarmed workers were meat for the mobile riot squads. Largely defensive formations changed into charges, five-foot steel shields were leveled against the flesh of the disgusted. Barricades collapsed or were extinguished, and the police made real progress into the neighborhoods. If the streets could be cleared, then the tear-gas buses and paddy wagons could move in. Hundreds of the most militant were chased south into a union building where the insurrection made its last, unarmed stand. Concurrently and further south, partly in inspiration from the Kamagasaki rebellion, a youth revolt had exploded, spearheaded by ‘speed tribe' gangs on motorcycles who fought the police in skirmishes. This rebellion was contained even quicker, and most of the young rioters found themselves chased into the same building with the older workers. There would be no cavalry for Kamagasaki.
The building was taken with tremendous violence. The 22nd riot in the neighborhood's 30 year history had ended.
Despite the arrest and imprisonment of many, over the next four years there would be more small riots, sporadically, where the police or contractors were targeted. When unrest broke out, other workers would come running; construction contractors dodging back-wages found themselves at the mercy of mobs. People took inspiration from the riots that raged through the neighborhoods throughout the 1960s, contestation, above all was the agenda!
The strategy against the riot by the city and the bourgeoisie was drawn from every lesson learned in the past forty years of class struggle in post-fordist Japan. Initial direct force, followed by the deployment of mediators, the deployment of advanced technological means of repression, filtering of news about the riots, news blackouts, concluding in total geographical isolation of the proletarian ferment. Riots can not be permitted to spread to other sectors, and therefore Japanese capital's only strategy against the eruption of its own contradictions is containment.
MUZZLED CONTRADICTIONS, STRANGLED PROLETARIANS
Tent city in Osaka
The riots of the 1990s took place amid the massive restructuring of the 1980s and the economic crisis of 1989 as the investment ‘bubble' burst and the promise of a Japanese 'prosperity' proved hollow. Already migrant workers from Okinawa and Tokyo had taken up park occupations all over Osaka, not to mention Nishi-nari ward and the Kamagasaki neighborhood. Improvised huts, roofed with blue tarp, decorated with paint, junk, sometimes city free jazz schedules and at the very least posters of famous female crooners holding beer mugs, sprung up all over the city. The huts were statements of autonomy, arising from the immediate inability of newly-arrived workers to afford housing; as a strategy the ‘tent villages' blanketed the city, in order to stake out an existence independent of the welfare state's institutionalization. Out of the riots, the workers' movement in Kamagasaki re-composed into union coalitions. NGOs replaced the direct discipline of police batons as their mediating roles were appreciated by the city in halting unrest. 16 surveillance cameras at major intersections and shopping streets were installed in Kamagasaki alone. Over 1990-1995, the men at city hall dumped all the previous strategies, and Kamagasaki moved from a zone of discipline to one of control, from containment of outburst to total regulation; the unemployed were channeled, mediated and surveilled like never before; what could once communicate itself as a struggle of autonomy against the control apparatus was now more and more forced to speak the language of social peace. Park occupations were slowly apologized for as a response to the poverty of the city's institutional shelters as well as the lack of viable jobs, instead of their obvious essence, areas autonomous from capitalist time, characterized by relaxation, karaoke songs and games like go and shogi. The occupations were attempts to attain a moderately bourgeois standard of living, actualizing in motion, against an ocean of industrial poverty. Continual violence and harassment by yakuza and police managed to dull the direct-action strategy of spiteful day-workers as well as the heaviest strategies by newly radicalized unions, who quickly transformed into facilitators of ritual action: such as protest marches completely surrounded by police, food handouts and supplication to city officials at any level of struggle.
"As real subsumption advanced it appeared that the mediations of the existence of the class in the capitalist mode of production, far from being exterior to the ‘being' of the class which must affirm itself against them, were nothing but this being in movement, in its necessary implication with the other pole of society, capital." (Theorie Communiste)
NEO-LIBERALISM: TRANSFORMED EXPLOITATION, TRANSFORMED GEOGRAPHIES
Outside of Kamagasaki and Osaka, across the social terrain of Japan, the neo-liberal project had been advancing at least since the collapse of the new left in the late 1970s. A near collapse of the social safety net ensued: previous welfare guarantees were transformed increasingly into workfare, an entire landlord class was born atop workfare-registered workers struggling to pay ‘discounted' rents on yoseba wages. The retirement age was officially moved from 60 to 65 for most businesses in 2005, completing an already unofficial shift planned long-term by the LDP; a whole generation of parents suddenly found themselves working longer and harder and by desperation turning their children's' schools into factories for the production of workers who could support them post-retirement, as pension guarantees seemed bound for an irreversible crisis. Elderly workers who laid-off in the crisis often found themselves on the street with no employment prospects. Among the bourgeoisie, support for privatization and the gradual wearing away of the ‘welfare state' gained steam.
Nothing characterized the period more than speed-up. With the unification in the late 60s of train lines around the country under the JR Company and the rapid acceleration of bullet train technology, capital smoothed space towards a white plane, one with no resistance to the circulation of raw materials, labor power and surplus value. Highways brought the same changes, and inside the workplace a collapse of the labor movement ensured human beings snared in 60-70 hour weeks became the norm for full-time employees. The individual experience of labor became more and more an endless conveyor belt between home, transit and the workplace. A metropolitan factory modeled on assembly lines, bound by its very constitution, to disaster.
ENCLOSURE, SPEED, DISASTER
As an island chain along major fault lines, Japanese civilization is fraught with constant disaster. The 1995 earthquake in Kobe was only the most recent massive demonstration of the power of continental plates (5,273 people were killed, most crushed to death in the collapse of their houses or consumed by the fires that followed the earthquake, 96.3 billion dollars of damage were assessed). Earthquakes are phantoms, haunting all considerations of the future. Last December, a scandal broke in the news media; Hidetsugu Aneha, a 48 year old architect working at a construction firm called Hyuza in Tokyo had, under pressure from his superiors to cut costs on the buildings he was designing, reduced steel reinforcements in building skeletons and falsified data to cover his tracks. As his actions were uncovered and an investigation was launched by the city, it came out that the building for which design statistics had been falsified was not a lone example; the number quickly mushroomed, resulted in the implication of 78 hotels and buildings as being at 30-80% of minimal earthquake preparedness, meaning likely collapse during a strong earthquake. In his defense Aneha protested that when he raised these issues to his superiors they told him the firm would simply lose the contract to other firms if proper costs were covered, and so he must cut expenses any way he could; Aneha's comments therefore implicate not only himself and his corporation, but the construction industry as a whole. These vast, condensed metropolises of the Japanese islands contain millions of bodies on foundations increasingly precarious, and despite the spectacular efforts by city governments at reform and revision, thousands will not survive the next earthquake (as many were killed in recent Niigata prefecture earthquakes). Capitalism has developed all formalized dwellings, all massive dormitories of the exploited that stretch from the city to suburbia, into potential coffins.
In ironic contrast stand the humble hut-dwelling day-workers of Osaka whose low-impact ‘outside dwellings' are in no danger of killing them during a disaster.
In 1987, Japan's nationalized train lines were divided into west and east and privatized. Adding a profit motive to trains, already circulating on the rhythm of breakneck post-Fordist Japanese capitalism, guaranteed the narrowing of bottom lines and an amplified pursuit of speed between stations. In 2005, a rush-hour train derailed between Amagasaki station and Takaradsuka station north of Osaka. The young train driver had been berated repeatedly by supervisors and his supervising senior driver to cut seven minutes off of the recommended transit time for the 25 km between these two stations. The train derailed, traveling at a tremendous speed and collided with a large apartment building, destroying part of its foundation and causing the building to collapse on top of the train car. 105 people died either instantly or before rescue workers could reach them. Unfortunately for the bureaucrats and company officials rolled out to the scene to beg apology (and for all who ride these trains) no uptake of individual responsibility for this massacre can erase the obvious but unspeakable culpability of the economy, cloud of massified instrumental necessity, which by shearing away life-time from the individual worker according to its internal pressure, must constantly flirt with cheap materials and disastrous speed. The reaction of the individual: ‘Where is my train? My son is waiting.' gives form to this pressure. Universal demand for the reduction of transit time, born out of the stubborn intransigence of work time, pushes the trains faster and faster. The social pressure of work time against life time produces derailments, just as the concrete capitalist organization of geography ensures this acceleratory dynamic across space. Crisis is therefore implicit in the accumulated forms of capitalist working class subsumption. To which again, capital can only respond with containment.
"When the ship goes down, so too do the first class passengers... The ruling class, for its part incapable of struggling against the devil of business activity, superproduction and superconstruction for its own skin, thus demonstrates the end of its control over society, and it is foolish to expect that, in the name of a progress with its trail indicated by bloodstains, it can produce safer (trains) than those of the past..." (Amadeo Bordiga, Murdering the Dead)
DISINTEGRATING WORKPLACES; ANTAGONISTIC SPACES
During the neo-liberal wave, an expansion of ‘irregular employment' brought about the birth of a precarious class of workers that would precede Europe's ‘precariat' in conditions if not consciousness. It would also create new forms of social labor that were 'out', roving the cities.
Inside workplaces, an increasing concentration of fixed capital within factories accompanied by off-shoring meant that Japanese government had a mostly idle labor force, steadily being undermined in its real conditions of subsistence by welfare reform, one that could be put to work in entirely new ‘service' industries. Jobs were invented. Escalator girls, elevator girls, kyaku-hiki (customer pullers), street megaphones, flyering, etc. new ‘services' that were above all ‘out and about', social forms that seized forms of inter-human sociality, the tap on the shoulder, the kind holding of the elevator door, the smile, amplifying them, valorizing what had been mostly unwaged action. Population shifts led to the unavoidable importation of foreign labor, causing a gradual cosmopolitanization that has thrown the idea of a ‘Japanese' identity into crisis, while also strengthening reactionary ideologies that take strength from it. The growth of an English education industry brought thousands of temporary workers to Japan, and with them, historical methods of class struggle that clashed strongly with Japanese welfare state compromises of the 70s and 80s. As capitalists continually sought to preclude the ability of foreign labor to organize itself, the workplace form quickly dissolved from private schools to dispatch offices, private lessons in libraries, citizen halls, cafes everywhere. In a unique way, this foreign labor also became ‘out', dislocated, social.
To contain these new socialities arising across old geographies, the police and city planners are continuously at work. In late 2003, the already barricaded and privatized Tennoji Park in Osaka was invaded by 300 riot police who had come to evict what was known as the ‘karaoke village', a large area of the park taken over by karaoke carts, venders and crooners, gathering point for hundreds of day-workers daily who belted out song classics after work. For forty years the plaza was a hot-spot, even tourist attraction known as the ‘soul of Osaka', a musical space occupied by the downtrodden, who sunk into song and drink, dulling the pain, remembering more riotous times. In December 2003 the riot police moved in and barricaded the park for ‘construction purposes'. Vendors and crooners showed up in hundreds to watch the demolition and vent their rage. Barricades were thrown at the police, but the disobedients were quickly arrested. There would be no repeat of October 1990. All that is left of the karaoke village now is a steel fence, wrapping a completely empty lot. The park is silent.
Osaka city now plans a wave of evictions of squatters from parks all over its map. The first of the year is already underway in mid-city, and the park's residents are crouched down, preparing to resist the riot squads. The proletarians of Osaka's wards must learn the lessons of the past: against the brutal technological barricades of the riot police, surveillance and containment, they must adapt an improvised, mobile capability. The riots around Clichy-sous-bois provide a possible source of inspiration, totally mobile, skirmish-based attack, no commitments, no demands as such. No gathering points and thus no encirclement, no containment. Also in question is how social space can be re-worked and decelerated, how an autonomous space can develop against the crushing weight of capitalism, while simultaneously understanding its own limitations, how we might ‘help ourselves' to a future that doubtlessly awaits us if we seek it. The strange new crisis-ridden social geographies of post-fordist capitalism offer gates for the fleeing proletariat, which now finds itself everywhere.
It was revealed earlier that week that the police chief in Nishinari had been taking bribes from Yakuza gangs for a variety of ‘favors'.
Except for the Yakuza gangs who had all run away from the scene.
The information sharing grid between media, yakuza and government is well known in most parts of the islands.
Some of these older workers had cut their teeth on the anti-Yakuza struggles of the 1980s in Tokyo's Sanya district, some who were ex-members of militant groups like the red army, some who had served prison time for throwing bombs at police in the 60s. Incidentally, the Kamagasaki revolt was a big inspiration for Otomo Katsuhiro's Akira.
NGO workers can now be seen every day on the winding employment lines, monitoring workers with friendly armbands that say ‘safety patrol'!
Some hut plots in the autonomous parks have gorgeous gardens growing in them, in one case an occupant had improvised a permaculture system, with over-arching grape vines shading greens below and tomatoes flanking.
Many factory jobs were also shipped to East Asia at this time.
One phenomenon that may offer inspiration on this point: in Tennoji park, the same park that has been fenced and barricaded, robbed of most autonomy, two homeless men living in the lower part of the park have set out before their home five comfortable leather chairs, apparently open to anyone to sit in, chat or play go. The path on which these men live and on which their chairs are situated is a vital walking path for commuters, who everyday gaze curiously or longingly at these lounging non-workers, these jesters of the free community. | <urn:uuid:1e8d4cb6-a837-454d-8c97-85ccadf306ba> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://en.internationalism.org/icconline/2007/kamagasaki | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570977.50/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809124724-20220809154724-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.969887 | 6,930 | 2.359375 | 2 |
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ICSI is a IVF that is used primarily for the treatment of severe cases of male-factor infertility. ICSI involves the injection of a single sperm directly into a mature egg.
The inability of the sperm to activate the oocyte is the most common reason for unsuccessful fertilisation following ICSI utilising round-head sperm. Fertilization failure can also be caused by nuclear decondensation arrest and/or premature chromosomal condensation in some types of globozoospermia.
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“Neil, it’s your butcher, Lee.”
“Hi Lee, what can I do for you?”
“Did you by any chance order a calf’s head a couple of weeks ago? It’s the kind of thing you would order.”
“You’re right it is the sort of thing I’d order, but I didn’t, sorry.”
“Well someone did, but I can’t remember for the life of me who it was!”
“Oh dear. Well if you don’t find the culprit, let me know, I’m sure I can take it off your hands.”
And that’s how I became the owner of a calf’s head; and I knew exactly what I was going to make with it once it got my hands on it: the mysterious Victorian classic, Mock Turtle Soup.
Mock turtle soup was invented from necessity – turtle soup had become immensely popular in the 1750s after sailors coming from the West Indies landed a couple of them upon British soil. Sailors would catch them and keep them alive on their ships as a source of fresh meat. They were very delicious, and it’s a surprise that any even made it back. Those that did, were readily snapped up by royalty. Now everyone wanted to get their hands one and suddenly no banquet or dinner party was complete without its turtle soup. At its peak in trade, 15 000 live turtles were being shipped live from the West Indies per year. Of course, these huge beasts were very expensive, and because such numbers were being caught, trade was not sustainable and the green turtles were almost hunted to extinction, driving up price even further.
But why were they so popular? Obviously the royal family enjoying themgot the ball rolling, but their huge bodies were made up of different cuts of meat tasting of veal, beef, fish, ham and pork!
So real turtle soup quickly became out of the question for all but the super-rich, and so mock turtle soup was invented. Recipes vary in their ingredients containing beef, ham, oysters, vegetables, skin, tongue and brain in an attempt to replicate the diverse tastes and textures of turtle meat. One ingredient common to all of the recipes I’ve seen is calf’s head – an economical addition with plenty of tastes and textures in itself. Recipe-writers are quite particular about the fact that the head should have the skin on – the fat and skin adding to the texture and flavour of the dish. My head arrived skinned and it still tasted good. If your butcher sells veal, see if you can get hold of one. Mine cost a fiver!
Some recipes are very complex, but are essentially a consommé of meat served with the meat cut into chunks with various accompaniments such as forcemeat balls (or fish balls or egg balls), fried brains, oysters and fresh herbs.
Mock turtle soup became a British classic; Heinz even made and canned it! Alice in her trip to Wonderland met a real Mock-Turtle, depressed that he was no longer a real turtle. He was quite tiresome if I remember rightly.
Alice meets the Mock-Turtle
I adapted a recipe for an ‘old fashioned’ mock turtle soup from the 1845 book Modern Cookery for Private Families by Eliza Acton, then my chefs Harry and Matthew and I got to work on producing it as a special for the restaurant.
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To make mock turtle soup
As the butcher to split the head. As soon as you get home, remove the brain carefully and place in a bowl of well-salted water, cover with cling film and keep in the fridge until needed. You don’t need to include the brain if you don’t want to; it is tricky to prepare, but it is delicious. We didn’t use the brain as we took our time over a couple of days to make this in-between regular food service, and brain doesn’t really keep more than 24-hours. Because the head had already been frozen, we couldn’t re-freeze it either. If you don’t have the same issues as we did, get it cooked! There are brief instructions below on how to prepare brain, but for more detail, check out the sister blog here.
1 calf’s head with tongue, brain removed, split and soaked in salted water for several hours
4kg beef neck or shin
1 smoked ham hock
4 large onions, quartered
3 large carrots, peeled and halved lengthways
2 heads of celery, quartered lengthways
Bouquet garni: rosemary, bay, thyme, pared rind of a lemon
1 dsp black peppercorns
Rinse the calf’s head and place in a large stockpot, cover well with tepid water and bring slowly to a bare simmer. Skim any scum that rises to the surface of the water, then cover with a lid and let the head cook for 90 minutes.
In the meantime, heat up the butter in a large frying pan and fry beef until well browned. Add this, along with the butter, to the pot with the ham hock, vegetables, bouquet garni and peppercorns. Turn the heat up a little and bring back to light simmer, letting the whole lot tick over for seven hours.
Carefully remove the larger pieces of meat and bone and strain the soup well. If need be, reduce the resulting broth to produce a more concentrated flavour. Discard the vegetables and herbs and carefully remove the meat from the bone. Skin the tongue and cut away any gristle and bone from the root end. The meat can then be either shred or cut into even-sized pieces.
To finish the soup:
Beurre manie of equal amounts of butter and flour mashed together to form a paste
½ tsp ground mace
¼ tsp Cayenne pepper
Double cream (optional)
Forcemeat balls (see below)
Prepared brain (see further below)
As you prepare the meat, get the strained stock back onto a simmer. Whisk in knobs of beurre manie until the soup is as thick as you like, add the sherry and spices and season with salt. Return the meat to the pan. If you like, add cream to the soup.
Serve the soup in bowls topped with forcemeat balls fried in butter or lard, breadcrumbed brain slices and chopped parsley.
For the forcemeat balls:
300g streaky bacon, chopped
100g grated beef suet, fresh is best, but the packet stuff is fine too
75g fresh breadcrumbs
1 tbs chopped parsley
1 tsp chopped marjoram
2 eggs, beaten
Freshly grated nutmeg
Salt and pepper
Mix together the first six ingredients together in a bowl and season with the spices and salt. Roll into walnut sized pieces. Fry in butter or lard over a medium heat.
For the brain:
The brain, soaked in salted water for several hours in the fridge
1 egg beaten
Sunflower oil or lard for frying
A brain is covered by a membrane of blood vessels which need removing. To do this, gingerly place the brain on a chopping board, with its underside facing upwards. Here the membrane is thickest, and is the easiest place to begin. Carefully pull the membrane away. This is quite tricky and takes a little practise. Ease your fingers between the folds and get as many of blood vessels pulled away.
Now poach the brain in salted water for about 6 minutes. Remove, drain and cool.
Cut the brain into thick slices, pulling away any bits of membrane you might have missed.
Set out three plates: one with flour, the other with beaten egg and the last with the breadcrumbs.
Coat the brain slices in flour, then egg, then breadcrumbs.
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s first novel, Purple Hibiscus (2004), was ostensibly a coming of age story. A teenage girl is abused by her repressive Catholic father and, following a political upheaval, moves in with her aunt, at whose house she has a fuller life and discovers her own sexuality. But the novel’s backdrop was the changing face of Nigeria. Adichie was born in a small ex-Biafran town in 1977, ten years after the military coup that precipitated the civil war. Her first book’s first sentence made plain the company she meant to keep, with its bold reference to Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart: ‘Things started to fall apart at home when my brother, Jaja, did not go to communion and Papa flung his heavy missal across the room and broke the figurines on the étagère.’ This was a story about a girl and her family, but the effect of larger events was occasionally felt, bubbling up into the girl’s narrative. Award nominations followed: Booker longlist, Orange shortlist, John Llewellyn Rhys Prize shortlist, Commonwealth Writers’ First Book Prize.
Her new novel goes further. Half of a Yellow Sun – the title refers to the emblem on the Biafran flag – is narrated in the third person and switches, chapter by chapter, between the stories of three central characters: Ugwu, from a poor village, who is employed as a houseboy by a university lecturer, Odenigbo; Olanna, rich and beautiful, who is Odenigbo’s girlfriend, and later his wife; and Richard, a white Englishman and Olanna’s sister’s lover. It spans the decade to the end of the Biafran war of 1967-70, in which more than a million people died. Its focus is the impact of the war on these characters and the characters they interact with. The war and the changes surrounding it are the novel’s catalysts, and its plot.
The book opens in an atmosphere of peace and plenty, shortly after Nigerian independence in 1960. Ugwu has just moved from his village to work for Odenigbo in Nsukka, a town built round the new University of Nigeria, the first such institution to be established without British support. (Ugwu ‘had never seen anything like the streets that appeared after they went past the university gates, streets so smooth and tarred that he itched to lay his cheek down on them.’ After his first meal at his new master’s house he turns on the tap in the kitchen, then turns it off then on again, ‘laughing at the magic of the running water and the chicken and bread that lay balmy in his stomach’.) Ugwu spends his days scrubbing floors, polishing saucers, washing and dusting his master’s car, compiling long shopping lists, listening to the intelligent conversation at his master’s table. Odenigbo, a progressive, treats him well. He enrolls him in the staff primary school on campus and tells him he has to be the best in the class because he will be the oldest.
Ugwu is learning, but his world tilts with the arrival of Olanna, his master’s new lover and the daughter of a wealthy Lagos businessman. She smells of coconuts and has an ‘oval face’ that is ‘smooth like an egg, the lush colour of rain-drenched earth’. He is won over by her sophistication: ‘Master’s English was music, but what Ugwu was hearing now, from this woman, was magic. Here was a superior tongue, a luminous language, the kind of English he heard on Master’s radio, rolling out with clipped precision. It reminded him of slicing a yam with a newly sharpened knife, the easy perfection in every slice.’ He cooks an improvised version of fried rice for the couple and then, once they have retired, puts his ear to their bedroom door in order to listen to Olanna’s moans as they make love. But all this is scene-setting: his progress in the book is from innocence to experience. At the beginning he burns his master’s socks while trying to iron them; he learns taste and judgment; he becomes part of a new family and no longer fits into his old one. By the end the war has changed everybody. He is a soldier; there are gang rapes.
Olanna has been captivated by Odenigbo’s charisma and what she sees as his revolutionary zeal. She met him in a queue for a lecture. The ticket-seller caught sight of a white man in the queue and gestured for him to come forwards (‘“Let me help you here, sir,” the ticket-seller said, in that comically contrived “white” accent that uneducated people liked to put on.’) Odenigbo protested. He escorted the white man back to his place in the queue and shouted at the ticket-seller: ‘You miserable ignoramus! You see a white person and he looks better than your own people? You must apologise to everybody in this queue! Right now!’ And so Olanna loves him, partly for his wild professorial haircut, even though ‘he was not one of those who used untidiness to substantiate their radicalism.’ But – on the evidence here – his actions don’t substantiate his ‘radicalism’ either: telling a white man to wait in line isn’t such a big deal; it might have been a brave act, but it doesn’t depend on a radical thought. This episode is one of a handful in the book that somewhat cartoonishly represent a situation in the simplest possible terms, as though Adichie was afraid her readers might get the wrong idea. Odenigbo isn’t afraid of white people: therefore he must be radical. His real radicalism is more complex, and is explained gradually. He sees pan-Africanism as a European invention, as colonialism by other means. Before the British came, he says, he wasn’t African or Nigerian but Igbo – and he makes the case for the secession of Biafra from Nigeria not on grounds of ethnic solidarity but as a way of reversing the legacy of colonialism.
Olanna is Igbo too, and her experiences serve as an easy-to-read measure of the level of ethnic tension. In her privileged cosmopolitan girlhood ethnicity didn’t apply: she had a Hausa boyfriend, Mohammed; and her upwardly mobile parents used her charms as an enticement to a Yoruba government minister. On a plane journey halfway through the book she is sitting next to a beautiful dark-skinned man who wants to share with her the delightful news he has found in his paper – that the Igbo vice chancellor of the University of Lagos had been sacked. She mumblingly corrects his pronunciation of an Igbo word and he looks at her in horror: ‘Are you Igbo? But you have the face of Fulani people.’ He doesn’t talk to her after that, and she reflects mournfully that she ‘could be a Fulani woman on a plane deriding Igbo people with a good-looking stranger. She could be a woman taking charge of her own life. She could be anything.’ But she can’t, of course. She is bound by her man, and the changes in her relationship with Odenigbo are a more subtle measure of the changes brought about by war. As the Biafran enterprise turns towards disaster, Odenigbo feels that his principles have been compromised, and compromised principles are reflected in his private life throughout. He has an affair with a serving girl, and Olanna – putting aside her disillusion – insists that they bring up the resulting child, Baby, together. Odenigbo, unable to face the destruction of his political dream, starts drinking heavily; and after their flight from Nsukka to the Igbo south-east, as they are forced into a series of smaller and smaller houses, it is Olanna who holds the family together. She becomes the practical and assertive force, cooking in the communal kitchen, begging food from the relief centre and generally showing the stuff she is made of. Motherhood – and her instinct to protect Baby – has empowered her.
The weakest of the central characters – designedly so – is the Englishman, Richard. He wants to write a book about Igbo art, specifically the traditional roped pots he loves for their ‘strange rococo, almost Fabergé-like virtuosity’. The question that is constantly asked of him is whether his admiration of the pots – and his admiration of Olanna’s sister, Kainene – is anything more than colonialist condescension. But his larger problem is that he himself is the condescended-to subject. Kainene and Olanna’s parents lose interest in him as soon as they discern he has no money to speak of, and no connections; and he is constantly tortured by worries about the way he is seen. His weaknesses are literally embodied. He admits to a sudden, secret urge to cane his manservant: ‘It had always appalled him, the thought that some colonial Englishmen flogged elderly black servants. Now, though, he felt like doing just as they had done. He longed to make Harrison lie down on his belly and flog, flog, flog him until the man learned to keep his mouth shut.’ Even more shamefully, he is emasculated by Kainene – who is, to him, haughty, mysterious, a wrathful smoker – and he can’t get it up in bed. He is a soft target for a novelist with a message, and it seems too easy a conclusion to find him abandoning his historical treatise because he’s understood that Nigeria’s story isn’t his to tell: that job, he declares, is for Ugwu.
The novel’s main movement is the war. The beginnings of civil unrest are heard only as noise from offstage. Olanna is giving Baby a bath one evening as news of the coup is announced over the radio. When the deputy prime minister reads a statement saying that the government is handing over to the military, Ugwu is serving porridge. But as the emergency escalates – with suspicion growing that the organisers of the coup were Igbo – Adichie makes her characters witnesses, and finds ways for them to be involved in the action. The first air-raid comes during Olanna and Odenigbo’s wedding reception: the guests throw themselves to the ground in the garden. Odenigbo dances with Baby when the secession of Biafra is declared, but when news breaks of the massacre of Igbo army officers, Kainene rocks backwards and forwards as though in a trance, with the radio burbling in the background.
Olanna is in Kano when the killings there begin. In her frantic dash to the station, she sees bodies lying in the road ‘like dolls made of cloth’. On the train, she sits next to a woman holding a calabash. Towards the end of the journey, the woman opens the calabash and tells Olanna to look inside. In the bowl she sees the head of a little girl with ‘ashy-grey skin and the plaited hair and rolled-back eyes and open mouth’. Richard is at the airport when soldiers run onto the tarmac and start shooting Igbo passengers; the security guards fold their arms and watch. Richard wets his trousers; he nearly misses his plane because ‘as the other passengers walked shakily to the plane, he stood aside vomiting.’ Bodies fail.
With so much information – and interpretation – to be conveyed, it is inevitable that some of it will be rushed or caricatured. Much of the necessary background is shoehorned into dinner-table conversations: ‘“The BBC is calling it an Igbo coup,” the chin-chin-eating guest said. “And they have a point. It was mostly Northerners who were killed.” “It was mostly Northerners who were in government,” Professor Ezeka whispered, his eyebrows arched, as if he could not believe he had to say what was so obvious.’ This is embarrassingly heavy-handed, as Adichie perhaps knows – how else to explain those arched eyebrows? But the most inexplicable and impressive fact about this novel is that the frequent clunkiness of the dialogue (‘“I hope you’ve thought about coming to join us at the ministry, Olanna. We need first-class brains like yours,” Chief Okonji said’) doesn’t even register let alone hold you up. The logic of war doesn’t allow for pauses; and the narrative is breathlessly swift.
The complications of war – the absence of neat dinner-party conclusions – are enacted in the story of Ugwu’s conscription into the Biafran army. It begins with a near miss: in search of fresh water, he sees there are soldiers about, and tries to take refuge in a church. The priest won’t let him in (‘God bless Biafra,’ he says as he bars the door) and Ugwu is hauled off. Only when Olanna bribes the conscripting officer is he saved. A neat novel would have handed him over to the army at once, but war is messy and the narrative is too: a few pages later he is out on the streets again – this time in the company of a girl he can’t bear to leave behind – and is, again, met by a press gang; this time he can’t escape. The point of the girlfriend is to show how the personal leads to the general, and the point of the double conscription is to show that there is no general story: there are only individuals, who get caught up for a million individual reasons. At the training camp, Ugwu’s head is shaved with broken glass. People’s noses are broken. Ugwu turns up his nose at his fellow soldiers’ foolishnesses, at the man who can’t pronounce ‘reconnaissance’. He ‘imagined himself getting up in the moonlit quiet, leaping out, running until he got back to the yard in Umuahia and greeted Master and Olanna and hugged Baby.’ But here too it isn’t that simple: ‘he would not even try, he knew, because a part of him wanted to be here.’ He believes in the war.
Ugwu’s story is striking for its speed, and for what it leaves out. At one moment he is at home with his girlfriend; at the next, something has happened, but we don’t quite know how:
It didn’t matter that she was still seeing the officer. What mattered was the more, whom she preferred. He pulled her to him but she moved away.
‘You will kill me,’ she said, and laughed. ‘Let me go.’
‘I’ll escort you halfway,’ he said.
‘No need. Baby will be alone.’
‘I’ll be back before she wakes up.’
He wanted to hold her hand; instead, he walked so close to her that, once in a while, their bodies brushed against each other. He didn’t go far before turning back. He was a short pathway away from home when he saw two soldiers standing next to a van and holding guns.
‘You! Stop there!’ one of them called.
This is narrative that doesn’t trouble with filler, or the banalities of how X gets from A to B: there is no distinction between inside and outside, just as there is no distinction in narrative tone between the personal (her body) and the public (the army). Adichie has excised all keyed-up moments – the saying goodbye, the epiphany – and what is left is as direct as an account can be. Even the roughnesses of the language help: ‘standing next to a van and holding guns’ isn’t quite right, but it has an interesting effect, making the act of standing as aggressive as the holding of guns. It works, mysteriously, and is strange and new. | <urn:uuid:05cb473e-0db0-44af-bb3b-f06982007e23> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v28/n19/eleanor-birne/raised-eyebrows | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571210.98/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810191850-20220810221850-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.978749 | 3,528 | 1.8125 | 2 |
Substantial gap exists between catastrophe risks and readiness of middle market businesses: survey
- Published: Tuesday, 19 July 2016 07:59
Even as middle market businesses in all parts of the world view their exposures to natural catastrophes as increasing many fall short of managing these risks effectively, according to a new survey. Assurex Global polled senior executives at more than 80 leading independent insurance brokers from around the world whose commercial clients operate primarily within their own countries and found that many mid-sized firms lack adequate insurance, business continuity planning, risk management and civil infrastructure support to prepare for and recover from large-scale natural disasters.
In the survey, inland flooding was considered the most significant natural catastrophe risk for middle market businesses, cited by 70 percent of the brokers; followed by hurricanes, cyclones and windstorm (50 percent), and earthquakes and tsunami (38 percent). Understandably, responses varied somewhat by region, with hurricanes rated the top risk in the US and Canada; earthquakes/tsunami in Latin America and the Caribbean; and inland flooding in the Asia/Pacific and across Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA).
“Although the types of natural catastrophe risks facing businesses vary somewhat in different areas of the world, there’s a common thread in terms of what must be in place for middle market businesses to manage them effectively,” said Jim Hackbarth, CEO, Assurex Global. “Certainly, having sufficient catastrophe insurance, effective business continuity management and a civil infrastructure that supports preparedness, response and recovery are all keys to managing these significant exposures. Further, senior leadership’s support of the company’s risk management measures is universally paramount to their implementation as well as to the company’s ultimate success and survival.”
Natural disaster risks on the rise
Worldwide, more than half the brokers indicated their clients believe that their exposure to natural catastrophe risks has increased in the past five years, including 78 percent of those in Latin America and the Caribbean and 67 percent of those located in the Asia/Pacific.
Many businesses unprepared
In the face of increased risks, nearly one-fourth of the brokers surveyed worldwide estimated that fewer than 20 percent of middle market businesses in their regions now feel they are adequately prepared and insured for natural catastrophes. These estimates varied sharply by region, with 44 percent of brokers in Latin America/Caribbean citing the same low level of preparedness; 33 percent in the Asia/Pacific, 28 percent in EMEA, and 11 percent of US and Canadian brokers.
Insurance and business continuity planning are key elements of catastrophe risk management
When asked to list steps taken by clients that feel adequately prepared for natural disasters, 90 percent of the brokers worldwide cited client purchases of catastrophic property insurance, 68 percent pointed to the establishment of business continuity plans, and 40 percent indicated their clients retrofitted their facilities to withstand a disaster. In addition, 30 percent indicated these clients had worked to strengthen supply chains and 27 percent noted client efforts to increase worker response training.
On the other hand, when brokers were asked to list reasons clients might offer for not being adequately prepared for natural disasters, lack of effective business continuity planning was the biggest factor, cited by 60 percent of the brokers. Meanwhile, 39 percent mentioned lack of affordable insurance coverage for catastrophe risks and 36 percent, lack of support from leadership for measures to manage catastrophe risks.
Lack of civil infrastructure and leadership issues undermine readiness
Although one-third of the brokers worldwide indicated their clients would tie inadequate readiness to the lack of available government/civil infrastructure to facilitate preparedness, response, recovery and protection of affected plant and equipment, the issue is especially pronounced for businesses in the Asia/Pacific, where it was cited by 67 percent of brokers. By contrast only 13 percent of brokers in the US and Canada expressed the same concerns. In addition, issues related to lack of leadership support also appear acute in the Asia/Pacific region, cited by 60 percent of the brokers.
Among the most significant factors flagged by brokers around the world in determining whether a client is adequately prepared for a natural catastrophe, 71 percent cited internal support from senior leadership; an equal percentage identified company size and resources, believing clients view these factors as correlated with better protection and preparedness. In addition, 45 percent of brokers cited the presence of a corporate risk manager or risk management function and 42 percent, the availability of a civil infrastructure (including emergency responders, evacuation routes, shelters, and related resources) to help facilitate preparedness and recovery.
According to the brokers surveyed, middle market clients would cite several elements of disaster risk management as needing improvement, with the responses varying markedly by region. For instance, although 25 percent of brokers worldwide cited the availability of adequate and affordable property catastrophe insurance, 56 percent of those in Latin America/Caribbean identified that issue, ranking it the region’s top factor for improvement. And while 25 percent of brokers around the world cited improvements in government infrastructure to facilitate preparedness and recovery, these needs were cited by nearly half those in the Asia/Pacific and 38 percent in EMEA, making it the biggest element to target for improvement in those two regions.
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The collection was substantiated of the wish to develop something completely various than what he had actually done previously, with a focus on all-natural landscapes, and was to be implemented on a grand scale. The final product is a wonderful development, which is as a lot an artwork as it is a picture. Shilhavy was able to bring every one of his rate of interests with each other which caused his selection of the subject matter, along with the medium of his paint. With conventional oil and acrylic art mediums, which each have their own distinctive design, he had the ability to unite a full scheme of emotions as well as impressions into a masterpiece picture which you will certainly always remember.
To develop this huge photographic canvas, Shilhavy made use of a combination of typical oil, water and charcoal strategies to record every one of the scenes within the painting. Each photograph was then printed onto the canvas in the initial placement in the frame, utilizing the very best image editing software program readily available. After this job had been done, Shilhavy’s group established the lights and setting required for the real photographic session. The result was an absolutely photographic session which you make sure to treasure for years to find.
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Education Desk: Lawmaker Wants Transgender Kids Out Of Standard School Bathrooms
Illinois lawmakers may soon take up the controversial question of which bathrooms should be used by transgender students.
A measure filed by State Representative Tom Morrison, a Republican from Palatine, would require schools to make sure students use bathrooms matching the sex listed on their birth certificates. He says schools could provide other accommodations, such as single-occupant restrooms, if parents request it in writing.
"What my bill does is it provides an accommodation for those individuals who cannot neatly fit into either the male facility or the female facility,” Morrison says. "We want every student to have access to a restroom during the school day. We want every student to have access to a private place to change for PE. That's what we want, and that's what this bill provides."
Morrison drafted his bill in response to a situation in a Palatine high school. A student who was born male but identifies as a female had been using the girls' bathroom, but she was not allowed to change for PE in the girls' locker room. The federal Department of Education warned school officials that they were violating the student's rights, and she was eventually given access to the locker room.
Morrison’s measure would not only keep the student out of the locker room; it would also prevent her from using the girls' restroom.
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Camilla Parker-Bowles reportedly told the Duke of Westminster, Hugh Grosvenor, that she was worried about the latest real estate project. He wishes to destroy several London buildings, including the one where the Duchess of Cornwall lived during her youth, in order to build a residence for the elderly.
Is the Duchess of Cornwall’s old apartment doomed to disappear? At least that is what Camilla Parker-Bowles fears, sadly. She is said to have expressed her concern to the Duke of Westminster, Hugh Grosvenor, whose real estate company is about to demolish four buildings in London’s upscale Belgravia district. The buildings have sentimental value for the wife of Prince Charles, who lived there when she was in her twenties and even welcomed her future husband on numerous occasions.
The Duke of Westminster requested permission from the municipal authorities to build an old people’s home for up to 170 people, as well as social housing, to replace the old buildings. Part of the new apartments would also be put on the traditional real estate market, according to his company’s plans. But his company would have been accused by its detractors of wanting to put “profit before human beings”.
In addition to Camilla Parker-Bowles’ personal attachment to the place, where she first invited Prince Charles in 1972, other residents of the neighborhood have strongly expressed their opposition to the project. It would have to rise to a height of 48 metres in some places, they noted. They said the project would not suit the elegant architecture of the neighborhood, and especially that it would deprive them of 70% of natural light. Hugh Grosvenor denied this risk, assuring that the brightness will remain unchanged for all the apartments.
Attracting wealthy seniors
To express their concern and anger, the Belgravia Society sent a letter to the Ward Council. Among the outraged residents was one of the Society’s directors, Mary Regnier-Leigh, who told the Daily Telegraph that she suspected the Duke of Westminster was simply trying to lure “rich seniors” into the neighbourhood. However, the head of the real estate company tried to put this rumour to rest by assuring that he was planning a nice, green building.
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Of course, gasoline prices are still very high in regional parts of the world.
By Dan Deary, posted in Phoenix truck painting on February 21, 2013
Drivers….Start your engines! We have some great news for you and your wallet. Gas prices are on the drop! The average cost of filling up your tank in 2012 was $3.63; however, it will drop from that to $3.55 in 2013 and ultimately to $3.39 per gallon in 2014. Gas prices are still on the high end as far as right now but, why the drop in prices you ask? The answer is simple, as oil prices fall and production concerns are resolved, the price of gas drops. The high costs of gasoline and oil can be caused by conflict in the Middle East, making the oil prices surge or weather conditions, such as hurricanes, which decrease the refinery output. When Super Storm sandy occurred, it caused a regional decline for the price of gas for a few months. The main reasons for the high price tag on gas are refinery issues and the switch to summer blend gasoline. With tensions high such as in Libya in 2011 and Iran in 2012, it’s expected that the average national price of gasoline with slow and will peak during the spring at a lower price. EIA predicts the price for a gallon of diesel will fall to $3.92 in 2013 and $3.82 per gallon in 2014.
Of course, gasoline prices are still very high in regional parts of the world. According to the AAA, Hawaii faces the highest price of gas, at $4.24 a gallon. The Mountain states, such as California saw the largest price increases last week. The average gasoline price in Nevada went up 18 cents since last week. Colorado was 15 cents higher and Arizona was 14 cents higher. Utah increased up to 12 cents.
Oil prices will also be taking a more affordable turn around. The U.S. Energy Information Administration concluded the average price if Brent crude oil in 2013 will be $109 per barrel and $101 per barrel in 2014. To wrap it up, it’s important to realize the price may be high now, but good things come to those who wait, lower gas prices are on their way.
For fleet companies this is fantastic news as their profit can be made or broken depending on fuel cost, this is welcomed news.
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While I developed the Crunchtrack with the automotive field in mind, it became clear pretty soon that the board had a lot of potential in a lot of other applications. The very small board with a powerful MCU, a wide supply range, GSM, GPS and SD card is very flexible, so I bought it to the BattleHack Hackathon to see how far it could go. Continue reading Crunchtrack’s hacks
So how do you debug/develop for the Crunchtrack? Hardware-wise, the setup is very simple: I designed 2 boards, one is a breadboard adapter that breaks out all the pins from the expansion connector, and the other is the debug adapter that connects the debug connector to ST’s STlink debugger, sawed off from a Nucleo board. Continue reading First tests
The first prototype of this board was a disaster. I whipped it up in a rush just to fill some spare space before sending the main board to print, and while the Crunchtrack prototype came out nearly perfect, I messed up almost everything in this very simple board. Continue reading OBD adapter board
Schematics are online! As a bonus, I designed 2 verisons of the packages for the SIM800 modules, one with all the pins and one with only the mandatory pins to get the module up and running. I had to resort to this trick to save space for the tightly packed tracks, that on the PCB are spaced at 6/6 mil. A better board manufacturer would allow me to decrease the size of the tracks, but that’s for a future prototype. I don’t like having the modules “flapping around” in the breeze with most of their pins unsoldered, especially in the mechanical stressful environment that is a vehicle.
An important goal that I set for this project is that it must be easily replicated and modified by everyone; that’s why I went for a 2 layer board and and a microcontroller in a LQFP package. To meet regulations I will probably have to switch to a 4 layer board in the production version.
Continue reading Design considerations and first prototype
I think that we need to create a common repository/wiki database where we can share reverse engineered car information with a common standard, aiming at being able to automatically download a “descriptor” file that can run on an universal software.
This is not as hard as it seems; most of the data is usually extracted as the raw number, multiplied by a number, plus an offset. More complex formulas are not very common but exist and will be handled accordingly.
So, for every car, we have a page that states pinouts, bus speed, misc notes, and all the found messages. Log files can be shared and will be available for anyone to study.
Car: Renault Twizy
Bus speed: 500Kbps
– OBD connector
— Pin 6: CAN H
— Pin 14: CAN L
Battery pack temperature,0x55, 8,1000ms
Single cell voltage 1-5,0×556,8,100ms
0x155 BMS status (10ms)
|Byte 0||Byte 1||Byte 2||Byte 3||Byte 4||Byte 5||Byte 6||Byte 7|
|PWRH PWRL||Battery power||–||0x0F00||(0x7D0-(n&0x0FFF))*16||kW|
|Instantaneous battery power measured from the BMS. A negative value indicates charging, either due to regenerative braking or AC charging connection. This value can be used in conjunction with BV (0x55F) to calculate current flow. The indicated power is the total coming from the battery, power consumed by auxiliary devices is not separated from the traction power.
Example: (0x7D0-(0x97FF&0x0FFF))*16 = -752W (charging)
|BMS unit status.
· 0x94 = Initialization in progress; data acquired may not be valid
· 0x54 = BMS ready
|Battery state of charge.
Example: 0x6BF0/400 = 69.06%
This is just a brief example; the table may need more columns (to define if the message is read only or if we can send it to activate stuff, a method to handle bitmapped statuses, etc.) but it’s just to explain the idea. There will be a standard way to describe requests and responses, and how to handle data spanning multiple messages.
The community will help to converge to a standard way to save log files, develop tools to convert them, study their content and publish results. I have a small collection of softwares I’ve written in these years that I will make available with an open source license. Other options are:
I’ve always loved complex machines that can handle and transform huge amounts of energy to make very useful work. Among these machines, my life choices got me into the automotive field, where I’ve been working for the past 10 years. Just after school I found a job at Texa, an automotive diagnostic company, where I was writing software and reverse engineering communication protocols. My passion for efficiency and electronics made me leave that job after 5 years to pursue a career more focused on pure electric vehicles, so I joined another company where I developed power trains for EV conversions, and I even worked on a DeLorean conversion.
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Volume 72: Macarthur family correspondence relating to wine, 1846-1900: No. 529
At the Viticultural School at Montpellier in france they have raised one vine of Riparia seedling which is the best resisting known and from this single seedling selected. from many thousands they are now raising millions of cuttings, all of the same quality
I have written to the Professor and also sent two pounds for those cuttings. Should I get them we can propagate them indefinitely by cuttings all of which will be perfectly true to the characteristics of the mother plant, and perfectly Phylloxera resisting. -
I also take the following from, Le progress Agricole et Viticole some months ago and am sorry to say did not take the date
Gloire de Boaga
The Gloire de Boaga, exhibits almost the same characteristics as its parent, the Portalia, but judging by its extraordinary vigour, the size of its leaves, the dimensions of its stem, the length and thickness of its branches, and above all the development of its root system.
The Gloire de Boaga is as superior to the portalis as the portalis itself to the ordinary Reparias. This plant is sure to replace all the Riparias in soils which which do not contain too large a proportion of of lime.
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Ineos Styrolution, Trinseo advance plans for polystyrene recycling plant in France
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The plant will mark a “step change” in PS recycling in Europe, the companies said.
Material suppliers Ineos Styrolution and Trinseo are advancing their plans to build what’s being called a “first-of-its-kind” polystyrene (PS) recycling in Wingles, northern France.
The planned full commercial scale recycling facility will be capable of processing up to 50 tons-per-day of post-consumer PS feedstock, the companies said in a Sept. 17 statement, and is expected to be fully operational by mid-2023.
The companies said they will evaluate two different technology pyrolysis-based concepts during the conceptual design phase, one from Agilyx Corp. and the other from Swindon, England-based Recycling Technologies Ltd., in terms of quality, efficiency, and adaptation to different waste streams.
When completed, the plant will use the depolymerization process. “In previous project milestones, the depolymerisation of PS has proven to be an ideal recycling process showcasing polystyrene’s unique intrinsic capability for full circularity,” the statement said. “The plastics-to-plastics depolymerisation technology converts PS food packaging waste directly back into its original liquid monomer, which then can be repolymerised into recycled polystyrene for the same high-quality end applications, including food contact applications much like virgin PS.”
“We are excited to move to the next phase of engineering of this plant, as we are well on track to deploy the game-changing depolymerisation technology with the construction of this recycling plant in France,” said Nicolas Joly, vice president, plastics & feedstocks at Trinseo. “This plant will be part of establishing a novel recycling infrastructure for styrenics in Europe together with key players from across the entire value chain, which will mark a step change in PS recycling.”
“Our collaboration between Trinseo…is a significant commitment of capital and resources and a major milestone in truly closing the loop with food grade recycled content,” said Sven Riechers, vice president, business management, standard products EMEA at Ineos. “It forms part of Ineos’ and Trinseo’s commitments to use, on average, 30 per cent recycled content in products destined for PS packaging in Europe by 2025.” | <urn:uuid:d26b6bda-5c94-43c7-b1c6-acb7a7f3481a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.canplastics.com/materials/ineos-styrolution-trinseo-advance-plans-for-first-european-polystyrene-recycling-plant-in-france/1003454034/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570977.50/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809124724-20220809154724-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.914266 | 539 | 1.890625 | 2 |
Baku. 10 June. REPORT.AZ/ In Baku and Absheron peninsula, the weather will be changeable cloudy, occasionally gloomy on June 11.
Report was told in the National Hydrometeorology Department of the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources, strong north-west wind will blow.
The temperature on Absheron peninsula will be 15-18 C at night and 20-24 C in the daytime, in Baku 16-18 C at night, 22-24 C in the daytime.
Tomorrow, in some regions of Azerbaijan, lightning and heavy rain and hail expected. West wind will blow and intensify in some places.
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This interesting surname is a patronymic form of the Old Norse personal name "Anleifr", or "Olaf", which is composed of the elements "ans", god and "leifr", a relic. The name was a common Scandinavian one and became popular in Northern Scotland and Ireland, both countries receiving Scandinavian Colonists at an early date. During the Middle Ages, the name continued to enjoy popularity partly as a result of the fame of St. Olaf, King of Norway, who brought Christianity to his country (circa 1015). In the modern idiom the surname has many variant spellings including Olufsen, Olesen, Ohlsen, and Ovesen.On September 26th 1677, Bernard Olsen married Martha Willis, at St. Katherine by the Tower, London. Mary, daughter of Bernard and Martha Olsen was christened at St. Dunstan's, Stepney on November 26th 1683. The christening of Charles, son of Charles and Margaret Olsen took place on November 24th 1294, at St. Anne Soho, Westminster. The first recorded spelling of the family name is shown to be that of Robert Olef, which was dated 1275, in the "Subsidy Rolls, Worcestershire", during the reign of King Edward 1st, known as "The Hammer of the Scots", 1272 - 1307. Surnames became necessary when governments introduced personal taxation. In England this was known as Poll Tax. Throughout the centuries, surnames in every country have continued to "develop" often leading to astonishing variants of the original spelling.
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IT’S RARE DISEASE DAY AND WE ARE ADVANCING CTD KNOWLEDGE!
By Carol A. Dutch – Senior Director, Patient Engagement, Lumos Pharma
More than two years ago, a multidisciplinary team of investigators based primarily at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) set out to advance the scientific and medical community’s understanding of a rare pediatric neurodevelopmental disorder called Creatine Transporter Deficiency (CTD/SLC6A8), first identified in 2001. Their work culminates in a March 2019 article entitled “Early Indicators of Creatine Transporter Deficiency” in the Journal of Pediatrics (published earlier online in Dec 2018). The study, led by CHOP psychologist Judith Miller, Ph.D., offers useful diagnostic information gathered through interviews and clinical assessments of over 20 CTD individuals and their families. The new study suggests possibilities for earlier diagnosis of CTD and adds to earlier studies that have shed more light on CTD, including a 2013 retrospective study of clinical, biochemical and molecular genetic data of 101 males diagnosed with CTD.
“This project was my first introduction to Creatine Transporter Deficiency,” said the study’s lead author, Dr. Judith Miller, Assistant Professor at the University of Pennsylvania and CHOP’s Center for Autism Research. “I so enjoyed getting to know the amazing families who generously shared their stories with me, about how their children came to be diagnosed. The results were clear– we have a long way to go to improve early identification to make the journey easier for families who are seeking answers. “
Dr. Miller learned that it was often a significant event or symptom that eventually led to a child’s diagnosis with CTD, such as a seizure, or severe delays in walking or talking. But looking back, many families said there were more subtle signs in infancy, like a delayed milestone, or maybe difficulty feeding, and a lot of vomiting. “At the time, these signs didn’t always raise alarms, because they happen to lots of babies,” explains Dr. Miller. “But, of course now we know they were the first clues of a bigger problem. The next step to earlier identification is daunting, but important: how to help turn these early signs into information that parents and providers can act on.”
Although Creatine Transporter Deficiency currently does not have a therapeutic option that treats the creatine deficiency by effectively transporting the necessary creatine to neuronal cells, the disease can be easily diagnosed by measuring creatine and related metabolites in blood and/or urine, by proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS) or through genetic testing that includes sequencing of the SLC6A8 gene.
Hence, Miller and the team’s analysis suggests ways to help healthcare providers become aware of early indicators. When feeding or weight gain issues (significant vomiting or failure to thrive), and motor delays (sitting or crawling), are coupled with delayed basic milestones, this should be a red flag that can help direct healthcare providers to consider adding a urine screen (that includes creatine deficiency syndromes) or making a genetics referral for their patient.
Rare Disease Day, observed on the last day of February, is one day that globally spotlights the multi-faceted issues involving individuals with rare diseases, including a need for bolstered and continued research. We hope that more researchers are encouraged to spend time and resources on helping the community of rare families and individuals learn more about their conditions that could lead to life-saving and life-altering therapies.
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I am always appreciative of documentaries that push the boundaries of the form, but experiencing them leaves me wondering too often: Can interactive documentaries make us feel something in the same way that traditional cinema can?
As this year’s Storyscapes proves, the answer is increasingly yes. The five transmedia projects on display at this second installment of Storyscapes at the Tribeca Film Festival are not only more interactive and participatory than some of their predecessors, but they are also more emotionally evocative.
Choose Your Own Documentary is a hybrid film and live performance whose path (one of a possible 1,500+) is determined by the audience through a series of choices made via remote control. The protagonist, Nathan Penlington, does a kind of live DVD commentary as he leads you through a series of short films about his search for the mysterious original owner of a collection of Choose Your Own Adventure books from the 1980’s that he secured on eBay.
I appreciate that the interactive device is not just a shtick — it has direct relevance to the story’s content. More importantly, the voting creates real audience engagement with a tale that is successful for some of the same reasons that many narrative films are – it is a personal story told by an authentic, vulnerable, relatable protagonist. And ultimately it has a traditional story arc with emotional peaks and valleys no matter what path the audience chooses.
The performance will run four times throughout the festival.
Use of Force is a virtual reality experience that recreates a scene in which a migrant was killed by border patrol on the U.S.-Mexico line. The recreation is based on eyewitness testimony, real audio captured at the scene and 3-D animation of the cell phone videos that accompanied that audio.
The set-up at Storyscapes is limited given that only one person can use it at a time, but I recommend that you put your trust in the 3-D-goggle-handler on site and give it a go, because the experience is visceral, upsetting in the way a human rights doc should be, and satisfying to the “rubbernecker” in all of us. While inside the scene, I wanted a closer look, but producer Nonny de la Pena only lets us see what the cell phone cameras could see — strengthening the credibility of her recreations by not including imagined details. When I took the goggles off, I wanted to know more, and isn’t that what audience engagement is all about?
In terms of eliciting feelings from a general audience, the creators of Clouds (James George and Jonathan Minard) face a very big challenge: how do they generate visceral reactions to what are essentially data geeks talking about data in settings created by, you guessed it, data? Feelings aside, how do they even get us to understand what the heck this stuff means? With their Storyscapes installation, they are making a bold attempt.
First of all, the interactivity is cool. Who doesn’t want to feel like Tom Cruise in Minority Report, waving their arms all around to control information on a big screen? It also helps that the data-driven graphics are gorgeous, the subjects are passionate, and the sound bytes are condensed enough that they are generally digestible. I look forward to seeing how the creators will make the project even more relatable as they bring it into app form in the coming year.
Circa 1948 (From National Film Board of Canada, titans of the transmedia trade) is a richly detailed portrait of postwar Vancouver that invites audiences to explore the cities’ changing neighborhoods while considering such themes as gentrification and police corruption. I found it to be the least effective project in terms of emotional resonance, particularly because of the choice not to show subjects’ faces, which made it difficult for me to connect with their stories. However, the installation was the most successfully immersive of all the projects for me.
The virtual reality experience created by binaural sound and 360-degree projection-mapped video, and seamlessly controlled by my own body movements with no handheld controller, truly brought me into their elaborate Vancouver scenes in a fuller way than I have ever experienced. (The project also allows for extensive exploration through its mobile app, available in the iTunes store.) I didn’t witness a single person emerge from the experience without an audible wow.
On a Human Scale is simply delightful. Its user interface is a piano keyboard whose keys activate videos of notes being sung by a diversity of strangers on the streets of New York City. Project creator Matthew Matthew believes that each person who experiences the project actually builds their own story into it, but that the larger narrative is about how singing and music bring people together. As such, he feels compelled to “make an instrument out of humanity.” The project is clearly an interactive art installation, rather than storytelling in any kind of traditional sense, but it did make me feel something. Frankly, it made me feel happy, and there aren’t many interactive projects that I can say that about.
Keep an eye out here for more in-depth pieces about some of these projects later this week. Meanwhile, I’d love to know if these examples whet your appetite for transmedia creation. Did you go to Storyscapes, and what did you think? Even if you didn’t make it this year, how would you imagine your documentary if it could be displayed in a space other than a screen? What interactive elements could you build or are you building in that add another emotional level to your audience’s experience?
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The classic air-cooled Porsche 911 is easily one of the great icons of sports car design. Few cars can compare with that finely tuned rear mounted flat six engine and lively handling unique to all early 911s.
These days all 911s of the air-cooled variety are sky rocketing in value, and this example offered up by New Zealand based auctioneer’s, Webb’s, is no exception. That said, it is one of the greatest examples of one of the greatest cars ever built.
This 1973 Porsche 911 T 2.4 is regarded as the last hurrah of the “original” 911. After 73, they increased in capacity and saw the advent of front and rear impact bumpers and more power. The 911T is the purists 911, and this example will be up for grabs on July 12 with an estimate of $100,000 to $120,000NZ.
This particular 911T was one of 28 cars sold new in Australia through then Porsche dealer, Porsche Australia. Standard power output for the 2.4L flat six engine was around 130hp, but this example was given extra oomph by way of fuel injection, giving an extra 10hp.
Little is known about the car’s early life in Aus. The 911 arrived on New Zealand shores in 1985 and has been here ever since. It has also been regularly serviced at Continental Cars Porsche in Auckland. The 911T has been through a light restoration and was painted the dark blue you see here. There is a bit of wear on the steering wheel but the rest of the car looks superb.
Ever wanted to re enact Steve McQueen’s run through northern France in “Le Mans”?, get bidding on July 12th.
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President Zelensky meets with US officials
Ukrainian leaders have reiterated a call for US-made long-range missile launchers to defend against bolstering Russian attacks.
“It’s hard to fight when you’re attacked from 70 km away and have nothing to fight back with,” Ukrainian presidential adviser and peace negotiator Mykhailo Podolyak wrote on Twitter.
“Ukraine can bring Russia back behind the Iron Curtain, but we need effective weapons for that.”
President Volodymyr Zelensky expressed hope that Ukraine’s allies would provide the necessary weapons, adding that he expected “good news” this week.
US officials said such systems are being actively considered.
Meanwhile, Mr Zelensky said the military situation in the Donbas was very complicated, adding that the defenses held up in a number of places, including Sievierodonetsk and Lysychansk.
“It is indescribably difficult there. And I am grateful to everyone who endured this attack,” he said.
Elsewhere, the British Ministry of Defense said that if Russia were to succeed in taking over those areas, the Kremlin would likely view it as a “substantial political achievement”, which it could use to justify its invasion to the Russian people.
Fighting for Sievierodonetsk Continues – Ukrainian Armed Forces
Fighting for the eastern Ukrainian city of Sievierodonetsk continues with Russian troops conducting strike operations on Saturday, the General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces said on Sunday.
“Using artillery, Russian troops conducted assault operations in the area of the Sievierodonetsk city,” the general staff said in a statement on its Facebook page.
“The fighting continues.”
Maryam Zakir-HussainMay 29, 2022 08:10
Ukrainian leaders call for more weapons
Ukrainian presidential adviser and peace negotiator Mykhailo Podolyak reiterated a call for US-made long-range missile launchers. US officials have told Reuters such systems are under active consideration, with a decision likely in the coming days.
“It’s hard to fight when you’re attacked from 70km away and have nothing to fight back with. Ukraine can bring Russia back behind the Iron Curtain, but we need effective weapons for that,” Podolyak wrote on Twitter.
President Volodymyr Zelenskiy expressed hope in an overnight video address that Ukraine’s allies would provide needed weapons, adding that he expected “good news” this week.
Maryam Zakir-HussainMay 29, 2022 07:40
Thanks for following our coverage of the invasion of Ukraine today.
We are pausing coverage on the blog and will resume coverage tomorrow morning.
Here’s a rundown of everything that happened today:
Holly BancroftMay 28, 2022 21:23
Today’s Highlights: Putin urged ‘serious negotiations’ with Ukraine
French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz asked Mr Putin for an “immediate ceasefire and withdrawal of Russian troops” as the attack on Ukraine’s Donbas region intensifies.
In an 80-minute three-way meeting, leaders urged Putin to release 2,500 Ukrainian fighters taken as prisoners of war at the Azovstal steel plant in Mariupol, according to a readout from Mr Scholz’s office.
The Russian president warned Macron and Scholz that Western arms supplies to Ukraine were “dangerous” according to the Kremlin.
It comes after Russia claimed it had taken control of Lyman after days of fighting over the Ukrainian city. The claimed success is considered key to the next phase of Moscow’s attack in the Donbas region.
Holly BancroftMay 28, 2022 21:22
West is working to break Russian blockade and ‘avoid global food crisis’, PM says
The West is working to break the Russian blockade of Ukrainian ports to “avoid a global food crisis” by releasing millions of tons of grain, Boris Johnson said.
The prime minister spoke to President Volodymyr Zelensky on Saturday morning about international efforts to end the “despicable blockade” of Odessa, Ukraine’s main southern port on the Black Sea.
The talk between the leaders comes after Johnson revealed this week that the West was backing Ukrainians in clearing the Black Sea and reopening international shipping routes.
Holly BancroftMay 28, 2022 8:02 PM
European leaders call for ‘serious negotiations’ between Putin and Zelensky
Vladimir Putin has been urged to enter into “direct serious negotiations” with Volodymyr Zelensky to try to end Russia’s war against Ukraine.
Macron and Scholz urged the Russian president to “find a diplomatic solution to the conflict”, while also calling for an immediate ceasefire and withdrawal of troops from Ukraine.
Ukraine, however, doubts whether the negotiations would be fruitful, as a deal with Russia was not to be trusted.
“Any agreement with Russia is not worth a broken penny. Is it possible to negotiate with a country that is always cynically and propagandistically lying?” peace negotiator Mykhailo Podolyak wrote on Telegram.
Zaina AlibhaiMay 28, 2022 8:02 PM
Macron and Scholz call for Ukrainian release from steel mills
French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Olaf Schloz have urged Vladimir Putin to release Ukrainians detained at Mariupol’s steel plant in Azovstal.
About 2,500 fighters were captured by Russian forces after they surrendered after months of relentless shelling in the besieged city.
Hundreds were said to have been taken to a former penal colony, while others have reportedly been treated in hospital.
Zaina AlibhaiMay 28, 2022 19:31
ICYMI – Son of UK MP in Ukraine ‘filmed destroying Russian armored vehicle’
The son of a Conservative MP has been filmed helping to blow up a Russian armored vehicle during an operation in Ukraine, according to footage obtained by the i†
Ben Grant can reportedly be heard shouting “shoot it now” and “watch the back blast” before an anti-tank missile is launched at a Russian BTR in a forest in northeastern Ukraine.
Grant, 30, the son of former minister Helen Grant, Conservative MP for Maidstone and The Weald, is part of a group of Western volunteer fighters supporting Ukraine in the wake of the Russian invasion.
My colleague Emily Atkinson has more details here:
Maryam Zakir-Hussain28 May 2022 19:00
Russia takes small towns, wants to broaden battle in eastern Ukraine
Russia claimed on Saturday that its troops and separatist fighters had captured a key railway junction in eastern Ukraine, the second small city to fall to Moscow’s forces this week as they fought to capture the entire disputed Donbas region of the country.
Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov said the city of Lyman had been “completely liberated” by a joint force of Russian soldiers and Kremlin-backed separatists, who have been waging war for eight years in the eastern region bordering Russia. Russia.#
Maryam Zakir-Hussain28 May 2022 18:30
War in Ukraine: Current Economy Updates
Russian President Vladimir Putin told leaders of France and Germany in a phone call that Russia was willing to discuss ways to allow Ukraine to resume grain shipments from its Black Sea ports, the Kremlin said.
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson told Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy that international partners were working intensively to find ways to resume grain exports from Ukraine to avert a global food crisis.
A ship has entered the Ukrainian port of Mariupol for the first time since Russia captured the city to load metal and ship it east to Russia, the TASS news agency reported, in a move that Kiev decried as looting.
The EU is aiming this weekend for a deal to ban Russian oil shipments by sea, but not to win Hungary over a pipeline. Zelenskiy accuses the EU of dithering.
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Do extraterrestrials have rhythm? If they do, do they also have starlight, daisies in green pastures and sweet dreams? OK, they may not sing Earth jazz standards but if fast radio bursts are being generated by aliens, they definitely have some sort of rhythm because astronomers recently confirmed the first FRBs consistently following a regular rhythm over an 18 month period. Are these FRBs messages from a female alien with rhythm looking for “my man”?
“In 38 bursts recorded from 16 September 2018 to 4 February 2020 UTC, we find that all bursts arrive in a five-day phase window, and 50 per cent of the bursts arrive in a 0.6-day phase window. Our results suggest a mechanism for periodic modulation either of the burst emission itself or through external amplification or absorption, and disfavour models invoking purely sporadic processes.”
In a new study published this week in the journal Nature, astronomers using the Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment (CHIME) – an interferometric radio telescope in British Columbia – determined that FRB 180916.J0158+65 emits fast radio bursts on a 16-day schedule, with 4 days of fast bursts followed by 12 days of silence.
"This FRB we're reporting now is like clockwork. It's the most definitive pattern we've seen from one of these sources. And it's a big clue that we can use to start hunting down the physics of what's causing these bright flashes, which nobody really understands."
“… what's causing these bright flashes, which nobody really understands." Kiyoshi Masui, assistant professor of physics in MIT's Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research and a member of the CHIME/FRB Collaboration that published the study, admits this new information still doesn’t explain FRBs, which means it could still be aliens, right? The study says it found no ”smoking gun” and instead offers some theories. One is a neutron star that is spinning and wobbling is a state known as precession, with the wobble defining the periods of bursts. Another is a neutron star orbiting another neutron star or a black hole, with one half of the binary pair blocking the other’s signal.
The latest theory that the FRB source is a magnetar, a neutron star with an intense magnetic field. Astronomers using CHIME proposed this after finding an FRB in our own Milky Way galaxy that appears to be flaring out of a magnetar. In the case of FRB 180916.J0158+65 and its 16-day cycle, this would mean an unusually slow magnetar.
The CHIME/FRB Collaboration study proposed one more theory:
“But the final possibility is the most intriguing: that long-term periodicity is the norm for repeating FRBs. If so, then such periodicity might be at the heart of the FRB mechanism — and it would mean that these natural phenomena are defeating the ability of the human imagination to explain it. More-creative ideas would be needed to identify the missing link between theory and observation.”
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Crude oil prices increased at the beginning of the session this Friday, heading for a second consecutive weekly increase.
The European Union’s proposal to ban imports of all Russian crude oil and petroleum products by the end of the year overcame market concerns about slowing Chinese oil demand amid tough restrictions on oil COVID-19.
Last Wednesday, the European Commission officially proposed a total ban on imports of Russian crude oil and oil products by the end of the year.
“Let’s be clear: it will not be easy. Some Member States are highly dependent on Russian oil, but we simply have to work on it. Now we propose a ban on Russian oil. This will be a total import ban on all Russian oil, by sea and by pipeline, crude and refined.”said the president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen.
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Prices of a barrel of Brent and Texas oil today, May 6: how much does it cost and how much is it quoted?
According to Oil Price Charts, a renowned website that has more than 150 oil indices and mixtures worldwide, this Friday, at 1:56 pm ET, a barrel of West Texas Intermediate (WTI) oil is at $109.30, up 0.96%. On the other hand, the Brent barrel is at $111.86 with an increase of 0.87%.
In April, both Brent and WTI posted their fifth consecutive monthly gain, the longest run of monthly gains since the beginning of 2018. The Brent closed the month with a rise of 1.3%, while the WTI ended with a 4.4%.
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So i tryed to use the graph in Grafana with my MSSQL Data Source
SELECT TOP (1000) [oems_company_history_guid]
and i always get the error , Wrong Syntax near “<” … Can someone help me?
Can you see the
I just created a simple table with the same name as yours and the query worked:
But a query without a where clause is not a good idea. You should be using the Grafana time range to limit the query.
If you want to visualize it in a graph then you have to format the result correctly to get time series data.
Here is an example query that returns time series data (a time column, a name column and a value column). It uses macros like $__timeFilter() to make it easier to write the query.
$__timeGroup(createdAt,'$summarize') as time,
avg(value) as value,
'started' as metric
measurement = 'payment.started'
GROUP BY $__timeGroup(createdAt,'$summarize')
ORDER BY 1
Ok and how would that query look like if i would u se
Select nn.ComputerID, client.ComputerName , count(*) as Anzahl
From oems_client_nn_software as nn
Left Join oems_client as client on client.ComputerID = nn.ComputerID
GROUP BY nn.ComputerID, client.ComputerName
?? couldu show a example with that?
For time series data, you need a date time column. Do you have one?
If you don’t have a time column then there is not much point in trying to visualize a trend over time - which is what the graph panel does.
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The field of home interior design offers numerous exciting and diverse career options. The most common requirements include an interior design education, an associate’s or bachelor’s degree, and business savvy. You can also choose a design course to complement your degree. Here are some helpful tips:
Traditional style: A home with traditional interior design features symmetrical objects, neutral colors, and pops of color from decorative accents. In contrast, modern homes tend to have more color, whereas traditional style is all about consistent, simple colors. Those who are more comfortable with this style often incorporate contemporary furniture and accents. They also like the symmetry and details of old-world decor. This style is perfect for those who enjoy the history and charm of the past.
Home interior design has evolved considerably since the Victorian era. The first professional home decorator in the United States, Candace Wheeler, developed the first home design courses for women and was celebrated as the ultimate authority on home decor. In 1897, her book The Decoration of Houses was widely read, and was deemed as the definitive work on the subject. As the first professional home decorator, Wheeler’s ideas helped shape the future of home decor.
Several popular home interior design styles are currently in vogue. The transitional style is one such style. It is a happy medium between traditional elegance and modern lines and textiles. Transitional interiors use minimal accessories and let the furnishings and textiles do the talking. You can make use of accessories such as area rugs and throw pillows to add to the ambiance. There are a number of other home interior design styles, but the transitional style is the most popular.
Modern home interior design uses clean, minimalist lines and natural colours to create a minimalist and refined look. It emphasizes functionality over aesthetic value and emphasizes the use of space. Modern home interior designs also focus on ample lighting and air in each room. In addition, the modern style makes the use of spotlights and accent lights as essential elements in the overall scheme of a home. This style of home interior design is best suited for homes with modern lifestyles.
Traditional home interior design focuses on symmetry. It emphasizes the importance of balance in a room around the central focus, such as a fireplace, television, or decorative art piece. Modern home interior designs use clean lines and neutral color palettes. A symmetrical kitchen can be extremely practical. Similarly, an open floor plan can make a home appear more spacious. The interior design of a modern home should be visually cohesive, so that every room flows together.
Traditional home interior design has been popular for centuries. Its timeless value makes it appealing to people of all ages. It is characterized by rich textiles that bring classic patterns and colours to the home. Traditional home interior designs require fabrics to be simple and plain in colour, or with floral patterns and geometrics. The overall effect should be serene and restful. It should also be filled with symmetry. There are many other home interior design styles to choose from, so be sure to choose the right one for your home.
Living room interior design
One of the most important aspects of living room interior design is choosing the right type of furnishings. There are several different types of seating to choose from, but a sofa that seats two people rather than three is ideal. Alternatively, you could opt for a clean-lined chair rather than an overstuffed armchair. The choice of furniture also depends on the size and function of the room. A good rule of thumb is to avoid too much symmetry in the living room and stick to a minimalist design.
A modern, minimalist living room interior design emphasizes neutral colours and dual tones. A modern living room interior design will feature minimal furniture and a simple design, with a focus on functionality and comfort. Its design is typically based on natural materials and geometric shapes, while still offering plenty of warmth and comfort. If you are considering a minimalist living room interior design, consider the following tips:
Lighting is an important aspect of living room interior design. Lighting highlights the colors in a room, while indirect lighting can be reflected on the wall. The lighting in a living room should be suitable for reading, watching television, and hosting parties. Lighting should not be limited to a single overhead light, but be a combination of different types. The layout of the room should also determine how much ambient light is needed. There should be plenty of ambient lighting, as well as a bright overhead fixture.
One of the best living rooms is designed by a famous designer. While the famous designers create stunning interiors for clients, they also design their own homes. These are a perfect space to show off your own taste. They can showcase treasured art or antiques or bold patterns. If you’re a fan of the designer’s style, check out the living rooms of famous designers in the pages of AD. Perhaps you’ll want to try something bold yourself!
In the 1930s, the Danish designer Maison Jansen specified a marble mantel in the living room. During the same decade, Jean-Michel Frank designed the chairs in the foreground, while a designer called Pierre Paulin designed the sconces and the console. The chintz sofa in the foreground also reflects the artist’s mood. The rest of the living room interior design features a bright, modern feel.
If you’re looking for a more modern look, you can use a neutral colour scheme. You can also choose muted shades of your favourite colours as decor. Another important aspect of modern interior design is the use of natural light. Natural light brings warmth and makes the room appear bigger. You can use natural lighting to illuminate the living room. And when you do decide to use natural light, make sure you leave plenty of space for a window to let in some light.
The Italians, on the other hand, are fond of art nouveau. This style fuses traditional craftsmanship with new industrial techniques. For example, Louis Comfort Tiffany designed glass-blown forms in tribute to nature. The result is an exquisite living room that’s filled with a touch of sophistication. In this living room interior design, you’ll love the way this Italian-based designer blends traditional and modern art. So, how do you create a stylish living room?
Victorian home interior design
The most obvious difference between a Victorian home and a modern one is the way the interior design was done. Victorian houses were often designed to look like mom and pop retail stores, with a display area in front of the house and private family quarters at the back. These rooms were designed to convey status and social expectations, and were also used to impress guests. Today, you can find some interesting examples of Victorian home interior design, and get some great ideas on how to create a room that looks like a Victorian mansion.
One of the key features of a Victorian home interior design is the amount of furniture in the room. In the era, only the finest woods were used for furniture, which was usually mahogany or yew. Some Victorian homes also had wall art on the walls, which added a touch of elegance to the rooms. Overall, the Victorian style was characterized by lavish decorative objects, including huge, beautiful, and voluminous pieces of furniture.
The Victorian style also features a rich combination of Victorian-style furnishings and décor. Victorian style rooms are often layered with a variety of textures and layers of details. Floor-to-ceiling windows are a great way to emphasize this effect. In addition to adding layers of color to the walls, you can add antique mirrors to create a focal point. You can use other Victorian home interior design ideas as well. Just remember to use your own sense of style and personality to create a unique Victorian home.
Another important feature of a Victorian home interior design is the use of heavy, rich fabrics. Victorian homes typically featured elaborately carved crown molding and built-in bookcases. Curtains were also made of heavy, rich fabrics, hung over gilded rods. They were often lined with silk or wool. To create a more luxurious look, you can choose patterned fabric for the walls and draperies.
While Victorian home interior design may seem stuffy, it’s worth considering. While this style can be a great fit for a traditional Victorian home, there are also some important modern design elements you can incorporate into it. Victorian home interior design is about balance, so try to find a way to combine the old with the new. You can add touches of Victorian design to each room, creating a perfect mix of old and new. Just remember to include some Victorian touches in your design to make it more modern-looking.
The era that saw the industrial revolution was also the most popular for home interior design. Victorian interior design incorporated an array of styles that were once considered out of date. This style was about using every inch of a house, including objects and art. Victorian interior design evolved into a style that incorporated international design. With this style, you can create a unique interior design that shows your personality and your taste. It may be too bold for today’s homes, but it’s definitely worth the effort!
Colonial home interior design
The colonial home is typically two to three stories tall with the kitchen, living room, and dining room located on the first floor. The bedrooms are generally located on the second and third floors. The floor plan is often rectangular with one room on each end of the home. Colonial homes began with basic, rustic interiors and gradually evolved to include luxurious interiors. Listed below are some tips for Colonial home interior design. Read on to learn more.
Using a colonial-inspired design means using materials that reflect the era. Consider using cotton, linen, or wool for your furniture and drapes. Also, look for furnishings in natural woods, which have a distressed finish. You can use pewter accents, leather accents, and heavy furniture in colonial interior design. Patterns can also be used to liven up plain walls. By using a mix of different patterns and materials, you can create a unique interior design that fits your taste and complements your decor.
For the living room, try replacing the coffee table with an ottoman. Large carpets were cut and reused as rugs. Elsie de Wolfe recommended chintz for Colonial Revival interiors, which was a type of glazed cotton with large floral patterns. Chintz was inexpensive, durable, and light-weight, and a reminder of the colonial days when curtains were functional and beautiful. And don’t forget to use old family heirlooms and antique furniture.
For the exterior, Colonial houses have the most architectural pretties. Many of these homes feature ornate trim and decorative molding. Some have cool attic bedrooms and old beams. You can add more charm and history to your home with a colonial-style exterior. You can also update the interior design with contemporary accents and modern art. But don’t be afraid to mix and match! There is no rule that says a Colonial house has to look modern.
British Colonial interiors are typically very elegant, featuring fine wood furniture and elegant textures. They also feature airy colors like blue and white, which were originally used as a way to combat tropical heat. White contrasts beautifully against darker-colored furnishings. Walls are also washed white to make the space feel light and airy. Window coverings are usually made of linen and sheer cotton, which allow light to filter through while adding to the overall look.
British Colonial homes are often filled with plants. Plants bring the tropics to the British settlers and can be a great accent for a modern room. Plants such as palm fronds, ferns, and hibiscus flowers can freshen the air in a room, adding drama. You can add a large, graceful indoor palm to complete your British colonial interiors. There is also a rich culture of flora and fauna in Britain.
The style was influenced by both French and British colonial homes, but it has its own appeal. Dutch settlers brought a different design style to America than did English colonists. Despite its long history, the Colonial style still retains its appeal today. While the style is very old, it has undergone changes to keep up with modern tastes. If you love the look of Colonial furniture, don’t let your interior design be a mere copy of the past.
Tudor home interior design
A Tudor home has several classic features and details that make it stand out among other homes. One of these features is its limestone fireplace. Its unique shape provides an elegant center piece and a great place to display an individual collection of antique items. A red silk matelasse upholstered in gold and red gives the room an ethereal look. A red-and-gold curtains also add to the look. Using natural light is also essential to create an enchanting mood.
The designer chose a traditional look and feel for this home, but added modern elements for functionality and style. To create an elegant and livable interior, Jessica Helgerson, a Seattle-based interior designer, suggested a traditional style of furniture and fixtures that still fit in with the period. Using period-inspired pieces, she created the living room, including an orange FH419 Heritage chair designed by Fritz Henningsen, a blue Saari sofa designed by Arper, a Terranova coffee table, and a seven-globe branching bubble light fixture by Lindy Adelman. Adding topiaries, such as pear trees or fig trees, is another way to add Tudor style to the home.
Stained glass is a traditional feature of the interior of a Tudor home. This style is often enhanced by the addition of glass wall art, including framed photographs. If you want to recreate the look, add decorative elements to the living room like framed artwork and statues. Hanging art above the fireplace is another great way to add visual interest to the room. Using stained glass on the walls will give the room a ‘Juliet’s balcony’ feel.
Dark wood paneling in a Tudor home can be difficult to live with, but it can be updated. Consider a golden yellow or sage green to make the interior of a Tudor home lighter. Light colors are also ideal for Tudor homes. For instance, you can paint the walls of your Tudor home in matching colors, such as pink or red. Decorative half-timbering is another inexpensive way to recreate the Tudor look.
Painting and drapery are other important elements of Tudor interiors. The walls of a Tudor home can feature a large painted embroidery depicting a lush forest landscape. Using green and brown colors, this design element adds depth and color to otherwise plain walls. Similarly, the curtains on windows can have different patterns. However, it is best to coordinate the colors of the curtains to avoid clashing. Using simple geometric patterns is also an option.
The windows in a Tudor house are a unique nod to medieval architecture. Tudor windows are usually tall and feature multiple panes, sometimes diamond-shaped or rectangular. Some homes even have a floating bay window. The front doors have a circular arch. Tudor interiors are warm and inviting and can be tailored to any taste. If you’re thinking about redefining the interior design of your home, consider incorporating the style into your overall design. | <urn:uuid:08804fff-6c73-4724-9acf-6b5aed9e28ec> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://abchomy.com | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571538.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812014923-20220812044923-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.946647 | 3,175 | 1.984375 | 2 |
Na, a spinoff of Purring Tiger’s MICRO, consists of spheres hanging down that people can walk through and touch. The name, Na, comes from the periodic table, it’s the abbreviation for sodium. Just as sodium has 11 electrons, Na has 11 spheres. The layout of the spheres mirrors the electron arrangement of sodium. When seen from above, the spheres are laid out in 3 concentric circles. Each sphere is touch interactive, generating sound and light when activated. The sounds from each
sphere are all different, but create harmony between each other. Na brings us into relation with the smallest elements of our world, showing us we’re all parts of a vast universe.
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Drug Addiction and the Enabler
It is not unusual in most cases of addiction in Hesperus that the persons habit is influenced entirely or partially by someone in their immediate environment. An enabler is either a knowing or unaware participant in the persons struggle with drug addiction, and is someone who makes their addiction possible or less difficult to continue on. The act of enabling is typically carried out out of "concern" or "worry", but does more damage than good in the end. A good example of an enabler is a family member or partner who gives an addicted individual any kind of money, housing, transportation, and may even obtain the individual's drug for them. The thinking behind this is often that the enabling is helping the person to be in a safe and secure situation, instead of being on the streets or in harmful situations.
Enablers are frequently the essential element in an addicted persons life which is actually making the drug addiction possible. Reversely, enablers can also be the key to helping someone get off of drugs by discontinuing the enabling behaviors. As soon as the enabling has been stopped, the addict will often find that it is no longer possible to continue their habit and will reach a crisis point. This is why an enabler must recognize the situation immediately and instead of prolonging the person's addiction, get them into an effective drug rehabilitation center in Hesperus. Only then will both the enabler and the drug addict be able to go on with their lives in a much healthier and sane manner.
What is the Process of Drug Rehab
Whichever drug rehabilitation option in Hesperus is chosen, the process of drug rehab almost always begins with a drug detox. Drug detoxification is often overseen with medical professionals and trained personnel at the detoxification facility or drug treatment center. Treatment staff will help relieve withdrawal symptoms during the detox procedure and make this step of the process as smooth and comfortable as possible. Individuals going through detoxification will often have intense cravings for their drug or drugs or choice and relapse if likely if not in a drug rehabilitation setting
After the physical hurdles have been overcome, the next steps of the process of drug rehab include dealing with any and all underlying emotional and psychological issues. This can be very different from person to person, and most drug treatment centers utilize behavioral therapy as well as group and individualized counseling to ensure that all issues are resolved. This will ensure that the person is able to return to a healthy and sober lifestyle once treatment is complete. Part of the process of drug rehab is ensuring that the recovering addict is set up for success once rehabilitation is complete, and treatment counselors will often develop aftercare programs with the individual to make sure they remain drug-free for the long term.
What are Different Drug Rehab Options?
For people who are addicted to drugs, trying to beat the addiction on one's own can be a losing battle. Usually the only true solution is professional drug treatment at a drug rehab center in Hesperus. Because there are many things to be considered when choosing a quality drug rehabilitation program, it is helpful to know what different drug rehab options are available in Hesperus and which one will prove most effective in each particular scenario.
Many drug rehabilitation facilities in Hesperus are based on the belief that addiction is a disease. While this type of drug rehab option may be effective for some, there are drug rehab options which effectively treat and fully resolve addiction during the course of rehabilitation so that drug addiction never plagues the person again. In effect, these drug rehab options have proven time and time again that in fact addiction is not a disease but a condition that is 100% treatable and curable.
Most drug rehab options that treat addiction in this way are in-patient and residential drug rehab centers which make use of different types of counseling, behavioral therapy and education over an extended period of time, typically 90 days or more. Treatment services are delivered until the person is able to leave treatment knowing that they will never feel the need to use drugs again and can make the fresh start they deserve.
Drug Intervention and Drug Rehab
Drug intervention and drug treatment in Hesperus are invaluable methods that can help families and loved ones of drug addicted individuals. Addiction can take over a person's will, mind and body to the point where they cannot cannot make correct decisions on their own, and this often reaches a point of crisis where they will need an intervention from those who love and care about them. In Hesperus, drug rehabilitation facilities work with professional interventionists who can help organize and hold drug interventions so that the addicted individual can finally find his way to treatment that will save his life.
Most drug interventions can be organized within a matter of days or even hours as needed, and professional interventionists are trained and knowledgeable in handling even the toughest cases to get individuals into drug rehab. The alternatives are grim, and most individuals who don't receive such an intervention will lose their lives to drugs. Once an individual is confronted by means of a drug intervention, they will understand how much love and concern their families and loved ones have for them and what they stand to lose if they don't get help. Once the addicted individual sees real solutions for their problems, they will more often than not accept treatment help and start their path to recovery.
Drug Addiction and Codependency
Drug addiction and codependency go hand in hand, and numerous family members and loved one's of addicts in Hesperus find themselves affected in an addicted individual's addiction. This can go so far that it reaches the level where the codependency is an addiction in itself. Addiction from time to time causes both the drug addicted person and those closest to them to create these unhealthy codependent relationships, which can lead to great mental pain and eventually ruin these relationships completely. Codependency can be tough to recover from, particularly when those affected forget how to perform normally in the relationship and become completely absorbed in drug addiction and its consequences.
The only way to quit and recover from drug addiction and codependency is to seek out treatment at a drug rehab facility. Quite a few times, it is not only required for the person who is actually using drugs to find treatment, but also for the people in their lives who have become codependent to look for treatment as well. There are many drug rehab programs in Hesperus which not only tackle drug addiction but unhealthy codependency, which can help repair these relationships and prepare friends and family for a far more healthy relationship once treatment is completed.
Do I Need a Drug Rehab Facility
Individuals in Hesperus can get caught in the routine of addiction so easily, that before they know it their addiction has spun out of control and they can no longer control their behavior or choices with regards to their drug use. One day someone might be using drugs "socially" and within just a brief amount of time, absolutely nothing else appears to be important. This is because drugs induce both physical and psychological dependence that causes men and women to make drugs a lot more important than anything else in their lives.
Although this can be tough to comprehend for most who don't have a problem with drugs, individuals that are "good" people can easily get caught up in the routine of addiction; a cycle that can seldom be stopped without correct treatment at a drug rehab center in Hesperus. At a drug rehab, men and women will be able to initially detox safely and deal with withdrawal symptoms with the aid of specialists and medical staff. More importantly, they will be able to tackle points which brought on their drug use which includes all psychological and emotional issues. Layer by layer these concerns can be resolved, so that there is no chance the individual will fall prey to drug abuse once again in the future.
What is Drug Rehab?
Drug rehab in Hesperus is sometimes an addicts only solution to ever recover from addiction, because all other attempts at quitting have failed. If they don't choose to seek treatment at a Hesperus drug treatment program, the alternatives are typically intense suffering not only for oneself but for one's friends and family. This can involve legal issues and a general deterioration in social status and life in general.
What should be recognized is that addiction is a complex condition that requires rehabilitation. A quality treatment program offers the intensive treatment needed which covers all areas of the addicted person's life so that they can make healthy decisions and effectively solve their problems. For example, if there was abuse in one's childhood or from one's partner, this could easily predispose someone to drug addiction. Social inequities commonly result in substance abuse, so that individuals can "get the edge off" and feel more comfortable and accepted in social settings. Drug rehab helps address these types of issues, which are the real reasons the individual began using drugs in the first place. Once these issues have been addressed through drug treatment, the individual will be able to remain clean and sober and live happily.
Drug Treatment and Detoxification for Withdrawal Symptoms
One of the reasons drug addicted people find it extremely hard to stop using drugs once they start using them, is because of physical and psychological dependency that inevitably develops when the person uses drugs long enough. It no longer becomes a matter of "willpower" because their bodies and minds will actually produce extremely uncomfortable withdrawal symptoms if they stop using drugs. This is called drug withdrawal, and is a major barrier for individuals who want to stop using drugs. Addicts will become very ill during withdrawal and can even die in certain types withdrawal, as seizures and strokes can occur with certain drugs and with alcohol. Depression is a very typical withdrawal symptom, which can become so severe that an individual may commit suicide.
To minimize certain withdrawal symptoms and to make detox a more safe process, it is suggested that drug addicted individuals who wish to quit do so in a suitable atmosphere such as a drug rehabilitation center. Drug treatment programs in Hesperus can not only medically monitor the person through the detoxification process and help alleviate and relieve withdrawal symptoms, but also ensure that the person doesn't relapse back into drug use. After detox has been accomplished, treatment professionals in Hesperus will then ensure that all underlying psychological and emotional issues tied to the individual's addiction are addressed so that they can remain clean and sober once they leave the drug treatment center.
Drug Addiction Recovery in Hesperus, CO.
Support with addiction recovery can come from many different places in Hesperus, such as friends and family intervening to help the addict see that they have a problem. Recovery from addiction is a long process that requires a personal commitment from the addicted person. It also requires help from the individual's family in order to put into place the treatment to facilitate the person's recovery process. Drug addiction recovery in Hesperus is much more than just getting over the physical withdrawal, it also involves a healing of the mindset that started the person towards drug use to begin with.
Detoxification is the first step in all Drug Rehab Programs in Hesperus, Colorado. Some drugs can take a longer time to completely leave the system, especially if the addict has built up a degree of physical tolerance to the drug. Furthermore, research has shown that detox by itself has very little impact on long term drug addiction recovery. Certainly, vigilance must be maintained to prevent drug use during recovery in Hesperus, thus the importance of going through withdrawal in the professional setting of a Drug Rehab Program.
Furthermore, for drug addiction recovery to fully take root, all of the emotional issues encompassing the drug use should be addressed. Counseling and group classes in Hesperus have proven vital for effective drug addiction recovery. In general, the more drug rehabilitation that an individual receives, the better the outcome for long term recovery. It is for this reason that inpatient residential Drug Rehab is by far the best possible choice for a successful recovery.
Most people in Hesperus, CO. having difficulties with drug addiction think that recovery is practically not possible for them, and nothing could be further from the truth. People experience recovery from addiction every day in Hesperus. They experience this rehabilitation at Drug Treatment Programs that hold high success rates in treating drug addiction.
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PROVIDENCE, RI — The Rhode Island legislature has passed a bill (H277/S2274) that would set the fastest timeline for any state in the nation to procure 100% of its electricity from renewable energy sources. The legislation imposes incrementally rising benchmarks for electric suppliers to meet until reaching 100% by 2033. If Governor Daniel McKee, as expected, signs the bill into law, Rhode Island will join nine other states that are working to slow down global warming through commitments to 100% clean or renewable energy.
“Rhode Island is poised to leap to the front of the line of states leading us toward a clean energy-powered future,” said Johanna Neumann, senior director of the Campaign for 100% Renewable Energy for Environment America. “This forward-looking commitment marks another milestone in America’s clean energy journey.”
Rhode Island has renewable energy potential. Wind power alone could power the state eight times over. The Ocean State is also home to America’s first offshore wind farm at Block Island.
H277/S2274 codifies the goals laid out in an executive order then-Gov. Gina Raimondo issued in January 2020 that committed Rhode Island to 100% renewable electricity by the end of the decade. Since the governor signed that executive order, Environment America has worked with in-state advocates to push to codify the goals it laid out into law.
“Rhode Islanders rallied around legislation to power our state on 100% renewable electricity because it puts climate action into practice,” said Kai Salem, Policy Coordinator at Green Energy Consumers Alliance and convener of the coalition to pass 100% renewable legislation in Rhode Island. “This is the first step to meet our emissions reductions mandate of 40% reductions by 2030.”
Environment America launched its 100% Renewable Campaign in 2018. At the time, only Hawaii had any statewide 100% renewables timeline. Groups in Environment America’s federation played a key role in securing California’s landmark commitment to 100% clean electricity that same year. Since then, seven additional states have made 100% clean or renewable electricity commitments. Environment America, state organizations and our partners at the Student PIRGs plan to continue to campaign for 100% renewable energy commitments from college administrations and state governments across the country.
“When we launched our state campaigns for 100% renewable energy, many thought the vision was too big,” said Neumann. “Commitments such as Rhode Island’s are expanding the realm of clean energy possibilities. Renewable energy is growing by leaps and bounds, defying projections and outcompeting fossil fuels in terms of efficiency and cost. We need more states to set their sights on 100% clean renewable energy. The sooner we reach 100% renewable energy, the sooner our kids will have cleaner air and a healthier climate.”
News courtesy of Environment California.
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The Open Portal Network of Networks Project is an initiative to facilitate sharing of information and resources among individuals, groups, and networks interested in expanding infrastructures that support human learning beyond present day schools. We have launched a preliminary website at www.openportal.network. Built on the Wordpress platform, we are experiencing roadblocks to active participation by site visitors on that site. We are opening up this site to test and compare the functionality offered by the Mighty Networks platform. Please try out as many features of this site as you can and post your thoughts, critiques, and recommendations. Thank you, Liza Loop, Vision Keeper
Explore, contribute, discover like minds. Just start clicking and see where it takes you. Read what others have had the courage to think and share. Add your responses. Many of us believe that the educational systems available to children and adults today do not serve us well. The question is: how do we build something better? This is a space to offer ideas, debate their values, and plan how to implement the ones you want to support.
Human learning and the institutions that support it are too big and too many for any one of us to change alone. But in groups of 10, 50, 500 individuals our impact on global society can be enormous. This network is a tool to get our ideas out of our everyday silos and spread them around the globe. At the same time, it is a way to connect with small groups of people you can work with on a daily basis. No effort is too small, no idea too crazy to add to the flow of thoughts and actions. Participate and we'll make a better world for learning together. | <urn:uuid:6650b642-b952-40a0-8101-89d0547e199b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://openportal4learning.mn.co/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571210.98/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810191850-20220810221850-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.950918 | 340 | 2.140625 | 2 |
Franklin and Betty Barr Professor of Economics, Department Chair
Amanda Bayer is Franklin and Betty Barr Professor of Economics at Swarthmore College, where she teaches introduction to microeconomics and macroeconomics, advanced microeconomic theory, game theory, and race, ethnicity and gender in economics. She holds a B.A. in economics and psychology from Williams College and an M.Phil. and Ph.D. in economics from Yale University.
Professor Bayer's scholarship explores diversity, inclusion, and innovation in economic education and research. As detailed in her curriculum vitae, she holds positions at the Federal Reserve Board and the American Economic Association (AEA), including on the AEA Executive Committee, the Committee on Equity, Diversity, and Professional Conduct, and the Committee on the Status of Minority Groups in the Economics Profession, and has led projects for other organizations, including the National Academy of Sciences, the Social Science Research Council, and the College Board. She leads the AEA's work on Best Practices for Economists and is the co-organizer of several conferences hosted by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, including Disparities in the Labor Market: What Are We Missing?, Gender and Career Progression (joint with the BOE and ECB), and the National Summit on Diversity in the Economics Profession in 2014, at which Federal Reserve Chair Janet L. Yellen delivered the opening remarks. Professor Bayer is the creator and editor of Diversifying Economic Quality, a widely read online resource supported by the AEA, which promotes inclusive, innovative, and evidence-based teaching practices in economics. The project helps economists to engage students with diverse backgrounds and learning styles and to recalibrate their teaching and research with new insights on race, class, gender, culture, discrimination, and inequality.
In other research projects, Professor Bayer has investigated the effects of youth mentoring programs using econometric analysis and has evaluated randomized controlled trial and quasi-experimental studies of education interventions for the U.S. Department of Education. Using her expertise in game theory, Professor Bayer has researched the effects of strategic behavior in settings such as litigation, labor negotiations, managerial decision making, and neighborhood development. She has partnered with a variety of nonprofit organizations to investigate topics of mutual interest and has led major projects for the College's Peace and Conflict Studies and Athletics programs.
- Diversifying Economic Quality, first published in 2011 with a major update in summer 2021. (Videos on economists and their research)
- Diversity in the Economics Profession: A New Attack on an Old Problem, with Cecilia E. Rouse, Journal of Economic Perspectives 30(4), 2016.
- How You Can Work to Increase the Presence and Improve the Experience of Black, Latinx and Native American People in the Economics Profession, with Gary A. Hoover and Ebonya Washington, Journal of Economic Perspectives 34(3), 2020.
- Does Simple Information Provision Lead to More Diverse Classrooms?, with Syon Bhanot and Fernando Lozano, AEA Papers and Proceedings 109, 2019.
- Expanding and Diversifying the Pool of Undergraduates who Study Economics: Insights from a New Introductory Course at Harvard, with Gregory Bruich, Raj Chetty, and Andrew Housiaux,The Journal of Economic Education 51(3-4), 2020. (NBER Working Paper)
- AEA Best Practices for Economists: Building a More Diverse, Inclusive, and Productive Profession, with Şebnem Kalemli-Özcan, Rohini Pande, Cecilia Elena Rouse, Anthony A. Smith, Jr., Juan Carlos Suárez Serrato, and David W. Wilcox, American Economic Association, 2019.
- AEA Professional Climate Survey, with Sam Allgood, Lee Badgett, Marianne Bertrand, Sandra E. Black, Nick Bloom and Lisa D. Cook, American Economic Association, 2019; (Professional) Climate Change, The Minority Report, 2020.
- Who is Being Trained in Economics? interactive; The Unequal Distribution of Economic Education, with David Wilcox, Journal of Economic Education 50(30), 2019. (FEDS paper & pdf)
- Diagnosing the Learning Environment for Diverse Students in Introductory Economics: An Analysis of Relevance, Belonging, and Growth Mindsets, with Syon Bhanot, Erin Bronchetti, and Stephen A. O'Connell, AEA Papers and Proceedings 110, 2020.
- Defining and measuring learning: chapter, book, Learning Outcomes for Economists, with Sam Allgood, American Economic Review 107(5), 2017; PLATO
- CSWEP/CSMGEP Recruiting and Mentoring Diverse Economists, CSWEP News, 2017; The Economics Profession's Unique Problem with Diversity, The Minority Report, 2018.
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FIG presents robotic cell for 3D metal printing, equipped with the ultra-fast industrial robot IRB 6700. With a load capacity of up to 300 kg and a range of 2,6 to 3,2 meters, the IRB 6700 achieves greater precision, shorter cycle time and greater protection. It is available with ABB's Foundry Plus 2 protection system, which results in 15% lower power consumption. The IRB 6700 family includes 10 variants, available as floor mounted or inverted versions. The IRB6700 is integrated with SafeMove for the detection of people protecting operators and improving the safety and efficiency of processes.
Moreover, the next-generation ABB collaborative robot Cobot GoFa™ 15000 you can simultaneously share the workspace with people, granting maximum flexibility and efficiency. Designed to handle 5kg loads, GoFa has integrated torque sensors in each of its six joints that deliver superior power and performance limiting. Together they prevent the risk of injury by immediately pausing GoFa if it detects any contact with a worker. Also, thanks to the FlexPendant and the easy programming software Wizard Easy Programming it is possible to operate the robot in just a few minutes, and without the need for robot programming knowledge.
ABB adds to its robotics portfolio the Autonomous Mobile Robots. With a load capacity of up to 1000kg, the EBOT 350 is fast and efficient, allowing optimal maneuverability, thanks to its compact design and omnidirectional and turning technology on the ground. This line of platforms can perform longitudinal and transverse movements, allowing greater agility and efficiency in intralogistics merchandise movements.
One of the main features is freedom of movement, saving space and time with its ability to move in all directions. The protection of the environment is 360°, in a collaborative security space free of physical barriers. The versatility of tasks, with applications with multiple origins and destinations that offer flexible locations and, finally, the intelligent connectivity with the transmission of information in real time to facilitate data analysis and decision making. | <urn:uuid:3cec6361-7915-4264-9721-b1ca01758887> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://en.newspackaging.es/abb-robotics-news/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571210.98/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810191850-20220810221850-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.905793 | 410 | 1.53125 | 2 |
Bartlomiej Graczykowski, A. El Sachat, J. S. Reparaz, M. Sledzinska, M. R. Wagner, E. Chavez-Angel, Y. Wu, S. Volz, Y. Wu, F. Alzina, C. M. Sotomayor Torres
Heat conduction in silicon can be effectively engineered by means of sub-micrometre porous thin free-standing membranes. Tunable thermal properties make these structures good candidates for integrated heat management units such as waste heat recovery, rectification or efficient heat dissipation. However, possible applications require detailed thermal characterisation at high temperatures which, up to now, has been an experimental challenge. In this work we use the contactless two-laser Raman thermometry to study heat dissipation in periodic porous membranes at high temperatures via lattice conduction and air-mediated losses. We find the reduction of the thermal conductivity and its temperature dependence closely correlated with the structure feature size. On the basis of two-phonon Raman spectra, we attribute this behaviour to diffuse (incoherent) phonon-boundary scattering. Furthermore, we investigate and quantify the heat dissipation via natural air-mediated cooling, which can be tuned by engineering the porosity. | <urn:uuid:0d167784-62e1-4af7-ab74-1f96ffb4e4c8> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://cnbm.amu.edu.pl/pl/publication/thermal-conductivity-and-air-mediated-losses-periodic-porous-silicon-membranes-high | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571538.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812014923-20220812044923-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.838189 | 268 | 1.632813 | 2 |
The star-forming regions that surround our solar system have been mapped for the first time.
These regions appear to lie on a deformed surface 1000 light years across, called the Local Bubble. The bubble’s interior, which is where the solar system is found, is mostly empty space. But its shell comprises cold gas and dust, left over from exploding stars. New stars are now forming from this material.
We have known about the existence of the Local Bubble – and about the star-forming regions nearest to the solar system – for decades. But Catherine Zucker at Harvard University and her colleagues have now made a clear connection between the two.
They did so using data from the European Space Agency’s Gaia satellite, which maps the positions, distances and motions of stars with high precision. This allowed them to construct a three-dimensional map of the different star-forming regions. The map also used Gaia’s motion data to chart how the Local Bubble has evolved over time and created the star-forming regions.
“We’ve discovered a common origin for all nearby star formation,” says Zucker. “We can essentially explain how every single star-forming region within 500 light years from our sun began.”
When some stars reach the end of their life, they trigger a powerful explosion called a supernova. Our Local Bubble appears to have formed when several supernova shock waves swept gas and dust through space, forming the Local Bubble’s dense shell. With time, the shell began to form a series of molecular clouds, which are the birthplaces of new stars.
“This result argues strongly for the case that star formation triggered by expanding shells is probably more important than we thought before,” says Martin Krause at the University of Hertfordshire, UK.
Zucker and her team are confident, within a margin of error, about the shape of the bubble where star-forming regions lie, but other parts of the bubble’s shape are less certain.
Journal reference: Nature, DOI: 10.1038/s41586-021-04286-5
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The force between two long parallel conductors is inversely proportional to Distance between the conductors.
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Virtual reality (VR) is growing day by day. The use of virtual reality is in every field. From cosmetics to technology, virtual reality is ruling. Virtual reality (VR) provides different digital experiences that stimulate the real world. For instance, Google translate phone app allows us to scan and translate signs, texts, and menus. Also, L’Oreal’s makeup app enables people to experiment with the makeup products digitally before buying them.
There have been many improvisations in medical sectors as well. Doctors are approaching towards newer and better strategies. One of them is virtual medicine. For instance, if your pain or aches does not heal, doctors might suggest you go on a relaxing holiday instead of some bitter remedy. Also, psychiatrists might invite you to a party to treat your social anxiety instead of giving lectures and pills inside a room.
In simple words, virtual medicine is a two-day meeting that assembles intellectuals in captivating therapeutics. The VR Clinical Research Team at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center came up with this concept. The Marc and Sheri Rapaport Fund for Digital Health Sciences and Precision Health supported them too. People attend the seminars and learn. The meeting includes case studies, lectures, patient vignettes, and workshops.
The virtual medicine is not a better way only. It is also practical. For instance, it is more appropriate to treat a patient of Alzheimer by reminiscing them with a replica of their childhood home. This way, the patient does not have to go through harsh neuron treatments. Likewise, hospitals can immerse children with playlands. It can take away the fright of children going through chemo or frightening tests.
GROWING USE OF VIRTUAL MEDICINE
Virtual medicine has recently become popular. But scientists have been using it for decades. Scientists were quietly discovering the advantages of virtual medicine. Surprisingly, virtual medicine is helpful for literally everything.
The use of virtual medicine is rapidly increasing. Be it burn injuries or stroke. Virtual medicine can do wonders for both. The use of virtual medicine can range from PTSD to schizophrenia to anxiety. More than five thousand studies show that virtual treatment can calm the pain, improve mental health, and steady nerves. Moreover, VR can help to deliver babies as well as heal the psychological scars of soldiers.
Virtual medicine is not only improving old methods. It is also providing new treatments for many disorders. Also, virtual medicine is building the humanity. It reminds doctors that the emotional lives of patients matter too. Doctors are not treating patients as a broken machine after the trending of virtual medicine.
ADVANTAGES OF VIRTUAL MEDICINE
The use of virtual medicine is increasing proves that it has many benefits. Some of them are:
- Improved patient access to care
- Improved patient satisfaction
- Staying connected with patient and caregivers
- Improved care coordination
- Improved outcomes
- Improved quality of care
- Potential to improve workflow
- Ability to increase the effectiveness of care
- Increased flexibility in schedule
CHALLENGES OF VIRTUAL MEDICINE
Virtual medicine is an emerging concept. Not everyone can adapt it. Therefore, there are many problems or issues related to it. Some of them are:
- Potential medical errors
- Lack of reimbursements
- Complex licensing process
- Workplace does not provide the required technologies
- Risk of security and privacy of patient information
- Patients are new to the concept; many of them do not accept virtual medicine
- Increase in practice cost
- Lack of interest
- Many people do not see any need to add virtual treatment to practice
- Difficult to manage with the current workflow
Deloitte surveyed about 624 psychiatrists about this topic. The responses were as follows:
|BARRIERS OF VIRTUAL MEDICINE||PERCENTAGE OF PEOPLE WHO VOTED FOR THE BARRIER|
|Potential medical errors||36%|
|Workplace does not offer the required technologies||35%|
|Risk of security and privacy of patient information||33%|
|Patients are not supportive||23%|
|Difficult to manage with the current workflow||22%|
|Increase in practice costs||18%|
|Lack of interest||8%|
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In debates about animal sentience, the precautionary principle is often invoked. The idea is that when the evidence of sentience is inconclusive, we should “give the animal the benefit of the doubt” or “err on the side of caution” in formulating animal protection legislation. Yet there remains confusion as to whether it is appropriate to apply the precautionary principle in this context, and, if so, what “applying the precautionary principle” means in practice regarding the burden of proof for animal sentience. Here I construct a version of the precautionary principle tailored to the question of animal sentience together with a practical framework for implementing it. I explain and defend the key features of this framework, argue that it is well-aligned current practice in animal welfare science, and consider and reject a number of influential counterarguments to the use of precautionary reasoning in this area. | <urn:uuid:46c9a09b-523f-452b-bab1-bd9585cc3535> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.wellbeingintlstudiesrepository.org/animsent/vol2/iss16/1/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571210.98/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810191850-20220810221850-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.890073 | 205 | 2.421875 | 2 |
The Gates’ aim to eradicate malaria by 2040 by doubling funding over the next decade to support the roll out of new products to tackle rising drug resistance against the disease.
Their goal of permanently ending transmission of the disease between humans and mosquitoes is more ambitious than the Sustainable Development Goal of ending epidemic levels of malaria by 2030.
They are also supporting a push to create the world’s first vaccine against a parasite.
Six innovations scientists are working on are:
* New insecticides: Mosquitoes are becoming resistant to insecticides used to spray inside homes and in bed nets.
“There is no current insecticide that doesn’t show insect-resistance at the moment,” said Jed Stone, a spokesman for the UK-based Innovative Vector Control Consortium (IVCC).
Indoor spraying of walls with insecticide — which was used to wipe out malaria in the United States in the 1940s — has fallen by 40 percent since 2012 due to resistance to older products and the high cost of newer ones.
The IVCC is developing three new insecticides for use in indoor sprays and bed nets that kill insecticide-resistant mosquitoes.
“The insecticides are virtually ready but it will take about five years to finally develop them,” Stone said, adding that this largely involves registration with regulators.
* A single-dose cure: A pill that would wipe out all parasites in the body could be available by 2019, the Gates Foundation says.
Human trials of one candidate are planned following successful tests on mice, published in 2015.
Existing drugs have to be taken for three days with the risk that people do not finish their medication, contributing to the development of drug-resistant malaria.
They also only kill parasites at the asexual-stage where they cause fever but not at the sexual-stage where they are picked up by mosquitoes in blood.
* Insecticide-treated wall liners: Scientists hope insecticide-treated wall liners, which look like wallpaper, will be more effective than spraying people’s homes with insecticide every three to eight months. The wall liners kill mosquitoes that rest on them and can last for three years.
Tanzania’s National Institute for Medical Research is testing wall liners in 6,000 homes to see if they protect people from malaria. Results will be published in 2017.
* Insecticide-embedded clothing: American soldiers have been wearing combat uniforms treated with permethrin, a synthetic insecticide, since 2010 to protect them against insect-borne diseases.
The U.S. government’s Walter Reed Army Institute of Research will test the effectiveness of treated combat uniforms and repellent creams in July on Tanzanian soldiers who often catch malaria when working at night as peacekeepers.
* A vaccine: This is a big one, given vaccines success in eliminating smallpox, polio and measles in many countries.
More than 30 malaria vaccines are under development.
The Mosquirix vaccine, discovered in 1987, is a decade ahead of other candidates but, to date, it only halves the number of bouts of malaria young children suffer.
The World Health Organization is seeking funding for a pilot program to administer Mosquirix to 400,000 to 800,000 African children. The results will be used to make a decision on whether to use the vaccine more widely.
* GM mosquitoes: Scientists have genetically modified (GM) mosquitoes by adding genes that block the development of the malaria parasite inside the insect and prevent it from being transmitted to people.
Scientists have also genetically modified mosquitoes to make them infertile, so that they die out. But many are cautious about the unforeseen consequences of this.
“When people imagine a malaria end game scenario, GM mosquito technology would be incredibly powerful because it doesn’t rely on a robust health system in order to go in and disrupt transmission of the parasite,” said Martin Edlund, chief executive of Malaria No More, referring to war-torn countries like South Sudan.
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