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A sliding bobber allows a live bait to be fished at any desirable depth without effecting an anglers rod and reel casting capabilities. Bobber, float, or cork; whatever terminology an angler uses to describe them, odds are the first fishing pole you ever had in your hands had a float attached. Remember how as a kid the excitement built as a bobber began to move knowing a fish was after the bait. Even today odds are that same excitement begins to build as your float disappears below the surface. Using a cork is as old as fishing itself. Most often simply attaching the float in a fixed position works just fine, as when fishing for largemouth bass using a golden shiner or bream fishing using earthworms. But when using baitcasters or spinning reels and the bait needs to be fished more than six or seven feet deep, casting with a fix bobber becomes a problem. This is when a sliding bobber rig is essential.
The concept is simple. Slip a bobber on the fishing line so the bobber can freely slide up and down the line. Most of these types of sliding bobbers have pegs which are hollow specifically designed for that purpose or the bobber itself will have a hollow center just large enough to allow the fishing line through.
The bobber is stopped at the angler’s desired depth by a “bobber stopper”. Most often a bobber stopper is nothing more than a soft piece of string tied in a tiny knot just large enough to catch the bobber. This prevents the bobber from sliding any farther up the line. The weight of the sinker pulls the bait down to the desired depth thus allowing the bobber to keep the bait suspended there. When the fisherman reels in the line, the bobber slides down toward the hook. This makes casting much easier and is especially effective when using live bait. Different styles of Bobber Stoppers are sold commercially but they all basically work the same.
The simplest of sliding bobber rigs can be made from things found is most tackle boxes. Slip on the bobber stopper and bead, remove the plastic sleeve, then pull the string into a tight knot, and trim off the end of the string. Any bobber that has hollow pegs can be used, crimp on a couple of standard sinkers and tie on the hook. If you have no bobber stoppers and are desperate, try a strip of rubber skirting from an old spinner bait or a small rubber band. These must be tied tightly and just large enough to catch the bobber. This should get you by for the day.
When fishing for large fish such as striper, spotted sea trout, or redfish, a strong leader is generally needed. Below is an example of a solid sliding bobber rig. The leader should be at least 30 pound test and of course, the heaver the sinker, the larger the float required. A heavy sinker may be necessary in strong currents. The protective beads help shield the knots from wear and tear.
One more tip. Several style of bobbers are weighted to make them stand upright in the water. These are find and work well. However, unless the weight of the sinker itself is holding the bobber upright there is no way to be sure the bait is not resting on the bottom. | <urn:uuid:121d139a-dfb2-42e4-884a-01a363c08fc3> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.fishing-tips-bait-tackle.com/sliding_bobber.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571210.98/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810191850-20220810221850-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.937507 | 689 | 2 | 2 |
By Jefferey Jaxen
The headlines are eye-catching: a massive $8 billion legal loss for Johnson & Johnson. An astonishing figure, big enough to perhaps alert the public to the harmful effects of Risperdal.
Almost immediately after the court shellacking, Johnson & Johnson’s stock price dropped.
Financial analysts penned columns with their predictions and recommendations for investors. Some see the popular stock as a buying opportunity, but one must question the disaster-investing paradigm of putting money towards companies whose products and practices have harmed generations.
The antipsychotic medication Risperdal is manufactured by Janssen Pharmaceuticals, the drug development arm of Johnson & Johnson.
Before the recent trial verdict, Janssen already had a public black-eye for its recent $572 million legal loss in Oklahoma. Janssen was found to have caused the opioid epidemic in that state.
In 1993, Risperdal received approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for use by people with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. Since then, it’s been estimated to have made around $40 billion for Janssen.
Risperdal, and the antipsychotic medication class it belongs to, have been seen as a ‘chemical lobotomy’ since the 1950’s, due to the changes in brain chemistry they illicit and subsequent effects on users. Modern scientific literature has repeatedly found that, due in part to such severe adverse effects, antipsychotic drugs shorten the user’s lifespan by a decade or more.
Shortly after Risperdal’s approval in 1993, Massachusetts General Hospital chief of pediatric psychopharmacology, Joseph Biederman co-authored a controversial paper introducing the idea of antipsychotic drug use in children. Biedermnan’s paper titled “Is Your Child Bipolar?” claimed 16 percent of the children who came to the clinic met the criteria for [bipolar] mania.
From 1994 to 2003, Biederman’s work fueled a 40-fold increase in the diagnosis of pediatric bipolar disorder, and the subsequent rise in the practice subscribing antipsychotic medicines for children. Yet it was soon found that he and two of his child psychiatrist colleagues omitted conflicts of interest, having received $4.2M over seven years from antipsychotic drug makers – of which Johnson & Johnson was key.
Dr. Biederman pushed the company to finance a research center at Massachusetts General Hospital with a goal to “move forward the commercial goals of J.& J” court documents revealed.
Despite these revelations, America’s antipsychotic drug dispensing wheel hit runaway speed. By 2008 they became America’s best selling class of drugs, racking up $14.6 billion in sales.
Before the trend to target children with these medications bewitched the psychiatric profession, and even before Risperdal received FDA approval, Johnson & Johnson’s unethical efforts were active behind the scenes. The company understood that the dominant market for the drug would be the public sector – mental hospitals, outpatient clinics, nursing homes, jails, and prisons.They pounced.
In September 1992, a consulting firm gave Johnson & Johnson a blueprint it would later followed. The firm advised the drugmaker that between 60 and 80 percent of schizophrenia medications were paid for by state mental health and Medicaid programs, making it the prime target of promotional activity.
On the strength of this information Johnson & Johnson used unethical marketing, influenced decision-makers and politicians, and helped create guidelines to funnel institutionalized members of society to their drug – namely foster children.
There was just one problem, Risperdal wasn’t approved for children. But that didn’t stop Johnson & Johnson.
It was whistleblower Allen Jones who found Johnson & Johnson was providing kickbacks to state officials (among other wards of the state) to help push its higher-priced antipsychotic drugs to foster children, through taxpayer-funded Medicaid programs.
In Texas, the attorney general turned that information into a $158 million payment from Johnson & Johnson’s Janssen subsidiary.
Several other states followed the blueprint, and won, with their legal action against the drug maker. A class action suit is nearing its conclusion on behalf of five children ages 2-14 that claimed Missouri Department of Social Services officials had overused the drugs on foster children, and exposed them to “unreasonable risk of serious physical and psychological harm.”
Despite the known harms of the drug in adults and children, the FDA approved Risperdal in 2007 for the treatment of schizophrenia for ages 13-17, and for the short-term treatment of bipolar mania in children and adolescents ages 10-17.
The FDA’s approval did little to deflect attention away from Johnson & Johnson’s unethical targeting of children. In 2013 Johnson & Johnson agreed to pay more than $2.2 billion in criminal and civil fines to settle accusations that it improperly promoted the antipsychotic drug Risperdal to older adults, children and people with developmental disabilities.
Johnson & Johnson faces more than 13,000 lawsuits tied to Risperdal alleging that it caused a condition called gynecomastia in boys, in which breast tissue becomes enlarged. The drug side effect is just one of several harms with active litigation involving Risperdal.
There is no shortage of claims that psychiatry’s long, hard embrace of dangerous antipsychotics is gross scientific misconduct.
A 2015 report by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services found 92 percent of foster care and disadvantaged kids prescribed antipsychotics don’t have any of the limited “medically accepted pediatric conditions” supposedly justifying their use.
The health and research communities are increasingly sounding the alarm on antipsychotics. A 2018 research article titled Psychiatric Drugging of Children and Youth as a Form of Child Abuse: Not a Radical Proposition lays out compelling evidence that current consciousness needs to rapidly change and lawsuits need to be filed at all levels.
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There has been lot of commentary about the transition at the head of the Federal Reserve. During the past four months, Janet Yellen has appeared for confirmation hearing, testimony to the Congress, and a Q&A session following her first meeting as the Chairperson of the Fed.
Yellen, Bernanke and Greenspan on the Current Stock Market Valuation (Bubble or Not)
During her confirmation hearing, Yellen was asked about stock market being in bubble territory and her answer was that the market was fairly valued and was not a bubble. In a Q&A session following the meeting of American Economic Association in Philadelphia in January 2014, two weeks before his last FOMC meeting as the Chairman, Ben Bernanke was also asked about the stock market bubble and he said that the stock market valuation was within a historical norm. In early March, Greenspan appeared on CNBC and he was also asked about stock market being a bubble and he also said that the market was not over valued and was fairly valued.
Have any of the three most recent Chairpersons of the Federal Reserve looked at any of the data that assess market valuation in the historical context? Highly unlikely, because the best methods of market valuation clearly indicate that the stock market is grossly over-valued, historically, with valuation levels above 90 percentile. I will mention two of the best methods of market valuation, one of which, the Shiller Cyclically Adjusted P/E ratio (CAPE), was the basis of Greenspan's "irrational exuberance," comment in 1996 when CAPE reached the level above 25 that it has been during the past 4 months.
Greenspan and the Stock Market Bubbles
From the transcripts of a 1994 FOMC meeting we learn that back then Greenspan did believe in stock market bubbles and he commented that by raising the rates in 1994 the Fed might have burst the bubble in the stock market, towards the end of 1993, when the CAPE was just above 21, fueled by low Fed Funds rates. The stock market spent 1994 in a correction. After the "irrational exuberance" comment in late 1996, Greenspan stopped commenting on the market bubble and in 1999 even try to justify the valuation. He was correctly called the bubblemeister back then and he remains one today. After 1996, Greenspan learned that Wall Street doesn't look kindly at any Fed Chairperson who would confirm that there could probably be a bubble in the two most important asset markets, the stock market and the housing market. Since then asset bubbles have become a preferred mechanism of keep the economy growing and Federal Reserve has chosen to look the other way and allow the bubble to continue.
Congressional Testimonies of Fed Chairs and Questions About Bubbles
In March 2007, Bernanke was asked about the housing market being a bubble and not only he denied that there was any nationwide bubble he said that housing price rise would slowdown to 3-5% a year. Few short months later the historical housing bubble burst with a vengeance. I don't remember Congresspersons asking the Fed Chair a question about a bubble, in the stock market or the housing market, unless there was a real bubble. The same applies when there is lot of talk about a bubble on Bloomberg and CNBC. Both these indicators have confirmed that there must be a bubble in the stock market.
The "Buffet Indicator," i.e., the Stock Market to GDP Ratio
Another very good indicator of a bubble in the stock market is the stock market capitalization to the GDP ratio that some have labeled the "Buffet Indicator," because Buffet had mentioned that long-term there is a relationship between the GDP and its growth rate and the stock market and its growth rate. Below is the latest graph of this ratio. Both, this indicator and Shiller's CAPE, clearly indicate that the stock market over the past 3 months has been above 90th percentile and if we were to exclude the supper bubble period of 1998-2000, we are at 98th percentile.
To call this level of historical over-valuation, "historical norm," or "fairly valued," is a deliberate lie, intended to mislead the Congress and the public and constitutes fraud. They could have given a non-committal answer as to "we don't know," or even a more honest answer that Fed Chairs have a horrible record at identifying bubbles and that the Fed policy might have even contributed to them with artificially low rates.
Periodic Fraud by Wall Street and Economists, Including the Fed Chairs
As I had concluded earlier with the supporting evidence that Economists and Wall Street commit "periodic," or cyclical fraud, very predictably. At cyclical peaks they flat out lie about impending recessions. Their horrible record during 2007 speaks volumes. The same would prove to be the case in near future.
Lying about bubbles has become a required qualification for the job for the Federal Reserve Chairperson since 1997, after Greenspan uttered the famous phrase irrational exuberance. Had Greenspan continued to talk about the stock market bubble he would have lost his job by no reappointment after his 4-year term at that time. The Fed chairs, like most politicians, must serve their real masters -- Wall Street, large corporations and the super rich. The periodic fraud by Wall Street and the Fed has been largely responsible for the income and wealth inequality in America. Many other countries have followed the example set by the US. | <urn:uuid:d3116b47-e107-4afb-8a52-6ea96bbca0ac> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://safehaven.com/article/33092/continuity-at-the-federal-reserve-bernanke-exited-committing-fraud-and-yellen-entered-committing-fraud | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572043.2/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814143522-20220814173522-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.978852 | 1,109 | 1.664063 | 2 |
DENVER – Federal officials are sorting through at least 10 objections filed over a proposed land exchange for the Village at Wolf Creek, once again extending the long saga of the wishful project.
The U.S. Forest Service has 45 days to resolve the objections that were filed by the Jan. 5 deadline, though the agency could extend that period an additional 30 days.
The challenges run the gamut, including environmental concerns about wildlife and legal issues about regulatory mandates to manage lands in a sustainable manner.
Texas billionaire B.J. “Red” McCombs has been trying since 1986 to build the Village at Wolf Creek at the base of Wolf Creek Ski Area. His proposal is to swap private land in a large meadow below the ski area for the Forest Service land abutting U.S. Highway 160.
In November, forest officials decided in favor of the land swap after a final Environmental Impact Study. Developers would offer about 177 acres of land to the Rio Grande National Forest, in exchange for about 205 acres of federal land.
The developers are considering balancing a more resort, hotel-like environment with the remote feel of the area.
Leading the opposition is a coalition of conservation organizations, including Rocky Mountain Wild, San Juan Citizens Alliance and San Luis Valley Ecosystem Council, among other groups.
“Our objection makes clear that the Forest Service has added insult to injury by proposing to give away more land with valuable resources to a rich private interest,” said Matt Sandler, attorney for Rocky Mountain Wild.
The coalition’s 96-page filing highlights 22 points, calling on federal officials to invalidate the Environmental Impact Study.
“A 1,171-unit city of 10,000 people will upset the fragile balance the Forest Service has struck,” the objection states.
It goes on to suggest that the EIS did not reflect a “rigorous analysis,” which would violate the National Environmental Policy Act, which mandates that federal policy must promote the enhancement of the environment.
Similar challenges have been filed over the course of the nearly three-decade-old project. Allegations that a previous project leader improperly influenced the Forest Service led federal officials to scrap an old EIS for a completely new process, which led to the EIS issued in November.
The Forest Service points out that it delayed release of the EIS on several occasions because additional research was required.
“We feel confident that we did a very thorough analysis here,” said Mike Blakeman, spokesman for the Rio Grande National Forest Service.
Objections will be handled by the U.S. Forest Service Rocky Mountain Region office in Golden. Officials will first meet with objectors to try to reach resolutions.
The developer, Leavell-McCombs Joint Venture, believes the land-swap proposal is the best solution for all stakeholders. Without the exchange, developers would be subject to one access road that is closed in the winter. With the swap, they would have year-round access to the resort off of the highway.
Clint Jones, a spokesman for Leavell-McCombs Joint Venture, said objectors should respect the careful administrative process that unfolded.
“I’m sorry, but we did it right this time,” Jones said. “I don’t think anyone can stand there and say we didn’t go through four years of rigorous analysis.”
The project has dragged on so long that McCombs is now 87 years old. But Jones said developers remain committed to seeing its completion.
“We’re here to stay,” he said. “I think it’s going to be a very good project for the areas around there.”
Conservation groups remain just as determined. As for reasons to invalidate the study, they point to wildlife – such as migration routes for lynx – and maintaining the integrity of the scenic treasure that surrounds Wolf Creek.
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In developing countries, a major challenge of democracy which election management bodies, EMBs, have to confront is the conduct of secure and violence-free elections. The factors accounting for this include: One, the wider insecurity which may have implications for the electoral process and the tendency of the causal social forces to exploit political processes for pursuit of their in interests. Two, the dependency of EMBs on security agencies to provide adequate security during elections whereby such agencies may be overstretched, particularly in large country like Nigeria with 155,000 voting points and 9,000 collation centres; and three, low knowledge of electoral personnel about security issues like crowd management, dealing with suspicious persons, risk management, recognition of IEDs etc.
In this regard, Nigeria is by no way an exception. Hence, ahead of the country’s general elections, slated for February 14 and 28, security tension has become heightened, particularly, as the elections are coming amid grave, devastating and unprecedented security challenge, mainly constituted by Boko Haram terrorist organisation.
Incidentally, two closely-matched candidates – General Muhammadu Buhari of the opposition All Progressives Congress, APC, and President Goodluck Jonathan of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP – evince confidence in popularity and credentials for victory, with the former appearing to believe only fraudulent means can cost him electoral success. Consequently, and indeed worsening the situation, the build-up to the elections has already been characterised by provocative utterances by leading political actors and cases of violent attacks by supporters of both main parties.
The knowledge of this grim reality is obviously not lost on the Independent National Electoral Commission, Nigeria’s statutory body saddled with the responsibility conducting elections. Therefore, expectedly, Attahiru Jega, a Professor of Political Science, the Chairman of INEC, unveiled the mechanisms the Commission is putting in place for election security and violence free elections at the launch of Mitigation of Violence in Election (MOVE) Project by the International Foundation for Electoral Systems, IFES, at Transcorp Hilton Hotel, Abuja, on Friday, January 23.
The pivotal strategy of the Commission is the establishment of the Interagency Consultative Committee on Election Security (ICCES) and a Standing Committee of the Commission on Security, with overall task of improving the management election security. This, as presented by Professor Jega, has led to an integrated mechanism, currently being implemented to ensure secure and violence free elections in February elections.
The integrated mechanism has three basic components namely:
· Planning and Implementation, carried out through ICCES;
· Knowledge and Training, undertaken by INEC’s Electoral Institute; and
· Monitoring and Implementation, using the International IDEA’S Election Risk Management Tool.
In the course of the elections, these are coordinated through the INEC Situation Room at Headquarters in Abuja and Election Support Centres at State offices nationwide. These bodies are run by the Chairman, Commissioners and Directors to ensure rapid intervention when cases are reported. The Situation and Election Support Centres are to work in constant touch with the security agencies to aid effective and proactive measures in the event cases are reported.
The Planning and Implementation component of the INEC mechanism is the central work of the Interagency Consultative Committee on Election Security (ICCES) set up in 2011to serve as the collective framework for security agencies and INEC to secure the electoral process. ICCES comprises INEC, the Police Force, Armed Forces, State Security Service, Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), National Drug Law and Enforcement Agency, National Youth Service Corps, National Intelligence Agency, Nigeria Prisons, Nigeria Customs Service and Nigeria Immigration Service. Core of its functions includes coordination and design of election security plans and assessment of security threats across the country.
The INEC Electoral Institute (TEI), in collaboration with CLEEN Foundation and other development partners and agencies, is saddled with the responsibility of providing knowledge and training programmes on diverse aspects of election administration, security and risk management. Also, through TEI, INEC will develop and implement a Basic Security in Election Duty (BaSED) training programme for INEC field officers to equip them with an understanding of key security procedures and practical strategies to ensure their safety in the field.
The third component, Monitoring and Reporting, is being driven by the implementation of Election Risk Management (ERM) tool, devised to help build INEC’s capacity to understand, analyse, prevent and mitigate outbreaks of election-related violence. Following its pilot implementation in Osun governorship election, the tool has been used to track and map some of the factors and indicators of election risk. For instance, with the ERM tool, there have been three emerging results concerning risk that can emerge from complaints related to PVCs distribution exercise and party primaries. Hopefully, the Commission will take pre-emptive measures in these regards.
The INEC mechanism analysed above, with which the Commission pursues the task of secure and violence free elections reflects a great deal of knowledge and expertise deployed in the election management and security. Although, pilot implementations of these components have been made and INEC has consistently shown its preparedness for credible and peaceful polls, it is important to stress the Nigerian existential realities place the task of conducting free, fair and violence-free elections in the hands of all stakeholders, including the political parties and their candidates, electorate and the security agencies.
Echoing Professor Attahiru Jega, INEC Chairman, there can be no perfect preparations and outcomes, unless the dramatis personae in the electoral process are committed to supporting the Commission to achieve the goal. For a fact, Nigeria is characterised by multiplicity of cleavages, mobilisation of which is the dominant pattern of political conduct. But as Jega said: “Certainly there are certain national issues that should be above politics and on which the political elite must pursue consensus. The conduct of secure and violence-free elections must be high among these national issues.” Nigerians across the bridges – of religion, ethnicity, class and political parties – must therefore rise in consensus to reject electoral violence.
INEC should also explore the option of extensive anti-electoral violence campaign to the grassroots, where the most potential recruits for political violence live. It should involve relevant Non-Governmental Organisations and citizens of goodwill in various communities to drive this campaign, while also embarking on public orienation amd sensitization programmes across the country. These programmes should target youth, students, artisans other members of the public.
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According to the American Council on Exercise (ACE), a stability ball is considered an effective tool for strengthening your abdominals and other core muscles. Using an exercise ball as opposed to weight bench or on a flat stable surface is that the body responds to the instability of the ball to remain balanced, forcing various muscles to be engaged.
The “core” muscles in your body stabilize and support all your movements. The “core” is not one specific muscle, but a word used to describe a group of muscles in your trunk and pelvis.
These muscles work together to protect your spine and help with everyday activities. Bending, throwing, lifting, reaching, and running all use stabilizer muscles. Keeping them well-conditioned is very important to overall health. Without conditioned stabilizer muscles, simple movements like pulling, walking, and running go unsupported and leave you at risk for injuries.
Training on a stability ball is one way to work this group of hard-to-reach muscles. Even just by sitting on the ball, you’re able to activate the stabilizer muscles and improve your posture.
Those muscles become stronger over time to keep you balanced on and off the ball.
CORE + MORE: A Strength training tool for the rest of your body
While it’s true that many people associate stability balls with core work, there are many exercises you can do that will also engage your legs, and upper body to increase strength.
Wall sits strengthen your glutes, hamstrings, and quads while building stability through your hips and core. Squats with overhead press build leg strength and work the muscles in your posterior chain. Plank jack-knife will challenge your shoulders, triceps and chest muscles while engaging your core muscles as well.
Our Smart Stability Balls feature 13 exercises that are printed on the ball for easy reference, making it easy to create a challenging workout on your own.
Be on the lookout for our next #WORKOUTWEDNESDAY as we “roll out” great workout video using four of these moves.
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This article summarises an interview with co-convenors of one of six 2021 UKFIET conference themes: Resilience, Protection and Wellbeing. The co-convenors are Khadijah Fancy, Senior Education Advisor with Cambridge Education; and Divya Nambiar, Senior Consultant at Oxford Policy Management.
Building resilience into systems is at the core of the ‘Building Back Better’ theme of the UKFIET 2021 conference. This theme ‘Resilience, Protection and Wellbeing’ further draws attention to the multiple, hidden crises that COVID-19 has unleashed on marginalised children and their families – and how education’s core role in building children’s, teachers’, and carers’ wellbeing, protection, and resilience has come centre-stage as a result.
What can governments and education systems do to protect vulnerable children before, during and after crises and from abuse and exploitation? How can education systems not only enable children to learn, but also provide a haven for children to develop resilience and wellbeing? How can education systems support children to recover from crises, shocks, and traumas so that they can learn and thrive? Crucially, supporting children’s protection, wellbeing and resilience is an important pathway towards learning and an important part of a quality education.
Insights from the papers and symposia presented under this theme will help answer these crucial questions – which are central to understanding how education systems can be strengthened to make them more resilient and effective.
What is distinctive about this theme?
The closure of schools began a global learning crisis. This soon spiralled into a deeper crisis which dramatically altered the life trajectories of children and their families. When schools were closed, the poorest and most vulnerable children entered into various forms of child labour in larger numbers; more girls got pregnant or married; and more children experienced increased violence, trauma, and mental health issues. Rates of suicide amongst children and young people increased wherever these were tracked.
At the same time, there have also been inspiring instances of how communities and individuals demonstrated resilience and protected children in community-driven ways – through various local and innovative mechanisms to support children, teachers and caregivers to overcome this crisis.
There is little evidence yet of how deeply or even how many children and families have been affected, what the long term affects will be, and what coping strategies may have emerged. If we are to reverse the impact of multi-layered, often hidden crises brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic, we need to consider the role of education systems in supporting the resilience, wellbeing and protection of children, teachers and carers and how they can build on community-led solutions.
The premise our theme ‘Resilience, Protection and Well-being’ is therefore that the definition of a quality education must include attention to the wellbeing, protection and resilience of children through, for example, mental health and psychosocial support, social and emotional learning, building self-efficacy, reducing violence, and improving child protection, and that investment in these is critical for the resilience of systems and students alike.
What kind of sessions/ papers can we expect to find under this theme?
Every paper selected for this theme touches on the above ideas – presenting new evidence and insights for academics and practitioners, across countries. Papers fall under four key themes – early childhood education, girls’ education, education systems (including systems reform and system resilience) and conflict. Papers in these areas present solutions that have been found effective on a range of issues and in different country contexts; they also demonstrate the use of various adapted and innovative research tools to answer crucial questions. The theme hinges around three fascinating symposia from INEE, Save the Children and Plan International that deep dive into the issues and anchor each of the key themes.
We are excited about learning from the diverse range of experience that our panellists bring to this topic. We look forward to a day of rich, stimulating discussions that will help us understand the vulnerabilities within existing education systems and identify ways in which the system itself, as well as key people in it, can be strengthened and made more resilient in the future. | <urn:uuid:d9e728cd-89d6-4c6a-95b8-3c27f9660f5f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.ukfiet.org/2021/resilience-protection-and-wellbeing-what-to-expect-from-the-2021-ukfiet-conference/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571210.98/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810191850-20220810221850-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.951627 | 858 | 2.84375 | 3 |
If we can learn anything from the troubled launch of Spore, a videogame many people have been looking forward to for years, it is that binding products with digital rights management (DRM) restrictions hurts more than it helps. Spore, designed by Sims creator Will Wright, went on sale a week ago. It is expected to sell 2 million copies in September alone, and is currently the No. 3 best-selling game on Amazon.
But it also has one of the worst ratings on Amazon (2,016 out of the 2,216 ratings are one star) because of a concerted campaign by fans protesting its DRM. It has also been downloaded an estimated 500,000 times on BitTorrent, and is well on its way to becoming the most illegally downloaded game ever.
The DRM that comes with the official game only allows customers to use it on three machines (after that you have to call EA for permission to activate the game on additional machines). This is nothing more than an inconvenience. Gamers, in general, are more likely to have more than one computer, and to cycle through computers faster than other PC owners because they always want the latest, greatest, and fastest machines. Many will hit that three-machine limit quickly.
Maybe EA should join the rest of the entertainment industry in coming up with a consistent DRM policy. Unlike iTunes, which imposes a five-machine limit on most purchased songs and movies, there is no way to associate new machines or disassociate old ones from your account online. You have to call. That does not scale.
So now EA has a consumer backlash on its hands, and not because consumers don’t like the game, but because they don’t like EA telling them what they can do with the game after they’ve paid for it. What is worse, the DRM is obviously not stopping pirated versions from getting out there. And since the pirated version is DRM-free, many gamers consider it a better product than the DRMed one that Electronic Arts is trying to sell.
The silliest part of this whole affair is that EA has a much more effective weapon against piracy than the DRM: the game itself. Many of Spore’s most interesting features, such as the ability to upload characters you create and explore worlds created by other players, have an online component. These are integral to the gameplay. All EA needs to do is to turn these features off to anyone who cannot prove that they’ve actually purchased the game. Then no self-respecting gamer will want that pirated copy.
There is a lesson here for all media companies. Whether they are producing videogames, movies, or music, adding DRM won’t stop piracy. The best way to stop piracy is to hobble the pirated version, not the official one.
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LWV History to be Spotlighted at Book Festival
The history book of the League Women Voters Orange County and three LWVOC members – Joan Erwin, Barbara Liston, and Ann Patton -- will be spotlighted at a book festival March 12 in Winter Park.
The festival is set for 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, March 12, at First Congregational Church, 225 S. Interlachen Ave., Winter Park.
Joan Erwin, co-chair (with Joy Wallace Dickinson) of the LWVOC’s History Committee, will kick off a panel discussion at 9 a.m., speaking about Warriors for Democracy: The Story of The League of Women Voters of Orange County, Florida. Joan chaired the committee that published the LWVOC history book.
Joining Joan on the authors panel will be Ann Patton, author of the LWVOC history book, who will also discuss another of her books, UNMASKED! The Rise & Fall of the 1920s Ku Klux Klan. This true-crime book is a political/social history of a time when hate ruled Main Street America, with lessons for today.
Barbara Liston, a former journalist and Winter Park Realtor, will moderate the panel, which also includes Dr. Jack C. Lane, a prominent local historian and professor of history at Rollins College for more than 50 years. Among Lane’s published work is a centennial history of the college.
Book signings and sales will follow the panel.
The book festival will include stories and activities for children, a rare and signed book raffle, an extensive used book sale of all genres, and more panel discussions throughout the day. There is no admission charge. Proceeds benefit the church and other charities.
For more information, contact Sally McArthur, firstname.lastname@example.org, or Ann Patton,email@example.com.
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Do you use a walking cane or other mobility aid aimed at making walking both easier and safer? Wishing there was an option that provided extra comfort for those longer distances or days out? If so, a walking stick with a folding seat may be the ideal solution.
At Able Medilink, we stock a wide range of quality mobility aids from walking sticks with seats to rollators, mobility scooters and more. With years of experience providing genuine care and a passion for enhancing the independence and confidence of our clients, we’re the team you can trust to find you the ideal mobility aid.
Who Should Use A Walking Stick?
So who can benefit from using a walking stick? Any individuals lacking in confidence due to balance issues, illness, injury or disability may find a walking stick helpful. Lightweight, easily portable and effective, walking sticks reduce the risks of falls and can greatly enhance an individual’s independence and confidence in navigating their surroundings.
The use of a walking stick over time can also aid in better posture and the strengthening of back and core muscles. This can in turn lead to enhanced better movement and less discomfort.
Types Of Walking Stick
Depending on your personal style and mobility needs, there are numerous types of walking sticks to choose from including but not limited to:
- Wooden walking sticks
- Aluminium walking sticks
- Folding walking sticks
- Swan neck walking sticks
- Tripod walking sticks
- Quad walking sticks
- Walking sticks with built-in seats
- Ergonomic walking sticks and more
It is important when selecting your walking stick that you ensure it is the right height and style for your needs. Failure to do so can cause pain or injury to the user.
What To Look For In A Walking Stick
Before you settle on your new walking stick, we recommend reviewing a few important factors to ensure maximum comfort and mobility.
Upright posture and stability are paramount when using a walking stick, something that is largely reliant on selecting the right height of the walking stick. When a walking stick is too short, it causes the user to lean forward, causing balance concerns and hunching of the shoulders.
When a walking stick is too tall, it may not provide the right amount of forward support and may even cause you to overextend your spine backwards.
With many modern walking sticks offering adjustable height options, this concern is often easily remedied.
A heavy walking stick is to be avoided at all costs. A walking stick that is too heavy can throw the user’s balance completely out while also causing unnecessary discomfort and strain. A lightweight stick enhances mobility and makes it easy to manoeuvre the stick as you walk.
The use of a walking stick is not only limited to the elderly and thankfully there is now a huge range of colours, materials and patterns to choose from. No matter your age or personal style, there is sure to be a walking stick that you can be proud to use.
With walking sticks, the style most often refers to the handle type and foot/feet of the walking stick. For those with significant balance concerns or preferring optimal support, a tripod or quad walking stick may be the better style choice.
A swan neck walking stick may also be beneficial for anyone seeking to have more stability – the shape of the handle facilitates this by offsetting the user’s weight and placing it directly over the foot of the stick.
And of course, if you desire the ability to rest as you go, a walking stick with a folding seat may be the preferred style for you.
Why Opt For A Walking Stick With A Seat?
A walking stick with a folding seat is the ideal option for many reasons. Walking sticks with seats allow users to go further distances without the worry about where they can rest along the way.
With a walking stick with a seat, you can join friends and family on outings and rest as needed. Rest while shopping, queuing at the bank or even at your local park while you enjoy the sunshine.
Thanks to their tripod design, walking sticks with seats are also very stable both when seated and when walking, able to navigate uneven terrain and all weights with ease.
Even if you have an existing everyday walking stick that you prefer, a walking stick with a seat can be a wonderful addition that allows you to experience more in comfort.
Able Medilink – We’re Here For You
At Able Medilink we make it easy to find a quality walking stick with a seat for sale as well as a host of other mobility aids. Our experienced and friendly team is dedicated to supporting customers to find the product for their needs at an affordable price.
We work to ensure your selection enhances not only your mobility but protects you from injury and discomfort. To make it easy for you to see our range and obtain the advice you need, we provide in-store consults, phone consults and skype consults. If for any reason we do not stock what you need, we will do our best to source it for you.
Prefer to shop online and know exactly what you need? Our online range is one of the best in Australia and our Australia-wide shipping means that no matter where you are, you can benefit from our exceptional selection of products.
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AuMed : Improving Patient Outcome with 3D Technologies
Au stands for Aurum – meaning gold in Latin, and at the heart of our mission is to complement the gold standards of healthcare to bring out the best of advanced technologies to enable the transfer of risks from patients to our products.
At AuMed, we provide:
- medical simulators for surgical procedures
- task training models
- educational models
- customized models
- demonstration models for medical devices
Our medical models come with unprecedented cutting-edge realism for pre-surgical planning, enhance medical device demonstrations, or carrying out realistic hands-on educational training.
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This course is designed to assist managers in finding and applying solutions to ensure compliance with the Work at Height regulations.
Falls from height are one of the biggest causes of workplace fatalities and major injuries. Common causes are falls from ladders and through fragile roofs. The purpose of WAHR is to prevent death and injury from a fall from height.
Course Content & Aims
• The Regulations
• Who do the Regulations apply to
• How do you comply with these Regulations
• What measures should you take to help protect people
• What are the most common causes of accidents when working at height
• What do you need to consider when planning work at height
• How do you select the right equipment to use for a job
• How do you make sure the equipment itself is in good condition
• What must employees do
• What must architects and building designers do
Assessment & Qualification
Continual assessment of knowledge and understanding through the courses. Delegates who complete the training will receive a certificate of attendance. | <urn:uuid:65ab9fc7-1447-4467-87ab-cb54617aa9a3> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://bctg.uk.com/manage-work-height/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572043.2/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814143522-20220814173522-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.945372 | 211 | 2.859375 | 3 |
Cornish History Heritage & Environment Key Stage 2 is a series of videos' with accompanying information sheets aimed at young people at KS2 and those older wanting to learn more about Cornwall.
We aim to cover many aspects about Cornwall and this series will be growing as well as creating links to other material on our YouTube Channel or from other appropriate sites. Other videos and downloads on a variety of Cornish topics to follow.
Newquay - A number of videos have been produced specifically about Newquay supporting projects and events with other organisations including Newquay Library, Newquay Lifeboat Station, Newquay St Piran's Group, and Lowender Peran Celtic Festival. Newquay Heritage Open Day's.
Links can be found by clicking - Discover Cornwall
KS2 Project - For use by schools and home educators we are adding new videos relating to Newquay with downloadable information sheets, questions and additional information for young people at Key Stage 2 any others wanting to learn about Newquay.
Clicking the image to access the Newquay page will then require a password If you would like to discuss using this material please contact us at firstname.lastname@example.org
Learn how to say Cornish place names in Kernewek, the Cornish language by clicking the poster images.
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Easily define repeat-maps
Emacs 28 comes built-in with repeat.el (which see), which allows users to define their own maps to repeat common commands easily. This package attempts to make the definition of those maps a one-sexp affair, through the macro `define-repeat-map'. See its docstring for details.
Most of the time, defining a repeat-map and adding commands to keys is a multi-step affair, involving something like the following:
(defvar other-window-repeat-map (make-sparse-keymap) "A map for repeating `other-window' keys.") (define-key other-window-repeat-map "o" #'other-window) (put 'other-window 'repeat-map 'other-window-repeat-map))
With more keys, it gets more complex; there has to be a better way!
With this macro, you can easily define these maps, and bind keys to them, using
only one form. The code above looks like this with
(define-repeat-map other-window ("o" other-window))
Which isn't so much more convenient, but the convenience compounds with more
complex maps. For example, here's a snippet from my
(defalias 'forward-word-with-case 'forward-word "Alias for `forward-word' for use in `case-repeat-map'.") (defalias 'backward-word-with-case 'backward-word "Alias for `backward-word for use in `case-repeat-map'.") (defvar case-repeat-map (let ((map (make-sparse-keymap))) (define-key map "c" #'capitalize-word) (define-key map "u" #'upcase-word) (define-key map "l" #'downcase-word) ;; movement (define-key map "f" #'forward-word-with-case) (define-key map "b" #'backward-word-with-case) map) "A map to repeat word-casing commands. For use with `repeat-mode'.") (dolist (command '(capitalize-word capitalize-dwim upcase-word upcase-dwim downcase-word downcase-dwim forward-word-with-case backward-word-with-case)) (put command 'repeat-map 'case-repeat-map))
And here it is using this macro:
(define-repeat-map case ("c" capitalize-word "u" upcase-word "l" downcase-word) (:continue "f" forward-word "b" backward-word) (:enter downcase-dwim upcase-dwim capitalize-dwim))
Much easier, in this author's humble opinion.
This package is not currently on MELPA or anywhere, so either
git clone this
repo and add it to your
require it, or use some other
(straight-use-package '(define-repeat-map :host nil :repo "https://tildegit.org/acdw/define-repeat-map.el"))
I've found one other package that tries to simplify repeat-map definition, but
it's not quite as flexible as this. In fact, that's why I wrote
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Prostate Cancer Cases Risk Late Detection Because of Misguided Focus on Urinary Problems
August 12, 2022 02:00pm
By Ashley Gallagher, Assistant Editor
Menopause, commonly known as the change, is a natural and inevitable transition for every woman. Menopause affects every woman differently and may present various challenges that can affect one’s quality of life, sleep patterns, and daily routines. Since the onset of menopause affects every woman differently, most health care professionals recommend individualizing the management of the bothersome symptoms often associated with menopause.
The average age of onset for menopause is between 50 and 52 years; however, many women may begin to experience menopause symptoms between 44 and 55 years of age. Physiologic menopause is defined as the absence of menses for 1 year. Typically, the onset of menopause symptoms, which is also referred to as perimenopause, occurs in most women between 45 and 47 years of age.
Signs and Symptoms
Menopause symptoms vary from woman to woman. During perimenopause and menopause, common signs and symptoms include:
Causes/Common Triggers of Hot Flashes
Common triggers of hot flashes during menopause can include ingesting caffeine alcohol, spicy foods or foods that contain nitrates or nitrites; smoking; and wearing tight clothing.
Testing and Diagnosis
While the signs and symptoms of menopause can alert your doctor that you have started the transition toward menopause, your doctor may check your hormone levels via blood and urine tests and ask you about the incidence and severity of your symptoms and any changes in your menstrual cycle. In some cases, your doctor may conduct a physical examination as well.
You can manage the signs and symptoms associated with menopause by maintaining routine medical visits and incorporating various lifestyle modifications such as:
Treatment and Care
Treatment for menopause is typically based on the severity of your symptoms, your overall health, and your preferences. Treatment may involve lifestyle modifications including dietary changes, hormone therapy, or alternatives to hormone therapy. Your doctor will determine the best possible therapy to manage your symptoms to suit your individual needs.
Homeopathic and Alternative Remedies
Some women may elect to use homeopathic and alternatives therapies such as:
To ascertain the appropriateness of these alternative remedies or supplements, it is important to discuss them with your doctor before use.
Various OTC products are marketed to manage and treat the common symptoms associated with menopause, and multivitamin/mineral nutritional supplements are formulated to meet the nutritional needs of women during menopause. To prevent drug interactions or contraindications, patients should inform their pharmacist of all the medications they are taking. Pharmacists can guide patients in the proper selection of these products.
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Continuing Hospital-to-Home Palliative Care: A Southern Thai Context
Keywords:palliative care, continuing hospital-to-home palliative care, southern Thai context
Objective: To describe 1) continuing hospital-to-home palliative care services in southern Thailand; and 2) supportive factors for, and obstacles to, provision of continuing hospital-to-home palliative care in southern Thailand.
Design: Qualitative multiple-case study.
Methodology: The research sites were purposively selected, based on these criteria, namely, 1) being tertiary care centres or regional hospitals; 2) providing continuing hospital-to-home palliative care services; and 3) serving as healthcare centres with links to secondary care hospitals, primary care units or sub-district health-promoting hospitals. In total, four regional or tertiary hospitals were selected. The participants were (1) terminal patients and their family caregivers and (2) stakeholders involved in palliative care services, totalling 92. Interviews, focus-group discussions, and observation were data collection methods. The data were analysed using content analysis.
Results: Three models of continuing hospital-to-home palliative care were identifed in the southern Thai context: (1) hospital-based palliative care; (2) integrated community-based palliative care; and (3) volunteer-supported palliative care. Voluntary assistance, support from organisations’ administrators, and collaborative community networking were identifed as major supporting factors. Limited access to the use of analgesics, compartmentalisation without coordination, lack of knowledge and skills , insuffciency and workload of palliative care personnel and shortage of medical equipment were identifed as major obstacles.
Recommendations: To provide patients and their families with continuing services and improve their quality of life, it is necessary that healthcare organisation administrators actively integrate palliative care as one major healthcare service provided by each hospital, support healthcare personnel at all levels and in all felds of specialisation to optimise their palliative care expertise, promote coordination through effcient communication to ensure uninterrupted flow of information, and systematically improve medication and medical equipment management at all levels of service. Also, further research on effects of different palliative care models is recommended.
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3. Frequently check the height of the liquid oil level in the oil tank of the hydraulic Baler. Its height should be kept on the oil mark scale line. When the oil suction pipe and the same oil pipe mouth are on the low side, they should also be kept below the liquid level and must be used at the same time. Separate by partitions. | <urn:uuid:7e048e0d-ebc7-454b-aaf8-6f49cd9077cb> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://nkbaler.com/India-hydraulic-baler-maintenance.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572043.2/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814143522-20220814173522-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.942208 | 151 | 1.75 | 2 |
The prevalence of Web Marketing is currently felt most particularly in the overall web. Numerous individuals just as organizations consider it to be as a promoting apparatus. It is normal used to direct people to a current site. Simply by taking a gander at the words site improvement, one may additionally infer that it is an instrument to augment showcasing through normal means. This definition some way or another bodes well. Web Marketing is an instrument since it is used in various manners by Internet programs.
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Photo courtesy of Steve's Auto Repair and Tire
Car costs can add up.
Maintaining your vehicle through regular oil changes is one way you can prevent engine damage — and essentially — cut down on future spending.
Some cars burn oil overtime. If a vehicle doesn’t run on the correct amount of oil, the oil won’t be able to lubricate engine components. Items actuated by oil pressure also won’t work as efficiently.
We suggest having it replaced every 3,000 to 5,000 miles.
Different oil change options are available.
Steve’s Auto Repair & Tire used to carry multiple oil types, such as regular oil and semi-synthetic oil.
Last year, we switched to full synthetic oil, which has lowered the cost of synthetic oil for oil changes.
Synthetic oil helps extend the lifespan of engines that normally operate on regular or semi-synthetic oil.
We also offer Mobil 1, an oil option that is used in various cars, including BMWs and Mercedes.
In addition to changing the oil and oil filter, we also perform a tire rotation and conduct a courtesy check during an oil change. When doing a courtesy inspection, we look over parts of the car, such as the lights and brakes.
Our technicians can write notes about the car in a digital inspection.
The inspection report, which also provides information about the car and recommendations, can be accessed by our customers via email or text.
This article was written by Steve’s Auto Repair & Tire, a locally owned and operated business that has been in service for 36 years. It’s a big supporter of our local community.
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Overall health programs are enduring fast growth in the diagnosis and treatment of patients with Slumber Disordered Respiration. The field of slumber medication is expanding at an once-a-year rate of twenty-30%. Throughout this time of growth hospitals, doctors, and unbiased organizations are getting advantage of this prospect by opening Sleep Labs. Payers will require to put controls in area in purchase to better handle this high-priced craze.
Payers and employers now understand the good impact of applying standardized protocols for the analysis and remedy of slumber issues. The most efficient strategy will lessen the quantity of claims even though ensuring patients compliance with remedy. Rest disordered respiratory negatively impacts office protection and productivity, whilst treatment decreases health care expenditures by addressing the concerns related to snooze issues.
Payers finishing a thorough evaluation of sleep relevant medical promises and protocols to help identify climbing cost traits that can be eradicated with the implementation of a proactive sleep management software, will see numerous rewards. Comprehending the risk of sleep disorder respiration in their patient populace, utilizing markers and early detection requirements, is advised. With this strategy, intervention may be indicated ahead of beneficiaries turn into a load on the payer and wellness prepare. Furthermore, scientific studies display that individuals who experience from sleep disordered respiratory also have the following problems:
• 80% have drug resistant hypertension
• sixty% Produce Sort II Diabetic issues
• 35% have hypertension
• fifty% have atrial fibrillation
• 50% will have congestive heart failure
• 30% have coronary artery condition
OSA sufferers are also more likely to have strokes than sufferers with equivalent age or threat variables without the problem.
With baby sleeping on side that is accountable, payers will lessen the increasing value and quantity of claims from diagnosis and remedy. The payers will reduce future costs incurred from concerns linked with not catching the disorder in the earlier phases, when intervention may possibly still be proper.
These applications can boost the overall high quality of sleep service by using early detection, examining requests for rest reports, and deciding regardless of whether these research can be carried out in the home, or directed to a lowered price in-community lab facility. Pre-authorization for screening should be accredited by way of this system. Also, clients who need therapy be presented a complete adhere to-up plan to make certain compliance. The intention will be to ensure the affected person receives optimum gain of the therapy.
In the recent fee schedule program, the suppliers have no incentive to downsize prescribing when they are paid out on volume. Testing and gear companies need to share in the danger whilst also supplying these providers. Example: utilization for slumber studies in 2011 was X. A screening and products firm could take care of all promises for sleep reports in 2012 for twenty-30% significantly less than X using this technique. Meanwhile, fees are growing for slumber medicine in the existing payment timetable. The testing and equipment firm would need to have incentive to confirm this design. The possibility to support a huge amount of clients and minimizing the general shelling out would assist all parties. Incentivize firms to maintain an eye on squander. That would also let payers to decrease the manpower it will take to handle these promises, and the administrative cost incurred. This financial savings can be passed on to the patients via decrease charges.
In the recent charge plan method, the companies have no incentive to downsize prescribing when they are compensated on volume. Screening and gear companies should share in the threat although also supplying these services. | <urn:uuid:25f000ed-9c99-4421-9911-c2a7c9c04733> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.nahomatsuno.com/who-else-shields-the-particular-payer-to-get-sufferers-with-slumber-problem-breathing/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571911.5/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813081639-20220813111639-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.930934 | 722 | 1.9375 | 2 |
It’s always frustrating to go in for a routine dental check-up, only to be told you have a cavity. Cavities are small, sneaky, and potentially destructive – if left untreated for too long, they can grow to threaten the health of your entire tooth. The idea of having dark, metal-based fillings put in, though, can be a tough one to swallow, especially if you’ve worked hard to create a professional image focused around a flawless smile. Dark fillings are distracting and obvious, alerting everyone you come in contact with that you’ve had dental work done, which could lead to a variety of potentially embarrassing situations. Here in West Monroe, LA, we understand your hesitation – you deserve to be able to keep your teeth perfectly healthy and happy without having to sacrifice the cosmetic beauty of your smile. Thankfully, Dr. King Scott is committed to providing you with effective and personalized service that puts your needs first. That’s why he’s happy to offer tooth-colored fillings as a restorative option at his West Monroe practice.
So what exactly are tooth-colored fillings, if they’re not made of metal?
Simple – they’re made of composite resin, a silicon-dioxide mixture that can be blended and mixed in order to match the exact shade of your natural teeth. Composite resin fillings have several advantages over traditional metal fillings: for instance, only you and Dr. Scott will have any idea that they’re there at all, resulting in a perfectly healthy smile with zero of the embarrassment.
In addition, tooth-colored fillings last just as long, if not longer, than traditional fillings, and actually work much better with your natural teeth, deterring further breakage as well as allowing us to keep more of the natural structure intact. Our team strongly believes in conservative dentistry – we want to help you hold on to as much of your original teeth as you can. With tooth-colored fillings, we can accomplish that goal much more easily than ever before.
If you have a cavity that needs treatment, don’t hesitate – Dr. Scott and his excellent team want to keep you safe and smiling with the help of composite resin, tooth-colored fillings. Call our West Monroe, LA practice today to schedule an appointment. We also serve patients from Ruston, Rayville, Farmersville, Columbia, Winnsboro, Delhi, South Arkansas, and all of greater North Louisiana. | <urn:uuid:1b9b437e-0c5c-49f0-86d5-26cdfa64c80a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.drkingscott.com/blog/tag/west-monroe-dentist/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572043.2/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814143522-20220814173522-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.957512 | 512 | 1.648438 | 2 |
Every day, in every part of the world, a miracle rises in the east. This mundane miracle still has the power to inspire feelings of reverential awe, whether witnessed in Croydon or in the Kalahari, by truck drivers or by coyotes.
The power of this miracle isn’t diminished by its reliable regularity; the subtleties of light and reflection, and seasonal astrological variation, project a new show every day. This show costs nothing, only a brief moment of our time. This show starts every day: dawn.
Awe is readily provided by such mundane miracles of nature, but the abundant miracles of nature are rarely sought out. We spend more time snoring than sitting up and watching the sun rise over the river. We are more likely to squabble over the cereal or elbow each other for sparse train seats, than we are to shut our eyes and allow the morning sun to burn the inside of our eyelids crimson.
Such awe is good for you. According to a 2012 Stanford University study, an experience of awe makes us less impatient, more altruistic and less materialistic. By expanding our perception of time, and confronting us with infinity, awe brings us sharply into the present moment and that mindfulness makes life more satisfying.
The miracle of the dawn has been thrown into the shade by the invention of the electrical light. We have no need to revere the sun like our ancestors did. But, as practical as the electrical light is for those works of drudgery that define human life, it does not inspire awe like the dawn.
That is why, last night, I set my alarm for 4:46. That is why, when that alarm awoke me, I stumbled out into the glimmering half-waked world.
I walked for ten quiet minutes and found my awe.
On the banks of the Thames, I filled my lungs with this morning’s new air, cleaned and refreshed by the cool nighttime. I watched the river flow past on its journey from the beginning of time to the end of infinity, while a star ninety-three million miles away danced its dawn over the water’s peaks.
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Automation has become a necessity at an enterprise level in order to provide faster IT services.
It has become an important aspect to provision platforms for building network and infrastructure without the need of human intervention. Ideally, you don’t want humans to login to every single server and manually run a bunch of commands and perform manual tasks and configurations one at a time. That is why Ansible AWX is here for the rescue!
Ansible is a powerful tool for automating the configuration of computers and orchestrating the entire application across the network, no matter where it is deployed. These Ansible playbooks can be scheduled, copied, duplicated and provided with secure permissions of who can run each playbook. The playbooks are written in yaml format. Apart from this there is no need of any agent to be installed in their mote system in order to handle them. This amazing tool only needs either SSHand python with Linux servers or just PowerShell script and WinRM with windows servers.
What is Ansible AWX?
Ansible AWX is a web-based UI which helps in server orchestration for scalability, reliability and consistency with your IT environment. Ansible AWX helps in automating tasks, thus reducing human intervention. The task automations are handled by running Ansible playbooks. Below, the AWX is built with a micro services architecture using docker as the container runtime.
Ansible AWX provides RBAC access which helps in providing users pre-assigned privileges which give them control to handle the playbooks and templates.
The inventory file is technically a collection of hosts on which the Ansible playbooks are launched and scheduled depending upon the task. The inventory file can be grouped accordingly as per the type of hosts i.e.; production, non-production, type of application servers, container hosts, etc. The inventory can be set up by manually entering hostnames or from one of the Ansible AWX supported cloud providers such as VMware, AWS, etc.
AWX provides different ways of storing credentials which are in encrypted formats such as SSH authentication for VMs, different cloud environments such as Google Cloud Engine, Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web services, Source Control (Gitlab, GitHub, Subversion), etc. which helps in authenticating jobs execution for servers which are stored in inventory and projects. | <urn:uuid:d8d21cd0-dc41-40e8-aba0-d3228d6e1350> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.activenetwork.com/blog/automating-it-infrastructure-with-ansible-awx | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572043.2/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814143522-20220814173522-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.928795 | 476 | 1.875 | 2 |
Let’s begin by taking a look at which assignments our faculty members are implementing in their own classes. The assignments represent a variety of instructional techniques, technologies, and end products.
Innes Mitchell, Communication
Group Project, 3-4
Technology: Adobe Premiere
The short film assignment asks students to conduct 4 interviews from their peers in order to create a 4-5 minute video on the topic of feminism. He also requires that students must hand in a script and include voice-over narration. The goal of this assignment is for students to tackle a broad topic, argue their perspective, and reach a decided conclusion about the topic. Essentially students are being asked to find their voice as producers of meaning for a peer audience.
Group Project, 4-5
Technology: Adobe Premiere
Occurring after the short film assignment, Dr. Mitchell merges his groups to form larger ones and assigns a 10-12 minute video project. The intent is that students will focus more heavily on the process of video production: pre-production, production and postproduction. They are also required to interview 6 individuals and arrange a site visit to an organization in the local area. Students must also prepare a 15-minute presentation in which they present their film plan.
Storytelling with Sound
Jena Heath, Writing
Technology: Adobe Audition, SoundCloud
Here Professor Heath asks her students to create a very short audio, no longer than 2 and a half minutes, news story à la NPR. This brevity challenges her students to keep their stories laser-focused. Students must also interview at least one individual and provide a voice over to help tie together the story. Students are also asked to consider how ambient noise can add atmosphere to their news story.
Composing in 3 Different Genres Project
Professor Dede Garrison, Literature, Writing and Rhetoric
Technology: Adobe Spark
In this assignment, Professor Garrison has her students take pieces of their research paper (which they completed earlier in class) and repurpose it either into a graphic design piece, a website, or video. The intent here is to make students aware of different audiences that might consume their work and how they can tailor their work to serve multiple groups.
Community Engagement through ATX Hack for Change
Don Unger, Literature, Writing and Rhetoric
This project requires Dr. Unger to find a compatible community partner to work with his students. He was able to find such a partner though ATX Hack for Change. This project asked his students to create instructional videos for Austin Free-Net. Because branding was especially important, Dr. Unger had his students work on the intro and credits of the videos in class. In-class conversations discussed the aims of the tutorials, how to write instructions, as well as how long the videos should be. In the end, these conversations help students determine what was best for their client’s and audience’s needs.
Now we’ve covered the types of assignments, you might be thinking that this is something you want to actually do. In our next post, we’re going to figure out how to get started.
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FREIGHT TRANSPORTATION INFORMATION SYSTEMS AND THEIR IMPLICATIONS FOR R AND D POLICY
The current use of computerized management information and control systems in intercity freight transportation is examined. Each of the four modes (railroad, motor carrier, maritime and air cargo industries) is investigated. In each case, computer information systems can help improve the operational efficiency of the mode and provide management (and regulators) with more accurate data for decision making. The intermodal data standard and exchange problem is also discussed. Appropriate recommendations for DOT research and development policy are made. These include development of a national railroad management system, development of terminal control systems for railroad yards and intermodal terminals, support to development of a maritime industry information system and increased effort in the area of data facilitation.
Transportation Systems Center55 Broadway, Kendall Square
Cambridge, MA United States 02142
- Troup III, K F
- Publication Date: 1974-3
- Pagination: 86 p.
- TRT Terms: Freight service; Information systems
- Subject Areas: Data and Information Technology; Freight Transportation; Railroads;
- Accession Number: 00056909
- Record Type: Publication
- Source Agency: National Technical Information Service
- Report/Paper Numbers: DOT-TSC-OST-73-10 Final Rpt
- Files: NTIS, TRIS
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The Littlest Detectives: Strategies for K-3 Learners
Resources Referenced In This Chapter
In this section, you’ll find resources that are specifically referenced or related to information in this chapter. Some may be appropriate to use with digital detectives, but we’ve curated them with the intention of supporting educators as they learn more about the concepts in the chapter.
- [VIDEO] Building Empathy for Kids – from Flocabulary
- [BOOK] Read the World: Rethinking Literacy for Empathy and Action in a Digital Age by Kristin Ziemke and Katie Muhtaris
- [PODCAST] Kristin Ziemke and Katie Muhtaris discuss curiosity
Books (For Littles!) That Help Build Empathy!
In Chapter 5, we shared a book list to help you support our littlest Digital Detectives in the work of building empathy. Because new books are being published all the time, we’re using Goodreads as a way to keep our list updated. The link below will take you to the Goodreads shelf for this chapter! Be sure to share your favorite books for this purpose on social media using the hashtag #digitaldetectivesquad. Together we can build an overflowing bookshelf of titles to help our youngest learners practice the skill of pausing to think about how information makes them feel. | <urn:uuid:7b366ea3-6a5b-4987-95a1-a2edded49d58> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.evidencelocker.online/chapter-5-3/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571538.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812014923-20220812044923-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.871821 | 284 | 3.34375 | 3 |
Male’, Maldives – Spokesperson of Health Emergency Operations Center (HEOC) Dr. Nazla Rafeeg said that a national steering committee has been put together and their work has started in order to do the necessary preparations for the administration of Covid-19 vaccine at the news conference last night.
Dr.Nazla said during the news conference that four vaccines have been approved around the world that are successful in preventing the disease until date and the it is expected that Maldives will start receiving the vaccines during the first quarter of 2021. She also said that the vaccines will continue to be administered as they are being received.
Further speaking at the news conference, Dr.Nazla said that the necessary preparations prior to the administration of vaccines are taking place now as a part of which a national steering committee has been put together and started their work.
In addition to this, she said that the work of the steering committee includes installation of storages for the vaccine, buying necessary supplies for the administration of vaccine, preparing proposals on how the my vaccine will be obtained which are to presented to the Covax Facility that ensures the fair distribution of vaccines between countries. The steering committee is also responsible for categorising people who are to receive the vaccines as they are being made available. Dr.Nazla further added that Maldives will receive free vaccine for 20 percent of the population under the Covax Facility.
Dr.Nazla also stressed that if another outbreak is to occur in Maldives, it will lead to many difficulties during the administration of Covid-19 vaccines during the first quarter of 2021. She said that public health officials are the ones who will be active during the administration of vaccines and hence it would be very difficult if the officials had to work on controlling another outbreak at the same time as administration of vaccines. To prevent another outbreak and ensure the proper administration if vaccine, Dr Nazla has asked the public to continue following the safety guidelines set by HPA. | <urn:uuid:dca05a28-1803-4fa6-9c36-b7e4447ac821> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://timesofaddu.com/2020/11/27/preparations-ongoing-for-administration-of-covid-19-vaccine-dr-nazla/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572043.2/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814143522-20220814173522-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.978097 | 399 | 1.640625 | 2 |
You may have answered this before, but would you explain the parable of the Sower, in relation to OSAS?
The parable of the Sower in Matt. 13:3-9 represents the Lord sowing the Gospel into the world. The four kinds of soil on which the seed falls represent four kinds of people. Jesus explained the four kinds in Matt. 13:18-23.
The first kind of soil is the hard-packed path. It represents people with hardened hearts that don’t allow the Gospel to penetrate their hearts. The birds, who represent the enemy, eat it up before it can take root. These people will not be saved. In 2 Thes. 2:9-10 Paul said they will perish because they refused to love the truth and so be saved.
The second kind is rocky soil. It represents people who initially accept the Gospel intellectually, but like the first group, it never penetrates their hearts. These people will soon fall away. They are not saved.
The third kind is covered in thorns, which choke out the seed making it unfruitful. Since salvation is not a fruit-bearing event, these people are saved. But because of their preoccupation with the things of this world they never accomplish anything of value for the Kingdom. Most born-again Christians in the US today fall into this category.
The fourth kind is good soil. These people are both saved and fruitful.
Where OSAS is concerned the first two groups were never saved, and the second two are forever saved. (Remember we’re saved because of what we believe not because of how we behave.)
You can read my full study on this parable here.
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"When within sure distance the Constitution opened her battery with round and grape-shot upon the thirteen gun-boats and galleys which had engaged the Americans' small craft. This storm of shot sunk one of the gun-boats, disabled two and put the rest to flight. Commodore Preble then ran in along the batteries, within musket-shot distance and fired three hundred round shot besides grape and canister into the Bashaw's castle, the town, and the batteries. He silenced the castle and two of the batteries and then hauled off. No lives were lost on the American fleet."
"Millions for defense, but not one cent for tribute." In 1794 Congress commissioned the construction of six frigates to give teeth to that bold declaration. One of the new navy's first tasks was to protect American shipping from the Barbary States, what is now Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, and Libya. We sent Preble.
Taken from, Brown, John Howard, "American Naval Heroes." (Boston: Brown & Company, 1899). Edited by Gary M. Bohannon.
At this time our situation with respect to Morocco and Tunis was critical, and as to Tripoli it had been hostile for two years. The administration of President Thomas Jefferson had adopted the same policy pursued toward these powers by European countries in giving them presents or annuities in conformity to their prejudices and habits, at the same time making an occasional display of force by sending men-of-war in their seas, and by thus intimidating them keeping down their demands to a reasonable amount.
The tribute had been paid regularly previous to 1793, without recourse to the expense of a naval demonstration, and the demands of the African governments had become exorbitant and threatening. Great sums had been paid in specie and in articles of war, and this was especially exacting on the part of Algiers. The new Bashaw of Tripoli who had deposed his elder brother, and not satisfied with the tribute already levied on our government determined to exact more by sending out cruisers to prey upon the American trade.
Commodore Edward Preble, in command of a small US squadron, was sent to deal with the situation in 1803. On September 17 he appeared with the Constitution and the John Adams in Tangier bay and hoisted a white flag in token of peace, but with all his men at quarters by way of precaution.
On October 11, Commodore Preble met with the Sultan. Before he left his ship, he gave orders that should his party be forcibly detained, no consideration for their safety should be made, but that the fleet should open fire on the town. On approaching the Bashaw the commodore refused to lay aside his side arms according to Moorish custom, and negotiated a promise of the restoration of all American vessels recently captured and a ratification of the treaty of 1786.
Commodore Preble now formally declared the blockade of Tripoli and sent notices of the fact to the ministers and consuls to be communicated to the respective neutral powers. On October 22, he was informed of the disastrous loss of the US ship Philadelphia, which had run aground in Tripoli Harbor and was captured, along with its crew, by the Tripolitans who used the ship as a floating battery and the crew as slaves.
On December 14, 1803, Preble sailed with the Enterprise and captured a ketch in sight of Tripoli, under Turkish colors. She had on board two Tripolitan officers, a number of Tripolitan soldiers, and forty or more men and women, who were slaves belonging to the Bashaw and his subjects. Commodore Preble at first determined to release the vessel and men claimed by the Turkish captain, supposedly neutral, and to retain the Tripolitans as prisoners, but before executing the order he learned that the captain had been active in the capture of the Philadelphia, having on this very vessel carried to the Philadelphia one hundred Tripolitans armed with cutlasses and muskets, and flying the Tripolitan flag, had assaulted the ship and plundered the officers. Upon receiving this information Commodore Preble retained the ship as a prize and the crew as pirates.
Commodore Preble succeeded in conveying supplies and information to Captain Bainbridge and his officers and men in prison, and tried several times to effect their ransom, but did not think it wise to submit to the extravagant terms demanded by the regency.
Finding that no additional vessels were likely to arrive speedily from the United States he negotiated with the King of Naples for a loan of gun-boats, and effected the loan of six gun-boats and two bomb-vessels completely fitted for service, with permission to ship twelve to fifteen Neapolitans to serve on each boat under the American flag. His force then consisted of the Constitution, six smaller ships, six gun-boats, and two bomb-ketches, the entire fleet manned by 1,060 men.
The enemy had on his castle and the several batteries in Tripoli harbor 115 guns, and also had two schooners, a brig, and two galleys. He had in his crews and the garrisons of his forts and batteries 3,000 men, and the Bashaw had called to the defense of the city more than 20,000 Arabs.
Preble was delayed in attacking the city by adverse winds that increased to a gale until August 3, when he attacked the shipping at the entrance to the harbor, then directed the squadron stand for the batteries, and cast off the gun-boats. The bomb-vessels then began throwing shells into the city. This drew a response from the entire line of batteries in which 200 guns directed their fire at the squadron, then within musket-shot of the principal batteries.
In some examples of American heroism that day, Lieutenant Trippe boarded one of the enemy's large boats with only Midshipman Jonathan Henley and nine men. His boat fell off before any more could join him and he was left to conquer or perish with the fearful odds of eleven to thirty-six. In a few moments fourteen of the enemy were bleeding corpses, and twenty-two were prisoners, seven of them badly wounded. Lieutenant Trippe received eleven saber wounds, some deep and dangerous. The blade of his sword yielded and he closed with his adversary and both fell. In the struggle Trippe wrested the Turk's sword from him and with it pierced his enemy’s body.
Lieutenant Bainbridge had his boat grounded within pistol shot of the enemy's battery, but though exposed to continuous volleys of musketry he succeeded in getting off. Captain Somers with his single boat attacked and drove off five fully-manned boats, leaving them in a shattered condition with many dead and wounded on board.
Lieutenant James Decatur, the brother of Captain Stephen Decatur, engaged one of the enemy's largest boats which struck only after losing most of her men, and at the moment the brave lieutenant was stepping on his prize, he was shot through the head by the Turkish captain who escaped while the Americans were recovering the body of their unfortunate commander.
The Constitution kept the enemy's flotilla in disorder, keeping in constant motion and going to the help of any weak point in the line of battle. She was frequently within danger line of the rocks and her broadsides effectually silenced any battery she could bring them to bear upon. She was not able to remain long before a single fort as it was necessary to wear or tack to help some gun-boat or to direct her fire against a more destructive battery in another part of the harbor.
After two and a half hours' combat the commodore signaled for the gun-boats and bombs to retire from the action, and for the brigs and schooners to take the gun-boats and their prizes in tow. In fifteen minutes the squadron was out of reach of the enemy's shot and the commodore hauled off to give tow to the bomb-ketches.
The damage to the squadron was a mainmast of the Constitution cut thirty feet from the deck by a 32-pound shot, sails and rigging considerably cut, one of her quarter-deck guns injured by a wind shot, and a mariner's arm shattered by a piece of the broken shot, the only casualty on board. The other vessels and boats suffered in their riggings and had several men wounded, Lieutenant Decatur being the only man killed. The extremely bad marksmanship of the enemy and the constant and rapid fire of the American guns confused the enemy and their shot went wide of the mark.
Of the loss to the enemy no definite knowledge could be gained. On the three boats captured with one hundred and three men on board, forty-seven of them were killed and twenty-six wounded, leaving only thirty fit for duty. Three other boats with their crews went to the bottom of the harbor and the decks of the remaining vessels were swept of numbers. On the shore several guns were dismounted, the town was considerably damaged and a large number of men were killed and wounded.
The Bashaw and his people had apprehended danger, but they had little suspected so complete a disaster to their fleet, batteries and town. In fact when the Bashaw saw the squadron standing in he observed, "They will work their distance for tacking; they are a sort of Jews, who have no notion of fighting."
The palaces and terraces of the houses were covered with spectators when the fight began, expecting to see the Bashaw's boats drive the strangers from the harbor. They soon sought safety in the country and bomb-proofs, and while the fight lasted no spectators were to be seen on shore. One of the officers of the Philadelphia then in captivity reported a Turk as asking "if those men that fought so were Americans or infernals in Christian shape sent to destroy the sons of the prophet. The consuls tell us the Americans are a young nation, and gained their independence through the aid of France; that they had a small navy and their officers were inexperienced, and that they were merely a nation of merchants, and that by taking-their ships and men we should get a great ransom. Instead of this their Preble pays us a coin of shot, shells and hard blows, and sends a Decatur in a dark night with a band of Christian dogs, fierce and cruel as the tiger, who killed our brothers and burned our ships before our eyes."
On the 7th the French privateer delivered a letter from the US consul saying that the Bashaw had very much lowered his tone and would probably treat for terms, but further movement in that direction not being apparent, Commodore Preble began a second assault with the bomb-vessels and schooners. These shelled the town and silenced a battery of seven guns. A hot shot from the enemy's battery passed through the magazine of one of Preble's prize boats and she was blown up with a loss of ten killed and six wounded, including Midshipman Spence who was superintending the loading of a gun when the explosion took place. He with the other survivors finished their work and discharged the gun while the boat was sinking, then jumped in the sea and were taken up by another boat. The American loss during the two hours' assault was twenty-two killed, two mortally wounded and four slightly hurt.
On the 9th Commodore Preble in the brig Argus reconnoitered the harbor, and the next day a flag of truce was seen flying from the shore. A boat was sent to answer, but was not allowed to land. It brought from the French consul a letter informing the commodore that the Bashaw would accept five hundred dollars each for the ransom of the prisoners of the Philadelphia and terminate the war without any consideration or annuity for peace. This demand amounted to $150,000. Commodore Preble rejected the offer, but for the sake of the captives, and to save the further effusion of blood, offered $80,000 and $10,000 for presents. The French commissary general undertook to negotiate the treaty when the Bashaw suspended it, declaring that he would await another attack of the Americans.
On the 27th the commodore stood in for Tripoli, and anchoring within pistol-shot of the enemy's line at three o'clock in the morning, they opened a brisk fire on the ships, town, batteries and castle which was warmly returned until daylight. Then the Constitution weighed anchor and stood in under the direct fire of Fort English, the castle, crown and mole batteries and signaled the gun-boats to retire from action. When within sure distance the Constitution opened her battery with round and grape-shot upon the thirteen gun-boats and galleys which had engaged the Americans' small craft. This storm of shot sunk one of the gun-boats, disabled two and put the rest to flight. Commodore Preble then ran in along the batteries, within musket-shot distance and fired three hundred round shot besides grape and canister into the Bashaw's castle, the town, and the batteries. He silenced the castle and two of the batteries and then hauled off. No lives were lost on the American fleet.
Commodore Preble then determined to send a fire-ship into the harbor to destroy the flotilla and at the same time to bombard the town. Captain Somers volunteered for this service and with the assistance of Lieutenants Wadsworth and Israel fitted out the ketch Intrepid for the dangerous expedition. In the ketch was stored 100 barrels of gunpowder and 150 fixed shells, with trains of fuses and other combustibles so fixed as to apply fire easily to the deadly magazine at the moment the venturesome crew should have placed the fire-ship in position. On the evening of September 4, 1804, Captain Somers selected two fast- rowing boats to use in the escape of his volunteer crew. His own boat was manned by four seamen from the Nautilus and carried Lieutenant Wadsworth and six men from the Constitution. At eight o'clock they parted from the squadron and under convoy of the Argus, Vixen and Nautilus who approached within a short distance of the batteries, the Intrepid with her dangerous freight gained the inner harbor, but as she neared the point of destination she was boarded and carried by two Tripolitan galleys of one hundred men each.
At this moment she exploded with an awful effect. Every battery was silenced and not a gun was fired afterward during the entire night. Captain Somers is said to have assured a friend before he started on his perilous expedition, that in case he should be boarded, as he apprehended, he would not be captured. It is very reasonable to suppose that finding the enemy in possession of his ketch, he seized a quick match and touched the trail of gunpowder that led to the mine, and in the explosion that followed he with his companions found a common grave with two hundred of the enemy.
Shortly after this action Commodore Preble obtained leave to go home, passing the command of the Constitution over to Captain Decatur. Congress voted the Commodore the thanks of the nation, and an emblematic medal was presented by the President with declarations of admiration and esteem. The next year peace was made with Tripoli, the American prisoners were ransomed, and the navy returned home.
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Answer: Power factor is the cosine of the phase angle between voltage and current. If we look at the other definition of power factor it is the ratio of true power to the apparent power. Here you can see exactly that apparent power is always greater than true power. True power can never exceed apparent power. True power may be equal to apparent power but cannot exceed. So that is why power factor can not more than unity. | <urn:uuid:c530cbde-4d1a-423a-8f47-ce6261aab93d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.howengineeringworks.com/question/why-the-power-factor-not-more-than-unity/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571538.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812014923-20220812044923-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.936638 | 89 | 3.609375 | 4 |
We believe that young people deserve to see brilliant theatre made just for them by people interested in the power of theatre as a tool to entertain, educate, and provoke positive change.
For 3 decades, Concrete Theatre has been dedicated to bringing professional theatre artists together to create and present award-winning, relevant and challenging plays for young people.
When we tour a show dealing with sensitive subjects, like sexual consent or family violence, we have a professional with us to help facilitate our Q&As and as a resource for students to speak to. We also give each student a ‘help card’—a business card with contact info they can take with them should they or someone they know need help. Our artists are trained to deal with student disclosures and will loop the school into any matter requiring further attention. We want the teachers and students to feel supported long after we’ve left the school!
- Acting Our Colours Info Sheet
- 2019/2020 Brochure
- Sample Help Card
- Songs My Mother Never Sung Me Program
All of our shows come with a show-specific Study Guide. The person at the school who books the show will have a PDF emailed to them for sharing with every teacher whose class will attend the performance. Below, you will see samples from our 2018 tour of The Bully Project with a version of the study guide for grades 4-6 and one for 7-9.
If you have any questions about these materials, or would like more information, please contact our Bookings Coordinator, Heather Cornick at firstname.lastname@example.org.
If you’d like to request a script to read to help you decide if it is appropriate for your school or a certain grade, feel free to e-mail email@example.com.
Scripts are for reading purposes only, and may not be photocopied, shared, read aloud publicly or produced—even within the classroom. Please be sure to read the ‘Notice to Readers’ before proceeding with the download.
Thank you for respecting the copyright on the plays. It’s important for both the artists and our company.
Here are some helpful links to articles and websites about Theatre For Young Audiences and information that may assist you to further your students learning before or after our production has played in your school.
Theatre for Young Audiences/USA (TYA/USA)
The website for TYA/USA: The United States Chapter of ASSITEJ, The International Association of Theatres for Children and Young People.
Concrete Theatre is currently working with our colleagues in the PACT (Professional Association of Canadian Theatres) TYA Caucus to establish a chapter of ASSITEJ in Canada.
How Theater for Young People Could Save the World
An article published in the Huffington Post about “How Theatre for Young People Could Save the World” by Lauren Gunderson, dramatist and theatre essayist.
Why Children’s Theater Matters—Education.com
An article published on Education.com in the U.S. about the importance of Theatre for Young Audiences.
Why children’s theatre matters—TheGuardian.com
An article published on TheGuardian.com “Why Children’s Theatre Matters” by Lyn Garnder
Theatre, leave those kids alone…to think for themselves
An article published on TheGuardian.com about why it’s important that theatre helps kids think for themselves. Something we firmly believe!
On Why Children Matter
by David Harradine, Mar 4, 2017
Why Theatre for Young People Matters
by Mieko Ouchi
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There are lots of reasons why you may need to stop GMass from sending emails from your Gmail account: GMass may have started sending a multi-day campaign, but then in the middle, you decide you want to stop. You may have set auto follow-ups on a particular campaign, but you can’t handle the volume of replies you’re getting, so you may want to stop GMass from sending any more auto follow-ups. Your account may have been hacked, and the hacker installed GMass and configured it to send emails over time.
Here’s how to stop GMass from sending emails.
To cancel a particular mail marge campaign
If you have a scheduled mail merge, it will show under the “GMass Scheduled” label. To cancel and prevent it from sending at its scheduled time, just remove the “GMass Scheduled” label from the Draft, and that will prevent GMass from seeing it. The scheduled job will error out and prevent the mail merge campaign from sending.
This also applies to a large campaign that has been set to send over multiple days. If after a couple of days, you decide you don’t want the rest of it to send, just remove the “GMass Scheduled” label, and further sending will be prevented.
To stop auto follow-ups from sending for a particular campaign
After you’ve launched a campaign with automatic follow-ups, you can edit the auto follow-up settings by finding the campaign under the GMass Auto Followups Label. Open the Draft, click the GMass Settings arrow, and click the Clear all auto follow-ups button. Then hit the GMass main button to save your changes. Also see this detailed guide on canceling auto follow-ups. | <urn:uuid:13737217-6aec-4e67-baec-3152185bd57e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.gmass.co/blog/how-to-stop-gmass-from-sending-emails-from-your-gmail-account/?replytocom=514208 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571911.5/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813081639-20220813111639-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.909226 | 372 | 1.585938 | 2 |
The use of divorce as an example shows us how God feels about our rejection and indifference to Him and our rebellion from Him. Chapter 51 has that wonderful cry for repentance and faith: “Look to the Rock from which you were cut!”
* Mighty God, open our ears today to teach us, and may we not turn away from Your word.
“Morning by morning he awakens; he awakens my ear to hear as those who are taught. The Lord GOD has opened my ear, and I was not rebellious; I turned not backward.”
These passages point us to Jesus, the suffering servant.
Jesus was obedient to His Father’s will (right up that weary hill to the cross). He was not rebellious.
Are we like our King?
Morning by morning – Are we coming to our Lord, listening to His word as He awakens our ears?
Morning by morning – Are we turning to Him, and not away, turning to the truth and not to the world?
Morning by morning.
Are we growing more like our King Jesus?
* Loving God,
Please help us today to obey Your voice, the voice of our Master.
We are Your servants, our hearts are Yours, we are Your people Lord God.
Please help us to walk in the light, to trust in Your Name, to rely on You.
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GROWS 4 CRYSTALS IN "QUARTZ, "AMETHYST", "EMERALD" AND "FLUORITE" UP TO 4" (10 CM) IN DIAMETER!
Growing SPACE AGE CRYSTALS ® is easy, fun and educational. Just dissolve the pre-mixed powder in water and within just a few hours sparkling crystals of up to 4″ in diameter will start to grow, right before your eyes. This kit will grow three clusters and one single crystal: Grows “Quartz” cluster, “Emerald” cluster, “Amethyst” cluster & “Amethyst” single crystal. A fascinating experience for children and adults. Crystals and crystal growing powder are biodegradable.
Contents: Crystal growing powder, spatula, instructions.
USA: Ages 12+
WARNING: This kit contains chemicals which may be harmful if misused. Read cautions on individual containers carefully. Not to be used by children except under adult supervisions.
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Fellowship Health Center clinic to hold dedication
In late 2014, officials from Edwards Street Fellowship Center, along with other community leaders from around the Pine Belt, decided to address the need for health care for uninsured residents in the Hattiesburg area.
"We already see a population of people who are struggling," Edwards Street Executive Director Ann McCullen said. "Life is really hard for them — it affects your family, it affects your mental health, it affects everything. So in talking to people through our food pantry, we found out a lot of them don't have insurance.
"We see a lot of people who are considered to be the 'working poor' — they make too much money to qualify for Medicaid. The Affordable Care Act is helping a lot of people, but there still are a lot of people who are so strapped financially that they can't even afford those monthly insurance payments. So there is a group of people who fall in the gap, healthcare-wise."
A little more than a year later, a new free health clinic known as Fellowship Health Center is preparing to open to help those exact people.
The clinic will hold a dedication ceremony at 2 p.m. Sunday in the newly-remodeled space at 1919 Edwards St., adjacent to Edwards Street Fellowship Center. During the ceremony, participants will be able to take a tour of the facility, and representatives will speak about the clinic's beginnings, vision and offerings.
"We wanted to celebrate the community coming together to create this clinic and dedicate it to the glory of God," McCullen said. "We're super-excited for people in the community to come take a tour of it, and see what it looks like and what we'll be doing here."
Fellowship Health Center will offer two exam rooms, a lab, consultation room, lobby and nurse's office and will be staffed by Dr. Stephen Beam and nurse practitioner Claudine Feig. Additional staff is being recruited for the spring.
The clinic will provide patients with three services at no cost: dental referral, non-controlled prescription medication and medical care. Clients requiring free dental services will be referred to volunteer dentists, oral surgeons and dental hygienists in the area.
"People can come in whether it's just for a wellness checkup or for a specific issue for which they need to see the doctor," McCullen said. "Dr. Beam is a family practice physician, and if he feels their condition needs to be referred on to a specialist or someone else, then we'll do our best to find a specialist who will treat them for free."
The clinic will begin seeing patients Friday, and although the January appointments are already full, the staff will begin taking appointments Jan. 19 for February.
"One component that's really cool, is that this clinic will offer integrated care, and we're working with the School of Social Work at Southern Miss for that," McCullen said. "So that means that every patient that we see in this clinic, in addition to seeing a medical provider, they'll also see a social worker.
"That worker will help the patient comply with what the doctor suggests, whether that be a change in diet or to increase exercise, the social worker will meet more often with the patient than the doctor and nurse. (The social workers are) only aware of one other clinic in Mississippi that offers that, and it's down on the Coast."
For the last 15 months, a Fellowship Heath Center "steering committee" has met to organize the aspects of the clinic. The committee consisted of area officials including Hattiesburg Clinic Executive Director Tommy Thornton; St. Fabian Catholic Church priest Father Tommy Conway; Forrest General Healthcare Foundation President Bill Oliver; and retired physician Dr. Orlando Burt.
"As a result of interactions with individuals who were served by the Edwards Street Food Pantry, the pantry's administration and volunteers identified a significant need for medical care, prescriptions of life-saving medicines and basic dental care for individuals unable to qualify or afford payment of these needs," Thornton said. "They formed a committee of health care professionals and we agreed our community could make this project happen.
"This project will assist more individuals in our community to obtain basic health care, which will improve their quality of life. Access to health care for all in our community should be our goal as good and caring neighbors."
At a glance
Fellowship Health Center
The Fellowship Health Center, a free health clinic, will host a dedication ceremony at 2 p.m. Sunday at 1919 Edwards St.
The clinic is designed to provide health care to uninsured patients, and will begin seeing patients Friday, although all the January appointments are already full. Staff will begin taking appointments Jan. 19 for February.
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If you’ve been following NASA’s $20 billion Solutions Enterprise Wide Procurement (SEWP V), you might be interested in knowing how the bidders won their awards. Like many procurements, this government-wide contract started out as a highly competitive procurement that received over 200 proposals from companies competing to win a coveted award on this 10-year (5-year base plus one 5-year option) IDIQ contract.
When awards were first announced, disgruntled bidders filed protests with the Government Accountability Office (GAO), and NASA voluntarily agreed to reevaluate the proposals. After reevaluation, the agency made 202 contract awards, and every bidder who submitted an acceptable proposal was given a contract award. With no bidders left to protest, SEWP V moved forward as the contract of choice for many government organizations.
Here are the details of what happened, and you can draw your own conclusions about the surprise ending to the evaluation process.
SEWP procurement description
SEWP is one of the main contracts used in the government market to buy IT products, services, and solutions. The procurement is in its fifth iteration and has become hugely popular across the federal sector.
The SEWP V RFP provided for five competition groups. Two groups, Computer Systems/Servers (Category A, Group A) and Networking/Security/Video and Conferencing tools (Category B, Group D), were competed in full-and-open competitions. Mass Storage Devices (Category B, Group B) was competed as two separate set-asides—one for Service Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Businesses (SDVOSB) and the other for Historically Underutilized Business Zone (HUBZone) Small Businesses. Server Support Devices/Multifunctional Devices (Category B, Group C) was competed as a small business set-aside.
Computer Systems/Services is probably the largest dollar value category, so I’ve chosen to focus on that procurement for this article, but the story and the outcomes are essentially the same for the awards in all five groups.
Proposals were evaluated using three evaluation factors:
- Management/Technical Approach
- Past Performance
Management/Technical Approach and Price were weighted approximately equally, and Past Performance was evaluated on an acceptable/unacceptable basis.
Evaluation of the Management/Technical Approach was based on three subfactors:
- Excellence of Proposed Systems (Subfactor A)
- Offeror’s Support and Commitment (Subfactor B)
- Management Plan (Subfactor C)
Each subfactor was evaluated and assigned an adjectival rating using Excellent, Very Good, Good, Fair, and Poor. Within each subfactor, evaluators identified Significant Strengths, Strengths, Significant Weaknesses, Weaknesses, and Deficiencies.
Past Performance acceptability was based on an offeror’s relevant, 3-year past performance history. An offeror with relevant and acceptable past performance would be given an Acceptable score. An offer with no relevant past performance would be viewed as having an indeterminate past performance record and would also receive an Acceptable score. Only if an offer had a significant adverse performance history within the past 3 years would it be scored as Unacceptable.
Price was evaluated by comparing each offeror’s prices with the prices of other offerors to ensure that the offeror’s prices were fair and reasonable.
Proposal evaluation was conducted on a best-value basis by trading off the relative merits of offerors’ Management/Technical Approach score and Price.
NASA received 36 acceptable proposals for Computer Systems/Servers (Category A, Group A). The Source Evaluation Board (SEB) comprised members with expertise in various disciplines relevant to the procurement. No proposals in this Category A, Group A were rated Unacceptable.
The board reviewed each proposal and reached consensus on the findings, rated and scored each subfactor, and applied established numerical weightings to determine an overall Management/Technical Approach score for each proposal.
The top 10 scoring proposals in order of evaluation scores were Unisys, General Dynamics, Sterling Computer Corp., DLT Solutions, Dynamic Systems, IBM, Dell, HP, CDWG, and Merlin International with these offerors receiving no less than a Good score for each subfactor.
Price evaluation was done by comparing each bidder’s prices against the other bidders. Bidders were grouped into six pricing brackets based upon their proposed prices. One proposal was priced substantially higher than the others, five proposals were high, five were moderately high, 11 were moderate, five were moderately low, and six were low.
All offerors were found to have Acceptable Past Performance.
Selecting the winners
For evaluation purposes, offerors were grouped into three tiers based on their Management/Technical Approach scores.
The highly rated tier included 24 bidders that nearly all received a Good or better adjectival rating across all three subfactors and had no significant weaknesses. Two bidders received a Fair rating for one of the evaluation subfactors, but this low rating was offset by a Very Good rating in another subfactor.
The next lower rated tier had three offerors. Each offeror had one Significant Weakness or several Weaknesses. Scores for the three evaluation subfactors in this tier ranged from Fair to Good. Each of these offerors had at least one Significant Weakness reflecting appreciably increased performance risk to the government.
The remaining offerors were put into the lowest rated tier with Fair or lower evaluation scores for two or more subfactors.
When comparing the price of each offeror in the highest rated tier, one offeror’s price was very high in comparison to the other bidders and its Management/Technical score was relatively low within this tier. This bidder’s very high price was not offset by the performance benefits offered in its proposal, and the offeror was removed from further consideration for award. The remaining proposals in the highly rated group offered competitive prices, and by trading off their prices with their Management/Technical scores, it was determined that these 23 companies represented best value and were selected for contract award.
The three firms in the second highest tier were eliminated from further consideration because their lower Management/Technical scores when compared with their prices did not represent best value.
In the lowest tier, when trading off the Management/Technical scores of the companies, none offered a sufficiently low price to constitute best value, and these companies were eliminated from further consideration.
Based on evaluation results and best-value trade-offs, awards were made to 24 of the 36 bidders.
Protest and reevaluation
Multiple losing bidders filed protests with GAO, alleging that their proposals had been unfairly evaluated. Based on these protests, NASA voluntarily withdrew its initial awards, reevaluated the Management/Technical and Price aspects of the proposals from all unsuccessful offerors, updated their evaluations, ratings, and scores, and revised their price analysis.
As a result, offerors received fewer negative findings, resulting in improved ratings and scores. For example, scores were revised upward for the three companies originally evaluated in the second tier grouping. Significant Weaknesses were eliminated and scores for some subfactors were raised from Fair to Good.
Before making the final awards, it was noted that the number of contractors under the SEWP IV procurement was no longer sufficient to provide ample competition and responsiveness to the current volume of orders.
Although a greater number of contractors would increase the administrative burden, the benefits of increased competition outweighed the program management detriment in terms of need for increased contract oversight.
Based on this, it was decided that the number of SEWP V contracts should increase to service the expected increases in volume, size, and complexity of orders.
Additionally, it was noted that the Significant Weaknesses for the lower rated offerors were based on inadequately detailed information in their proposals. In each instance, it was concluded that the offeror’s failure to provide sufficient detail about its approach, while a concern, was a lesser performance risk than an unsuitable or otherwise problematic Management/Technical approach. While the Significant Weaknesses were properly assessed, it was determined that these offerors were viable as prospective SEWP V contract holders. Despite providing proposals without adequate detail in certain areas, the inclusion of these offerors in the SEWP V contract would increase the overall benefit to the government by expanding the field of competition in the resulting task order process.
All offerors’ prices were determined to be fair and reasonable, and the differences among prices were found to be primarily due to different product offerings proposed to meet the solicitation requirements.
In the final analysis, the importance of Significant Weaknesses in each offeror’s proposal was minimized and subcategory evaluation factor ratings revised upward. Each offeror received at least a Fair or higher rating across all Management/Technical subfactors.
All prices were determined to be fair and reasonable, and every offer had an Acceptable Past Performance rating.
As a result, awards were made to all 36 offerors.
It is tempting to editorialize about what occurred during the reevaluation of each previously unsuccessful offeror’s proposal.
Did scores creep up because the evaluators had a change of heart and were less critical of past inadequacies, or did the concern over future protests and the probability of continued delays in awarding the SEWP V contracts cause the best-value trade-offs to skew in favor of more awards?
I’ll leave that to you to decide and as always, I welcome your comments and insights.
Email your comments to me at email@example.com.
by Bob Lohfeld
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For individuals who stick to reducing-edge technological innovation news, it’s no secret that home automation technologies is getting to be more and much more popular. “Wise homes” are not only cool, but also offer an immense sum of functionality that are not able to be matched by properties that do not integrate automation. As engineering developments, tendencies appear and go. Most people would agree, even so, that it truly is protected to say that house automation is here to keep, and that it will only turn into more and more advanced as time goes on. The following are some of the coolest tendencies in home automation technologies for your house.
Automatic Drapery Systems
Hate tying up the drapes each and every and each early morning? You are not on your own, which is why automatic drapery systems are quickly locating by themselves in far more and much more residences each 12 months. With just the thrust of a button, you can command your drapes into their upright positions seamlessly and without having hard work. Automated material methods are not only amazing hunting, they are just an additional purposeful way to streamline your working day.
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Property Lights Handle
Probably the most common and valuable type of automation technological innovation on the industry is home lighting manage. From a one hub, users can manage every mild in the house, and can perform a variety of possibilities, like dimming. Alternatively of running to the prime floor to switch off a overlooked mild, customers can simply change it off with a remote from in which they are currently situated. House lighting handle is a staple of house automation technological innovation, and has streamlined the properties of thousands of people thus far.
IT solutions consulting are that any individual with a property that makes use of automation engineering will want to have some kind of protection program set up. Although it is crucial to have a regular protection system in place, automated entry management takes issues one particular phase more by only enabling within individuals who know the entry code. This technologies is used in expert and health-related services every and every working day, and is rapidly turning into more and more commonplace inside houses across the planet. With automatic access control, you may never have to fret about who has obtain to your home and who does not. Automatic accessibility manage is also a wonderful way to seal off access to certain rooms in your home, this sort of as an place of work or studio.
A lot of people who personal smart homes equip them with projection screens to observe tv and surf the Net on, and for good explanation. Not only do projection screens use a substantial resolution, they can actually increase the awesome issue of whatsoever room they’re in. Combined with a wonderful encompass audio method, projection screens make for the ultimate in property theater. | <urn:uuid:142cade8-9de0-4404-960e-eebf792158e3> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.nahomatsuno.com/coolest-tendencies-in-residence-software-technologies-for-your-house/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571911.5/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813081639-20220813111639-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.954577 | 678 | 1.84375 | 2 |
CMS is an abbreviation for “content management system.” Simply put, it’s a tool for creating, organizing, publishing, and deleting content on a website.
The world has never been more linked. Today’s scenario includes a wide range of devices, reliable and extensive internet connections, and forward-thinking brands attempting to leverage all of the above through their websites and virtual channels. We’re talking about a set of innovations that enable businesses to improve their results, drive more sales on a consistent basis, and provide more options to customers. All the while, brands provide a superior customer experience.
Even in this scenario, many businesses do not have a website and are not achieving the desired results. Perhaps the main reason they are not successful on the internet is a lack of technical expertise in creating and managing online pages and content.
That’s where a Content Management System (CMS) comes in as the ultimate solution. Don’t worry if you still don’t understand what it means.
CMS stands for "content management system." In layman's terms, it's a system that makes it simple to publish a website online.
But, of course, that is not what distinguishes a CMS. After all, you can complete the same task with little to no technical knowledge.
What is the operation of a content management system?
Most of the time, the concept of a CMS represents free software that is created and maintained by developers all over the world. With this assistance, any user can easily create a website, a blog, or other types of websites.
One of the most important benefits of a CMS is that it is a simple tool that allows people to focus more on the strategy and less on the operational aspects. The user does not need to be concerned with the technicalities. They only need to upload new content on a regular basis. As a result, people can efficiently manage all of the content. The structure exists to ensure exceptional performance, a positive user experience, and the ability to grow your website in the future.
It may appear simple, but the creation and publication of new content on a website involves a lot of work. To be visible online, each of those components requires the assistance of a CMS.
This becomes even clearer when we consider some of the system's primary functions:
In the virtual world, there is fierce competition between brands. Business managers must constantly look for new ways to improve user experience on their websites and provide innovations, all while maintaining tight control over the strategies. A content management system can help you achieve all of these objectives. Edutech web solution is here to help you grow your brand with great potential. | <urn:uuid:2b6810b6-a096-47e3-ad22-d14bb01cb098> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://edutechwebsolution.com/content-mangement/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572043.2/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814143522-20220814173522-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.931159 | 552 | 2.34375 | 2 |
The Society of Automotive Engineers is trying to match retired and out-of-work engineers with short-term consulting jobs with a new service called the Automotive Resources Institute.
Based in Troy next to SAE's headquarters, the institute has a growing pool of experts in specific automotive fields available for short-term project work, public speaking and education.
It is recruiting engineers who have been laid off or taken an early retirement and is targeting auto suppliers interested in help on projects. The tough automotive economy prompted some companies to offer early retirements and lay off engineers.
Companies save money, but they lose institutional knowledge, said Neil Schilke, the institute's managing director.
"There's a lot of experience being taken out of the industry," he said. "As good as young people are in this industry, you can't get that experience overnight. We help to market expertise."
The institute, which was launched last month, has about 90 people available for contracts and hopes to grow fast. Applicants must be SAE members. All candidates are interviewed, reviewed and reference-checked by the institute's executive team. The institute also reviews a code of ethics with each candidate, sets up a a limited-liability corporation, and certifies and assists with liability insurance. It's only open to engineers and experts not already employed.
Joining the network as an engineer isn't cheap, and that's designed to attract only serious applicants. The application fee is $300, the interview fee is $650 and $650 is due when a candidate gets his or her first assignment. But $200 of the application fee is returned if the candidate isn't qualified. Also, a $500 annual renewal fee is waived if yearly income from institute-generated jobs is less than $5,000.
Suppliers sign the contract and pay the institute, which then pays the engineer. For example, if a supplier needs help with a fuel systems project, the institute will give that company a list of people in its database in that area, and the company will select the person. The service is only available to SAE members.
Schilke and Herb Everss, the institute's director of business development, said the institute isn't trying to compete with contract-engineering companies or temporary agencies, because it targets short-term projects.
One supplier director said the institute is a good resource for smaller companies that can't afford higher-priced consulting firms.
"It's an idea long overdue given the situation in the metro Detroit area," said Mike Gauthier, director of corporate technology for Siemens VDO Automotive Corp. "It's good if you don't have the expertise, if you're a newly formed company with fresh graduates or you just did a big layoff. That's what they're targeting."
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In another attempt by Russian flight controllers to deliver 6,000 pounds of supplies to the International Space Station, the journey of Progress 59 failed to reach its destination. The vessel is now spinning out of control towards Earth.
The good news is that the six crew members of the International Space Station (ISS) are safe and continuing regular operations with sufficient supplies.
According to NASA, “The spacecraft was not carrying any supplies critical for the United States Operating Segment (USOS) of the station.”
Right after the cargo separated from the Soyuz booster’s third stage, an unspecified problem prevented Russian flight controllers from determining whether navigational antennas had deployed and whether fuel system manifolds had pressurized as planned.
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Many models have been proposed to interpret the radar scattering represented in the radar meteor head- and trail-echoes. These models often invoke the concepts of "overdense" versus "underdense" (relative to plasma frequency) scattering and of Bragg scattering or filtering in describing details of the scattering structure. We argue that, while appropriate to volume filled incoherent scattering, Bragg scattering is of limited use in interpretation of radar meteors. We also present a stricter definition of underdense versus overdense scattering in terms of the net scattered E-field in the plasma relative to the incident E-field. We give modeling examples supporting this approach. | <urn:uuid:3bc284fc-65e7-4e3f-8aa7-d9f038f0fcff> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://pennstate.pure.elsevier.com/en/publications/underdense-overdense-and-bragg-scattering-in-radar-meteors | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572043.2/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814143522-20220814173522-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.886229 | 132 | 2.3125 | 2 |
Op-ed | Open Source: A New Direction for Space
Open source is software or hardware universally accessible and intended to be freely used, shared and improved. The basic idea is that the root code or blueprints of a device or software is released to the world for the community to use, modify and upgrade. This concept has some very big potential upsides for any industry, namely customization, quick updates and a large community for documentation and add-on products.
Open source products are having a profound impact on the world today. Websites such as Wikipedia that use open content have largely replaced traditional encyclopedias. There is a good chance you are reading this content on an open source browser such as Mozilla or on an open source operating system such as Android or Linux. And Arduino is one example of an open source hardware product that has been very successful.
So what does this have to do with space?
The impact on space exploration is in two main places: the use of open source technology and the development of open source systems.
Open source software and hardware are rapidly decreasing the cost required to get systems up and running. A great example of this is NASA’s PhoneSat bus, which used commercial off-the-shelf parts and the Android operating system and reportedly cost only $3,500 to produce. With the use of open source software to design components and open source hardware to test components, the price of system development has the potential to be accessible to many hobbyists and small businesses.
The most important open source documentation in aerospace is probably the Defense Technical Information Center and the NASA Technical Reports Server. While not traditionally thought of as open source, many of the older technical reports (roughly pre-1980) have detailed documentation including drawings, test plans and results sufficient to duplicate the devices and test results, and are in the public domain. NASA also has released a variety of open source software packages on topics ranging from orbit determination to robot vision.
Outside of NASA, various cubesats also use the open source philosophy in their implementation; for example, ArduSat runs various users’ Arduino programs on the spacecraft. The amateur rocketry community has also adopted open source to some level with various projects available online.
While open source hardware is in its infancy, there is good reason to believe it will continue to grow, mainly due to the rise of three phenomena:
- Easy-to-use microcontrollers.
- 3-D printing.
- Crowdsourced funding.
Microcontrollers, specifically easy-to-use packages such as Arduino, Edison and BeagleBoard, allow for the quick and easy integration of electronics with any project. With these boards, the barrier to entry for sensing and actuation is extremely low and there is a large base of community support.
3-D printing can produce complicated components for a relatively low cost and almost no tooling costs. Complicated valve casings, injector designs, small structural mounts and liquid rocket chambers can be made without precision machining, castings or welding and brazing. This means that these parts can be built by anyone with the capability to design them without having to tool up complicated manufacturing technology.
Crowdsourcing, as brought forward by Kickstarter, is a powerful method of funding projects without a traditional investor profit motive. It allows large numbers of people to contribute small amounts of money to fund ambitious, but not lucrative, products directly. The previously mentioned ArduSat was funded on Kickstarter and a number of open source 3-D printers have also been funded by crowdsourcing.
There are some forces retarding open source space projects, mainly technical competency and legal issues. Open source projects require a large base of technically competent users to design and debug the product. The aerospace community is relatively small, and most people have a limited ability to do side work. This limits the efforts to amateurs unless corporations or government agencies decide to openly release work.
In addition, certain aspects of space exploration, such as radiation hardening, large-scale rocket testing and deep vacuums, are beyond the capability of the vast majority of amateurs, further limiting the field of the community.
Legal issues are a large problem in the aerospace community due to export control laws. Designed to provide national security by stopping the export of sensitive weapons and technology, in the United States these laws cover a large variety of space-related technology, including all rockets with the exception of wood and plastic “hobby” launchers.
In addition to broad regulatory scope, a large number of U.S. agencies are involved in the legislation, including the State Department with its International Traffic in Arms Regulations, Commerce with its Export Administration Regulations, and Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control.
Most of this legislation, at least in the United States, has clauses that allow for publicly available or public domain data to be freely disseminated. However, even these public domain exclusions are not all-encompassing and items such as bioagents, toxins and encrypted software are still restricted even if data exist in the public domain. While these public domain clauses offer hope for open source aerospace projects, it is a distant hope. There is limited, or no, case history involving open source aerospace projects and as such it is questionable how the various regulatory agencies will judge and respond to such projects.
Open source hardware and software are part of the future of technology and will continue to play a part in space exploration. The use of available open source technology will enable a broader range of people to build, test and fly equipment in space. The main question is if the space community can play a role in generating open source hardware and software and give back to a growing community of technology enthusiasts.
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The jury is still out whether countries like India should replace the existing year-on-year method for calculating GDP growth rate with the quarter-on-quarter formula
Over the past several years, India’s GDP (or the gross domestic product) and its growth rate have become very controversial subjects.
Partly this has to do with the growing resentment against the very concept of GDP.
As many of you know, an economy’s annual GDP is the total money value of all final (not intermediate) goods and services produced within the geographical boundaries in a year.
It can be argued — and quite justifiably — that the GDP does not really map the wellbeing of a population. It is quite possible — and is often quite likely — that even as the overall GDP goes up, economic inequalities also rise, fuelling discontent.
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But even among those who don’t exactly dismiss the use of GDP to map the performance of an economy, there are disagreements galore.
Most of them have had to do with the way GDP is calculated. For instance, in 2015, when India’s Central Statistics Office (CSO) introduced a new GDP series, it kickstarted a series of disagreements that we explained here.
But even within the group of economists who adopted the new series, there were disagreements. Thanks to the repeated and significant revisions in GDP data, several economists have questioned the official GDP data.
Now there is a new addition to the existing list of complaints. This one pertains to how we calculate the “growth rate” of GDP — it doesn’t concern the calculation of the absolute level of GDP per se.
In his opinion piece in The Indian Express, dated March 8, Jahangir Aziz, who is Chief Emerging Markets Economist at J P Morgan, has argued that the way India calculates its GDP growth rate paints an incorrect or misleading picture of the current state of economic growth.
What is the issue?
As things stand in India, when we say that the Indian economy grew by 10 per cent in a particular quarter (that is, a period of three months) what it essentially means is that the total GDP of the country in that quarter was 10 per cent more than the total GDP produced in the same quarter a year ago.
Similarly, when we say the economy contracted by 8 per cent this year what we mean to say is that the total output of the economy (as calculated by GDP) is 8 per cent less than the total output of the economy in the preceding year.
This is called the year-on-year (YoY) method of arriving at the growth rate.
But this is not the only way to arrive at a growth rate. One could have compared GDP quarter-on-quarter (QoQ) — that is, compare the GDP in the current quarter with the GDP in the preceding quarter. For that matter, theoretically speaking, if the data were available, one could calculate the growth rate month-on-month (MoM) or even week-on-week.
On the face of it, the Y-o-Y method is intuitive and takes care of the seasonal variations. For example, if agricultural production is typically low during the April-May-June quarter (because it doesn’t rain as much during this period) and typically high during the July-August-September quarter, then there is little value in comparing farm productivity growth rate between these two quarters. Doing so will just throw up massive fluctuations without adding any real insight.
But comparing farm output YoY — that is, July to September current year with July to September last year — provides a more robust and reasonable growth rate. It is a like-to-like comparison, thanks to the similarities in weather and farming conditions. The same argument of “seasonality” applies to other sectors of the economy as well and, as such, it makes sense to use the YoY method to arrive at the growth rate.
But Aziz has argued that there are very well-established statistical methods to take away the effect of seasonality from quarterly data. He has argued that once the data is deseasonalised, the growth rate arrived at by using the QoQ method presents a far more accurate picture of the economic growth rate. It is for this reason, he argues, that other large economies report QoQ growth rate.
How much is the difference between YoY and QoQ GDP growth rate in India’s case?
The graph alongside provides a glimpse. The time corresponds to the last four quarters for which we have the latest data. This covers the four quarters of Calendar Year 2020.
While it is clear that no matter how one calculates, the GDP growth rate plummeted during the April-May-June quarter in 2020.
But, as the graph shows, the story goes haywire immediately after that.
The YoY method that we use in India shows the GDP growth rate steadily improving through the next two quarters. The QoQ method, which Aziz favours, suggests that GDP growth recovered sharply in Q2FY21 but has lost steam since then.
This is not just about quibbling over the past growth rate. Depending on what growth rate one uses, the policy response could be completely different.
Aziz worries that “the year-on-year quarterly numbers will keep rising giving the false assurance of a strengthening recovery when in reality the level of income would rise only at a grinding pace”.
That is why he argues India must shift from YoY to QoQ method of calculating GDP growth rate.
So why is India allowing this apparent misrepresentation to carry on?
N R Bhanumurthy, Vice-Chancellor of Bengaluru Dr B.R. Ambedkar School of Economics (BASE), counters the claims that the QoQ method is better than the YoY method for India.
“This not a new debate,” he says. “I remember there was a similar debate a decade ago as well.”
Bhanumurthy says stable economies such as the US use the QoQ method and provide what is called the seasonally-adjusted annualised rate. [To get the annualised rate from quarterly growth data one has to multiply by four; to get it from monthly growth data, one has to multiply by 12].
“But the YoY method is better for India — especially when there is a lot of ‘noise’ between the quarters,” said Bhanumurthy.
What he refers to as “noise” or “stability” is essentially a settled seasonality. For example, in the US the holiday season — say Christmas — is predefined but in India, the festivals do not fall on the same date or even the same month each year. As such, growth rates of different economic variables tend to fluctuate far more in India.
“In the past, we have looked at the month-on-month growth rate (instead of YoY) of the Index of Industrial Production and found that one month it would grow by over 90 per cent and the very next month it would contract,” he says.
The point being that such massive fluctuations as witnessed in India tend to undermine any cogent analysis. More often than not, macro policymaking is based on medium- to long-term growth cycles rather than short-term fluctuations. The YoY method is better suited to spot such cyclical patterns, argues Bhanumurthy.
What’s the upshot?
As seen above, the calculation of growth rates is a tricky matter and can substantially alter the policy advice. This is more so for economies like India which tend to grow in fits and starts and especially during a crisis.
But it is for these reasons that, as early as June 2020, ExplainSpeaking had alerted readers that in times of severe economic shocks it is important to look at the absolute level of GDP instead of just the GDP growth rates.
We had also explained how India’s economic growth and other parameters were already rather anaemic going into the Covid pandemic and how this meant that the pace of economic recovery out of this crisis is unlikely to be quick.
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The cocoa sector plays a vital role in Cameroon for job and wealth creation for local communities, and for forest protection and ecosystem conservation. Globally, Cameroon is an important cocoa producing country, standing as the 4th largest producing country in the world. A role that is all the more important given that Cameroon’s tropical forests cover about 46% of the national territory and account for 11% of the forests in the Congo Basin. Cocoa companies and the Cameroonian government have recognized the risks posed by deforestation and the adverse effects of climate change and have understood that it is an important issue to be able to continue to grow cocoa while preserving the forest.
To increase cocoa production sustainably, protect National Parks and forest areas, and to help farmers find a sustainable livelihood, IDH and partners are supporting the development of a Roadmap to Deforestation-free Cocoa. The Roadmap is led by the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, in close collaboration with the Ministry of Commerce, Ministry of Forestry and Wildlife, Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development.
The Roadmap to Deforestation-free Cocoa is a public, private, civil society partnership that aims to end cocoa-related deforestation in Cameroon. It builds on the Cocoa & Forests Initiative’s Statement of Intent signed by the industry in 2017, through which companies committed to working together, pre competitively, to end deforestation and forest degradation in the cocoa supply chain.
The Roadmap is developed with three driving objectives:
- Conservation of National Parks and forested land, as well as restoration of forests that have been degraded by human activities, in particular encroachment by cocoa farms among other factors.
- Sustainable intensification and diversification of income in order to increase farmers’ yields and livelihood, to grow “more cocoa on less land” and thereby reduce pressure on forests.
- Engagement and empowerment of cocoa-growing communities.
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Actions of the Framework:
The Roadmap will help create a competitive advantage for Cameroonian cocoa in the global market, help coordinate public-private-civil society efforts to achieve higher and more stable cocoa quality and promote greater cocoa sustainability by promoting cocoa agroforestry.
Specific actions under development are:
- A national traceability system to identify and track the history, distribution and application of products, parts and materials to ensure the reliability of sustainability claims in the areas of human rights, labour (including health and safety), the environment and anti-corruption.
- A satellite-based monitoring system with deforestation alerts to help signatories of the Roadmap monitor cocoa-related deforestation.
The Framework for Action of this roadmap was developed through a participatory process that was launched in Yaoundé on 31 January 2019. This process brought together representatives of the Government of Cameroon, public and private sector actors, national and international civil society organizations, farmer organizations, research institutions, development partners and other stakeholders in Cameroon and at the global level. Over time, more than 200 stakeholders have been involved in this consultation process.
The Roadmap to Deforestation-free Cocoa is led by the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, in close collaboration with the Ministry of Commerce, Ministry of Forestry and Wildlife, Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development. The process is facilitated by IDH, the Sustainable Initiative, though funding from its institutional donors: BUZA (The Netherlands) SECO (Switzerland) and DANIDA (Denmark).
Connected to the Roadmap to Deforestation-free Cocoa, IDH and the World Wildlife Fund are co-developing the Green Cocoa Landscape Program (GCLP), which brings together key (cocoa) stakeholders to co-design and jointly implement actions that help protect forests, improve sustainable production of cocoa and enhanced livelihoods for farmers and surrounding communities in two selected landscapes. Next to cocoa, rubber, timber, oil palm and cassava will also be included in the program.
Municipalities selected by the GCLP to pilot innovations will benefit with policy reforms and actions designed through the Roadmap to Deforestation-free Cocoa. Pilots will include the development of land use plans, identification of investment opportunities and creation of new business models that can attract investors.
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|Ministry of Forestry and Wildlife (MINFOF)|
|Ministry of Commerce (MINCOMMERCE)|
|Ministry of Environment, Nature Protection and Sustainable Development (MINEPDED)|
|Private Sector||Agribusiness Services and Import Export (SARL)|
|Agroproduce Management Services (AMS)|
|Atlantic Cocoa Corporation (ACC) SA|
|Producam SA||Sté DES ETS NDONGO ESSOMBA Sarl|
|Civil Society Organizations, Research Institutions, Technical & Financial Partners||CIFOR|
|Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ)|
|Forêts et Développement Rural (FODER)|
|International Tropical Institure of Agriculture (IITA)|
|Rainforest Alliance (RA)|
|Service d’Appui Aux Initiatives Locales (SAILD)|
|World Agro-forestry Centre (ICRAF)|
|Producer Organizations||Confédération Nationale de Producteurs de Cacao et Café du Cameroun (CONAPROCAM)|
|South West Farmers Cooperative Union BOD (SOWEFCU BOD)|
|Endorsers||Consulate of The Netherlands|
|Tropical Forest Alliance (TFA)|
|Secretariat||IDH, the Sustainable Trade Initiative|
|Communiqué de presse: Les acteurs de la filière cacao signent une feuille de route pour un cacao durable et sans déforestation au Cameroun||Roadmap||2021||-||-|
|Press Release: Cameroonian cocoa stakeholders sign a Roadmap towards sustainable and deforestation-free cocoa||Roadmap||2021||-||-|
|Roadmap to Deforestation-Free Cocoa in Cameroon Two-Pager||Brochure||2021||-||-|
|Cadre d’Action Commun – Feuille de Route pour un Cacao sans Déforestation||Roadmap||2021||-||-|
|Joint Framework for Action – Roadmap to Deforestation-free Cocoa||Roadmap||2021||-||-|
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Surfing for Everybody – level 2
Around 40 Australian children with disabilities can now enjoy surfing. This is thanks to 100 volunteers from the Gold Coast Disabled Surfers Association. The surfing lessons are once a month.
Many children do not have a chance to come to the beach. This can be the first time in the ocean for them, and they love it!
Difficult words: disability (if you have a disability, your body cannot do some things), volunteer (a person who does something because they want to – not for money), disabled (if you have a disability, you are disabled).
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Thanksgiving is a time of gratitude and coming together for a delicious meal. All of that cooking fills the air with delicious, tempting smells for people and pets alike. Pet parents and their family members may want to share their tasty feast with the cats and dogs in the home. While some foods are okay to share with pets in moderation, others could prove harmful or even toxic. Knowing the difference is key to keeping pets safe and healthy.
Pet parents know how hard it can be to say no to a pair of eyes watching their every move as they enjoy a delicious meal. Fortunately, there are plenty of components of the feast their cat or dog can eat in small amounts:
Carrots: When it comes to Thanksgiving food dogs can eat, carrots are one of the best as long as they are unseasoned. They should ideally be cooked and contain many essential vitamins and minerals needed for optimal health. Unlike dogs, cats have a carnivorous diet. Though raw vegetables are not toxic to their systems, they can cause digestive problems. Steamed veggies are preferred as a small snack.
Sweet potatoes and pumpkin: Like carrots, sweet potatoes and pumpkin should be cooked and contain many essential vitamins and minerals. They’re also high in fiber.
Green beans: Green beans can make an excellent snack for dogs, too. Like other vegetables, they’re high in nutrients essential for good health. As with other vegetables, pet parents should make sure they’re plain and steamed is a better option.
Turkey breast: While cats might not be interested in many foods on the dinner table, turkey is one Thanksgiving food they can eat and might actually want. Whether feeding it to cats or dogs, pet parents should make sure there’s no bones, skin, or seasonings on the meat.
Apples: Many families serve apple pie for dessert. Pie isn’t ideal for cats and dogs. Dogs can, however, enjoy some fresh apple slices before they get mixed in sugar and spices.
There are also a number of Thanksgiving foods pets shouldn’t eat. While some may cause minor digestive upset, others can cause serious harm. Here are a few foods pet parents should avoid sharing:
High-fat foods: Turkey skin, sausage, fried foods, gravy, and anything laden with cream, butter, or cheese can lead to vomiting and diarrhea. In some cases, they can even cause pancreatitis.
Any meat with bones: Cooked bones are choking hazards. They can also splinter, which could harm a pet’s digestive tract.
Seasonings: Seasonings, spices, salt, and pepper can upset a cat or dog’s stomach. Garlic and onions in any form are toxic to dogs and cats.
Stuffing: Stuffing typically contains onions and garlic, both of which are toxic to cats and dogs.
Grapes and raisins: Both grapes and raisins can cause kidney failure in pets.
Chocolate: Ingesting chocolate can cause significant problems in cats and dogs. Issues can range from vomiting and diarrhea to tremors and seizures.
Taking steps to keep pets safe on Thanksgiving is essential for avoiding a trip to the emergency vet. Pet parents can start by establishing some ground rules. They can ask guests not to feed pets anything (or at least ask first). Young children should be watched closely to ensure they don’t give anything to a pet or that pets don’t take anything from their plates.
Pet parents should never leave pets alone in rooms where they’ll have access to food. They can create safe spaces for their cat or dog, such as a separate, closed-off room or kennel. A blanket or bed, toys, and a bowl of water can make the space comfortable and relaxing.
Finally, pet parents should make a plan before an emergency arises. They can consult with the Fuzzy Veterinarian Team 24/7 for cat health advice, dog health advice, and other dietary and pet wellness questions. Pet parents should also have the name, number, and address of the nearest emergency vet. They should be contacted right away if a pet ingests anything toxic.
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Know your Suppliers, their Products, and their Prices –
In most businesses, the suppliers will go through a bid process. This is, essentially, the same for the consumer, but our suppliers put their “bid” in the weekly ads. Do not make the mistake of underestimating how much your choice of where you shop can cost or save you.
The difference? Our suppliers are experts (and hire experts) not only to create “needs” but to appeal to our emotions and our desires to be healthy and raise our families right. How do you sort out what to buy where with so many choices?
- Shop Reliable Stores: Just as a business does, shop from a very short list of reliable sources, so you won’t be wasting time, gas and your composure running around to multiple places. You’ll save yourself from wasting time searching for items in an unfamiliar store.
- Know how they Structure Pricing and Sales: Over time, you will find which stores have the lowest overall prices, and which stores have the best “bargains,” and learn to leverage that to your advantage. Compare weekly ads and determine if it is worthwhile to shop more than one place. If so do regular shopping at store A, but carry the short list for store B for a quick drive by when you’re out and about.
- Build a Relationship: In effect, by shopping only a few places, many of the store employees know me, at least by sight. Building a relationship over time is something most businesses do, but consumers seldom think about. An advantage may be had with problems with the receipt, coupons, returning bad products, getting special orders, etc.
- Don’t be Deceived by the Megagiants: Target, Walmart. My coupon deals at my regional grocery store almost ALWAYS beat them, although it never hurts to compare at a coupon matching site. In the past five years, I’ve shopped at Walmart twice – once was a deal great enough to draw me in, the other was when I went with a friend who needed “scrubs” for work, and I bought nothing. I sometimes find great deals at Target for pet food and I’ve bought some toiletries and makeup there from time to time.
- Costco, Sam’s, etc. I find the annual fee doesn’t justify the membership but consider shopping for certain items if you can share memberships and are very disciplined. If you have no time to check ads, comparison shop, buy on sale, etc., and you’re careful about what you buy, you may find that you’ll save some money over regularly priced groceries. If you’re really interested in saving money, these aren’t the places for you.
- Aldi: I’m a huge fan of Aldi, and find awesome prices on fruits and vegetables, although the selection is sometimes limited and they often don’t compare to sales priced produce at my grocery. I am a regular shopper there.
- Trader Joes: If you’re looking for “gourmet” items, it’s a fun place to blow some money! I’ll buy chocolate there when I’m making something special and wine, but generally, I find a bit of discipline is needed in this store and it’s not the place to find the best deals on “regular” grocery items.
- Ethnic Markets: If you live in a city or area that has thriving communities, ethnic markets can be fantastic places to find very good quality food at extremely low prices. Often these markets are buying from alternative sources compared to the chain grocery stores, and chains mark up the specialty products that one can find at these markets a lot! Meats, poultry, and other items are often varied and of a much better quality.
- Consider Alternative Sources: Can you buy, perhaps a side of beef from a farmer or butcher? Some have ‘packages’ consisting of a variety of different meats, priced in a bundle. The farmers market can be a great place for honey and specialty items, and a fun outing for the family as well as a place to buy the freshest produce.
- Pick your own: Orchards and small farms are great places to pick berries and sweet corn in the summer, get your apples or pumpkins in the fall, Christmas trees in the winter, and double as an event you’ll remember for a long time, perhaps even becoming a tradition.
- Shop your Neighborhood: On a smaller scale, maybe you can take advantage of neighbor’s neglected fruit tree or rhubarb in exchange for homemade product, do a little ‘foraging’ and take advantage of things you have in your own yard.
- Support Local Farmers: Consider whether it might be cost-effective to support your small local farmers by buying their produce boxes or renting garden plots. Many small ‘suppliers’ are struggling to compete with the ‘big’ guys, and constantly coming up with innovative ideas. Their products can be surprisingly low in cost and high in quality.
- Check out Community Offerings: There are many community buying clubs, co-ops and ministries that sell a set of discounted items for a set price (often biweekly or monthly), or ones that give you a discount or free food for volunteering time. There are generally no income or religious requirements for the ministries. It’s simply done as an outreach program for the community, and the food is “restaurant grade, no seconds.” Larger cities or towns often have these and the programs are able to increase their leverage with producers and lower cost per unit with more members so there is no need to feel concerned that by using them you are taking away resources from the less fortunate.
- Direct to Consumer Food Clubs: I find generally these do not reach a “rock bottom” buy price that compares to the sales prices at my store, but I live in a city where I have many options. These often offer a very decent price. Look for Food Clubs for organics, wine, basic groceries. Generally, you’ll order online and pick up in your area on certain days.
- Amazon: You’ll seldom find great prices on food and toiletries at Amazon, although they are an option when one can’t buy certain items in their area. If you love certain cuisines, making home-made rather than take out is certainly less expensive, even if you have to “mail order.”
- Think Outside the Box: Or in this age, brown paper or plastic bag, or even better, a cloth bag, especially when your store gives a discount for using when you’re thinking about food sources.
- What about gas? Know how much it costs per MILE to drive your car! People consistently over or underestimate this cost. You may know your miles per gallon – but when deciding if it is worthwhile to make a trip, you must know your cost per mile. My car gets 27 mpg, city driving. Gas is $3.29 a gallon. I simply divide to find out the cost per mile. $3.29 divided by 27 is about 12 cents per mile.
- If I see a great price on chicken breast, $1.50 per pound, normally on sale at a rock bottom price of $1.70 per pound (which comes few and far between) and the store is in a neighboring suburb, 10 miles away, would it be worth it to drive there? Round trip is $2.40. If I buy 12 pounds, I’d save $2.40. I’ve just found my “break even” point and I know that the trip would not be worthwhile to make unless I bought more than 12 pounds. If I’m in the area anyway or pass the area on my way somewhere else, that’s a different story.
- Just as an aside, if I happened to see a price on any item like this that beats my rock bottom price, I would call the store early in the week and ask if they can supply me with a quantity large enough to feed my family for a year – I’d figure family of four, six ounces per person, serve once a week, for a year I’d need 4 x 6 x 52 = 1248 ounces. I’d divide by 16 and know I’d need 78 pounds. I may not have saved much over the rock-bottom sales price, but I’ve just procured the best price and ensured my family will eat sales priced chicken throughout the year, even if the prices go up. If the store is agreeable, they’ll generally set aside several cases and have you drive around back and load it up for you.
Links to The Twelve Strategies:
- Strategy One: Bank Your Foods
- Strategy Two: Pay Attention to the Bottom Line
- Strategy Three: Control Costs – Maximize “Profits” and Minimize Losses
- Strategy Four: Take Advantage of Cyclic Changes in the Market
- Strategy Five: Be an Investor, not a Gambler
- Strategy Six: Give Back to the Community
- Strategy Seven: Have a Business Plan
- Strategy Eight: Invest in Training
- Strategy Nine: Know the Products you Buy
- Strategy Ten: Know your Suppliers
- Strategy Eleven: Take Advantage of Special Offers & Incentives
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Mindfulness for Beginning Runners - Beginning to run mindfully
Saturday 4 May 2019
13:00 - 17:00
Fort Amherst - Chatham
The workshop will be based at the Guardhouse at Fort Amherst and we will run nearby in the Great Lines Heritage Park.
Why Mindfulness for Runners?
Running is one of the most popular forms of exercise in the UK with proven physical and mental health benefits, including helping prevent obesity, heart disease and high blood pressure, and boosting sleep quality and mood.
In recent years, there has also been a growing interest in mindfulness, with research linking a regular and sustained mindfulness practice with a decrease in the incidence of depression, anxiety and stress. It can also improve the ability to regulate our emotions, build resilience and help increase focus and attention.
Mindfulness for Runners combines the benefits of both running and mindfulness into an integrated whole for more enjoyable runs and greater all round well-being whether on the cushion, on the trail or in everyday life.
So, where to begin?…
Beginning to run mindfully
This workshop is for anyone who is completely new to running or has so far been unsuccessful in integrating running into their life but would like to and also anyone who is completely new to mindfulness and would like to benefit from what it has to offer, although any experience is welcomed.
Starting running is often fraught with anxiety around potential injuries as well as battles with our own mind about our identity as a “runner”, negative thinking patterns and excuses about giving up, convincing ourself that we are not physically good enough or fit enough compared to others. Often we set unrealistic goals and expectations that we then don’t meet, resulting in us throwing in the towel and returning to our former, less healthy habits.
How to approach and navigate all this and more is addressed within RUN:ZEN and this workshop will set out to explore:
– Instructions for good running form and posture as a focus for our mind as well as to help reduce injury prevention. Beginning running with instructions in good form and posture can pay dividends down the line, resulting in smoother progression in our running and less or no injury set backs.
– Becoming more aware of our embodied presence in stillness and movement, to connect with our body and listen more deeply to its natural wisdom so we can respond appropriately, as well as enjoying the freedom of “simply being” through the body.
– Becoming more familiar with our mind’s negative habits and learn how to deal with them with more wisdom and kindness.
– Exploring the Gratitude Attitude – focusing on our abundance and opportunities for growth instead of lack and what isn’t good enough.
– Understanding how some of the insights gained through mindful running on the day can be applied in our everyday life.
Based in the old Guardhouse at the historic Fort Amherst, we will guide you through a range of mindfulness practices and easy-paced runs around the Great Lines Heritage Park with a number of ‘STOPs’. The invitation for the whole day is simply to be curious about our experience, and each practice is followed by an opportunity to share as a group what we may have discovered.
Participants will receive a follow up email with supporting materials and will also then be able to participate in RUN:ZEN's FREE COMMUNITY RUNS throughout the year.
***Prior to the workshop there will be a questionnaire (to become familiar with your previous experience and any physical and/or mental health needs) for all prospective participants to complete and return***
Water and energy snacks shall be provided.
Beginning to run mindfully course fee: £40
If you have any questions at all about RUNZEN for Beginners, then please do get in touch with us via email: firstname.lastname@example.org
Beginning to run mindfully is an introduction to RUNZEN and Mindfulness for Runners and will equip you with the basic tools and practices that you can then explore in running and life. You could then sign up to other courses, such as our immersive Six-week course or Module 1, later in the spring/summer.
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Zhang Zhung: Images from a Lost Kingdom is an introduction to the kingdom of Zhang Zhung (Shang Shung), the ancient realm of the pre-Buddhist Bön religion, surrounding the sacred Mount Kailash in western Tibet and originating more than three thousand years ago. This text by Chögyal Namkhai Norbu, with over 50 black-and-white and color photographs, details his historic discovery of one of the capitals of this ancient realm, Khyung lung dngul mkhar, the Silver Palace of the Valley of the Garuda, during an expedition to western Tibet in 1988.
The text can be considered an introduction to The Light of Kailash, Chögyal Namkhai Norbu's three-volume masterpiece on the origins of Tibetan culture.
Please consider donating to support us. Shang Shung Publications is a non-profit organization where for 37 years, a team of professionals makes available the vast heritage of prof. Namkhai Norbu’s academic and spiritual work, and spread patrimony of Tibetan culture, in particular Dzogchen teachings.
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On a Friday evening as I was reading, I came across the story of Dr. Shweta.
Dr. Shweta is a gastroenterologist who came across a patient with bloating issues in the stomach. She asked the patient, “What was the last meal that you took? How much did you eat? When did you have your last meal?”
The patient responded,” I had a heavy lunch consisting of 4 plates of chole bhature.” She asked the patient if he had a history of such issues to which the patient declined. Dr. Shweta understood that this is a case of overeating.
She asked the patient to do some medical tests and on seeing the result she told the patient to avoid overeating, do some exercise, gave medicines and follow a diet plan.
This made me realize that there may be so many people who are dealing with health issues caused by overeating. Overeating can be the root cause of many health problems. In the context of this blog, I am referring to effects of overeating on the stomach. There have been so many people dealing with these issues.
I want you to have a great health and have a scientific understanding on the effects of overeating on the stomach. My desire to serve you has led me to write this blog.
But before we get into the effects of overeating, it’s important to understand what overeating means.
What is overeating?
Overeating refers to the consumption of excess food than is needed by an organism to produce energy and excrete. It can also be referred to eating more calories than is required by our body. We tend to overeat on special occasions.
Overeating on special occasions is fine but making it a habit is not. If someone is eating a lot consistently then it could be a symptom of an eating disorder.
Before getting into the effects of overeating on the stomach it’s important to understand why people tend to overeat.
Why am I overeating?
Have you ever wondered why people overeat even when they are not hungry?
Let us find the answer to this question by understanding the causes of overeating.
- You don’t have a fixed mealtime and you eat while using the phone, laptop or TV.
Most working people have meetings during the day and eat on their desks in front of their laptop while working. This causes our body to overeat. Our stomach sends a signal to our brain when it is full. Our brain directs the action to our body to stop eating. But when we are working and our brain is engaged in any other activity then it misses out on the signal that it receives from our stomach when it is full.
- Our diet lacks nutrition. So our body craves for more of what it gets and fulfills its requirement from what it is getting. If we are eating a diet full of carbohydrates and fats then our body will crave more of it because it does not know anything better. Instead we should feed our body with what nutrients it needs.
- Our hunger is for something beyond food: When we are stressed about something or exhausted we tend to eat more. Many foods rich in carbohydrates have substances that make us feel calm. We should make a list of non food activities that nourish us.
- You have placed unhealthy foods near your counter (wherever you sit and work for most of your time). Unhealthy foods tend to make you eat more of them to make you addicted and obese. The addiction causes overeating. Instead you should keep healthy foods near your counter.
- You are not drinking enough water: When you are not drinking enough water, sometimes, your brain can get confused between hunger and thirst.
- You are living on processed foods: Processed foods are designed to let your brain think that you are still hungry. You should eat fruits and veggies instead of processed foods.
- You are unable to sleep for 6-8 hrs a day- Your body hormones work differently the next day when you are unable to sleep/get less time to sleep.
- Eating food is a source of reducing your boredom.
- You are skipping meals. Skipping meals can cause overeating when you are hungry.
Before coming to the specific effects of overeating on the stomach, let us understand the effects of overeating on our overall body.
Frequent overeating can lead to:
- It can cause excessive accumulation of fat in our body making us look obese.
- Overeating can be one of the major causes of type 2 diabetes.
- Overeating can ruin our sleep pattern.
- Overeating can lead to heart health issues.
- Weakening the functioning of the brain.
- Our liver, pancreas and intestines need to work harder to secrete digestive enzymes and aid the breaking down of our food.
- Obesity caused by overeating can become a cause of cancer.
According to Asa Ernersson, (a researcher and PhD student at University of Sweden), ‘short term overeating can lead to increase in body weight and fat mass for the long term in individuals with normal weight.’
Our stomach has the capacity to hold from 1.5 litres of food to slightly more than 3 litres. Beyond this point, it becomes very risky.
Ever wondered why your stomach feels uneasy when you overeat? Let’s understand the effects of overeating on the stomach.
Effects of overeating on the stomach
Here is what happens to your stomach when you overeat:
- Overeating causes our stomach walls to expand while causes movement of the other organs of our body. This leads to discomfort, drowsiness and fatigue.
- The hydrochloric acid secreted by our stomach can back up to the esophagus which may cause heartburn.
- The digestion process becomes slower.
- The excess fat gets stored in our belly and other parts of our body.
- Our stomach may produce gas leading to an uncomfortable full feeling.
- Digestive enzymes are limited in number. So frequent overeating can cause a large amount of undigested food to remain. This undigested food in the stomach can become the cause of a lot of other health problems.
- Overeating can cause pain in your stomach.
- Uneasiness in your stomach can also lead to vomiting.
- Your stomach may get bloated due to gas.
Can eating too much make your stomach burst?
Yes, overeating can cause the lining of the stomach to get ruptured. If it gets ruptured beyond a certain extent then it may cause the stomach to burst. It is a very rare situation but it is a possibility. According to a research, a handful of Japanese doctors had written in a report that they believed that it was the overeating of the 49 year old that made his stomach to rupture, causing his death.
Most of the reports of ruptured stomachs come from people who are suffering from an eating disorder or a limited mental capacity. People with eating disorder have a habit of unusual eating to the extent that their body is unable to respond the way that it does for normal people. If the food does not come out through vomiting, then it needs to go somewhere. It goes to the stomach causing the stomach lining to rupture. Stomach ruptures should be dealt with surgical intervention or it may lead to death of the person.
What to do when you overeat and your stomach hurts? How to relieve stomach pain from overeating?
- Practice mild asanas of yoga or try brisk walking outside your home.
- Avoid taking a nap after overeating. It slows down your digestion process.
- Drinking herbal tea can be very useful for digestion. You can also try green tea as it is rich in antioxidants and aids digestion.
- Peppermint tea or candy can be very useful to relieve gas, indigestion and nausea.
- Try a pinch of turmeric in hot water. Turmeric helps to aid digestion, is rich in anti-oxidants and is an anti bacterial spice commonly used in our kitchens.
What to do after overeating?
You have eaten enough to cause your stomach pain, now it’s important for you to understand what to do after overeating.
- Go for a walk
- Drink a sip of water
- Engage yourself in an activity that will help you burn those calories.
- Workout – Run, lift weights and play an outdoor game.
- Have a light next meal. Plan it beforehand.
- Seek for a doctor’s help when you are really feeling very uncomfortable.
How to aid digestion after overeating?
- The moment you realize that “you’re done”, stop eating.
- Sipping Apple Cider vinegar can be a great help to your digestive system.
- Plan for your future meals in advance and make sure that you eat light and right the next time.
- You can watch a cardio class video on YouTube or go to the gym.
- Try drinking some lemonade to detoxify your body.
- Try meditation and relax your body. Relaxing your mind and body helps your body to function more efficiently and aid the digestion process.
- Eating a papaya can be really useful.
- Watermelons help to detoxify our body in big way.
- Asparagus helps in roughage and aids in cleaning our body from undigested food.
Remedies for overeating
Have you ever had a tummy ache in childhood after coming from a party? Has your mom or grandma ever suggested you to take home remedy for overeating? I remember my grandma used to do so. There is a scientific reason for such home remedies.
- A small teaspoon of fennel seeds (saunf) is great to have after eating food as it aids digestion.
- Dry fenugreek (methi) seeds with watery buttermilk is good for digestion.
- A powder made with seeds of cumin, coriander, fennel and carom stored in an air tight container is ideal for digestion.
These are a few home remedies that I remember, if you remember any such remedy then you can comment below.
Ways on how to detox your body after overeating
- Include probiotics in your diet such as yoghurt, khimchi, kefir, etc.
- Boost your metabolism with chamomile or ginger tea.
- Include antioxidants in your diet.
- Consume foods that are lighter to digest such as soups, salads, porridge or khichdi.
- Include green leafy vegetables in your diet.
- Eat fruits that help in detoxification such as the ones that have high amount of water.
We have learnt how to deal with overeaten food. But to avoid making overeating as a habit we need to know how to avoid it. Let’s understand how to stop overeating.
How to stop overeating?
- Get rid of distractions (using the mobile, laptop) while eating.
- Understand the kind of foods that tempt you.
- Don’t ban any of your favourite foods, just avoid consuming them too frequently.
- Put your food in a plate instead of eating from a container. Putting a portion of food in a plate helps define how much to eat. So if you plan to eat popcorn at a theatre then ask for a plate and put the popcorn on a plate and eat it. Some goes with namkeens /mixtures.
- Eat regular meals and avoid skipping any meal. Skipping meals tend to make you hungry after sometime, which can lead to overeating when you are unable to control your hunger.
You can read a few more articles to learn more on health and fitness:
- Click here to learn the importance of physical fitness and wellness for good health
- Click here to read on Yoga or Gym Which is better for weight loss? Look smart by reducing weight
- Click here to read on An Actionable Guide of How to Start Workout at Home
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2017 Volume 33 Issue 2 Pages 61-72
This study investigated the determinants of exchange anxiety in close relationships—generalized worries that one’s partner will replace him/her with a more suitable person. We hypothesized that exchange anxiety would increase when individuals compare themselves with others who are more competent (experiencing upward social comparisons), especially in environments where they cannot easily find alternative relationships (environments with low relational mobility). By experimentally manipulating the type of social comparison, the results from Study 1 revealed that undergraduates (n＝299) living in environments with low relational mobility felt stronger exchange anxiety when they experienced upward social comparison than downward social comparison. In Study 2, an online survey was conducted with a sample of adults living in either urban or rural areas (n＝1000). The results showed that the frequency of upward social comparison was positively associated with exchange anxiety and that this tendency was moderated by the combined effect of relational mobility and trait self-esteem. These results suggest that the characteristics of one’s interpersonal environments affect the impact of the perceived risk of being replaced on exchange anxiety in one’s close relationships. | <urn:uuid:871291a8-e7de-4bae-9091-5a0c2a62b6d7> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/jssp/33/2/33_1621/_article | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572043.2/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814143522-20220814173522-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.937695 | 232 | 2.15625 | 2 |
Answer - Sports Day or National Sports Day is celebrated on Dhyan Chand's birthday on August 29 to honor the hockey legend.
Major Dhyan Chandwasa phenomenal legend, won three Olympic gold medals and mesmerized millions through his magical technique.” National Sports Day was included in the list of celebratory days in India for the first time in 2012. States like Haryana, Punjab, and Karnataka, among others, organize various sporting events and seminars aimed at spreading awareness about the importance of physical activities and sports in life.
Over the years, the government has also used this day as a platform to launch various sports schemes, including the Khelo India movement, which was announced by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in 2018. Major Dhyan Chand was born in Allahabad (Prayagraj) in Uttar Pradesh on August 29, 1905, as Dhyan Singh, he rose to prominence in the pre-independence period.
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MajorDhyanChand was born on 29 August 1905. National Sports Day is celebrated on August 29 every year to honor the hockey legend, Major Dhyan Chand. Star of the Indian hockey team that dominated the sport in the years before World War II, Dhyan Singh played an important role in helping India complete their first hat-trick of Olympic gold medals with wins at the 1928, 1932, and 1936 Summer Olympics. | <urn:uuid:503f7e9d-ddb0-480d-8abf-95a3bf78e15d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://byjusexamprep.com/sports-day-is-celebrated-on-i | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571911.5/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813081639-20220813111639-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.965654 | 285 | 2.375 | 2 |
This week, I was at a networking event run by South-East Business Network. It represented a growing trend I’ve noticed in networking events – people sit at tables of 10 and each person is required to give a two-minute elevator pitch. In case you’re not familiar with the term, an elevator pitch is a mini-presentation of your business designed to be given in a very limited space of time – the time it takes to travel in an elevator.
The reality is that in our fast-paced world, we literally have seconds to make an impression. So it’s important to be able to capture the message of your business in a nutshell. A good elevator pitch will help you make the most of the golden opportunities life sometimes throws your way. Here are the ingredients of a good elevator pitch.
Who you are. Begin with a simple description of your business, what it’s called and what it does. Sometimes you only have 10 seconds to make an elevator pitch, so it’s a good idea to begin with the most important information.
Goals: Tell the person what you aim to do for your customers ie, them. Maybe you can solve their tax problems, or help them find that perfect gift for their friend’s wedding.
Services: Give them a flavour of the services you offer that help them achieve that goal. Tailor it to your audience – concentrate on the services you think are of most relevance to them.
Doing all that should bring you to 30 seconds, or if you include all your services, one minute. But if you have the luxury of a two-minute pitch you can also include.
Origins: Show your passion and originality of thought by telling them what made you come up with your business idea.
Future goals: Tell them how you’ll be expanding your business in future.
A good finish. It can be easy for your elevator pitch to taper off, so drive your message home with a good slogan or tagline. I came across a cleaning business whose tagline was Fighting Grime.
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Zimbabwe’s central bank has frozen the bank accounts of 30 people accused of illegally exchanging foreign currency through mobile phones and social networks, it said on Tuesday. The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe said in a statement on Tuesday it had identified 30 people “abusing mobile telecommunication services and other social media platforms” for “illegal foreign exchange transactions and money laundering”. Their accounts have been frozen and they are now banned from banking for two years. They also face being blocked by telephone operators. The Zimbabwean government has been trying to promote the local currency since it was temporarily abandoned in 2009 in favor of the US dollar due to hyperinflation. Faced with a lack of liquidity, the country printed new notes in 2016. The local currency has continued to lose value and foreign currency is traded on the black market at cheap rates.
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Amazon’s early attempts to use alternative processors in cloud computing weren’t that good. AWS Arm instances did not stand out with high performance. However, now the company is set to change the industry with its new-generation processors Graviton2 built with ARM Neoverse N1 architecture. Let’s check our best practices for maintenance cost savings.
The last thing you want to see when debugging your code is chaos. But what if this chaos is controlled and launched by the developers themselves? Why deliberately create turbulence in the well-coordinated operation of your application? How can you achieve peace of mind when releasing important features? When exactly does the practice of chaos […]
DevOps has been a highly anticipated goal for many organizations over the years. From startups to Fortune 500 companies, businesses of all kinds are rushing to enhance the velocity and quality of software development. CI/CD tools may be precisely the means for that. Companies recognized the need to improve their development workflow many years ago. […]
Configuration management is an important part of DevOps methodology, and tools like Ansible and Terraform form the backbone of modern software development systems. Both tools are great examples of a next-generation system for building, managing and configuring a cloud infrastructure.
Cloud technology is becoming one of the fastest-growing areas in I.T. Based on the Cloud Services Global Market Report: Covid 19 Impact and Recovery to 2030, the industry is anticipated to attain a valuation of nearly $USD800 billion in 2025. This calculation uses a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of fourteen percent. The technology is […]
“Data is the new oil”. This quote by Clive Humby from 2006 has become a well-known phrase in IT as it emphasizes the central role that data plays in the modern era. The significance of big data can no longer be overlooked. This is evidenced by the handling of the vast troves of data that […]
After years of DevOps overhauls, big companies such as BMW, Optum, and Starbucks have embarked on a digital transformation journey. Now, DevOps is conquering the world of e-gaming. Read on to find out how businesses benefit from implementing DevOps practices.
Ocado has sped up the time-to-market, Bloomberg hit 95 percent hardware utilization rate, and Amadeus moved all production workloads to run on a single operating model. All this was made possible with Kubernetes. Why do large companies need Kubernetes and how does it take IT technologies to the next level? Let’s figure it out!
In the era of the internet, people have finally realized they can literally lease whatever they need for whatever amount of time and end up paying up to 90% less. How? Well, the demand creates the supply. In today’s IT world, new companies are born as frequently as rabbits in the wild, and die as […]
Data logging is always accompanied by storage problems. So, how can businesses optimize costs and retain access to the logs at the same time? Let’s fill in the gaps on the importance of log data analysis and the benefits it can provide. | <urn:uuid:a7e35f46-6bf2-4486-80df-8d941dd49f53> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://opsworks.co/blog/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572043.2/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814143522-20220814173522-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.944983 | 647 | 1.664063 | 2 |
Dan Huh, Associate Professor in the Department of Bioengineering, has been steadily growing a collection of organs-on-chips. These devices incorporate human cells into precisely engineered microfluidic channels that mimic an organ’s natural environment, providing a way to conduct experiments that would not otherwise be feasible.
Huh’s previous research has involved using a placenta-on-a-chip to study which drugs are able to reach a developing fetus; investigating microgravity’s effect on the immune system by sending one of his chips to the International Space Station; and testing treatments for dry eye disease using an eye-on-a-chip, complete with a mechanical blinking eyelid.
Now, he and his colleagues are taking this technology out of their lab and into industry with their company, Vivodyne.
Andrei Georgescu, Huh’s lab-member and co-founder of Vivodyne, recently spoke with Technical.ly Philly’s Paige Gross about the growth of their company.
Research into potential drugs is usually performed first on mice, and success is only found in a fraction of humans once implemented in clinical trials, Andrei Georgescu, cofounder and CEO of Vivodyne, told Technical.ly. The genetic makeup just isn’t similar enough. But technology that allows scientists to test therapies on lab-grown human organs called “organs on chip” is allowing for testing without human subjects.
The organs on chip allow for a drug to react to tissue in a more similar way to the body than it would in a petri dish, Georgescu said. Cells sense their environment very well, he added.
“We’re making the environment more complicated, making its spacial features complicated enough to match the native complexity of the organs,” he said. “When [cells] sense a softer environment, they start to behave more realistically. Their response to the drug is more realistic.”
Continue reading “This Penn-founded biotech company specializing in human ‘organs on chip’ raised $4M” at Technical.ly Philly.
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Exceptional STEM educators who view teaching in under-served communities as a rewarding and sustainable career are key levers for the development of expertise in students that is critical for them to become responsible citizens.
The mission of the STEM Ed Innovators Fellowship program is to build democratic STEM teaching mastery in public school teachers, empowering them to engage youth in STEM and computer science. Through democratic learning experiences, students construct identities of themselves as capable citizens who use critical STEM agency to transform their own lives and bring about positive change in their communities.
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Jhumki Basu Foundation
The objective of Jhumki Basu Foundation is to discover, nurture and spread innovative and sustainable programs to carry on Prof. Jhumki Basu’s vision of democratizing science education. JBF is the sponsor of the STEM Ed Innovators Fellowship program and the S. Jhumki Basu STEME Education and Research Center at New York University.
JBF raises funds, makes grants, executes projects, manages awards, scholarships, science fairs, competitions and other programs in science education. JBF works with departments of education of urban school districts and with the federal government on educational policy-making. JBF is a registered nonprofit corporation with section 501(c)(3) tax-exemption status from the Internal Revenue Service.
While the theories of democratic teaching have been documented since the 1600's Dr. Jhumki Basu put these ideas into practice by co-founding a 8-12 grade school in Brooklyn, NY that focused on student voice, shared and transformational authority and critical STEM literacy. Explore Dr. Basu's beliefs and the genesis of the STEM Ed Program after Dr. Basu's untimely death with the following video.
About Prof Jhumki Basu
Sreyashi Jhumki Basu attended Stanford University, where she received a B.A. in Human Biology in 1998 and completed her doctorate in Science Education at Teachers College, Columbia University in 2006. For her PhD thesis titled "How urban youth express critical agency in a 9th grade conceptual physics classroom," she received the Outstanding Dissertation Award from the American Educational Research Association.
Later in 2006 she joined NYU's Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development as an associate professor. Jhumki won the 2008 research fellowship from the Knowles Foundation for her work on the interpretation of democratic science pedagogy by new science teachers.
She served as co-founder, acting assistant principal and science department chair at the School for Democracy and Leadership in Brooklyn, New York. She co-authored the textbook, "Democratic Science Teaching, Building the Expertise to Empower Low-Income Minority Youth in Science," Sense Publications, 2010. Castilleja School in Palo Alto awarded its Distinguished Alumni award to Jhumki in its centennial year and dedicated a garden in her memory.
Jhumki passed away in December 2008 after a seven year battle with cancer. Columbia University Teachers College felicitated her posthumously with its Early Career Achievement award in 2013.
“A treasured member of our faculty, Jhumki touched countless lives and left an indelible mark on our students and our school. She was a brilliant researcher and educator who, in her all too brief career, achieved great success in advancing the state of Science Education. Her death is a great loss for the field and for all of us who were with her."
Prof Mary Brabeck
Dean, Steinhardt School of Culture, Education and Human Development
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This is a painful week in the United States as we again confront the systemic racism that has plagued our country since its founding. Listening to the conversation on racism taking place right now in response to the recent violent deaths of African Americans is critical, and I encourage readers to hear what Black/African Americans are saying about their experiences.
NIH’s mission is to seek fundamental knowledge about the nature and behavior of living systems and the application of that knowledge to enhance health, lengthen life, and reduce illness and disability. Science has told us repeatedly that systematic, widespread discrimination of Black/African-American people is diametrically opposed to these aims, and what’s more, it is unacceptable and wrong.
The long history of discrimination against racial minorities in America bears directly on NIDA’s mission to address addiction as a disease rather than a moral failing to be dealt with through punishment. Whites and Black/African Americans use drugs at similar rates, but it is overwhelmingly the latter group who are singled out for arrest and incarceration. This use of drug use and addiction as a lever to suppress people of a particular race has had devastating effects on communities of color.
We know that science itself is at its best when it is most inclusive, and humans are best when we embrace diversity. Conversations about systemic racial inequalities can be uncomfortable but are clearly needed. Entrenched, systemic, pervasive racism is perpetuated by silence, and we cannot let it continue. I look forward to working with the addiction science community – researchers, the medical community, law enforcement, advocates, policymakers, other stakeholders and the public – to eradicate discrimination and promote equality.
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Hani Freeman, a research fellow in animal behavior at Disney's Animal Kingdom in Florida, answers:
Evidence indicates that some nonhuman primates can be introverts or extraverts. In humans, introverts tend to spend more time alone focusing on their thoughts and less time engaging in group activities, whereas extraverts are often gregarious and enjoy interacting with their peers. Nonhuman primates also exhibit such qualities.
Recent studies have identified extraversion/introversion in great apes, including chimpanzees, gorillas and orangutans. Chimps exhibiting greater solitary and reserved behaviors are considered more introverted, whereas those that are more playful and interactive fall on the extraverted side of the spectrum. Extraversion/introversion behaviors, such as sociability, have also been identified in species of monkeys.
It is important to note that we are limited in our ability to interpret the behavior of nonhuman primates. Apes can learn to communicate with humans to some degree, but overall, they cannot tell us how they feel, at least not to the extent that humans can.
Caregivers who work regularly with apes offer the best impressions of where apes fall on the extraversion/introversion continuum. In one study conducted at zoological parks around the U.S., caregivers rated specific traits, such as friendliness, on a scale from 1 to 5. Gorillas that caregivers classified as introverts also interacted less with their peers than did their more outgoing counterparts. To eliminate the potential for bias, independent behavioral experts have studied these traits in gorillas and have confirmed these findings from caregivers.
Although current research suggests that human and nonhuman primates exhibit many similarities in introversion and extraversion, research on personality in nonhuman primates is still at its early stages. We have only recently started to understand the advantages of being introverted, for instance. In humans, introverts tend to be better observers and listeners compared with extraverts. In nonhuman primates, however, researchers have not yet identified the advantages of introversion. Future work, scientists hope, will delve more deeply into such personality traits in nonhuman primates—how they evolved and why they are important. | <urn:uuid:51964596-415d-4dbd-aca3-03d641e5d8c4> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/can-monkeys-and-apes-be-introverts/?error=cookies_not_supported&code=f9d14989-83b7-45e3-beac-94c9663b4e41 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573172.64/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818063910-20220818093910-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.954461 | 437 | 3.28125 | 3 |
But this alliance, like its forerunner, was of very short duration.
The Icelandic colony was an interesting forerunner of the American republic, having a prosperous population living under a republican government, and maintaining an independent national spirit for nearly four centuries.
If we add to this logic of " idea," judgment and inference, a doctrine of categories in the modern sense of the word which makes the Theaetetus, in which it first occurs, a forerunner of Kant's Critique of Pure Reason, we have clearly a very significant contribution to logic even in technical regard.
Shortly afterwards this committee became the "International Association of the Congo," which in its turn was the forerunner of the Congo Free State.
Ticknor, Everett and Bigelow were among the members, and were contributors to the organ of the club, the monthly Anthology and Boston Review (1803-1811), the forerunner of the North American Review. | <urn:uuid:55bcb542-6622-4542-bf44-7cf72aa9efcc> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.yourdictionary.com/forerunner | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571538.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812014923-20220812044923-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.973622 | 192 | 2.515625 | 3 |
We are thrilled to share a new paper describing a novel approach to interfere with global microRNA activity in cells and in living animals without affecting miRNA biogenesis or miRNA abundance. You can read the paper on eLife or on bioRxiv, where it was initially posted as a preprint.
At the core of this work is a peptide (T6B) previously generated by Gunter Meister and Tom Tuschl that binds to Argonaute proteins and prevents the assembly of a functional miRISC complex, thus effectively blocking miRNA-mediated gene repression without impairing miRNA biogenesis.
To explore the consequences of miRNA-inhibition in vivo, we have generated a novel genetically engineered mouse strain that expresses the T6B peptide fused to YFP in a doxycycline-inducible manner. By crossing it with an appropriate rtTA expressing strain it is possible to block miRNA function in a tissue-restricted and temporally controlled manner.
The effect is fully reversible, and miRNA biogenesis (or endogenous siRNA function) are not affected. The entity of de-repression of predicted miRNA targets is roughly proportional to the corresponding miRNA family abundance.
Each “bubble” in the plot above is a set of predicted targets of a miRNA family. On the x axis we plotted the average log2 fold change compared to the background(reported as z-score) and on the y-axis is the miRNA family abundance. Using this novel mouse strain we show that although miRNA-mediated repression is required during embryonic development, in many adult tissues it seems largely dispensable under homeostatic conditions, and becomes essential only in after acute damage and during regeneration.
A notable exception is represented by the skeletal muscle and the heart, where even under physiologic conditions T6B induction results in tissue degeneration and death.
We have a ton of follow-up experiments planned and we hope our colleagues interested in the biology of miRNAs will find it useful. As always, the mouse strain will be freely available through @jacksonlab as soon as we have completed the donation process.
Dr. Gaspare La Rocca deserves a special mention as he was the main driver of this project. He came up with the idea, performed—together with Bryan King—most of the key experiments, and persisted through many ups and downs during the past few years. | <urn:uuid:22205bd3-ec63-4024-8546-c2b0c3d4935d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://venturalaboratory.com/2021/06/04/on-the-role-of-mirnas-in-adult-tissues/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572043.2/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814143522-20220814173522-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.950825 | 497 | 2.40625 | 2 |
Mint or pudina is a common feature in Indian drinks and dishes during summers. The cooling properties of the bright green leaves are very well known. Mint leaves are also added to teas, for a soothing elixir. The leaves of the plant are packed with a number of health benefits, from boosting digestion to keeping bad breath away. No wonder it finds its way into a range of cocktails, mocktails, dips and even desserts. But did you know that mint or pudina is very beneficial for the skin as well? When applied on the skin, mint paste can help soothe the skin and keep acne away.
Mint is rich in menthol and also has anti-bacterial properties. Summer is the season when we tend to face a number of skin problems, like frequent acne and pimple breakouts, sun burns and rashes and mint is one ingredient, you can count upon to come to your rescue. From cleansing to toning and hydrating your skin, mint performs a number of functions in a summer face pack.
Here are some mint face packs to try out this summer:
1. Mint and cucumber face pack
Mint and cucumber are both amazing for the skin during summers, for their powerful cooling and hydrating properties. All you need to do for this face pack is take a few fresh pudina leaves and a few slices of cucumber, along with some honey and put them all in a mixer to form a smooth paste. Apply this face pack for about 15 minutes and rinse off with cold water. This removes blemishes and calms inflammation on the skin.
2. Mint and Fuller’s Earth (Multani Mitti) face pack
Fuller’s earth or multani mitti is great for the skin. Add mint leaves to the mix to enhance its cleansing and oil control properties. All you have to do to make this face pack is mix a little bit of multani mitti with honey and curd and throw in some crushed mint leaves. Apply this face pack and leave it on for 20 minutes, or until the pack has completely dried. This face pack is great for cleansing out pores, regulating oily skin and restoring the moisture of the skin.
3.Mint and rosewater face pack
Rosewater is important for maintaining the skin’s pH balance and also controls excess oil. It is also anti-inflammatory. Add mint and honey to a little bit of rose water and apply it to your face for some time. Rinse it off after some time for an even toned, hydrated and soft skin.
4. Mint and turmeric face pack
Turmeric face mask can act on acne and may help reduce the pimples. Because of anti-inflammatory properties, the spice acts on acne scars and can also clear the face. Grind a few fresh and clean mint leaves, with a little bit of water and add just a dash of turmeric to the mix. Apply this face pack on your skin and leave it on for about 15 minutes, before washing it off.
5. Mint, oats and cucumber face scrub
When the skin tends to collect a lot of dirt and oil, bring this face scrub to your rescue. All you need for this cleansing and hydrating scrub is some mint leaves, some unsweetened oats, a few cucumber slices, honey and some milk. Oats are known for their exfoliating action on the skin and can effectively remove dead skin cells from the face. To make this face scrub, mix milk and oats in a bowl, add honey, grated cucumber and crushed mint leaves to it. Mix it all thoroughly and apply the scrub on your face in a gentle circular motion. Once done, rinse off your face and gently dab it with the towel to dry it.
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You can combine several pot stands to fit larger pots and dishes.
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Testing means to scale early childhood development interventions in rural Kenya: the Msingi Bora cluster randomized controlled trial study design and protocol.
- Author(s): Luoto, Jill E;
- Lopez Garcia, Italo;
- Aboud, Frances E;
- Fernald, Lia CH;
- Singla, Daisy R
- et al.
Published Web Locationhttps://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-019-6584-9
BackgroundForty-three percent of children under five in low and middle-income countries (LMICs) experience compromised cognitive and psychosocial development. Early childhood development (ECD) interventions that promote parent-child psychosocial stimulation and nutrition activities can help remediate early disadvantages in child development and health outcomes, but are difficult to scale. Key questions are: 1) how to maximize the reach and cost-effectiveness of ECD interventions; 2) what pathways connect interventions to parental behavioral changes and child outcomes; and 3) how to sustain impacts long-term.
MethodsMsingi Bora ("good foundation" in Swahili) is a multi-arm cluster randomized controlled trial across 60 villages and 1200 households in rural Western Kenya that tests different, potentially cost-effective and scalable models to deliver an ECD intervention in biweekly sessions lasting 7 months. The curriculum integrates child psychosocial stimulation with hygiene and nutrition education. The multi-arm study will test the cost-effectiveness of two models of delivery: a group-based model versus a mixed model combining group sessions with personalized home visits. Households in a third study arm will serve as a control group. Each arm will have 20 villages and 400 households with a child aged 6-24 months at baseline. Primary outcomes are child cognitive and socioemotional development and home stimulation practices. In a 2 × 2 design among the 40 treatment villages, we will also test the role of including fathers in the intervention. We will estimate intention-to-treat and local average treatment effects, and examine mediating pathways using Mediation Analysis. One treatment arm will receive quarterly booster visits for 6 months following the end of the sessions. A follow-up survey 2 years after the end of the main intervention period will examine sustainability of outcomes and any spillover impacts onto younger siblings. Study protocols have been approved by the Maseno Ethics Review Committee (MUERC) in Kenya (00539/18) and by RAND's institutional review board. This study is funded by the National Institute for Child Health and Human Development (R01HD090045).
DiscussionResults can provide policymakers with rigorous evidence of how best to design ECD interventions in low-resource rural settings.
Trial registrationClinical Trial NCT03548558 registered June 7, 2018 at clinicaltrials.gov; AEA-RCT registry AEARCTR-0002913.
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I am a believer that if you study history and learn from the past, then hopefully you don’t make the same mistake twice. In 1920, this country banned alcohol. The law that made that possible was called the Volstead Act. Many of us know it by its more common name-Prohibition. During that time when the average American didn’t own a car, and people barely left the neighborhoods they were born in, this country banned alcohol.
I won’t go into the entire history of the Temperance Movement, but it was part of a grass-roots movement that believed drinking alcohol was a sin and the cause of most of our societal ills. Yes, even in the early 1900s, according to the online Legal Encyclopedia, “the consumption of alcohol was responsible for many personal and societal problems, including unemployment, absenteeism in the workplace, and physical violence. Scores of short stories and books published in the mid-19th century described in dramatic detail the abuse suffered by the families of alcoholics. Alcoholics were characterized as dangerous to themselves, their families, and even their nation’s security.”
According to Wikipedia, Chicago had over 15,000 legal bars before Prohibition. One year later, once Prohibition took effect, the bars were all closed down. In their place were 23,000 speakeasies! Why is the history of Prohibition so important? Because I’ve run into several people who have been expounding that all of our problems on the West Side can be solved if we “close down the liquor stores.”
Now these folks are not saying to close down the bad ones and leave the good ones alone. They want every legitimate business to shut down because of the bad apples. Never mind that banning alcohol in one area still makes it available in another. Never mind that we are a much more mobile society than in 1920. Never mind that information on how to brew your own alcohol can be found at people’s fingertips via the Internet, as well as the ability to purchase it online.
Over the past couple of weeks, I have heard from a number of people who are frustrated by community problems and feel that banning alcohol is the answer. The area I live in has been dry even before I moved into my home over 17 years ago. Yet I still find beer, wine and liquor bottles on the streets and in the alleys. I still see young men walking with a brown bag and taking a swig. So instead of going to a liquor store on my side of North Avenue, all they do is cross the street. So I cannot rightly say what the banning has done on my side, other than to make sure we don’t get a liquor store.
One young man I spoke with mentioned the corner of Augusta and Pulaski. He spoke about a corner store that sold liquor. When the store was open, there was always a crowd of people hanging around it. But once the store closed, you no longer saw people hanging out in front of it.
“Where did the people go?” I asked. He told me he didn’t know, but they were no longer on that corner. So the question is, did closing the liquor store solve the problem or did it simply move it elsewhere? Now mind you, Brother’s Palace bar is half a block south of that corner. It’s still open. I don’t see people hanging out in front of it all day long. It might have other problems, but the question is still valid. Is the problem the liquor or the store?
Would banning all alcohol sales in Austin mean that our problems will immediately be solved? Or will new ones emerge? I remember hearing a while back that a certain ice cream truck was selling frozen drinks instead of soft serve ice cream. I also understand that some young people because of the lack of entertainment places here in Austin have basement parties where they charge admission. If there weren’t any liquor stores, would we have people selling it out of their houses the same way certain houses in Austin are now the drug houses or the houses to buy fireworks?
Now do not take this to mean that I am advocating for the liquor stores. Liquor just like cigarettes are a legal product that we base a lot of our taxable income revenue on. So when that tax base dries up, what will our elected officials tax to replace it? If a single location is the problem, shouldn’t we as a community address that specific problem?
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- The Senate voted unanimously on Tuesday to pass legislation that would make Juneteenth a national holiday.
- The bill was only able to pass after Sen. Ron Johnson, a Wisconsin Republican, ended his efforts to block it.
- The bipartisan bill needs to be passed by the House and signed by President Joe Biden before it becomes law.
The Senate voted unanimously on Tuesday to pass legislation that would make June 19th, known as Juneteenth, a national holiday celebrating the end of slavery in the US.
The bipartisan bill, authored by Democratic Sen. Ed Markey and Republican Sen. John Cornyn, will need to be passed by the House and signed by President Joe Biden before it becomes law, but the Senate's vote marks a significant step forward in the years-long legislative effort.
"Happy that my bill to recognize Juneteenth as a national holiday just passed the Senate. It has been a state holiday in Texas for more than 40 years," Cornyn tweeted on Tuesday. "Now more than ever, we need to learn from our history and continue to form a more perfect union."
The bill was only able to pass after Sen. Ron Johnson, a Wisconsin Republican, ended his efforts to block it, conceding on Tuesday that few of his colleagues have an "appetite" to debate the issue. Johnson argued that it was too costly to give federal government employees an additional day off and has suggested the government remove a federal holiday in exchange for Juneteenth.
No senator objected to Majority Leader Chuck Schumer's request for unanimous consent, despite several Republican senators' previously stated opposition to the legislation.
The Juneteenth holiday celebrates June 19, 1865, when a union general informed African Americans in Galveston, Texas, that they had been emancipated from slavery, two years after the Emancipation Proclamation. The day has been celebrated since the late 1800s. In 1980, Texas became the first state to make Juneteenth a holiday, and now the vast majority of states recognize the day.
Federal lawmakers' efforts to make Juneteenth a federal holiday gained significantly more momentum last year amid the nationwide protests following George Floyd's murder by a Minneapolis police officer.
There are a total of 10 existing federal holidays in the US, which amounts to far fewer annual paid days off than the US's peer countries provide. It's been almost 40 years since the federal government created the last national holiday: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day.
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Serving up slugs for April 29 Field Crops Virtual Breakfast
The Field Crops Virtual Breakfast on April 29, 2021, will feature Ohio State University entomologist Kelley Tilmon discussing slug life cycle, early season impacts on crops, scouting and management strategies.
Slugs can cause significant early season damage in corn and soybean, especially in no-till fields, which provide higher moisture, more moderate soil temperatures and shelter in the residue—all of which favor slugs. Slugs are present in fields all season long, but they cause more impactful damage when plants are small. Insecticides don’t work on slugs because they are molluscs. Baited pellets are the best products, but they aren’t a silver bullet, and they are expensive. One surprising fact is that insecticidal seed treatments such as Cruiser can actually make slug problems worse!
Want to learn more? The free Field Crops Virtual Breakfast on April 29, 2021, will feature Ohio State University entomology specialist Kelley Tilmon discussing slugs, how they can impact our main field crops this spring, and some effective management strategies.
The Michigan State University Extension Field Crops Virtual Breakfast Series are held every week during the growing season via Zoom video or phone conference. These virtual meetings will take place every Thursday morning from 7-8 a.m. April 1 through Sept. 23, 2021. Restricted use pesticide (RUP) credits and Certified Crop Advisor (CCA) CEUs are available for attendees who attend the live meeting.
Participating is easy and free! You can join the live meeting via Zoom using a computer, tablet, mobile device or regular phone line. If you are new to Zoom, simply download the Zoom app and you will be ready to join online every week to see visuals shared by presenters. A call-in by phone option is also available but note that you will only hear the audio portion.
Participants must sign up to receive an email notification with instructions for joining the Virtual Breakfast. You only need to do this once and you will receive the Zoom link and call-in phone number, as well as weekly reminders every Wednesday. Participants receiving emails can opt in or out at any time.
If you cannot participate in the live session at 7 a.m., you can view the recorded version at any time. However, only the live session will be eligible for RUP and CCA credits. Recordings will be closed-captioned and available at the Field Crops Virtual Breakfast webpage and the MSU Extension Field Crops Team social media platforms: Facebook, Spotify, YouTube, Apple Podcasts and Twitter.
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Engaged In The Retail Stores Operation Management Essay
In the beginning in 1962, Wal-Mart founder, Sam Walton, who opened the companys first discount store in Rogers, Ark. In October 1969, Wal-Mart officially incorporated its business and operates over 4150 retail facilities globally. At the year of 1962, Wal-Mart has its competitors- KMart and Target. Walton studied his competitors and borrowed liberally. In the United States, Wal-Mart is the largest retail store. It mainly has its retail store in Canada, Mexico, and the United Kingdom. (“Walmart Corporate, 2012)
Throughout the United States, Wal-Mart is engaged in the retail stores operation. Wal-Mart is most practicing mode of entry which is wholly-owned subsidiary and joint ventures globally currently. In China, Wal-Mart is practicing joint venture and acquisition entry modes (Hornblower, 2004). Wal-Mart needs to be careful in choosing the appropriate strategy in order to develop the future expansion successfully.
Wal-Mart operate its business is because it wants to save people money tend to help them live better. It continues to deliver that promise to families around the globe. Therefore, Wal-Mart works harder to do their part in protecting our planet and conserving our natural resources (“Walmart Corporate, 2012).
Joint Venture is an entry strategy for a single target country in which the partners share ownership of a newly created business entity (Warren & Mark, 2011). This means that Wal-Mart joint venture with local partner and local parent earn more than 51 percent share attributed to China’s government policy. Through joint venture, Wal-Mart may able to share the risk with the local partner and it can limit financial risk as well in 1996 (“Wal-Mart’s Strategies in China”, 2005). Wal-Mart joint venture expands their strategy in order to gain successful entry into many of its international markets (Marcus, Jon, Wayne, and Constince, 2007). Wal-Mart may able to gain access, increase profitability, enhance global market share and explore into more global market (Gary and Ryan, n.d.).
However, Wal-Mart may enter the new market quickly, avoiding costs and risks of new product development, gaining market share and acquiring new knowledge and capabilities. In 2007, Wal-Mart successfully acquired Trust-Mart. Wal-Mart has been established the brand name of Trust-Mart (David, 2007).
Current Expansion Strategy
Joint Ventures and Acquisition in China
Today, Wal-Mart is one of the leading international retailers in China. It is also one of the largest international retailers in China. It is estimated that the firm will have 150,000 employees in its stores and warehouses in China alone by 2010. China is the largest emerging market, and Wal-Mart could expand their business rapidly. Wal-Mart has followed much of this expansion in China through joint ventures because of government restricted foreign retailer not to own a store. Therefore, Wal-Mart followed government policy strictly (DePamphilis, 2009).
Learning about a market through a joint venture is a particularly powerful motivator when a firm seeks to enter an emerging or developing market. When Wal-Mart entered China, partnered with local firms in the new cities, tend to enter to learn about their challenging environment and distribution system (Jim, 2004). The nature of China is that the culture and political power can vary widely from one major city to another. Hence, joint ventures in such situations allow Wal-Mart to learn about the local “system,” such as legal standards, consumer characteristics, labor markets, and building relationships with the government and local distributors (Hornblower, 2004).
China is the cheapest workshop and emerging market in Asia, so it would like to attract Wal-Mart to invest in its country. Wal-Mart tend to enter the emerging market is because it operates on a smaller scale in new market before making a more significant investment. Apart from that, Wal-Mart divides the responsibilities and liabilities with others to keep a minimum cost. It also combines assets and skill-sets with other companies. (Wal-Mart Store Inc., 2010 Annual Report)
China could offer the opportunity to foreign firm operated with no taxes on foreign business for the first few years of operation. Therefore, Wal-Mart caught a chance and tends to expand their business into China. (Hornblower, 2004)
One of the reason Wal-Mart expand their business to China because the impact of competition and the restriction and lowered the market trade barrier caused U.S operation could not control attributable to the faster growth of Wal-Mart. Moreover, due to China has the strong economic growth and it has 1.3 billion population of people and also cheap labor they could provide. It would compete with Carrefour, Tesco and Metro more easily because China removed all limits on business location, amount and share structure. Therefore, Wal-Mart endeavors to gain a better marker share in China’s $240 billion retail market. (“Wal-Mart Bulks up China Expansion Strategy”, 2005)
Wal-Mart entered China through this entry mode is successfully. China could offer a way of getting around high Chinese tariffs, allowing a company to gain a competitive price advantage over imports. (Philip, Mary and John, 2009) China government has provided Wal-Mart the benefits of synergy which the local partner providing the access to the Government officials and market information besides sharing the risk.
Acording to (Gerald and Edwin, 2008), sales and profits of the joint venture may be greater than those of a subsidiary, because the operation is looked upon with more favor by nationalist-oriented consumers than would be the case if it were considered a foreign operation. Therefore, Wal-Mart could be sustained its growth and sales will be increased through this joint venture.
Stern and Stalk (1998) found that the expansion in China has been proven Wal-Mart could reduce stock-carrying and transportation costs and increase profitability by 2.5 percent compared with their competitors.
However, through the joint venture with local partners, Wal-Mart is able to gain valuable knowledge on Chinese market, economic and political conditions. Joint Ventures are really a good option for their expansion since China’s government regulated the foreign retailers enters China market should use joint venture strategy. This could allow Wal-Mart apply the valuable resource to improve market, economic as well as political condition (Clem, 2009).
There is also an acquisition Trust-Mart in China which bought 35 percent of its shares. Trust-Mart is one of the leading retailers in Chinese market. Wal-Mart is willing to acquire and invest huge amount of capital because Trust-Mart has several number of stores. In addition, Trust-Mart also is leading position in China. This could enable Wal-Mart to capture much more competitive advantages in China. (Lee, 2011)
Indeed, Wal-Mart’s retail footprint could become doubled where taking full control of Trust-Mart. At the same time, China tends to develop its economy sustainably in promoting the domestic consumption (David, 2007). This acquisition helped Trust-Mart expand on the Chinese mainland. Nowaday, it had more than 100 retail outlets in 34 cities on the mainland and employed more than 30,000 employees (Li, 2011).
Wal-Mart planned to acquire the rest of the Trust-Mart, but the plan has been delayed because of several top executive resigned in 2010. This caused to Wal-Mart unable to acquire Trust-Mart the rest of the share (Li, 2011). Through this acquisition, Wal-Mart’s sale is less than 3 percent of its sales in America (“Walmart v Wumart, 2011).
Future Expansion Strategy
According to Bishop (2006), a firm’s entry mode is how to enter the foreign market, and how to make its goods or services available to foreign customers. Basically, there are six different modes for a multinational firm to choose, such as licensing, exporting, turnkey project, joint venture, franchising and wholly-owned subsidiary (Hill, 2004).
The current entry mode of Wal-Mart in China is through joint venture with Shenzhen International Trust & Investment Co., Ltd, China due to the government restriction on foreign ownership. But joint venture benefits Wal-Mart from knowledge of the host country’s competitive conditions, political systems, language, culture, and business system. However, joint venture could bring negative effect to Wal-Mart because it has a risk of giving control its technology to its partner when it entry into a joint venture and it would also caused to conflict happen when the shared ownership arrangement is different and the goals and objectives is change. Hence, it is important for Wal-Mart to convert its entire joint venture stores into wholly-owned subsidiary.
In order to completely convert into wholly-owned firm, the very first step that Wal-Mart should take into consideration is acquiring its partner – Trust-mart. By acquisition, Wal-Mart is able to reduce risk over losing control and tighten control over operation in country and by the way maximize the profits. It is possible for Wal-Mart to acquire Trust-mart because China had lighten the limitations towards foreign company after joining WTO in year 2001 and after so many years operation in China, Wal-Mart is know well about the cultures and customer preferences in that country. At the same time, the large number of stores and leading position of Trust-mart in China makes the strong attraction for Wal-Mart to acquire. Undoubtedly, this acquisition would help Wal-Mart to capture more competitive advantage in China.
The successful role models of acquisition that can be benchmark by Wal-Mart were the acquisition done by it in Canada and European countries. The company entering Canada by acquiring 122 Woolco stores in 1994. Due to continuously suffering a loss in Canadian operation, Wal-Mart quickly restructured the operation by applying the practices that had been successful in United States and the action taken was profitable. And the acquisition made in Germany and United Kingdom in year 1998 and 1999 also proved to be successful where it allowed Wal-Mart to build market share quickly within the highly developed and competitive European market. (Source: Wal-Mart takes on the world)
Besides that, Wal-Mart should also build up a partnership or joint venture with local supplier in near future to ensure the flexibility, freshness of the foods and understand more about customers’ needs and tastes. It is because the strategy adopted in United States may not be fitted in China. The Chinese consumers are more prefer to consume fresh food rather than frozen food. A good example can be follow is Carrefour; it did a great job on building partnership and direct sourcing agreement with local suppliers. It focuses on locally sourced products, especially regarding fresh food. It also rely them to distribute goods directly to stores. A greater emphasis on partnerships with farmers enables Carrefour to have better control over food quality, and to reduce buying costs. Finally, it proved to be more flexible to customers than any others do.
Additionally, joint venture with local suppliers and purchase locally not only create flexible to customers, at the same time also reduce the costs in development than having joint venture with Investment Company. As deeply understand of the customers around, local suppliers have more experiences about the customers which are more accurately than foreign companies.
Lastly, another future expansion that would recommend to Wal-Mart is through mergers. According to Valentine (n.d.), successful mergers businesses are reaping benefits and gain more profits. Therefore, a merger with Trust-mart and any other giant company in China may help Wal-Mart to obtain quality staffs and knowledge or additional skills to cope with different in culture and customer preference. Apart from this, merging also provide Wal-Mart the opportunity to increase market share and expand to new geographical areas and sectors. The best evidence to illustrate was Carrefour making its first merging with NextMart Shanghai store after entering the China retail market for more than ten years. This movement had marked a basic change in their expansion strategy and indicated the second climax of Carrefour expansion in China. (Sources¼šwww.China-cbn.com, 2007)
Wholly-owned subsidiary in Philippine
We would like to recommend Wal-Mart to expand their operation in Philippine. Philippine is one of the richest and developing countries in Asia. We suggest Wal-Mart using wholly owned subsidiary. This is because under the Retail Trade liberalization Act (RA 8762), this law indicates that foreigners may own up to 100 percent of a store with pad-in capital of the Peso equivalent of USD $7.5 million. This mean that Wal-Mart could paid up capitalization of USD $7.5, wholly own a firm in Philippine (Abigail, 2011). It is more suitable using wholly-owned subsidiary which is acquired a Philippine’s local firm.
According to Philip et al. (2009), wholly-owned subsidiary could develop its operation with a greater control and higher profit compare with other entry mode strategy. However, this strategy has a higher risk. In another word, higher risk will get high return. Besides that, through the wholly-owned subsidiary, Wal-Mart could also state-of-the art technology hence resulting in increased operational efficiency. Wal-Mart could offer control over the local firm.
In addition, Wal-Mart has its wholly-owned operations in Canada, Brazil and Argentina, there are extremely successful since Wal-Mart has past experience operate in these Country. For instance, Wal-Mart successfully became a wholly owned subsidiary in Japan, Seiyu recent year. (“Walmart Corporate, 2012). Wal-Mart could learn the strategy same as in Japan because Wal-Mart has its experience and knowledge to use this entry mode into Japan.
Wal-Mart can form a new firm or find a local company to do the business. By doing this way, Wal-Mart could earn a valuable knowledge from local partner since they operated in Philippine several years because they know the economic, government policy, consumer buying pattern and consumer purchasing power (Gerald and Edwin, 2008). For instance, David and Gary (2010) found that Wal-Mart often acquires ongoing firm as they move into a new market. Wal-Mart’s 2005 acquisition of controlling interest in the Central American Retail Holding Company helped Wal-Mart acquire valuable knowledge about this important market.
Retail trade in Philippine is very vital and essential in order to boom the economy. Thus, Philippine’s government encourage foreign retail to invest in their country. In view of the fact that Wal-Mart is giving the low price of the retail grocery service for Pilipino, this would more satisfy them to buy Wal-Mart’s products (“Retailing in the Philippines”, 2002).
The reason we recommend for Wal-Mart to expand in Philippine due to Philippine is an open economy which is freely and business-friendly economy. Government also gives multinational company some incentives such as tax exemptions and tax and duty-free importation of particular materials and equipment. Aside from tax and government incentive, Philippine has a strategic business location which suitable for European and American businesses to operate their business there (“Why do business in the Philippines”, n.d.).
Joint venture in Malaysia
Furthermore, as many foreign retailers looked forward to invest in Malaysia because of the purchasing power of local consumers, we recommend that Wal-Mart can expand their business in Malaysia in the future. However, Malaysia has restricted and controlled the foreign hypermarkets to expand and enter to the local market in order to protect smaller local businesses over recent years. But some of the major foreign retailers such as Carrefour, Tesco, Giant, and Isetan have operated and doing well in Malaysia. Wal-Mart can try to enter Malaysia’s market because the entry of foreign giant retailer would bring benefit for both parties including the profit for Wal-Mart itself, and at the same time create job opportunities for the local workers. Furthermore, other than create job opportunities; the entry of Wal-Mart will also make the retail market more competitive and simultaneously benefit consumers by providing additional place to shop.
Moreover, we recommend Wal-Mart to apply joint venture as the entry mode into Malaysia retail market. Wal-Mart can try to joint venture with the local giant enterprise such as Berjaya Group, YTL, and IOI Corporation. However, Wal-Mart normally applies acquisition to enter into the countries. Unfortunately, Malaysia government has restricted and tightly controlled the entry of foreign retailers. Before that, Wal-Mart has tried to enter into Malaysia but have been rejected because the government realizes that the entry of Wal-Mart into Malaysia will greatly affect the local retailers. Moreover, Wal-Mart is able to provide the goods to the customers at a very low price because its business model is very efficient, but the low price of Wal-Mart has threaten the small local retailers as they may not able to fight the lower price with Wal-Mart and their business will be greatly affected, at the same time unable to survive.
The reason we recommend Wal-Mart to expand by using joint venture in Malaysia is because the minister of Malaysia stressed that Wal-Mart is not allowed to operate new retail stores or hypermarkets at their own discretion. However, according to Vivian (2007), Malaysian authority was planning to loosen the limitations on foreign hypermarket so as to attract foreign direct investment in Malaysia retail market. Therefore, Wal-mart might have an opportunity to expand into Malaysia. In order to successfully enter into Malaysia, Wal-Mart should joint venture with Berjaya Group to open a new store named as Berjaya-Mart as Berjaya Group is one of the successful companies. Through joint venture, Berjaya-Mart is able to access larger markets because Berjaya Group provides larger geographical markets and customer bases. Furthermore, Berjaya-Mart is new to the market and may need to spend a lot and the process is complicated. Through joint venture can helps to overcome some of the problems such as government regulation, direct financial losses, operating complexity, and reduce the cost of entry. Moreover, start a business in a new country might confront with political factors and the strict rules and regulations by the national government. Joint venture will help Berjaya-Mart to penetrate into the local market in Malaysia.
In conclusion, China is always an attractive market among countries for foreign investment. Although the retail market in China has a great potential, but the competition is very fierce from both local Chinese retailers and foreign retailers. However, Wal-Mart was a well-known company which with high reputation in global. Wal-Mart will continue to success in the future in China is mostly depend on the future expansion and their market strategy. As mentioned above, other than joint venture, we were recommended that Wal-Mart can try to use wholly-owned subsidiaries, partnerships, and merger. The wholly-owned subsidiaries from both acquisition and Greenfield investment will create advantage and help to expand in the future. Acquisition helps Wal-Mart to access and enter foreign market quickly and a way to achieve greater market power. Wal-Mart applies acquisition to achieve the larger market power to consent to exercise of a core competency and capture competitive advantage in global market. Although it is high risk due the potential high cost, but it is the most probable to provide above average return. However, for partnerships is somewhat easy to establish, Wal-Mart able to get fresh products much more easily through partnership with the local suppliers. Partnerships can help Wal-Mart to save cost as each partner specializes in certain aspects of their business.
Undoubtedly, more and more foreign investment including Wal-Mart has come into China, and they usually bring advanced technologies and also management knowledge. Moreover, some of these foreign entrants are successful in the worldwide. Expansion of Wal-Mart in China is one of the successful examples of foreign investment and can be learned by other firms. However, some business models which successful in other countries may not be successful in China. In order to success in China, both internal resources and external environment are critically important for Wal-Mart.
Moreover, Wal-Mart can be so successful today in worldwide, there must a reason behind, which is Wal-Mart able to implement monitoring measures consistently in their operations and performances of their employees and managers that sent to China. Furthermore, American’s culture and Chinese’s culture is greatly different, but Wal-Mart is able to adapt speedily to the Chinese culture, fulfill requirements while carrying out their responsibilities, and get appreciation of the exclusive processes of doing business in China. However, there is also a lot space for further improvement of Wal-Mart’s strategies and future expansion.Order Now | <urn:uuid:e8082964-ed1f-4d79-8b74-382550016830> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://customwritings.co/engaged-in-the-retail-stores-operation-management-essay/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571538.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812014923-20220812044923-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.962062 | 4,243 | 2.375 | 2 |
The peak body for road transport companies in Western Australia has warned the nation faces another AdBlue shortage unless the federal government supports new onshore manufacturing.
- Late last year there were fears Australia's supply chain would be crippled by a shortage of AdBlue
- The problem was solved in part by domestic production, but that manufacturer is set to shut down operations at the end of the year
- Transport and farming organisations say it's time to start planning ahead
Technically known as diesel exhaust fluid, AdBlue is an anti-pollutant added to most modern diesel engines, including in trucks and some farm equipment.
There was a national shortage of it late last year when China stopped exporting urea, the key ingredient in AdBlue.
In response, the Morrison government tipped almost $30 million into Incitec Pivot to ramp up AdBlue manufacturing at its facility in Queensland which catered to most of Australia's requirements.
But Incitec Pivot Limited (IPL) will close the Australian facility at the end of the year and cease manufacturing AdBlue.
Western Roads Federation chief executive Cam Dumesny said Australia was facing another shortage and potential bowser price increases unless another domestic manufacturing solution was created before the end of the year.
He said the price of AdBlue doubled this year and without onshore production Australia's freight and agricultural industries were "vulnerable" to global supply disruptions.
"The Australian Trucking Association, ourselves and other associations have asked the federal government to start planning what are we going to do about securing supply when that plant closes," Mr Dumesny said.
"With fairness to the new government, they are only just in — but it is an issue and we need to start planning for it now."
In a statement IPL said it would proceed with a plan announced last November to cease operating at Gibson Island on December 31, 2022.
"The decision to end manufacturing was made reluctantly due to being unable to secure affordable feedstock gas supply from the east coast gas market," the statement said.
"Since January, significant quantities of Australia's AdBlue supply have been manufactured and distributed by IPL.
"Importantly, our AdBlue production has had no impact on the supply of fertilisers relied on by Australian farmers."
Mr Dumesny said he was not aware of any urea being manufactured to the grade required to produce AdBlue anywhere else in Australia.
"We are very much behind the concept of onshore manufacturing, identifying our sovereign capabilities," he said.
"I consider that AdBlue should be part of that.
"There are people who have gone and turned the AdBlue system off — they risk serous fines, because it increases emissions and they're in breach of the emissions controls that are regulated."
Mr Dumesny said if Australia returned to buying AdBlue on the global market prices were likely to increase.
"If it was going to decrease [in price] we'd already be importing it," he said.
'Cost of farming crisis'
The National Farmers Federation (NFF) is also concerned about future supply of AdBlue and other critical farm inputs.
Acting chief executive Charles Thomas said the organisation would be horrified to see domestic production close off without a plan in place.
"It is not just AdBlue adding pressure to farmers' bottom lines — it is a whole series of things that are compounding to create what is almost, at this point, a cost of farming crisis in Australia," Mr Thomas said.
The NFF is calling for the federal government to use part of its $500m national reconstruction fund to support the domestic supply and manufacturing of AdBlue.
"If resilient supply required local subsidisation of the industry, then that is something that we think we'd have to support," Mr Thomas said.
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WORK-FOCUSED INTERVENTIONS FOR DEPRESSION: Final ReportAmong employed adults, major depression is a leading cause of work absences (absenteeism) and impaired work performance (presenteeism) as well as short-term and long-term work disability. Depression is one of the largest and fastest growing categories of work disability claims filings in the public and private disability insurance sectors. Work loss has a range of adverse economic and human consequences for affected workers and their families, employers, insurers, and federal disability programs. In the commercially insured United States population, individuals with depression are among the costliest of all illness groups, and most of the costs of depression are directly related to employment (i.e., cost attributable to days absent from work and poor work performance). Despite advances in depression detection, diagnosis, and treatment, most adults with depression receive no care or suboptimal treatment. Research also shows that depression treatment by itself, even when it reduces symptoms, does not adequately restore work functioning. Because untreated depression results in enormous costs to companies, due to decreased performance, absenteeism, and disability, employers have reason to invest in work-based depression interventions. Indeed, for many employees and their dependents, employment provides a gateway to depression care. Care may be provided directly (e.g., an employee assistance program [EAP] offering on-site services) or indirectly (e.g., through an employer-sponsored insurance plan). We refer to these collectively as work-based depression care. Little is known, however, about the prevalence, quality, and effectiveness of these work-based interventions. | <urn:uuid:61b35c52-972e-4f34-8707-694edfe1ebf5> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://archive.hshsl.umaryland.edu/handle/10713/39/browse?type=subject&value=Intervention | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572043.2/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814143522-20220814173522-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.955326 | 354 | 1.515625 | 2 |
Science Hall Construction July 7, 1935
Campus buildings<br>Building construction
A view looking west during the construction of Science Hall, WSU Building #32 (the structure's frame is partially complete-rising four stories). In the foreground are a series of greenhouses, now replaced by Todd Hall. In the left portion, next to the construction zone, is the newly finished Fulmer Hall. To the right is Ad Annex. A smokestack is visible as is the cupola of Ferry Hall with Pullman in the background. Automobiles, construction materials, and a lifting tower are also present. Known as New Science until 1947, Science Hall was designed by Rigg and Vantyne at a cost of $270,000.
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I have put together another fun list of letter recognition activities, this time for the letter "A". These alphabet activities are nature-based learning and coordinated well with an outdoor learning environment. The activities will be ranged from letter activities for 3-year old to preschool and a few for toddlers as well. You'll find some cool ideas on how to teach your child to recognize the letters of the alphabet and the sound/symbol correlation". The benefits of nature theme learning allow your child to disconnect from technology and get back to the basics. I've even included some printable alphabet activities and letter A games.
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Tracing Letters with Seeds by Mom Inspired Life
Practice the Writing the Letter "A"
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I'm Aimee, former Early Childhood Educator and Reading Specialist turned author, speaker, blogger, and mom of 5. This website is meant to inspire & equip parents of little ones to promote early literacy & language development at home. You will also find fun crafts, devotionals, and recipes to explore..
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Creating guides for seed collectors
There is a pressing need for agriculture to adapt to climate change, and learning more about wild relatives of crop plants could help us achieve this.
If you had to collect seeds from a particular species within a particular country, how would you know exactly where to go? How would you distinguish the species you were targeting from its close relatives? How would you know when the seeds would be ripe? Researching the answers to these questions is a key step in the collection of all types of seeds, and for the Crop Wild Relatives project at Kew we create collection guides (a kind of bespoke field guide) with all the information seed collectors need.
Crop wild relatives (usually abbreviated to CWR) are wild plant species that share a common ancestor with cultivated crop plants. Throughout the history of agriculture, crop plants have become more and more genetically uniform through selective breeding for traits like high yield. By contrast, CWR species have been exposed to selection in their native range and retain a high degree of genetic diversity, so they retain genes that could allow them to adapt to environmental change. This has potential benefits for agriculture if those traits can be bred back into crop plants. Many CWR species are under threat in their natural habitats, so storing their seeds in seed banks is also a form of ex situ conservation, allowing them to be reintroduced into the wild as well as being available for scientific research.
The Crop Wild Relatives project
The Crop Wild Relatives project is led by Kew’s Millennium Seed Bank and the Global Crop Diversity Trust, and is funded by the Norwegian government. There is also a large (and growing) list of international partners. The project works within the framework and governance of the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (2001), to which the UK is a party, and which provides for access and benefit sharing of the genetic material of crops. The treaty sets out which crop gene pools are of high importance for food security and the CWR project focuses on 29 of those, the majority of which are grasses (such as wheat, rice and oats) and legumes (for example chickpea, lentil and alfalfa). The genera we work with are well-studied; they have stable taxonomies and at least reasonably good phylogenies so the relationships between the crop species and the other species in the genus are understood.
In the research phase of the project, the partners (which include the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) and the University of Birmingham) agreed which CWR species would be a priority for collection (Vincent et al., 2013). In addition, a gap analysis was carried out to find which countries and regions have the highest CWR species richness and where ex situ conservation efforts were already in place. Armed with this information, we can produce a collection guide.
Inside the collecting guide
Data for all the CWR species on the project list are stored in the database program BRAHMS, which allows us to generate dynamic field guides by extracting the information for the subset of species for a particular country and placing it in a template for publication. This semi-automates the process and saves production time and cost. We provide a description for each species in a standard Flora style, because the users of the guides are scientists rather than the general public. We also highlight the key features that distinguish the target species from its close relatives in that region and provide additional information like phenology, habitat and altitude range and a suggested seed collecting technique to ensure high quality collections.
Most Floras display distribution maps as a series of points, usually based on locations of herbarium collections, which are useful because the points are verifiable. In addition to point maps, we use data provided by CIAT, who use MaxEnt modelling within a Geographical Information System, to produce predicted distribution maps. They then cross-reference those maps with records of collections already in seed banks and other ex situ collections to produce a map of where the gaps in collections of each species are, so that seed collections can be targeted to populations not already represented within seed banks.
Arguably the most used part of a field guide is the images (the temptation to play 'snap' with the plant in hand and the images in the guide can be quite strong), and images of live plants are often preferred by users. However, images must be authoritatively named to species to be of any use in a field guide, so images from herbarium specimens identified by an expert can sometimes be more useful, if less attractive, than those from live plants. Species that are very rare or have a restricted range have often never been photographed, so images from a dried specimen are the only option in those cases.
Crop wild relative seeds are a largely untapped resource for crop improvement, but their potential is immense. In the short term, crop wild relatives are already being used to improve commercial crops. One example is the use of Helianthus paradoxus, a threatened species of sunflower from the USA, being hybridised with domesticated sunflower to increase its yield in salt-impacted soils (Hajjar & Hodgkin, 2007). In the longer term, wild relatives are a reservoir of diversity that could allow us to adapt agriculture to climate change and feed the growing human population, if we can collect, document and conserve them effectively.
Dempewolf, H., Eastwood, R.J., Guarino, L., Khoury, C.K., Müller, J.V. & Toll, J. (2014). Adapting agriculture to climate change: a global initiative to collect, conserve and use crop wild relatives. Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems 38(4):369–377. Available online
Hajjar, R. & Hodgkin, T. (2007). The use of wild relatives in crop improvement: a survey of developments over the last 20 years. Euphytica 156: 1–13. Available online
Ramírez-Villegas, J., Khoury, C., Jarvis, A., Debouck, D.G. & Guarino, L. (2010). A gap analysis methodology for collecting crop genepools: a case study with Phaseolus Beans. PLoS ONE 5(10): e13497. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0013497. Available online
Vincent, H. et al. (2013). A prioritized crop wild relative inventory to help underpin global food security. Biological Conservation 167: 265–275. Available online | <urn:uuid:429477e5-e264-4bea-b561-ab5607abfda7> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.kew.org/read-and-watch/crop-wild-guides-for-seed-collectors | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571911.5/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813081639-20220813111639-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.924202 | 1,358 | 3.796875 | 4 |
It is only through membership and volunteerism that our profession has come so far.
On March 28, 2019, Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham signed into law HB308, establishing dental therapy. It was the culmination of many years of working with legislators, coalitions groups, the dental association and many others too numerous to mention. Special thanks to our lobbyist Debbie Maestas Traynor, hygienists throughout the state, and our bill sponsors Doreen Gallegos, Gail Armstrong, Benny Shendo, and Dennis Roch.
Preparation for a dental therapy program in New Mexico is in the very preliminary stages. Groundwork to meet accreditation standards, develop curriculum and assess funding is being explored.
The statute requires dental therapy educational programs in New Mexico to be accredited by the Commission on Dental Accreditation (CODA). Any institution of higher education can apply for the CODA accreditation. According to CODA, the curriculum must include at least three academic years of full time instruction or its equivalent with consideration given to dental hygienists for advanced standing; thus, the length of a dental therapy program could vary depending on how the institution structures its educational program. Dental therapists in New Mexico are required to be dental hygienists.
Dental hygienists are looking forward to the practicing as dental therapists in New Mexico. We believe it will greatly increase the capacity to treat and prevent dental disease in New Mexico especially among the underserved and most vulnerable populations in the state.
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Straight-through wire drawing machine is a product with good efficiency in the current wire drawing machine equipment. The drawn wire has good quality and strong cooling. It is a product with a very large sales volume. The advantages of the straight wire drawing machine are its high production efficiency, low production cost, and very high metal wire standards.
Straight wire drawing machine is mainly composed of pay-off equipment, drawing equipment and take-up equipment in the process of making. The pay-off equipment is composed of two duckbill-type big-disc pay-off machines, each with a large load-bearing capacity of up to 2.5 tons. When in use, the line end of a blank being used is connected to the thread end of another spare blank. When the blank being used is used up, it is automatically transferred to the other plate and the line is released without stopping.
Straight wire drawing unit is also equipped with a heavy I-shaped wheel pay-off device to meet different pay-off requirements. The drawing equipment is composed of 9 dry drawing units. In order to facilitate the replacement of the disk when the heavy plate heavy industry wheel is put out, there is no need to stop the wheel and change the wheel. One drawing unit is designed as a pulley type, and the rest are all Straight forward.
The mold of the straight-drawing wire drawing machine mainly adopts the forced water cooling method, so that it can take away the heat in a short time to a certain extent, and ensure the hardness of the mold during high-speed drawing. It also means that effective cooling is one of the prerequisites for high-speed drawing.
The wire take-up part of the straight-type wire drawing machine can also meet the requirements of the rewinding of the large reel of the spool, the rewinding of the large reel of the wire rack, and the binding of the ordinary small disk. In practical work, this straight-type wire drawing machine can also be switched at any time according to different take-up requirements, which improves work efficiency.
Some small knowledge points of straight wire drawing machine
1. How to check whether the straight wire drawing machine matches the motor? Mainly look at the specific model and product specifications of the wire drawing machine.
2. What are the requirements of the diameter drawing machine for the craftsman? The diameter wire drawing machine has certain requirements for the operation technicians, so as to avoid blind or erroneous operation, thereby damaging the machine equipment and even causing personal injury.
3. How often is the straight wire drawing machine maintained? The warranty of the straight-type wire drawing machine plays a very important role in the life of the equipment, and it is usually carried out once a month. Shut down first, and then proceed. | <urn:uuid:232927b1-d565-43b4-a6b5-1795cece2b83> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.china-equipments.com/Water-cooling-method-and-pay-off-requirements-of-straight-type-wire-drawing-machine-id42101887.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572043.2/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814143522-20220814173522-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.947693 | 595 | 2.140625 | 2 |
I want to see the atom trajectory of my LAMMPS simulation，but the displacement amplitude is too small to figure out the trajectory. I wonder how to amplify the amplitude to show the trajectory more apparently? Just like the image below:
Thank you again!
Generally, you can deactivate the Particles visual element and also change the line width of the trajectory lines.
Alternatively, you could rescale the simulation cell using an Affine Trajectory Modifier before generating the trajectory lines. Does that work for you?
Thank you very much!
I think it will solve my problem. Thanks again
I just realized that my previous post might not answer your question correctly because rescaling the simulation cell would also rescale the distances between the different starting points of the spiral trajectories.
So here would be another alternative to go about this: Before generating the trajectory lines, please first calculate the particle displacement vectors and then overwrite the particle positions in each frame using a Compute Property Modifier as shown in attached screenshot.
Thank you kalcher!
I’m trying to show the trajectory, maybe there is problem remaining. I will reply to you, thank you for your help!
Hey Kalcher, there is a problem: when I input the expression"Position.X+Displacement.X*50", it will report error：“Unexpected token “Displacement.X” found at position 11.” like the below image. How to fix it? Thanks a lot!
Here is how you should set up your pipeline. Note that the order of the modifiers in the pipeline is important.
- First calculate the Displacements Vectors by applying a Displacement vectors modifier to your pipeline. You should set the frame offset to -1 for the reference animation frame.
- Now you can use the Compute property modifier to modify the particle positions as shown in above screenshot. (The Output Property needs to be “Position” not Displacement.)
- Finally you can generate the Trajectory lines using a Generate trajectory lines modifier
Thank you ! Finally I solved this problem! It is very funny that I thought the right order in the pipeline is from top to bottom. Actually the opposite is true. Thanks again! | <urn:uuid:ea715fc8-77fe-4cb5-b467-13bce9793063> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://matsci.org/t/how-to-amplify-the-displacement-display-in-ovito/43131 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571210.98/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810191850-20220810221850-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.867073 | 480 | 1.890625 | 2 |
"We're here to heal": Families walk to remember infants gone too soon
Families gathered at Mercy Medical Center on Sunday to commemorate the lives of infants who died too young.
It was the 18th annual "Walk to Remember," an event hosted by the Mercy Perinatal Hospice and Bereavement Center to grieve and remember.
"It's a place for families who have lost children as either infants or pre-born to realize that they're not in the situation alone," said Darin Wohlgemuth, 49, of Kelly, Iowa.
It's a situation that the Wohlgemuth family faced years ago. Darin and Deanna Wohlgemuth had three children, but their fourth, Noah, was diagnosed in utero with kidney failure. "There was no chance of survival after birth," said Darin, Noah's father.
Miraculously, Noah did survive the birth. Darin and Deanna Wohlgemuth, along with their three kids, were able to spend an hour and a half with Noah before he died.
Afterward, they said, they felt isolated. But they'd learned about the "Walk to Remember" through one of the organizers, Ann Valdez, a Bereavement and Perinatal Hospice Coordinator at Mercy’s Women & Infants’ Center.
"They [parents] don't have anywhere safe to go and talk about their baby who has died," said Valdez, who has helped plan the event all 18 years. "We want to give them dignity and space to remember."
The solution was a "Walk to Remember," which welcomes families who have lost an infant through miscarriage, ectopic pregnancy or soon after birth. The Wohlgemuth family attended for the first time the year Noah died and has returned every year since — even taking on a planning role.
"We see the value of it when families come and form a connection with the community," Darin said.
This year's theme, "In the Garden," focused on healing and recognizing the gifts left behind by the infant.
Children painted rocks to commemorate their lost siblings, and families attended an ecumenical service. The service included Bible verses, stories about grief and healing, a performance by the East High School Advanced Hand Bell Ensemble and a song called "O Precious Child."
Following the ceremony, the group of nearly 200 walked in a processional around the outside of Mercy until they reached a small courtyard with a garden and a statue called "Angel of Hope."
There, families told the group the name of the infant they were there to honor. They then placed the stones painted by their children in honor of their loved ones.
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AJAX – FireProtect PLUS
Wireless fire detector with temperature and carbon oxide sensors that monitors security in the room twenty four hours a day and immediately notifies of dangerous CO levels, smoke and sharp jumps in temperature.
Authentication to prevent forgery
Jamming detection and communication channels encryption
Principle of operation
The device detects smoke by means of a camera with a photoelectric sensor. An additional chemical element detects carbon oxide and raises the alarm.
It can operate independently from the hub, emitting a fire alarm by means of a built-in siren. Several detectors indicate an alarm simultaneously. | <urn:uuid:af2dc6ec-1fdf-4f24-acbf-a734e0f18f22> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://alarminabox.co.za/product/ajax-fireprotect-plus/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570767.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808061828-20220808091828-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.85798 | 142 | 1.898438 | 2 |
Ontario ministry, Toronto-based legal clinic to receive $6 million in funding
The Department of Justice Canada announced that it has allotted $6 million in funding over the next five years to support several projects aimed at addressing gender-based violence in Ontario.
The justice department confirmed that the funding is consistent with Canada’s commitment to assist victims and survivors of sexual assault and intimate partner violence and tackle sexual harassment in the workplace.
In particular, the funding will be used to strengthen the “Family Court Support Worker Program” administered by the Ontario Ministry of Children, Community and Social Services.
The program helps victims of intimate partner violence going through a family court process to look for “family court support workers” within their local communities. These workers are hired and trained by victim service agencies and available in all court districts across Ontario.
The first project provides trauma-informed legal advice and representation to survivors of sexual assault and intimate partner violence across the province. Meanwhile, the second one offers public legal education for women and gender-diverse people who work in the hospitality and service industry and experience or at risk of experiencing sexual harassment in the workplace.
“Providing support for organizations like the Barbra Schlifer Commemorative Clinic and the Ontario Ministry of Children, Community and Social Services is critical so that they can better support, empower, and keep victims of sexual and gender-based violence safe,” Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada David Lametti said. “These three projects are great examples of innovative approaches to ensuring that all Canadians can feel safe, supported and respected.” | <urn:uuid:905fac89-f592-4381-bea4-665b56f6eb66> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.lawtimesnews.com/news/general/justice-canada-backs-projects-to-address-gender-based-violence-in-ontario/368652 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571911.5/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813081639-20220813111639-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.941064 | 327 | 1.671875 | 2 |
huskinDB is a human skin permeation database by xenobiotics.
After rigorous analysis of existing databases, we have found that the experimental conditions (under which this data was obtained) were often discarded. We believe that this data is crucial for the development of well-performing models.
The aim of huskinDB is to provide this data and stimulate the development of novel approaches to predict skin permeation.
550 datapoints 253 different compounds 95 publications
huskinDB contains following information:
- Name of the compound
- Canonical SMILES
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- Site of the body- skin source
- Layer of the skin that was used for permeation experiments
- Skin preparation technique
- Storage temperature of the skin
- Storage duration of the skin
- Whether the compound was tested neat or in a solution
- pH, type, temperature of the donor and acceptor solutions
- Type of the measuring cell
If downloading huskinDB data for offline use, please be sure to check regularily whether you have the current data. We are working on the webpage updates and will be adding new data points. Also, please inform us if you find issues or possible errors. Feedback is always welcomed as well!
huskinDB v1.01, August 2021
- Fixed broken publication link on the About page
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- Included four data points from Ghosh et al., 2000: Propranolol HCl, Prazosin HCl, Minoxidil and Atenolol
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I write regularly about the fact that the whole country of France inspires the imagination. As a result, France brings out the creative side in many who choose to visit and in those who make the eventual decision to call France home.
Artists, sculptors, musicians and culinary geniuses all flock to France. And the same is true of writers.
France is a magnet for writers.
It is simply beyond me to imagine how many words have been written about France, and specifically Paris, over the centuries.
These words have been written by the famous and the not so well known, sometimes recently but very often years ago.
Novels. Memoirs. Poetry. Essays. Text books. Photo-books. The list of works on Paris could go on for quite a while.
All these publications have led to a seemingly endless number of quotes about Paris. To celebrate all this creativity, I thought I’d take a moment to list our very favourite quotes.
There are only two places in the world where we can live happy: at home and in Paris. – Ernest Hemingway.
Paris at dawn is one of those rare cities where you get the impression that something worthwhile could actually happen to you. – Pierre Assouline, The Light of Paris.
Whoever does not visit Paris regularly will never really be elegant. – Honoré de Balzac.
Paris…is loath to surrender itself to people who are in a hurry; it belongs to the dreams, to those capable of amusing themselves in its streets without regard to time when urged business requires their presence elsewhere. – Julien Green, Paris.
When spring comes to Paris the humblest mortal alive must feel that he dwells in paradise. – Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer.
If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast. – Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast.
I cannot tell you what an immense impression Paris made upon me. It is the most extraordinary place in the world! – Charles Dickens.
He who contemplates the depths of Paris is seized with vertigo. Nothing is more fantastic. Nothing is more tragic. Nothing is more sublime. – Victor Hugo.
A walk about Paris will provide lessons in history, beauty, and in the point of life. – Thomas Jefferson.
Paris is always a good idea. – Audrey Hepburn (as Sabrina Fairchild), Sabrina.
Do you have a favourite quote about Paris? Perhaps one of the above, or maybe something different? Either way I’d love for you to share it in the comments section below.
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I was invited last Tuesday to a radio interview along with Mark Smyth of the Psychological Society of Ireland and Ivan Yates on Newstalk to talk about “The Momo Challenge” and how to protect your children from cyberbullying. Happily, I think it was a positive and constructive discussion. I figured I’d elaborate on my points a little here.
What is the “Momo Challenge“? It’s basically a recent iteration of games children play to scare themselves. Mark Smyth mentioned reciting “Bloody Mary” several times in front of the mirror as similar thing that adults may be familiar with from their childhoods. The new twist is that it now involves WhatsApp or other social media communications. If you read RTE, The Mirror, The Sun, and other recent articles, there have been recent warnings from the Gardaí and claims that the “Momo Challenge” is linked to cyberbullying and teen suicides. Here, I had to raise alarms in the conversation, but not the perhaps expected alarms about online safety. These stories bear all the hallmarks of a Moral Panic. While media attention on this online game popped up last summer with attempts to link a teen suicide in Argentina to the game, there is no evidence I’ve seen of any actual link between “Momo” and harm.
Media discussion of stories relating to moral panics often turns to demands that “there should be a law to stop this”. Online harassment and abuse (also known as cyberbullying) are real harms that children and teens are subjected to. Of course we want to protect our children from harm, so we often see calls for new laws to stop cyberbullying. This is in itself dangerous, particularly as a reaction to a moral panic. Laws need to be carefully constructed to prevent abuse . . . not just in regulating actions that might cause harm, but to prevent the legislation being used abusively. We are always trying to balance rights, and when planning new things, whether it’s code, laws, or technologies, we need to keep in mind the possibility of abuse. Legislation in reaction to Moral Panic or public hysteria results in unnecessary, overly punitive, and easily abusable laws that infringe upon our fundamental rights. Trying to regulate specifically for things like the Momo Challenge would be like trying to ban dice because you heard that kids playing fantasy roleplaying games were being lured into Satanism. And practically speaking, how do you think you can ban a children’s game without going full-on “Big Brother” authoritarian dystopia?
When it comes to online bullying and abuse, it’s also important to remember that old laws don’t disappear with new technologies. We already have laws that relate to the harms we want to prevent. For example in Ireland, harassment is covered by the Non-Fatal Offences Against the Person Act, 1997. This includes “persistently following, watching, pestering, besetting or communicating with a person” (including by use of the telephone), and by one’s acts, “intentionally or recklessly, seriously interfering with the other’s peace and privacy” or causing “alarm, distress or harm” to a person. Additionally, the Communications Regulation (Amendment) Act 2007 includes provisions on indecent or menacing text messages. These actions likely cover most of the cyberbullying harms people want to regulate for. The issue is more enforcement than regulation. The most comprehensively drafted of laws isn’t much good without enforcement. We need effective enforcement of the laws we have, not more unenforced and unenforceable laws.
If we take a step back from the question of regulating the internet, though, this can be a good teaching moment. Parents are naturally very concerned about the safety of their children online. It’s a scary world out there, and there are real risks and harms. Children may be playing this game or similar games. Some may think it’s dumb and be unimpressed, others may be genuinely frightened. This may be a good reminder to listen to your children and open dialogue with them to address the concerns they have about navigating social media and the internet. Listen to your children. Make sure you talk with them to help them understand the issues they face.
And remember, we’re all learning about this ourselves. Adults need data literacy and information security education too. The mechanism of the “challenge” isn’t too far different from “phishing” scams targeted at adults. It’s the basic trigger that is used to hook admins into sending money to the CEO allegedly stranded on a desert island, or for people to send money to scammers who claim to have used your stolen password to upload porn to your hard drive. We all need to learn better data security practices!
This can be an opportunity for parents to proactively engage with their children on internet safety and privacy, and how to protect yourself online. But, it’s important not to let your perception of threat to override the real concerns children have. As Mark Smyth pointed out, the risks and harms for children when it comes to “cyberbullying” are much more likely to be social exclusion linked to in-person bullying.
That said, right now is a very good time for parents and children to help shape the conversation around their data rights and concerns. The Data Protection Commission is running a public consultation on the rights of children of data subjects and the processing of their data. The deadline for input has been extended to 4 April, and The DPC really wants to hear from children about their experiences, expectations, and concerns. You can find more out at: https://www.dataprotection.ie/en/news-media/blogs/have-your-say-childrens-data-protection-rights-0
To sum up:
1. The reactions to Moral Panics are often far more harmful than the thing people are afraid of.
2. Children and adults alike can fall prey to phishing scam mechanisms. Learning to protect yourself online is important.
3. Listen to your kids. Take their concerns seriously, and use them as opportunities for relationship building and data literacy learning.
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When you visit the Old Stone Church, you might see some rocks poking through the grass and goose droppings. Chances are, these aren’t just rocks—they’re stones from the foundations of long-gone buildings. The stones in these pictures are likely from St. Anthony’s Church which stood directly next to the Old Stone Church. The structure was torn down in the early 1900s, but the congregation now meets at Our Lady of Good Counsel in the center of town. And these foundation stones aren't the only ones you can see in the area surrounding the Church. History is everywhere! | <urn:uuid:a7fb2647-0fff-41b8-b208-fc3616917c3a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.beamanlibrary.org/2014-08-13-19-31-13/the-history-of-west-boylston/64-west-boylston-history/churches-of-west-boylston/329-saint-anthony-s | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572043.2/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814143522-20220814173522-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.955084 | 124 | 1.695313 | 2 |
South Africa’s real interest rate is at the lowest level in almost a quarter century, adding to the case for continued aggressive monetary-policy tightening by the central bank on Thursday.
The spread between annual inflation and the nation’s key interest rate widened to 2.65 percentage points in June as consumer-price growth breached the ceiling of the central bank’s target for a second successive month and accelerated to a 13-year high.
The gap is the widest since 1998, when the benchmark repurchase rate was introduced, and further erodes the differential that makes local assets attractive to foreign investors.
Even before Wednesday’s inflation data, traders were fully pricing in a second consecutive half-point rate hike this week.
Forward-rate agreements, used to speculate on borrowing costs, show investors are also pricing in an 80% chance of a 75-basis-point move and 200 basis points in total by year-end. Of 20 economists in a Bloomberg survey, 13 predict the monetary policy committee will raise the key rate by half a point this week, with the rest expecting a bigger increase.
A three-quarter percentage point hike to 5.5% would be the biggest since September 2002, when the South African Reserve Bank lifted the benchmark repurchase rate by 100 basis points.
A weak rand that’s likely to fuel imported inflation and expectations of a 75 basis-point rate hike by the US Federal Reserve this month “may raise the pressure on the South African Reserve Bank to tighten even faster,” said Razia Khan, head of research for Africa and the Middle East at Standard Chartered Bank. Her base case is for a half-point increase this week.
The rate of price growth in June was stoked by high food and gasoline costs, even as the government temporarily reduced a fuel levy to contain increases in the retail price of petrol and the wholesale cost of diesel. The measure is likely to have delayed the peak in inflation.
The MPC prefers to anchor inflation expectations close to the 4.5% midpoint of its target range. It has already raised the key rate by a cumulative 125 basis points since November and signaled even higher borrowing costs ahead.
Heightened risks to economic growth — including flood damage in the province that’s the second-biggest contributor to gross domestic product and deeper, more frequent power blackouts — the slowdown in economies of key trading partners and fears of a global recession will also influence decision-making. | <urn:uuid:d75331c4-058a-4cc4-b615-14032f647cab> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.moneyweb.co.za/news/south-africa/south-africas-inflation-surges-to-13-year-high-in-june/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572043.2/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814143522-20220814173522-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.955799 | 512 | 1.757813 | 2 |
Senators voted on four separate gun control measures
All four measures failed
Senators couldn’t muster enough bipartisan support to pass a series of gun control measures Monday, the latest in a long string of failed attempts at enacting tighter curbs on firearms in the United States.
Spurred by the worst mass shooting in U.S. history, senators from each party introduced the measures they said would have strengthened background checks and prevented suspected terrorists from obtaining weapons.
But tough election year politics, paired with disputes over the effectiveness of each party’s ideas, proved too powerful to break the longstanding partisan gridlock that’s surrounded gun issues for years.
The result was expected. A fifth option, set to be introduced and voted upon as early as Tuesday by moderate Republican Sen. Susan Collins, has generated more optimism, but still faces long odds at passage.
Sen. Chris Murphy, a Connecticut Democrat who sponsored one of the failed measures expanding background checks, reacted angrily after his provision was defeated.
“I’m mortified by today’s vote but I’m not surprised by it,” Murphy said Monday evening. “The NRA has a vice-like grip on this place.”
Citing a fresh CNN/ORC survey showing vast majorities of Americans from all parties backing restrictions that would prevent individuals on terror watch lists from buying guns, Murphy predicted widespread voter anger in November’s congressional contests.
“I don’t think democracy allows for this Congress to be do out of step with the American public for long,” he said.
Just before the votes, Murphy had told reporters for The Washington Post: “We’ve got to make this clear, constant case that Republicans have decided to sell weapons to ISIS.”
Outspoken liberal Sen. Elizabeth Warren echoed his sentiment after the votes.
”.@ChrisMurphyCT said it right: The @SenateGOP have decided to sell weapons to ISIS,” she tweeted.
The measures Monday each went down in succession on largely party line votes. The 60-vote threshold required for passage prevented even Republicans, who control the chamber, from pushing through their favored measures.
How they voted
The Senate rejected first a Republican proposal to update the background check system for gun purchases, which would have required states to add more information on mental health records to a national database. It also included a provision to alert law enforcement agencies when an individual who was on a government terror watch list in the last five years buys a gun.
The proposal, sponsored by Iowa GOP Sen. Chuck Grassley, failed to get the 60 votes for passage. The vote was 53-47, largely along party lines. Some Senate Democrats warned that the legislation’s revised definition of who would be considered mentally ill could potentially still allow those with significant psychological issues to legally purchase guns.
A second proposal to expand the background check system for those buying guns to require checks at gun shows and for online purchases went down 44-56. Murphy, the Democrat who launched a nearly 15-hour filibuster last week to press for new gun restrictions after the Orlando massacre where 49 people were killed, sponsored the proposal.
A Republican proposal to delay gun sales to individuals included on a government terror watch list failed in a mostly party-line vote of 53-47. The measure was sponsored by Texas GOP Sen. John Cornyn. The bill would allow a judge to permanently block a purchase if the court determined probable cause that the individual is involved in terrorist activity.
And a Democratic option that sought to bar all gun sales to those individuals on the terror watch list failed 47-53, the second time the proposal went down to defeat after a mass shooting. California Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein originally pushed the proposal in December after a shooting in San Bernardino, and revived it after the horrific Orlando nightclub shooting by a gunman who pledged allegiance to the terror group ISIS.
Feinstein’s plan did garner the support of some Republicans, including Sen. Kelly Ayotte of New Hampshire who is facing a fierce re-election bid this year.
Sen. Mark Kirk, another vulnerable Republican up for re-election, voted with Democrats on all of the four amendments.
On the flip side, Sen. Heidi Heitkamp of North Dakota, a moderate Democrat, voted with Republicans to oppose the two amendments offered by Murphy and Feinstein.
Both sides rally support
Ahead of the votes, both gun advocates and proponents of tighter restrictions sought to galvanize supporters.
“They’re blaming you, the (National Rifle Association) for the terrorist attack in Orlando and taking advantage of this tragedy to push their gun control agenda while emotions run high,” the NRA wrote to members Monday. The group holds powerful sway among Republicans and moderate Democrats.
Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid, meanwhile, blasted Republicans for withholding support for his party’s plans, saying on the Senate floor that “Senate Republicans should be embarrassed – but they are not, because the NRA is happy.”
Majority Leader Mitch McConnell touted the GOP proposals as more directly targeted toward the Orlando shooting, and argued the Democratic proposals would not provide due process for individuals barred from purchasing guns.
Before the first votes were cast, eyes were already turning to an effort by Collins to craft another gun control, one week after the Orlando terror attack. The Maine lawmaker was expected to unveil her proposal on Tuesday.
“Theres tremendous interest on both sides of the aisle, I hope that will be having a press conference tomorrow,” Collins said on Monday. “We’ll see where we are.”
The Collins measure would bar people on the government’s no-fly list – a significantly smaller group than the terror watch list – from purchasing guns and also set in place some protections for anyone wrongly placed on the no-fly list.
The vast majority of Americans favor preventing those on terror watch lists from buying guns – including 90% of Republicans, according to a CNN/ORC poll released on Monday. That’s a higher figure than either Democrats (85%) and Independents (83%) who say they support such a rule.
Cornyn said Monday that McConnell is open to Collins getting a vote on her gun control proposal.
“I congratulate her for her good work. I just think these are the first votes were going to have, but that doesn’t preclude other votes. Sen. McConnell said if she wants a vote, I’m sure she could get one,” Cornyn – who introduced one of the four measures up for a vote Monday – said before voting began.
Collins’ proposal, however, has not garnered much support on the Democratic side, though she said Monday she had spoken to “dozens” of senators over the weekend.
Even if her gun control legislation does make its way out of the Senate, it’s unlikely to get a vote in the House, where House Speaker Paul Ryan threw cold water on the idea during his weekly press conference last Thursday.
Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar told CNN’s Jim Sciutto that while there remains fierce resistance in the House – where Republicans outnumber Democrats 247-188 – the push for action in the wake of the Orlando terror attack reflects new momentum in the gun control debate.
“I don’t know that it’s going to be different than when we had votes in the past, but there is one thing that is different. People are starting to talk. There are starting to be negotiations going on. I think that’s very important,” Klobuchar said.
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A level pupils investigate fracking issues in Dorset
As part of the A level course on energy security, pupils have been looking at issues around unconventional fossil fuels, such as fracking for gas.
Pupils used a GIS package, a geographic information system, which lets you visualize, question, analyse, and interpret data to understand relationships, patterns, and trends. Using the GIS package, pupils were able to add information to maps.
Pupils have been overlaying Ordnance Survey maps with information from the Department for Energy. They could then select from this information for clarity and add additional research to give the map a little more context.
Pupils have created some fantastic maps using complex software showing the fracking process and the actual and possible hydrocarbon resource exploitation in the Poole Harbour area. | <urn:uuid:23d38f76-8d58-417e-acc8-5204ef9c1271> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.bryanston.co.uk/news/?pid=1083&nid=10&storyid=634 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572043.2/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814143522-20220814173522-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.912147 | 235 | 3.28125 | 3 |
As a growing number of people become aware of the impact their investments can have on world events, demand for ethically-sourced products has skyrocketed.
The ethical investment market has grown exponentially in recent years, and it’s not just limited to traditional assets like stocks, bonds and property. Ethical financial products are now available in practically every niche imaginable, with almost every type of investor able to develop an ethical investment portfolio that meets their personal values.
An ethical investment portfolio is one that has been constructed with an eye to aligning your financial interests with your personal values.
This post will serve as a step by step manual for anyone who is interested in creating an ethically-aware portfolio without the help of a financial advisor.
Step One: Decide What Is Most Important To You
The first step in creating an ethically responsible portfolio is to decide what your personal values are, and how you want to incorporate them into your investment strategy.
The easiest way to do this is to make a list of your core values, and then think about how an investment portfolio that reflects these values can positively impact your life in the future. You may want to focus on financial values, such as maximizing your investment return or reducing your risk of losing money.
Alternatively, you may want to focus on social or environmental values, such as supporting companies that treat their employees fairly or reduce the company’s carbon footprint.
Step Two: Find Companies with Ethically-Sourced Products
One of the easiest ways to screen for companies with ethically sourced products is to find those with a positive social or environmental impact.
One way to do this is to use a website like Ethiscore or GoodInvestor. These websites provide a wide range of metrics for companies, including their positive social or environmental impact, employee satisfaction, and the company’s financial strength.
Once you have identified a shortlist of ethically-minded companies, you can dig deeper into the financials of each firm and track their progress over time.
Step Three: Select a Broker and Determine Your Investment Strategy
There are many different brokers that offer ethically-minded investors a wide range of different products. Once you have decided on the metrics that are most important to you, it’s time to select a broker.
You can find a list of brokerages that specialize in socially conscious or ethically-minded investing here. Once you have selected a broker, they will proceed to create a tailored investment strategy for you that best fits your risk tolerance level and goals.
Step Four: Create a Portfolio With Investments You Are Confident In
Once you have selected an investment strategy, it’s time to put your ethically-minded portfolio together.
The first thing you will need to do is decide how much money you want to invest. However, note that ethical investments are just like any other investment, and you could lose money. The best way to protect yourself from the risk of losing money is to diversify your investment portfolio. Diversifying your ethically-minded portfolio means that you are investing in a wide range of companies in different industries.
You can also stick with companies that have a competitive advantage. This means that the company has something that makes it stand out from its competitors, such as a unique product or service.
The most important thing to remember when constructing an ethically-minded investment portfolio is to be patient. You may be tempted to sell your ethically-minded investments if they aren’t performing well but try to be patient.
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In my professional hypnotherapy practice, I always encourage weight loss clients to engage in mindful eating. I have found that many people have trouble with weight loss because they are eating way too fast, mindlessly and on auto pilot. We live in a very stressful society that really encourages multi-tasking and doing everything, including eating, very quickly. This not only makes weight loss extremely difficult, but it makes eating less enjoyable.
Many people have trouble slowing down and eating more mindfully by just willpower alone. Eating fast has become so ingrained in our culture, many people have a hard time changing. To address this problem, I have created a hypnosis recording, listed below, that makes the whole process easier and more automatic.
I have had several clients who lost weight during Thanksgiving week just by doing this one technique!
What is Mindful Eating?
I encourage people to participate in mindful eating to speed up their weight loss. Mindfulness is moment by moment awareness and focusing on one activity at a time. All we really have is the present moment. If you are washing the dishes in a mindful way, you simply focus on the act of washing the dishes. You focus on the warmth of the water, the texture of the different plates in your hands, the sound of the water, etc. It is the same with eating. Instead of surfing the internet, watching TV or reading a book while you eat, you simply just focus on your meal, the flavors, the textures, the tempearetc.
I encourage people to engage in mindful eating the same way that they would engage in getting a massage. You would never, ever go to a massage therapist and tell them to get the massage done as quickly as possible so you can leave. You would want to savor every moment. You would never cut your vacation to a tropical beach short so that you could work on your to do list. It is the same with your food. Mindful eating is about enjoying and savoring every bite.
I recommend that people focus on chewing each bite at least 20 times and look at a clock when they begin eating and make a conscious decision to spend 20 minutes or more eating their meal. When five minutes have passed, you should be done with a quarter of your meal. When 10 minutes have passed, you should be done with half of your meal, etc. Many people find that by the time they are three quarters of the way done, they start feeling full and don’t need to eat the rest of the food. Weight loss begins to happen naturally when you eat this way without feeling deprived.
Many people have a problem with not finishing their food and with throwing it away. Most people have been programmed from childhood to clear their plate and were told stories of the starving children in Africa. I tell people that it is now the 21st century and it is actually much healthier to throw food away sometimes. You can also put leftovers in a ziplock bag and make a pot of soup at the end of the week.
While you are practicing mindful eating, you should give thanks to yourself for providing such a healthy meal and for taking so many positive steps to improve your life. You should also acknowledge that eating this way will help you to lose weight. It is best to only eat while sitting down. You should create a beautiful environment to enjoy your food, with fresh flowers, a candle, nice dishes and a nice placemat, if possible.
Before you begin eating, really notice the beautiful meal you have put together. Next you should look at your food and admire the different colors and take in the aroma. As you begin eating, really be mindful to chew each bite 20 times, and think about the food nourishing and healing your body, knowing that is providing exactly what you need to lose weight. You should put your fork down in between bites and take a small sip of water. Take a deep breath or two. Notice the warmth or the coolness of the food. Notice how all of the different flavors come together perfectly.
Notice the different textures of the food. If you are eating with others, really enjoy their presence and the conversation with them. Let the meal be about the conversation and enjoying the company of your loved ones and let the food be secondary.
What Are the Benefits of Mindful Eating?
- It promotes healthier digestion. The body was never designed to digest large chunks of food.
- It is easier to eat less without feeling deprived.With mindful eating, It is best to spend at least 20 minutes eating your meals. It takes 20 minutes for the brain to recognize that the body is full, and when people eat slower, they find that they cannot eat as much, and feel satisfied with smaller portions. Mindful eating is a natural way of eating less without feeling deprived. Many people try to eat small portions but they eat it way too fast, inhaling their food, and then wonder why they feel deprived and unsatisfied, want to eat more a short while later and have difficulty losing weight.
- It saves money. Mindless eating causes people to overeat and overeating is expensive. When you eat mindfully, you eat less and you spend less money on food. In my hypnotherapy practice, clients have told me that when they slow down and engage in mindful eating, they find that they save a lot of money.
- It helps prevent the mind from constantly thinking and obsessing about food. When you slow down and savor your food, it is simply more satisfying and prevents you from constantly thinking about food.
Mindful Eating Steps
- Only eat when hungry.
- Set a beautiful table with nice dishes, candles and fresh flowers if possible.
- Only eat while sitting down.
- Give thanks to yourself for providing such a healthy meal and for taking so many positive steps to improve your life.
- Before you begin eating, really notice the beautiful environment you have created.
- Look at your food and admire the different colors and take in the aroma.
- Get a clock and put it where you can see it and consciously decide to spend at least 20 minutes eating your meal. Be mindful to chew eat bite at least 20 times.
- Focus on the food nourishing and healing your body.
- Put your fork down in between bites, have a small sip of water and take a deep breath or two.
- Notice the warmth or coolness of the food.
- Notice how all of the different flavors of the food come together perfectly.
- Notice the different textures of the food.
- If you are eating with others, really enjoy their company and the conversation with them.
- Stop eating when you are full.
- If there are leftovers, either put them in the refrigerator, throw them away or put them in a zip lock bag in the freezer and make soup at the end of the week.
- This is a process and know that it will get easier with each meal you have.
- Give thanks to yourself for loving yourself and making positive changes in your life.
Most people find that when they practice mindful eating, they become satisfied with less food, it is easier for them to digestive their food, it is easier to lose weight, they enjoy their food more, they feel happier, and they save a lot of money. The more you practice mindful eating the easier it will become and the easier it will be to lose weight.
Mindful Eating Hypnosis Recording
Eating mindless and quickly has become very ingrained in our culture and many people find it hard to break the habit. This is where hypnosis comes in. As a professional Hypnotherapist, to solve this problem, I have created a mindful eating hypnosis recording to program this new behavior into people’s subconscious minds, so it becomes more automatic and easier to implement.
Hypnotherapy is a technique where you are guided into a deep state of relaxation. While in this deeply relaxed state your subconscious mind is very open to positive suggestions and imagery. In this state, these take root at a deep level to allow you to more easily make big changes in your life. Hypnotherapy works because it reprograms subconscious mind which controls 90% of our behavior. Hypnotherapy helps you to get rid of bad habits, create healthy new behaviours, heal, succeed and move forward with your life.
This recording has cutting edge sound healing music in the background from the acclaimed Globe Institute of Sound and Consciousness . This music contains binaural beats, brainwave entrainment, intention and more to take you into a deep state of relaxation.
This recording will walk you through the whole process of mindful eating. Every time you listen to it, the suggestions and visualization will reprogram your subconscious mind, and make the process of mindful eating easier and more automatic. When you order this recording, you will get an MP3 file that you can download to your phone or computer. Listening to this once a day is ideal, but if you listen to it three times a week, you will still get good results.
Please Note: This should not be used while driving.
Hypnosis recordings are a great way to reprogram your subconscious mind, and make it easier for you to make changes in your life. However, sometimes people need more help, or want to work on other issues. I offer private sessions in my San Francisco office or by the phone for people who don’t live in the area.
Private Session Costs
$150 – First session, $120 per subsequent sessions
The first session is 75-90 minutes.
Subsequent sessions are 60 minutes but can occasionally run a little longer to 70 minutes so please be sure to allow extra time.
Prepay for a Package of 5 sessions, and save 15% ($535)
Prepay for Package of 8 sessions, and save 25% ($742)
Please call me at the below number if you would like to set something up, or email me.
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By Mary-Rose Papandrea. Full text here.
As questions regarding the freedom of expression on college campuses grip the country, courts adjudicating First Amendment cases in the higher education setting are struggling to determine the appropriate legal framework. Some courts are relying on Supreme Court cases from the K–12 setting as well as the public employment context; in addition, an increasing number of courts have allowed schools to punish students whose speech is inconsistent with the “professionalism” standards of the relevant area of study. Public institutions of higher education contend that regardless of the relevant framework, their determinations that speech restrictions are needed to improve their learning communities are entitled to substantial deference.
This Article concludes that the authority of public universities to restrict student speech should be quite narrow. In reaching this conclusion, the Article confronts and rejects arguments that anti-discrimination laws require censorship, or that public universities should receive broad institutional deference to restrict student speech they find offensive in the name of improving the educational environment. Instead, the only deference public universities receive should be limited to speech that occurs in the context of curricular activities, and even in this context, deference should not be absolute. Courts should regard with particular skepticism claims that student speech can be punished when it is inconsistent with “professional” standards.
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Amidst all the analysis by the press and self-congratulations of the Hollywood community surrounding the release of the ground-breaking film “Brokeback Mountain,” one thing has been completely missed about the movie’s two male leads—they’re on the down low.
Annie Proulx’s heart-wrenching short story about two ranch hands whose overwhelming passion for each other is at odds with everything they think they know about themselves and their world is not, as has been pointed out ad nauseam regarding the film version, a “gay cowboy” story. In fact, the film’s depiction of ostensibly straight men in a hyper-masculine culture can more easily be understood as a metaphor for the experience of many men who do not identify as gay or even bisexual, but who nevertheless have sex with other men.
Though this dynamic exists among men from every community, ethnic, and racial category, we’ve lately heard a lot about it among men of color largely in urban areas very different from the heartland represented in “Brokeback Mountain”—particularly African-American men categorized by others and themselves and being “on the down low” or “DL.”
These men keep parts of their lives secret from friends, families, girlfriends, wives, and others in large part for fear of something their secrecy ironically does not allow them to escape—the daily threat of violence in their lives.
The two characters in “Brokeback Mountain” are drawn to each other in spite of the powerful cultural taboos against men expressing physical affection for one another and engaging in consensual sex. Many communities including African-American and Latino communities harbor similar taboos. Even among men of color in the urban landscape who self-identify as “gay,” there are many who often need to develop macho personas or “front” as straight men on the subways, in their neighborhoods, and in many of their relationships.
Not cowboy hats and leather boots, but doo rags and Timberlands signify the masculine strength that protects these men from becoming targets for bias-related violence. This effort is not simply shared by men of color—look at the hypermasculine images that the gay “mainstream” has utilized over time from the “Castronaut” to the “Muscle Queen” to the iconic gay-signifying characters portrayed by the Village People.
The film shows the struggle of Ennis and Jack to find their way toward each other while maintaining their identity, status, and safety within their straight world. “Brokeback Mountain” is a chronicle of the emotional strain of living life on the “down low” with a wife and kids while trying to find fulfillment through often highly sexualized and compartmentalized relations with other men.
Lives lived in secret or half in shadow not only put the people living them in jeopardy, but also may put others into harm’s way as well. For instance, men on the down low have been demonized on the daytime talk show circuit as sexual predators whose erotic adventures with other men lead to their becoming HIV-infected and then callously passing that disease on to unwitting wives and girlfriends at home. While personal responsibility cannot be minimized, it must be acknowledged that stigma and homophobia create the environments for all these forms of destruction and abuse to be perpetuated. It is significant that Hollywood has romanticized two down low cowpokes in a way radically different from the strikingly negative stereotype of contemporary down low urban men of color.
The fact that this emotional and relationship strain is intensified by physical danger from a hostile community leads to the film’s tragic denouement. Here in New York City, men of color are still marginalized from the traditionally white power structure of the gay community that might be better able to protect them, but they are also the people most likely to be victims of hate crimes. In 2004, according to statistics from New York City’s Gay & Lesbian Anti-Violence Project, men of color comprised about 32 percent of all victims of anti-gay harassment, assaults, and murder in the City—that’s two times the rate for white men.
Rashawn Brazell, Dwan Prince, and Rodney Velazquez are the real life counterparts to Ennis and Jack. Velazquez was found murdered in his Bronx apartment in the summer of 2002. Parts of Brazell’s dismembered body were found in subways tunnels last February. Dwan Prince was brutally assaulted outside of his Brownsville apartment building this past June. Both homicides remain unsolved and Prince is still recovering from his injuries. Outside of any one incident, anti-LGBT violence continues to be a core concern for our city, jumping 29 percent in 2003 and staying that high in 2004.
“Brokeback Mountain” paints a sympathetic and moving portrait of two men who pay for their love in lives lived in uncertainty, isolation, unhappiness, and, ultimately, violence. We look forward to the day when the tale can be told of men of color who risk all for love without secrecy and in safety.
Clarence Patton is the executive director of the New York City Gay & Lesbian Anti-Violence Project, the nation’s largest service agency for victims of bias crimes against the lesbian, gay, transgender, bisexual, and HIV-affected communities and which recently initiated a year of activities to celebrate its 25th anniversary. The Anti-Violence Project provides counseling and advocacy for thousands of victims of bias-motivated violence as well as for survivors of domestic violence, rape and sexual assault, HIV-related violence, and police misconduct. The Anti-Violence Project documents incidents of violence against and within LGTB communities, educates the public about the effects of violence, against or within our communities, and works to reform public policies impacting all lesbian, gay, transgender, bisexual, and HIV-affected people. For more information, contact the Anti-Violence Project at 212-714-1184 or avp.org. To reach the Anti-Violence Project’s 24-hour, bilingual (English and Spanish) hotline for victims of violence, call 212-714-1141.
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The Story Behind Eccentric Rehab Training – The Number One Way to Trea…
Painful heel problems have not only affected Achilles the mythical hero of the Trojan war – it is reported that Achilles tendon injuries explain 7-9% of all injuries in runners. Achilles tendon injuries can affect people of all ages, however today I’ll focus on the group of pathologies that seem to affect the 25+ year olds – the shared but weakening Achilles tendinosis. You may have already heard from your doctor or physio that the term tendinosis has replaced the commonly used term tendinitis, as the ‘itis’ part method that the pathology has a part which is inflammatory.
It is now known by countless studies on the pathology of chronic tendon problems that inflammation is not the dominant issue, but degeneration is the big factor in pathology. The latest and greatest research indicates that as the tendon degenerates due to compressive forces of the heel bone, new blood vessels grow into the area around the degenerated identify. The purpose of these new blood vessels is to fuel new tendon growth in the areas closest surrounding the degenerated tendon. It is these blood vessels that truly produce the pain chemicals that we ultimately feel. It takes time for the blood vessels to infiltrate the affected area which method that by the time we feel pain, the problem has most likely been there for months – we just have not felt it in addition. consequently, the management of Achilles tendon problems can then take months to settle the pain.
Some clever doctors have used what are called sclerosing injections into the blood vessels (Polidoconol being the most shared). The purpose of these injections is to ‘kill off’ the blood vessels so the pain diminishes. However, without correction of the precipitating factors, the painful heel always returns as the blood vessels regrow. The mainstay of chronic Achilles tendon management has been the Hakan Alfredson ‘eccentric’ training program. Rumour has it that Dr Alfredson was a long term sufferer of Achilles tendinosis. In his extreme frustration at not being able to cure himself he thought he would be better off working the tendon with the purpose of snapping it. He could then have it surgically fixed and 6 months later would be painfree. So he went into the gym and performed heavy sets of calf raises in the hope of snapping the poor Achilles tendon. What happened? It got better. This then fuelled a lot of studies into how ‘eccentric’ exercise benefits tendon injuries. The readers digest version as to what ‘eccentric’ exercise does is that it stimulates tendon cells to lay down more collagen and create a functionally stronger tendon (the time of action for those who want to Google it is called ‘mechanotransduction’). The degeneration stays but the rest of the tendon gets stronger to ‘offload’ the degenerated identify.
So what is ‘eccentric’ exercise? It’s not push ups performed by a crazy scientist but it relates to how muscles can continue tension whilst being lengthened. In the case of the Achilles tendon, it’s where one stands up on tip toes and lowers oneself down with control. The calf and Achilles are getting longer but nevertheless have tension. And the trick with the ‘eccentric’ program is to keep it eccentric. Don’t worry about lifting yourself up onto tip toes again using your calf, use your other one or use both together. It is the lowering part which has the advantageous effect. The shared program starts with the injured person on flat ground. They come up on both tip toes then take away the good side and lower using the affected side. They do 3 sets of 15 reps every day, twice per day. Once this is achievable, they can move onto a step and increase the amount of stretch applied to the calf/Achilles at the bottom of the movement. This program will usually need to be done for 3 months before you can relax and do it every second day as maintenance. | <urn:uuid:ae1051d0-1b87-4f8b-bd3b-6189bcf19d30> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://onz.asia/the-story-behind-eccentric-rehab-training-the-number-one-way-to-trea/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571911.5/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813081639-20220813111639-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.949583 | 859 | 2.328125 | 2 |
This fall more than 90,000 students across the United States and Canada are pursuing graduate theological or ministry training. Twenty years ago such students had one big decision: which school to choose. Then you typically had to relocate and enroll in a residential program for two to four years of full-time study.
Fast-forward two decades and the options have increased dramatically. Seminaries have been joined by Christian colleges and universities in offering graduate theological degrees. The Master of Divinity (M.Div.) degree is now one of dozens of master's-level options, including specializations in counseling, cross-cultural ministry, youth ministry, children's ministry, worship leadership, and executive leadership, to name a few.
Meanwhile, the internet has radically changed the way education can be delivered. Distance education options include online programs, satellite campuses and extension programs, and hybrid programs that combine online interaction with on-campus instruction. ...1 | <urn:uuid:ac4937eb-c6ec-42d0-9fe1-68e0735b1318> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.christianitytoday.com/pastors/2011/fall/backtoschool.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572043.2/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814143522-20220814173522-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.959703 | 184 | 1.773438 | 2 |
Year after year, the skills employers value most in the new graduates they hire are not technical, job-specific skills, but written and oral communication, problem-solving, and critical thinking—exactly the sort of "soft skills" humanities majors tend to excel in"
Graduates of the Bachelor of Arts in Western Civilisation will be well-rounded freethinkers. They will be erudite and articulate; creative and critical. They will value and be capable of virtuous, civil and productive conversation.
Liberal Arts is the future
The employment and life prospects for graduates with this set of attributes are excellent. There is a demonstrated demand in Australia and globally for graduates who can think critically and creatively and possess excellent social skills.
A 2016 report, The New Basics – Foundation for Young Australians, reveals that demand for critical thinking skills in new graduates has risen by 158 per cent in recent years. This finding is based on an analysis of 4.2 million online job postings from 6,000 sources. Graduates of The Bachelor of Arts in Western Civilisation will be future-proofed, as compared with those preparing for many traditional vocations.
In 2017, Deloitte Australia analysed the needs of the Australian workforce and businesses. It reported findings that concur with predictions of the Foundation for Young Australians about the future skills framework - the kinds of skills that will be in demand for 2030 and beyond. It highlights a serious market gap in non-technical soft skills. Deloitte “forecasts that soft skill-intensive occupations will account for two-thirds of all jobs by 2030, compared to half of all jobs in 2000”. Its analysis reveals a clear and growing demand for sharp graduates who are good at communication, teamwork, problem-solving, emotional intelligence and ethical decision-making. Soft skills and talents of these kinds, also known as enterprise skills – precisely those that a liberal arts education instils – comprise “ten of the sixteen ‘crucial proficiencies in the 21st century’ identified by the World Economic Forum”.
A distinctive feature of the Bachelor of Arts in Western Civilisation is that it is philosophical through and through. Philosophy focuses on the clear and systematic expression of ideas, the logical development of arguments and the careful use of examples and analogies. A philosophical education develops communication skills, persuasive powers and writing abilities. Crucially, philosophy graduates are able to address unfamiliar, novel problems.
There is evidence that high-achieving philosophy graduates have good prospects for rewarding mid-career earnings. For example, median earnings of BA graduates majoring in philosophy “exceed those of majors in any other humanities field, and are the 16th highest in a study comparing salaries across 50 majors in the United States”, according to data collected by PayScale. | <urn:uuid:0bbef988-293f-409f-9caa-39b9ca474ab7> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.uow.edu.au/the-arts-social-sciences-humanities/schools-entities/liberal-arts/courses-study-options/career-opportunities/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570977.50/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809124724-20220809154724-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.929848 | 581 | 2.609375 | 3 |
Introduction: Although a few dialysis facilities conduct a complete blood cell count for some patients at post-dialysis, including hemoglobin, clinical findings supporting the interpretation of results are scarce. The aim of this study was to investigate the association between post-dialysis hemoglobin level and vascular access failure with clinical data.
Methods: Study design: Case crossover design.
Setting: Japanese dialysis facilities, which routinely take post-dialysis blood samples, including complete blood cell counts at least once a month.
Participants: Hemodialysis patients who experienced vascular access failure in January 2010 until December 2014.
Exposure: Post-dialysis hemoglobin level.
Main outcome: Vascular access failure treated with endovascular treatment or operation.
Statistical analysis: Self-matched odds ratios and 95% confidence intervals were estimated by comparing post-dialysis hemoglobin just before events ("case") with levels at 6 and 12 months before events ("control") using conditional logistic regression, and presented with restricted cubic spline.
Results: Two hundred and thirty hemodialysis patients with vascular access failure were identified. Mean post-dialysis hemoglobin level before the failure was 11.8 g/dL (standard deviation 1.7). The spline curve showed that higher post-dialysis hemoglobin levels above 11.8 g/dL had a greater odds ratio for vascular access failure. Post-dialysis hemoglobin levels and odds ratios (95% confidence interval) for vascular access failure relative to the reference value (Hb 11.8 g/dL) were Hb 12.0 g/dL, 1.1 (1.0-1.1); Hb 14.0 g/dL, 1.4 (1.0-2.0); and Hb 16.0 g/dL, 2.1 (1.1-4.3).
Conclusions: A higher post-dialysis hemoglobin level was associated with vascular access failure. Higher post-dialysis Hb could be a factor that triggers vascular access failure.
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Taaffeite: Gemstones Information
Recent authorities, including Fleischer’s Glossary of Mineral Species 2004 now use the name magnesio-taaffeite but for the purpose of this listing I have retained the original name. Taaffeite is Mg3Al8BeO16 and forms mauve or lilac, red to brown transparent to translucent hexagonal crystals of the hexagonal system with hardness 8–8.5 and SG 3.605–3.613. Unusually the type species is a faceted stone, originally believed to be spinel. The RI for the ordinary and extraordinary rays is 1.721–1.726 and 1.717–1.727, uniaxial negative (may be anom- alously biaxial). The birefringence is 0.004–0.009. Taaffeite occurs in gem gravels or in skarns at the contact between dolostones and lime stones with beryllium-bearing granite. The productive gem gravels are located in Sri Lanka; an in situ occurrence in China is located on Hsianghualing Ridge, China. Taaffeite has also been found 6 km west of Mt Painter, Southern Australia. Recently, a purplish brown chatoy ant taaffeite has been found in Sri Lanka, the eye arising from parallel reflective planar inclusions with striations. | <urn:uuid:8542276e-adbe-4428-8cd5-41e7c14d6e53> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.gemfame.com/taaffeite-gemstones-information/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572043.2/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814143522-20220814173522-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.901534 | 293 | 2.40625 | 2 |
Evanston, Ill. approved a historic reparations plan for Black residents affected by housing discrimination. The housing plan has sparked debate about whether the resolution is adequate enough to address the harm done to the Black community.
Over the next decade, $10 million will be paid to qualifying residents.To qualify for the Restorative Housing program, residents must be a direct descendent of an African American or a Black resident that resided in the city between 1919 and 1969. The city also has additional guidelines for program eligibility.
(See more: Local Reparations: Restorative Housing Program )
Alderwoman Robin Rue Simmons, a representative of the fifth ward for Evanston, said the city council passed the reparation initiative in 2019 and recreational cannabis sales tax will fund the reparations.
“In 2019, we passed our reparations initiative that’s funded by our recreational cannabis sales tax. On March 22, we passed our first proposal to implement and disburse reparation benefits, and it’s the Restorative Housing Initiative,” Simmons said.
Reparations will primarily be used to help Black residents build generational wealth through homeownership, Simmons said.
“Residents are going to receive a $25,000 direct benefit for housing, which will immediately build wealth through new homeownership, or sustaining homeownership, or even paying down a mortgage balance of an existing home,” Simmons said.
In response to negative feedback from the Black community that the resolution is not actually reparations, Simmons said the legislation is very emotional.
“It is in fact reparations because it is a direct response to the egregious acts of the Black community and it is reparations in the form of compensation. I do agree that it alone is not enough to satisfy the debt owed to black residents,” Simmons said.
Only 4% of Evanston’s program is initiative and funding, Simmons said .
“To judge a program on 4% of application and allocation is premature, we will continue to work toward satisfying the expectations of our residents in Evanston,” Simmons said.
Jenny Thompson, the director of Education at the Evanston History Center, said housing discrimination has been a prominent issue in the city for decades.
“The housing issue started in the 20th century, and the population started to grow around 1900-1910. That’s when the practices of segregation and discrimination started to occur,” Thompson said.
Black residents were relocated to certain areas of the city to accommodate other residents.
“The small Black population lived throughout the city, and realtors, homeowners, and banks started to steer away Black residents that were coming,” Thompson said. “They were mostly from the south and they would steer them into one area of the city, which was the west side, which is now the fifth ward.”
Black residents of Evanston also weren’t granted equal access to public facilities such as schools, stores, recreation facilities, and commercial facilities, according to the city of Evanston’s Policies and Practices Directly Affecting the African American Community report.
(See more: Evanston Policies and Practices Directly Affecting the African American Community, 1900 – 1960 (and present) Report)
“If you look at foreclosures in Evanston. A lot of those have taken place in the city board. So it is a long-term legacy in terms of housing in Evanston. It continues where we see it, where people live, and opportunities for buying a house and financing,” Thompson said.
Thompson said banks would often use redlining to identify primarily black neighborhoods and financially discriminate against them.
“There was no law that protected people. So, the consequences were really not there, you could kind of do what you want,” Thompson said.
She said Edwin George Gain was the first Black Alderman to present the housing discrimination experienced by Black veterans after World War II to the city council.
“After World War II, when Northwestern University and the city began to try to build housing for veterans, they were segregated,” Thompson said. “These are men who fought for our country, and now they’re coming back, and they can’t get their housing. So, there are examples throughout the 20th century of people trying to change it, and trying to say ‘this is wrong’.”
Not everyone is supportive of the proposed reparations resolution. Alderwoman Cicely Fleming was the only individual to vote NO for this resolution.
On March 22, 2021, Fleming made a statement to explain why she voted NO for the reparations resolution.
“I am 100% in support of reparations. I come from three legacy Black families in Evanston who have suffered enough. I am one of countless such families across the country. Real reparations are long overdue,” Fleming said.
Jes Sheinpflug, Fleming communications assistant, explained the Alderwoman’s issue with the resolution. Sheinpflug said the reparations resolution is essentially just a housing plan.
“As a housing plan, she would support it but the issue with putting reparations on it, is that it sets a precedent for what a model for reparations could look like across the country, in other cities and even at the federal level. The housing plan that passed is called reparations but it only provides money to 16 people in Evanston,” Sheinpflug said.
Fleming said that this resolution is dictating to Black residents what their needs are and how to use the money given to them.
“We must understand the definition of true reparations and its main goal: to do that, the people dictate its terms to power, not the other way around,” Fleming said. “This isn’t change that can be a beacon for the nation. It is a dim, weak light and it will be a travesty for Black communities around the US if it becomes our model going forward.”
Sheinpflug said the reparations resolution lacks a clear plan of execution and was seemingly rushed due to the upcoming Evanston city council elections.
“Evanston has been saying that there’s going to be $10 million over 10 years. That’s all they’ve been saying. We don’t even know how people can apply,” Sheinpflug said. “There is an election that’s happening right now. A lot of these city council members are either running or have already voted off in the primary so it was rushed with no input from Black residents.”
Fleming said many community members asked for more time to rework and strengthen the proposal and change the name from reparations but the resolution still moved forward.
“Although Evanston is one of the first municipalities to attempt local reparative efforts in this manner, historical practices provide a framework for reparative compensation, and in no instance were the impacted parties denied cash payments or an opportunity to decide how their repair would be managed,” Fleming said. “This practice alone is based on a white paternalistic narrative that Black folks are unable to manage their own monies.”
Sheinpflug said the 16 Black people who qualify for the program never directly receive the payments. They said Flemings wants the funds to be given directly to the Black people who qualify in cash payments.
“The money is given directly to the bank, they can only use it towards their mortgage, they can use it towards a down payment or they can use it towards a contractor for repairs. They have to use it towards the primary investments of Evanston. Say they moved away from Evanston, then they are not eligible, say, it’s an older person who doesn’t own a house anymore, they’re not eligible. It’s very, very limited who can apply for this,” Sheinplfug said.
Fleming claims the proposal is lacking in detail and the longevity of the plan was not assessed.
“There has not been a feasibility study, there is no groundwork for future reparative options, nor have we firmly provided economic rationale for the $25,000 allocation amounts,” Fleming said.
Fleming hopes that the Evanston community will slow down and listen to the Black community that has been directly impacted from years of racism. Fleming said that the mistrust the Black community already has in the government is amplified by the bold claims that this resolution is historic.
“Understanding that not everyone will be satisfied, we still owe it to Black Evanstonians to develop a plan that is clear, fair, data based, and one that can truly start to address racialized harm, marginalization and discrimination. It is through this truth-telling and deliberate work that we can bring our community together,” Fleming said.
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Sneak Peek Into Columbia River Gorge National Scenic Area
The Columbia River Gorge is an inspiring and breath-taking place to visit. It is America’s first National Scenic area. The canyon gorge stretches over 80 miles wide and 4,000 feet deep, and serves as the border between Oregon Washington States.
It has a number of forests, waterfalls, lakes and streams that contribute to the magical nature of this place. It’s also home to some of the most popular attractions in Oregon, such as Multnomah Falls.
Here’s a sneak peek of the Columbia River Gorge National scenic area.
This is one of the most popular spots in the area. It is the tallest waterfall in Oregon standing at 620 feet and the trails here are simply phenomenal. You’ll feel like you are walking straight into one of those magical Disney movies. The falls are in two tiers and you can easily hike them with paved trails to help you.
The entire place is picturesque with lush green everywhere. It’s important to note that this area can be extremely wet at times, so it’s strongly advised that you be prepared and pack protective gear.
Located in the Oneonta Creek, this gorge is slightly smaller and leads directly to the Oneonta falls. Not only is the place beautiful, but the fact that it is a bit less visited than Multnomah Falls means that it is less crowded and quieter. If you want to go on an expedition far from the crowds, then you might as well have this place on your list.
Be prepared to get wet while following its trails and don’t forget to bring the camera in order to capture the massive rock walls.
This happens to be one of the least visited places in the Columbia River Gorge. However, before you access it, you’ll have to hike through the forest, and this is a fairly easy one, being also short. When you get to the falls, you’ll be amazed by the magnificent views. The lush green around you will make the experience feel magical and if you happen to be with your partner, this is one of those moments that you will live to cherish for your entire life time.
These falls obtained their name from a crevasse on the rocks which made the falls look like a horse’s tail. You’ll definitely want to capture this moment in your camera.
The place is so spectacular such that it can only be captured in the following words by John Keats:
“The poetry of the earth is never dead.”
Source: Poetry Foundation
Its location also makes it perfect to visit because it’s just off the Historic Columbia River highway. You don’t need to hike in order for you to access it. It’s also a great spot for swimming.
Mosier Plateau Trail
The Mosier Plateau trail is a secret that has been well kept by its locals. The trail is full of wild flowers and scenic views. The best thing about this trail is that there are a number of spots such as hotels and lodges that are located along the trail. This means that you don’t have to carry a heavy backpack with numerous camping and survival kit essentials.
At the end of the trail stands the majestic Mosier Creek Falls. At 100 feet tall, this creek is a stunning and picturesque site to visit. You’ll definitely appreciate the fact that you went on this entire trail when you reach this point.
Post Canyon Bike Trail
Post Canyon is home to the best bike trails in the entire northwest part of Oregon. This is one of the reasons that make it the ultimate place for a family outing. The trails are designed for all age types, along with some humorous names as well, such as Middle School, Bad Motor Scooter and Lollipop Lane. Apart from biking, there are also tons of other activities that you can engage in with the family and many spots that you can relax in along the Hood River. | <urn:uuid:f9f4b0b6-c4ec-4131-a552-408c371311c1> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.oregoncitylink.com/columbia-river-gorge-national/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572043.2/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814143522-20220814173522-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.963946 | 850 | 1.875 | 2 |
When we think of multiethnic ministry, there is a common perspective that there is just no place for ethnic specific ministry because it leads to tribalism and divides Christians. But as the Director of InterVarsity's Latino Ministry (called LaFe), I am convinced the opposite is true: ethnic specific ministry is one of the factors that enables multiethnic ministry to succeed.
Here are 4 misconceptions of ethnic specific ministry that need to be clarified if we want to genuinely move forward in our multiethnic work:
Misconception #1: Ethnic Specific Ministry will divide our ministries.
Initially, many ethnic minority students do get their spiritual and core cultural needs met in their ethnic specific ministries and will not feel the need to fellowship with the larger, multiethnic ministry. But eventually, as leaders are brought together for prayer and training from both groups and friendships are formed at retreats, conferences and training events, the divisions can begin to break down.
And when leaders wisely create opportunities for members from different ministries to listen to God together and contribute to the vision and goals of their groups, they start to gain ownership for each other's ministries. But this takes intentionality by the leadership to foster opportunities for mutual encouragement, support and ownership of each other's ministry.
Ethnic Specific Ministry doesn't have to divide your ministry. Through wise leadership, ethic specific ministry can serve to enlarge your "front door" through which more ethnic minority students find their way into the life and core of our faith communities and contribute to a more authentic multiethnic ministry.
At a recent LaFe event at Brown University, a student gave her testimony about how she discovered the InterVarsity Chapter through the LaFe ministry on campus. She spoke about how LaFe and InterVarsity brought deep emotional healing to her after a very difficult childhood of rejection and alienation. Through her many tears she expressed how instrumental the LaFe ministry was for her understanding and appreciation of the larger InterVarsity ministry.
Misconception #2: Ethnic Specific Ministry and Multiethnic Ministry cannot coexist.
Marginalized people in any society will struggle to find their voice without ethnic connection.
Marginalized people in any society will struggle to find their voice without ethnic connection. In the early 90s when the LaFe Ministry was struggling to gain momentum, we often would gather all the Latino staff to provide mutual support and pastoral care to those experiencing organizational trauma as a result of microaggressions stemming from subtle racism/prejudice and and/or bigotry. By gathering regularly, the Multiethnic Ministries Department created an atmosphere of understanding and healing for emerging Latino staff.
As we talked, dreamed and shared our ethnic journeys at these gatherings, we began to find our voice and clarify the message we needed to communicate to the broader movement. Our vision for Latino ministry grew and hearts were united for the good of InterVarsity as a whole. By permitting and affirming ethnic specific ministries as part of a broader multiethnic strategy, InterVarsity provided space for ethnic staff to listen to each other and discover their core concerns, priorities and values. Only then were we able to clearly communicate what we needed to survive and flourish within the broader movement. In the case of LaFe in the late 90s not only did ethnic specific ministry and multiethnic ministry coexist but the latter could not have grown without the former.
Misconception #3: Ethnic Specific Ministry places culture above the Gospel.
There are many Christians who believe that meeting separately by ethnicity means we are circumventing the gospel of unity and treating ethnic identity in an idolatrous manner.
We believe that God has called us to be one people and one body of Christ. But at the same time, Jesus, who becomes one of us in every way except for sin, saves human beings who are inherently ethnic people in a culture and a social location. Jesus himself took on an ethnos and lived in the context of community and culture. Our ethnicity then is not above the gospel but linked to the gospel because it is context through which the gospel is communicated and received.
When I first started getting involved with InterVarsity as a student, a mature white Christian friend of mine challenged me to do more evangelism if I was to grow in my faith. I was scared, but one day I agree to go with my friend to "watch him" do evangelism.
We walked up to a gentleman and my friend immediately engaged him with the gospel. There was no response. It suddenly occurred to me that the young man did not speak English. So in my broken Spanish I began to speak what little I knew about the gospel.
At that moment the young man looked shocked and overwhelmed. I asked him what was wrong.
Those who believe that ethnic specific ministry places culture above the Gospel miss out on the amazing ways God can work in and through ethnicity.
He said, "Well, it's strange because you're the seventh person to come up to me today to tell me about Jesus but I didn't really understand what the others were saying because my English isn't very good. You're the first one today that has spoken to me in Spanish."
As we celebrated the fact that God had brought us together I shared the good news and the gentleman embraced Jesus as his Savior.
In my evangelism, it was language and cultural connection that God used to communicate the love of Jesus and he responded positively! Those who believe that ethnic specific ministry places culture above the Gospel miss out on the amazing ways God can work in and through ethnicity where greater understanding and trust allows people to hear and respond positively to Jesus.
Misconception #4: Ethnic Specific Ministry will lead to ethnocentrism.
There are also many who preach against the dangers of ethnocentrism, where a person elevates their group over and above all other ethnic groups. This is a legitimate temptation that we must fight against.
But those who are genuine about following Christ will find that ethnocentrism is hard to maintain because scripture is constantly telling us to pray for our enemies, and to put the interests of others before our own.
The great commandment is to love God and to love others as we love ourselves. The self is composed of many things, including ethnicity. To love our neighbor is to love, respect and value their ethnicity as we love, respect and value our own ethnicity. If we cannot love this part of ourselves we will likely not be able to love the ethnic beauty of our neighbor.
To love our ethnicity with sober judgment and place it under Christ's lordship puts us in a good position to love the ethnicity of our neighbor because we have learned the value of it in our own lives and have received God's blessing through it.
I am always amazed at how difficult it is to keep many of our LaFe ministries ethnic specific because when our students truly encounter Jesus Christ in the scriptures, their first instinct as Latinos is to share it with the people they love and care about, both within and beyond their ethnic circles.
When we engage in ethnic specific ministry under the Lordship of Christ, not only will we grow in reaching our ethnic group but we will grow in our ability to love our neighbors and in our desire to see them come to Jesus as well.
Reconsidering Ethnic Specific Ministry
I hope I have dispelled some half-truths for you and that you have gained a renewed vision for ethnic specific ministry. I also hope you are beginning to see it as another opportunity to reach more students for Christ.
Here are some ways you can take steps forward in embracing ethnic specific ministry:
- If you are part of an InterVarsity ministry that has very few Latino students, pray about whether this is the time to start something new with Latino students like a small group.
- If your chapter already has a Black Campus Ministry (BCM), what are some new ways your chapter can support their efforts and partner with them for their success?
- If you're a leader in a large Asian American chapter, what are ways you can partner effectively with other InterVarsity Chapters on campus?
- Consider attending an ethnic specific conference (or raising funds for one of your ethnic leaders to attend). InterVarsity hosts dozens of ethnic specific conferences on national and regional levels where you can learn more about the new group you are trying to reach on campus. Learn more about the national Black Campus Ministries Conference or the national Native InterVarsity Conference.
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