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What if a drug target and a drug synthesis site were one and the same? Such a biochemical twofer would essentially turn a diseased cell into a reaction vessel. A neat trick, to be sure. More important it would, potentially, evade an all-too-familiar problem—the tradeoff between low molecular weight therapeutics (which offer higher permeability) and high molecular weight therapeutics (which offer higher potency).
Deploying the curious term “in cellulo,” researchers at The Scripps Research Institute report that they have used a chemical approach to turn diseased cells into unique manufacturing sites for molecules that can treat a form of muscular dystrophy. The chemical approach, a form of click chemistry, allowed the researchers to transform small molecules into potent, multivalent ligands by a reaction that was catalyzed by the very RNA defect that caused the disease.
The researchers published their findings August 27 in the journal Angewandte Chemie, in an article entitled, “A Toxic RNA Catalyzes the In Cellulo Synthesis of Its Own Inhibitor.”
“Small molecule modules with precisely positioned alkyne and azide moieties bind adjacent internal loops in r(CCUG)exp, the causative agent of myotonic dystrophy type 2 (DM2),” wrote the authors, who added that the small modules were “transformed into oligomeric, potent inhibitors of DM2 RNA dysfunction by a Huisgen 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition reaction.”
This reaction, the researchers noted, is a variant of click chemistry, a process invented by Nobel laureate K. Barry Sharpless, a chemist at TSRI, to quickly produce substances by attaching small units or modules together in much the same way this occurs naturally. “In my opinion,” said TSRI professor and study leader Matthew Disney, Ph.D., “this is one unique and a nearly ideal application of the process Sharpless and his colleagues first developed.”
“Because the treatment is synthesized only in diseased cells, the compounds could provide highly specific therapeutics that only act when a disease is present,” Dr. Disney continued. “This means we can potentially treat a host of conditions in a very selective and precise manner in totally unprecedented ways.”
In the current study, the inhibitory assembly turned out to be 1,000 times more potent than the modular, small molecule precursors and 100 times more potent than the research team’s most active lead compound. The study, according to research associate Suzanne Rzuczek, Ph.D., marked the first time such an approach was validated in live cells.
Given the predictability of the process and the nearly endless combinations, translating such an approach to cellular systems could be enormously productive, Disney explained. RNAs make ideal targets because they are modular, just like the compounds for which they provide a molecular template.
Not only that, he added, but many similar RNAs cause a host of incurable diseases such as ALS (Lou Gehrig's Disease), Huntington's disease, and more than 20 others for which there are no known cures, making this approach a potential route to develop lead therapeutics to this large class of debilitating diseases. | <urn:uuid:71511e9c-7fee-4c07-a487-515cc315cd79> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.genengnews.com/topics/drug-discovery/diseased-cells-made-to-synthesize-their-own-drug/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571538.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812014923-20220812044923-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.945857 | 676 | 2.796875 | 3 |
A Pilgrim Path - John Bunyan's JourneyAuthor: Cook, Faith
Publisher: Evangelical Press (through Ten Of Those)
Details: This is a well-paced and accessible biography that will appeal to every reader. It is more than just a biography: this is a story told so that the Lord Jesus Christ is glorified and the reader can find encouragement for their own pilgrim path. Bunyan suffered in many ways and his own words express best the message this book brings: (God) can make those things that in themselves are most fearful and terrible to behold, the most pleasant, delightful and desirable things. He can make a goal more beautiful than a palace... He can so sweeten our sufferings with the honey of his word... and make them so easy by the spreading of his feathers over us that we shall not be able to say that in all the world a more comfortable position can be found.
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Date of Award
Master of Arts (MA)
Dr. Glen Newkirk
Since man has lived in some semblance of organized society, whether banding together out of need for protection or for fellowship, he has felt a need for some form of government. Who rules? How is he selected? What powers does he have? What are his obligations to his subjects? In many primitive societies, such decisions were made on the basis of strength and brutality, which the victor becoming the ruler until someone stronger could grasp authority for himself, only to struggle consistently to remain in power. In many cases the oldest person ruled, judged to be the wisest by virtue of age, thus forming a patriarchal society. In all cases, the struggle for power is an inherent problem when a group of people live together, and if follows that systems of government become more complicated as the social structure of groups becomes more intricate.
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Go (Weiqi, Baduk) is . . . an ancient board game which takes simple elements: line and circle, black and white, stone and wood, combines them with simple rules and generates subtleties which have enthralled players for millennia. Go's appeal does not rest solely on its Asian, metaphysical elegance, but on practical and stimulating features in the design of the game.
Go's few rules can be demonstrated quickly and grasped easily. The game is enjoyable played over a wide spectrum of skills. Each level of play has it charms, rewards and discoveries. A unique and reliable system of handicapping bring many more players "into range" for an equal contest. Draws are rare, and a typical game retains a fluidity and dynamism far longer than comparable games. An early mistake can be made up, used to advantage, or reversed as the game progresses. There is no simple procedure to turn a clear lead into a victory -- only continued good play. The game rewards patience and balance over aggression and greed; the balance of influence and territory may shift many times in the course of a game, and a strong player must be prepared to be flexible but resolute. Go thinking seems more lateral than linear, less dependent on logical deduction, and more reliant on a "feel" for the stones, a "sense" of shape, a gestalt perception of the game.
Beyond being merely a game, Go can take on other meanings to its devotees: an analogy for life, an intense meditation, a mirror of one's personality, and exercise in abstract reasoning, a mental "workout" or, when played well, a beautiful art in which black and white dance in delicate balance across the board. But most important for all who play, Go, as a game, is challenging and fun.
Go combines beauty and intellectual challenge. In Asia, it is often played on a traditional, carved wooden board, with black and white stones made from slate and clamshell, but good affordable equipment is also available. In either case, the patterns formed by the black and white stones are visually striking and can exercise an almost hypnotic attraction as one "sees" more and more in the constantly evolving positions.
The game appeals to many kinds of minds -- to musicians and artists, to mathematicians and computer programmers, to entrepreneurs and options traders. Children learn the game readily and can reach high levels of mastery.
Because go lends itself to a uniquely reliable system of handicaps, players of widely disparate strengths can enjoy relatively even contests.
Thanks to our national association the American Go Association for the above.
The best way to learn to play is in person with more experienced players. You can find places to play locally in DC on our Calendar. The AGA club listing is a good way to find places to play across the US.
Below are a few of the many good resources that can be found online for Go:
Learning to Play
• Sensei's Library is a Wiki for Go with many great pages. A good place to start is this single page covering the basic rules of Go. After you study this page you will know how to play Go!
• A convenient way to learn is this nicely produced introductory video by Goshawk Heron. Besides the rules you will learn some of the history and terminology of the game.
Improving Your Play
• Nick Sibicky at the Seattle Go Center has produced hundreds of video lectures with lots of material for beginning players. This is a terrific way to rapidly improve.
• Stephanie Yin and Ryan Li are professional Go players at the New York Institute of Go. They have been producing great video content for players of all levels with plenty for beginners.
There are numerous sites where you can play Go online and get matched with someone at a similar level across the globe. This includes both real-time play and correspondence play (a move made each time a player logs in). Some popular sites include:
• Online Go Server (OGS)
• Pandanet (IGS)
• KGS Go Server
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Course Number and Title: ELC 206 Computer Networks and Systems II
This course is a continuation of data communications and computer network principles and applications in which students configure, troubleshoot, and secure networks and related peripherals.
USB flash-drive for lab work and Internet access
- Explain the characteristics of network support and management. (CCC 2, 3, 4, 5; PGC 1, 2)
- Explain the concepts of basic network security. (CCC 2, 3, 4, 5; PGC 1, 2)
- Implement and administer network security. (CCC 2, 3, 4, 5; PGC 1, 2)
- Explain networking operating systems and server based networking. (CCC 2, 3, 4, 5; PGC 1, 2)
- Describe the basic concepts of networking with Unix/Linux operating systems. (CCC 2, 3, 4, 5; PGC 1, 2)
- Secure networks using cryptograph techniques. (CCC 2, 3, 4, 5; PGC 1, 2)
- Employ environmental controls to prevent network disruptions. (CCC 2, 3, 4, 5; PGC 1, 2)
See Core Curriculum Competencies and Program Graduate Competencies at the end of the syllabus. CCPOs are linked to every competency they develop.
Upon completion of this course, the student will:
- Explain the characteristics of network support and management.
- Explain network and project management.
- Describe the use of hardware and software troubleshooting tools.
- Explain the troubleshooting process, backups, and baselines.
- Explain performance and fault management.
- Perform network monitoring to identify performance and connectivity issues.
- Explain the concepts of basic network security.
- Give examples of network security concerns.
- Identify the characteristics of a firewall, proxy server, and antivirus software.
- Resolve security problems using firewalls, routers, switches, hubs, and modems.
- Prepare an effective security policy.
- Examine the issues involved in network operating system security.
- Differentiate between wired and wireless network security.
- Implement and administer network security.
- Explain different data formats used to present and secure data.
- Use security configuration and analysis tools to analyze and configure local system security.
- Design and build secure networks using simulation software.
- Use a network analyzer to troubleshoot and analyze data on a network.
- Explain networking operating systems and server based networking.
- Describe the Windows Server memory model.
- Describe the Windows Server file systems.
- Explain the Microsoft memory console (MMC).
- Explain the active directory.
- Install and configure server software.
- Create group and user accounts.
- Harden the network against common attacks like back door, spoofing, replay, man-in-the-middle, transmission control protocol/Internet protocol (TCP/IP), hijacking, and password guessing attacks.
- Protect the network from viruses, Trojan horses, logic bombs, and worms.
- Describe the basic concepts of networking with Unix/Linux operating systems.
- Explain Unix/Linux multiprocessing.
- Explain the Unix/Linux kernel.
- Explain the Unix/Linux memory model.
- Explain the Unix/Linux file and directory structure.
- Use basic Unix/Linux commands using command line interface.
- Explain file permissions.
- Write simple shell scripts.
- Configure Linux.
- Explain Linux administration.
- Setup groups and users.
- Secure networks using cryptograph techniques.
- Describe hash, symmetric, and asymmetric cryptographic algorithms.
- Explain the various ways in which cryptography is used.
- Define digital certificates.
- Explain the various types of digital certificates and how they are used.
- Describe the components of public key infrastructure (PKI).
- Describe the tasks associated with key management.
- Describe the different transport encryption algorithms.
- Employ environmental controls to prevent network disruptions.
- Describe the components of redundancy planning.
- Describe disaster recovery procedures.
- Describe incident response procedures.
- Explain how to control risk.
- Explain types of security policies.
- Describe how awareness and training can provide increased security.
The grade will be determined using the Delaware Tech grading system:
Students should refer to the Student Handbook for information on the Academic Standing Policy, the Academic Integrity Policy, Student Rights and Responsibilities, and other policies relevant to their academic progress.
- Apply clear and effective communication skills.
- Use critical thinking to solve problems.
- Collaborate to achieve a common goal.
- Demonstrate professional and ethical conduct.
- Use information literacy for effective vocational and/or academic research.
- Apply quantitative reasoning and/or scientific inquiry to solve practical problems.
- Perform the duties of an entry-level technician using the skills, modern tools, theory, and techniques of the electronics engineering technology.
- Design or improve electrical/electronics systems using critical thinking, theoretical knowledge, and practical understanding.
- Conduct, analyze, and interpret experiments using analysis tools and troubleshooting methods.
- Demonstrate basic management, organizational, and leadership skills.
- Explain the importance of engaging in self-directed continuing professional development.
The College is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for students with disabilities. Students are encouraged to schedule an appointment with the campus Disabilities Support Counselor to request an accommodation needed due to a disability. A listing of campus Disabilities Support Counselors and contact information can be found at the disabilities services web page or visit the campus Advising Center. | <urn:uuid:71d06474-61ee-4297-86f7-fca167e1a661> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://syllabi.dtcc.edu/syllabus/elc-206 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571911.5/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813081639-20220813111639-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.779635 | 1,226 | 2.984375 | 3 |
All four of the class HGe 2/2 locomotive delivered in 1916 immediately assumed the task of pulling electric trains on the 3.75 km / 2.34 mile long Schöllen Railroad. After the Schöllen Railroad was merged into the Furka-Oberalp Railroad, these quaint electric locomotives were painted in the color and lettering scheme of the FO.
Not one of these interesting units has been preserved.
The LGB model has been given a new road number and machine number. It is very high quality, and prototypically painted and lettered. It can be run with adhesion drive as well as with rack drive. It has an MTS decoder, a selector switch for the mode of operation, headlights that change over with the direction of travel, and cab lighting. The engineer's cab doors can be opened.
The model also has a powerful Bühler motor, working catenary operation, a voltage limiting system, 2 general-purpose sockets with a locking feature, and 8 electrical pickups. The car set to go with this locomotive can be found in the LGB assortment (LGB item number 36641). And, with the LGB rack system (item numbers 10210, 10220) you can overcome steep grades prototypically. Length over the buffers approximately 28.5 cm / 11-1/4". | <urn:uuid:91d42744-25f4-4d19-828d-3c40883a8775> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.lgb.com/products/details/article/23460/136?tx_torrpdb_pi1%5Bavailable_only%5D=0&tx_torrpdb_pi1%5Bbacklink%5D=136&tx_torrpdb_pi1%5Bcatalog%5D=1320&tx_torrpdb_pi1%5Bera%5D=0&tx_torrpdb_pi1%5Bfeature%5D=0&tx_torrpdb_pi1%5Bgaugechoice%5D=0&tx_torrpdb_pi1%5Bgroupchoice%5D=0&tx_torrpdb_pi1%5Bnewonly%5D=0&tx_torrpdb_pi1%5Bpage%5D=1&tx_torrpdb_pi1%5Bperpage%5D=10&tx_torrpdb_pi1%5Bsearchres%5D=1&tx_torrpdb_pi1%5Bsearchstring%5D=&tx_torrpdb_pi1%5Bsearch_artnum%5D=&tx_torrpdb_pi1%5Bsubgroupchoice%5D=0&cHash=c7a71f350ec30b1cb18f21be973ee441 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571911.5/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813081639-20220813111639-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.951419 | 279 | 1.828125 | 2 |
Michael D. Moberly, Intangible Asset Strategist & Risk Specialist
When challenges – risks to a business’s mission essential intangible assets materialize, adversely affecting the products, services, and outcomes of developed intellectual, relationship, and/or structural capital, they often do so asymmetrically, and @ keystroke (social media) speeds.
The adverse effects of risk to business things intangible, can, when left unrecognized, unchecked, and/or ineffectively mitigated, unsympathetically cascade throughout an enterprise to undermine various other revenue generating – competitive advantage intangible assets, often irreversibly.
And, once risks to business things intangible materialize, seldom can the targeted – affected assets be retrieved fully intact.
Risk to business intangible assets, oblige leadership and management teams to not presume the compromised assets’ contributory roles, value, and competitive advantages (to a business’s value, revenue generation capacity, reputation, brand, goodwill, and sustainability, etc.) can be readily replicated, repurposed, or re-applied w/o incurring significant effort, cost, and (asset specific) risk mitigation.
- Especially now, under the increasingly sensitive scrutiny of more risk intelligent – risk adverse buyers, consumers, and potential advertisers.
Absent operational familiarity with business things intangible,
- in today’s aggressively predatorial, globally competitive, go fast – go hard, winner-take-all business-innovation (development, trade, and transaction) environments,
- vulnerabilities + risk probabilities to mission essential intangible assets risk can quickly transition to inevitabilities and materialize to be irrevocably detrimental to business value, competitive advantage, brand, reputation, and revenue generation capability.
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The Isle of Man has unveiled two initiatives that give significant focus to blockchain technology as part of the island’s “Digital Isle of Man” project, namely the establishment of a Blockchain Office and Blockchain Sandbox, this according to an article published February 5, 2019.
Situated between Great Britain and Ireland, the independent British Crown dependency has been “involved with blockchain since 2012” when cryptocurrencies had made their way to there. Since then, the island has open-mindedly sought to leverage the technology for public services, healthcare, financial services and a whole lot more.
Like many other self-governing jurisdictions, the Isle of Man has drawn inspiration from Malta, Estonia, and Gibraltar who in their words have “pushed ahead with blockchain activity.” Seemingly, the Isle of Man believes that appropriate regulation and legislation are critical factors required to not only compete with these nations as a superior digitized jurisdiction but also succeed in its endeavor to be an attractive location for budding blockchain enterprise through robust digital innovation.
Isle of Blockchain
As written on their official website, the Blockchain Office and Sandbox have been created to “guide blockchain businesses through current (and future) regulatory landscapes, with expert-led assistance and support.”
More specifically, the Blockchain Office is a dedicated hub for blockchain sector growth; primarily, it will function as a medium of “dialogue between businesses and regulators” with the intent to also future-proof blockchain platforms and concepts. Additionally, it will “provide expertise, guidance, and marketing support, as well as facilitate and encourage collaboration between companies.”
The Isle of Man Blockchain Sandbox is a means to facilitate an experimental environment in which businesses can freely create and test their blockchain platforms. Applications for the sandbox will open March 2019, and will undergo a rigorous selection process to make sure that only the crème de la crème are chosen, “as the Island seeks to create a ‘centre of excellence’ ecosystem.”
Speaking on the development, Lyle Wraxall, CEO of Digital Isle of Man commented:
“With the launch of the Blockchain Office and Sandbox, the Isle of Man is making a firm commitment to be a fully supportive jurisdiction for the blockchain industry. We are looking to attract premium blockchain businesses and the world’s top exchanges to the Island, and we will be creating new tech-agnostic regulation inspired by best practice that we’ve seen from other high-quality jurisdictions around the world.”
Cryptocurrency Regulation and Beyond
Last November, the island’s financial regulator, the Isle of Man Financial Services Authority (IOMFSA), announced a revision to its registration policy for cryptocurrency related business operations, which at the time were already preferable for crypto projects as laws surrounding initial coin offerings (ICOs), taxes and other facets were considerably easy and accommodating.
Furthermore, the Isle of Man has been home to several major industry players since 2013, including the likes of CoinCorner, a cryptocurrency exchange, and Quanta, which touts itself as the “first fully licensed blockchain lottery in the world.”
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12 Volt TRIAC dimmable constant voltage LED driver for powering our 12 Volt LED globes on your lighting system. When using 12V LED’s for a bathroom solution choose a driver with enough power to cover the total wattage required. You should consult an electrician prior to ordering to make sure you have the correct driver for the task.
We manufacture 12 Volt LED’s for use where low voltage is required in areas of where fittings might come into contact with water. These globes require a constant voltage, supplied by a separate LED driver. These TRIAC dimmable LED drivers provide a retrofittable dimming solution, since the existing switch and dimmer can be used to control dimming of these low voltage globes. In fact, they can be used with either leading edge or trailing edge dimmers.
These drivers are designed to be used with leading edge or trailing edge dimmers wired on the 240V side.
Traditional TRIAC dimmers, also known as phase-cut dimmers, were designed for resistive loads such as incandescent or halogen lights. Originally configured as leading edge, they were the standard dimmers used, and so in legacy situations, there will most likely be a TRIAC dimmer installed. Unfortunately, these leading edge dimmers are not readily compatible with modern LED globes, as LEDs do not appear as a resistive load. Therefore, LED based solutions using a standard style LED driver will not perform as expected with a TRIAC wall dimmer. For example, our retrofit 240 Volt LED’s require a trailing edge dimmer as a replacement for the traditional dimmer. | <urn:uuid:8bbf317e-bf74-4152-bd02-67c81a5cb2b3> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://edisonlightglobes.com/Shop/shop/hardware/led-drivers/12-volt-triac-dimmable-constant-voltage-led-driver/?ph=b01ae608b5bb3ad1c04cebe3 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571911.5/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813081639-20220813111639-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.925158 | 344 | 1.585938 | 2 |
Selecting A Dust Particles Bike Standards To Take Into Factor
It may be a challenging job deciding on the ideal kind of bike for you. How much do you would like to spend, what measurements bike should you get, what brand name, what design of riding do you want to enter into?
3 of the best usual errors people create are:
When they have little technical knowledge, Buying a higher routine maintenance bike
Acquiring a bike that is greater than they can take care of as a newbie
Purchasing a bike that will be outgrown too rapidly
The initial thing you need to carry out is ask on your own some inquiries:
What is your spending plan?
Are you wanting to buy a new bike or an utilized one? You may help make some huge discounts through buying a used bike, yet there are actually some points you require to become aware of. I enter even more information in my blog post: Just how To Acquire A Made Use Of Dirt Bike-- What To Look Out For
There are many advantages in purchasing from a supplier including receiving a service warranty, after-sales service, financing as well as insurance coverage, and also occasionally a 'Ceasefire agreement' if you're in Australia. If buying from a dealer, will you be actually paying for cash or even loan? It might be important to buy brand-new or near new if you are using finance for the acquisition.
If you are actually financing, it's very easy to invest additional than you intended. Don't forget, you still have extra gear to buy. It's important to consider all the added prices connected with your dirt bike. Factors like using equipment, a bike trailer or even snag provider, tie-downs, tools all accumulate, read this.
What sort of terrain will you ride very most?
The initial element listed here to take into consideration is whether you wish to ride when driving likewise or even utilize the bike entirely for off-road use.
If you are using while driving, what amount would certainly you predict in on-road/off-road? If the large a large number is offroad and you just ride on the road to get to the following dirt route, an Enduro style bike might be preferable, with simply low lighting and instrumentation to make it street legal.
What Dimension Bike?
While it is essential to not go extremely big and also powerful at the starting point, it is actually likewise essential to deny one thing you will begin and also be actually searching for another thing in 6 months. Motocross, Enduro, as well as Twin Sporting activity bikes vary coming from 125cc around regarding 650cc.
A 250cc two-stroke bike possesses about the exact same electrical power as a 450cc four-stroke, as a result of the simple fact that a two-stroke fires two times as frequently as a four-stroke. I've quickly illustrated the two-stroke/four-stroke distinctions listed below at No. 5, but the arm-wrenching powerband of a two-stroke might certainly not be as ideal to find out on as the four-stroke.
One more variable to consider is your own elevation, body weight, as well as stamina. Select a bike that matches your frame.
How much mechanical knowledge perform you possess?
When picking a bike, this is actually most definitely one thing to maintain in thoughts. If you're certainly not quite mechanically minded and also prefer to fall the bike right into a seminar for a solution, you are much better looking at a brand-new or even near brand new bike which is much less likely to provide you problems other than the standard periodic maintenance.
If you are actually confident in doing the essentials, like oil changes as well as shutoff open space modifications (on a four-stroke), chain change, air filter cleansing, tire modifications, etc, you can spare yourself a ton of amount of money. Dirt Bikes are actually a great deal even more complex at presents, along with water air conditioning units, hydraulic disc brakes, fuel treatment, as well as entirely adjustable long-travel suspension.
Two-Stroke Or Even Four-Stroke?
This is an old-time concern, and also everyone possesses a viewpoint. It is a vital inquiry when selecting a bike, there are benefits and drawbacks of each, visit here.
If you're brand-new to dirt cycling, The short answer is actually:
The four-stroke has an even more flexible and expected powerband, is easier and much less exhausting to ride, however they are actually heavier, need more maintenance like oil adjustments and also valve space changes, and are more pricey to fix.
The two-stroke has the a lot more stylish energy band, is actually lighter, even more agile, much cheaper to restore and also buy, however are actually noisier, much more polluting, and also demand a bit much more capability with your throttle control as well as gearwheel modifications to inhibit the narrower powerband. | <urn:uuid:4f0f3f84-0703-41e9-884d-237c5ed81c98> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://wikiwiki.empires.adventuring.click/wikiwiki/index.php?title=Selecting_A_Dust_Particles_Bike_Standards_To_Take_Into_Factor | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572043.2/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814143522-20220814173522-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.968569 | 1,023 | 1.5 | 2 |
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Mining, metallurgy, construction, chemical, cement, refractory material, ceramics, etc.Applicable Material
Limestone, granite, marble, basalt, iron ore, river pebble, shale, lapis, coal, cobblestone, construction waste, etc.
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I’ll water the plant a few days before & then plant it into this mix. I leave the rootball up a bit because it’ll eventually sink down into this light mix. I keep it dry for 3-10 days while it’s settling in & then water thoroughly. You want your succulents to dry between waterings, especially cacti. More on succulents here.
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What they are saying about
Parked at the Mansfields'
Peters Township Book Club
"We loved all the Pittsburgh references."
5 out of 5 Stars
Review by Mildred Tilley. Librarian and proud 'Janeite.'
Perhaps two key reasons 21st century readers continue to enjoy the works of early 19th century novelist, Jane Austen, are that Austen’s novels are intricately but believably plotted and the characters she imagined have similar psychological traits to individuals everyone recognizes in their friends today. In Parked at the Mansfields': A Modern Twist of Jane Austen’s Mansfield Park, Sandy Ward Bell models many of Austen’s classic plot devices as well as uses the essential nature of characters Austen devised in Mansfield Park to produce a contemporary chick-lit novel satirizing the lives of rich, idle 21st century suburbanites. Moreover, Bell adds a few additional characters and a major plot twist to ensure that readers who are already familiar with Mansfield Park, will have some surprises coming their way.
There are numerous parallels between Bell’s heroine, Franny Price, and Austen’s Fanny Price. Both are intelligent young women who are psychologically abused and demeaned by an unfeeling, selfish aunt. Each one is a “good girl” but stiff, shy and somewhat passive, making her an unlikely heroine. As in Austen’s novel, Bell has her Franny fall in love with a kind and caring “Eddie” who is quite similar the “Edmund” in Mansfield Park.
Bell also weaves a number of direct quotations from Mansfield Park into her contemporary story as well as includes small details (i.e. Aunt Mary’s coffee addiction instead of her mirror character’s addiction to laudanum) from Austen’s novel that are juicy literary allusions for hard-core Janeites.
Make no mistake, Parked at the Mansfields' diverges greatly from the sensibilities of Austen mainly because it is a fully contemporary novel with explicit dialogue about teenage sex, profanity, college rejection, drug and alcohol abuse as well as descriptions of over-the-top teenage partying that is rampant today. There are cougars prowling in this novel as well as conversations on Skype, not across a drawing room.
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Encyclopedia Brittanica defines realpolitik as "politics based on practical objectives rather than on ideals. … A pragmatic, no-nonsense view and a disregard for ethical considerations. In diplomacy it is often associated with relentless, though realistic, pursuit of the national interest."
The current political triangle made up of Turkey, the Islamic State and the Kurds in the Middle East is a textbook example of realpolitik in its rawest form. After almost four years of turning a blind eye to the flow of IS fighters and supplies across the southern Turkish border into northern Syria, Turkey finally declared an all-out campaign against IS, including the allowing of U.S. fighter jets to fly out of the Incirlik Air base in bombing raids against IS.
But all is not as it seems.
The Turkish about-face on IS seemingly came after more than 30 pro-Kurdish activists, volunteering at a Syrian refugee resettlement center, were killed in a bomb blast in the Turkish town of Suruc, believed to be carried out by an affiliate of IS. For Turkey, this was an unacceptable breach of its sovereignty. In addition, anything short of a severe response by Turkey would have further stoked increasing suspicion in Western capitals about Turkey's tolerance of IS.
The Kurds were not buying what the Turks were selling, however. They accused the Turkish government of aiding IS, something the Turkish government denies, and therefore responsible for the deaths. Kurdish retaliation began at the end of July when an armed wing of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) killed two Turkish police officers in retaliation for the death of the pro-Kurdish activists.
The PKK, considered a terrorist organization by the U.S. and Turkey, has fought a 30-year long insurgency in Turkey for Kurdish rights with tens of thousands killed in the conflict, although there had been a two-year ceasefire in effect. Now, it seems a new round of conflict has begun.
The conflict escalated on August 10 with PKK attacks in Turkey killing four Turkish policemen and one Turkish soldier. More ominously, an extreme left Kurdish group attacked the U.S. consulate in Istanbul, demonstrating the danger to the U.S. of allying itself with Turkish attacks against the Kurds.
The new violence brings to a head the confluence of the collapse of the Syrian state, the rise of IS, the push by the Kurds to establish a future state, the desire of Turkey to quash any Kurdish aspirations for statehood, and the continuing incoherence of U.S. policy on these issues. This does not bode well for success in the regional war against IS.
Turkey's declaration of war against IS is proving to be a thinly disguised cover by the government of Turkish President Erdogan to achieve two related objectives. As Turkey resumes military operations against the PKK, analysts see a calculated strategy for Erdogan's Islamist-rooted Justice and Development Party (AKP) to regain its parliamentary majority in new elections. Having already delayed the formation of a coalition government, analysts say, Erdogan is now buttressing his party's chances of winning new elections by appealing to Turkish nationalists opposed to self-determination for the Kurdish minority.
Parallel to the military operations against the Kurds has been an effort to undermine the political side of the Kurdish movement by associating it with the violence of the PKK, which has not shied from returning to the fighting.
"The overall assumption is that President Erdogan wants to create the conditions so the result of June 7 can be overturned, so that he can run the country from the presidency," said Suat Kiniklioglu, a former lawmaker from Erdogan's party and the executive director of the Center for Strategic Communication, a research organization in Ankara.
"He is going for early elections," said Henri J. Barkey, director of the Middle East program at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and an expert on Turkey. "In any society, when there is a crisis, people rally under the flag, even if they don't support the leader. In this instance, Mr. Erdogan is playing the nationalism card for his own benefit."
Turkish leaders laid the foundation for their joint PKK/IS offensive by publicly equating the Kurds as a terrorist threat equal to IS. "There is no difference between PKK and Daesh [IS]," said Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu.
In fact, for the Turks, the Kurds are still regarded as a more mortal threat than IS, as the prospects of a Kurdish state on Turkey's borders can only strengthen calls within Turkey for greater rights and even autonomy in Turkey's heavily Kurdish regions.
The initial phases of Turkey's "campaign against terrorism" seems to have borne out this analysis. In Turkey, the number of PKK militants detained has outnumbered IS affiliates more than 6 to 1. According to TIME magazine, "between July 23 and July 26, 75 Turkish jets flew 155 sorties against 400 or so PKK targets," compared to just three IS targets hit.
The United States has defended Turkey's right to strike the PKK but denied a connection between the strikes and the deal allowing the U.S. to use Turkey's Incirlik air base to hit IS in Syria. Matters are further complicated by the fact that although the U.S. classifies the PKK as a terrorist group, in Syria it provides air support to the Syrian Kurdish fighters (the YDP), who are closely aligned with the PKK.
The YPG, the Syrian Kurdish militia (from the Kurdish initials for People's Protection Units), captured global attention in January with its tough stand against an Islamic State assault on the Syrian town of Kobani, which borders Turkey. Turkish tanks and troops looked on as IS fighters besieged the town over several weeks, with observers predicting its imminent fall. One key assault even appeared to have come from across the Turkish border, suggesting that Erdogan was quite content to see the Kurds routed. Turkey eventually allowed a handful of Iraqi Kurdish fighters to reinforce the stragglers in Kobani. As the YPG held out, the U.S. began assisting with airstrikes.
The successes of the YPG have been striking. In recent months, they have managed to force Islamic State fighters from 2,000 square miles of territory in northern Syria. Administrative autonomy has been established in the three Kurdish cantons.
In fact, a look at the map clearly shows that the proposed Turkish safe or buffer zone in northwestern Syria exactly covers the remaining 60-mile territory that the YPG has yet to clear IS from, and in fact cuts that territory in half, preventing it from being contiguous and therefore acting as a buffer against Kurdish nationalist aspirations.
The Kurds, who number roughly 30 million and are spread out over Turkey, Iraq, Iran and Syria, have been described as the world's largest ethnic group without a homeland.
Whatever the impact in Syria of Turkey joining the war against IS, the new offensive has reignited the Turkish-Kurd civil war in Turkey. The U.S. and NATO members who supported Turkey's actions will likely overlook this so long as Turkey cooperates just enough to bring the end of the self-declared caliphate closer and closes the Turkish-Syrian border that has been so easy to cross for IS foreign volunteers.
For the U.S., the dilemma is that its most effective ally against IS in Syria so far has not been Turkey but the YPG and its political arm, the PYD, the ruling political party of the 2.2 million Syrian Kurds, who are concentrated in three enclaves just south of the Turkish border. The PYD and YPG are, however, the Syrian branch of the PKK. While allying itself with the Kurds in Syria, the U.S. denounces their mother organization, the PKK, as "terrorists."
This is a peculiarly Machiavellian form of realpolitik since members of the YPG often gained military experience fighting in the PKK against the Turks, explaining why they have had more success against IS than other groups.
The danger is that while this new situation with the Kurds and Turkey plays out, the focus will shift away from the most dangerous threat in the Middle East, IS, and it will be IS that benefits from the newly shifting and contradictory alliances.
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Your computer’s operating system may or may not be designed with security in mind, but without ongoing software updates, your computer is vulnerable. How do operating systems handle sending out these updates and which approaches are the most secure?
Why Do We Need Software Updates?
There are three key reasons software updates are important.
- New Features: OS developers provide new features all the time. We want them. Gone are the days when you buy a new box to get the new code. Now you get the goods via software updates.
- Security Patches: It’s impossible to know all of the vulnerabilities in a program before releasing it into the wild. Updates containing security patches bolster the defenses of the code running on our devices. You can mitigate much of your risk by running the latest versions of software.
- Ongoing Support: These days we declare a device alive or dead not based on whether it still works, but rather if it still receives updates. A device that no longer receives updates is one that will gradually lose access to newer apps, successfully loads fewer websites, and becomes increasingly vulnerable to exploitation.
There are two ways to distribute these updates. One approach is a centralized model, where a single company manages all of the updates that go to your device, regardless of which brand or model you use.
In a decentralized model, the components that go into your OS come from many sources. There is a degree of separation between the developers and those who package all those various parts together for users.
Both approaches have their pros and cons. Proprietary desktop OSes such as Microsoft Windows, Apple macOS, and Google Chrome OS all take a centralized approach. GNU/Linux has a decentralized model.
How Microsoft Windows Distributes OS Updates
Microsoft distributes OS updates to anyone with a Windows PC. These updates go out based on what version of Windows you run.
For most of Windows’ history, switching to a new version of the OS was expensive. This encouraged many people to continue using older versions. With Windows 10, the situation is different. Microsoft provided Windows 10 for free initially and has said that rather than release another major upgrade, the company will now focus on iterating the desktop through software updates.
Microsoft has traditionally supported popular versions of Windows well after the release of one or two successive releases. Windows 7, for example, still received updates half a decade after the release of Windows 10.
Windows Update automatically downloads updates and forces users to install them. This can be frustrating, but it keeps computers up to date. Just make sure you create regular backups. While unlikely, system updates can botch your installation of Windows (or any other OS for that matter).
Microsoft is transparent about how long Windows releases will receive support. This helps users make informed decisions about their hardware purchases. Forced updates also keep users patched and up-to-date, protecting more of us from exploits.
Still, a large number of Windows users aren’t using Windows 10. Some are using versions that are severely out of date, making the Windows landscape as a whole a vulnerable and easy target.
How Apple macOS Distributes OS Updates
Apple provides OS updates directly to users via a dedicated Software Update tool. Unlike Windows, macOS does not automatically update your OS, but you can turn that feature on. Manual updates give you time to backup your data before getting new software.
Apple doesn’t explicitly state how long it will support each version of macOS. Generally, the three most recent releases will receive security patches. With new versions arriving every year, that means you can expect roughly three years of support.
Unfortunately, the end of life for older releases can arrive at any time without any heads up or official announcement. Apple’s security updates page shows what updates have arrived but not how long they will keep coming.
This doesn’t tell the whole story. Generally speaking, there’s little reason not to upgrade to the latest version of macOS. Changes tend to be more iterative compared to the revolutionary changes that took place between Windows 7 to 8 and Windows 8 to 10. Upgrades were relatively cheap in the past, and now they’re free.
Since macOS is only available on Apple hardware, the company can explicitly list which devices it will support. Unfortunately, if your MacBook or iMac is not on the list, you’re out of luck. You must now replace macOS with Windows or Linux to have an OS with ongoing updates, even if your hardware is technically perfectly capable of running the latest version of macOS.
Manual updates give you time to back up your data, but many people choose to never install updates, leaving them more vulnerable to exploits. Apple also doesn’t tell us when a given OS release will reach the end of its support period.
On the flip side, Apple generally supports a given computer model for many years. Just make sure you consistently upgrade to the latest OS. You can check out Apple’s list of obsolete products.
How Google Chrome OS Distributes OS Updates
On a Chromebook, updates are quiet and automatic. It doesn’t matter which device you buy, if your model is supported, you will receive each update in a matter of days. Google manages most of the software experience, so Chrome OS feels the same regardless of which Chromebook you buy.
Google provides updates on a regular schedule. Maybe OS updates come roughly every six weeks, with security patches and software updates arriving twice as frequently. You have the option to turn off automatic updates if you prefer.
But Google is not transparent about how long each Chromebook or Chromebox will receive support. The company doesn’t actually base support times on operating system version (like Microsoft) or specific devices (like Apple). Instead, Chrome OS support depends on which chipset sits inside your machine. Google promises to support each chipset for six and a half years after launch.
That poses a problem. Most of us do not know what hardware lies underneath our keyboards. We can easily buy a Chromebook using a chipset that’s been around for five years already, without knowing we will only receive one and a half years of support.
Thanks to Chrome OS’s design, the danger of going without software updates is magnified. Since Chrome OS combines the web browser with the rest of the OS, when OS updates stop, your web browser will no longer receive updates. This is not the case on other platforms, where you can update apps separately.
Chrome OS strikes a nice balance between keeping users up to date with automatic updates while giving us the freedom to upgrade at our own pace by doing things manually. But the company’s support period is largely obscure and, given Chrome OS’s design, substantially more important.
How GNU/Linux Desktops Distribute OS Updates
We usually refer to GNU/Linux simply as Linux, but in this case it’s important to clarify things. Google’s Chrome OS is based on Linux, but how it operates is fundamentally different from other versions of Linux based on GNU software.
There are hundreds of different GNU-based desktops you can download. Most give you a degree of freedom on how you approach software updates. Generally, notifications will arrive automatically, but you must manually download and install the update. You can do so using a simple app or the command line.
How often you receive updates depends on the size of your chosen Linux distribution. You can use a given version of Linux until your machine no longer meets the minimal system requirements, which for a growing number of Linux desktops means a 64-bit processor.
If you use a more niche version of Linux, you have a greater risk of losing access to updates due to the project ceasing to exist. Under such circumstances, you’re free to switch to another version of Linux and keep on trucking.
GNU desktops have the longest support life. Your desktop will continue to work for as long as your hardware meets system requirements. And if your preferred Linux distribution does end support, you can just switch to another.
Updates are not automatic, but there are other aspects of the way free software gets distributed that have a larger impact on whether the various parts of your OS are truly up-to-date. Since software is not produced in a central location, new updates and patches may be available for months or years before the people who make your version of Linux get around to packaging and releasing them.
Which Method Is the Most Secure?
In this case, the means is less important than the ends. If you manually update your PC every day or two and keep software up-to-date, then your machine is effectively as secure as one that receives automatic updates.
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Paperback, 11.25″ x 8.5″
30 pages with color illustrations
written by Marty Martin Miller & Eleanor Morris Botka
illustrated by Laura Lander
The once-handsome painted horse and his merry-go-round friends long for the days when they were young, beautiful, and filled with joy. A severe summer storm adds to the carousel’s woes by leaving the animal rides scarred and disheartened. The owner calls his granddaughter to restore Paint, her favorite childhood ride, and his popular companions on the twirling platform. Avery and her art school classmates lovingly labor together to reawaken Masterson’s Magical Merry-Go-Round.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
For over forty years in five states, Marty Martin Miller has been a public school educator. Eleanor Morris Botka has taught English and mathematics for fifty plus years in Maine and New Hampshire. Both teachers have worked extensively in Gifted and Talented school programs. Their collaboration began when they shared the position of Head Writing Teacher for Lake Region Schools in Maine. | <urn:uuid:14f6663f-2767-44b5-aeda-c94ff8ad0631> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://maineauthorspublishing.com/mastersons-magical-merry-go-round/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571911.5/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813081639-20220813111639-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.942127 | 239 | 1.898438 | 2 |
As we head into the winter season, we at Keches Law Group would like to share some tips to help make sure you stay safe and healthy through the impending snow and storm season.
- Make sure to check your roof, windows, heating systems, chimneys, fireplaces, smoke detectors, and carbon monoxide detectors.
- Make sure to keep space heaters at least 3 feet from furniture, bedding, or drapes. Never cover space heaters or plug one into an extension cord or power strip.
- Be sure to remove ice and snow from any walkways/driveways, and put down salt, sand, or another de-icing product to prevent slips and falls.
- Make sure to keep an emergency kit in your home that includes flashlights, candles, matches, batteries, first-aid kit, medicine, and any necessary items for infants, children, and the elderly.
- Make sure to keep extra food, water, blankets and supplies in the house.
- Check your tire tread and replace it with all-weather or snow tires.
- Make sure to keep your gas tank full to prevent ice from getting in the fuel lines and/or tank.
- Be sure to check that your antifreeze and windshield washer fluid are full.
- Make sure to keep an emergency kit in your car containing water, snacks, first-aid kit, flashlight, extra batteries, portable cell phone charger, blankets, and emergency flares.
Yourself and Family Members:
- Make sure to wear layers of warm loose-fitting clothing, wind and water-resistant coat, waterproof boots, and a hat/gloves/scarf to prevent hypothermia and frostbite.
- Be careful when performing any outdoor activities, such as shoveling your driveway or removing snow from your car, especially if you have a medical condition.
- Make sure to inform someone where you are, and when you are participating in outdoor activities. Be sure to carry a charged cell phone.
- Thoroughly inspect lakes or ponds that appear to be frozen before walking or performing winter sports on them as this will help prevent accidents. Be mindful that the ice could be thin and crack easily.
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The day Death was served its just desserts
In the shadows of the darkness
on the day the headlines lied,
dawning light revealed a mystery.
Death at last had been defied.
Rumors flew. “His body’s missing!”
“It is nowhere to be found!”
“Could it be the place they laid Him
has become most holy ground?”
Absolutely! Without question!
Joseph’s Garden was much more
than a yard of bones and ashes.
Here was Heaven’s open door.
What had sealed his death on Friday
(that gigantic rolling stone)
had been moved permitting entrance
to the cave His corpse had known.
Strips that wrapped His stone-cold body
like a mummy still were there.
But this body bag of linen
boasted nothing but thin air.
Death’s comeuppance some have called it.
Satan’s curse that had been cast
was reversed that Sunday morning.
Life springs forth! The winter’s past.
“Christ is risen!” tulips trumpet.
Lilies echo their refrain.
Crocuses soon join the chorus
and the daffodils the same.
Spring is Nature’s sure reminder
of life’s power over death.
In the ancient Easter story,
lifeless lungs receive fresh breath.
Wind of God, sweet breath of Heaven,
as with Jesus, once again.
Breathe on us, most Holy Spirit,
winded women, winded men.
May this Day of Resurrection
animate our souls anew.
Through the hymns and words of Scripture
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This is part 3 of my 7-part series focusing on The New School Rules. If you missed previous parts, check them out here. Before we start, please take a moment and sign up for my newsletter.
We need to approach planning as a way of thinking, not a set product or plan that has value in and of itself.”The New School Rules, pg. 11
Say what you will about Mike Tyson, but his response to a reporter prior to a fight about his opponent’s preparation nails the problem with our over-reliance on plans. “Everyone has a plan until they get hit,” he said, “then like a rat they stop in fear and freeze.” The origins of that quote float back through history tweaked by various prize fighters and military leaders. And it resonates as much in the workplace as it does in the ring.
In schools, we operate on an annual planning cycle. We set annual goals – often in the summer – and then often do our best to adhere to that plan and those goals. The main concern I have with this approach is that we are usually addressing last year’s deficits rather than today or tomorrow’s opportunity. Our system discounts current realities and values adherence to the plan over agility and front-line decision making.
The authors of The New School Rules propose a new way of planning in Chapter 1 that adopts the idea of, “plan for change, not perfection.” Here is another comparison of planning approaches from page 19:
But how do you “plan for change” and still assure those around we are not just making stuff up as we go? Something I may or may not have been accused of in the past.
The authors suggest we build roadmaps instead of manuals. “In order to become more responsive and successful, organizations need to move away from plans that act as manuals and focus on building roadmaps and logic models. Rather than dictating specific actions, these approaches give people the tools they need to make quicker and better decisions on their own.”
A roadmap orients us to a common destination. It has suggested routes and highlights potential obstacles and points of interest along the way. A roadmap also paints a picture of a successful destination. But a roadmap gives flexibility in decision-making along the way and pushes that decision to the people closest to the action. Everyone has the option to follow the roadmap step-by-step, but those wanting to adjust and make the path work for them have that option. Essentially we are defaulting to a system that encourages differentiation and only falls back on rigidity as a last result.
Empowering our teams to make adjustments to a plan will help us as leaders focus on coaching our teams, painting a picture of success, and clearing obstacles along the path. This shift in focus from serving the plan to serving the people helps us use planning as an educative experience where we learn more about ourselves along the way. When reaching that destination then, rather than celebrating and giving credit to the plan, we honor our work and the thinking that took place among our team. The team is now stronger and ready for the next opportunity.
The authors paint a picture of successful planning as when…
- There’s a greater sense of being alive
- Teams and organizations have a clear and motivating purpose
- Everyone is continuously evolving, improving, and aiming higher
Where in your daily work has planning become a finite rather than infinite activity? Where has the plan itself become the focus rather than the people? Where can you give more agency to the performers of the plan and help guide them on a roadmap rather than script each move as in a manual?
As with most things, it’s about balance. At the end of the day, your teams need to arrive at the destination. Just remember that the arrival at the finish line or the completion of a plan is not the end of the work. It may be the end of that project or that school year, but we are playing an infinite game. And the goal of our infinite game is to keep playing and continuous improvement, not to win or lose.
Meeting a goal and sticking with a plan that destroys a team along the way is shortsighted. That approach may work when a singular outcome at a singular point in time is all that matters. That’s finite thinking. And finite thinking only serves us when we are ready to stop playing the game. I’m not ready to stop and I hope you are not either.
Thanks for joining me on this look at chapter 1 of The New School Rules. Next week we will think through chapter 2 together and examine a new way to look at teaming. Here is a quick quote as a teaser:
In the hierarchical model, good leaders aim to grant some degree of authority to their staff and teams, but this authority if typically contingent – it’s a grant and can be taken back at any moment. This dynamic erodes trust and doesn’t allow authority to spread.Page 45 – The New School Rules | <urn:uuid:94e834e6-76c8-4aa5-a26a-22b715a66415> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://ryansmith.blog/tag/books/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571911.5/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813081639-20220813111639-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.96794 | 1,042 | 2.078125 | 2 |
A company called Orbis has developed a hubless aluminum wheel fitted with an electric motorcycle motor inside. Incredibly, this weighs--and, they improbably claim, costs--about the same as a standard, conventional wheel. Yet it adds 50 horsepower per new wheel and turns your 2WD car into 4WD.
As a proof-of-concept, they retrofitted a Civic Type-R with two of their wheels to create a powerful hybrid. In the video below, they start off driving the car powered only by their Orbis Ring-Wheels, then engage the gasoline engine for some spirited 4WD hybrid power:
Here are the technical claims the company is making, along with an explanation of how it works:
I've already got an AWD vehicle, but if I didn't--and if Orbis' cost claims result in actual deliverables--I'd absolutely be tempted into buying two and connecting them to create a 4x4 hybrid.
There is also this tantalizing possibility, according to the company: "ORBIS Ring-Drive wheels can be added to any vehicle with or without motors." How cool would it be to pick up some derelict junker with a dead motor, and get it going again by adding four new wheels?
The company also states that their Ring-Drive wheels improve handling: "The ORBIS Ring-Drive wheel has the lowest center of gravity of any known wheel design," they write. "The motor mass is just inches off the ground, improving vehicle stability, acceleration, braking and cornering dynamics."
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There is, however, a discrepancy between the second and first videos above. The second video unequivocally depicts the added motors as being integrated within the wheels themselves. However, the Type-R case study states that "To complete this prototype, the rear seats were removed to accommodate two Zero Motorcycle AC electric motors and controllers that turn the rims via a fixed 6.2:1 gear ratio. This equipment adds approximately 180 pounds to the original curb weight of the Civic Type R." If the cost of adding the wheels requires removing the rear seats, then the proposition becomes less attractive.
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The Bureau of Meteorology or BOM is forecasting a wetter than normal summer due to the La Niña weather event which is expected to cause above average rainfall across eastern Australia this summer.
Out of the 18 La Niña events in Australia since 1900, 12 have caused floods in parts of the country.
The Bureau’s senior climatologist Dr Andrew Watkins expects to see La Niña dominating our weather over summer at moderate to strong levels, peaking in January or December.
According to BOM, La Niña typically means increased rainfall across much of the country, cooler day time temperatures in the south of the tropics and greater tropical cyclone numbers.
David Baker, the deputy chief officer of Victoria State Emergency Service or VICSES says floods can happen anytime in all parts of the country.
((“Heavy downfalls can cause flash flooding and we can see roads and other areas get swamped very quickly more so this summer, which will see the potential for more rainfall across southeast Australia.”
Findings from Allianz show that Australians are not as prepared as they should be for the event of flooding due to a lack of knowledge around La Niña.
The insurer’s national claims manager Mark O’Connor recommends educating yourself about what to do in the event of a flood and knowing your local support services and their numbers in advance.
If you know that your home is likely to be inundated by flood waters, Baker suggests making preparations in advance although the best precaution to take is not being there when it hits.
Baker encourages people to develop an in case of fire or flooding scenarios.
The information on how to prepare your home for a disaster can be found on your local SES website.
In preparing your home for a possible flooding event, Baker also recommends taking care of your sewerage and drains in advance.
Baker warns against driving through shallow waters in the event of a heavy downpour as flash flooding can occur quickly.
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He says if you are caught in heavy downfalls, it is best to pull over to a safe place or get to higher ground.
Stacey Pidgeon, national research manager from Australia’s Royal Life Saving Society says pedestrians should also avoid going into flood waters under any circumstance.
And it’s vital that you do not attempt to rescue someone by going into the water yourself.
In the event of an emergency, Baker says nothing is more important than staying alive
Visit your local State Emergency Service (SES) website or Royal Life Saving Australia website for more information on preparing for flooding events.
For your latest weather forecast and update, visit the Bureau of Meteorology website.
If you require support in a flooded area, call SES by dialling 13 25 00.
Call 000 immediately if your life is in immediate danger.
For language support, call the national translating and interpreting service on 13 14 50 and ask for your designated agency.
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Grossmann, Walter. (American, born Germany c. 1890s - 1980s) IN THE TRENCHES. Drawing, Colored pencils on paper, circa 1914. 4 1/2 x 7 7/8 inches. Creasing to the sheet, and a loss at the lower edge, right.
This drawing was part of an archive of this artist's works. From the materials in the archive we have concluded that Walter Grossman was born in Germany, studied art, served in the German army in World War I, eventually came to America and became a physician in Connecticut. We do not believe that he had a professional career as an artist, but his work shows profciency, and an appreciation for the art movements of the early 20th Century. It appears that the materials were stored under poor conditions for a long time, and some have suffered, with wrinkling, foxing, paper losses, and dampstaining affecting some. | <urn:uuid:8bdcce3f-1baa-4742-b65b-62cc2e5aa8ad> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://edpollackfinearts.com/the-trenches-9766875 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571911.5/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813081639-20220813111639-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.988543 | 194 | 2.234375 | 2 |
I am a very artistic person and love all forms of art. I introduced painting and coloring to Ella when she was just 9 months old. I let her finger paint with non-toxic paints and then gave her a brush. Now that she’s getting older we’ve been having a lot more fun with art projects. We color every day and try to paint or do something else with art once or twice a week. When I found Clementine Art I was very excited that there was an Eco-friendly art company with amazing products!
Clementine Art has natural paints, doughs, markers, crayons and glue. They produce professional-quality and earth-friendly art supplies with pure, simple ingredients. Clementine’s products are colored with plant and mineral pigments instead of artificial dyes, providing an innovative solution to chemical laden, artificially colored art supplies. I was really excited about the glue and crayons and was given some to review.
When a toddler is working with glue, it’s impossible to keep it off of their fingers. Glue can come from natural or synthetic sources. Synthetic glues have a strong scent and can contain harsh chemicals. You know me, I feel safer with Ella using a natural product so as soon as we got the glue we created a butterfly work of art. We used a chipboard butterfly from a local scrapbook store that we got for $4. It came in a pack of 6 and there are endless possibilities with what you can do with them. If you don’t have a scrapbook store, you can always go online and print out a butterfly template. I saved all of the tissue paper I’ve received from review products just for art purposes. I cut 4 long strips of 6 papers and then cut them in 1 inch blocks. I punched an extra hole in the butterfly and added the pipe cleaner for antennae. I twisted the antennae in the back so it could be hung. I then handed Ella the Clementine Art Natural Glue and had her glue the pieces to the butterfly. After gluing individual pieces she decided it was easier to glue the butterfly and then stick the paper to the glue. And this is what she created: It was a simple project that any age can do with your help. It took about 20 minutes to complete and wasn’t messy. The best part was that there was no clean up!! I love that the glue had no smell. It worked really well for our project and none of the paper has fallen off. It can be used for fabrics, woods, paper, and many other surfaces. It is reversible with water and washes off any surface.
We also got to try the Clementine Art Soy Crayons and they are awesome! They are non-toxic and all natural. The colors really stand out and they are the perfect size for preschoolers. I loved the thickness and how they are shaped for smaller hands. They blend really well and go on smoothly. I keep them in our tote bag in case we get stuck in traffic so Ella can color in the back seat. I took them with us to the doctors office when Ella was sick and she was occupied the whole time waiting for the doc.Crayons are my best friend!! Whenever Ella is bored, I pull them out and she can occupy herself. I’ve loved watching her art progress in these past 2 years. We are working on shapes and I can’t wait until she’s creating people and animals. I know… patience….
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Rector Lauge Stetting steps down in protest against scarce resources
In 1979, 150 lecturers engage in a strike for better working conditions and Lauge Stetting steps down in protest against limited economic resources, which severely affect all of Handelshøjskolen’s activities.
Throughout the 70s, Handelshøjskolen is under budgetary constraint by the Ministry of Education resulting in a severe lack of teaching capabilities, teaching facilities and funding for research. The situation culminates in March 1979, when Rector Lauge Stetting resigns from his post in protest against the scarce resources. Just before the summer exams in 1979, 150 external lecturers in the language programmes engage in a joint strike in an effort to better their working conditions. The situation does not begin to better substantially until the late 80s. | <urn:uuid:cc2db157-d4dd-4104-8d2b-368a12259fb1> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://100.cbs.dk/timeline/1979/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571911.5/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813081639-20220813111639-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.944488 | 168 | 2.078125 | 2 |
Across the Trust, we provide a comprehensive paediatric service for children ranging from 0 to 16 years of age, including:
- An emergency service with links to inpatient beds
- An elective and day case service
- A paediatric assessment unit
- A broad range of outpatient service with visiting specialist consultants
- Intermittent respite care for specific diseases
Acute children and young people’s services are located across the Trust including day case services at Boston, Grantham and Lincoln, outpatients at Boston, Lincoln, Louth, Gainsborough, Skegness and Spalding and Holbeach and inpatient services at Boston and Lincoln.
Within the acute paediatric service in our hospitals there are nine whole time equivalent consultants and a range of supporting medical staff who, together with nursing staff, provide a broad spectrum of sub-specialty interests.
Paediatric Observation Priority Score – POPS
Lincoln County Hospital
A 24 hour paediatric service is run at Lincoln County Hospital.
A day case and emergency service is provided and all consultants are available for general paediatric referrals.
Pilgrim Hospital, Boston
On an interim basis, children’s services at Pilgrim Hospital will see:
- Outpatient clinics continuing.
- Managing only low-risk neonatal births
- A 24 hour paediatric assessment and observation unit (PAU) established on the children’s ward at Pilgrim, offering restricted periods of observation.
- Children’s day surgery remaining.
- Consultant-led maternity birthing unit remaining.
Grantham and District Hospital
The Kingfisher unit is open between 10am and 5pm Monday to Friday.
The unit provides an outpatient service only. Consultants may be from the children’s wards at Lincoln and Boston, community paediatricians and some visiting specialist doctors from other services and hospitals that provide care to children.
We are currently developing a children’s hub at Kingfisher which is an exciting new development. This will bring multiple children’s services under one roof provided by a number of different ages, meaning children and young people with complex problems can be seen in the one unit by a number of professionals instead of in different venues at different times. This will lead to Kingfisher becoming a very busy unit and seeing many children on a daily basis.
Children needing emergency care and review by a consultant paediatrician who have presented at the accident and emergency department will need to be transferred to Lincoln or Boston for this care. Transfer will only take place after review by an accident and emergency doctor or GP (based in the department) and a registered nurse. Very few children require this on a daily basis.
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If you are an amateur woodworker and you do not have strategies in front of you, how will you ever understand which prepares to start with? With DIY projects, there is always a ready-made or pre-made package. If you are looking for something a little bit more distinct and you do not understand where to begin, why not look for totally free Woodworking Strategies?
There are a variety of different sort of totally free Woodworking Strategies to select from. There are even some free patterns available online that you can download and print out. For instance, if you are thinking of making a little bench, you might wish to take a look at totally free woodworking plans that come with directions for developing a basic bench. You can likewise have a look at totally free pattern websites that use free patterns for benches. If you have a bit more knowledge in woodworking, you can most likely find out what kind of bench you require to make without any issue.
If you aren’t rather as knowledgeable in woodworking, there are a variety of diy projects you can discover on the internet. For instance, there are woodworking plans for all type of kitchen area tools, such as a little table saw for reducing completions of wooden boards, and a hand saw for the handle and blade. There are also plans for making birdhouses, furniture, shelves, and so on. There are also plans for decorating your home, such as plans for a nice garden or outdoor patio area.
If you have actually never tried to develop your own Do It Yourself jobs, I advise you start out with a complimentary set of plans or a totally free pattern website. By utilizing complimentary plans and patterns, you can save yourself a bunch of cash on needing to pay someone to build it for you. If you do not know where to begin, you can simply look up totally free pattern sites or look for totally free plans online.
If you are not really into Do It Yourself projects, you might want to take a look at the more customized packages readily available. There are various kinds of woodworking plans, so if you desire a special bench or a really particular kind of table, you might wish to look at kits that offer everything.
Before buying any plans or a package, you must constantly make sure that they are safe to use for Do It Yourself jobs. There are particular kinds of wood that can not be used with certain Do It Yourself tasks. You require to take a look at the instructions to make sure that the strategy works with the sort of wood you are dealing with. If you are using oak for your bench, you will not be able to use a strategy for a pine bench.
You also need to take a look at the directions of the plans before you start the project. Read all the guidelines carefully, particularly the area on sanding and finishing the wood.
When looking for a free woodworking plan, make sure to take a look at other people’s tasks initially, especially if you are brand-new to Do It Yourself tasks. These people might have built the exact same sort of bench that you are thinking about. You might be able to take some useful info from them and after that build it from their plans.
When preparing your strategies, you need to also consider the material you will use for your Do It Yourself jobs. Different types of wood will need various quantities of tools, depending upon what kind of task you are constructing. The most expensive wood is typically the hardest wood to deal with, and wood like oak can take a great deal of abuse without breaking down.
You may likewise wish to take a look at the size of the projects before you buy the strategies. Some plans are big enough to consist of numerous tasks in a single book. The smaller strategies might only consist of a few, so make sure you have a great concept of what size jobs you wish to make prior to buying the plans.
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Master's studies in Financial Analysis and Business Development
Why Financial Analysis and Business Development?
Financial markets have become turbulent and face increasing regulatory pressures today. The diversity and complexity of financial contracts and financial reporting – be it for corporate world or investment management applications – require specialised in-depth knowledge of financial theory, coupled with sound accounting principles.
Our specialisation in Financial Analysis and Business Development develops the necessary skills for you to pursue a successful career in investment management or corporate financial management. The combination of accounting, finance, and corporate governance and commercial law, offers you a comprehensive view of how to ensure financing and manage assets in global financial markets. It also teaches you how international accounting practices and regulations help secure sustainable business practices and continued trust from stakeholders.
The combination of accounting and finance together with governance and commercial law will give you a comprehensive view of:
- managing assets in global financial markets with multiple sources of risk
- measuring, creating, and managing corporate value
- analyzing profitability and value creation of businesses
- international accounting practices and regulations
- securing sustainable business practices and continued trust from all stakeholders
Facts about the specialisation
- 120 credits, 2 years of full-time study
- Language: English
- Degree: MSc in Economics and Business Administration
- Location: Helsinki
You have the opportunity to choose from three tracks, including several electives that offer flexibility within the studies:
- Finance - Investment management and corporate finance
- Accounting - International accounting and business sustainability
- Governance and Commercial Law - Supporting business development
Within the Finance track of the specialisation you will focus on the aforementioned core areas and developing key competencies such as:
- a solid understanding of fundamental theories in financial economics
- learning how financial markets function and how they influence the allocation of resources in a global economy
- knowledge and skills in asset valuation, pricing and management of risk, wealth management, derivative pricing, and corporate finance
- the strong analytical and communicative skills necessary for business, as well as academic careers. You will also develop research skills essential for students pursuing doctoral level studies.
- an understanding of sustainability and ethical behaviour
Within the Accounting track of the specialisation you will focus on the following core areas:
- how sustainable business is formed and maintained
- how accounting regulation can support sustainability
- how accounting regulation and practices support profitability and growth structures of businesses
Within the Governance and Commercial Law track of the specialisation you will focus on:
- how legal restrictions and regulations shape existing business
- how taxation impacts different types of businesses
- hard and soft principles by which corporations are governed
- international differences in legal systems
As a student of the Accounting or Finance track of this specialisation you also have the opportunity to top up your degree with the QTEM certificate (Quantitative Techniques for Economics and Management). This is your opportunity to earn a degree within a network of leading business schools and corporate partners. All partners are committed to developing global talent with strong quantitative competencies, analytical skills, international and intercultural experience, and management potential.
Upon graduation you will:
- - have the skills to measure and manage business risk
- - know how to secure sustainable financing
- - be able to apply asset valuation and investment management principles
- - analyse profitability and value creation of businesses
- - understand international accounting practices and regulations
- - understand the importance of credible financial reporting
Up to 98% of the 2018 & 2017 graduates had found employment within 6 months of completing their degree and to get an overview of how the careers of Hanken's Alumni look like, visit our Career Services' Explore Careers pages!
Our alumni from the three subjects Finance, Accounting and Commercial Law have job titles such as:
- Chief Executive Officer, Business Analyst, Equity Analyst, Business Controller, Business Development Manager, Tax Consultant - and many more!
We are also proud of our Hanken International Talent initiative, where newly-admitted international MSc students are matched with Finnish companies for mentoring!
We encourage are students to gain international experience! We definitely recommend students to complete an internship and support students in finding a placement. A QTEM internship or a semester abroad through the QTEM cooperation, or at one of Hanken’s partner universities, can be incorporated into the programme as an optional component if the planning for it already starts during the fall of the first academic year. | <urn:uuid:f62565f0-4a3b-4d15-8744-363218043ed1> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.hanken.fi/en/apply/masters-degree-studies-english/specialisations/financial-analysis-and-business-development?utm_campaign=Educations.com&utm_id=Educations.com&utm_medium=cpc&utm_source=Portal_education.com | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571210.98/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810191850-20220810221850-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.921767 | 906 | 1.554688 | 2 |
"We are slowed down sound and light waves, a walking bundle of frequencies tuned into the cosmos. We are souls dressed up in sacred biochemical garments and our bodies are the instruments through which our souls play their music." ~ Albert Einstein
MetaMusic is the development of Laura Inserra’s work around the transmutational and evolutive power of music. Laura uses sound and music as tools for healing, as a key to harmonize a group, as medicine for inner transmutation, as a facilitator for creativity, as a boost for intuition, as a guidance for group retreats, as a medium to connect to the intelligence of the body.
Through sacred sounds, rhythms, and melodies of ancient and modern musical instruments, Laura harmonizes people’s mind and tunes their body, she facilitates and nurtures personal transformation and self awareness. She applies this methodology in one-on-one sessions, as well as in group settings, workshops, and company retreats.
She also uses this ‘vibrational medicine’ in collaboration with psychologists, life-coaches, scientists, and shamans. In those individual or group sessions, the language-based work of her collaborators is powerfully enabled, complemented, and integrated by Laura’s non-verbal work. Those frequencies bypass the limits of the rational mind and work through the person’s cellular tuning to help shift perspectives, emotions, and patterns, as well as facilitate clarity, guidance, and harmony in life.
This being a highly non-verbal experience, contact Laura directly for more information or for an introductory consultation.
May you find in her work what you need in order to connect to feelings (body), perceptions (spirit), and realizations (mind), which pure intellect cannot reach.
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Phones have become a vital part of our daily lives in the 21st century. Phones are our navigational aids, contact lifelines, and a never-ending source of entertainment and information. As a result, they're only meant to be used for a limited period and won't last forever.
As your device gets old, it becomes slower due to the outer casing, battery life, storage, and many other factors. While the phone's life is relatively short, there are a few things you can do to extend the life of your phone. Some components, such as screens and camera lenses, can be damaged when a phone is dropped or banged around excessively.
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Why is it important to protect your phone?
Almost all people now consider their cell phones to be an essential item in their daily lives. Why? Because we can now communicate with our loved ones, coworkers, and others not only via phone calls and SMS but also via email, as our mobile phones are now like a mini-computer that can be interconnected if we set them up. We have cell phones that can be used to take pictures and videos and act as a radio or an MP3 player.
What more could you want? So these reasons are good enough to take care of our cell phones. The moment you purchase a smartphone, you are sworn to protect it from any harm. Most people's greatest fears include falling or hitting a hard surface, which can result in damage. It would help if you took the necessary precautions to keep your phone safe from getting any harm. Let us talk about in detail how we can do that.
Tips to protect your phone from damage
Good Quality Phone Case
As simple as it sounds, choosing a good case can be difficult. It's not hard to find protective cases without fun designs or patterns, but a few exceptions are important to note. For the best results, opt for silicone cases with flaps or cases with flaps on the top. However, these cases do not have to be unattractive to be practical or functional.
Cool iPhone covers and cute Samsung Galaxy cases are available in various styles and colors to suit your style and personality. To avoid scratches and other damage, choose a good-quality phone case. If your phone's corner has been damaged, it's time to invest in a phone case. The case must be both protective and high-quality to be effective. Having a mobile phone has become a necessity, and having a good mobile cover is equally important. Just because something is high quality does not mean that it has to be expensive or fancy.
It is a known fact that even if we take care of our phones, it will occasionally fall to the ground. Without a case, there is a chance that the phone could be damaged. The mobile cover won't completely protect your phone, but the damage will be much less.
Self-Protection is must
How long your smartphone is safe depends on how you handle it. One of the best ways to protect your smartphone is to use it with care. The identical way to protect your smartphone from damage is to use caution when using it. It's shocking how many people don't treat their smartphones with the respect they deserve. Like most smartphones, most of them are extremely expensive, so whether you paid for it yourself or received it as a compliment, you should treat it with respect.
Therefore it is advisable to be careful with your smartphone and try your hardest not to drop it. Do not keep coins or other pointed objects in the same pocket as the phone, as this can cause damage to the display screen and result in a cracked screen. Likewise, do not put a phone in the back pocket of a tight pair of jeans, as this could cause the phone to bend or snap when you sit.
Keep your phone out of reach of toddlers and unruly children in your home. They may try to grab your phone and clumsily drop it, causing damage to it.
With your screen guard on, you can use your phone or tablet without worrying about damaging it. Phone cases are more than just a means of keeping your phone safe. They are also very attractive and add to the aesthetics of your phone's appearance. When it comes to mobile phone cases, there are many options, so you need to make sure that the one you choose is perfect for your needs.
This and other factors make it imperative that you purchase a cell phone cover or case specifically designed for your phone, as a snug fit is critical. Glass screen protectors that are easy to install will help keep your screen from shattering in the event of an accident. So that your screen remains protected even if the screen protector itself cracks, you can easily replace it with a new one.
Avoid leaving it unattended.
Many times, we are careless and leave our devices unattended. Be sure to keep your phone in a secure location. To avoid regretting it later, if it is held in a place where children or pets can access it, make sure it is in your sight at all times. Giving a child a cellphone they can't handle with care is not a good idea, especially if the data on the phone is important to you. Sitting on the floor means you're more likely to leave your smartphone there as well.
While sitting, this may seem like a good idea, but as soon as you move, your smartphone is suddenly in a very vulnerable position. This puts your smartphone at risk of being stepped on or even smashed by a hard object. The screen will most likely be cracked, and the smartphone as a whole may be damaged as a result. Keeping your smartphone on a raised and safe surface where people cannot step on it or place heavy and complex objects is always a good idea.
Also, avoid leaving your smartphone in dangerous situations like a pocket or purse where it could slip and break.
Contact with water causes the device to become damp and dysfunctional. In the rain, on the beach, with wet hands, and in the pool, this happens to me a lot. Water should not come into contact with your phone unless it is waterproof. Your phone's screen can be damaged when it's exposed to foggy weather. Keeping your phone screen dry is the best solution.
One or two of us have indeed dropped a cell phone in water, and we've all had to deal with the consequences. Statistics show that water damage is the most common reason to replace a phone not covered by a lease or contract agreement. Instead of keeping your phone in an airtight case, a waterproof pouch will keep it dry in the event of a rainstorm. Perfect for a day at the pool or a waterpark where you'll need your phone, but not constantly. So, slip your phone into the pouch and go about your day without worrying that it will get ruined by rain. If you're going to use this on your phone, you won't want to submerge it in the water. Splashes and wet fingers are no match for them, however.
Avoid extreme conditions
When your phone is exposed to extreme heat and cold, it can easily be damaged. There is a risk of damaging the device's battery and internal components, resulting in data loss and shorter battery life. So, this isn't something you'd like to happen. Therefore, the best solution is to avoid exposing the phone to extreme temperatures and never leave it unattended. How your phone functions are affected by temperature changes and extremes.
The protection of your phone from extreme temperatures, whether it's extreme heat or extreme cold, is vital. Your iPad, iPhone, and GPS are in your bag with you at all times. Each one will generate more heat than if they were all kept together.
Protect Your Ports
Most importantly, always carry your phone or any other electronic device with care when you are out and about. It's easy to break these phones, and they're prone to breaking. Hands or pockets aren't always reliable places to put them in when they're needed. If you can't find a phone case, you can buy a pouch or a belt clip for your phone.
As a result, be sure to handle your phone with care. Do not overlook the ports, no matter how important your screen is to you. As soon as you plug in your phone, the headphone jack or charging port will be blocked with dirt and lint. A set of Port Plugs explicitly designed for your phone will keep your pores clean and clear.
Try not to install unnecessary applications.
Your phone's operating system version would be helpful if you knew about it. Fixing bugs is made more accessible by updating the OS to the most recent version available. As a result, the device's performance is improved, as is its security. Thousands of applications are available on Google Play or the App Store, but that doesn't mean you have to install them all.
Apps should only be used if they are already installed on your device. It can slow down your phone and affect its performance if you install an unused app on it. Prevent your device from being infected with a virus, which can steal important data.
Sure to hold it firmly
How you hold your phone is the most critical factor in why your phone gets damaged from time to time. Because of this, your phone keeps crashing. Hold your phone tightly to solve this problem. Never let go of your phone, as it is very delicate and should be handled with care. Do not keep coins or other pointed objects in the same pocket as the phone, as this can cause damage to the display screen and result in a cracked screen.
Likewise, do not put a phone in the back pocket of a tight pair of jeans, as this could cause the phone to bend or snap when you sit. The most common cause of smartphones and tablets falling out of your hand is the way you hold them. As a result, it's important to get a firm grasp of the device. To prevent it from falling, the way you catch your gadget is crucial to its safety.
Clean up the extra data
Photos, videos, apps, emails, and other storage-hogging content can harm your phone's performance. As soon as your phone's storage is full, it will begin to slow down. The constant clogging of your phone's memory may eventually lead to the conclusion that you need a new phone.
It is possible, however, to solve the problem by clearing out some space. You should be able to see a breakdown of your phone's memory usage in your phone's settings. To save space, delete some photos, but you can also buy extra memory for your phone. As a bonus, deleting apps will free up space on your phone and help you keep it in order.
In the age of technology, everyone has access to smart devices. One of the most important ways to stay in touch with people these days is through a smartphone. It is a fact that almost 90 percent of us carry a smartphone, whether it's an iPhone or an Android. Investing in a smartphone is a good use of your hard-earned cash.
We purchase smartphones based on our needs and with the hope that they will last longer. For your smartphone to last longer and do the things you need it to do, it is vital to take good care of it. Is this the first time you have ever used your smartphone? Smartphones are pricey, so they should be treated with the same care as a valuable item.
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The Tellus Border project is a geochemistry and airborne geophysical survey of the six northern counties of the Republic of Ireland, funded by the INTERREG IVA programme of the European Regional Development Fund. It is an extension of the successful Tellus project of Northern Ireland (http://www.bgs.ac.uk/gsni/tellus/). The project objective is to create a seamless cross‐border geo‐environmental baseline dataset incorporating new and existing data. This report outlines the merging procedure and reviews the main processing carried out to individual geophysical datasets. The new airborne data was collected within the border counties of Donegal, Leitrim, Sligo, Cavan, Monaghan and Louth in the Republic of Ireland (ROI).Surveying was carried out between October 2011 and July 2012. Previous airborne geophysical surveys were carried out across Northern Ireland (Tellus) in 2005 and 2006 (Beamish et. al, 2006 a,b,c) and a pilot study covering parts of the counties of Cavan and Monaghan in the ROI (Kurimo, 2006, GSI 2006 Internal report). All surveys measured magnetic field, electrical conductivity and gamma‐radiometric spectrometer data (primarily potassium, thorium and uranium). The same survey specifications were used for each survey to assist in the merging of the different data sets. Final merged data is to be released in February 2013. However due to need for further processing of the electrical conductivity data version 1 of this report will deal with only the final production of the magnetic and radiometric data. Version 2 of this report will include all data when it becomes available.
As the data falls within different jurisdictions it is subject to different agreements and levels of availability. All data within the ROI except for one area under commercial licence is free to all. Release of data from Northern Ireland is subject to data‐licensing, which is free to non‐profit organisations.
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As Professor Diemer writes, “quantitative courses are commonly experienced as notation-heavy technical exercises that are divorced from both the lived experiences of students and from larger societal issues.” Students enter his advanced statistical method classes expecting to drilled with complex equations, often intimidated by the material, believing that they’ll never be “good at math.”
By integrating issues of diversity, equity, and inclusion into all aspects of the course, this project provides a roadmap for exploring the impact and causes of pressing social issues across various academic disciplines, especially those with heavy technical content. With a syllabus that centers the perspectives of diverse scholars, who are sorely underrepresented in other quantitative courses, students learn not only the advanced quantitative skills, but how to use those techniques to “speak the language” of those in power. Students go from being “statistics skittish” to being able to communicate and advance DEI in spaces where facility with highly technical quantitative concepts and techniques may be privileged.
In combination with a classroom climate where students are empowered to ask questions and make mistakes, and a self-reflective instructor aware of their own privilege and power in the classroom, this model can be readily replicated to education and social science quantitative methods classes. These innovations have significantly impacted student learning here at Michigan, increasing interest, enrollment, and persistence in quantitative courses, particularly among female students and students of color, explicitly puncturing the idea of who can be “good at stats.”
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I consider myself a developing methodologist after taking this class. I am more confident and excited for future statistical endeavors!
It means the world to me to see the example of a white male professor who thinks about and studies issues of diversity, equity, and inclusion, with a teaching style that models the belief system while engaging with students.
This excellent course has changed the way I understand and value the psychometric properties of measures and scales. I have already changed my plans for the dissertation as a result.
After being trained to conduct rigorous, quantitative research, we have been called upon by U of M and local community members to help agencies interpret data and to provide guest lectures on the importance of rigorous quantitative methods in DEI research.
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If you have a dressage horse to sell, you have many options. To help you decide which choices will work best to sell your horse and to formulate your plan, follow this four-step process.
First, decide how much you want to spend. This decision will depend on your horse’s value, your finances, and on how much you want to sell her. Start by giving yourself a range. A word of advice: Don’t underprice your horse. You can always add “negotiable” or “best offer.”
Next, evaluate the marketing options available, comparing each medium’s advertising cost, target audience, circulation and deadlines. Take a professional approach and plan a marketing campaign, evaluating the options and deciding which combination of elements will give you the biggest bang for your buck. The goal is to reach the largest number of people in your market for the lowest cost. Your market is divided into four areas:
Local market. Think of where you would look if you were buying a horse like the one you’re selling. Local market options include newspapers, local all-breed publications, your area’s riding association newsletters and personal marketing: calling people you know, posting flyers at local barns, tack stores and horse shows.
Regional market. This includes the same options as for a local area, but adds regional publications such as area/region newsletters of the American Horse Shows Association, United States Dressage Federation and United States Combined Training Association. Ask tack stores which ones they carry, or visit American Horse Publications for a list of member publications.
National market. This is where your advertising options really open up. There are several categories of publications with a national reach that are targeted toward a sport-horse market. All of the national horse sport organizations have publications that are sent to members. Most of the breed registries-American Trakehner Association, International Sporthorse Registry, American Warmblood Society, etc.-have newsletters or magazines with small but focused circulations, and many offers free classifieds to members. If your horse is registered with one of these organizations, this would be the place to start your national advertising.
Don’t neglect all-advertising publications. But consider that many with national circulations are all-breeds focused, and don’t necessarily reach sport-horse buyers. See if they will give you a breakdown of readership by discipline.
International market. If you have a horse who truly has the ability to reach international levels of competition, you will be marketing to a select few. Word of mouth is the way many horses in this category are found and bought. It might be possible to use a direct mail announcement to riders of that caliber if you can get their names, but if you choose to go that route, you had better have a horse of obvious ability, confirmed to you by several highly credentialed trainers and judges.
Online market. Another marketing tool is the Internet. There is a large number of sport-horse related sites on the World Wide Web, and many options exist for advertising horses. The options range from a Web classified ad to a whole site just for your horse with photos and information. The cost varies from free to expensive. The Internet reaches people from around the world, and more and more horse people are involved every day.
Gather enough information about the options to decide which choices are most appropriate for your horse. From there, formulate an “ideal” plan, and then weigh your ideal against your finances. Start by calling the publications you are most interested in for information on classified or display ads. You need information on circulation costs, terms of payment and deadlines. Based on the information you receive, you can decide whether to stick to classified advertising or run a display ad, whether to stay local or go to regional or national publications, whether to put all your resources into one place or spread them over several. Your best bet is probably a combination.
Now it’s time to compose your ad. The first rule of advertising is honesty. You don’t have to mention every bad thing your horse has ever done, but what you do say should be true. Nothing discourages a buyer faster than feeling that a horse has been misrepresented.
The second rule is to use correct terminology and spelling. Incorrect usage reflects poorly on your overall knowledge and experience. Certain common mistakes could dismiss you in the minds of serious buyers-the spelling of “temperament,” and “conformation,” for example, and terminology such as “by” and “out of” when mentioning a horse’s sire and dam.
Writing the text of an ad requires a combination of clear communication skills and good marketing savvy. Include all the basic information-age, breed, height, color, sex. Mention discipline and potential, and highlight exceptional traits, accomplishments or bloodlines. In a world dominated by novice riders, it is always worth mentioning an exceptional temperament. State important limitations.
Including price is optional, but I have had people tell me they just won’t call if there is no price listed. You might try it both ways to see which is more effective for you, if your budget allows. List contact information (phone number or e-mail address), and you are ready to roll.
If your horse’s value justifies the expense, a regular display ad with one or two photos will have much more impact than a classified ad. If you are going to make that investment, the photos should be good. Have your horse clean, and braided, if appropriate. You are selling a sport-horse athlete, and that should be clear from your photo. A standing pose for a sport horse is the traditional “open” position. Allow the neck to arch, and the head to reach forward, not up. Photos of movement should show athleticism and engagement. Under-saddle photos should be good representations of the discipline for which the horse is being sold.
You can take the photos yourself, but if you don’t have the experience, hire a professional. Make sure the photographer knows that you plan to use the photos in advertising, and find out the cost and credit requirements.
A display ad also gives you more options with text. Size of type and arrangement become part of the visual impact. Here, less is usually more. A few key words, prominently displayed, will get attention better than lots of small type, and for larger sized ads, you’d be smart to hire a professional graphic artist or designer.
If your horse is a quality dressage prospect and your ad is eye-catching, honest and placed in front of the right people, someone will buy her and give her the home you’d like her to have.
Anna Goebel publishes Midwest SportHorse Journal and The National Sport Horse Sales List.
This article is from the Dressage Today magazine archives.
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Wednesday was the day almost every high school athlete dreams about: the opportunity to sign an athletic scholarship. At this week’s 2016 Dallas ISD Signing Day Event, more than 100 student-athletes signed contracts called National Letters of Intent to compete at colleges and universities across the country.
The Dallas ISD Signing Day Event included a red carpet introduction of each college signee complete with photo opportunities to memorialize the moment.
But long before the glitz and glamour of signing day, parents, coaches, counselors and administrators worked in concert to support student-athletes with the goal of positioning them to attain these coveted athletic scholarships.
When asked what support he received in high school to position himself as a college recruit, Thomas Jefferson High School senior Kendrick Bright, who signed with West Texas A&M to play football, shared some words.
“They told me not to always depend on football, to make sure academics were first, because without academics, I wouldn’t be able to do what I am able to do with football,” he said.
Jamesia Amand of Skyline High School signed with Florida International University at the Dallas ISD Signing Day Event. Amand said her coaches supported her academic responsibilities as a student-athlete.
“My counselors and my coaches were very hands on with me as far as my academics were concerned and my school work,” Amand said. “They let me leave (practice), do my projects, and do work in the gym. We were on top of our work.”
Mercy Blanco, the first Hispanic female to sign a Division I basketball scholarship in Dallas ISD, credits her Sunset High School basketball coach Keelan Jones with having had the biggest impact on her as a student-athlete and making the difference in her ability to celebrate signing her commitment to play at the University of Arkansas at Pine-Bluff next season. | <urn:uuid:b7ed4ba1-62b1-48fc-9194-843a4baaa7b6> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://thehub.dallasisd.org/2016/02/05/national-signing-day-celebrates-stellar-student-athletes/?noamp=mobile | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571538.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812014923-20220812044923-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.979749 | 397 | 1.601563 | 2 |
As White Ribbon Day approaches, a study of Australian women in regional, rural and remote locations has shown they tend to experience longer periods of domestic violence than city women before accessing support services.
The qualitative study of country women’s experience of violence in their intimate relationships highlights this link to their geographical isolation when it comes to how they cope with domestic and family violence.
The study also found that men from regional, rural and remote locations who used violence in their intimate relationships were usually only offered a legal response.
“Services like counselling or group work, which are offered in urban areas, isn’t available because of population size and anonymity issues, so support for men is limited,” says lead researcher Professor Wendt, from Flinders University’s College of Education, Psychology and Social Work.
International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women or White Ribbon Day, marked on 25 November this year, draws attention to the issue of preventing men’s violence against women and gender equality and asks the community to engage and help to stop violence towards woman.
Women from rural South Australia and Western Australia participated in the Australia’s National Research Organisation for Women’s Safety (ANROWS) study led by Professor Wendt.
Professor Wendt’s paper, Seeking help for domestic and family violence: exploring regional, rural, and remote women’s coping experiences, was published in the ANROWS Horizon Research report.
The project used a qualitative research design to gain insights into women’s help-seeking behaviour and coping mechanisms.
Professor Wendt says many women who participated in the study didn’t view distance as a barrier to accessing services, instead relying on friends and relatives for support.
“Women from remote or regional share similar experiences to all women who face this issue, but they cope alone for long periods. Often a crisis is the catalyst for seeking help,” Professor Wendt says.
The study also found that strategies for seeking help were often influenced by their network of friends and family outside of the home, with differences in the way Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal women experienced domestic and family violence.
Aboriginal women mostly described having strong family networks and support, but most non-Aboriginal women had limited family networks so were more likely to seek support from friends and acquaintances.
In some cases the absence of informal networks means some women did not reach out for help at all.
The study also examined how workforce, resources affect service provision in rural and remote regions. Professor Wendt says workers were often impacted by their geographical location.
“Domestic violence workers are often working in crisis mode due to limitations and lack of resources; preventative or other work is harder because of this. Workers felt the geographical isolation, rather than social isolation, negatively affected their wellbeing,” Professor Wendt says.
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In the last blog, we learnt that this Creation is an infinite composition of the Creator. But, the modern scientists and the intelligentsia have not yet been able to completely and conclusively unveil this infinite composition or the complete truth of creation. Though some of the modern scientists have ventured into the possibility of Multiverses, however, in the absence of concrete evidence, this conjecture of there being multiverses continues to be adjudged as a ‘pseudo-scientific nonsense’. In this context, it was told that it is not that creation has always remained an unknown and unfathomed composition for us. Our spiritual scientists not only successfully fathomed and demystified the truth of this hugely copious creation but also practically perceived and experienced each and every aspect of it. Through several scriptures and religious texts, they unravelled the mystery of countless worlds and universes. How could they do it, this very fact is presented in this Blog.
I will start the discussion with empirical science. Let us ponder as to how and when the masterpieces came into being this world. Be it a classic poem, an epic, a mathematical formula or some scientific invention – the composers or inventors of these masterpieces could experience themselves in a highly exalted state of mind, even though it may have been for a few moments. The state of elevation happened to be so immense and high that even they could not feel the sway of their ego-self on their being. They had merged and become one with their composition. They had completely lost in the work of composition. The engrossment was so intense that the idea of being the doer or composer itself came to lose its existence. Swami Rama Tirth explains this state of mind in these words – “While composing a poem, the poet loses the idea of his/her self. When a mathematician contemplates on solving difficult mathematical problems, it is as if his mind tightly holds the Supreme Lord; but, after solving the problem, re-entering under the influence of his ego-self, he exclaims with joy that he has solved the problem. This ego brings the whole work to naught. It is as if a person is lecturing perfectly well; but, the moment the feeling of little self enters his mind, the next moment all his wisdom-filled talk banishes. It is akin to a student who is reciting his poem in full flow and rhythm. But, the moment he realises it, his tongue cease to utter.”
You too may have had similar experiences. In fact, such experiences occur due to a subtle science. In egoless state and moments of absolute concentration, we cease to be ‘ourselves’. In those moments, we connect to ‘Higher Being’ and are therefore in a super-conscious state. Though momentarily, but we establish a direct connection with the ‘Higher Power’. That is the reason in such state, sublime ideas and deeds flows out of our being. Sublime inspirations take birth in our being.
You will be surprised to know, but it is true that the whole foundation of modern science firmly stand on these divine inspirations. The example of Greek Mathematician Archimedes is world famous. King Hiero has ordered him to examine the purity of his gold-crown. The King suspected that the goldsmith may have adulterated some other metal in his crown. The challenge was that the purity was to be examined without damaging or making any cut or hole in the crown. Archimedes pondered over the problem for many days. But, nothing materialised. One day, when he had as such no thought of this issue in his conscious mind, while taking bath, he shouted loudly – ‘Eureka! Eureka!’ – I have found it! I have found it! This solution was not the result of contemplation at the mental or intellect level. Rather, it had just happened or, say, it descended from a height of super conscious state.
Similarly, there was a German scientist – Kekule. He was working hard to devise the structural formula for benzene molecule. But, he was not getting any success. One night, in deep sleep, he had a wonderful dream. He saw a snake biting his own tail. This sight in dream proved a revolutionary step and the benzene ring was discovered.
Exactly similar was the experience of 10th century mathematician Karl Gauss. Since long he was attempting to prove a difficult theorem based on numbers. One day, the solution just did not happen but was revealed and awakened within his being. About his wondrous experience, Gauss writes – ‘Finally two days ago, I succeeded… like a sudden flash of lightening, the riddle happened to be solved. I myself cannot say what was the conducting thread which connected what I previously knew with what made my success possible.’
Such divine inspirations have been happening in the world of science. Similar inspirations are connected to the Zeta-function also. When German mathematician Bernhard Riemann was on death-bed, he had written some unique properties of this function on a piece of paper. These properties were unknown and mysterious to the wold of science till that time because Bernhard Riemann had not described anywhere the step by step details as to how he arrived at those results or properties. It happened 75 years ago. Today, by dent of relentless hard work, the scientists have successfully proven some of the properties written by Riemann at his death bed. Famous mathematician like Jacques Hadamard are exclaiming with great surprise – ‘The True recipient of accolades is Riemann, who had revealed the mysterious truths associated with Zeta-function long ago when even the facts to prove them were yet to be discovered. It is really surprising to think as to how this unravelling of mystery happened, from where this inspiration came; no description is available about this.’
Not just mathematician or scientists, but there have been many composers and artists who are live examples in this context. Once, the famous musician Mozart himself told as to how he composed his favourite songs – “Ideas swarm in me on their own. Where and how do they come, I do not know and I have nothing to do with it… the moment the theme of song comes to me, amazing musical notes begin to spring forth in my inner being. The succeeding notes automatically match with the preceding ones. Then, my soul is on fire with inspiration… the work grows; I keep expanding it… until I have entire composition completed in my head.”
We need to contemplate as to where these inspirations sprout from? Some scientists believe that this is due to constant trial and error process which goes on in the brain. These inspirations, according to them, are mere chance. But, such difficult problems or mysteries, like that of Riemann theorems, which are solved in many pages, how can these be simply a matter of chance. How can mere brain exercises lead to their solution? That too when our conscious brain itself does not know as to how it has demystified the riddle!
In this context, a scientist named Poincare talks of ‘Subliminal Self’ and calls it as the source of inspirations. He also relates it to the subconscious and unconscious levels of mind of psychology. According to him, our unconscious mind is more subtle and powerful than our conscious mind. Constant contemplation goes on in the inners layers of the unconscious mind. And, the solution is constructed therein. Indeed, this argument seems correct in some references. But this does not apply in the examples cited above. This is because our unconscious mind dabbles into the already stored ideas, karmas and information and presents them only in some new form. It cannot invent unknown ideas afresh.
Then, what should be accepted as the source of these exact and scientific inspirations? This still remains an unsolved question. As an answer, only one unquestionable argument sprouts forth. It is that in this Universe, there is an infinitely intelligent and omniscient power which sends divine currents of inspiration into the minds of scientists and affords opportunity of happening of unique inventions. Albert Einstein called this force as the ‘mystical super power’ and used to say these words about it – “It is a source of all true science… the cosmic religious experience is the strongest and noblest mainspring of scientific research.”
This is verily the secret behind all scientific inspirations. This is the complete truth. Our modern scientists too could experience it, though a bit superficially. But, the ancient sages of India had experienced this Truth in its utmost broadest fashion. It is described in the Mundakopanishad that once, Muni Shaunak, who was the mentor of a Gurukul, went to Maharishi Angira and enquired – “O’God! Kasminn bhagavo vigyaate sarvamidam vigyaatam bhavati – On knowing what everything becomes known?” In reply, Maharishi Angira said, “According to the enlightened saints, two kinds of knowledge are worthy of attainment – one, ‘para’ and the second, ‘apara’. Rig-Veda, Yajur-Veda, Sam-Veda, Atharva-Veda, education, kalpa, grammar, nirkuta, chhanda, and astrology come under Apara Vidya (Secular Knowledge). But, that knowledge through which we are enabled to realise the indestructible element called Brahman, it is called Divine Knowledge (para Vidya).” Maharishi Angira finally explains to Muni Shaunak – “Yaha sarvagya sarvavidyasya gyaanmayam tapaha. Tasmatt etatt brahma naam roopamannam cha jaayate” – It is this metaphysical element called Brahman, who is all-knowing, omniscient and from whom has emerged this grand universe. In brief, knowing the omniscient and the source of everything, the Supreme Lord, all else becomes known. By acquiring Divine Knowledge (Para Vidya), all the unknown secrets can be known. By knowing the Creator, everything in His creation can be known. All its direct and indirect aspects can be known.
Behind this proven truth is implicit a highly wonderful science of noblemen of ancient India. Let us dwell on it in detail. In actuality, who is Brahman according to these epics? According to Atharva-Veda (10.7.12) –
Yatraagnishchandrama aha suryo
Vaatastishthantyaarpitaa skambham tam bruhi
Meaning: The power which embraces all worlds, Sun, Moon etc. is called Brahman. This is akin to a tiny seed in which rests the whole tree. Likewise, this entire Universe remains embedded in the Brahman in the subtle form of a seed.
In this series, another question arises – Where does the Supreme Brahman reside? Though every tiny particle of this universe is home to the Supreme Brahman, but according to Vedic Philosophy, this Supreme Power specifically resides in the human body. In this context, a classic description is found in Aitaryopanishad. The composers of Upanishads elucidate – After creating this Universe, the Supreme Brahman created Man. Then, the Supreme Power realised – Sa Eekshat Katham nvidam madrite syat – How would man live without me? Thinking thus,
Sa etameva seemaanam
Vidaaryaitayaa dvaaraa prapadyat
Saishaa vidritirnaam dvaastadetannaandanam
Meaning: God entered the portals of human body and seated Himself in the Forehead (Brahmrandhra). Supreme Brahman can be attained only by entering through this subtle and divine door.
The equation is crystal clear before us now. In Supreme Brahman, all worlds and universes exist. And, that Supreme Brahman, with all His creation, secrets, mysteries and embellishments, is seated in the Forehead between the two eyebrows of our body. That is why, Rishis (the enlightened Saints and Seers) have said –
Yad pinde tad brahmaande
Brahmaande ye gunaahaa santi
Pindeshvapi cha te sthitaahaa
Meaning: That what inheres in this human body is inhered in universe too. The qualities of the universe manifest in this human body as well.
On experiencing this truth in te inner world, Saint Paltu instantaneously said – “In physical body dwells the whole creation; the whole creation inheres in the individual bodily case. It is also astonishing. How do I explain? A drop inheres the whole ocean.”
This fact can also be understood in the terminology of computer science. A small microchip is fitted in the motherboard of the processor. Despite being so small, the microchip can store data amounting to thousands of gigabytes, which is easily available to the computer scientists. Similarly, the place of the Divine Eye in the middle of the forehead is like a Super Microchip. In it is coded the entire creation and its Creator. The Rishis of yore were the knowers of this supernatural and supreme science. They could awaken the conscious centre (Agya Chakra) through Divine Knowledge and could activate the Divine Eye situated therein.
On opening of the Divine Eye, the aspirant gets to see the Supreme Brahman seated there in His full glory. That is why it is said in the holy texts – Chakshruunmeelitam yena tasmayah shri gurave namah – With guru’s grace, the Divine Eye gets opened. This eye reveals the inner world before the aspirant. He gets to perceive the Supreme Brahman situated within. And, with this the aspirant gets to perceive the multiverses, the entire creation and its associated mysteries! By accessing the super microchip fitted subtly on the forehead, the aspirant gets to know everything. He becomes omniscient through the Science of sciences, the Supreme Science i.e. Brahm Gyan. That is why it has been said in Atharva-Veda (4.20.1) – O’ deity of Brahm Vidya! One who attains you, he can peep into everything in the entire earth and space. Nothing remains hidden from him. Everything is discovered before him and becomes known to him.
Lastly, I would like to present a small incident which is pertinent and relevant in the instant context. This incident is from Shvetaashvataropanishad. Once, some inquisitive rishis gathered and started discussing about life, creation, etc. they had several questions before them and were curious to find answers for them; like, Kutaha jaataaha sma – From which source we came? Kena jeevanam – On whose power and strength are we living? Kva sampratishthaahaa – This creation inheres in which power? The Upanishad further tells that for answers of these questions, the Rishis did not opt for the path of argumentation. They did not waste time in any disputations and mental exercises. Instead, they instantly sat in meditation. In deep meditation, they perceived the Supreme Brahman (the God-element) within their being. That very Supreme Brahman which inheres the whole of creation and its mysteries! Thus, the Rishis got fully awakened upon perceiving the Supreme Brahman. They became all-knowing and exclaimed – Avigyaatam vigyaatam bhavati – The unknown is all-known now!
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A city of breweries and distilleries. And a rich literary history. Featuring writers, many of whom liked to drink back in the day.
Before water was safe to drink, Dublin women brewed beer in their homes. The better brews could be sold and so their houses became pubs. This meant several pubs were established on every street and over a thousand remain today.
The Guinness brewery is a dominant landmark to the west of the city. Within a ten minute walk of those famous black gates is a hospital entirely for the treatment of alcoholism. But how good is that Guinness?!
And so it was when my grandmother lived in the Coombe area of the Liberties. This is the ‘true’ Dublin. The heart of the city, south west of the city centre. Not the most salubrious area but the focus of this trip, to find the house where she was born.
Searching for her street, I passed Coombe Hospital for Women – a Liberties landmark. Women living south of the river Liffey – which cuts the city in two – were often unable to get north of the river to reach the only available natal care. After the hospital opened in the 1800s, high mortality rates in maternity reduced dramatically.
Despite Coombe ‘Lying-In Hospital’ being long established, my grandmother was born across the street from where she lived in two rooms for seven people.
Angling my umbrella at a tilt against rain, a map in my other hand, the street name suddenly jumped into view – white lettering on a green metal sign against a dirty, cream-coloured wall, in Gaelic and in English as are all street signs.
Turning into the narrow lane with its walled off dead end, ten tiny one storey houses lined either side. Debris swept up by the wind, brushed against vehicles parked tight against the linked Lilliputian bungalows. Each dwelling identical with a front door and, to the left of it, a slit of a window. Latterly, most had been extended into the rooves to accommodate their twenty-first century tenants.
Grey and unremarkable, number twenty had me holding my breath knowing my grandmother drew her first in this house. I knew her well but only from stories and photographs and, touching the rough, dull wall, it was as if my fingers were reaching to her childhood hand where it might once have rested.
I had bought a 48 hour bus tour ticket at the airport but the route did not pass anywhere near here so I began the hike back to the city centre. Following Cork Street took me past one of Dublin’s cathedrals of the Church of Ireland on the site of an ancient well, twelfth century St. Patrick’s. The tallest and largest in Ireland.
In his teens, Irish pirates captured St. Patrick and took him to Ireland where he was enslaved. He escaped years later and, ordained a Bishop, returned to Ireland bringing the Gospel, using shamrocks to explain the Holy Trinity. Irish paganism eventually capitulated to Christianity.
Near the ninth century site of the first Viking settlement is the heart of medieval Dublin. Adjacent to the city’s other medieval cathedral, Christ Church (ten minutes north of St. Patrick’s) is nineteenth century Dublinia. This now houses one of Dublin’s top tourist attractions focusing on Viking and medieval history.
Heading west into the city and south side of the river Liffey is Temple Bar – an area regenerated in the eighties and now a bohemian blend of bars, restaurants and galleries, promoted as Dublin’s cultural quarter.
Creating an intricate weaving of styles, the city centre is a lattice work of ornamental architecture from different periods in its history. Akin to the imposing architecture of England’s northern towns, the grandeur is predominantly Georgian with the embellishment of wrought iron work from a later period.
Irish melodies emanate from pubs and bars across the city, day and night, adding a tunefulness through which experience of the city seems filtered. Perhaps this is the reason Dublin seems surprisingly harmonious for a city. Particularly for anyone used to loud, twenty-first century London and its cacophony of clashing cultures. Even children (there were few) seem to show none of the usual European tension their cousins exhibit across the Celtic sea.
Iconography from Dublin’s literary past is commonplace – the city is dependent for its tourist income by selling its artistic heritage to the hoards of predominantly American and Canadian visitors continually passing through. Many looking for their Irish ancestors in between tours of the breweries and distilleries or taking in literary talks and slower paced pub crawls.
And in the many historic references and associations on the tourist trail – in the poetry and plays, in the paintings or musical performances – sparkling stories pour out from Dublin’s liquid history.
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On July 9, 2014, the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) released its strategy for the upcoming year. Michael Botticelli, the current drug czar who assumed his position in March, released the official National Drug Control Strategy at an event in Roanoke, Va. The strategy represents a shift in direction from previous years, emphasizing the need for treatment rather than punitive measures for people suffering from addiction. However, drug reform activists believe that the strategy still puts too much emphasis on treating drug users as criminals and demonizing marijuana.
A Change in Labels Is Emphasized
One of the main talking points of the 2014 strategy is the need to change the way we talk about people who are living with an addiction. The ONDCP encourages people to refrain from using the terms “addict” or “drug abuser,” and to rely instead on language that emphasizes addiction is a disease. According to the ONDCP, these terms contribute to the stigma that often surrounds drug abuse and addiction, and discourages people from seeking help.
Cautious Approach to Marijuana Displeases Activists
When Colorado and Washington voted to legalize recreational marijuana, the Obama administration made the decision not to fight the legislation. However, both the White House and Botticelli have said that they do not believe marijuana should be legalized nationwide. In the 2014 strategy, the ONDCP says it will be keeping a close eye on the effects of legalization in the two states. Marijuana activists are disappointed that the White House continues to express opposition to recreational legalization and remains reluctant to recognize the value of medical marijuana, which is legal in 23 states and the District of Columbia. While the ONDCP strategy argues that legalization is not “a panacea,” activists counter that it is at least a move in the right direction. One active step that the new strategy features is an increased effort to crack down on illegal outdoor marijuana growing operations on public lands, particularly in national forest land in California. Federal officials also plan to put more effort into locating indoor growing operations.
Reducing Overdose Fatalities a Priority
Most activists were pleased that the new strategy includes plans to greatly increase access to naloxone, a drug that can save the lives of those in the midst of an overdose on opioids. The document announced five-year strategies for reducing deaths from drug overdoses, which have been on the rise in recent years. The ONDCP also states that it supports Good Samaritan laws that give immunity to people who call 911 to report an overdose. Frequently, the person who finds someone in the middle of an overdose is someone who also uses drugs, and these individuals are sometimes too frightened of being arrested to call for help. The new strategy also supports the expansion of syringe exchange programs to help reduce the spread of HIV/AIDS and hepatitis. Syringe exchange programs allow people who inject drugs to exchange their needles after every use for a new, sterile needle. People cannot get into legal trouble for using a syringe exchange program. The strategy also acknowledges that the U.S. has the largest prison population in the world and how this places a social and economic strain on the country. This admission, in addition to the emphasis on preventing fatalities and disease prevention, has largely earned the approval of drug reformers.
Increased Spending for Treatment and Prevention
The budget breakdown for the ONCDP’s 2014 plan includes $11 billion that will go toward treatment and prevention of drug abuse as well as $9 million that will go toward law enforcement and the costs of incarceration. In all, the Obama administration reports that 43 percent of the ONDCP’s budget will now be directed toward treatment and prevention efforts – the highest percentage in the last 12 years. | <urn:uuid:0fadfa46-4272-4ca7-85c6-b7c15ef887ff> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.promises.com/addiction-blog/new-national-drug-control-strategy-puts-emphasis-treatment/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571911.5/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813081639-20220813111639-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.958863 | 764 | 1.828125 | 2 |
Road Beautification of Dhaka City
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- Category: Bangladesh
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Anything that is beautiful, easily attract favorable attention of everyone. So beautification is indeed very important. Among many beautification concern city beautification is a common phenomena in recent days. Dhaka City Corporation as well as many other public and private organizations have joined hands together for the beautification of Dhaka city.
For beautifying the city DCC has developed many water fountain sculptures and garden in different important sites of the city. Every year, DCC allocates more then one crore taka for the city beautification program. The Nagar Bhaban and other important places are decorated and lighted on different special and national days of the country.
Private organization most significantly commercial banks largely adopting various city beautifications project in recent times. As city beautification is an important part of CSR activities every organization should come forward to beautify Dhaka city.
Dhaka Bank, City Bank, Dutch Bangla Bank, Agrani Bank, Brac Bank, Unilever, British American Tobacco and so many organizations are playing an important role to beautify the city.
Zero point to Paltan
II. Means of City Beautification
We city dwellers see several form of Dhaka city beautification. Some of them are very attractive and nice to see. Besides informal means for beautification also enhances the beauty of Dhaka city. There are some common forms of city beautification as follows-
✓ Tree Plantation: Tree plantation is the most common form of road beatification in Dhaka city. It is also environment friendly as well as good looking. There are several public and private organizations that conducted mass tree plantations usually beautiful and long lasting trees are planted in the road sides.
✓ Beautiful Billboard: Now a days, it is called that Dhaka is a city of billboards. It is really true that Dhaka is covered with various kinds of billboards. Multinational, national, private organizations are competitively occupying billboard space. It is a very good sort of advertisement tool as well as enhances the beauty.
✓ Monument: It is another form of road beautification. Monument is costlier form but enhances the beauty a lot. There are several places in Dhaka where we see some beautiful monuments. These are very good looking too.
✓ Beautiful lightings: We see beautiful lightings in some occasion or on some special events. Special events like- SAARC, ICC World Cup etc. There are also colorful lightings on some special occasion’s like- Eid-ul-Fitre, Eid-ul-Azha, Victory Day, Independence Day and so on.
✓ Other tools: Besides these, there is few other form of road beautification. Sometimes we see electric display, projector display, passenger waiting bench and so on. Normally these beautifications are conducted by private business organization to boost up their image.
We will be discussing more on those beautification tools in the later part of this report.
III. City Beautification by Various Organizations
Dhaka City planners dream up a layout to decorate the capital in high-rolling glamour through architectural landscaping.
The process started with the Dhaka Urban Transport Project (DUTP), a taka 1200 crore WB-funded project, the Dhaka City Corporation (DCC) and the Roads and Highways Department (RHD). They, together, undertook the repair and construction of 2447.69 kilometers of wide and narrow lanes, along with 163 kilometers of footpath. In addition to this, a taka 150-crore DCC project for the greening of Dhaka through planting trees, and adding color with flowering plants.
Under the project, almost all important medians and road islands stretching from Bangabhaban to airport have been brought under fresh plantation. A total of 71 public and private organizations are implementing the project.
The authorities have divided the city into 109 zones and asked the executing agencies to beautify these areas. The private organizations will plant trees on medians and road dividers and maintain the plants for the next four years.
Besides, two parks have been handed over to private organizations for eight years for maintenance and beautification.
The government is not spending in this project. Government agencies and private organizations are implementing this plan with their own funds. Dhaka City Corporation is just is coordinating the whole project.
The Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) is likely to award the best organizations for their efforts in planting and maintaining the medians of the city roads. DCC allowed the organizations to put a maximum of three advertisement boards in their designated areas on completion of the beautification work. The size of the billboards will be approved by the city corporation.
Besides government authority various private organization especially commercial bank and other organization have adopter many activities towards Dhaka city beautification. Here are some beautifications conducted by some organizations.
Green road square
Dhaka Bank: Sponsored the city beautification program initiated by Dhaka City Corporation by refurbishing Dhaka Bank Fountain in front of Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Dhaka Bank Park in front of Dhaka Bank Head Office, beautification at Jashimuddin Crossing at Uttara costing 1.5 m, and also in front of Dhaka Bank Head Office costing 1.2 m.
Exim Bank: EXIM Bank planted trees on the road-median from Bangla Motor Crossing to Hotel Sheraton Crossing. For plantation of the trees and proper maintenance of them, it has spent about Tk.1.20 million. To make the capital a modern city, the bank has join hands with the government. For secured movement of the urban people, it has built a foot bridge over Kazi Nazrul Islam Avenue at Paribagh at a cost of Tk. 150.00 million. Construction of two other foot over-bridges, one at Tejgon and the other at Karwan Bazar is being planned.
City Bank: Beautification and preserving environment at Lake Side park, Baridhara to develop an eco-friendly society for healthy human life in collaboration with Baridhara Society. ‘Ajker Padma’, an environment preserving program and also conducting ‘Fresh Air Excursion’ programs for children.
Basic Bank: As a part of CSR contribution BASIC Bank adopts environment friendly practices in its operation. In its business operation BASIC Bank always considers the effects of bank’s financed projects on environment. This issue has been included in the process of project appraisal. Fuel driven vehicles are a major cause of air pollution and fuel procurement is a major source of expenditure of foreign currencies. Keeping these dual issues in mind the bank has been financing CNG refueling projects. So far BASIC Bank financed 23 CNG refueling projects of which 09 in 2008.
Uttara Bank: Under beautification of Dhaka City program, the bank financed in the sculpture of national bird “Doel” which is known as “Doel square” in front of Karzon Hall of Dhaka University.
Daffodil International University: Daffodil International University (DIU) achieved this Award from the honorable Prime Minister, Government of the Peoples Republic of Bangladesh for Beatification of Dhaka City. DIU specially takes care of 2 (two) Roads for plantation, related development & development since 2005 to till date. Total area is approximately six km. DIU is always in the desire of forming a positive Bangladesh. Natural balance is prerequisite to shape it. Green trees form a green earth. With this beautification project, DIU wants to convey message to all to stand against global warming and work for a green earth.
A number of trees have been implanted on the traffic islands under supervision of DIU under this project. It really gives a charming look while plying through the areas. The lash, colorful islands overwhelmed by various trees, implanted by the DIU authority gives a feeling of coolness in the hot summers, humidity in the winters. The trees under the Beautification Project give the passers-by a realization to be in the lap of nature. The trees wave amidst the breeze. The trees bloom with colorful flowers. Thus the Beautification project attains a success.
Dutch Bangla Bank: Dutch Bangla Bank is one of the fastest growing banks in Bangladesh. This bank is also popularly known for its CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility) activities. Among the CSR activities DBBL performs in a loading role in road beautification. We see many beautification activities by them.
Agrani Bank: Agrani Bank is another local bank that has several activities towards road beatification. We see national/local banks normally don’t go for city beautification, but Agrani Bank is different. They have several projects in Dhaka and whole Bangladesh.
British American Tobacco (BAT): IT is one of the largest multinational organizations that have numerous projects in Dhaka City beautification. They also provide free tree to plant it and conduct several projects. BAT has road beautification work in Baridhara, Gulshan Lake and many other places. Besides it BAT conducts many other awareness programs toward cleaner environment and city beautification.
AB Bank Limited: Arab Bangladesh Bank or AB bank that established in early 80’s. It is one of the reputed organization for CSR activities and as well as road beautification of Dhaka city.
UCBL: They are also sponsored tree plantation program for maintaining ecological balance which makes the road the beautiful in Dhaka City.
Islami Bank: Islami Bank Bangladesh Limited has been working since long time for beautification of the road island from Rajarbagh Police Line to Kamalapur Railway Station. Different types of herbal plants were planted on the island including Neem, Tulshi, Pathorchuna, Bohera, Horitoki, Amla, Arjun etc. Wooden trees have also been planted. Those are Akashia and Mehegoni. Differnt type of decorative plants including Rongon, Ronjon, Bogenvelia, Benjamin, Alsanda, Arika palm, Musanda, Bokul, Weeping Debdaru, Malpuchia, Madhobilata etc have been increasing the beauty of the island. Amon hedge plants kata Mehedi, Folika lal border, Lotenta, Shewra, Hedge and Kenna etc. These plants give us life saving oxygen as well as beautify the city. While passing through the green island the busy commuters get peace in the mind for a while.
HSBC: On World Environment Day, HSBC Bangladesh carried out a large scale tree plantation (more than 1000 trees) program at the Osmani Udayan, one of the largest parks in Dhaka City. HSBC launched ‘Go Green’ campaign to celebrate World Environment Day. Under this campaign, customers would get special discount on the CNG conversion loan and a Certificate. Their business case was about solving the imminent water crisis of Megacity Dhaka by harvesting rainwater, and providing clean, drinkable water for everyday use in domestic and commercial structures. HSBC supported the United Nations’ World Environment Day (WED) event by launching ‘Be Part of the Solution’ campaign. HSBC employees went to a nearby park and cleaned up the park of debris & wastes and deposited the items to the nearby waste facility. In addition, staff also planted about 600 trees in the park to provide a greener look.
Grameenphone: Grameenphone actively participates in the city beautification program initiated by Dhaka City Corporation and also supports improvement of the traffic system in major cities. The company has beautified the road median from Shaheed Jahangir Gate to Bijoy Sharoni and in Gulshan Avenue. In 2006, Grameenphone has been received “Beautification Award 2006” for its outstanding contribution to beautifying Dhaka City from Prime Minister Office.
Unilever: There is a huge structure boasting ‘Unilever’ at the junction of the hotel Shonargaon.
Hatil Complex Limited: Hatil has been received “Beautification Award-2006” – given by Honorable Prime Minister of Bangladesh- Begum Khaleda Zia for the beautification of Dhaka Road Island.
CityCell: CityCell actively participates in the city beautification program initiated by Dhaka City Corporation and also supports improvement of the traffic systems in major cities.
Bridge – Dhanmondi Road 8
IV. Road Beautification on Various Occasions
We see some small seasonal beautification on various occasions. This beautification enhances the beauty of Dhaka.
Nationals Days: In Bangladesh, these are some national days such as 21st February, 26th March, and 16th December. In these days, Dhaka city wears a festive look. Colorful word and many other forms of beautification attract the city dwellers.
ICC World Cup: The Engineering Corps of Army in association with Dhaka City Corporation completed the repair and beautification work of the capital ahead of the ICC Cricket World Cup. Bangladesh Army, DCC and 42 construction firms implemented the Tk 54 crore project. The project, which also includes road carpeting, footpath repairing, drainage and development of road dividers and beautification of 4.66 lakh square meter road, footpath and median. In a total, 27 roads from Mirpur Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium to Bangabandhu National Stadium brought under the project.
Islami Bank Bangladesh Limited (IBBL) worked for the beautification of Dhaka city as exclusive sponsor of Bangladesh Cricket Board for the ICC Cricket World Cup-2011. Important squares, over bridges, bus stands, circles, different locations and establishments of Dhaka city have been decorated with stickers, posters, festoons, stand signs, bill boards, mega signs, canvas boards, gates, balloons, cutouts, neon signs, etc. Jatiya Sangsad Bhaban, National Monument, Shaheed Minar, Baitul Mokarram National Mosque, Curzon Hall, Mahastangarh, Cox’s Bazar sea beach, the Sundarbans, tea estates, Hill Tracts, the national bird Robin, Lilly and Kadam flowers, Parrot, Deer, Tiger, hand fan, rickshaw, sampan boat and lifestyle of indigenous people were reflected on these publicity measures.
The Dhaka Metropolitan Police also takes part to beautify the road by successfully removing hawkers and beggars from Dhaka city before the World Cup to be inaugurated formally on February 17 at Bangabandhu National Stadium.
ECB (Engineers Construction Battalion) worked for carpeting of roads, beautification of footpaths, improvement of drainage, road-marking and replacement of electric pillars, Col Masud said, adding, footpaths from Farmgate-Bangla Motor and Rampura-Baridhara are under construction.
A total of 22 kilometers road have been developed as part of the beautification of Dhaka city during the cricket’s biggest extravaganza ICC Cricket World Cup in order to depict the city as glamorous towards the foreign guests. In a joint-venture of Dhaka City Corporation (DCC) and Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB), the beautification was been accomplished. The 22 Kilometers road includes Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport to Bangabandhu National Stadium (BNS) and BNS to Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium (SBNCS). DCC and BCB in their own expenditure have been doing the work. A total of Tk 54 crore has been allocated to implement the project that includes repair of 27 roads and beautification work.
Besides these there are several organizations take part to beatify the road like Pepsi.
City Beautification for SAARC: On the occasion of SAARC (South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation) Head of State meeting at Dhaka, the government initiated a program for beautification of Dhaka City in 2005 through public participation. A great deal of work was done and the whole scenario of the city has taken a new shape with a very impressive look. Dhaka city is now more beautiful than ever.
The beautification project, undertaken at the directives of the Prime Minister’s Office, is being executed by various government agencies and private organizations under the supervision of the Dhaka City Corporation (DCC). Under the project, almost all important medians and road islands stretching from Bangabhaban to airport have been brought under fresh plantation. A total of 71 public and private organizations are implementing the project. The authorities have divided the city into 109 zones and asked the executing agencies to beautify these areas. The private organizations will plant trees on medians and road dividers and maintain the plants for the next four years. Besides, two parks have been handed over to private organizations for eight years for maintenance and beautification.
“The size of the billboards needs to be approved by the city corporation.” Bangladesh Navy has been assigned for the beautification of the road from Banani level crossing to Kakoli, and the ‘Advance Ad’ is beautifying the road from Kakoli point to Jahangir Gate via Mohakhali level crossing. The stretch from Jahangir Gate of Dhaka Cantonment to Bijoy Sarani is being beautified by GrameenPhone Limited and Bijoy Sarani to Farmgate Police Box by the Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce and Industry (MCCI). The Federation of Bangladesh Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FBCCI) has been engaged in maintenance of the park to the west of Adamjee Court at Dilkusha while Arkay Group has taken the Panthakunja Park near Sonargaon Hotel. Bata Shoe Company Limited is beautifying the roads from Zia International Airport to Tongi Bridge, and the Roads and Highways Department is beautifying the stretch from the airport to Banani level crossing.
Brac has been nominated to beautify the road from Manik Mia Avenue to Gono Bhaban while Lions Club for Agargaon link road to Taltala bus stand, and Grameen Bank for the stretch from Mirpur Section-10 to Sony Cinema. Farmgate Police Box to Bangla Motor crossing and the road from Dhaka Sheraton Hotel to Shahbagh crossing were handed over to Arkay Group for beautification. Gonosasthya Kendra has been nominated to beautify from Dhanmondi Road no 5 to the Sonargaon-Panthapath Road via Russell Square.
Among other organisations, Transcom Limited, Concord Group, Bangladesh Army, Exim Bank, City Bank, Dutch-Bangla Bank, LGED, Bangladesh Railway, Lab Aid, CityCell, Hotel Sonargaon, Desco, ATN Bangla, Bhorer Kagoj, British American Tobacco, Bashundhara Group, Prime Textile, and MCCI are beautifying the city under the project. “We are taking part in this project to perform our corporate social responsibility,” said Syed Shawkat Imam, deputy manager (information) of GrameenPhone Limited. All the organisations had to take DCC’s prior approval to the designs and work for beautification. DCBC officials said the contract with any organisation would be cancelled if it failed to follow the approved design and complete the work on time. The authorities had earlier planned to relocate the Saarc Fountain in front of Sonargaon Hotel but officials said it will remain at its present position until the summit. It will then be relocated to Pantho Kunjo Park. The Airport Road adorned with a new look as part of the beautification process of the city ahead of the Saarc Summit.
Kakrail crossing to Fakirapool
V. Some Other Beautification Project by Dhaka City Corporation
Dhanmondi Lake: Dhanmondi Lake is a prestigious project corporation. Dhanmondi Lake development project was undertaken to provide a place of recreation for the urban community of Dhaka City. This was a part of a long demand of the urban dwellers for their physical as well as mental nourishment. This park stretches with an area of 85.60 acres out of which almost 31 acres of land area and the rest is 54.6 acres water body. This park has also a vision to restore the environmental quality enhancement of public facilities. For operation and maintenance purposes the whole area is proposed to be eight different sectors and which consists different facilities. Gulshan Lake: Once Gulshan lade was a sort of amusement. People came here to pass their beautiful leisure time. But lack of maintenance and administrative action which lost it’s beauty. Recently DCC has come forward to enhance its beauty. DCC cleans the garbage form lade and plants beautiful trees around the lake. Besides there are also some arrangements made for visitors. Some other private organizations have also come forward to beautify this lake. Hopefully this lake will gain it’s previous beauty very soon. But proper maintenance will be a key tool to sustain it’s beauty.
Other Park: Parks and playground in the city are notoriously few and far between. Needless to say that open public places for relaxation. Recreation and sports play a vital role in any scheme for a rational town planning and are deemed highly desirable from the point of view of the citizens physical well being. The need for having open places assumes greater important in the context of the fact that an immense bulk of the city’s populace dwell in sultry hovels where sun and air rarely access. DCC has 42 developed parks; those are situated in different parts of the city. The important parks are as follows:
Sony cinema square, Mirpur
It is sometimes easy to beautiful the city n short term, but maintenance of these beautification activities are quite difficult. We normally see some vulnerable structure monument. Another fact, it is often a problem because of too much billboard. Billboards and other vulnerable structure fall in the times of storm heavy wind and so on. So these activities can me made for maintaining these tools-
✓ A proper cooperation among these city beatifications activities.
✓ Structure of those beautification activities should be well-managed.
✓ Government can initiate several committees for the maintenance of those activities thus it can be well manages.
✓ They may also lessen the tax for whom participating in city beautification activities.
✓ Besides Dhaka City Corporation (DCC) should be more focused on beautification activities.
✓ Many more activities bye private organizations toward Dhaka City beautifications.
Megacity Dhaka is celebrating it 400 years. Dhaka is one of the ancient cities in the world. But lack of management and some irresponsible work of some people make this city unhealthy. It is a matter of sorrow that Dhaka is regarded second among all cities of the world as most inconvenient city. It is not only a sorrow but also image losing factor for Dhaka. So beautification of Dhaka is badly needed. That is why we have to put emphasis not only short term beautification but also long term beautification. DCC and other organization should focus on environment friendly beautification. Besides, there should be more allocation on this sector. It is easy to beautify the roads and other places but it’s maintenance task should be properly managed. As socio economic Dhaka is the most important city, so we city dwellers should love the city and increase it’s beauty and image of Dhaka City. | <urn:uuid:12202926-ee63-462c-91db-f01e7d6180f6> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://blablawriting.net/road-beautification-of-dhaka-city-essay | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572043.2/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814143522-20220814173522-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.945169 | 4,909 | 1.648438 | 2 |
Windows 8 has moved to a new PC sign-in model where you typically use a Microsoft account (Windows Live ID) instead of a traditional local account. This provides a ton of advantages related to PC-to-PC sync settings and more. But it also comes with a few challenges, key among them home network interoperability. And if you need to access other PCs on your home network, whether they're using Windows 7, Windows Home Server, or whatever, you're going to run into some issues. Fortunately, they're easy to overcome, if you know the secrets.
Method 1: Homegroup
On my own home network, I use Windows Home Server 2011 as a central point for data storage and sharing. That system is based on Windows Server 2008 R2, so it's part of the Windows 7 family of products. As such, it does support the Homegroup home sharing technologies that Microsoft introduced in that OS. So that's one approach.
To configure Homegroup on Windows 8, navigate to PC Settings (WINKEY + I, More PC Settings), and then HomeGroup. Then, enter the homegroup password to join the homegroup.
After the connection is made, determine which folders to share through the homegroup and whether to share media devices. Then, close PC Settings.
To access the PCs connected to the homegroup over the home network, you will need to use the Homegroup node in the Navigation pane of Windows Explorer, and not the Network node. This will pass you through to all of the shared folders (and media devices) on your homegroup-connected network.
Method 2: Network shares
Homegroup-based access is the easiest way to interoperate between Windows 8-based PCs and those based on Windows 7. But if you're using other versions of Windows on your home network, or want to use the Network node in Explorer to access files shares, that method won't work. Fortunately, there's a way.
You'll know you need this method when you see the following dialog:
This is what I get when I sign-in to Windows 8 and then want to access my home server, which is configured with my old workgroup-based user name and password combo. And sure enough, you can type in that user name and password here, check "Remember my credentials" and be on your merry way.
There's just one problem. That "Remember my credentials" checkbox is a long-running joke in Windows, and it doesn't actually doing anything like actually remembering your credentials. In fact, it does just the opposite.
To get around this--i.e. to actually cause Windows 8 to remember your credentials and let you access your home network-based shares seamlessly--you need to use an obscure Windows utility called Windows Vault. There are a variety of ways to bring up this interface, but the easiest is to use Start Search: Just hit the Start screen, type vault, and select Settings from the filter list on the right.
Select Manage Windows Credentials and the Credential Manager, formerly known as Windows Vault. Select the Windows Credentials button.
Now, select "Add a Windows Credential." In the view that opens, type in the machine name of the PC you wish to access (just the name, like vail and not like \\vail), and the user name and password that you use on that machine and/or across machines on your workgroup.
When you are done, the Credential Manager will list the new saved credential under Windows Credentials.
You'll need to reboot the computer (or use NET USE via a command line, if you're too technical for your own good) for the changes to take effect. But you will be able to access your home network shares now, regardless of how the network is configured.
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It was a blind tasting with a bit of a twist, as after tasting each whisky, the details were revealed. No whisky club brain cells were over-exercised trying to guess what the whiskies were. A blind tasting with one eye open then.
Hints given at the beginning:
- All were grain whiskies
- Each of the first four whiskies came from a different distillery
- The fifth bottle was a combination of whiskies from the first four distilleries
- All were Scotch whiskies
- Each came from a different Independent bottler
- Whiskies from largest, oldest, newest and ‘silent’ grain distilleries
- There were cask strengths, single barrels and a variety of ages
- The last bottle was the only blended whisky
The last bottle wasn’t Haig Clubman. (That’s a bit of an ‘in joke’ that Sean is too embarrassed to explain. Ask Paul S – he’ll tell you).
The evening started off with some explanation about what makes a grain whisky different from a malt whisky (that’ll be the type of still and the grain being used). Interestingly, there are only 6 full time grain distilleries in Scotland and their combined output far exceeds that of the combined output of the 100 or so Scottish malt distilleries. 90% of whisky drunk around the world today is blended whisky. In the past 40 years 7 Scottish grain distilleries have closed, so more distilleries have recently closed than now remain - that’s not the result of a downturn in consumption, but more about the big distilling companies pursuing a strategy to focus their activities and improve efficiencies.
Now on to the interesting part of the evening – tasting the whiskies.
Whisky 1 - Signatory bottling of 2007 vintage North British Single Grain - 43% ABV - Distilled 15 Nov 2007, bottled 07 March 2018 (10.3 YO then)
Signatory is a very well-known Indy bottler and specialises in small batch, single cask and cask strength Scotch whiskies. Based near the Edradour distillery in Pitlochry.
North British distillery was founded in 1885 and is in the western outskirts of Edinburgh. Owned jointly by Diageo and The Edrington Group. This is Edinburgh’s only remaining distillery producing around 14 million gallons per year going mainly into Chivas Regal, Famous Grouse, J&B and Cutty Sark. They have three Coffey stills and new make spirit is 94.50%
Nose- Melon with a touch of Parma ham, Vanilla
Taste – Citrus fruits with some spicy notes
Finish – Short with a little spice and slightly herbal
Whisky 2 - That Boutique-y Whisky Company bottling of Invergordon 10 YO Cask Strength Single Grain – 55.4% ABV - Limited run of 217 bottles
TBWC is based in Leith and we know them very well – we had a great presentation from them back in April 2017. They specialise in small batch whiskies with graphic style labels and usually sold in 50cl bottles.
Invergordon is the only grain distillery that’s not located in or very close to the Lowlands region. Instead the distillery can be found in the Northern Highlands a few miles north of Inverness. Founded in 1960 it is owned by White and Mackay and produces around 9 million gallons of whisky per year from 4 Continuous stills. Used mainly for White & Mackay offerings
Nose – Youthful, spicy, vanilla, wood
Taste – Almond, toasted cereals
Nose – Short with notes of orange and pepper
Whisky 3 - Douglas Laing ‘Old Particular’ bottling of Port Dundas 13YO 2004 vintage single cask single grain – 48.4% Distilled in July 2004, matured in American Oak barrels and bottled in March 2018. Small batch of 3000 bottles
Based in Glasgow and established in 1948, Douglas Laing is another of the giants in the Indy bottling world, they specialise in Single Malt, Single Grain, Blended Malt, Blended Grain and blended whiskies – That’ll be pretty much everything then.
Port Dundas is now a ‘silent’ (aka closed) distillery which was located in Glasgow, built in 1811 and starting grain production in 1845. In the late 1800’s it was the largest distillery in Scotland. Various companies have owned it over the years, but it was in the ownership of Diageo when it was closed in 2009 and demolished in 2011. In its heyday it produced around 9 million gallons a year.
Nose – Sweet, milk chocolate, vanilla, pear drops
Taste – Light spices, cocoa, honey
Finish – Medium, cinnamon, creamy caramel
Whisky 4 - James Eadie bottling of Cameronbridge 21YO Cask Strength Single Grain – 54.4% - Limited edition of 265 bottles distilled 1997 bottled 2018 matured in refill hogshead.
James Eadie was a Scottish beer distiller in mid 1800’s and had inherited a recipe for blended whisky from his father. James Eadie the company specialise in small batch, single cask and cask finish bottlings.
Cameronbridge is situated in Fife mid-way between Edinburgh and Dundee and is owned by Diageo. It is the largest grain distillery in Europe, producing around 22 million gallons per year. It also claims to be the oldest, founded in 1824 by John Haig, whose cousin Robert Stein invented the column (continuous) still. It was the first distillery to produce commercial grain whisky. It is also one of the very few grain distilleries to have ever released its own brand of blended whisky - Cameron Brig. Used in J&B, JW, Haig, Bells, VAT69 to name but a few.
Nose – Sweetness, strawberry cheesecake, peach, slightly perfumed
Taste – Vanilla fudge, toasted cereal, pepper. Buttery feel in the mouth
Finish – Medium with almond and sweetness
Whisky 5 – Compass Box Hedonism: Blended Grain Whisky, NAS, 43% -
Aged in first fill American oak casks.
Compass Box was founded by American entrepreneur John Glaser in 2000, their headquarters and blending room is in Chiswick, London. Maturation storage in Scotland. Their ethos is “Good wood makes good whisky” and “A well-made Scotch whisky blend, made from excellent component whiskies, is something no single distillery can create, and can rival the complexity of the very best of single malt whiskies”
Compass box has long campaigned for complete transparency in the whisky industry and the right to disclose constituent parts of a blended whisky including distillery, type of cask, Age and percentage.
Hedonism was the first whisky released by Compass box in 2000. Since then it has won a number of awards, most recently a gold at the World Whisky Awards in 2018.
(Definition of hedonism by English Oxford dictionary - the pursuit of pleasure; sensual self-indulgence; self-gratification; debauchery, decadence. Call me old-fashioned, but somehow only the first definition seemed suitable for a whisky club meet).
34.7% Invergordon - 27.8% Port Dundas - 21.2% Cameronbridge - 16.3% North British. Ranging from 13- 24 YO - 51% over 21 YO
Nose – Fruitiness, strawberries and cream, pepper
Taste – Toffee, cherries, light spices
Finish – Medium, warm and spicy, vanilla and some wood
As usual we finished the evening by rating each of the whiskies. All five of the whiskies were very good in their own right and coming in ahead of the pack was Compass Box Hedonism demonstrating their skill in selection and blending of whiskies.
1st - Compass Box
2nd - James Eadie Cameronbridge
3rd - Signatory North British
4th - Douglas Laing Port Dundas
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Dissertation Abstract ROLE OF MULTIPLE REPRESENTATIONS IN PROBLEM SOLVING IN PHYSICS Improving students’ problem solving skills is a central goal of introductory physics courses. The problem solving process is important in learning physics because it is the main modus through which introductory students make sense of physics concepts and improve their knowledge structure of physics. Representations play a major role in problem solving because they can help students focus on the conceptual aspects of physics. In addition, representing a problem in a diagrammatic form is an important initial step that helps initiate the key stage of conceptual planning and analysis and is therefore employed by experts engaged in problem solving. This thesis explores the role that multiple representations play in introductory students’ problem solving performance in several investigations. Findings suggest that employing a diagrammatic approach to problem solving is the expert approach and that students who draw productive diagrams are more successful problem solvers even if their approach is primarily mathematical. In addition, students who were provided with a diagrammatic representation corresponding to the physical situation presented in a problem, sometimes exhibited deteriorated performance. Think-aloud interviews with individual students suggested that this deteriorated performance is in part due to the fact that students who are provided with diagrams can spend less time on the important initial stage of conceptual planning and sometimes even omit it altogether jumping in the implementation stage without ensuring that they understand the problem. Another study which investigated two interventions aimed at improving introductory students representational consistency between mathematical and graphical representations revealed that a lot of scaffolding which would be considered effective by most experts can have a detrimental effect. Interviews suggested that the detrimental effect could be in part due to the increased cognitive load brought on by the additional instructions, which, for some students, may have resulted in cognitive overload and caused significant difficulties to students engaged in problem solving. In addition, this investigation revealed that students who exhibited representational consistency also showed improved problem solving performance. The final investigation expounded in this thesis is centered on a problem solving task administered to first year physics graduate teaching assistants (TAs) designed to provide information about their pedagogical content knowledge (PCK). In particular, the graduate students identified what they considered to be the most common difficulties of introductory physics students related to graphical representations of kinematics concepts as they occur in the Test of Understanding Graphs in Kinematics (TUG-K). As an extension, the Force Concept Inventory (FCI) was also used to assess this aspect of PCK (knowledge of student difficulties) of both instructors and TAs. Several interesting results are discussed: when it comes to the performance in identifying common introductory student alternate conceptions and difficulties, teaching an independent course and recent teaching experience do not appear to correlate with this performance. In addition, American TAs did not perform any better than Chinese TAs or other foreign TAs in identifying common student alternate conceptions/difficulties both in the context of the TUG-K and in the context of the FCI. Finally, while both instructors and TAs performed better than random guessing, there were many common introductory student alternate conceptions and difficulties that were not identified by many instructors and TAs. | <urn:uuid:bd6f789a-e55e-473e-9843-2ef324dd3da0> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.physicsandastronomy.pitt.edu/people/alexandru-maries-0 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571538.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812014923-20220812044923-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.959675 | 640 | 2.078125 | 2 |
The political debate about finance in the US is often cast as markets versus regulation, as if “more regulation” means the efficiency of private sector decisions will necessarily be impeded or distorted. But this is the wrong way to think about the real policy choices that – like it or not – are now being made. The question is actually what kind of markets do you want: fair and well-functioning, with widely shared benefits; or deceptive, dangerous, and favoring just a relatively few powerful people?
In a speech on Wednesday, Senator Elizabeth Warren (D., MA) laid out a vision for better financial markets. This is not a left-wing or pro-big government agenda. Senator Warren’s proposals are, first and foremost, pro-market. She wants – and we should all want – financial firms and markets that work for customers, that encourage innovation, and that do not build up massive risks which can threaten the financial system and bring down the economy.
Senator Warren puts forward two main sets of proposals. The first is to more strongly discourage the deception of customers. This is hard to argue against. Some parts of the financial sector are well-run, providing essential services at reasonable prices and with sound ethics throughout. Other parts of finance have drifted, frankly, into deceiving people – on fees, on risks, on terms and conditions – as a primary source of profits. We don’t allow this kind of cheating in the non-financial sector and we shouldn’t allow it in finance either.
The unfortunate and indisputable truth is that our rule-making and law-enforcement agencies completely fell asleep prior to 2008 with regard to protecting borrowers and even depositors against predation. Even worse, since the financial crisis, the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Justice Department, and the Federal Reserve Board of Governors proved hard or near impossible to awake from this slumber.
We need simple, clear rules that ensure transparency and full disclosure in all financial transactions – and we need to enforce those rules. This is what was done with regard to securities markets after the debacle of the early 1930s. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), for which Senator Warren worked long and hard, has started down a sensible road towards smarter and simpler regulation. The CFPB needs to go further – including on auto loans – and for this it needs renewed political support.
The second proposal is to end the greatest cheat of all – the implicit subsidies received by the largest financial institutions, structured so as to encourage excessive and irresponsible risk-taking. These consequences of these subsidies have already caused massive macroeconomic damage – this is why our crisis in 2008-09 was so severe and the recovery so slow. Yet we have made painfully little progress towards really ending the problems associated with some very large financial firms – and their debts – being viewed by markets and policymakers as being too big to fail.
If you could visit a casino with the prospect of keeping all your winnings, while your losses would be partially or completely paid by someone else, how much would you gamble? You would bet a huge amount – presumably as much as the house allows. Big banks are run by smart, rational people. The incentives they face – which themselves have worked long and hard to retain – are not acceptable from a broader social point of view.
Senator Warren wants to cut through the complex morass of modern regulation. Force the biggest half dozen banks to become smaller, simpler, and more transparent. Limit the tax deductibility of interest for large highly leveraged financial institutions, so they choose to fund themselves with relatively more equity and less debt.
And reform the emergency powers of the Federal Reserve – to strengthen its ability to deal with genuine disasters while also ensuring an appropriate level of democratic review and control. The days of secretive bailouts should end.
Senator Warren’s main point is this:
“without some basic rules and accountability, financial markets don’t work. People get ripped off, risk-taking explodes, and the markets blow up. That’s just an empirical fact – clearly observable in 1929 and again in 2008.”
Of course you cannot outlaw all cheating or prevent all forms of future potential macroeconomic problems. But the legislative framework and presidential priorities matter. This is demonstrated by what happened since the 1980s, when the deregulation of finance distorted incentives in very ways that proved very dangerous.
We can choose now to make markets function better. Put in place simpler, clearer rules and enforce them.
This is a completely centrist agenda. As a result, there is real potential here for bipartisan policy initiatives – and there are senators on both sides of the aisle who show signs of being willing to go to bat for exactly these kinds of sensible pro-market ideas.
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Laptops are seemingly everywhere, with numerous models and features to select from. Nonetheless, you must actually perform some research if you prefer a notebook that is going to job for your needs. This article will enable you to find out things to search for within your next laptop computer.
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Do you have to rest brisket in cooler
If you’re wondering whether or not you have to be resting your brisket in a cooler, you’ve come to the right place!
For the most part, you will always want to rest your brisket in either a cooler or warming oven. This is perhaps the second most important aspect of any brisket cook.
It basically allows all the connective tissues and collagen within the meat to begin further rendering down, and allows the juices to soak back into the meat.
By having the juices soak back into the rest of the meat, and letting the temperature stabilize, you will be ensuring a very moist and tender piece of barbecue.
Let’s take a further look at what resting a brisket actually does to the overall meat.
What does resting brisket in a cooler do?
Resting a brisket essentially just let’s the internal temperature come down to a reasonable amount of around 165 degrees, and also let’s the juices soak back into the barbecue. In doing this, you are allowing for adequate slicing, without the worry of having all the moisture evaporate the moment you happen to slice into it.
Most of the time, when you don’t rest a brisket, it will be way too hot to ever think about digging in. If you were to do that, then the juices inside of each slice would promptly evaporate and you’d be left with a very dry piece of meat.
This would happen even if you had pulled it off the smoker with the right internal temperature of around 200 degrees.
Always remember to rest your briskets!
Why you should rest your brisket in a cooler
Since we have covered what resting in Brisket in a general sense does, you should know some of the important qualities of resting a brisket in a cooler specifically.
The main benefit to resting a brisket inside of a cooler is really just so you can transport it easily. If you were to try and rest the brisket on the counter or even inside of a warming oven, you would not have this ability.
Most of the general resting containers like Coolers and Warming ovens will provide excellent insulation that will allow you to adequately rest your brisket, but if you happen to be on the move, then you should certainly consider resting it inside of a cooler just so you can have that option available to you.
Who should be resting brisket in their coolers
Anyone who wishes to adequately rest a brisket and obtain the best possible results should be placing the Briskets inside of a cooler. It just allows for all of the juices to soak back up into the meat, and can be a great best practice whenever you happen to pull the brisket off the smoker.
How do you rest a brisket without a cooler?
To begin resting a large Brisket instead of a cooler, you just have to first of all ensure that it actually fits inside of the container itself. If it does, then you can certainly just place the entire me without any wrapping directly inside.
If you want more insulation to hold the brisket over a longer period of time, then consider wrapping it in foil, butcher paper, or even towels. That’s all it takes to rush the brisket inside of a cooler.
Let’s say that the brisket, though, does not fit into the cooler and you are faced with having to rest it without one. In this case, you would certainly be able to just either let it rest on the counter in a large pan for several hours, or perhaps even place it directly into a warming oven where you most likely will be able to fit it inside.
The benefit of having a warming oven would be that you can directly influence the ambient temperature at which the brisket actually is resting at. This could be great for even longer resting, and can really start to slow down how quick the internal temperature decreases.
This also would allow more time for the juices to soak back up into the barbecue, producing even better results.
Can I let my brisket rest in the oven?
You absolutely can rest a Brisket in an oven if doing so in a cooler is not an option.
As I noted above, just make sure to grab a large enough pan to fit the Brisket in, and slide it into the warming oven. If you want to rest it for periods of 3 to 12 hours, then consider switching the average temperature to around 165°F.
At the end of the day, resting a brisket is essential, but can be done with or without a cooler at hand. There are some significant benefits to resting with a cooler, such as ease of transportation, and ability to move it around if need be.
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It can certainly feel like everyone’s subscribed to Netflix — when a show catches on, it can dominate the conversation for weeks at a time or even longer. But unlike the enormous network television events of decades past (think the Seinfeld finale or American Idol during its heyday), Netflix exists in a far more splintered climate of media consumers, and not every household is a subscriber.
According to a recent CivicScience study, 65% of Americans are currently subscribed to Netflix, with nearly 80% of adults having used the video-on-demand service at some point. An elusive 17% of Americans haven’t used Netflix before and aren’t interested in doing so at all.
So who are these Netflix-resistant Americans? They’re similarly distributed by residential area to current subscribers, but a bit more likely to live in rural areas. But compared to Americans who haven’t used Netflix but plan to in the future, they’re 60% more likely to live in cities.
The pandemic has fueled remarkable growth for streaming services’ subscriber bases, and the CivicScience data gestures toward that reality: Americans working remotely or as usual, overwhelmingly make up Netflix’s current subscriber base. Americans who aren’t subscribed and don’t plan to are more than twice as likely to not be working than subscribers, and non-users who plan to subscribe are even more likely still.
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The third part of a series of articles on the evolution of OH focuses on OH nurse competencies and education. Noel O’Reilly asks if future training of OH practitioners will take place alongside that of allied practitioners.
The launch of a National School of Occupational Health in 2014 signalled a recognition among occupational health practitioners that future workplace health and wellbeing services will be provided by a range of professions.
Furthermore, the initiative acknowledged that the roles and educational requirements of practitioners will overlap. The school, launched by Health Education England (HEE) and the Faculty of Occupational Medicine, is intended to “promote and develop multi-professional training of work and health” (Council for Work and Health (CWH, 2014).
However, collaboration between practitioners does not always prove straightforward in practice. OH doctors’ body the Society of Occupational Medicine (SOM) opened up its membership to associated healthcare professionals in OH in 2012. Many practitioners hoped that a ballot of members for a merger of SOM and the Faculty of Occupational Medicine (FOM) in 2014 would lead to further integration of OH doctors and other practitioners. These expectations were thwarted when too few faculty members supported the merger. OH nurses responded by seizing the initiative with the launch in 2015 of a project to develop a Faculty of Occupational Health Nursing (FOHN).
While some physicians voted against joining forces with other practitioners due to concerns about protecting specialist education for doctors, the reality is that both OH doctors and nurses will have to share responsibility for delivering services with allied practitioners in future. This is because numbers of OH nurses and doctors in the UK are small and are now in decline.
Practitioner case study
Maria Goldby, senior occupational health & wellbeing adviser, Reed Business Information
Over the past few years my role as an OH adviser has changed to a role that encompasses all aspects of preventative healthcare as a specialist community public health nurse.
The role has become much more proactive and preventative, in line with recommendations made by Dame Carol Black’s report, “Working for a healthier tomorrow”.
A major part of management referrals to me are due to employees suffering with stress or other mental health issues. The cases seem to be more complex as managers are not routinely taught how to notice early signs of stress or mental illness, so the employee can be quite unwell by the time I see them.
Due to a lack of NHS resources and possible long waiting times, the OH adviser has had to become more knowledgeable and resourceful about support charities and other external organisations to try to direct and enable employees to get the right help as quickly as possible. I will often call GPs now to discuss fit note recommendations, or write to consultants, to ensure we all work together to support the employee safely back to work.
I feel that doctors respect our role and expertise much more now, as they know that work has a positive impact on wellbeing. The focus is shifting for us to be much more involved commercially within corporations (within the remit of our code of conduct). I think my title and/or role should evolve to become “occupational health business partner”.
For the past 18 months, I have been working closely with RBI’s global marketing director, Lawrence Mitchell, and Kamwell (an external wellbeing company) to look at innovative ways to focus on more wellbeing initiatives within RBI. We initially carried out a wellbeing survey to ask what our employees wanted and now have a team of volunteer global health champions to help us promote wellbeing in its broadest sense across all our communities.
I am very excited to work across so many areas of the business and believe that in working together, we can offer something for everyone.
Over the next decade, I anticipate that we need to grow more as specialists, take on more training and develop other skills with peer support, to promote best practices.
Meanwhile, other practitioner groups are poised to take on wider responsibilities. An illustration is the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy’s OH competency framework for physiotherapy, covering knowledge and skills up to PhD level. And within the 2015 Safe, Effective, Quality Occupational Health Services (SEQOHS) standards, a voluntary OH accreditation scheme, OH physiotherapy services are able to gain SEQOHS accreditation.
Leaders of the OH nursing profession are debating whether or not postgraduate OH education should be integrated into multidisciplinary training with students from a range of allied professions. This would mean a shift away from training dictated by the Nursing and Midwifery Council’s (NMC) requirements for registration. The challenge will be for OH nurses to identify their unique and most valuable competencies, and decide which among their current responsibilities could be delegated to other practitioners.
Drivers of future OH services
A report by the CWH (2014) identified three fundamental drivers that will shape OH requirements over the next 20 years:
- financial pressures on the NHS requiring radical changes in the delivery of healthcare;
- demographic changes; and
- chronic and long-term conditions and the health issues arising from obesity.
The report identified a range of specific factors affecting the occupational health market which will determine future OH competencies and knowledge. These include physical impairments such as musculoskeletal conditions or mental health, and a wide range of broader societal factors such as: meeting the needs of people capable of work but not in work; ethnicity and illness; and the need to provide health and work services to smaller companies.
This raises questions about what areas OH nurse practitioners should focus on. It is not clear, for example, the extent to which OH practitioners will provide advice about return to work for people who are unemployed. And, while in the past OH services have often worked in self-contained units, in the future they may have to work within an integrated care pathway involving primary or secondary care and a range of allied practitioners. There may be more OH services based outside the workplace as a result.
The CWH report argues: “Occupational health will need to be effective in engaging with local health and wellbeing boards and clinical commissioning groups.
As the health system moves resources towards prevention and care rather than medicine, OH will need to review the knowledge and skills required of the multidisciplinary workforce, including behavioural psychologists, therapists, physiotherapists, etc. The term “occupational health” does not, in this context, refer to the professions of OH nurses or doctors but to those delivering work and health services in general.
Practitioner case study
Dwayne Gillane, occupational health nurse manager, Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust
Over the past few years, there has been a gradual change in focus for OH departments to be more proactive in their approach to staff health and wellbeing. Employers are requesting more health and wellbeing initiatives for their staff, which indicates that both the Boorman review of NHS health and wellbeing and Dame Carol Black’s report on “Working for a healthier tomorrow” are helping to influence employers to look after their staff.
Providing training and support to managers in the workplace has been commonplace in OH, however, offering staff this opportunity has not. Employers now understand the need for staff to be equipped with the appropriate knowledge and skills to manage in today’s busy and demanding working environments. Providing training for staff on issues such as how to manage workplace pressure and helping to break down taboos around mental health are part of the recent examples of how the view of OH in the workplace is expanding.
The challenge to OH department managers is, and will continue to be, getting the right balance and skill mix within their teams to meet the needs of their organisation. The focus on the health and wellbeing agenda gives OH teams the opportunity to change the way in which organisations and staff view our services.
There will be a continued demand for the traditional elements of our services such as sickness absence referrals, vaccinations, etc.
However, there is also likely to be an everincreasing demand for the pro-active services available from our departments. OH departments in the NHS are in an excellent position to liaise with specialists, both within their organisations and externally, and must develop these relations for the benefit of the department, the organisation and staff.
Occupational health advisers will need to have a broad spectrum of specialist skills in future to not only include the traditional services such as case management or health surveillance, but also have the ability to deliver health education and training to various management and staff groups throughout their organisations.
This presents an exciting opportunity for our speciality to liaise with and develop excellent working relationships with our multidisciplinary colleagues for the benefit of staff health.
Other drivers for future OH practice come from within the NHS and the nursing profession itself. Royal College of Nursing (RCN) guidelines for OH competencies (RCN, 2011) present a framework for different levels of competence which relate to nursing grades: competent nurse; experienced nurse; and expert nurse. The guidance was developed in response to NHS initiatives: Agenda for Change (Department of Health (DH), 2003); the Knowledge and Skills Framework (NHS KSF, 2004); and the Development and Review Process (DH, 2004). The guidance is based on:
- the need for leadership in specialist nursing;
- the need for the development of standards, new public health strategies and government reviews on occupational rehabilitation and fitness to work;
- increased focus on work-based and lifelong learning and clinical supervision; and
- a changing focus towards professional
rather than academic accreditation.
This guidance suggests that OH nurses with advanced practice competencies could play a key part in managing future workplace health services (Kirk, 2012).
Beyond the crisis in OH nurse education
One of the challenges for OH nursing practice is that the profession must meet the standards of the nursing regulatory body, the NMC, while at the same time fulfilling the expectations of employers. In recent years, these two requirements have come into conflict.
OH nurse leaders have campaigned for the NMC to make allowances for skills specific to OH nurse practice in the NMC’s Standards of Proficiency for Specialist Community
Public Health Nurses (SCPHN). OH nurse educators accept the broad principles in the NMC curriculum, but argue that there is a need for a specific OH skills cluster and for OH courses to have a maximum proportion of core specialist content. The joint education of OH nurses with other public health nurses has not taken account of crucial differences in training needs between OH and health visitors and school nurses.
In January 2015, the Government’s response to a Law Commission report stated that there is uncertainty about the continuation of the NMC SCPHN register. Anne Harriss, associate professor, occupational health, at London South Bank University, believes ending the SCPHN register would have an impact on OH educational provision.
“If the SCPHN register is disestablished then the NMC is likely to become less relevant to the approval of OH Nursing programmes,” says Harriss. “Public protection will be ensured by registration as a nurse on what is currently referred to by many as the first part of the Nursing Register. The National School of Occupational Health and the establishment of a Faculty of Occupational Health Nursing will assume more importance in what is included in OH nursing programmes.”
However, the future of the NMC Nursing Register is not the only influence on the future of OH education. Another factor is the way in which OH nurses are represented by the RCN. The RCN’s Society of Occupational Health Nursing has been replaced by a Public Health Nursing Forum supporting public health nurses in a variety of practice settings, not just OH nursing. This signals a shift of focus for OH from the workplace to a broader public health role.
Another influence on OH education will be the National School of Occupational Health, established in 2014. Harriss believes the school will expand its remit from approving courses for medical practitioners, to approving courses for other professions involved in the delivery of workplace health. These will not be limited to nursing, but could include, for example, physiotherapy or health and safety. The school is in the process of identifying evidence-based competencies across professions in order to promote opportunities for multi-professional learning.
Harriss says: “This initiative will influence core and specialist components of educational programmes offered exclusively for professionals delivering work place health management initiatives.”
Harriss believes that OH doctors and nurses will increasingly be educated alongside allied practitioners: “Multi-professional education of OH nurses with a range of OH practitioners (medical, nursing, physiotherapy) based on core and profession-specific elements will influence how OH practice is delivered.”
What are the core competencies?
While there is no formal consensus on what constitutes core specialist OH nursing competencies, the chapter headings in “Contemporary Occupational Health Nursing” (2013), written by members of the Association of Occupational Health Practitioners (UK) (AOHNP), suggest the broad remit of OH nurse advisers. The themes are: leadership; health promotion and health needs assessment; health surveillance; health assessment, case management and rehabilitation; mental health at work; management of OH services; epidemiology and research; and quality and audit.
These dimensions are similar to those in the RCN guidance on OH competencies (2011): self assessment; core transferable skills; core leadership and management skills; core quality assurance and research skills; legal and ethical issues; risk assessment; public health, health promotion, protection and surveillance; attendance management, case management and rehabilitation; psychological and psychosocial interventions; ergonomics; occupational hygiene; and maintaining safety and accident control.
Most of these responsibilities overlap with the remit of practitioners allied to occupational health, such as OH physiotherapists, occupational hygienists or occupational therapists. While some of these areas of competence could be termed “clinical”, others such as “leadership” and “management of OH services” are managerial, administrative or business related.
Diane Romano-Woodward, president of the AOHNP, believes that both business or commercial skills and nursing skills will be important in future. “In terms of general competences I think the ability to problem solve by asking good questions to better define problems and to be creative with solutions [will be important],” she says.
“Additionally, I think an understanding of business and selling techniques is required to help organisations and individuals to change behaviours. As there will be multidisciplinary working, I think nurses will need to ensure that they have the basic nursing skills that no other disciplines will be offering. This will include giving immunisation and venepuncture, along with those that sit well within our discipline and which we can give supervision for those who are less well qualified: audiometry, spirometry, vision screening, skin assessment and basic HAVS [hand arm vibration syndrome] assessments.”
What current responsibilities could be delegated?
With limited resources, OH nurse practitioners will have to agree what is the best role for them in the multidisciplinary team, and what responsibilities can be undertaken by OH support workers under OH nurse supervision. RCN guidance (2011) has suggested that support workers, such as OH technicians, could take over a range of clinical and administrative tasks from OH nurses. The RCN divided these into three levels, rising in complexity:
- Measure blood pressure, pulse, height and weight including body mass index.
- Measure visual acuity to occupational standard.
- Lung function testing to include peak flow and spirometry.
- Assess mobility.
- Drug and alcohol testing.
Level 2 (roles and responsibilities of Level 1, plus):
- Chester step test.
- Skin assessment.
- HAVS assessment to level 1 and 2.
Level 3 (roles and responsibilities of Levels 1 and 2, plus):
- Display screen equipment assessment.
- Interpretation of lung function and audiometric results.
Romano-Woodward says: “Those activities that can be undertaken by appropriately trained lay people will need to be devolved to them. Activities such as first aid and display screen equipment assessments are already undertaken by others. The role of OH technician is likely to be expanded and might be undertaken by those with experience in the fitness industry.”
Is the future multi-disciplinary?
An article by Helen Kirk, head of occupational health transition at Public Health England (Kirk, 2012), addressed widespread feeling among OH nurses that OH education is not keeping pace with emergent practice. Kirk looked at whether or not advanced nurse practitioner (ANP) roles described by the NMC in 2005 could provide a solution.
The NMC did not describe ANP roles in terms specifically relevant to OH nurses, but Kirk’s survey of OH nurses found that most agreed that the generic ANP competencies defined by the NMC were relevant to OH nursing practice, and could become more important in future. In the survey, 63% of OH nurses agreed that not all OH teams need a specialist, but, on the other hand, 57% agreed that, in future, where OH nurses were working as specialists, they should be trained as advanced nurse practitioners.
Kirk points out there is no existing consensus on what these competencies should be. Over seven in 10 (71%) of those surveyed also welcomed a potential new multidisciplinary training programme and qualification that met the challenges of future OH practice.
Kirk surveyed OH nurses on the importance of specific ANP competencies to OH practice now and in the future. It is interesting to note that these competencies would also be requirements of other allied practitioners. Examples included:
- doing consultations on your own;
- examining the back (range of movement, power, sensation, etc);
- assessing upper limb function;
- carrying out a mental state examination;
- identifying the potential explanations for spirometry findings;
- distinguishing between patients that might benefit from physical therapies;
- writing a detailed rehabilitation plan with milestones; and
- implementing evidence-based care.
This implies that many of the NMC’s generic ANP competencies are relevant to allied practitioners as well as nurses. The other implication is that today’s OH nurse education programmes are failing to train students in the competencies required for the future.
“We accept OH is changing a great deal – the key issues in workplace health today are very different to those that dominated the agenda 30 years ago,” says Kirk. “Nurses entering OH need preparing for the challenges of the coming decades. I am not convinced that education has kept up.
“There is an increasing demand for more advanced skills and increasing opportunity to delegate tasks, from immunisation to clinical measurement. Today’s courses are dealing with yesterday’s issues better and better but I’m not convinced they are preparing new OH nurses for tomorrow.” Romano-Woodward does not believe that the NMC will have a monopoly on OH nurse education in future. “I see a future where there will be a range of courses and modules provided by many training organisations which can be put together to provide the required underpinning knowledge deemed appropriate by occupational health specialists, rather than the NMC,” she says.
There have been precedents for multidisciplinary training, Romano-Woodward says. “When I did the MMedSci at the University of Birmingham in the 1990s, we were a mixed group of nurses, doctors and others. We learned alongside each other, debated and shared the benefit of our experience. It mattered not what our background was, we were all students. I would like to see much more multidisciplinary training so we are comfortable understanding each other’s areas of expertise (mutual and individual) and can refer clients to each other appropriately.”
Should OH nurses be involved in wellbeing and health promotion?
Most of the OH competencies referred to so far in this article relate to individual workers, whether by preventing ill health through, for example, health surveillance, or by assessing employees who are unwell and suggesting a rehabilitation plan. In future, however, many employers will want to adopt wellbeing programmes targeting the workforce as a whole with the goal of cutting the costs of ill health. To what extent should OH nurses participate in wellbeing and health promotion?
Romano-Woodward believes that nurses have a role in education. “I think the reality is that employers will still want their employees to have the benefit of OH advice. Public health authorities, particularly in local authorities, are waking up to the fact that there are experienced practitioners in workplaces and that workers spend a good amount of their week at work , so there may be an opportunity to positively influence general health.”
However, she sounds a note of caution about the capacity of OH nurses to lead corporate wellbeing programmes. “OH practitioners may have a battle to focus on their specific area of expertise, the prevention of work-related ill health, rather than being swept up in general health promotion strategies,” she says. “These activities can probably be provided by lesser-qualified individuals, and we need to continue to make a case for our specific expertise.”
While wellbeing approaches focus on the working population as a whole and all the factors that influence individuals’ health, OH nurses seem to have a built-in orientation towards a focus on identifying health risks at the workplace.
Romano-Woodward has worked recently with HR managers to reduce stress and her method exemplifies this approach: “My focus was on identifying why this was the case [ie employees were stressed] and suggesting targeted training to this group and their managers on management style. I would be very happy to spend more of my time doing this, but there has to be a change in organisational perception that “illness” is due to susceptibility in individuals and is strongly influenced by attitudes and conditions at work.”
Only time will tell what the role of OH nurses and doctors will be in the future. Kirk, for one, is happy to embrace uncertainty. “I honestly don’t know. Thank goodness things change. Change is what keeps this profession so interesting.”
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Skoda has patented a new LED seatbelt buckle that will not only reduce the hassle of trying to put on seatbelts at night but also as an indicator to wear your seatbelt.The tech features a pair of multicoloured LED lights under the transparent eject button that illuminate in three colours – white, red and green, subject to the seat being occupied and the occupant wearing the seatbelt.
- Button glows white when seat un-occupied
- Lights up red or green depending if the seatbelt is fastened
- Can be programmed to flash to make it more noticeable
When nobody is in the seat, the lights glow white, making the buckle visible in the dark. However, once a passenger sits down, the second mode activates, causing the buckle to glow red to remind the passenger to put on the seatbelt. It then turns green once the belt is secure.
The buckles feature a crystalline pattern on the transparent eject button, which Skoda said helps disperse light, increasing the button’s glow. Users can also programme the buckle to flash, making it even more noticeable at night.
Skoda said the red glow will be particularly useful for parents who can “see immediately” if their children haven't put on their belts properly but will improve safety for all passengers.
When will it arrive in Skoda cars?
The buckle is still under development, and Skoda said there are "no concrete plans at the moment" to say if and when it will roll out the technology on its production cars. Some Audi models already have belt buckles surrounded by a white LED strip, but this is less advanced and not intended as a safety feature.
The LED buckle is the latest of several innovations recently pioneered by Skoda. Last year, the manufacturer filed 94 patent applications, more than any other company in the Czech Republic.
The firm has also partnered with a number of start-up companies in Israel. In 2016, it established a standalone firm called Skoda Digliab to find start-ups, developing technology that could benefit Skoda. Israeli start-ups are particularly highly regarded for their work in artificial intelligence and cybersecurity.
Skoda India plans
Skoda is gearing up for a busy 2021 which will see the carmaker introduce all-new mass-market models to replace the ageing Rapid and an all-new Creta rival. Built on the India-specific MQB A0 IN platform, the two models are a part of the VW Group’s India 2.0 plan which will also see the introduction of sister models to the two from Volkswagen. Both Skoda and Volkswagen provided a glimpse of their upcoming mid-sized SUVs, earlier this year with the Skoda Vision IN concept and the VW Taigun.
Also on the cards for 2021, is the new Octavia and petrol Kodiaq which were initially expected to arrive this year. In more recent news, Skoda expanded into the used car space with the launch of its Certified Preowned programme, early last month with an eye on growing in the Indian market. | <urn:uuid:b8858ffe-d9e8-4bf0-b444-5df9c7c91fb5> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.autocarindia.com/car-news/skoda-patents-illuminated-seatbelt-buckles-419119 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571911.5/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813081639-20220813111639-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.946993 | 637 | 1.695313 | 2 |
Savoury Twisters or Nimki or Namek Pare – all different names for the same item. This is a pretty quick snack that can be made and is one of the regular items prepared during Indian festivals like Diwali and Holi. It can be made well in advance and stored in an air-tight container at room temperature.
I make these at home for the kids and they like taking it in their snack box as well to school. Sometimes, I toss these in piri piri masala to make a slightly spicy varient as well!!
Few things to keep in mind
- Cumin Seeds: I have used cumin seeds in this recipe. But you can replace it with carrom seeds (ajwain) too. If you want to keep it plain salted without any other flavours, you can skip the cumin / carrom seeds.
- Making of the dough: The dough you make for this should be a tight dough. Don’t make a soft dough like we make for rotis.
- All Purpose Flour – 1 cup
- Cumin Seeds – ½ tsp (See Recipe Notes above)
- Salt – to taste
- Baking soda – a pinch
- Butter – ¼ cup (at room temperature)
- Oil for frying
Step by Step Process
- Add the cumin seeds, salt and baking soda to the flour and mix thoroughly.
- Rub in just enough butter into the flour to get a bread crumb texture. Keep the remaining butter aside.
- Add in water slowly to make a dough. It should not be a very soft dough.
- Roll the dough into a rectangular shape. Apply half of the remaining butter to 2/3rd portion off the rolled dough.
- Fold the 1/3rd part without the butter onto the part with the butter and then fold the remaining 1/3rd part with the butter on top it.
- Turn this 90 degrees and apply the remaining butter to 2/3rd of the roll. Repeat the same process as in step 5.
- Roll out the dough again into a rectangle and cut half to one inch strips and cut each strip further into 1.5 – 2 inch length. Twist each piece in the centre twice to resemble a bow.
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Published: Autumn 2015
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Ever since its first appearance in 1950, the Swedish edition of Lee Falk’s The Phantom (Swe. Fantomen) has been one of the most popular comic magazines in Sweden. Some of the most active contributors to Fantomen in recent decades have been the Swedish and Nordic comics creators who make up the so-called “Team Fantomen.” Characteristic for “Team Fantomen” is their many historical stories. Since the key concept of the Phantom legend is that the role of the Phantom has been inherited in the Walker family since the mid-16th century, history holds a central place in Fantomen’s world. This article is about Fantomen’s depiction of early modern Swedish history. Its approach is that of historiography, cultural memory, and the uses of history. The aim of the article is to analyze how this period is represented in nine issues of Fantomen from 1987 to 2008. How are rulers, wars, religious beliefs, and well known events depicted in Fantomen? How does fiction relate to facts? How are language and images used to create an historical atmosphere?
The Japanese comic Attack on Titan has become greatly popular, currently with a circulation of more than forty million. Its worldwide popularity crosses national and generational boundaries, and it has been translated into numerous European and Asian languages. Attack on Titan presents a more than a century long battle between the human race and the Titans, whose ruthless hunting and devouring of human beings has forced the last of humanity into a fortress surrounded by three enormous, concentric walls.
This article studies the influence of Norse mythology on Attack on Titan from an aesthetic and philosophical perspective. It focuses in part on the Titan legend, including Attack on Titan’s unique figure Ymir, who is compared with an important creature in Norse mythology, the giant Ymir. It also focuses on similarities between the motif of the wall in this comic and of the Miðgarðr in Norse myth. Finally, the paper analyzes the structure of hero worship in Attack on Titan in relation to mythological concepts, especially the metaphorical ritual of extracting a warrior’s heart and the image of the damaged body of the warrior.
The Swedish comic strip Rocky has been translated to Danish and Norwegian and, in this process, its protagonist has changed nationality and hometown; Danish and Norwegian readers experience him as someone from their own cultural sphere. This article uses geographer Doreen Massey’s concept of place as progressive and structural comics theory to understand how this transition is possible. The article analyzes how different places in Rocky are constructed through the use of image and text and specifically, how the lack of place-specific visual elements and the strip’s extensive use of text is central to how it can be transformed to fit a different setting. The drawings support a general sense of place, but are rarely Stockholm-specific. However, from time to time, image and text clash, and what readers might think of as Norway or Denmark suddenly looks very Swedish.
Eric Berlatsky: A Review of From Comic Strips to Graphic Novels
Stein, Daniel and Jan-Noël Thon. From Comic Strips to Graphic Novels: Contributions to the Theory and History of Graphic Narrative. Berlin, Walter de Gruyter, 2013. | Review (pdf)
Fred Andersson: Choosing the Easy Way Out – Neil Cohn and His Visual Lexicons
Cohn, Neil. The Visual Language of Comics: Introduction to the Structure and Cognition of Visual Images. Bloomsbury, Bloomsbury Academic Press, 2013. | Review (pdf)
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On Wednesday, January 25, physicists from the Max Planck Institute in Göttingen, Germany, and the University of Santa Barbara, California, released a report of a study that used the US paper currency tracking website WheresGeorge to simulate the spread of disease. Ironically, this was only a few weeks after the TowerGroup released a ViewPoint Report indicating that the long-awaited cashless society is nigh.
WheresGeorge users voluntarily enter information about the paper currency in their possession, and then spend the bills as they would normally. Usually the bills stay within the same geographic region in which they are spent, but some eventually travel great distances. The researchers used data scraped from the site to model the human-to-human transmission of infectious diseases. According to Hank Eskin, creator and owner of the site, the researchers are interested in getting a much larger data set to continue to study human traffic patterns, and he is eager to assist them.
The numbers of visitors to the site doubled and tripled over the next few days as news organizations picked up and ran the story, creating a bit of a Slashdot effect that left the site limping, but it has since recovered and added about 10,000 new registered users to the 3.3 million already on the rolls. I hesitated to post this story on Blogcritics, but now that the initial flurry has died down a bit, it seemed safe enough.
I’ve been an active member of WheresGeorge.com for over five years, and it warms my heart to know our little hobby has a purpose in addition to providing entertainment. Pull out your wallet or purse right now and enter the bills you have in it. Do it for Science. As one Georger put it, “For years I have been laughed at for this hobby and now I can point to this [report] as a practical use for what we do.” | <urn:uuid:c690ec63-6161-468b-abda-48b239e680d0> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://blogcritics.org/researchers-hope-cashless-society-is-far/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571911.5/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813081639-20220813111639-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.964599 | 391 | 2.765625 | 3 |
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The Kentucky court clerk who denied marriage licenses to same-sex couples has cost her state nearly a quarter-million dollars.
A federal appeals court Friday affirmed Kentucky must pay attorney’s fees to four couples who had sued Kim Davis for refusing to issue the licences after marriage equality became law in her state.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit upheld a lower-court ruling awarding $224,000 in legal costs to the couples, who had been denied marriage licenses by the former Rowan County, Ky., clerk.
Friday’s ruling, which decided that the Commonwealth of Kentucky is responsible for paying the tab, "brings another form of vindication for the Rowan County couples who continued the good fight long after marriage equality became the law of the land,” Ria Tabacco Mar, senior staff attorney for the ACLU, said in a statement.
Another attorney, William E. Sharp, working with the ACLU of Kentucky, also hailed the ruling.
“By affirming the sizable fee award, the Court also sent a strong message to other government officials in Kentucky that it is not only unconstitutional to use public office to impose one’s personal religious views on others, but that it also can be a very expensive mistake,” Sharp said in statement.
After the landmark decision by the U.S. Supreme Court in 2015 that guaranteed same-sex couples the right to marry, Davis, an elected clerk of the northeastern Kentucky county, refused to comply with the law. She spent five nights in jail for contempt. Davis was defeated in her quest for reelection in 2018.
“One of her responsibilities was to issue marriage licenses,” court papers declared. “But same-sex marriage offended her religious beliefs, so when the Supreme Court recognized a constitutional right to same-sex marriage in Obergefell v. Hodges, Davis took matters into her own hands.”
Davis’ defiant act of civil disobedience turned her into a conservative hero, after she cited “God’s authority” as a reason to break the law.
She was lavishly praised for her courage by top-tier Republicans such as then-presidential candidate Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), and then-candidate, now Republican Kentucky governor Matt Bevin.
Bevin even tweeted a photo of a visit he paid Davis in jail, saying that he “was honored to have Kim Davis and her husband ask for me to visit them in the Carter County jail today.”
However, all the love and admiration evaporated quickly.
After a lawsuit filed by the ACLU of Kentucky on behalf of four Rowan County couples in 2015, U.S. District Court Judge David L. Bunning ordered the Clerk’s office to abandon its “no marriage license” policy and told the Commonwealth of Kentucky to pay the couples’ attorney’s fees and costs totaling $224,000.
Both Rowan County and the Commonwealth of Kentucky appealed the ruling, seeking to avoid responsibility for the fees. The governor’s lawyers even argued in court that Davis was the one who should pay any costs.
But the appeals court put the onus on Kentucky to pay up.
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But, such institutes are different. They are actual places that you can get trained and where you can get certified in various fields as far as medical practice is concerned.
One such center that you can go to if you want to learn about the subject matter of medical practice is the University of Phoenix. It is a very well known name in this field and that is why you can actually enroll yourself in this institute. After you get enrolled in this institution, you can actually attend classes at any time of the day. You can even start your career as soon as you complete your studies in this institute.
In this institute, you will be able to learn about all aspects of the medical field, including the legal aspects and everything else that goes along with it. There will also be courses that are taught in which you will learn how to be an internist or what is involved with that job.
Many people may also think that assessment centers are only there to make money out of you. That is not necessarily true. These centers will actually teach you how to better manage your time in a way that you can actually do better work.
Another reason that assessment centers are becoming popular is because of their training programs. You will learn how to conduct examinations on patients and how to analyze things from various angles. If you want to become a better doctor, then you will be able to do that.
You might even find some students who are interested in joining assessment centers, especially those who are going to do an internship in this field in order for them to have a solid foundation for their careers. You should be aware of the fact that this is also a good way for them to earn enough money to pay their way through college, too.
Do you know that you can actually get the training you need in this type of course and get the right path to your goals? This is a great way for you to learn the subject matter that you need in order to move forward and be a good doctor.
If you really want to know more about this, you can always search the Internet for websites that offer information about medical practices. There are actually websites that will help you get in touch with the most reputable ones in your area so that you can know what these centers have to offer you.
If you are really interested in what assessment centers have to offer, you can look into how you can get started. The best thing to do is to go online and research so that you can get the best information about how you can get started on the right track in this field.
If you are looking for the best assessment centers to join, then you should look into how many different ones there are in your area and which ones they are. There are many types that exist today.
What you should keep in mind is that there are some that are cheaper than others but not as good as the other ones. You will have to choose wisely depending on how much you can afford.
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Is Shoplifting That Big of a Deal?
Sometimes while you are shopping, you might see something you really want but can’t necessarily afford. Although you may just pout and save up for the item for a future time, some people would just slide that item into their jacket. That is considered shoplifting. Most people who have done this don’t find it to be a really big deal. But, it is.
The official definition of shoplifting constitutes an act of stealing merchandise from a store or place of business. It is also considered larceny, which means taking someone else’s property without their permission.
You should know that shoplifting is fairly common when it comes to children and teenagers. In most instances, serious consequences don’t arise except for the embarrassment of being caught and having to return the stolen goods to the store owner. The worst-case scenario is the store owner keeping you or the guilty individual on the property’s premises until your parents or the authorities arrive. However, you won’t be getting a simple slap on the wrist when you are an adult.
When an adult is caught shoplifting on one or more occasions, one might find themselves facing serious penalties such as hefty fines and even jail time. In New Jersey, the law and penalties for shoplifting hinge on which grade of shoplifting you have been charged with:
- The statute for second-degree shoplifting indicates “… the items stolen have a value of $75,000 or more, or where the offense is committed in conjunction with an organized retail theft enterprise and involves merchandise valued at $1,000 or more.” If found guilty of second-degree shoplifting, the offender faces 5-10 years in prison.
- The third-degree shoplifting statute applies if merchandise with a value of between $500 $75,000 has been stolen. The law also provides for a third-degree charge whenever an incident of shoplifting “involves an organized retail theft enterprise and merchandise with a value of $1,000 or less.” A third-degree shoplifting charge could mean five years in jail and is the most frequent type of shoplifting charge in New Jersey.
- A conviction for fourth-degree shoplifting can include up to 18 months of jail time and a fine up to $10,000. If convicted of this charge, you must also serve at least 10 days of community service for a first offense, 15 days for a second offense, and 25 days for a third or subsequent offense.
In some cases, a shoplifting charge may be downgraded to a disorderly persons charge, and the penalties for this conviction vary from case to case and may result in fines, jail time, community service or some combination of those penalties.
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UK Utilization of Medical Cannabis: An Overview
If you have been following UK news, you may have heard about the rescheduling of cannabis.
Last year, after much lobbying by and on behalf of Alfie Dingle and Billie Caldwell (The British Charlotte Figi), on November 1, 2018, specialist doctors were approved to prescribe various forms of marijuana for patients suffering from a range of ailments.
Nearly six months into the new program, however, a scant six patients have been granted the licensure required to use medical cannabis. Shockingly, two of these have had their licenses revoked and the remaining four patients may face challenges to extending their license beyond the end of April.
In a tragic-ironic twist, whilst patients are struggling for access, the country has no shortage of cannabis.
The UK is the World’s Largest Cannabis Exporter
Contrary to what most people may assume, the United Kingdom is actually the world’s largest exporter of legal cannabis according to a 2016 United Nations report.
Indeed, the BBC, The Telegraph, and various other British media outlets have confirmed this assessment, claiming that the UK is the world’s “main producer and exporter of cannabis-based medicines.”
The news has created a justifiable level of discontent among British citizens, many of whom view it as unjust that a nation willing to produce massive amounts of cannabis for export revenue allows very little access to its own residents.
Why Isn’t the UK’s Domestic Medical Cannabis Program Working?
Expressing his frustration with the situation, one Newcastle University professor has described the UK’s cannabis program as “appalling,” highlighting the fact that not a single patient has “benefited from a cannabis prescription on the NHS.”
In other words, if you think you will be getting access to legal marijuana in the UK any time soon, think again. Only specialist (sic. private) doctors are able to write a prescription for marijuana, and the current pervasive culture largely discourages even this.
While the amendments to the scheduling of marijuana for medical use were intended to increase access, in reality, only patients suffering from epilepsy, MS, side effects of chemotherapy and chronic pain are eligible. This neglects many other conditions for which marijuana has demonstrated benefit. Furthermore, currently only the cannabis-derived pharmaceutical products marinol, epidiolex and sativex are approved for use.
According to an analyst with the drug policy reform group Transform, UK patients are either “denied access and [are] suffering unnecessarily, or are forced to buy cannabis from the criminal market.”
The British Paediatric Neurology Association has publicly advised doctors against prescribing any form of cannabis. One physician has even claimed that he would be “sacked” if he were to write a prescription.
So while the United Kingdom is set to maintain its status as a major global cannabis supplier, it does not appear to be making access for UK residents a top priority.
The lack of accessibility to cannabis-derived therapies is one of the main reasons why we at CiiTECH have invested so much time and energy into our line of Provacan CBD food supplements and skin care products. Under EU laws, hemp derived food supplements can be marketed without prescription. Despite the recent unlawful addition of hemp extract to the EU Novel Food catalogue, CBD is fully legal. This allows us to offer premium cannabis-based products even in a restrictive regulatory market.
As part of our global efforts to study medicinal cannabis and uncover additional usages of the plant, CiiTECH has been working closely with scientists from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and thought leaders across the Israeli cannabis industry to accelerate discovery and innovation.
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Doctors throughout Florida are throwing out many doses of COVID-19 vaccines for children under 5 years old because of low vaccination rates and difficulty ordering adequate amounts.
Florida is the only state to not pre-order the vaccines for that age group. A shipment of arrived last month after some expected delays, but Gov. Ron DeSantis hasn’t instituted a state vaccination program, so it has become increasingly difficult for doctors to receive an adequate volume of supplies.
DeSantis has long opposed COVID-19 vaccination measures. He approved an executive order prohibiting businesses from requiring proof of vaccination for entry and signed a bill preventing private employers from instituting vaccine mandates.
A vial of the vaccine for children under 5 contains 10 doses which have to be used within 12 hours of opening. Once that time elapses, it has to be discarded. The Biden Administration’s current distribution plan ships the vaccines 100 doses at a time.
A statement on the Florida Department of Health’s website says the process for ordering this latest vaccine remains the same as with all other COVID-19 vaccines, but recommends against them, citing a lack of information.
“The Florida Department of Health does not recommend pediatric COVID-19 vaccines for healthy children,” the statement reads. “The currently available evidence on COVID-19 vaccines for children ages 6 months to 5 years is inadequate for assessing risks and benefits.”
Centers for Disease Control director Dr. Rochelle P. Walensky spoke favorably about the vaccine and its new availability in a statement released June 18.
“Together, with science leading the charge, we have taken another important step forward in our nation’s fight against COVID-19,” Walensky said. “We know millions of parents and caregivers are eager to get their young children vaccinated, and with today’s decision, they can. I encourage parents and caregivers with questions to talk to their doctor, nurse, or local pharmacist to learn more about the benefits of vaccinations and the importance of protecting their children by getting them vaccinated.”
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Private healthcare will be supporting the NHS in discharging people home from hospital under a new national framework.
The patient discharge services framework aims to streamline the transition of patients to prevent re-admissions to hospital.
It will assist those who are medically fit for discharge to either their home or an appropriate community setting.
The framework is divided into two – discharge to assess services, which will support the recovery, rehabilitation and reablement needs of those sent home; and medical care at home, which support a range of subacute health service in peoples’ homes.
The agreement will be in effect until March 2023.
‘We welcome the NHS’ new framework to help support local areas bolster their community health services and ensure patients can be more swiftly discharged from hospital and get the care they need closer to home,’ said Danielle Henry, head of primary and community health policy at the Independent Healthcare Providers Network.
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People usually tend to think regarding Swedish therapeutic massage and deep tissue rub down as equivalent to each other although the truth is they will are quite different. This is look at the variation between Swedish massage plus deep tissue massage.
Swedish massage is among the most commonly available massage approach, utilizing the firm pressure within the muscle groups. It involves employing a new series of long still gliding strokes. In this kind of technique typically the massage psychologist also kneads the muscle tissue and makes some penis-shaped taps on the system. The counselors concentrate in improving the blood blood flow, easing the tension around the body’s muscles plus improving the particular muscles’ versatility.
Deep tissues massage is usually a type of rub down that aims at affecting often the deeper tissue construction on the muscles. The idea furthermore has an effect on the connective structure, known as fascia. It employs a lot of similar methods plus moves as the Swedish massage, nevertheless the movements are likely to have much extra pressure. The deep structure therapeutic massage is a whole lot more focused massage. During it the massage therapist tends to concentrate on releasing specific severe muscle tension such as well as the buff knots, or adhesions.
A good Swedish massage is provided to aid with increasing typically the movement of oxygen throughout the blood vessels as effectively as releasing toxins from your body’s muscles. It can actually shorten the recovery moment for a muscular strain by means of just flushing the lactic acids, uric acids, together with different type of metabolic waste items out of the body tissues.
Swedish rub is given to boost typically the circulation of bloodstream without actually raising often the work of the heart. It helps to stretch out this ligaments and attaches for making them pliable and smooth. It stimulates typically the skin as well as the nervous process to soothe this nerves. It is helpful throughout reducing both emotional together with actual stress. In truth typically the massage is a new staple for most stress administration programs. percussion massager is likewise bundled in various some other remedial procedures.
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Gouty Arthritis in Shoulder
As a form of arthritis, gouty arthritis can affect the shoulder as well. It's imperative to properly diagnose
and treat this disease before it affects the shoulder's joint structure.
When it comes to gouty arthritis in the shoulder, it's believed that gouty arthritis usually spreads to this joint. What this means is that individuals who suffer from gouty arthritis for several years can expect their disorder to spread to other joints if left untreated. Among helpful aids are homeopathic products. These are made from natural ingredients with proven track-record of relieving you from the pain caused by gouty arthritis
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Goutezol Cooling Cream
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Uricazol Uric Acid Formula
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Goutezol Gout Symptom Relief
Goutezol Gout Symptom Relief is a nonprescription medicine formulated to relieve discomfort associated with gout.|
- Swelling of joints and toes †
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- Itching †
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- Tender joints †
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- Joint discomfort †
† as per homeopathic Materia Medica. According to homeopathic indications, the ingredients in Goutezol Gout Symptom Relief provide relief for the symptoms of Gout such as: inflammation, swelling, attacks of joint pain, weakness, and stiffness. Safe and gentle to use with no known contraindications. U.S. government required disclaimer: There is no scientific evidence that homeopathic products work and product's claims are based only on theories of homeopathy from the 1700s that are not accepted by most modern medical experts.
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Uricazol contains proprietary extract from Mulberry tree. Mulberry has been used for centuries in China. Recent scientific study revealed that Mulberry help maintain healthy uric acid levels, thanks to a bioflavonoid called Morin.* Uricazol ™ is rapidly absorbed into the bloodstream for beneficial effects.*
Uricazol Uric Acid Formula is a dietary supplement formulated to support healthy levels of uric acid in the blood, help metabolize purines, and expel uric acid. *
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Manufacturing safe products is our number one priority. Uricazol contains natural extracts from plants and herbs that are generally considered safe. Although numerous customers use Uricazol each day since 2009, no adverse side effects have been reported.
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Ingredients in Goutezol Gout Symptoms Formula
Goutezol Gout Symptoms Formula is a nonprescription medicine that contains active ingredients that are listed in the Homeopathic Pharmacopeia of the United States (HPUS).
Active ingredients purpose as per homeopathic Materia Medica †
Important Product limitations
- Belladonna.....................................................red and tender joints †
- Urtica urens....................................................joint discomfort †
- Colchicum autumnale...................................sensitivity to touch †
- Formicum acidum..........................................joint discomfort †
- Nux vomica.....................................................itching †
- Ammonium phosphoricum..........................inflammation of joints †
- Natrum carbonicum......................................tender joints †
- Fraxinus excelsior..........................................foot-related discomforts †
- Ledum palustre..............................................swelling of joints and toes †
† No statements or other information contained on this Website have been evaluated or approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). These statements are based upon traditional homeopathic practice. Homeopathic remedies may not be effective for everyone. Always use our natural products as a complement to your physician's guidance and counsel.
U.S. government required disclaimer: There is no scientific evidence that homeopathic products work and product's claims are based only on theories of homeopathy from the 1700s that are not accepted by most modern medical experts.
Ingredients in Uricazol Uric Acid Formula
Uricazol is a dietary supplement that contains natural ingredients from trees, plants, and herbs.
Uricazol was formulated based on scientific studies and helps support healthy uric acid levels.*
||RUTIN is a natural bioflavonoid found in citrus fruits , apricots, blueberries, and blackberriesand it has anti-inflammatory action. Combined with Quercetin it was shown to be effective for health. *
||BROMELAIN This enzyme, found in pineapples, assists with the digestion of proteins. It may relieve minor and temporary pain, tissue swelling, and inflammation. When inflammation is reduced, blood can move more easily and promote optimal health. *
contains curcumin that inhibits the synthesis of substances called prostaglandins in the body that are involved in pain. The mechanism is similar to the pain-relieving action of ibuprofen. Curcumin
stimulates the adrenal glands to produce natural cortisone, a potent pain and inflammation reliever .*
||QUERCETIN This natural bioflavonoid can be found in strawberries, cherries and apples. Laboratory tests have shown that when is combined with Rutin, Quercetin is beneficial in lowering uric acid in blood and inhibiting the xanthine oxidase enzyme. It alsohas potent antioxidant and anti-inflammatory action.*
||NETTLEThis plant is used as a remedy in Germany and clinial studies indicate that it contains active anti-inflammatory compounds. These may relive minor pain and swelling .*
is a plant native to South Africa. This herb has an extensive history of use as an anti-inflammatory. Research has suggested its use as an analgesic and anti-inflammatory.
||MULBERRY TREE extract has been traditionaly used for kidney support. Scientific research suggests it may lower uric acid in the body in two ways: 1) by inhibiting re-absorption of urate in kidneys and 2) by inhibiting the enzyme xanthine oxidase. It may make kidneys more efficient in expelling out uric acid and in addition it may help the body produce less uric acid.*
||BURDOCK is a plant with large leaves. In Japan and parts of Europe, it is cultivated as a vegetable. It has been traditionally used to clear the bloodstream of toxins. Burdock can be beneficial as it stimulates the uric acid elimination via the kidneys.*
contain a substance called 3nB (3-n-Butylpthalide). 3nB gives celery its distinctive smell and taste. Two clinical studies
have shown that celery is beneficial in treating excessive uric acid. Celery seed extract was given to a total of 75 people and they all reported relief. 3nB inhibits xanthine oxidase an enzyme involved in the production of uric acid.*
- Gout Foods to Avoid If you are suffering from gout, you no doubt realize that your arthritis issues come in waves and attacks, instead of as a consistent pain.
- How to Find Specific Gout Information While some people are perfectly fine with going to their doctor to talk about their problems and to try to figure out what is wrong, some people do not feel comfortable going to doctor right away without having a general idea of what they may be told.
- Understanding the Cause of Gout When people think of arthritis, they tend to think of something that hurts and causes discomfort on a somewhat regular basis.
- Gout What Can You Eat? With regards to vegetables, sweet potatoes, spinach and other dark leafy greens, peas, asparagus, cauliflower, and mushrooms are top choices for people who have gout.
- How Gout is Treated? The idea is to try and reduce the amount of uric acid by eating correct diet and also cutting down the foods that create the excess acid that causes gout.
- Gout in Knee Recognizing the first symptoms of gout and taking action is imperative since this is the only way to experience less pain and return to your everyday life.
- Gout for Over Two Weeks In general, gout attacks last up to around ten days.
- Gout for 2 Days The initial gout attack usually lasts up to 2 days.
- Gout for Life Gout can be hard to cure, which is why many patients are struggling with gout during their entire lives.
- Gout with Pus A typical gout attack can manifest in red and swollen joints.
- Gouty Arthritis Foods to Avoid If you are suffering from gouty arthritis, you no doubt realize that your arthritis issues come in waves and attacks, instead of as a consistent pain.
- Gouty Arthritis Foods When people think of arthritis problems, they often fail to consider gouty arthritis, a serious problem that is related to arthritis.
- What Gouty Arthritis Patients Cannot Eat? The best way to prevent gouty arthritis flare-ups is to follow a diet that seeks to limit or not increase the amount of uric acid in the body.
- Where is Gouty Arthritis Located on the Body? Gouty arthritis is a painful affliction that affects the joint in the body.
- When Gouty Arthritis Attacks? As you may know, gouty arthritis is a chronic inflammation within the foot.
- Gouty Arthritis in the Elbow You may be suffering from gouty arthritis in the elbow if you're experiencing pain and if your elbow if swollen.
- Gouty Arthritis in Hands Gouty arthritis attacks the joints in hands after being present somewhere else in the body.
- Gouty Arthritis and Diabetes Medical studies have shown a link between gouty arthritis and diabetes.
- Chicken and Gouty Arthritis Chicken, just like beef and pork, contains moderately high levels of purine.
- Gouty Arthritis for Life Gouty arthritis can be hard to cure, which is why many patients are struggling with gouty arthritis during their entire lives.
- Gouty Arthritis for a Month While the majority of patients experience elimination of symptoms in 10 days or less, it's not uncommon for the acute attack to persist for one month or more.
- Gouty Arthritis without Swelling Many individuals are having a hard time identifying a gouty arthritis attack because there's no swelling.
- Gouty Arthritis with Alcohol More specifically, acute gouty arthritis attacks are treated with medication, while long-term treatment includes lifestyle changes.
- Gouty Arthritis with Diarrhea A typical acute gouty arthritis attack is manifested by a painful and inflamed joint.
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Islamabad [Pakistan], May 15 (ANI): The Combined Natural Gas (CNG) price in Pakistan rose to its highest at Rs 300 per kilogram following which the CNG Dealers Association slammed the government for wanting to end the sector and jacking up the prices without consultations.
This comes as CNG prices shot up to their highest level of Rs 300 per kilogram in Pakistan, following a hike of Rs 70, ARY News reported on Saturday.
In a statement, CNG Dealers Association Chairman Abdul Sami Khan said that the price of Re-Gasified Liquefied Natural Gas (RLNG) has also been increased. Expressing anger over the price hike, the chairman said that investments worth billions are being wasted in the CNG sector.
He added that CNG was considered a cheap fuel but the massive hike will wipe out its demand. The Chairman also demanded that the federal government should provide RLNG to the CNG sector at subsidized rates, otherwise, it should completely end the CNG sector.
As Pakistan's economy remains in the doldrums, the talks with International Monetary Fund (IMF) from May 18 stand crucial. Finance Minister Miftah Ismail had said that the government treasury is bearing 102 billion rupees loss on account of petroleum products each month.
"The government is bearing per litre 30 rupees loss on petroleum," Pakistan's finance minister said. "However, the decision not yet taken to enhance the prices of petroleum products," he continued.
The long-standing structural weakness of Pakistan's economy, aggravated by the global challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic and the Ukraine-Russia war, is scaring away the investors in the country.
Moreover, the growth momentum is not expected to pick up in Pakistan in the near future as a sharp spike in the import bill would also impact the Pakistani Rupee adversely. The World Bank report cites the financial sector's inadequacy as one of the reasons for this low growth.
The Pakistan government, which has borrowed from the banks at a high-interest rate, earns nominal interest for its cash balance, which is forcing the exchequer into heavy indebtedness as well as a liquidity crunch for the private sector.
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Fixed assets include property, plant and equipment and can be one of the largest asset groups within a firm, which requires special accounting knowledge that differs from the accounting used for the rest of the assets.
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Apprentices are not counted for council tax purposes. This means they will not be included when we count the number of occupants at their address.
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- receiving a gross salary of no more than £195.00 per week
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5G systems need to be as unobtrusive as past cellular technologies
Consumers and businesses are generally excited about 5G systems. They like the promises of faster data transmission, additional connected devices, and smart cities. However, consumers are also interested in preserving the appearance of their cities. This has caused contention, municipal restrictions, and even vandalism towards 5G systems.
5G systems require many, many small cell sites across urban areas to provide expected/required speeds. Without these widespread deployments, 5G systems are simply unworkable. The telecoms industry has responded to these concerns by shrinking the size of cellular systems. They have also made these new systems more aesthetically pleasing, ensuring they blend into their surroundings well.
These smaller systems have a critical problem: heat. 5G technologies already generate significantly more heat than legacy cellular systems, mostly because it takes more computer overhead to run a 5G cell site. The smaller, more dense electronics inside these new cells also emit more heat than larger 5G cells. The result is a lot of heat in a very small package.
These small cell sites must be kept cool. Even a small 10ºC rise in chip temperature can cut their average lifespan by 50%! Across the many thousands of cell sites in a 5G network, letting the chips run hot would cost thousands of dollars a year in additional equipment replacement. Other solutions, like high-RPM fans, generate a high-pitched whining noise that is piercing to most people’s ears. How can a telecom operator address these issues?
Passive cooling gets rid of heat without the noise
If traditional active fan cooling isn’t practical due to public concerns, then the entire cooling system needs to be redesigned to use, passive cooling technologies. A passive system radiates heat into the outside environment without any moving parts. These include heat sinks, heat pipes, and vapor chambers. These technologies can move heat away from heat sources like chips to the outside environment, silently.
What’s more, passive technologies can significantly reduce maintenance costs compared to active ones. Fan motors can burn out or require lubrication. Passive solutions, short of physical damage, basically have no failure modes. Consider a machined aluminum heatsink: unless it’s broken off, it will function indefinitely.
These passive technologies can also be augmented with a scaled-down active cooling unit. Instead of a large fan, a passive system can use a much smaller (and quieter!) fan to accomplish the same cooling. A well-designed passive cooling system, in certain circumstances, can even be completely silent.
Passive cooling is significantly more complex than simple fans
Active cooling with fans is a simple and tried-and-true solution. Passive cooling systems are significantly more complicated than this.
Passive coolers have to be precisely engineered to fit the circuit boards they’re cooling. There are extremely precise physical tolerances to ensure all the parts fit together. This includes the circuit board, the cooling system, and even tiny things like screws. Both engineering the system and manufacturing it in exactly the right way can be difficult and expensive.
Circuit designers can also get stuck in traditional design thinking. In the past, the circuit board was designed and made functional, then engineers worried about cooling. For passive systems, it is best and most effective to design the cooling system at the same time as the circuit layout.
Design passive cooling at the same time as your 5G circuits
Doing the design of both electronics and cooling at the same time can maximize the effectiveness of both systems. This is quickly becoming a best practice in the electronics design industry.
Because electronics engineering firms generally don’t have the necessary skills to engineer a good thermal solution, many have turned to a trusted industry partner. At Delta Electronics, we have been working with industry leaders to design effective cooling solutions for their new small 5G cell sites.
Our experts, working with equipment vendors, often recommend design changes to improve thermal performance. Those changes include redesigning circuits to improve airflow (reducing fan noise), reducing the number of fans with passive cooling, and making fans more reliable to reduce maintenance calls.
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If you need staircases in your home, office, or business premises, installing steel ones is a great way to add a contemporary look to your space. Other than the aesthetics that come with steel staircases, they’re also durable. This means you won’t need to replace them for years to come.
For people who choose to install steel staircases on the external part of a building to connect different floors, the best option to use is galvanized steel. This type of steel has a zinc coating that protects it from rust and other elements, which can corrode it over time. For interior staircases, most people use powder-coated steel, which is available in different colors.
Whether you have steel staircases inside or outside a building, here’s how you can maintain them and ensure that they’re in good shape throughout:
1.Wash Exterior Staircases With Powder Wash
If your steel staircases are outside the building, maintaining them is pretty easy. To clean them up, get a powder wash and use it to remove debris or any other dirt that may have accumulated on the stairs. As you clean the staircases, focus more on welded and joint areas as those can hide dirt. You can use an industrial machine or a household machine to clean the staircases.
However, this mode of cleaning is best suited for staircases that are made from galvanized steel. If your steel staircases are coated with a powder coating, avoid using industrial machines to clean them. Doing so will remove the powder coating off the steel.
To avoid this kind of damage, consider using a bucket with warm soapy water and a sponge or a microfiber cloth to scrub grim or dirt off the steel staircases. Once you’re done scrubbing, rinse the staircases off using an ordinary hosepipe.
2.Clean Your Staircases Regularly
You can keep your interior steel stairs in good shape by simply cleaning them regularly. Whenever you’re cleaning staircases, always begin from the top moving down. Using a broom, sweep the staircases to remove any debris or dust as you move downwards. When you get the dirt to the last step, you can use a vacuum cleaner to pick it up.
After sweeping the staircases, use a mop to clean them thoroughly. To do this, you’ll need to fill your mopping bucket with a mix of warm water and a cleaning liquid that’s designed for metals.
Using the solution, mop the staircases. As you do the mopping, pay attention to any rust stains that may have formed on the staircases and remove them using the mop.
3.Avoid Harsh Cleaning Products
When cleaning steel staircases, it’s important that you avoid the use of rough or harsh cleaning products. Using abrasive powders, metallic scourers, and silver or brass cleaners will spoil the finishing that you have on steel.
Also, don’t use steel wool, sandpaper, chlorine, or hydrochloric acid to clean steel staircases. These cleaning agents will interfere with the finishing on the steel surfaces, either staircases or windows. To maintain your steel staircases properly, use mild but quality cleaning products, keeping your staircase surfaces in good condition.
4.Protect Steel Staircases From Rust
If there are air-borne pollutants where you live, there’s a high possibility that your steel staircases will begin to corrode and rust. This happens because the dust that lands on the steel surface is gradually absorbed by moisture. The moisture then causes the steel to rust. If left unattended, the rust begins to corrode the surface with time.
To keep your steel staircases from rusting, you’ll need to add a protective coating to keep the moisture away. Car wax is a great coating to use because it’s readily available and easy to apply. Consider using this product to maintain your steel staircases and considerably extending their lifespan.
5.Apply Fresh Coatings
After using steel staircases for a long time, there’s a high likelihood that the coating will start to come off. This will make the steel surface to become rough. The staircases will also begin to look old due to corrosion that occurs over time. Look out for all the corroded areas and sand them away to remove dust.
Using a microfiber cloth, clean the grit off before applying a primer. Allow the primer time to dry up before applying metal vanish that works well in restoring the patch. To give the staircases a new visually appealing look, apply a new coat of varnish on the staircases as well as staircase railings. Doing this will restore the quality and appearance of the staircases.
6.Fix Any Loose Nuts
With time, the welded and joined parts of steel staircases are bound to become loose. The nuts may come off, causing the staircases to loosen up. To maintain steel staircases and ensure that they serve you for a long time, you’ll need to check the staircases for any loose nuts and fasten them accordingly.
As you look for loose nuts, pay attention to the welded sections and have them welded back if they’re loose. Fixing any loose nuts and welded portions will ensure that your steel staircases serve you for a long time, without requiring extensive restoration or replacement works.
Steel staircases are among the most functional stairs that you can install in your home, business premises, or office. These types of staircases offer several benefits to home and business owners. Also, they’re highly affordable, durable, and easy to maintain compared to other staircases in the market.
However, you’ll need to maintain steel staircases well in order to enjoy these benefits. If they’re not maintained properly, steel staircases can get stained, rusty, and corroded with time. This makes them lose their appeal and functionality.
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There are many versions of this spectacular layered bar cookie floating around.
Oatmeal carmelitas are filled with caramel and chocolate, sandwiched in between a wonderful mixture of oatmeal and brown sugar. This is one of the best cookie recipes around. We don't remember the first time we tasted these bars, but they are a favorite with family and guests.
It's important not to overbake these bar cookies. If you do, the crust will get hard and you won't get the melting combination of caramel and chocolate in the middle. Watch them carefully when they are in the oven the first time you make them. The caramel should just be bubbling around the edges of the pan. When that happens, they are done; get them out of the oven.
Gather the ingredients.
Preheat the oven to 350 F. Grease a 13-inch x 9-inch pan and set aside.
In a large bowl, combine the flour, oats, brown sugar, soda and salt and blend with a spoon until mixed. Add the melted butter and mix until crumbly. Reserve half of the crumb mixture (about 3 cups) for the topping. Press the remaining crumb mixture in the bottom of the prepared pan.
In a small bowl, combine the caramels and cream. Heat in the microwave oven for 3 to 4 minutes on 50% power, stirring twice during cooking, until the caramels are melted and the mixture is smooth.
Sprinkle the chocolate chips and pecans over the crust in the pan. Drizzle evenly with the melted caramel mixture and sprinkle with the reserved crumb mixture evenly to coat.
Bake the bars for 18 to 25 minutes or until light golden brown and bubbling around the edges.
Cool the bars for 1 to 2 hours on a wire rack or until completely cooled. Cut into bars, then store covered with foil at room temperature. | <urn:uuid:c1335653-b879-4033-b708-a11f0873bd22> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.thespruceeats.com/oatmeal-carmelitas-478857 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571538.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812014923-20220812044923-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.894636 | 606 | 2 | 2 |
The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority has policies in place to investigate and police misconduct in the financial industry. But a a recent study by Stanford Law School identified thousands of advisors who continue to provide financial advice after exiting FINRA, mostly through state insurance agencies. These counselors are disproportionately men who have had a very bad past and are likely to make mistakes in the future.
“Millions of American entrepreneurs now rely on financial advisors to help them make important decisions that will shape their future,” the authors wrote in the study, titled Regulatory Arbitrage and the Persistence of Financial Misconduct. “Advisor malfeasance results in large sums of money for these investors. But the law prohibiting such malfeasance is in the crosshairs of federal, state, and independent agencies, giving advisors who have a history of encouraging wrongdoing to investigate those authorities who have committed wrongdoing in the past.” it will be cheaper.”
The article was written by Colleen Honigsberg, assistant professor of law, Stanford Law School; Edwin Hu, research fellow at the New York University School of Law Institute for Corporate Governance and Finance; and Robert J. Jackson, Jr., Pierrepont Family Professor of Law at New York University School of Law and former Commissioner of the Securities and Exchange Commission. The findings are based on a database of 1.2 million advisors across four regulatory states, including FINRA’s BrokerCheck, the SEC’s IAPD database, the National Futures Association’s BASIC system and state insurance regulatory databases.
The researchers found that 395,887 advisors withdrew from BrokerCheck from 2010 to 2020, about 34% of whom continued to provide financial advice under another jurisdiction. The most popular option was to remain ’40 Act advisers under the supervision of the SEC. Yet more than 50,000 are registered as public insurance producers, the survey found.
And while 4.63% of FINRA brokers have a record of serious misconduct, the rate is highest among FINRA brokers and even more common among underwriters. For example, 16.17% of those who exit FINRA but continue as underwriters have a record of bad behavior, more than double the number of exits in the industry as a whole (6.99%). About 12% of those who go to insurance have serious errors in their records, compared to 5.8% of those who come out of FINRA and are monitored by the SEC.
“Taken together, this suggests that the ‘bad’ advisers in the FINRA broker state will leave but continue to provide financial services to consumers. In particular, the evidence shows, many of them are insurance brokers,” the report said.
The study also found that those who exit FINRA’s jurisdiction and continue to provide financial advice are more likely to be repeat offenders. For example, an advisor with the highest negative record at the time of exit from BrokerCheck has a 2.64% chance of committing a violation in each subsequent year. The probability of being registered as an insurance producer increases from 22% to 34% following serious errors.
“This means that many high-risk individuals are entering the insurance pool after making a mistake,” the report said.
The report also found that women are not given a second chance in the industry, even though they are often less sexually active than their male counterparts. For example, women with criminal records represent only 10% of counselors who enter other jurisdictions, and 22% of offenders leave altogether.
The authors offer several recommendations to regulators and policy makers to help solve the problems described in this study. This includes promoting a single, searchable database of all financial advice providers in the US
“Such a database would benefit both regulators and consumers by streamlining and streamlining the work of advisers at the government level,” he said.
They also advocate for stronger accountability in management, including better referrals for counselor misconduct. There is currently no central, standardized approach followed by different jurisdictions.
They also argue that licensed consultants should be subject to continuous review, not only when they enter government, but also when they leave another jurisdiction after making mistakes.
Finally, he advocates stronger regulation of insurers, as this is the direction many of these critical advisers are headed. They say insurance companies help regulators deal with wrongdoing and provide consistent enforcement and punishment for bad behavior, similar to how FINRA member companies operate.
The authors also suggest changes in the management of insurance producers. This could mean getting a federal regulator to oversee the insurance industry or creating an independent regulatory agency for the insurance industry, similar to FINRA.
“We agree, of course, that these modest reductions may not be enough to offset the large costs incurred by financial advisors’ mistakes,” the authors write. “But given the growing number of investors who rely on financial advice, our findings suggest that policymakers need to act quickly to address the unique challenges and incentives created by regulatory compliance in this area.” | <urn:uuid:4d3a2a7d-a997-40c9-925b-16c2abd2f5fe> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://bititim.com/case-study-adviser-misconduct-persists-under-state-insurance-laws/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571911.5/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813081639-20220813111639-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.964538 | 1,021 | 1.546875 | 2 |
The Pre-K program implements the Georgia Early Learning and Development Standards (GELDS) following a framework based on several scientific research-based instructional programs:
- High Scope
- Montessori Approach to Early Childhood Education
- Inquiry-Based Learning
High scope is an instructional framework founded on effective teaching and learning strategies that encompass the developmental domains of early learning. Drawing on the child development ideas of Jean Piaget, it emphasizes the idea that children are intentional learners, who learn best from activities that they themselves plan, carry out, and review afterwards. Adults introduce new ideas to children through adult-initiated small and large-group activities. Adults observe, support, and extend the children's play. Adults arrange interest areas in the learning environment; maintain a daily routine that permits children to plan, carry out, and review their own activities; and join in children's activities, asking appropriate questions that extend their plans and help them think about their activities. They add complex language to the discussion to expand the child’s vocabulary. Using key experiences derived from child development theory as a framework, adults encourage children to make 3 choices, solve problems, and engage in activities that contribute to their intellectual, social, and physical development.
(Schweinhart, Larry J. "The High/Scope approach: Evidence that participatory learning in early childhood contributes to human development." The crisis in youth mental health (2006): 207-227.
Montessori Approach to Early Childhood Education
Young children learn best in a playful environment and through the manipulation of toys. The Montessori approach to early childhood education is a method that introduces problem solving, independence, and sensory perception through reality-oriented learning materials. This scientifically research-based approach encourages development through all domains as teachers facilitate imaginative play using real-life lessons. As a result, young children grasp concepts that otherwise are foreign to them.
Students are encouraged to ask questions about what they notice in their world. Teachers engage students in longer investigations developed from students’ authentic questions. Beginning with scientific activities, students learn how to generate meaningful questions. Teachers scaffold students in ongoing inquiry-based projects and in shorter inquiries into everyday situations. Children have the opportunity to engage in research, collect data, and develop theories about their world. | <urn:uuid:761acf8e-559e-4a43-8552-43c01e28d1d8> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.csdecatur.net/Page/4034 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570977.50/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809124724-20220809154724-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.930554 | 478 | 3.671875 | 4 |
Planning for the future
The City of Phoenix updates its Water Resource Plan approximately every five years. These regular updates ensure that optimal water supplies and infrastructure are available to meet current and future demands -- in normal as well as drought conditions.
2021 Water Resource Plan shows that, for most foreseeable scenarios, Phoenix has sufficient water supplies for the next 50 years and beyond. These supplies will likely be stretched even further, through planned conservation and infrastructure enhancements.
As a thriving desert city, Phoenix has long faced the challenges of rapid growth and a dry climate. Effective supply management, a well-diversified portfolio, and significant conservation achievements over the years have enabled Phoenix residents to enjoy a lifestyle abundant with high-quality water for drinking and other important uses.
Even with the significant growth and dry periods Phoenix has experienced in recent decades, the City has not had to restrict your water usage due to supply shortages, and it doesn't expect to do so any time soon. The City is prepared for the future and remains dedicated to delivering the water needed to meet your demand.
2021 Water Resource Plan evaluated growth and drought conditions, and considered the current scientific information regarding the potential impacts of global climate change on our water supplies.
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Most of the news information we consume is negative – police violence, income inequality, sickness, and more. However, there have been positive outcomes even in the negative situation that is the Coronavirus pandemic.
Thanks to world renowned industry analyst and leading provider of research-based articles in HR, Talent and Learning, Josh Bersin, the below positive outcomes can be seen in South African business and throughout the world.
Closeness as a Society
The outbreak has made society more vulnerable than ever before and this has led to a collective sense of care. We are more aware of other’s wellbeing, resilience, and health. These topics were previously not common in business discussions, but now heads of companies are focused on the safety of employees.
Questioning Economic Measures
Over the last 5 years, the methods used to measure the health of the economy cannot be considered fair. GDP has no measure of equality, the stock market has very little reflection of the economy or the wealth of the people in the country, and the unemployment rate is biased. Most of the national measures of the economy do not include health care, racial inequality, and income inequality.
Fortunately, this has come to our attention and is being discussed because of the pandemic. Hopefully this will lead to a better understanding of what should be included when it comes to measuring the strength of an economy.
Learning at the Centre of HR
In most economic downturns, learning and training are cut from budgets. However, this has not been the case in 2020. Companies had to be be rearranged to respond to the public health care issues. People have adjusted to working from home and online learning, as well as HR departments having to learn and be there for employees throughout the transformation.
HR Technology is Being Brought Up to Speed
HR technology companies responded fast to the issues that the pandemic brought about. HR tools have been created to help with “back to work”, employee time monitoring, social distancing monitoring, employee frustrations, etc. Even performance management tools are being merged with work management tools to create productivity systems which are proving essential to HR departments. Not only is employee experienced being addressed but essential systems are being created.
Corporate Citizenship is Clear
The Corporate Responsibility Manifesto from 2019 discussed taking care of all the different stakeholders in a business and the need for capitalism to be more inclusive – neither of these ideas are new nor had much impact on decision-making in companies. This year, companies are actually taking action regarding racial decisions and political action – companies are beginning to exist positively within society.
Growing Awareness, Comfort, and Understanding of Psychology in Business
The average businessperson is not educated in psychology, but since the pandemic, discussions around trauma, resilience, and mental health have become more frequent. This is a positive change because business is all about people – it is impossible to run a successful company without true attention to the issues, relationships, incentives, and rewards of the people within an organisation. The pandemic has forced businesses to take time to think about the psychological wellness of the workforce.
An employee’s family used to be considered useful data for HR records but since the outbreak, organisations have become more flexible and understanding of family issues.
Executives’ dogs are being seen on Zoom and employees no longer face such harshness when they are late for a meeting when working from home with children. Organisations have become much more forgiving environments. Video conferences seem to have decomposed company hierarchies: each team member has the same space, tools, and issues.
HR’s Role in the Pandemic
HR employees have had to step up to the challenge and become creative to solve issues of the pandemic. They have had to work with different departments and deal with complicated, unfamiliar issues relating to health. Coming out of this pandemic, HR could be recognised as far more essential to the success of business. | <urn:uuid:6e931e74-7726-4ed7-9e45-e1fbdcc9dc12> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://blog.patonpersonnel.co.za/business-care-and-equality-some-incredible-positives-that-have-come-out-of-the-pandemic-in-the-south-african-context/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572043.2/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814143522-20220814173522-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.972223 | 801 | 1.835938 | 2 |
Sonja, there are two parts to your question.
1. Mixed genes: GeneVectorIndividual is the way to go. Just create a VectorGene subclass which holds, I dunno, a double. You store a float or an int or a boolean value (set to 1 or 0) in that double. Maybe also a flag indicating what kind of data it is perhaps.
You'll want to override at least the following methods:
mutate() // not required, but you'll want to do it
To save out the population, or use networking, you'll need to override some readers and writers too.
For more information, see Section 5.1.3 of the Manual.
2. Variable-length lists: GeneVectorIndividual can do this too (all VectorIndividuals can). All you need is to specify an appropriate mutation or crossover operator. However ECJ doesn't provide many at this time (only two) -- lists are a special case and often require custom operators. See Section 5.1.2 of the Manual.
On Oct 20, 2011, at 4:38 AM, Sonja Holl wrote:
> I'm new to ECJ and try to use GA's for parameter optimization. I have already
> extended ECJ but now run into a problem. Is there any possibility to create a
> type mixed Individual. It want to have a genome of type [float/int/boolean] (The
> types and length vary for each run, so I thought of a generic solution). I know
> that there is this GeneVectorIndividual, which I could extend as well as the
> VectorGene, but I think, it is not very comfortable to use this as I only use
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Antivirus technology has become an important part of computer security. Computer malware may spread in many ways, including email attachments and embedded code in the body of emails. They can also unfold via unpatched application weaknesses, file sharing products and services, and installing files. Anti virus software incorporates programs that scan and remove virtually any malicious code. The very best antivirus programs have multiple layers of defense against viruses. Here are a few of the most common types of viruses:
First of all created in 1971, the initially computer virus was the Creeper. This kind of virus was obviously a self-replicating pc virus that assaulted a device’s hard drive. This made it practically unusable, but the concept of antivirus security avast premier review has developed. As even more threats were created, the level of style of these attacks has also improved. In order to stay ahead of the shape, antivirus technology must develop. By merging the two of these types of technologies, anti-virus can take care of a computer system from the latest threats.
Malware software detects and cleans away threats by simply checking data files and programs against a database of known destructive code. However the software’s capacities are limited. New viruses are challenging to detect and evade recognition. Hackers discover how to circumvent ant-virus software. As a result, it is essential to update antivirus software on a regular basis to stay protected. Also to regular virus removal, antivirus program will also find malicious software program – just like viruses — on new systems. If a destructive program is certainly detected, it’ll be automatically quarantined. | <urn:uuid:2e74aa1f-3403-4799-9afb-db7cd1953cf5> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://gecadi.com/2022/06/28/ant-virus-technology-and-computer-security/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572043.2/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814143522-20220814173522-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.95648 | 332 | 3.25 | 3 |
Delhi University’s recent decision to hold open book examination at home for the final semester — in view of the lockdown due to the COVID-19 pandemic — has invited widespread opposition from students and teachers as well as individual departments.
Stakeholders have argued that the move, pushed through without consultations, would at best be a mockery of examination and at worst exclusionary, and a blow to students who were already disadvantaged.
Several stakeholders also raised questions about the university’s ability to conduct such a large-scale online exercise given the history of the university server overloading during admissions, result days and most recently during the filling up of online examination forms.
Speaking to students from across the country, from Jammu and Kashmir, Kerala, Rajasthan, Assam, to here in the Capital, plagued with poor Internet connections, technological difficulties and a lack of study material as well as those who are visually impaired among a host of other issues said they were going to face severe difficulties attempting these exams.
Sitting at home in Jammu, Manchi Jandial, a final-year BSc Botany student at Hansraj College will have to give theory as well as practical exams online starting next week. Given the communication blockade there, Ms. Jandial only has access to 2G services, which means Internet speed is very slow. “Downloading just one file takes about half an hour,” she said.
She said that two hours would not be enough to download the question paper, search for answers, write and upload them again. “It would be very unfair. And for people in Kashmir, Internet goes on and off any moment,” she said.
Recently, over 100 students from the Union Territory wrote a joint letter to the J&K Lieutenant Governor as well as the Chief Secretary, urging them to intervene in the matter. Highlighting that they were not even able to attend online classes given the Net speed, the letter reads, “We have also written to the Dean of Examination and V-C of university, but they didn’t listen to us.”
Residing in the Edatharingi village in Kerala, final-year MA sociology student at Delhi School of Economics, Rebecca Vargheese has to step out on the road with her laptop just to send an email. With residents in her village having long opposed the setting up of telecom towers, the only service provider she has access to is BSNL which is terribly weak, she said. “I’ve got all the set-up, I bought a modem and everything, but the connection just doesn’t work and customer care also doesn’t respond,” she said. Instead she has to depend on a feeble phone connection that is patchily available.
“If I am forced to take these online examination, I would have to travel to another district, about 40 km, to a friend’s place to take them,” she said. Meanwhile, she hasn’t been able to attend online classes and didn’t bring along any books with her, as she had come home for her sister’s wedding during the mid-semester break.
Naresh Kumar, in his final year at Shivaji College, does not have his textbooks either. He only brought a few novels and magazines to during the break back home. A resident of Morthla near Mount Abu in Rajasthan, Mr. Kumar said that he does not have regular mobile Internet at his village. “Typically, we would go to the city to study at a cyber cafe. Even that’s not an option this time, given the lockdown,” he said.
Not just in remote parts of the country, students here in Delhi are facing connectivity and technology issues. For Sachin Mahawar, final-year BSc Botany student at Ramjas College, who stayed back at his rented room in Delhi to prepare for MSc entrance exams, regular Internet inside the room is unavailable. Which means that every time he has to download or upload any document, he has to step out of his room with his phone and laptop.
Mr. Mahawar is also among those who has to attempt an “online practical exam”. “We’ve been told it will take place over a Zoom class [live telecast], where we will be shown a specimen and we have to identify it in about 30 minutes,” he said. Following this, students will be required to draw diagrams and write identifying details of the same. While students without regular Internet connection would be at a disadvantage, Mr. Mahawar also informed that most students had left their practical record books with teachers and didn’t have material to study from. “Everyone is confused and tensed about what will happen,” he said.
In Uttar Pradesh’s Unnao, Devashish Verma, a third-year BA History student at Ramjas College, had returned home without his laptop and the email id meant for college work which was logged on to that computer. This means that if any assignments have been issued by his professors, he has to ask his friends to forward PDFs on his phone.
Most of the assignments being carried out currently were simply a form of “copy pasting” from articles he said. “But as a graduation student, I’m not studying just to get by am I?” he said, adding that the way classes were being undertaken, studies were taking place merely as a formality.
Questioning the logic behind “open book tests”, he highlighted there would be a need for resources, especially access Internet to answer well and provide bibliographies to answers. “How can they do this? It is a severe injustice taking place,” he said.
Apart from this, the biggest pressure right now were entrance exams, said Deveshresh, distraught that he wasn’t able to apply to the Hyderabad Central University as there were connectivity issues and the last day of applications passed by.
Challenge for the special
Online examination also pose a special challenge to visually impaired students. Keshav Das, a visually impaired student from Mathura in his final year at Shaheed Bhagat Singh College was worried about how he would manage a scribe to help him take the exam.
“I have no facility and I don’t know how I will find a scribe here,” he said. Mr. Das stressed that even if professors send study materials to prepare for the exams, it would be difficult to access them unless they were audio books.
Taking note of this issue, the university has asked all departments to contact physically challenged students, especially those who are visually impaired, to ask them about their Internet accessibility. In a separate letter to HoDs, the Dean of Examinations also wrote that the exams would require minimum Internet connectivity and access to “any latest smartphone” and that mechanisms to address technological constraints would be developed. However, this has not been elaborated on so far. Messages, calls and questionnaires sent to the Dean of Examinations and the University Registrar went unanswered.
Trishita Shandilyia, a final-year MA sociology student at DSE, residing in Guwahati, said that while Internet connectivity was not an issue for her. However, given the “flood season” was starting there, electricity cuts were frequent and posed a major issue. | <urn:uuid:443a8a8a-1ce9-4202-aa14-0e66378571fc> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://du-assassins.in/du-exams-2020-open-book-examination-is-not-possible-for-final-year-students/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571911.5/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813081639-20220813111639-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.983732 | 1,552 | 1.601563 | 2 |
Washington hoped the Canadians would rise up with the Americans against the British.
George Washington launched America’s first invasion of a foreign land scarcely two months after assuming command of the Continental Army. In September 1775, he dispatched troops to the far north to attack the scantly guarded city of Quebec, which the French had ceded to the British 12 years earlier. The goal of the campaign was not only to deliver a crushing strategic blow to the British by capturing the gateway to the St. Lawrence River and thereby to all of Canada, but also to convince the French-speaking Canadians to join the Revolution on the side of the United Colonies.
But he faced a vexing dilemma: Would the Americans, whose greatest asset was their legitimate claim to the moral high ground, be viewed as liberators by the local people? If the Quebecois viewed the expedition as an unwelcome invasion, the American troops would be hard-pressed to sustain a successful attack on the fortress city.
The Quebec campaign is now viewed as one of Washington’s early missteps, before he grew into his role as a military commander. But a close examination of Washington’s pre-campaign instructions to Colonel Benedict Arnold offers a glimpse of his foresight and genius. Instead of focusing strictly on logistical concerns, he included guidance on how “Officers and Soldiers” should behave in a foreign land, amidst civilians with very different traditions, customs and religious beliefs. Indeed, his instructions could offer useful insights to contemporary American leaders and soldiers as they carry out military campaigns in distant lands.
Rule 1: Don’t Assume You Are Welcome
“You are by every means in your Power to endeavor to discover the real Sentiments of the Canadians towards our Cause, and particularly as to this Expedition, ever bearing in Mind, that if they are averse to it and will not cooperate, it must fail of success.”
When the British gained control of Canada in 1763, at the conclusion of the French and Indian War, nearly 70,000 French-speaking Catholics in Quebec came under imperial rule. The British military tried to institute English law, which at the time still withheld political rights from Catholics. But as rebellion spread in America following Parliament’s passage of the Stamp Act in 1765, Quebec Governor Guy Carleton shrewdly set out to separate Canada from the 13 colonies and turn it into a potential bastion of British armed strength by allowing French inhabitants to retain their heritage. “Barring a catastrophe too shocking to think of, this country will remain French till the end of time,” he declared. That policy came to be embodied in the Quebec Act of 1774, which granted freedom of religion to Catholics in Canada, restored French civil law and extended the boundaries of Quebec to include Indian lands south of the Great Lakes between the Mississippi and Ohio rivers.
The changes were viewed with great alarm in the 13 colonies. The Quebec Act was passed in the same session of Parliament as a series of punitive acts designed to quell the patriot uprising sparked by the Boston Tea Party. Since Canadians were denied any electoral privileges, Americans suspected it marked a first step by the British to strip all the colonies of their elected assemblies. Moreover, the act kindled old fears among Protestants of a Catholic majority to the north.
Washington and other leaders of the American Revolution hoped that their neighbors to the north would rise up with them against the British. But he also had good cause to wonder: Might the cultural, historic and political differences between Anglo-Americans in the rebellious colonies and the French Canadians overshadow their common concerns and shared interests? The expedition would be self-defeating if the local population proved to be actively hostile to patriot forces. “In that case,” Washington warned Arnold, “you are by no Means to prosecute the Attempt; the Expence of the Expedition, and the Disappointment are not to be put in Competition with the dangerous Consequences which may ensue, from irritating them against us, and detaching them from that Neutrality which they adopted.”
Rule 2: Cultivate Local Support
“Conciliate the affections of those People and such Indians as you may meet with by every Means in your Power, convincing them that we come, at the Request of many of their Principal People, not as Robbers or to make War upon them; but as the Friends and Supporters of their Liberties, as well as ours. And to give Efficacy to these Sentiments, you must carefully inculcate upon the Officers and Soldiers under your Command that not only the Good of their Country and their Honour, but their Safety depends upon the Treatment of these People.”
While troops were gathering for the Quebec expedition, Washington penned an open letter to “the Inhabitants of Canada,” which he hoped would sway the uncommitted or, at the very least, soften any hostility toward the soldiers he had dispatched to their country. “We have taken up Arms in Defence of our Liberty, our Property; our Wives and our Children: We are determined to preserve them or die.” Echoing previous messages sent by the Continental Congress, he invited Canadians to join the cause: “Come then, my Brethern. Let us run together to the same Goal. Range yourselves under the Standard of general Liberty, against which all the force and Artifice of Tyranny will never be able to prevail.”
But what if the soldiers he dispatched undermined his offer of friendship and misbehaved? A great number of common Continental soldiers were 15 or 16 years old at the start of hostilities. When Washington arrived in Cambridge to assume command, the Massachusetts Provincial Congress, which had been managing the war until then, warned him that “the greatest part” of the soldiers “have not before seen service.” They were “naturally brave and of good understanding,” he was informed, “yet for want of Experience in military life,” and disregarding “strict temperance,” they lacked basic military discipline and even cleanliness. Concerned about how these lads might handle themselves, Washington warned Arnold and his officers that they must “observe the strictest Discipline and good Order, by no Means suffering any Inhabitant to be abused, or in any Manner injured, either in his Person or Property, punishing with exemplary Severity every Person who shall transgress, and making ample Compensation to the Party Injured.”
Rule 3: Respect Local Religious Practices
“As the Contempt of the Religion of a Country by ridiculing any of its Ceremonies or affronting its Ministers or Votaries has ever been deeply resented, you are to be particularly careful to restrain every Officer and Soldier from such Imprudence and Folly and to punish every Instance of it. On the other Hand, as far as lays in your power, you are to protect and support the free Exercise of the Religion of the Country and the undisturbed Enjoyment of the rights of Conscience in religious Matters, with your utmost Influence and Authority.”
Anti-Catholicism was deeply embedded in the popular culture of colonial America. Every year on November 5, the anniversary of a thwarted Catholic conspiracy to blow up Parliament in 1605, artisans and laborers in colonial cities marked “Pope’s Day” with marches through the streets bearing elaborate effigies of the pope and the devil, which they would burn at night. Men imbued with this attitude were about to come across ubiquitous displays of the Catholic faith, shrines and crosses and gestures, each a temptation to ridicule. Without stern measures to prevent it, some soldiers were likely to succumb, and just a few miscues could endanger the entire mission.
Washington was also well aware that in the minds of many patriots, including soldiers who had volunteered for this mission, the invasion offered a special opportunity to fight two tyrants at once: the British monarch and the Catholic pope. One army chaplain gave voice to these zealous rebels by noting the expedition would “spread the gospel through this vast extended country, which has been for ages the dwelling of Satan, and reign of Antichrist.” This was a common sentiment. Just before embarking on their journey, a group of soldiers broke open the Massachusetts tomb of George Whitefield, the famous revivalist of the Great Awakening, cut off pieces of his collar and wristbands (which had not yet decomposed after five years underground), and carried them off as relics to ensure success in conquering a land peopled by Catholics, their British rulers and others they considered heathens.
Rule 4: Don’t Abuse Prisoners
“Any Prisoners who may fall into your Hands, you will treat with as much Humanity and kindness, as may be consistent with your own Safety and the publick Interest. Be very particular in restraining not only your own Troops, but the Indians from all Acts of Cruelty and Insult, which will disgrace the American Arms, and irritate our Fellow Subjects against us.”
Washington’s injunction turned out to be moot during the Quebec Campaign because patriot forces did not take any prisoners. But he stuck to his principles as the war progressed. After the pivotal Battle of Princeton in January 1777, which forced a British withdrawal from New Jersey, Washington issued another set of instructions that embody the classic practical argument that prisoner abuse can lead to retaliation in kind. “Treat surrendering prisoners with humanity,” he told his subordinates. “Let them have no reason to complain of our copying the brutal example of the British army.”
The British viewed American prisoners as rebellious subjects of the Crown deserving of the severest possible punishment. When American officers captured at Bunker Hill in June 1775 were imprisoned with felons in a Boston jail, Washington complained that they should be treated with more humanity and with “Claims of Rank.” Instead, British General Thomas Gage insisted the men were traitors, not prisoners of war, and by law “destined for the cord.” During the course of the war, captured Americans were stuffed into hastily improvised warehouse facilities and notorious prison ships docked in New York Harbor. An estimated 11,000 patriot prisoners held on those ships died from starvation and disease, as well as flogging and other forms of violence.
Americans were not completely above reproach in their treatment of prisoners. Indeed, loyalists who had the bad luck to be captured were condemned as traitors, and a notable few suffered hideous treatment in a copper mine in Connecticut. But the Americans were generally more lenient toward prisoners, in large part because they lacked the resources to keep them for long. After they took some 6,000 at the Battle of Saratoga in October 1777, many of the British and German officers were eventually exchanged for captured American officers. But enlisted men were held captive in camps in New England, Virginia and Pennsylvania and put to work on farms until the end of the war. Ultimately, more than 2,000 quietly blended into the countryside and became new Americans.
Rule 5: Withdraw if Your Objectives Are Unobtainable
“If unforseen Difficulties should arise or if the Weather shou’d become so severe as to render it hazardous to proceed in your own Judgment and that of your principal Officers (whom you are to consult), in that Case you are to return, giving me as early Notice as possible, that I may give you such Assistance as may be necessary.”
Given the hawkish disposition of American political leaders and the soldiers themselves, Washington showed real courage by issuing this instruction. If Arnold turned back because of adverse conditions or intelligence reports that the host population was “averse” to the presence of the Continental Army, the resultant political uproar would likely have cost him his job. But his instructions stood, and he expected Arnold to obey them faithfully, come what may.
Arnold was confident he could reach Quebec in three weeks, but he badly miscalculated the distance, and the difficulties, ahead. The trek instead lasted two months, and a third of his force of 1,100 eventually turned back. The rivers were unpredictable, forcing the soldiers to carry their 400-pound boats and all their supplies for miles at a time. The cold was relentless and provisions few: Survivors recalled making meals of boiled shoe leather or melted candles before sheltering for the night under a single thin blanket.
Despite Washington’s cautionary instructions, Arnold saw his mission through. In keeping with time-honored military tradition, he praised the determination of his troops. “Notwithstanding all these obstacles,” he wrote from Pointe-Aux-Trembles in November 1775, “the officers and men, inspired and fired with the love of liberty and their country, pushed on with a fortitude superior to every obstacle, and most of them had not one day’s provision for a week.” In retrospect, all that heroic effort was in vain. But once offensive forces are set in motion it can be hard to reverse them, even if a withdrawal might be the wisest course of action.
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Sustainable development of the Polish meat industry after accession to the European Union
The last decade, i.e. 2003-2013, was a period of intensive development of the Polish meat industry, in which Poland’s accession to the European Union definitely had its share. The
meat industry in Poland has been developing faster that in the EU-15 and Poland was the leader of EU-12. The EU integration had a positive impact on accelerating the production growth in the Polish meat industry, and several years of the process of adjustment to the EU requirements significantly changed the image of the Polish meat companies on the common European market. The Polish meat industry became a significant food producer on the European market (in 2012 fourth place in the EU) and the Polish meat processing plants are recognised as some of the most advanced in the EU. One of the main factors of meat industry development in Poland in the past decade was its very fast development.
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For most companies, business operations are far too complicated to rely on handshake agreements. The best way to be sure that all parties understand and agree on all contractual responsibilities is to put everything in writing. The more complex the transaction, the more the need for a comprehensive agreement that controls each party’s obligations and anticipates all possible eventualities.
While contracts are often customized for the particular field of business and for the parties’ needs, there are certain clauses that should be included in most every commercial agreement. Here are some of the most essential ones:
- Confidentiality — This provision bars the parties from revealing confidential information about each other’s business affairs. The scope of confidential information revealed in a transaction may be extensive. Without a confidentiality clause, a party to a contract might easily get information on the other’s intellectual property, trade secrets or business strategies.
- Force majeure — This provision excuses the parties from performing obligations in the event of extraordinary or unforeseeable events that are beyond anyone’s control. Examples are severe weather events, natural disasters (wars, riots, acts of terrorism and sudden economic disruptions. A force majeure provision can authorize extensions of time or can also excuse performance completely, effectively canceling the contract.
- Termination — Many contracts never reach completion. Sometimes one or both parties just decide it would be better to cancel the agreement. The contract should spell out how early termination will be handled. A termination clause should identify acceptable reasons for ending the agreement as well as the procedures to be followed and the financial terms that will apply.
- Jurisdiction and choice of Law — It is very common for businesses to operate from different states or countries. The contract should specify which courts will have jurisdiction over any litigation that arises concerning the contract. Also, the contract should specify which state or national laws will govern interpretations of each party’s rights and obligations under the contract.
- Alternative dispute resolution — Contract disputes can usually be resolved out of court. The parties should include a clause requiring some form of alternative dispute resolution (ADR) when conflicts arise. ADR is usually much less expensive and faster than trying to resolve matters in the courts. Options include mediation, arbitration and neutral evaluation.
- Contract changes — Contracts often have to be modified, especially in the course of complex or long-term arrangements. Many disputes arise when there is no set procedure for amending the contract. The contract should have a clause specifying how and under what circumstances modifications can be made.
When you’re entering into a commercial contract, an experienced Florida commercial lawyer can be an indispensable aide in drafting or reviewing its provisions to make sure the agreement best serves your needs and objectives.
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Andrew Reisse Memorial Scholarship
Andrew Reisse, class of 2001, was a brilliant computer graphics engineer, an avid photographer and hiker who loved nature, and a loyal friend. He was unique in so many interesting ways. He embodied a kind and utterly selfless disposition. He mentored and inspired everyone around him. While at the University of Maryland, Andrew was a College Park Scholar. He focused on computer science and met two friends, Michael Antonov '03 and Brendan Iribe. Together, they started a company known as Scaleform, which provides interface software for video games. Andrew was just 19 years old.
In 2012, Andrew became co-founder and lead engineer for Oculus VR, Inc. helping to finally bring virtual reality into existence in an affordable and immersive way. Andrew loved games, but even more, he loved the technology behind them. His contributions span far and wide in the video game industry. Thousands of games played by millions of people around the world include software Andrew wrote. Despite all his work, he never bragged or boasted. When he wasn’t programming at the office, he was learning, enjoying nature, mountain climbing, and taking pictures often engaging in multi-day journeys with just his camera as a companion. His work can be enjoyed at www.reisse.net. This scholarship has been created in memory of Andrew by Oculus VR, Inc. and his parents, Dr. Robert '70, '76 and Mrs. Dana Reisse '73, who met at Maryland while pursuing their graduate studies. Contributions will establish an endowed scholarship to ensure that future Terps are given the same opportunity to change the world as Andrew did.
Brendan Iribe Endowed Scholarships
Brendan Iribe, co-founder of Oculus VR, Inc. , has generously endowed a scholarship fund for computer science undergraduates. One scholarship will go to help a student from an under-represented population in the computer science field to bring a greater diversity to the forefront of the field. The other will go to a student who has a great financial need who is a stellar scholar.
Brian G. Lyons Endowed Scholarship Fund
The purpose of this fund shall be to provide an annual scholarship to an outstanding computer science major at the University who displays a passion for computer science and another academic discipline or extracurricular activity, in addition to an interest in an emerging software engineering discipline.
Capital One Bank Dean's Scholarship in Computer Science
This award is given to students who demonstrate academic talent in their classes and a passion for learning.
Christopher David Malter Memorial Scholarship
Christopher David Malter '99 graduated with a B.S. in Computer Science from the University of Maryland. After his untimely death, his parents established this scholarship in his honor. The scholarship is awarded each year to an undergraduate computer science student based on academic merit.
Corporate Partners in Computing Scholarship
The Corporate Partners in Computing Program (CPIC) is designed to establish mutually beneficial, strategic relationships with organizations that share a commitment to advancing the fields of computer science and interdisciplinary computing through collaborative efforts in education, research, and technology development. The program is jointly supported by the Department of Computer Science and the University of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies (UMIACS) and serves as the front door to our talented students, world-class faculty, and innovative researchers.
The program currently partners with industry leaders dedicated to supporting excellence in Computer Science at UMD. Please visit http://www.cs.umd.edu/community/partners to learn more about our corporate partners.
CPIC will provide a $1,000 scholarship to five outstanding (rising) sophomore, junior, or senior computer science undergraduate majors at the University who display a passion for industry knowledge and commitment to community engagement. The recipient of this award will be one who is actively involved in the computer science community at the University of Maryland via membership in a student organization and regular participation in department events.
Eisner Family Undergraduate Scholarship in Computer Science
The David E. Eisner and Family Scholarship was established by David E. Eisner '90 in March 2008. Spendable income from these annual scholarships goes toward select undergraduate students who are majoring in computer science in the College of Computer, Mathematical and Physical Sciences.
Guy Wassertzug/Infostructures, Inc. Scholarship Fund
Guy Wassertzug, a 1988 graduate of the University of Maryland, the current President and Chief Executive Officer of Infostructures, Inc., established this award to recognize students who have demonstrated a serious interest in advancing the role of women in computer science. Award winners will have demonstrated their leadership experience through extracurricular activities.
Jeffrey C. & Sandra W. Huskamp Endowed Scholarship
Named in memory of Dr. Jeff Huskamp, the former Vice President and Chief Information Officer at the University of Maryland, this scholarship recognizes outstanding academic performance in an undergraduate student.
John D. Gannon Scholarship
To recognize and fund outstanding Computer Science students, this scholarship was established in 1999 in tribute to John D. Gannon by his wife, Nancy Garrison, brother, Rickard Gannon, family, friends, students and colleagues. John was a distinguished computer scientist, an excellent and enthusiastic professor, a highly valued campus citizen, and an outstanding and devoted department chair.
This scholarship has been enhanced by a significant contribution from Dr. Howard Gobioff (B.S., Computer Science, '93) who sadly, after a battle with lymphoma, passed away in 2008 leaving behind a legacy of scholarship, giving and excellent research. Several of Dr. Gannon's illustrious students have also made contributions to the scholarship as well.
Michael Antonov Endowed Scholarships
Raj Khera & Tripti Sinha Scholarship Fund
Alumni of the University of Maryland, Dheeraj Khera and Tripti Sinha, established a scholarship to support students in the Department of Computer Science. This need based scholarship is also based upon academic merit.
Randy Baden Annual Memorial Scholarship in Computer Science
Randy Baden received his B.S. in 2005 and his Ph.D. in 2012, both from the University of Maryland. His brilliant mind for security research resulted in award-winning papers on some of the very first work on securing online social networks. In his real-life social network, his excitement was contagious, and he regularly brought different circles of friends together to share in his favorite movies, TV shows, and video games. Following his own creative pursuits, he wrote and published two fantasy novels while completing his PhD in Computer Science.
Randy’s deepest impact is best reflected in those who were lucky to have known him—a large, welcoming family from nearby Baden, Maryland; a supportive, loving husband and best friend whom he met at UMD; and a devoted group of colleagues, labmates, and friends. Randy changed all of our lives for the better, and it is our hope that, through this scholarship, he will continue to change lives.
So as to reflect Randy’s balanced interests, Computer Science students who also have non-technical, creative pursuits are particularly encouraged to apply for this scholarship.
The Jack and Rita G. Minker Professorship in Computer Science
This scholarship provides financial support to a professor within the Computer Science department. The professorship honors the pioneering contributions of Rita Minker in the early development of computer science and Jack Minker for his research in AI and his work in support of human rights for scientists.
Tony & Diana Chen Computer Science Scholarship
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We all must make a certain “leap of faith” that we are actually eating what we think we are eating.
Food and beverage processors and manufacturers around the world execute food safety management programs to maximize food safety, and minimize food fraud events. Food fraud (adulteration is a growing concern both to the industry and consumers globally because of some high-profile cases (e.g. EU horsemeat scandal) and also the idea that non-accidental ingredient modification/mislabeling events that are economically motivated adulteration (called EMAs) could erode public trust.
Geographical regions such as North America, Europe, India, and China along with their industry partners and associations are developing stronger guidelines and standards for detecting adulterants and implementing food fraud mitigation strategies, as well as collective tracking of food authenticity and EMA events. Such fraud cases are typically the result of deliberate addition, deletion, dilution, alteration of ingredients, or misleading advertising with the intention of economic gain.
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Illicit substitution of cheaper ingredients to reduce production costs is also common in economically motivated adulteration (EMA) cases. For example, in the edible oil industry, food fraud cases often involve the blending of inferior oils with premium oils to boost volumes (and profits) without accurate labeling. A gas chromatography (GC) fingerprinting technique is used to monitor the product for adulteration and identify the contaminant.
Honey is one of the most faked foods globally, with substitutions ranging from cheaper honeys, to cheaper sweeteners such as sucrose, fructose, etc. and additional concerns about the presence of harmful antibiotics and other chemicals. The usage of pollen analysis to ascertain botanical origin has limited effectiveness due to ultrapurfication of many honeys followed by the unscrupulous addition of small amounts of pollen rich honey from alternative sources. The characterization of the volatile profile of honey has proven to be a reliable alternative to pollen analysis for the assessment of its botanical origin.
Illicit substitution of one species for another for economic gain is common in food adulterations cases. DNA identification is typically required to identify adulterants and necessitates very clean samples and standards.
The substitution of ewe milk with more economic cow milk is a common fraud. A routine CE method modified from human blood and urine protein analysis, is utilized to separate distinct species-specific milk protein profiles.
The 2008 milk scandal was a widespread food safety incident in China. The scandal involved adulterated milk and infant formula with melamine that consequently affected an estimated 300,000 babies, resulting in six infant deaths and an estimated 54,000 babies hospitalized. Since 2008, there has been constant reform to regulation of the global infant formula industry and great achievement to infant formula testing methods. Industry methods have been moving from immunoassay testing to LC-MS/MS for greater accuracy and sensitivity.
One of the most common adulterations to mandarin, bergamot, bitter orange, and lemon oils, is the addition of low-cost lime or orange oil. The δ-3-carene level and the δ-3-carene/camphene ratio are particularly useful for the detection of the possible addition of these sweet orange oils or orange oil terpenes. Gas chromatography is used to verify the purity of the citrus essential oils being used in their products. The SLB-5ms column, available in Fast GC dimensions, proved to be a good choice for this application due to its ability to resolve the analytes of interest. | <urn:uuid:a6854645-6d1a-49d6-9306-40015608508f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.sigmaaldrich.com/US/en/technical-documents/technical-article/food-and-beverage-testing-and-manufacturing/regulatory-compliance-for-food-and-beverage/food-fraud | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571538.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812014923-20220812044923-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.93423 | 762 | 2.1875 | 2 |
– Rhodiola rosea is an adaptogenic herb that helps support the body’s management of stress
– Rhodiola may aid cognitive function, work capacity, and perceptions of exertion
– Rhodiola can be taken in the morning to help cortisol release
What Is Rhodiola Rosea?
Rhodiola rosea is a perennial flowering plant—an herb—that grows in cold, mountainous areas of Europe and Asia. It is considered an adaptogen—a plant that contains compounds that help support the body’s management of stress. In eastern and northern Europe, rhodiola has been used as a traditional medicine for centuries.
To understand how rhodiola works, you need to know about cortisol, a stress hormone produced by the adrenal glands. Cortisol levels are naturally higher in the morning. According to Craig Koniver, M.D., founder of Koniver Wellness, a performance medicine clinic in Charleston, SC, this is a holdover from caveman times, when humans woke up with the sunrise and immediately set out for food and shelter. “That required our highest concentration, arousal, and alertness,” says Koniver, “and that’s what cortisol release gives you.” So, while cortisol is associated with stress, it’s not necessarily bad. At the right time of day, that stress is appropriate, and it helps you focus and be productive.
As the day goes on and the sun goes down, cortisol levels are supposed to drop so that you can relax and recover, but for many people these days, this doesn’t happen to the extent that it should. Interacting with electronics, such as the TV and cell phone, cause us to produce more cortisol, and that keeps us in a stressed state throughout the day and into the night. All day long-stress is unhealthy, and can really tax your adrenal glands.
“Adaptogens support the output of cortisol,” says Koniver. “They nurture the adrenals so they don’t have to work as hard.” Coupled with better nighttime habits (such as turning the TV off, leaving your phone outside your bedroom, etc.), adaptogens like rhodiola can ease the demand on your adrenal system, and help you get more out of the natural cortisol spike you experience in the morning.
“Rhodiola, in particular, is a good choice when people are feeling worn out,” says Koniver. “If you wake up and you don’t feel refreshed, rhodiola can be helpful,” promoting the alertness and cognition effect that cortisol offers.
Benefits of Rhodiola
Rhodiola is thought to be beneficial for managing overall stress and aiding athletic performance.
A study in Phytotherapy Research had 101 subjects take rhodiola for four weeks, and assessed their stress levels through a battery of tests. All the tests showed that rhodiola assisted with stress to a clinically relevant degree—and some subjects saw results after only three days. No serious adverse effects were reported. However, the study was not blinded. That means the subjects knew they were taking rhodiola, and that could have affected the findings.
Another trial in Phytomedicine looked at rhodiola’s effect on young, healthy doctors working night shifts. Subjects were given tests to determine the effect working late nights had on their energy and cognitive function, including short-term memory, ability to concentrate, and speed of audio-visual perception. This time, the trial was done double-blinded, meaning that neither the doctor subjects nor the researchers knew who was getting rhodiola versus a placebo. The result: rhodiola helped with mental weariness and aided performance on work-related tasks by 20%.
A similar study, also published in Phytomedicine, examined 161 military cadets on night duty. They were given rhodiola to see if it helped them battle tiredness. Though the subjects were given two different doses, both were found to be effective in supporting the cadets’ cognitive processing.
As for athletic performance, rhodiola seems to hold promise for those engaging in long-duration exercise. A study in the International Journal of Sport Nutrition and Exercise Metabolism showed that rhodiola aided work capacity in subjects performing endurance training. It actually helped them extend their time to exhaustion by 24 seconds.
Moreover, the Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research reported a trial in which subjects performed a simulated cycling race and, when given rhodiola, completed it significantly faster than the placebo group.
While rhodiola may aid performance by helping to manage stress on the heart, it also seems to alter the exerciser’s perceived level of exertion. In other words, you may be pushing yourself hard, but it doesn’t feel so hard to you, and so you can push even harder, keeping your pace up for longer. Such were the findings of this Journal of Sports Medicine study.
Is Rhodiola a Stimulant?
Technically, rhodiola is a stimulant, because it helps fight off tired feelings. Rhodiola is thought to work by stimulating neurotransmitters such as dopamine, noradrenaline, and serotonin, which help regulate cognitive processes, arousal, and perception. According to Mental Health America, it may also promote the effects of other stimulants, such as caffeine.
However, that said, rhodiola is an unusual stimulant in that it does not seem to increase the heart rate and blood pressure, or decrease appetite, as most stimulants do. “Instead of increasing activity of the central nervous system like [well-known] stimulants do, it helps the body better adapt its response to stress-inducing events,” says Shannon Ehrhardt, RD, CSSD, a Sports Dietitian with EXOS.
Nevertheless, Koniver recommends taking rhodiola in the morning, to support cortisol levels. “If you take it in the evening,” he says, “you could potentially elevate cortisol when it should be on its way down.”
Who Should Take Rhodiola?
Rhodiola appears to be safe and at least mildly effective in normal, healthy populations. It may be beneficial to endurance athletes, those who exercise, and virtually anyone who wants help managing stress that impairs function.
“I think it’s smart for people to rotate adaptogens, or take time off from them,” says Koniver, “because you can adapt to them with consistent use. I often tell patients to take their herbal supplements during the week, and then take weekends off from them. You’ll get more out of them that way, long-term.”
Side effects of rhodiola use, if any, seem to be mild, and, according to the National Institutes of Health, include dizziness and dry mouth. A review in Phytomedicine concluded that a lack of “adverse effects in the course of clinical trials make [rhodiola] potentially attractive for use” in helping with lethargy and supporting cognition and mood. | <urn:uuid:c39a8599-8f95-4509-a1b9-10265e373703> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.onnit.com/academy/rhodiola-rosea/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571210.98/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810191850-20220810221850-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.95546 | 1,478 | 2.4375 | 2 |
Landscaping Tips: Concrete Pond Construction : good concrete pond construction means not taking shortcuts. Improper methods can lead to more money spent on maintenance, repairs, or replacement than on the cost of the initial construction. Since good concrete pond construction equates to having one that lasts a lifetime or longer, follow these rules of thumb to get it right – the first time!
Keep in mind that for suitable concrete pond construction, you need to pour the concrete to a thickness of four to six inches.
After deciding on the dimensions and outlining the area, all soil (and rocks!) should then be dug out. Forms then need to be built and placed where concrete is to be poured, along with the proper placement of cut-to-fit reinforcement bars (rebar).
For digging out the area for concrete pond construction, you will need shovels, picks, a crowbar, and, of course, a wheelbarrow. Some other necessary items include a carpenter’s level, string, stakes, sheets of plastic, and a long two-by-four.
Pouring the cement in concrete pond construction should be done in one day, unless the pond is very large, and then it must be poured in sections. Pour cement in the bottom of the pool first, then the sides. If shelves have been dug out, pour cement there, next. Finally, pour cement for the top of the pond and for any coping that may be involved.
After you have completed these first steps of your concrete pond construction project, you need to let the cement cure for several days under plastic.
Treating with muriatic acid at this stage helps prevent high pH levels in water later, which benefits fish and plants. After the acid treatment, apply several coats of paint made for pools or masonry sealant, allowing each coat to dry thoroughly.
Concrete pond construction can be a true learning experience. It’s best to start with a smaller pond, then if you meet with success, you can then move on to a larger project. But once you get the hang of concrete pond construction, there’s no limit to where you can go from there. So learn, build, and then build some more!
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Recent research has found a migrant mortality advantage among immigrants relative to the UK-born population living in England and Wales. However, while all-cause mortality is useful to show differences in mortality between immigrants and the host population, it can mask variation in mortality patterns from specific causes of death. This study analyses differences in the causes of death among immigrants living in England and Wales. We extend previous research by applying competing-risks survival analysis to study a large-scale longitudinal dataset from 1971 to 2012 to directly compare causes of death. We confirm low all-cause mortality among nearly all immigrants, except immigrants from Scotland, Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland (who have high mortality). In most cases, low all-cause mortality among immigrants is driven by lower mortality from chronic diseases (in nearly all cases by lower cancer mortality and in some cases by lower mortality from cardiovascular diseases (CVD)). This low all-cause mortality often coexists with low respiratory disease mortality and among non-western immigrants, coexists with high mortality from infectious diseases; however, these two causes of death contribute little to mortality among immigrants. For men, CVD is the leading cause of death (particularly among South Asians). For women, cancer is the leading cause of death (except among South Asians, for whom CVD is also the leading cause). Differences in CVD mortality over time remain constant between immigrants relative to UK-born, but immigrant cancer patterns shows signs of some convergence to the cancer mortality among the UK-born (though cancer mortality is still low among immigrants by age 80). The study provides the most up-to-date, reliable UK-based analysis of immigrant mortality.
Keywords: Cause-specific mortality; Competing-risks; England and Wales; Immigrants; Longitudinal; Survival analysis.
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Life is very hard and recently those unavoidable stressors have taken the toll of the century on my body and mind. I’m sure we all experience the physical and emotional fatigue that accompanies working life. I’m sure everyone struggles at one point or another with developing the perfect work-life balance. But what do we do when it becomes just too much?
I myself am trying my hardest to unplug and put myself and my health before my job. I struggle endlessly because my own expectations and the expectations set due to my work ethic and performance are sometimes unattainable and unrealistic. Yet, they plague my psyche in a way I’ve learned is toxic and unmanageable. You probably have seen these countless articles about “Millennial Burnout” and the various ways it is impacting my generation (and likely other generations in today’s workforce). There’s an expectation to work, work, work, but the fact is one cannot work, work, work if they are compromised physically, mentally and emotionally. “You cannot pour from an empty cup,” someone once said.
The remedy? “Self care.” This elusive, vague cure doesn’t always have the best connotation, nor is it really defined by a prescribed regimen. Everyone is different, thus everyone’s idea of self care is different. However, your version of self care might just save you from the world of prescribed medication and harmful coping mechanisms.
Here are the self care items that work for me:
Going to the gym
I used to hate it when people would suggest going for a run to remedy sadness, but damn it, they were right. While it’s not the easiest order for people going through serious depression, going to the gym and/or exercising the way YOU like to exercise is important. I prefer going to classes because I’m held accountable for at least an hour of physical activity. Plus, once you find the exercise you like best, it’s actually FUN! I like to channel my nervous energy or my anger into Zumba, or find a little peace in a yoga class.
Working out the ol’ brain
Yes, sometimes I’m drained and love nothing more than binge watching a series of RuPaul’s Drag Race, but that sometimes puts me into a couch potato routine. I recently joined an orchestra and reignited my love for the viola. Give reading, Podcasts or crossword puzzles a try to exercise your ~mind~.
Keeping the creativity flowing
Not everyone has a creative job. Not every creative job is creatively fulfilling for that employee. While my job is creative, it’s not nearly as fulfilling as personal expression. I like to keep my creativity going with blog posts (hi) and small, manageable art projects like collages and decorating.
I’m using the word “pamper” lightly here. When I’m stressed I tend to forget to take care of myself in the most basic ways. My skin will break out and I’ll fall into the routine of wearing a boring outfit every day. The cure? An inexpensive face mask, a meal I’m proud of and an outfit that makes me feel beautiful. Let’s not ignore the fact that feeling good on the outside makes you feel good on the inside too. Find your beauty on your own terms.
Understanding yourself and your needs is hard. Asking for help is hard. I’ve been pretty conditioned to ignore my body when I’m weak instead of listen to it, and that’s when I push myself too far and get sick. I recently have been having trouble sleeping and feeling very anxious at night. I know from past experiences that when I’m not sleeping, it means the issue is only getting worse. This week I listened to my body and bought a weighted blanket after hearing nothing but good things. The blanket not only helps me sleep, but instantly makes me feel less anxious. Sure, I feel like one of those dogs wearing a “nervous” vest, but I needed to give in to myself, be gentle with my body and allow myself to accept a little help.
Some people see self care in watching their favorite show. Some people see self care in going on an overdue vacation. Self care means a lot of things, but at it’s core it’s being good to yourself in only the most beneficial and supportive ways.
*Of course, self care alone cannot help addiction or serious mental illness. Please consult websites like these for addiction hotlines in your area, and always feel empowered to seek help when you need it most.
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Photophobia refers to an increased sensitivity to light, which can result in pain or avoidance. People with the condition feel that normal light is too bright.
Migraine headaches and dry eyes are common causesTrusted Source of photophobia. Additional causes include an array of other disorders that affect the neurological system, eyes, and mental health.
The treatment of photophobia focusesTrusted Source on alleviating the underlying disorder. However, wearing eyeglasses with a rose tint called FL-41 may also help.
Preventive measures include allowing more natural light indoors while toning down the brightness of lighting in electronic devices.
Keep reading to learn more about photophobia, including its causes, symptoms, and treatment.
Photophobia is a heightened sensitivity to light. As the term derives from the Greek words “photo,” meaning light, and “phobia,” meaning fear, it literally denotes a fear of light.
The abnormal response to light varies among individuals. According to a 2017 studyTrusted Source, the sensitivity may manifest as pain or discomfort in the eyes or an avoidance reaction.
Some conditions and several medications can cause photophobia, according to older research from 2012Trusted Source. In addition, certain types of lighting are more likely to trigger it.
Photophobia is a symptom of some conditions affecting the neurological system, the eyes, and mental health.
Migraine headaches are the most common neurological disorder that can cause photophobia, as this condition occurs in 80–90%Trusted Source of people with the headaches. It happens during the headaches as well as between them.
In fact, the American Migraine Foundation (AMF) notes that photophobia is so common in individuals with migraine headaches that it is one of the criteria doctors use in the diagnosis of migraines.
Other neurological conditions that can cause photophobia include:
- Blepharospasm: This term describes the involuntary blinking, closure, and squeezing of the eyelids.
- Traumatic brain injuries: These are serious injuries to the brain that affect how it works.
- Meningitis: This condition results in the inflammation of the protective covering of the brain.
The most common eye condition that may cause photophobia is dry eyes. This occurs when a person’s tear production is inadequate to provide optimal lubrication.
Other eye conditions that may cause photophobia include:
- conjunctivitis, which is inflammation of the conjunctiva, the tissue covering the white parts of the eye
- corneal disease, which is the term for disorders affecting the cornea, the tissue covering the iris and pupil
- optic neuritis, which is inflammation of the optic nerve
- uveitis, an inflammation that occurs inside the eye and can be associated with autoimmune disorders
Several psychological conditions may cause photophobia. They include:
- agoraphobia, which is the fear of being in a crowd or leaving one’s home
- anxiety and panic disorders
Photophobia can be a side effect of the following medications:
- benzodiazepines, which are antianxiety drugs, such as diazepam (Valium)
- barbiturates, which are drugs that produce sedation, such as amobarbital (Amytal)
- haloperidol (Haldol), which treats certain mental health conditions
- chloroquine (Aralen), an antimalarial drug
According to the AMF, the brighter the light, the more discomfort a person feels. Blue-light wavelength also produces more sensitivity than other wavelengths. Other triggers includeTrusted Source flickering light and light in striped patterns. The Vestibular Disorders Association (VeDA) adds that florescent lights may also act as a trigger.
Photophobia may cause or worsenTrusted Source pain or physical discomfort in the eye. It may also produce avoidance, a reaction that stems from a feeling that normal light is overly bright. Symptoms of avoidance may include:
- blinking frequently
- finding strong sunlight or indoor light bothersome
A person with photophobia may have a preference for:
- cloudy days over sunny days
- dimly lit rooms over brightly lit rooms
- going out after dusk rather than during the day
Doctors base a diagnosis on findings from the followingTrusted Source:
- health history
- eye examination
- neurological examination if other symptoms indicate it is necessary
- possibly an MRI
Instead of asking a person whether their eyes are sensitive to light, doctors may sometimes ask more detailed questions to determine the presence and severity of photophobia. For example, they may ask: “Do you prefer to stay at home on sunny days even if it is not warm?”
There is little evidence indicating that systemic medication can relieve photophobia. With this in mind, the focusTrusted Source of treatment involves alleviating the underlying condition that is causing the photophobia. If the condition causing the photophobia improves, then the photophobia may decrease as well. This strategy may involve medications, such as:
- triptans, such as sumatriptan (Imitrex), which are drugs for migraine headaches that quiet overactive pain nerves
- botulinum toxin (Botox) to treat blepharospasm
- benzodiazepines, such as diazepam (Valium), to relieve anxiety
- artificial tears, gels, and ointments for dry eyes
- steroid eye drops to treat uveitis
The use of eyeglasses in a rose-colored tint called FL-41 may help some people, as it blocks blue-light wavelengths.
The VeDA recommends that people take steps to reduce or prevent photophobia. These include:
- wearing a hat, cap, or glare-reducing sunglasses outdoors
- allowing as much natural light as possible indoors
- avoiding using florescent lights indoors
- reducing the brightness setting of electronic devices, such as TVs, phones, and computers
- avoiding wearing sunglasses indoors because chronic darkness increases sensitivity to light
- using specialized lenses that filter out the most problematic light wavelengths
In addition, the AMF suggests slowly building exposure to light to increase tolerance. In the workplace or in the home, this could involve sitting close to a window. It may also help to use light bulbs that emit only green light because green is a wavelength of light that does not trigger a migraine.
Photophobia is a heightened sensitivity to light, which can manifest in eye pain or an aversion response to a brightly lit area.
It is one of the symptoms that may occur in quite a few conditions that affect the neurological system, eyes, and psychiatric health. Additionally, it can be a side effect of some medications.
Florescent light, flickering light, and light in striped patterns are more likely to trigger an adverse reaction.
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The water sector has found itself caught up in the current pandemic in many ways. Our responses can help shape a more resilient future for the sector and for society as a whole
As the novel coronavirus disease known as COVID-19 continues to sweep across the globe, water professionals have been called upon to respond and work together in new ways and at unprecedented scales. As the pandemic locked down entire cities, families and firms had to re-assess their priorities. In doing so, they have recognised anew the worth of clean water, safe hygiene and dignified sanitation as more than just modern conveniences. They value our work as a critical force of health and life.
It has been said that war is a catalyst for transformation; it accelerates social and technological changes quietly under way. So it is with COVID-19. As governments, businesses and civil society race to defeat the invisible enemy, water professionals may discover in our health and economic crisis a window of opportunity. If we seize the moment, we can lock in reforms and innovations that transform our societies to become far more integrated, innovative, inclusive and resilient than before.
Local needs, global connections
The existential threat of this pandemic has led previously isolated or balkanised institutions – from local to global scales – to recognise how we are all in this together and share responsibility to and for one another. Water professionals have long felt this high degree of commonality. Water’s fluid and dynamic linkages determine how we ensure safe access and treat wastewater to all parts of a city, knowing that a weak link in one place can undermine the integrity of the whole supply and sanitation network.
Now, this highly contagious virus has led everyone to adopt a similar mindset, focused on a shared destiny with former strangers. Neighbours self-organise ‘social distancing’. City officials invest in tele-health tools. Businesses set aside proprietary advantages to cooperate on critical needs. Regional governments synchronise responses. Research bodies make specific data generic. Private publications that kept information behind paywalls now share vital knowledge for the public good. Water professionals are deeply embedded in each step, each dimension, making bold decisions and adopting smart tactics to an extent that is unprecedented and, potentially, irreversible.
Witness just one aspect of sharing: digital water technologies. Before the pandemic struck, cities were broadly aware of advanced metering infrastructure, remote sensing, real-time controls, modelling and optimisation. Each was known to bring a greater degree of automation, safety and security to utility operations – but the tools were too often seen as curiosities, or luxuries, and so were deferred to the future. That future arrived at the dawn of 2020.
Today, billions of families have been kept at home all day, compounding pressure on residential toilets and taps. Industrial needs have grown volatile. As a result, utilities have, at last, won support and funds to integrate digital systems to deal with the rapid changes in use and demand, helping us prioritise action in response to network interruptions at a time of tight staffing levels. Every walk of life, including the water sector, has opened its eyes to the potential for flexible and remote working; those who most embrace digital technologies have proven better able to cope.
Beyond enhancing internal connections, COVID-19 has nudged water professionals to forge stronger links with those outside their service area, with neighbouring cities and even across national borders. When local health, lives and ecological systems demand constant attention, it is never easy to look up and outwards, but doing so is essential if our sector is to thrive.
As a profession, we are rightly conservative. Rather than chase any new shiny object, the need to secure water day after day demands that we stay loyal to what has always worked before. The opportunities afforded by digital technologies, however, will only be realised if we embrace them as part of a deliberate and ongoing process of improvement. During the pandemic, the sharing of innovation and intellectual property, and access to facilities, demonstrates our willingness and ability to contribute to the larger process of open innovation.
Harnessing pressure to change
This sudden push to invest in innovation comes just as utility revenues fall. The lockdown slowed industrial activity, which reduced commercial demand for water, which eroded utility revenues. Meanwhile, underemployment left fewer families able to pay water bills. Yet, rather than shut off clients, utilities have instead been aggressively reconnecting customers, while suspending meter reading and bill collection. In India, certain utilities saw their revenues stop. The topic of water revenue instability is hardly new. What’s unprecedented is the global scale and rapid speed with which massive change has emerged, posing new threats – and opening new possibilities – for nearly every utility.
Developing countries feel this pressure to change most acutely. There, washing hands has always required reliable access to clean water. But while basic hygiene and sanitation was extended to the less fortunate almost as a form of noble or philanthropic charity before COVID-19, the pandemic has amplified – through self-interest – the reality that stopping the virus in peri-urban slums prevents its spread to more upscale city centres.
As if by magic, the tired old reasons given for lack of basic access – weak capacity, tight budgets, not enough water, competing needs – suddenly ring hollow. Pandemic reinforced how no individual is an island. Poorer, underserved homes do not exist in isolation from surrounding neighbourhoods. This new reality helps water professionals cut through bureaucratic inertia and secure resources at a speed and scale that had been impossible just six months earlier. The question is how we can lock in this progress and ensure WASH remains politically a top priority long after COVID-19’s urgent threat subsides.
Wastewater – an epidemiological resource
Trust comes through transparency. For more than a century, water professionals have largely understood and communicated the critical value of basic WASH to prevent the spread of disease. Following this theme, IWA’s Task Force has helped draft a technical review on different aspects of wastewater treatment as they relate to the SARS-CoV-2 virus – especially around detection.
As COVID-19 is primarily a respiratory disease, it may seem that SARS-CoV-2 should be of relatively limited concern to our sector. But, in water, one always finds new and important realms to discover, knowledge gaps need to be filled, and reassurance provided.
In its review, the IWA Task Force tracked the ‘journey’ of the virus through: faeces; raw sewage; the primary, secondary, tertiary treatment stages; sludge; and water for reuse. These systemic connections – from individuals to cities, and from sewers to nature – raise other topics of potential concern. One such issue is aerosolised sewage. Treatment plant workers are the water profession’s equivalent to those in intensive care units of hospitals and clinics. As frontline workers, they must be adequately protected by use of standard personal protective equipment, especially at the headworks of plants, where aerosols are most likely to occur. The same concern arises for those who are exposed when they empty faecal sludge into collection facilities. The public may also want reassurance. While SARS-CoV-2 may be less likely than other viruses to survive and be transmitted through wastewater, we need reassurance on the level of risk.
At the same time, we know a milligram of prevention is worth a kilogram of cure. The presence of virus material has opened up the strong possibility to monitor wastewater as a tool for screening public health. Long before the pandemic, The Source covered how detecting traces of drugs in sewage helps public health officials focus limited resources to make inroads against the opioid epidemic (May 2018). Now, the IWA Task Force is exploring how we can leverage the same tools, techniques and approaches to find, and halt, pockets of the pandemic before it can spread.
The COVID-19 version of this cutting-edge effort tests for virus genetic material at wastewater treatment plants – sometimes detecting its presence even before symptoms show up and cases are reported. The early warning ability could open the way for broader testing to help support public health decisions on reinstating lockdown measures in response to secondary outbreaks. Given the variables, however, an important contribution of the IWA Task Force is to help in the exchange of experiences needed to support greater consistency in the methods used.
Implementation poses challenges. It is hard to estimate how many cases might be present in the population from the amount of virus detected in sewage, as so many parameters affect the measurement (nature and time of transport in a sewer, possible dilution with rainwater, temperature, etc). Nor can it assess risks to the vulnerable communities not served by centralised plants or sewer networks. Even so, the innovation holds exciting potential for the sector to expand its societal contributions, as water professionals learn to adapt the technology to circumstances in developing countries.
A robust sector means a stronger society
COVID-19 is not the world’s first coronavirus, nor will it be the last, probably, and its effects will linger. Indeed, in coming years, pandemics will present the water sector with constant challenges – and opportunities.
One opportunity stems from our imagination. For while the cessation of life and economic activity has exacted a massive and painful toll, it has encouraged and potentially accelerated a shift toward a more climate-friendly paradigm.
Water is the blade of climate change that will cut most deeply. To respond and adapt, our sector has begun pursuing energy-positive wastewater treatment, embraced nature-based solutions, and applied circular economy principles to urban systems. We can advance and expand these efforts in the current and post-COVID-19 era, backed with financing from progressive entities such as the Green Climate Fund and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development.
A tangible opportunity arises through our pragmatism. We can help shape economic stimulus packages – many on the scale of modern-day Marshall Plans – to be socially inclusive, incorporate green infrastructure, and accelerate water’s digital transformation. Governments want to invest in ‘shovel-ready’ projects that can be rolled out fast at significant scale to boost recovery. Working at the nexus of public health and economic development, water professionals can adapt and advance our most urgent priorities. For example, leakage control – increasingly supported by digital technologies – offers returns on investment in energy savings in treatment and distribution.
Our profession has long worked behind the scenes and, as a result, has too often been taken for granted. We chose this career because we know water to be a connective force that unites people with each other and with the natural world.
It took this catastrophe to elevate our quiet work into the open, where it belongs. To ensure it remains a central priority for all, let us leverage this window of opportunity to integrate, innovate and collaborate in ways that link experience in industrialised and developing world communities alike.
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Shaving brush made from sustainable olive tree hand carved in Tunisia, and pig hair.
This shaving brush handle is made from olive wood and is very smooth to hold.
Made in Tunisia by a small family business.
Olive trees need regular pruning to produce a good tasty olive and to produce a high yield. After a certain age the olive tree becomes damaged and unproductive and to keep up with the pace of nature. Very mature trees are replaced with new trees and the hard wood from the largest salvageable branches are used to make this shaving brush.
Absolutely, No Olive trees are damaged or destroyed to make these shaving brushes. All brushes produced from this hard wood, have a varying smooth grain, making every hand carved piece extraordinarily unique, so no two brushes the same.
So, this shaving brush in olive wood has no environmental impact. Also, when it reaches the end of its life it can be disposed of without having created any plastic waste.
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The Automotive courses at Loughborough were the first such courses in the UK and have established a national and international reputation for the quality of the courses and the graduates produced. International students who have a serious interest in studying with us but who perhaps cannot meet the direct entry requirements, academic or English, or who have been out of education for some time, can enter Birmingham City University International College (BCUIC) and begin their degree studies.
The overall aim of Brunel’s programme is to provide our graduates with excellent understanding of the fundamentals which, coupled with in-depth knowledge of the technical workings of current and future automotive systems, will allow them to become future technical or managerial leaders.
Both programmes (BEng and MEng) cover the same topics in Levels 1 and 2, allowing students to transfer between them at the end of Level 2. The courses cover the fundamentals of mechanical engineering and design, providing an excellent grounding in key subjects common throughout the mechanical engineering disciplines.
The University was also recently awarded a multi-million pound contract from the UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council to accelerate the introduction of future low carbon and lightweight vehicle technologies specifically in close collaboration with industry.
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with Tonya Riley
Silicon Valley stands to benefit from the first executive orders that President-elect Joe Biden plans to sign when he’s sworn into office in January.
Biden plans to immediately reverse some of President Trump’s actions on immigration and climate change, according to my colleagues Matt Viser, Seung Min Kim and Annie Linskey. These have been among the most publicly contentious issues between Silicon Valley and Trump since the early days of his administration.
Biden plans to reinstate a program allowing “dreamers,” who were brought to the United States illegally as children, to remain in the country. He’ll also repeal the ban on almost all travel from some Muslim-majority countries. Many chief executives protested these moves and challenged them in court, arguing that the Trump administration’s immigration crackdowns were negatively affecting their employees and efforts to recruit the best engineering talent from all over the world.
Biden will also immediately rejoin the Paris climate accords. Executives from Apple, Facebook, Google and many other tech companies had pressured Trump not to pull out of the agreement, even taking out full-page ads in newspapers to advertise the deal as beneficial to business.
The tech industry is gearing up for a remarkably different White House starting Jan. 20.
A Biden-Harris presidency was in some ways the best scenario for the industry, and the ticket had strong support from some of the industry’s top fundraisers. The new administration will mark the end of the openly tense relationship with Trump, yet the more moderate Democrats are likely to spare tech giants from some of the more heavy-handed regulation that liberal Democrats, such as Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) advocated for during the primary.
But there are still many unknowns about what a potential Biden administration might mean for some of the most pressing policy issues facing the industry. Here are a few things we’ll be watching.
1. Biden has sent mixed messages on antitrust.
Much of the administration’s future work on the issue may hinge on whom he selects as attorney general and federal trade commissioner. He and Vice President-elect Kamala D. Harris did not go as far as other Democrats such as Warren in calling for specific tech giants to be broken up. But some of the biggest critics of tech companies who have called for a breakup, including Facebook critic Roger McNamee, held a fundraiser for the campaign in October.
It’s not yet clear how Biden plans to handle the recent lawsuit that the Trump administration filed against Google. His campaign declined to comment on specific lawsuits or companies, saying that Biden believes growing economic concentration threatens American values.
Biden has however said that his administration would work closely with Rep. David Cicilline (D-R.I.), who has advocated for an overhaul of antitrust laws after conducting an investigation into tech’s power, which accused Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google for engaging in monopoly-style tactics. But many of the legislative proposals that Cicilline has outlined do not have the support of Republicans, so a Biden administration’s ability to pass them may hinge on whether Democrats can gain control of the Senate.
2. The president-elect has signaled he wants to increase regulation of social media.
Biden has said he wants to revoke Section 230, a legal shield that ensures companies can’t face lawsuits for the content that people post on their websites. Even if Republicans control the Senate, this could be an area where there’s some action because many lawmakers on the right are also critical of the legal provision.
However, the Biden campaign has said little about how it would replace or modify Section 230. And it could be difficult to find consensus with Republicans, who want to reform Section 230 to address concerns that companies are biased against conservatives. But there are some bipartisan proposals that could gain momentum in a new Congress, such as a bill known as the PACT Act, which aims to increase transparency around tech companies’ content moderation decisions.
It’s clear that no matter what path the Biden campaign takes, Facebook will likely be in the administration’s crosshairs. Biden has been extremely critical of how the company has done little to address falsehoods on its platform, especially those shared by Trump.
The campaign has said it would create a new task force on online extremism, which would examine the connection between harassment, mass shootings, extremism and violence against women.
3. Tech leaders could play a larger role in a Biden administration coronavirus response.
Biden announced his coronavirus response task force today, underscoring how it’s a top priority for the administration. It remains to be seen how top tech leaders will work with this initiative.
Silicon Valley executives from Google, Apple and other companies were initially involved in the White House’s coronavirus response, but many of the actions never fully materialized. That could change under a Biden administration, which has committed to seek outside help and may have strong ties with tech leaders dating back to the Obama days.
Yet tech companies could have a significant role to play in coordinating testing and contact tracing, as well as ensuring Americans can work and attend school online.
Already Bill Gates has volunteered his help to the new administration:
There will be a lot more to explore in the coming weeks and months of the presidential transition. Do you have insight into how the Biden administration could address these and other challenging policy issues? Reach out at [email protected]
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Video: STL Co. election officials demonstrate bi-partisan effort to protect vote integrity (KMOV St. Louis)
Tech leaders were quick to congratulate Biden and Harris.
Tech leaders avoided partisan politics while focusing on the historic win.
Cisco chief executive Chuck Robbins outlined policy proposals for the next administration:
As did Microsoft President Brad Smith, who pointed to digital access, worker re-skilling and cybersecurity readiness in a blog post about policy priorities for a partnership with the new administration.
“When we consider all these issues, it is apparent that there are opportunities to build new bridges between us and to strengthen the ties that bind us in common purpose,” Smith wrote. “All these challenges are ripe for bipartisan collaboration and for government and industry cooperation.”
Twitter is labeling Trump’s false tweets about election fraud as “disputed,” but it’s letting people retweet them again.
It’s a shift after the company shielded many of Trump’s disputed claims and prevented them from being retweeted as votes were counted across the country. Since networks projected the race for Biden on Saturday, the company has instead been slapping a warning labels on the bottom of the president’s rule-breaking rockets and allowing people to retweet, like and reply.
In one instance on Saturday, the company opted against placing a box over a tweet in which the president questioned the integrity of the vote, alleging “BAD THINGS” had occurred without evidence, Tony Romm reported. Instead, it flagged the tweet with a warning that “This claim about election fraud is disputed.” As of last night, that tweet had been retweeted more than 250,000 times.
The episode raised new questions about how Silicon Valley will handle the delicate period between now and Trump’s departure from the White House.
Twitter applied similar labels to other tweets the president shared, quoting his conservative allies and supporters making false claims about the validity of mail-in ballots and other unproved accusations of problems during the election. It shows how the company is shifting its response to Trump’s tweets now that media outlets have projected Biden’s victory.
“With the election now called by multiple sources per our public guidelines, we will no longer apply warnings on tweets commenting on the election outcome,” Brandon Borrman, a spokesman for Twitter, said in a statement. “We will continue to apply labels to provide additional context on tweets regarding the integrity of the process and next steps where necessary.”
Pinterest, LinkedIn and other smaller platforms are fighting the spread of disinformation.
The sites have seen false allegations of voter fraud trickle down from larger platforms Facebook and Twitter, Rachel Lerman and I report. But unlike the two tech giants, which have armies of moderators, smaller sites such as Pinterest and LinkedIn have had to tackle the surge of disinformation with a fraction of the resources.
As a result, the platforms have taken more aggressive steps. Pinterest prevented the search of terms such as “stolen ballots” and “Sharpiegate,” a conspiracy theory that alleges the use of Sharpie pens resulted in some Arizona ballots not being counted. It’s similar to the approach the company took to crack down on anti-vaccine disinformation in 2019.
The approach works better than individual content moderation for platforms with fewer resources, said Alex Stamos, the former chief security officer of Facebook and the director of the Stanford Internet Observatory.
“It’s much easier to just block Sharpiegate than to try to wade through misinformation and what isn’t,” he said. “You can still enjoy your handmade tea cozy pictures without having your Sharpiegate content.”
Platforms such as Pinterest and LinkedIn are also less likely to receive backlash for enforcing their policies, since their core offering doesn’t revolve around news and politics, experts say.
“People don’t direct as much ire at a company like Pinterest when they make very firm decisions to block, say, anti-vaccine content as they would at Facebook,” said Samuel Woolley, a professor and director of a propaganda research team at the University of Texas at Austin.
Rant and rave
The unexpected tech winner of the election? Apple’s screen time feature:
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(previously known as Prometopus petrodora)
ACRONICTINAE2, NOCTUIDAE, NOCTUOIDEA
(Photo: courtesy of CSIRO/BIO Photography Group, Centre for Biodiversity Genomics, University of Guelph)
The forewings of the adult moth each have a pattern of light and dark brown. The hind wings are pale brown, with dark veins. The wingspan is about 3.5 cms.
The species occurs in Australia, including:
George Francis Hampson,
Catalogue of Noctuidae in the British Museum,
Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum,
Volume 8 (1909), p. 381, No. 4034, and also Plate 131, fig. 19.
Oswald B. Lower,
New Species of Australian Lepidoptera,
Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales,
Volume 26 (1902), pp. 647-648.
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Typed letter signed by Thomas E. Dewey.
Thomas Edmund Dewey (March 24, 1902 – March 16, 1971) was an American lawyer, prosecutor, and politician. Raised in Owosso, Michigan, Dewey was a member of the Republican Party. He served as the 47th governor of New York from 1943 to 1954. In 1944 he was the Republican Party's nominee for president, but lost the election to incumbent Franklin D. Roosevelt in the closest of Roosevelt's four presidential elections. He was again the Republican presidential nominee in 1948, but lost to President Harry S. Truman in one of the greatest upsets in presidential election history. Dewey played a large role in winning the Republican presidential nomination for Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1952, and helped Eisenhower win the presidential election that year. He also played a large part in the choice of Richard Nixon as the Republican vice-presidential nominee in 1952 and 1956.
As a New York City prosecutor and District Attorney in the 1930s and early 1940s, Dewey was relentless in his effort to curb the power of the American Mafia and of organized crime in general. Most famously, he successfully prosecuted Mafioso kingpin Charles "Lucky" Lucianoon charges of forced prostitution in 1936. Luciano was given a 30- to 50-year prison sentence. He also prosecuted and convicted Waxey Gordon, another prominent New York City gangster and bootlegger, on charges of tax evasion. Dewey almost succeeded in apprehending Jewish mobster Dutch Schultz as well, but Schultz was murdered in 1935 in a hit ordered by The Commission itself; he had disobeyed The Commission's order forbidding him from making an attempt on Dewey's life.
Dewey led the moderate faction of the Republican Party during the 1940s and 1950s, in opposition to conservative Ohio Senator Robert A. Taft. Dewey was an advocate for the professional and business community of the Northeastern United States, which would later be called the Eastern Establishment. This group consisted of internationalists who were in favor of the United Nations and the Cold War fight against communism and the Soviet Union, and it supported most of the New Deal social-welfare reforms enacted during the administration of Democrat Franklin D. Roosevelt.
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Britain at the end of 2017 is a utopia for the few and a dystopia for far too many, and when this process is over nothing meaningful will alter in the plight of London’s poor and working class.
This article is reprinted from December 2017.The Grenfell Tower fire establishment circus is well and truly underway, placed in motion by a ruling class never more efficient than when managing and palliating the anger of the poor after presiding over their deaths in acts of social murder, euphemistically referred to as ‘tragedies’, whenever they occur.
Six months after a fire ripped through Grenfell Tower residential tower block in London and incinerated 71 of its residents, most of the survivors remain homeless, living in temporary accommodation, many of them with young children. As Labour’s Jeremy Corbyn pointed in a recent broadcast on Grenfell, “our country has a history of working class people’s voices being ignored by those in power.”
The government’s Grenfell Tower Inquiry began in September. It is being chaired by retired high court judge Sir Martin Moore-Bick, appointed to lead it by the government without any prior consultation with the survivors, victims’ loved ones, or the wider community. In one of the last cases he heard prior to his retirement in 2016, Moore-Bick was accused of giving a “green light” to local councils across the city when it came to the social cleansing of poor tenants and residents. The relevance of this history regarding Moore-Bick’s chairmanship of the Grenfell Inquiry could not be more pointed, involving as it does issues concerning substandard housing suffered by people of no property, such as the residents of Grenfell Tower, in one of the world’s most developed and unequal societies.
Another key element of the establishment machine that has kicked in in response to Grenfell arrived most recently in the form of a memorial service, conducted in the grand and ostentatious setting of St Paul’s Cathedral. There, survivors and victims’ family members and loved ones rubbed shoulders with members of the royal family, the government, and other representatives of the country’s ruling class. The mournful music, choir, and service they were treated to, the brief words of comfort from people who spend more on lunch in a day than they have to keep themselves and their children in food for an entire week, was establishment theatre at its best, during which insincerity dripped from every pore of an elite whose actual disdain and contempt for working class and poor people is responsible for housing them in the kind of substandard conditions that gave rise to the Grenfell inferno in the first place.
You just know that when this process is over nothing meaningful will alter in the plight of London’s poor and working class. Indeed how could it when Britain at the end of 2017 is a utopia for the few and a dystopia for far too many, a country in which cruelty has been elevated to the status of a virtue and compassion condemned as a vice, in which the carnage wrought by austerity and affluence sit side by side.
Austerity is an ideological weapon deployed in the interests of the rich against the poor in conditions of economic extremis, with the objective in the second decade of the 21stcentury of breathing life into the corpse of neoliberalism, whose burial is long overdue. The dire consequences of seven years of unending austerity were laid bare in a damning report in November. According to the report’s findings, since it was introduced, austerity in the UK has killed 120,000 people.
Poverty is no natural phenomenon. It does not fall from the sky like the rain. It is the product of a grotesque economic reality configured to benefit the few at the expense of the majority. And erected in support of this grotesqueness is an apparatus of propaganda, manufactured and peddled by those with a vested interest in the status quo, conditioning and fashioning our acquiescence in the brutality meted out to our fellow citizens. We are talking the psychological and, in more and more instances, physical destruction of defenceless human beings — men, women, and children existing at the sharp end of the wrath of a government of the rich, by the rich, and for the rich.
Moreover, the grim reality of benefit sanctions, foodbanks, homelessness, and poverty wages, which is today the lived experience of millions up and down the UK, belies the attempt to beguile us with the fanfare surrounding the recent announcement of Prince Harry’s engagement to Hollywood actress Meghan Markle.
It was a fanfare undertaken with the transparent objective of forging a national consensus around the monarchy, a semi-feudal institution rooted in unearned privilege and obscene opulence. It saw the usual parade of politicians, government ministers, and mainstream media commentators – people who are never done railing against the ‘dear leader’ sanctification of North Korea’s Kim Jong-Un – engaging in ritual homilies to class privilege, perpetuating the worship of a family they describe as royal and encouraging the country to go gaga whenever one of them farts.
This is Britain in 2017, where the burnt out shell of Grenfell Tower sits just a few miles away from a refurbished Buckingham Palace, a country in which the rich, through their ownership of the mass media and their political flunkies in government and parliament, have unleashed a vicious class war that has succeeded in turning the clock back to the 19th century. | <urn:uuid:09fdaeff-b421-4393-9584-ee3df67c9be7> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://prruk.org/why-the-grenfell-fire-inquiry-is-an-establishment-circus-that-will-not-bring-justice/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571538.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812014923-20220812044923-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.962942 | 1,141 | 1.65625 | 2 |
"DRIER OPERATOR VI"
Job Description and Jobs
- 1) Tends equipment that dries glutinous material, such as gelatin and glue, by either of following methods: Starts pumps to admit glutinous material through coolers to congeal it and through extruders to form noodles.
- 2) Starts conveyor that moves noodles through series of drying compartments and turns on heaters and fans in compartments.
- 3) Feels noodles for moisture content and regulates speed of equipment to ensure prescribed degree of dryness.
- 4) Reads hydrometer to detect excessive moisture in drying compartments and turns on dehumidifier when necessary.
- 5) Transfers containers of pearl glue or moves frames or trays of sheets of glue or gelatin into drying compartment, using handtruck.
- 6) Starts heaters and fans in heating compartment.
- 7) Feels glutinous material for moisture content and regulates temperature in drying compartment when necessary.
- 8) May tend equipment that spreads glutinous material into sheets for drying.
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What is The City Worth While?
In 1913 the Slogan Committee of the St. Joseph Commerce Club decided to hold a contest via the St. Joseph Gazette. Whoever came up with the best slogan to represent the city would win $50 in gold or receive a medal worth $50. The plan from the beginning was to emblazon the slogan in modern electric lights, high above the city. As such, many submissions came to the Gazette as illustrations of lighted signs. From the myriad of slogans put up for consideration, two were presented to the Commerce Club. The choices were between “St. Joseph – Money, Markets, Men” and “St. Joseph, the City Worth While.” When put to a vote the latter slogan passed, receiving 287 ballots, the former receiving just 44, and 22 members disliking both options.
Once the slogan was decided on, the city set to work publicizing it. In January of 1914, a contract was awarded to the St. Joseph Railway, Light, Heat, and Power Company to construct a sign. It would be the jewel of the city, to sit atop its tallest building, the 12-story Corby-Forsee Building. On April 17, 1914, the “Mammoth” sign containing 3,800 shining electric lights, illuminated for the first time for the entire city to see.
Age took its toll on the sign, yet throughout the generations, the slogan endured. While it would not be the only slogan chosen to represent the defining character of St. Joseph throughout the years, it is one that has stuck with the city throughout time; a fond reminiscence of our past as it looked to the future. This is what you will find in our project “The City Worth While.” We have created a space where the pieces of St. Joseph’s past can come together to form the picture of the city’s history. | <urn:uuid:5ae1ea04-8f3b-47f0-ba5f-41e895da9c6f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://sjplhistory.wixsite.com/cityworthwhile/about | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571538.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812014923-20220812044923-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.972518 | 397 | 2.40625 | 2 |
Tips for Traveling to
By: Leah Shoup
Travel in shoulder season to avoid the crowds.
April and May are the best months to plan a first trip to Ireland. They represent the ultimate sweet spot for ideal weather in Ireland with fewer crowds.
Rent a car to see Ireland's most beautiful regions.
Rental cars are much more convenient than using public transport. Otherwise, you're limited to guided day trips from Dublin!
Remember to drive on the left side of the road.
If you decide to take a road trip through the country, prepare yourself to drive on the left side of the road by watching videos.
Don’t overdo it!
When visiting Ireland for the first time, it may be tempting to squeeze everything into one vacation. If you only have a few days, be realistic about how much you can see.
Don't forget Northern Ireland!
Home to some of the most beautiful scenery in Europe, make sure to visit Northern Ireland. Remember that Northern Ireland uses pounds instead of euros.
Book hotels in advance.
It’s a good idea to book your hotels ahead of time to save money. Plenty of properties are available, but they fill up quickly during the busiest times of the year.
Plan your driving route around the Emerald Isle.
One of our best Ireland travel tips is to make a list of the top places you want to visit; for example, Killarney National Park or the Cliffs of Moher.
Include hidden gems in your itinerary.
Check out off-the-beaten-track things to do like driving the Dingle Peninsula or taking a boat tour to Skellig Michael.
Pack clothing that you can layer.
The Irish weather can be unpredictable. So, you need to pack layers that you can take on and off as the temperature changes throughout the day.
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Amid uncertainty in notifications of new Ebola cases in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) related to changes in the government’s outbreak management, World Health Organization (WHO) online tracking shows 5 more infections today, lifting the outbreak total to 2,597.
Yesterday, the DRC’s health minister, Oly Ilunga Kalenga, MD, resigned following the DRC president’s decision to shift outbreak response management to a government expert committee.
Late in the day, the health ministry released a daily report, which it said would be the last to come from the health ministry’s press team. The daily detailed reports—which have covered cases, deaths, vaccination progress, security incidents, health worker infections, and other developments—have been widely praised for their detail and timeliness.
The health ministry said all future response communications will be managed directly by the office of DRC President Felix Tshisekedi.
Two more health workers infected
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Mohan Bare, 36, a Bhil adivasi from Ardale village, Pandhana block of Khandwa district of Madhya Pradesh, is setting new goals for landless tribals who wish to soar and seek recognition as entrepreneurs. It is the humble goat, training in goat rearing, hand holding by the Aga Khan Rural Support Programme- India (AKRSP-I) and personal endeavor that has enabled Bare to become the most successful goat breeder in the 28 villages of Pandhana block.
Kalu Singh Muwel, the CEO of the Pandhana Pashu Palan Producer Company, has been showcasing him as an entrepreneur, taking him on exposure visits to adjoining districts of Burhanpur, Khargone and Barwani in the Nimar region. Also planned are visits to Mumbai and Hyderabad, which have the biggest goat markets. Bore takes such excellent care of his goats that since 2014 when AKRSP gave him four goats and a buck to improve his livelihood, just one 35 day kid died. “I was still new in goat rearing and made the mistake of bathing it in the cold water of the dam and it died of pneumonia,” says Bore.
In 281 of the 841 Nimar region villages AKRSP works in, 90 per cent of the population is tribal, poor and living in mud huts. Goat and poultry rearing are the second livelihood options after agriculture with 7668 households in goat rearing and 2595 in poultry as per survey in March this year. Though both men and women are into goat rearing but the 89 trained vets or pashu sakhis for goats and poultry are all women.
Incomes from poultry and goat rearing have gone up from Rs 15,000 to Rs 44,000 per annum in the area but Bore, with 26 goats and 9 bucks is making Rs 2 lakhs annually and spends Rs 42,000 on the education of his three children in private schools in Khandwa. To be a successful entrepreneur, Bore calculates he would need 44 goats and 6 bucks. A goat shed at a cost of Rs 1,70,000 to house 50 goats is on the anvil. Only after that will he build a pucca house and move out of his mud hut.
Bore’s rise to his present status is as impressive as that of any big Mumbai industrialists. He studied in an adivasi balak ashram up to Class 5, was only 12 when he became a daily wage labourer and later a migrant labourer. His fortune turned only when he was introduced to goat rearing.
He looks after them like a stud farm owner would look after his race horses. Once in 15 days each goat is cleaned with lime; their feeding is a measured 250 grams of wheat and maize morning and evening and he takes them out grazing twice in a day. The goats are encouraged to lick salt bricks, procured from the pashu sakhis, for improved consumption of water, blood circulation and digestion that ensures a shine to their coat.
He would prefer if his goats produced one or two kids at a time so that they get more milk from the mother and are healthier. The chances of a kid dying are more if there are three but Bore takes extra care in their rearing and feeding to ensure survival. If an animal falls ill, its hair stands up and he quickly calls the Pashu Sakhi.
Bore speaks Hindi and is conversant in English and can browse the net for information on goat rearing. “On the net I read about engineers who have taken to goat rearing because it is profitable,” he says. Over the last four years he has fine-tuned his knowledge on goat rearing, medicines and is market savvy. While Muslims prefer sacrificing white and red, blemish free goats which are about a year old and have two teeth, there is a market for shiny black goats among Hindus during Dussehra, Holi and other festivals. While an 11 months buck fetches Rs 11,000 to Rs 12,000, a handsome 14 months buck goes for Rs 18,000. Births, grooming and sales happen twice or thrice in a year in the markets at Borgaon and Jhirniya.
In the adjoining village of Udaipur, Bali Ram and his wife Sobai, like Mohan Bore, were landless labour but thanks to goat rearing and poultry, to which they were introduced few years ago, there has been a marked improvement in their economic status. Barely 20 days before this journalist met them, Bali Ram had sold two goats, each weighing 30 kg, at the Borgaon Eid mandi. Each was sold for Rs 18,700.
It was Sobai’s Saraswati Samooh(Self Help Group) that advised her to go for goat rearing and poultry so that she could look after her five children better. With a loan from the samooh and her own savings she bought four goats for Rs 13,500 in 2014. Today she has 13 goats. Every year the income from sale of goats has been rising. In 2017/2018, she sold six goats, four young goats that were not keeping well for Rs 4000 and two bucks for Rs 18,000. When the first goat was sold for Rs 5000, the family bought a TV to keep children at home and happy. The following year, she was able to construct a toilet and subsequently a goat shed.
With her income from goat rearing, she is paying for the education of a widowed daughter’s son as well as her and her daughter’s instalments to the Samooh. Even today Sobai does labour work, but ensures one member of the family is always there to look after the goats and take them grazing twice in a day. With labour work available just two to three months in a year, goat rearing provides continued sustenance. As a shareholder of the Pandhana Pashu Palan Company, she gets quick medical assistance for the goats and loans for animal rearing. All the 110 families of Udaipur village rear the desi Satpura high bred variety of goats. The number of goats varies from two to three for those who have just started goat rearing, to 10 to 12 goats in families who have been in the business for a few years. With the support of Samoohs and the Pashu Palan Company, several families are also into the poultry business. Sobai kept chicks twice — 50 one-day old chicks and the second time 100 one day old chicks. The purchase price of each chick was Rs 25. Another Rs 1400 to Rs 2100 was spent on dana (grain) at Rs 1400 a quintal. After a month the 50 chicks were sold for Rs 8000 and 100 for Rs 16,000. During summer and when it rains, chick rearing becomes difficult.
Gurpreet Bhatia, AKRSP’s cluster manager at Pandhana, has found that the incomes of those maintaining poultry increases by Rs 10,000 every two to two and half months. In a year, that is over six cycles of raising and selling chicks, the income could be Rs 60,000. The livelihood support system was steered through the SHGs of 40 villages from 2005/2006. They have taken loans up to Rs 3 crore for agriculture, education of children, goat keeping and poultry and for improving their livelihood options. The big plus point is that no one from Udai-pur village goes to the money lender any more. To improve the health and survival rate of goats and poultry, a cadre of Pashu Sakhis has been identified and trained to service the villages. The Pashu Sakhis also keep goats and poultry and get an additional income of Rs 2000 to Rs 2500 for the work they do as para vets. They also prepare the salt bricks of molasses, wheat residue or chokker, salt and various minerals that improve the health of goats and poultry.
They sell each salt brick for Rs 65 or Rs 90 if well packaged and keep the profits. Pashu Sakhis Rekhabai and Tarabai are responsible for Udaipur and an adjoining village. They wear blue saris and blouses provided by AKRSP and can be easily identified in the village. Their training over eight days was at Khandwa by representatives of the Goat Trust, Lucknow, and the Institute for Veterinary Research, Bareilly.
The Pashu Sakhis have still to be taught castration, a necessity for ensuring better growth of the goats. They charge per service—so it is Rs 3 for deworming and vaccination of which a rupee is the Pashu Sakhi’s profit. Medical assistance and providing tablets to deal with fever, colds, coughs and diarrohea costs Rs 10. The change is discernible. Sobai, Bali Ram, Rek-ha Bai and Mohan Bore symbolize the changing face of the tribals of Nimar .
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How to avoid security risks while remote working
Published : August 12th, 2020
The recent COVID-19 pandemic has proven to be a game-changer for businesses across the world. It has changed the way consumers behave and perceive things. This unexpected and adverse shift in habits and mindset has impacted the economies heavily. While many have taken a bad hit, it has also resulted in opportunities for businesses to shine. With that said, unfortunately, the situation has also created opportunities for security risks in the form of malicious cyber-attacks.
An attacker has 3 primary drivers – Means, Motive, and Opportunity.
The focus during these critical times should be to stay safe, more so now than ever before. Remote work presents a unique challenge for information security because remote work environments do not usually have the same safeguards as in an office. When an employee is at the office, they are working behind layers of preventive security controls. While not entirely probable, it is harder to make a security mistake while at the office. However, when computers leave the perimeter and people work in remote locations, new risks arise for the organization and additional security policies/controls are essential.
What does this mean for Organizations?
Organizations need to apply their business continuity processes to their entire operations and workforce. Typically, business continuity plans drive critical business processes and the workforce. In pressing times like these, the responsibility of business continuity lies more so with each employee and the best way to do this is to ensure that security controls are in place as they review and revise their business continuity frameworks and plans.
As a remote worker, how can you help?
While working from home, one must be aware of all communication channels. The most often used communication channels are emails, instant messaging, video calling tools, phone calls, and other collaboration tools. Cyber attackers concentrate their threat vector execution mainly on collaboration tools used for communication, hoping that someone will respond by way of clicking on a link in an email, clicking on a link in an instant message channel, or providing a password or any critical information through a phone call.
To thwart these kinds of attacks, apply the S.T.O.P principle to your communications – Stop, Take a breath, Take the Opportunity to think, and Put it into perspective.
Given that remote working is here to stay, employees must understand that they are operating within some highly challenging environments prone to security breaches. Therefore, it is essential that they are trained to understand best practices for threat and vulnerability in an online environment. While good technologies and policies help, the truth is that the very employees who help the organization grow, are a primary avenue of risk. General work from home and remote work policies can help, and these policies can be enforced with both technical and administrative controls. Security awareness training and user education are key to managing the new pandemic risks impacting cybersecurity.Tags: Digital Workforce, Future of Work, New Normal, Remote Working, Security, Security threats | <urn:uuid:3e9ee9a8-843c-4afd-9e38-36dbc4b92401> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.opteamix.com/how-to-avoid-security-risks-while-remote-working/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571911.5/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813081639-20220813111639-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.952704 | 601 | 1.914063 | 2 |
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Denver's Department of Public Health and Environment (DDPHE) is dedicated to advancing Denver's environmental and public health goals. DDPHE works collaboratively with city, state and community partners to conduct education, community engagement, and enforcement to promote healthy people, healthy pets, and a sustainable environment. DDPHE oversees a number of services related to public health and the environment and is comprised of six divisions: Shared Services and Business Operations; Community & Behavioral Health; Public Health Investigations; Denver Animal Protection; the Office of Medical Examiner; and Environmental Quality. For more information on DDPHE’s programs and services, visit the DDPHE website at: Denver Department of Public Health and Environment.
Denver Animal Protection (DAP) protects the safety and welfare of Denver’s animals and residents by fostering the human animal bond. DAP emphasizes public and animal safety and health, encourages responsible pet ownership through education and enforcing compliance with animal-related municipal code requirements, and cares for animals at the Denver Animal Shelter (DAS). More information can be found at: DDPHE: Denver Animal Protection.
Denver Animal Protection has an opening for a Chief Shelter Veterinarian. This position will serve as the primary veterinarian surgeon and will oversee shelter management and operations. The veterinary clinic at DAP is one of the two shelter clinics (and the only municipal shelter) in Colorado that is American Animal Hospital Association (AAHA) accredited. We see a variety of patients, including dogs, cats, small mammals, farm animals, fish, poultry, and reptiles. We are well equipped with dental radiographs, digital radiographs, oxygen cage, ultrasound, and cautery.
Given the expanse and nature of our work, you will have the opportunity to work on a variety of cases in a high-paced and exciting environment.
Cases include lacerations, ear infections, dental disease to more traumatic cases such as toxin ingestion, foreign body obstruction and polytrauma
Rare cases of animals as patients include snapping turtles, chameleons, other reptiles, and farm animals
Oversees the management and operations of Denver’s AAHA-accredited municipal shelter clinic
Our clinic operates 7 days per week with rotating on-call work for emergency consultation. The schedule for this position is 4 (10 hour) days per week, which will include at least one weekend day.
Additionally, the Chief Shelter Veterinarian:
Provides high quality medical care to shelter animals, oversees the health management of shelter animals, and provides for the medical and surgical needs of animals
Performs traditional duties of a veterinarian which includes health assessment, diagnosis, spay/neuter, other soft tissue surgery, dentistry, and treatment of various medical conditions
Implements medical protocols and standard operating procedures for medical evaluations and treatment of animals including disease control, sterilization, improvement of health and quality of life issues, and the alleviation of suffering. This also applies to managing animal flow through transfer and foster programs
Investigates possible cases of zoonotic diseases and reports confirmed cases to state and federal officials when needed or requested
Administers and promotes rabies immunization programs
Trains division staff on shelter related topics that include euthanasia and euthanasia certification, animal evaluation and treatments, disease control, and other pertinent topics
Oversees the medical work of shelter veterinarian, veterinary technicians, intern, and assistants and monitors staff to ensure correct treatment and handling of animals
Writes medical reports, processes cruelty cases, and presents cases in court
Assists in volunteer programs for the animal shelter and educates the public regarding zoonotic diseases and pet ownership
Performs Euthanasia when needed or required
Build relationships with community veterinarians and local veterinary technical colleges
Presents in local and national conferences
Helps to coordinate and to participate in public vaccination clinics organized by DAP
Manage clinic administrative duties including inventory, budget, and paperwork
Responsible for managing personnel including time keeping, compliance with CSA rules, performance reviews
Maintain AAHA accreditation
Procure DEA license as a condition of this position
Along with all department staff, this position will actively participate on an emergency preparedness and response team to support DDPHE’s responsibilities outlined in the City’s Emergency Operations Plan. This may require being ‘on-call’ from time to time to help respond to emergencies. Additional training commensurate with assigned duties will be provided
Other duties as assigned or requested
Our ideal candidate will possess the following preferred experience, skills, and/or education:
Interest in orthopedic surgeries or willingness to learn
Previous shelter experience
High-Volume High-Quality surgery experience
Soft tissue surgery experience
Internship-trained, preferably in shelter medicine
Currently practicing veterinarian
Experience managing an annual budget
We realize your time is valuable so please do not apply if you do not have at least the following required minimum qualifications:
Education: Doctor of Veterinary Medicine accredited by the Council on Education of the American Veterinary Medical Association
Experience: Five (5) years of experience of professional veterinarian experience in general practice or shelter environment including the control, diagnosis, and treatment of animal diseases
Education/Experience Equivalency: No substitution of experience for education is permitted
Completion of a shelter medicine internship may substitute for three (3) years of experience
License/Certifications: Requires possession of a license to practice veterinary medicine issued by the State of Colorado by the time of hire
Must be registered with the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration for the use of controlled substances in the State of Colorado prior to completion of the probationary period
Licenses and certifications must be kept current as a condition of employment
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The “purchasing power” law containing the measure is to be presented to the Council of Ministers on Wednesday, July 6th. If it is adopted, it will save those households who pay for the redevance audiovisuelle in France €138 a year.
But what is the redevance audiovisuelle , and what does it pay for?
What is it?
The annual TV licence raises €3.7billion a year, which is ploughed into public broadcasting.
Of the total amount raised annually, 65 percent is allocated to France Télévisions, 15.9 percent to Radio France, 7.5 percent to Arte, 7 percent to France Médias Monde, 2.4 percent to audiovisual archive agency INA and 2.1 percent to TV5 Monde, a Senate report has revealed.
It alone is not enough to cover all the recipients overheads – for example, the sum paid to Radio France accounts for 86.4 percent of its budget. The remainder is made up through advertising and other state subsidies.
The €138 annual TV licence bill is paid by every household in France equipped with a television set – or “similar device”, such as a video projector or computer capable of showing TV broadcasts.
People living in France’s overseas territories currently pay €88 a year.
In 2022, 27.61 million households are subject to it and 22.89 million actually pay it, according to a report by the Jean-Jaurès Foundation and economist Julia Cagé.
It has historically been paid as part of the taxe d’habitation bill, which is also in the process of being cancelled by the government, while older people and those on low incomes are already exempt from paying the annual fee.
Why is it being cancelled?
The key reason the government keeps talking about is purchasing power.
“This will give €138 to 27 million French people,” Gabriel Attal, Minister of Public Accounts, told France Inter. “What we’re removing, it is not a budget, it is a tax that many said was dated.”
Macron’s election pledge on the TV licence was hardly unique. Almost all the other candidates in the presidential campaign had pledged to axe the annual fee, which was paid as part of the taxe d’habitation bill – which has also been abolished for most households in France.
€3.7billion is a lot of money. Will anything replace it?
This the big question – and the parliamentary debate is expected to get heated. A number of plans have been put forward for covering the costs, including a means-tested contribution payable by households, or an additional tax on the price of digital products.
For the moment, the government favours the integration of the public media budget into government funding, which would require approval from Parliament.
During his presidential campaign, Macron proposed to define, “a budget with multi-year visibility”, whose amount would be fixed for several years. Culture Minister Rima Abdul Malak told France Inter recently that this remained the new government’s preferred avenue.
Will this proposed method work?
Not everyone is convinced. A study published by the European Audiovisual Observatory in February 2022 concluded that “the independence and programming freedom of public broadcasting are closely linked to the need for broadcasters to be able to count on an adequate financing system”.
Unions and cultural experts are concerned about the possibility that independence would be eroded if financing was linked to the government of the time. Bruno Patino, the head of Arte France, said in a statement to AFP that he feared for his channel’s future if the funding model changed.
“The disadvantage of budgeting is that we are much less protected from the vagaries of politics, since the latter decides on the budget,” cultural economist – and critic of the plans – Françoise Benhamou told Le Monde.
Opponents are also concerned that public broadcasting budgets would be too easily cut. “From the moment there is no more dedicated funding and we have to draw from the general state budget, we will end up being told that it all costs too much and that we have to cut expenses or close a channel, or even, as we already hear sometimes, privatize,”Senator David Assouline told a demonstration organised by the public media unions.
How is the licence fee paid elsewhere?
Italians pay their licence fees as part of their electricity bill. In Germany, the licence fee is collected by an agency that is run and operated by the channels themselves.
In Sweden, Norway and Finland, licence fees have been replaced by a progressive tax. In Sweden, for example, a levy of one percent of taxable income, up to a limit of €126, is paid; in Finland, companies rather than households pay the tax; and in Norway, a scale by bracket has been defined.
In Spain and Netherlands, the budget for public media is integrated directly into that of the State.
What do French people think?
Unsurprisingly, they’re overwhelmingly in favour of scrapping the TV licence fee – a survey in 2019 found that 85 percent of French people liked the idea of abolishing it.
They’re less enamoured of the idea that the €3.7billion lost to public broadcasting should be covered by part of the government budget – and therefore paid by taxes. Only 20.9 percent were in favour of “a contribution levied each year on the state budget,” according to a June 2022 survey by the Jean-Jaurès Foundation. | <urn:uuid:6d05c03c-b79d-4e1e-a4e3-77c1325ab73a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.thelocal.fr/20220704/explained-what-frances-tv-licence-pays-for-and-what-might-replace-it/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571911.5/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813081639-20220813111639-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.97274 | 1,184 | 2.015625 | 2 |
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Solar power is a superb source of renewable resource that will certainly decrease your carbon impact, along with saving cash. Photovoltaic panel prove to be a long-term investment, and whilst the first expenses may appear huge, the expense of solar is currently 70% less than in previous years.
Electrical power and gas rates will just increase in the future. Therefore a photovoltaic panel system will help protect you from these unmanageable rising costs.
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Why don’t you obtain a Solar Hot Water panel in your home? You could not have actually considered the numbers, however it could reduce your carbon discharges by as much as 500kgs every year, and that would certainly just be a beginning.
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Whilst carbon exhausts were not the only reason that solar panels were developed, today, they are the major reason the photovoltaic panel remains in usage. Now all over the world, individuals are advised that with the planet’s harmful carbon emission degrees, points just can not continue by doing this.
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