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What is Time-Align?
What is Time-Align®?
Time-Align® assures that the fundamental and overtones of a complex, transient, acoustical signal are presented to the listener in the same relationship as the electrical signal at the input terminals of the loudspeaker. This is demonstrated graphically in the scope pictures of the sound of a hand clap.
The conventional loudspeaker spreads out the sound in time: when a rapid series of transients occur the results are blurring and lost detail. With Time Align, the sound of the hand clap is presented as a tight package of energy, with the same time relationship as the natural sound. This means that a rapid series of transients will be heard clearly.
True Time Alignment™ requires much more than just physically lining up the loudspeaker components. It requires consideration of the driver placement, driver delay and adjustment of the crossover delay parameters. This achieves the precise simultaneous acoustical arrival time of each driver throughout the crossover region.
Along with state of the art laboratory instruments, the proprietary Time Align generator, built by Ron Wickersham, is used in designing our loudspeaker systems. The Time Align generator is founded upon different underlying mathematical principals than are used in the more common Fourier based measurement equipment.
When comparing a genuine BAG END Time Aligned™ speaker system to any other, our additional design work is easy to hear and appreciate. The dramatic clarity, realism, and overall pleasant sound of our Time Aligned loudspeakers is noted throughout the world.
Time-Align®, Time-Aligned™, Time-Alignment™, NEARFIELD MONITOR™, and NFM™ are trademarks of E. M. Long Associates. | <urn:uuid:a7b4a3d6-abf4-42ac-a9da-af211197915f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://bagend.com/what-is-time-align/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572212.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815205848-20220815235848-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.903731 | 358 | 1.640625 | 2 |
The image for Day 341 is another in the series of Our Thanet posts, showing locations that play an important part in the exploration and appreciation of Thanet’s heritage.
The image shows a view taken facing south and south west from a downland hill top at Lord of the Manor, Ramsgate when part of the ring ditch associated with a Bronze Age round barrow was partly exposed in a training excavation in 2013.
Although it is partly obscured by trees and buildings that have grown up since a railway cutting was pushed through the chalk hillside in 1847, it is still possible to see the vista across the low lying bay that could be seen from the vantage point of the raised central platform enclosed by the ring ditch. From the centre of the mound the horizon falls away in a wide sweep from the north east to the south, giving a view across Pegwell Bay.
It can be no coincidence that a location commanding such an impressive view was chosen for the location of such a major monument in the Bronze Age. Everywhere on Thanet where such unique points which command similar impressive views over the landscape can be found, there are also concentrations of prehistoric monuments, some unusually large in size or very complex such as the Lord of the Manor 1 multi phase monument which featured all the way back on Day 21 of the VM_365 project. Artistic reconstructions of the development of the landscape over time featured in an earlier series of VM_365 posts starting on Day 265.
This unique landscape is increasingly under pressure from development and it may soon not be possible to see what the prehistoric inhabitants of the Isle could see from the vantage points of the downland hilltops. | <urn:uuid:d1801ffc-e391-4c71-8016-82cb7e9d23d4> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://www.thanetarch.co.uk/journal/?p=3251 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572833.95/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817032054-20220817062054-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.963405 | 336 | 2.421875 | 2 |
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Coding as Cultural Technique: On the Emergence of the Digital from Writing ACAbstract
The Random-Access Image: Memory and the History of the Computer ScreenAbstract
How to Hear What Is Not Heard: Glenn Ligon, Steve Reich, and the Audible PastAbstract
The Architectural Postcard: Photography, Cinema, and Modernist Mass MediaFull Article
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Leadership & Engagement for Improved Accountability & Delivery of Services Framework (LEAD)
What does good program leadership and management entail?
According to the WHO, “Leadership is about creating a vision, communicating this to others, developing strategies, motivating people, and negotiating for resources and other support to achieve their goals. [Managers] make decisions on how best to use staff, budgets, drugs and other resources, and are responsible for making things happen. In the resource constrained and difficult environments of many low – to middle-income countries, a manager must also be a leader to achieve optimum results.”
Strengthening leadership and program management at the subnational level creates an important bridge between the national, subnational, and community levels. This bridge contributes to achieving outcomes and overall strengthening of a high-quality health system. Community engagement is increasingly becoming a critical part of this work, making programs more sustainable and aligned with the local context while facilitating local ownership.
What is LEAD and why is it useful?
LEAD supports programs in defining, prioritizing, and solving operational challenges while also leveraging opportunities for process improvement and building management and leadership skills. The framework uses the actual current challenges and opportunities that health program managers face and helps them resolve these challenges using already available resources.
LEAD draws upon organization development, leadership learning, participatory action research, quality improvement methods, and principles of community engagement to improve operational delivery at the district, clinic, and village level. LEAD employs a systematic process, involving continual problem diagnosis, action planning, implementation and evaluation to build capacity for change management through a series of workshops, meetings, trainings, coaching, and mentoring over the course of the planning cycle.
Who should use this tool and how?
LEAD is intended for use by subnational health program managers and directors, officers (medical, nursing, environmental health, surveillance, M&E, health promotion), pharmacy managers, and administrators working at the provincial, district, health facility, and community levels, as well as national health program managers, who want to: 1) develop leadership and management capacity, 2) increase productivity, coverage and quality of operations, 3) empower frontline workers to take ownership, solve challenges, and act on decisions, and 4) optimize limited resources, while integrating for efficiency with other programs.
The framework guides the user through distinct modules to identify key stakeholders, prioritize operational challenges and opportunities to improve operations, determine solutions, develop indicators to measure progress in implementing those solutions, and integrate successful solutions into the health system. Implementation of the LEAD Framework is best followed with steps to develop and implement a process improvement action plan, and can be used alongside other tools in the MEI toolkit including the Malaria Budget Advocacy Framework and the SUSTAIN Tool.
- LEAD User Guide
- LEAD Fact Sheet
- Annex I: Introduction to the LEAD Process and Methods
- Annex II: Initial Workshop Program
- Annex IIIa: Challenge and Opportunity Identification Techniques
- Annex IIIb: Management and Leadership: Shifting Organizational Priorities and Practices for Malaria Elimination
- Annex IIIc: Challenge and Opportunity Prioritization Techniques
- Annex IVa: Creating a Process Map or Flowchart
- Annex IVb: Active Listening
- Annex IVc: Key Managerial Challenges in Moving from Control to Elimination
- Annex IVd: Friendly Consulting
- Annex V: Solution Generation & Challenge Resolution
- Annex VIa: Task Team Meeting Program
- Annex VIb: Sample Action Plan
- Annex VII: Evaluation of Solutions
- Annex VIIIa: Follow-Up Workshop Program
- Annex VIIIb: Collaborative Consulting (World Café)
- Annex VIIIc: Qualitative Feedback on Solution Resolution
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Today’s comic from Rhymes with Orange perfectly summarizes the problems with the online security questions. We use these to reset passwords, but when the answers to these questions are common knowledge, it makes resetting your password trivial.
Good security practice would be to come up with a question and answer set that people couldn’t guess, or to falsify the answers. It’s almost like creating a password…for your passwords. It would appear to be flawed logic. | <urn:uuid:1a2b91fc-2918-4409-8c11-155f1fc1466a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://agent31.net/blog/2013/05/16/online-security-question-fallacy/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572833.95/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817032054-20220817062054-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.954163 | 98 | 1.53125 | 2 |
“Did you honestly think that We had created you for play, and without any purpose, and that you would not be brought back to Us?”
Why has God created us? Why are we here? What is our purpose in life?
The answer is very simple – in Islam God has created us to test us to see if we are willing to look beyond what is directly in front of us and to recognise Him as the Creator of everything.
Take the example of the current President of the United States. Hypothetically speaking, some may argue that he is the most powerful man on Earth. Yet, imagine if tomorrow, all of the human race and animals were to suddenly disappear and all that was left on this Earth was only the President – even though, he may be the most powerful man on Earth, there would be no one left to recognise or appreciate his status.
In Islam, God created us for a similar purpose; our purpose is to recognise Him and His status as our Creator and Sustainer. This is why God states in the Quran:
“I did not create the heavens, the earth and all that is between them without a purpose! That is what the disbelievers think.” (Quran 38:27)
“And I did not Create the jinn and humans except that they should worship Me (alone).” (Quran 51:56)
God created us for the purpose of recognising Him and for examining us to see who would be obedient in worshiping Him:
“We created not the heavens and the earth and all that is between them except with truth (i.e. to test and distinguish between those who are obedient and disobedient), and for an appointed term. But those who disbelieve turn away from that which they are warned.” (Quran 46:1-3)
So what about those who turn away from God?
God explains that He turns away from those who turn away from Him:
“And We certainly sent to every nation a messenger, (saying), “Worship Allah (God alone) and avoid falsehood.” And among them were those whom Allah (God) guided, and among them were those upon whom were deservedly sent astray. So travel through the earth and see what was the end of those who denied.” (Quran 16:36)
The phrase “deservedly sent astray” confirms that guidance is primarily in the hands of God.
However, God sends astray those who deliberately turn away from His signs and choose to either live in ignorance or to deliberately reject His message.
They make no attempt to seek His guidance and are content with the pleasures of this world, and hence choose the path of error. This is why God states in the Quran:
“I will turn away from My signs those who are wrongly arrogant on earth. Even if they see all the signs they will not believe in them. They will not take the right way if they see it, but if they see the wrong way they will take it because they have rejected My signs by ignoring them.” (Quran 7:146)
And thus, as a result God states:
“They have forgotten Allah; so He has forgotten them.” (Quran 9:67)
As humans, we look for rational explanations in life; God has provided us with a rational answer to why God created us and everything around us, and why some people go astray.
Yet, having created us, it is only fair, that rather than blindly placing us on this Earth, He sends guides to help teach us and to remind us of why we’re here.
In Islam, God has done this by sending “to every nation a messenger” (Quran 16:36). These are the prophets (PBUT). | <urn:uuid:14029d44-af26-4428-a1e8-15d62ce57157> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.understandislam.org/why-has-god-made-me/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572212.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815205848-20220815235848-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.976492 | 812 | 2.390625 | 2 |
If organizations want to optimize productivity, reduce storage costs and maintain compliance, they should implement an information governance plan.
Information governance is a set of processes, roles and tools that streamline information management, mitigate security risks, ensure regulatory compliance and make information accessible to those who need it. Poorly managed information can make documents and other digital resources difficult for workers to find. However, well-managed information can increase productivity and help workers search for relevant and up-to-date documents.
Information governance can also cut storage costs and help organizations remain compliant with privacy regulations, such as the European Union's GDPR and California's CCPA. Failure to adhere to compliance regulations can result in steep penalties and damage an organization's reputation.
Many organizations took on digital transformation projects throughout the 2010s, so the information governance market grew. Organizations that undergo digital transformation can collect and store more data than companies with physical repositories, so they require more elaborate information governance policies. Since the late 2010s, many organizations have completed simple information governance projects, such as digitizing paper documents, and shifted focus to data retention and cleansing projects.
As organizations store more data and customers increasingly demand stricter privacy laws, information governance becomes more critical. In fact, many organizations have added governance roles, such as chief information governance officer (CIGO), into their C-suites.
The following quiz can help business professionals test their knowledge of information governance basics.
Editor's note: This information governance quiz was originally written by Jonathan Gourley in 2011, and then updated and expanded by Tim Murphy in 2022. | <urn:uuid:d42b21d3-104b-42b9-a68b-d9b5ee25bbc9> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.techtarget.com/searchcontentmanagement/quiz/Quiz-Test-your-knowledge-of-information-governance-best-practices | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572212.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815205848-20220815235848-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.936384 | 326 | 2.84375 | 3 |
There are heaps of individuals who are in the know when it comes to SEO, but it truly is time for you to become the expert. rank tracker api may get some a lot more energy than before, but you experience what you sow. This article is bound to be of help to you.
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Include quality search phrases on your page’s URL. You will not get substantial rankings if your web site has symbols or figures most men and women do not search for. Include the key phrases that relate to your internet site to get a lot more visitors.
You have been provided a lot of tips about sEO. Hopefully most of it was new to you so you can use it in your arranging. Use the suggestions given so you can manage your very own accomplishment. | <urn:uuid:b04afc56-fcf3-4566-a7da-8f484ea681c8> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.sophies-steakhouse.com/2021/05/28/useful-ideas-for-onsite-and-offsite-look-for-motor-optimization/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572212.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815205848-20220815235848-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.937298 | 651 | 1.875 | 2 |
The MBA Online Master forms you for:Obtain the necessary knowledge for the management and direction of the different disciplines and techniques essential for the proper functioning of an organization or company.
Develop, Implement, follow up on a successful business management strategy.
Evaluate and assess the suitability of commercial strategies.
Analyze the marketing plan of a company and make decisions accordingly about marketing channels under an online and international environment.
Perform economic and financial analysis.
Knowing the correct development of a company's operations management.The online MBA is aimed at graduates with work experience and professionals who have worked in companies as middle managers want to improve their work position. The reality of today shows that if you do not have a master's degree it is very difficult to find work or improve on it. After completing a master's degree in management and business administration, the evolution is evident. A functional director of an SME can become a general manager or functional director of a large company. In the case of an intermediate position, for example, a Product Manager can become a marketing director or director or manager of an SME.
Through the methodology of the case, the Master in Business Administration and Management (MBA) focuses on providing and consolidating knowledge in two large groups. Trunks: marketing, finance and human resources; and cross-cutting: the rest of the areas of knowledge and, above all, focused on the branch of communication.
The objective of the Online MBA is to train the student to formulate and implement successful strategies in business management entering each of the areas of the company. Form managers capable of evaluating marketing plans and the appropriate channels to market the products or services; control operations and logistics plans; information systems and technologies; Human Resources; and the economic-financial situation. In short, provide the essential knowledge for a correct business management in any of the aspects of an organization.
We want to join the MBA with the teaching experience of professionals with extensive experience in the management and administration of companies.Methodology and EvaluationMethodology
We came up with the idea of offering an education accessible to anyone, in any situation. With more than 15 years of experience in training, we have become an international benchmark in online education.Online methodology: Access the agenda from our virtual campus. Available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
Distance methodology: If you prefer, obtain the course material in book format.
Blended learning methodology: With the advantages of online mode, besides being able to attend face-to-face classes.We offer a methodology close to the student thanks to the fundamental points of our methodology:Live virtual classes: So you can see them with only an internet access. Listen, ask and debate with the teacher through the interactive platform. If you miss a class or would like to see it again, you can access them from the IMF campus.
Virtual campus: Access when or where you want to all the training contents, with the possibility of viewing us through the 2.0 tool itself or download them in PDF. Collaborate and interact with your classmates and teachers through discussion and discussion groups, forums and chats. Take advantage of readings, case studies and case studies with the possibility of self-evaluating tests.
Virtual Library: Enjoy more than online educational content, more than 9,000 references from more than 120 specialized publishers and related to the world of the company. The virtual format allows you to underline, add notes or modify the way the text is displayed with the mission of encouraging learning.
Tutor unlimited: It has the support of a personal tutor and the access of professional teachers of the sector with which to be able to do e-face tutoring and contact through chats, forums, telephone or email. If you need it you can resort to face-to-face tutoring at the IMF headquarters.
Masterclass and Networking: An essential part in the world of training are networks of contacts. At IMF we make it easy for you to weave your own network with colleagues and professionals from the sector through invitations to webinars, round tables, and all kinds of current events.
Practical case study: Each module is projected on a practical case study, a real and current company, Amadeus, from which they will study their data and circumstances. Working from the perspective of each of the subjects as the student is studying, allows you to develop a global vision of the world of the company.
Continuous evaluation tailored to the course of the Online MBA. Each module is evaluable through the combination of an online exam and the development of practical cases.
The final obtaining of the Master's degrees by the University of Nebrija and IMF Smart Education , is subject to passing the tests of each module mentioned above and the preparation of the final master's project.Professional outingsAfter finishing this Master MBA Online, you will be able to perform the following functions:Director and business administrator.
Strategic consultant in the different areas of the company.
Director of commercial, sales and marketing.
Brand Manager / Brand Manager.
Responsible for business development.
Product ManagerWe want to IMF our students acquire language skills and language necessary to succeed in the professional world with guarantees competence.
One way to accredit language skills is by passing official language exams. That is why from our Executive Language School division of IMF we prepare for the official certification of language exams at the University of Cambridge (PET, FCE, CAE and CPE).
Employment Exchange and Guaranteed Practices
IMF Smart Education , through its Employment and Internship portal, guarantees MBA students, internships in companies in the sector. Check conditions.
Among the companies with which IMF has educational cooperation agreements for training in jobs, include:
Price and ScholarshipsAt IMF we offer our students great payment facilities:Scholarship up to 65%
Financing up to 12 months without interest or banking intervention (see conditions)
Payment method Online: Cash (Discount 5%) / Payment installment without interest
Form of payment Blended: Cash (Discount 5%) / Payment installment without interest
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Atea and Roche get a Covid-19 antiviral warning
The failure of the phase 2 Moonsong outpatient trial prompts a phase 3 rethink and a one-year delay.
Down but not yet out. This is probably the best way to describe Atea and Roche’s Covid-19 oral antiviral candidate AT-527 after the failure of the phase 2 Moonsong trial in non-hospitalised patients.
The project will now be delayed for around a year; good news for Merck & Co, whose rival antiviral molnupiravir recently prevailed in phase 3 and was filed for emergency use authorisation last week. The latest news raises questions about trial design, in particular because Moonsong allowed vaccinated subjects, while Merck’s Move-Out trial of molnupiravir did not.
Unlike Atea and Roche, Merck also focused on patients with underlying health conditions, who are at greater risk of developing severe Covid-19.
Morninsky red flags
This looks like a canny move by Merck, and a misstep by Atea and Roche, which are now scrabbling to save AT-527’s ongoing pivotal study, Morningsky. That trial, like Moonsong, includes vaccinated participants and does not select for those with underlying illness.
However, it looks like this will soon change, with the groups planning major amendments that will push Morningsky’s readout back to the second half of 2022; the study had been expected to yield data by the end of this year.
During a conference call today Atea’s chief development officer, Janet Hammond, said: “One thing we’d want to do would be eliminate patients who’ve been vaccinated.”
A focus on those with underlying conditions also looks likely. “It’s really the high-risk patients where one is going to have the greatest likelihood of seeing an impact clinically,” she added, suggesting that Moonsong might simply have been insufficiently powered to detect a small benefit.
In addition, Atea is considering changing the primary endpoint of Morningsky, which currently is time to improvement in Covid-19 symptoms. Harder endpoints like hospitalisation and death, as per molnupiravir’s Move-Out trial, might be preferable.
Atea execs would not say how many patients have been enrolled in Morningsky so far and whether any of these patients’ data could be used in the revised trial.
Moonsong out of tune
Atea execs found explanations for Moonsong’s failure, including the rise of variants and the evolving vaccine landscape, but it has long been known that young, fit people are unlikely to develop severe Covid-19. This means that it was always going to be difficult to show a large benefit over placebo here.
The average age in the study was 37, and the median BMI less than 27. Two thirds of subjects did not have an underlying illness.
Neither dose of AT-527, 550mg or 1,100mg twice daily, met the primary endpoint, reduction in viral load versus placebo.
However, a subgroup analysis of patients with underlying health conditions did find a 0.5log10 reduction in viral load versus placebo at day seven with both doses. Evercore ISI’s Umer Raffat noted that this was comparable to the result seen with molnupiravir.
Even if Atea and Roche can salvage something from Morningsky, AT-527 could well end up an also-ran. Investors sent Atea’s shares down 65% this morning.
And what might these results mean for the rest of the Covid-19 antiviral pipeline? Perhaps that those that excluded vaccinated patients – like Pfizer, which is up next with a readout – might have a better chance of success.
|Selected oral antivirals for treating Covid-19|
|Project||Company||Setting||Trial||Vaccinated people allowed?|
|Molnupiravir||Merck & Co/Ridgeback||Outpatient treatment||Move-Out, succeeded||No|
|Post-exposure prophylaxis||Move-Ahead, data H1 2022||No|
|AT-527||Roche/Atea||Outpatient treatment||Ph2 Moonsong, failed||Yes|
|Morningsky, data now due H2 2022||Yes if vaccinated >40 days previously|
|PF-07321332||Pfizer||Low-risk outpatient treatment||NCT05011513, ends Oct 2021||No, except those with underlying condition|
|High-risk outpatient treatment||NCT04960202, ends Dec 2021 (prev Nov 2021)||No|
|Post-exposure prophylaxis||NCT05047601, data H1 2022||No|
|Favipiravir||Appili||Outpatient treatment||Preseco, ended Sep 2021||Yes|
|Tempol (MBM-02)||Adamis Pharmaceuticals||Outpatient treatment||NCT04729595, ends Jun 2022||No|
|RHB-107 (upamostat)||Redhill Biopharma||Outpatient treatment||NCT04723537, ends Sep 2022||Yes|
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Censor (Nova Roma)
The censorship is the most respected and sacred magistracies of Nova Roma. There are two censores who are elected once in every two-and-a-half years period by the comitia centuriata, and unlike other magistrates, they have a 18 months term of office, however, by tradition, they are expected to step down as soon as they have completed the census. In corporate terminology, the censors are the secretaries of the corporation. The censores have with the highest auctoritas to safeguard the public morality and honor but third in rank after the consules and praetores, because they do not possess imperium, and have no power to convene either the senate or an assembly of the people. Their principal duty of the censors is to conduct the census twice in every five year period, the traditional lustrum, and, as a part of the census, to maintain the register of citizens, equestrians and senators, to classify all citizens according to their merit, to allocate citizens into classes, centuries and tribes, to distribute awards and reprimands, to elevate or remove members of the equestrian order, to appoint and remove members of the senate, and to guard public honor and morality. It is also the censors' job to set the general direction of public works and finances between two censuses, in cooperation with the aediles.
The eligibility requirements for censor are set by the lex Tullia annalis: only those assidui can be candidates who are at least 40 years old, and have previously served as consul. The censores enter office on Kal. Ian. ‡ (1 January) of the year for which they are elected to hold the census, or if they are elected out of order, they enter office as soon as elected.
Duties and powers of the censors
The lex Cornelia Domitia de re publica constitudenda says about the censores:
- 1. Censor. Two censors shall be elected by the Comitia Centuriata to be regarded as the most sacred magistrates kept in the highest respect, to serve a term lasting a maximum of eighteen months, to be elected once in every thirty months, to conduct the census of Nova Roma, which shall be initiated no later than in the thirtieth month after the lustrum of the previous census, observing that one in two censuses be completed before the end of every fifth calendar year of Nova Roma. The censors shall not necessarily remain in office until the end of their term, but they may resign from office after they have completed the census and the lustrum. If a censor dies, resigns, or is removed from office, the remaining censor shall resign no later than within a nundinum. When there are no censors in office, their duties listed under IV.A.1.c-d, without the right to award public knighthoods, shall be continued by the Censorial Office directly administered by the praefectus rei publicae administrandae under the legal authority of the consuls who shall only supervise the lawfulness of the operation of the Censorial Office; the rest of the censorial powers shall remain in abeyance. All censorial decisions shall be made by unanimous collegial decision. The censors shall have the following honors, powers, and obligations:
- a. To hold potestas and the auspicia maiora, and to conduct the census with the lustrum, which shall include the lectio senatus (appointment and removal of senators), the recognitio et probatio equitum (elevation to, or removal from, the Equestrian Order), the regimen morum (general control, with disciplinary power, over the public conduct and morals of citizens, including the punishments of tribu movere: to re-allocate an assiduus citizen from a rural tribe to an urban tribe; senatu movere: to remove a senator from the senate, equum adimere: to remove the rank of “eques equo publico” from an equestrian; in aerarios referre: to remove the voting rights of citizens by exclusion from all tribes and centuries, simultaneously removing them from the Senate and the Equestrian Order, too), to possess an incomplete ius coercitionis limited to be used within their duties, and the ius edicendi restricted only to issue those edicta that are necessary to carry out those tasks in which they are mandated by law to engage;
- b. To review, evaluate and set the direction of the public works, properties (in cooperation with the aediles) and finances of the state between two censuses;
- c. To maintain the album civium (list of citizens) including the list of gentes, the allocation of citizens into tribes, centuries and classes as described by law, and other appropriate information regarding them;
- d. To maintain the album equitum (lists of members of the equestrian order), including the power to add and remove names on that list;
- e. To maintain the album senatorium (list of Senators), including the power to add and remove names on that list according to qualifications set by law;
- f. To safeguard the public morality, virtue, honor and decency through public chastisements (animadversio) and through the collegial administering of notae;
- i. The nota censoria shall include the public explanation of the reasons for the disciplinary action and the recommended behavior which could convince the censors to lift the nota;
- ii. The nota censoria shall impose one or more punishments that the censors are empowered to inflict, listed at IV.A.1.a;
- iii. A nota shall remain in force until such time as it is removed by the same or by subsequent censors;
- g. To appoint apparitors and other officers to assist with administrative and other tasks, as they shall see fit.
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PXT3003 Shows Sustained Safety, Benefits for Patients With CMT1A
High-dose PXT3003, an investigational therapy for Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease type 1A (CMT1A), continues to show long-term safety and efficacy, according to an early analysis of a Phase 3 extension study.
All participants showed improvements on the Overall Neuropathy Limitation Scale (ONLS), a measure of physical disability.
“These new results from the interim analysis of the ongoing open-label Phase 3 extension study show very promising safety and efficacy data of PXT3003 in CMT1A after more than four years of treatment,” Florian P. Thomas, MD, PhD, the study’s lead investigator in the U.S., said in a press release.
“It reinforces our hope that PXT3003 could be the first treatment approved for patients suffering from this debilitating disease,” he added.
That original study evaluated PXT3003’s safety and efficacy, comparing a low dose and a high dose of the therapy candidate, given as an oral solution twice a day. An expected issue in the high dose formulation made Pharnext, the treatment’s developer and the sponsor of both studies, stop this group in September 2017. This meant that the initial high dose was then given in twice the volume of the low dose formulation.
Patients receiving the high dose showed the greatest improvement in ONLS scores, which measure limitations in the everyday use of a person’s arms and legs. Those treated with a placebo during the main portion of the study had shown ONLS declines. They then improved, however, over the extension phase with PXT3003 treatment. Participants receiving PTX3003 for the duration showed ONLS improvements throughout the two phases.
The combined trials have now been running for approximately 4.5 years.
“Although these new data were generated from an open-label study” — meaning both researchers and participants are aware of the treatment being given — “the findings are consistent with the safety and efficacy results of PXT3003 observed in prior clinical studies in CMT1A,” said Adrian Hepner, MD, PhD, chief medical officer of Pharnext.
“In addition,” Hepner said, “the fact we have just initiated the PREMIER trial in a similar patient population, using the same High Dose of PXT3003 and measuring the same efficacy endpoint [goal] ONLS, reinforces our confidence in the potential positive outcome of our ongoing pivotal Phase 3 study.”
PXT3003 is a combination of baclofen, naltrexone, and sorbitol, three approved therapeutic compounds meant to boost the body’s production of myelin by limiting the production of the PMP22 protein that is overproduced in people with CMT1A. Myelin insulates nerve signals from being lost during transmission. It is the loss of myelin, which serves as a protective coating around nerves, that underlies CMT1.
Pharnext recently enrolled the first patient in the Phase 3 PREMIER study (NCT04762758). Similar to the PLEO-CMT trial, PREMIER will compare the safety and efficacy of PXT3003 with a placebo, over 15 months of treatment. The trial will be conducted in the U.S., Canada, Europe, and Israel. Information on contacts and locations can be found here.
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Please join us for a very special free screening of the 2016 documentary, Relocation, Arkansas: Aftermath of Incarceration at the Apollo Theatre. Directed by Vivienne Schiffer, Relocation, Arkansas chronicles the effect of the Japanese American incarceration experience in Arkansas during WWII on the generation that was born after the camps closed and the unlikely tale of those Japanese Americans who remained behind.
The film features the story of Paul Takemoto, whose mother Alice Takemoto ’47, was incarcerated at a camp in Arkansas before coming to study at the Oberlin Conservatory in 1947.
A panel discussion featuring Vivienne Schiffer, and Alice and Paul Takemoto will follow the screening.
This performance is part of the monthlong series of events organized in conjunction with the public history exhibit, Courage and Compassion: Our Shared Story of the Japanese American World War II Experience, in the Richard D. Baron ’64 Art Gallery.
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Cellular levels of ADMA and L-NMMA are controlled through the activities of PRMT and DDAH ADMA and L-NMMA are endogenous NOS inhibitors derived from the proteolysis of methylated arginine residues on numerous proteins. The methylation is definitely carried out by a group of enzymes referred to as protein-arginine methyl transferase’s (PRMT’s)10. Over the last 40 years BAY 73-4506 arginine methylation has been extensively analyzed in prokaryotes and eukaryotes exposing a pivotal part of this posttranslational changes in the rules of a number of cellular processes. Protein arginine methylation has been demonstrated to be involved in the modulation of transcription RNA rate of metabolism and protein-protein relationships thereby controlling cellular differentiation proliferation survival and apoptosis11. In mammalian cells these enzymes have been Jag1 classified into type I (PRMT1 3 4 6 and 8) and type II (PRMT5 7 and FBXO11) enzymes depending on their specific catalytic activity. Both types of PRMT however catalyze the formation of mono-methylarginine (MMA) from L-arginine (L-Arg). In a second step type I PRMT’s produce asymmetric dimethylarginine (ADMA) while type II PRMT catalyzes symmetric dimethylarginine (SDMA)11 12 Subsequent proteolysis of proteins comprising methylarginine groups prospects to the launch of free methylarginine into the cytoplasm where NO production from NOS can be inhibited. Free BAY 73-4506 methylarginines are cleared from your plasma by renal excretion and hepatic rate of metabolism9 25 In addition MMA and ADMA can be degraded to citrulline and mono- or dimethylamines by dimethylarginine dimethylaminohydrolases (DDAH)25. It has been estimated that more than 70% of ADMA is definitely metabolized by DDAH 1 however it is definitely unclear which DDAH isoform represents the principal mathylarginine metabolizing enzyme. 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A French mayor wants Mount Blanc climbers to put down a £12,600 (€15,000) deposit to cover the cost of their rescue and funeral before climbing.
It is the highest peak in Europe with a 15,771ft summit, and the local mayor proposed introducing the charge as he claims inexperienced climbers are playing 'Russian roulette' with their lives by tackling the ascent.
Jean-Marc Peillex, the mayor of Saint-Gervais-les-Bains in France, said 'pseudo-mountaineers' have not heeded warnings about the dangers of Mount Blanc.
The deposit would be a fully comprehensive one, and the first €10,000 would pay for the rescue of the climber and the remaining €5,000 would cover their funeral costs.
The mayor told The Telegraph on Thursday (August 4): "Sometimes silly people only respond to silly ideas.
"They have the same approach of someone who wants to commit suicide. So I say, let's do things properly and ask them to pay us the costs that this will entail."
He explained that many of the 'pseudo-mountaineers' come completely unprepared for the climb, with some even turning up 'wearing shorts, trainers and straw hats'.
Peillex added that when this happens, they are turned back by mountain police, but it is a problem all the same.
"People want to climb with death in their backpacks," he wrote on Twitter. "So let's anticipate the cost of having to rescue them, and for their burial, because it's unacceptable that French taxpayers should foot the bill."
Peillex told the BBC he has not yet made a legal ruling forcing mountaineers to pay the deposit, but did have the power to do so.
The proposed deposit has not been welcomed by the Italian side of the border.
Roberto Rota, the mayor of Courmayeur which is located at the foot of the mountain, said that Italy will place no restrictions on who is able to climb Europe's highest peak.
He said: "The mountain is not a property. As administrators, we limit ourselves to indicating when the paths are not in the best condition, but asking for a deposit to climb to the top is really surreal.
"You can decide to close a path or a passage if there is an actual risk."
Twenty people have lost their lives on Mount Blanc over the past two years and an additional 50 have required rescuing.
Some of the dangers facing climbers include bad weather and avalanches.
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The concept of “social responsibility” has first come into use with reference to the actors of economic activity and the various interests and needs of the stakeholders, i.e., the many individuals and organizations on which the actions of a company or a corporation have an impact. According to Article 14 of the Universal Declaration on Bioethics and Human Rights of 2005, the concept of social responsibility for health
entails a dual aspect. On the one hand, the promotion of health and social development for their people is understood as “a central purpose of governments” that is yet to be shared by “all sectors of society.” On the other hand, it is underlined that a broad range of initiatives is required, together with improving access to quality health care, in order to realize the right to the highest attainable standard of health. This responsibility can never be reduced to complying with legally binding rules and is now confronted with global challenges. The possibility to close or at least reduce the gap of inequality depends on our capacity to fight against poverty and illiteracy, improve and share natural and human-made global commons, develop new forms of international cooperation, and strengthen the principle of universal justice through the motivation of cosmopolitan solidarity.
The notion of “social responsibility” was first introduced in the field of economics and rapidly became crucial to the development of “business ethics.” According to its more comprehensive definition, the notion entails both an enlargement of the actors to whom economic and entrepreneurial activity ought to be responsive and a widening of the goals that such an activity is called upon to include in its strategies. On the one hand, the enlargement of the actors builds on the new stakeholder approach launched by W. Evan and E. Freeman in their breakthrough article on Kantian capitalism published in 1998. The management of a corporation has to be considered responsible not only towards the property and the stockholders’ legitimate interest for profit, but also the many individuals and organizations that are targeted or influenced by its decisions: customers, suppliers, advocates of special interest groups such as environmentalists, and others. On the other hand, the widening of the goals looks at the broader scope of the obligations that all those institutions whose activity has a significant public impact are now supposed to meet. Needless to say, they have to comply with all the requirements and constraints that are legally binding. At the same time, however, they are called upon to take into due consideration other and more encompassing duties stemming from a commitment to boost the welfare and development of the societies they are rooted in as well as to prevent them from suffering the consequences of possible negative “externalities” on the environment, work and living conditions, urban crowding, etc. These “social” responsibilities correspond in many cases to moral rather than legal obligations, so that people who do not comply with them can certainly be blamed, but not put on trial. Yet, no one could ever say that the values involved and the effects that are produced are something “private” or less important. Not to mention the fact that the line to separate what is socially considered as morally advisable and what is legally binding is not fixed once and for all: suffice it to recall the examples of limits and obligations concerning pollution, juvenile work, and social security, which have been often introduced under public pressure.
Article 14 of the Universal Declaration on Bioethics and Human Rights, adopted by acclamation in 2005 by UNESCO’s General Conference, imposed itself as a benchmark for the application of the notion of social responsibility to the domain of health and health care. In this text, it is easy to recognize both the elements that characterize the concept. It is clearly stated that “all sectors of society” share the commitment of governments to promote health and social development for their people as “a central purpose.” At the same time, a holistic approach is proposed. To respect, protect, and fulfill the right of every human being to enjoy the highest attainable standard of health, access to quality health care and essential medicines is a fundamental yet insufficient condition: social determinants of health play a role which is just as relevant, starting with access to adequate nutrition and water, improvement of living conditions and the environment, elimination of the marginalization and the exclusion of persons on the basis of any grounds, and reduction of poverty and illiteracy (UNESCO 2005, § 14). Society as a whole, with the deep faults of inequalities that impinge upon the right to attain even a decent standard of health, becomes a crucial issue for bioethics, going far beyond the limits of an approach mainly focused on questions of medical ethics. The global perspective is immediately focused on the fact that every human being is included, without any “distinction of race, religion, political belief, economic or social condition.” Therefore, the following article on the principle of Sharing of benefits reaffirms that “benefits resulting from any scientific research and its applications should be shared with society as a whole and within the international community, in particular with developing countries” (UNESCO 2005, § 15).
Social Conditions And Differences As Determinants Of Health
The decisive role of the social determinants of health has been long since acknowledged in the most influential international documents. Article 12 of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, adopted in 1966 by the General Assembly of the United Nations, together with the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, already mentioned, among the steps to be taken, the healthy development of the child, the improvement of the environment, and all the measures to boost the “prevention, treatment and control of epidemic, endemic, occupational and other diseases” (United Nations 1966b, § 12). In 2000, the United Nations Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights further elaborated on this premise and expounded in greater detail the content of the right to the highest attainable standard of health: this right entails the right “to the enjoyment of a variety of facilities, goods, services and conditions,” which are necessary for its realization, “such as access to safe and potable water and adequate sanitation, an adequate supply of safe food, nutrition and housing, healthy occupational and environmental conditions, and access to health related education and information, including on sexual and reproductive health.” A further important aspect – the text continues – “is the participation of the population in all health related decision-making at the community, national and international levels” (United Nations 2000, §§ 9 and 11).
In the same document, the States are explicitly referred to the Alma-Ata Declaration, “which proclaims that the existing gross inequality in the health status of the people, particularly between developed and developing countries, as well as within countries, is politically, socially and economically unacceptable and is, therefore, of common concern to all countries.” A list of obligations is detailed accordingly: States parties “have to respect the enjoyment of the right to health in other countries, and to prevent third parties from violating it;” they should “facilitate access to essential health facilities, goods and services in other countries,” as well as “ensure that the right to health is given due attention in international agreements;” those States “which are members of international financial institutions, notably the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, and regional development banks, should pay greater attention to the protection of the right to health in influencing the lending policies, credit agreements and international measures of these institutions.” Cooperation “in providing disaster relief and humanitarian assistance in times of emergency,” provision “of international medical aid, distribution and management of resources,” and collective responsibility to address the problems stemming from easily transmissible diseases are also mentioned, and it is worth observing the overlap of this issue of international obligations with that of social responsibility in the sense of active participation: “all members of society – individuals, including health professionals, families, local communities, intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations, civil society organizations, as well as the private business sector – have responsibilities regarding the realization of the right to health” (United Nations 2000, §§ 38–42).
As an evidence of this growing awareness, beyond the many Bibliography : in the literature concerning the right to health, it is also to mention the decision of the World Health Organization to establish in 2005 a Commission on Social Determinants of Health, which produced its final report in 2008. The report, vis-à-vis the huge inequalities between different peoples of the world, launched the ambitious commitment to “closing the gap in a generation” and proposed three overarching recommendations: (a) improve daily living conditions; (b) tackle the inequitable distribution of power, money, and resources; and (c) measure and understand the problem and assess the impact of action (WHO 2008, p. 10). The International Bioethics Committee of UNESCO has published in 2010 its report on the principle of social responsibility and health, reaffirming the importance of placing bioethics and scientific progress “within the context of reflection open to the political and social world” and underlining the responsibility to address “injustice, discrimination, intolerance, violence, accidents and conflicts” as the true test of our will “to minimize or eradicate avoidable risk of threats to health and well-being” (UNESCO 2010, §§ 1 and 100). The pivotal role of health within the scope of corporate social responsibility itself strengthens this link. In ISO 26000, the standard for social responsibility that has been worked out by the International Standard Organization, seven “core subjects” are identified: organizational governance, human rights, labor practices, the environment, fair operating practices, consumer issues, and community involvement and development (International Standard Organization 2010). Health is explicitly mentioned as one of the main issues directly related to the core subjects of labor practices, consumer issues, and community involvement and development, but its relevance for the others is also quite obvious, according to the simple observation that everyone’s health depends very much on the conditions in which people are born, live, work, and age. This observation holds at the global as well as the local level. Suffice it to mention the case of multinational companies or other institutions whose strategies affect millions of people at a time.
The holistic approach to the right to the highest attainable standard of health (simply the right to health, once we clarify that no one, as is self-evident, can ensure an unconditioned right to be always healthy and free from diseases) and health as the cornerstone of the necessarily holistic dictionary and practice of human rights are the two sides of the same coin. This interconnectedness provides the conceptual weaving of the most challenging efforts of the international community to promote justice, equity, and development for every people and every human being. The eight Millennium Development Goals, whose adoption bound all the United Nations Member States to achieve by 2015 decisive improvements in the fields that had been indicated, may be considered the most illustrative example. The commitment to eradicate extreme poverty and hunger, to achieve universal primary education, to promote gender equality and empower women, to ensure environmental sustainability, and to develop a global partnership for development goes with the commitment to reduce child mortality, to improve maternal health, and to combat HIV/AIDS, malaria, and other diseases. The goal of “global partnership,” in particular, addresses not only the necessity to foster economic growth, but also – among others – the effort to “develop further an open, rule-based, predictable, non-discriminatory trading and financial system” and, “in cooperation with pharmaceutical companies, provide access to affordable essential drugs in developing countries.” Once again, a globalized corporate social responsibility and social responsibility for health appear to be strictly tied to each other.
Many initiatives have been taken at the international level to effectively address the issue of “global” health, such as the Global Forum for Health Research, the Reaching the Poor Programme, and the Grand Challenges in Global Health, which involve both governmental and nongovernmental actors. Three priorities are becoming more and more transparent. The awareness of the many ways through which health is socially determined underpins a two-pronged strategy. Health in all policies, the Adelaide Statement adopted in 2010 by the participants at a meeting promoted by the government of South Australia together with WHO, points out both the necessity to promote health across all sectors of society and that of engaging the health sector in contributing to others: economy and employment; security and justice; education and early life; agriculture and food; infrastructure, planning, and transport; environment and sustainability; housing and community services; and land and culture. This is the way to trigger a fruitful circularity and eventually overturn the causal relationship between a poor social context and poor standards of health. In the second place and for analogous reasons, the “creation of a permanent global health underclass of poor and marginalized people” should be absolutely avoided, looking at “disadvantaged populations within better-off countries” as well as “the vast majority of people in worse-off countries” (Gostin and Friedman 2013, p. 19). In this perspective, the Joint Action and Learning Initiative on National and Global Responsibilities for Health (JALI), to whose Steering Committee Gostin and Friedman belong, has proposed to establish a Framework Convention on Global Health. Last but not least, a decisive shift is required from the beneficence to the active participation approach. The goal of an adequate concept of solidarity cannot be achieved by a top-down charity. Article 15 of the Universal Declaration on Bioethics and Human Rights points at a different pathway, underlining capacity building as a pillar of the principle of benefit sharing. The essential task to perform is that of giving all nations the concrete opportunity of being “producers of research as well as consumers” (WHO 2013, p. xi).
It comes as no surprise to observe that income (wealth) and education (culture) directly or indirectly affect most of the social determinants of health, inasmuch as they play a decisive role in shaping both the scope of opportunities and general living conditions. Availability, accessibility, acceptability, and quality are widely acknowledged as the four essential elements to be included in the commitment to respect, protect, and fulfill the right to health. It goes without saying that acceptability largely depends on education and culture, whereas the lack of resources can set up an insurmountable barrier as to the other elements. Life expectancy at birth, income, and educational attainments are indeed the variables that build up the Human Development Index, updated every year by the United Nations Development Programme and integrated through an “inequality adjusted” Index, which makes clear that these faults of inequalities exist even within and not just between the different States, so that poor people living in less developed countries appear to be doubly burdened. Nowadays, this is the way we have to understand the definition of bioethics as the multidisciplinary endeavor to address “ethical issues related to medicine, life sciences and associated technologies as applied to human beings, taking into account their social, legal and environmental dimensions” (UNESCO 2005, § 1). At the dawn of this century, Albert Jonsen complained about the “narrow philosophical focus” and the lack of attention for “the social dimensions of human decisions and actions” that had characterized bioethics “from the beginning.” “The time has come – he concluded – to move onto higher roads” (Jonsen 2001, p. 23). There is no doubt that bioethics is now treading these new roads.
The responsibility of States and governments for improving the social determinants of health is decisive, and their intervention is impossible to substitute. They are called on, also by international covenants and agreements, to take all the legislative and regulatory measures towards the full realization of the right to health and therefore the steady improvement of the many different conditions for development and well-being of their people. Hard law, which is by definition strictly binding, contributes to set and boost effective policies by imposing both negative and positive obligations, even though the realization of a social right necessarily requires consistency with the principle of progressivity, that is, the necessity to confront the limits of knowledge and resources with the aim of moving them forward as much as possible. Suffice it to think, beyond health-care infrastructures and the measures to prevent epidemics, of “goods” such as safe food and drugs, clean air and water, urban planning, housing, energy, transport network, educational facilities, security from violence, and whatever kind of discrimination and stigmatization. The whole span of the competences entrusted to public institutions – regulation and standard setting, enforcement and coercion, financing through taxation – is involved in producing converging goods, that is, goods that can be produced and maintained only through a shared effort, even though they are then enjoyed individually (Taylor 1989). A converging good may well be a one-off common good or belong to a collective yet still private sphere. However, all those converging goods whose lack or shortage affects the enjoyment of fundamental human rights ought to be conceived according to the concept of public goods in the strict meaning of the word: they should be to the utmost non-rivalrous (the consumption by one does not prevent others from doing the same) and non-excludable (it is impossible to exclude others from the benefit). This is why the responsibility for these goods falls first and foremost upon States and governments, as long as they control the most powerful means to orient and regulate collective priorities and actions as well as gather and allocate resources accordingly.
Yet the principle of social responsibility does not only entail the awareness that health depends on social determinants. It is also, if not essentially, about sharing this responsibility with other public and private organizations and associations and finally with the individuals themselves. The best designed institutional and legal system will not suffice without the active participation of all the actors involved, and this observation becomes even more compelling at the international level. Within this context, some ethical and political priorities need addressing.
The “Imperfection” Of Social Rights
The lack of justiciability and that of attainability are the two major flaws that are usually challenged in the commitment to realize social rights, including the right to health. As to justiciability, the difference with civil and political rights appears conspicuous even in the two Covenants of 1966. The instruments to respect, protect, and fulfill the rights enshrined in the two documents are quite divergent. In the case of civil and political rights, each State Party is called upon to adopt “such laws or other measures” as may be necessary to ensure “that any person whose rights or freedoms as herein recognized are violated shall have an effective remedy” and that such a remedy be guaranteed by “competent judicial, administrative or legislative authorities” (United Nations 1966a, § 2). In the case of economic, social, and cultural rights, each State Party has to take steps “to the maximum of its available resources,” in order “to achieving progressively the full realization of the rights” (United Nations 1966b, § 2). The judicial remedy is a very strong one, while progressive realization, even though “by all appropriate means, including particularly the adoption of legislative measures” (ibidem), is a much weaker provision. As to attainability, it is first and foremost the issue of resources that makes the difference, bearing out the conclusion that the counterpart of social rights can only be imperfect duties: everyone, starting with States and governments, ought to do their best; everyone, in the end, retains the freedom to choose what to do and water down goals that appear to be either too ambitious or too demanding.
This is exactly where social responsibility steps in: collective action and personal commitment help anticipate or implement what is legally binding. Campaigns to make the public aware of pivotal issues and serious inequities, networks of cooperation, and a rigorous control of the actions of the administrative machinery are among the most effective tools to fuel both the will to urge political institutions to not fail in their responsibility as to the social determinants of health and the disposition to raise valid complaint against them whenever necessary. Changes in social behaviors can be as important as changes in policies and institutions and are in any case their premise and support. At the same time, lifestyles and personal attitudes play a decisive role to make good practices more pervasive and effective. Individuals cannot claim to be without responsibilities. It is up to them, for example, once they get informed about the causes of many diseases, like lung cancer or cardiovascular problems owed to binge eating, to steer their everyday life accordingly. In this perspective, social responsibility for health entails a dual commitment: to integrate the human rights framework more and more with the law and to increase by all means available the effectiveness of the principles that can neither be realized overnight nor through the law alone.
The Border Should Not Make The Difference
At the international level, two different kinds of problems are key. First, there is the unacceptable inequality as to the standard of health that is effectively attainable for different peoples, epitomized by the life expectancy index: more than 80 years in many of the most developed countries of the world, less than 50 at the bottom of the ranking. At the same time, through the experience of the growing interconnectedness triggered by the many streams of globalization, the global dimension itself of some social determinants of health becomes a crucial issue. In this perspective, some scholars have elaborated the notion of global public goods, whose benefits (or disadvantages, when there is a shortage of them) rebound upon a great deal of countries, if not all of them, without discriminating against any group or set of generations. Building on this definition, it is possible to distinguish (1) natural global commons (such as the climate stability), (2) human-made global commons (such as scientific knowledge and cultural heritage), and (3) global policy outcomes (such as peace or global trade agreement) (Kaul et al. 1999, p. 453). All of them depend on successful international cooperation, and all of them have an impact on life conditions and health.
Even when the deterioration of a global good poses an immediate global risk (as happened in the case of the ozone layer), it is not easy to attain a global agreement on how to address the problem. The never-ending controversies on climate change or the limits of the protection of intellectual property when life itself is at stake, depending on the non-affordability of essential medicines, are just examples of a fundamental difficulty: international obligations, including those set by legally binding instruments, tend to suffer from and to increase the “imperfection” encapsulated in social rights. This is why, for example, it is often accepted that the principle of progressive realization itself be applied at a different pace, opening a breach that has sometimes been used even to turn the goal of the highest attainable standard for every human being into the practice of different standards for the rich and the poor.
Global social responsibility for global health needs requires a more complex institutional framework, starting with the forms of financing research and health care and setting the agenda of priorities. Many of the aforementioned initiatives took a promising pathway, bridging governmental and nongovernmental organizations and turning beneficence and charity into capacity building and social development. The international community as a whole should be considered responsible for a rigorous and consistent consideration of the fallout of different and alternative policies on the health of the population affected, especially when they concern the environment, exploitation of natural resources, delocalization of industrial activity, migration flows, trade, and finance. In the international arena, no country and no public opinion should tolerate policies and actions by subjects under their control or even by their governments that are at least dubious in terms of consistency with the respect of the right to health to which every human being, regardless of his or her nationality and condition, is entitled.
The common sense observation that a longer and better life relies on greater and comprehensive human development underlines the importance of the outcomes of economic activity, including its positive as well as negative externalities. The notion of corporate social responsibility is indeed strictly interwoven with that of responsibility for health: “Work conditions can be harmful for people. Pollution can damage the environment and jeopardize the well-being of the population. Marketing strategies are often used to boost unhealthy behavior related to food and lifestyles. Research itself may serve profit-oriented activities more than interests and needs of individuals and society” (UNESCO 2010, § 64). At the global level, the corresponding obligation to not pursue strategies and avoid actions that could be causal factors in harms to health ought to be integrated through the obligation “not to support governments engaged in unjust activities that are harmful to the health of their citizens or others” and the obligation “not to impede the health-promoting efforts of states, labor organizations, and legitimate international and trans-national organizations” (Buchanan and Decamp 2006, p. 110). The incentive to elude these obligations and make the most of differences as to legislation, when they allow a greater profit through the means of social dumping, can be countered either by the decision to share and apply legally binding instruments at the international level or by introducing other incentives and disincentives that make non-profitable what is yet – at least somewhere – legal.
Naming and shaming campaigns in some very striking cases of discrimination and exploitation, but also a growing awareness of the many ethical issues incorporated in the products of everyday life, can exert a strong influence on reshaping the strategies of profit-oriented companies and corporations, starting with those, such as pharmaceutical industries, whose activity is immediately related to health. Fair trade, ethical finance, sustainability indexes, and voting with the wallet converge on the goal to reconcile the creation of economic value with social responsibility (Becchetti 2012), underscoring the importance of bottom-up initiatives not only as a stimulus for government action but also as a powerful driver of change in themselves.
Given this context, it is true that socially responsible behaviors may easily become instrumental. By improving their own reputation, companies could aim at the very same purposes of more traditional marketing actions: approval by consumers and consequently trust, readiness to buy, and loyalty. In this sense, the concepts of “cause-related” marketing and “strategic philanthropy” have been introduced. Even though such initiatives can ameliorate situations of suffering and produce positive effects, it goes without saying that true social responsibility is about something else. It requires a deeper change in the cultural background of our way of producing, trading, and consuming goods. It requires always applying the golden standard set by the best practices and the most advanced legislations and international codes and agreements.
Education To Solidarity
Education is one of the most powerful drivers to raise the standard of health. There are two main lines of argument, which bear out this conclusion and refer, respectively, to the individual and public sphere. On the one hand, education increases health-related knowledge and awareness and helps people therefore adopt healthier lifestyles, avoid risks such as exposure to hazardous substances, and comply with prevention programs. Illiteracy as such, together with poverty, is the factor that most undermines everyone’s possibility to cope with the natural and social conditions of vulnerability to which human beings are exposed. The notion of “health literacy” entails exactly this responsibility to endow people with the capacity to obtain, understand, and make use of at least the basic information that may be relevant for their health. This is also the precondition for making decisions according to the principle of free, informed consent, which replaced paternalism as the cornerstone of medical ethics. On the other end, a high level of education boosts the quality and number of professionals, facilitates the application of the most advanced results of scientific research, and sets the premise of a strong and effective public control on those policies which are most likely to affect health. Accountability of governments and institutions relies obviously on the transparency, thoroughness, and reliability of information, which is the specific social responsibility that media are entrusted with, but also on educational infrastructure that teaches citizens to claim their fundamental rights, watch over their respect, and criticize the lack of it. It is not by chance that poor educational systems, weak institutions, deep social inequalities, and poor health tend to overlap.
In order to promote social responsibility for health at the global level, education to solidarity is also key. Solidarity is often interpreted as a group concept, which is based on a shared experience of life and events. It includes therefore only some people in a special bond of responsibility and obligations and leaves out others. This is why justice does not converge exactly with solidarity, especially within the framework of universal human rights: the former cannot be predicated on the latter, because of the asymmetries of commitment that it seems to entail. However, asymmetries are what people bump against when they cross the border (and sometimes even within the border), not only in most practices but also in most normative statements, which reaffirm that the States’ first and primary obligation is to their own people and loosen consequently the obligation to the others. A cosmopolitan justice will remain difficult to attain as long as we lack a cosmopolitan solidarity, which would turn social responsibility itself into “a principle that defines and celebrates our common humanity.” This is the crucial educational challenge, for States and governments and for everyone who is really committed to upholding the idea that neither the limits of attainability nor the lack of legally binding instruments allows to dismiss the principle that “the maximum of equality remains the ultimate goal when everyone’s right to life is at stake” (UNESCO 2010, §§ 101 and 40).
Sharing As Participation
Health-related research and professional and economic activities entail special duties. Legislation and the codes of conduct of physicians determine – even though in different ways depending on different cultural contexts – the balancing of the so-called internal goods (healing and well-being of patients) with the external ones (success, power, income), setting limits to the freedom to pursue the latter at the expense of the former. The relationships with profit-oriented bodies such as pharmaceutical industries and medical equipment firms, decision-making procedures on priority setting, the focus on the actual needs of people, and the consequent prohibition to take advantage of the asymmetry of competence to realize other and “external” ends correspond to as many social responsibilities and are among the issues more commonly dealt with.
When the issue of health and health care is addressed, the principle of social responsibility overlaps the commitment to sharing: sharing of benefits, in the most immediate sense of the term. It is difficult, if not impossible, to avoid scientific development being driven also by interest in potential financial gain. Maybe, this is even not desirable. What is unacceptable, however, is that price becomes an insurmountable barrier for need. Many promising initiatives have been taken to address this crucial issue, both at governmental and nongovernmental levels, but the outcomes are still absolutely insufficient. The task to perform should be in any case that of progressively giving up the top-down philanthropic approach. Sharing of responsibilities implies sharing of capacities and therefore – among others – of knowledge as a “global common,” of standards and programs of education, and of policies oriented to improving the social determinants of health. Asymmetries and inequalities are not a kind of natural and therefore insurmountable curse, but the product of historical dynamics that can be addressed and reshaped. Sharing of knowledge and education, in particular, is made possible by establishing networks based on the principle of open access and promoting exchange programs of students and teaching staff. In this perspective, the determination to turn the so-called brain drain of highly skilled professionals from low-income countries to the richest ones into a “brain circulation” fruitful for all can play a decisive role. The global health labor market is a telling example of the necessity to not leave the global labor market as a whole to the rude rule that might is right. Article 5.1 of the WHO Global Code of Practice on the International Recruitment of Health Personnel, adopted in 2010, points out that “the health systems of both source and destination countries should derive benefits from the international migration of health personnel” and goes on encouraging collaboration with source countries to “promote health human resource development and training” and calling on Member States to “discourage active recruitment of health personnel from developing countries facing critical shortages of health workers” (WHO 2010). Networking is one of the keywords of social responsibility.
Universal justice will remain wishful thinking as long as the health gap between and within countries remains open. The poor functioning of the health-care system and the lack of access to quality health care are almost always associated with a background of poor social conditions, starting with food and water, housing, employment, environment, income, and illiteracy and including persisting forms of marginalization, discrimination, and stigmatization. The right to enjoy the highest attainable standard of health is a social right, and most of the laws concerning social rights, depending on the issue of attainability and progressivity, can only be formulated in a program-type manner, even when they entail some binding obligation or prohibition, depending precisely on the issue of attainability. This is why all individuals and sectors of society, together with governments, are called upon to do their best to improve the different factors that contribute to raise the standard for everyone. This is all the more important at the international level, where the faults of inequalities are deeper and the legal coercion looser. A greater availability and affordability of the most effective means to prevent diseases and to fight against them presupposes a holistic approach to the different determinants of human flourishing. Global bioethics can therefore be interpreted as a possible epitome of the commitment to human rights in the twentyfirst century.
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How to Find Your Career Sweet-spot in High School
Senior Year is the best time to sit down and plan your career — Unknown
Jesus had a career in ministry, Tiger Woods is a great golfer, Serena Williams is about the most successful Tennis player and we remember Martin-Luther king for his role in governance.
Not every person made a career choice in high school or even college. Some stumbled on their career, while others made a career from their skills.
However, one thing is peculiar in the conversations of great men, they wished they had found the career sweet-spot while in high school.
If you want to find greatness early in life, become a millionaire at 30, retire at 35 and have your name in your industry’s Hall of fame, then you should find a career in high school.
And here is how to do that.
Identify Your Skills or Talent
You have a skill that is uniquely yours, and you must recognize that while in high school.
Eminem was born a lyricist, Lionel Messi a footballer and the Famous preacher, Benny Hinn, always wanted preach the gospel.
Look for those things that appeal to you naturally, without much difficulty. What you will happily do, even when you are unhappy, or what you pour your energy at when mummy screams at you.
I did a lot of poetry works when my Father died. It was the only way I could console myself when my friends were not around. Poetry and storytelling is what I like to do.
Jeff Bezos’ mother has spoken of how little Jeff was fixing the Air Conditions, the plumbing work and was always at the garage. Jeff wanted to fix everything, and now Amazon is fixing almost all our needs.
What can you do if there were no schools or colleges? That’s your skill or talent.
Sit back after class today and make a list of your skills or that which you like doing. It could be playing games, braiding your friend’s hair or even caring for people.
Get to Know Your Interests and Strengths
TY Bello is a Nigerian photographer with interests in portrait and lifestyle.
Chimamanda Adichie is a writer, but interested in fiction and telling African stories, while the prominent Wole Soyinka writes Prose and Drama.
Your interests make you original, carves a niche for you and creates your space in your area of skill.
Not every footballer will be scoring goals, and not all doctors attend to children.
Tiger woods is a golfer, Usain Bolt an athlete, Roger Federer is a tennis great. All sportsmen, but with different interests.
Cristiano Ronaldo is a striker, Mesut Ozil is a Midfielder — both footballers but different strengths.
What interests you, defines the stories you want to tell or the problems you want to solve. You can be skilled in photography, and be interested in only Celebrities.
Your interests are the causes you care about, and how you want your skill or career to be perceived. Do you want to be a celebrity photographer, a dentist, or as marathon athlete.
What part of the Economics Teachings do you like, which of the Delicacies do you enjoy cooking at home, and what information do you seek on Google? These are your interests.
Everyone has interests, including high school students. I am a writer with an interest in social causes and faith-based writings.
Get More Knowledge
You would always find a newer knowledge that matches your skills, strengths and interests.
As a faith-based writer, i have an online certificate in content writing and i study scriptural materials.
We live in an age where acquiring knowledge is easier that ever. Acquiring new knowledge guarantees you mastery and increases your value.
Successful people get more knowledge, you should too. Talent is never enough.
PS. Ensure that your skill or area of interest is in high demand and that people will pay for it.
When you find your innate ability or acquire a skill that interests you, it is the first step to picking a course in the university, and then building a formidable career.
An interest in childcare together with acquired knowledge in medicine means you could have a career in pediatrics.
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In my last article, I introduced the concept of digital disruption. What is this, you may ask?
Digital disruption occurs when new digital technologies and business models have a disruptive influence to the value provided by goods and services, changing consumer behaviour in a seismic fashion.
When I first started studying Information Technology at school in 1989, little did I know that I would be embarking on the start of what would be a rewarding and exciting career. To be totally honest, I only got into it due to the influence of my Dad, a hardworking computer scientist who worked at Northumbria University for many years.
1989 Was when it all started
Prior to my research for this post. I had no idea that 1989 was such a pivotal year. March 1989 was actually when it all started. It was the only time that I had long hair, as I was into heavy metal music, following legends such as Guns and Roses, Bon Jovi and Metallica. Jason Donovan was top of the UK Charts with Too Many Broken Hearts and Liverpool were continuing their dominance of the English Premier League, running away with the title again under Kenny Dalglish.
No one could have predicted what was to come for Information Technology and the explosion of creativity, collaboration and innovation which has followed since.
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"You're never going to get everything, ever," says Michael Howard, senior security program manager for Microsoft, Redmond, Wash., and the author of several books on secure coding practices.
Long ago, this inability to achieve coding perfection wasn't a huge concern for software creators or end-users. But as clever hackers began exploiting developer miscues for fun and profit, it became increasingly clear that in order to root out security risks, developers had to improve their coding practices.
Over the past several years, many of the software industry's dominant vendors have acknowledged this situation and have put tools in place to minimize the number and severity of flaws.
"I think if you look at what's been going on in the industry, you see a lot more recognition that secure development practices are just as important as the features and functions you offer," says John Heimann, director, security product management, Oracle, Redwood Shores, Calif.
Recognizing the problem is an important step, but it is only the first in the path to shoring up vulnerable code. Though the idea of secure coding is gaining traction, for every Oracle or Microsoft there are many more software vendors out there who have very few development processes in place to ensure the security of their software.
"Software development practices today don't create secure software," Howard says. "If they did, then we would have far fewer security vulnerabilities across the industry. We need to change the process."
Software vendors, however, aren't the only ones that must worry about coding practices. There's also the growing number of in-house development shops that are pumping out web applications with little regard to security testing.
According to David Grant, vice president, marketing, at Waltham, Mass.-based Watchfire, as these shops have grown in size and number they have been unable to keep pace with security best practices. In the past, the most an in-house shop would do is hire one or two security auditors to check the web application during the final stages of the development cycle, he says.
"And that was fine when you're talking about one or two applications over a month, or potentially even a year," he says. "Now what we're seeing is a lot more applications being published and changed. Big companies have hundreds, if not thousands, of these applications going through their shops on a yearly basis. So having two to three specialists doesn't cut it anymore."
These experts agree that in order to successfully build secure code, companies must do several things. First, they have to persuade their bosses that this is a priority. Second, they must provide developers with the right education and tools to understand what secure coding is — and to test for secure coding along the way. And third, they have to change their processes to get developers to write better code earlier in the cycle.
Educating execs and developers
The ultimate goal, say experts, is to have your developers thinking about security throughout the development lifecycle — not just when you get to testing. But before secure code best practices can be put in place, the security crusaders must battle ignorance within the organization — both at the top and the bottom.
The first group of people that must be educated about the ramifications of building flawed applications are the execs.
Once you have executive buy-in, then it is a question of educating the worker bees. The only way to effectively eliminate dangerous code is if the developers know that they're making mistakes.
When Microsoft and Oracle began their secure coding initiatives years ago, one of the first things both organizations implemented was mandatory security education for all developers.
Now all Oracle developers must go though mandatory classes online, and take tests to prove their proficiency in secure coding principles. Similarly, Microsoft employees are required to take a combination of classes taught online and in the classroom.
Once the developers gain a fundamental understanding of application security, there is still the matter of getting them to change their work habits. But even more important than the right code analysis and testing tools are the right processes that tell the developers when and where to use them, Heimann says.
"What you need to do is develop some standards for what being secure means," he says. "That may mean writing your own coding standards or using something put together by The SANS Institute or someone else," Howard says. "You can fix code, but there's more to it than that. It starts tactical and becomes strategic."
One of the most valuable strategic results of Microsoft's Trustworthy Computing initiative, he says, was the development of the Microsoft Security Development Lifecycle (SDL). This internal policy guide is the company's strategic roadmap for implementing secure software from the bottom up.
Because code can't be perfect, Howard says Microsoft focuses on two main objectives with SDL: reducing the number of vulnerabilities in the code and reducing the severity of those they miss.
Though the company is still publicly slammed for newly found vulnerabilities, Howard says Microsoft has made tremendous strides in securing its code since implementing SDL four years ago.
Howard is so confident that these SDL strategies work that he's spreading the word of Microsoft's internal secure code practice with a new book, co-written with his boss, Steve Lipner, The Security Development Lifecycle.
According to Howard, the strategies should translate well to any business that develops software. "When we wrote this book we had this overarching goal that it was applicable outside of Microsoft."
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Brain scans involving functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) have been a media darling for two decades. Images of brains lighting up to external stimuli have proved irresistible and have helped neuroscience achieve popular renown.
But fMRI has also received a battering. First, most famously, when used on a dead salmon, the technique appeared to show brain and spinal cord activity when subject to stimuli (in this case, images of people in social situations).
More recently, a PNAS (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences) paper reported a bug in one of the most widely used pieces of software for analyzing data from fMRI scans. Again, this was widely reported.
The reason that fMRI works is due to the fact that increased neuronal activity leads to increased flow of blood in the brain. Of course, fMRI scans do produce a lot of data.
Consequently, trying to identify those areas where a section of the brain is activated more compared with other areas requires processing huge amounts of data. Rapidly, the multiple comparisons problem rears its head.
A possible consequence of this is that researchers may, and indeed do, opt for a limited or small sample size. There are then the limitations of small sample sizes. A recent study in Nature Reviews Neuroscience reports, “Here, we show that the average statistical power of studies in the neurosciences is very low. The consequences of this include overestimates of effect size and low reproducibility of results.”
The broader question of how to analyze fMRI neuroimaging data has gradually attracted more attention over the question of how to collect the data.
Methods aiming to extract the interesting information directly from the data, contrary to the traditional approach based on testing the hypothesis proposed by researchers beforehand, have been introduced to the neuroimaging field.
These emerging data-driven methods provide more possibilities and perspectives of investigating and understanding the neuroimaging data that convey some crucial information for discovering brain mechanisms underlying cognitive behaviors.
Typically, an fMRI study on a certain stimulation paradigm would adopt a single method of analysis and statistical thresholding. This raises the question of the generalizability of the results from a single method of analysis. Yet, if a second study on the same stimulation paradigm would utilize another method of analysis, two different sets of divergent results would manifest. Considering that in this field methods of analysis and statistics have proliferated, it is inevitable that a somewhat confusing picture of the scientific progress gained by fMRI research would emerge.
We report on a collaborative study between Brunel and Aarhus Universities, with the data collected at the Advanced Magnetic Imaging center of Aalto university, Finland. What we have done, for the first time is to analyze fMRI data with the consensus clustering paradigm called binarisation of consensus partition matrices (Bi-CoPaM). This paradigm is capable of merging results from many analysis methods in order to obtain robust and reproducible clusters from various datasets. As a result, this can finally lead to a consensual landscape of neuroimaging results.
To validate the paradigm, we applied it to a complex fMRI experiment involving affective processing of hundreds of music clips. We found that brain structures related to visual, reward, and auditory processing have intrinsic spatial patterns of coherent neuroactivity.
The comparisons between the results obtained from our method and those from each individual clustering algorithm demonstrate that our paradigm has notable advantages over traditional single clustering algorithms in being able to evidence robust connectivity patterns even with complex neuroimaging data, involving a variety of stimuli and affective evaluations of them.
Our innovative use of the Bi-CoPaM paradigm allows us to find clusters including functionally and anatomically related neural networks consistently responding to emotional music, i.e. the basal ganglia, thalamus, insula, and other areas involved with processing of auditory features such as the Heschl’s gyrus, the Rolandic operculum, and the superior temporal gyrus.
One of the pioneering aspects of this study is the employment of the Bi-CoPaM paradigm that explores fMRI data without any predetermined model, which is needed in classical model-based approaches.
The most important finding of this study is that our proposed approach was able to discover a single cluster, including the anatomically connected subcortical and cortical structures of the reward circuit, responding selectively to liked, enjoyed music. This is one of the few studies obtaining such finding with a data-driven approach.
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The quantitative detection of DNA single-strand breaks is of great importance for many areas of biomedical research and diagnostics. The “Fluorescence-detected Alkaline DNA Unwinding” (FADU) assay assists in the investigation of mechanisms of DNA damage and repair following DNA strand breaks upon exposure to chemicals. Prof. Alexander Bürkle and his team at the University of Konstanz have automated and optimised the original FADU assay, which was published in 1981, to make it more efficient and quicker than before. This also benefits the large ongoing EU project MARK-AGE that is testing human ageing-related biomarkers using thousands of blood samples. In addition, the optimised method will potentially help to reduce the number of animal experiments.
Standard methods to measure DNA damage and repair, for example “alkaline elution” or the “comet” assay, are very time- and labour-intensive since some of the steps involved need to be carried out manually. The original, manually performed FADU assay is also very technically demanding in addition to requiring large numbers of cells. “The experiments I did with the manual FADU assay were quite frustrating. And it quickly became clear to me that this sensitive measurement method would only be used by a broader scientific community once it had been automated, the throughput had been increased and the whole method was made more convenient,” said Prof. Bürkle, explaining what motivated him to optimise the FADU assay. The original FADU assay comprises several pipetting steps that need to be carried out relatively slowly and with high precision in order to prevent the alkaline solution mixing with the lysate. In addition, care must be taken to protect the samples from light and to precisely control the ambient temperature. “All this is possible of course when the assay is performed manually; nevertheless it takes a long time, is rather inconvenient and is only reproducible with a small number of cells,” said the biologist explaining the disadvantages of the manual FADU assay.
Manual FADU assays generally function just like automated assays. The assay starts with cell lysis, followed by the addition of an alkaline solution on top of the cell lysate so that a second layer is formed, thus avoiding any mixing with the lysate. The diffusion of the alkaline solution gradually causes the DNA double strands to unwind, starting from the chromosome ends and internal DNA breaks. A neutralising solution is then added to stop the DNA strands unwinding. A fluorescent dye is subsequently added which enables the selective quantification of the remaining double-stranded DNA. “The use of a broad range of different controls enables us to obtain information on the number of DNA strand breaks at the time of cell lysis,” summarised Bürkle.The researchers’ major motivation for optimising the original FADU assay was to save resources and time while massively increasing throughput. Bürkle and his team were able to achieve their goals by automating the assay. Automation was achieved by using liquid handling and other devices specifically manufactured in the university’s scientific workshops. Miniaturisation of the assay, along with automation, led to a dramatic increase in throughput and the replacement of the manual pipetting steps by pipetting robots. “We were also able to greatly reduce the amount of cell material needed for the assay. In addition, the assay is carried out in microtitre plates,” said Bürkle summarising the advantages of the optimised FADU assay.The major advantages over standard “comet” assays are the large degree of automation of the assay making it possible to reduce the number of people required to perform the assay, the dramatically increased throughput of samples and the massive reduction of the time required for the measurement cycles. The total assay time required for a typical experiment to assess DNA strand repair with the optimised assay is now four to five hours. “However, the most important thing is that the use of machines now provides us with standardised and reproducible measurement results,” said Professor Bürkle.
Thanks to the improvement of the original FADU assay by Bürkle and his team, the new FADU assay is now more flexible than before and can also be used for a broad range of applications, for example in the field of basic scientific research into DNA damage and DNA repair. In addition, the assay is also suitable for routine measurements involving a large number of samples. “We believe that the optimised assay is particularly suited to epidemiological studies involving large numbers of volunteers in whom DNA damage and repair needs to be assessed,” said Bürkle who believes that this particular advantage would be greatly beneficial for the ongoing MARK-AGE EU project that is seeking to identify the biomarkers of human ageing using thousands of blood samples. In addition, the automated FADU assay might in future also be used for the screening of chemical substances that damage DNA or affect DNA repair. Such tests involve suitable test cells (tumour cell lines or primary cells such as leukocytes or fibroblasts) that are exposed to substances to be tested or to irradiation. When the exposure to chemicals or irradiation leads to DNA single-strand breaks in the cells or temporary DNA single-strand breaks in the course of cellular DNA repair activity, these breaks can be quantitatively assessed with the optimised FADU assay.
The new method also has the potential to reduce the number of animal experiments since it makes it possible to directly investigate human cells. Chemical substances are usually tested for their carcinogenic effect in rodents. Such tests also lead to a large number of false-positive results, with the consequence that the substance under investigation is erroneously grouped as carcinogenic. Thanks to the new, optimised FADU assay, the researchers now expect to be able to reduce the number of false-positives as well as using the in vitro tests to reduce the number of experimental animals in science as a whole. Prof. Bürkle and his colleague Dr. María Moreno-Villanueva were recently awarded the Ursula M. Händel Animal Welfare Prize by the German Research Foundation, a prize which is given to scientists who are considered to have made exemplary and sustained efforts to improve the welfare of animals in research, in particular with regard to the reduction, regulation and replacement of animals. The researchers from Konstanz intend to further optimise the FADU assay: “The FADU machine, which is still in the laboratory prototype stage, will in future be brought to series-production readiness in cooperation with external partners,” said Prof. Alexander Bürkle expressing his hopes for the future.
Prof. Dr. Alexander BürkleUniversitätsstraße 1078464 email@example.com
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One of the things that most youngsters and even a handful of adults take pleasure in these days is having their very own family pet cat. Kittens and cats are evenly amazing dogs and cats when compared to puppies and they are very lovable. To the people who want forward to using some felines, here are some on the things that they can would like to do when caring for their small pet cats:
Seeing that pet owners, one the most important things that you should do is to ensure the protection of your cats. Pet owners might like continuing to keep their pet cats inside their homes to ensure that they may be safe continually. If you let your cats stay outside, some might end up heading somewhere and might not be able to go back home so bear them inside your property as much as possible.
To who are planning on keeping their particular cats outside the house, be sure to have a very good sturdy fence or have a good cage to take care of cats if you would be going outside. Fences are incredibly helpful since it keeps the cats right from going astray and it also helps make sure that the house is safe even if you are not in the home.
It is also important to bring the cats to their Vets designed for check-ups. Visiting the Vets routinely would ensure the health of your furry friend and it could actually prevent them all from having sick. The Vets could also be able to know but if your cats require something for health.
People who own pets should also be certain that they merely feed the cats with healthy cat food. To https://adhdmalta.org who will be first time owners, what they can certainly do is normally check out their whole vet and have for some a good diet tips.
Yet another thing that people with pets need to do should be to make sure that many people potty train their particular cats. Doing this would make sure pet owners not to have a hard time cleaning up the blunder of their pet cats. What pet owners need to do is always to find a handful of litter bins in pet shops. The litter bins is the best manner to help potty train your cats and kittens so ensure that you get one to make certain your cats and kittens would not keep any mess in your house.
Make sure to groom your cat day to day. This would maintain your cats clean and good reeking foul-smelling all the time. Adhere to your Vets advice regarding the hygiene of your cats to be certain that they would manage to enjoy tinkering with their pets.
These are some of the tips that pet cat owners have to bear in mind just in case they are hoping to get their own kittens and cats. Check out the tips to take care of your cats effectively.
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STRATEGIES TO SUCCESSFULLY COPE WITH THE REDUCTION OF HOURS OF CLASS DUE TO CHANGES IN THE STUDY PLAN OF AN ENGINEERING EDUCATIONAL PROGRAM
At the Universidad Veracruzana, as in many other public and private universities in Mexico and the rest of the world, the curricula of engineering programs have changed in the last ten years to meet criteria of reduction in academic credits to allow, among other things, to shorten the time needed by undergraduate students to complete their studies. Programs that previously consisted of 450 or more credits, have been reduced to 350 credits or less. All this despite the fact that technological advances impose future engineers the challenge of having to acquire more and more knowledge and to graduate with skills that allow them to be inserted in an increasingly demanding job market. The apparent contradiction has to be resolved, "do more with less", which, in terms of higher education, can be translated to "learn more in less time."
Some subjects of engineering programs divide their hours per week in hours-theory and hours-laboratory. This document describes the case of a subject whose hours per week decreased when the educational program in which it is taught was subject to modifications in its Study Plan; the subject changed from 7 hours a week (4 days of one-hour theory sessions and 1 day of a three-hour laboratory session) to 5 hours a week (3 days of one-hour theory sessions and 2 days of one-hour laboratory session). This is a subject that often has groups of 25 to 30 students.
With the reduction of the duration of the laboratory sessions, there was not enough time to complete the activities involved in practice sessions; as a result, there were groups that were unable to complete their practices at scheduled times and sometimes the teacher had to summon students to attend additional hours outside the official schedule.
In order to improve the performance of its students and after teaching the course several times, the teacher proposed the academy to modify the schedule for the course as follows: 3 days of one-hour theory sessions and 1 day of a two-hours laboratory session. As a result, the activities of the practices sessions were completed as scheduled.
The perception of students is that a two-hour practice session allow to make a better use of time than two one-hour sessions. This change in the distribution of hours per week that the students work in their subject, benefits them in their learning process.
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Few movies stir up as much controversy at the time of their release as did Max, written and directed by Menno Meyjes. In the movie, John Cusack plays art dealer Max Rothman, whose own confidence in creating art was hampered after losing an arm in the first World War.
But while the movie is ultimately Max’s story, the controversy stemmed from how the script handled its main supporting character – a young Adolf Hitler, played by Noah Taylor.
What’s so wrong with a movie that includes Hitler? After all, it’s been done many times before and many times since. The short story is that Max caused a stir because it didn’t portray Hitler as evil. Unbearable, abhorrent, pathetic; you could call Taylor’s version any of those –but not evil.
Two things should be made clear. First, that Max doesn’t claim any historical accuracy, and it certainly isn’t anyone’s biography. Second, that the film doesn’t imply, much less attempt to show, that Hitler wasn’t the evil, genocidal tyrant that history knows him as today. It simply imagines a time in his life prior to that path being trodden, and the possibilities that could have existed.
Max Defies Genre
Like many of the best movies, it’s hard to place Max into a category. It’s a historical fiction drama with script elements of black comedy and a set that often feels more like it belongs to a horror flick. At any rate, calling it a “World War II movie” would be a giant leap. Yet, put up against the heart-pounding tension of Saving Private Ryan, the masterful tear-jerking of Schindler’s List, and every other great story set against the backdrop of the WWII era, Max stands out as one of the most chilling, uncomfortable, and creepy of all.
Cusack himself, who also produced the film (without taking a salary), explained the reason for this when he gave an interview shortly after the release:
“That’s not a truth we would like to face, that Hitler is one of us,” says Cusack. “But that person tapped into parts of our unconscious. I mean, people followed him, and unfortunately, that’s not up to debate. Unfortunately, the guy wasn’t a monster that came down from Pluto with pink vapors and lightning bolts and then left in a cloud of dust, he was a human being. And he has human characteristics and human sets of desires that we can relate to just like we can relate to some of the higher aspects of his character.”
For all the elements of Taylor’s Hitler that are unlikeable, there are still a few that elicit some amount of sympathy – even empathy. Regardless of whether the real Hitler was sympathetic for the same reasons, Cusack is right; as a human being, he would have undoubtedly been relatable in some way.
The Scariest Part
The idea that anyone could be monstrous is worth pondering. It may be true that each and every person is, in the right circumstances, capable of more anger and more destruction than they can imagine. Max isn’t quite so shallow in what it offers, though. On a deeper level, it encourages viewers to identify not with Adolf Hitler, but with Max Rothman.
In the movie, the two become acquaintances who take tentative steps toward friendship. It’s a dark, twisted “buddy picture” in which Max embodies a mentor’s role in Hitler’s budding artistic career. Unfortunately, Max fails to see that his own influence is pushing Hitler further toward the extremes of belief and desire, ironically helping create an evil force that probably would have consumed Max himself in the succeeding years.
While it would be ridiculous to imagine that one person or circumstance made Hitler into who he was (and yes, in some ways, Max is a ridiculous film), there’s a penetrating metaphor at work within the narrative. We may not be – or befriend – the next Hitler, but when we are locked into our own ambitions and perspective, what undesirable conditions do we allow to grow up around us? In the same way that Max tolerates Hitler’s bigotry and disagreeableness because he believes they serve a higher purpose, it’s possible that we all foster degrees of evil and oppression simply by tolerating them.
In the end, the movie, like this review, can offer no answers. But that’s what great film does – it explores, not explains, even when the subject matter makes us cringe.
What do you think about Max’s “humanization” of Hitler? Is it more important to remember him only in the context of the atrocities he committed, or is there value in exploring his life holistically?
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A student at one of our partner schools
First Round of Assessment: The first round of assessment that includes Observation, Test 1 and Interviews is complete. We finally have 292 students with learning difficulties that we are enrolling in our robust tutoring program. This will also go hand in hand with scheduled appointments to doctors for health challenges we’ve observed and later treatment. And don’t forget, the cup of porridge for every child in the program is going into its second year.
Learning Visit: Toa Nafasi had the opportunity to host SOS Children’s Villages, Arusha – an international NGO providing family-like care to children and young people in Tanzania – and Her Journey To School – a local NGO promoting gender equality through education. These partners visited our offices and partner school where our children, tutors and staff demonstrated what is it like on a typical day of children with learning disability. We were all excited to learn from each other, experience and have fun.
We invite you and your network to our offices and project site to learn, volunteer or donate. Karibu sana!
Events: We’re excited to share Toa Nafasi’s Chief of Operation, Novatus Marandu, is a recipient of Mandela Washington Fellowship Program – a U.S flagship program for Young African Leaders. He’ll be travelling to U.S for six weeks this summer at the University of Delaware in Newark, Delaware. In recognition of their accomplishment in their communities, Novatus and fellow young leaders, Dr. Tulia Ackson, speaker of the Tanzania parliament invited them to the parliament. Afterwards they also met Dodoma Regional Commissioner, Anthony Mtaka and Ministry of Foreign Affairs' Ambassador Swahiba Mndeme.
Partners: The Toa Nafasi Project are grateful for the support we receive from our partner, A Childhood For Children. We recently received school supplies donation for all students in the 11 partner schools in Moshi from A Childhood for Children. Thank you A Childhood For Children for supporting the education of children with cognitive disabilities.
News:Toa Nafasi also appeared in two newspapers articles and two photo features in Tanzania’s widely circulated newspapers, The Guardian and Nipashe. We’re honored children with learning difficulties are getting into the spotlight. The first article in the Guardian newspaper highlighted the need to review curriculum to incorporate the needs of children with learning difficulties. The second article shined light on the trainings provided to children with disabilities tutors. Awareness that children with learning difficulties can and are learning like performing students is very important for both the policy makers and the wider community.
Students in a game
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Big Changes are on the Horizon
The Waste Diversion Act (WDA), implemented in June 2002, was designed to address major recycling oversights in Ontario and further promote the reduction, reuse, and recycling of waste. Although the final chapter on the effectiveness of the WDA’s is yet to be written, many in the industry feel it has largely been disappointing.
There have been successes including shared funding of the municipally operated Blue Box programs for packaging and printed paper, establishment of new and expanded programs for e-waste, used tires and household hazardous waste that have and still are diverting substantial quantities of materials annually.
However, there have also been many negatives – the Ministry of the Environment and Climate Change (MOECC) has stalled on program expansion as limitations of the WDA programs became apparent to them. There is considerable unrest between the stakeholders and the monopoly stewardship agencies, unwanted media attention on program surplus’ and ‘eco-fees’, significant conflicts between service providers and the stewardship agencies, and too rigid structures that limits choice and innovation in the 3Rs – just to name a few.
The MOECC acknowledges that instead of promoting the reuse of existing materials and encouraging producers to focus on waste reduction at the source, current programs “generally focus on finding the least costly means of collecting and recycling materials.”1
The programs under the WDA appear to have had little impact on the key economic driver for diversion which is the difference between the cost of disposal compared to the cost of diversion. The MOE has made little progress on this important economic driver. According to the MOE, “on average, waste disposal in landfills is one-third to one-half the cost of diversion.”1 This results in a substantial amount of recyclable material still being disposed of in landfills.
According to the Environmental Commissioner of Ontario (ECO), “the Minister lacks the ability to enforce timelines related to program development and implementation and the Act provides no authority to penalize any party in these circumstances.”1 There have been many possible breaches in legislation, which have not been addressed properly. Moreover, “while the Minister may accept or reject a proposed waste diversion program, the Minister cannot modify it once received.”1 Although there have been many progressive and potentially effective solutions suggested to improve waste reduction and diversion, none of these proposals have been enacted.
In order to address the limitations of the WDA, Bill 151 was developed in concert with a new commitment to a provincial waste reduction strategy. Bill 151 was passed in late May 2016 becoming the Waste-Free Ontario Act. The new Act is both promising and ambitious, and addresses many of the challenges that the WDA faced. The main purpose of the Act is to move towards a circular economy by “reducing waste and increasing resource productivity”, “enabling efficient and effective collection and recycling systems,” and “increasing market value of recovered materials.”2
A key feature of the new Act is policy direction to move from mandatory compliance programs, as directed by the Ministry, to choice in the marketplace. This allows producers to have a say in who they work with and how, in order to fulfill the regulatory requirements. It is intended that these changes lead to greater competitive choices for producers, as well as more incentive for innovation and a wider variety of options.
All WDA programs will be transitioned into the new Act, essentially giving the current program an overhaul. Goals of the Act include maintaining or enhancing service standards, and broadening the scope of products and packaging that are included in the programs, as no new programs have been introduced under the WDA since 2009.2 Importantly, the new Act will provide a new oversight agency with some real authority, including harsher penalties for non-compliance. The new Authority will also act as the entity that obligated producers will report to directly.
At the end of the day, the WDA was understood as a starting point to begin the journey towards producer responsibility. There was a requirement in place to review the Act after five years; however, it has now been 15 years since the legislation was drafted, and 14 since it was passed into law. Many critics worry that some crucial details have been left out of the latest Act and will only be settled after detailed consultation, once draft regulations are released. One consequence of this may be that much of the municipalities’ heavy lifting will remain after the Act and its programming are implemented. Other outcomes of the new Act will be significant changes for stewards in terms of responsibility, reporting requirements and for the first time in Ontario, they will have some choice in how they respond to the new regulations.
The Waste-Free Ontario Act will certainly address past problems and follow in the footsteps of its predecessors, that is, another step in a series of steps towards zero waste in Ontario. Only time will tell how effective the new legislation will be after it rolls out. Stay tuned for more follow-up articles regarding the new Act as we further examine its impact across Ontario.
1 Environmental Commissioner of Ontario. (2011). “What a Waste: Failing to Engage Waste Reduction Solutions.”
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Here’s how to stay connected with nature in the city.
Create Your Own Oasis
Whether it’s a small backyard or a spacious terrace, try to surround yourself with plants wherever you can.
A growing trend in the city, hotels sport verdant lounges and restaurants, while public buildings boast well-tended green spaces on top.
Parks & Trails
Local parks, nature trails and botanical gardens are all easy ways to get a quick dose of nature.
Indoor Herb Garden
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|Title:||Multi-Factor One-Way Authentication and Key Retrieval Based on Ideal Threshold Secret Sharing|
|Keywords:||ЭБ БГУ::ЕСТЕСТВЕННЫЕ И ТОЧНЫЕ НАУКИ::Физика|
|Publisher:||Minsk : Education and Upbringing|
|Citation:||Nonlinear Phenomena in Complex Systems. - 2020. - Vol. 23. - № 1. - P. 54-65|
|Abstract:||It is not a secret that one-factor authentication protocols suffer from many attacks nowadays. So there exist numerous solutions that use two or more authentication factors. The most popular is two–factor authentication via mobile network where the Password and SMS are used. More critical applications require even biometric authentication procedure. All these protocols use distinct algorithm for processing different factors. Therefore, developing a universal, secure and low-cost authentication scheme is an important task. We propose a new universal multi-factor one-way authentication and key retrieval protocol based on ideal threshold secret sharing. Our protocol allows to retrieve a key that encrypts user data stored on the server. We also provide the ways of combining our protocol with traditional authentication factors like Password, Personal Data, Biometrics, Geometrical Lines and Random Strings. In addition, our protocol does not use costly mathematical operations and can be implemented on various low-energy devices.|
|Appears in Collections:||2020. Volume 23. Number 1|
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Q21. Which files will get restructured in a full BSO restructure?
A. Data file only
B. Index file only
C. Data and index file
D. No file
Q22. Identify the true statement about the data cache.
A. Data cache contains compressed data blocks
B. Data cache contains uncompressed data blocks
C. Data cache contains compressed index entries
D. Data cache contains uncompressed index entries
Q23. You need to track and report the Store Close Date for all of the stores in your company in your block storage option database. Store close date will vary by store over time.
Which three solutions would allow you to do this?
A. Attribute dimension based on Store
B. Varying attribute dimension with an Independent dimension of Time where Time contains both the Years and Months in the same dimension
C. Varying attribute with 2 Independent dimensions, Periods and Fiscal Year
D. Measure called Store Close Date with a data type of date
E. User Defined attribute Store Close Date assigned to each store
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Q24. The following two members would be optimally tagged Label Only.
Q25. Which two options would provide a better design for the following accounts and metrics?
A. If there are a small number of accounts that require FTE and Expense dollars, split Accounts and Metrics into 2 dimensions
B. If there are a large number of accounts that require FTE and Expense dollars, split Accounts and Metrics into 2 dimensions
C. If reporting dictates FTE and dollars in the columns and accounts in the rows, split Accounts and Metrics into 2 dimensions
D. If block size is large, then keep Accounts and Metrics as one dimension with a dense dimension
Q26. Block size is calculated by the following formula.
A. Number of stored sparse dimension members multiplied together times 8 bytes
B. Number of total sparse dimension members multiplied together times 8 bytes
C. Number of stored dense dimension members multiplied together times 8 bytes
D. Number of total dense dimension members multiplied together times 8 bytes
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Q27. Within which two directories can you set the location and file size in ASO?
Q28. Moving a stored entity member in a sparse dimension causes_________.
A. a Full restructure
B. an Index restructure
C. an Outline restructure
D. No restructure
Q29. Identify the two true statements about expense reporting tags.
A. Provide accurate time balance calculations
B. Provide accurate variance reporting on revenue and expense accounts
C. Are assigned to the dimension tagged Time
D. Are assigned to the dimension tagged Accounts
E. Are assigned to the Dimension containing variance members.
Q30. Identify the three true statements about the Administration Services console.
A. You can create custom views in EAS; Custom views help administrators focus on those apps, databases or servers that apply to them
B. Administration Servers can be added to a custom view
C. Applications and databases can be added to a custom view
D. Calculation scripts can be added to a custom view
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Life is the greatest show on Earth from the lowliest worm to the mightiest mammal. Yet from the moment of conception, to the formation of limbs, to the development of brains there’s something that all living things depend on: cells. Cells grow, multiply, change, move, communicate and ultimately die. They are the very essence of life, but how do they work together to form it? Gradually we are beginning to unravel their secrets. Life is fantastic and full of questions, but as we reveal the answers more questions emerge.
The 2013 Christmas Lectures presented by Dr Alison Woollard from the University of Oxford, explores the frontiers of developmental biology and uncover the remarkable transformation of a single cell into a complex organism. What do these mechanisms tell us about the relationships between all creatures on Earth? And can we harness this knowledge to improve or even extend our own lives? | <urn:uuid:e3247f74-d02c-4ec9-b131-054ca2daba19> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://windfallfilms.com/show/2953/ri-christmas-lectures-2013.aspx | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572043.2/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814143522-20220814173522-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.926244 | 183 | 2.703125 | 3 |
The Easy Hijiki Seaweed Recipe You Can Make Within 30 Minutes
What Is Hijiki?
Hijiki (Sargassum fusiforme, ヒジキ, 鹿尾菜 or 羊栖菜) is an edible seaweed with a earthy flavor, and has been a part of Japanese, Chinese, and Korean cuisine for centuries.
In Japan, hijiki is one of the food that parents would like their children to eat due to its high content of minerals and is considered as a nutrient dense superfoods (although my parents didn't use that word, I'm sure it will fall in that category!)
Hijiki is versatile and can be served with many other ingredients like, edamame, kabocha, mushrooms, konjac, tofu, fried tofu, lotus roots and the list goes on. Basically, whatever is in season can be cooked with hijiki and be served!
In Japan, there are two types of hijiki: the longer and tougher stems are called naga hijiki (長ひじき: meaning long hijiki) and they look like black spaghetti after its cooked, and the shorter type called me hijiki (芽ひじき:meaning hijiki sprouts) that looks like tea leaves. They can both be prepared in the same way and can be replaced by one or another.
What Are The Benefits Of Hijiki?
Like many other sea vegetables, hijiki is is one of those nutrient dense, low calory superfood.
- high in dietary fiber
- high in essential vitamins such as vitamin K
- high in essential minerals such as iron, calcium, iodine, and magnesium
- low in calories
What Does Hijiki Taste Like?
Hijiki has a savory and earthy flavor. Some describe it as 'mushroom-like' but to me, growing up with eating a lot of seaweed, hijiki does taste like seaweed!
Hijiki seaweed can be very neutral as long as you do the prep properly. If you skipped the soaking and rinsing of the hijiki, you will have a very strong ocean flavor taking over your entire dish. But not to worry, the prep is very easy. (I've shoed the steps with photos in this hijiki recipe)
Many hijiki salad recipes calls for soy sauce but I have replaced this with shio koji for a lighter color and a different kind of umami. Let me know what you think!
Hijiki salad with Kabocha and Lotus Roots flavoured with shio koji
● 20g, dried hijiki seaweed
● 500g, kabocha pumpkin
● 200g, lotus root
● 6 pc., French beans
● 2 Tbsp., frying oil (fragrance free coconut oil)
● 500ml., water
● 2 Tbsp., tsuyu broth
● 1 Tbsp., mirin
● 1 Tbsp., monkfruit sweetener
● 3 Tbsp., brown rice shio koji
- Soak the dried hijiki in water for about 10 minutes. Rinse well and drain water. Set aside.
- To prepare the pumpkin, remove the seeds and cut into bite size. Chamfer the edges of the pumpkin to avoid the pumpkin to fall apart while cooking. This is a common technique used in Japanese cooking called ‘mendori (面どり)’. As we are using organic pumpkin in this recipe, peeling of the skin has been omitted.
- Peel the skin of the lotus and cut into bite size. For the French beans, remove the strings, cut in half and set aside. In a separate pot, boil the French beans for 30 seconds with a pinch of salt and quickly remove from the heat and cool off with cold water. This will keep the vibrant green colour from fading.
- Heat up the pot with the frying oil in and cook the lotus root for about 5 minutes. It will start to turn translucent. Add the pumpkin into the pot and cook for another 5 minutes. Add the hijiki seaweed and cook so that all ingredients are coated with oil and add the water an bring to a simmer.
- Mix the tsuyu broth, mirin and monkfruit sweetener in a small bowl and pour that in to the simmering pot. Once the liquid has become less (but not completely disappearing!) turn off the flame and add the shio koji to taste. You might want to adjust the amount of shio koji to your liking. Plate the cooked salad with the French beans and serve. It can be served both hot or cold. | <urn:uuid:200db603-58a6-4308-8ffe-bdbcb42a3fb1> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.foodcraft.hk/blogs/blog/hijiki-salad-with-kabocha-and-lotus-roots-flavored-with-shio-koji | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572043.2/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814143522-20220814173522-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.924453 | 997 | 2.0625 | 2 |
This sounds like another Guantanamo Bay or Abu Ghraib story, but the practice of using dogs to both terrify and bite uncooperative prisoners is one that takes place in Connecticut, Delaware, Iowa, South Dakota, and Utah. According to Human Rights Watch, in these five states, dogs are used on prisoners who refuse to leave their cells. First, the dogs are used to intimidate the oppositional prisoners. If the intimidation does not work, the dogs are instructed to bite.
The practice is most common in Connecticut and Iowa prisons, according to Human Rights Watch. Arizona and Massachusetts banned the use of dogs this year.
Both German Shepherds and Belgian Malinois are used for cell extractions. When a handler and his dog enter a cell block to perform a potential cell extraction, the dog barks loudly, jumps against the cell door and scratches at the window. If the sight and sound of the dog does not get the prisoner to comply, the dog is then released. The officer with the dog is supposed to maintain a hold on the leash, but that does not always happen.
The dog is trained to bite whatever part of the prisoner it can get to, and there is always at least a puncture wound resulting from the bite. A prisoner who continues to resist can wind up with muscle or tissue tearing. | <urn:uuid:f2833294-562d-46c0-83af-9db13e3a60bc> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2006/10/dogs-used-both-intimidate-and-bite-prisoners/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572043.2/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814143522-20220814173522-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.956242 | 268 | 2.796875 | 3 |
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Perceived Value for Co-Designed Products with 3D Printing
Recently, it has been highlighted that additive manufacturing (AM) or colloquially “3D printing” potentially sparks a new industrial revolution. In particular, AM offers benefits in flexibly producing highly customized products at no cost penalties in manufacturing because neither tools nor molds are required. Although scholars have comprehensively investigated technological aspects of AM, economic discussions remain scarce. Trying to bring the current media hype surrounding AM down to an analytical level, the goal of this study is to assess AM’s technological benefit of costless customization as a source of value creation for firms. This is why consumers were asked how they value three different degrees of product co-design freedom in an experiment that simulates an online buying process for espresso cups, while each consumer was randomly shown two of the three scenarios. The scenario with the highest level of product co-design freedom is eventually enabled by AM. In this scenario, consumers could continuously adjust a product’s design. The other scenarios were represented by a modular approach to product co-design and a conventional assortment choice. Based on feedback of more than 360 consumers, this empirical study underlines (1) the perceived value of higher product co-design freedom enabled by AM, and (2) the importance of showing the buying scenarios in the right sequence in order to maximize consumers’ willingness to pay. | <urn:uuid:9b7dfb2e-6a48-4934-9e7e-8ea02edcd0c5> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.time.rwth-aachen.de/go/id/iiow?lidx=1#aaaaaaaaaaaiiqd | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571538.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812014923-20220812044923-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.952601 | 303 | 2.09375 | 2 |
PCB exposure caused defects in rats similar to autism in humans, in a study at the University of California at San Francisco.
Marla Cone, who wrote Dozens of Words for Snow, None for Pollution for us in 2005, broke the PCB story today in the Los Angeles Times. She writes:
Rats exposed to low levels of PCBs in the womb and during nursing had disorganized, malfunctioning auditory centers. The auditory cortex controls the brain’s processing of sounds, which is essential for language development.
PCBs were one of the world’s most widely used chemicals, their use peaking in the 1970s, mostly as insulating fluids in large electrical equipment. Although banned in the United States in 1977, they are still among the most pervasive contaminants on the planet, and exposure is difficult to avoid because they have spread globally and built up in food chains.
Last year, two internationally known environmental scientists reported in a medical journal that industrial chemicals may be causing a “silent pandemic” of learning disorders. Dr. Philippe Grandjean of Harvard School of Public Health and Dr. Philip J. Landrigan of Mount Sinai School of Medicine identified 202 chemicals — including PCBs and mercury — that could be contributing to autism, attention deficit disorders and other neurological disorders, and they urged more human studies.
In 2004, we investigated whether the CDC, the FDA, and other health agencies were covering up evidence that a mercury preservative in children’s vaccines has contributed to a rise in autism. About 1 in every 150 children now has autism or a related disorder. | <urn:uuid:3bb13a2a-cb51-4c80-bbe8-70b54975cc06> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://develop.motherjones.com/politics/2007/04/pcbs-cause-equivalent-autism-baby-rats/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572833.95/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817032054-20220817062054-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.959276 | 326 | 2.609375 | 3 |
5. 26. 2021
The Paris Commune:
A Tiger’s Leap into the Past
From March 18 to May 28, 1871, the working class of Paris seized control of the city and established the Paris Commune, a remarkable experiment in radical workers’ democracy and liberation from oppression – celebrated by Marx as “the glorious harbinger of a new society,” and a key inspiration for the Russian Revolution of 1917. It was crushed with extraordinary bloodshed by the French military, doing the bidding of the French ruling class and ruling classes across Europe.
To mark the Commune’s 150th anniversary this spring, we’re publishing this new English version of “La Commune de Paris: un saut de tigre dans le passé” by the Paris-based ecosocialist Michael Löwy, exploring the Commune’s legacies and lessons for left strategy today. The essay first appeared in French in Mediapart. The translation of an earlier version, which Midnight Sun has here updated and in places reimagined, appeared in International Viewpoint.
In The 18th Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte, Marx wrote that proletarian revolutions, unlike bourgeois revolutions, take their poetry not from the past but from the future. He was undoubtedly right: social revolutions are always innovative and unexpected, they invent new forms for organization and struggle. But at the same time, I think he was wrong. Each revolution also draws its inspiration, its poetry, from earlier revolutions. As Walter Benjamin said, every revolution is “a tiger’s leap into the past.” This was true of the Paris Commune of 1871, which took the Paris Commune of 1793-1794 as one of its main references; and, as we will see, this was also true of the Russian Revolution’s relationship to the Paris Commune of 1871.
As with all of history’s great revolutions, the Commune was, in the words of Daniel Bensaïd in his stirring introduction to the writing of Marx and Engels on the subject, an event that interrupted the ordinary course of daily life, a breach in the mechanical time of clocks, an explosive fusing of past, present, and future tasks.
We can say of the Paris Commune what Immanuel Kant wrote in his famous commentary on the French Revolution: “That occurrence is too important, too much interwoven with the interest of humanity, and its influence too widely propagated in all areas of the world to not be recalled on any favourable occasion by the nations which would then be roused to a repetition of new efforts of this kind…”
The 150th anniversary, in 2021, is an opportunity not only to pay tribute to the fighters of 1871, but also to reflect on the relevance of their efforts to today’s struggles.
The tradition of the oppressed
There is a wall at the Père Lachaise cemetery in Paris, known as “Le Mur des Fédérés” (“The Communards’ Wall”). It was there that the last fighters of the Paris Commune were shot in May 1871, by Versailles troops.
Every year, thousands – and sometimes, as in 1971, tens of thousands – of French people, but also people from all over the world, visit this exalted place of remembrance for the labour movement. They come alone or in demonstrations, with red flags or flowers, and sometimes sing an old love song, which became the song of the Communards: “Le Temps des Cerises.”
We do not pay homage to a man, a hero or a great thinker, but to a crowd of anonymous people whom we refuse to forget.
As Walter Benjamin said in his Theses on the Philosophy Of History (1940), the struggle for emancipation is waged not only on behalf of the future but also on behalf of defeated generations; the recollection of enslaved ancestors and their struggles is one of the great sources of moral and political inspiration for revolutionary thought and action.
The Paris Commune is therefore part of what Benjamin calls “the tradition of the oppressed” – that is to say, of those privileged (“messianic”) moments in history when the lower classes have succeeded, for a while, in breaking the continuity of history, the continuity of oppression; short – too short – periods of freedom, emancipation, and justice that will, each time, serve as benchmarks and examples for new battles.
Since 1871, it has never ceased to nourish the thought and practice of revolutionaries, starting with Marx himself – as well as Bakunin – and then, in the twentieth century, Trotsky and Lenin.
Marx and the 1871 Commune
Despite their disagreements within the First International, Marxists and libertarian socialists worked together fraternally in support of the Paris Commune, that first great attempt at “proletarian power” in modern history. To be sure, the respective analyses of Marx and Bakunin on this revolutionary event were poles apart.
We can summarize Marx’s views in the following terms: “The small group of convinced socialists who participated in the Commune were in a very difficult position. … They had to set up a revolutionary government and army against the government and army of Versailles.”
Faced with this reading of the civil war in France, in which two governments and their respective armies face off against each other, Bakunin’s anti-statist point of view was quite explicit: “The Paris Commune was a revolution against the state itself, this supernatural runt of society.”
Attentive and informed readers will have made the correction for themselves: the first opinion is actually that of…Bakunin, in his essay “The Paris Commune and the Idea of the State.” While the second is a quote from…Marx, in his first version of The Civil War in France. We have purposely muddied the waters, to show that the differences – admittedly very real – between Marx and Bakunin, Marxists and libertarian socialists, are not as simple and obvious as is thought…
Moreover, Marx rejoiced in the fact that, during the events of the Commune, the Proudhonians set aside their teacher’s theories, while certain libertarian socialists observed with pleasure that Marx’s writings on the Commune abandoned centralism in favour of federalism.
Marx had proposed, as the central political slogan of the International Workingmen’s Association (IWA) – the First International – a formula which he inscribed in the Inaugural Address of the IWA in 1864: “The emancipation of the working classes must be conquered by the working classes themselves.”
If the Commune of 1871 was so important in his eyes, it is precisely because it was the first revolutionary manifestation of this founding principle of the modern working-class and socialist movement.
In The Civil War in France (and its preparatory notes), the address written on behalf of the First International in 1871, Marx says that the Commune was not the regime of a party or of a group, but “essentially a working class government,” a “government of the people by the people,” which is to say “the taking back by the people and for the people of their own social purpose.”
To this end, it was not enough to “conquer” the existing state apparatus: it was necessary to “break” it and replace it by another form of political power, as the Communards had done, from their first decree – the abolition of the standing army and its replacement by the armed people.
Here is what Marx wrote in a letter to his friend Kugelmann on April 12, 1871, in the first weeks of the Commune: “If you look at the last chapter of my Eighteenth Brumaire, you will find that I say that the next attempt of the French revolution will be no longer, as before, to transfer the bureaucratic-military machine from one hand to another, but to smash it, and this is essential for every real people’s revolution on the Continent. And this is what our heroic Party comrades in Paris are attempting.”
What seemed to Marx to be decisive was not only the social legislation of the Commune – certain measures of which, such as the transformation of factories abandoned by their owners into workers’ cooperatives, had a socialist dynamic – but above all its political significance as workers’ power.
As he wrote in the Address of 1871, “this new Commune, which breaks with the modern state power” was the work of “plain working men” who “for the first time dared to infringe upon the governmental privilege of their ‘natural superiors.’”
The Commune was neither a conspiracy nor a sudden surprise attack, it was “the people acting for itself by itself.”
The correspondent of the Daily News newspaper found there was no leader exercising “supreme authority,” a remark that prompts an ironic comment from Marx: “This shocks the bourgeois who wants political idols and ‘great men’ immensely.”
While activists from the First International played an important role in the events, the Commune was not hatched by a vanguard organization. In response to slanders of reaction presenting the uprising as a conspiracy hatched by the IWA, Marx wrote: “The police-tinged bourgeois mind naturally figures to itself the International Working Men’s Association as acting in the manner of a secret conspiracy, its central body ordering, from time to time, explosions in different countries. Our Association is, in fact, nothing but the international bond between the most advanced working men in the various countries of the civilized world. Wherever, in whatever shape, and under whatever conditions the class struggle obtains any consistency, it is but natural that members of our Association, should stand in the foreground.”
If Marx speaks sometimes of workers and sometimes of “people,” it is because he was aware that the Commune was not only the work of the proletarian class strictly speaking, but also of sectors of the impoverished middle classes, intellectuals, women from various social strata, students and soldiers, all united around the red flag and the dream of a social republic. Not to mention the peasants, absent from the movement, but without whose support the uprising in Paris could only fail.
Another aspect of the Commune that Marx insists on is its internationalist character.
No doubt, the people of Paris rose up in 1871 against the capitulating bourgeois politicians who had reconciled with Bismarck and the Prussian army. But this surge of national spirit in no way took a nationalist form; not only because of the role of the militants of the French section of the First International, but also because the Commune called upon fighters of all nations.
The solidarity of the International Workingmen’s Association, and the meetings in support of the Commune held in Breslau and other German cities, at the initiative of socialist workers, are an expression of the internationalist significance of the uprising of the Parisian people. As Marx wrote in a resolution adopted at a March 1872 meeting celebrating the anniversary of the Commune, the Communards were “the heroic vanguard … of the menacing army of the universal proletariat.”
October 1917: the tiger’s leap into the past
There exists, according to Walter Benjamin in his 1940 Theses quoted above, a unique constellation between a present moment in the struggle of the oppressed and a specific event of the past, a unique image of this past that threatens to disappear if it is not recognized. This is what happened during the Russian Revolution of 1905.
Only Leon Trotsky saw the constellation between the Commune of 1871 and the struggle of the Russian Soviets in 1905: in his December 1905 preface to the Russian edition of Marx’s writings on the Commune, he observes that the example of 1871 shows that “it is possible for the workers to come to power in an economically backward country sooner than in an advanced country.” Once in power, though, Russian workers would be led, like those in the Commune, to take measures which combine the liquidation of absolutism with the socialist revolution.
In 1905-1906, Trotsky was virtually alone in his defence of the 1871 model for the Russian revolution. Even Lenin, despite his criticisms of the Menshevik tactic of supporting the anti-Tsarist bourgeoisie, refused to regard the Commune as an example for the workers’ movement in Russia.
In his 1905 work Two Tactics of Social Democracy, Lenin criticized the Paris Commune for having “confused the tasks of fighting for a republic with the tasks of fighting for Socialism”; for this reason, it was a form of government which would not resemble that of the future Russian revolutionary democratic government.
Things would turn out quite differently in 1917.
From his April Theses onward, Lenin took the Paris Commune as a model for the Republic of Soviets that he proposed as a goal for the Russian revolutionaries, precisely because it had effected the dialectical fusion between the struggle for a democratic republic and the struggle for socialism.
This idea would also be broadly developed in The State and Revolution and all Lenin’s other writings during the year 1917. The identification with the Communards was so strong that, according to contemporary accounts, Lenin had proudly celebrated the day when – just a few months after October 1917 – the power of the Soviets had succeeded in holding out one day more than the Commune of 1871…
The October revolution is therefore a striking example of the idea set out by Walter Benjamin in his Theses: any genuine revolution is not only a leap towards the future, but also “a tiger’s leap into the past,” a dialectical leap towards a moment in the past “filled by the presence of the now” (Jetztzeit).
Like Marx and Engels, Lenin and Trotsky criticized certain political or strategic errors of the Commune: for example, not seizing the funds of the Bank of France, not attacking Versailles, waiting for the enemy at the barricades of each neighbourhood. Nonetheless, they recognized in this event an unprecedented moment in modern history, the first attempt to “storm heaven,” the first experience of social and political emancipation of the oppressed classes.
The relevance of the Paris Commune in the 21st century
Each generation has its own reading, its own interpretation of the Commune of 1871, according to its historical experience, the needs of its present struggle, the aspirations and utopias that motivate it.
What would its relevance be today, from the point of view of the radical left and the social and political movements of the early 21st century, from the Zapatistas of Chiapas to libertarian socialist Rojava, to the global justice movement?
Of course, the vast majority of organizers and activists today know little about the Commune. There are nonetheless some affinities and resonances between the experience of the Parisian spring of 1871 and the struggles of today that deserve to be highlighted:
a) The Commune was a movement of self-emancipation, self-organization, and initiative from below. No party tried to take the place of the popular classes, no vanguard wanted to “take power” in place of the workers. The militants of the French section of the First International were among the most active supporters of the popular uprising, but they never wanted to set themselves up as the self-proclaimed “leadership” of the movement, they never attempted to monopolize power or marginalize other political currents. The representatives of the Commune were democratically elected in the neighbourhoods and subject to the permanent control of their popular base.
b) In other words: the Commune of 1871 was a pluralist and unitary movement, in which the partisans of Proudhon or (more rarely) of Marx, libertarian socialists and Jacobins, Blanquists and “social republicans” all participated. Of course, there were debates and differences, sometimes even political clashes in the democratically elected bodies of the Commune. But in practice they acted in common, respected each other, and focused their fire on the enemy and not on the comrade in struggle with whom they may have had disagreements. The ideological dogmas of each mattered less than the common objectives: social emancipation, the abolition of class privileges. As Marx himself acknowledged, the Jacobins forgot their authoritarian centralism, and the Proudhonians their “anti-political” principles.
c) As we saw above, it was an authentically internationalist movement, with the participation of fighters from several countries. The Commune elected a Polish revolutionary (Dombrowicz) to the leadership of its militia; a Hungarian-German worker (Leo Frankel) was commissar of labour. Of course, resistance to the Prussian occupation played a decisive role in triggering the Commune, but the call of the French insurgents to the people and to German social democracy, inspired by the utopia of the “United States of Europe,” testifies to this internationalist consciousness.
d) Despite the weight of patriarchy in popular culture, the Commune stands out for the active and combative participation of women. The libertarian socialist activist Louise Michel and the Russian revolutionary Elisabeth Dmitrieff are among the best known, but thousands of other women – designated with rage and hatred as “pétroleuses” (“hysterical female arsonists”) by the Versailles reactionaries – took part in the fighting of April-May 1871.
On 14 April, the citizens’ delegates sent to the Executive Committee of the Commune an address which stated the will of many women to participate in the defence of Paris, considering that “the Commune, representative of the great principle proclaiming the annihilation of all privilege, of all inequality, should be simultaneously engaged in taking into account the just demands of the entire population, without distinction of sex, a distinction created and maintained by the need for antagonism on which the privileges of the dominant classes rest.”
The appeal was signed by the delegates, members of the Central Committee of Women Citizens: Adélaïde Valentin, Noëmie Colleville, Marcand, Sophie Graix, Joséphine Pratt, Céline Delvainquier, Aimée Delvainquier, and Elisabeth Dmitrieff.
e) Though lacking a detailed socialist programme, the social measures of the Commune – for example, the handing over to the workers of factories abandoned by their bosses – had a radical anti-capitalist dynamic.
It is clear that the characteristics of the popular uprisings of our time – for example, the Zapatista uprising of 1994, that of the people of Buenos Aires in 2001, that which defeated the anti-Chavez coup attempt in Venezuela in 2002, or that against the villainous President Piñera in Chile in 2019 – to mention just a few recent examples from Latin America, are very different from those of the Paris insurrection of 1871.
But many aspects of this first attempt at social emancipation by the oppressed retain an astonishing relevance and can fire the political imagination of each new generation.
Without the memory of the past and its struggles, there will be no fight for the utopia of the future.
Michael Löwy is an ecosocialist, sociologist, and philosopher. He is emeritus research director at the CNRS (National Center for Scientific Research) in Paris. His books have been translated into 29 languages. | <urn:uuid:0999a58f-d81b-4781-b339-05bebbaaf3cb> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.midnightsunmag.ca/the-paris-commune-a-tigers-leap-into-the-past/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572043.2/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814143522-20220814173522-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.962405 | 4,110 | 2.578125 | 3 |
Confident your timber is correctly fire-treated?15 June 2021
Most specifiers rely on their supply chain to deliver products fi t for purpose. Fire-retardant timber is a case in point. You’re given the paperwork to tick the box. But is that enough? And do you know what to ask to ensure correct treatment? asks Mark Eggleston, managing director of WJ Group
There’s a concerning discrepancy between the EU and the UK. The Construction Product Regulation (EU no. 305/2011) requires ‘the business placing the product on the market, or the manufacturer’ to issue a CE mark and a Declaration of Performance. Where fi re retardant treated timber is concerned, the EU interprets this as the treater, whereas the UK literally believes it’s the business selling the end-product.
But the seller is one step removed. They don’t have the treatment records. And many don’t know what should have been done.
As a result, some fire-treated timber products entering the supply chain might not have been correctly treated. And there’s no system to monitor and police this in the UK.
In my opinion, morally, and in terms of fire safety, this is wrong.
Specifiers, architects, and contractors must educate themselves to understand the evidence behind the documents they’re supplied. Whilst we’re always happy to talk through the detail, asking your fi re-retardant timber supplier these three questions will uncover many facts:
1. Does the treater issue the CE mark and Declaration of Performance?
Aside from WJ Timber Treatments, this is rarely the case. So, how can your provider sufficiently understand the testing and third-party auditing required to create these documents?
2. Is the Declaration of Performance specific to the timber species?
Reputable treaters will have a Constancy of Performance certificate that summarises the Fire Classification Report for each species. Robust auditing by the notified body that issued the fi re classification report on behalf of the fi re-retardant chemical supplier will be in place. A generic Declaration of Performance is, quite frankly, dangerous.
3. If you’re supplied with a Factory Production Control document, was it audited against the correct harmonised standard?
For example, that would be EN14915/2013 for cladding. The CPR does not make this clear. So, it’s easy to have a disconnect between an irrelevant standard and the control document. This is another risky situation.
Believing it’s our moral responsibility to do so, we provide a CE mark on our Burnblock fi re treatment process in addition to a species-specific Declaration of Performance. We’re regularly audited by a notified body (Finotrol) ensuring a Constancy of Performance on our treatment process.
We don’t have to do this. The CPR says we’re not the business placing the product on the market. Nor are we the manufacturer. But by fire-treating the timber like cladding, we’re significantly changing its properties and are therefore in scope of AVCP system 1. We should be doing this to provide total confidence and traceability.
Our CE mark and Declaration of Performance covering INT1, INT2, EXT fire retardant treatments and decorative coatings is backed by a chain of testing and auditing to prove the fi re-retardant timber is fit for purpose. I firmly believe the UK should interpret the CPR as the EU does and fully control a life-protecting treatment process. | <urn:uuid:2096697d-3d06-4343-834c-2e0deae6581e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.ttjonline.com/blog/confident-your-timber-is-correctly-fire-treated/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572212.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815205848-20220815235848-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.921223 | 746 | 1.695313 | 2 |
Survival Gear and Strategies to Survive a NUCLEAR ATTACK. Renewed Cold War threats, global terrorism, make threat of nuclear attack very real today. Building a Fallout Room and Surviving a Nuclear Emergency.
“If you hear a large explosion, don’t run to the window to see what it was — you’ll get shredded by the blast.”
Here are the plain and simple facts. If a nuclear attack ever took place on U.S. soil, you’d want to know about it. Why? Because if you didn’t, that likely means that you were too close.And if you were too close, that means you’re dead.
A nuclear attack is one of the most frightening things that could happen, period.
A Nuclear Explosion Can Kill Millions
Just the explosion alone can wipe out countless numbers of people. Unfortunately, even after the blast nuclear weapons can do damage through something called nuclear fallout.In essence, fallout refers to a process by which the wind carries radioactive materials through the air and people, plants, and wildlife can all be poisoned; in a large dose death can come soon after.
Unfortunately, nuclear fallout can sicken or even kill people in its path.
So, here’s the question. How can one survive a nuclear attack? SecretsofSurvival.com is here to brief you on the basics.
What Can We Do To Prepare For A Nuclear War?
Because ionizing radiation ionizes what it effects, it’s easy to see that a medium like a gas or a voltage could be used to measure the amount of charge liberated in that medium once it is radiated. These are, after all, the most common methods of measuring radiation. The infamous Geiger Counter, for instance, is really nothing more than a small volume of gas with a voltage applied across it. As the radiation enters the gas, it causes electrons to be formed which are collected and measured to determine the amount of initial radiation present.
Another common detection device actually uses the old Glow-In-The-Dark plastics, paints, and watches we all had when we were kids. This process of radiation detection is called scintillation, which is merely using a medium to see the visible light an object gives off after its interaction with radiation.
Another measure of a radiation’s intensity and energy is to somehow collect and use the light given off by the activity. There are in fact many different ways of obtaining such a measurement, using semiconductors, liquids, superheated bubbles, crystals and plastics.
So how would all this help us if a terrorist nuclear detonation occurs in a populated area of the U.S.?
Since a ‘dirty bomb’ would probably be the closest to a nuke a group like al Qaeda would use on U.S. shores (or Britain’s, or perhaps Saudi Arabia’s for that matter — they hate everyone), it would only release radioactivity around the few blocks in which the bomb was detonated. Serious business, but as said earlier, its bark is much bigger than its bite.
You can of course use the detection devices mentioned above to help you determine if there is some radioactivity in your area after a ‘dirty bomb’ attack, or even after a true nuke attack; Geiger counters and Glow-in-the-Dark plastics can be picked up at several stores, at reasonable prices. (If using a ‘ Glow-in-the-Dark’ piece, make sure it’s kept from a direct light source as you make your basic measurement, in order to get a true reading.)
If you care to know more about ‘dirty bombs’, S.O.S. has an extra article on just this subject, since — if we ever suffer some radioactive attack — this type of bomb will be the most likely culprit. Check it out when you have the time.
The answer for the other, much more serious weapon is of course another matter. In the unlikely (but possible) threat of a true nuclear attack, the two main worries consist of the blast itself, and what are called the ‘thermal pulse effects’.
Most of the energy released by a nuclear explosion is in the form of blast and shock; the remaining 35% or thereabouts is in the form of heat.
A readily portable terrorist nuclear bomb, such as the RA-115 backpack nukes reported missing from Russian stockpiles, would — while still very dangerous — only possess a fraction of the power released by a conventional nuke. For instance, the Hiroshima bomb released a power of about 15 kilotons when it exploded above the city; the RA-115 backpack nukes are one kiloton yield each.
Nuclear blast effects, it should be remembered, also drop off quickly with distance. At Hiroshima a brick building survived only 640 feet from ground zero. And less than a mile away a trolley car remained intact and on its tracks.
For concerns of a future attack, the current thinking is that with the continuing trend towards more accurate MIRV’ed (multiple independently targetable, reentry vehicle-d) nuclear weapons, they are now mostly smaller than in the past, averaging on the order of 500 kiloton or less and for submarines only 200 kiloton. Of course, there are now more warheads per missile (4-10) and they are substantially more accurate than during the height of the Cold War.
If a terror organization strikes, we may expect structures dear to the American heart — the Statue of Liberty, Mount Rushmore, the Capitol building — to be hit first.
All buildings will suffer light damage if caught in a shock wave of even 1 psi (per square inch) peak overpressure — shattered windows, doors damaged or blown off hinges and interior partitions cracked. The blast wind from a modern nuke can exceed hurricane velocities above 2 psi.
So how much blast or overpressure is too much to survive? It depends on where you are when it comes charging through, but from a 500 kiloton blast, 2.2 miles away, it’ll be arriving about 8 seconds after the detonation flash. (An even larger 1 megaton blast, but 5 miles away, would give you about 20 seconds.) Like surviving an imminent tornado, utilizing those essential seconds after the initial flash to ‘duck & cover’ could be the difference between life & death for many.
Majority Of Nuke Casualties Are Those Caught In Blast Shock Wave
Being caught in either the overpressure of the blast shock wave or the blast wind are the main causes of casualties and damage.For the man-in-the-open example above (2.2 miles from the detonation of a 500 kiloton air burst), this sharp body slap would produce an immense overpressure that might perforate his eardrums. He would also experience a blast of wind of about 295 mph for about three seconds that would launch him into a probably fatal impact, and would probably also likely suffer injuries from flying missile fragments of glass and debris. It’s like suddenly being in the middle of the strongest tornado that just as quickly fades away.
And as in a tornado, prompt protective actions can make a great difference in one’s survivability, believe it or not. For example, it requires about eight times the blast wind force to move a person who is lying down compared to a standing person. Diving into a ditch, depression, basement or anywhere else normally thought of for tornado protection will improve your odds greatly. You are also much less a target for glass shards and debris missiles. This simple change in position and placement can save many lives. (S.O.S. also has a good article on surviving a tornado; you may wish to look at it as well.)
Then there’s the thermal pulse that accompanies the massive burst. This pulse represents 35% of the energy expended in a nuclear explosion. Burns caused by the heat energy of this fireball will produce the most far-reaching consequences.
For our example above of the man-in-the-open, 2.2 miles from a 500 kiloton air detonation, fatal blast injuries would have served in most cases to put him out of his misery. The thermal pulse, traveling at the speed of light, would have already delivered lethal burns and his clothing would have burst into fire if truly exposed in the open. In fact, about 50% of those fully exposed to the fireball anywhere in the 2 psi or greater range would eventually die from the severity of their burns.
However, if there is fog or haze or any kind of opaque material or structure between people and the oncoming fireball, the effects of the thermal pulse can be greatly reduced. With medium haze it can be cut by 50% and with heavy fog down to even just 10%. Smog in the big cities could actually be partly protective for once.
Also, while it delivers most of its energy within the first second, the larger the bomb the longer it’ll take to deliver its full compliment of thermal energy — up to several seconds for some megaton bombs. Quickly diving behind anything creating a shadow could be lifesaving.
Besides fog, smog, haze or clouds, there are buildings, trees, hills and other objects that would also block and reduce some portion of the thermal pulse. In fact, the more densely built-up an area is, the less likely the inhabitants would be to suffer the full impact of the thermal pulse. Of course, they may still have to deal with the resultant fires, as well as any blast damage.
Bottom Line: The majority of Americans, even in a full-scale all-out nuclear war, would survive the initial blast and thermal effects of nuclear explosions. Even with a large 1 megaton explosion and being as few as 8-10 miles away from ground zero, you would likely find that you had survived the initial thermal, blast and shock wave. With any kind of prompt protective action your odds of surviving at even half that distance are quite high.
It should also be mentioned that with the much smaller yield and resulting blast damage area of a likely terrorist nuclear weapon, your odds of being in the wrong place at the wrong time during the attack are even more remote. In these trying times, that’s something to remember.
How To Survive A Nuclear Attack
Well, the first thing is to not be right there when it occurs. What can you do to make sure that happens? Unfortunately, not a ton. However, if there is an alert for a particular event- say a football game- it might be wise to avoid it. On the other hand, doing so allows the terrorists to win.
Thus, there’s no easy answer in terms of avoidance ( other than really solid homeland security, perhaps ). Still, things should be put in perspective. A nuclear bomb emits such tremendous heat and power that it can literally destroy structures and kill on contact within five miles of detonation ( depending on the power of the bomb ). So, if you’re in the general vicinity when a nuclear bomb or missile detonates, that’s not good.
Now if you’re outside when this occurs and manage to survive, take immediate cover ( inside a structure ). Further, if you get debris on you, wash it off with soap and water as soon as possible.
However, in all likelihood you’ll either be at work or at home if such an occurrence were to take place. Therefore, if you pay heed now, you might have a plan in place when/ if it all breaks down.
Planning in advance of a nuclear attack – Why would you ever want to plan for such a terrible occurrence? For the same reason that you want to be ready for that presentation at work. Preparation oftentimes leads to success, and survival during such a tragic situation is no different. Thus, here are some things to consider. That means having a get home bag and a bug out bag ready to go in whichever of the top survival backpacks you picked. These will allow you a better chance to evacuate the area or to get home quickly and safely if you’re lucky enough to not get caught in the initial blast. Planning for such a catastrophic event requires you to think seriously about prepping – those who aren’t prepared won’t stand a chance in a disaster of this magnitude.
Have you been exposed to radiation in the air carried by the wind and blast? – If you’re still alive and standing, congratulations. That means you’re several miles out from the detonation and your chief concerns first are radiation levels. Have a personal radiation detector (personal responders and even the military carry personal radiation detectors; not all of course, just some, but it’s a smart move anyway for civilians to do the same).
One more step to being prepared for a nuclear attack: A civilian gas mask rated for a nuclear or chemical emergency.
Chain of contact – Know how you are going to contact loved ones ( have a chain of contact ). However, don’t waste time and put yourself in danger in order to simply call someone if the danger is intense and immediate ( perhaps you’re right in the path of everything ). Under such circumstances, you and your loved ones should already know where you’re going. If you’re well prepared, you and your family will have reliable two way radios available and you’ll be able to contact them through this radios.
The Fallout Chamber
Nothing is more important than this in terms of protecting from nuclear fallout. The radiation from nuclear fallout can be dangerous for up to several days after an explosion and can seep through any material. However, it loses it’s negative attributes as it passes through things, so the thicker the wall between you and it the better.Hence, a fallout room.
Building A Fallout Room
A fallout room should be as safe as possible. Further, it would be smart to have this within your own home as it may be dangerous to leave. Thus, if your fallout chamber can be within your home, go with that ( and wait to hear from local emergency authorities ).Regardless, here are some best practices and things to consider when designing/ deciding on a fallout room or chamber ( called such because it’s designed to protect from fallout ).
1. Make sure your fallout room is within a well insulated structure. Bungalows, cabins, trailer homes, and the like don’t tend to fit the bill. Therefore, if you live in one of these it might be prudent to make plans to take shelter with a loved one or friend very close by.
2. Choose the place furthest from the outside walls within your home. Oftentimes, this is the cellar or basement. The greater the distance you are from the radiation, the better.
3. Still, the mere walls of your home may not be enough. You’ll want to shut off openings like windows, etc. In addition, you’ll want to bolster the walls around you with dense materials like bricks, sand, concrete, wood, and even furniture. This is why planning is important.
Further, have these things on hand before the event occurs ( in your fallout chamber ). Along with this, it might be prudent to have a hammer, some nails, and wood housed in your fallout chamber in case building or adding on is required.
Of course, if the extra materials are already built in, you’ll be best off. Thus, you’ll have to decide just how worried you are in advance.
4. All of this said, the fallout room may not be enough ( particularly during the first couple of days after detonation when things are most dangerous ). Thus, you’ll want to build some kind of fallout inner shelter within your fallout room. One way to do this is to use doors reinforced on the outside with sand or another bolstering material. Another option is to hide within a closed off cupboard. Regardless, make sure that you take care to close off openings to this as well. Further, build it so that it won’t fall apart.
However, you should also make sure that it and your fallout room will allow a sufficient amount of oxygen in.
All of this said, the fallout inner shelter within your fallout room may only need to be used for a couple of days. However, you can plan on spending upwards of fourteen days or more in your fallout room. Thus, there are some supplies you should definitely have on hand if such an occurrence were to take place.
Supplies To Have On Hand In Your Fallout Room
1. Have enough food for 14 days. Most people don’t live in downtown areas, which are the most likely places for a terrorist nuclear attack. If you lived downtown, you would need to have a bunker far underground to survive a blast in such close proximity, and then be able to stay down there for up to several weeks, before attempting to exit and flee the area. The reason is because you would be much closer to the site of the detonation, which is where the majority of radiation would be concentrated.In this case, have several weeks of food and water on hand. Though you may have some perishable items on hand, such as those kept in a freezer (that will soon thaw, so eat these frozen foods first), the majority of food should be able to last. Further, you should choose to eat the perishable items first ( obviously ).
2. Have enough water for 14 days, unless you’re in an area that is near a likely strike zone; in this case you’ll want several weeks more. In fact, try to have extra supplies of this on hand ( you’ll almost certainly need to buy jugs of water in advance in order to accomplish this ). Remember, also to cover and secure your food and water. If radioactive dust gets on to it, there’s no real way to get it off.
3. Have a radio and extra batteries as this will be your only real connection to emergency contacts and the outside world. Without this, you won’t know what to do or when to do it. Have a lot more batteries than you think you will need; you can also use these in flashlights and lanterns (see below).
4. Have tin openers, cutlery, bowls, plates, and etc. for obvious reasons.
5. Have warm clothing on hand. Gloves and boots may be especially important in order to protect the outer extremities.
6. Have bedding on hand and a comfortable bed pad or cot (folding cots will take up less space in your fallout room).
7. Have bathroom supply products. Consider knowing where you will toilet in advance. Since you cannot waste water in a toilet- and may not even have one in your fallout room- have buckets, bags for waste, and disinfectants/ cleaners with you as well. It may be smart to have a garbage / dustbin right outside of your fallout room to store human and food waste materials ( consider not putting things out of the room at all until at least two days after the event ).
Additional Tips For Fallout Room Waste Disposal
Invest in a portable 5 gallon toilet.Also invest in several pounds of bulk cat litter. Yes, cat litter.
You see, if there are more than one of you sheltering in your fallout room (perhaps family or friends who live nearby ), it will be important to keep smells to a minimum – which will make the experience of sheltering in place for several days a lot more pleasant than being trapped in a sealed room filled with foul odors.
Imagine the smell of poo and urine in a confined space with no ventilation… Thus the importance of a good waste storage system in your fallout room. The portable 5 gallon toilet mentioned above uses bags under the toilet lid that can be sealed shut and placed in a seperate sealed container (a seperate bucket with a screw top lid, for example, or even a 55 gallon plastic drum, should you be sheltering in place with several people and need a disposal container with much larger capacity).
As a last resort, have Vick’s Vapor Rub ( or a generic brand ) that you can lather on your skin, just below your nostrils, as a way to distract from any possible foul smelling odors.
8. If you have a generator and electricity, have a portable electric stove and pots / pans. However, unless you have a self-powered fallout room with ventilation and recycled air, you should not cook inside as you can die from carbon monoxide poisoning from propane or butane stoves; even candles can be toxic in a room without ventilation; so don’t cook in your fallout room unless you have an electric stove (just a portable single burner is fine). But do you even need to cook? Instead, save on electricity and fuel (supplied by a generator) and eat your food uncooked (that means you need to be stocked with foods that don’t require cooking).
9. Have survival flashlights and one or two lanterns, depending on the size of your shelter and how many people will be inside.
10. Have cloths, brushes, and brooms for cleaning.
11. Have soap on hand with towels.
12. Have a first aid supply kit.
13. And just as important, have things to keep you busy like books, paper, and pens.
14. Finally, have potassium iodide pills on hand. If taken during a nuclear emergency, these pills help protect against a variety of cancers that can result from exposure to nuclear fallout. Better safe than sorry.
In sum, a nuclear attack could happen under several different scenarios. Thus, it’s important to note that dealing with one will take some flexibility. That said, being ready for at least one or two possible scenarios is better than none.
Also remember that the United States has never been attacked in nuclear fashion. Thus, emergency personnel may very well choose to lead us all in a different direction when/ if the time comes. Therefore, it’s important to remember to have that radio on you so that you can follow emergency directives. No article, good, bad, or otherwise will take the place of that. | <urn:uuid:96056aec-a158-4b0c-9772-4257c1bf88cb> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://secretsofsurvival.com/how-to-survive-a-nuclear-attack/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571538.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812014923-20220812044923-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.951051 | 4,620 | 3.109375 | 3 |
There’s nothing more charming than a spoonful of fresh, creamy, and mildly tangy crème fraîche. So, for those of you craving a spoonful of heaven, but do not live in the parts of Europe that serve them, here’s how to make crème fraîche at home.
After balking at the price of sour cream, and being horrified at the thought of eating artificially thickened milk, I decided to make my own sour cream. Creamy with just the right amount of tart, and healthier than the store-bought version — here’s how you can make your own sour cream!
Isn’t it so frustrating to not find buttermilk at home when you need it? And most times you realise you’re missing buttermilk only when you’re bang in the middle of a recipe. Thankfully, you can make buttermilk substitutions with whatever you have in your kitchen instead of running to the store.
How does one remove the skin of an almond — the kind of skin that seems fused to the flesh? Look no further — learn just how easy it is to blanch almonds. Plus, they turn out better than the ones at the store and are more hygienic.
Sprouting legumes and seeds unlocks all the nutrition that the seed works to produce to feed the tiny plant growing within — it mimics germination, thus activating vital nutrients. Feed your body this nutrient powerhouse; make sprouts at home — all you’ll need is water!
Ah, sublime, silky smooth cream cheese! How To Make Your Own Instant Cream Cheese gives you easy instructions to and the science behind instant cream cheese bliss. Get ready to make cheesecakes and cream cheese spreads whenever you want to, intead of waiting for days.
It is definitely possible to make whipped cream from low fat cream. And this dainty darling is soooo fluffy and silky, and it melts instantly in your mouth! Read on, follow the recipe and you will land the most luxurious whipped cream, made from India’s darling: Amul Fresh Cream. | <urn:uuid:92225f6d-d555-4b86-b416-9157f5539f2a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://notjustspice.com/category/how-to/cooking/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572212.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815205848-20220815235848-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.912622 | 443 | 1.578125 | 2 |
Fishing In The State of Iowa Won’t Cost a Thing This Weekend
Fishing has been a part of my life ever since I was a kid. My dad taught me how, but my mom also came from a family that loved to fish. We used to go to Central Park in Jones County and also the Wapsipinicon River in Anamosa. While I don't get out as often as I'd like to these days, I've passed on the hobby to my kids. Chase and Cayleigh enjoy it, Carly, not so much. Something about touching worms and fish that doesn't appeal to her. If your kids are into fishing, or if you're trying to get them interested in the hobby, this could be the perfect weekend!
CBS2 reports that the first weekend in June is a free fishing weekend in the state of Iowa. That means that no fishing license is required to fish from June 3rd through June 5th. All other regulations are still in place. In conjunction with the free fishing, the Iowa DNR will be hosting numerous events aimed at getting families outdoors and fishing! You can check out all the scheduled events HERE. The Iowa DNR can even help you find a place to fish!
You can also take the opportunity to get your Iowa fishing license for the year at the end of the weekend. There are several different lengths available including yearly, seven days, or 24-hour fishing licenses. There is even an app where you can buy your license! So grab the family and head outdoors this weekend. It's time to fish! | <urn:uuid:c5ff89f7-1d63-4a2f-b578-9795349ecd2a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://koel.com/fishing-in-the-state-of-iowa-wont-cost-a-thing-this-weekend/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572212.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815205848-20220815235848-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.978551 | 321 | 1.5625 | 2 |
Discover More about Junior Golf and the Man O' War Junior Golf Program
The goal of the Man O' War Junior Golf program is to create a fun learning environment for junior golfers of all skill levels. Our instructors are trained to evaluate the talent level of each individual to maximize their learning experience. We strive to create not only golf's next superstars, but junior golfers who can grow up enjoying this great game. Our program strives to create a fun environment that emphasizes athletic development, as well as a focus on all aspects of the game, including full swing, pitching, chipping, putting, the rules of golf, and course etiquette.
Frequently Asked Questions
How can I get my kid to love golf?
Your kid will love to play golf if:
- It's fun
- They are good at it
- They can do it with their friends
- They can do it with you
- It makes them feel good
Kids will learn to dislike golf very quickly if:
- It's not fun
- They can't do it well
- They feel pressured to play – by you or their coach
- There is too much emphasis placed on competition
- It physically hurts them
Where's the Golf?
Many parents may ask why we are doing activities that seem unrelated to golf. The reason is that a Sport Specific Skill (in our case golf) should be built upon a well-developed base of Fundamental Movement Skills and Fundamental Sports Skills.
This means that the kids must be very good at things such as running, hopping, jumping, skipping and landing. Juniors should be well balanced, agile, coordinated, possess well-developed kicking, throwing, catching and striking skills and have great spatial and body awareness.
The juniors need this before they can learn to play golf. The activities parents see them playing are designed to assist in the development of fundamental skills. If any skill is missing, it will make learning to play golf more difficult and they may never reach their full potential in golf or any other sport.
The sports we cross-train with share a "DNA" with golf. Cross training allows us to teach basic movements of the swing without having to talk about it as much.
What is screening?
A screening is a series of simple activities that we conduct periodically to help assess the development of a junior's Fundamental Movement Skills (FMS) and Fundamental Sport Skills (FSS). Information gained from the screening allows us to prescribe games and activities that will develop areas needing attention.
What can I do as a parent to assist the development of my child's golf?
There are two different types of sports; Early Specialization Sports (such as gymnastics and diving), where children must excel at an early age to compete at elite levels, and Late Specialization Sports (such as golf and baseball), where most elite athletes spend 10 years or more honing skills before being ready to compete at that level.
If a child who is learning to play golf is trained as if they are doing an Early Specialization Sport, meaning all they do is play golf, it is likely that they will develop physical imbalances, overuse injuries, burn out and have underdeveloped FMS. We don't want your child to specialize in golf unless they have mastered FMS, and they want to specialize. Cross training using sports that develop overall athletic ability and have a high transfer of skill into golf will give the best chance of achieving full potential.
Some of the sports and activities other than golf we recommend:
- Striking with an implement: Baseball batting, tennis ground strokes, field hockey, or ice hockey slap shot, and hurling.
- Striking with body parts: Martial arts kicking and punching, soccer and volleyball. Dance and gymnastics are also good for body control.
- Throwing Activities: Baseball pitching, throwing a football, discus, javelin, hammer, shot-put and basketball free throws.
- Wrist speed and wrist release: Frisbee games, table tennis, squash and racquetball. Make sure that any equipment you use is lightweight and easy to grip.
Make sure that any equipment you use is lightweight and easy to grip.
What should we do between classes?
As a parent, you are the Assistant Coach.
Here's what we want you to do:
- Make sure any golf related activity is fun –or else.
- If you go to the range, let your kid show you the stuff they like doing. If it's not being used, you can borrow some of our equipment. Once they've had enough, it's time to go home, even if practice only lasted 20 minutes.
- Get out and play with your kid!!! Buy some of the gear you see us using at the range, go to the park and play with it. Make sure your kid gets a turn, too.
- Monitor their growth velocity. On the first day of every second month, measure and record their height. We will give you detailed information on how to do this. This will allow us to predict a major growth spurt and to adjust the training program accordingly.
Here's what we don't want you to do:
Teaching juniors to play golf is a highly specialized skill, so please leave it to us. They don't understand what you're saying anyway. Making mistakes, doing things wrong and being able to work it out themselves is a critical part of the learning process. So no coaching cues, unless instructed by us. Please don't force them to play or practice if they don't want to.
The only equipment your 5 to 9 year old junior really needs in their bag to start – 4 clubs.
- Driver: Lightweight kids hybrid, 25 – degrees loft or more
- Irons: Lightweight 6 or 7 iron, with plenty of loft. Light weight pitching or sand wedge with plenty of loft
- Putter: Lightweight
All clubs should be tailored for length and not cut down.
Please ask one of our staff members if you have any questions about equipment. We specialize in finding the right equipment for juniors and adults.
Not all kids develop at the same rate. Our program takes those factors into consideration. Maturity and development cannot be forced. We all go through it at some point. Allow your child to take the time needed to develop into a young aspiring golfer. Forcing them to perform skills that they are not ready for can be disastrous to their golf future.
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In the United States, author and activist Ayaan Hirsi Ali continues her work on behalf of Muslim women and girls with her eponymous Ayaan Hirsi Ali Foundation. She spoke with Smithsonian about the Foundation’s mission and its ongoing efforts to protect Muslim women in this country from oppression and violence.
Could you discuss the work of the AHA Foundation, the essence of your goal and what your future plans are?
The foundation’s mission is to protect women from violence justified in the name of culture and religion. By religion, first and foremost I mean militant Islam. The violence that these women encounter is the result of their desire to be free. The freedom they seek is to pursue education; freedom to work, and most importantly, freedom to own their own bodies. To be mistresses of their own bodies, they want to choose their own mate, to choose how many children they have. In some Muslim households, this is not possible.
As soon as young women make these kinds of lifestyle choices, they are confronted by violence justified in the name of honor. The families say, “If you do this, you will smear my family honor,” and so fathers and brothers and so on stop them from doing that. If these girls persist in their cause, they are beaten, locked up at home, forced into marriages they don’t want; some are killed. The mission of the foundation is to bring awareness to these practices. We educate the relevant agencies that this kind of domestic violence is different from domestic violence common in the West.
As a Western woman, you could be a victim of violence in your home, your husband or your brother or someone could beat you. The perpetrator, if caught, would be punished for that; it is recognized that battering women is wrong. Women are protected.
In the type of violence I am talking about, most of these fellows are law-abiding, affectionate men. The problem arises when the father feels that his perceived honor is shamed.
Our goal at the AHA foundation is to educate all relevant agencies—to influence, to inform and to investigate. We’ve begun a project with the John Jay College in New York, collecting data on how many types of these cases we have in the United States.
We’re talking to the State Department on how to deal with forced marriages. Young women here in America are taken back to their country of origin, the country of the parents. Their papers are confiscated; they are forced to marry. What we’re doing with the State Department is to help those girls to return, and to protect girls who are here from that kind of practice.
In the case of female genital mutilation, it’s very hard to enforce laws. Girls are taken on summer vacation to their countries of origin. So how do you know it’s happening?
The foundation speaks to women’s shelters, to prosecutors and to anyone else that deals with violence— the Justice Department, members of Congress. We want them to know that this is the type of woman who is faced with this type of violence.
So you are looking at the circumstances of girls and young women in particular, in Muslim communities across the United States. How did your experiences in Europe inform your efforts in the United States?
My experience in Europe was that a girl would go to the police saying, “I am afraid that my father is going to kill me. ” In the beginning, the police would just laugh and say “What did you do?” or “If you were my daughter, I would kill you too,”—as a joke, you know. And then these girls would be killed. Or the girl would come to the police and say, “If you don’t help me, I will be kidnapped, I will be taken abroad, I’ll never be able to come back because they will take my papers.” People wouldn’t believe them. They thought, “These are teenage girls, saying and doing what teenagers do.” Only after that did they find these claims were true and the girls were vanishing.
What I did in Holland was change attitudes, make sure that when you are confronted with problems like this from girls, that certain communities—teachers, social workers, child protection agencies, policemen—needed to pursue these cases.
Do you feel that your message is beginning to register here in the United States?
Yes. The United States is a million times bigger than Holland. When I look at what we’re doing in New York and what the State Department is doing now, awareness is increasing. Our goal is that every American knows that it is wrong for families to control the sexuality of girls and women and to stop them from education, from work.
How does your work have its roots in your history as a refugee from many kinds of oppression, in many cultures?
The way I see my job or the work I do is: Here is the meeting of two cultures, the Muslim culture and Western culture. Some of the Muslims living here in the West, like women, are faced with problems that Westerners don’t see. I see it because I’m familiar with patterns that for many may seem “strange” and therefore hidden. So if I create awareness, then a woman asking for help, from the type of culture that I come from, will be understood. | <urn:uuid:b5e28c65-a42c-4c2f-8617-da2ec241ce3b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/ayaan-hirsi-ali-on-protecting-women-from-militant-islam-95531817/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572212.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815205848-20220815235848-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.975408 | 1,126 | 2.328125 | 2 |
Millions of Americans suffer from sleep disorders, and this can be debilitating, adversely affecting our work, relationships, and health. It’s no secret that insomnia and restless nights plague many of us.
Technology can be a hindrance to a good night’s sleep, due to information overload, and devices that emit blue light and rob us of our melatonin.
But technology can be helpful, too. Many gadgets on the market help solve sleeplessness. Here’s a rundown of some of the most popular ones.
There are dozens of apps available for you to download to your phone or tablet to help you get a better night’s sleep. Here are a few of the top downloads.
- Sleep Cycle. This popular app tracks your sleep cycle during the night and only wakes you in your lightest sleep. It also stores your data so you can see your sleep cycle and make changes with the tips from the app to get a better night’s rest.
- Sleepmaker Rain. One of many white noise generating apps, Sleepmaker Rain uses real rain sounds to create soothing white noise.
- Calm. Calm is one of the most downloaded meditation apps on the market. It has guided sessions lulling you to sleep and helps with anxiety and stress.
A pillow that is aging, too soft, or made of the wrong material can be detrimental to a good night’s rest.
There are some innovative pillows available designed to help us get a better night’s sleep.
If you suffer from excessive sweating during the night, these pillows can help keep your head cool. They are essentially filled with tiny “beads” that absorb heat leaving your face and head cool for a fantastic night of slumber.
Designed for specific positioned sleepers, these pillows are shaped so stomach, back, or side sleepers can get the ultimate rest.
Water pillows can be customized to a person’s preference when it comes to support and density. They are an excellent option for those experiencing neck pain.
While it really comes down to personal preference, a few mattresses have received fantastic customer reviews.
The Amerisleep AS3 has been rated highly by the Federal Drug Administration (FDA) as providing a more restful sleep with its memory foam topper.
The Tempur-Cloud Supreme Breeze received extremely high customer reviews on the Tempur-Pedic website, with 4.5/5 stars from over 500 customers. It’s a five-layer mattress with a cooling cover, and one of the most breathable mattresses available.
The Casper mattress is a bed-in-a-box, like the Amerisleep brand. Bed-in-a-box mattresses are growing in popularity for many shoppers, as they typically allow you to have a 100-day trial of the mattress. The Casper was rated the top mattress by Consumer Reports, which surveys thousands of subscribers to receive its ratings.
For those who snore, there are several excellent over-the-counter anti-snoring aids available. It may take time trial and error to find one or a combination that works for your specific situation. These simple devices can be combined with an anti-snoring pillow, a wearable, an app, essential oils and many more sleeping aids to help you with your snoring condition and get a good night’s sleep.
If you don’t enjoy the blue screen of your phone or tablet and want to eliminate it, there are several headbands on the market that to fit comfortably on your head while you fall asleep. The Muse headband is one, which measures your brain activity with sensors and plays a meditation session to help you fall asleep.
Himalayan Salt Lamp
These soothing lamps emit a soft, warm glow, by hollowing out a chunk of Himalayan salt and placing a bulb inside. The salt’s water-absorbing properties help purify the air so you can breathe easier too!
Sleep masks are hitting the market in a big way, and Neuroon Open is leading the way. This intelligent sleep mask blocks out light and uses a simulated sunrise to wake you naturally. It measures your sleep activity through the Neuroon app. It also allows you to indulge in 20 minutes of light-spectrum meditation therapy to readjust your biorhythms.
Sleep With Me Podcast
The Sleep With Me Podcast is billed as a “lulling, droning, boring bedtime story to distract your racing mind,” and is designed to help you fall asleep. It can be downloaded at iTunes or for Android, and episodes of the Podcast can be found on YouTube.
Some may require just one of these gadgets or a combination to fall asleep. But it’s great to know there are so many options to help us get what we all desire – a good night’s rest. | <urn:uuid:4b5d88aa-1d49-439b-8101-8278e3808054> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://snoringhq.com/blog/gadgets-that-help-you-get-a-better-nights-sleep/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571538.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812014923-20220812044923-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.929615 | 1,049 | 1.53125 | 2 |
A load is the user of electricity. Loads come in many familiar forms such as light bulbs, motors and doorbells. A load changes electrical energy into another form of energy, such as light, heat, sound, motion and magnetism.
The heart of a load is almost always a coil of wire of some sort. Electricity travels rather effortlessly along a straight wire. But when the wire is coiled, electricity has to work to get through. It's a little like when we take a walk. Moving along a sidewalk doesn't take a lot of effort. But if we come to a twisty path going uphill, we're suddenly working a lot harder. In fact, like electricity, we can create a lot of heat (illustrated by sweat) when we work hard. Since a load is usually a coil, I like to think of it as a spiral staircase for electricity. Running up a staircase creates heat.
In a wiring diagram, a load is usually shown as a squiggle. There's the spiral staircase idea again. There are lots of varieties of squiggles, but the idea is to show the resistance that electricity comes up against as it goes through the load. An exception is the motor symbol, which often doesn't show the squiggle. But you can mentally draw it in.
Zone ValveA load we see very often in hydronic control circuits is the motor of a zone valve. A zone valve has two completely separate parts. There's the body, where the water flows through. And there's the powerhead, where the electricity goes. Of course the motor is in the powerhead.
Let's look at the valve body for a moment. The opening inside the valve is the port. The amount of water than can flow through the valve is called the flow rate, or cv rating. The definition of cv is “gallons per minute (gpm) at a pressure (called pressure drop) of 1 pound per square inch (psi) at 60 degrees F.” A typical flow rate is 3.5 cv. That means that at 1 psi and 60 degrees F, 3.5 gpm can flow through the valve.
Of course there are larger capacity zone valves. The same valve with a larger port can be larger capacity. But no matter how large the port or capacity, the valve can have only as much water going through as the external piping will allow.
A valve is also sized by the diameter of its pipe connection, such as 1/2 inch or 3/4 inch. Different-sized valves may be identical on the inside, depending upon their cv rating. Different-sized pipe connected to them, though, may make a difference.
Close-off rating is a measure of a valve's ability to close against water flow. The rating is given in psi. If the flow of the water is stronger than the close-off rating, the valve can't close smoothly or completely. The close-off rating depends a lot upon the valve's type of closing mechanism. For example, the turning action of a cartridge is much stronger than the swinging-gate action of a ball or flapper plug. The most common cause of close-off problems, though, is oversized pumps.
The electrical part of the valve is called the operator or powerhead. It contains the valve motor. In zone valves up to about 1 inch, the powerhead and the body are contained in the same unit. Larger valves may have a separate motor, sometimes called an actuator. When the motor is separate, a linkage may be required to connect it to the valve body. If it is a “direct coupled” actuator, no linkage is needed.
Regardless, no water comes in contact with the electrical portion of the valve. When you look at an ordinary zone valve, notice that wires go only to the top part of the valve and water goes to only the bottom part.
A typical zone valve is a two-way, straight-through valve. The water comes in one side and leaves the other. Nothing much happens in between. The valve serves as a gate that opens and closes.
Mixing valves are three-way or four-way valves. Water of different temperatures comes into the valve, mixes together and leaves the valve at a desired temperature.
A diverting valve is also a three-way valve. The water enters the valve from one direction and leaves in two separate directions.
Zone valve noise or water hammer is usually caused by one of two situations. One is the “bigger is better” approach to pump sizing. An oversized pump is likely to cause noise when the valves try to close, especially if only one of several valves has been opened.
The other common cause of water hammer is valves installed backward. If there's an arrow on the valve body, it's pointing the way the water is supposed to go. When analyzing an existing job, don't forget the possibility that the water is not going the way you think it is.
Making The CircuitNow let's put a zone valve in a circuit. Remember that, for a circuit, we need a power supply, a switch and a load. The zone valve is the load. The switch is probably a thermostat. Each zone valve has its own thermostat. The power supply is a transformer.
One transformer can be the power supply for more than one switch (thermostat) and load (zone valve) combination. The much-debated question is, “How many zone valves can you put on one transformer?” Some say three. Some say five. Some say seven or more. How many do you think?
The answer is, “It depends.” It depends on the VA rating of the zone valves and transformer. A transformer comes with a VA rating. Let's say ours is the very typical 40VA. “VA” means volts multiplied by amps. Think of VA as a measurement of capacity like ounces. So let's say the transformer is like a pitcher that holds 40 ounces of any liquid (your choice!). That's a given - it's just how much it holds. Now the question is how many zone valves can we “fill” with that 40VA transformer. Let's go back to the pitcher. How many glasses could we fill with the pitcher? It's easy to see that “it depends” upon the size of the glasses. Let's say that the glasses will each hold 8 ounces. The math then is simple. We'll just divide the 40-ounce pitcher by 8 ounces. That gives up five glasses that can be filled.
Wait now. What's the VA rating of a zone valve? That number isn't given anywhere on the device or in the literature! But we can handle this. V = volts and A = amps. We know the zone valve is 24V. And we can look on the zone valve or in the literature and find the amp rating. Let's say the amp rating is 0.32A. When two letters are side-by-side like VA is, we multiply the two. So 24V x .32 A = 7.68 VA for one zone valve. Divide the 40VA transformer by the 7.68 VA zone valve, and we get 5.2 valves. Rounded down to a whole valve, the answer in this case is that five zone valves can be used on one 40VA transformer.
Some of you may have some yeah-buts about that:
- “Yeah-but, aren't you supposed to have a margin of error?”
Yes, it's good not to cut things really tightly. However, unless the wire runs are extremely long, and if you're sure there's nothing else wired to the transformer, it's OK.
- “Yeah-but, what if there's already something else on that transformer, like maybe a door bell?”
You have to subtract the VA of that something before you figure how many zone valves.
- “Yeah-but I've been using six zone valves and they work just great. Then you haven't yet met up with the 'coldest, darkest night' factor. Why do transformers wait until the middle of the coldest, darkest night to go out?”
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ANTaR acknowledges the long-standing leadership of the Australian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) in addressing racism in Australia. Racism is a blight on our society and undermines our social cohesion. ANTaR has anti-racism as a core priority of our work and we have been proud and active members of the ‘Racism. It stops with me’ Campaign. We have previously worked closely with our partners and stakeholders across civil society to resist proposed changes to the Racial Discrimination Act 1975 that would have weakened protections against racism in Australia.
The United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (‘UNDRIP’ or ‘the Declaration’) is an important declaration that articulates the rights of Indigenous peoples across the globe, rights to preserve and maintain control of their cultural heritage, and to pursue their own priorities for their development. The Declaration establishes a standard for the dignity and survival of Indigenous peoples of the world. The UNDRIP draws on existing international laws and conventions such as the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and relates the rights contained in these international instruments to Indigenous peoples across the globe. The rights cultivated by the UNDRIP include rights to self-determination, culture, identity, land, language, health, and education and employment.
ANTaR notes that should this Amendment Bill pass, Queensland (QLD) would join the Australian Capital Territory in being the leading jurisdictions in Australia to pursue this important legislative change. We appreciate the need to consider and deliberate the best way to protect young children from adverse and damaging interaction with the justice system, particularly incarceration, and the need of the justice system to continue serving and protecting the wider community.
ANTaR acknowledges the work of the Government to provide employment support and opportunities to Australia's First Nations peoples. Addressing the disparity in employment rates between First Nations peoples and non-Indigenous people is critical in Closing the Gap. The Government has a responsibility to provide meaningful and effective employment support and follow through with the commitments to Australia's First Nations peoples.
ANTaR commends the Federal Government for introducing the Stolen Generations Redress Scheme for the First Nations Peoples of the Australian Capital Territory and the Northern Territory. Compensation for the generations of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, both children and their parents and families, is long overdue after the already all too slow formal Apology given in 2008.
ANTaR commends the ACT Government for being the leading jurisdiction in Australia to pursue this legislative change. We appreciate the need to weigh up the best way to protect young children from adverse and damaging interaction with the justice system, and particularly incarceration and the need to continue serving and protecting the wider community.
In this submission, ANTaR briefly recaps the environmental, social, cultural and economic objections commonly levelled against both Federal and Territory governments’ pursuit of this industry in the NT before addressing two specific concerns related to due process: adherence to all recommendations of the Scientific Inquiry into Hydraulic Fracturing in the Northern Territory 2018 Final Report; and recognition of the principle of informed prior consent to the Traditional Owners of the sites in question.
Acknowledges the research and stakeholder consultations undertaken to date, sets out options to find a pathway to meet the twofold goal of protecting the Fitzroy River in WA, and supporting sustainable economic development in its catchment area. Includes concerned feedback from our First Nations partners and stakeholders, about some ‘serious absences’ in the Discussion Paper.
Fundamentally, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples must have a Voice that speaks for their communities and that Voice must be heard in the chambers of Parliament Federally and in each State and Territory jurisdiction. The Voice must have agency, be respected for its authority and be quarantined from the political and financial undermining that have plagued previous national representative voices like the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission (ATSIC) and more recently the National Congress of Australia’s First Peoples.
This submission, to inform the Australian Human Rights Commission's Social Justice Commissioner in her preparation of the 2021 Native Title Report. The ANTaR submission covers: Accountability & Legislation; Heritage & Environmental Protection; and, Treaty & Truth as they relate to the Native Title space in Australia.
This submission comments on: The interaction, of state indigenous heritage regulations with Commonwealth laws; The effectiveness and adequacy of state and federal laws in relation to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultural heritage in each of the Australian
jurisdictions; How Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultural heritage laws might be improved to guarantee the protection of culturally and historically significant sites; and related matters.
This submission comments on: The impact of systemic racism as evidenced by the disproportionate rates of incarceration. The need for solutions that are fundamentally conceived and led by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people that are consistent with Australia’s international human rights obligations and draws on the strength and resilience of First Nations culture. Australian governments need also take appropriate and urgent actions to protect the lives of Australians with disability, especially in the context of COVID-19.
In this submission we support the development of future bushfire management practices should consider: The importance of engaging with First Nations Peoples in this inquiry and beyond; The value in using traditional and cultural fire management; and Understanding the vulnerability of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities in high
bushfire risk zones.
This submissions advocates against proposed amedments to Native Title legistation in the following areas: De-registration of an Indigenous Land Use Agreement (ILUA); Commonwealth Intervention in native title proceedings; Amendments affecting RNTBCs and the CATSI Act – the power of the ORIC Registrar; Membership of PBCs and common law holders.
This submission comments on how the Uluru Statement from the Heart and it's pillars of Voice, Treaty and Truth interact with nationhood, national identity and democracy in Australia.
This submission comments on: Streamlining claims resolution and agreement-making processes; Supporting the capacity of native title holders through greater flexibility around internal decision-making; Increasing the transparency and accountability of prescribed bodies corporate (the corporations set up to manage native title) to the native title holders; Improving pathways for dispute resolution following a determination of native title; and Ensuring the validity of section 31 agreements in light of the Full Federal Court of Australia’s decision in McGlade v Native Title Registrar & Ors. FCAFC 10.
This submission by letter calls for the Indigenous Legal Assistance Program to: Start properly resourcing ATSILS; Map unmet legal need; and that NATSILS must be funded to expand.
This submission calls for the refresh of the Closing the Gap Strategy to be developed with the following principles in mind:
Based on a genuine partnership with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples; the core commitments made in the 2008 Close the Gap Statement of Intent; and a human rights-based approach
Commit the Federal, State and Territory governments to providing annual reports that give account to their specific responsibilities
Retain the existing national targets, but with State and Territory level targets and the introduction of new targets in the areas of justice, disability and racism
Be supported by a comprehensive plan that outlines roles, responsibilities, timeframes and resourcing.
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The Engaging Collective is a creative heart centered endeavor that provides enriching experiences and opportunities to Metro Atlanta communities by providing emerging creatives equitable access to the resources, and instruction to generate income from their crafts.
YOU MATTER, ALWAYS! - A life of dignity is a life of purpose. We believe each person has value, creativity, AND power. This community was created from a heart of love and approach to help you figure out what matters most to you, seek joy and bridge compassion for yourself and others.
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Be good to those around you and make sure they know they matter just as much as you do with integrity, authority & grace. In this crazy world where we blaze through other people's lives like they were computer avatars it's easy to forget how much every single person counts no matter how big or small they are. The Engaging Collective will help build bridges with others through education, mentoring, creating communities of support & friendship that exist beyond your own personal networks.
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Patients with nontuberculous mycobacterial lung disease (NTMLD) have a significant greater risk of hospitalization and higher total healthcare expenditures than matched control patients without NTMLD.
Patients with nontuberculous mycobacterial lung disease (NTMLD) have a significant greater risk of hospitalization and higher total healthcare expenditures than matched control patients without NTMLD, according to new study results.
The study identified patients from a large US national managed care insurance database that consisted of aggregated health claims of up to 18 million fully covered members annually. The researchers required 36 months of continuous enrollment for the study and they summarized healthcare utilization and standardized healthcare expenditures over 12 months before NTMLD diagnosis and for 2 subsequent years.
“Despite increasing awareness of NTMLD, reports on the economic impact, including healthcare utilization and healthcare expenditures, are limited. In Germany, NTMLD was associated with a 3-fold increase in hospitalizations and a large attributable health care cost,” explained the authors. “In the United States, antibiotic costs of over $5000 per patient were identified in 1 cohort and prescription drug costs of $617 million per year overall have been estimated at the national level.”
In total, 1039 patients were in the NTMLD cohort, while 2078 patients were in the control cohort. The results revealed that NTMLD patients had a 55.0% risk of hospitalization in year 1 and a 38.8% risk in year 2. In addition, the adjusted risk of hospitalization was observed to be significantly higher in the NTMLD group compared with the control group in year 1 and year 2.
As for the healthcare expenditures, the total NTMLD population-adjusted mean expenditures were $72,475 for year 1 and $28,405 for the matched control population—a total difference of $44,070. For year 2, the adjusted mean expenditures were $48,114 for the overall NTMLD patient group and $28,990 for the matched control group—a difference of $19,124.
“Our estimates of NTMLD-related utilization and expenditures may be underestimated to some extent given the difficulty in diagnosing NTMLD, which has been shown to be delayed from symptom onset by an average of 5.2 years,” noted the authors. “We think that it is likely that some of the baseline year utilization and expenditures include those associated with the diagnostic process related to misdiagnosis, which would effectively dampen the measured effect of NTMLD seen in years 1 and 2 when making comparisons to baseline.”
Overall the authors concluded that the findings demonstrate the patients with NTMLD have a significantly greater risk of hospitalization and greater total health care expenditures than those without the disease. The study suggested that these findings underscore the economic burden of NTMLD in the United States.
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Poet Brendan Kennelly, a man who likes “Guinness, Poetry and Company” — though not necessarily in that order — talks to Michael Murphy about his work and Ireland past and present. Pics: Colm Henry
Author Brendan Kennelly died at Aras Mhuire Community nursing home in Listowel over the weekend, where he had resided for the last two years. He had moved back to Ballylongford in north Kerry in 2016 following decades in Trinity College Dublin where he worked as Professor of Modern Literature.
Kennelly was also a popular broadcaster, making frequent appearances on radio and television. President Higgins said "he forged a special place in the affections of the Irish people".
"As one of those who had the great fortune of enjoying the gift of friendship with Brendan Kennelly for many years, it is with great sadness that I have heard of his passing,” President Higgins said in a statement last night.
“As a poet, Brendan Kennelly had forged a special place in the affections of the Irish people. He brought so much resonance, insight, and the revelation of the joy of intimacy to the performance of his poems and to gatherings in so many parts of Ireland. He did so with a special charm, wit, energy and passion.”
Revisit Michael Murphy's 1985 Hot Press interview with Brendan Kennelly below...
"The last time I met Moloney was at Dingle Regatta," says Brendan Kennelly, referring to the hero of his recently published collection of comic poems Moloney Up And At It. Well, the last time I saw Kennelly was at the launch of that collection. Charles Haughey was supposed to do the honours but read the book and backed out at the last minute.
Despite this and the substitution of Brian Lenihan, Kennelly gave his prepared speech praising the absent Charlie as “the first non-puritan Irish political leader”. (“He could not be more different from the tradition of Fianna Fáil leadership epitomised by De Valera” he later elaborated “the pastoral vision of comely virgins and athletic youths dancing jigs at the crossroads. Can you imagine any previous Fianna Fáil leader, or leader of any other political party, giving that interview to Hot Press?")
Lenihan took the cue and proceeded to pour praise on Kennelly’s non-existent translation of “The Midnight Court”. It was a very Irish occasion.
Sightings of Kennelly, like those of the eponymous Moloney, are usually memorable. The week before his own launch, I saw him at another poet’s press bash. There he threatened to throttle a drunken heckler and it nearly came to blows. Some weeks before that I arrived at a poetry reading in the Palace Bar, found that the drink was not free, and was about to leave when the venerable Professor arrived - shirt unbuttoned to belly-button, cap tilted rakishly on the side of his head, a broth of a poet who insisted on waltzing (Matilda) with the Aussie ambassador and adding his own improvements and comments to the poems being read.
So who is this rumbustious Rabalais of the Gropes (sic) of Academe? And who is Moloney?
Kennelly, whose identity is the more definite, is professor of Modern English at Trinity College, a post he has held since 1973, having joined the academic staff as a junior lecturer in 1966. His career before that included spells as an ESB clerk for a year – “plugging them in and plugging them out: I’m still at it” – and as a London bus conductor.
He was born in the north Kerry village of Ballylongford where his father kept a pub. It was there that the young Brendan pulled pints for Moloney and his pals (who were also Moloney — he’s a multiple man) and there later that a more mature Kennelly wrote his first novel on the bar counter, listening to Moloney’s stories, catching the cadences of his language, and capturing the easy bawdiness of his speech.
“The Crooked Cross”, about the curse of emigration in the '50s, was published when its author was in his early twenties and himself emigrating to work on the London buses. He collected fares from Shepherd’s Bush to Hounslow, saving what he could to further his education beyond the double-first B.A. he had taken at Trinity. The bus driver was an ex-Black and Tan who had been based in Buttevant, Co. Cork during the troubles. For Kennelly “it was meeting the myth. And he didn’t have horns - bar the one he spoke of when he praised the women of Buttevant.”
When he had saved enough, he took the bus to Leeds University, there to study under the Yeats scholar Norman Jeffares. “It was 1961 - the year of the Cuba crisis. There was a fantastic political consciousness on the campus and I tried to capture that feeling in my second novel. I think I failed. I was too ardent, too earnest. I was thrown from an easy-going, divil-may-care milieu into ’'60s student consciousness. I didn’t see the comedy of the seriousness.”
With the publication of his first collection in 1963 he turned increasingly to poetry to explore and express his feelings, his roots and those of the Irish. His magnum opus, the fruit of five years work, was published a year ago. “Cromwell” charts the Lord Protector’s bloody campaign in Ireland, and traces through the centuries the influence of his massacres, land seizures and plantations. Cromwell also appears in risibly ironic contemporary guises: salmon-fishing on his Kerry estate, taking farmers to Listowel Races in his taxi, dining with friends in the Royal Yacht Club, Dun Laoghaire and managing Drogheda Utd. Under his stewardship the team is no more successful than Hot Press Munchengladbach.
“Get rid of Cromwell” howled
The Drogheda fan, “Send him to Home Farm
Athlone, St. Pats, Bohemians, UCD.
The bastard has brought nothing but harm
To our side. Fling him into the sea.
He even attends a Redemptorist retreat -
He sat agog through each night's sermon
Keeping his eyes fixed on the rhetorical man
In the pulpit who roared for example
About the evil of French letters in
And now and again, Oliver nodded approval,
Not once did he look bored or weary."
Kennelly started work with the intention of writing about nightmares, but Cromwell kept butting in. The poems are not just about Cromwell, he says now, but “about relationships between Ireland and England, about law and justice. I sought Cromwell both in Irish and English folklore. I felt I had to see the English point of view; to try to come to terms with that unbroken, un-intimidated tradition. The dramatic centre is the nightmare mind of the Irish figure Buffun, trying to comprehend this Englishman’s God-inspired confidence and sense of purpose.”
Underlying the work at one level is an exploration of the complexities of history and its interpretations, and their influence on the Irish psyche now. “I try to show how simultaneous past and present are, how like a river. It’s often said that the Irish live in the past, but the past lives in the Irish,” he observes.
Kennelly finds he needs the long-poem format to express himself and delve into his subject fully.
“I don’t know how those beautiful short lyrics are written. I’m a cruder writer stylistically though I work hard at it. I’m interested primarily in what I saw rather than how. I’m interested in the things which make us what we are. Many Irish people drop from their lives those things which have created them. After a certain age, life should become a thoughtful act of confrontation with the factors which made you — family, church, schools etc.
“There’s another way to live, of course: look ahead, mind your business, make money, rear the kids. And that’s fine: it can lead to a kind of contentment. I want contentment of course, but I want to know the connection between past things and what I am now. A lot of people try to abandon their personal past."
Much of his poetry tries to get to grips with the mythology attaching to various facets of Irish culture – family, Irish language, country as against Dublin etc. Some grips are particularly strong on him. “The historical certainly is. I was reared on a very ardent, perhaps sentimental and unquestioning, version of Republicanism. I’m still sympathetic to that way of thinking, but not with the sentimentality. Nor with the notion of shortening a life, which is unacceptable to someone who likes Guinness and poetry and company.
“In 'Cromwell',” he adds “Buffun and Cromwell, representing aspects of the Irish and English characters, seldom approach dialogue. They speak in outbursts. That seems to be the Irish way on most public issues and between Republican and Loyalist, Irish and British. It’s an inescapable fact that real progress in the North has been achieved by violence rather than by dialogue. But I continue to believe that there is a better way and that we will find it.”
There are other areas where we also need to find a better way...
“The family exerts its grip on all of us,” Kennelly observes. “But how cemented is the Irish family despite all the talk? How close are you to a brother or a sister? 1 think many of the cosy notions about the family are fallacies. It’s about to burst wide open here in Ireland.”
His own experience of married life doesn’t conform to conventional Irish mores. Though they’re still very close, he’s temporarily separated from his American wife and their daughter. It’s a subject on which he won’t elaborate — though he does openly state his support, on a purely legislative level, for the divorce lobby.
“The present state of the law is barbarous and hypocritical,” he says. “It condemns people to lives of misery and refuses them any second chance of happiness. It’s available, of course, if you have the money to arrange a foreign divorce, which is a fairly typical example of the sort of doublethink we indulge in, involving elements of tolerance and repression.”
He’s equally forthright in his views on the subject of contraception. “Of course the laws should be liberalised,” he states bluntly. “The present situation is insufferable.” On the whole, however, he is optimistic. His evident concern with the notion of Irishness hasn’t led him up a blind alley of despair. Yet!
“We’re on the turbulent road to truth”, he reflects. “Young people especially have a fresh way of approaching things. They believe in ideas - even if they’re corrupted by competition. Moloney in the repressive '40s and '50s had to adopt a more subversive approach. His is a voice from the underside of the old Ireland.”
The opening poem has Moloney “breaking the hold of his mother” by making love on her grave.
"Twas only then I saw where I was
On my mother’s grave.
But that was no cause
For panic, though I was a bit
Upset at first by the strangeness of it.
The Knockanore woman was happy as Larry,
And I was sparkin’ and merry
As a cricket. ‘Yerra you might
As well enjoy the gift o’ the night
While you have the chance’, I said
To myself, realisin’ the dead are dead,
Past holiness and harms -
And the livin’ woman was in my arms."
“I don’t know what Freud would make of it," he admits, "but the idea is of a man breaking through to a young girl through the mother; getting in touch with one woman through another. I remember a man telling me once that every time he made love, the face underneath became that of his mother. It gives a new dimension to the word ‘motherfucker’!
“Sex” he adds “is nothing in itself. We are born and we die and in between are prolonged burps of one or another kind. Coming up to sex it’s marvellous; during it it’s interesting; afterwards it’s nothing.” He first encountered it “like most fellas then, groping after a dance with a girl who’d normally stop you
two inches above the knee.”
As a native of the country, does he have any views on the so-called Kerry Babies case?
“The media coverage and public interest is inexpressibly morbid," he offers. "It’s like some medieval witch-hunt with the victims burning at the stake and the crowd dancing around the fire."
Kennelly refutes the suggestion that the Molonian spirit of wit and bawdiness will wither with permissiveness. “I think the danger is from bourgeois politeness and notions of ‘correct’ speaking. Listen to the accents affected on some television and radio programmes - half Anglicised and mid-Atlantic.”
Kennelly’s poetry uses the language of TV and radio, the advertising jingles, colloquialisms, cliches, graffiti, journalese, slang and slogans. It embraces life where most poetry retreats into more rarified realms. Like Paul Durcan, he is at once serious, provocative and entertaining. His native north Kerry has produced an array of glittering literati. The closing poem in “Moloney” attributes this profusion of talent and genius to the fact that the Listowel water supply flows through a cemetery.
"No wonder Mac Mahon, for all his sins,
Will riddle you a story that spins.
Or John B. Keane, when the water is right,
Is able to write a play a night.
Sure even that fat little bollox
Out in Ballylongford, Kennelly,
Is half-able to write
With a drop o’ Listowel water in his belly.
Not, mind you, that he’d ever produce
Anything as original as this.
The poor bastard is too serious
When he’s not foolish he’s delirious."
Kennelly lives now in rooms in Trinity. O’Neills across the road is his home from home (he jokingly describes “Moloney” as “a book by the half-pissed for the half-pissed”). In one of his essays in Liam Blake’s splendid collection of photographs Real Ireland, Kennelly ponders his adopted city and its attitude to the artist.
“Anyone who knows Dublin knows there is a really vicious destructive side to the city," he says. "For Yeats it was a city where slanderous gossip is chewed as though it was the best of Bewley's brown bread. For Brendan Behan it was a city that filled a man with loneliness, but deprived him of solitude. For Patrick Kavanagh it was ‘malignant Dublin’ that introduced him to the dull humiliating grind of poverty, and forced him to borrow a shilling from a neighbour, pretending the money was for gas when in fact it went to buy a chop for the hungry poet."
Recently, an Irish writer living in London said that if he remained in Dublin, he’d be an alcoholic within six months. Writers have an eye for beauty; they also have a nose for danger. And Dublin is dangerous. The problem is to recognise the fact; the solution is up to the individual. My own view is that without this danger Dublin would not be Dublin. Where there is danger there is need to dare. And daring is the hallmark of a living imagination.
There is no running away any more. Writers must face that complex Dublin music and make their own music out of it. The time for running and blaming is past. But Brendan Kennelly prefers to put it in a positive light...
“The time for staying," he says, "and creating is now.”
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The cave is called the dark cave because it is made of mostly basalt in addition to limestone. The basalt is a black hard rock, giving it its dark name. Basalt and limestone surrounding you, you squished through the passage using only your headlamps.
By the time we got through the passage, you are covered in mud and ready for another swim. This time you can go further into the cave, where the width was probably 100m and the depth is deeper than anyone could touch. As you swim, you have to duck under huge stalagmites and balance between limestone columns to get to the next big opening.
One the way back, everyone turn out their lights during the long swim stretch and you can swim in darkness. It is surreal. Probably the coolest thing you have’ve done.
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Activities: Muddy bath, ziplining, swimming, kayaking
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17.30: Back to Dong Hoi city. Tour ends
Whats to bring: swimwear and towel
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If you have read Susan Sontag’s arresting book, Regarding the Pain of Others, you’ll know that Sontag believes there is something unique about the way that a photograph — particularly a photograph that reveals suffering — is received by its viewers. This uniqueness is partially tied to the content of the image itself, but is also a function of how we, the public, think about images.
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Environmental Agencies Reject VW's Plan For Recall Over Emissions
The California Air Resources Board has rejected Volkswagen's plan to recall cars with 2-liter diesel engines that trick emissions tests, saying the company's plan is incomplete. The Environmental Protection Agency says it concurs.
The move comes one week after the EPA filed a civil complaint against VW in federal court over the carmaker's use of a defeat device to mislead customers and fool inspectors into thinking the vehicles complied with U.S. rules — when in fact the vehicles were putting out up to 40 times more pollution than is allowed under federal standards.
The EPA says Volkswagen is responsible for nearly 600,000 diesel-powered vehicles that are now producing harmful air pollution in the U.S.
"Volkswagen made a decision to cheat on emissions tests and then tried to cover it up," says CARB chair Mary D. Nichols, announcing her agency's rejection of VW's plan Tuesday. "They continued and compounded the lie and when they were caught they tried to deny it. The result is thousands of tons of nitrogen oxide that have harmed the health of Californians. They need to make it right. Today's action is a step in the direction of assuring that will happen."
Those remarks echo ones from EPA assistant administrator Cynthia Giles, who said last week that the legal action would set the agency and Volkswagen "on a path to resolution."
According to NPR's John Ydstie, California regulators say VW's recall plan fell short in several areas:
The proposed plans contain gaps and lack sufficient detail;
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The California Air Resources Board says it has been conducting its own investigation into the vehicles' diesel emissions, in parallel with a federal inquiry. Together, the agencies confronted Volkswagen in September with data that showed VW was using software to circumvent emissions standards. In November, Volkswagen acknowledged that the problems also exist in its 3-liter diesel engines.
The rejection by CARB and the EPA also comes two days after Volkswagen CEO Matthias Mueller said of his company's reaction to the EPA's findings, "We didn't lie."
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Publication - Stand-Alone Solar Businesses in Zambia: A Guide for Venture Developers and Investors
The key takeaways are as follows:
» Given a national electrification rate of 28% and more than 2 million off-grid households, there is a tremendous market opportunity for off-grid solar solutions. The market opportunity is estimated at more than EUR 210 million per annum.
» The commercialization of off-grid solar solutions follows light-handed regulation, as Solar Portable Lights (SPLs) and Solar Home Systems (SHSs) are treated as consumer goods.
» Public finance is prioritizing growth in Zambia’s Off-Grid Solar (OGS) sector, catalysing the development of existing ventures and new market entrants.» Incoming developers and investors should be prepared to adapt business models to accommodate low population densities, an underdeveloped mobile money ecosystem, a developing regulatory regime, and a rapidly changing competitive landscape. | <urn:uuid:0ab52818-8682-4b3d-a5d3-1bda6ec6e4d8> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://energypedia.info/index.php?title=Publication_-_Stand-Alone_Solar_Businesses_in_Zambia:_A_Guide_for_Venture_Developers_and_Investors&oldid=279247 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572833.95/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817032054-20220817062054-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.898948 | 201 | 1.695313 | 2 |
What is Personal Finance?
This course is designed to teach students how to make individual choices that directly influence occupational goals and future earning potential. Real world topics covered include income, money management, credit, saving, and investing. Students will design personal and household budgets utilizing checking and savings accounts. Students will leave this course with a sturdy foundation of financial understanding that will benefit them as they enter the real world after graduating.
Below, you will find the Curriculum Calendar and Assignment section. This section will be updated daily as we progress throughout the semester. In this section, you will find upcoming assignments and due dates for assignments that we are currently working on. If you have any questions about an assignment, please do not hesitate to contact me.
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In remote work, we communicate primarily through writing. We send messages. We document projects. We send meeting invites with a written description of the purpose. We’re writing all the time.
- Many organizations are working from home at the moment – Thus, writing is even more important – Here’s why
- Writing Saves Time
- Writing Makes Meetings a Last Resort
- Writing Removes Extrovert Bias
- Writing Invites Other Perspectives
- Read more for 5 tips to make your writing instantly more effective.
Writing saves time.
Take this contrived example: You have a distributed team. Most of them live in SF, but one member lives in London and another lives in Manila. Both the London and Manila teammate couldn’t make a Very Important Meeting because of time zone conflicts. No one wrote up a summary of decisions made in the Very Important Meeting, so the London teammate reaches out to the Organizer to schedule a Meeting After the Meeting to catch up them and the Manila teammate up on the Very Important Meeting.
It takes 30 minutes of back-and-forth Slacking to find a time that works for Organizer, London Teammate, and Manila Teammate. The Meeting After the Meeting is planned for 30 minutes, but ends up being an hour.
This ends up costing three hours in total. As Basecamp puts it,
“Five people in a room for an hour isn’t a one hour meeting, it’s a five hour meeting.”
Had the Meeting Organizer took notes from the Very Important Meeting, three hours would have been saved. Writing prevents unnecessary meetings.
Writing makes meetings a last resort.
In a remote context, you can’t pull your team aside to solve a problem. Yet most teams are used to doing this.
Sending a message to update a team member or make a request doesn’t need a meeting. If you frame the problem as a Slack post or a document, your teammates can chime in on their own time. This makes it non-disruptive to everyone, while moves the discussion forward.
“But what if the problem is juicy and we can’t solve it through an asynchronous discussion?”
My response to this is to still default to an asynchronous discussion because asynchronous discussion makes it clear when it needs a meeting. Many people aren’t agreeing. The Slack thread is 148 messages deep and no one made a decision. These signals mean that the discussion needs to be a meeting.
The point: default to asynchronous communication when discussing an issue and to use meetings as a last resort. Real-time sometimes, asynchronous most of the time.
Writing removes extrovert bias.
Modern work gives extroverts a free power-up that introverts have to earn through practice. Meetings favor folks who think out loud and don’t need time to think things through. It’s unfair, yet rarely noticed.
The good news is that remote work creates the space for introverts to contribute. Written discussion gives folks time to chew on a topic and think through what they want to say. If you identify as an introvert, take advantage. Let writing be your platform.
Writing invites other perspectives.
Writing forces people to think clearly. I’m sure this question has confronted you at least once when drafting a presentation: “What is it that I actually want to say?”
While writing forces people to think clearly, writing also forces teams to think clearly. In my experience, having a clearly written thing makes it easy for folks to collaborate with me. This is because people naturally enjoy poking holes in arguments, adding points that were missed, or mentioning any risks that weren’t taken into account. I’ve found it helpful to use this human tendency to my advantage. Extra opinions and poked holes are hard to surface if you didn’t write something in the first place.
“Writing something for an audience is a way of making you consult representatives of that audience before publishing. What will marketing think? Will sales people be able to sell? Whether you consider those perspectives before or not does not change that they will react. This isn’t “buy-in” or “heads-up” but actually consulting the real stakeholders of a decision.”
If one person puts their thoughts together and shares it with a team, this helps the rest of the team put their thoughts together. Give others a thing to react to. Or else your team may not examine the full breadth of a problem.
If writing’s not your jam, now’s time to get better. Here are some tips that have helped me.
Get to the point faster.
When you send someone a long presentation, document, or message, here’s what they care about: “What’s your point?” Do your reader a solid and answer this question early in your message. They’ll thank you.
Write to someone who has no idea what you do.
Anyone who has zero context about what you’re working on and reads what you write should immediately understand what you’re trying to convey. There’s a neat trick that helps: write to someone who has no idea what you do. I choose my mom. She should be able to read an article of mine online and get the gist.
Spell out your acronyms.
Even if your client or boss uses acronyms, always spell them out. “Create, read, update, and delete” levels the playing field. “CRUD” does not.
Tell ’em what you’re gonna tell ‘em.
Whenever I write a presentation, I default to this format:
Tell ’em what you’re gonna tell ‘em
Tell ’em what you just told ‘em
Tell ’em what happens next
“I’m going to share you three options on how we could move forward. I’d love to know which option you prefer and why.” (Tell ’em what you’re gonna tell ‘em)
“Here are our three options.” (Tell ‘em)
“The three options we went over were A, B, and C.” (Tell ’em what you just told ‘em)
“Given we chose option B, here are our next steps.” (Tell ’em what happens next)
This structure works so well for presentations because it makes your message easy to follow. Try it.
Use active voice, not passive voice.
“Our developers prefer Option B.” > “Option B is preferred by our developers.”
Passive voice plagues business communication. Don’t add to the plague. Use active voice.
Fewer commas. More periods.
I love complex ideas. But complex ideas always morph into long, rambling, verbose sentences, with lots of commas (and lots of parentheses). I’m working on this.
Gary Provost, author of Make Every Word Count, put it well:
“This sentence has five words. Here are five more words. Five-word sentences are fine. But several together become monotonous. Listen to what is happening. The writing is getting boring. The sound of it drones. It’s like a stuck record. The ear demands some variety.
Now listen. I vary the sentence length, and I create music. Music. The writing sings. It has a pleasant rhythm, a lilt, a harmony. I use short sentences. And I use sentences of medium length. And sometimes, when I am certain the reader is rested, I will engage him with a sentence of considerable length, a sentence that burns with energy and builds with all the impetus of a crescendo, the roll of the drums, the crash of the cymbals–sounds that say listen to this, it is important.
So write with a combination of short, medium, and long sentences. Create a sound that pleases the reader’s ear. Don’t just write words. Write music.”
Great writing makes remote work better. It saves time, reduces meetings, removes extrovert bias, and invites other perspectives.
You don’t need to write articles to be a better writer. Let every Slack message, email, and text be vehicles for you to improve.
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Our infrastructure is designed to provide our students with an opportunity to explore new dimensions of learning, with an IT-enabled campus, fully equipped science labs and well-stocked library. We aim at giving the students an adequate exposure.
The campus of Kaintal School is developed keeping in mind the interactive mode of learning at the school. A fully IT enabled campus indicates that our focus is on creating a well networked 21st century school for learners.
The senior school is well equipped with grounds and tracks for games like hockey, volleyball, football, cricket and basketball. There is also a special track for athletes of track events. Having a well laid out sports infrastructure ensures that our students don’t miss out on sports which aid in their all round development, health and sports skills.
All the sports facilities along with dedicated sports teachers help our students become true masters of the game at an early age, which also ranks us among the top 10 schools in Patiala.
In this age of information technology, being a cut above is very important. To keep our bright minds updated, we have a well laid out computer lab with the latest and updated computer systems with the best of software. Our computer labs are also equipped with high speed seamless internet, so that our students can be connected to the world at the tip of their fingers.
Science is best learnt when put to use. Kaintal School has well equipped physics, chemistry and biology laboratories. We encourage our students to learn through research and experiments which are conducted to enhance theoretical training.
Reading is to the mind; what exercise is to the body. The school has a large library which has a rich collection of books on various subjects. The library subscribes to many national, newspapers and magazines. Our staff and students can access the library any time for their study or research work.
Classrooms are spacious, well-lit, clean and provide the most conducive atmosphere for learning. Every classroom has smart board facilities for E-learning with flexible sitting arrangements. For exposure and experience in other fields, the school houses audio-visual labs, sports rooms, music rooms, dance rooms, art and crafts rooms and work experience rooms. | <urn:uuid:58fa27d8-77fa-428f-bd52-140c7f9621b7> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://kaintalschool.com/infrastructure/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572043.2/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814143522-20220814173522-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.96101 | 460 | 2.09375 | 2 |
Are Texas Lawmakers Funding ‘Digital Heroin’ for School Children?
By Carole Hornsby Haynes, Ph.D. February 13, 2017 Texas Insider
The Texas House Committee on Public Education wants to utilize high-tech digital learning to improve student achievement and fulfill future workforce demands. The popular notion is that students need computer time to compete in the 21st century.
Yet at the epicenter of the technology industry some parents hold a contrarian viewpoint, choosing instead to send their children to schools that have no computers at all and some even frown on home computers.
Google Executive Alan Eagle told the New York Times, “I fundamentally reject the notion you need technology aids in grammar school…The idea that an app on an iPad can better teach my kids to read or do arithmetic, that's ridiculous.”
Eagle insists there’s no need to rush children into technology, “It is super easy. It’s like learning to use toothpaste.” He believes kids can figure out technology when they are older. “At Google and all these places, we make technology as brain dead easy to use as possible.”
Also disagreeing with the popular notion that students without digital tools are being cheated is Paul Thomas, an associate professor education at Furman University and author about public educational methods. “Teaching is a human experience…technology is a distraction when we need literacy, numeracy and critical thinking.”
Explaining why he imposes strict limits on his children’s use of technology, Chris Anderson, the former editor of Wired and now chief executive of 3D Robotics says, “That’s because we have seen the dangers of technology firsthand. I’ve seen it in myself, I don’t want to see that happen to my kids.”
Ignoring the growing body of negative research, some Texas educators are pushing for increased Pre-K funding so they can purchase more interactive games and smart-device applications.
Not so fast, writes Dr. Nicholas Kardaras, one the nation’s foremost addiction experts and author of Glow Kids. Video games, computers, cell phones and tablets are all “digital drugs” that stunt a child’s neural development. Dr. Peter Whybrow, director of neuroscience at UCLA, calls screens “electronic” cocaine” while Chinese researchers call them “digital heroin.”
Recent studies show these digital drugs affect the brain’s frontal cortex in exactly the same way that cocaine does. According to Kardaras, “An MRI of a tech addict and an MRI of a drug addict are the same – they both neurophysiologically affect the brain.”
In his clinical work with more than 1,000 teens, Kardaras found it easier to treat heroin and crystal meth addicts than a true-tech addict.
American K-12 schools are spending nearly $5 billion annually for digital tools. For profit publishers are the driving force behind this while educators are buying in with little thought for negative consequences – or perhaps they fear losing their jobs.
Consider this report about the impact of computer access on student achievement.
Distractions. Eighty-five percent of students confess to multi-tasking while reading online compared with 26 percent who multi-task while reading print.
Lower comprehension. Students cite being distracted on e-books and skimming materials. Online sentences tend to be short with links to the complicated information. Because their comprehension is so poor, students are having difficulty reading the classics because they are unable to read the longer sentences with multiple, winding clauses full of background information.
Shallow reading. Digital reading impedes the development of critical thinking because students are skimming rather than reading deeply.
Taking notes on computers. Students who write notes by hand must listen, digest, and summarize rather than writing each spoken word. The handwritten method forces different types of cognitive processing that foster comprehension and retention. Students taking longhand notes performed better on assessments than those who used laptops to take notes.
Lower assessment scores on computers. Students who took the 2014-15 Common Core aligned PARCC exams via computer tended to score lower than those who took the exams with paper and pencil.
Social and emotional skills are affected. Students who spend more time on-screen are disconnected emotionally because emails and texts lack the emotive qualities of face-to-face interaction. School districts in Texas are now remediating this disconnection by setting up social and emotional learning classes with testing on these non-cognitive skills. Of course, Texans get the bill for this additional expense to solve a problem created by educators.
No added instructional value. In a study by University of Southern California Professor Patricia Burch, English language learners and students with disabilities were significantly less likely than other students to benefit from the combination of personal interaction and online programs. They performed better with personal instruction.
An international study by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) found that 15-year-olds in 31 nations and regions, using computers more frequently at school, had both lower reading and lower math scores on the Program for International Assessment (PISA).
There are very few positive findings about online learning in K-12. Nearly every study of virtual school performance has found student performance to be lagging. Few studies exist about the effectiveness of blended learning in K-12. Most studies are for older learners in other settings such as medical, career, military training, and higher education.
So where do we go from here?
Since access to computers has not improved academic achievement and has profound negative conse-quences, that leaves the purely vocational aim of preparing students for jobs in the information-driven labor market as the justification for K-12 to spend taxpayer money.
High-tech entrepreneurs, vendors, media executives, and school district policy makers will continue to claim that computers and technology will make fundamental changes in education. Because the K -12 educational technology market is so lucrative for investors, entrepreneurs, and vendors who benefit from sales, there is great pressure on Texas policy makers to, not only continue, but expand the use of technology in the classroom, regardless of the negative consequences for students.
With the continuing trend away from academics toward job training by public education, the deeper issue is being ignored: What is the main purpose of taxpayer funded public education? Much was written by our Founding Fathers about the necessity of an academic education to prepare all citizens to be guardians of the American democracy.
With the collectivist workforce training now being the primary reason for American public education, our founding principles are undermined.
Do Texans really want to continue funding millions annually for educational technology in the face of such negative consequences for children and for the future of our American experiment?
What You Can Do:
Call or write your Texas State Legislators. Texas House Texas Senate
• Tell them to stop using public education money to enrich technology companies that do not care about the negative consequences they are creating for Texas children.
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DIVINCI is an effort among St. Jude and the University of Michigan with sites around the world to learn about immune imprinting during influenza infection and vaccination. Learn more about this study.
St. Jude is global leader in influenza research, designated as a WHO Collaborating Center for Influenza and a Center of Excellence for Influenza Research and Response.
The Pediatric Influenza Portal (PIP) provides data from long-term studies in humans to define how influenza affects the developing immune system
The Global COVID-19 Observatory and Resource Center for Childhood Cancer is a hub for health care professionals to collaborate, connect and find the latest information on COVID-19 and its impact on pediatric cancer patients. | <urn:uuid:bdde0c0e-f54e-457b-aff2-1b016d713d22> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.stjude.org/research/global-impact.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572212.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815205848-20220815235848-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.895269 | 143 | 2.203125 | 2 |
The 9 Images of God’s Representation in the Eyes of David
The Book of 2 Samuel 22:1-4 records: “David sang to the Lord the words of this song when the Lord delivered him from the hand of all his enemies and from the hand of Saul. He said: ‘The Lord is my rock, my fortress and my deliverer; my God is my rock, in whom I take refuge, my shield and the horn of my salvation. He is my stronghold, my refuge and my savior - from violent men you save me. I call to the Lord, who is worthy of praise, and I am saved from my enemies.’”
This is a song that is filled with thanksgiving, and is almost identical to parts of Psalm 18. One could imagine that in his old age, David reflected on the things he had encountered in days gone by, and was choked with emotion. David realized that although he had experienced days on earth that were often fraught with danger and tribulation - some tangible and some intangible, and the actions of the people around him were unpredictable and variable, these experiences had caused him to be exposed more deeply to the miraculous providence, care and love of God. So inadvertently inspired, he used the song to express the feelings he had within. In these few short verses, he utilized 9 different images of the representation of God to characterize the work of God on his person, and he preceded these representations with the word “my” 10 times, to indicate that these were his own personal experiences.
Let us try to share together these 9 images of God’s representation in the eyes of David that reveal his knowledge of God.
1. My “rock”: In the original Hebrew: “craggy rock”. Expresses God’s protective embrace.
2. My “fortress”: A fortress is where one regains strength in order to strike out once again. Expresses God’s providence.
3. My “deliverer”: Expresses God’s salvation
4. My “God”: David totally cleaves to this Almighty Lord.
5. My “rock”: In the original Hebrew: “rock-base”. God is the solid foundation that will never be shaken.
6. My “shield”: The shields of the soldiers at that time were about 5 feet tall and could protect the whole body up to the eyes. Indicates God was David’s defense.
The “horn of my salvation”: The altar in
8. My “stronghold”: This is like a fort that is built on a high cliff. Indicates God was his glory and watchman.
9. My “refuge”: Declares God as his protector, who provides security and safety.
10. My “savior”: This is a repeat image of and is similar to “deliverer”. It emphasizes that David owed God the grace of salvation that delivered him from numerous enemies and gave him safety.
David’s response to this deity is to “abide” by Him, to “call to the Lord, who is worthy of praise”.
In his trials, David came to know and understand God even more, and could use stirring images to describe the work of God on his person. He was also able to affirm the love, salvation, and providence of God for him, so that he could have total faith and reliance on the Lord.
May we also know more of and acknowledge God today in our own personal circumstances, and find full satisfaction that the Lord is “ours”. Our response to God is to have more faith in, rely on, and offer our thanks and praises to Him.
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Photograph [Laird family]; 19th Century; XFH.468
Photograph [Laird family]About this object
Photograph; of a large wedding party, captioned 'Laird Family, Auckland'. The bride is a daughter of William Laird. The bride wears a light-coloured dress with a narrow waist and large puffed shoulders. She is holding a bouquet of flowers. The party is made up of six men, seven women and two children. The photograph is mounted onto card.
William Laird was Robert Fyffe's nephew. Robert Fyffe established the first shore-based whaling station in Kaikoura, the Waiopuka station. Fyffe House was originally built as a two-roomed cottage for Fyffe's cooper, Thomas Howell.
For more information about Fyffe House, which is cared for by Heritage New Zealand Pouhere Taonga, visit our website.
17.6 x 23.8cmObject Type
Collection of Fyffe House, Heritage New Zealand Pouhere TaongaObject number
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On Saturday August 14, and Sunday August 15, 2010, the Toronto Zoo is partnering with RainBarrel.ca to offer rain barrels at a discounted price.
Rain barrels offer many benefits:
- You can still water your garden with rain barrel water even in droughts
- Rain barrels capture water during rainstorms and divert it from our over-loaded sewer system
- You lower your water bill by not using water from your taps.
Promoting rain barrels and water conservation falls in with the Toronto zoo’s mission to promote biodiversity. Proceeds raised through this program will go to biodiversity and conservation projects supported by the zoo.
- $50/barrel for Zoo members, staff and volunteers who pre-register in advance
- $55/barrel for general public who pre-register in advance
- $60/barrel for walk-in purchases on the day of the event
To register for this program, go to http://rainbarrel.ca/torontozoo/
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Successful data mining is not attainable without digital data integration and data of high value. The importance of big data, data mining, and AI is emerging quickly in the sustainable biomaterials industries. Liao et al. (2017) suggest a huge gap exists between ‘Industrie 4.0’ laboratory experiments (95.1%) and industrial applications (4.9%). Our research studies collect destructive QC lab results from destructive test samples and align in the proper time order using the ‘date-time’ stamp of each process sensor with the destructive test sample ‘date-time’ stamp. Applied research applications were successfully applied at several sustainable biomaterials manufacturers.
The goal of this research effort is to develop automated data fusion relational database for processing real-time process sensor data aligned in the proper time-order with product quality metrics. This directly supports the principles of Total quality Data Management (TqDM) for ‘Industrie 4.0.’ TqDM and data fusion are both essential elements for successful data mining using Big Data for ‘Smart Manufacturing’ from the Cloud. This creates the necessary foundation for machine learning and deep learning algorithms as part of AI research for prediction. Pragmatic data mining for predictive analytics is the newest initiative for improved business competitiveness.
Publications of Interest:
David Juriga. 2019. Improving manufacturing data quality with data fusion and advanced algorithms for improved total data quality management. The University of Tennessee. https://trace.tennessee.edu/utk_gradthes/5492/
Young, T.M., R.V. León, C.-H. Chen, W. Chen, F.M. Guess, D.J. Edwards. 2015. Robustly estimating lower percentiles when observations are costly. Quality Engineering. 27:361-373. https://doi.org/10.1080/08982112.2014.968667
Young, T.M., N.E. Clapp, Jr., F.M. Guess, C.-H. Chen. 2014. Predicting key reliability response with limited response data. Quality Engineering. 26(2):223-232. https://doi.org/10.1080/08982112.2013.807930 | <urn:uuid:b63bdd3a-ca65-4b24-8008-db9b05077623> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://agdatascience.tennessee.edu/research-data-fusion-and-tqdm/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572833.95/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817032054-20220817062054-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.841063 | 470 | 2.25 | 2 |
If you’re unfamiliar with HVAC and you need to learn about it, then it’s best to arm yourself with these helpful tips first. This article will help you learn the right direction. Take some time to read the article and you will do well.
Clean your condenser’s fan blades and coils prior to summertime. Clean off any leaves or debris from your external condenser unit regularly.
Clean the condenser on your debris off your outdoor condenser unit. You never know when things can pile up, especially after a windy or rainy storm, and that can ruin your system. It can also cause your system to malfunction by overheating.
Turn it off so nothing moves.Then, take the grill off, pull the blades out, and begin cleaning the unit and them gently.
Don’t get grass clippings on your outdoor condenser. Aim the grass in the other direction. This applies when you are taking care of the leaves in debris.
Lubricate the oil ports on your fan condenser once each year. You can find these ports covered with rubber or metal cap covering them. Use SAE 20 oil that is non-detergent and lightweight, and put 10 drops or fewer in each port, putting 10 drops in each port.
Be sure to have the HVAC system checks. This should happen in the fall and malfunctions.
Turn off outdoor condenser when it becomes cold out. This means that you should be done when the weather falls under 60 degrees Farenheit. This helps your system remain in good working for years and save you a lot on repairs.
It is always a good idea to swap out single pane windows with ones that have double pane ones. This also helps keep it warm air in during the winter months.
During the visit, professionals can help by inspecting the system’s motor, oil the different moving parts as well as check the system’s freon levels. These few simple things will keep your system to run at its peak performance.
Never allow your home reach a dangerously hot temperature. Air conditioners can cool a home down about 20 degrees Fahrenheit within a short time. If the temperature in your home rises above 100 degrees, it will only reduce it to 80 or more. This is not a healthy environment to live in.
Research the reputation of companies before hiring them.Check them out at the best one for your situation. These simple steps are going to help to ensure your decision is a wise one.
Look for calculators online to help you determine the size of unit is necessary for your room or home. Look at the manual or on the recommended size for this information.
Ask your friends and family for their HVAC contractor recommendations. People that have had quality work done are often happy to share this information. This can also provide you with good information on which contractors you should avoid.
Are you going to buy a new HVAC system installed? You will need to know some things first. The rating given to a system tells how much are generally rated based on the area they cover. You are better off purchasing a bigger unit rather than purchasing one that is a bit too small.
If you hear a clicking in the HVAC unit at home, see if there is any debris in it. Often the issue is some sort of debris that’s hitting fans in the cooling system. Check this out before you waste time contacting a professional.
Replace the air filter monthly to keep your HVAC system every month. This is the simplest thing to do and it will keep your unit running in tip top shape.
Pick an HVAC business that know what they’re doing and works quickly to solve the problem. The best companies will ensure that their technicians working honestly and on time. A licensed technician will also easily diagnose any problems with your HVAC. Once the technician figures out what’s wrong, they should also know how to get them resolved efficiently and quickly.
Ask any potential contractor about their experience prior to hiring them. You need to know that they have the sort of experience needed to work you require.
There are dishonest contractors that try to charge you more later for such things like material fees and fuel charges. Having a solid written contract can help you avoid any issues like this.
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While conducting a research and exploratory mission in the Atlantic, the crew of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Okeanos Explorer vessel spotted a straight line of holes in the seafloor. The perforations, which look man-made, have scientists wondering what or who could have gone down there just to dig holes which serve no apparent purpose.
The scientific vessel Okeanos is currently exploring the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, a large underwater mountain range, and the biota surrounding the region. During this past weekend, as part of their mapping and census activities, the ship's remote-operated vehicle was lowered to the ocean floor and immediately caught sight of the unusual sublinear sets of holes.
Confounded by the bizarre find, the NOAA team took to social media in the hopes of outsourcing an explanation. The answers received ranged from the mundane to the truly bizarre, with some even suggesting aliens were responsible for the holes, while others claimed nuclear submarines were testing some sort of revolutionary new ablative weapon on the ocean floor. | <urn:uuid:14fadcf2-2780-4326-8e1f-dedae6da58d4> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.alienbabble.com/threads/seafloor-holes-baffle-scientists.962/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572212.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815205848-20220815235848-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.965245 | 212 | 3.15625 | 3 |
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Among the many specialisations that an MBBS graduate can pursue at the postgraduate level is the 2-year Diploma in Gynaecology and Obstetrics. The PG diploma course has been designed to train and qualify the graduates in completely understanding the anatomy of female reproductive organs.
Those aspiring to pursue a career path in the field of a gynaecologist or obstetrician, Diploma in Gynaecology and Obstetrics is a good option, with lucrative career opportunities and future scope. The additional training and skill development through the PG Diploma programme will ascertain that the graduate will be able to suggest surgical solutions through clinical analysis.
In India, the course curriculum of a Diploma in Gynaecology and Obstetrics is designed to train the students in certain aspects of the field, such as pregnancy-related diseases, general diseases in new-born infants, treatment required by a pre-mature child, different obstetric and gynaecology-related methodologies, along with other aspects of the specialisation.
Check out the highlights of Diploma in Gynaecology and Obstetrics.
Minimum Academic Requirement
Minimum Aggregate Score Requirement
50% or More
NEET-PG, AIIMS PG, JIPMER PG, etc.
Average Course Fees
?20,000 - ?10,00,000
Average Initial Salary
?3,00,000 - ?9,00,000
Areas of Employment
Government/Private Hospitals, Clinics, Own Business, etc.
Candidates must have a valid MBBS degree or an equivalent from an MCI recognised medical institution in India.
Candidates must have secured a minimum aggregate score of 50% of more in the qualifying examination.
All across India, admissions to the various PG medical courses in medical colleges are based on the scores obtained in an entrance exam such as NEET-PG, AIIM-PG, JIPMER-PG, etc. All aspirants of the course would be required to sit for the entrance examination and subsequently appear for the respective counselling processes to be allocated a course and college as per their performance in the entrance exam.
As per the mandate of the Medical Council of India, admissions will be offered to candidates on the basis of an entrance exam, approved by the council. Therefore, prior to applying for the course, candidates are advised to check out the admission processes of each individual college of their choice, prior to applying for admissions.
An annual course fee for a PG medical course in India would depend on the popularity of the course and the institution offering the course. The Diploma in Gynaecology and Obstetric course fee ranges anywhere between ?20,000 - ?10,00,000. This wide gap between the lowest and highest course is courtesy due to the type of ownership a college would have. Private Medical colleges in India are known to be more expensive in India, meanwhile, government colleges tend to be comparatively cheaper.
Maternal Physiology and Anatomy
Basics of Gynaecology
Gynaecology in Adolescence
Anaesthesia in Gynaecology
Endoscopy in Gynaecology
Urinary System Diseases
Female Genetive Tract Nerve Supply
Fertility and Infertility
Surgical Theatre Training
Oncology in Gynaecology
Diseases of the Vulva
Diseases of the Cervix
The medical industry has been known to provide immense and lucrative career opportunities for specialists and doctors. With the population at hand in the country, the number of doctor for every citizen ratio, as outlined by the WHO, is still lacking in India. With this lack of skilled professionals in the industry, doctors, especially specialists, have an immense scope of building a lucrative career path.
After graduating from a Diploma in Gynaecology and Obstetrics, some of the career options available include:
Infant Care Paediatric specialist
Senior Gynaecology Surgeon
As a graduate from the PG diploma course, you will be able to earn an annual package ranging anywhere between ?3,00,000 - ?9,00,000, initially. With enough skills, qualification and experience under the belt, you will be able to earn a hefty annual package.
Among the many areas of employment, candidates will be able to pursue their career in one of the following areas:
Health Consultancy Groups
Private Hospitals and clinics are one of the better options when it comes to the annual packages that are offered to a candidate. Meanwhile, government jobs and hospitals are better known for their security and career scope afterwards.
Central Institute of Plastics Engineering and Technology Joint Entrance Exam , Chhattisgarh Pre-Polytechnic Test , Telangana State Polytechnic Common Entrance Test , Delhi Common Entrance Test , Haryana Diploma Entrance Test Lateral are some of the exams that you can appear for to get admission in Diploma in Gynaecology and Obstetrics courses.
Following are some of the top colleges offering Medical courses : Lady Hardinge Medical College (New Delhi) , Armed Forces Medical College (Pune) , Lokmanya Tilak Municipal General Hospital And Lokmanya Tilak Municipal Medical College (Mumbai) , Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research (Kolkata) , Stanley Medical College (Chennai). You can explore these colleges on our website to check if they offer Diploma in Gynaecology and Obstetrics or not.
The average fee for Diploma in Gynaecology and Obstetrics is INR 3,00,000 per year.
Some of the popular specializations for Diploma are : Environmental Management , Music , Apparel Quality Management , Industrial Safety and Homeland Security.
Diploma in Gynaecology and Obstetrics is a 2 year course.
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This month, Atlanta has lots of family fun to offer from performances to special events to trains and more. Don’t miss our ideas for celebrating the life of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and take your family ice-skating.
Embark on a new journey each month as Zoo Educators help you and your young explorer learn and play together. Jan. 2 and 19.
This musical follows cheerful Frog and grump Toad through their adventures to tell a delightful story of friendship. Through Jan. 3.
Discover the innovations of animals’ evolution with highly interactive, hands-on and fun activities, which bring the amazing science of biomechanics to life. Through Jan. 3.
This original animated short celebrates the power of youth to change history as three friends learn about the sit-ins of the Civil Rights era. Jan. 8-Feb. 28.
Explore exotic animals at this entertaining and informational event. Jan. 9-10.
Enjoy free admission to view permanent and special exhibitions. Jan. 10.
Experience the genius of Leonardo da Vinci with machines based on his designs, as separated by the four elements: air, water, land and fire. Through Jan. 10.
Explore the winter world at night, and roast marshmallows at the campfire. Jan. 16.
Celebrate your favorite stories by having conversations as Elephant Gerald and Piggie, dressing up Naked Mole Rat, uncovering Knuffle Bunny, launching foam hot dogs at The Pigeon and more. Jan. 16-May 9.
Set sail on a swashbuckling adventure with pirate-themed activities. Jan. 23.
This outdoor exhibition reflects Atlanta’s skyline and greenspaces inspired to help the viewer connect with nature. Through Feb. 7.
Be transported to a wintry vacation state with snow tubing, snow slides, ice skating, play areas and more. Through Feb. 21.
View more than 30 miniature homes built by fairies and gnomes. Through Feb. 28.
This photography collection explores African American subjects and history. Through March 14.
Celebrate the artistic traditions of Persian civilization with carpets, textiles, manuscripts, paintings, ceramics, jeweled objects and more. Through April 18.
Explore more than 200 pieces of vintage and contemporary jewelry with celestial and Space Age designs. Through Oct. 24.
Last-Minute Holiday Celebrations
View more than one million LED lights and dozens of Christmas trees, visit with Santa Claus and ride the park’s popular attractions. Through Jan. 3.
Test your sleuthing skills and solve riddles on this scavenger hunt. Choose from three levels of difficulty. Through Jan. 3.
See sugar plum fairies, a gigantic gingerbread village, Christmas characters and more at this mile-long drive-through show featuring nearly 2 million lights. Through Jan. 3.
This puppet performance follows Stan falling in love with a wood-burning stove, while a young snowwoman swoons over him. Through Jan. 3.
A season of celebrations from around the world, including trees and displays representing Christmas, Hanukkah and a variety of other cultures. Through Jan. 8.
Countless bulbs light up the garden with Nature’s Wonders, Orchestral Orbs, Radiant Rainforest and Model Trains. Through Jan. 16.
Drive through this light show with colorful displays, twinkling lights and holiday tunes. Through Jan. 18.
This festive holiday premiere features an original score and amazing choreography. Through Jan. 22.
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Making security principles and practices an integral part of DevOps while maintaining improved efficiency and productivity.
From the beginning, the Microsoft SDL identified that security needed to be everyone’s job and included practices in the SDL for program managers, developers, and testers, all aimed at improving security. Further, recognizing that one size doesn’t fit all development approaches, it described flexible practices and activities proven to improve security of software applications at every stage of development using either the classic waterfall or newer agile methodology. However, other than considering the production environment, the SDL didn’t include activities for operations engineers.
The DevOps approach changes that. Now, development and operations are tightly integrated to enable fast and continuous delivery of value to end users. DevOps has replaced siloed development and operations to create multidisciplinary teams that work together with shared and efficient practices, tools, and KPIs. To deliver highly secure software and services in this fast-moving environment, it is critical for security to move at the same speed. One way to achieve this is to build security in development (SDL) and operations (OSA) processes.
The practices used in DevOps provide a great opportunity to improve security. Practices such as automation, monitoring, collaboration, and fast and early feedback provide a great foundation to build security into DevOps processes.
Ensure everyone understands security best practices.Learn more
Define a minimum-security baseline to include in the DevOps process and pipeline.Learn more
Define Metrics and Compliance Reporting
Define specific metrics to drive action and support compliance objectives.Learn more
Use Software Composition Analysis (SCA) and Governance
Analyze and keep an inventory of third-party components and create a plan to evaluate reported vulnerabilities.Learn more
Perform Threat Modeling
Use threat modeling to identify security vulnerabilities, determine risk, and mitigate.Learn more
Use Tools and Automation
Carefully select tools and intelligent automation to help engineers and ensure consistency.Learn more
Practice #1—Provide Training
Training is critical to success. Ensuring that everyone understands the attacker’s perspective, their goals, and how they exploit coding and configuration mistakes or architectural weaknesses will help capture the attention of everyone and raise the collective knowledge bar.
Practice #2—Define Requirements
Establish a minimum-security baseline that takes account of both security and compliance controls. Ensure these are baked into the DevOps process and pipeline. At the very minimum, ensure the baseline takes into account real-world threats such as the OWASP Top 10 or SANS Top 25, and industry or regulatory requirements and issues known to exist or that could be introduced by human error in the technology stack you select.
Practice #3—Define Metrics and Compliance Reporting
Drive the behavior you want with the engineers by defining specific metrics which drive action and support compliance objectives.
Practice #4—Use Software Composition Analysis (SCA) and Governance
When selecting third-party components (both commercial and open source), it’s important to understand the impact that a vulnerability in the component could have on the overall security of the system. SCA tools can assist with licensing exposure, provide an accurate inventory of components, and report any vulnerabilities with referenced components. You should also be more selective when using high-risk third-party components and consider performing a more thorough evaluation before using them.
Practice #5—Perform Threat Modeling
Although threat modeling can be challenging in DevOps because of its perceived slowness, it is a critical component of any secure development process. In most situations, applying a structured approach to threat scenarios helps a team more effectively and less expensively identify security vulnerabilities, determine risks from those threats, and then make security feature selections and establish appropriate mitigations. At the very least, threat modeling should be used in environments where there is meaningful security risk.
Practice #6—Use Tools and Automation
Use carefully selected tools and intelligent automation that’s integrated into the engineer’s world (such as an integrated development environment). In the modern engineering world, it’s easy to assume that automation is the solution and it’s correct that automation is critical, but it’s important to be selective when choosing tools and be careful when deploying them. The goal is to fix issues and not to overload engineers with too many tools or alien processes outside of their everyday engineering experience. The tools used as part of a secure DevOps workflow should adhere to the following principles:
- Tools must be integrated into the CI/CD pipeline.
- Tools must not require security expertise.
- Tools must avoid a high false-positive rate of reporting issues.
Integrating Static Application Security Testing (SAST) into your IDE (integrated development environment) can provide deep analytical insight into the syntax, semantics, and provide just-in-time learning, preventing the introduction of security vulnerabilities before the application code is committed to your code repository. Similarly, integrating Dynamic Analysis Security Testing (DAST) tools into the continuous integration / continuous delivery pipeline will help quickly uncover issues only apparent when all components are integrated and running.
Practice #7—Keep Credentials Safe
Scanning for credentials and other sensitive content in source files is necessary during pre-commit as they reduce the risk of propagating the sensitive information into your team’s CI/CD process. Instead of storing sensitive keys in code, consider using a bring-your-own-key (BYOK) solution that generates keys using a hardware security module (HSM).
Practice #8—Use Continuous Learning and Monitoring
Monitoring of your applications, infrastructure, and network with advanced analytics can help uncover security and performance issues. When utilizing continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) practices paired with monitoring tools, you will be able to gain better visibility into your application health and proactively identify and mitigate risks to reduce exposure to attacks. Monitoring is also an essential part of supporting a defense-in-depth strategy and can reduce your organization’s mean time to identify (MTTI) and mean time to contain (MTTC) metrics. | <urn:uuid:f3183dfe-7607-4633-9b03-7f0099826714> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/securityengineering/devsecops | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572212.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815205848-20220815235848-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.903249 | 1,304 | 2.09375 | 2 |
Sugary drinks tax imposed gently
Tax rates on drinks with a sugar-based sweetener will be gradually raised every two years of a six-year span to give time for producers to reduce sugar content in soft drinks, says Finance Minister Apisak Tantivorawong.
The levy for the first two years after the new excise law is enforced will be low to let sweetened soft drink makers lessen sugar in their drinks to aid public health, he said. These operators will be subject to both excise and sugary drink taxes, but their tax burden during the first two years will merely change from the current tax structure.
The new excise tax structure for drinks with sugar-based sweeteners, part of the new excise law, will take effect Sept 16.
The key part of the law replaces the existing ex-factory prices and cost, insurance and freight (CIF) values with suggested retail prices for the excise tax base computation.
The Excise Department hopes that suggested retail prices create a fairer system for makers and importers after it found that some businesses were exploiting the ex-factory and CIF values to understate their tax bills.
Mr Apisak said that under the new excise law, drinks that are now tax-exempt must pay the sugary drink tax, which is meant to create fairness.
Ready-to-drink green tea and coffee have been exempted from excise tax by claiming to use domestic raw materials, while fruit and vegetable drinks must contain at least 10% natural ingredients to escape an excise tax of 20% of the final wholesale price.
Mr Apisak said the tax bills of operators whose products are now liable for tax will hardly change after the new excise law is enforced, as the department is promoting a tax neutrality concept.
But those operators exploiting loopholes to understate their tax payments, or those whose products have a high profit margin, will need to shoulder a higher tax burden, he said.
In related news, Mr Apisak said a conclusion has not been reached on a tax break for domestic travel expenses, as the Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) proposal is beyond the burden the Finance Ministry can accept.
The ministry wants operators in community-based tourism schemes to benefit from the proposed tax deduction, but the major hurdle is that these operators have not entered the tax system and cannot issue tax invoices to customers.
The TAT's initial proposal called for tourists engaged in community-based tourism during the final quarter of the year to be allowed to claim a personal income tax deduction of 10,000-50,000 baht, depending on the area visited.
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This is what Toronto looks like consumed by the cold
How can something so crushingly painful be so, incredibly beautiful? It's one of the paradoxical truths of winter; the colder it gets outside, the prettier everything tends to look.
Toronto is currently experiencing one of the most brutal cold weather snaps we've seen in years, prompting many online to declare their allegiances to the couch – because if you don't go out, you can't get frostbite.
But nor can you see any of the stunning frost patterns beyond your own window.
The entire city is sparkling today with ice and snow and glossy buildings.
It may be jaw-chatteringly cold out there, but it almost looks comfortable when captured on camera – like a soft winter wonderland.
It's not comfortable outside, of course. Environment Canada lifted its extreme cold weather warning for Toronto this afternoon, but Toronto Public Health's extreme cold weather alert remains in effect.
In either case, it feels like -22 Celsius with the windchill.
That's what makes all of these winter photos on Instagram so impressive. People actually had to go outside today for shots like this.
In many cases, they likely had to take off their gloves to capture the magic.
Even with touch-sensitive mitts, it's difficult to focus an iPhone camera.
Thanks to everybody with the guts to actually go out and capture the effects of this confusingly gorgeous season.
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The Two-Stroke Principle
The IC classes in RC have certainly made a big mark in the market place in recent times. The IC actually stands for Internal Combustion but for those that can’t get them set up, Infernal Combustion engine. Here is our guide on how they work and some interesting facts too…
There are several types of IC engine and the type that is most commonly used in RC applications is the two-stroke type. All full size cars (with the exception of the Trabant) use the much heavier and more complicated four-stroke type engine.
So why do models use a two-stroke? Well they are much simpler and therefore lighter, they also make more power per cc than a four-stroke (they fire once every time the engine rotates, four-strokes only fire every other rotation) so why bother with a four-stroke? Well they are more efficient and make much less pollution than a two-stroke, however that is not a real concern for us!
How Does It Work?
Okay we will start with the moment just after the fuel has exploded. The explosion drives the piston down, this is where the engines power comes from (the rest of the time it is just inertia keeping the engine spinning!). As the piston travel downward the crankshaft has rotated so that the slot to the carburettor is closed therefore the piston begins to compress the fuel air mixture that is in the crankcases. As the piston travels further down the cylinder the exhaust port is exposed and the exhaust gases start to clear out of the cylinder (see point about exhaust pipe). Next the intake ports begin to open and the fuel/air that is under pressure in the crankcases is pushed up through the transfer ports and starts to enter the cylinder. The intake gases help push the exhaust fumes out and additionally the exhaust will literally be sucking the fumes out. As the piston gets to the bottom of its stroke the crank will have rotated enough to open to the slot beneath the carb and more fuel and air mixture will start getting pulled through by the vacuum left by the mixture going into the cylinder. As the piston starts to travel up the cylinder the crankcase vacuum sucks more fresh fuel into the bottom end but also slows the transfer into the upper cylinder. The piston then slides over the intake ports covering them and begins to compress the new mixture. The final vestiges of exhaust gas leave the exhaust port unfortunately accompanied by a little of the fresh fuel/air mix (but the next part of the exhaust pipe pulse hopefully reduces this effect). The exhaust port fully closes and the new mixture is compressed into the cylinder head where eventually the temp rise due to the compression and the glow plug cause the fuel to ignite…. And the whole process begins again!
RC car engines typically run on Methanol, which is not petrol. Methanol is basically alcohol (but a very poisonous variety). Mixed into the fuel is an oil to lubricate both the crankshaft and the piston in the cylinder. The oil also acts to help cool the engine. Additionally the fuel can have Nitromethane mixed into it; this produces more power, is easier to set up but costs a lot more.
RC engines are compression ignition, like diesel engines. The engine does not have a spark plug to ignite the fuel at a specific time the fuel simply ignites when it has been crushed or compressed to a specific point. The actually ignition timing is therefore controlled by compression ratio and glow plug temperature. The glow plug acts as a catalyst to start the fuel burning and the hotter the glow plug (generally the lower the plug temperature number the hotter the plug will glow) the sooner the burn starts.
When mixing Nitromethane into the fuel the compression ratio needs to be reduced and often a cooler plug used. This is for several reasons. The Nitro makes the fuel burn easier so the burn will happen too soon if the compression is not reduced. The Nitro basically provides more oxygen so the Methanol can burn more completely which means that you can open the needle and allow more fuel into the engine. More fuel means more potential power, it also cools the engine but only just enough to make up for the extra power and bigger burn. Less compression actually means the engine will rev higher therefore effectively giving you a better spread of power (less compression normally means less power and punch but the Nitro has counteracted that). Also having less compression generally makes the carburation easier to set on any engine.
The exhaust pipe on a two-stroke engine is far more important than one on a four-stroke. The modern expansion chamber type pipe was invented by MZ’s motorcycle racing designer Walter Kaaden. The bike was raced successfully until it was stolen and the technology copied by the Japanese competition. The type used in RC cars are a development of that and are dual chamber pipes that are very similar to those used in Kart racing, giving a broader spread of power than a single chamber.
During the cycle of the engine the pressure waves that travel up and down the exhaust literally pull the exhaust gases out of the engine and then stop the fresh fuel from also following the exhaust gases out. The longer the exhaust the lower the RPM that this effect works at as the pressure pulses have further to travel and therefore take longer to get back to the exhaust port. The steeper the reverse cone (where the exhaust gets smaller again) the smaller the rpm range that this effect works at but the more effective it is. This would make a peaky engine.
Most two-stroke engines use reed valves to act as a one-way valve so that the air enters through the carburettor and then when the piston starts to compress the fuel air mixture in the crankcases the reeds close and the fuel/air is forced into the cylinder. RC engines use the crankshaft as a valve and as the crank rotates it shuts the hole beneath the carb. This is similar to a disc valve motor, which uses holes/slots in a rotating disc to ‘time’ the fuel. The most successful disc valves are the Rotax made ones, which form the basis of the Aprilia 125 and 250 GP bikes and a large number of Kart Racing engines. You will still often see that some air fuel mixture gets blown back through the carb due to the overlapping timing of the different parts of the engine cycle, this is known as blowback or overhang.
More ports generally means more area to get the fuel/air mixture into the cylinder, more fuel means more possible power (it can also mean more fuel stops). There are several pros and cons of more or less ports. Big ports don’t always work well as the gas speed through them is not high, when the fuel arrives in the cylinder there won’t be enough mixing and swirling or the fuel air mix and it also won’t push the exhaust gases out. Therefore a larger quantity of smaller ports can sometimes be an advantage. In a tiny .12 engine though you can end up with tiny ports because the webbing between them effectively takes up too much space. If you make the webs too thin they get too hot and can be the reason for seizures and unreliability. There is no real answer to this one as so many other factors also affect the engine, don’t forget though that reliability and good fuel consumption can make a world championship winning difference over 45 minutes.
RC racers tend to think that two-strokes rev higher than four-strokes. In our sort of capacities they do because it is not possible to make a high enough quality four-stroke valve train small enough. As RC cars use and active method to control the air intake (the crank acts as a valve), unlike a reed valve two-stroke then the engine can rev higher. Four-strokes actively control the air intake and exhaust so they can force air to move faster. On a two-stroke you will end up loosing too much fuel out of the exhaust. Typical racing full size engines will rev to around 13,000 for a reed valve two-stroke, 14,200 for a disc valve, 15,000 for a kart disc valve, a 600 Supersport race bike 15,600 and an F1 car 19,000 (BMW seems to be the highest revver at the moment, the pistons have 10,000g on them at that RPM!)
The biggest negative is pollution. The reason that the two-stroke pollutes is that it tends to need to run a little rich, a four-stroke has about 4% unburnt fuel (Carbon monoxide percentage) and a two-stroke about 6.5%. Also some fresh fuel tends to get lost out of the exhaust port as the exhaust/intake exchange happens at the same time. The final problem is that you have to mix the oil with the fuel so the burnt oil also gets blown out of the exhaust into the atmosphere. There have been a lot of attempts to make the engines more environmentally friendly with ‘active radical technology’ and direct fuel injection. Unfortunately it is always easier to make a four-stroke more efficient, two-strokes are beginning to disappear.
Two V Four
Given the same displacement (cubic centimetre/cc) a two-stroke engine will develop more power than a four-stroke but as we have seen in full-size motor cycle racing, the top class is now four-stroke engine only so in order to produce similar performance, the organisers have nearly doubled the size of the engines allowed. Two-stroke engines are very simple and are lighter compared to a four-stroke, developing more power at the same time. They have the ability to rev very highly, which really suits the RC hobby as many classes do not allow the use of multi speed transmissions. In situations when you can have a two or three-speed transmission, the performance of these engines can be electrifying. Inside a two-stroke engine there is only a few moving parts meaning that maintenance or trouble-shooting is often fairly easy. | <urn:uuid:763eaea5-a923-4dfc-b784-ad775037d997> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://www.rcracer.com/2009/09/how-nitro-engines-work-63/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572833.95/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817032054-20220817062054-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.958118 | 2,079 | 2.5625 | 3 |
Speaker Repair Diagnosis and Troubleshooting
Speaker buggered? Is it not making any sound? Making a funny noise?
Speaker problems can be a variety of issues, and repair and maintenance is usually the audio engineer’s responsibility. Check it out!
Problem: Speaker Not making any noise
First check obvious problems, like wires not being plugged in properly. If you have a working Left but no right, try switching the left and right wires to see if that solves the issue.
Use a multimeter to check the ohms between the positive and negative leads to the speaker. Something between 1 and 16 ohms should be be the resistance of a working speaker. If its 0 or infinity there are likely problems and the speaker may be blown.
Next Question: Active or Passive?
If its an active or powered speaker or monitor, check that the power cord is plugged in an its on. For passive, check that the amplifier is on and sending signal. If the amplifier part is broken, you need to further diagnose the problem, but if the speaker is just blown but the amplifier is working, you can replace or repair the speaker. (If you’re relatively inexperienced, a new woofer or tweeter replacement may be the easiest solution.)
Problem: Speaker Making a funny Noise or Not Sounding Right
Take the grill off, or figure out how to expose the speaker cone. Look for obvious problems like cracked or loose parts. Gently without power applied, push the speaker in with your hand gently. If you hear a crunching noise or if there are loose pieces of dust cap or rubber surround, you may be lucky and you can glue it with something like epoxy or super-glue. Otherwise, you need to order a new replacement speaker or speaker refurbish with a new cone and voice-coil kit.
Answer 1: Replace Speaker Driver or Tweeter
The easiest and usually fastest solution is to obtain a replacement woofer or tweeter. Look online and search for Model: replacement woofer or model: replacement tweeter or midrange driver etc.
Answer 2: Reconing A Speaker
A right of passage for audio engineer or Live Sound Engineer: The voice coil, and speaker cone as well as rubber surround can sometimes be ordered from the manufactures to refurbish a blown speaker. The voice coil is the vertical tube that slides into the permanent magnet at the rear of the speaker. You can tear out the old speaker cone and voice coil on an old speaker to see how it works, but a rubber or soft outer ring holds the speaker cone, and the voice coil, covered by the dust cap slides into a circular hole.
1. Cleaning It Up
Remove all all traces of the old speaker cone. Use a razor blade or scraper tool to peel off all the outer surround or gasket, as well as the cone, and voice coil. Underneath the speaker cone is a crinkled piece of wavy material that serves to suspend the speaker cone, sometimes it may be called a spider. Remove that as well. Clean out the air gap in the magnet, and all rememenants of voice coil must be cleared from the gap. A little piece of wire and compressed air, or some sticky masking tape can be used to get all the little pieces. If you have a really fried voice coil, it may melt and charr up the area. All pieces of the cone and surrounding rubber must be clean and ready for remanufacturing with the recone kit obtained from the manufacturer.
2. Prepping the Area for Gluing
Masking off the voice coil gap, and really cleaning the outer area with a grinder, or pre assembling the voice coil and driver may be required depending on the type of speaker.
3. Assembly and Glue
Assemble the voice coil and speaker cone, as well as the dust cap and spider and apply adhesive, reattaching the new speaker to the outer metal frame. Reattach the leads to the positive and negative terminal of the speaker. You may want to refer to the manufacturer’s guidelines.
4. Letting It All Dry
Let the speaker is dry for at least overnight, and then test the speaker voice coil clearance by pushing the cone in and out with your hand. If there is scraping or something rubbing, you need to start over and tear it out again and check the gap for foreign material.
Speakers Life Expectancy
Hopefully, your speaker recone goes well, and it travels smoothly in and out and lasts for a long time! Keep those limiters in place, and don’t too much level go to the amplifier. Speakers have a finite life, although there are a lot of speakers that are doing well 20 or 30 years later, but protecting your equipment is important to sounding good. Speakers eventually wear out. The rubber surround gets oxidized and cracks, voice coils come loose, or get fried when too much voltage goes into the speaker. Super hot signal can go into the amplifier and clip the input producing a square wave that shoots pure voltage to the speaker frying the voice coil. Old speakers just wear out. The spider and other parts loose elasticity and stop returning the speaker as fast to the resting position. As the speaker ages, it loses it crispness. Oftentimes, a new speaker fresh from the factory or freshly remanufactured with a recone kit, will be very harsh and crispy, then mellow out as the glue and elasticity loosens up.
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Impact of blog SEO for your business.
Blog SEO (Search Engine Optimization) is best known for using SEO strategies to optimize your blog. By investing good SEO skills into your writing, search engines become a powerful source of website traffic for your business.
Before we get into the impact of blog SEO, we must first understand what SEO or Search Engine Optimization is. Search Engine Optimization is the practice of increasing the quantity and quality of traffic to your website through organic search engine results. Using blog SEO practices will require specific topics, keywords, phrases relevant to your blog topic and industry.
The best way to start using blog SEO is by using headers. Readers want an overview of your blog’s content; using headers and sub-headers will provide what your audience is looking for in a blog. Both the header and the sub-header of your blog should reflect the content with high-intent keywords.
Keywords should be relative to your target audience and their wants and needs. It is important to remember that your keywords are the input, and the content you are creating is the output. Your keywords should focus on answering an existing question. However, even topics with no SEO keywords can still generate great engagement and traffic.
Adding Internal links to your blog post will direct your audience to older posts on your site. Internal links help search engines find, index and understand all the pages on your website. Internal links are a simple SEO tactic you can implement into your blogs with the help of anchor texts. Anchor text is the clickable text that houses an HTML hyperlink to an internal or external source.
Proper SEO implementation is a vital element to blogging and is necessary to meet your business marketing goals.
For more information on implementing SEO strategies into your business blog,
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The COVID-19 crisis has isolated people in ways many have never dealt with before, but some find themselves even more helpless than others.
Consider Florida Gulf Coast University students basically confined to campus, many from foreign countries and already cut off from family and friends to begin with. Others are unable to leave campus housing with limited transportation options. Sadly, some who support themselves and their families with part- and full-time jobs – many in the hospitality industry – while earning degrees have temporarily, or maybe permanently, lost employment during the shutdown.
For these students, the FGCU Campus Food Pantry is a more important lifeline than ever, especially with many community food banks and distribution sites overrun by demand.
“Our clients consist mostly of international students who cannot return home yet, other students remaining in campus housing, and local students who lost their jobs or are having trouble finding work. These are the same groups that usually visit the pantry throughout the year,” said Samantha Lloyd, food pantry coordinator.
The statistics this spring prove Lloyd’s point. “We cannot give full stats for the semester yet, but so far this spring, we have had 219 students visit 602 times, for an average of 2.75 visits per student,” Lloyd said. “In spring 2019, we had 200 students visit 786 times, for an average of 3.9 visits per student.”
Created in 2012 by Jo Anna Bradshaw, wife of former FGCU President Wilson Bradshaw, to serve the needs of enrolled students struggling with food insecurity, the pantry is in room 102 of the Music Modular on Lot 7, on the south side of campus. Its April hours are noon to 5 p.m. Tuesdays and Wednesdays. “We also have an outdoor food pantry available (next to the stairs outside the modular) for when we are closed,” Lloyd said. “We also refer people to United Way and Harry Chapin Food Bank.”
She emphasizes that student use of the food pantry is confidential.
Lloyd said donations can be made at the pantry during the Tuesday-Wednesday operating hours, or at the usual campus drop sites: Cohen Student Union 104, 255, 288; Edwards Hall 214 G; McTarnaghan Hall 229; Merwin Hall 296 B; and the lobby of the Daniels Public Media Center.
As for items most in demand on campus, Lloyd said, “mainly items that cannot be found in stores, such as dairy products, bread and other perishables.”
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Part 2: Common problems with coordinate system configurations
“Why does my data look that way?”
Now that we’ve covered the basics of coordinate systems and geodetic topics relevant to GIS data collection, we can start to look at common configuration problems and how they manifest themselves in your data.
But first, we need to cover one last educational topic, and it is perhaps the most important one. That is, how do we achieve high accuracy in GNSS data collection and what are the important geodetic considerations in that process?
Geodetics in Differential Correction
The most common way of achieving high accuracy is through a process called differential correction. In this process the difference between the measured and the true distance between a known location (a base station) and a satellite is calculated and then applied to GNSS measurements as a “correction”. Corrections can be done as soon as measurements are made (i.e. real-time) or after measurements are collected (i.e. post-processing).
In general, correction works because most error sources (e.g. atmospheric) are similar across wide areas. Differential correction can be applied to the mobile GNSS receiver measurements to eliminate most errors.
The most important aspect with regards to geodetics is that the result of differential correction is directly dependent on the position and reference frame of the base station used. That is, if the base station used for differential correction is accurately defined with reference to say ETRS89, then corrected GNSS measurements will also be referenced to ETRS89. This aspect applies to all forms of GNSS correction, including post-processing, RTK, VRS, etc. It’s important to always know the reference frame of the correction source prior to starting your data collection project. In most cases, this information should be available from the provider of the correction service. Although the specifics will vary, the most common generalization is that local correction sources like VRS and single-base RTK networks will use a local reference frame while global correction sources like SBAS and Trimble RTX™ will use a global reference frame.
It is typical for correction service base station infrastructure to be maintained by surveyors or other geodetic agencies. As such, the reference position and coordinate system information is generally kept current with the latest datums and realizations. This is often in contrast to GIS systems-of-record which will utilize the same coordinate system over a longer period of time. For example, although the most current realization of the “standard” US coordinate system is NAD 1983 (2011), the majority of customer datasets we see are still using the older NAD 1983 (CORS96) or even the original NAD 1983 (1986). In almost any GNSS data collection project, datum transformations will come into play at one or more points in the workflow. The proper identification and configuration of these transformations is one of the biggest sources of error and user frustration.
Let’s take a look at some of these configuration challenges in more detail.
Challenge 1: How do I know that what I’m comparing my data to is a valid source of truth?
When evaluating the quality (accuracy) of the data you collect, you’ll need to know what you’re comparing it to. Although the GNSS receiver may tell you it is accurate to within 1 cm, that’s of little use if you can’t validate the results against something in the real world. Ideally, you’ll be able to collect some test data over known “benchmarks” or “control points” for which you know the accurate location in an “official” reference frame. These are often maintained by regional or national geodetic agencies.
If you are comparing against existing data you have, you’ll want to verify that the existing data is in fact accurate; knowing its lineage is important (how and when it was collected or digitized, what is the original coordinate system, etc.). It’s not uncommon for historical GIS data to lack positional accuracy and instead be drawn in a way to look good at a certain zoom scale.
One other consideration needs to be made when using reference data from a local survey, commonly known as a “site calibration”. In typical survey workflows, data is adjusted to optimize accuracy relative to a project or site (it may still use a standard coordinate system definition). As such, the reference frame is specific to the site and may not exactly match a “published” reference frame that would be valid across a wide region. Most GIS software has very limited tools for working with adjusted coordinate systems like this although there are generally paths to work with custom transformations that could be provided by the surveyor.
Challenge 2: My field-collected data looks correct by itself, but is nowhere near to my source of truth. They barely show up on the same map!
In this case, when you bring your field-collected data into your GIS, it either shows up in a completely different location or maybe it doesn’t come in at all. This can happen more commonly when working with data formats that don’t carry the coordinate system information along with them (e.g. CSV exports) and usually reflects some sort of misconfiguration of one of the basics:
- The coordinate system of the field-collected data and the coordinate system of the GIS don't match. Perhaps the GIS is expecting projected coordinates (northing, easting) but you are trying to use geographic coordinates (longitude, latitude). Further, when working with projected coordinate systems, an incorrect coordinate system setting (e.g., the wrong zone) can cause problems because coordinates would not be valid in the desired zone.
- Another detail with projected coordinate systems is that they depend on units. In most parts of the world, meters are used as the default unit on projected coordinate systems. But in certain places like the United States, there can be a mix of units available - meters, US feet, and international feet.
- Units also need to be carefully considered when working with feature heights or coordinate Z values. In most GIS systems, the vertical coordinate system and unit is decoupled from the horizontal coordinate system and unit (meaning, they can be set independently). Feature heights can be stored in both metadata and 3D geometries.
- One other source of misconfiguration that may cause significant error is a missing or incorrect datum transformation. In certain parts of the world, this can result in an offset of >100 m. We’ll cover this more in the next section below.
Challenge 3: My field-collected data looks close to my source of truth but is shifted by a constant amount (e.g. an offset).
This is perhaps the most common challenge in GNSS data collection projects when it comes to integrating field-collected data into a GIS system-of-record. Customers will frequently report that their data looks shifted by half a meter up to several meters. Far and away the most common cause is a misconfigured datum transformation - either missing, incorrect, or applied twice.
As we alluded to earlier, datum transformations are required any time we have to work between reference frames or coordinate systems that use different datums. In a typical high-accuracy GNSS data collection workflow there are potentially four different coordinate systems in use:
- The GIS source or system-of-record
- The data collection project used in the field application
- The correction source used in the field for real-time correction workflows
- The correction source used in the office for post-processing workflows
Both the field and office software will generally provide configuration options for datum transformations between each of these as required by the workflow. In most cases, you’ll want to do some field validation of the configuration (using known control points as described earlier) prior to starting a production-level data collection project.
There are several finer points to be aware of:
- Although similar at the parameter (mathematical) level, datum transformations are implemented differently in common GIS software. For example, in Trimble software, a datum transformation (to the global WGS84) is generally stored with a coordinate system. For instance, when you pick NAD 1983 (2011), you are also getting a singular 7-parameter datum transformation between that coordinate system and the global WGS84. On the other hand, Esri decouples this in both their coordinate system model and their user experience - you pick the two coordinate systems first, and then pick from a list of datum transformations available between those two coordinate systems. In the example above, Esri actually provides multiple datum transformations for working between NAD 1983 (2011) and WGS84.
- In some cases a datum transformation may be provided in the software strictly for compatibility or book-keeping purposes. These datum transformations have zero or null parameters. These types of datum transformations exist to allow a workflow to proceed - but it won’t actually change or transform the coordinates being calculated. An example of this in Trimble software is the NAD 1983 (Conus) datum in which the transformation parameters (to the global WGS84) are all zero meaning no transformation will be calculated. This is common in Esri software as well.
- For some regions in the world, particularly those near tectonic plate boundaries, there may not be a 3- or 7-parameter transformation available for transforming coordinates between the local coordinate system and the global WGS84. This is most likely to impact users who use SBAS or RTX correction services in these regions.
Challenge 4: My field-collected data is very close to my source of truth, but not within the accuracy estimates of what the GNSS receiver is telling me.
In this case, you’ve collected good data, your accuracy estimates either in real-time or after post-processing are within a few centimeters, but you’re still 10~20 centimeters from your control points. You’ve already confirmed you’re using the best available datum transformations but this is as close as you can get.
There can be various reasons for this - some of which are a result of configuration issues and others of which are just limitations. Here are the most common ones:
- Datum transformations can be limited in accuracy. Generally published by academia or geospatial government agencies (as the authoritative source), datum transformations are defined for a specific area and the accuracy of the results within that area will vary. If you are closer to the boundaries of that area, then the accuracy may be decreased. You can consult the authoritative source of the datum for an estimate of accuracy. If your workflow involves multiple datum transformations, the accuracy of the data at the end of the workflow will reflect the accuracy of each of the datum transformations used.
- In most post-processing workflows, you have some control over what base station reference position is used - either from the base station files or from the Trimble base station list. The difference in these two positions can be in the 5~20 centimeter range depending on locale and this will have a direct impact on the post-processed results.
- In tectonically active areas, it is not uncommon for correction source providers (for real-time and post-processing) to use intermediate epochs when providing reference frame information for networks or base stations. This is necessary to account for tectonic motion. For example, in California, real-time networks may use NAD 1983 (2011) epoch 2020.00 or newer and further, it is adjusted semi-annually. If your GIS software is only capable of working with static (e.g., 7-parameter) datum transformations, your ability to work with intermediate epoch data will be limited. Whenever that epoch is adjusted and you collect new data, you will see an immediate shift in your data (the movement of the Pacific plate relative to the Continental US plate is on the order of several centimeters annually). As we discussed in the first part of this blog series, this is one of the primary drivers for GIS data collection workflows needing to support time-dependent datum transformations: to be able to store data collected across multiple epochs into a system-of-record that uses a single epoch.
- When using a global, real-time correction source like Trimble RTX with a local coordinate system like NAD 1983 (2011), accuracy of the workflow can be limited and may not meet the accuracy specification of the correction service. This is the second driver for the use of time-dependent datum transformations in the data collection workflow - to be able to accurately transform between global and local datums. This is further complicated in tectonically active areas or in areas near plate boundaries where crustal deformation exists. Here, even time-dependent datum transformations can be insufficient and you would need to utilize a local deformation model to fully realize the accuracy of the corrected data through the entire workflow.
In the next part of this blog series, we’ll discuss some exciting new improvements in our Trimble GIS software workflows to significantly improve coordinate system workflows and help translate accuracy of the GNSS receiver to accuracy of the overall data collection workflow.
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Last week, the government of Indonesia said that they will welcome electric vehicle (EV) battery manufacturers such as South Korea’s LG and Taiwan’s Foxconn to the country’s second development phase of its Batang Integrated Industrial Estate (KITB) in Central Java. The 1,000 hectares of the integrated production facility, specifically for electric battery production, is said to be the first in the world.
The industrial estate is basically a part of the country’s effort to build a large-scale EV ecosystem covering the upstream to downstream sectors. Considering also how Indonesia has been courting Tesla to set up its presence in the country, Coordinating Maritime Affairs and Investment Minister Luhut Pandjaitan recently announced that the government had proposed to Tesla to build a factory in Batang regency, with an annual capacity of roughly 500,000 EVs.
For starters, the location is considered suitable because of its proximity to the geothermal power sources that are estimated to be able to supply 400 megawatts (MW) of generating capacity. The US$9.8 billion project is aimed at producing 3.5 million EV batteries annually in collaboration with state-owned nickel and gold mining firm PT Aneka Tambang (Antam) and EV battery holding company Indonesia Battery Corporation (IBC).
“LG’s investment […] in Indonesia is the first investment in the world that integrates nickel mining, smelter construction, as well as precursor and cathode factories, not to mention the battery recycling industry,” President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) said during the launching ceremony last week.
In a recent article by Jakarta Post, Luhut told lawmakers during a meeting with the House of Representatives Budget Commission Indonesia that “We could […] channel this green energy [to Tesla’s factory].” To recall, in May when President Jokowi visited the US, he separately met Tesla CEO Elon Musk to reiterate Indonesia’s invitation for investments. Indonesia officials stated that the meeting between the both came after a round of working-level discussions on a potential investment in Indonesia’s nickel industry and supply of batteries for EVs.
Apart from Batang, Luhut said the carmaker had shown interest in the North Kalimantan Green Industrial Park, which has been under construction since December last year. Otherwise, Luhut has so far not been able to provide details on a possible Tesla investment, saying the government had signed a nondisclosure agreement with the company.
Apparently, Tesla had also shown interest in developing the semiconductor industry in Indonesia but did not divulge details, citing a confidentiality agreement as well. In short, Indonesia has not given up and is still up for trying to secure a deal with Tesla. In contrast, talks with Musk’s satellite-based internet provider Starlink had progressed further. Luhut noted that a deal on Starlink had been discussed with the President on Monday, while both sides were discussing technical issues in JakartaBesides Tesla, Luhut shared that Ford Motor Company is also planning to enter Indonesia’s EV industry, with representatives of the US carmaker said to be visiting Indonesia on June 20, with interest in the EV industry from upstream to downstream. “The company wants to invest in [the EV industry] end-to-end,” Luhut added. | <urn:uuid:7f950954-b093-42be-ace8-8451d7454251> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://indonesiaminer.com/news/detail/2022-06-17095626-indonesia-woos-tesla-to-set-up-factory-in-its-industrial-estates | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572212.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815205848-20220815235848-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.952797 | 781 | 2.09375 | 2 |
Though changing guitar strings can be challenging, it’s not as complicated as it seems. Every guitar’s sound eventually dims due to the oils on your fingers. If you play your guitar daily, it’s better to change them twice a year.
Know the difference between the types of guitar strings because using the wrong material can disrupt your performance.
Once you’re ready to restring your guitar, set it down on a table with all supplies. Don’t unwrap or uncoil your new strings as yet. Before taking the old strings off, check how they’re attached to the bridge of the guitar.
Follow these steps to complete the process without any hassle.
Removing the Old Strings
Loosen the tuning knobs counterclockwise to lift the strings of the tuning pegs. All guitar strings can be removed at once, including those that are broken or busted. Be careful with any sharp ends and wipe down the entire fretboard.
Inserting the New Strings
You can now insert the new strings through the bridge pins until you catch the end of the string. Insert the other end through the tuning peg hole while protecting your fingers. Pull through the whole string and leave enough of it behind the peg for 4-5 coils. Except for the lowest two strings, you should coil the string ends one more time and insert the end in the peg hole again.
Slowly tighten the tuning peg using your fingers or a string winder and make sure that the string on the peg coils neatly from the bottom up. You can stop once the string reaches a moderate amount of tension.
Trim and Tune
Once you’ve strung all the strings, clip off any excess string past the knobs using wire cutters. Tune them all to the correct pitch with your tuner. It may take a few days for the new strings to settle into their accurate pitch. So, remember to change their days before your big performance.
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As bear activity picks up, wildlife personnel recently had to relocate a grizzly bear from south of Eureka into Glacier National Park.
According to Erik Wenum, a bear and lion specialist with Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks, a 6-year-old 340-pound male grizzly bear was captured on April 6 south of Eureka after killing a calf earlier in the week. USDA Wildlife Services personnel assisted in capturing the grizzly.
The bear had been previously captured in British Columbia during research trapping efforts in the fall of 2011 and was fitted with ear-tags and released.
The bear was examined and radio-collared, and the next day the grizzly was released in Glacier Park in an area seasonally closed for snow and road conditions. There are no known previous management situations involving this bear.
Wenum says four black bears were captured in the last week in the Columbia Falls and Whitefish areas. This level of activity indicates that while many bears may still be denned or close to their dens some have dropped to lower elevations in search of foods, according to FWP.
As temperatures rise and snow melt begins more bears are emerging and dropping to the valley floor. Residents are encouraged to secure any attractants that may have been out during the winter, especially trash, birdfeeders, pet and livestock feeds.
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A 12-year-old cat named Forbes migrated from her home in Aberdeen, Scotland ten years ago. Thanks to a microchip, Forbes is now back with his family, Neil and Lucy Henderson. Long ago they had given up hope of ever seeing their beloved pet again. Now they are “over the moon” and have made a “dream come true”.
“That is simply the best result for us. We never thought we would see him again, ”said Neil Henderson. “It’s like a closed chapter has just opened. It is a dream come true. “
Forbes disappeared in 2011
In March 2011, Forbes went missing from the Aberdeen home and the family began a long search. As part of the effort, a friend made posters and they went door to door looking. While talking to neighbors, they even asked people to check their garages and sheds. But the kitten was nowhere to be seen.
“We had him as a kitten and we had such a special bond.” said Neil. “He was such a unique and kind character, we absolutely adored him.”
Although they looked far and wide, the search was cold. Finally, after almost a year, they thought “the worst could have happened”.
Three years later the couple moved to Edinburgh, 128 miles south.
Forbes is found less than two miles from home
Corresponding the daily record, less than two miles from his home in Aberdeen, Forbes, now skinny with “protruding bones,” he appeared in the Ferrier Gardens area. Corresponding Press and magazine, the cat was hiding under a trampoline.
Then SSPCA Animal Rescue Officer Greg Stevenson went to pick up the cat after receiving a call. When he arrived, Forbes was “very friendly”. Better yet, that cat had a microchip, so the officer soon had the cat’s name, address and contact information. Of course, the officer had no way of knowing how old this information was.
First, Stevenson went to Forbes’ address, however nobody was home. Then he called the phone number and with luck it rang. Soon an enthusiastic Stevenson was on the phone with Lucy Henderson, who was initially speechless. After taking a few minutes, she called her husband to tell him the wonderful news.
“Forbes was found less than two miles from his disappearance, although we have no way of knowing where Forbes was all this time or what adventures he might have been on,” said Stevenson.
Now everyone was thrilled and amazed to hear that Forbes was going home after a full decade.
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When Lucy called her husband, he was driving. So she told him he’d better stop.
“My wife called when I was on the freeway and told me to stop. I was completely unprepared for what was about to be told and when I heard that Forbes was found I was completely amazed, “said Mr. Henderson.
Overwhelmed with emotion, Neil immediately turned and went straight home.
Go back in time
The next day, the couple traveled north to Aberdeen and instantly recognized Forbes. It was like going back in time.
“The whole chapter of my life closed; I tried to put it into words; it’s such a strange mixture of nostalgia. ” he said.
“It takes us back to ten years ago when we were in Aberdeen, the job I had then, the things we did, it’s like time is locked when I look at it.
“It’s like one of those dreams where you wake up and think ‘damn’, but it’s the other way around, I keep looking at it and thinking, ‘Forbes, you’re actually in my house’.”
Now the family has a waking dream every time they see their house cat.
Imagine a Forbes adventure
Meanwhile, Lucy Henderson, a teacher, has shared her experience with her students. Now they are going to write stories imagining what the cat was up to.
“The kids are really excited, they’re going to write little stories and things about the Forbes adventures.”
Mr. Henderson also came up with scenarios of what Forbes was up to.
“I don’t think the reality is what I have in my head, I like to imagine him on a sailboat galloping around the world, but he probably just stepped over Aberdeen.”
Otherwise, he says, it’s possible that Forbes, who once liked to nap, took a very long nap, he muses, like some kind of cat Rip Van Winkle.
Forbes makes up for the lost time
When they first met in ten years, Neil knew immediately that it was Forbes. It also seemed that the cat probably recognized his father.
“… When he was brought out, I recognized him immediately. Forbes cuddled me a lot, so I hope he remembers us. “
After the incredible reunion, Forbes received veterinary care and was in good health other than exposure to mites and worms. After the treatment, Forbes finally returned home and soon found some of his old habits again.
“Since he came home, he has adopted habits that he used to have. In my younger days, I stayed up late and Forbes came in the room and started looking at me until I turned off the video game I was playing and went to bed, ”said Neil.
Then Forbes began making up for lost time and cuddling.
“That was so he could come and snuggle up to me. He’s started doing the same thing again, which is so heartwarming. “
A happy and incredible ending
Today the family has two cats and two dogs, which are slowly introduced to their long-lost cat.
“He stays inside while he gets used to everything and the other animals get used to his smell and vice versa. He explores a new room every day. “
A good reminder of the reception of cats
Who knows where Forbes has lived for the past ten years? Since he was so kind, it seems unlikely that the cat was wild all the time. For Stevenson, it’s a reminder that while tempting, it’s often best not to invite a cat if it’s not your own.
“Due to the migratory nature of cats, they may go missing or return to homes where they were previously fed. No matter how tempting it is to invite a cat that is not yours to your home, please do not do so as this can annoy the owners. “
After ten years it is incredible to see such a reunion that the family had only dreamed of. Now Forbes will enjoy his golden years with the people who love him so much.
“We never thought we would see him again,” said Neil. “It’s like a closed chapter has just opened. It’s a dream come true, ”he said the BBC.
What an amazing story and a great reminder that microchips work and cats can sometimes show up long after one might think it possible. Cats are incredibly resourceful. If only we could ask Forbes what he’s been up to all along.
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Israeli Tech: New Takes on Classic Interactions
About Israeli Tech: The ‘Israeli Tech’ column is a forum for both in-depth explorations of specific start-ups, as well as broader, industry-based analyses. It not only enables readers to learn about and appreciate the tech wonders that have emerged from Israel in the past, but also provides a glimpse of the technology being developed today that may change our lives in the future.
Phone calling and customer service are two forms of interaction that haven’t undergone any innovation or updating in many years, and can even be frustrating at times for users. Two Israeli start-up companies, Yallo and Xprt are attempting to revolutionize phone calling and customer service respectively, and make these more efficient and enjoyable services.
With the advent of texting, Facebook Messenger, and WhatsApp, it should come as no surprise that phone calling has fallen by the wayside. Israeli tech company Yallo is attempting to revolutionize the phone call by adding fun and innovative features to the decades-old method of communication. The company, based in Tel Aviv, was founded in 2012 by Tal Elyashiv and Yosi Taguri and currently has fifteen employees. In an interview with tech site Geektime, Yallo’s CEO Tal Elyashiv remarked that his plans for the future include “continuing to innovate and bring the phone call into the 21st century, for both personal and B2B use.” In explaining why he thinks Yallo will become a success, Elyashiv pointed to the fact that “voice communications have not fulfilled their potential and could undergo as much innovation as texting platforms like WhatsApp have done…” Yallo is already live on the Google Play app store and is coming soon to Apple’s App Store.
Included in Yallo’s product are a whole host of features that that are radically different than the phone calling we know of today. Among the usages of Yallo are firstly that the app automatically re-connects dropped calls, which helps users avoid those few moments of uncertainty when each person doesn’t know who is calling the other one back. Secondly, the app provides the ability to save calls and search through them later, using keywords and phrases. Additionally, Yallo enables users to send an advance notice called ‘Call Caption’ that informs someone why you’re about to call them, and allows users to add extra numbers to a Yallo account, say if you want to have different home and cell phone numbers, or add an international number. In terms of its more fun usages, Yallo allows users to make group calls with existing groups from apps like WhatsApp.
Yallo certainly contains some great ideas - ideas that should’ve been implemented into phone call capabilities long ago - but with the popularity of text messaging, multimedia messaging, and apps like Snapchat, it will be difficult for a phone service, as good as this one may be, to rekindle the seemingly ancient phone call.
A second company, Xprt, is seeking to transform the computer and hardware purchasing experience. Ariel Rosenthal and Uri Katz, the two Israelis who started the company, each have immense experience programming and designing software. Their app, which is available for a free download via the Apple App Store, will provide users the dual functions of computer support, and computer shopping advice. After filling out a short form, users are connected with an experienced professional in under five minutes, and interact with the professional through a live chat. If they are seeking advice on what computer to purchase, they can fill out short forms indicating their price and size preferences, and any other specifics that they are looking for in their new computer. Xprt’s services are free, and when you finish receiving advice on the app, you are asked to rate your expert and also have the option to tip your expert. While obviously a small sample size, the nineteen reviews that the app has received so far on Apple’s App Store indicate that users are happy with this new take the classic customer service interaction. | <urn:uuid:0929608b-6b47-4d80-b4e2-f546f62678a5> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://yucommentator.org/2015/04/israeli-tech-new-takes-on-classic-interactions/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572212.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815205848-20220815235848-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.954335 | 836 | 1.71875 | 2 |
his is about Stevens’ typology of scales and most of the time it’s a red herring in our change measurement.
Interval scaling means that the intervals between scores are mathematical but the ratios are not. The only example in our realm (and hardly in our realm really) is temperature in Celsius/centigrade or Fahrenheit. Each has the property that a temperature of 30 degrees is as much hotter than 20 degrees as 20 degrees is hotter than 10 degrees but in neither scale is 20 degrees twice as hot as 10 degrees: because the zero values are arbitrary.
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On a brisk November afternoon, the University community gathered on the lawn in front of Comenius Hall to rededicate the statue of John Amos Comenius, the great 17th-century Czech philosopher and Moravian bishop who’s considered the father of modern education.
Charles University in Prague first gifted the statue to Moravian College in 1960.
It was created by the renowned Czech sculptor Vincenc Makovsky. A copy of the same statue stands in Naarden in the Netherlands, where Comenius was buried in 1670. Another one is in the Czech city of Uherský Brod, believed to be Comenius’ birthplace.
Last Thursday, a delegation from the Czech community came to campus to rededicate Makovsky’s work. In the video above, Arnost Kares, the Consult General of the Czech Republic in New York, speaks about Comenius’ legacy, the statue of the philosopher behind him. | <urn:uuid:5d7eb228-d413-4b37-b3a7-bba316612e5e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://comenian.org/6710/campus-events/rededication-of-the-comenius-statue/?print=true | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572212.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815205848-20220815235848-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.943601 | 202 | 2.859375 | 3 |
Achieving Equity and Excellence
Immediate Results From the Lessons of High-Poverty, High-Success Schools
Empower students, teachers, and administrators to make dramatic improvements in achievement, behavior, and attendance in a single semester. Bring equitable teaching practices and active learning strategies into the classroom. Improve learning outcomes for students in high-poverty schools and poor socioeconomic backgrounds.
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A strategy guide to equitable classroom practices and immediate results for high-poverty schools
Achieve high performance for all in your school. In Achieving Equity and Excellence, author Douglas Reeves outlines how to make dramatic improvements to student learning, behavior, and attendance in a single semester. Study the mindset of high-poverty, high-success schools and follow their example to implement the equitable and just practices necessary to make student success a sustainable reality.
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- Discover what high-poverty schools do differently to achieve high performance, and learn how to implement these strategies in your classroom.
- Transform any school into an effective and productive school through learner-centered teaching.
- Learn the importance of action during the change process and why action must come before belief to implement equitable teaching practices.
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“Doug Reeves’s book provides an intriguing and convincing update to the ‘effective urban schools’ research of Ronald Edmonds and the British team behind Fifteen Thousand Hours. While some key factors in beat-the-odds schools have remained constant . . . Reeves adds new arrows to our quiver, among them collaborative scoring of student work, cross-disciplinary curriculum units, and nonfiction writing. Achieving Equity and Excellence is a call to arms, urging educators to trust the experience of successful educators to bring equity and excellence to more and more students.”
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“We must have courage and a steadfast, unwavering commitment toward justice in order to address the inequities that exist in education. Achieving Equity and Excellence provides us with the tools to bring words into actions.”
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“Doug Reeves effectively addresses our greatest challenges in instructional practice, educational research, and how we effectively lead schools. His most recent work on equity and excellence exemplifies his commitment to identifying the best research-based practices while keeping the needs of all students at the center of his work. His findings are right on the mark, and his insights are profoundly important for school and district leaders.”
“Insightful, reassuring, and empowering, Achieving Equity and Excellence expands on Douglas Reeves’s original and groundbreaking 90/90/90 research to vividly proclaim the reality that educators serving communities of all backgrounds—in particular, those in poverty—can and must embrace specific actions aligned with a preponderance of evidence that, when implemented, produce both equity and excellence for the students they serve.”
“I highly endorse Doug Reeves’s latest work, Achieving Equity and Excellence. His words come at an opportune time and provide clear guidance on how to ensure that our pursuit of excellence is accompanied by steps toward equity. Doug outlines what an equity mindset looks like and why action is the only true way to differentiate between those who talk about equity and those who will realize it.” | <urn:uuid:43d4c85f-b650-46d5-ab16-ef7b976362aa> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.solutiontree.com/achieving-equity-and-excellence.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571538.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812014923-20220812044923-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.927638 | 1,000 | 3.046875 | 3 |
The job of a citizen is to keep his mouth open.
Studies indicate that the one quality all successful people have is persistence. They are willing to spend more time accomplishing a task and to persevere in the face of many difficult odds.There is a very positive relationship between people’s ability to accomplish any task and the time they ar willing to spend on it.
To live in the presence of great truths and eternal laws, to be led by permanent ideals that is what keeps a man patient when the world ignores him, and calm and unspoiled when the world praises him.
What is the recipe for successful achievement? To my mind there are just four essential ingredients: Choose a career you love . . . Give it the best there is in you . . . Seize your opportunities And be a member of the team. In no country but America, I believe, is it possible to fulfill all four of these requirements.
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The process of creating art is a celebration of life. It is personal, yet objective, abstract, concrete, and fun. It may be heavy with humanity, social, political, historical, spiritual commentary, or gently and lightly touching. If it resonates, it celebrates some essence within. To create art is a gift of joy. To receive and respond to art is a personal revelation. To celebrate art is to celebrate life. Art works!
Aristotle in Ancient Greece wrote, "The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance." It is when the essence of a scene, beings, or object reaches out, touches and speaks to me, that I am compelled to capture that conveyance through the creative process.
When I feel I have completed an artwork, I feel a sense of wholeness; a completeness within myself. The work is more than a product. It's an expression of me - my inward reflection of what the subject has presented both to and through me. In that sense, it becomes part of my being as enriched through the aesthetic process of seeing.
I am profoundly delighted if my work speaks to someone other than me. To sell or not sell is a complex decision, involving a process of parting with myself. When I do decide, however, my aim is to sell at what ought to be an affordable price. I believe art should be accessible, yet admit that I first need time to become accessible. Mea culpa.
Life and art are grand and wondrous journeys. I continue to feel my way in the world, and enjoy the thought of when, where, or how my life might converge with those of others. This road of non-coincidence has so very many reasons to celebrate. Embrace life, and enjoy! | <urn:uuid:7fb32498-d18a-42a4-ad3b-fc6e9f54b51a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://juliegrimaldiartworks.ca/about/artiststatement | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572833.95/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817032054-20220817062054-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.967372 | 369 | 2.125 | 2 |
In the spirit of creating less waste, we were shocked to learn the new statistic that 39 per cent of Brits would rather throw away a dirty appliance than clean it.
Coming from a survey of 2,474 people over the age of 18 who own or rent a home, and conducted by windows furnishings company thomas-sanderson.co.uk, the most commonly replaced items were discovered to be:
- microwave (42 per cent had replaced because it was dirty)
- toaster (28 per cent)
- kettle (13 per cent)
Respondents were also given a list of household appliances and asked to state how regularly they cleaned them.
Refrigerators were found to be the least frequently cleaned item, with an average of 365 days in between cleaning it, followed by washing machines and ovens.
Here's the full list of the 10 least regularly cleaned household appliances.
- Refrigerator – 365 (average number of days between cleaning)
- Washing machine – 123
- Oven – 120
- Freezer – 105
- Toilet – 62
- Microwave – 60
- Sinks – 30
- Shower/bathtub – 21
- Toaster – 14
- Hob – 5
The survey also revealed that 49 per cent of participants said they often wait for someone else to clean the appliance and 38 per cent admitted they didn’t have enough time to clean thoroughly.
Syndey Smith, marketing manager for thomas-sanderson.co.uk, said of the findings: 'The age-old adage of 'if it looks clean it is clean" is obviously a mantra that many live by, but household appliances still need to be cleaned even if they look clean.
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When you’re working out, sweaty and thirsty, you’re likely to think about drinking some water. But it’s just as important to think about it BEFORE you work out and here’s why.
Exercise and Water Basics
When exercising, your muscles contract and generate internal heat. To prevent overheating, the heat must be promptly dissipated via your body’s cooling mechanism (sweating). Sweat cools the surface of the skin and decreases your body temperature.
Maintaining good hydration levels during exercise is critical to regulating body temperature (thermoregulation) and regulating blood pressure. When you’re dehydrated, your body’s mechanism to get rid of heat shuts down which can result in heat exhaustion or worse yet, heat stroke.
By keeping your body adequately hydrated, you can perform at your optimal level. Without adequate water, your neuromuscular activity slows down which affects how fast and how hard your muscles can contract. As a result, you can experience a loss of strength, reduced endurance and/or slower reaction and response times.
Never begin exercising if you’re thirsty. Consuming adequate fluid prior to your workout will improve your athletic performance by increasing your body’s physiological response to exercise. However, if you overcompensate by drinking copious amounts of fluid and/or drink too close to your competition or workout time, frequent trips to the restroom can disrupt your workout as well as your electrolyte balance.
How Much Fluid
Two to four hours before a workout, drink 5-7 ml of fluid per kg body weight. So, if you weigh 130 lbs. (59 kg), you should drink 295- 414 ml (about 10-14 oz). Simply put, the average size person should drink about 1.5 to 2 cups pre-exercise. By doing so, you’ll allow time for your kidneys to process the fluid and excrete any excess. Then drink a little more 5 to 15 minutes before training.
Drinking too much fluid can cause your extra- and intracellular spaces to expand. Studies show there is no clear physiological or performance advantage over a normal state of hydration. Excessive fluid intake can result in hyponatremia, also known as water intoxication, and is more common in marathons or other prolonged activities. In this condition, sodium levels in the blood become dangerously diluted and can be fatal.
Hyponatremia signs and symptoms may include:
- Nausea and vomiting
- Loss of energy and fatigue
- Restlessness and irritability
- Muscle weakness, spasms or cramps
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Excitment In Kuredu’s Lagoon09 Sep 2010
We naturally get all excited about the big creatures such as sharks, manta rays and turtles that we see here so often – but last week this little fellow suddenly jumped right out in front of our lens, posing for a photo shoot and getting our attention back to all the interesting small animals that can be found around Kuredu.
This beauty is a Harlequin shrimp and was found together with its partner in the lagoon where we take our students for their first bubbles underwater.
Harlequin shrimp normally live together as a couple and feed almost exclusively on sea stars (which they slowly consume over the course of a week while the sea star is still alive!). As these creatures are very small at only about 3cm in length they are not so easy to spot, and with the help of their irregular blue blotches on a creamy/peachy background they are very well camouflaged, almost disappearing into the background.
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In rare cases, persistent infection with HPV (an infection that doesn’t clear up) can lead to cervical cancer.
When HPV infects the cells lining the surface of the cervix, it can disrupt the regular functions of the cells, and cause them to grow in an uncontrolled way. Although most HPV infections clear up naturally, some types (especially types 16 and 18) are less likely to clear up on their own. This persistent infection can cause the cells in the cervix to change, which can eventually develop into cervical cancer.
Having the HPV vaccine prior to any sexual activity protects against the main types of HPV that cause cervical cancers. Women who have had the vaccine still need to screen as the vaccine does not protect against all types of HPV that can cause cancer.
Sometimes HPV infections can cause minor changes or abnormalities in the cells. For many women, their body will clear the HPV infection but other times the infection may progress.
If left undetected, HPV infection can progress and cause cells to mutate and divide. This is known as high-grade abnormalities or pre-cancer.
When left untreated, uncontrolled growth of abnormal cells can become cancer. It usually takes about 10-15 years for persistent HPV infection to progress to cancer.
How long does it take for cervical cancer to develop?
It usually takes between 10 and 15 years for a persistent HPV infection to cause cervical cancer.
That’s why having a Cervical Screening Test (the Pap test replacement*) every five years can prevent cervical cancer. If HPV is found, women can either be monitored to ensure the infection clears on its own, or treated if necessary.
How is HPV transmitted?
HPV is passed on by genital skin-to-skin contact between people during sex (including sex between two females). It is not transmitted through blood or other bodily fluids.
This means that all women aged 25-74 who have ever been sexually active need to have a Cervical Screening Test every five years.
What are the symptoms of HPV infection?
Some types of HPV cause genital warts, but most HPV infections have no symptoms or visible signs of infection. Most people with an HPV infection are not aware they have the virus.
Is there a vaccine for HPV?
Yes, there is a vaccine for some types of HPV. While the HPV vaccine protects against certain high risk types of HPV, including 16 and 18, it does not protect against all types of HPV. Women who have had the HPV vaccine still need to have a Cervical Screening Test every five years.
As the HPV vaccine works best before people become sexually active, it is available for girls and boys aged 12-13 through a free school-based program.
The HPV vaccine does not treat an HPV infection that is already in the body.
How is HPV treated?
There is no treatment for HPV, as most people’s immune systems will clear the virus naturally.
However, changes to the cells of your cervix caused by an ongoing HPV infection can be treated. If treatment is needed, your doctor will recommend the most suitable treatment for you.
Should I tell my partner that I have HPV?
If you have an HPV infection, it is likely that your partner has it too. If you or your partner are concerned about HPV, talk to your doctor or go to a sexual health centre for advice.
Remember, HPV is very common, and for most people the infection will clear up naturally within one or two years with no harmful effects.
What about cervical cancers that aren’t caused by HPV?
Cervical cancers that aren’t caused by HPV – called neuroendocrine cancers – are very rare, accounting for less than 1% of all cervical cancers.
There is no effective screening test for neuroendocrine cervical cancers. Neither the Pap test nor the Cervical Screening Test is able to detect these rare cervical cancers.
Having a Cervical Screening Test every five years is still the best way to reduce your risk of developing cervical cancer.
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Syrjanen K, Hakama M, Saarikoski S, Vayrynen M, Yliskoski M, Syrjanen S, et al. Prevalence, incidence, and estimated life-time risk of cervical human papillomavirus infections in a nonselected Finnish female population. Sex Transm Dis 1990;17(1):15—9
Brotherton, Julia ML. How Much Cervical Cancer in Australia is Vaccine Preventable? A Meta-Analysis. Vaccine. 10 January 2008, Vol. 26, 2, pp. 250-256
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One of the dangers of religion is that when not used carefully and thoughtfully, it can lead people into binary thinking.
Which means we're faced with either good or evil. In religious terms, nothing is more good than God and nothing more evil than Satan. One lives in heaven and one in hell. 1 and 2. Black and white. Up and down. No third, fifth or 500th choice.
Reality, of course, is much more complicated than this-or-that thinking. And so are human beings. One of the reasons we Americans today are so politically divided (and divided in many other ways, too) is that many of us tend to engage in binary thinking that oversimplifies reality, thus misleading us -- sometimes on purpose.
I've been thinking about this problem a lot, but recently found some help by reading a book called The Happy Burden of History: From Sovereign Impunity to Responsible Selfhood. One of the four co-authors is someone I know, Andrew S. Bergerson, who teaches history at the University of Missouri-Kansas City and whose area of expertise includes the Holocaust.
In writing about modern German history, the authors say this: "One source of confusion here is that we take human beings at their word when they claim to have a coherent self under their command. Historians, for instance, tend to label people as victims, bystanders or perpetrators; or try to determine, once and for all, if a given German was a real Nazi or just a collaborator.
"They treat the self as if it could be expressed as a simple identity like a = b. We presume a coherent self for at least two reasons. There is a sense of nostalgia for a non-fragmentary self, as if we had once been whole and that antediluvian self has not lost its coherence. There is also a contradiction between the whole self we think we want and the plural self that is the only kind we can have. Either way, the myths of a coherent, cohesive individual dangerously oversimplify the way we think about selfhood in everyday life.
"Human beings are compilations of multiple identities. We are necessarily composed of fragments by virtue of the fact that we act in a variety different ways in a variety of different situations, and these manifold deeds engender identities as divergent as philosopher and thief."
Which raises questions about how we judge and label people. Is someone who broke into a locked-up store to grab a rope to throw to a drowning person guilty of theft? Religion that leads to binary thinking doesn't help us answer that question. But religion that says human life is always more valuable than property gives us a good framework to use to come up with a useful answer.
So that leaves us with the task of evaluating what our religious tradition, if any, teaches us. If it teaches simplistic, binary thinking it will lead us astray eventually. If it teaches us core values that can help us make difficult judgments in a complicated non-binary world, then it's a healthy and helpful religion.
Our hunger for simplistic answers is understandable but ultimately such answers will hide more than they reveal and will leave us with a view of the world that is badly out of focus, inevitably causing us to make bad decisions.
(P.S.: Bergerson is scheduled to be one of the speakers in a series of talks that will accompany the "Auschwitz: Not Long Ago, Not Far Away" exhibit that opens June 14 at Union Station in Kansas City. My next Flatland column, scheduled to post May 30, will have some thoughts about that exhibit.)
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WHEN RELIGIOUS RULES ARE DEFIED
How does change happen in institutional religion? Sometimes via people willing to challenge current rules. For instance, the Vatican says that Catholic priests are not allowed to preside at same-sex weddings. But as this RNS story reports, "Germany’s powerful Catholic progressives are openly defying a recent Holy See pronouncement that priests cannot bless same-sex unions by offering such blessings at services in about 100 different churches all over the country this week." Something similar happened in the 1960s when the Vatican declared that artificial birth control methods were forbidden. Especially in America, women defied that ruling in droves. The Vatican never changed its mind, but the practice changed in the U.S. Maybe that's what will happen in Germany now. And from there it may spread until the Vatican is following on this issue, not leading. It's not quite what's known as "civil disobedience," but it's close. Another example of a faith community defying the rules: The recent ordination of three women at a Southern Baptist church despite denominational rules against ordaining women to ministry.
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Our Past, Present and Future: Cocaine in Our Society Part 1 of 6
the material in this course, you should have a better understanding of Cocaine’s
history of the Past, Present and its Future. You will also learn about the role
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Because God Does Not Give Up on Us, We Can Have Hope
Read Isaiah 2:1-4; Psalm 122 & 123 & Matthew 24: 36-44
Unlike the northern hemisphere of our world, where the church liturgical calendar was first shaped, today is at the beginning of summer. We miss the impact of days growing shorter and cooler, waiting for the winter solstice to reverse the dimming of the days, and thus we also miss out on the experience of rejoicing as the light breaks into the darkest time of the year. This is the reason the Church chose December 25th to celebrate Jesus’ birth, so we in the southern hemisphere have to find a different symbol for Christmas.
Of course, summer in Australia is a natural time for celebration anyway. Even in times of drought or flood or bush fire; even in the face of these, there is new life and new growth to be seen, ripeness and richness, as plant and bush and tree display their many colours against the brown of this great south land. Nature is a gift in early Summer in Australia. And we anticipate its arrival eagerly, but Christmas is presented in quite a different context.
Yes, today is the first Sunday in Advent and also the first Sunday in the new church liturgical year, but the readings set down in the Common Lectionary for today seem to have little to do with our perceptions of either Advent or the coming Christmas season or the start of a new year. For instance, if we look at Matthew, today’s reading comes about 9/10ths of the way through the book; closer to the end of the story than to the beginning, so it comes to us totally out of context. These readings paint diverse pictures of a world quite different from ours today. And not only that, these readings are not directed to a time thousands of years later, into our time, as seems to be assumed by those who shaped the Lectionary, so what are we to glean from them for today?
Theologian John Cobb suggests that those who have selected these passages “understand Advent to be the season of anticipation, of expectancy, and hope generally… (And) in all the texts the hope is grounded in faith in God.” As hope is the theme for the first Sunday in Advent, I think we have our answer.
The hope which keeps us going is far deeper and more fundamental to our faith than we realise. “Hope has survived repeated disappointments in the past. It will survive many more in the future. It will do so as long as we believe in the biblical God,” says Cobb.
But hope is a slippery concept, as I found when I was studying for the ministry and made it my year-long thesis topic in my final year. Many of the things that typically would be categorised as hopes are not really. St. Paul said, “hopes that are seen are not hopes,” which tends to eliminate almost every one of our ‘hopes’. We usually follow the words, “I hope” with an object; e.g. I hope I get a new bicycle for Christmas or I hope my wife’s sore shoulder improves or I hope peace comes to the world one day. True hope, in St. Paul’s mind, has no object; one simply hopes, and leaves the nature of the outcome to God. In other words, one simply has faith, and hope follows.
It would also be a mistake, however, to assume that hope depends on God acting independently of human beings. In my experience, God does not act in history except through human beings. This realisation can be a bit of a shock to those who believe God is all-powerful or could ‘do something’ in various situations. How does this work? It is quite simple really. If, in faith, I hope, I will then act according accordingly. In other words, despite all signs to the contrary, I will pursue life in the way of Jesus. I will live as if I lived in the kingdom of God, despite the absence of any signs of its presence. If I actively live in hope, there is the chance the world will change, but if I don’t, the chances for a better words become that much slimmer.
John Cobb explains his comment a bit more: “God works in (people’s) hope for peace and justice, but the world turns to violence and oppression. Still God’s work is not futile. Here and there it succeeds, encouraging the hope for wider and more inclusive success. That success depends on our response to God’s invitation to share in the achievement of God’s purposes. And our hope depends on the assurance that God does not give up on us.”
Despite frustration and disappointment, we are still called to be a people of hope. Hope is what is handed down from parent to child to grandchild, etc, not merely as a package passed from one generation to another, but as hope which is alive in parent, child and which is now alive in the child of the third generation.
Today is the first Sunday in Advent; a time of waiting… a time of change… a time of hope.
Indeed, as I have already suggested, in none of the Three Year Lectionary stories set for the first Sunday of Advent are three stories of babies or shepherds or stars or lullabies. Rather, today’s readings are saying that the world, as we know it, is about to change. Their message is ‘wake up, pay attention, get ready’; strange words, but maybe we need something jarring to lift us out of our complacency and wake up to something new.
So, in the face of waiting, of change, yet in the continuation of hope itself, listen to a couple of ‘continuing hope’ stories.
In Dresden, the German city that was devastated by the fire bombing at the end of the World War 2, there was a wonderful discovery. Found in the ruins was a musical score that had survived the fire and devastation. It was the score to Albinoni’s ‘Adagio for Strings and Orchestra in G Minor’.
In the midst of this devastation of war – the very worst that we do to each other – there survived something of the most beautiful that we create for each other. So the Albinoni piece became a sign of hope. And it has been used that way.
During the siege of Sarajevo during the Balkans War, the city was shelled month after month, every single night. On one of those nights a group of people standing in line in front of a bakery were waiting to buy bread. A mortar shell fell right in the middle of them. Twenty-two people were killed. Innocent people. Hungry people. Wanting to buy bread.
A few days later, at the same spot, in front of the burned out bakery, a man named Vedran Smailovic placed a chair, and began to play his cello. For 22 days he played his cello, one day in memory for each one of the people who had been killed at that spot.
Now the gesture itself was wonderful, playing music. But what gave it deeper significance is the music he played each day was the ‘Adagio for Strings and Orchestra in G Minor’.
It is told that when God finished with Creation, God had a desire to leave something behind, just a small piece of divinity and wholeness so humans could experience this delight. But God was a bit of a trickster too, so God didn’t want this to be too easy for human beings.
God wasn’t sure, at first, where to put this special something, so God consulted the other living things in creation. Someone suggested in the stars and God replied, “No, I have this feeling that one day humankind will explore space and they will find it.”
Someone else suggested hiding it in the depths of the ocean. God thought about it for a moment and answered, “No, I sense that some day humankind will explore the deepest places in the seas.” Again, it was too easy.
Then suddenly, God had it! “I know where I’ll put this special something, a place where they will never look! I’ll hide it in the human heart; they will never look there.” And so it was. And so it has been ever since.
Hope. We have it. Without it, we can not live. Advent hope calls to us to breathe, to pause, and to shake off the doldrums and fear. For this Advent hope, first announced by angels to shepherds, means that despite appearances, men of violence are no longer in control of history; that those who would seek to determine history’s outcome through violence will never succeed. When the angels announced the coming of the Christ to the shepherds their first words are ‘fear not’.
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Working from home in 2020 might involve a networked computer and video conferencing but if you are working from your kitchen table, you have more in common with a 19th century home worker than you might expect.
Picture anywhere between half a dozen to a dozen children gathered on a flagged or earth kitchen floor in the kitchen of a roadside cottage, receiving rudimentary lessons perhaps in reading or sewing from an elderly woman, and you have what was a fairly typical example of a 19th century dame school.
There was no national system of education before the 19th century, and the opportunities for a formal education were restricted mainly to town grammar schools, charity schools and dame schools. In the 19th century two societies were responsible for much elementary education; The British and Foreign Schools Society (named such in 1814) was founded by two Quakers in 1808, and the National Society for the Education of the Poor in the Principles of the Established Church throughout England and Wales for Anglicans was formed in 1811 from the Society for the Promotion of Christian Knowledge. The schools built by these societies are commonly referred to as British Schools and National Schools but for areas without access to these schools, a dame school would have been one of the few options. It was not until 1870 the Education Act paved the way for state run schools by providing for the election of school boards, with the power to build and manage schools where provision by the two voluntary societies was inadequate. And in 1902 the responsibility for providing elementary, secondary and technical education passed to 330 Local Education Authorities (LEAs). You can find out more about education in Wiltshire through the centuries and the kinds of records that you can find in another of our blogs “Schools Out for Summer!”
There are few records for dame schools, although 19th century parliamentary report provide some information. Nevertheless, we know they were a feature of education for several centuries: in the mid-17th century Charles Hoole wrote in A New Discovery of the Old Art of Teaching Schoole that education was too important to be be ‘left as a work for poor women, or others, whose necessities compel them to undertake it, as a mere shelter from beggary’.
A valuable picture of education in the mid-19th century is also given by the return prepared by the Revd. W. Warburton, H.M.I., to a House of Commons order in 1859. The resulting Account of Schools for Children of the Labouring Classes in Wilts (available at the History Centre under shelfmark AAA.372) gives details of attendance, staffing, buildings, equipment, and curriculum every school open to inspection, usually with comments on teachers, pupils, and management. There were 140 day schools liable to inspection and 428 others (including dame schools). The number of dame schools is not precise but Warburton estimates the number of children attending dame schools as about 1,900 (approximately 6% of the total number of scholars in Wiltshire at the time). It is likely there were between 100-200 dame schools in Wiltshire in the mid-19th century.
The second half of the century saw an overall decline in dame schools following the introduction of government grants for the building and improvement of schools. For example, prior to 1858 a dame school with 20 to 30 children existed in Collingbourne Ducis but this closed following the construction of the new parochial school in 1859. However, some dame schools survived and even continued to be established: Warburton remarked that ‘They are not uncommonly set up, especially by the dissenting bodies, as a tentative step, in order to discover whether a more regularly constituted school would be likely to draw in a given place’. As well as to test local demand for education, they were set up due to the need of the mistress to earn an income: Warburton notes ‘It is difficult to exaggerate the shifting, changeable character of private dames’ schools, owing their origin as they do, in many cases, not to the educational necessities of the district, but to the domestic necessities of the teacher.’
The following examples of communities where dame schools existed can be found on our Community History pages (which are well worth checking out!)
We have recently received the first part of series of deeds from the Salisbury diocesan registrar which will be an important source for local historians. In the early 19th century, two enabling Acts of parliament permitted the exchange of land and property in order to improve the estates which supported parish clergy, known as glebe. Each incumbent was tenant for his term of office, without power to buy or sell. Now it was possible to rationalise scattered glebe lands and to acquire new parsonages or vicarage houses. The deeds have detailed maps, often the earliest for the land being exchanged. Highlights among the first batch include a deed of 1817 for Long Newnton (now in Gloucestershire) with a plan of the entire glebe, surveyed by John Hayward, Rowde in 1811.
But the star of the group is an 1826 deed of houses in St Mary Street Chippenham. The plan offers a detailed ground plan of both houses with less detailed one of the church. The then present vicarage house, on the east side of the churchyard was exchanged for one on the other side of the street opposite the church. It has the date stone GL 1717, which refers to Gilbert Lake, vicar from 1716. The new vicarage, now a care home, is called The Old Vicarage. The other property now called St Mary House, should perhaps be named ‘The Even Older Vicarage House’. | <urn:uuid:bdb70f45-20a0-4861-bd0c-c47467f948ea> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://wshc.org.uk/blog/tag/Rowde.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572212.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815205848-20220815235848-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.976865 | 1,186 | 2.59375 | 3 |
'Tis fine to see the Old World, and travel up and down Among the famous palaces and cities of renown, To admire the crumbly castles and the statues of the kings, -- But now I think I've had enough of antiquated things.
So it's home again, and home again, America for me! My heart is turning home again, and there I long to be, In the land of youth and freedom beyond the ocean bars, Where the air is full of sunlight and the flag is full of stars.
Oh, London is a man's town, there's power in the air; And Paris is a woman's town, with flowers in her hair; And it's sweet to dream in Venice, and it's great to study Rome; But when it comes to living there is no place like home.
I like the German fir-woods, in green battalions drilled; I like the gardens of Versailles with flashing fountains filled; But, oh, to take your hand, my dear, and ramble for a day In the friendly western woodland where Nature has her way!
I know that Europe's wonderful, yet something seems to lack: The Past is too much with her, and the people looking back. But the glory of the Present is to make the Future free, -- We love our land for what she is and what she is to be.
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British women may enjoy a glass of wine every now and then during pregnancy, but in the United States, drinking while pregnant is fraught. Forty-three US states have regulations around the practice, which range from prohibiting criminal prosecution of pregnant women who drink alcohol to mandating rehab for pregnant women who drink alcohol. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) pegs the number of American women at risk of alcohol-exposed pregnancy at more than 3 million, a controversial figure that includes any woman who consumes alcohol without being on birth control.
To be sure, exposing a fetus to high levels of alcohol is harmful, and can cause all sorts of disabilities. But a study published this week in the journal Alcohol and Alcoholism found an interesting correlation: States with more punitive laws about drinking during pregnancy also had restrictive abortion laws.
“No one is paying attention to [these] state-level policies,” says Sarah Roberts, a professor at the University of California who led the study. “We don’t know whether they have an effect.”
Roberts points out that, while there has been little to no research on the effects of punitive policies surrounding pregnancy and alcohol, there have been studies around attempts to curb other alcohol-related behavior, including drinking and driving. But there isn’t much overlap between states with aggressive alcohol/pregnancy regulations and states with aggressive drinking/driving regulations. Roberts says that disconnect suggests certain states are policing women under the guise of policing drinking.
The study also found that the US has been adopting more punitive alcohol/pregnancy policies of late, a trend that mirrors a recent increase in restrictive policies around reproductive rights. Currently, 21 US states have policies requiring that pregnant women who consume alcohol be reported to child services, 20 consider the women liable for child abuse, and five recommend civil commitment.
Roberts says the study’s findings “reinforce the idea that there is some other motive [behind punitive policies],” which the paper defines as “efforts to restrict women’s reproductive autonomy rather than efforts to have policies effective at reducing alcohol-related harms.”
Supporters of punitive laws against substance abuse during pregnancy don’t disagree: They are more concerned with defending the rights of the fetus than dissuading adults from consuming alcohol. “Child abuse is child abuse, whether it’s in the womb or out of it,” a representative of pro-life group Personhood USA said in 2013. Research has found that legally protecting a fetus as a child inevitably ends up crossing the line into abortion rights.
Roberts says punitive measures around drug use during pregnancy have shown how ineffective such policies can be, noting that they can even prevent women from seeking medical care for fear of getting in trouble. Her team plans to keep digging on those questions of efficacy as they relate to alcohol and pregnancy. | <urn:uuid:7bd113a4-a03c-4090-8e1c-58036bc0c190> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://qz.com/1045856/americas-laws-about-alcohol-during-pregnancy-are-more-about-restricting-reproductive-rights-than-reducing-harmful-drinking/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571911.5/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813081639-20220813111639-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.960147 | 584 | 2.734375 | 3 |
Are you being chased by a spider in your home? You may be wondering if you should use spider spray or not. Spider pest control Newcastle uses spray to kill spiders in your home.
Spray for spiders can be used to kill these bugs in your home or garden.
Spider sprays like those made by Spider Defense and Bio-Kill are recommended for killing spiders.
Spray for spiders is better than using chemicals because it works without the need for pesticides or insecticides.
Toxic chemicals can cause allergic reactions and even death from exposure to spider venom which makes them very dangerous.
Spider sprays like those made by Spider Defense are safer than chemical sprays because they work without the need for pesticides or insecticides.
The only difference between these sprays is that some have been approved by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) while others have not yet received this designation because they contain ingredients that have been proven safe but could still pose health risks if inhaled, ingested, absorbed through skin contact with clothing etc.
The short answer is definitely yes.
Spider sprays are extremely effective in deterring spiders from entering your home.
The active ingredient in spider sprays is an essential oil, peppermint oil to be exact, which the spiders find overpowering and unpleasant.
Most spider sprays are 100% natural and safe for humans and pets if used as directed.
Spraying the product around the perimeter of your home will not only keep spiders out but will also repel insects, rodents and other pests.
Take into consideration the pros and cons of spider sprays:
- Easy to use.
- No clean up necessary.
- No worries about deceased spiders and their eggs being somewhere in your home.
- No need to worry about accidentally killing beneficial insects such as ladybugs, praying mantises, or bees when spraying.
- Fast-acting on contact.
Spider sprays typically contain a pyrethrin, which is a neurotoxin derived from chrysanthemum plants. Pyrethrins can cause respiratory issues in some people and should be used with caution around children and pets. When using any insecticide, always follow the directions on the label to ensure safe use.
Spider sprays are only effective on direct contact with the spider, so if you have a large infestation with lots of spiders hiding out in cracks and crevices, it won’t be particularly helpful for your situation.
With the warmer weather, we are seeing more spiders around the home. As people who pride ourselves on being Earth friendly, we often ask ourselves, “Should we be spraying for spiders?”
Generally speaking, the answer to this question is no. Spiders are one of nature’s best predators and can help eliminate many pests that cause damage to our homes and yards. They also eat flies and mosquitoes, which can be a real problem in the warmer months. Another reason to leave spiders alone is that they are not known to transmit diseases through their bites.
Spider sprays are most effective when applied directly to spiders and egg sacs, which means you will likely need to locate where these are hiding in your home. Unless you have a serious infestation on your hands or an arachnophobe in your household, it’s best to just let them do their thing and pick up a few spider catchers for removal instead of spraying for them.
The two most common types of spider sprays are pyrethrin and pyrethroids. Pyrethrins are a natural insecticide made from chrysanthemums. Pyrethroids are synthetic chemicals that are designed to act like pyrethrins. Both types of sprays can be effective, but there are some differences:
*Pyrethrins work quickly, killing insects on contact. But they also break down quickly in sunlight and may not kill insects that return to the treated area after a short period of time. They are generally considered a safer choice, especially for the environment.
Pyrethroids have a longer residual effect than pyrethrins, so they may keep working after the spray has dried and keep killing insects that come into contact with treated areas for an extended period of time. They may be effective against species that pyrethrins aren’t and have minimal environmental impact as well. | <urn:uuid:4e90ceef-f079-451e-9026-fbc6e6bb69b8> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.totalcaretravel.net/wp/2022/03/30/spider-spray-or-not-and-which-is-more-effective/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572212.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815205848-20220815235848-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.954081 | 899 | 2.046875 | 2 |
Director of the Catholic Information Center, Father Abdo Abu Kasam, said that what happened in the Syrian town of Ma’loula is the result of violence and the senseless war under the guise of democracy and freedoms.
In a statement he made to Al-Manar Website Friday, Abu Kasam wondered: “What freedoms they are seeking in a time when churches are violated and houses of worship are burnt which is supposed to be a place to build love”.
“Attacking the holy sites of Christianity affects the Christian heritage and entity. Ma’loula is an ancient city which houses monasteries and not barricades, where you hear the bells ringing not the sound of guns, where people pray and do not slaughter,” the Father told Al-Manar Website.
“Pope Francis has called on the international community, the G20 leaders, the United Nations and the ambassadors accredited to the Holy See to say ‘stop the violence in Syria and come to establish and build a culture of peace and stand against the war which would be launched on Syria and to help its people instead’ just like the Pope did when he called for a day of prayer for Syria”, Abu Kasam went on to say.
Abu Kasam stressed that “war only generates war and violence only generates violence”.
“Do Muslims accept the churches to be violated?”, Abu Kasam asked, adding that he was waiting for an official stance of the Islamic clerics, pointing out that Islam is a religion of mercy and not of cracking, killing and slaughter.
“Come to meet for the one word to build a culture of peace among ourselves”, Father Abu Kasam concluded, calling upon those who support the armed groups in Syria to reconsider their accounts and learn more on those whom they support, feed and finance.
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