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BUCYRUS — In recognition of a commitment to quality and an ongoing dedication to the learning and development of children, the Bucyrus City School District Preschool Program has received the Five-Star Step Up To Quality Award from the state of Ohio. This recognition is the highest the Ohio Department of Education awards to preschool programs throughout the state.
Step Up To Quality is Ohio’s rating system for learning and development programs. Participating programs can earn a one to a five-star rating.
In addition to meeting all standards for a three-star rating, programs with five-stars may: have lower staff/child ratios; use child assessment results to plan activities that best support learning and development goals for each child; work with other organizations or businesses within the community to support children and their families; have an active and organized parent volunteer group; use input from families and community partners to inform continuous improvement process; have accreditation by an approved organization.
“The Bucyrus City School District Preschool Program is proud to be a five-star program,” Preschool Coordinator Robin Showers said. “We know that children have approximately 1,892 days from birth until school starts, and every day matters. It is important to us that children develop their self-confidence, social and emotional skills, and a love of learning.”
Research confirms that the first five years of a child’s life has a direct impact on how children develop emotional well-being, in addition to, learning and social skills. For these reasons, the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services and the Ohio Department of Education are committed to improving early childhood opportunities for all children in the state.
“This is an outstanding accomplishment for our Preschool Program and our teachers and staff,” Superintendent Kevin Kimmel said. “A tremendous amount of hard work and time goes into ensuring the Bucyrus City School District Preschool Program provides the best learning atmosphere in the county for our students, and I am incredibly proud of our staff for their dedication in making this happen.”
The Five-Star rated Bucyrus City School District Preschool Program is still accepting new students for the 2016-2017 school year. Interested parents are strongly encouraged to obtain a hard copy of the registration packet from the Elementary School by visiting the building office from 7:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Monday through Friday, or by calling the office at 419-562-6089.
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A unique synthesis of the contemporary, Anglo-American philosophical approach with an abiding concern for classical philosophical problems.
This book seeks to clarify the precise structure of self-consciousness and self-determination and elucidates their significance for our philosophical understanding of self-knowledge and human agency.The analysis challenges traditional models of theoretical self-knowledge and practical self-relation and elaborates an account of rationally grounded responsibility that jointly fulfills the demands of autonomy and authenticity.Tugendhat's study is a unique synthesis of the contemporary Anglo-American philosophical approach with an abiding concern for classical philosophical problems. It brings the methods of linguistic analysis to bear on such epistemological, moral, and metaphysical issues as the meaning and interconnections of self-knowledge, ego identity, rational self-understanding, and freedom of the will. In this context, the views of Wittgenstein, Heidegger, Mead, and Hegel are searchingly examined. The philosophical testimony of Kierkegaard, Freud, Habermas, and others is also presented and weighed. Self-Consciousness and Self-Determination is based on a series of lectures given at Heidelberg.
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5 Things You Need To Know About Artful Living
Art is about a lot more than pictures hanging on a wall, attractive home decor or colorful accessories for your office. The best of art improves our lives in some way. Either by lifting our spirits, making us think, inspiring us or comforting our hearts.
For me, art and the joys of creativity are like oxygen. They sustain me, in ways beyond daily existence.
They are a kind of sustenance for my soul.
A cult of ugliness
British philosopher and writer Roger Scruton did a masterful video series titled Why Beauty Matters. Scruton argues that 20th century art, architecture and music rejected beauty, creating a cult of ugliness and leading us into a spiritual desert.
Early in the video Scruton states:
“At any time between 1750 and 1930, if you had asked educated people to describe the aim of poetry, art or music, they would have replied ‘beauty’ And if you had asked the point of that, you would have learned that beauty is a value, as important as truth or goodness.”
Scruton goes on to state that, by the 20th century, beauty stopped being important.
“Art increasingly aimed to disturb, and to break moral taboos. It was not beauty but originality, however achieved and at whatever moral cost, that won the prizes.” — Roger Scruton
Scruton shows us what this “cult of ugliness” looks like, starting with Marcel Duchamp’s “Fountain,” which was a urinal offered as “art.” Duchamp signed the urinal “R. Mutt, 1917.” It set the stage for other modern works.
From there we look at Tracy Emin’s “My Bed”, crumpled sheets and all. She spent days in her bed, in the throws of an emotional breakdown. Later, looking at her bed, she saw it as a piece of art. She moved it to some gallery space and it became a sensation.
In the video, Scruton interviews a modern artist about these works and asks, “What is the purpose of this art? What is it leading us to?” The modern artist seems to justify it as merely something new.
Scruton draws the conclusion that, “I think we are losing beauty, and there is a danger that with it, we will lose the meaning of life.”
We apprehend the world differently
Not everyone shares Roger Scruton’s views about art and beauty. In the intro to Simon Schama’s BBC series titled “Power of Art,” Schama writes:
“The power of the greatest art is the power to shake us into revelation and rip us from our default mode of seeing. After an encounter with that force, we don’t look at a face, a colour, a sky, a body, in quite the same way again. We get fitted with new sight: in-sight. Visions of beauty or a rush of intense pleasure are part of that process, but so too may be shock, pain, desire, pity, even revulsion. That kind of art seems to have rewired our senses. We apprehend the world differently.”
Schama sees the power of art as not to soothe but to unsettle us, which can lead to new insights and understanding.
For me, I lean toward Roger Scruton’s view. I prefer beauty and hopefulness over ugliness, shock and unsettlement. I know there are a legion of modernists who will label me an anachronistic romantic, but I can live with that.
So many in society today are egocentric. It’s all about acquisition. Getting. Taking. Me first. My pleasure. My profits. Endless consumption. Winning.
The problem is that it’s a hole that can’t be filled. William Wordsworth’s poem The World Is Too Much With Us offers this line:
“Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers;—”
What are our powers? Besides providing love and support to our families and friends, one of our greatest powers is creativity. Making objects of art to share with the world. Giving, instead of taking.
Moments of quiet contemplation
Most people have moral and spiritual needs. They extend beyond the routines and leftovers of daily life.
Mortgages, meetings, health care, relationships, responsibilities, careers, finances and braces for the kids. Such daily realities and concerns are always with us. Along with all the anguish and noise on the evening news.
Family and friends are great elixirs. Giving and receiving love are essential to the human experience. Yet, we still search for something more.
Some people escape to alcohol or drugs. Others become work-a-holics, or fitness fanatics. All searching for that something. That magic solution to fill the hole in their lives.
Many find the answer in religion. Faith traditions offer a tremendous amount of purpose and peace. Roger Scruton acknowledges this, and adds that standing beside religious faith is beauty.
We have all experienced magical moments in life. Zen like states. Perhaps on a park bench, as a breeze rustles the tree leaves and flows through our hair.
Moments of quiet contemplation, when we take in the beauty of the world around us, invite a sense of peace. When we slow down from the frenetic pace of daily living, we become more open to the beauty of nature. And the beauty of simple things. Even seemingly useless things.
As Roger Scruton states:
“Nothing is more useful than the useless. Ornaments liberate us from the tyranny of the useful and satisfy our need for harmony — in a strange way it makes us feel like home. They remind us that we have more than practical needs — we are not just governed by animal appetites like eating and sleeping, we have special needs and if those needs go unsatisfied so do we.” — Roger Scruton
My wife and I like to put fresh flowers out, in a colorful vase, on our kitchen table. During the holidays, we pull out the boxes of Christmas tree ornaments. At my mother’s apartment, she places seasonal wreaths on her front door.
These things have no utilitarian use. But they are more than ornamental decorations. They satisfy our need for beauty. They become the antidote to the mindless pace of life, and the endless ugliness in the world. They become a part of what I call “artful living.”
The 5 things
Here are five things you need to know about artful living. Think of them as a template for how to restore balance, feed your spiritual life, and perhaps inch closer to the divine.
Less is more
When I paint a landscape, I pay close attention to the focal point. What the picture is about. Then, I subordinate everything else. In other words, I trim back the superfluous in order to accentuate what’s important and beautiful. Less is more.
The same principle applies to your life. If you trim the superfluous, you can make room for more artful living. Eliminating clutter makes it easier to focus on beauty and creativity.
This is why minimalism has become so popular. People want less clutter in their lives and more beauty. They want to live more artfully.
Time is more than money
I spent over 26 years in law enforcement, and the last ten as Chief of Police. I quickly learned that other people will spend your time for you, if you let them. Before long, your calendar becomes a sea of obligations and commitments.
Managing your time wisely is an important principle of wealth acquisition. But time is more than money. Time is a finite gift, and how we choose to spend it says a lot about our priorities.
In my early years as police chief, I always felt a sense of time poverty. There was never enough time to go paint, read or restore my spirit in nature. The problem was that I focused on career success, and my time management decisions revolved around this. This approach will burn you out.
I eventually learned to say no to people. I resigned from non-essential organizations. I quit golf and sold my clubs, because all those weekend golf tournaments and subsequent dinners were stealing my weekends away.
I learned to block out time before meetings and in the afternoons, so that I had cushions of time to slow down and breathe. I used those times to craft little paintings in my car (I kept a small paint box under the seat). Other times, I bought a coffee and took a walk in the park.
When we’re kids, we love to create stuff. It just comes natural. Whether it’s drawing with crayons, constructing a lego masterpiece, or making a living room fort out of pillows and cushions.
We didn’t worry much about how good our creations were. We just enjoyed the joy of creation. That’s artful living at its best, but for some reason we lose this in adulthood. We’re too busy being serious and worrying about everyone’s opinion.
Start making stuff again.
Creativity is a huge part of artful living. Whether it’s a beautiful quilt, painting, poem, piece of music or clay sculpture, the act of creating changes you. It’s this kind of artful living that reconnects you with wonder, and the simple joy of making something beautiful for the world.
Set the mood
What do people do when they have a date over for dinner? They set the mood. Flowers. Candles. Relaxing music in the background. These touches create an environment conducive to intimacy. They set the mood.
Success requires the right conditions. The same is true with making stuff.
If your painting easel is tucked away in the garage, you’re less likely to paint. It’s amazing how the smallest inconvenience can preempt our creative motivation.
Setting the mood means creating the right conditions, habits and routines for your creativity and artfulness.
Morning joggers know that leaving their running shoes by the front door is a great reminder. It’s a visible cue, and sets the mood for exercise.
In order to embrace a more artful life, start setting the mood. Redesign your home or office so that it’s easier to make things. Have the tools for your creative passion at the ready. That way, when inspiration strikes, you’ll be able to dive in.
Everyone is in a rush today. There’s so much to do, and not enough time. The problem is that when we rush, we miss a lot.
If you need to get from San Francisco to Los Angeles in a hurry, a jet is your best bet. But you’ll miss a lot, compared to driving.
To take it one step further, imagine if you walked the distance. It would take a long time, but consider all that you would see and experience.
When we slow down, we experience so much more. Every sight, sound, smell and feeling. Also, our minds relax and become much more open to creativity.
Ever notice how great ideas come to you when you’re in the shower, or out walking your dogs? It’s because you slowed down. You allowed your mind to breathe a little.
Creativity and artful living require downtime. Even small pockets of tranquility and quiet time can bring immense benefits.
When I was a police chief, I often took lunch breaks in my car. I’d park somewhere quiet, away from noisy restaurants and interruptions. Sometimes, I’d lunch with co-workers, but frequently I sought the solitude of my car. Where I could read, listen to the birds outside, sketch and restore my spirit.
If you want to live a more artful life, learn to slow down more.
Be united with the beauty
There’s enough ugliness, noise, pain and unsettlement in the world. We navigate political disunity, nihilistic voices and many uncertainties in life.
Thankfully, beyond the love of family and friends, beauty and artful living can improve the quality of our lives. Just as exercise nourishes our bodies, creativity and artfulness can lift our hearts and minds.
“We do not want merely to see beauty… we want something else which can hardly be put into words- to be united with the beauty we see, to pass into it, to receive it into ourselves, to bathe in it, to become part of it. That is why we have peopled air and earth and water with gods and goddesses, and nymphs and elves.” — C.S. Lewis
By simplifying, managing our time, making things, setting the mood, and slowing down, we move closer to a more artful life. And an artful life is a life worth living.
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For nearly three years, Maria Chavalan Sut has lived in sanctuary at Wesley Memorial United Methodist Church in Charlottesville, Virginia.
But on April 12, her confinement ended when Immigration and Customs Enforcement granted her a Stay of Removal for one year that allows her to move freely until her asylum case is heard.
She can walk down the street, go to the grocery store or sit in a park without fear of deportation.
“I can finally step out and enjoy fresh air and the wonders of nature without fear of being deported into the hands of executioners,” Chavalan Sut said.
An indigenous Mayan woman, the 46-year-old fled Guatemala in 2015 after her house was burned with her family inside in an attempt to force her from her land.
In 2018, Chavalan Sut made it to the small city of Charlottesville, nestled in the picturesque Blue Ridge Mountains. She had filed for asylum but received a notice from ICE that she would be deported after failing to attend a court appearance. She said she had never been notified of the date and time at which she was ordered to appear.
Wesley Memorial offered her sanctuary in October of that year.
“One of the biggest changes for me, when I came to the U.S., was the community into which I arrived,” said the mother of four children ages 8-23. “In Guatemala, I have no one to protect me or my children. Here, the entire church community protects me.
“Not only do I have the Wesley community, but there is also Alina (Kilpatrick), my attorney, and others. All of them struggle for me.”
United Methodist tradition resulted in Wesley Memorial United Methodist Church becoming a sanctuary for Chavalan Sut.
“Maria is no longer alone in this country. In Christ, there are no borders, there is only the kingdom,” said the Rev. Isaac Collins, pastor at Wesley when Maria arrived.
Maury Early, outreach chair at the church, said offering sanctuary is a community-wide effort.
“For the Wesley congregation, Maria has provided a way to put our faith into action,” he said. “Sanctuary has joined us with other churches and young people have stepped up.”
At least 36 people are living in sanctuary in places of worship around the U.S. and more than 1,100 houses of worship have signed up to be part of the Sanctuary Movement.
Francisca Lino entered sanctuary in August 2017 after defying a court order that required her to leave the U.S. For four years, she stayed at Adalberto United Methodist Church in Chicago.
In January after President Joe Biden’s 100-day moratorium on deportations went into effect, Lino felt safe to return to her home, according to the Chicago Tribune. However, when a federal judge’s order barred the U.S. government from enforcing the moratorium, Lino returned to sanctuary after only three days of freedom.
“We're here for Francisca and we'll keep pushing forward, step by step,” said the Rev. Jacobita Cortes, pastor of Adalberto United Methodist Church. “We have tried many approaches. Currently, U.S. Rep. Jesus ‘Chuy’ Garcia has requested that Congress begin the process which could result in Francisca receiving permanent residency.
“If that approach doesn't work,” she continued, “we'll find a new one.”
Chavlan Sut has been more fortunate. She said she has two plans for what she’ll do when she gets her legal residency and can be reunited with her children.
“I’ll hug my children,” she explained, “then, I’ll cook for them. When I’ve done those things, I’ll get a work permit and a driver’s license.”
The Stay of Removal letter protects Chavalan Sut from deportation for one year. Current U.S. policy does not mandate deportation, but it will protect her even if deportations are re-introduced.
Deportations and arrests of immigrants have fallen under the Biden administration, according to The Wall Street Journal, but immigration law remains an increasingly polarized political issue.
National Justice for Our Neighbors, a United Methodist network of legal clinics primarily funded by the United Methodist Committee on Relief and annual conferences, orients immigrants through the legal system.
“It is getting better for immigrants," according to T.J. Mills, consulting attorney for the national network. “Trump had set things back for decades. Immigrants were seen as people who came to the U.S. to collect welfare payments. Now, there is growing acceptance of immigrants in this society.
“The trend in the U.S. government's actions is becoming less prosecutory. For the immigrant, the biggest challenge is to persevere.”
Chavalan Sut continues to persevere, but worries remain.
“We live in fear,” she explained. “There are millions of us who are living in fear. The fear is that we can be removed from the U.S. With this Stay of Removal, some of the fear has been reduced for me.”
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On foreign holidays for our esteemed judges. CNN-IBN reports:
The Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, KG Balakrishnan, wants judges to be kept out of the purview of the Right To Information (RTI) Act.
Now an RTI application put in by CNN-IBN has thrown up interesting details of how judges have extended their holidays, often for personal purposes, at Government expense.
Ironically, the urge to travel starts at the top. Balakrishnan, after taking over as Chief Justice, made at least seven trips abroad in 2007 traveling First Class with his wife with the air fare alone costing over Rs 39 lakh.
For instance, during his 11-day trip to Pretoria, South Africa in August 2007, the Chief Justice took the following route – Delhi, Dubai, Johannesburg, Nelspruit, Capetown, Johannesburg, Victoria Falls, where the judge finally didn’t go and returned via Dubai to Delhi.
Sure, a judge might need to make an official trip to study the judicial system of another country or something, but this is clearly tourist travel happening here, and according to the CNN-IBN reporter, there are “government rules that say judges cannot be accompanied by wives on work tours.” When the law minister HR Bhardwaj was asked about this, he replied:
How can you deprive the wife? You are a woman. You should understand.
I hereby demand that all Indian women be sent to South Africa for a holiday paid for by HR Bhardwaj out of his personal savings account. Thank you.
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Chrome OS devices will soon be getting support for fingerprint sensors
When thinking about smartphone trends for the past couple years, the use of fingerprint sensors is easily one of the more prominent ones. Everyone likes to keep their information secure, and even more importantly, everyone likes to be able to access their private information without having to enter a lengthy password each time they want to unlock their phone. Fingerprint sensors allow for a high level of security with the convenience of being able to access all your information with just your fingerprint. It's something we've seen on iPhones, Android handsets, iPads, tablets, and even Windows 10 devices. And, according to a new commit that has appeared within the Chromium repositories, it would appear that we will soon be getting support for fingerprint sensors on Chrome OS devices as well.
While a commit in the Chromium repositories doesn't necessarily mean that we're guaranteed to get fingerprint sensor support for Chromebooks and other Chrome OS devices, a sign that Google is experimenting with a feature like this does point towards a future in which we'll be able to unlock our Chromebooks with just the press of a finger. Google recently added a PIN unlock feature within the developer channels for the Chrome OS platform, so it's obvious that the company is stepping up its game when it comes to the security of these devices.
Along with being able to unlock your Chromebook with fingerprint sensors if they're implemented into the Chrome OS, it's likely that we could see this support pushed out throughout the entire operating system. Similar to Android and iOS devices, we'd expect to be able to use fingerprint sensors on Chrome OS to authentic Android apps, sign into different web pages, and more. While it's always best to take rumors and leaks with a grain of salt, we'd be quite surprised if we didn't see Google implement this feature into the Chrome OS when you consider the constant rise of popularity for such security options. | <urn:uuid:c313c2e1-21d9-47b7-a848-79545996be75> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.phonearena.com/news/Chrome-OS-devices-will-soon-be-getting-support-for-fingerprint-sensors_id85054 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573699.52/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819131019-20220819161019-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.95638 | 388 | 1.507813 | 2 |
Get ready for a scenic journey into ancient times. Prehistoric Indians made this area of Sedona home thousands of years ago. In fact there are still ancient Indian Ruins and burial sites hidden within the astounding beauty of this box canyon. Boynton Canyon is still sacred to the Yavapai Native Americans who consider Boynton as their place of origin.
Not only is Boynton Canyon a place of astounding beauty, it also very accessible since it is within Sedona AZ via well-paved roads. On one hand, a tourist does not have to ride down dusty, bumpy roads in a four-wheel drive vehicle to get there, but since it is convenient, it can become very crowded on the hiking trail.
Boynton Canyon is majestically gorgeous with its towering red buttes. crimson cliff walls, natural desert gardens and a lush oasis setting among a greenery of trees. Not only is its historically magical, but the New Age folks swear by it "vortex powers", a spiritual energy field that emanates from the inner earth.
Boynton Hiking Trail
The basic trail is but 2.4 miles long making for a 4.8 mile roundtrip that criss-crosses the Red Rock Secret Mountain Wilderness. The trail's beginning starts at the skirt of the Enchantment Resort and although most hikers turnaround at the midway point, the more experienced and and adventurous hiker can continue on a more difficult trek deeper into the canyon. There are many unmarked side trips and places to explore. Let your heart lead you, and you will most certainly be rewarded with peaceful energy and gorgeous views at every turn!
It's a hike that one can do again and again. Getting up close and with some of the most beautiful landscape in Arizona. It begins relatively unimaginative but progressively crescendos from low growing manzanitas and scrub brush into a lovely hike through thick forests of ponderosa pine and scrub oak, alongside a shaded wash of worn red rock boulders. The ultimate reward of the massive crimson cliffs becomes a reality of astounding panoramic views.
Boynton Canyon Trail Video
The Facts. The marked trail is about 2.4 miles long and rated an easy to moderate hike that could become strenuous for novice hikers. It's open all year and has no facilities. Spring and fall are the best times to visit. It can become quite warm particularly during the summer months, so dress accordingly and bring plenty of drinking water. See our Sedona Climate Chart. Plan for a hiking time of about 3 hours or longer if you proceed past the uncharted trails in the canyon. Mechanized vehicles including bicycles are not permitted.
Cost. You must have a Red Rock Pass to park at any trailhead in the red rock country of Coconino National Forest. Passes are $5 a day, $15 a week or $20 a year and can be purchased at all visitor centers and at many local stores.
Directions. Boynton is about 2 miles west of Sedona off US 89A. From the Y-intersection of Arizona 89A and Arizona 179 in downtown Sedona, go west (left) on 89A for 3.1 miles, then turn north (right) onto Dry Creek Road. Proceed 2.9 miles to the T-intersection at Boynton Pass Road. Turn left and proceed 1.5 miles to another T-intersection. Turn right, go 0.3 mile and look for a small, dirt parking area on the right. The trail head is located just outside the entrance to the Enchantment Resort.
More Information About Boynton Canyon
Red Rock Ranger District
P.O. Box 20429
Sedona, Arizona 86341
Boynton Canyon Map
Map of Boynton Canyon in Sedona
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The roads can be treacherous on drinking holidays such as Memorial Day weekend. In addition to drunk drivers, holiday traffic congestion increases the risk of crashing.
Data from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration shows that 377 people lost their lives in accidents over Memorial Day weekend in 2012. Fortunately, you can reduce your risk of becoming a statistic by following these four tips:
- Do not drive under the influence;
- Avoid driving at peak traffic hours;
- Do not drive while distracted; and
- Stay off the road between midnight and 3 a.m.
Although these tips can reduce your risk of crashing, nobody is immune to accidents. If you or someone you love suffers an injury over Memorial Day weekend, contact Laborde Earles Law Firm to discuss your options for recovering compensation.
Our attorneys have recovered more than $200 million for our clients in cash settlements and verdicts. Call 800-522-6733 to schedule a free consultation with an accident lawyer in Alexandria.
Read on for a closer look at four tips to help you avoid collisions over Memorial Day weekend:
- Do Not Drive under the Influence
Alcohol contributes to nearly one-third of all traffic deaths, and you can expect drunk driving rates to spike over the holiday period. The easiest way to reduce your risk is to stay sober if you intend to drive.
You should also look for signs that other motorists are intoxicated. Keep your distance from drivers who show one or more of the following signs of inebriation:
- Not using the turn signal;
- Using the wrong turn signal;
- Speeding or tailgating;
- Straddling two lanes;
- Swerving or drifting onto the shoulder; or
- Driving at night with the headlights turned off.
- Avoid Driving at Peak Traffic Hours
Research cited by TIME shows that nearly 40 million people take road trips over Memorial Day weekend. You are likely to run into holiday traffic congestion on Friday and Monday, so if you are planning a road trip, try to start your travels a day early or late, and use the same strategy on your return trip.
- Do Not Drive while Distracted
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Distracted driving killed more than 3,470 people in 2015. You can reduce your risk by putting your cell phone on silent, limiting the number of passengers you carry, not eating or drinking behind the wheel, and asking a passenger to adjust the climate and audio controls for you.
- Stay off the Road between Midnight and 3 a.m.
According to BACtrack, drunk driving accidents are more likely to occur between midnight and 3 a.m. than during any other time interval. Try to avoid driving at those times.
Unfortunately, even the most responsible motorists can fall victim to drunk drivers. If you suffer an injury in a Memorial Day weekend accident, turn to Laborde Earles Law Firm.
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A study has found that people whose weight reduced from indicating obesity to indicating overweight between early adulthood and midlife had a halved risk of dying during the follow-up period.
The World Health Organization (WHO) estimate that the global prevalence of obesity has almost tripled since 1975. In 2016, more 650 million adults had obesity.
In the United States, the prevalence of obesity among adults increased from 30.5% to 42.4% of the population between 1999 and 2018, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Obesity is associated with an increased risk of heart disease, stroke, type 2 diabetes, and some types of cancer, making it a major cause of preventable premature death.
Estimates of the number of deaths that can be attributed to obesity vary widely, however, because of the complex interactions between body weight and factors such as age, smoking, diet, and physical exercise.
In addition, scientists are still unsure whether carrying excess weight in young adulthood causes harmful physiological changes that cannot be reversed by subsequent weight loss.
A team led by researchers at the Boston University School of Public Health, in Massachusetts, set out to discover whether losing weight after having obesity in early adulthood is associated with a reduction in mortality risk later in life.
The scientists recently published their findings in the journal JAMA Network Open.
Doctors often use a measure called body mass index (BMI) to determine whether a person has a healthy weight. To calculate this, the doctor divides the person’s weight in kilograms by their height in meters squared.
Experts define a healthy BMI as 18.5–24.9, one indicating overweight as 25.0–29.9, and one indicating obesity as 30 or higher.
The researchers behind the present analysis analyzed data from 24,205 people in the U.S. who were part of the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES).
As part of this survey, scientists recorded the weights of the participants when they were between the ages of 40 and 74. They also asked the participants how heavy they had been 10 years earlier, which the researchers described as midlife, and at the age of 25, which they defined as early adulthood.
The team behind the current study looked at BMI changes from early adulthood to midlife and their effects on mortality, measured during the NHANES follow-up period. Then, they took into account other factors that affect mortality risk, such as sex, past and current smoking, and education level.
Over a mean follow-up period of 10.7 years, there were 5,846 deaths among the participants.
The team found that going from a BMI indicating obesity in young adulthood to one indicating overweight by midlife was associated with a 54% reduction in mortality risk, compared with maintaining a BMI of obesity over the same period.
Also, people who shifted from having obesity to overweight between young adulthood and midlife had much the same mortality risk as people who had overweight only during this period.
The results taken together suggest that the harmful effects of obesity can be reversed.
The scientists estimate that 3.2% of all the early deaths in the study would have been prevented if people with BMIs indicating obesity had reduced this measure to fall within the overweight range by midlife.
In addition, they calculate that 12.4% of all the early deaths could have been avoided if everyone with a BMI indicating overweight or obesity had reduced it to fall within the healthy range by middle age.
“The results indicate an important opportunity to improve population health through primary and secondary prevention of obesity, particularly at younger ages,” says senior study author Prof. Andrew Stokes.
Another study author, Dr. JoAnn Manson, chief of preventive medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, in Boston, refers to the link between obesity and a range of chronic illnesses:
“Although this study focused on preventing premature deaths, maintaining a healthy weight will also reduce the burden of many chronic diseases, such as hypertension, diabetes, heart disease, and even cancer,” she says.
Reflecting the public health challenge posed by overweight and obesity, however, the study found that weight loss was rare among the participants.
Only 1.3% of individuals with BMIs in the overweight range at 25 years of age had a healthy BMI 10 years before the NHANES interview, while 0.8% went from obesity to overweight by this measure, and 0.2% went from obesity to a healthy BMI.
And while losing weight in early adulthood was associated with a substantial reduction in mortality risk, the same was not true for those who lost weight later in life.
The authors believe that this is because weight loss later in life may result from worsening health, rather than adopting a more healthful lifestyle.
“The discrepancy likely reflects the different nature of weight loss at an earlier versus later life course. Weight loss at an older age is often unintentional, associated with underlying health conditions, and/or age-related loss of muscle mass, whereas weight loss earlier in life tends to capture changes in fat mass and is less likely to be affected by the onset of chronic diseases.”
Transitioning from a healthy or overweight BMI in young adulthood to a BMI in the obesity range in midlife was associated with increases in mortality risks of 32% and 47%, respectively, compared with staying in the healthy range.
However, the researchers report that going from a healthy BMI to an overweight BMI was not associated with a significant change in mortality risk, compared with maintaining a healthy weight.
This is in keeping with other studies, which suggest that being in the overweight range does not necessarily shorten lives, though this remains controversial.
Rounding off their report, the scientists explain that their study had several limitations.
To assess weight change between early adulthood and midlife, the scientists had relied on the participants’ recollections of their weights 10 and 25 years earlier. In addition, the team was unable to account for physical activity or diet in early adulthood.
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There are not many IGY relics still around. Some people may put me and other survivers of that era into that catagory, however non-human relics are few and far between, especially those still at Halley Base.4 June 2014
One image from Miriam's 2004 photo portfolio referred to in Newsletter No.3 showed Simon sitting next to the memorial to those who have died in service at Halley Base (photo below). It may be of interest to some to know that the memorial was built from relics of the IGY expedition to Halley Bay.
Neville Mann died during August 1963 on the sea ice after being swept offshore during a sudden storm while training his dog team. I was the geophysicist on the base at the time and had sea current sensors connected by phone lines deployed out on the sea ice and thus we knew almost to the minute when the sea ice broke from the Brunt Ice Shelf. Following his death a memorial was constructed on the ice cliff overlooking the bay (photo below).
Photo by Doug Finlayson The memorial in 1963
The materials for the memorial were salvaged from the the old buried IGY magnetic observatory that I had just replaced with new magnetic observatory buildings on the surface. The floor of the IGY building was being crushed under ice pressure about 10 metres under the surface. In the 1950s - 1960s the piers for delicate and sensitive magnetic instruments were normally built unconnected to the building through holes in the floor to reduce wind noise and people vibration. Thus on an ice shelf they were built of telegraph poles buried deep into the ice with non- magnetic brickwork piers constructed on top to eye level. The memorial is constructed from one of the old IGY brick piers and a surplus telegraph pole.
As far as I know the memorial now contains the only IGY relics now at the base. With some help, I dragged the pier to the surface from the buried observatory building and built the memorial. I suspect that the steel sledge on which it now rests is also an IGY relic (if its the one my memory thinks it is). Sadly, other names were added to the memorial later.
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How Multiple domain names can help your website
Domain privacy defense propagation, also sometimes called DNS proliferation, is the process of upgrading every server cross ways the web with new data. That’s a lot of servers that need updating and, as such, there’s a lag flanked by when the change is complete and when all the servers have registered it.
Each time you go to a site, a DNS server is captivating the area name you type in and dispensation which numerical address it has in order to forward you to the right place. It’s a procedure that works pretty quickly and flawlessly, which means most of the time, you don’t have to see or think anything about it. The only genuine time you have cause to consider about it is when you make a DNS change.
DNS servers do the work of translating IP addresses into domain names. While as far as you and your visitors are worried, your website is located at an easily memorable website name like www.yourwebsite.com, it’s in fact located at a less easily memorable numerical IP address that looks somewhat like 123.456.789.101.
Complexing things, different servers will receive that upgraded data at different times, so it’s possible for you to type in the domain name and see your new website in the right place, while a friend of yours across the street is still seeing old, outdated information.
When you move to a new hosting provider or change your domain name, every DNS server in the world has to register that information before they’ll know how to properly translate your domain name to the right IP address.
Multiple domain hosting connects to a web hosting agreement in which the supplier allows you to function all of your domains on one solitary web hosting account. With numerous domain hosting your apportioned server capital (ie. disk space and bandwidth) are divided into parts to house multiple sites. This understanding allows you to save a lot of cash because you only need to pay for a solitary web hosting plan but host numerous websites. | <urn:uuid:3c771a35-97cd-40cc-b07f-d88efcd08f80> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://scalebuzz.com/multiple-domain-names-can-help-website/?noamp=mobile | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571210.98/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810191850-20220810221850-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.942167 | 423 | 2.203125 | 2 |
Children of all ages love to celebrate Valentine’s Day and if you’re looking to get your kiddos involved in making special notes for their classmates, these ‘DIY’ options, are quick and easy.
- What you’ll need:
- Eye-shaped candies
- Card-sized boxes of sweethearts
- A hot-glue gun
Hot glue two Starburst candies on the top of a sweethearts box. These will be the eyes.
Glue one eyeball candy on each Starburst.
Glue two starbursts on the bottom of the box for the feet.
Glue one smarties roll on each side of the box for arms.
Small play-doh tubs are quick and easy. Simply print out the cards and attach a Play-Doh tub to each card and decorate.
Online printouts: thenerdswife.com
Valentine You “Rock”
What you’ll need:
A stamp set
Clothes pins or string
Online printouts: hip2save.com
Print out a set of Valentine’s cards and let your little one make it their own with a simple stamp. Use a clothes pin or string to tie the valentine to the candy. | <urn:uuid:9ef5f85b-651e-49e3-bbe6-6e7009ca30e5> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.localsyr.com/bridge-street/valentines-day-diy-treats/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571911.5/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813081639-20220813111639-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.796626 | 304 | 1.9375 | 2 |
You probably won't disagree that most of the gyms are full of youngsters trying to building their abs or pulling in their tummy. However, this gym in Sydney, Australia has not welcomed the young age group to be a part of their fitness service. The gym seems to dedicate itself to those born before 1970.
Wait, what? Yes, it isn't just that the middle aged or the elderly people would have their laughing and socializing club of their own, now they have a fitness centre too.
According to reports, Chris Hemsworth's exercise physiologist Jonathan Freeman launched a new gym space that bans Millennials and Gen Z from the training facility. However, it's dedicated to those born before 1970, which gets described as a "safe space for Boomers."
Club Active, started by Jonathan Freeman, is an Australian over-50s health and fitness centre chain that recently got placed at Castle Hill, Sydney.
"Mainstream gyms are certainly not designed to support this age group, nor are they overly welcoming, which often impacts their motivation and ability to exercise comfortably and regularly," Jonathan told . During an interview on Studio 10, Jonathan said he is had experienced "push back" from millennials, and he's "okay with that." | <urn:uuid:d492066f-5a26-45cf-abe2-3f35ed78160e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.freepressjournal.in/viral/hey-millennials-gen-z-you-are-banned-from-this-sydney-gym | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570977.50/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809124724-20220809154724-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.990047 | 253 | 1.546875 | 2 |
Getting cows in calf has become part of the family business for CRV artificial breeding technician Joanne Polglaze from Kaikohe in Northland.
When buying bulls, they use the same stock agents and choose animals that have sound traceability.
"One of the stock agents we've dealt with for 18 years," says Hamish.
"As a supplier of sire bulls, you're always wary of animals that may have had multiple movements. The only beef animals we introduce to our breeding unit are sire bulls."
The McRaes farm beef and sheep over 5,200ha at Lochiel Station near Hanmer Springs and operate a 520ha beef finishing farm nearby.
As service bull providers, they're gearing up for a busy season and that involves ensuring all bulls are traceable before they go off-farm.
Their beef breeding operation has 870 Angus and Hereford breeding cows, with about 2,300 beef anmals in total. They employ four staff.
Hamish says there are two farms: the main farm and the finishing block 20 minutes away, both under one NAIT number.
Buying in service bulls depends on the season, the price and available feed.
"Typically, we'll buy them at 100 kilos and up to 400 kilos so there isn't a set pattern," says Hamish.
For their dairy customers, animal registrations are at an all-time high and it's a no-brainer if you want to protect your herd and business."
The McRaes supply multiple dairy farms each season.
One of their buyers purchases 50 Hereford bulls for servicing to other clients. This season, Hamish expects to offload about 150 bulls.
NAIT obligations for the farm is looked after by their stock manager as he oversees the beef finishing farm where the greatest NAIT movement activity is.
"I receive updates on confirmed animal movements by email. All the animal are scanned on and off-farm," says Hamish.
To register animals in NAIT, the farm uses a Tru-Test scanner along with the Datamars Cloud Farmer App.
"All staff have access it is ideal for bluetooth compatability and the app is a great back up for maintaining your animal health records and sales.
"You don't need to go back to the office and plug into the desktop. You can do all transactions at the cattle yard."
The retention is reasonably good.
Hamish says they often find missing tags when animals are brought in for TB testing.
"In that case, we'll ensure the animal has a replacement tag and that tag is registered in NAIT. The reality is animals will always lose tags, though it's not a big problem for us.
"The farm has never sent 'unsafe to tag bull' to the meat processor. We have ample tagging facilities on-farm for tagging our bulls."
His advice to farmers on NAIT is to keep your accounts up to date.
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Peter and the Wolf
Music by Prokofiev
Performed by the London Philharmonic Orchestra
Sample This Album
Includes activity booklet
Includes activity booklet PDF
About Peter and the Wolf
Peter and the Wolf, the greatest of all works for narrator and orchestra, joins the Maestro Classics delightful Stories in Music series as the London Philharmonic Orchestra, Grammy-nominated conductor Stephen Simon, and narrator Yadu create a magical listening experience!
Synopsis: A young boy named Peter disobeys his grandfather and climbs over the garden wall. When he encounters a wolf, with quick thinking and the help of his friends – a bird, a duck and a cat – Peter captures the wolf and it is taken to the zoo.
The Extras: CD/MP3 includes a complete orchestral recording of the music without narration, educational tracks including the conductor's explanation of how the instruments in the orchestra play different themes and represent characters in the story, and a narrated child-friendly biography of the composer, Sergei Prokofiev. Plus, a performance of Peter and the Wolf on traditional Russian instruments by Trio Voronezh!
Recommended for ages 4+ and families
Track #1 is an introduction to Peter and the Wolf and explains how each character in the story is represented by an instrument in the symphony orchestra. Listen to samples below.
The Bird's Theme is played by the flute
The Duck's Theme is played by the oboe
The Cat's Theme is played by the clarinet
Peter's grandfather is represented by the bassoon
The Wolf's Theme is played by three French horns
The Hunters are represented by the
Woodwinds playing the "Hunter's March," and the Kettle Drums represent the shooting of their guns.
Peter's Theme is played by all the strings in the symphony orchestra
Why will you love this Peter and the Wolf? ...Because it's more than just the story!
CD/MP3 also includes:
• A biography of the composer, Sergei Prokofiev.
• Music lessons with the conductor, Stephen Simon
• Peter and the Wolf instrumental version, no narration.
• A Russian trio performing on traditional folk instruments.
• A dance-along track to the famous Russian folk melody.
Free Peter and the Wolf Teaching Materials
After listening to the CD/MP3, download the Peter and the Wolf Curriculum Guide with:
Music Lessons and Activities - learn about program and absolute music
Art Projects - A biography on Wassily Kandinsky, a Russian painter and contemporary of Sergei Prokofiev
History - Learn about the Russian Revolution of 1917 and how it influenced Prokofiev
Language Arts - Write your own Peter and the Wolf story!
Science - why do some instruments in sound high, and others sound low?
Geography - "Prokofiev was born in a part of Soviet Russia which is now an independent country called the Ukraine..."
Math - Did you know Sergei Prokofiev was an avid chess player?
Montessori Music Appreciation Lessons for Peter and the Wolf and other Maestro Classics titles including Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel, My Name is Handel: The Story of Water Music, the Tortoise and the Hare, and more.
Play along with Free Peter and the Wolf Sheet Music
Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953) composer of Peter and the Wolf, was born over 120 years ago. As a boy he lived on an estate which probably had wolves. He was an only child, and, clearly, if he was not like Peter, he must have wished he were. His mother was a fine pianist who played constantly. As she was practicing, she would let him play on the upper notes of the piano. She encouraged him to write down melodies that he invented. By the age of 12, Prokofiev had written the words and the music for two operas. He studied at the St. Petersburg Conservatory from the age of 13 and graduated with the highest prizes in piano and conducting. Today, most Americans know Prokofiev for his ballet music for Cinderella, his opera Love of Three Oranges, his movie score for Lieutenant Kijé, and, of course, Peter and the Wolf.
Prokofiev was born in Russia under the Czar, lived through the Bolshevik Revolution, and then spent five years in the United States and almost ten living in Paris. Finally, he decided that it was time to return to his homeland. He looked like a banker and acted like one. He neither smoked nor drank...but it is said that he loved chocolates!
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A couple of people have asked me whether the BESA can work with children in the Eastern US. Yes, I know I’m in Texas and the kids we see here are mainly speakers of Mexican Spanish. But, that doesn’t mean we didn’t collect data from kids in other parts of the country. Or that we didn’t collect data on kids who speak different dialects of Spanish. We collected data mainly in three places: California, Texas, and Pennsylvania. We also had data contributed from other places including Georgia, Utah and New Jersey. What was most important was that we included children who used conservative dialects of Spanish and radical dialects of Spanish. Also, for English speakers, we considered what dialect or variety of English they were learning including: Texas English, California English, African American English, general American English and so on. Why does this matter?
Children who speak different dialects of Spanish (and English for that matter) have differences in the expected phonological patterns of the language. These phonological changes may affect morphosyntax. For example, if the dialect typically deletes final /s/ then it may be difficult to know whether the child is producing plural -s, as in flower – flowers; perro – perros. These kinds of items might penalize a child whose phonology follows the pattern of deleting final /s/.
On standardized tests, one solution might be to delete these kinds of items altogether. Yet, it’s important to know if children can produce different forms such as plurals, because they are necessary in communication. Taking out potentially biased items from standardized tests may reduce the accuracy of a test. Yet, ti’s important to develop items that reduce bias so that there are enough items that together will help identify children with language impairment.
Another way to develop good, unbiased items is to examine the context in which these items are produced to see whether some contexts can obligate the form. So, for example, some plurals that end in -es, it may be more easy to know if the child is marking plural, such as flor-flores, even if the child deletes the final /s/ they would produce flore to contrast with flor.
When we developed the BESA we started with a large item pool in each of the domains. In morphosyntax, we started with over a hundred items in each language. This number of items allowed us to test and then throw out the ones that didn’t work, or the ones that showed bias, those that were too easy or too hard. We also tried different ways of scoring. So, for Spanish we accepted “leismo” so that substitutions of le/lo in indirect pronouns were entered as possible alternates. We also made rules for accepting deletion of final -s if the child speaks a radical dialect of Spanish. We completed two iterations of testing and throwing out so that we ended up with the best set of items at the end. After the first iteration we had about 60 items per language and at the end we have about 20-25 per language plus some sentence repetition items (about 10 each with about another 30 targets).
Our analyses at the first round indicated that we did a better job at identifying impairment vs. treatment for 4 and 5 year olds than 6 year olds in Spanish. And, there were minor differences between children who spoke radical dialects of Spanish and those who spoke conservative dialects (see Gutiérrez-Clellen, Restrepo, & Simón-Cereijido). We tightened up the scoring rules and did more testing. We then selected items that demonstrated the greatest differences between children with and without impairment when we pools all groups of Spanish dialects in the sample. This process resulted in only 3 items flagging as having systematic differences between children who spoke different dialects of Spanish. Overall, this represents very few of the targets (less than 5%) and does not affect correct classification.
For English however, we didn’t do as well in the first round of assessment. Gutiérrez-Clellen, & Simón-Cereijido present results of the first round of item development. In this study, the authors report that for the original item set, sensitivity and specificity was fair to good for Latino speakers of English in the Southwest and West, but poor to fair for Latino speakers English in the East. To address this issue, we examined different forms of English and tightened up our scoring rules. We also looked for contexts in which grammatical forms could be obligated more so that children were more likely to produce them regardless of the dialect of English they were learning. Again, we tested more children after throwing out items that demonstrated bias, or did not identify between children with and without language impairment. Final analysis selected the best items with the least bias. Here we ended up with 10 items with potential bias on the morphosyntax subtest. This is less than 20%, but higher than we would like.
For English, when we ran the classification statistics separately for children from the East coast and those from West and Central regions we found that both were generally acceptable (80% correct classification) but that the East coast classification was less accurate by comparison (West and Central regions were about 90% accurate or better). When we derived a new cutpoint for the East coast region alone, we were able to improve correct classification to 86% sensitivity and 83% specificity. The cutpoints for all these classifications are included in the examiner’s manual of the BESA.
The phonology and semantics subtests did not show these kinds of differences in children’s performance by region. On the phonology subtest we provide guidelines for scoring each item consistent with the expected phonological features of several different dialects. On semantics, it doesn’t really matter what words children use to describe, categorize and so on, we’re just interested in whether they can express semantic relationships with the words they have to demonstrate semantic concepts. Of course morphosyntax does a better job of classifying children with language impairment by itself than does semantics by itself. But, combining the two improves classification overall, and perhaps further reduces bias.
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- Gluten Protein;
Yep, all oats have their own special gluten protein (Avenin in oats Vs Gliadin in wheat).
The gluten protein in oats estimated to be ~12-16% Vs ~69%+ in wheat.
Australian Food Standards prohibit labeling oats 'gluten free', but in other countries (such as the US and UK), the same oats can be labelled ‘gluten free’.
- Segregation of the oats;
Our oats are grown on our farm which does also grow wheat - so although the crops are segregated, there is a chance of some wheat growing in an oat paddock.
The test samples taken when processing our first batch of Dad’s Oats (our best 5% of oats harvested), showed no wheat, but it doesn’t completely rule out the existence of wheat in the batch.
The equipment used at the plant processing Dad’s Oats is exclusive for oats. Furthermore, the oats are 'screened/cleaned' to clear contaminants. However we can never claim 100% guarantee free from wheat contaminants.
- Gluten Intolerance;
In a more practical sense, a lot of people that have a gluten intolerance can still eat oats, and use oats as an alternative/replacement to wheat based products. It is a case by case basis for each individual - as always inform yourself, and consult your doctor.
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Mental Health as Public Health
Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Ethics of Prevention, Volume 2
In recent years there has been increased recognition of the global burden of mental disorders, which in turn has led to the expansion of preventive initiatives at the community and population levels. The application of such public health approaches to mental health raises a number of important ethical questions. The aim of this collection is to address these newly emerging issues, with special attention to the principle of prevention and the distinctive ethical challenges in mental health. The collection brings together an interdisciplinary group of experts in bioethics, mental health, public health, and global health. Compared to other public health initiatives, those directed towards mental health are relatively new and have yet to receive sustained ethical analysis. This is the first edited volume to highlight the distinctive ethical issues surrounding public mental health. The individual chapters contain cutting-edge, original research by an interdisciplinary collection of authors, including experts in bioethics, mental health, public health, and global health.
Keywordsmental disorder; mental health; ethics; prevention; public health
Publication date and placeLondon, 2019
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Pete Seeger once described the political folk singers of the 1960s as “Woody’s Children,” a tribute to the great Woody Guthrie who inspired them. Ochs, Dylan, and others realized how much they owed to Woody, and were not shy about showing their gratitude. Likewise, when a new generation of political musicians came after Phil, they too acknowledged their debt to him. So to carry on the tradition of recognizing those who were their musical inspirations, these are some artists who might be called “Phil’s children.”
Eric Andersen (born February 14, 1943) is an American singer-songwriter, who has written songs recorded by Johnny Cash, Bob Dylan, Judy Collins, Linda Ronstadt, Grateful Dead and many others. Early in his career, in the 1960s, he was part of the Greenwich Village folk scene. After two decades & sixteen albums of solo performance he became a member of the supergroup Danko/Fjeld/Andersen. Since the late 1990s, he has resumed his solo career. Andersen is still recording and performing live in Europe, Japan and North America.
Jello Biafra (born Eric Reed Boucher; June 17, 1958) is the former lead singer and songwriter for San Francisco punk rock band Dead Kennedys, and is currently a musician and spoken word artist. After he left the Dead Kennedys, he took over the influential independent record label Alternative Tentacles, which he had co-founded in 1979 with Dead Kennedys bandmate East Bay Ray. Although now focused primarily on spoken word, he has continued as a musician in numerous collaborations.
Stephen William “Billy” Bragg (born 20 December 1957) is an English singer-songwriter and left-wing activist.His music blends elements of folk music, punk rock and protest songs, and his lyrics mostly deal with political or romantic themes.
Harry Forster Chapin (December 7, 1942 – July 16, 1981) was an American singer-songwriter best known for his folk rock songs including “Taxi,” “W*O*L*D,” “Sniper”, “Flowers Are Red,” and the No. 1 hit “Cat’s in the Cradle.” Chapin was also a dedicated humanitarian who fought to end world hunger; he was a key participant in the creation of the Presidential Commission on World Hunger in 1977. In 1987, Chapin was posthumously awarded the Congressional Gold Medal for his humanitarian work.
Tracy Chapman (born March 30, 1964) is an American singer-songwriter, known for her hits “Fast Car” and “Give Me One Reason”, along with other singles “Talkin’ ’bout a Revolution”, “Baby Can I Hold You”, “Crossroads”, “New Beginning” and “Telling Stories”. She is a multi-platinum and four-time Grammy Award-winning artist.
Ani DiFranco born Angela Maria DiFranco; September 23, 1970) is an American singer, guitarist, multi-instrumentalist, poet and songwriter. She has released more than 20 albums and is widely considered afeminist icon. DiFranco has received positive feedback from critics for much of her career.
Disappear Fear (stylized as disappear fear) is an American indie pop/indie folk/Americana/world beat band formed in Baltimore, Maryland, in 1987.
Stephen Fain “Steve” Earle ( (born January 17, 1955) is an American rock, country and folk singer-songwriter, record producer, author and actor. Earle began his career as a songwriter in Nashville and released his first EP in 1982. His breakthrough album was the 1986 album Guitar Town. Since then Earle has released 15 other studio albums and received three Grammy awards. His songs have been recorded by Johnny Cash,Waylon Jennings, Travis Tritt, Vince Gill, Shawn Colvin and Emmylou Harris. He has appeared in film and television, and has written a novel, a play, and a book of short stories.
Greg Greenway (born in Richmond, Virginia) is an American folk singer/songwriter. Currently living in the Boston area, he is part of the folk scene there. His humorous song “Massachusetts” was included on the “Car Talk” radio program.
Evan Greer is a radical genderqueer singer/songwriter, parent, and community organizer based in Boston. (S)he writes and performs high-energy acoustic songs that inspire hope, build community, and incite resistance! At 25 years old, Evan tours internationally as a musician and facilitates interactive workshops to support movements for justice and liberation. Wielding an arsenal of fiercely radical songs that vary in style from pop-punk poetry to foot-stompin’ bluegrass singalongs, Evan has been honored to collaborate, tour, and share stages with artists as musically diverse as Pete Seeger, Immortal Technique, Billy Bragg, Tom Morello of Rage Against the Machine, Pamela Means, Against Me!, The Coup, Anne Feeney, Oi Polloi, State Radio, Leftover Crack, Emma’s Revolution, The Mammals, Defiance Ohio, Holly Near, Chumbawamba, and Vicci Martinez (featured on NBC’s “The Voice”.)
John Wesley Harding
Wesley Stace (born 22 October 1965) is a folk/pop singer-songwriter and author who has used the stage name John Wesley Harding. Under his legal name, he has written four novels. He is also a university teacher and the curator of Wesley Stace’s Cabinet of Wonders.
Kim & Reggie Harris
Kim and Reggie Harris are two singers, songwriters, storytellers, educators, historical interpreters and cultural advocates.
David Rovics (born April 10, 1967) is an American indie singer/songwriter. His music concerns topical subjects such as the 2003 Iraq war, anti-globalization and social justice issues. Rovics has been an outspoken critic of former President George W. Bush, the Republican Party, John Kerry, and the Democratic Party. Rovics is critical of the United States government’s policies and claims that the “U.S. government’s foreign policy represents U.S. corporate interests” and that “the U.S. government does not like democracy either at home or abroad.
Dar Williams (Dorothy Snowden Williams, born April 19, 1967) is an American singer-songwriter specializing in pop folk. Hendrik Hertzberg of the The New Yorker has described Williams as “one of America’s very best singer-songwriters.”She is a frequent performer at folk festivals and has toured with such artists as Mary Chapin Carpenter, Patty Griffin, Ani DiFranco, The Nields, Shawn Colvin, Girlyman, Joan Baez, and Catie Curtis.
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There has always been a high demand for foreign nurses in Germany, and this is not set to change anytime soon. The country has one of the fastest aging populations in the world and is in need of manpower.
Because of this, Germany has made working as a nurse within its borders a rather straightforward process. There are paid training opportunities here where you’ll receive a minimum wage while learning in a real-life setting. Germany is open to nurses of all nationalities, though being from an EU country makes the paperwork easier.
Germany has one of the most advanced healthcare systems in the world. The country also has some of the most employee-friendly labor laws around. As a worker, you’ll be entitled to at least 20 vacation days a year. For nurses, this number can be as high as 30 to 40. Germany also has a high minimum wage and offers parental leave to both mothers and fathers.
This guide will set you on your way as we talk about the basic steps on how to become a nurse in Germany.
Steps to Becoming a Nurse in Germany
1. Learn German
The first step to becoming a nurse in Germany is to learn the language. To get an apprenticeship or work placement in Germany, you’ll need at least a B2 level of German. Proof of proficiency comes in the form of a standardized test. There are many acceptable exams, but the most popular ones are offered by the Goethe-Institut and the Telc Deutsch.
There are many ways of learning German. There are many free videos on YouTube and lessons on apps like Duolingo. You can also buy physical textbooks. The quickest and most effective way, though, is to hire a teacher. The Goethe-Institut offers courses from A1 to C2. You can also receive one-on-one tutorials online or through another language school.
If your German is only at the B1 level, you can still move to the country provided you make a commitment to improving your skills. Once there, you can take further German classes. As a foreigner, you are entitled to free language integration courses.
2. Undertake an Apprenticeship or Study Nursing
Germany is unique in that nurses don’t necessarily need a university degree. Because nursing involves both practice and theory, the country uses an apprenticeship system in which you’ll work under the supervision of more experienced nurses in a hospital and study nursing in a vocational school. You’ll learn by doing rather than just by listening to lectures.
Getting a nursing apprenticeship can be competitive depending on the specific program you’re applying for. Because apprenticeships are seen as alternatives to college education, you’ll only need a high school diploma. Your German language skills will need to be at a B2 level, or at a B1 level if you’re willing to commit to reaching B2 within the next few months. You’ll also need a driving license or to commit to getting one.
The best part about apprenticeships is that instead of paying a tuition fee, you actually get paid to do that. In your first year, you’ll receive an allowance of around 800 euros per month. This will go up in the succeeding years.
While a college degree isn’t a requirement, it can be helpful. Germany has a number of reputable schools for nursing, such as Hamburg University and the Bielefeld University of Applied Sciences. These programs are subsidized by the government, so you usually won’t have to pay more than 300 euros per semester.
Studying nursing abroad is a substitute for undertaking an apprenticeship. Your university degree will need to be recognized in Germany to allow you to work. If you have work experience but don’t have a recognized degree, you’ll need to undergo an apprenticeship. You can also apply to be a helper in a German hospital, which is another pathway to a nursing career.
3. Get a Work Visa
Whether or not you need a visa depends on your nationality. EU citizens can work in Germany visa-free. For non-EU citizens who wish to become a nurse in Germany, the next step would be to apply for an Employment Visa. This visa doesn’t require you to already hold a job, so you can look for employment while living in Germany.
A visa is required both for apprenticeships and full-time work. Employment Visas take into account education, previous work experience, language skills, and many more factors.
Nationals of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Tunisia, and the Philippines can also apply for a work visa under the Triple Win Project, which is a program specifically for nurses from these three countries.
4. Find a Full-Time Job
There are many options open to for people who wish to become a nurse Germany. Healthcare in the country is roughly 80% government-funded, so most medical professionals work in public hospitals. Private hospitals like Hallwang Clinic GmbH and Franziskus-Krankenhaus do exist and may offer better pay.
Specializing in a particular area of nursing can help you find a job and get paid more. Cardiac nurses, anesthetists, critical care nurses, etc. all have specialized skill sets and are in high demand. Nurses can also specialize in working with children or the elderly.
As Germany has an aging population, geriatric nursing, in particular, is in high demand. This job requires you to work in care homes and in geriatric wards. Elderly people often have more health issues than younger ones. Besides caring for their health, you’ll also need to support them emotionally and mentally, as they have very specific needs in these regards.
While global recruitment sites like LinkedIn, Indeed, and Monster are all used in Germany, using a local alternative like Stepstone and Stellenanzeigen may expedite finding a job.
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“You’re never going to stop domestic violence.” It sounds oddly like a threat, or a political pledge from an extreme party, but it was simply the scoffing of a news presenter interviewing a Member of Parliament on the radio this morning. John Humphreys was supposedly discussing the subject with Yvette Cooper when he made this statement, which should sound utterly bizarre to us. The fact that many people heard it as a statement of fact, as utterly uncontroversial, should make us pause for thought. I’d like to take apart some of the assumptions behind this sentence, broadcast on the BBC’s flagship morning news programme by an interviewer who considers himself the bluff voice of common sense, the representative of people all over the country listening to the radio this morning.
It seems to put domestic violence in the category of a force of nature. It’s just one of those things, like the tides or the laws of supply and demand, which we have to accept and try to either avoid or accommodate ourselves to the effects. But domestic violence is not a naturally occurring substance. It’s something which people do to other people. It has perpetrators and survivors. It’s not like breathing or gathering food, it’s a choice made by individuals to hurt someone else. Generally speaking, we don’t organise our society on the basis that violent actions are basically inevitable. We pass laws and we prosecute crimes when those laws are broken. Would Humphreys have scoffed at the efforts of the Metropolitan Police to reduce the number of guns on the street by incredulously asking them if they believed they could ever end gun crime?
Perhaps Humphries was speaking on a general and statistical level, suggesting that humans are always going to commit some forms of crime and violence. People have always stolen, have always tried to murder one another, have always hated outsiders, have always tried to cheat whatever political system existed to gain power (or to rig the system so they don’t have to cheat.) Who can plumb the matchless perversity of the human heart, Humphries might be demanding. But domestic violence doesn’t seem a suitable comparison to crimes like theft or fraud, or even to human emotions like greed or hate. It doesn’t spring up equally in the hearts and actions of everyone in our society. It is massively disproportionately committed by men against women.
In one study, 89% of those reporting four or more incidents of domestic abuse were women, and another estimated extended patterns of domestic violence by women against men in only 5% of cases (Walby and Allen, 2004; Hester, 2007). This is not to downplay the seriousness of the offence when committed against men, but to point out that domestic violence does not seem to “just happen” for half of the population. It is not a natural human emotion or an inevitable part of social life. A vast proportion of women never seem to have any problem in not attacking, abusing or terrorising the people they live with. This is the reason activists like Karen Ingala Smith insist on using the term “male violence against women and girl”, highlighting the fact that this violence is not just something which develops out of human life. It is vastly committed by one gender against another. Discussing “domestic violence” as if it is a natural condition of people living together ignores the individual acts by men against women which make up the statistics.
If this is the case, then Humphreys must be making one other terrifying assumption. Men are inherently and lethally violent. The figures suggest that two women a week killed by male partners or ex-partners and that this makes up a third of female homicide victims (Coleman and Osborne, 2010). If the line of logic we have followed is correct, then this is just a thing men do. They can’t stop themselves. They batter and kill people just because they’re men. If you genuinely believe domestic violence can’t ever be stopped, then you’re committed to thinking that one half of our society are brutal animals incapable of rational thought or normal behaviour. And it’s probably the half of our society which you fall into. Whilst feminists are told that they hate men, that they demonise them and blame them for all the ills of humanity, they’re trying to put a stop to domestic violence. Because they believe men aren’t like this. Feminists are the “you” whom John Humphreys scoffs at, apparently not part of his culture, who think that this continual wave of assault and murder isn’t some natural and horrific consequence of having men around. As so often, it’s men who reveal a disturbing view of their own gender, whilst feminists are insisting that men aren’t genetically programmed to destroy and terrorise. Men need to believe that domestic violence can be brought to an end, and that the relentless suffering it brings to hundreds of thousands of women can be stopped. Men who tell us otherwise hate us and hate themselves. I can’t see it any other way. | <urn:uuid:2ae9f9b3-4949-4e74-8bf9-bfb1c1f70111> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://quiteirregular.wordpress.com/2014/07/28/youre-never-going-to-stop-domestic-violence/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571911.5/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813081639-20220813111639-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.963749 | 1,051 | 1.992188 | 2 |
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December 4, 2012 is
National Cookie Day
- It’s National Cookie Day! Did you know that the English word
"cookie" is derived from the Dutch word "koekje," which means little
cake? Dutch bakers used to test oven temperatures on small amounts of
batter so that they would not waste the entire cake mix if the
temperature wasn't right. It was not long before they discovered that
these tiny pieces of cooked batter were actually quite tasty!
Cookies come in all different flavors, shapes, and sizes. To celebrate National Cookie Day, bake a few batches of your favorite variety and invite your friends over for a cookie swap!
Here are some past cookies we have featured on Sew Whats Cooking With Joan! This is an extra post! If you are looking for yesterdays post, just scroll down to the next post "Braised Short Ribs"!
|Emma our Grandchild!|
Cornwall Gingerbread Cookies
(full tutorial and ingredient locations on November 25 blog)
3/4 c. butter
1 c. sugar
1/4 c. Lyle's Golden syrup (sources listed below)
2 c. flour (+1/2cup, if you are rolling out and cutting shapes)
1 tsp. salt
2 tsp soda
1 tsp. cinnamon
1/2 tsp. ground cloves
1 1/2 tsp ground ginger
1/4 tsp. lemon extract
1/4 c. chopped crystallized ginger (grind in a small food processor if you have one)
Preheat oven to 350 F.
Combine flour with soda, salt and spices. Beat dry ingredients into butter mixture. Fold in crystallized ginger.
Form into balls, roll in sugar, and place on a silpat or parchment paper lined cookie sheet. and press with a sugar coated glass bottom. For rolled cookies, refrigerate for 20 minutes, then roll out and cut into desired shapes.
Bake for 10-12 minutes.
1 c. plus 2 T. flour
1 3/4 confectioners sugar, extra for dusting
2 T. finely grated lemon zest
1/4 tsp. of salt
1/2 c. chilled unsalted butter, cut into small pieces
1/2 tsp. baking powder
3 large eggs
1/3 c. fresh lemon juice
Preheat oven to 350 F and position rack in center of the over. Butter a 8" square pan.
Whisk together 1 cup of the flour, 1/4 cup of the confectioners sugar, the zest, and salt in a medium bow. Cut in the butter with a pastry blender or a fork, until the mixture resembles coarse crumbs. Knead the dough in the bowl until it begins to come together.
Press the dough into the baking pan, and bake for 25 minutes, or until light brown. Let it cool, while making the filling.
Mix together the remaining 1 1/2 cups of confectioners sugar, the remaining 2 tablespoons of flour, and the baking powder in a small bowl.
Beat the eggs with an electric mixer on high speed in a medium bowl, for about 2 minutes, until about triple in volume. Reduce the speed to low, add the sugar mixture, and beat just until blended, scraping down the sides of the bowl. Add the lemon juice and beat again, until blended.
Pour the lemon mixture over the warm crust and bake for 18 to 20 minutes, until the filling is just set in the center. Let cool.
Tink's Heavenly Chocolate Chip Cookies
4 1/2 c. all-purpose flour
2 tsp. baking soda
3/4 tsp. salt
1/2 tsp. baking powder
2 c. unsalted butter, softened
1 1/2 c. packed golden brown sugar
1/2 c. white sugar
2 (3.4 ounce) pkg. instant vanilla pudding
2 T. vanilla extract
4 c. semisweet chocolate chips 2 Pkg. ( I provided her Ghirardelli 60% cocoa chips, healthier ....hahaha)
Preheat the oven to 350 F. Sift together the flour, baking soda, salt, and baking powder, set aside.
In a large bowl, cream together the butter, brown sugar, and white sugar. Beat in the instant pudding mix until blended. Stir in eggs and vanilla. Blend in the flour mixture. Finally, stir in the chocolate chips.
Scoop cookie dough with a ice cream scoop and drop onto ungreased cookie sheets. Bake for 10 to 14 minutes in the preheated oven. Edges should be golden brown.
Peanut Butter and Bacon Cookies
adapted from The Gourmet Cookbook
makes 15 cookies about the size of your palm
1 cup all-natural chunky or smooth peanut butter
1 cup sugar (1/2 cup brown sugar and 1/2 cup granulated sugar)
1 teaspoon baking soda
about 6 slices of bacon, cooked, cooled and diced
Fry up bacon until cooked through and let cool on paper towels until cool enough to dice.
Dice up and set aside.Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
Grease a baking sheet with butter or use a Silpat and set aside. In a mixer combine peanut butter and sugars until well combined, about 2 minutes. Add egg and baking soda and mix for another 2 minutes. Fold in cooked bacon. Roll into golf ball sized balls and create a cris-cross pattern with a fork. You may want to roll the dough balls in granulated sugar before making the cris-cross
Bake for 10 minutes, until lightly browned. Cool on a baking sheet for five minutes, then transfer to… your mouth.
So how do these cookies taste? Amazingly good! The cookie itself is a more delicate, crumbly peanut butter cookie due to the absence of butter and flour. Yes! Gluten free! The peanut butter taste is front and center. The bacon blends well with the sweetness of the cookie, adding an alluring salty, smoky, chewy bite. Perfect! Flourless, butterless, only five ingredients, and one of those ingredients is bacon. The world just got a step closer to perfect!
Our Granddaughter wearing her Christmas Outfit to match her cousin Emma above, walking her first few steps!
Hope I have given you some ideas for your cookie exchange....
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The mission of the Marine Corps League is to promote the interest and to preserve traditions of the United States Marine Corps; strengthen the fraternity of Marines and their families; serve Marines and FMF Navy Personnel who wear or who have worn the Eagle, Globe and Anchor; and foster the ideals of Americanism and patriotic volunteerism.
WHAT WE DO
The Marine Corps League is proud to support our Marines in many areas. We have 10 Divisions covering 48 Departments, and over 1,140 Detachments in communities across the Country.
We support the Toys for Tots efforts working with the Marine Corps Reserve and Toys for Tots Foundation to raise millions of dollars for the youth of America, collect and distribute millions of toys all across the United States.
The Marine Corps League provides funeral honors support to over 10,000 funerals per year. This support allows the Marine Corps (Active and Reserve) to focus more of their resources on mission preparation.
We have several scholarship/award programs including the Marine Corps University LtGen Lejeune (luh-jern) Leadership Award, Delta Dental Scholarship, and college scholarships through the Marine Corps League Foundation.
One of our most critical missions is assisting transitioning Marines and their families in support of the Marine Corps’ Marine for Life program.
The Marine Corps League produces a quarterly publication called the Semper Fi Magazine.
The Marine Corps League perpetuates the traditions and spirit of ALL Marines and Navy FMF Sailors, who proudly wear or who have worn the eagle, globe and anchor of the Corps. It takes great pride in crediting its founding in 1923 to World War I hero, then Major General Commandant John A. Lejeune. It takes equal pride in its Federal Charter, approved by An Act of the Seventy-Fifth Congress of the United States of America and signed and approved by President Franklin D. Roosevelt on August 4, 1937. The League is the only Federally Chartered Marine Corps related veterans organization in the country. Since its earliest days, the Marine Corps League has enjoyed the support and encouragement of the active duty and Reserve establishments of the U. S. Marine Corps. Today, the League boasts a membership of more than 60,000 men and women, officer and enlisted, active duty, Reserve Marines, honorably discharged Marine Veterans, qualified Navy FMF Sailors.
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7 Factors That Occur When You Are In Unlock Your Hip Flexors
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This exercise hip flexor is fantastic for upper body and arm development. If you experience your own self getting out of bed coming from a settled placement, only roll onto your spine to ensure that your knees are bent.
Picture carrying a loose layer wall mount and reducing your divisions to touch your physical body. Keep your body right as well as push your uppermost back as far back as you can.
For this hip flexor extent, I propose starting with your back straight and also pulling your knees to your chest. Visualize your palms positioned on the edge of your head and also envision drawing your legs up and out as difficult as you can.
This hip flexor extent may be carried out through lying on your back along with your lower legs curved to the amount of your breast. Conduct the stretch for a matter of ten and also replay 2 opportunities.
Start this workout by lying on your spine with your lower legs right out in front of you. Maintain your spine straight as you raise your lower legs to touch your hips.
This physical exercise could be carried out in your corner due to the exact same concepts. Hold the stretch for a matter of ten and also repeat pair of opportunities.
Unlock Your Hip Flexors Procedure is a collection of 3 mini video clips made through Mike Mentzer which presents you exactly how to unlock your hip flexors. It can easily be tempting to attempt and also obtain easy results, these strategies will certainly not help you accomplish results within a handful of days or even hours.
Just specified, hip flexors can merely be actually uncovered if they are tensed. The underlying muscular tissues need to draw in order to operate adequately. To do this, the online video includes 3 parts.
Part some of the video clip is a technique component that involves stretching the muscles. Many people believe that this part has to do with utilizing pressure however in fact it is much more state-of-the-art.
As a reward, you also learn some extra extending strategies as well as a number of physical exercises that you can possibly do from this technique part. It also includes a manual on your own that offers you a wide range of info for uncovering your hip flexors.
Sequel of the video recording is about tensioning. In this part, you will discover the several strategies that are effective for using tension to open your hip flexors.
Among the procedures you will definitely learn entails managing the actual muscular tissue. The video features 6 different physical exercises that could be used to perform this and these deal with various muscle teams.
Part 3 is about boosting adaptability. This is actually where you will learn the very best methods to make use of a frequent day-to-day flexing regimen to improve adaptability.
Of training program, this implies you possess to find out to receive in and also out of several postures yet along with suitable approach you can make development. It has workouts that are actually made to extend your hip flexors and even obtain rid of a slight accident that can easily take place.
Eventually, one more vital part of the online video is actually that it offers you tips as well as methods to improve your range of motion. By learning to use the tension you can receive much more from your range of motion.
If you are actually seeking an overview to eliminating a hip joint pain and also a whole lot even more, then this video could be what you need. You will certainly have the capacity to open your hip flexors in under an hour!
What else is there to mention? This is actually an effective little video as well as is actually well worth your time to observe and download and install.
Hip flexor is actually an usual problem in lots of people. It is actually observed that in the case of really massive body weights, the person may not have the ability to execute the regular duties effortlessly. An individual struggling with this condition ought to start along with an appropriate hip shared flexibility workout.
You will certainly receive many end results with the assistance of hip massage therapy as well as walking around if you have problem resting on your stool as a result of to this health condition. I discovered that whenever I needed to relocate my hips, it was actually a wonderful support to take a hardwood feces. When you possess some real wood chair, your hips can receive a chance to flex adequately.
The next trait that you need to carry out is actually to depend on the chair along with your knees somewhat angled. When your knees are angled appropriately, you will manage to flex your knees. The arched legs will be your assistance to make sure that you can easily stop the trauma.
You can easily glide your right knee under your left elbow. In the instance that you experience ache in your hip flexor, you can attempt to stick your hands in the arc of your back, appear towards the foot of the stool and also continue relocating your hips.
After doing this routine, you should make use of the leg board. When you utilize the leg board, your legs should be actually kept strongly with the palms. You need to stagnate your hips regardless of whether your knees are actually completely unwinded.
It is essential for you to understand that you should certainly not put weight on the knee panel while performing the activity. When you are leaning on the leg panel, you will certainly have the capacity to avoid the discomfort that you are actually experiencing from the hip flexor.
Merely stated, hip flexors may merely be unlocked if they are actually tensed. It has workouts that are actually developed to extend your hip flexors as well as even receive rid of a minor trauma that can easily develop.
Hip flexor is a typical issue in many individuals. In the situation that you feel ache in your hip flexor, you may make an effort to catch your palms in the arc of your back, look towards the feet of the feces as well as continue relocating your hips.
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Welcome to the Social-Emotional Behavior (SEB) Academy
Illuminate's SEB Academy video series was created to help build your knowledge of the role of SEB competencies in student success alongside how assessing student SEB skills can help strengthen social-emotional learning (SEL) programming and student supports.
Each expert presenter in this series will tackle a different element-from understanding dual perspectives and discrepant data in universal screening, to supporting college and career readiness, to understanding which SEB assessment is right for you and your school-and much more to come.
Download the accompanying tip sheet with each video for key takeaways from each Master Class and complete the short quiz to receive a CEU certificate. Let's dive in!
Presenting the On-Demand SEB Academy Series
Different Stories Tell the WHOLE Story
Dual perspectives and Discrepant data in SEB Screening
Learn why multiple perspectives are key to fully understanding students' SEB skills and providing targeted supports.
So Many SEB Assessments!
Which Will Support Your Students?
There are several types of SEB assessments, each one designed to help you take the necessary next steps for your students. We'll discuss how to find the right one to support
students at each tier of your SEB MTSS framework.
Tips for Supporting College and Career Readiness with SEL
Learn why assisting students in the development of non-cognitive and
SEB skills through social-emotional learning programming and supports
are essential to success after high school.
Discover Behaviors that Demonstrate SEB Competence
Explore our interactive CASEL wheel to learn the behaviors you can look for that demonstrate students' skill levels
with the CASEL 5 and see how the Social, Academic, Emotional Behavior Risk Screener (SAEBRS)-part of Illuminate's
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Course Cheatsheet - Course Time Requirements in Axis LMS
Using section and page settings, admins can restrict what content is available to users based on the amount of time or days they’ve been inside one of your Axis Courses. To learn more about how to limit the accessibility of your Courses' content, check out this article.
There are a handful of reasons you may want to implement Time Requirements into your Courses:
- Pacing a course out for a user, by releasing new content to them gradually (each day, week, etc.)
- Hiding content such as certificates or quizzes until a user has spent so many hours in the course
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The school newspaper began before Covid and was led by one of our governors, Mrs M Robson. This year it has restarted and gives a group of interested Year 6s a voice and a chance to develop their creative / journalistic writing skills. ‘Talk of Tanfield’ is the end product of that process. We are sure you will enjoy reading about our school and we hope that the paper opens doors to the world of journalism to the next generation. As it develops, we hope writers from other year groups will get involved too.
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API Interview Questions And Answers
Q1. What is Api?
Ans: An API (Application Programming Interface) is a collection of software functions and strategies, called API calls, that may be performed through different software program programs. Application builders code that hyperlinks to current APIs to utilize their functionality. This link is seamless and end-users of the software are commonly ignorant of using a one after the other developed API.
During trying out, a test harness-an software that hyperlinks the API and methodically exercises its capability-is built to simulate the usage of the API with the aid of end-user programs. The interesting issues for testers are:
1. Ensuring that the check harness varies parameters of the API calls in approaches that affirm capability and divulge failures. This consists of assigning common parameter values as well as exploring boundary conditions.
2. Generating interesting parameter cost mixtures for calls with or more parameters.
3. Determining the content material underneath which an API call is made. This would possibly consist of setting external surroundings situations (files, peripheral gadgets, and so forth) and additionally internal stored information that have an effect on the API.
4. Sequencing API calls to differ the order wherein the functionality is exercised and to make the API produce beneficial results from successive calls.
Q2. Explain what is REST and RESTFUL?
Ans: REST represents REpresentational State Transfer; it's miles distinctly new element of writing net api.
RESTFUL is referred for net offerings written through making use of REST architectural idea are called RESTful offerings, it makes a speciality of gadget resources and how state of resource must be transported over HTTP protocol to a unique clients written in one-of-a-kind language. In RESTFUL net carrier http methods like GET, POST, PUT and DELETE may be used to perform CRUD operations.
Q3. Explain the architectural fashion for developing web api?
Ans: The architectural style for creating net api are
HTTP for customer server communication
XML/JSON as formatting language
Simple URI as the address for the offerings
Stateless verbal exchange
Q4. Mention what gear are required to check your web api?
Ans: SOAPUI tool for SOAP WS and Firefox “poster” plugin for RESTFUL offerings.
Q5. Mention what are the HTTP methods supported by way of REST?
Ans: HTTP techniques supported by REST are:
GET: It requests a resource on the request URL. It must now not incorporate a request body as it could be discarded. May be it can be cached regionally or at the server.
POST: It submits records to the provider for processing; it should commonly return the modified or new aid
PUT: At the request URL it replace the resource
DELETE: At the request URL it removes the useful resource
OPTIONS: It suggests which strategies are supported
HEAD: About the request URL it returns meta statistics
Q6. Mention whether or not you could use GET request in preference to PUT to create a aid?
Ans: No, you are not intended to apply POST or GET. GET operations ought to only have view rights.
Q7. Mention what are resources in a REST structure?
Ans: Resources are recognized by means of logical URLs; it is the important thing element of a RESTful layout. Unlike, SOAP internet offerings in REST, you view the product facts as a useful resource and this useful resource must contain all the required facts.
Q8. Mention what is the distinction between AJAX and REST?
· Ajax is a fixed of era; it is a method of dynamically updating elements of UI without having to reload the web page
· Ajax gets rid of the interplay between the customer and server asynchronously
· REST calls for the interaction between the purchaser and server
· REST have a URL shape and a request/response sample the revolve around the use of resources
· REST is a form of software program structure and a way for customers to request records or statistics from servers
· REST calls for the interaction among the purchaser and server
Q9. Mention some key characteristics of REST?
Ans: Some key traits of REST consists of
REST is stateless, consequently the SERVER has no country (or consultation data)
With a properly applied REST API, the server may be restarted among calls as each records is exceeded to the server
Web carrier mainly makes use of POST method to make operations, whereas REST uses GET to get admission to resources
Q10. Mention what are the special utility integration styles?
Ans: The exceptional integration styles includes
Batch file switch
Invoking far flung manner (RPC)
Swapping asynchronous messages over a message orientated middle-ware (MOM)
Q11. Explain how JAXB related to RESTful internet api?
Ans: JAXB stands for java arch for xml binding.
Q12. Mention what is the difference among PUT and POST?
Ans: “PUT”puts a report or aid at a specific URI and precisely at that URI. If there is already a document or resource at that URI, PUT adjustments that record or useful resource. If there is no aid or report there, PUT makes one
POST sends records to a selected URI and expects the aid at that URI to address the request. The net server at this point can determine what to do with the records within the context of certain aid
Q13. Mention which markup language can be used in restful net api?
Ans: JSON and XML are the two markup language that can be used in restful net api
Q14. Mention what is the difference between RPC or record style internet services? How you decide to which one to choose?
Ans: In document fashion web offerings, we will shipping an XML message as part of SOAP request which is not possible in RPC style internet provider. Document fashion net provider is most suitable in a few utility wherein XML message behaves as document and content of that file can adjust and aim of net carrier does not depend upon the content material of XML message.
Q15. Mention what is JAX-WS and JAX-RS?
Ans: Both JAX-WS and JAX-RS are libraries (APIs) for doing verbal exchange in diverse ways in Java. JAX-WS is a library that can be used to do SOAP communication in JAVA, and JAX-RS helps you to do the REST communication in JAVA.
Q16. List out the equipment or API for developing or trying out internet api?
Ans: Testing tools for internet services for REST APIs consists of
Spring REST web carrier the usage of MVC
Q17. Mention what is the difference among SOAP and REST?
· SOAP is a protocol thru which two computer communicates by way of sharing XML report
· SOAP allows best XML
· SOAP based totally reads cannot be cached
· SOAP is like custom desktop software, carefully linked to the server
· SOAP is slower than REST
· It runs on HTTP however envelopes the message
· Rest is a service architecture and layout for network-based totally software architectures
· REST helps many special facts formats
· REST reads can be cached
· A REST customer is greater like a browser; it knows a way to standardized techniques and an software has to match internal it
· REST is quicker than SOAP
· It makes use of the HTTP headers to keep meta records
API Testing and API Rest Interview Questions and solutions:
Q1. What is API trying out?
Ans: API (Application Programming Interface) specifies how some software components need to have interaction with different, in different phrases it’s a set of capabilities and tactics that allows the introduction of packages which access the features or statistics of an software or operating machine. Testing of those functions is called API testing.
Q2. What are the tools used for API trying out?
Ans: The gear used for various API testing are
Alertsite API tracking
Q3. What are the common exams carried out on API’s?
Ans: The not unusual tests accomplished on API’s
Verification of the API whether it is updating any records shape
Verify if the API does not go back whatever
Based on enter conditions, returned values from the API’s are checked
Verification of the API whether or not it triggers some different occasion or calls any other API
Q4. Mention the important thing distinction among UI stage testing and API trying out?
Ans: UI ( User Interface) refers to testing graphical interface along with how person interacts with the packages, checking out application factors like fonts, pics, layouts and many others. UI trying out essentially specializes in look and feel of an application.
While, API allows communique between two separate software systems. A software device enforcing an API incorporates functions or sub-workouts that can be carried out via every other software system
Q5. Explain what is SOAP?
Ans: SOAP-stands for Simple Object Access Control, and it is an XML based totally protocol for replacing data between computer systems.
Q6. Explain what is REST API?
Ans: It is a fixed of capabilities to which the builders performs requests and acquire responses. In REST API interaction is made thru HTTP protocol
REST – stands for Representational State Transfer, it's far fast becoming defacto standard for API introduction.
REST stands for Representational State Transfer. REST is an architectural fashion of growing net offerings which take advantage of the ubiquity of HTTP protocol and leverages HTTP approach to define moves. It revolves around aid where each thing is a resource which may be accessed via a not unusual interface the usage of HTTP fashionable strategies.
In REST architecture, a REST Server presents get admission to to resources and REST purchaser accesses and presents those resources. Here every aid is identified by means of URIs or worldwide IDs. REST makes use of one-of-a-kind approaches to symbolize a resource like text, JSON, and XML.XML and JSON are the maximum famous representations of sources in recent times.
Q7. Difference API and Unit Testing?
API testing UNIT testing
· API is owned via QA group · Unit testing is owned by means of development team
· API is normally black box checking out · Unit checking out is white field checking out
· Full capability of the gadget is taken into consideration in API checking out because it can be used by the quit-consumer (outside builders who will use your API ) · Unit checking out is performed to verify whether every unit in isolation performs as predicted or not
· API take a look at are regularly run after the build is ready and authors do no longer have access to the source code · For each in their module the builders are expected to build unit assessments for each of their code modules and need to make sure that every module bypass unit take a look at earlier than the code is included in a construct
Q8. How to test API’s ?
Ans: To take a look at the API’s you need to observe the subsequent steps
Select the suite in that you want to feature the API take a look at case
Choose check development mode
Develop take a look at instances for the preferred API methods
Configure software control parameters
Configure test conditions
Configure technique validation
Execute API check
View check reviews
Filter API take a look at cases
Sequence API take a look at cases
Q9. Mention what the main regions to be taken in attention whilst writing API file ?
Ans: The key location to be considered when writing API files are
Source of the content
Document plan or comic strip
Information required for every function inside the file
Automatic file advent programs
Q10. In API report explain the way to document every feature ?What are the gear used for documentation?
Description:Small description approximately what a feature does
Syntax:Syntax about the parameter of the code, the collection in which they arise, required and elective elements and so on.
Error Messages:Syntax of error messages
Example Code:Small snippet of code
Related Links:Related capabilities
Popular equipment used for API documentations are JavaDoc (for Java code ) Doxygen (for .Net code)
Q11. Explain API framework?
Ans: API framework is self-explanatory. Values for test run and for containing the configurable parts, config report is used. Automated test instances have to represent in “ parse-desk” format within config document. When testing API, it is not necessary to test each API so the config document have some phase whose all API are activated for that precise run.
Q12. How does the API Builder paintings?
Ans: API Builder is a PLSQL application includes four SQL files
For setting API parameters and starting the procedure one report is accountable
Two documents are created for transient tables and Master bundle to create the outputted code
Fourth document creates “spooled” output of the code into a report known as “output_script_.Square”
Q13. Explain what is TestApi ?
Ans: TestApi is a library of software and test APIs that enables testers and developers to create testing equipment and automated tests for .NET and Win32 utility. It presents a set of not unusual take a look at constructing blocks, sorts, statistics-structure and algorithms.
Q14. What is Input injection and what are specific methods of doing it ?
Ans: Input Injection: It is the act of simulating person enter, in numerous methods you can simulate person input.
Direct Method Invocation
Invocation using an accessibility interface
Simulation the usage of low-stage enter
Simulation the use of a tool driver
Simulation using a robotic
Q15. What are the main challenges of API testing?
Ans: The fundamental challenges in API testing is
Q16. What is API testing with runscope ?
Ans: Runscope is a web utility that offers backend offerings and smooth to use interface for checking out APIs.
Q17. Explain what are the concepts of API test layout?
Ans: The precept for API check design are
Setup :Create gadgets, start offerings, initialize data and many others
Execution:Steps to exercise API or scenario, also logging
Verification:Oracles to evaluate execution final results
Reporting:Pass, failed or blocked
Clean up:Pre-check nation
Q18. What are the varieties of Bugs will API trying out finds?
Ans: The styles of Bugs, API will discover
Missing or reproduction capability
Fails to handle error conditions gracefully
Not carried out errors
Inconsistent blunders managing
Q19. What are the tools used for API take a look at automation?
Ans: While checking out Unit and API trying out, both target supply code, if an API technique is the use of code based on .NET then the tool that's supporting ought to have .NET
Automation equipment for API checking out can be used are
NUnit for .NET
JUnit for Java
Q20. Mention the steps for trying out API ?
Ans: API checking out steps
Select the test case that has to be fulfilled
For API call increase a take a look at case
To meet the check case configure the API parameters
Determine how will you validate a successful take a look at
Using programming language like PHP or .NET execute the API name
Allow the API call to go back the facts to validate
Q21. What are the commonplace protocols that are testing in API tesing ?
Q22. Explain The RESTFul Web Service?
Mostly, there are forms of Web Services which can be pretty famous.
SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol) that's an XML-primarily based way to show web offerings.
Web offerings evolved the usage of REST fashion are known as RESTful web services. These net services use HTTP techniques to implement the idea of REST architecture. A RESTful internet service usually defines a URI, Uniform Resource Identifier a carrier, provides resource representation such as JSON and set of HTTP Methods.
Q23. Explain What Is A “Resource” In REST?
REST architecture treats each content material as a aid. These assets may be either textual content documents, HTML pages, photos, movies or dynamic business data.
REST Server gives get admission to to resources and REST customer accesses and modifies those sources. Here every resource is identified by way of URIs/ global IDs.
Q24. What Is The Most Popular Way To Represent A Resource In REST?
Ans: REST makes use of exceptional representations to outline a useful resource like text, JSON, and XML.
XML and JSON are the most famous representations of sources.
Q25. Which Protocol Is Used By RESTful Web Services?
Ans: RESTful net services employ HTTP protocol as a medium of verbal exchange among patron and server.
Q26. What Is Messaging In RESTful Web Services?
Ans: RESTful web offerings employ HTTP protocol as a medium of communication between patron and server. The customer sends a message inside the shape of an HTTP Request.
In response, the server transmits the HTTP Response. This technique is called Messaging. These messages comprise message facts and metadata i.E. Records about the message itself.
Q27. State The Core Components Of An HTTP Request?
Ans: Each HTTP request includes 5 key factors.
The Verb which shows HTTP techniques including GET, PUT, POST, DELETE.
URI stands for Uniform Resource Identifier (URI).It is the identifier for the aid on the server.
HTTP Version which indicates HTTP model, for example-HTTP v1.1.
Request Header consists of metadata (as key-cost pairs) for the HTTP Request message. Metadata may be a customer (or browser) kind, the layout that client supports, message body layout, and cache settings.
Request Body shows the message content material or aid illustration.
Q28. State The Core Components Of An HTTP Response?
Ans: Every HTTP response includes 4 key elements.
Status/Response Code – Indicates Server reputation for the useful resource gift inside the HTTP request.For instance, 404 method aid not observed and 2 hundred approach response is good enough.
HTTP Version – Indicates HTTP version, as an example-HTTP v1.1.
Response Header – Contains metadata for the HTTP response message stored in the shape of key-cost pairs. For example, content length, content type, response date, and server kind.
Response Body – Indicates response message content material or useful resource illustration.
Q29. Name The Most Commonly Used HTTP Methods Supported By REST?
Ans: There are a few HTTP techniques in REST which can be greater popular.
GET -It requests a useful resource on the request-URL. It have to not comprise a request body because it will get discarded. Maybe it may be cached domestically or at the server. 2.POST – It submits information to the service for processing; it need to generally return the modified or new useful resource. 3. PUT – At the request URL it updates the useful resource. 4. DELETE – It removes the useful resource at the request-URL. Five. OPTIONS -It indicates the supported techniques. 6. HEAD – It returns meta facts about the request URL.
Q30. Mention, Whether You Can Use GET Request Instead Of PUT, To Create A Resource?
Ans: No, you shouldn’t use a PUT or POST technique. Instead, practice the GET operation which has view-handiest rights.
Q31. Is There Any Difference Between PUT And POST Operations? Explain It.
Ans: PUT and POST operation are almost same. The most effective distinction between the two is inside the terms of the result generated by them.
PUT operation is idempotent while POST operation can deliver a specific result.
Let’s take an instance.
PUT puts a file or useful resource at a selected URI and precisely at that URI. If the aid already exists, then PUT updates it. If it’s a primary-time request, then PUT creates one.
POST sends facts to a selected URI and expects the useful resource at that URI to address the request. The internet server at this factor can determine what to do with the facts within the context of specified aid.
Q32. What Purpose Does The OPTIONS Method Serve For The RESTful Web Services?
Ans: This technique lists down all of the operations a web service supports. It makes read-simplest requests to the server.
Q33. What Is URI? Explain Its Purpose In REST Based Web Services. What Is Its Format?
Ans: URI stands for Uniform Resource Identifier. URI is the identifier for the resource in REST structure.
The purpose of a URI is to discover a aid(s) on the server website hosting the internet provider. A URI is of the following layout
Q34. What Do You Understand By Payload In RESTFul Web Service?
Ans: Request body of each HTTP message includes request facts referred to as as Payload. This a part of the message is of interest to the recipient.
We can say that we ship the payload in POST method but no longer in <GET> and <DELTE> methods.
Q35. What Is The Upper Limit For A Payload To Pass In The POST Method?
Ans: <GET> appends facts to the provider URL. But, its size shouldn’t exceed the maximum URL duration. However, <POST> doesn’t have this sort of restriction.
So, theoretically, a consumer can pass unlimited information as the payload to POST approach. But, if we remember a actual use case, then sending POST with large payload will consume more bandwidth. It’ll take extra time and present overall performance challenges for your server. Hence, a consumer must take movement accordingly.
Q36. Explain The Caching Mechanism?
Ans: Caching is a system of storing server response on the consumer cease. It makes the server keep good sized time from serving the same aid again and again.
The server response holds facts which leads a customer to carry out the caching. It facilitates the patron to determine how long to archive the reaction or now not to shop it at all.
Q37. What Are The Tools Available For Testing Web Services?
Ans: Following gear can assist in trying out the SOAP and RESTful net services.
SOAP UI device.
Poster for Firefox browser.
The Postman extension for Chrome.
Q38. Explain The Factors That Help To Decide About The Style Of Web Service To Use? SOAP Or REST?
Ans: In popular, using REST based internet carrier is favored because of its simplicity, overall performance, scalability, and guide for a couple of data formats.
However, SOAP is favorable to use in which service calls for a complicated stage of protection and transactional reliability.
But you could study the subsequent facts before opting for any of the patterns.
Does the service disclose data or business common sense? To reveal statistics REST can be a higher desire and SOAP for good judgment.
If the patron or the provider carriers require a formal contract, then SOAP can offer this sort of settlement thru WSDL.
Need to help more than one statistics formats. REST supports this.
Support for AJAX calls. REST can use the XMLHttpRequest.
Synchronous and asynchronous calls – SOAP allows both synchronous/asynchronous operations while REST has built-in support for synchronous.
Stateless or Stateful calls -REST is ideal for stateless operations.
Here are some of the advanced-stage information that you could recall as well.
Security requirement – SOAP offers a high stage of security.
Transaction assist – SOAP has accurate support for transaction management.
Limited bandwidth – SOAP has a lot of overhead when sending/receiving packets since it’s XML primarily based, requires a SOAP header. However, REST calls for less bandwidth to ship requests to the server. Its messages are commonly built the use of JSON.
Ease of use – It is easy to put in force, take a look at, and keep REST based application.
Q39. Can You Tell Us Which Java API Helps In Developing A RESTFul Web Service?
Ans: There are many frameworks and libraries available that a developer can use to create RESTful net services in Java. For example, the JAX-RS library is a popular way to broaden a REST web service.
Also, Jersey is some other most popular implementations of JAX-RS which gives more than what the specs recommend. There are others like RESTEasy, RESTlet, and Apache CFX.
If you want Scala, then you definately have to be the usage of Play framework to broaden RESTful net services.
Q40. Name The Most Commonly Used HTTP Methods Supported By REST?
Ans: There are a few HTTP techniques in REST which might be greater popular.
GET -It requests a useful resource at the request-URL. It have to not comprise a request frame because it will get discarded. Maybe it is able to be cached regionally or on the server.
POST – It submits information to the service for processing; it must commonly return the modified or new useful resource.
PUT – At the request URL it updates the resource.
DELETE – It gets rid of the useful resource at the request-URL.
OPTIONS -It indicates the supported strategies.
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This information and the two tables should help you understand how to pronounce the words from various Indian languages that are used in JAINpedia.
Pronouncing Sanskrit and modern Indian languages
Note that the pronunciation of Sanskrit and modern languages such as Hindi or Gujarati may slightly differ
from each other. For instance, ai is like bite in Sanskrit, but rather
like cat in Hindi.
Transliteration and pronunciation table
Note that each consonant is pronounced with a vowel sound following. This vowel sound is always
a if not specified otherwise. This is why in this chart there is pa,
ma and so on.
Letter in Devanāgarī script
Transliteration, in Latin alphabetical order
Examples of an Indian word (mainly Sanskrit)
International Phonetic Alphabet
Examples of approximate equivalent sounds in English
Note that the Devanāgarī letters in the left column are the standard modern forms of the letters. Some of
those on the manuscript pages digitised on JAINpedia may be variant forms of these. See How to read a Jain
Two ways of writing vowels
There are two different ways of writing vowels, according to where they come in the word. In the left column
of the main chart, above, are the signs used for writing a vowel at the beginning of a word. But when a
vowel is associated with a consonant it is written with a different sign. An example is given in the
following table. This system applies to all consonants.
Consonant and vowel
Sanskrit and other Indian languages
The main Indian language used throughout the website is Sanskrit, because it was the literary language common
in the ancient Indian civilisations, as Latin was in Europe for centuries after the Roman Empire. Sanskrit
is still used for holy rituals and religious concepts in faiths that originated in India, including Jainism,
Hinduism and Buddhism.
In the main chart Sanskrit is used as the basis for transliteration. But it also contains a few sounds and
signs specific to forms of other languages used in JAINpedia, such as Hindi and Gujarati, and to a few
proper names from South Indian languages, such as Kannada and Tamil. Jains also used various forms of
Prakrit to write holy texts. For
example the main written language of the Jain canon is Ardhamāgadhī Prakrit. The chart above applies to the
forms of Prakrit as well.
Since it is an alphabetical language, Sanskrit can be transliterated quite straightforwardly into the Latin
letters used in English and other Western European languages. However, Sanskrit and other Indian languages
use sounds that are not found in English. There are two main methods to show these different sounds when a
word is transliterated into the Latin alphabet, namely:
- combinations of Latin letters are used to indicate pronunciation of certain sounds in the original
language, for example dha, tha and va
- using diacritics, which are small signs added to certain letters in the Latin alphabet to indicate
pronunciation of sounds without an exact correspondence in Western European languages, for example,
ā, ū, ś and ṣ.
Sometimes it is impossible to make out all the letters on a manuscript because of damage to the material or
illegibility. In these cases, the symbol + has been used to indicate an unreadable letter or syllable in the
transliterations and transliterations.
JAINpedia and Indian languages
Indian languages are not difficult to pronounce once you know the rules. You can find more information about
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It is not uncommon to hear people arguing about how aggressive one race is over another. However, this is an injustice , as well as being a false myth fueled by media such as caricatures or cinema . Unfortunately, the bad reputation acquired by some breeds leads them to be in some cases prohibited in certain regions, determines a low adoption rate and can lead to the sacrifice of those animals categorized as “violent”. Here we ask ourselves, therefore, are there aggressive dogs or are they just dangerous owners?
To clarify this aspect it is necessary to start from the assumption that no dog is born aggressive. There is a clear element and it is the tendency to develop aggressive personalities due to a gene of territoriality or dominance present as a characteristic of the breed. Nonetheless, it is only an inclination, and it can be easily avoided through a proper education process.
Even breeds with a lower territoriality index could develop aggressive attitudes if not trained well, and the worst thing is that this phenomenon is quite common. The aggression of dogs is linked to two very important factors that we will explain below.
The lack of socialization
Just as human beings raised in situations of extreme isolation develop unusual attitudes that can result in resistance to life in society, even a dog that has not been allowed to share life with other animals or living beings will develop personality disorders that they will lead to aggression.
Usually in these cases the dog is not removed from its environment , a factor that makes it even more attached to the territory and protective towards it, and consequently will not allow access to any stranger, whether it is man or animal.
Socialization should be done as soon as the puppy has completed his vaccination plan (as he would be vulnerable to bacteria and viruses from other animals before), and should be carried out both inside and outside the home.
It is good for dogs to develop bonds with other animals, as they are creatures belonging to hierarchical and complex social structures.
Mistreatment and abuse
A physically abused, abandoned or isolated dog will be an animal with a low level of trust, which will lead to him developing a nervous and distrustful personality of strangers. Nervous dogs should be treated with the respect with which an animal at risk is treated, as if they feel encircled they can react aggressively as a defensive measure.
Abuse causes profound psychological damage in dogs , which will hardly ever lead them to have trusting relationships with other animals, especially if they have been linked for a long time or away from everyone.
The category of abused animals includes those that have been trained to attack others, as in the case of fighting dogs, which will necessarily need to undergo therapy in order to overcome the traumas of a life spent fighting and to be able to establish social bonds. with other animals.
A dog that has not received affection is unlikely to take a path other than violence, and this will lead them to react negatively. Much of the problem is due to a lack or excess of discipline towards dogs, as well as a lack of knowledge of the characteristics and needs of a particular breed.
Attentions and care
To prevent a dog from developing antisocial characteristics, it must be grown by trying to reinforce his trust in others . It will also need to be fed properly so that it does not feel the need to fight for food. He will have to be disciplined without violence , take him for walks so that he comes into contact with other living beings and has different experiences.
It must be taken into account that a sick or injured dog may come to aggression as a response to the pain he is suffering . For example, if your dog has been injured in a certain place and you touch him there, the most likely thing is that he will grunt at you and bite you to tell you to leave him and not cause him pain. The best way to avoid aggression is to understand what it is generated from.
Breeds considered dangerous
Unfortunately often, due to the bad habits of many people in the face of the education of their animals, as well as due to the false myths that have remained etched in the minds of many, it has come to the sanction of laws condemning the possession of some dog breeds . Among them we find:
- The Dobermann
- The Rottweiler
- The Pitbulls in all their variations
- The Bull Terrier
- The Tosa Inu
- The Neapolitan Mastiff
- The Fila Brasileiro
- The Dogo in its different variants
Depending on the country, more or less breeds may appear on the black lists, and are often accompanied by parameters of coexistence such as taking them for a walk with a muzzle , while in other countries the possession of those dogs is categorically prohibited.
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Teenagers are using less alcohol, tobacco and illicit drugs, according to a recent Monitoring the Future survey by the National Institute on Drug Abuse.
The study of teenagers, released in December, noted that while the use of marijuana has remained steady during the past five years, there has been “significant decreases” in alcohol use. Cigarette smoking is at its lowest rate since the NIDA began conducting the survey in 1991.
And while the country is experiencing an opioid overdose epidemic, the taking of prescription opioids, including narcotics other than heroin, is down.
“For many substances, past-year use has declined to levels” below those seen in the 1990s, according to the study.
The only areas of concern noted were a “high” use of e-cigarettes among teens and that “daily cigarette use was lower than daily marijuana use.”
Montgomery County high schoolers appear to be following the trend. During the 2014-2015 school year, there were 11 serious incidents involving alcohol and 66 involving drugs at the county’s 26 high schools, according to the Montgomery County’s “School Safety and Security at a Glance” annual report.
During the prior school year, there were 16 serious incidents involving alcohol and 101 involving drugs.
In the 2012-13 school year, the report listed 21 alcohol incidents and 116 drug ones. During the 2011-2012 school year, there were 20 incidents involving alcohol and 108 involving drugs.
While specific records were not available from Charles E. Smith Jewish Day School in Rockville, Roz Landy, dean of students, said that it is a safe and “pretty clean school.” However, she said, “We don’t have our heads in the sand. We know students get involved with alcohol and drugs.”
Head of School Rabbi Mitchel Malkus acknowledged that “once you get to the high school level,” teenagers “take risks and experiment.”
Landy noted, “They’ve got risk in their bones. That’s just the way adolescents are.”
In a study conducted eight years ago, Brandeis University in Massachusetts analyzed the effect of a Jewish day school education. While the study showed little academic difference between students who attend a Jewish day school, public school or private school, it did find that there was a clear difference in the amount of drugs and alcohol consumed.
The study concluded that attendance at a day school “appears to be a ‘protective’ factor.”
At CESDS, “our teachers know these kids. They know when they are off,” said Landy, adding, “We are a 24/7 school” and the kids know it. If a staff member learns that there may be a party with alcohol, parents are called to let them know. “We get involved proactively if we hear of something and retroactively,” even if the event didn’t occur during school or on school property.
Boxes are placed around the school, and students are encouraged to write their concerns, especially if they suspect that a fellow student is involved with drugs or alcohol.
Malkus said the school stresses the teaching of Jewish values and the making of good and ethical decisions. With a student body of about 400 in the high school, staff members are better able to know the whole student and get involved quickly if needed, he said.
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Here are the top ten possible causes of slow internet connection and some recommendations to address them. 1. Presence of viruses and malicious programs. Malware uses up your bandwidth allocation, causing your computer and your network to slow down. Run a regularly updated antivirus program and enable its auto-update feature. Jun 24, 2020 · This is because when your DSL connection is shared between multiple computers in your house, it causes connection clash which in turn causes the internet to work on slow speeds as compared to the speed promised in your plan. It is better to disconnect all the other devices when you are using the internet on a single computer for work. 3. Jan 06, 2018 · Smart implements also a fair use policy on data usage, but instead of slow internet connection, once 800mb a day was reached, the SIM will be blocked from connection to the internet. To solve this, read how to unblock Smart SIM. Two of the most frequent causes of poor Internet performance are spyware and viruses. Spyware can slow your system by interfering with your browser and monopolizing your Internet connection. Spyware monitors your Internet use and keystrokes, which adds delays. Computer viruses can also cause poor Internet performance.31 Aug 2016 How do I fix a slow … Jun 24, 2020 · Your internet speed plays a very important role in providing you a better streaming experience on your Smart LG TV and slow speed internet may cause buffering. 2. Interrupted Internet Connection. Your internet connection often gets interrupted during its way to your device. 4 Factors That Causes Slow Internet Connection Speed On Your Network It’s of no doubt that slow internet connection is what we most times encountered when browsing or surfing the internet. And I must confess, personally, this pisses me off.
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Slow Internet is a pain—worse, it costs you productivity. If it takes your slow Internet an extra second to load each webpage and you load 120 webpages a day, slow Internet costs you over 12 hours a year. That’s a whole lot of time you could put to more productive or more entertaining use. The causes of slow Internet … Ultimate Guide to Diagnose & Troubleshoot Slow Internet | <urn:uuid:25bb8cd6-4d06-44b9-bddc-73690bb935fb> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://vpnivgsyo.netlify.app/busta61846ly/causes-of-slow-internet-connection-238.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571538.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812014923-20220812044923-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.871162 | 557 | 1.773438 | 2 |
I have recently found that many sources have now added the township they are in - even if a smaller jurisdiction is shown. Why?
If there is a Village, hamlet, city or small town why must we now have the township shown?
In our part of Texas we have Commissioner Precincts - and they are redrawn after every census - it would be worthless to show them for that reason - some do.
Sure townships generally don't change their boundary - but it is nicer to know the actual entity instead of its township as well. I saw how it was when we were in New York State for about two years. It is nice to be able to know what the township is - but not to have it shown in all records as part of the place.
I have a large database of relatives and now many the places no longer agree with your records.
I like it when the drop down box shows when the places existed at various times. Sometimes it is hard to tell when the source refers to a parish, city, hamlet, village, or something else when it was mentioned in the record. Your drop-down box often shows the same entry until after it is added when you specify what kind of record it was [parish, community, census are, etc.]. Also there are many records shown in the sources that you show in other counties [where they are now] than how they were at earlier times. As a result the record is stated as incorrect unless added as you show it, and we are not able to show it as legitimate when we show what the record shows. Is there something that can be done?
I realize many people don't understand the Family Tree and cause numerous problems in almost any point if left to their way of doing things. IE. showing one of numerous names of a cemetery in burial place - or hospital, residence, or parish, etc. for a death place. If those places were placed in the 'reason the information is correct' it would make things easier many times. | <urn:uuid:6975fe6c-f0b5-409a-9e38-4a4cb838f208> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://community.familysearch.org/en/discussion/105709/source-locations | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571911.5/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813081639-20220813111639-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.981999 | 420 | 2.03125 | 2 |
1st July 2021 – WFEL, world leading supplier of rapidly deployable military bridges, has delivered several months earlier than scheduled the first of several new MGB Medium Girder Bridge systems to the British Army’s Royal Engineers, under the contract awarded in October 2020.
The new MGB bridging sets can be configured in several different ways to provide flexibility to the Commander on the ground and this first bridge configuration will allow the Royal Engineers to build a 31 metre Double Storey and a five-bay Single Storey Medium Girder Bridge, to be used to cross both wet and dry gaps in a variety of operational and emergency disaster relief scenarios.
This is the first of the 17 sets of Medium Girder Bridges to be supplied by WFEL, following a review of the UK MoD’s modular gap crossing capabilities (MGCC), to draw together existing in-service capabilities into a single coherent capability.
Mike Batty, Team Leader for the Operational Infrastructure Team for Defence, Equipment and Support, the procurement arm of the MoD, said: “The MGCC bridges provide a bedrock of essential support to troops on both Military and Disaster Relief operations. Receiving them ahead of schedule gives us confidence that our delivery partners understand how vital this equipment is to our Armed Forces.”
The British Army has been a user of Medium Girder Bridges since the early 1980s and the new bridging systems to be supplied by WFEL will provide new, lightweight, medium gap-crossing capability to Very High Readiness forces and form a significant element of the manoeuvre support capability for the British Army’s STRIKE Brigade.
The MGB bridging systems were chosen by the Royal Engineers for their versatility and deployability to meet the challenges of the future integrated operating concept. UK Minister for Defence Procurement, Jeremy Quin MP, said:“These bridges provide our Armed Forces with vital capabilities in both Military and Disaster Relief operations.”
The complete MGB contract will be fulfilled by Dec 2025.
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Graphic Novels and Animation
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Taught in French. Major developments in French-language graphic novels and animated films. Students gain an overview of the richness, diversity, and history of these traditions in French and Francophone cultures; learn to analyze the technical aspects of graphic narratives and animated films; and develop an appreciation of the aesthetic and intellectual contributions of French and Francophone graphic novelists and animators. | <urn:uuid:df654790-1680-4100-bf50-e6d42f10ce41> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://academic-calendar.wlu.ca/course.php?c=59485&cal=1&d=2368&s=999&y=83 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572043.2/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814143522-20220814173522-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.921926 | 97 | 3.171875 | 3 |
The greater part of the running of the programmes is governed by student committees. This is the best hands-on way to learn about administration – the ‘A’ in the MBA.
Under the ADMAP (Assessment & Development of Managerial & Administrative Potential)
programme, there are around 20 student committees working in different areas of Institute administration.
SPJIMR students are a part of a series of events/ competitions in the two-year programme. Throughout the year students organise events and represent SPJIMR in many competitions. Some of the main events include, but are not restricted to, the following
GASP (Guild of actors at SPJIMR) is an embodiment of the will and determination of participants amidst the rigours of a B-School. Founded by Anupam Joshi and his team in 2003, GASP has successfully produced plays every year. It is a voluntary, non-classroom initiative of the PGDM students that gives them the opportunity to create their own production.
OJAS - The event is about celebration of the OJAS power that lies in everyone, and manifests itself in forms like diligence, creativity and intellect. This is the annual management and cultural fest of SPJIMR.
The word ‘OJAS' originates from the Vedas – a blend of eclectic elements which gives birth to an everlasting spring of vitality, vibrancy & fortitude.
SPrint is SPJIMR’s annual National sports festival. It is one of the biggest B-school sporting extravaganzas in India.
Lock, Stock and Trade is a student led event which gets together luminaries from the new venture committee and budding entrepreneurs from B-schools across the country.
For current update on news & events - http://spjimr.org/pgdm/news-and-events
SPJIMR is a one of the five founding institutions of NEN, the National Entrepreneurship Network. Our Centre for Entrepreneurship is committed to developing entrepreneurs. It has pioneered the Start Your Business Programme for aspiring / starting up entrepreneurs and the Grow Your Business Programme for growth stage entrepreneurs.
The Centre has developed a supporting network of mentors, investors, entrepreneurs and experts to nurture students from the idea to the venture creation stage. We regularly host events organised by entrepreneurship promoting networks like Start Up Saturday, NEN, Google Business, NASE and others.
From year to year the students form vibrant clubs. Some of the more enduring clubs include:
SPeak– A club that was formed to help create beyond-classroom practice opportunities for improving communication skills. With a friendly and supportive ambiance, the club invites students with all skill levels. Students not only gain confidence in public speaking, they also understand their blind spots through a friendly feedback system built in. The Club has an annual debate called 'Trial By Rebuttal' which has mixed teams of students and faculty debating for prizes. They also call great speakers from the industry e.g. Kirthiga Reddy (MD of FaceBook).
Institute Band – SPJIMR band 'SPunk' consists of 7 passionate musicians who collaboratively aim at creating music by leveraging the diversified musical know-how each member has to offer. The music encompasses various genres primarily focusing on Soft rock, Punk and Indian rock. Members of the club indulge in covering songs of popular bands across the globe and have also successfully managed to maintain a portfolio of their own compositions.
Playing in various fests across Mumbai, company band competitions like 'Deloitte Maverick' and intra-college events like 'Spandan', has helped us gain sufficient visibility to promote this art of desire in SPJIMR. It not only serves as a stress buster but also helps us keep the campus lively at all times. | <urn:uuid:42242cd2-1a10-4f18-92ed-721ffdc1b51f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://uat.spjimr.org/pgdm?qt-view__academic_programs_menu__block=1 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571538.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812014923-20220812044923-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.946618 | 794 | 1.75 | 2 |
There are many components to your individual financial profile that lenders assess when examining a mortgage application. One of the most important is your credit score. A question for many first time homebuyers is, what is a good credit score? And how can you improve it?
What Is A Credit Score?
Three different credit reporting agencies calculate your score, and it is then tracked via your social security number. When you open a new account, a cell phone contract, or a credit card, the creditor sends your account information to the three major credit bureaus. These reports created by the bureaus are updated monthly to reflect your account balance, credit limit with each account, number of lines of credit open, and your history of payments.
These components, combined with your income, establish your “creditworthiness.” Creditworthiness is reflected as a number or credit score. The higher the score, the better your creditworthiness. This number also referred to as your FICO score, is founded on a data analytics program created in 1956 to calculate consumer credit risk.
Equifax, Experian, & Transunion are the three major credit reporting agencies. Ideally, the reports from each would be identical. However, the bureaus do not compare notes. These systems are not perfect and need to be supervised regularly. If you notice an error in a report, each bureau has a method to dispute the errors. Once you spot a discrepancy, be sure to submit a dispute, most can be done online, and the bureau is required to respond within 30 days.
What Is A Good Credit Score?
There is a spectrum for credit scores between 300 and 850. Most Bay Area lenders require a minimum credit score of 620 to get approved for a loan and a 740 score to get the best possible rates on a conventional loan.
How Can I Improve My Credit Score?
- If you need to establish credit, open a credit card, and make small charges each month. Make sure you can pay off the balance at the end of each month to avoid interest charges. Your payment history will start to build, allowing your lender to evaluate your creditworthiness.
- Avoid opening lines of credit for people other than yourself. If your friends or family default on their payments on the line of credit you opened for them, you will be personally responsible.
- Make your payments on time and try to pay more than the minimum. Use the tools your bank provides you, like an online payment tracker.
- Keep your credit balance as close to zero as possible. Understand that the higher your balance concerning your credit limit, the more your scores will drop.
- Check your credit score only when absolutely essential. Each time you pull your credit report, it reflects negatively in your score.
- Sign up for a secure credit tracking program. Most programs are free and will allow you to check your credit report without affecting your score. You will be notified of any changes, new credit inquiries, lower interest cards available, and insights to improve your creditworthiness.
- Use your credit cards on a regular basis but pay them off monthly. Unused credit cards will decrease your score. Make a few small purchases and then pay off the card entirely.
- Choose credit cards or loans with the lowest interest rate possible.
- Create a monthly budget for yourself, including necessities like housing and food, credit card payments, and some to save.
- Communicate with your creditors. Many Americans are stuck with several uncovered medical bills and still maintain costly medical insurance. In general, medical bills will not be reported to credit bureaus unless they go unpaid for months. Most medical offices will accept a monthly payment in exchange for not disclosing delinquency. If you encounter financial distress, the worst thing you can do is ignore your bills. Most people are unaware of the temporary hardship programs that banks have to assist you until you can get back on your feet.
- Don’t forget that you can negotiate with your creditors. Many times, medical bills can be resolved with a payment of less than the amount you owe. Be careful, however, if the bill has already been reported to the credit bureau, and you end up paying a lesser amount, your credit report will reflect a balance of zero but that you paid less than what you owe.
- Avoid credit consolidation companies or other credit repair companies that cost you money.
Keep in mind that any change made to your credit report will take at least 30 days and that the credit rating you have is cumulative over your life since it’s tied to your social security number.
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It was in 1924, when a boy named Shahnour Vaghinag Aznavourian was born in the Quartier Latin in Paris. His parents were Armenian immigrants who had managed to flee from the genocide of 1915. His father sang in restaurants, before opening his own place. Therefore, Aznavourian Junior was introduced to performing, early on.
At age 22 he called himself Charles Aznavour, when Édith Piaf noticed this gifted young man. She hired him for a world tour through Europe and the United States. He became one of the big Chanson personalities. Aznavour has written more than a thousand songs in this genre and he has sung them in countless languages, including French (mais, oui!), English, Italian, Spanish, German, Russian, Armenian and Neapolitan, on more than 100 albums he recorded. Nobody apart from him has come even close.
His lyrics are all about l’amour, and he was right: It is all about love, isn’t it? “La Bohème”, “La Mamma”, “Que c’est triste Venise”, “Mourir d’aimer”, “Paris au mois d’août”, “Je m’voyais déjà”, “Les Comédiens”, “J’en déduis que je t’aime”, “Après l’amour”. These are just some of his countless song titles.
Aznavour has cooperated with so many artists, listing all their names would read like the phone directory of Los Angeles: Fred Astaire, Frank Sinatra, Andrea Bocelli, Bing Crosby, Ray Charles, Bob Dylan, Liza Minnelli, Elton John, Dalida, Serge Gainsbourg, Josh Groban, Petula Clark, Tom Jones, Shirley Bassey, José Carreras, Laura Pausini, Nana Mouskouri, Julio Iglesias and Plácido Domingo.
There is more. During his career, which lasted for some 70 years, Aznavour has acted in more than 80 motion pictures. Those included Schlöndorff’s “The Tin Drum” (1979), but also many French flicks: “La Guerre des gosses” (1936), “Pourquoi viens-tu si tard?” (1959) and “La Métamorphose des cloportes” (1965) are just three of them.
Needless to say, Charles Aznavour was drowned in awards, both for his singing and acting. In 2006, he launched a big farewell tour. But, as it turns out, that was not the end of it. In 2017, at age 93, he hit countless stages yet again, all over Europe.
The artist was not just a Chanson legend, but also a hero. Aznavour, one of the most popular French entertainers ever, recently started talking and writing about what happened around him during the Holocaust.
In 2016, he and his sister Aida received the Raoul Wallenberg Medal in Israel, in recognition of their family, which saved the lives of several Jews during World War II. Israel’s President Reuven Rivlin was the one who presented them with the medal.
On that occasion, the singer recalled what had happened, back then. His family lived in the Les Marais district, where lots of immigrants were accommodated. They included Jews and refugees from Armenia. In their small three-room apartment, the Aznavourian family hid Jews hunted by the Nazis, as well as other people who were in danger. By doing so, they risked their own lives.
First, the Aznavourians sheltered a Romanian Jew who had been sentenced to death for subversion. From Germany, he managed to reach Paris, disguised as a Wehrmacht soldier. In a Hebrew book he wrote with Dr. Yair Auron in Israel, entitled “Righteous Saviours and Fighters”, Aznavour says this: “We understood that the Jews were going to be the victims of brutality. We looked upon the Jews with sadness and sorrow.”
The entertainer’s sister Aida recalled how dangerous things were for his family: “It was clear that if the Nazis found this man in our house, they’d kill us right away.”
Later, the family also sheltered the Jewish husband of a friend, and a third Jew. Also they hid Armenians who had been drafted into the Wehrmacht and became deserters, instead of fighting for Nazi Germany. At times, up to 11 people hid in the family’s small apartment, including Armenians, Jews and members of the French resistance who could not go anywhere else since nobody, apart from the Aznavour family, was ready to risk their lives for them.
“My parents knew the danger was there every day, but my sister and I only grasped it later”, Charles Aznavour’s Israeli book reads. “Only after the war did we realize how great the risk really was.” He and his sister actively helped the refugees their family hid, e.g. by running errands, by burning the Armenian deserter’s Nazi uniforms somewhere in the city, and by keeping the secret.
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From the gym to the office and from the office to happy hour, millennials can be seen decked out in the style called athleisure, documented by Merriam-Webster as “casual clothing designed to be worn both for exercising and for general use.”
More technically, athleisure is the athletic apparel worn at the gym -- t-shirts, leggings, running shorts, sneakers -- except it’s now seen more often outside of it (and there’s really no way to tell if those wearing athleisure clothing actually ever worked out).
This is directly correlated to society’s more relaxed standard for dress codes largely fueled by the millennial generation. The on-the-go lifestyle of young adults today also lends a hand to the new casualized style of dress we are seeing impact the workplace. As athleisure is comfortable, versatile and acceptable in a variety of settings, it’s no wonder that it’s so popular, achieving sales of $43.6 billion in 2015, a 16% increase from the year prior, according to the NPD Group.
But is it really that simple?
We think not. The athleisure market is currently highly saturated, with a slew of brands rushing to take part. From luxury brands (perhaps a comeback for Juicy track suits?) to celebrity lines (the Beyhive’s newest obsession), there is an overabundance of athletic apparel lines that have no differentiating factors when it comes to their products. Consumers can find whatever they wish when it comes to comfort, design, color and fit from any store they decide to walk into or browse online.
This is catching up to retailers in the market, causing a backlash even against brands that are very successful in other segments of apparel retail. Urban Outfitters scaled back production of its athleisure line “Without Walls” just a year after introducing it due to lack of sales, although the company as a whole garnered nearly four percent revenue growth from 2015 to 2016.
Contemporary clothing retailer Theory faced the same predicament and chose not to move forward with its stand-alone activewear line. Kit and Ace, the Canadian technical clothing startup owned by Lululemon’s founding family, laid off nearly 10% of employees at its headquarters in February due to falling profit margins.
Lululemon, Nike and Under Armour, on the other hand, are managing to still find success in the category. Nike and Under Armour placed among the top 15 millennial clothing brands of 2016, according to a survey of 1,500 millennials conducted by ad agency Moosylvania, and Nike was named the No. 1 brand of Gen Z.
This points to the idea that millennials are looking for more than just basic style or comfort when it comes to athleisure. They’re seeking a lifestyle.
Lifestyle Brands Win Big
Lululemon, Nike and Under Armour are known for specifically selling fitness-related apparel with a large variety of designs, colors, patterns, fabrics and tech, as well as operating around a particular ethos. Nike is based on the idea that if you have a body you are an athlete. Under Armour focuses on making athletes better through passion, empowerment and design. Lululemon’s manifesto centers itself on creating a community of health, mindfulness and living a life of possibility.
Unlike the less successful retailers who entered the space, these brands prove their missions and have the communities to back them up. When you make a purchase from Lululemon, you are automatically initiated into the Lulu community. Ultimately, this means that Lululemon and other major athleisure brands are selling more than just products. For example, Lululemon embodies a healthy lifestyle for mind, body and soul – something millennial consumers are extremely passionate about, and something they feel they can be a part of by wearing the brand’s apparel. This is where other retailers like Urban Outfitters fell short.
These brands also have large omnichannel brand communities thanks to their efforts to become established in multiple facets of consumers’ daily lives. Lululemon owns the event realm, with high engagement coming from its in-store yoga classes and fitness camps. According to Trefis, most of the company’s retail sales are gained from such interactions. Nike and Under Armour dominate digital with online platforms that allow users to track fitness progress, challenge friends, obtain health education and get encouragement from others on social media.
These omnichannel strategies allow users to connect with the brands beyond just the product offering in store. All of a sudden, the products sold become an intrinsic part of consumer’s lives.
While style, fit and comfort may be the driving forces of an initial purchase, it’s the offering of a lifestyle that these brands give to consumers that garner loyalty. Millennial purchasers gravitate toward this business model because it provides an experience, one that contributes to their social lives and equips them with a sense of belonging.
The brand apparel becomes a symbol of inclusion into the brand community, and no matter where it’s worn -- in the office, while running errands, when out with friends, at the gym -- it portrays a value system that consumers want to identify with. And this portrayal, more than any one particular sweatshirt or pair of jogging pants, is what is most important to millennials in an athleisure brand.
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Have you considered starting a business and want a tax status that will allow you, as an owner, to start small and grow?
Establishing your business as a S corporation could provide a tax advantage for your business. Let's briefly look into what an S corporation is and how to qualify for the status.
What is an S Corporation?
First, let's learn more about what this S Corporation status is. S Corporation, or S-Corp, is a tax designation defined in subchapter "S" of the Internal Revenue Code. An S-Corp is similar to any other corporation. It’s a for-profit company, incorporated under and governed by the same state corporation laws. It must also observe internal practices and formalities: have a board of directors, write corporate bylaws, conduct shareholders’ meetings, and keep minutes of significant company meetings.
The 5 IRS requirements to obtain S Corporation status
To qualify for S corporation status, the corporation must meet the following requirements:
- Be a domestic corporation. Your business must be incorporated in the United States and you must have filed Form 2553 with the IRS.
- Have only allowable shareholders. The shareholders may be individuals, certain trusts, and estates or certain tax-exempt organizations (501(c)(3)). Shareholders may not be partnerships, corporations or non-resident alien shareholders.
- Have no more than 100 shareholders. The ranks of the shareholders must be limited to individuals, nonprofits, trusts, and estates. In other words, no institutional investors.
- Have only one class of stock. A corporation is treated as having one class of stock if all outstanding corporate shares of stock confer identical rights of distribution and liquidation proceeds
- Be an eligible corporation. Ineligible corporations include certain financial institutions, insurance companies, and domestic international sales corporations.
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Chapter 428 Meeting the Lu Family
- Located between Europe and Asia, to the east of the Mediterranean, Pruce Island was an island with 9,251 square kilometers.
- Pruce Island was once a British Isles’ colony, whereupon the Lu Family moved over more than ten years ago and aided the people of Pruce Island to rebuild their nation. Using their family’s strong influence and assets, they rebranded Pruce Island as a strong country with a booming economy.
- Though the Lu Family didn’t become their royalty, their entire military was under the Lu Family, thus making them Pruce Island’s real ruler. During the Chinese New Year, even the king had to come over to the Lu Family’s residence to pay their respects to the Lu Family’s old master. | <urn:uuid:092df1e8-540f-4222-8494-a7f32f3f9b58> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.bravonovel.com/the-man-in-disguise-7428/chapter-428-meeting-the-lu-family-98122 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571538.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812014923-20220812044923-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.962719 | 169 | 2.84375 | 3 |
The pre-built demonstration highlights the capabilities of the package. It is self explanatory.
ml demo sgnc
A sample of the interactions:
==================================== StellarGraph for Node Classification ==================================== Welcome to a demonstration of node classification in a graph knowledge structure. StellarGraph is used to represent the graph. The sample dataset is a well known public network dataset known as Cora. It is available from linqs.soe.ucsc.edu/data and consists of nodes which are academic publications and edges that link citations. The nodes have been classified into seven subject areas as we will see below. A Graph Convolution Network (GCN) is used to build a classification model to predict the subject area of a publication based on the graph structure. This neural network model uses a graph convolution layer which uses the graph adjacency matrix to learn about a publication's citations. This demonstration will prepare the dataset, create the GCN layers, and then train a model and evaluate its performance. Press Enter to continue: =================== Dataset Description =================== The dataset, available through the StellarGraph package itself, has been attached and is ready to be loaded into the StellaGraph data structures. The Cora dataset consists of 2708 scientific publications classified into one of seven classes. The citation network consists of 5429 links. Each publication in the dataset is described by a 0/1-valued word vector indicating the absence/presence of the corresponding word from the dictionary. The dictionary consists of 1433 unique words. ... ====================== Machine Learning Model ====================== A model is now being built. This is the Graph Convolution Network model. For a small dataset it takes a few seconds. Using GCN (local pooling) filters... ...
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Hong Kong activists and budding pro-democracy politicians have flocked to Taiwan to observe its elections, aiming to bolster exchanges and galvanize an alliance against China's influence.
One delegation of about 50, including a batch of young district councillors who stormed to a landslide electoral victory in November, arrived this week and has been networking with key Taiwan civil society leaders, academics and officials.
"We want to learn and gain more experience, to help Hong Kong people as they struggle on their democratic road in the future," said Raymond Tang, a district councillor who attended an evening seminar in Taipei with fellow delegates on countering fake news.
The links between the two places has never been deeper: Hong Kong has been convulsed by more than seven months of anti-China protests, and Taiwan's elections come amid heightened fears of an increasingly assertive China under President Xi Jinping.
"There's an acute sense of threat from China. What's happened in Hong Kong has made everyone reassess its relationship with Beijing," Joseph Cheng, a veteran pro-democracy activist and one of the leaders of the delegation.
"Democracy has taken root in Taiwan and it refutes the basic argument that democracy is for the West, that it doesn't apply to Chinese people, which is the argument propagated by Beijing," he added.
In a Facebook video late Thursday, 15 district councillors from Hong Kong, including former student leader Lester Shum, urged the people of Taiwan to treasure their unfettered democracy and to vote.
"This time it's over to you," they said in a montage. "Hong Kong and Taiwan, let's go for it together."
Prominent pro-democracy activist Joshua Wong, who has been barred from leaving Hong Kong during an ongoing court case, also appealed to the youth of Taiwan to "protect Taiwan's democracy".
"I hope our Taiwan friends really go for it, and with their votes show the Taiwan people's determination to refuse to bow and scrape before Beijing. This is the greatest support you can give Hong Kong," he wrote on Facebook.
Taiwan has become home to a small but growing number of Hong Kong protesters who have fled there fearing politically motivated charges against them in Hong Kong.
They have no legal way to gain permanent asylum, but President Tsai Ing-wen's broadly sympathetic government has allowed about 60 of them to temporarily extend their stay.
Around 6,200 immigrants from Hong Kong and Macau are eligible to vote in Taiwan.
"We will fight against the Communist Party with our vote," said Edward Leung, a 58-year-old Hong Kong emigre who now lives in the southern city of Kaohsiung and plans to vote for Tsai. He says she can better defend Taiwan against China.
Some Hong Kong protesters fear Taiwan's support will vanish if Han Kuo-yu of the Kuomintang opposition party, which favours close ties with China, wins the election.
Han has said he fully supports the Hong Kong protesters and their struggle for democracy.
China's President Xi Jinping early last year threatened to use force to take back Taiwan while reiterating a call for unification with the island under the "one country, two systems" model used in Hong Kong.
But the political crisis in Hong Kong, fueled by public anger against Beijing's tightening grip on the city, has hardened public sentiment in Taiwan, including both major political parties, against such a system.
Lam Wing-kee, a Hong Kong bookseller once abducted by Chinese agents, is trying to rebuild his life in Taiwan by setting up a new bookstore, set to open in March. He said he was optimistic because of the burgeoning intellectual and political ties between Taiwan and his home.
"What we're seeing in Taiwan is a country facing a military threat and economic encroachments from China. This is not a good combination and it perpetuates uncertainty," he said, standing in an empty store space he plans to fill with thousands of books focused on politics in Hong Kong, Taiwan and China. "I hope my bookshop can make a little difference, to influence Taiwan, and raise their awareness." | <urn:uuid:17b48a88-af9f-4343-8886-534c44b3c4ff> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.tbsnews.net/international/envy-and-solidarity-hong-kong-activists-democratic-taiwan-prepares-vote | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571911.5/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813081639-20220813111639-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.972876 | 839 | 1.703125 | 2 |
Nokia highlighted an alarming rise in the number of IoT devices infected by malware in its latest security threat report, as it also flagged a trend of criminals exploiting applications purportedly relating to the Covid-19 (coronavirus) pandemic to steal personal data.
In its latest annual Threat Intelligence Report, the vendor said IoT hardware comprised a third of all infected mobile internet connected devices during H1 2020, compared with 16 per cent in the same period of 2019.
Nokia noted a combination of poor security protections and the use of automated tools by criminals to exploit vulnerabilities had caused infections to rise at an “alarming rate”.
In the report, which uses data aggregated from monitoring traffic to devices running Nokia’s security software, it also pointed to the prevalence of hackers attempting to exploit fears and uncertainty around the pandemic in recent months.
Echoing several other studies conducted this year, it noted among the attack methods were fixed and mobile applications masquerading as tools related to tracking the virus and infection maps. Several of these have turned out to be ransomware, data-stealing malware or applications involved in conducting SMS fraud.
Nokia Software president and chief digital officer Bhaskar Gorti said its findings reinforced the need for consumers, enterprises and IoT device makers to up security protection.
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North of Nakuru and South of Lake Baringo off the B4 Highway you will find Lake Bogoria. Lake Bogoria has an area of 30 sq km with a maximum depth of 9m. The lake is remarkable in many ways; it is a long and narrow soda lake dominated by the sheer face of the Siracho escarpment and the notheastern parts of the Aberdares on the eastern shore.
On the western shore there are hot springs and geysers with boiling water that vapors into the air, enshrouds the very place in mystical steam. Despite Lake Nakuru being famous for its tens of thousands of flamingos they dont breed in Nakuru but Lake Bogoria is an important nesting ground for the flamingos and in the shallow lake there a thousands of nests made out of mud. In 2000 it was listed as a Ramsar protected wetland and the lake has a status of National Reserve.
Not far from the shore of Lake Bogoria there are hot springs and geysers as a result of the volcanic activity in the Great Rift Valley. There are other wildlife than the flamingos to see at Lake Bogoria; Leopard, greater Kudu, Klipspringers and Caracal. You can walk or cycle unaccompanied in the Reserve as far as the springs, but if you want to venture beyond this point, you need permission from the warden who can supply you with an armed ranger for protection. The Kesubo Swamp just North of the lake is a heaven for bird-watchers and the swamp holds the Kenyan record for the largest number of species seen in one hour (96 species of birds).
There are two entrance gates to Lake Bogoria – Emsos in the South and Loboi in the northern part of the National Reserve. There are three places to stay at Bogoria; Fig Tree Camp, Payrus Inn and Lake Bogoria Hotel.
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US to announce Covid vaccine booster campaign: media
Aug 18, 2021 - 09:37 AM
WASHINGTON — The US government will announce that Americans should get booster shots for coronavirus vaccines eight months after their last shot, part of a campaign that could begin as early as mid-September, according to US media.
The move could be announced as early as this week, The New York Times reported, citing unnamed sources in President Joe Biden’s administration.
The campaign is likely to kick off with booster shots for nursing home residents and health care workers, followed by the elderly, all of whom were among the first to be eligible to receive their initial vaccinations. The general public would then follow, according to the Times.
US officials are considering whether a third dose should be the same type of vaccine — Moderna or Pfizer — as the first two.
People who received the single-dose Johnson & Johnson vaccine, a minority of the United States population, should also receive an additional dose, however more data is still necessary, the Times said.
Administering booster shots would not begin until approved by the US Food and Drug administration, The Washington Post reported.
Pfizer/BioNTech said Monday it had submitted preliminary clinical data to the FDA in an effort to seek third-dose authorization.
With the United States facing a surge in coronavirus infections due to the Delta variant, experts fear that the effectiveness of vaccines may wane over time.
An advisory committee of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the principal US public health agency, is due to meet next week to discuss the matter, paving the way for FDA clearance.
The discussion has changed sharply since the beginning of July, when the FDA and CDC issued a joint statement saying vaccinated Americans did not need a booster shot.
New daily cases were averaging around 12,000 then but have since soared above 130,000.
The United States last week authorized an additional dose of the Pfizer or Moderna vaccines for immunocompromised people.
Also last week, infectious disease expert Anthony Fauci said “sooner or later” even healthy Americans would need a booster shot “for durability of protection.” | <urn:uuid:539704c9-fdc4-4bf3-a71c-f5672397ca79> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.mayorsandcities.com/us-to-announce-covid-vaccine-booster-campaign-media/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571911.5/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813081639-20220813111639-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.958754 | 453 | 1.8125 | 2 |
What are they? And, how to create one? #
VirnetX One Matrix secures your applications by ensuring that only authorized VirnetX One users are allowed to connect to your applications. In order for VirnetX One to secure an application it needs to know some basic information about your application like protocol type (TCP/UDP), type of application (HTTP, RDP, SSH etc.), port number etc. Rather than providing this information each time you secure an application you can save it as a template and then apply it to secure applications of the same type.
VirnetX One provides some default templates. For example, ‘Web Applications (HTTPS)’ can be used to secure web applications. If you don’t find a template that matches your need follow the instructions below to create a new template.
- Click on ‘APPS’ on the Admin Console and then click on ‘Access Templates’. Click on ‘NEW ACCESS TEMPLATE’
- Provide a name for your template and a description.
- From the application icon drop down select an icon that matches your application. This is the icon that will display on the VirnetX One Dashboard for your users. For example, if you are providing secure access to a Desktop machine select ‘Desktop’.
- Under ‘ACCESS RULES’ select an application protocol. If you don’t see one that matches your need you can define a custom application protocol.
‘APPLICATION’ dropdown options.
- Select a ‘PROTOCOL’ and ‘PORT’ number where your application is running.
- Click ‘SAVE’ to create your template.
You can now use this newly created template to secure your applications via VirnetX One Matrix. See the article ‘Securing Applications’ for more information on how to secure application with VirnetX One Matrix Server.
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The Crown, in its varied manifestations, is the principal landowner in England. It is active as occupier, landlord, seller, buyer, tenant and licensee and Crown bodies have a policy of positive management of their land. The Government Property Agency was formed in 2018 to rationalise the government estate, arranging for the disposal of surplus land, helping to relocate offices and advising generally in a way comparable to a commercial real estate company. Likewise the Crown Estate Commissioners and the Duchies of Lancaster and Cornwall constantly review their holdings to dispose of unsuitable investments in land and acquire new ones.
Crown and Government Land: Prerogative, Statute and Common Law is an indispensable reference work for anyone interested in this complex area of law. The book sets out the general principles that govern the way the law applies to Crown land. It looks at the structure and constitution of the various authorities which manage that land, outlines the principal types of ownership, and discusses Crown immunity in relation to acts of Parliament. It describes the rules governing particular types of property such as minerals, forestry, the foreshore and sea bed, defence facilities and land of public interest including the royal parks and palaces. The book examines the application of equitable rights and trusts to Crown land and the right to ownerless property and discusses the special rules relating to Crown conveyancing and property litigation. | <urn:uuid:4a5cf675-9417-4f5b-8217-9f8bcadb9bbc> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://wildy.co.uk/isbn/9780854902927/crown-and-government-land-prerogative-statute-and-cmmon-law-hardback | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571911.5/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813081639-20220813111639-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.941675 | 286 | 2.53125 | 3 |
This coin features a partly PROOF finish horn. A new high-tech technology on antique finish coins.
The narwhal, or narwhale (Monodon monoceros), is a medium-sized toothed whale that possesses a large “tusk” from a protruding canine tooth. It lives year-round in the Arctic waters around Greenland, Canada, and Russia. It is one of two living species of whale in the Monodontidae family, along with the beluga whale. The narwhal males are distinguished by a long, straight, helical tusk, which is an elongated upper left canine.
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|Face Value||5 Dollars|
|Weight||1 oz (31.1 g)|
|Scope of Delivery||Capsule, Box / Case, Certificate of Authenticity|
|Special Features||Partly proof|
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|Year : 2020 | Volume
| Issue : 2 | Page : 180-182
Crouzon Syndrome: A Rare Case Report in Perimenopausal Women
Satya Kumari1, Pratibha Kumari1, Sangeeta Pankaj2, Jyotsna Rani3, Kavya Abhilashi3
1 Senior Resident, Dept. of Gynecological Oncology, SCI, IGIMS, Patna, India
2 Professor & Head, Dept. of Gynecological Oncology, SCI, IGIMS, Patna, India
3 Assistant Professor, Dept. of Gynecological Oncology, SCI, IGIMS, Patna, India
|Date of Submission||04-Jun-2020|
|Date of Acceptance||15-Jun-2020|
|Date of Web Publication||17-Aug-2020|
Professor & Head, Dept. of Gynecological Oncology, SCI, IGIMS, Patna
Source of Support: None, Conflict of Interest: None
Crouzon syndrome is the most common craniosynostosis syndrome as it represents approximately 4.8% of all craniosynostosis cases at birth. It is characterized by premature closure of one or more cranial sutures and produces the characteristic craniofacial and other associated abnormalities which begins in the first year of life. Described by a French neurosurgeon “Octave Crouzon” in 1912, it is rare genetic disorder, and its worldwide prevalence rate is approximately 1 per 25,000 live births. It is caused by mutation in fibroblast growth factor receptor 2 gene (FGFR 2) at chromosomal locus 10q 25.3 - q 26, and more than 30 different mutations within the gene have been documented in separate families. CS has no racial or sex predilection, however, coronal craniosynostosis is more common in girls. The clinical presentation varies in severity from a mild presentation with subtle midface deficiency to severe forms with multiple cranial sutures fused and marked midface and eye problems. Management of crouzon syndrome is complex and difficult.
In this article, we present a case of 45 year old female patient of Crouzon syndrome who survived long without any treatment and presented with uterine leomyoma.
Keywords: Crouzon syndrome, craniosynostosis syndrome, uterine leomyoma.
|How to cite this article:|
Kumari S, Kumari P, Pankaj S, Rani J, Abhilashi K. Crouzon Syndrome: A Rare Case Report in Perimenopausal Women. J Indira Gandhi Inst Med Sci 2020;6:180-2
|How to cite this URL:|
Kumari S, Kumari P, Pankaj S, Rani J, Abhilashi K. Crouzon Syndrome: A Rare Case Report in Perimenopausal Women. J Indira Gandhi Inst Med Sci [serial online] 2020 [cited 2022 Aug 12];6:180-2. Available from: http://www.jigims.co.in/text.asp?2020/6/2/180/319138
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Crouzon syndrome is the most common craniosynostosis syndrome as it represents approximately 4.8% of all craniosynostosis cases at birth. It is characterized by premature closure of one or more cranial sutures and produces the characteristic craniofacial and other associated abnormalities which begins in the first year of life. Described by a French neurosurgeon “Octave Crouzon” in 1912, it is rare genetic disorder, and its worldwide prevalence rate is approximately 1 per 25,000 live births. It is caused by mutation in fibroblast growth factor receptor 2 gene (FGFR 2) at chromosomal locus 10q 25.3 - q 26, and more than 30 different mutations within the gene have been documented in separate families. CS has no racial or sex predilection, however, coronal craniosynostosis is more common in girls., The clinical presentation varies in severity from a mild presentation with subtle midface deficiency to severe forms with multiple cranial sutures fused and marked midface and eye problems. Management of crouzon syndrome is complex and difficult.
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A 45 year old unmarried female came along with her relatives to the OPD of gynecological oncology department with the chief complain of gradual increasing mass in lower abdomen for 6 month and irregular and very heavy menstrual cycle for 2-3 month. Since the patient clinical appearance and head size was not normal, a detailed medical and family history and clinical examination was done.
She was born out of normal labor and delivery. There were no anomalies in any siblings or near relatives reported. Abnormal shape and size of the head was noted by the family members since childhood and the severity has gradually increased. Patient was of short stature, had elliptical shaped head, prominent eyeballs, with dolichofacial growth pattern and convex facial profile and had mild to moderate mental retardation. Clinical examination revealed widened and shortened head (brachycephaly), flattened forehead, wide-spaced eyes (hypertelorism), bulging eyes (severe proptosis with exposure conjunctivitis), misaligned eyes (strabismus), wide nasal bridge, beaked nose, deviated nasal septum and underdeveloped upper jaw (maxillary midface hypoplasia). Intraoral examination showed poor oral hygiene, misaligned upper and lower teeth and high arched palate. With this clinical appearance, patient was diagnosed as a case of “Crouzon Syndrome”.
Regarding her chief complaints, there was no history of nausea, vomiting, weight loss, or anorexia, changes in bowel habits, and any genitourinary symptoms. She attained her menarche at 13 year of age, and her past menstrual cycle had always been regular. She was unmarried and denied any sexual activity and have not taken oral contraceptives. The rest of the history was non-contributory. Per abdominal examination revealed the presence of a firm, irregular, non-tender and mobile mass arising from the pelvis, corresponding in size to a pregnant uterus of 24 week gestation.
Laboratory analysis results were within physiological range including serum thyroid, prolactin, FSH, LH profile and pregnancy was excluded. Transabdominal ultrasonography and MRI report showed uterine enlargement with a large heterogenous submural mass measuring 19 x 13.5 cm with necrotic area in endometrial cavity causing expansion of endometrial cavity and thinning of myometrium suggestive of large submural fibroid with central necrosis. Another small 2.2 x 1.7 cm hypodense mass in fundal region is suggestive of intramural fibroid. Bilateral ovaries were not visualized. Bilateral mild hydroureteronephrosis was noted. No ascites or enlarged pelvic or para-aortic lymph node was noted.
Patient and relatives were counseled about the possible diagnosis of uterine fibroid or suspicious of endometrial carcinoma and underwent exploratory laparotomy after proper counseling and informed written consent. Intraoperative, the uterus was grossly enlarged by a large fibroid measuring 18 x 11 cm. Both ovaries and fallopian tubes were normal. There were no palpable pelvic or para-aortic lymph nodes. Total abdominal hysterectomy with bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy was done. Cut-section of the gross specimen revealed fibroelastic consistency with necrotic areas suggestive of leomyoma or suspicious of endometrial carcinoma. Result of the histopathological examination confirmed the diagnosis of a benign fibroid of the uterus. The patient’s postoperative course was uneventful and she was discharged on post-operative day 8.
| Discussion:|| |
Crouzon syndrome (CS), a type of craniofacial dysostosis, is an autosomal dominant disorder with complete penetrance and variable expressivity, resulting in phenotypically unaffected to severe deformities within the same family, but about one-third of the cases do arise spontaneously. A detail history, family pedigree and physical examination of the patient and the parents are important proceedings for making a clinical diagnosis.
The frequent manifestation of CS includes coronal craniosynostosis with other cranial sutures fusion, brachycephaly (widened and shortened head), frontal bossing. Ocular proptosis, a feature occurring in 100% of the cases, is secondary to shallow orbits and results in high incidence of exposure conjunctivitis or keratitis progressing to strabismic ambylopia. Hypertelorism is a universal finding in the affected individuals and is thought to arise due to a decrease in growth of the sphenozygomatic and sphenotemporal sutures. Hearing loss is common (55%) as a consequence of failure to transmit neural signals to the brain and there is 30% incidence of C2 and C3 spinal fusion. Other manifestations could be progressive hydrocephalus (30%), often with tonsillar herniation and sacrococcygeal tail. However, when the premature closure of the cranial suture lines impairs brain development due to persistent increased intracranial pressure (ICP) it can lead to mental retardation. Poor vision can be caused by increased intracranial pressure leading to optic atrophy and direct insult to the corneal surface, which can produce blindness if the condition is not treated. Upper airway obstruction secondary to maxillary hypoplasia can cause obstructive sleep apnea (OSA), severe OSA can lead to acute respiratory depression while mild to moderate degree of OSA can cause significant problems such as daytime sleepiness, disturbed sleep, inability to concentrate thus affecting the child’s developmental growth. Intra-oral manifestations include mandibular prognathism, overcrowding of upper and lower teeth, V-shaped maxillary dental arch, narrow, high or cleft palate and bifid uvula. Occasional oligodontia, microdontia, peg-shaped and widely spaced teeth have been reported. Extremities, mental capacity and reproductive function are usually normal in these patients.
Crouzon syndrome is distinguishable from other craniosynostosis syndrome like, Apert syndrome, Carpenter syndrome, Pfeiffer syndrome, Seatre-chotzen syndrome and Jackson weiss syndrome by lack of hand and/or foot abnormalities.
Diagnosis of crouzon syndrome is relatively straight forward based on characteristic physical examination findings and in the setting of known family history. Plain film radiography, MRI and CT imaging of the brain, fundoscopy, nasoendoscopy, polysomnography can be needed depending on severity of the disease. Molecular testing can be done if the history, physical examination and imaging are not conclusive. For those patients that have a family history of crouzon or any of the other craniosynostosis syndrome, prenatal genetic testing and 2D and 3D-ultrasound can be utilized to confirm the diagnosis before the birth of the child.
Surgical management is the treatment modality of choice to correct the maldevelopment of the midface and orbits. Fortunately, not all patient will require surgery, so a team-based approach to monitor for development of complications like elevated intracranial pressure, strabismic ambylopia is necessary that would warrant intervention. Surgical treatment varies according to the variable expressivity of the disease and usually begins during a child’s first year with early craniectomy and fronto-orbital advancement to prevent or treat increased intracranial pressure. Procedure for subsequent development of midfacial hypoplasia include the Le fort III osteotomy or its segmental variants, monobloc frontofacial advancement, or bipartition osteotomy.,, Adult CS, as in our case presenting with marked midface hypoplasia and exorbitism, can be corrected by orbital decompression and zygomaticomaxillary advancement.
Acute management include ventriculoperitoneal (VP) shunts for Increased ICP with hydrocephalus, temporary tarsorraphy for severe exorbitism, and tracheostomy or continuous airway pressure device or nasal stent forbreathing difficulty depending on the specific anatomical obstruction and severity of it.
Prognosis depends on malformation severity and the timing of intervention. Earlier correction (prior to 1 year of age) anecdotally minimizes cognitive disabilities, airway obstruction, and decreased visual acuity and results in better outcomes.
| Conclusion:|| |
Women with Crouzon syndrome have a normal reproductive function. If we manage them as early in their life involving multidisciplinary team including Neurosurgeon, Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeon, Dentist, Ophthalmologist, ENT specialists, Paediatrician, Plastic surgeon and Psychologist, these women can have a normal married, reproductive and social life.
Compliance with Ethical Standards Conflict of Interest
All authors declare that they have no conflicts of interest and they have not received any grant.
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New Technology Aims to Makes Photovoltaic Cells 70% More Effective
Technion researchers have developed a technology that could improve the efficiency of photovoltaic cells by nearly 70 percent. The study was conducted at the Excitonics Lab, headed by Assistant Professor Carmel Rotschild at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, with the assistance of the Grand Technion Energy Program (GTEP) and the Russell Berrie Nanotechnology Institute (RBNI) at the Technion, and as part of the lab’s ERC project on new thermodynamic tools for solar cells.
The sun is a powerful source of renewable energy. In fact, it is currently the only energy source capable of supplying the energy consumption of the human race, so it’s no wonder that the use of solar energy is increasing. But there are currently a number of technological limitations when it comes to photovoltaic cell efficiency.
Photovoltaic cells optimally utilize a very narrow range of the solar spectrum – the broad light supplied by the sun; radiation not within this narrow range merely warms these cells and is not utilized. This energy loss limits the maximum efficiency of current solar cells to around 30%.
The Technion team’s method is based on an intermediate process that occurs between sunlight and the photovoltaic cell. The photoluminescence material they created absorbs the radiation from the sun, and converts the heat and light from the sun into an “ideal” radiation, which illuminates the photovoltaic cell, enabling higher conversion efficiency. As a result, the device’s efficiency is increased from 30% (the conventional value for photovoltaic devices), to 50%.
The inspiration for the breakthrough comes from optical refrigeration, where the absorbed light is re-emitted at higher energy, thereby cooling the emitter. The researchers developed a technology that works similarly, but with sunlight.
“Solar radiation, on its way to the photovoltaic cells, hits a dedicated material that we developed for this purpose, the material is heated by the unused part of the spectrum,” says graduate student Assaf Manor, who led the study as part of his PhD work. “In addition, the solar radiation in the optimal spectrum is absorbed and re-emitted at a blue-shifted spectrum. This radiation is then harvested by the solar cell. This way both the heat and the light are converted to electricity.”
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The saying that charity can start at house is true once we contemplate the function of charity items, and with such all kinds of charities obtainable to donate to, it is no marvel that some individuals can really feel a bit of overwhelmed once they first go in search of a charity present that matches their expectations.
1. Making the world a greater place: If you happen to’ve ever been provided assist or assist with out being requested to be paid again sooner or later, or in the event you’ve ever been able of having the ability to assist somebody that has fallen on onerous instances, you will know that these actions are finished out of the goodness of 1’s personal coronary heart. These selfless acts are partially what makes human nature actually particular.
2. You won’t suppose that what you give could make a distinction however you have to consider the butterfly impact. One small change can have an effect on hundreds of thousands or billions of individuals. The quantity you give doesn’t should be a big sum, however it does should be given freely. There are numerous charities which might be in dire want of funds to maintain their organizations operational. Every small quantity provides up.
3. As the present economic system has faltered, the federal government has acquired much less cash from taxes. With authorities assets stretched, there may be little remaining to pay for charitable causes. It’s due to this fact very important that you simply assist the charities that you really want in whichever means doable.
4. One of the well-liked charities that individuals donate to is Save The Kids. They’ve many various venues during which they supply funds to locations and people who want it. A number of different charities to donate to that you simply may contemplate are Peta, or many most cancers foundations. These are thought-about a few of the greatest charities to donate to as they’re environment friendly with the funds that individuals present them. They don’t waste some huge cash on overhead or salaries. The majority of the funds are spent the place it’s wanted.
5. One more reason to donate to a charity is which you can see the results that the charities do in varied communities all over the world and the nation. They make the world a significantly better place to reside in. Optimistic modifications in a single space typically unfold elsewhere.
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State water money flowing into Roaring Fork and Crystal projects
Recent state grants approved for regional water plans and projects (amount listed is state funding the projects received, not the total project costs):
Middle Colorado Watershed Council – stream management plan: $103,800
Eagle River Watershed Council – stream management plan: $75,000
Roaring Fork Conservancy – interactive information system: $37,500
Town of Carbondale – restoration on the Crystal River: $20,700
Garfield County Agriculture Water Plan – study of water needs/irrigation: $100,000
Five water plans or projects concerning the Roaring Fork, Colorado and Eagle rivers are on track to receive $337,000 in state funds to study water users’ needs, plan for future water use and restore river ecosystems.
The efforts include a web-based information system about the Roaring Fork River watershed, restoration work on the Crystal River near Carbondale, an agricultural-water study in Garfield County and funding for two integrated water management plans for the Eagle River basin and a section of the Colorado River.
All five of the projects are part of a bigger effort toward stream management planning and list that goal in their grant applications. An objective of the 2015 Colorado Water Plan is to cover 80 percent of rivers with stream management plans.
These plans already exist for the Poudre River, the Crystal River, the North Fork of the Gunnison, the Upper Gunnison Basin and the San Miguel River and have been proposed on the Eagle, Yampa, Upper San Juan and Middle Colorado rivers.
Last month the Colorado River basin roundtable, which meets in Glenwood Springs and reviews and votes on water-project grant requests before sending them to the Colorado Water Conservation Board, approved a $37,000 request from the Roaring Fork Conservancy to create a $50,000 public interactive map and information system.
Anyone from school kids to scientists would be able to access, search and sort data about the Roaring Fork. The project will organize the information contained in the 145-page Roaring Fork Watershed Plan so it’s easier for the public to find and understand.
In March, the CWCB approved a $20,700 grant from the town of Carbondale to restore and enhance a half-mile stretch of the Crystal River near the state fish hatchery, as well as make improvements to the town-owned Weaver Ditch headgate and diversion structure.
The project aims to restore ecological health by reconnecting the river with its flood plain, improve river channel stability and enhance a riverfront park with signs and trails. The project, at a total cost of $200,000, is also being funded by the town, Great Outdoors Colorado, and Aspen Skiing Co.’s environmental fund.
The CWCB also approved grants last month to the Eagle River Watershed Council and the Middle Colorado Watershed Council. Both groups received funding for their respective stream management plans, which emphasize collaboration among water users. Eagle received approval for $75,000 and the Middle Colorado for $103,800.
The Middle Colorado stream management plan will cover the main stem of the Colorado River from Dotsero to DeBeque. It will identify water needs for nonconsumptive uses, like the environment and recreation, which depend on sufficient water left in a river or stream.
The state funding will be used to evaluate ecosystem health and water quality, and to develop hydrologic flow models.
“The question is if we see any issues that are flow-related and what additional flows do we need to attain a healthier ecosystem,” said Laurie Rink, executive director of the Middle Colorado Watershed Council.
Rink will soon be moving into a project management position so she can devote more time to developing the stream management plan, and the watershed council will hire a new executive director.
In addition to $103,800 from the state, the council is seeking funding from Garfield County, Rifle, Glenwood Springs, the Colorado River District, and the Tamarisk Coalition for a project total of about $415,000.
A key to understanding the Middle Colorado River and its tributaries is also understanding agriculture’s use of water from the river system. But the ag community has historically been hesitant to participate in studies that focus on recreation and environmental concerns. This study aims to bring them into the fold of stream management planning.
To help get consumptive users involved, three regional conservation districts, the Bookcliff, South Side and Mount Sopris districts, have teamed up to do their own study of ag’s use of water.
“We really want to understand for our watershed both the consumptive and non-consumptive uses we have and what gaps exist,” Rink said.
At its March meeting the Colorado basin roundtable approved a $100,000 grant request for the three conservation districts to create an “agriculture water plan” for Garfield County that will inform the stream management plan being done by the Middle Colorado council.
That grant request now goes to the CWCB in May.
“The dry year is the immediate impetus, and the future of our water rights,” said Liz Chandler, program coordinator of the ag-water study. “With the looming prospect of a compact call, the agriculture community needed to get much more involved with a planning process to make sure agriculture’s voice is heard loudly and clearly.”
The ag-water study would focus on ag lands between Glenwood Springs and DeBeque, and aims to determine the current irrigated acreage and to conduct an inventory of irrigation ditches.
The study would also determine water needs for the crops and develop a plan to protect agriculture water.
In 2016, the Eagle County Conservation District completed a similar irrigation asset inventory, the results of which officials said should remain private, although the study was paid for with public funds.
But unlike that study, Chandler said the results of the Garfield County study, which will not include the names of ditch owners or operators, will be “100 percent public information.”
“The end goal of our project is very different from Eagle,” Chandler said. “They wanted to get shovel-ready projects for their diverters. We want to create an integrated water plan. And we have so much more agriculture down here than Eagle does.”
Eagle River Watershed
A few miles upstream, the Eagle River Watershed Council is developing its own stream management plan.
Their plan aims to develop water management recommendations based on three factors the watershed will face in the coming years: increased municipal demand for water that comes from population growth, climate change and still-to-be-developed projects related to the “Eagle River MOU” project, which could include new or expanded reservoirs and transmountain diversions to the Front Range.
“Collaboration is absolutely critical to this plan,” said Holly Loff, executive director of the Eagle River Watershed Council. “In creating the scope of work, we reached out to all the people we thought should be participating as a stakeholder and clumped them together in six different groups: local government, agriculture, recreation, conservation, federal and state agencies, East Slope water interests and West Slope water interests.”
Loff said she expects the entire stream management planning process will take three years to complete.
In addition to the $75,000 from the state, the Eagle River Watershed Council also expects to receive money and in-kind donations from Vail Resorts, Homestake Water Project Partners (Aurora and Colorado Springs), the towns of Avon, Gypsum, Vail and Minturn, Eagle Park Reservoir Company, Climax Mine, Eagle County and the Colorado River District for a combined total project cost of nearly $390,000.
Editor’s note: Aspen Journalism is collaborating on coverage of rivers and water with the Vail Daily, the Summit Daily, the Glenwood Springs Post Independent and The Aspen Times. More at aspenjournalism.org.
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Gartner predicts that by the end of 2014 75% of the Fortune 1000 will offer public Web APIs and that by 2016 50% of B2B collaboration will take place through Web APIs. Whether or not these predictions come to pass to make such predictions shows the incredible growth rate of Web APIs (also called Business APIs), as we create an API Economy.
What is driving this rapid adoption of APIs? The answer is a need for Speed
. Businesses need to respond quickly to market demands and opportunities with little impact to their existing systems. Changes required supporting the latest innovations in Mobile or other mechanisms allowing customers to interact with the business cannot require changes to the back end systems that are running the business or it would cause the support to take too long to bring to market.
Businesses also want to extend their reach partnering with others to create value added applications that can be brought to market. Any single business only has so many programmers. Why not expand your work force with others outside the company to create new and innovative applications that send more business to you? This is accomplished by creating an API Economy where you choose to expose selected assets as APIs, which can be consumed by application developers who add further value, and subsequently make their application available to new customers. If this “supply chain” of assets provides value to the business, the app developer, and the end consumer, then we will be successful in reaching new markets that would not have been possible with a limited internal work force. This is not to say that making APIs available internally is not also important. We will cover several scenarios driving the API Economy below.
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Figure 1 – API Economy Supply Chain[/caption]
Business APIs (or Web APIs) perform the dual purpose of exposing selected assets for easy consumption and shielding back end systems from direct access where they might need changes at a rate that cannot be met. Surrounding the APIs are capabilities to make the APIs available, marketed, and easily found and consumed so that we don’t need lengthy on boarding or education by our application development partners (internal or external).
Many businesses will start by using APIs internally to achieve some initial advantage but often have a goal to expand the usage to partners and/or the public. So, initially APIs are exposed only to existing developers within the enterprise. This is for their use in creating Apps that are targeted to either employees of the company or direct customers of the company. The business drivers might be channel consistency, productivity through re-use, and internal innovation.
Expanding the scope to selected Partners, their Apps could be targeted at end consumers or the partner’s business users. The business driver is often linked to the ability to automate processes, exchange data between partner companies, and accelerate partner on-boarding.
Public APIs are open to any developer who wants to sign up. Apps are typically targeted towards end consumers. The business driver is to foster external innovation, and quickly enter new customer facing ecosystems.
Business models to bring APIs to market are varied, but largely fit into 4 categories:
- Free – used to drives Adoptions of APIs, for low valued assets, to help drive brand loyalty or to enter new channels
- Developer Pays – used when business asset is of high value to the developer. For example, marketing analytics, news, or for capabilities such as credit checks
- Developer Gets Paid – this provides incentive for developer to leverage the web API. It could be for Ad placements or the developer might receive a percentage of revenue sold
- Indirect - use of API achieves some goal that drives another business model. For example, increase awareness of specific content, or offerings
Typically there is some mechanism for a developer to try an API at no cost.
Let’s take a look at some common and emerging use cases.Internal Mobile Application Development
Almost every business is creating its own mobile applications using their own developers. In fact it is often the case that several organizations within businesses are creating mobile applications. Mobile apps that provide business related information need to access existing back end systems to obtain this data. Using banking as an example this could be simple non-secured information such as where ATMs are located, the current loan rates being offered, or the hours that the bank branches are open. It could also require secured access such as checking account balances, paying bills or depositing a check by taking a picture.Partner On boarding – Geographic Expansion
Traditional partner on boarding has been a long arduous task including significant communication, negotiation, customizing interfaces and communication of data and formats between the companies. No doubt this complicated interaction is sometimes necessary. However, in some cases it may be possible to offer a partner on boarding process where the partner company can register themselves, read the legal agreement you choose to offer, obtain the interfaces you make available (i.e. Business APIs), sign up for a certain usage rate, and become a partner without any complex communication or interaction. Many companies are already doing this. For example, Amazon’s marketplace allows anyone to use their APIs to build and open a store on their web site. Credit check agencies do not do complex on boarding with every company that needs to invoke their ability to provide this service. By offering a self on boarding process the business can benefit by reaching and selling to more customers and geographies, using the appropriate business model option described earlier.Public APIs in Composite Apps
Creativity is not contained in any single company. By exposing selected assets from your business for use by others, new solutions can be offered that drive more business to your company. For example, let’s look at Cars.com – an online web site or app that assists with the car buying process. To accomplish this Cars.com uses APIs from many businesses. They may use:
- An automobile company API to search for cars with certain characteristics (style, gas mileage, price, etc.)
- A social API to obtain reviews
- A banking API to obtain loan rate information
- An insurance API to suggest automobile insurance options
- A GPS service from the mobile device to know your location
- Several auto dealer APIs to check availability of the car selected in your geographic region and complete the purchase
- and a map API to tell you where to go
Individually, the bank, automobile company, insurance company dealership, etc. would not create an app that goes across all these industries. However, if Cars.com creates this value added app, then all parties benefit.
Looking at this from the individual business’ perspective, their API is not just available to Cars.com, but to other creative companies that would also like to take advantage of the API. So, the loan rate API could be offered for real estate search apps, finance tools, or other creative entrepreneurs to also consume.New Interfaces – Wearables, Connected TV, Google Glass
What’s next? Mobile phones (various models), Tablets (various models), Connected TV, Google Glass, wearable devices such as Fitbit, this is what we know now. The answer is we don’t know what’s next or how quickly any new interface technology will take hold and become dominant. The best way to support this is to not care. By providing an API to access the assets existing in the company we leave the user interface design outside these systems which is where it should be. Business APIs create a boundary that lets App developers move with necessary speed to handle the rapid changing systems of engagement with customers while allowing businesses to keep tight governance and management over the systems of record that run their enterprise.Internet of Things – Appliances, Sensors, etc.
The internet of things (IoT) need to send data into the enterprise (e.g. appliance needs service, healthcare monitor alert, etc.) or obtain data from within the enterprise (e.g. Refrigerator shopping list app sees you are low on butter and knows the brand you like is on sale at the local grocery store). Whether we are sending data into the enterprise or retrieving data from the enterprise, Business APIs are used. The number of “things” that can be connected via APIs, dwarfs the number of mobile phones and tablets. There can be significant advantages to businesses that embrace this new channel early.Connected Car
By 2020, 90% of cars are expected to feature built-in connectivity, up from just 10% today with an estimated 210 million connected cars hitting the road over the next few years. This is transforming the relationship between car owners and manufacturers beyond the driving experience. Examples of APIs for a Connected Car include roadside assistance, concierge services, crash notification, vehicle remote services, pay-per-drive rental, road condition awareness, parking space availability, data for insurance providers, and improved fleet management.
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In the event that an american offers anything, they discover your “yes” to truly suggest “yes” along with your “no” to help you actually imply “no”.
“Something which We seen here is actually that folks have become amicable and you may social. You could potentially allowed one haphazard stranger in the pub in addition they have a tendency to respond with similar passion. Some one enjoy it when you keep a home unlock for anyone, and perhaps these things may go united nations-seen back to Asia. Back home I have never seen some one take a look at various other complete stranger and you will greet him or her at random.
To help you pupils who happen to be fresh to the united states, some people right here may sound impolite from the one thing they say, nevertheless they dont state might be found believing that he or she is rude. I got an incident where I was aside using my relative and his awesome family relations have been the People in america. I became resting in the back of my personal cousin’s friend’s auto, and i asked him basically is don the latest seatbelt sitting about back seat in which he said “Really don’t worry”. What i don’t read during the time is actually which he simply suggested he failed to mind if i did or I didn’t, and i believe he had been getting rude. Throughout the years, I ran across that that’s the ways they usually correspond with one another hence there’s nothing impolite about any of it.” (Adi Divakar Venu, India)
“I believe, Us americans are widely used to which have a great deal more individual area than the Asians. It is often asserted that they prefer to speak which have some one about a few foot aside. Please don’t getting disturb in the event your American class mates flow back from you through the a conversation.” (Kyungha “Katie” Kim, Southern area Korea)
Personal time management
Big date is an american value. There was a term one claims, “Go out try money”. People in america “save” some time “spend” big date such profit a bank.
Trash, Littering, and Recycling
The idea of recycling cleanup happens to be well-accepted one of Us americans during the a collective effort to carry out the environmental surroundings.
Never assume all People in the us reuse, but regional governments and teams have really made it an easy duty by giving recycling cleanup pots to help you house, associations, and you may public facilities.
Very People in america, inside a business form, often prefer to getting named of the the first name. However, it is good idea to deal with her or him by the the name (Mr., Mrs., Ms., Dr., otherwise Professor) and you will last title unless you’re desired accomplish or even.
“To begin with, the initial name’s the offered name, since history name is the family identity. In the usa, people write the first-name prior to the history name. This is very different from the fresh custom in Eastern places. Such as for example, Chinese someone constantly build their identity last term very first.
The original name is put that often within the American everyday life. Once you hang out together with your members of the family, they simply label your by your first-name. Yet not, in many different countries, somebody name other people of the stating both basic and you will last name together. Listed here is a story one to occurred to one regarding my personal Chinese family relations. The guy entitled his American roommate that with his given term and friends title with her. It produced blbeДЌek geek, datovГЎnГ lokalit the brand new roomie feel shameful and think that this Chinese boy try rude.
Other tip would be to say sorry and establish people variations when you did something very wrong because of misunderstanding about lifestyle. Anyone listed here are amicable and you will discover. They’ll learn and you may forgive you just after their reason. You shouldn’t be bashful!
The past labels usually feature titles. However, headings are utilized until the family names. You will use Prof. otherwise Teacher Sex since the term up until the family relations to mention educators within the college or university. Doctor otherwise Doctor could also be used to suit your faculty situated towards genuine situations. Still, certain professors choose students refer to them as because of the its first name. Faculty will explain and that answer to call them is favor throughout the new introduction within the first class. Which, be careful to once you on the category. Something else entirely concerns Mrs. / Mr./ Ms. You can make use of Mr. when you label a person. Another three are used for female. Miss is utilized getting a single women. Whereas, Mrs. would be used in the event the people is actually partnered. From inside the factors which you do not know in the event your females are partnered or otherwise not, excite play with Ms.” (Yu “Ellie” Fu, China) | <urn:uuid:77f19c05-4333-4f1c-98ba-1661ad500b8c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://kgcuae.gcc-demo.com/the-means-to-access-first-name-past-name-and-you/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572043.2/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814143522-20220814173522-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.96808 | 1,101 | 1.5625 | 2 |
Carol Greider: There was a lot of evidence that was already around that there was something going on at the ends of chromosomes, where DNA sequences could be added on to the ends, and that they were dynamic in some manner. There were some competing hypotheses as to how that DNA might be added on to the ends, and there was a very popular competing hypothesis, which was talked about a lot by some famous people who I respected a lot. And that particular thing was a recombination-based model for adding sequences on to the ends of chromosomes. So I do recall feeling a little bit intimidated by the fact that there were some really major groups out there who thought that this same process could be done by a different kind of mechanism. So who was I to think that I could grind up some cells and find some new enzyme that nobody had ever found before? Nevertheless, we thought maybe it’s not done the way they think it’s done. So you come in the lab every day, and do the next experiment, and just keep chugging away like one does a lot of things in life. You just take the next step, and then we found this evidence that the enzyme actually existed. | <urn:uuid:80b8d558-ee26-4680-8165-cd4f55ea4f23> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://achievement.org/video/elizabeth-blackburn-and-carol-greider-33/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572043.2/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814143522-20220814173522-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.99405 | 245 | 2.265625 | 2 |
Q. In light of the horrible Arizona shootings, do you think there’s more that schools could do to spot people and help students with mental health issues, which, if left untreated, could potentially result in an act of violence?
A. In the sad aftermath of the Arizona killings, reflection and soul-searching are a natural part of trying to make sense of tragic events. The first thing to bear in mind is that the vast majority of individuals with severe mental illness are not, and do not become, dangerous. They may appear unusual, and they may say bizarre and provocative things, but they rarely hurt others. When they do, it is often out of fear of a real or imagined threat.
When we look at the lives of those rare individuals who develop mental illness and who also go on to commit violent acts, one thing that often stands out is that these children are often socially challenged, withdrawn, have difficulty communicating with others, and have difficulty reflecting on their own psychological and emotional states. They typically do not appear on the ‘radar screen’ of teachers or school personnel until they begin to act out. Often, precious time has been lost and positive potential has been squandered.
Can schools predict who will become violent? Not very well. We can, however, identify children who are at risk for mental illness. While most schools and communities could do much more in terms of screening for mental health concerns, such processes are labor intensive and may be seen by some as a luxury that underfunded schools can ill afford. Even when concerns are identified, appropriate intervention is usually outside the scope of what can be provided at school. Families that do have health insurance often encounter significant barriers and minimal funding for children with identified mental health needs.
Although events like those in Arizona are shocking and rightly dominate headlines, extraordinary violence occurs every day. Most aggression is socialized, in that children observe and model the violent or anti-social behavior of adults or other children. When violence is tolerated or even celebrated, there is an increased probability that it will re-occur. For most children, primary and secondary prevention programs designed to prevent bullying and foster a positive, nurturing social climate are highly effective in decreasing violence.
For those students who struggle with mental illness and may also be at risk for becoming aggressive, school-wide programs that promote healthy self-expression, acceptance, civility, inclusion and respect can also decrease the likelihood of outbursts or breakdowns. Norms that promote interpersonal respect serve to reduce the occurrence and intensity of day-to-day conflicts that may occur within any school milieu. This lowers stress, which reduces the intensity of emotional disturbance. Civility is a tide that raises all boats. What is more, each of us can do our part to promote it.
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“I start digging in this medium, trawling and sifting through the past, without knowing really what to look for” – The Undercurrents
Leeds is a minor European city. It has a history, but that history is only vaguely, partially and sometimes present for me in my daily life here. We have a historical society but no popular or literary histories (or should I say, popular literary histories?) except one – the Hounding of David Oluwale. Its past is minor, imperial, and parallel to other cities whose examples might take its place in general histories of the twentieth century.
Berlin is different. It has been a capital, lost that title, and regained it, been near destroyed and separated, by concrete violence, into two smaller cities, and then re-joined. Like a churned riverbed, it shows several traumatic layers flowing together – its surface scarred. This is the surface through which Kirsty Bell moves. She buys an apartment on the canal, and spends her days of abandonment looking out of the window and seeing the past animate and haunt the view. Her book is a haunted book, about a haunted house. A house that is trying to speak to her through water.
It starts with a pool of water – “these tears of mourning were the building’s own” – a broken pipe and flooded room that precipitate her divorce. All of the disrupted rhythms of life coalesce into a historical project. Bell puts herself under this structure of the past, with its tangents, and she walks out, rides out into Berlin to excavate. She takes upon herself this difficult and fruitful task, of giving a city the form of a book, a Joycean, Augustinian, Platonic, key to the city.
And like the sea, the reservoir and the river Liffey curl around Dublin and Ulysses, girdling the narrative and cradling it, Bell takes that water outside her window – the web of pipes, canals, and sewers which under-gird and outline a city – as her guiding metaphor-line which expands and recedes from view in waves, as her house and its past residents come into contact. She uses history as a technique to shift herself from an oppressive domestic inertia – or is shifted by history.
As I was reading, I imagined a diagram like the nervous system as portrayed in a textbook – but instead of branching nerves I saw buildings and their pipes, pipes in the tower blocks like standing, pumping, webs and paths, open to the air – and all this full of psychic energy. From the mid nineteenth century through to the present, Bell traces that path, of plans and upheavals, tracing the lives of women who lived in her apartment complex, and literary figures that have been lost in the stream.
“Who were the female authors anyway to finesse such imagined emancipations?” – The Undercurrents
Insofar as I found the book difficult it was in my lack of antecedent attraction to Berlin, given that I knew so little – although I have now been initiated into some of those mysteries – and in that disconnect that came from my position as tenant, and her position, by the end, as landlord. That is, the class divide between me and her. But the book repays so much – the undercurrents is a book full of undercurrents. It plunges its hand into the whirlpool of history and brings out sodden masses of enigmatic souvenirs, the souvenirs of a city. It is so sprawling and full that upon flicking back through I see so much that I just couldn’t take in, as Berlin impacts me all in one go. There is no secondary world here, in fact the real Berlin impacted Bell, and through her book it hits me, like the next ball along in a Newton’s Cradle.
As Rosa Luxembourg appears in her story, lost in world-changing, petty violence, I think of events in my city, quieter events, but related, nonetheless.
“How to remember in a city, a city with a past like this?” – The Undercurrents
The Aire, was, in imperial times, a river that, to paraphrase Terry Pratchett, you couldn’t sail a boat along without a gang of workers out in front of it with shovels. But in the early seventies, a man died in that river – or rather, his body was found downstream at the water treatment works as Knostrop. As with Rosa, they weren’t, at first, sure who it was. But it became clear – David Oluwale was a British-Nigerian who, brought up on stories of the greatness and welcome of the motherland, made the mistake of actually trying to visit*. He was unable to find consistent work in a society so marked by its own imperial racist ideology and, having been assaulted by the police and coincidentally, possibly, simultaneously damaged mentally, he became alternatively institutionalised, incarcerated or homeless. He was hounded, that is, physically assaulted and bullied for years by two policemen, the records of whose whereabouts at the implied time of death was found to be false, and he ended up dead in a river. The police went away for his assault.
In Bell’s book, the political murders of the thirties in Germany are explored, where an atmosphere of cleanly or hygienic conspiratorial authoritarianism wanted the body politic rid of its viruses – and in the words of those officers on trial in 70s Leeds, they were only trying to clean up the city, to leave the centre sterile. Of course, if the accounts are to be believed, that justification is only the cover for a resentful, and racist, excess of violence, or at least the face it naturally assumes when talking in public. What did they say to Oluwale when they beat him? What did the fascist idiots say to the incomparable Rosa whilst they muscled her around in the car on the way to her death? Stupidity has only the recourse to violence, and when it loses, violence against the self or abuse against dependents – the violence turns inwards.
Reading about the struggles against and under Berlin’s fascist sterilisation, of train cars packed with humans considered by the administrator as, and only as, cargo or refuse, of course, it is naïve to wish for history to impact your city in the way that it has Berlin – in the sense of swelling, twisting, flattening – exaggerated tendencies that speed up or fragment the city as lived in. Of course, some of the blame for Berlin’s massive destruction rests with the heads of Allied bomber command, who never gave up the habit of area bombing, even when it became clear in their own audits, and their own minds, that the aim it was designed for (mass civilian death) did not bring the desired results (any effect on the ‘war effort’). My city does not have a Rosa, a Walter Benjamin, a Christopher Isherwood – though it has its minor figures awaiting their chroniclers. It doesn’t have a revolution. But in turn, it doesn’t have the scars, the ruins, and the wounds of an invasion or war.
Leeds underwent a soft splitting in the 70s, which although it cannot stand comparison to Berlin, still left such a wound as to be still visible in those resident at the time, as masses of terraces were destroyed around little London, and a motorway was driven right up to the centre of the town. And now, to me the central university plateau with its combined Labour and Victorian/Utopian architectures seems to me not far off a real heterodox utopia. Certainly in the sun, and populated by students, it feels bright and alive.
And deeper into the Victorian past, having first been split by canals and linked in to the Liverpool-Manchester-Leeds nexus, the city was knitted together over the river in a massive imperial engineering project, such that the river Aire now runs directly underneath the station, in the process connecting to the Leeds-Liverpool canal, through what are called the ‘Dark Arches’, redolent of a Roman imperial sewer, passing underneath us in a symbol or model of the way the British Imperial past runs through our lives, dark, damp, out of sight and yet constantly flowing through and affecting us. My mum would take me down there when it was a market, and I can still clearly bring up the cold breeze with its smell of ancient mortar, looking out into the darkness from where the water came. In my young head it surged from some underground source to another, disconnected in the way that young experience of place is. Now the Dark Arches are lit, the market is a car park and occupied by the back entrance to the station, essentially an extravagant entrance for bourgeois commuters and useless to most pedestrians due to the lack of a foot thoroughfare. The bright Unison union headquarters on the canal and the socialist stickers under the railway, next to slurs on the wall, link us in to that past, marker of that historical materialism that Rosa Luxembourg would understand well.
“…the meths drinkers and the bed-wetters whom no hostel would take, slept under the Dark Arches, trains rattling above them, river rushing underneath them, water dripping on them…” – The Hounding of David Oluwale
The police drove David Oluwale to the forest outside the city several times before his death and left him there in a racist performance of ‘taking home’ – and it lead to David talking of the Forest, raising Sherwood Forest as a ghost in the trial, misunderstood by the stenographer as a forest in the city, spectral the trees on the roads of the Headrow. If only an undead Robin Hood could have stepped from that forest too, to act as an ancient guardian. But he didn’t, and Oluwale died.
In the weeks that I was reading The Undercurrents, a memorial in the form of a blue Plaque was placed on Leeds bridge, over the river downstream from the Dark Arches. This was the result of years of work, the work of remembering, on behalf of the David Oluwale Memorial Association. It was immediately torn down and possibly thrown into the river by racist thugs. Across the city, soon, in digital form, the blue plaque was beaming from billboards, and Welcome Skate store was distributing stickers of the plaque to paste up in a non-hierarchical memorialising. I went from biting shame on behalf of my city, to a certain pride, as this anti-racist counter to the violence went on. And it helped me to think about this sense of owning a place – in an anarchist or anarchising state of mind, I think – this is our place, our city. Our authority. But in an anti-nationalist frame of mind I think – but it is not just ours, should be cosmopolitan. The key to collapsing the reactionary, exclusive frame is: you’re welcome here – add yourself and multiply the culture. But only as long as you aren’t authoritarian, racist. Your place is automatic, but you have no authority over others that isn’t granted knowingly.
When a prisoner moves into a jail, if you forgive the carceral metaphor, they are liable sometimes to inherit the debts of the cell’s previous inhabitant. Insofar as our home has a history of violence, like a prisoner we must inherit the debts and crimes of its past – and the struggle against them. We must repay them. Like a prisoner we may complain that it is unjust. But if we want to build a more just world, we can’t escape it. If you’re haunted, you need to confront the ghost.
The types of exorcism that Bell tries are various – rearrangement of the apartment along or with the principles of Feng Shui, or tracing of psycho-territorial wounds described by stone tape theory. These techniques of speech production, of thought, can create their own limited values, texts, far beyond being considered for truth-value – it is not the case that these things are true in the scientific sense – but they are projects of self-mythology which are harmless in themselves. And days of abandonment require techniques of coping, no matter if you are abandoned or the abandonee. I can’t resist the rhetorical gesture of disavowal, though real, in describing the channelling, the exorcism occurring at the end of the book, where strangers in a therapeutic community stand in for the positions of the house and its residents. I would arrogantly claim that any revelation that came through this act is due to the forms of the super-posited structures – (history of house:position of channelers) – in their relationship to Bell’s immense knowledge of that history. The revelation, the exorcism, was Bell’s alone – but that’s enough. The exorcism, performed and performative, was an event in Bell’s life, and gave her some peace, dissociating or introducing a disjuncture between the breakdowns of her house and her psychological history.
The book is well described and given precis by this text mentioned in the latter parts of the book, in Berlin’s post-reunification world (the ‘post’ is a concrete supplement – one lesson we learn.) It’s a proposal for the palace of the German Democratic Republic, now defunct and abandoned – which had been built on an older palace, knocked down in the communist years:
“He suggested leaving it there and beginning excavations around it to rediscover the remains of the former Schloß, thus allowing both buildings and both parts of history to be visible in the present.” – The Undercurrents
The experience is, in the Schopenhauerian sense, sublime.
*Which he was well in his rights to do: all imperial citizens were British citizens at that time. At least, in principle. And of course, even legalistically, never mind in terms of real justice, current refugees have their rights under international law.
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Finding out About Watsu Being an Alternate Medicine Approach
If you're unfamiliar with the term, you probably consider it as a certain form of early Japanese art. This isn't entirely correct. Although Watsu was designed in the Japanese civilization, it's actually not Japanese at all. The truth is that the term is due to the Japanese words"watsu" (meaning heat) and also"tai" (tea). It was made by the Chinese and usedto tell apart their particular system of body work, but now we call it Watsu.
The art of plain water was practiced for decades, but just lately has it become very popular in the West. Watsu can be tracked back to several types of massage that were used in the Western civilization. Straight back then, water was useful for therapeutic purposes together with for assisting relieve stress and pain. With the years, the art has been known as a style of deep relaxation which utilizes your overall body's natural warmth to achieve relaxation, anxiety relief, along with physiological well being.
To learn how to perform watsu, you need to master a few gentle stretches. Perhaps one of the absolute most gentle moves is called the turbulent drag. It is sometimes called a gentle noodle stretch because the motions are much like those of a dolphin.
The turbulent drag is performed at a sitting down posture. You make use of your own knees bring up your pelvis and press your feet from the own thighs. Then, with both hands, pull your navel in your chest and drive your torso out of the water. Soothing and enjoying the benefits with the deep relaxation may be exceedingly relaxing.
Another gentle stretch you could do at the water would be your aquatic compression. This also requires you to lie flat on your back with your knees bent and your buttocks in accord with your legs. Along with your palms, start to rub the sides of one's face on the own throat, gently pressing on the surface of your visit encourage the suitable relaxing of your voice box. Heal your muscular areas, especially those rib cageneck, shoulders, and cartilage, since this may relax the nervous procedure.
Another of those tender moves in watsu involves going to a semi-erect, sitting down, right posture. While you begin to lie flat, put your fingers on the sides of your thoughts and begin to rub on your chest-deep warm water softly in a circular movement. Massage your face back, shoulders, neck, and torso . As you are feeling cozy, shut your eyes and focus on each little detail, and that are going to assist you in attaining satisfaction.
Most therapeutic courses will lead you through specific physical workouts or self-massage techniques. If you do not want to undertake expert bodywork, then in addition, there are lots of great books and DVDs offered for purchase. A Number of These contain"The Secret of Watsu," and"The Healing Touch." These 2 books can help you enormously in relieving pressure, increasing your disposition, also enhancing overall wellness. You can also like to think about buying a gym , a medication ball, or possibly a chair that can assist you in practicing numerous stretches. Many gullible therapists advocate practicing these comfort methods three or more times every week.
When you choose water since your system of therapy method, you will be dealing with licensed, licensed therapists who have considerable trained in the tradition of plain water. These professionals use their expertise to both encourage appropriate breathing and relaxation. As a way to find the maximum benefits from your own treatments, you always need to be really gentle if working together with your own therapist. Keep in mind that you need to learn to unwind. Professional coastal body work therapists remind people who is important to obtaining the maximum benefit from their periods. If you want to get rid of stress from your life Check over here and enhance your overall well-being, you can want to consider learning more about water. | <urn:uuid:2dc23a18-3068-409e-a89a-1c903dcb5baa> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://blogfreely.net/l2nixqo436/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572043.2/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814143522-20220814173522-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.964884 | 796 | 2.328125 | 2 |
The Department of Clinical Health Professions (DCHP) is where education, technology, experiential learning, and research focused on healthcare intersect. The expansion of knowledge and technology and the increasing demand for high quality care necessitates the need for highly-trained healthcare professionals. The DCHP is a leader in preparing compassionate, well-rounded, well-educated healthcare professionals and leaders. We do this through innovative, high quality educational and practical experiences, with an emphasis on clinical medicine, medical imaging, behavioral health, and research that embraces the rapidly changing knowledge, technology and clinical landscape.
Dive deeper into the different disciplines of sonography–including abdominal, obstetrical, gynecological, small parts examination, and much more–as you further your understanding of ultrasound technology.
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RIT’s College of Health Sciences and Technology is preparing for significant growth with a new streamlined organizational structure. The move clarifies direct reporting and aligns the college with the university’s model of grouping programs under departments.
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Wyoming state veterinarian provides animal health update at Fremont County event
Riverton – The Fremont County Farm and Ranch Days took place Feb. 18-19, and during the event, educational speakers presented on topics ranging from pasture seeding to livestock updates.
Wyoming State Veterinarian Dr. Hallie Hasel provided a Wyoming animal health update. Hasel discussed several livestock diseases impacting cattle, poultry and equine throughout the state.
“Our goal as the state vet office is to keep cattle in Wyoming marketable,” shared Hasel. “If cattle have trichomoniasis, their value drops considerably. It is our goal to make sure Wyoming cattle don’t have this problem and keep them healthy because Wyoming is an export state.”
It is not unusual to have a herd in quarantine, she noted.
Once a positive animal has been removed, state veterinarians test the entire herd two to three more times to ensure the herd remains negative.
A positive animal doesn’t mean producers can’t sell anything, Hasel said. In addition, booster vaccinations do not trigger false-positive test results in cattle, she added.
“Cattle are vaccinated by 12 months of age, and in high-risk areas, a booster vaccination is administered at least six weeks prior to breeding. The adult is then vaccinated every three years,” she explained.
In July of 2017, the Wyoming Livestock Board issued an order mandating bulls grazing on open and public allotments, or being traded or leased for reproductive purposes, are to be tested prior to breeding or change of ownership.
“Brucellosis is a zoonotic disease which can be transmitted between animals and humans, often referred to as Mediterranean or undulant fever in humans,” she explained. “It’s a disease which causes abortion in cattle, elk and bison.”
The biggest risk for cattle producers is during elk calving periods, typically February through early May. Contact with elk outside of this period doesn’t carry the same risk as it does during calving season, Hasel noted.
Symptoms can vary and may include low-milk production, less thrifty cattle and arthritis, she explained.
One of the primary benefits of the brucellosis vaccine is not disease protection, but abortion protection, she shared.
“Vaccinated livestock can become sick with brucellosis, but when they are vaccinated, cattle are unable to spread it as much and the vaccine protects them from abortion,” said Hasel. “There is not a vaccine for wildlife, but there are ways to mitigate risk with elk.”
“What we need for brucellosis research is the ability to use an outdoor lab, and currently the disease is on the bioterrorism list; so, it can’t be researched in an outside lab setting,” she said. “It is a disease which affects both humans and animals.”
The state veterinarian’s office has applied to the federal government asking for brucellosis to be removed from the list, in order for research in an outdoor lab to occur.
“If we export cattle out of the state with brucellosis, our ability to export cattle beyond our borders will be extremely difficult and costly for producers,” she said. “Vaccinating for brucellosis is important.”
“One of the things we do for brucellosis mitigation in the state of Wyoming is encourage producers to develop a herd management plan,” shared Hasel. “If producers have a brucellosis plan in place it can help reduce cost.”
The state veterinarian’s office will work with producers to develop a herd plan to help mitigate brucellosis in the herd.
In addition, the office can assist producers with waivers. For example, if producers live outside of a designated surveillance area (DSA) and their cattle graze in a DSA, cattle have to be tested in order to go back to the home place.
If producers are unable to test prior to moving cattle, the state veterinarian’s office can provide waivers, but producers need a brucellosis herd plan in place in order to be eligible, explained Hasel.
She noted there has been elk mitigation efforts to decrease the risk of disease to Wyoming cowherds through fencing, hunting and booster vaccinations.
While poultry is not a major industry in Wyoming, the state does have backyard flocks, shared Hasel. Recently, flocks in the eastern U.S. have tested positive for the disease.
“Influenza is typically transmitted by wild birds, usually by ducks – they don’t typically get sick,” said Hasel. “But, Wyoming is in several fly-away patterns for wildlife bird species.”
Hasel encouraged ranchers who own chickens to contact the state veterinarian’s office if birds become sick, as producers can lose a whole flock of birds within a few days.
Cold-like symptoms may be seen and include watery eyes, runny beak, blue combs and a loss of appetite. When symptoms occur, Hasel encourages producers to contact a local veterinarian or the state veterinarian’s office immediately.
An animal disease investigation is at no cost to the producer.
“We want to know what disease is there,” she said.
In addition, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has a Defend the Flock Program, which offers free tools and resources for following proper biosecurity practices when producers work with or handle poultry.
As of 2021, several states in the U.S. have seen positive Equine Infectious Anemia (EIA) cases, with Texas having the most.
Wyoming is currently disease free, but it’s still important to be conscious and aware of infection, as many horses are crossing the state’s borders, explained Hasel.
“Looking at EIA trends from 2013 to 2020, the number of EIA horses the U.S. has are from race horses,” noted Hasel.
Another disease affecting horses is piroplasmosis – a reproductive disease transmitted by ticks. Horses testing positive for EIA are also testing positive for this disease, said Hasel.
“The state of Wyoming does have horse racing, and this is something we need to be aware of, because it’s out there,” she added.
Equine Herpesvirus (EHV-1) is another disease impacting horses. Hasel reported EHV-1 is impacting horses across the state quite rapidly. She reported there is a positive case in Cody, and she encourages producers to be aware.
There is not a vaccine which covers the neurological form of this disease, she noted. Horses can survive, but there is not a good treatment for neurological issues.
Vesicular stomatitis is another disease spread by flies and causes blisters around the mouth, on the tongue and coronary bands.
“The bottom line is if producers have a disease they don’t understand and have a sick animal or are losing livestock, they should contact the local veterinarian or state office,” concluded Hasel. “It doesn’t cost anything.”
The state veterinarian’s office will soon be updating their website with the new rules and updates for producers.
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The last day to sign up for the 2022 Census of Agriculture is June 30, 2022. If you have never received a census and are new to National Agricultural Statistics Service surveys, sign up to be counted today. You do not need to sign up if you received the 2017 Census of Agriculture or already receive other NASS surveys.
2017 Census of Agriculture
Key Dates for 2022 Census of Agriculture:
- June 30, 2022 – sign up ends
- November 2022 – census mails out
- February 2023 – response deadline
- Spring/summer 2024 – data release
The Census of Agriculture is a complete count of U.S. farms and ranches and the people who operate them. Even small plots of land - whether rural or urban - growing fruit, vegetables or some food animals count if $1,000 or more of such products were raised and sold, or normally would have been sold, during the Census year. This can include hobby farms with livestock, such as chickens or horses, or crops growing in the backyard or on a rooftop. The Census of Agriculture, taken only once every five years, looks at land use and ownership, operator characteristics, production practices, income and expenditures.
The data informs policy and program decisions that directly impact producers, their operations, industries, and communities. A complete count, with every producer getting and taking the opportunity to be represented in this data, is vital. For America’s farmers and ranchers, the Census of Agriculture is their voice, their future, and their opportunity.
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The adaptability of the heart can be observed during exercise, when the metabolic activity of skeletal muscle tissue increases. The cardiovascular system, consisting of the heart and blood vessels, responds to exercise with an increase in heart rate and strength of contraction with each beat, resulting in a higher cardiac output (quantity of blood pumped through the heart per unit of time). Physically fit people can deliver a greater volume of blood in a single heartbeat than unfit individuals and can sustain a greater work level before reaching a maximum heart rate. Being more physically fit also leads to a more rapid recovery of resting heart rate.
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Crafts To Make And Sell Ebook
Title: Crafts To Make And Sell
Author: Dusty Foster
Are you looking for crafts that really sell?
Do you want to earn more money with the crafts you already make?
I can show you which crafts sell best ~~ and why!
I've prepared a long list of good selling crafts and the types of places that repeatedly buy them.
So, whether you're looking for a craft that sells easily or you already have a favorite craft and you're looking for people to buy them, you've come to the right place.
Thousands of people around the country are making money with crafts working from home.
(I'm one of them.)
We're making items that people want to buy.
You, too, can make money offering customers what they're looking for.
Handmade crafts and unique gifts are ALWAYS in demand!
These are the 43 chapters you'll get just in the main ebook.
- You are not an assembly line -- but repetition brings perfection.
- Working with wood.
- Who are the frequent gift givers?
- When to consign. When not to.
- What size should the item be? Why size matters.
- Using a portfolio and scrapbook to get future sales.
- Using Internet keyword tools to find a good selling craft.
- The Trouble with 'rent-a-booth' craft outlets.
- Starting with a craft idea THEN looking for outlets.
- Solving the difficulties of working at home.
- Solving the 'key-stoning' problem.
- Selling your items to many outlets.
- Selling your crafts on eBay.
- Selling other people's handmade items.
- Selling on the internet. Having your own website.
- Selling at home shows, product shows and art shows.
- Repeat business and finding similar outlets.
- Problems are meant to be solved. Solutions to seven the most common problems.
- Matching handmade items to customers.
- Looking past the ordinary -- making something unique.
- Looking for outlets BEFORE deciding what to make.
- Keeping records.
- Finding crafts to make and sell.
- Earning money as a crafter by teaching and publishing.
- Determining what sells -- and why.
- Determining the price of your handmade item.
- Customizing your creation to fit the situation. Working in a variety of mediums.
- Customized logos, badges and coats of arms.
- Customers -- who are they? Why family and friends pose a unique problem and what to do about it.
- Customers -- how do you reach them?
- Creating a new product. Getting started or getting better.
- Crafters verses craftsmen -- how to increase your profits.
- Considering time and materials.
- Beware of the biz-ops!
- Better ways of selling at craft shows.
- A word about business cards.
- A word about advertising.
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Certified Holistic Nutritional Consultant™
Every aspect of your health relies on nutrition! Food becomes the fuel for your body to function, and the building blocks to support your physical structure. Just as premium fuel is necessary for optimal performance of a fancy sports car, you can enhance your performance (and health) with ideal nutrition customized for you. As a Holistic Nutritional consultant my focus on gut health ensures you get the most out of the food you eat - to help you look and feel your best.
Holistic Nutrition will benefit:
- sleep quality
- stress management
- weight management
- gastrointestinal symptoms (acid reflux, bloating, gas, indigestion, diarrhea, constipation)
- food sensitivities and intolerances
- skin conditions (helps reduce rashes, acne, eczema, psoriasis, rosacea)
- immune function, autoimmune conditions, cancer risk
- mood (eg. anxiety and depression)
- brain health
- cardiovascular health
- hormone balance, reproductive health, thyroid and adrenal glands
- respiratory system (asthma, allergies)
- nervous system
- pain and inflammation throughout your body
The inspiration for my career in Holistic Nutrition came from my daughter who was diagnosed with autoimmune conditions before the age of two. The improvements that we saw in her, mere weeks after adopting a gut-healthy protocol, ultimately motivated me to pursue an education in natural nutrition - and to help others! My deep understanding of physiology from my previous career in Nuclear Medicine and MRI allow me to piece together the intricate puzzle of each client’s health challenges and correct nutrient deficiencies through simple, delicious and nutritious food. For me, nutrition has become an integral part of being a mother, sister, wife, friend and dog owner. If you are interested in learning more, read on… and contact me.
What is Holistic Nutrition?
Holistic Nutrition is a natural way to improve health and wellness. This personalized, symptom-based approach uses the interconnections within your body, and lifestyle modifications, to promote health (Homeostasis). Specific nutrient suggestions target deficiencies that are at the root of your health concern, and sustainable results are achieved when the imbalance in your body is corrected. There are no side effects to eating good quality natural foods and the benefits are immeasurable.
What to Expect?
Intake forms provide me with a glimpse into your general health, lifestyle and habits. At the initial appointment we will discuss your main health concerns, symptoms you experience, and challenges you face, in a safe judgement free way. There are a number of common topics that often come up, we will explore the ones that are relevant, and those of interest to you, and I will offer specific recommendations to meet you where you are at. I base my recommendations on current research and science-backed methods. I am always happy to share my resources with you. Common topics to explore:
- acid reflux
- blood sugar regulation
- hormone balance
- pattern and schedule of eating
- healthy habits to improve digestion
- busting diet myths
- detoxifying your body and your home
- how nutrition for gut-health is different from general nutrition guides
Together we negotiate a plan to help you modify your diet and lifestyle. Then we work together while you implement the changes and experience the benefits. I am happy to meet with you in person, over the phone, via electronic meetings, or a combination of all of the above.
The Full Meal Deal - Customized Program
- 6 hours (variable depending on your goals) over the course of ~3months
- weekly or biweekly check-ins (phone or electronic meetings)
- ongoing support (text, email)
- nutritional assessment
- detailed summary of how your symptoms are related to gut health
- specific nutrient suggestions, foods that contain them, and how to include more of that into your life
- supplement suggestions (if necessary)
- strategies to improve your digestive function
- a plan - mutually agreed upon
- goal checklist to help keep you on track
- copies and access to all my handouts and resources that we discuss
- option to have your psychologist collaborate with me for the best possible results
A La Carte - options to add on:
- home detox
- meal plans
- yoga poses that specifically benefit your condition
- shopping assistance
If that is too much to digest, try a smaller bite:
Appetizer - 45mins
- breakdown of a gut-healthy meal
- tips to improve digestive function
- top 5 easy additions for health (hint: they are probably already in your kitchen
15min Free - Introductory Call - A meet and greet available to everyone.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is this a diet?
No, this is not a diet. In my experience diets that involve deprivation, calorie counting and exercising more, don’t work for everyone. Healthy weight management involves balancing hormones, addressing toxicity within the body (and the external environment), and optimizing digestive efficiency.
Will I lose weight?
Eating a customized diet that meets your specific nutritional needs helps your body achieve a healthy weight. Whether you want to lose weight or gain weight, Holistic Nutrition can help.
Do I need to buy supplements?
I believe food comes first! My preference is to consume whole foods because there are synergistic benefits that come from the complex nature of food as it is intended. However, there are a few nutrients that are difficult to get adequate amounts of from food alone, in which case a supplement will be suggested. In specific situations supplements can be beneficial, typically they are used for a finite period of time and with a specific plan in place. I will explain my rationale and offer suggestions, the final choice is always up to you.
How is this different from a Dietician?
I am not medically trained to manage disease with diet, and I do not make recommendations based on the Canada Food Guide. My education and experience enable me to address the root of your health concern and to guide you to build health from a foundational level. This benefits all body organ systems and yields sustainable results. I base my recommendations on current medical research and science-backed methods. I use risk /benefit analysis and the decision to implement any of my suggestions is always up to you.
Some packages will cover Holistic Nutrition services, but not all. I am not a registered member of the medical health system. Typically, Holistic Nutrition will be considered an alternative modality and partially covered under your Health Spending Account, if you have one.
What is the best diet? Keto? Vegan? Vegetarian? Paleo?…
I do not subscribe to any specific diet model. I think the best diet for you is unique - like you.
Will it be complicated or difficult to follow?
No. My suggestions are practical and simple, they have to be in order for you to implement them into your life.
Will I feel hungry? Deprived? Will I never have my favourite food again?
No. I aim to help you manage your satiety and cravings so that you are comfortable, while staying on track to meet your health goals. Deprivation is often met with a rebound effect - not helpful. I believe in meeting you where you are at and finding healthier foods / treats or combining foods to provide better balance. I have an extensive recipe file and collaborate with you to find foods that nourish your body and your soul.. I provide information, inspiration and support - the speed at which we progress and the direction are determined by you.
Is there collaboration between the psychologist and the nutrition consultant?
It is an option, but only if you consent. No discussion regarding clients occurs until we have their written consent. We offer this team approach because we appreciate the important role nutrition plays in setting the client up for success. Therapy and counselling will achieve faster and better results when the client is getting optimal nutrition.
How do you get in touch with me?
Please book your free 15min appointment online at https://mariaschmid.as.me/nutritional15min.
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“I wish I worked more,” said no one on their deathbed ever. Yet finding a healthy work-life balance is a challenge, especially in this Digital Age when we are connected to our devices 24/7, on-call for our jobs, checking messages afterhours, on weekends and even on vacations. Working too much can lead to stress, burnout and health issues, but it can be hard to find time for things that we enjoy and that help us recharge our batteries.
Luckily, there are lots of ways to find work-life balance through our dogs — just one more reason why they are man’s (and woman’s) best friend:
1. Exercise. We all know the health benefits of exercise, from weight loss to increasing mental acuity, but it’s so easy to put it off. Dogs, on the other hand, never avoid exercise — as long as they’re healthy, they’re always up for a walk or a hike. My dog, Rio, starts wagging his tail as soon as I pick up his leash (and demands I pick it up at least twice a day). I don’t think there’s a more perfect exercise buddy than a dog.
2. Being present. It’s so difficult to stop mentally running through to-do lists, worrying about upcoming meetings and projects, or neurotically checking one’s cell phone for pings. It sometimes strikes me when I walk through a restaurant and half of the people are either talking on the phone or have a device resting on the table in front of them. But dogs live in the present moment (“Squirrel!”). If I take a phone call on a hike, Rio is not amused — he’ll block my path until I hang up and give him a treat as a reward for tolerating my rude behavior. Giving dogs our undivided attention is not only what they deserve — it’s a way to allow ourselves to take a breath and unplug for a moment.
3. Boosting oxytocin. A study in 2015 found that gazing into a dog’s eyes produces the happiness hormone oxytocin in humans. So just looking away from your computer and locking eyes with your pooch will boost your spirits!
4. Playtime. It’s hard to feel stressed when a dog is wagging his tail, so even taking a 5-minute break from work or chores to play tug or run through a few tricks like “high-five” and rewarding him with a treat will benefit both of you.
5. Family bonding. We all want to spend more time bonding with our families — that’s the vital element in finding work-life balance. Playing in the yard or having an outing with your dog, like going to the dog park or letting her “shop” for treats at a local pet store, brings the family together with a shared activity.
6. Quiet time. Sometimes we all need a little alone time. Since dogs don’t talk, we can take some “me time” to cuddle together on the couch to listen to music or read a book, or take a moonlight stroll through the neighborhood in silent companionship. Our pups don’t need conversation, just the occasional loving scratch behind the ears.
7. Play dates. Everyone is so busy that it can be necessary to proactively schedule social activities with friends. Doggie play dates are a fun excuse to get together, whether hiking to a lake where the dogs can swim or heading to a backyard barbecue or a dog-friendly bar for a “yappy hour.” Downtime is so much more fun with dogs!
8. Laughter. Is there any better stress reliever than a good laugh? I have the good fortune to work at home, so I’ll be typing away at my laptop when I hear a snort from the dog bed. I’ll glance up and Rio will be upside down making a funny face at me, which never fails to make me laugh (and walk over to rub his belly). Dogs are natural comedians, so they bring laughter to our lives.
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The United Nations Security Council is scheduled to meet Wednesday to discuss Libya's request for an emergency session on a report that accused Israel and the Palestinian group Hamas of committing war crimes during Israel's offensive in Gaza.
Vietnam's Ambassador Le Luong Minh, who holds the council presidency this month, said he set closed-door talks after receiving therequest from Libya, the only Arab member on the 15-nation council.
The Palestinian UN Mission issued a press release saying it affirmed full support for the Libyan request.
Despite recent efforts by the U.S. to prevent a UN resolution on the report, Lybia was "waiting for a push" on the behalf of the Muslim nations or the Arab league to initiate a vote on the report's findings, New York sources said Tuesday.
Libya holds two key positions in the UN which make it easier for the country to initiate a session on the report - it is a member of the Security Council, and one of its representatives is currently serving as the president of the General Assembly. Libya has the authority to convene the UN Security Council to vote on the Goldstone report in the name of the Muslim nations or the Arab League.
If the Security Council session on the Goldstone report ends without a resolution or an American veto, Libya could convene the General Assembly, whose vote cannot be vetoed.
Another arena where the Goldstone report could come up for vote in the UN's fourth committee, which deals with political issues and holds sessions within the framework of the General Assembly.
A senior Western diplomat told Haaretz that in principle, Libya could convene a General Assembly session on the Goldstone report, but that he thought that "Libya will hesitate to take such an initiative as long as the Palestinian Authority is not interested in such a UN session. Libya will appear ridiculous if the involved party doesn't want a session, and it calls for one." | <urn:uuid:65638d13-2080-4261-b0f0-2ae8b55fa9c7> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.haaretz.com/2009-10-06/ty-article/un-security-council-to-meet-wednesday-on-goldstone-report/0000017f-ea14-dea7-adff-fbffa1190000 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573699.52/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819131019-20220819161019-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.951165 | 387 | 1.734375 | 2 |
Founded by the five sons of John D. Rockefeller, Jr., the philanthropy known as RBF has some $842 million at its disposal. It funds a broad array of philanthropic activities, including several anti-Israel organizations; it also played both direct and indirect roles in advocating the nuclear deal with Iran. Armin Rosen reports:
Since 2013, at least $880,000 in RBF funding has . . . gone to groups working to advance a boycott of the world’s only Jewish state. Supporters of the boycott, divestment, and sanctions (BDS) movement against Israel see the RBF funding as validation of their approach to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. . . . RBF’s support for Jewish Voice for Peace and other pro-boycott groups, which is virtually unique among major American institutional funders, is either a sign that the movement is inching toward mainstream status on the American left—or evidence of a revealing drift within one of the most respected family foundations in America. . . .
It seems unlikely that RBF is funding pro-boycott groups from a place of ignorance, or because of lapses in oversight. Charities have a history of paying attention. . . . RBF is demonstrably [not] oblivious [of its support to BDS]. . . .The Fund hasn’t altered its practices, despite repeated public and private criticism, including a May 2016 op-ed in the New York Daily News. . . .
Starting in 2001, shortly after [the fund’s current president, Stephen] Heintz took over, RBF [also] began exploring how it could help repair the relationship between Iran and the United States. This was partly as a response to the September 11 attacks. . . . For the past sixteen years, the Fund has organized dialogues between prominent American and Iranian figures. These types of closed-door meetings, called “track-two diplomacy” in foreign- policy parlance, allow private citizens from different countries to discuss issues of mutual importance with a frankness and freedom that would be impossible for government officials. . . .
RBF’s efforts in this vein brought it into close contact with Javad Zarif, now Iran’s foreign minister and the chief negotiator of the nuclear deal; the foundation has also given generous donations to the National Iranian American Council and the Ploughshares Fund—two of the most prominent organizations that stumped for the Iran deal. | <urn:uuid:fa4e00fd-10b2-478a-8b9a-c557e628f255> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://mosaicmagazine.com/picks/israel-zionism/2017/05/how-the-rockefeller-brothers-fund-became-a-major-donor-to-bds/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571911.5/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813081639-20220813111639-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.959599 | 507 | 1.640625 | 2 |
How Efficient is Your Infrastructure?
Businesses considering a move to the cloud take many factors into consideration. They may want to make their operations more agile, reduce their costs, increase scalability or improve mobile and remote access to applications and services for employees and customers.
In some cases, the driving factors may be closer to home — existing infrastructure can no longer cope with demands from the business for greater availability, faster delivery of new services or the requirements of digital transformation.
Identifying Efficiency Levels
Research commissioned by Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) found that 25 percent of app development time is spent waiting for infrastructure to be available, while more than a third of IT teams overprovision their infrastructure to ensure availability.
Analysis by IDC for HPE clarified the problems and indicated that traditional data center infrastructure is generally inefficient. According to the research, only 45 percent of available capacity is provisioned for the machines running applications.
Utilization also runs at 45 percent based on idle compute time and unused storage capacity. Agility, based on the time taken to change or provision new compute and storage instances, is lower at just 30 percent. And, compliance with SLAs is typically around 40 percent.
Despite the challenges, data center infrastructure remains important — HPE also found that more than 60 percent of CIOs had brought workloads back from the cloud to the data center.
Time for Professional Assessment
Given the continuing importance of the data center, a thorough assessment by specialists is essential.
Hiring a professional infrastructure specialist can free the IT team from the repetitive tasks and provide the business with comprehensive, up-to-date information on the infrastructure. Infrastructure assessment professionals specialize in this task. They have developed the right skills and best practice, and they utilize tools to improve speed and accuracy.
Specialist brings the right combination of skills to assess all aspects of the infrastructure. They combine data center, infrastructure, network and security skills to ensure no aspect is overlooked. As well as keeping vendor certification up to date, infrastructure assessment specialists also follow best practice in the assessment process or in specific technologies.
To improve efficiency, professionals develop comprehensive processes to ensure they cover all aspects of the assessment. They have documented procedures for data collection, processing, analysis and reporting.
Specialist firms like VTG have developed tools to improve the speed and accuracy of information reporting. These automated tools can reduce the time taken to carry out the assessment and improve accuracy.
VTG’s ZENfra tool, for example, reduces the complexity of data capture. It collects data from log files, processes the data and provides a series of customized reports for different stakeholders. These automated tools reduce the risk of human error and provide an accurate basis for assessment.
From Assessment to Action
Following the assessment, IT teams will have comprehensive information to make decisions about their infrastructure. They may decide to make improvements to existing infrastructure, rather than opt for cloud migration. Or, they may decide to deploy a hybrid infrastructure that utilizes elements of cloud and on-premise.
Whatever the direction, identifying and implementing infrastructure improvements can help IT teams deliver a better service to users, reduce complexity, increase staff productivity and lower TCO.
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Needless to say, a heavier Furry helps keep children focused by adding a gentle extra weight for sensory stimulation. Furry the Penguin that provides calm soothing companionship, now with an added sensory benefit. A weighted stuffed animal is a valuable tool for children with autism, FASD, ADHD and sensory integration disorder.
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Psychatric awareness courses
Relatives of psychiatric patients have
completed a course in understanding their illness
charity, Quality of Life, has conducted a review of the three year awareness
raising programme, that they ran for the relatives of psychiatric patients. The
courses were supported by the Johnson and Johnson Corporate Citizenship Trust
and over 1,200 people from Moscow, St Petersburg and Tomsk took part.
Psychiatrists view family support as being massively significant even to the
extent that it might prevent a case from becoming more acute or a relapse
occurring. Once those close to the patient are aware of the characteristics of
their illness and become directly involved in their treatment they can become
capable of helping them cope with the illness and facilitate their recovery.
see many cases where for many years parents have not realised that their child
or close relative is ill. They are ready to put improper behaviour (often
aggressive and emotionally draining) down to the person involved being
difficult, lazy, or poorly brought up’, said Arkady Shmilovich, the deputy chief doctor at the N Alekseeva
psychiatric hospital and president of the Psychiatrists Association.
courses cover the socialisation of families containing a psychiatrically ill
person. Practically all those leading the seminars experienced participants as
being withdrawn and focusing on their personal problems. Play and narration
therapy helped to draw them into participating in discussions, exchanging
experiences with other participants and engaging socially in a positive way.
participants observed that the psychiatry courses helped them to ease
relationships within the family. The programme organisers are in no doubt that
knowing about the symptoms of an illness, and methods of treatment/care, as
well as being able to cope with stressful situations and find their way around
the relevant legislation, will assist relatives not only to participate more
actively in the process of rehabilitation of their nearest and dearest, but
also to acquire confidence in their own strengths and enhance their own
enjoyment of life.
hope that in the near future, inculcation of psychiatric awareness will be seen
as something indispensable. Reform of psychiatric services in the Russian
Federation will involve transition from a medical model to a psycho-social one,
resulting in many patients leaving hospitals and returning home where friends
and family will become the chief support for the medical specialists. The main
thing is that this help should be well directed’, commented Maria Kulik, the
president of Quality of Life.
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General Motors Corp. hopes its Web site donation to Think Detroit provides enough cash flow to keep the urban nonprofit self-sustaining while tapping into billions of dollars worth of unused patents on the shelves of U.S. companies.
GM said last week that it plans to give Think Detroit www.patent donors.com, a site developed by its Internet-based unit, eGM. The site will allow businesses to donate the rights of unused patents to universities.
Donors can receive a tax deduction of about 35 percent of the value of the donation. The average corporate technology patent is worth $3 million to $5 million, said eGM President Mark Hogan, who announced the initiative at the two-day Digital Detroit 2001 conference in Dearborn.
Think Detroit will retain transaction fees from the process. When the site is "fully operational," Hogan predicted, the revenue will make the nonprofit less reliant on outside grants.
Think Detroit is a nonprofit organization that works to help develop the character of young people in urban areas through programs such as athletic leagues and computer training. Youngsters who complete the training receive a computer.
Think Detroit was launched in 1997 by Dan Varner and Mike Tenbusch in the city's empowerment zone, across from Wayne State University's athletic fields. It attracted youths by sponsoring sports programs - organizing teams for baseball, basketball and soccer and then encouraging the kids to take the nonprofit's computer training.
"The (patent) program model falls in line with our other program of refurbishing old computers that are at the end of their lives but still useful to other people," said Varner, Think Detroit's COO. "Only here it applies to patents instead of computers."
And eGM, which donated $3 million to Think Detroit last year and continues to give the organization its antiquated computers, has provided a technical person to run the patent site for $1 through the end of June. After that, the worker will become a full-time employee of Think Detroit, Varner said.
He said he couldn't guess how much revenue the site would generate for Think Detroit.
A Harvard University study estimates that 61 percent of the technology patents held by U.S. companies are never used, said eGM's Hogan. The study also found that 75 percent of European companies don't use their patents.
"If we get a high percentage of those, it could be worth a great deal of money," Varner said.
Think Detroit started sending thousands of mailings advertising the program to universities and companies last week, he said.
Hogan said the freeing up of unused patents helps the donor, Think Detroit and the school receiving the donated patent. "Everyone wins and everyone is richer," he said.
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Health departments urge everyone to think before they flush
In their attempts to halt the spread of the COVID-19 virus, Montanans are going through a lot more paper towels, disinfectant wipes, rags and other absorbent cleaning materials.
While public health officials across the country encourage everyone to keep up in their efforts to disinfect their homes and work spaces, there is a growing concern about how the improper disposal of these items is impacting community waste water treatment systems.
The Montana Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) encourages all Montanans to only flush toilet paper, not disinfecting wipes or other non-flushable items that should be disposed of in the trash.
"These products are designed to be absorbent for cleaning and they stay intact even when wet," a DEQ news release says. "Unfortunately, that means these products don't dissolve like toilet paper when flushed down the toilet. Instead, they can clog house pipes, jam sewers and damage septic systems and sewage treatment plants.
"Proper disposal of these items in the trash is important to help protect families and our state infrastructure."
A concurrent news release from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) expands upon the DEQ's advisory.
"Preventable toilet and sewer backups can pose a threat to human health and present an extra challenge to our water utilities and their workforce," the EPA's news release states. "Flushing anything other than toilet paper, including disinfecting wipes, can damage internal plumbing, local sewer systems and septic systems.
"Fixing these backups is costly and takes time and resources away from ensuring that wastewater management systems are otherwise working properly."
Both the DEQ and the EPA went on to thank wastewater utilities and their workforces for their efforts at a time when public health resources may be stretched thin.
"Having fully operational wastewater services is critical to containing COVID-19 and protecting Americans from other public health risks," the EPA's news release states. "Our nation’s wastewater employees are everyday heroes who are on the front line of protecting human health and the environment every single day."
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IIC Newsletter 11: June 1999
FACING THE PAST – FREEING THE FUTURE
by David Craig
What was it the booking form said?
Young people, engaged in work across religious divides, and leaders of faith communities and interfaith organisations, will share their ideas for ways forward and try together to reconcile visions for the future with religious injustices of the past.
There were deeply moving personal histories, equally profound accounts of the past, descriptions of exciting interfaith initiatives and not a few visions either, but no one at the 1999
International Interfaith Centre’s Conference will forget the ways in which each delegate was invited to be practically involved in facing the past and freeing the future.
It was like moving house, said Marcus Braybrooke in the opening session, or moving room at the end of a term: getting rid of the rubbish and taking only what you really needed into the new house, into the new room, into the future.
There was a square box and there was a golden basket, and beside each was a pile of small square cards. The box, said Sister Maureen of the Brahma Kumaris, was for the small plain cards and the golden basket for the decorated cards. On the small cards we were invited to write the one thing we would, at the end of the 20th century, cast away from our religious tradition, the one thing which most offended, which had caused grief. The box, we were told would be burned at the end of the conference – a symbol of freeing ourselves from our past. For the golden basket we were invited to write on the gilded cards one gift we would offer to the future, one thing which we felt would make the world a better place. Throughout the conference the box and
basket stood with each with its diminishing pile of cards, illuminated by the flickering of a candle.
It does not take an auto da fe , a pogrom or a crusade for forcible conversion. Facing the past is uncomfortable for nationals with a colonial past, it is difficult for missionary cultures. It is equally difficult for people who have been subject to colonial rule and to evangelical
persuasion. Each, in the name of progress, has marginalised and destroyed cultures, forced ancient peoples to betray their pasts. The God of the Christian missionaries in Africa was indeed a jealous God as Abena Amoo the Mother of the Pan Afrikan Healing Foundation made plain. Her job is “to show people that they have the courage and strength to look at healing through historical wrongs by facing the past to free the future, or as it is called in her tradition Sankofa, a sacred gift which means to go back and heal the wounds of the past”
To free the future, ancestral gains, illegitimately acquired must be given up, an honest admission of the wrongs of slavery must be acknowledged, and reparation for the rape of the continent and its people must be made. Before the continent can be healed a debt must be paid, and while the
burden of Third World Debt and Jubilee 2000 was on everyone’s mind, we were reminded that healing the past involved looking again at the divide between white and black, it involved looking again at what the white man had destroyed, the culture, the religious inheritance the respect for family and ancestor, the family tree which led from the youngest child through the family and ancestors to God himself. Healing Africa was a call to recognise and restore the traditional elements which made Africa, the names which had meaning, the respect for the ancestors a re-understanding of what African religion really was.
On the Saturday evening, the conference welcomed the Sri Chinmoy Peace Run torch and some 20 runners who were running throughout Europe as a witness to peace, talking to students in schools and various groups on their route. The presentation and singing of the athletes brought Saturday’s memorable evening to its end.
The Conference was graphically reminded of another area where to free the future a past must be faced on the Sunday afternoon. George Diakos, a theological student at Athens University, and an orthodox Christian from Cyprus sat next to Levent Altinay a Muslim Turkish Cypriot reading for a Ph D At Brookes University in Oxford. Both came from the same island but an island separated and divided. History, ideology and political analysis were clear to each and clearly expressed: the two young articulate men were a paradigm of what it really meant to face the past so that the future might be freed. There was a tangible tension in the room but when Deepak Naik asked what each was going to do when he got back to his community, common ground had been found: each would tell the young people in his island group that the other side wanted peace, and co existence and an end to division. The applause was loud and prolonged and one felt that in that Oxford room, some small step had been taken on either side and that indeed there was a sign that the future would be faced.
The wealth of new initiatives in Interfaith understanding and actions was presented in two sessions: Individual Faith Visions and Organisational Visions. The conference heard from four young people about personal commitment to and community involvement in Interfaith action: Ila Shah from a Jain perspective, Megumi Hirota from the Japanese Buddhist Rissho Kosei Kai tradition, Anuradha Devi from ISKCON and Rishi Singh from the Sikh. The conference was moved by personal accounts of ways in which religion had provided support and enrichment in childlessness, in a car accident, in practising the theory of religion and in time of recent religious persecution.
The Session on Organisational Visions introduced the Conference to the International Association for Religious Freedom with a concern for spiritual support for people in education (Ramola Sundram), The Interfaith Global Youth Corps established in 1998 with its commitment to practical service(Eboo Patel), the Interfaith Network and its increasing involvement with young people’s groups (Bhupinder Singh) and the International Council for Christians and Jews, a post holocaust initiative representing three generations of Christians and Jews who have to live with the past, and not only come to terms with its horrors but to move on to address new and relevant issues (George Wilkes).
Later in the day the Conference had the opportunity of hearing reports on the work of the newly established Three Faiths Forum concerned with developing relationships between the three Abrahamic religions in the UK, with a series of conferences and by establishing local groups throughout the country, World Faiths Development Dialogue, The Peace Council, the
Government Initiative of the Inner Cities Religious Council, the University of Derby website, MultiFaithWeb, North American Interfaith Network, United Religions Initiative, World Conference of Religions for Peace, The Unifications Church’s Religious Youth Movement and Women for Prayer. While the two-hour session as a whole was rather indigestible, the work represented by the organisations represented an impressive range of concerns and achievements and the accompanying literature supplemented any tendency to afternoon somnolence!
A final session from the “elders” responded to some of the new initiatives and reflected how the hopes for the future as expressed were based on pragmatism and action, a real ability to face the realities of future engagement. The previous generation of interfaith “pioneers” felt that while personal experience was what had brought each into dialogue, the first century of Interfaith work had been based on the desire to understand and study texts and theologies of religions. The group also remarked on the positive influence the newer religious movements had had on the interfaith movement.
During the reflection that started the Sunday programme, one of the elders, Stan Mckay, an indigenous Canadian, had moved many of the participants with his Cree wisdom and its awareness of our relationship with nature. Each person was given a fresh strawberry, first to smell and to reflect on while Stan told stories of how the fruits were gathered by his people and what they represented, and then to eat. The sight, smell and taste of a strawberry will, for me at least, never be taken again for granted and will always remind me of “the collection of the first fruits” of Stan’s childhood. For a while we were transported to a simpler, more beautiful world attuned to all the four directions and the strengths and insights each offered.
It was the fire alarms which made it necessary for the conference to find an alternative way of disposing of the box with the cards bearing those things which we did not want to take into the next century. A conflagration would have been dramatic, but college authorities would have been cross and so the fire was replaced by the college shredder as the means of destroying the past. The golden basket on the other hand contained the cards of things people wanted to take into the future. It was handed around and each delegate took a small card as a memento and a reminder for freeing the future. Mine summed up the feeling of the conference; it reads “Hope for all and Peace and Love” Now that is something for the future.
From Fundamentalism to Interfaith Dialogue?
At the end of January, I attended the above seminar organised by the International Interfaith Centre at Somerville College. Before I attended, the word “fundamentalist” had a number of conflicting meanings for me. I knew the media used it in association with “extremism” and “intolerance” for a wide variety of unpleasant groups from terrorist bombers in the Middle East to bible-thumping orators in the American Mid-West. On the other hand I was attracted by the word in its etymological meaning of “going to the roots” of ones faith. I considered Quakers to be “fundamentalist”, with George Fox’s insights into the relationship between mankind and God being the fundamentals.
The seminar brought six faiths together, Sikh, Tibetan Buddhist, Christian, Jewish, Muslim and Hindu, each to shed a different light on the subject.
One of the central tenets of the Sikh faith is to acknowledge the rights of others to practise their religion. Buddhists seek balance between “praxis”, – the social and spiritual values and principles, (different faiths have much in common here), and “view”, – the beliefs and dogma, (here they mostly disagree!).
The Christian speaker clarified for me my initial confusion with definitions of the word “fundamentalist”, differentiating it from “traditional” and “conservative”. He reminded us that the term was used for a particular development in the history of American Protestantism towards the end of the 19th Century, when a number of conferences were held to voice opposition to critical study of the bible and to the theory of evolution. He referred to a recent study that describes fundamentalism as “a position held in conscious opposition to other views, whereas a traditional or conservative position may be held because it has not been challenged”.
One aspect of seeing the essentials or the fundamentals of a faith is in the case of the Mediaeval Jews who wanted to make clear the difference between Judaism and Christianity. The Jewish speaker introduced us to the thirteen principles of Maimonides (1138-1204). The enunciation of fundamental principles helps us to see what is really significant in each faith. However, modern usage of the word as an insult directed at groups who have firm beliefs, for example against homosexuality or in support of West Bank settlers, encourages us to abandon the word as irredeemably distorted.
Muslim Fundamentalism is another use of the word altogether. It is a political force to fight, by means of struggle (Jihad) oppression and injustice, (and there is a lot of it about, both home-grown in Middle East dictatorships and that imposed by Western militarism and commercialism!).
A Muslim Fundamentalist is not interested in discussing the nature of the Trinity. “Christians are pretty good at talking of interfaith dialogue but even better at selling guns!” was one response. Some at the conference may have been offended as they couldn’t remember selling a single gun, but I think the point was taken! Fundamentalism was now about land tenure, exploitation and saving (or destroying) people’s lives.
Part of the Hindu input was a salutary reminder to us about the limitation of words and concepts. We were delighted to be told a parable of an “Inter-Number Conference”. The 5 numbers present were far too polite to argue but each of them nonetheless considered themselves as superior to the others. Each was closer to Infinity than the others. No.1 thought he was naturally first. No.2 felt that a lot of the others were decidedly odd. He was the top of the evens! Everyone knows that 3 is the most mystical of numbers. Zero maintained that none of the other numbers could reach infinity without him.
The parable does not warn us away from reaching out to the Infinite, but reminds us not to be judgmental. Most of us approach the Infinite through our own context anyway and that is fine.
Lively discussion followed each contribution. One member, when confronting the huge issues of injustice and the apparent impossibility of real dialogue, wondered whether Interfaith organisations should be disbanded and we should engage in political action instead. The wise response was that we needed both. We mused over how personal agendas often took over because of our lack of emotional self-knowledge.
One cry from the heart was a plea for dialogue within the Christian Church. It was felt that there is “a huge wall of intransigence” amongst different positions. The Church leadership should foster intrafaith dialogue. Argument might be interesting but it is ineffective in changing deeply entrenched attitudes. There had to be genuine meeting. Only a positive experience could change attitudes. Sometimes interfaith dialogue could be a vehicle for intrafaith understanding.
The increasing use of the Internet was seen as an important growing point in mutual understanding. At any moment, as you read this article, for instance, there are people sharing insights and understanding in cyberspace. We left the conference, knowing that we had confronted some important issues and felt encouraged that both light and heat had been generated.
The Year 2000 has been declared the ‘International Year of Thanksgiving’ by the United Nations General Assembly. To prepare for this, World Thanksgiving held a Thanksgiving World Assembly in Dallas,Texas, in March. Speakers included Cardinal Francis Arinze, Archbishop George Carey, Professor Seshagiri Rao and Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz. I was glad to meet many friends and supporters of the IIC at this event.
On the way, I stopped over in New York to visit the impressive Interfaith Center of New York and I also had a chance to greet members of the Board of the Temple of Understanding. I also visited the Brahma Kumaris Center in New York
A month before, I was in Chicago for one of the preparatory meetings for the Parliament of the World Religions, which is to be held in Cape Town in December. ‘The Call to the Guiding Institutions’ which seeks to engage government, business, education and the media and other ‘guiding institutions’ in dialogue with religious and spiritual communities, is now nearly complete. I also attended an International Peace Council Trustees Meeting, which concentrated on the situation in North and South Korea. I also spoke to the long established interfaith ‘Common Ground’ group, of which Jim Kenney is a director.
There have been a variety of events to mark the 300th Anniversary of the founding of the Sikh Khalsa. It is an encouraging sign of the new spirit of inter-religious friendship that it is becoming natural to invite friends of other faiths to share in the major celebrations of a faith community.
It is right, therefore, that people of all faiths are joining in the preparations to mark the Millennium, which celebrates the 2,000th anniversary of the birth of Jesus Christ. The Holy Land 2000 Conference in February, hosted by The Israeli Government together with the Palestinian Authority, showed how Jews and Muslims, as well as Christians, are preparing for the many visitors whom they expect to welcome next year to the Holy land. A Call to participate in 72 hours of interfaith peace-building has been issued by The United Religions Initiative. It was good to hear more about this when Charles Gibbs, the Executive Director of URI, visited Oxford in the Spring. Good Morning Millennium is arranging for representatives of different faiths to take to the air in ballons and offer greetings of peace on the first day of the new millennium.
Hopes for the new millennium will feature at the major interfaith conferences later this year, at which IIC plans to be represented. IIC is helping to arrange a Symposium at the Cape Town Parliament on ‘Interfaith in Action in A Global Context’. This will be an opportunity to give some picture to a wider audience of the variety of interfaith action across the world and may encourage us all to see how we can more effectively co-operate to ensure that our work produces the longed for benefit for humanity.
Introduction to IIC / CPWR Symposium
An important feature of the forthcoming Parliament of the World’s Religions will be a Symposium on Interfaith in Action in a Global Context.
The Symposium will meet on the three afternoons of Thursday, Friday and Saturday December 2nd to 4th, from 2.00pm to 5.30pm and focus on certain areas of interfaith action. Interfaith organisations will be invited to participate and the organisations together will reflect a balance of religious and cultural diversity and gender equality.
Presentations will be project based and will highlight examples of interfaith activities and issues in an interactive form to stimulate discussion on how our organisations might more effectively network and cooperate in future. We also hope that those who are new to interfaith work or who are engaged in one particular activity may gain a global picture of what is happening and also of the variety of interfaith activity.
To complete the Symposium, on the afternoon of Saturday 4th December, from 4.00pm to 5.30pm, there will be a response to the presentations and the questions raised by them, followed by an open discussion on ways to strengthen co-operation.
The Symposium is offered as a contribution to the CPWR’s Call to Our Guiding Institutions, a document addressed to government, business, education, media and religious communities and organisations, asking them to re-examine and alter their roles and responsibilities in the 21st century. During the Parliament, the Assembly will discuss strategies for implementing the aims of the Call. All Parliament participants will be invited to carry home the messages of the Call and to find new modes of creative engagement there. We hope that the Symposium, with all our combined attentions, will help in the unfolding of new ways of meeting and cooperating in the spirit of the Call.
INTERFAITH IN ACTION IN A GLOBAL CONTEXT
Parliament of the World’s Religions
Cape Town, South Africa
2-4 December 1999
PROPOSED PROGRAMME SCHEDULE
Thursday 2nd December 2.00-3.30pm Healing the Wounds: What can religions do together to help a ‘peace process’?
WCRP, South Africa
Northern Ireland Interfaith Forum
Middle East Abrahamic Forum
United Religions Initiative
Chair: Rio Interfaith Network
Thursday 2nd December 4.00-5.30 Sharing Spiritual Space: Can religious people pray together?
World Congress of Faiths.
Monastic Interreligious Dialogue
World Federation of Inter-Religious Councils
Chair: International Council for Christians and Jews
Friday 3rd December 2.00-3.30pm The Voice of the Voiceless: A Call for Justice
International Association for Religion Freedom
World Conference on Religions and Peace
Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization
Chair: Jordanian Interfaith Institute
Friday 3 December 4.00-5.30pm Engaging Governments and the United Nations
Temple of Understanding / Interfaith Center of New York
World Faiths Development Dialogue
Council for a Parliament of the World’s Religions
Global Ethic Foundation
Chair: Japan Emergency NGO’s Organization
Saturday 5th December 2.00-3.30pm New Hopes and Visions: the contributions of young people
European Youth Initiative
Interfaith Youth Corps
Minorities of Europe
Global Youth Institute
Chair: International Interfaith Centre
Saturday 5th December 4.00-5.30 pm Future Cooperation and Networking
4.00-4.30 Response to presentations from WCRP, South Africa
4.30-5.30 Open Discussion
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The second summit between US President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un aimed to achieve the dismantlement of North Korea’s military nuclear infrastructure in return for sanctions relief, but ended abruptly, with no joint document or statement of the two leaders. Most likely the Hanoi experience does not portend derailment of the US-North Korea process, at least for now, and both sides apparently still have an interest to continue cooperation. At the same time, the US and North Korea will find it extremely difficult to resolve a basic contradiction regarding denuclearization.
While the two sides will not say so, this means the process is actually much more about tension reduction than denuclearization, which will remain an unrealistic goal for the foreseeable future.
However, tension reduction is not an insignificant goal in the context of relations between two nuclear adversaries with limited means to turn the situation around. What lesson is there for the Iran case? The process vis-à-vis North Korea underscores that negotiating with a nuclear state is very different from negotiating with a state that has not yet achieved this goal. For Iran, the North Korean experience further underscores the strategic significance of achieving a nuclear weapons capability, which accords the proliferator significant leverage over anyone who would have it back down. For the international community the lesson is clear: Iran must be stopped before it reaches its goal.
The second summit between US President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, which was held in late February in Hanoi and aimed to achieve the dismantlement of North Korea's military nuclear infrastructure in return for sanctions relief, ended abruptly, with no joint document or statement of the two leaders.
According to Trump, the outcome stemmed from Kim’s demand to lift all sanctions on his country upfront, in exchange for a promise to dismantle the nuclear reactors only at the Yongbyon complex. When faced with questions regarding facilities that are outside Yongbyon – in particular a uranium enrichment facility – the media reported that Kim expressed surprise that the US even knew about these facilities, and refused to relate to them. The North Koreans, who believe it was the United States that changed its mind at the summit, understood that they would not get their desired sanctions relief in return for their partial “denuclearization” offer, and likewise felt there was no reason to stay in Hanoi.
How should the outcome of this summit, which did not produce the desired results, be assessed?
One of the relevant questions regards the wisdom of holding the meetings as summits between the two leaders, and expecting results at that level before details are worked out between lower level working teams. While this is a valid concern, in this case, it seems that both leaders preferred the top-down approach. The North Koreans have always sought leadership engagement with the US – for them it is an issue of pride and international legitimacy and stature. For the first time they faced an American leader who was more than willing to go along with this approach, and Trump’s acquiescence was well received. For Trump the decision was not viewed as a concession to Kim, but rather as being in line with his tendency not to see the value of bureaucracies’ involvement in such a process, and his belief that he is the ultimate deal maker.
Still, criticism of Trump suggested that the summit was convened without sufficient preparation. Yet if preparations were not sufficiently detailed, this is not only because of the US. Kim proved unwilling to cooperate with discussions held with Stephen Biegun, who was appointed by Secretary of State Pompeo last August as the US special representative for this process. Biegun was able to meet with his North Korean counterparts only in early February, in an attempt to set a roadmap for future negotiations and declarations, as well as a common understanding of the goal of the process. According to some reports, the message was delivered to North Korea that the US would not approve lifting sanctions completely upfront, but Kim nevertheless thought Trump perhaps might cave in to this demand.
Two points deserve mention here. First, the history of negotiating with North Korea over two decades demonstrates that regardless of the amount of advanced preparation, North Korea has been known to change its mind at the last minute. Whether this occurred at the Hanoi summit is unknown, but this is a dynamic that was evident repeatedly in the five years of the Six-Party talks (2003-2008), characterized by North Korea’s tactic of contradictions and backtracking. In other words, the issue of advance preparations is not the key for dealing effectively with North Korea. The second point is that for the first time the US flatly refused a North Korean demand for sanctions relief, underscoring that despite all the flattery bestowed by Trump on Kim, there are US redlines for negotiations. In the past, almost every round of negotiations ended with (unfulfilled) North Korean promises to dismantle, and (actual) lifting of US and international sanctions.
What does the Hanoi experience bode for the future of the process? Most likely it does not portend derailment, at least for now. The initial reactions of the two parties after the impasse suggest that they intend to continue to explore the diplomatic course and not burn the bridge they have established. In what could be a case of North Korean backtracking following Trump’s announcement regarding the reason for abruptly ending the summit, North Korean Foreign Minister Ri Yong Ho said at a press conference that they had only asked for partial sanctions relief – five of the eleven sets of sanctions. Trump also took a step back from the demand for immediate denuclearization by saying that a moratorium on nuclear and missile testing satisfies him for now. Moreover the Pentagon, in a confidence building measure (CBM), announced that joint US-South Korean military exercises would be smaller and held at a lower level.
These statements indicate that both sides still have an interest to continue cooperation. Another champion of the process of trust building is South Korean president Moon Jae-in, who declared that the Hanoi summit made meaningful progress. Nevertheless, the US and North Korea will find it extremely difficult to resolve a basic contradiction regarding denuclearization. Each side views the term differently: the US is focused on North Korea’s nuclear dismantlement, while Kim wants the US to ensure that the Korean peninsula remains free of any nuclear threat, and of US troops. More importantly, the US is not likely to back down publicly from its demand of complete and verified dismantlement of North Korea’s nuclear program. By the same token, it is unlikely that North Korea will agree to the dismantlement the US seeks, and the US has only very limited leverage to try to force this outcome.
While the two sides will not say so, this means the process is actually much more about tension reduction than denuclearization, which will remain an unrealistic goal for the foreseeable future. However, tension reduction is not an insignificant goal in the context of relations between two nuclear adversaries with limited means to turn the situation around. Moreover, the top-down approach that both leaders wanted did succeed in jumpstarting the beginning of a process that might lead to an eventual transformation in bilateral relations.
Among the looming questions is how Kim Jong-un will deal with his dilemma of keeping the nuclear option, which is critical to regime survival, while at the same time removing the sanctions that pose a threat to North Korea’s stability and economic development. Kim learned at the Hanoi summit that this will not be as easy as in the past, when his father conducted negotiations and was always able to secure sanctions relief. In this sense, Trump sent an important message by walking away – presumably hoping this will translate into some concrete concessions by North Korea.
Another open question is how long the moratorium on missile and nuclear testing will continue. This will be an important test of the durability of the process of tension reduction. As of now this is a temporary measure that was meant as an indicator of North Korean good will in the context of the summits. But as the Hanoi summit failed to ensure relaxation of the sanctions, resuming the tests is a stick that Kim can wave at any point.
Clearly the options for the US are limited, as the goal it has set appears next to impossible to achieve. It will have to find a way to continue to work on the bilateral relationship, including stability on the Korean peninsula and in the broader region, while gradually reducing expectations about the ability to achieve more than it can in the nuclear realm. On the positive side, North Korea does not harbor regional hegemonic ambitions, despite periodic flare-ups with its neighbors. As far as the direct threat to the US is concerned, America greatly overpowers North Korea, and it is hard to believe Kim would risk attacking it, although South Korea and Japan still have their own concerns. One issue the US should insist upon in any future negotiations is that North Korea stop all cooperation with other nuclear and missile proliferators, like Iran.
What lesson is there for the Iran case? The process vis-à-vis North Korea underscores that negotiating with a nuclear state is very different from negotiating with a state that has not yet achieved this goal. For Iran, the North Korean experience further underscores the strategic significance of achieving a nuclear weapons capability, which accords the proliferator significant leverage over anyone who would have it back down. For the international community the lesson is clear: Iran must be stopped before it reaches its goal. | <urn:uuid:8e868a91-fbfd-4d04-a1c4-0e074c7f200a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.tolerance.ca/Article.aspx?ID=440406&L=en | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571538.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812014923-20220812044923-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.968086 | 1,917 | 2.265625 | 2 |
1- Basic Omelette
- 2 eggs
- Salt and pepper
- Crack the eggs into a mixing bowl with a pinch of salt and pepper. Beat well with a fork.
- Put a frying pan on low heat and let it get hot
- Add the butter and wait till it melts and gets bubbling
- Add eggs and move the pan around to spread them out evenly
- When the omelet begins to cook and firm up, but still has a little raw egg on top, you can add the extra ingredients (optional) on one side of it.
- Using a spatula, ease around the edges of the omelet, then fold it over in half.
- Flip the omelette till it starts to turn golden brown on both sides
- Remove the pan from the heat and slide the omelet on to a plate.
An omelette may have many different ingredients added like onions, bell peppers, different vegetables, or even salami – depending on each individual’s taste. There are two options when adding more ingredients to your omelette:
- Put the ingredients in the pan with the butter before adding the eggs, let them cook for a bit, and remove them from the pan. Proceed to step 4, and add in the cheese or extra ingredients in step 5.
- Mix the ingredients with the eggs in the mixing bowl in step 1
Here are some examples of creative omelets:
- Added ingredient amounts are based on a 2egg omelette.
- Please refer to the note above to decide when to add these optional ingredients.
2- Cheddar Cheese Omelette
- 2 tbsp Cheddar Cheese
3- Chili cheese omelette
- ¼ Can of Chili
- 1 tbsp Milk (add with egg mix)
- ½ Onion
- Jalapeno Peppers (to taste)
4- Sausage and Cheese omelette
- Sausages (as per preference)
- Hot sauce (optional)
5- Jalapeno Omelette
- 1 Jalapeno Pepper
- ½ Green Peppers
- ½ Red Peppers
- ½ Onion
- Tabasco (add to taste on step 5)
- 1 tbsp Cilantro – chopped
6- Spanish Omelette
- ½ Small Potato
- 1 Green chili
- ½ Onion
- 1 Garlic Clove – Mashed
- 1 Small Tomato
- 1 tsp Basil
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The Biggest Financial Mistakes Online Businesses Make (and how to avoid them!)
According to research done by U.S. Bank and cited on the SCORE/Counselors to America’s Small Business, the reason small businesses fail overwhelmingly includes cash flow issues.
What are “cash flow issues?” Cash flow is simply the money coming in and going out of your business. Sounds simple enough, doesn’t it? Cash flow management IS simple, but that doesn’t mean it’s easy. The majority of these failing businesses are started and run by brilliant people that simply need better tools and leadership around their finances.
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Distance from Trinco – 54 km (1 hour 10 minutes)
Pulmoddai is a town situated on the northeastern coast of Sri Lanka, close to Trincomalee. Pulmoddai lies between Trincomalee and Mullaitivu. It is famous for mineral sands that are mined at its beach. The Pulmoddai deposit is about 6 kilometers in length and about 100 meters in width. It is estimated to contain 6 million tonnes of heavy sand with an average composition of 70-72 percent Ilmenite, 8-10 percent zircon, 8 percent Rutile and 0.3 percent Monazite. The deposit is believed to be among the top 10 deposits of the world.
Getting to Pulmoddai Mineral Sand Deposits
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This article explains how your MD5 data should be formatted to work within SUPPRESS.
Emails are normalized for use within SUPPRESS. This means, if a list of plain text emails are imported, we convert the email to lowercase and remove leading and trailing spaces before converting it to MD5. The resulting MD5 is created and stored as a lowercase string (e.g. ab12bcbd4bd8e8f9abe8d0).
All MD5 hashes and emails outputted from SUPPRESS will be exported in lowercase.
If a mailer is going to compute MD5s locally, they need to normalize (lowercase) and remove trailing/leading spaces from their emails prior to computation.
Cleanse via OPTIZMO
If a Mailer chooses to cleanse their data using the SUPPRESS cleansing tool, then they can upload their plain text data in either uppercase or lowercase and we will convert them to lowercase prior to the comparison of the MD5 list.
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Lebesgue sampling-based fault diagnosis and prognosis (LSFDP) is developed with the advantage of less computation requirement and smaller uncertainty accumulation. Same as other diagnostic and prognostic approaches, the accuracy and precision of LS-FDP are significantly influenced by the diagnostic and prognostic models. The predicted results will show great discrepancy with the real remaining useful life (RUL) in applications if the model is not accurate. In addition, the fixed model parameters cannot accommodate the varying stress factors that affect the fault dynamics. To address this problem, the parameters in the models are treated as time-varying ones and are adjusted online to accommodate changing dynamics. In this paper, a recursive least square (RLS) based method with a forgetting factor is employed to make the diagnostic and prognostic models online adaptive in LS-FDP. The design and implementation of LS-FDP are based on a particle filtering algorithm and are illustrated with experiments of Li-ion batteries. The experimental results show that the performance of LS-FDP with model adaptation is improved on both battery capacity estimation and RUL prediction.
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Microcode is a layer of code interpretation that lies between machine language, and a computer's CPU hardware. Essentially, the computer uses a machine language interpreter written in an extremely low-level programming language. The term microcode can refer the interpreter, or to the language in which it is written. Programming microcode is sometimes called microprogramming.
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Holmenes sjøsamiske gård
Holmenes Sea Sami farm is the museums historical site in Kåfjord municipality. It is situated in the inner most part of the Kåfjord.
The Sea Sami culture were exposed to strong pressure from the Norwegian authorities to become Norwegian(The Norweginisation). Despite this both the Sea Sami way of life and language has survived in Kåfjord. Today the culture has evolved and has new and modern ways of expressing itsef, for instance the Riddu Riđđu festival. At Holmenes you can learn about how a Sea Sami family lived in the time before 1940 and the contrasts between then and now.
About the farm.
The farm is from about 1850 and was in active use until 1964. Holmenes is a good example of a typical Sea Sami farm in North Troms. Archeological findings in the area show that there have been settlements here long before the farm was built.
The farm consists of a main house, woodshed, storage sheds, a well, a stable, a haybarn, a gamme cowshed, and a summer cowshed. The farms area is about 12 acres, and they were cleared with and run by horse. All the buildings today are either restored or reconstructed, and the farm as shown is as close to as it was in the 1930s as possible. By the fjord there are several small sea sheds, and one of them belongs to the farm. These were used to store fishing equipment and other household equipment.
The running of the farm was based on using nature to get what they needed to survive, using the farms cleared lands, the uncultivated lands close by and the forests and the sea. This is typical of the Sea Sami way of life. Because of this way of life, the Sea Sami often settled in lush valleys with broadleaved woods.
In the uncultivated lands the “forest fields” were used after the main hayfields were harvested in the middle of July. The hay was stooked and driven home to the farm. Both the hayfields and forest fields had to feed 2 cows, 8-10 sheep and a horse. The forest also yielded the wood needed for building and the fire.
By the fjord in Birtavarre, Holmenes has its own sea shed, which show the farms connection to the sea. There fishing equipment were kept.
The food was made from what the farm and surrounding nature could provide. In addion to meat, fish and dairy products, they foraged for berries and herbs used in both cooking and medicine.
How to get there
To get there turn off the E6 in Birtavarre. Follow the signs to Holmenes, the turn off is about 4 kilometres along the road in the valley.
At Holmen brigde take a right turn and follow the road until you reach the parking lot. Holmenes will be on your left hand side.
At most, 14 people lived at the farm. In daily life the housewife had responsibility for the family and the farm. Activities like separating cream from milk, churning butter, making cheese, plant dyeing wool, making soap and making rope were normal daily activities. The children had to participate in the work as soon as they were old enough. The men were fishermen and had to join the large fishing seasons at Lofoten and in Finnmark. The men also provided important sustenance through fishing locally and hunting.
The women were skilled crafters, and some of the traditional crafts practised historically still survive today, for instance making komager(the typical sea sami shoe) or weaving the Manndalsgrene, a special woolen blanket used for both bedclothes and by the Reindeerherding Sami as teltcloth. The grene was an important trading commodity at the market in Skibotn with knitted items lingonberries.
At Holmenes you can see how a Sea Sami family lived in the time before the second world war. At the annual market day held every July, you can eat traditional food, the children can try old games. This day also includes demonstrations of traditional crafts like plant dyeing, felting and weaving.
Just north of Birtavarre, by the E6, you find the sea sheds. In total there are 28 sheds, 8 of which are from the 19th century. Seven of there are together and one of these belong to Holmenes. The sheds by the sea and the farm in the valley show how the Sea Sami harvested from nature, in forest, in cultivating the land, and in gathering resources from the sea. | <urn:uuid:61ff258f-ae0a-4be7-9025-62bd86f52298> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://ntrm.no/holmenes/?lang=en | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571538.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812014923-20220812044923-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.979642 | 982 | 3.046875 | 3 |
What You Should Know About Open Carry In Texas
Amidst a lot of controversy, Governor Greg Abbott signed Texas’s open carry bill into law in June 2015. It went into effect on January 1, 2016, but despite the long lead time to prepare for its implementation, there is a lot of misinformation making the rounds about what the bill allows and what it does not. It is extremely important to ensure you have your facts right – failure to do so could open you up to fines or even a federal firearms violation.
What Are The Requirements?
Open carry only applies to pistols and other handguns – no license is currently required to carry a longarm. The gun in question must be carried in a shoulder or belt holster – anything that touches the belt, such as a high leg holster, will generally meet this requirement. In order to open carry, you must be over the age of 21, and have no negatives on your criminal or psychological record. You must also complete a shooting course and a classroom test in order to be permitted to open carry.
It is important to remember that places designated in the past as gun free zones must remain gun free under this new law. Examples include schools, government buildings, secured areas such as airports and courtrooms, and anywhere else covered by city, state or federal law; if you bring or fire a gun in these places, there will be consequences. Possessing and/or discharging a firearm in a school zone, for example, may lead to as much as 5 years in prison.
What Are My Rights?
Since the law’s passage, some labor under the misapprehension that they may now carry a gun wherever they please, excepting gun-free zones. This is not currently the case, as businesses and other private properties are governed by their owners as long as they are in compliance with the law.
Many private businesses, such as HEB Grocery and Whataburger, are banning guns from their premises. They are legally permitted to do this, as long as they post signs to advise customers of this policy. The law permits businesses to allow open carry, but does not mandate that they must, and many restaurant owners and other shopkeepers have chosen to not allow guns in their establishment unless they are concealed, for a multitude of reasons including safety and ability to maintain smooth and fast service.
In terms of interactions with law enforcement, you should have no problem, but sometimes, things happen. Some police personnel will be uninformed regarding open carry, while others may ignore regulations entirely. If you are carrying a handgun and are approached by a police officer do as the officer tells you. Tell the officer you are carrying a weapon and have a license to do so. Do not reach for the weapon. Let the officer tell you what to do with the weapon.
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Clear Aligners - A 3D Printing StoryOctober 14, 19 | 2 mins read
"Over the past decade, aligners have become mainstream orthodontics and I definitely see this trend continuing and expanding. With the technological advancements, including 3-D and CAD/CAM, that allow the clinician to diagnose, plan the treatment and confirm biomechanics in a far more in-depth way than ever before, orthodontics is now catching up with the high-tech world we live in—it is twenty-first-century orthodontics."
- Dr Graham Gardner, President, European Aligner Society (EAS)
Clear aligners have become the go-to dental appliance in recent times thanks to its aesthetic appeal and ease of use among numerous other factors. Invisalign, the clear aligner brand by Align Technology soon became a household name thanks to its direct to consumer marketing that changed the general public's perception of orthodontic treatment.
In this series, we take a closer look at this fascinating orthodontic therapy that took the world by storm, examining it from both a clinical as well as a business perspective.
In this article, we explore the origins, process, and merits of clear aligners, an orthodontic appliance that owes a big part to digital dentistry & 3D printing. Find out how clear aligners came about, the history behind Align Technology, the world's largest single user of 3D printing, as well as if today's 3D printing technology would allow us to print aligners directly. [Read More]
Now that you know the background of clear aligners and its merits as an alternative orthodontic therapy, it is time for you to get involved. In this article, we list down 5 things you need to dip your toes into this billion dollar industry. For the benefit of those who are new to digital dentistry, we provide an overview of what each equipment is before going into details such as price and other purchasing considerations. [Read More]
Among the equipment, you will need for your own clear aligner manufacturing line is a reliable 3D printer. However, there numerous types of 3D printers out there utilizing various technologies for applications across various industries. In this article, we highlight 4 reasons why Mask Stereolithography (MSLA) technology 3D printers are ideal for clear aligners manufacturing. [Read More]
This is a guest post written by Dr. K. Amanda Wilson, DDS, MDS. Dr. Wilson is the Founder & CEO of StraightSmile Solutions and the former Dental Director of SmileDirectClub. She was a practicing clinical orthodontist for more than 10 years.
Why wait weeks to deliver aligners and pay exorbitant lab fees when there’s now innovative technology that can allow you to scan, design, print, and thermoform your own aligner case in just a few hours? Same day aligners are a game changer in the orthodontic industry. How do you know if it’s right for you and your practice? Let’s have a look at some of the key points. [Read More] | <urn:uuid:1b73214d-fd04-40b1-85d5-65df650f848a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.structo3d.com/blogs/blog/clear-aligners-a-3d-printing-story | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571911.5/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813081639-20220813111639-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.94074 | 657 | 1.679688 | 2 |
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The dietary supplement industry is booming right now. In fact, it’s expected to reach a valuation of $278.02 billion by the year 2024. With so many supplements on the market, it can be hard to know which ones to use and which ones to avoid.
Everyone’s needs are different, of course. But, there are some supplements that just about everyone can benefit from. One of those is glucosamine. Read on to learn more about the benefits of glucosamine and why you might want to start incorporating it into your supplement routine.
What is Glucosamine?
First things first, let’s explain what glucosamine is. Glucosamine is a supplement made from a substance extracted from the shells of shellfish. Glucosamine comes in many different forms, including the following:
Glucosamine can also be combined with other ingredients to enhance its benefits. Common ingredients added to glucosamine supplements include chondroitin sulfate, shark cartilage, and MSM (short for Methylsulfonylmethane).
Glucosamine occurs naturally in the body and is produced by cartilage (tissue that cushions the joints). However, many people benefit from supplemental glucosamine, especially those who have damaged cartilage.
Benefits of Glucosamine
There are many reasons to consider adding glucosamine to your supplement routine. Listed below are some of the greatest benefits that people notice when they use it on a regular basis:
1. Better Digestion
Glucosamine can be used to improve digestive system function and repair the lining of the gastrointestinal tract. This makes it especially beneficial to people who are struggling with symptoms of increased intestinal permeability of “leaky gut syndrome.” When the GI lining is damaged, food particles and proteins can pass into the bloodstream and trigger an inflammatory response in the body.
Research also shows that glucosamine is helpful in treating chronic inflammatory bowel diseases like Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis. This may be because people with this illnesses naturally have lower levels of glucosamine in their bodies.
One study found that 75 percent of patients who supplemented with N-acetyl-glucosamine saw a reduction in their symptoms.
2. Reduced Arthritis Pain
Glucosamine can also play a major role in arthritis management. Because people with arthritis lack cartilage, they often have lower levels of glucosamine in their bodies.
Some research shows that glucosamine can be just as effective as over-the-counter medications for treating arthritis pain and inflammation. It can also improve joint function and help slow the deterioration of existing cartilage. This, in turn, helps slow the progression of the disease.
Although it works well as an alternative arthritis treatment, glucosamine does seem to take longer than other medications to take effect, though. In most cases, it takes about 4-8 weeks of consistent supplementation to notice a reduction in pain.
Glucosamine also appears to work best for younger individuals with mild or moderate forms of arthritis.
3. Faster Recovery
If you’ve been working out a lot to try and build muscle, you may be more sore than usual. Glucosamine is a great post-workout supplement that can help speed up recovery and reduce muscle soreness.
Glucosamine specifically helps repair connective tissue and reduces inflammation.
It can also be effective if you’re trying to recover from an injury. One study even found that, among athletes suffering from acute knee injuries, those who consumed glucosamine saw improvements in knee extension and flexion when compared to the placebo group. The improvements came after 28 days of supplementation.
4. Relieved TMJ Symptoms
If you struggle with a TMJ (temporomandibular joint) disorder, glucosamine can help relieve your pain and inflammation.
People with TMJ disorders experience inflammation in the joint that connects the jaw to the skull and tend to struggle with neck and jaw pain, headaches, and sleeping difficulties.
Research shows that glucosamine is just as effective as over-the-counter painkillers for relieving TMJ disorder pain. Long-term supplementation also helps improve chewing ability and mitigates sleep difficulties.
5. Reduced MS Symptoms
People who suffer from multiple sclerosis (MS), a degenerative central nervous system disease that causes the immune system to attack the myelin sheath that protects the nerves in the brain and spinal cord, can also benefit from glucosamine supplementation.
There is currently no cure for multiple sclerosis. But, glucosamine does appear to help slow the progression of MS symptoms. In an animal study, mice that received glucosamine injections had less inflammation and less destruction of the myelin sheath surrounding the spinal cord.
Glucosamine may also be able to help relieve pain and muscle stiffness associated with MS.
Potential Side Effects of Glucosamine
Generally speaking, glucosamine is safe for most people to consume. There are a few mild potential side effects associated with this supplement, including the following:
It’s safe for most people, but glucosamine is not ideal for women who are pregnant or breastfeeding. People with shellfish allergies should also avoid glucosamine products unless they’re using synthetic glucosamine.
Some people claim that glucosamine is not good for diabetics because it can raise blood sugar. These claims have been largely debunked, though.
As you can see, there are lots of benefits that come with taking glucosamine on a regular basis. If you want to see a faster recovery, reduced pain and inflammation, and better digestion (and you’re not at risk for any adverse side effects or allergic reactions), you may want to consider adding this supplement to your routine today. | <urn:uuid:2280e63c-7db8-4c55-8473-928a5b64134f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.thehealthsciencejournal.com/five-reasons-make-glucosamine-new-staple-supplement/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571210.98/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810191850-20220810221850-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.941679 | 1,271 | 1.851563 | 2 |
PLAZA & FAIR Data
What is FAIR data?
FAIR data is data that adheres to certain guiding principles, in order make it possible for data providers to easily:
- Find data and data sources
- Access data and data sources
- Interoperate between data providers
- Reuse data
These principles are further clarified and standardized by the FAIR working groups
How is PLAZA FAIR?
The developers of the PLAZA platform are dedicated to make the PLAZA platform compatible with the FAIR guiding principles.
This is a long-term goal for the PLAZA project, and with each software iteration we are one step closer to being fully FAIR compliant.
The data is findable: we currently offer a warehouse service which provides, for versions 3.0 and later, JSON objects detailing where the data is located. This service works both per PLAZA instance, and globally by aggregating the data for all PLAZA instances.
(meta)Data are assigned a globally unique and eternally persistent identifier.
Work in progress, once all dependencies have been identified. The current JSON objects are uniquely identified through the URL they are coming from.
Data are described with rich metadata.
Current JSON objects have the necessary meta-data within them, and additional documentation is available.
(meta)Data are registered or indexed in a searchable resource.
Work in progress within the ELIXIR framework.
Metadata specify the data identifier.
Data identifiers are logically build and constructed from meta-data core principle terms.
The data is accessible. Both the PLAZA warehouse and PLAZA gene-centric rest API function through the standard HTTP(s) protocol, make use of standard JSON formats to exchange data, etc.
(meta)Data are retrievable by their identifier using a standardized communications protocol.
The protocol is open, free, and universally implementable.
The protocol allows for an authentication and authorization procedure, where necessary.
Metadata are accessible, even when the data are no longer available.
For the warehouse data: the JSON objects (meta-data) describing and listing the data (on the FTP servers) will continue to be available as long as the PLAZA instance(s) are available, even if the data on the FTP servers is no longer available.
(meta)Data use a formal, accessible, shared, and broadly applicable language for knowledge representation.
Currently the meta-data is not yet formalized fully, but there is work in progress to further make use of ontologies to optimize this.
(meta)Data use vocabularies that follow FAIR principles.
By making use of standard ontologies this will indeed be the case.
(meta)Data include qualified references to other (meta)data.
Work in progress.
The goal of the PLAZA warehouse is to provide the PLAZA data to other frameworks (e.g. Galaxy) in order to speed up the deployment of new tools/data within those frameworks. The meta-data is standardized over all PLAZA instances in order for the service to be reusable for other frameworks.
(meta)Data have a plurality of accurate and relevant attributes.
Implemented. By making use of accurate and relevant meta-data, the requested data is quickly identified. Furthermore, each data file contains the necessary attributes to identify the content per file.
(meta)Data are released with a clear and accessible data usage license.
View the PLAZA data license.
(meta)Data are associated with their provenance.
We provide the data per PLAZA instance, and within each PLAZA instance we keep track of the genome versions that are used to produce the data. Furthermore, we intend to track additional information such as used software versions, dates/versions of external files (e.g. OBO files for Gene Ontology etc. ) in order to increase the provenance.
(meta)Data meet domain-relevant community standards.
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The Calling of Moses
‘God called to him out of the bush’ (Exodus 3,4b)
“Let me tell you the one thing I have against Moses. He took us forty years into the desert in order to bring us to the one place in the Middle East that has no oil!” (Golda Meir)
A person’s CV tells you a lot about them. Imagine reading this about a prospective employee - Political activist, Firebrand, Rabble-rouser, Urban Terrorist, Murderer, Fugitive from Justice - and yet this is the person God chose; this is Moses. So often we fast forward from the bay in the bulrushes to the encounter at the Burning Bush, yet those intervening years were crucial to the formation of Moses’ character; without having done what he had done Moses would not have been the person for the task for which God was to call him.
When somebody is appointed - is it the ‘best person’, or is it, ‘the best person for the job’? - Well, in this instance, Moses was ‘the best person for the task at hand’’ at least as far as God was concerned.
For Moses it was altogether different; all of a sudden he wasn’t half the man his back story suggested he was; all of a sudden he began to make all manner of excuses, each of which in turn God rebutted; it didn’t matter how Moses perceived himself, it was the perception God had of him that was far more important. It’s strange how for many people it’s all to do with talking themselves out of something, not so much to do with talking themselves into something. To go back to the way people get to be ‘appointed’ to a particular position; head-hunting is a common method of recruiting particularly to top positions, but even at a more trivial level it happens - sometimes the minister comes up to you and suggests that you might be the ideal person for this or that task within the life of the church, In such situations, what is your default position, to just say yes, or to immediately to begin to search for reasons, excuses, why it should not be you. ‘I can relate to Moses’ response to God’s call. He didn’t jump up with excitement and glee; his reaction to God’s call to go to Egypt was reluctant, sceptical, and even scared. He made up excuses for why he wasn’t the man for the job and even tried abdicating his job responsibilities.’ And Moses would prove to be difficult man to handle throughout the whole of the rest of his life, the end of which carries with it a sense of the bitter-sweetness that punctuated the whole of his working relationship with God. Having been disobedient to God, denying God’s promise, and defying God’s will, Moses was himself denied the opportunity to experience at first-hand his finest achievement; in the face of unbelievably difficult circumstances spanning near enough half a century, the wandering people of God arrived at the threshold of the Promised Land, and God took Moses up to the mountain to show him what lay ahead for the people, but he, himself was not to enter; he had to be content with the view from afar. And for many of us this will be our service for God, our experience in life; to go so far but no further, yet at the same time knowing that whilst we have come as far as we can, for those who journey through life with us, for those who will come after us, those who will go on ahead of us, who will achieve that of which we could only dream, their achievements will be built upon our efforts; the legacy which will be ours to bequeath is a future which is already taking shape according to our present efforts.
All that God requires of us in response of His claim upon our lives is that we stay faithful; no more, no less - we will be tempted and tested, accepted and rejected, affirmed and denied, welcomed and ignored, loved and hated; the whole panoply of life’s emotions will assail us - and all God asks of us is that we stay faithful because if we do not then the consequences both for us and for others is too awful to contemplate: ‘We all stand poised, every moment of time, on the cusp of these two faces of reality.
At every juncture of our lives we face a choice: Do we surrender to the anti-truth of happenstance? Or do we embrace the divine calling of meaningful life?’
But back to Moses, and the lessons we might learn from the story surrounding his being called by God. God sought out Moses, knowing the man he was, precisely because the man he had became made him the right man for the job. He was a man who had desired in his way to affect the liberation of his fellow Hebrews, enslaved as they were to the Egyptians. His way was not the way, but what he wished for revealed him to be somebody whom God could use. Today, many young men have misguidedly been seduced by an alien philosophy which purports to liberate an otherwise enslaved people when the reality is an altogether more barbaric enslavement. Even such as these God can use for good. It is beholden on the Christian Church to reach out to those who find themselves otherwise fatally compromised by what they are being taught that they too might hear the voice of God, not out of a burning bush, but in the person of Jesus. When Jesus speaks, no one is out of earshot, when Jesus calls, none can be deaf to His voice, when Jesus confronts us with a choice, we all have to choose. Those who ears to hear, let them hear… | <urn:uuid:fe747679-b98a-4379-b9e6-de735e7e6afe> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.hgsfreechurch.org.uk/sermons/the-calling-of-moses/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571911.5/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813081639-20220813111639-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.981133 | 1,219 | 2.484375 | 2 |
Every now and then the group wakes as much as movies on social media exhibiting individuals slaughtering unique animals, ingesting their blood, and consuming them uncooked or cooked. He ate it having fun with it, and from Qassim to the city of Al-Jarfiya, the place a earlier video unfold of a gaggle slaughtering a wolf after which consuming it uncooked. Slaughter it, pores and skin it and eat it.
Though these occasions are outdated and came about in earlier occasions, their repetition and their re-appearance within the public by a class that specialised in “disagreeing to know” for the sake of fame and pattern. Just a few days in the past, individuals circulated a video clip of well-known individuals in Riyadh bringing a kangaroo, slaughtering it after which cooking it within the Mandi approach. And regardless of the intervention of the Nationwide Middle for the Growth of Wildlife on the time, and an announcement expressed that what was filmed on this clip is a violation of the textual content of the environmental system, however its homeowners proceed to shock the group with the whole lot that’s opposite, photographing and publishing it in social media, and maybe the final of which is compressed the donkey. Al-Wahshi and the protagonists of his story are a gaggle of well-known snappers in Riyadh, once they cooked zebra meat compresses and introduced it in entrance of the digital camera to the followers, bragging about its style and consuming it.
Out there choices
Nasir Hamad Shaeri, a looking fanatic, revealed, “Many animals have been talked about within the Islamic Sharia texts by way of halal and haram, with students differing amongst them. Due to this fact, we relied on essentially the most right opinion in issues of looking previously, and that previously they have been pressured and hunted for want as a result of shortage of options. The opposite, however these days, the choices are many and out there from the meat of sheep, camels, cows and different fish and chickens, with out looking or hassle and hardship. Lately, those that boast about looking and chasing animals within the wilds, or bringing unique and unfamiliar animals into our society and consuming them as if they’re attaining achievements by photographing and publishing them on social media.”
Two phrases and two opinions
The Director of Iftaa within the Jazan area, Muhammad Shami Shaybah, defined that students have two opinions and opinions concerning the ruling on consuming crocodile meat. Crocodiles are amphibious animals that stay on land and sea, and students differed in regards to the ruling on consuming their meat. The hyena, he replied that the Messenger forbade each fanged animal and each fowl with a claw, besides that he permitted the hyena with its fangs and made a penalty for many who hunted it whereas it was a ram. Domesticated ass. | <urn:uuid:e8d34004-6144-4f6b-bbda-2628d35fb1ca> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://blinkpills.com/consuming-unique-animals-tempts-celebrities/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572043.2/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814143522-20220814173522-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.968296 | 613 | 1.734375 | 2 |
Machine maintenance is one of the important tasks for heat press machines.
The heat press machine contains several parts of a heat press and attaches print on the surface of the fabric. High pressure and high heat are always required for heat press machines requirement.
A 40 pounds heat press is the basic weight of a printing machine.
Horizontally pressure pressing, heat on the top metal plate with electric power, and temperature perfection with time set up is the most important setup for a heat press machine.
In this article, we will describe those three parts set up as heat press reset.
How to Reset a Heat Press Machine in 3 Easy Steps
1. Pressure Reset a Heat Press Machine
Once you are thinking of starting production, first and foremost, pressure setup is the most important thing.
Pressure settings come first about the startup of the machine. Heat press vinyl machines have some tools for giving pressure on your material.
Handle, pressure handling rod, and pressure knob is the basic part of the pressure section. Moving the pressure knob clockwise and the pressure rod from up to down you can adjust the pressure tension of the machine.
On the other hand, you can check with a heat transferring paper and fabric to push pressure on it and see the result. 25kpi to 30kpi would be the average pressure for the heat press machine.
2. Power Reset of HeatPress Machine
Power setup is one of the crucial parts of machine reset. For many reasons, Sometimes machines need to serve with power startup of electric supply.
Heat transfer vinyl machine, the heat is consumed in the top part of the platen. Again, for the desire temperature, you have to check the circuit panel frequently for printing production.
Screen printing r vinyl printing, no matter what your power supply always need to make sure from plug to the heat plate.
Excessive temperature is another reason of fuse your machine certainly. Every machine has a proper control panel to adjust current with voltage.
Proper temperature with specific guidance, you can get the best service from your heat press. 25Amp, 30Amp, 220-volt, 240-volt, 250 volt, fuses are the standard choice for heat press which is variable from machine to machine.
Press switch servicing is one of the important tools to service frequently.
3. Temperature and Timer Set Up
After power and pressure, it’s time to set up the heat temperature with a timer. In the heat press indicator value, the timer shows with seconds unit.
The temperature could be variable in Fahrenheit or Celsius. Your indicator light will give direction with green and red heating lights to stop heating the temperature of the machine.
310 to 360 Fahrenheit temperature can produce by a heat press machine within 90 seconds to 120 seconds.
Indicators digital display is available to show you the temperature and timer seconds for each change. This high heat needs to flow suitably in your printed fabric and heat press paper.
When you give pressure to the fabric with proper heat, a silicon rubber pad from the lower plate has to take all the pressure and also reflect some amount of heat back to the paper to melt the adhesive.
30-45 seconds time set an alarm is enough for fabric printing and 10-15 seconds require for cups, mugs, or other hard materials to print.
Like any other machine, the heat press machine needs to reset after a period. Before start reseat your machine, make sure you shut down all the switches, plugs, and electric supply. Part by part checking and in the end, you can start your machine.
The heat press machine setup is very convenient and easy. About screen printing heat-press, you have to be cautious about sublimation prints level.
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Original WRA caption: Granada Relocation Center, Amache, Colorado. Last of the residents of the Amache Relocation Center board the train at Granada for the journey to the west coast or to new homes elsewhere in the country. A total of nearly 15,000 evacuees were inducted into the Granada Project, Amache, Colorado, since August 27, 1942, when the first group arrived from the Merced Assembly Center to prepare the camp for those to follow. The Relocation Center, as its name implies, was a temporary residence for those of Japanese ancestry who were transferred from their homes along the west coast under a war emergency measure of 1942. Many of the evacuees during the past three years were able to resettle and find new homes in the Middle West and eastern states. From September 1, 1945, to the closing date of October 15, 3,105 persons have gone back to their former homes or have relocated elsewhere. The last to leave the center a group of 126, left on two special coaches for Sacramento and nearby towns. At the peak of its population, Amache had 7,567 residents. 412 births were recorded and 107 deaths during the three years of its existence.
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In the wake of the Grenfell tragedy, the fire industry had a duty to respond. Meaningful change was required and with the introduction of BS 8629:2019, as a matter of priority, the safe and effective egress of occupants within a building has been identified as critical to the success of any life-saving evacuation operation. Those responsible for the protection of high-rise residential buildings now have a new code of practice to adhere to.
Outcome of the Phase 1 report
A number of detailed and extensive recommendations for improving fire-safety measures in high-rise residential buildings were highlighted in the Phase 1 report of the Grenfell Tower fire. Included in those recommendations was the suggested legal requirement for owners and managers of high-rise residential buildings to provide fire and rescue services with a system allowing rescuers to send an evacuation signal to the whole or selected parts of the building.
Development of the standard
Taking a lead role in bringing this recommendation to fruition, the fire industry wanted to ensure that preventable incidents, such as Grenfell, were never repeated. BS 8629:2019 was therefore developed as the code of practice for the design, installation, commissioning and maintenance of evacuation alert systems for use by fire and rescue services in buildings containing flats.
In England, the code of practice recommendations are strongly advised for new buildings with a storey more than 18m above ground level containing flats and equally relevant as best practice for existing buildings too. In Scotland, the installation of evacuation alert control indicating equipment (EACIE) is now mandatory in tall buildings.
Ken Bullock, Advanced’s Business Development Manager for Evacuation Alert Systems said: ‘In developing the standard, industry bodies examined the outcome of the Grenfell Tower enquiry, recognising a failure in the fire and life safety measures of the building. Colin Todd, Managing Director at C.S. Todd & Associates Ltd, raised with the Scottish Government the need to have a way of communicating or signalling to all residents that the building is failing and the fire and rescue service need to get everybody out as quickly as possible. That then went into Scottish building standards.
‘Then on 30 October 2019 Sir Martin Moore-Bick published the Grenfell Tower enquiry Phase 1 report, which recommended that all high-rise residential buildings both already in existence and those built in future be equipped with facilities for use by the fire and rescue services enabling them to send an evacuation signal to the whole or selected part of the building by means of sounders or similar devices.’
Clear, efficient evacuation procedures form an important part of ensuring life safety, so any measures that can be put in place to support them, such as the development and publication of BS 8629 mark a critical turning point for the fire industry and fire and life safety at large.
In the past, when fires have occurred in a tall residential building with a ‘stay put policy’ in place, common practice was for fire and rescue services to only evacuate the occupants of the affected flat. On rare occasions, the occupants of nearby or adjacent flats would be evacuated too. Notification was by means of firefighters physically knocking on doors as there was no other effective way of alerting occupants.
When attending a fire incident, initial resources are ideally focused on firefighting. In cases where more widespread evacuation is necessary, having an evacuation alert system in place enables occupants of flats to be effectively alerted by the fire and rescue service’s incident commander without diverting efforts away from essential firefighting operations.
EACIE – independent from the fire system
Introduced following recommendations in the Grenfell Tower Enquiry Phase 1 report, EACIE is intended for the sole use of the fire and rescue service during firefighting and rescue operations. Evacuation alert systems are designed to help enable the phased evacuation of an area, floor or building in the safest possible way.
The code of practice stipulates that the evacuation alert system be entirely independent of a building’s fire-alarm system. This helps to avoid confusion over safe evacuation for residents until the concept and management of evacuation alert systems becomes well established and understood.
Ken Bullock commented: ‘The evacuation alert system is specifically designed for the sole use of the fire and rescue services. Just as they wouldn’t expect anybody to use a dry riser, this is the fire and rescue service’s system and it needs to be maintained appropriately so that it’s available for them to use at all times.
‘The other reason for this decision is that fire-alarm systems generally aren’t installed in the common parts of blocks of flats. Those responsible for the development of BS 8629 were concerned that if it was stipulated that the two systems did integrate, then that may open up the possibility of fire-alarm systems overriding the “stay put” strategies causing confusion with the evacuation strategies in the blocks of flats.’
Built on industry expertise
In developing its solution to meet BS 8629, Advanced understood the need to work in partnership with fire-industry experts in order to achieve maximum system performance, quality and ease of use while ensuring the code of practice was adhered to.
Advanced consulted with the standard’s authors to refine aspects of the product’s appearance, functionality and operation to ensure full compliance. Beyond this, the UK manufacturer opted to build its evacuation alert system, EvacGo, using its industry-leading MxPro 5 fire panel components, providing the added assurance for installers and building owners that their sites would be protected with robust and proven technology that’s been rigorously tested to EN 54 parts 2 and 4 as recommended in BS 8629. In addition, the devices supplied as part of the EvacGo system have been approved to BS EN54 Part 13. Third-party test certification to the standard provides additional peace of mind.
Necessity of security
Discussing the importance of security in developing the standard and subsequently proposed EACIE, Ken Bullock, added: ‘The authors of the standard worked with Secure by Design from the MET Police and Gerda to look at the different standards and the different elements of security. In doing this they wanted to secure against unauthorised use or casual vandalism and didn’t want the controls to be seen, and the security enclosure could feature no glass panels as they felt that this would be inviting.’
For its STS 205-rated enclosure, Advanced again followed BS 8629 guidance to the letter, partnering with leading fire and security manufacturer, Gerda, to ensure maximum security for this powerful and vital life safety equipment. The BR2 attack rating for the security box restricts access to the fire brigade using innovative key management technology – a patented key dedicated to just that enclosure – as stipulated in the code of practice. Only registered key holders can request another key for their box, which can be done only via authorised channels meeting BS EN1303.
Custom manufacture to cater for individual building requirements
The design of each evacuation alert panel is based on the number of evacuation alert zones required in the building where it will be used. But why is this important? Evacuation alert systems are particularly critical in larger and more complex buildings where the fire and rescue service may decide to evacuate all of the flats on one (or more) storey(s), or only one part of a single storey containing many flats.
To support these scenarios, the building needs to be divided into a number of individual evacuation alert zones. This ensures that evacuation alert device status in one zone is independent of the status of evacuation alert devices in all other zones. By grouping evacuation alert devices in this way, occupants of one zone required to leave the building can be told to do so without alerting occupants in areas required to ‘stay put’. To support this ability, it’s important that the evacuation alert signal in one evacuation alert zone is not readily audible in any other evacuation alert zone.
Each EvacGo is assembled by Advanced’s bespoke manufacturing service, AdSpecials. They are built to individual specifications according to each building’s evacuation alert zones as agreed with the local fire and rescue service and in accordance with the code of practice. The panels are available in 8, 16, 24 or 32 ‘firefighter evacuation alert area’ variants and are expandable from 1 to 4 loops – or even further, when using Advanced’s highly robust, fault-tolerant network.
For installers, landlords and local authorities, delivering the requirements of any new code of practice can be daunting. In establishing the suitability of installing an evacuation alert system within high-rise residential premises, it is key to ensure consultation with the local fire and rescue service takes place. Once suitability is established, it is crucial that the solution specified meets the recommendations set out in BS 8629 by delivering trusted and reliable protection, offering versatility to meet the building’s current and future fire-protection needs, all while being securely contained to the prevent tampering or vandalism of this crucial life-safety system.
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Unions fight-back legislation in Nova Scotia
Hundreds of union members from across the province descended on opening day of the Nova Scotia Legislature on September 21, 2017. The workers, from several public sector unions, drowned out the Throne Speech being given inside at the same time. They sent a message to the McNeil Liberal Government that we will defend collective bargaining rights. “The unions will be around a lot longer than this Liberal Government!”
- See photos of the rally on Flickr.
Organized by the Nova Scotia Federation of Labour, CUPE was joined by members of Unifor, the Nova Scotia Government and General Employees Union (NSGEU), the Nova Scotia Nurses Union (NSTU), the Nova Scotia Teachers’ Union (NSTU), the Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW), Service Employees International Union (SEIU), IUOE Local 727 (paramedics), and the Canadian Federation of Students.
Three national union leaders joined provincial leaders to speak at the event. CUPE National President Mark Hancock led the packed agenda that also included Larry Brown, NUPGE president; and Jerry Dias, Unifor president. Other speakers included Alex Furlong, Canadian Labour Congress; Gary Burrill, leader of the NS New Democrats; and CUPE NS President Nan McFadgen.
“We’re here to send a message,” said Hancock. “We will take you on at the bargaining table. We will take you on in the courts. And by god, we’ll take you on in the streets.”
- Watch Mark’s speech.
Highlights of the rally included “Stomping Steve” cut-outs that hovered over the crowd of workers and the sea of CUPE pink t-shirts and banners. The Dixie Dogs (a local, unionized six-piece band) provided music for the event, led by NS Federation of Labour President Danny Cavanagh. The rally was briefly suspended so that a military procession, which traditionally opens the Legislature before all Throne speeches, could respectfully be given thoroughfare to march through the streets of the rally.
Since 2013, public sector workers including teachers, nurses, school board and child care workers, civil servants, the arts community and many others – more than 70,000 workers – have been subjected to unrelenting interference in the collective bargaining process by the Liberal government.
On August 22, 2017, the Liberal government proclaimed Bill 148 that imposes a wage package and freezes a negotiated benefit known as the retirement allowance or service award. This benefit is eliminated for all new hires post April 2015. On September 8, 2017, the unions filed a request to be added as parties at the Nova Scotia Court of Appeal.
The McNeil Liberal Government has introduced or proclaimed seven pieces of legislation in its ongoing attack on unions.
The Health Authorities Act restructured the health care system, unnecessarily reduced the number of bargaining units, and attempted to assign union representation rights.
Trade Union Act amendments made it harder for workers to exercise their right to unionize and secure first collective agreements.
The Essential Home Support Services Act directly interfered in the collective bargaining of home support workers.
The Essential Health and Community Services Act limits job action rights of more than 40,000 workers in acute care, long term care, group homes, home support, child protection and other sectors.
The Teachers’ Professional Agreement and Classroom Improvement Act imposes a collective agreement on teachers after they rejected the contract terms three times.
The Universities Accountability and Sustainability Act allows universities to override collective agreements during five-year “revitalization” periods.
The Public Services Sustainability Act freezes and limits wage increases, sets the term of collective agreements and puts an end to long-service awards.
These attacks on public sector workers are unfair and likely unconstitutional. They’ll also do serious damage to the economy.
The wage restraint sections of Bill 148 are wage restraints, not imposed economic increases. For example, the economic increase in the third year cannot be more than one per cent, meaning in theory something less could be negotiated, but nothing greater. The retirement allowance, a freely negotiated benefit, is being unfairly taken without being offset and in effect takes wages from members that have been deferred until retirement.
These wage restraints will reduce purchasing power as the rising cost of living outpaces wage gains. Better wages are necessary to get the economy growing and reduce inequality.
There is a better way
There are steps the Nova Scotia government can take to put people first, protect the public services we need, create good jobs and a stronger economy.
The Liberal Government should recognize the public sector as a driver of economic growth. Top quality health care and education are important industries, not a drain on society.
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Your health impacts your team and the success of your business as a whole. Here are a few ways getting healthy can positively affect you and your organization.
Do these scenarios sound familiar? You’ve got a meeting in the afternoon, so you decide to work through lunch rather than take a break. You skip the gym to finish up a client proposal and stay up late to cram in some extra work. Staying healthy is hard for everyone, but it’s especially challenging for entrepreneurs. You might feel guilty taking time for yourself to work on anything that doesn’t add to your business’s bottom line, but your health isn’t just about you. As the leader of your company, it affects your employees and the success of your business. Here are just a few ways getting healthy can positively affect you and your team:
1. Less stress means better decision-making. According to a Gallup poll, 45 percent of entrepreneurs report feeling stress “yesterday.” Studies show that stress can inhibit decision-making and impair judgment–a sure recipe for disaster. Luckily, exercise has been shown to decrease the harmful effects of stress.
2. Mindfulness reduces your risk of burnout. Scientists have found that exercise can also increase mindfulness, which improves your mood, concentration, and sleep quality. A recent study showed an increase in mindfulness also decreases anxiety, depression, and burnout, specifically among business leaders and entrepreneurs.
3. A healthier you equals a healthier team. Everyone knows exercise helps your immune system fight off certain illnesses. Not only will you bring less sickness into your office, but you’ll also set a good example for your employees. By making your own health a priority, you give your team permission to take care of themselves, too.
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