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Original Article Published On The Jewish Ledger
It is not easy to define “Jewish music.” And it is even more difficult to define Jewish “religious” music.
Fortunately, Boston’s Robert Cohen, writer, lecturer and music historian, has been tackling questions of Jewish music for many years. He has just released a compilation CD of contemporary music, “Open the Gates: New American- Jewish Music for Prayer, Vol. 1.”
Cohen asks provocatively in the liner notes, “Jewish religious music that sounds like American folk or roots music rather than Eastern Europe, the Sephardic Mediterranean, or Israel? That owes more to Woody Guthrie or Judy Collins than to the great cantor Yossele Rosenblatt, more to Peter, Paul & Mary than to the synagogue choirs of the 19th and early 20th centuries.” Travel the country and visit synagogues and you will hear worship services which run the gamut – from the traditional to upbeat to folksy.
Cohen has been sharing his musical and historical expertise through a series of lectures on Jewish music at the JCC of Greater New Haven. The lectures are part of a year-long celebration of the 350th anniversary of Jewish Life in America.
Cohen’s first lecture, entitled “The American-Jewish Immigrant Experience in Song” addressed the issue of music as social l history. Cohen’s second lecture, was entitled “Jewish Music Into the Mainstream: Themes in Popular, Classical and Folk.” In this talk, Cohen noted, “Throughout the past century, American-Jewish composers and some non-Jewish musicians as well have infused mainstream musical forms and styles: from popular song and musical theater to folk, bluegrass and country and from classical and jazz to reggae and world music.”
Cohen’s final lecture at the JCC of Greater New Haven will take place on Tuesday, Dec. 21, at 7:30pm In “American-Jewish Music Comes of Age,” Cohen will lead the audience through an exhilarating range of styles, with a focus on Hassidic and American folk music, and consider the key sources and influences behind this musical renaissance.
Cohen is perhaps best known for the documentary he wrote for NPR, entitled “One People, Many Voices.” The documentary, broadcast on NPR, incorporated 100 pieces of contemporary music and was narrated by Theodore Bikel. The program is now part of the permanent collection of the Museum of TV and Radio in New York City. Cohen has also been a featured speaker on both Jewish music and American folk and popular music at the New York Council for the Humanities. | <urn:uuid:563c22a4-3909-444e-b123-3c0f8502b309> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://howardblas.com/2004/12/17/music-historian-to-conclude-series-at-jcc/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572833.95/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817032054-20220817062054-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.952208 | 563 | 2.59375 | 3 |
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Costs of forestry practices have been reported periodically for the South for over 60 years, with few analyses of the cost trends. We report on an ana...Read more
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To estimate the impact of weather on rural income changes over time, this study combines data from the panel subsample of the latest Vietnam Household...Read more | <urn:uuid:189f2727-ccbb-4c55-b347-a955a2bab3bd> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.britishecologicalsociety.org/applied-ecology-resources/search/?term=wages | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572833.95/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817032054-20220817062054-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.904102 | 178 | 1.851563 | 2 |
Nope, CBD products are not legal in all states. While CBD is still considered illegal under federal law, as it is derived from the cannabis plant (which is classified as a Schedule 1 drug), its medicinal use is legal in 44 U.S. states.
In the 28 states that have legalized medical marijuana, CBD falls under that category. Additionally, 16 states have legalized CBD-only products. However, in states that have opted to allow CBD medicine, but not THC, products can still be difficult to obtain, as there is no market or infrastructure in which to sell them. | <urn:uuid:42ac168f-00c5-45cb-8da8-08c5e5b88e72> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://hellomd.com/questions-and-answers/are-cbd-patches-legal-in-all-states/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572833.95/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817032054-20220817062054-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.982701 | 124 | 1.835938 | 2 |
Before introducing modern technology, everything that was being done was manual, which made most of the work done during that time go slow. For the last ten years since modern technology, everything has changed, and people now live in a virtual environment. The physical environment is slowly diminishing as even a small child is aware of the online staff. People prefer the virtual environment because it’s a fantastic place where anyone can be what they want and do what they want. As technology advances and becomes cheaper, it will reach a point where it will be difficult to separate the physical from the virtual environment.
Andrew Napolitano believes that technology has several benefits and has led to the development in various sectors. Some of the industries that have developed due to modern technology include education, business, transport, and agriculture. Even though modern technology has several advantages, technology also has some adverse effects, according to Napolitano. This has even led to several mental health damages, especially for the youths who spend most of their time on the internet.
Peoples’ reliance on modern technology has immensely increased over the last ten years, and they now rely on it for their daily activities. Some of the sectors that have relied on modern technology for their operation include:
Since the introduction of modern technology, many people have increasingly relied on it for education in the last decade. The education sector has also made a lot of changes in its mode of operation due to technology. Especially during this outbreak of the covid-19 pandemic, people have relied on the internet for their studies due to the government’s restrictions to maintain social distance. Students can now access their classes through the online platform without having to attend the physical levels. People can also Google any topic of their interest or their course of interest and get educated online.
People have increasingly relied on technology for the operation of their business. People no longer rely on the physical market but the online market because most people spend most of their time. People can also purchase their favorite items online, and the process is quicker than having to move physically to the market. The products are posted online. Customers also do booking and payment online, and then the product gets delivered to their place of residence.
In the transport sector, modern technology has also contributed to several changes. People can now book their traveling tickets online that has made the process quicker than in the old times where people used to flock to one office for the procedure. It has also made people save a lot because they have to incur traveling to the far offices.
Technology has brought a lot of changes in different sectors that contributed to a lot of developments. However, it has also contributed negatively, especially to the young generation. | <urn:uuid:340a041d-0216-4b6a-ae64-6c4e87a9a7af> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.entreprenerd.net/reliance-on-technology/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572212.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815205848-20220815235848-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.980274 | 553 | 3.140625 | 3 |
Traversing southern Kentucky’s byways, an unsuspecting motorist may happen upon a country cemetery with gabled sheds over a gravesite and its tombstone. Other states have a few remaining grave houses, too, but many of Kentucky’s have been especially well maintained and have been recorded for posterity by Bowling Green’s peripatetic Jonathan Jeffrey.
Writing in the Fall 2011 issue of Kentucky Humanities, Jeffrey notes that the phenomenon may have its origins either in England or in American Indian tradition. What motivates the grieving to build the structures is, understandably, and according to Jeffrey, the concept of “posthumous exhibition of affection.” Mourning by another name, perhaps, but with a touch of veneration thrown in.
Another explanation may come from the fear of a mythical creature that was something of a cross between a weasel and an anteater that would burrow into the graves. More likely is the simple desire to protect the site from erosion and grazing livestock that may happen by. Far fewer of the sheds are built these days than had been the case in the early twentieth century, what with the “ground” rules imposed by many municipal cemeteries, but knowledge of the tradition hasn’t entirely passed, thanks to the, uh, undying curiosity and enthusiasm of folklorists like Jeffrey. | <urn:uuid:45b5d3ab-d4ce-46a4-a62c-68c87e8c87c6> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.neh.gov/humanities/2012/marchapril/curio/houses-spirits | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572833.95/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817032054-20220817062054-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.961398 | 279 | 3 | 3 |
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J&J Vision supports cataract education
Author: Lucy Patchett
Johnson & Johnson Vision supported UK ophthalmologists with patient education materials as part of Cataract Awareness Month in June.
J&J Vision connected with eye care professionals to provide downloadable materials on laser cataract systems, intraocular lenses and refractive laser treatments.
It developed the DocFinder tool to help improve or accelerate access to treatment and educate people about the importance of regular eye exams. This has launched in the US and should launch in Europe in 2023.
Sam Whiting, general manager UK and Ireland of surgical vision at J&J Vision, said: ‘Over 330,000 cataract operations are performed each year in England but we want to continue to build patients’ understanding and access to solutions.’ | <urn:uuid:558668a4-1198-4c59-b6ba-697d85b62b87> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.opticianonline.net/news/jj-vision-supports-cataract-education | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572212.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815205848-20220815235848-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.912181 | 178 | 1.546875 | 2 |
File photo of Maryna Viazovska. (Image credit: @Gerashchenko_en) Photograph:( Twitter )
Maryna Viazovska is only the second woman to win the prize for proving the best way to pack spheres in eight dimensions to take up the least space
Ukraine's Maryna Viazovska becomes the only second woman to be awarded the prestigious Fields medal. Including Viazovska, a total of four mathematicians shared the prestigious Fields medals on Tuesday (July 5) the International Mathematical Union jury said. The Fields medal is dubbed the Nobel prize for mathematics.
Apart from Viazovska, the other medal winners are France's Hugo Duminil-Copin, US-based June Huh and Britain's James Maynard. The award-giving ceremony was held in Finland's Helsinki as the initially chosen venue, Saint Petersburg, was replaced after Russia invaded Ukraine in late February.
Who is Maryna Viazovska?
Viazovska was born in 1984 in Ukraine, then it was still a part of the Soviet Union.
In the history of over 80 years, Viazovska is only the second woman to win the prize for proving the best way to pack spheres in eight dimensions to take up the least space. It was a centuries-old mathematical problem.
She proved the densest packing of identical spheres in eight dimensions. The "sphere packing problem" dates back to the 16th century when the question of how cannonballs should be stacked to achieve the densest possible solution was poised.
She said her life "changed forever" when Russia invaded her home country. Her parents and sisters were living in Ukraine's capital, Kyiv, when the war began.
While receiving the prize, she said at a ceremony in Helsinki: "I could not think of anything else, including mathematics."
As reported by AFP, she has been a professor at the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne in Switzerland since 2017.
Maryam Mirzakhani was the first woman to win the prize in 2014. She was an Iranian-born mathematician who died three years later in 2017 after a battle with cancer.
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Purpose: We examined the role of DNA copy number variants (CNVs) of known glaucoma genes in relation to primary open angle glaucoma (POAG).
Methods: Our study included DNA samples from two studies (NEIGHBOR and GLAUGEN). All the samples were genotyped with the Illumina Human660W_Quad_v1 BeadChip. After removing non–blood-derived and amplified DNA samples, we applied quality control steps based on the mean Log R Ratio and the mean B allele frequency. Subsequently, data from 3057 DNA samples (1599 cases and 1458 controls) were analyzed with PennCNV software. We defined CNVs as those ≥5 kilobases (kb) in size and interrogated by ≥5 consecutive probes. We further limited our investigation to CNVs in known POAG-related genes, including CDKN2B-AS1, TMCO1, SIX1/SIX6, CAV1/CAV2, the LRP12-ZFPM2 region, GAS7, ATOH7, FNDC3B, CYP1B1, MYOC, OPTN, WDR36, SRBD1, TBK1, and GALC.
Results: Genomic duplications of CDKN2B-AS1 and TMCO1 were each found in a single case. Two cases carried duplications in the GAS7 region. Genomic deletions of SIX6 and ATOH7 were each identified in one case. One case carried a TBK1 deletion and another case carried a TBK1 duplication. No controls had duplications or deletions in these six genes. A single control had a duplication in the MYOC region. Deletions of GALC were observed in five cases and two controls.
Conclusions: The CNV analysis of a large set of cases and controls revealed the presence of rare CNVs in known POAG susceptibility genes. Our data suggest that these rare CNVs may contribute to POAG pathogenesis and merit functional evaluation.
- DNA copy number variants
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The Sacred Nights of Antinous have come and gone again for 2013, and a variety of insights and experiences have arisen out of them this year for me and some of my co-religionists. While I'll be taking apart some of those in different fashions on my personal blog over the coming weeks, I wanted to bring out one important insight that has been an adjunct to those here, as it is something that is often overlooked, assumed, or misunderstood by the wider modern Pagan movement.
That insight is the title of this column: polytheism is not relativism. But, it needs a bit more explanation than that, I suspect.
I should note here that my own notions about and understandings of polytheism have not been static, and are not currently what they have been at various points in the past. I think my evolving understanding of it -- in the context of both my own deepening experiences with deities and other varieties of divine being, and my increased knowledge of the long legacy of polytheism in human history through many different cultures -- is better now than it was when I first started out as a modern Pagan more than twenty years ago, and when I first started out as an Antinoan more than eleven years ago. I've gone through periods of softer polytheism, and even monism at certain points, usually under the influence of people that I considered to be my spiritual superiors in whom I placed a great deal of trust and questioned very little (which is what they wanted, despite arguing to the contrary!). I wish that my current refined and nuanced understanding had been with me at a much earlier date, as it would have saved me a great deal of difficulty.
The fundamental difference between monotheism and polytheism -- perhaps it need not be said -- is that there are many deities rather than only one. The natural inferences that follow are manifold, but one of them is that if there are deities in more than one number, then the ultimate explanations and divine motivations that can inform human life are multiple rather than singular. Even with the diversity of deities that polytheism admits, there is a further corollary acknowledgement of a great variety of ways to approach each deity, to interact with them, to perceive them, and to worship or be devoted to them. They appear in a diversity of forms, often with a multitude of epithets and by-names to accompany this cavalcade of appearances and functions.
An earlier, less-refined version of myself would characterize this feature of polytheism as indicating that "truth" is not singular, but that it is instead multiple. Indeed, it isn't even proper to speak of "truth" as an "it" which is multiple (which would be monistic!), but instead as a "them," since they truly are multiple! This is a pluralistic viewpoint, and one that I think accords well with not only my experience of reality, but also with what the most current findings of science indicate about reality. (This is the case especially with biology, but also with physics; there are four fundamental interactions/forces and six flavors/types of quarks, which looks much more like polytheism than monism, despite what many monists have tried to say about science!) This viewpoint translates easily into an ethic of individual respect, of valuing personal and individualized relationships with everything (whether humans, deities, or any aspect of our spiritual or material environment), and of seeking one's own answers to every important question rather than placing any trust in creedal statements or one-size-fits-all answers. I still hold all of the latter to be the hallmarks of my own approach to life.
The less-refined aspect of the above, though, is the lack of a caveat on the notion that "there are many truths." Yes, I think there are many truths, but "many" does not automatically mean every or any; and it certainly doesn't mean that all things are truly equal, and thus there is no "real truth." And, I suspect, this is where a huge number of modern Pagans and polytheists over-read pluralism, and think it means "anything goes," or the all-too-common maxim "nothing is true, all is permissible" (paraphrased slightly from Vladimir Bartol's Alamut).
Let me give an example, from my viewpoint and experience, and with particular relevance to the nature and purpose of the present column and my overall project here at the Patheos Pagan Channel. Under no circumstances can anyone ever convince me that homoeroticism or gender variance is "evil" or "unnatural." Both of these occur in nature, amongst species who have no interactions with or influence from humans, spontaneously and with enough regularity to demonstrate that they are common biological variations and add to the diversity and strength of a population. There are many religious people (from a plethora of religions, though some seem to hold it as a tenet almost as important as their belief in a supposedly singular deity) who hold as an article of their faith that homoeroticism is evil and sinful, and that both homoeroticism and gender variance are "against natural law." But this view is simply erroneous, ill-informed, and as far from truth and reality as can possibly be. | <urn:uuid:a519dec3-998e-45a6-b81a-68d1450bf120> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.patheos.com/pagan/polytheism-relativism-sufenas-virius-lupus-11-08-2013 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572043.2/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814143522-20220814173522-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.974173 | 1,088 | 1.796875 | 2 |
If your hobbies include taking naps, yawning, and complaining about how tired you are, then congratulations — you’re part of the chronically exhausted majority!
Welcome. We have coffee.
So why are you so fucking tired all the time? Here are some good guesses:
1. You sleep til noon on the weekends, but live by your alarm Monday through Friday.
2. You sleep procrastinate, which is actually a scientific thing.
3. You stare at your phone/computer/TV before bed each night. And sometimes during the night.
4. You’re not getting enough sleep.
5. You’re not getting GOOD enough sleep.
6. You had a virus a while back.
Have you been sick in the last few months? If so, it might be some residual funk. That’s not the technical term, but it can take up to three to four months for your body to fully bounce back from a virus, says Phillips. Eating lots of antioxidants and gradually starting to work out again can help make this process a little easier.
7. You have a really serious relationship with caffeine.
8. You have acid reflux.
9. Your diet could be better.
10. You have allergies.
11. You don’t work out.
12. Or you work out A LOT.
13. You have sleep apnea.
14. You have a hormonal issue.
15. You’re missing out on really important nutrients.
16. You’re dehydrated.
17. You have all of the stress.
18. You have chronic fatigue syndrome.
19. You have some other underlying condition.
Good news/bad news time. The bad news is that fatigue can be symptom of pretty much EVERY medical condition out there. So, really, this list could also be called 8,412 Reasons You’re So Fucking Tired. If you have other symptoms, it’s possible your tiredness could be related to an autoimmune disease, a gastrointestinal disorder, a mental health disorder, a chronic infection, a metabolic disease, chronic pain, or literally anything else.
Here’s the good news: You’re not crazy. You’re tired for a reason, and there’s almost always something you can do about it. “The take-home is that it’s not OK to feel tired all the time,” says Phillips. So if really freaking exhausted is your normal, start with the little lifestyle tweaks to see if that makes a difference, then consider any of the subtle underlying causes that might be playing a role. If you still can’t figure out the culprit and fix it, Phillips suggests tracking your exhaustion and any other symptoms that might help you and your doctor pinpoint the cause. | <urn:uuid:de383cd2-12e3-439a-b095-6325e09c8238> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.buzzfeed.com/caseygueren/brb-sleeping?utm_term=.jgewbLN4x | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572833.95/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817032054-20220817062054-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.923181 | 591 | 2.203125 | 2 |
|Digital Devil Story: Megami Tensei|
|Followed by||Digital Devil Story: Megami Tensei II|
Digital Devil Story: Megami Tensei (デジタル・デビル物語 女神転生 Dejitaru Debiru Monogatari Megami Tensei?) is the first game of the popular Megami Tensei series of console role-playing games. Although Atlus has published a majority of the series, the first two games were created by Namco, after it bought the video game rights to the Japanese horror novel series by Aya Nishitani, the first named Digitial Devil Story.
It was released for the Famicom by Namco in 1987. A game of the same name was released on the NEC PC-8801 and MSX from Telenet Japan, although the RPG aspects were cut down drastically. In 1994, Atlus remade the Namco version, along with its sequel Digital Devil Story: Megami Tensei II and released a single Super Famicom cartridge titled Kyuuyaku Megami Tensei. These games have never been released outside of Japan.
Digital Devil Story: Megami Tensei features several gameplay elements that became standards in the rest of the series, including demon catching and fusing and first-person dungeons. While exploring dungeons, players are given an automap, which fills itself in as the player progresses in the dungeon. The game does not feature a save option, but does give passwords in towns, although the remake contains a save feature.
Akemi Nakajima is a high school student and a computer programming prodigy who created a program that can summon demons from Makai. His original intentions for the program were to gain revenge on a classmate who had fought with him. He brings his friend Yumiko Shirasagi, a transfer student that became interested in Nakajima and found to be the reincarnation of the goddess Izanami, to combat the malicious demons he unleashed. Nakajima had been tricked into summoning a demon named Loki with his program, whereas the American computer genius Isma Feed has summoned the demon Set in order to use its power. The game is assumed to take place after the first two Digital Devil Story novels when the demons Loki and Set have been defeated. The demon Lucifer has revived them, though, in order to prepare to invade the human world once again.
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Hopes dim for C. American migrants at Mexico's southern border
Ciudad Hidalgo (Mexico) (AFP) –
A graffiti mural welcomes Central Americans who cross the Suchiate River from Guatemala to Mexico: a roaring jaguar protecting a group of trekking migrants, beneath the words: "May nothing on Earth stop us."
But the real-life migrants being deported across the border in the other direction are a testament to the fact that, under growing pressure from US President Donald Trump, Mexico is intensifying its efforts to do just that.
Mexico's southern border is 1,138 kilometers (707 miles) of porous, largely unpoliced territory, much of it stretching through the jungle.
It is not very hard to cross for the undocumented Central Americans who have been heading toward the United States in a growing exodus in recent months.
That has provoked the wrath of Trump, who is using the threat of tariffs to force the Mexican government to do more to stop them.
The strategy appears to be working: Mexico has increased migrant detentions, dramatically restricted visas, stepped up military and police patrols in the border region, and agreed Thursday to deploy 6,000 members of its newly created National Guard to reinforce the border.
The crackdown has made reaching the United States an increasingly impossible dream for migrants like Jose Mario, a 53-year-old Honduran man who has just crossed legally into Mexico -- with a visa that restricts his movement to the south of the country, far from the US border.
"We decided we'd rather come legally," he tells AFP on the bridge that spans the river to the Mexican town of Ciudad Hidalgo, in the southern state of Chiapas.
"The migrants who ford the river get caught and deported."
As if to punctuate his sentence, three buses pull up to take a group of migrants back where they came from.
Their expressionless faces -- most of them very young -- look out from behind the buses' tinted windows.
Jose Mario came in a group of around 100 migrants who arrived early Thursday.
He is waiting on the bridge with friends who also plan to apply for a temporary "regional visitor visa," which will restrict their movement to the southern states -- one of the government's latest initiatives to keep migrants away from the US.
Other migrants wait in a makeshift shelter set up by the authorities, their laundry drying in the sun as their children play outside.
- Police barricades -
The exodus is being driven by desolate poverty and brutal gang violence in Central America's "Northern Triangle" -- El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras.
Some 300,000 migrants have entered Mexico so far this year, according to the government.
Under pressure from Trump, the Mexican authorities have detained 51,000 of them -- a 17-percent increase from the same period last year.
"Trump is right," a Mexican border officer told AFP, speaking on condition of anonymity.
"Mexico lets them in, gives them benefits. It shouldn't."
Mexico's leftist President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador took office in December promising to welcome migrants and protect their rights.
But as Trump lashed out, the leader known as "AMLO" changed tack.
In recent weeks, the police presence in southern Mexico has surged. The authorities have staged unprecedented raids to round up undocumented migrants, and put up highway checkpoints.
On Wednesday, they detained hundreds of migrants who had entered Mexico in a caravan.
Migrant detention centers are meanwhile saturated. They have been the scene of riots and breakouts several times in recent weeks.
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The Suchiate River is shallow enough to walk across during the dry season. In the rainy season, migrants and merchants pay rafts to take them across its muddy waters illegally -- right below the border officers on the bridge.
Cristobal, 38, operates one such raft. He is also a one-time migrant, deported from the US after five years working in the construction industry in Dallas.
"It's a mix of migrants and locals crossing the river. Sometimes we can't tell them apart. It's not our job anyway," he tells AFP.
The rafts ferry soft drinks, toilet paper, chickens and black-market gasoline.
Once they cross the river, some migrants hide on the back of trucks to sneak past police checkpoints.
Others who can afford it pay human traffickers, or "coyotes" -- a business often tied to violent criminal groups.
The going price is about $6,000 per person.
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Renewable energy company Drax is launching a pioneering supply chain programme for UK businesses, which kicks off with an introductory Bioenergy with Carbon Capture & Storage (BECCS) supplier webinar on Thursday 23 September.
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13.50 Welcome from Drax and our vision for the delivery of climate-saving technology BECCS – Clare Harbord, Group Director of Corporate Affairs, Drax
14.00 UK Government overview on Carbon Capture Storage ambition – Chris Thackeray, Deputy Director – Power CCUS, Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy
14.10 Making BECCS at Drax a reality by 2027 – Mike Maudsley, Group Operations Director, Drax
14.20 Building a UK supply chain to deliver BECCS at Drax – Graham Backhouse, Commercial Director, Drax
14.30 Q&A – Chaired by George Rafferty
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In order to prevent oxidation, the tin bath is provided with a positive pressure protective atmosphere of nitrogen and hydrogen. Hydrogen reacts with oxygen that diffuses into the float bath atmosphere and keeps the tin from reacting with oxygen. If it reacts with oxygen, tin forms an oxide that will cause flaws in the glass surface. Molten glass is held in a controlled atmosphere composing N2 and approximately 5 -10% H2 and once cooled, the flat glass becomes hard enough to be removed. The hydrogen in the controlled atmosphere acts as a scavenging agent to ensure an oxygen-free environment, because the molten tin is highly sensitive to oxidation, even in trace quantities. A recycling system of the offgas allows to recycle up to 50% of the total fresh atmosphere injected in the tin bath (N2 + H2).
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HP wows young and old at Corvallis Maker Fair (The CO-2017)
By Warren Volkmann, Editor
Oblivious to the 1-ton 3D Jet Fusion printer that HP volunteers had pushed and sweated into place beside the monitor, Ava’s attention was riveted on the HP video. She bounced as cubes scrolled across the screen. She jumped as they turned bright colors – cyan, magenta, and canary yellow. She clapped as they flexed to show elasticity, then sparked to show electrical conductivity.
Neither Ava nor her patient parents understood that one day Ava’s hair ties, her shoes, and even her polka-dotted outfit could be 3D printed.
When the dancing cubes – which HP calls “voxels” – disappeared, Ava was off. She dashed back and forth in front of the giant Jet Fusion printer, then headed out to the exhibition floor to see what else the Maker Fair had in store.
Fourth Maker Fair
This year’s CO·, held April 14-15, marked the fourth year that Oregon State University has hosted the community-wide Maker Fair. The event is spearheaded by Charles Robinson, who is faculty with the College of Liberal Arts and University Outreach and Engagement.
“As a maker group, our mission is to ensure inclusivity,” Charles said. “We espouse the path of R&D breakthroughs becoming commercial products, but we also like art, origami and non-traditional activities inside and outside STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics). It’s great to see all these different groups side-by-side. We are glad to see HP here again. HP and OSU are both anchor institutions in the Corvallis community.”
2017 is the third year that the event has been branded “The CO·” a name taken from the prefix “co-“ which is the start of words like co-create, cooperate, collaborate, and also Corvallis. The CO· started as a 1-day event, but expanded to two days last year.
Second year for HP
This year was HP’s second appearance at the CO·. Tracy Lang and Larry Mull led a team of about a dozen HP volunteers. Larry spent most of Saturday showing children how to turn tongue depressers, duct tape and rubber bands into ping-pong ball catapults. “That was a kick in the pants,” he said.
Larry joined Tracy on stage to raffle off an HP inkjet printer.
HP 3D printing made its first appearance in a big way with the team hauling a 1,800-pound 3D Jet Fusion printer to the event.
HP blue wall
The car race, running on HP’s high-powered Omen gaming station, was a big hit. All afternoon kids stood in line waiting to put on the VR googles and crash their digital Indy car into a virtual wall. Another VR game let kids walk under dinosaurs. (One sister had to hold up her gyrating little brother.) At the trio of HP Sprout computers, kids played on a virtual piano keyboard, pretended to be disk jockeys, and solved “Spruzzles” – Sprout puzzles.
Print on almost anything
Corinne, a software developer on HP’s local Big Data team showed how HP is thinking way outside the box of paper. An upholsterer who frequently can’t get out-of-print fabric patterns was instantly excited by the potential of printing outdated patterns on new upholstery. HP printing makes short runs – or even a single “run of one” print – not only possible, but also much more affordable than in the past.
HP’s Tracy Lang, who is a volunteer member of the CO· leadership team, said “What excites me most about The CO· is how it exposes people to things that they have never have seen before. Some of HP’s products, like the Jet Fusion 3D printers, will change how things are made, bought and sold. That’s happening right here in Corvallis. HP has great people working on amazing new technology right here. Some of these kids may even come to work at HP one day.”
Exhibitors at The CO● 2017
- The Arts Center
- Ashbrook Independent School
- Bricks 4 Kidz
- Carrie Davis (Android automation and multimedia art)
- Corvallis Benton County Public Library
- Corvallis Geek Olympathon
- Crescent Valley High School Robotics Team
- Da Vinci Days
- Free-Choice Learning Lab: Cyberlab (OSU Hatfield Marine Science Center)
- Gearbox – Brick Circuit
- Go Baby Go (OSU School of Biological and Population Health Sciences, OSU CARS Club)
- Heart of the Valley Astronomers
- HP and the HP Makerspace
- Jeremy Smith: Mathematical Art
- Listen Up! Oregon Object Stories Workshop with Liddy Detar
- Mars Viking Mission: Preservation and Making
- Mobile Color Lab (Maddy Corbin)
- Oregon State University
- Applied Mycology Lab
- Art (Michael Boonstra and Andy Myers)
- Astronomy Club
- Craft Center
- Libraries & Press
- Music Production Collective
- Open Source Lab
- OPEnS (Openly Published Environmental Sensing Lab)
- Orange Media Network Photo Booth
- Precollege Programs
- School of Writing, Literature and Film: Digital Humanities Projects
- Patrick Hackleman and CEI/Artworks
- Pi Dads
- Project X: STEM Outreach
- SAC Academy (OSU School of Arts and Communication: Shar Fagersten and Yuji Hiratsuka)
- Thinker Tinker Trailer
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4 Reasons Why Earning a DBA Is Worth It
For many, returning to college is such an important decision, especially if you have already earned your graduate or undergraduate degree. For business leaders looking to expand their professional outlook, the Doctor of Business Administration (DBA) is one of the highest levels of education that you can achieve for the industry.
In this article, we will define a DBA and explore four reasons why earning a DBA is worth it.
What Is a DBA?
For many people, an MBA is their terminal degree, marking the end of their formal business education. However, others may wonder "Can I get a Ph.D in business?" The short answer is yes, but there are two different options: a traditional Ph.D or a Doctor of Business Administration.
The primary difference between these programs is the focus. A Ph.D student typically wishes to work within academia, contributing to the theoretical foundations of business and developing new scholarship and ideas to improve the study of business. A DBA, on the other hand, is typically sought by someone with experience in the field who wants to focus on a specific problem and apply their research to that issue to benefit their company. Ultimately, both require expanding on existing knowledge, but the applications of that new knowledge differ.
Why Should I Earn a DBA?
So why should you consider earning a DBA? Here are four good reasons that this degree is worth the investment.
1. Bolstered Credibility
Earning a doctoral degree gives students a new perspective on the business world, earning them more credibility in their field among their peers, potential employers and the business industry.
“For students who have earned their DBA, they have learned a new way to communicate,” said Dr. Elwin Jones, dean of the College of Business at Columbia Southern University. “It impacts the way they think, the way they write and how they talk. It’s those new learned ways of absorbing information that give students the competitive advantage within a career opportunity.”
Although some MBA candidates opt for a specific concentration such as finance or accounting, many MBA programs are deliberately designed to be broad in scope, preparing candidates for the range of challenges they will face in today’s business environment. A DBA, on the other hand, is laser-focused and designed to make graduates an authority on their chosen subject. Not only do you hone your skills in research, writing and presentation, but the specialized research you conduct gives you in-depth knowledge that simply cannot be developed in a typical MBA program. This focus expands your credibility and positions you as a thought leader.
2. Expanded Career Opportunities
DBA programs teach valuable business management, leadership and organizational effectiveness, empowering graduates to put their skills to good use in a variety of industries and job titles. Where an MBA boosts your management skills, a DBA focuses on research and problem-solving skills. In short, earning a DBA doesn’t teach you theories and best practices, it positions you to create the principles of business that others will learn and put into practice. For example, when you earn your MBA you work with case studies to extrapolate information and develop solutions to problems. As a DBA student, you essentially create case studies by analyzing business models and processes to solve problems and develop new ideas.
One of the benefits of having a doctorate in business administration is you are an innovative problem-solver capable of generating new knowledge and ideas. It also opens the doors to opportunities within academia and academic research. Here are just a few new opportunities that DBA graduates might pursue upon earning their degree:
- Business consultant.
- Business owner.
- Business strategist, chief operating officer or senior managerial consultant.
- Education leader in faculty and administration.
- Government contractor.
- Private and public business associate at administration, management and executive levels.
Note that most of these career options are advanced and senior level, but there’s another significant distinction between the MBA and the DBA: market saturation. There’s no denying that earning an MBA is beneficial to your career, but a DBA helps you stand out, as they are less common. Modern business is moving fast and evolving more than ever before, and employers are attracted to individuals who have taken the time to stay ahead of new theories, concepts and tools and gain a better understanding of the complexities of modern business. A DBA gives you the tools to move a business forward, and that’s appealing to employers.
3. Greater Opportunities for Promotion
A doctoral degree could be the tipping point in your favor when considered for your next promotion. In an interview with Glassdoor.com, Ayodeji Onibalusi of Effective Inbound Marketing said, "An advanced degree can help you secure that elusive promotion you’ve always desired. A doctorate or master’s degree would also boost your confidence and help you secure better job opportunities when you start looking for a new job."
Earning your DBA requires advanced research skills and sharpened business acumen, and it taps into superior decision-making skills. These newly acquired proficiencies make you a better candidate for promotions and job openings. Many companies require senior management professionals to hold advanced degrees, and an increasing number of entry-level positions are requiring candidates to hold a master’s degree. If you must have an advanced degree to get your foot in the door, a terminal degree like the DBA is likely to be a necessity if you want to advance in that company.
4. Better Potential for Higher Salaries
Earning a DBA can make a significant difference in your earnings potential. According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, employees with doctoral degrees in 2018 made on average $1,825 a week compared to $1,434 for master’s graduates. In total, the difference was approximately $20,332 more per year.
For more information about pursuing your doctor of business administration at Columbia Southern University, visit ColumbiaSouthern.edu/DBA.
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This is the second in a five-part series on Ayutthaya, Thailand about the temple ruins at Wat Chaiwatthanaram. The first article described the City of Ayutthaya. The remainder will feature other sites in Ayutthaya Historical Park, including Wat Phu Khao Thong, Wat Mahathat, and Wat Yai Chai Mongkon.
Wat Chaiwatthanaram is a restored Buddhist temple on the west bank of the Chao Phraya River across from Ayutthaya Island. In 1991, UNESCO designated the complex a World Heritage Site in Ayutthaya Historical Park. The temple ruin, one of Ayutthaya’s most popular tourist destinations, offers picturesque views that capture the essence of this fascinating place. The site is remarkable for its once-innovative square chedi or stupa (pagodas) with indented corners that are now common structures in contemporary Thai Buddhist temples.
According to the information resource History of Ayutthaya, the name Wat Chaiwatthanaram is roughly translated as the “Monastery of the Victorious and Prosperous Temple.” It was built over two decades from 1630 to 1650 by King Prasat Thong of the Ayutthaya Kingdom. Dedicated to the memory of his beloved foster mother, the temple was used to perform royal ceremonies, including the cremation of deceased royals.
The temple’s centerpiece is the “Phra Prang Prathan,” a 35-meter tall prang (tower) built in Khmer (Cambodian) style popular at the time of construction.
The rectangular outer wall and gates that once surrounding the symmetrical complex were gone when I visited in August 2012, and only the foundations and a few of the eight chedi that served as chapels remained.
The wall, which symbolized the crystal walls of the world in Buddhist lore, once enclosed a large courtyard. In its center stood a still-intact, five-pointed structure (quincunx) that included Phra Prang Prathan, a symbol of the legendary Buddhist mountain Meru (Phra Men), and four smaller prang representing four continents pointing in different directions toward the sea. The courtyard represented seven oceans.
On the angled base of Phra Prang Prathan graced by large Buddhist statues, sets of stairs climbed to what was once an ordination hall where ceremonies were performed and to a gallery that symbolized seven mountains.
Two restored Thai-style chedi next to the Chao Phraya River interred the ashes of King Prasat Thong’s mother.
Destroyed by the Burmese in 1767, Wat Chaiwatthanaram lay deserted and was looted for bricks, Buddhist statues, and other artifacts for more than two centuries until it was restored by the Royal Thai government in 1992. The site sustained damage during the flooding of Ayutthaya in late 2011, and was still closed for restoration when I visited. I managed to take some fantastic photos of the complex from the site perimeter.
While some of the temple’s splendor remains, many of its structures, statues, artwork, and the royal boat landing at the river’s edge disappeared ages ago. Enough of it has been preserved to give visitors of glimpse of its former glory.
A video clip with a 360-degree view of the Wat Chaiwatthanaram site.
More About Ayutthaya, Thailand
Click here to read about the City of Ayutthaya and the Ayutthaya Historical Park
Click here to read about Wat Phu Khao Thong, a historical Buddhist monastery
Click here to read about Wat Yai Chai Mongkhon, a historical Buddhist monastery
Click here to read about Wat Mahathat, the ruin of a former Buddhist temple
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Over the last few years Chile has seen an important increase in the use of thermal energy. Last year for the first time in its history more than 50% of the electricity supply was generated by non-renewable fuels. Chile’s alternate energy resources could change that.
Chile is a developing country with important annual growth prospects. But its limited domestic energy resources are not enough to meet demand. Energy consumption in Chile has grown fast in recent decades, especially electricity consumption, which has increased at an annual rate of 2.4% since 2001 and 4.2% since 1990.
Chile’s proven crude oil reserves in January 2006 were estimated at 150 million barrels (equivalent to 20 million tons or Mt), which is insignificant in comparison with annual domestic consumption of 11.7 Mt. Proven natural gas reserves varied between 42 and 98 billion cubic meters (bcm) in 2006 compared with annual consumption of 7.8 bcm that year.
Chile does have significant low- sulfur, sub-bituminous coal reserves, estimated at between 200 Mt and 500 Mt. But domestic production falls far short what the country uses. In 2007 for example, Chile produced 0.8 Mt of coal compared to the 5 Mt it consumed.
Similarly, Chile has abundant hydropower potential but its hydropower supply is not as geographically diverse as that of other countries making it vulnerable to hydropower supply disruptions caused by recurring droughts every two or three years.
Filling the demand
To meet its energy demand, Chile turned to Argentina to supply natural gas in the 1990s and the share of natural gas in electricity generation increased from 1% in 1997 to 33% by 2004. However, beginning in 2005 because of restrictions on gas exports by Argentina, as well as low hydrology, the situation reversed in favor of coal and oil.
Electricity companies turned to coal-fired plants, an easy solution since Chile is not required to reduce CO2 emissions by the Kyoto Protocol. Another solution was the construction of two liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminals.
The first project at Quintero Bay, located 114 km from Santiago, cost $1.2 billion and was developed by GNL Quintero and processes 2.5 million tons of LNG annually. A second plant, GNL Mejillones, owned equally by Suez Energy International and CODELCO, is an on-shore LNG regasification terminal in Antofagasta.
The government is also supporting the exploitation of Chile’s vast but mostly undeveloped renewable energy potential. Hydropower will remain a significant component of its energy mix with the construction of a major new complex in southern Chile.
Chile’s two largest generators, Endesa and Colbún, have created a joint venture, HidroAysen, to build a 2,750 MW installed capacity power hydroelectric plant and a 2,000 kilometer transmission line, with a total investment of almost $10 billion.
Hydroelectricity is the main source of renewable energy there is in the world,” says Colbún Chairman Bernardo MatteLarrain. “Any other alternative in Chile involves importing fuel. As we don’t have gas, we have to bring it from far away. We have very little coal and it’s not enough, so we have to import it from Australia, Colombia, the U.S. and so on. So as an energy base, hydroelectric power is without a doubt the way forward for Chile.”
Non-conventional renewable energy
Wind has the potential to contribute to a large share of additional renewable energy capacity. The country currently counts with more than 160 MW of wind generated capacity, but nearly 500 MW of additional capacity is planned to start construction by 2020.
Chile also has 10% of the world’s active volcanoes, highlighting an abundant potential for geothermal energy. Seven 40 MW geothermal generation projects are planned to be built between 2016 and 2020.
The north of the country is rich in solar energy. The Atacama Desert gets among the world’s highest of amount of sun daily per square meter and more than a dozen solar installations are planned there.
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With a strategic vision about clean power in emerging markets, Norwegian company SN Power is busy developing renewable and low-CO2 energy projects in Chile and Peru.
Based in Oslo, Norway, SN Power is a joint venture between Statkraft and Norfund. Founded in 2002, the company had 2010 revenues of $114 million, from eleven countries on three continents. SN Power first decided to invest in Chile in 2004, after several months of evaluation period and feasibility study.
Convinced of the potential in the country, SN Power first committed to invest about $800 million in two hydroelectric projects, La Higuera and La Confluencia, about 250 kilometers south of Santiago. Both hydropower plants will each produce around 750 GWh annually.
Completed in 2009, SN Power’s wind farm at Totoral, about 300 kilometers north of Santiago, was the company’s third investment in Chile. The wind farm’s 23 turbines produce almost 110 GWh every year, supplying energy for about 36,000 people (or 12.000 households).
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We appreciate how important effective Air Flow is in your retail shop, for both your staff and, importantly, your customers. For anyone walking into your business, you want them to walk into a clean and pleasant environment so they can comfortably spend time considering a purchase. Should you be looking into an Air Conditioning Installation for your retail shop then contact our local engineers.
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Without an effective Air Conditioning Installation, your retail shop can suffer from a stuffy atmosphere. If the Air Flow is lacklustre you may find that bad smells and poor ventilation can put off customers when they should be enticed in. We have worked with small, independent businesses and in large-scale projects to provide a complete expert Air Conditioning Design and Installation Service. This takes into account the dimensions and layout of each room to ensure that the Air Conditioning Installation or Upgrade works for your retail shop. Also, all of our engineers are REFCOM, SafeContractor and F-gas Certified and can offer Industrial HVAC installation at competitive market rates.
Think COVID-19 Safe For Your Retail Shop In Wimbledon
As shops and businesses reopen this is an ideal time to consider making your retail shop COVID-19 safe. This includes running your ventilation systems continually and increasing Air Ventilation by keeping doors and windows open. While the Air Ventilation may be working well you should also contact our local engineers for a free, no obligation quote to discuss what your options are. Many businesses are already looking at upgrading their Air Conditioning system and installing air filters to eliminate airborne viruses and reduce airborne pollutants.
Contact our local Wimbledon based Air Conditioning engineers
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Beware of Central Banking Digital Currencies masquerading as crypto currently being rolled out by countries such as China
One of our writers on American Liberator, Juliet Annerino, is well-versed in the world of blockchain and cryptocurrencies. She recently wrote a very important article for Hacker Noon to warn us about a growing threat of government-issued digital currency called Central Banking Digital Currencies (CBDC).
Most notably, by moving everyone onto the digital platform, the Chinese Government will be able to gain total control of all financial transactions. Furthermore, the CBDC is one more step towards a "One World Currency" who some might say, sounds eerily similar to The Great Monetary Reset.
Ever wondered how the World Economic Forum could brazenly tell you that you "will own nothing" and think they can get away with it? Simple. If they have total control of the monetary system, you won't be able to buy anything unless it is approved by the state since they control all transactions.
Here's an excerpt of her article on Hacker Noon
CBDCs are now being debated, tested, and deployed in at least 81 countries. 7 countries have CBDCs, while 14 conduct pilot programs,16 are in development, 32 in research, 10 are inactive and somehow 2 have been canceled.
The first, most well-known, and potentially impactful CBDC is the Digital Yuan of China. The People’s Bank of China reports 21 million Chinese citizens have opened a virtual wallet for the Digital Yuan. The Chinese goal of launching their CBDC in time for the Beijing Winter Olympics 2022 has been achieved.
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Some crucial factors a civil engineer should follow
This construction video tutorial sifts through some vital factors which should be abided by a civil engineer to apply them in the jobsite.
The factors are discussed in below :-
Compressive strength of bricks should be 3.5 N/mm2
Water immersion of bricks should not surpass 15%
Free fall of concrete is permissible up to 1.50 m
Lowest thickness of slab is 125 mm
Longitudinal reinforcement should not be under 0.8% and over 6% of gross C/S
Lowest bars required for square column is 4 Nos and for circular column is 6 Nos
If the bars contain diameter over 36 mm., lapping is not permissible
Compressive strength of bricks is 3.5 N/mm2
Earthwork excavation toward basement over 3 m should remain in stepped form
Cement should be preserved in dry places on a raised platform roughly 200 mm
Electrical conduits should not be set in column
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Vejiga de La Roche Foucauld
Wood covered with gold leaf
Pedro Friedeberg was born in Italy in 1936 as the son of German-Jewish parents, who migrated to Mexico when he was 3 years old. He began studying architecture but did not complete his studies as he started to draw designs against the conventional forms of the 1950´s, even completely implausible structures. His work caught the attention of German sculptor Mathias Goeritz who encouraged him to continue a career as an artist. Although his work finds echoes in two of the most exciting artistic movements of the 1960´s POP and Op Art, it is more closely related to late Surrealism. In particular, it reveals his close contacts with the leading European surrealists who had also found refuge in Mexico: Leonora Carrington, Kati Horna, Edward James, Alice Rahon and Remedios Varo, who were irreverent, rejecting the social and political art which was dominant at the time. Friedeberg was also deeply inspired by Goeritz especially his Dadaist tendencies, which found expression in the avant-garde group known as “The Fed-Up ones” (los “Hartistas”) of the early 1960´s. The work of Friedeberg recombines all these influences into something completely, uniquely and unmistakably his own.
Although Friedeberg is an accomplished painter, he is famous for his ironic furniture designs, notably the “butterfly Chair “ and “Hand Chair”. Both pieces were originally designed in the 1960´s as a rejection of the International / Modernist aesthetic and functionalism.
After designing his first chair, Friedeberg went on to design tables, couches, and loveseats. This body of work, along with Friedeberg’s obsessively crowded and meticulously detailed canvases, often included references to Tantric scriptures, Aztec codices, Catholicism, Hinduism and symbols of the occult. By 1963 Frideberg had also begun making entirely sculptural works of distorted bodies with appendages taken from religious statuaries found in antique shops and flea markets.
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What makes this region great?
A drive across the North Cascades Highway, one the nation’s most scenic according to USA Today, reveals why this vast area would make a great home base. Mountain peaks, river valleys and glacial lakes make this one of the most sought after recreational areas in the Pacific Northwest.
It’s hard to imagine Stehekin until your boat docks or floatplane touches down. Tucked into the far west end of Lake Chelan, there are more horses than cars here, the village much closer to the Pacific Crest Trail then any town.
The east end of Lake Chelan has been a recreational destination since the wagon trains arrived. This mellow 1950s atmosphere is supplemented by trendy restaurants and other lifestyle amenities.
The Methow Valley contains almost 200 miles of Nordic ski and mountain bike trails, supplemented by bakeries, cafes and artisan jewelers, among multiple other delicacies.
You’ve tasted Wenatchee even if you’ve never been here. Home to America’s largest stone fruit orchards and processing facilities, several farms invite you to “Pick Your Own” pie fixings every autumn.
Grand Coulee Dam
Built between 1933 and 1942, the Grand Coulee Dam produces hydroelectric power and irrigation water – the dam is one of the largest in the world. Visitors can take a tour of the dam, fish in the many surrounding lakes located in the Columbia River Basin.
The Gorge Amphitheater
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As we all know, all smartphones from these past generations began to show off bigger screens and smaller bezels. iPhone came up with the notch design to keep the sensors and the camera but make room for a bigger screen, and other brands used the same concept later. But Samsung is known for always retaliating with their own move, and by the look of their Galaxy phones, the lack of bezels is their trademark. But according to rumors from the news site Electronic Times, Samsung might soon demonstrate something more interesting they will add to their OLED Panels: Sound!
Sound Under the Screen
At CES 2019 which is next month, Samsung might show off their “Sound on Display” (SoD) OLED panels. The tech has been announced earlier this year. The SoD panels would replace the external speakers, and the display will emit sound. This means that Samsung will use vibration and bone conduction and place the components under the screen’s surface, thus leaving more room for the display. The SoD panels could also be used for the next generation TVs.
Will the Galaxy S10 Come With an SoD Panel?
When this technology will be used is still unknown, but we do know that it was announced a few months ago and it could be demonstrated next month at CES. It is unlikely the Galaxy S10 will come with SoD panels, but there have been rumors that say otherwise, so we can just wait and hope for the best.
LG is also working on a similar in-display sound technology, and they will probably bring it at the event as well. CES 2019 will begin on 8 January and end on 12 January. There, Samsung and many other brands will show their new tech that could be used in the devices that will come out in 2019.
Robert J. Smith is still early into his career as tech reporter but has already had his work published in many major publications including JoyStiq and Android Authority. In regards to academics, Robert earned a degree in business from Fordham University. Robert has passion for emerging technology and covers upcoming products and breakthroughs in science and tech. | <urn:uuid:05a9fa4b-eb65-4001-beef-bc90e43edc6b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://digital-overload.com/2018/12/27/ces-2019-samsung-rumored-to-show-off-sound-on-display-oled-panels/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571210.98/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810191850-20220810221850-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.974476 | 431 | 1.640625 | 2 |
Take Responsibility for Your Health
Have you ever sat and pondered if your insurance company really cares about your health? In this week’s episode, Dr. Nick Wilson and Dr. Traci Gross dive deep into health insurance and question if it’s the right option for you and your family.
Dr. Traci mentions that according to Medicare guidelines, they do not cover anything which will help prevent disease, promote health, or prolong the quality of life. Unfortunately, most health insurance companies follow these guidelines, which means a lot of people who have health insurance are missing out on the care that could potentially change their life for the better.
Dr. Nick and Dr. Traci bring up that if they were running a health insurance company, they would cover nutrient and toxicity testing, the cost of good quality food, chiropractic care, whole house filtration systems, gym memberships, and more! Contrary to what Medicare offers, these benefits definitely help with disease prevention, promotion of health, and prolonged quality of life. The question is though, why do so many people have health insurance if they don’t get these benefits?
Since health insurance is the norm, people who have it usually follow the guidelines and don’t ask questions. For example, chiropractic care is rarely covered by insurance, therefore people can be hesitant to receive chiropractic care as a result. What they don’t know is, our MaxLiving chiropractors make chiropractic care as affordable as possible in order to help families achieve their optimal health.
Read more about health insurance and chiropractic care here: https://maxliving.com/healthy-articles/health-insurance-and-chiropractic-care/
Health insurance on the other hand can be a lot more expensive. Dr. Nick tells a story of when he went to get an MRI and the cash rate to pay for it was $875, vs. the insurance rate of $2,000.
At the end of the day, you have to make the decision of who you want to be responsible for your health. By taking the time to educate yourself on all of the options rather than just following the crowd, you’ll feel better about your decision. Everyone’s health situation is different, so follow whatever route you need to go in order to become your healthiest self.
If you’re interested in transforming your health for the better, find MaxLiving chiropractic and clinic near you today: https://maxliving.com/locations/?utm_source=wordpress&utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=find_a_clinic
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Proceedings kick off very soon in Spain for round six in the 2022 season, as Red Bull and Ferrari continue their battle for the title lead as Max Verstappen edges closer to Charles Leclerc in first.
One of the main components of each team’s strategy is the weather, with heat, wind, and rain dictating each team’s plan for race day.
However it seems as if the chances of rain are as low as 5% on race day – but temperatures are due to soar in the high 20s meaning track temperature will be even higher.
The effect heat has on the Pirellis can range from changing the chemical compound of the rubber – leading to thermal degradation – to physically destroying the tyre, leading to graining and blistering.
Both result in less grip on the track and therefore slower lap times.
According to forecasters, Friday is due to be sunny with a gentle breeze and only a 1-5% chance of rain. Humidity is due to be high at 60%in the mid-afternoon and 80 in the morning.
Temperatures will be at around 21 degrees for FP1 and 23C for FP2.
Saturday has a similar outlook, with low wind speeds while temperatures are due to rise by a degree up to 24 for qualifying. Humidity remains high in the mid-60s.
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Years ago, Brazoria County was covered in rice fields. Over time, operations have been able to grow the same amount of rice on less land. As the land in the county becomes available, some of the most popular buyers are solar energy companies.
“Brazoria County still has a lot of land. We are a large county,” County Judge Matt Sebesta said.
There are six solar projects expanding into Brazoria County. Two belong to Cypress Creek, which chose Brazoria County for two of its solar farms: Wagyu and Longbow, located near Damon and Liverpool, respectively. Both projects sit on land once used for agriculture, said Nicko Keene, the associate development director for Cypress Creek.
“Almost all of the land we lease or purchase in Texas was in agriculture,” Keene said. “We can buy or sell land for a lot more than [the owners] are making on it.”
Wagyu is the first finished solar project in the county, with more on the way. The project became operational in early November. The solar farms in Brazoria County will be able to power homes and businesses inside of the county and the Houston area, along with traditional electricity.
“We are going to need to look at other sources [of power]. With growth in the Houston area, there are bigger demands for electricity,” said Gary Basinger, the president and chief operating officer of the Economic Development Alliance for Brazoria County.
Plans for industry growth
After years of hearing about solar energy becoming more popular, Basinger did not believe solar energy would be effective in Brazoria County. Suddenly, several solar farms seemed to appear in the county at the same time, he said.
“Over the years, ... people have talked about solar, and I said it was too cloudy. I just couldn’t imagine solar being efficient here,” he said.
However, over time, the technology for solar energy has improved, meaning it is effective even on rainy days, he said. In fact, once the panels are taken out of their boxes, they immediately start to generate heat.
Companies such as Houston-based Green Mountain Energy install solar panels on roofs. When the sun shines on them, the panels generate electricity. A home uses the electricity, and if there is more than the house needs, it goes onto the power grid, said Daniel Richmond, the manager of solar and strategic partnerships at Green Mountain Energy. The opposite is true as well: If a home needs more electricity than is produced, it pulls from the power grid.
Not only do panels last for 25-30 years, Richmond said, but solar energy is also better for the environment because it is 100% renewable and uses very little water. Because of this, Green Mountain Energy gives credit to homeowners who opt for solar energy, Richmond said.
“We want people to go solar. The environmental benefits for it are so large. Any power that you send back to us, we give you credit for it at the same rate,” he said.
The Greater Houston area is becoming more popular for solar energy, said Hanna Mitchell, the Texas program director at Solar United Neighbors.
Solar United Neighbors is a nonprofit working to help interested residents in the same region form a solar co-op, bringing down the cost of installing solar energy in their homes.
Solar United Neighbors was founded in 2011 and came to Texas in 2018. Houston has become the most popular market for using solar energy in Texas, Mitchell said.
“When people see it on their neighbor’s roof and ... more normalized, we see more people thinking of getting solar themselves,” Mitchell said.
As solar energy is becoming more popular, it is also becoming more cost efficient for residents, Richmond said.
”What’s going on in the last couple of years is the cost of solar has gone down by at least half,” Richmond said.
The same may be true for businesses as well. Once more solar farms are up and running, more businesses may opt to have solar energy power their company, Sebesta said.
“Any company is going to get the best deal they can for power,” Sebesta said. “They are going to look at their bottom line, and if it is cost effective, they will utilize it.”
While Houston is considered the energy capital of the world, its history in oil, fossil fuels and petroleum does not have to be at odds with solar energy, Mitchell said.
“Houston prides itself in being the energy capital of the world, and I think that it can be an all-of-the-above energy capital of the world,” Mitchell said.
Solar companies buy land
Brazoria County is housing more solar farms, which will offer power to the county. One farm includes Texas Gulf Solar 1 LLC, which is still in the development phase, said Kevin Wetzel, the business development director for Pattern Energy, the farm’s parent company.
While some farms will provide solar energy to specific businesses and residences, Texas Gulf Solar 1 will provide power for the grid, which companies can purchase and sell to residents and businesses, Wetzel said in an email.
Having solar power go into a large power grid could help power different energy sources, including petrochemical power plants, Basinger said.
Cypress Creek’s solar farm, Wagyu, provides a large portion of its energy to BP. Another large portion goes to Starbucks locations across Texas, rather than residents, Keene said.
“There is a big increase in businesses looking for solar energy,” Keene said. “It’s more sustainable ... but it’s also the cheapest way for them to buy electricity.”
Cypress Creek officials knew they wanted to expand to the Houston area and were attracted to Brazoria County because of its land and business-friendly nature, Keene said. Pattern Energy also chose Brazoria County for the same reason, Wetzel said in an email.
“The county judge and Commissioners Court wanted a development of this nature to come to the county. We have increased tax revenue that the county and the school districts will receive,” Keene said.
While farms may power businesses and homes outside of the county, there is the potential for solar energy to one day power more homes and businesses in the county as well, especially as it continues to grow.
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We've heard that I, Q, Book Three will be releasing in the fall . Where does it take place. Q, Angela, and the SOS team are in hot pursuit of the president's daughter, which leads them to the mysterious Outer Banks of North Carolina during a freak hurricane/5(47).
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Kitty Hawk Kites is pleased to offer not one, but two diverse boat excursions, which take place during various times throughout the week of your vacation. Kitty Hawk Kites is your one-stop-shop on the Outer Banks for adventure and family fun.
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The author gives an overview of politics, geography 3/5(1). Welcome to Island Bookstore, located on the beautiful northern Outer Banks of North Carolina. We are a full-service Independent general bookstore with books on all subjects including local interest, fiction, travel, cooking, history, poetry, sports, crafts and humor, in print or on CD.
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Inthe area was primarily sand flats and sand dunes, with only a smattering of man-made structures (the US Lifesaving Station, a weather station and post office, and a small amount of private homes), making the area ideal for the isolation they desired.They learned that Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, would be ideal with its high prevailing winds and its soft sandy dunes that would accommodate soft landings.
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Nagasaki Shinchi Chinatown
One of Japan’s three biggest Chinatowns, along with those in Yokohama (Kanagawa Prefecture) and Kobe (Hyogo Prefecture), it is the oldest of all. The area is filled with Chinese restaurants and general shops.
Nagasaki Lantern Festival is held in Shinchi Chinatown and the surrounding area from January 1 to 15 in the traditional lunar calendar (around late January to mid-February in the modern solar calendar) every year. Over 15,000 Chinese lanterns are lit during the festival, creating a mesmerizing view.
Among other festivals, Nagasaki Kunchi Festival is unique by incorporating various international cultures, including Chinese culture. The annual festival, held from October 7 to 9 at Suwa-jinja Shrine, has more than 380 years of history and tradition. Its parade features powerful performances, such as a lion dance.
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By Abby Lyman
The Annual Law Society featured a fireside recently with special guest Elder Quentin L. Cook, member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles and receiver of the J. Reuben Clark Society Distinguished Service Award.
Elder Cook, who graduated from Stanford Law School in 1966, counseled lawyers and students around the world about the Constitution, competiveness in law school, missionary work and the importance of representing Jesus Christ, Friday.
?The law and the process of becoming a lawyer are very competitive,? Elder Cook said. ?The respect for credentials can reach an inappropriate level, where they are virtually idols.?
Elder Cook asked the audience if receiving an ?A? in class was a requirement for happiness. He cited King Benjamin?s address from Mosiah 2:41 in the Book of Mormon and urged viewers to ?consider on the blessed and happy state of those that keep the commandments of God.?
Cook went on to explain that the Constitution was a divinely inspired document with three important elements, including the separation of three powers of government, the Bill of Rights and equality of all men before the law.
?I enjoyed when Elder Cook talked about the divine inspiration of the U.S. Constitution and how we need to be careful not to think that every word is inspired, merely that many of its principles were inspired,? said second-year BYU law student Justin Townsend, from Jenks, Okla.
Switching from law to religion, Cook said many people around the world are uninformed about the church. He said how important it is for highly educated individuals to proclaim the gospel and testify of the Savior. Cook urged viewers to use various media outlets to share the gospel.
?As a longtime blogger, I was thrilled to hear Elder Cook encourage us as members of the legal profession to be active in sharing our views through various forms of new media,? said BYU law professor D. Gordon Smith. ?Blogging has become an important means by which I participate in public debates about the financial crisis and other issues, and I hope that my blogging reflects well on BYU and the Church.?
Cook closed by encouraging lawyers to be representatives of Jesus Christ. He explained that as they begin to work as lawyers, people will observe and relate to the values they represent.
?I?m not sure you can fully comprehend how significant you are and what you collectively accomplish for the rest of mankind and building the kingdom of God here on earth,? he said. | <urn:uuid:7b644e07-5930-4401-b025-ed80963bc42d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://universe.byu.edu/2009/03/17/elder-cook-be-open-about-beliefs-with-others/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572833.95/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817032054-20220817062054-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.972752 | 504 | 1.664063 | 2 |
【目的】 探讨科技期刊在国家实施创新驱动发展战略中助力地方科技创新、服务经济发展的作用与潜能。【方法】 从科技期刊的基本功能出发,分析科技期刊在科研成果传播、科研人才培养中所具备的优势,以及在科研成果转化中的纽带作用。【结果】 科技期刊可为地方科技创新提供技术支撑和知识服务,但目前存在重发表、轻应用,科研单位与生产企业间信息沟通不畅等问题。【结论】 科技期刊应以地方科技创新需求为目标,采取加强区域内期刊合作等服务地方科技创新的方法与路径。
[Purposes] This paper aims to explore the roles and potentials of scientific journals in boosting the regional scientific and technological innovation, and serving the economic development in the national strategies of innovation-driven development. [Methods] Based on the basic functions of scientific journals, we analyzed the advantages of the scientific journals in the dissemination of scientific and technological achievements and the talent cultivations, and the role of scientific and technological link in the achievement transformation. [Findings] Scientific journals can provide technical support and knowledge services for local science and technology innovation. However, there are many problems, such as lack of real life application, and poor information communication between research institutes and enterprises. [Conclusions] Scientific journals should take the local technological innovation demands as the goal, take the frontier technology as the orientation to carry out the topic planning, release innovative research results in time, and promote the promotion and industrialization of scientific research results.
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Are you wondering how long does it take to buy a home? Well, when you’re ready to buy a home, it’s important to understand how the process works and how long it will take. This guide offers an honest look at the timeline for buying a house, from start to finish.
Keep in mind that everyone’s experience is different, so your home buying timeline may vary depending on your situation. However, this information should give you a good idea of what to expect. Ready to get started? Let’s go!
How Long Does It Take To Buy a Home?
It can take anywhere from a couple of months to over a year to purchase a home. It all depends on the type of property you want to buy, and how much time there is left before you need it. A few things factor into the length of the process:
1. Your Situation
If you’re buying with someone else or if you have a good credit score, your application is more likely to get processed quickly. If you’re an international buyer, it takes longer to process the paperwork. Unfortunately, those who have poor credit or previous foreclosures may have a harder time getting approval.
Buying in some locations takes more time than others. That’s because of limited housing availability and competition for homes that become available on the market. Areas with limited housing include cities with high demand and low supply.
For example, New York City. Many buyers compete for homes in such an environment, which means that there’s a lot of demand. It also means that not many people are selling their homes, so the process takes longer to complete.
The Number of Days to Buy a Home
Speaking in general terms, it typically takes around 53 days to buy a home. However, in some areas, it can take more than 50 days. Thankfully, there are a few things you can do to expedite the process, which includes the following:
- Make sure that you put down at least 20% of the purchase price.
- Be prepared with documentation like bank statements, W-2 forms, and tax returns.
- Review your credit report for mistakes or discrepancies that may require follow-up with the bureaus.
- Ensure you understand the home buying process fully before meeting with a lender.
In addition to these things, it’s also helpful to hire the best realtor you can find!
Understanding the Home Buying Process
Buying a house is not something that happens overnight. While it may take time, buying your dream home is worth the wait. Beyond these basics, there are additional things you should know about the purchasing process.
For instance, you should know the answer to the question of “How long does it take to buy a home?”
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For those who like cherries, Alcongosta is the place to be! Here we find the biggest production site of this fruit in Portugal: eight thousand hectares of cultivation that are covered with white flowers in the spring (rivalling the snow of the Serra da Estrela, right next door), and bloom in a bright red in the summer. This is why Alcongosta became the gathering point for cherry lovers, along with the long-awaited (and much-visited) Cherry Festival that takes place annually on the second weekend of June.
Preparing for this weekend of celebration takes a whole year of work - not always blessed by Saint Peter, not always kind to the people of Alcongosta. A sensitive fruit, the cherry requires as much care in the fields as after harvest, with the use of chestnut wood baskets - soft and airy, so as not to bruise the fruit. Both cultivation of the fruit and manufacture of the baskets require a good dose of patience and rigor to complete the task: the work begins in January, with the harvesting of the wood, and goes on for months.
The best thing to do is to go and witness for yourself. You will be able to appreciate the work of the few artisans who, to this day, remain in the village, and who continue to practice the craft with an open door, in plain sight. Then, take the basket and go exploring, among fields and levadas, irrigation channels that abound in the region. Picnics, balloon rides, bicycles, or trains... there is no shortage of offers to spend time in the land of cherries, where you will create enough memories to fill a basket. | <urn:uuid:8e4ea8b1-6041-4856-84cf-fe1e7bb94f53> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.aldeiasdemontanha.pt/en/villages/alcongosta/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572212.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815205848-20220815235848-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.940688 | 349 | 1.78125 | 2 |
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Using a little horse sense, Stephen Ministers from First United Methodist Church (Lawrenceville) and St. Matthew’s Episcopal Church (Snellville) came to Winning Strides for a unique continuing education experience.
In equine assisted learning, we often use metaphors to reach our objective. Each Stephen Minister was asked to choose an item in the arena that represented a spiritual gift or strength they use in their care giving as a Stephen Minister. Some examples included being a good listener, having compassion, being trustworthy, skilled, and full of faith. Then, with the horse representing a care receiver, the group had to move the horse from one end of the arena to the other without touching it.
This was a harder task than they thought, since care receivers (and horses) often have a “mind of their own.” But in the end, they learned:
· sometimes you have to lead and sometimes you have to gently push
· care receivers get “stuck” on their journey
· patience is always required
· you never give up and always stick with your care receiver.
Even with torrential rains, an earlier tornado warning, and cool weather, spirits were high and laughter abundant.
Stephen Ministers are trained care givers, who are sometimes called the After People.
They are ready to come alongside anyone who has suffered a crises in their life and provide comfort and support for as long after as needed.
Stephen Ministry was started 40+ years ago and is active in 13,000 congregations.
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From sleep to the microbiome: bringing new approaches and research tools to the study of dementia to discover new disease mechanisms and therapeutic targets.
UK DRI at Imperial College London has innovation as its theme. This draws on the university’s unique strengths and focus on science, engineering, medicine and business. Led by Professor Paul Matthews, the research team brings novel, cutting edge approaches and research tools to the study of dementia to discover new disease mechanisms and therapeutic targets. They will initially focus on the earliest pre-symptomatic stages of Alzheimer’s disease, addressing what determines the transition to neurodegeneration, but will investigate mechanisms that are likely shared across many of the dementias.
With access to large, well characterised longitudinal cohorts the team will explore causes of individual variation in dementia within populations, looking at changes that occur across the lifespan and specifically addressing metabolic factors, the relationship with microorganisms in gut (the microbiome) and the role of sleep. The team will use a range of resources including Dementias Platform UK and the MRC-NIHR National Phenome Centre.
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What is the first sorrowful mystery?
The Agony in the Garden Announce “The First Sorrowful Mystery – The Agony in the Garden” and then say the Our Father. 6. Say ten Hail Marys while meditating on the Mystery. Jesus comes with his disciples to Gethsemani: “Stay here, while I go yonder and pray.”
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While it seems like those big four (Amazon, Google, Apple, Facebook) have the monopoly on data these days, there are still opportunities popping up wherein you can benefit from aggregated data that is relevant to you.
One of the best examples of this must be in the real estate sector.
The rise in accessibility to market data for companies has opened a new consumer avenue for those within the industry that see this data as an opportunity. The result is that when you ask yourself, ‘What is my home worth?’ You don’t have to wait for an agent to give you a detailed property appraisal to find out.
Property appraisals, calculated by a professional, are a valuable and often necessary tool, especially if you are looking to refinance based on any capital growth you have seen in any of your investments.
However, you can now access accurate property data, including sales and rental history, neighbourhood demographics and local market data for every address in Australia and you don’t have to pay for it. It was only a few years ago when this information remained behind usernames and paid subscriptions.
So, what do you have access to with these new demographic insights now being provided by the major real estate platforms, such as view.com.au?
- Property Price Estimates. Using your own property’s attributes (such as number of bedrooms and bathrooms) and comparing these and its location to comparable properties close by (that have been sold within a maximum number of months), an automatic algorithm allows you to see an instant estimation of your property’s value. Update your attributes if you have done renovations and choose different comparable properties if those provided aren’t the right fit. Your estimate will automatically recalculate the value of your home.
- Sale and rental history. Get a clear idea of what other homes in your area have sold for and what their rental yield is, allowing your rental yield (if you have an investment property) to reflect the market within your neighbourhood.
- Neighbourhood demographics. This sort of data is the most valuable for those who want to grow and maintain their understanding of the market, so they can approach the sale or purchase of a home more informed. Median sales data allows you to see just what sort of growth is experienced across the country. Median income and mortgage statistics help you see whether you are paying too much for your monthly repayments. Average age, household makeup (couples with children/single parents etc.), and occupancy percentages (owns outright, renting etc.) as well as occupation insights, survey results and local amenities (schools nearby etc) help you gauge whether a neighbourhood you are interested in fits your lifestyle and budget or who you should target the sale of your property towards.
Access to this sort of data to everyday users is relatively new, but is a competitive area in developing stronger relationships between users and real estate agents. Data will inevitably continue to improve in its accuracy and scope, so that people who may be selling or buying a home can approach the process with more insights than they have ever had access to before. | <urn:uuid:dc6b7ba8-7cf8-4f9a-9168-5721fb880b35> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://www.roywestonrealestate.com.au/property-report-with-price-estimate-and-history/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573193.35/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818094131-20220818124131-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.956186 | 632 | 1.578125 | 2 |
Stretch Wrap (Hand Use)
Stretch wrap or pallet wrap is used to hold a number of items together, usually to a pallet. This ensures stability of the load, along with the benefit of being protected from dust, dirt and moisture. Black pallet wrap can be used to block items from view. Stretch wrap needs to be pulled taught when a product is wrapped otherwise the load is not held securely. This leads to products falling from pallets whilst being transported. Pallet wrap can be supplied in a number of thicknesses to suit all applications. Options include flush cores or extended cores. Extended cores effectively give the user a handle on the roll.
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The period from the 8th to 12th century in political life in India is particularly dominated by the presence of large number of states. The bigger ones tried to establish their supremacy in northern India and the Deccan. The main contenders in this struggle for supremacy were the Pratiharas, the Palas and the Rashtrakutas. In the south the most powerful kingdom to emerge during this period was that of the Cholas. The Cholas brought about the political unification of large parts of the country but the general political picture was that of fragmentation particularly in northern India. It was in this period that India's contact with the new religion of Islam began. The contacts began late in the 7th century through the Arab traders.
Later in the early 8th century the Arabs conquered Sind. In the 10th century the Turks emerged as a powerful force in Central and West Asia and carved out kingdoms for themselves. They conquered Persia but their lives were richly influenced by Persian culture and tradition. The Turks first invaded India during the late 10th and early 11th century and Punjab came under Turkish rule. Another series of Turkish invasions in the late 12th and early 13th century led to the establishment of the Sultanate of Delhi. Within a few centauries after the rise of Islam in Arabia it became the second most popular religion in India with followers in every part of the country.
The establishment of the Sultanate marked the beginning of a new phase in the history of medieval India. Politically it led to the unification of northern India and parts of the Deccan for almost a century. Its rulers almost from the time of the establishment of the Sultanate succeeded in separating it from the country from which they had originally come. The sultanate disintegrated towards the end of the 14th century leading to the emergence of a number of kingdoms in different parts of the country. Some of these like Bahmani and Vijaynagar kingdoms became very powerful. In society new social groups -the Turks, the Persians, the Mongols and the Afghans besides the Arabs who had settled in India. There were important changes in economic life also. Trade and crafts received a stimulus and many new towns arose as centres of administration, trade and crafts. New elements of technology were also introduced during this period.include("../sc_ad/config.php"); $d12=date('Y-m-d'); ?> | <urn:uuid:4435a8fd-9026-4d27-8de2-be909f46de78> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.historytuition.com/medieval_india/index.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572212.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815205848-20220815235848-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.974131 | 489 | 3.953125 | 4 |
A little history of Cujas townhouse
Raised in 1515 by architect Guillaume Pellevoisin (he built the northern tower of Bourges cathedral!), this city house was Durante Salvi's house, a rich merchant from Florence (Italy) who often came in Bourges.
We know that the interior included a kitchen, a dining room, a garden, a room decorated with a coffers ceiling "adorned with carved crowns" and a big chimney; bedrooms on the first floor with their own staircases; a "domestic bedroom"...
On the façade, medallions with heads and names as Lavinia, Remus, Romulus Rex...
Salvi later became tax collector in Berry. When he died in 1527, his only daughter inherited the house: she sold it to merchants called Pastoureau, who sold it in 1565 to Bernardin Bochetel, bishop of Rennes.
Then it fell to his brother Jacques Bochetel, lord of Le Forest, king's butler... and finally... Jacques Cujas, king's councillor and University's dean, owned the house in 1585. | <urn:uuid:982c69bf-8c03-4fe8-8c16-d55180e007f1> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://en.anecdotrip.com/a-little-history-of-cujas-townhouse-by-vinaigrette | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572833.95/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817032054-20220817062054-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.966433 | 243 | 2.296875 | 2 |
gadgets | home | quirky | October 3, 2012
Another practical invention from the Quirky community, Prop Power is an extension cord made of flexible wiring encased in conforming plastic. It can be bent and coiled and will hold its shape.
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This Digital Curator Toolkit, produced as part of the Our Voices project, aims to support people to use the knowledge in stories of lived experience to create positive change and impact within their communities. It covers the same topics as the Our Voices Digital Curator Training Programme. Ideally, it should be used in tandem with this training to support you to utilise the knowledge and skills from the training to deliver story curation activities in community and informal learning settings. However, it can also be used independently by professionals working in a range of fields including community development, digital storytelling, and education
Within the context of the Internet and the digital age, the term ‘content curation’ is broadly used to describe the process for gathering, organising and presenting information in relation to a specific subject. Based on this understanding, the Our Voices approach to Story Curation is concerned with:
- Sourcing stories via various digital storytelling methods and story banks
- Curating stories by analysing their content and packaging this analysis into digital outputs
- Mobilising stories and curated digital outputs by connecting them decision-makers who are in a position to create positive change for communities
This toolkit is structured in the same way as the process outlined above and in each section of the toolkit there is information on the subject matter to enable you to develop your digital story curation skills. At the end of each section, there is a guide for facilitators and adapted resources and activities that will support you to deliver digital story curation training activities in informal learning environments and/or community settings. Specifically, this guide focuses on making story curation accessible for learners with low levels of literacy and academic ability (including those with learning disabilities).
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Whether your fly-fishing trip is on the Madison or Henry’s Fork or to Patagonia, Canada or Kamchatka, it is likely you may cast a grasshopper or cricket in hopes of bringing a large trout to the surface.
Here at our Yellow Dog Flyfishing Adventures headquarters in Bozeman, Montana, it is time to start thinking about fishing grasshoppers on our local waters. But a trout in Montana is similar to a trout in Patagonia or Kamchatka so an understanding of fishing a grasshopper pattern is important…and just plain fun.
To keep us from getting carried away, let’s simplify even more and just call anything that flies, hops and lives on the ground but eventually ends up in a trout stream a grasshopper.
Here’s some help to choose the best hopper pattern for any river, creek, or lake in which a trout may swim.
The legs have it. Nearly all hopper patterns feature legs. From the original Dave’s Hopper and its dyed yellow grizzly hackle to the more modern hoppers fished today with Sexy Legs and Sili Legs, if you’re fishing a grasshopper pattern without appropriate appendages, you’re not really standing on all your collective angling legs. As long as your hopper has one leg and the fish are still eating it, keep fishing it. Grasshoppers do not like to be on the water so they often injure themselves trying to escape once they land on water.
Go big and go foam. In the early 1990s, foam burst onto the angling scene. It had been used sparingly in a few patterns in the ‘70s and ‘80s, but it wasn’t until the Chernobyl Hopper became commonplace that anglers embraced foam. Nearly thirty years later, finding a foamless hopper pattern is a challenge. The foam allows a large hopper to float for long drifts, and a longer drift means a better chance at catching a fish. Foam flies are less likely to sink, allowing you to twitch a hopper in life-like movements. Hoppers present a big meal to a hungry trout. So fish a big hopper. Big fly…big fish.
Keep color choice simple. Bright green and flashy yellow hoppers look sexy in the fly bins and may seem like a good choice, but many experienced hopper anglers choose natural tones. Grey, tan, pale yellow, light peach, and olive will catch more fish than obnoxious colors.
Shape and profile play a vital role. Look closely at any natural grasshopper and their body is fatter at the head than at the tail. Choose a hopper pattern that tapers to better represent the real thing. As summer transitions into fall and trout have seen other anglers’ hoppers float by, choose a slimmer profiled hopper and one that will ride lower in the water. A Yellow Dog favorite of the tapered and low-lying hoppers are the Moorish Hopper and the Panty Dropper Hopper.
The eye of the hopper. It’s the thrill of the bite. Natural grasshoppers feature prominent eyes. Consider a trout a predator and a grasshopper its prey; a trout will use the eyes of its prey as confirmation of something live that it might want to eat. Any hopper pattern worth fishing will feature eyes. Trina’s Carnage Hopper has eyes and is often eye-catching to a hungry trout.
Trout are opportunistic feeders and as anglers, we also need to be opportunistic when selecting flies to fish. Choose any of these flies for your next trout fly fishing trip. You and your guide will be much happier.
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When Is It Time to Replace Your Water Heater?
Water heaters are easily among the most important appliances in the home. They are so commonplace, most of us take hot water for granted. Can you imagine a life where you had to take only cold showers? Not pretty. This reason alone makes it important for you to keep track of your water heater, and that includes when to get a new one.
We have put together a quick list for you to go through before deciding you need to give R.S. Andrews a call and have us check the situation out or install a new water heater for you.
Age: On average, a storage (tank) water heater should last between eight and twelve years, give or take. However, if you have an electric model the lifespan can be a bit longer. If you aren’t sure about the age of your water heater, it is usually listed on the Rating Plate that is required to be on all water heaters.
Treatment: Proper maintenance is something that can help extend the life of your water heater beyond the given eight to twelve years. By scheduling annual maintenance checks on your water heater you can help stave off future problems by addressing them before they become an issue. In the long run these preventative measures pay off financially because they help your system live longer and run more efficiently. It’s never too late to give R.S. Andrews a call to schedule one!
If you have a tankless hot water heater, one thing you can do yourself that will go a long way toward making it run as efficiently as possibly and have a long service life is flush it out periodically – here’s how.
Water Temperature and Quality: One of the sure fire ways to tell it’s time to call R.S. Andrews is if you notice distinct changes in the water itself. If your water temperature isn’t quite as hot as it usually is, or you quickly run out of hot water, it’s time to check your water heater. Discoloration or rusty water is the most obvious sign that something is wrong. This can mean that your water heating system is even failing, and you should call R.S. Andrews quickly so we can fix the problem.
Leaks: Another clear cut sign something is wrong with your water heater is the presence of water or moisture around the heater. Leaks can even cause the pilot light to go out, stopping hot water production altogether. If you see moisture around your tank give us a call and we will address the problem as quickly as possible.
If you’re ready to replace your current water heater and upgrade to a tankless model for greater efficiency and comfort, make sure you also check out our Tankless Hot Water Heater Buying Guide Parts One and Two and then call R.S. Andrews today! | <urn:uuid:b98c410f-f83e-4f48-bbe5-a9c1f7375a6a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.rsandrews.com/blog/when-is-it-time-to-replace-your-water-heater/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573699.52/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819131019-20220819161019-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.951384 | 583 | 1.632813 | 2 |
In mathematics and its applications, the root mean square of a set of numbers (abbreviated as RMS, RMS or rms and denoted in formulas as either or ) is defined as the square root of the mean square (the arithmetic mean of the squares) of the set. The RMS is also known as the quadratic mean (denoted ) and is a particular case of the generalized mean. The RMS of a continuously varying function (denoted ) can be defined in terms of an integral of the squares of the instantaneous values during a cycle.
For alternating electric current, RMS is equal to the value of the constant direct current that would produce the same power dissipation in a resistive load. In estimation theory, the root-mean-square deviation of an estimator is a measure of the imperfection of the fit of the estimator to the data.
The RMS value of a set of values (or a continuous-time waveform) is the square root of the arithmetic mean of the squares of the values, or the square of the function that defines the continuous waveform. In physics, the RMS current value can also be defined as the "value of the direct current that dissipates the same power in a resistor."
In the case of a set of n values , the RMS is
The corresponding formula for a continuous function (or waveform) f(t) defined over the interval is
and the RMS for a function over all time is
The RMS over all time of a periodic function is equal to the RMS of one period of the function. The RMS value of a continuous function or signal can be approximated by taking the RMS of a sample consisting of equally spaced observations. Additionally, the RMS value of various waveforms can also be determined without calculus, as shown by Cartwright.
In the case of the RMS statistic of a random process, the expected value is used instead of the mean.
If the waveform is a pure sine wave, the relationships between amplitudes (peak-to-peak, peak) and RMS are fixed and known, as they are for any continuous periodic wave. However, this is not true for an arbitrary waveform, which may not be periodic or continuous. For a zero-mean sine wave, the relationship between RMS and peak-to-peak amplitude is:
For other waveforms, the relationships are not the same as they are for sine waves. For example, for either a triangular or sawtooth wave
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Waveforms made by summing known simple waveforms have an RMS value that is the root of the sum of squares of the component RMS values, if the component waveforms are orthogonal (that is, if the average of the product of one simple waveform with another is zero for all pairs other than a waveform times itself).
Alternatively, for waveforms that are perfectly positively correlated, or "in phase" with each other, their RMS values sum directly.
Further information: Root mean square AC voltage
A special case of RMS of waveform combinations is:
where refers to the direct current (or average) component of the signal, and is the alternating current component of the signal.
Further information: AC power
Electrical engineers often need to know the power, P, dissipated by an electrical resistance, R. It is easy to do the calculation when there is a constant current, I, through the resistance. For a load of R ohms, power is defined simply as:
However, if the current is a time-varying function, I(t), this formula must be extended to reflect the fact that the current (and thus the instantaneous power) is varying over time. If the function is periodic (such as household AC power), it is still meaningful to discuss the average power dissipated over time, which is calculated by taking the average power dissipation:
So, the RMS value, IRMS, of the function I(t) is the constant current that yields the same power dissipation as the time-averaged power dissipation of the current I(t).
Average power can also be found using the same method that in the case of a time-varying voltage, V(t), with RMS value VRMS,
This equation can be used for any periodic waveform, such as a sinusoidal or sawtooth waveform, allowing us to calculate the mean power delivered into a specified load.
By taking the square root of both these equations and multiplying them together, the power is found to be:
Both derivations depend on voltage and current being proportional (that is, the load, R, is purely resistive). Reactive loads (that is, loads capable of not just dissipating energy but also storing it) are discussed under the topic of AC power.
In the common case of alternating current when I(t) is a sinusoidal current, as is approximately true for mains power, the RMS value is easy to calculate from the continuous case equation above. If Ip is defined to be the peak current, then:
where t is time and ω is the angular frequency (ω = 2π/T, where T is the period of the wave).
Since Ip is a positive constant:
Using a trigonometric identity to eliminate squaring of trig function:
but since the interval is a whole number of complete cycles (per definition of RMS), the sine terms will cancel out, leaving:
A similar analysis leads to the analogous equation for sinusoidal voltage:
where IP represents the peak current and VP represents the peak voltage.
Because of their usefulness in carrying out power calculations, listed voltages for power outlets (for example, 120 V in the USA, or 230 V in Europe) are almost always quoted in RMS values, and not peak values. Peak values can be calculated from RMS values from the above formula, which implies VP = VRMS × √, assuming the source is a pure sine wave. Thus the peak value of the mains voltage in the USA is about 120 × √, or about 170 volts. The peak-to-peak voltage, being double this, is about 340 volts. A similar calculation indicates that the peak mains voltage in Europe is about 325 volts, and the peak-to-peak mains voltage, about 650 volts.
RMS quantities such as electric current are usually calculated over one cycle. However, for some purposes the RMS current over a longer period is required when calculating transmission power losses. The same principle applies, and (for example) a current of 10 amps used for 12 hours each 24-hour day represents an average current of 5 amps, but an RMS current of 7.07 amps, in the long term.
The term RMS power is sometimes erroneously used in the audio industry as a synonym for mean power or average power (it is proportional to the square of the RMS voltage or RMS current in a resistive load). For a discussion of audio power measurements and their shortcomings, see Audio power.
Main article: Root-mean-square speed
In the physics of gas molecules, the root-mean-square speed is defined as the square root of the average squared-speed. The RMS speed of an ideal gas is calculated using the following equation:
where R represents the gas constant, 8.314 J/(mol·K), T is the temperature of the gas in kelvins, and M is the molar mass of the gas in kilograms per mole. In physics, speed is defined as the scalar magnitude of velocity. For a stationary gas, the average speed of its molecules can be in the order of thousands of km/hr, even though the average velocity of its molecules is zero.
Main article: Root-mean-square deviation
When two data sets — one set from theoretical prediction and the other from actual measurement of some physical variable, for instance — are compared, the RMS of the pairwise differences of the two data sets can serve as a measure how far on average the error is from 0. The mean of the absolute values of the pairwise differences could be a useful measure of the variability of the differences. However, the RMS of the differences is usually the preferred measure, probably due to mathematical convention and compatibility with other formulae.
The RMS can be computed in the frequency domain, using Parseval's theorem. For a sampled signal , where is the sampling period,
where and N is the sample size, that is, the number of observations in the sample and FFT coefficients.
In this case, the RMS computed in the time domain is the same as in the frequency domain:
See also: Accuracy
If is the arithmetic mean and is the standard deviation of a population or a waveform, then:
From this it is clear that the RMS value is always greater than or equal to the average, in that the RMS includes the "error" / square deviation as well.
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Ten years after the beginning of the US-led intervention, American troops now prepare to leave. Afghan insurgents would probably tell you that foreign invasions always end that way; that Afghanistan is called the “graveyard of empires” for a reason. The same insurgents would also say that the Americans are no better than the Brits or the Soviets, so there is no reason to believe that the former would succeed where the later failed. Journalist Jonathan Landay recently argued that the “Taliban might be lying low,” waiting for the Western troops to leave. As a captured Taliban fighter reportedly phrased it: “You [NATO] have the watches, we [the insurgents] have the time.” Whether or not this sentence reflects the reality of military operations on the ground, I believe that it mirrors the general mood in the country. Hope is long gone. Pessimism is running high, both among Afghans and US decision makers (see previous post). As American troops prepare to leave, the Afghans who have opposed the Taliban start wondering what the future holds. Everyone in Afghanistan knew all along that the US would not stay indefinitely. But now that President Obama gave a departure date, it became hard for us to ignore. Not only do they have the time, but our clock is ticking. As Alissa Rubin pointed out in a recent article, “the Rabbani assassination (…) reminded people of [the insurgents’] ability to shape the next chapter in the country’s history.”
Both Landay and Rubin report that the Taliban are adapting to the changing international environment. They might be losing the capacity to control large chunks of territory, but it does not mean that they are any weaker. They still have the capacity to destabilize entire regions, if not the entire country. Similarly, former Northern Alliance commanders (who no longer claim territorial control) exert power in different ways (patronage networks, political influence, etc.). They, like the Taliban, are getting ready for what will be coming next, which, if worse comes to worst, will be an open civil war. As the establishment of US permanent bases is still under discussion, former commanders start remobilizing their dormant military networks and are getting ready to fight, if necessary. While loads of Afghans would not mind getting rid of former Jihadis, everybody in Afghanistan knows that, at the end of the day, when the Americans leave the country to its fate, they will be the only ones able to protect them from a Taliban comeback. Whether we like it or not, in times of uncertainty, people back the stronger actors. Now the real question is whether the US will allow the renewal of a full-scale civil war, or whether they will keep pushing for some sort of power-sharing agreement, in spite of the recent events (see previous post). | <urn:uuid:2673f6cb-ab6d-459c-801a-3f1f4bf6df9e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://afghanopoly.wordpress.com/2011/10/13/our-clock-is-ticking/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573193.35/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818094131-20220818124131-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.956263 | 578 | 1.828125 | 2 |
This year is challenging us in so many ways, but the thing that can make these challenges so difficult to surmount is our #isolation. So many people are finding themselves still isolated from family, friends, community and any #socialization that could otherwise offer a reprieve from our inner worlds.
Uncertainty, anxiety, worry for ourselves and others, existential pain for the world – these are truly emotions that are halved when shared. But beyond the simple act of having people there to share in our emotional burdens, there is the plain truth that humans are sociable creatures.
Physical and social #connection are essential elements of our wellbeing. They boost our endorphins, our oxytocin levels, and reduce cortisol, helping to regulate our moods and feelings for the best. So when we take these away, it’s like we’re facing the challenges of 2020 with half our armor, or half our arsenal of coping mechanisms.
The first and most crucial step is #self-compassion.
We’re living in strange, unfamiliar times. It’s okay not to feel great, especially if we’ve found ourselves isolated from our social worlds. We are not weak, and we are not dependent. We are not somehow incompetent, ‘less-than’ or unworthy because we are struggling. We are simply #human.
Knowing and understanding why we are struggling helps when identifying coping mechanisms. We need to give ourselves the #space to feel that worry for our loved ones, to miss the presence of our family and friends.
But we must also give ourselves the tools to recognize the uncontrolled thought-spirals and the ruminating. Externalizing these thoughts and feelings, even just to ourselves in a journal, video or audio recording, can help develop our awareness of the triggers and break the cycles.
We also need to #adapt. Don’t be afraid to email, text, call or video-call your people to get that social #uplift, even if it’s not necessarily the ideal way to engage with your loved ones.
Been thinking about someone or worried about their well being? Reach out. Check in. Connect and support. We are not alone.
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An HMO under the Housing Act 2004 is defined as: a property that is occupied by persons who do not form a single household and where at least two or more of the households share one or more basic facilities such as personal washing, WC, or cooking facilities. Therefore, if you rent your property out to several tenants who aren’t members of the same family, it may be an HMO. If so, you may need to apply to us for a licence or you may be fined. The licence usually lasts for five years. Mandatory licensing requirements apply if the property is occupied by 5 or more people in two or more households.
An HMO could be:
- a shared house or flat where the tenants are not members of the same family
- a house split into bedsits
- a hostel
- shared accommodation for students
As an HMO landlord you must ensure that:
- you have fire safety measures in place and a fire risk assessment for the property
- you have an annual gas safety certificate
- you have a five-year electrical safety certificate
- you deal with any repairs to the structure, fixtures and fittings
- your property isn’t overcrowded
- your tenant’s deposits are protected in a Government approved deposit scheme (DPS, MyDeposits or TDS)
- your property manager/agent is signed up to one of the Government’s approved redress schemes.
As a Council we have developed our amenity standards for any property that may be an HMO, licensable or non-licensable. This guidance acts to address hazards under the Housing Health & Safety Rating System.
An HMO licence is £505 per property with up to five bedrooms, if you are a member of Barnsley Landlord Accreditation Scheme, we will reduce the fee to £405. If the property has more than five bedrooms, we will charge an additional £50 per bedroom. If you require us to carry out a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check this will be an extra £70. You can apply for an HMO licence online via our website. Once you have applied for your licence your details will be added to the Council’s register of HMOs.
For more information on HMOs, you can contact the Shared Accommodation Team.
Article 4 Direction
Barnsley Council made an Article 4 Direction on 14th May 2020, under Article 4(1) of the Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) (England) Order 2015. The Article 4 direction came into force on 24th June 2021. The Article 4 Direction was introduced to manage the concentration of HMOs in the borough.
This means development consisting of a change of use to a building currently used as a dwelling house (Class C3) to an HMO (Class C4) is no longer deemed as permitted development under Class L(b) of part 3 of Schedule 2 of Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) (England) Order 2015.
If your property was not already an established HMO (Class C4) prior to the Article 4 Direction coming into force, then a change of use planning application would be required. However, if you can provide evidence that it was an HMO (Class C4) prior to the Article 4 Direction coming into force then an application for a Lawful Development Certificate could be submitted along with the evidence.
Other planning rules still apply for all HMOs with 7 or more occupants.
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Chemeketa's Career Development Model
Career development is a life-long process. This Career Development Model provides a comprehensive framework for engaging in career exploration and planning.
Each stage provides specific activities and resources to empower you to Know Yourself, Explore Pathways, Decide & Plan and Launch Your Future.
Stage 1: Know Yourself
Here you begin to connect your values, interests and skills in order to lay the foundation for your academic plan and career goals.
Print the Stage 1 Worksheet to collect your assessment results and additional information. Your results will help you as you continue with your career exploration journey.
Getting to know your career interests means that you are finding out what you enjoy doing on a regular basis.
- Career One Stop Interest Assessment: Print or email your results and record them on your worksheet.
Your career values represent the beliefs you have about what is important in your work, and what makes it meaningful to you.
- Career One Stop Work Values: Print or email your results and record them on your worksheet.
Skills are things that you can do now or learn to do. There are many types of skills including: basic skills, people skills, management skills and technical skills. Skills can transfer from one setting to another.
- Career One Stop Skills Assessment: Print or email your results and record them on your worksheet.
Teaches financial literacy by connecting lifestyle choices to career planning.
- EducationQuest Reality Check: Print or email your results and record them on your worksheet.
- 16 Personalities Test: A personality test reveals who you really are. Discover the 16 personality styles created by Myers & Briggs, test your personality type, and find your strengths.
- Enroll in a Career Planning/Development class:
- CG110 Career Life Planning (2 credits)
- CG114 Career Development (3 credits)
- FE120 Career Jump Start (3 credits)
- Enrolled Students:
- For additional career resources go to the Oregon Career Information System (CIS). To access your Oregon CIS portfolio sign into your Student Applications SSO
- Meet with a counselor to discuss your assessment results. Contact Counseling Services for more information
Stage 2: Explore Pathways
In this stage you will discover educational pathways and research occupational possibilities. See how occupations are related and explore degree options to meet your goals.
Print the Stage 2 Worksheet to record your research findings. Your results will help you as you continue with your career exploration journey
- Chemeketa Pathways webpage
- Student Handout and video (Coming Soon!)
- Success in the New Economy: How Perspective Students Can Gain a Competitive Advantage. Learn how to apply your skills and interests to the right educational and career plan for your future
- 6 Things to Consider When Exploring Colleges: How a college meets your academic, social, financial, and other needs is what's known as college fit
- Oregon Goes to College - Types of Colleges and Degrees: Research college options that best fit your academic, social and personal needs
- Tools for Transfer Students - Oregon Transfer Compass: The Oregon Transfer Compass is a set of tools to help students successfully navigate the transfer process
- Oregon's 7 Public Universities
- Use the Transfer College Worksheet to gather information
- Visit Chemeketa’s Transfer Center
Connect your personal attributes and educational goals with the world of work.
How to find more information about careers
- Conduct an informational interview
- Volunteer at a place of interest
- Join a club, meetup or professional network
- Complete a Job Shadow
- Enroll in an Internships with Cooperative Work Experience
Where to find more information about careers
- O*NET Online
- Education Quest
- State of Oregon Employment Department
- Enrolled Students: For additional career resources go to the Oregon Career Information System (Oregon CIS). To access your Oregon CIS portfolio sign in to your Student Applications SSO
What to look for while conducting occupational research?
- Duties and responsibilities
- Work environment
- Job Market
- Training and Education requirements
- Wages and benefits
- Licensing requirements
- Print a Gathering the Occupational Facts Worksheet
Stage 3: Decide & Plan
In this stage, students will use appropriate resources to develop a plan which will empower them to make informed and meaningful career decisions.
Print the Stage 3 Worksheet to record your research findings. Your results will help you as you continue with your career exploration journey.
Decision Making Strategies
- Make a list of your degree and career options
- Gather information
- Pros and cons
- Update your list of options
- What more information or tasks do you need to do?
Identify and Access Resources
- Long Term and Short Term Goals
- A short-term goal is something you want to do in the near future. The near future can mean today, this week, this month, or even this year. A short-term goal is something you want to accomplish soon. A long-term goal is something you want to do further in the future. Long-term goals require time and planning. They are not something you can do this week or even this year. Long-term goals usually take 12 months or more to achieve.
- Brainstorm and list your short and long term goals on the Goal Setting Worksheet
- SMART Goals
- A SMART Goal is used to help guide goal setting. SMART is an acronym that stands for Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Realistic and Timely. A SMART goal incorporates all of these criteria to help focus your efforts and increase the chances of reaching your goal. Learn more about creating SMART Goals here.
- Use the SMART Goals Worksheet to create your own SMART goals.
Academic Plan & Career Action Plan
- Develop your Academic plan in Degree Works
- Make an appointment with an Advisor to develop an Academic Plan
- Develop your Career Action Plan
- Make an appointment with a Counselor to develop a Career Action Plan
- Meet with a Counselor to identify and address barriers to career choice. For information visit Counseling Services
- Meet with an Academic Advisor to discuss degree requirements. For more information visit Academic Advising
- Meet with a Career Coach to support your successful transition from the classroom to employment. For more information visit Career Services
- Meet with Cooperative Work Experience office to start an internship
- Get involved with Student Leadership
- In Cultural Wealth, culture differences are presented as assets and strengths brought to the educational and work environments. Cultural Wealth is an array of knowledge, skills, strengths and experiences that are learned and shared by people of color and marginalized groups; The values and behaviors that are nurtured through culture work together to create a way of knowing and being. Cultural Wealth was measured by J. T. Yasso (2005) on six axis: Aspirational Capital (resiliency), Linguistic Capital (bi-lingual), Familial Capital (extended family, shared experience), Social Capital (engagement and social resources), Navigational Capital (channel adversity into motivation), Resistant Capital (strength gained through repeated microaggressions)
- Complete the Cultural Wealth Wheel
- Emotional Intelligence (EI) is learning how to recognize, process and channel your emotions in a way that benefits you and those around you. Developing high emotional intelligence is incredibly important for a successful career. When we have high levels of emotional intelligence, we're able to build strong working relationships and manage difficult situations more effectively. Emotional Intelligence is a psychological theory developed by Peter Salovey and John Mayer (1990) and further developed by Daniel Goleman (1992) and rates emotional skills in 5 key areas: Self Awareness (knowing our internal state), Self Regulation (managing our internal state), Empathy (having awareness of others), Motivation (moving towards achievement of goals), Social Skills (ability to influence others)
- Make a list of your degree and career options
Stage 4: Launch Your Future
Here, you will develop and implement job search skills and materials that reflect your personal brand and gain experience that leads to career success.
Print the Stage 4 Worksheet to record your research findings. Your results will help you as you continue with your career exploration journey.
- Get Involved
- Consider Internships with Cooperative Work Experience
- Research part-time/full-time employment opportunities (many jobs are listed on Chemeketa CareerLink)
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- Career Services Job Search Tools and Resources
- Networking Information from Career Services
Intentional planning of activities and engagements in the jobs a student undertakes in the course of their life for better fulfilment, growth and financial stability. Remember, career management is a continuing process as opposed to a one-time project; you want to keep updating your resume and continue networking.
- Conduct a State of Your Career Assessment
- While in school, do this each term; after graduation, yearly
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- What knowledge, skills and abilities could be better?
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- What do I want to learn?
- Who do I want to meet?
- What were my major accomplishments?
- Enroll in FE205B Resume and Job Search Correspondence
- Enroll in FE205C Interviewing for Success
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The First Mexican Festival of Snakes will take place on July 16 at the Del Sur Yu’um Tsil Ecological Park.
On Saturday, July 16th, all snake lovers will be able to enjoy a wide array of activities during the First Mexican Festival of Snakes.
In addition to meeting some species of reptiles, during the event, which will take place at the Del Sur Yu’um Tsil Ecological Park from 9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m., conferences, workshops, and exhibitions will be offered.
The festival is organized in the state by X-Plora Reptilia in conjunction with Rescate Zarigüeyal, the Ministry of Sustainable Development of Yucatán, as well as by the Network for the Conservation of Amphibians and Reptiles of Yucatán, and Ya’ax Kaan Yucatán: Rescue and Relocation of Amphibians and Reptiles.
It should be noted that the festival will also be held in Toluca, State of Mexico, and in Pachuca, Hidalgo, to celebrate World Snake Day, with the goal of showcasing the relevance of the wealth of snakes present in Mexico and the need to preserve them.
According to X-Plora Reptilia, Mexico is listed as the country with the most diversity in terms of species of viperids and is home to the largest number of venomous snakes on the American continent.
According to the Federal Attorney for Environmental Protection (Profepa), there are 9,547 species of reptiles in the world, of which 864 are found in Mexico.
The First Mexican Festival of Snakes will take place on July 16th, in the Del Sur Yu’um Tsil Ecological Park, located on the corner of Calle 185 and 94, in the San Antonio Xluch III neighborhood.
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A dormant stellar-mass black hole in a neighboring galaxy to our own has been discovered by a team of international experts nicknamed the “black hole police”.
The group, who are renowned for debunking several black hole discoveries, found a black hole in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way situated nearly 200,000 light-years from Earth.
“For the first time, our team got together to report on a black hole discovery, instead of rejecting one,” study leader Tomer Shenar told ScienceDaily.
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“We identified a ‘needle in a haystack’.”
The team claims this is the first dormant stellar-mass black hole to be clearly detected outside the Milky Way.
Stellar-mass black holes are created when extremely big stars collapse. They typically weigh between five and 10 times the mass of our sun.
This newly discovered black hole, called VFTS 243, is roughly nine times the mass of our Sun and orbits a blue star that weighs 25 times the sun’s mass.
Shenar, now a Marie-Curie Fellow at Amsterdam University in the Netherlands, said as someone who has debunked black-holes in the past, he was “extremely sceptical” about the discovery.
Co-author Kareem El-Badry said he also had doubts when Shenar asked him to double-check his findings but “could not find a plausible explanation for the data that did not involve a black hole”.
A black hole is considered dormant if it does not emit high levels of X-ray radiation - which is how black holes are typically detected.
“It is incredible that we hardly know of any dormant black holes, given how common astronomers believe them to be,” co-author Pablo Marchant from KU Leuven University in Belgium said.
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On Monday, December 31, 2012, the House is scheduled to consider the Senate amendment to H.R. 443, a bill to provide for the conveyance of certain property from the United States to the Maniilaq Association located in Kotzebue, Alaska, under suspension of the rules. The House passed H.R. 443 by a vote of 407-4 (Roll No. 936). The Senate passed the bill with an amendment by unanimous consent on December 20, 2012.
H.R. 443 provides for the conveyance of certain property from the United States to the Maniilaq Association located in Kotzebue, Alaska for use in connection with health care and social services facilities operated by the Association.
According to H. Report 112-318 Part I, “the Maniilaq Association is a non-profit corporation that provides a range of health care and social services for the benefit of rural residents in remote northwest Alaska under the self governance provisions of the Indian Self Determination and Education Assistance Act (25 U.S.C. 450 et seq.). Under this arrangement, Maniilaq is basically a contractor for the Indian Health Service, a unit of the Department of Health and Human Services responsible for providing health care benefits to Native Americans.
H.R. 443 requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services to transfer by warranty deed three parcels of land (totaling 14.6 acres) and appurtenances to Maniilaq. One parcel is the site of the existing health care facility, and the other two will host future expansion of related facilities including employee housing.
The subject lands have already been conveyed by the Secretary to Maniilaq through a quit claim deed; however, this method of transferring land does not guarantee clear title that a warranty deed provides. Moreover, Maniilaq argues that under its Indian Self-Determination contracts with the Indian Health Service, transfer of government land using a quit claim deed creates certain obstacles on the Association's use and management of the property.
Under H.R. 443, the Indian Health Service properties are conveyed to Maniilaq without consideration. Property valued at more than $5000 reverts to the United States if the contract through which Maniilaq provides health services is withdrawn or reassumed by the Secretary. The legislation also: provides that Maniilaq shall not be liable for costs relating to contamination or pollution on the properties as of the date of the conveyance; permits the Secretary to reserve easements on the land for retained federal obligations and liability; and requires the Secretary to comply with section 120(h)(3)(A) and (B) of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 (42 U.S.C. 9620(h)(3)(A)).”
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As there’s more than one way to skin a cat (we’re referring to that furry rascal who’s just munched through half of our seedlings), so there’s more than one way to classify cannabis. From the way this plant grows to the way it is consumed or acts upon you – we shall have a look at all possible types of cannabis. Read this post, and all your questions will be answered and whatever fancy term there is, you’ll be brandishing it like a pro.
We’ll start our review of types of cannabis with various products a consumer may find at a dispensary (or in the backpack of their ‘guy’), then proceed to a rather controversial Indica-Sativa distinction, talk of high-THC and CBD-rich varieties, and finish with a quick probe into the overwhelmingly huge realm of commercial cannabis strains.
VARIOUS OPTIONS FOR CANNABIS CONSUMPTION
For centuries, cannabis, also often called marijuana, pot, or simply weed, was consumed in its natural form, meaning that people were smoking dried flowers and leaves of the plant. Another popular traditional method of use was smoking hash, or cannabis resin.
In the 19th and early 20th centuries, Western medicine used quite an array of various cannabis-based tinctures and oils that were sold at pharmacies. Starting from about the 1930s – when ‘devil’s weed’ was outlawed as a ‘dangerous drug’ – we were back to smoking, with basically no other options.
Luckily, as more and more countries and states legalize marijuana, we see a plethora of new exciting products and methods of consumption that trickle even into the black market.
Hands down the most popular way to use marijuana, dry flowers (buds) are the staple at any dispensary. After you have gound them, you can roll some into a marijuana cigarette (joint) or put it in the bowl of a pipe, bong, or hookah (chillum). Some smokers, especially in Europe, mix ground-up weed with tobacco and roll a ‘spliff’ or take a dry tobacco leaf (e.g. from a cigar) and roll a ‘blunt’. You can also vaporize buds using a desktop vaporizer or portable vaporizer.
Rolling marijuana cigarettes is still one of the most popular forms of weed consumption.
While legal markets tend to offer well-trimmed nuggets of uniform size and texture, street dealers may sell you products of inferior quality – they may be hard-pressed for more discreet transportation and storage (‘brickweed’), may consist of loose plant material (‘shake’), or contain everything from leaves to seeds to even small twigs.
Cannabis flowers are widely available and offer an impressive range of flavors, potencies, colors, and textures. The effect comes on quickly, leading to almost immediate symptom relief and allowing you to stop before the effect becomes overwhelming.
Smoking buds is not the best way of consumption, especially for medical patients and people with lung issues. However, vaporization excludes these risks.
Oral ingestion of cannabis has been known for centuries, but it wasn’t very popular until recently. Well, maybe with an exception of pot brownies (space cakes) that have been offered in Amsterdam’s coffeeshop since the 1970s. The legality of medical and recreational marijuana in US states has changed this scene, and cannabis-infused products are all the buzz now.
Modern edibles are as delicious as they are potent.
The active constituents of the plant, such as THC, are all fat-soluble, so to cook marijuana edibles one first needs to infuse oil or butter with it. Besides, THC needs to be decarboxylated (activated) with a certain amount of heat. After that, you can put cannabis-infused oil or cannabutter in any dish that requires regular oil or butter.
Legal cannabis producers also offer chewing gums, gummy bears, mints, syrups, and even beverages. Since you can’t dissolve THC in water, beverages use a clever high-tech trick called nanoemulsions.
The absorption of edibles by your body takes some time – about 1 or 2 hours before you feel their effect – and the high lasts much longer.
Among various types of marijuana, edibles are arguably the healthiest and the most discreet. Their longer effect is great for extended symptom relief in medical patients.
Because the effect builds up slowly, it’s easy to overindulge. Patients with nausea may find it hard to ingest edibles without vomiting.
The way concentrates are made is you take cannabis plants and process them in such a way that they only yield cannabinoids (active compounds) and terpenes (aromatic substances) in concentrated form. The rest is inert plant matter, and you can throw it away. There are different methods to obtain concentrates: CO2 extraction, butane extraction, rosin technique (simultaneously applying heat and pressure), etc.
Regardless of how concentrates are made, they are much more potent than their source material. While buds of a good powerful strain may contain 20% THC, its level in a concentrate can easily reach 80%.
Concentrates are great in that you don’t have to inhale the smoke from burning all those inert plant tissues. Their high levels of THC and other cannabinoids also appeal to medical patients who need to medicate constantly and have developed a tolerance. On the other hand, casual smokers may get overwhelmed by just one toke, and there’s a growing concern that habitually using such powerful forms of marijuana may lead to addiction more frequently.
Concentrates can be loose and powdery, liquid, semisolid, or solid, and here are the descriptions of some of their most popular varieties.
Resembling beeswax or earwax, this type of concentrate is a viscous, taffy-like (or dryer and slightly crumbly) substance with a tan color. Wax is convenient to handle as you pick up some of it with a kind of a metal ‘toothpick’ and put it on the heated ‘nail’ of a dab rig. Then, all you have to do is inhale the vapor.
Shatter is a more solid form of marijuana concentrate than wax. It’s brittle and shatters easily. You use it in the same way – in a kind of a pseudo-bong called dab rig – only shatter is slightly more difficult to handle because its crumbs are not sticky and you might drop them.
Oils, such as butane hash oil (BHO) or Rick Simpson oil, are light- or dark-colored thick liquids that don’t really contain any oils (fats). Rather, they just seem oily. In fact, they consist mostly of cannabinoids, terpenes, and trace amounts of solvents, such as butane or alcohol. You can add them to food, take them under the tongue, or vaporize them in vapes that are designed to be used with liquid concentrates.
Capsules are really closer to edibles than concentrates because THC, CBD, and other cannabinoids in them are dissolved in vegetable oils. The only difference is that with edibles you put these oils in your dishes and with capsules you just swallow them with water. Capsules are probably the most discreet way to medicate because people swallow medicine and supplements all the time, and no one takes notice.
Tinctures are an ancient form of taking your medication orally. As a carrier, tinctures generally use alcohol which is a great solvent for THC and other cannabinoids. Sometimes, glycerin is used, either alone or in combination with alcohol. If you put a cannabis tincture under the tongue, the effect comes quite fast – in about 15 minutes – because there are a lot of blood vessels under the tongue which absorb the active ingredients and put them right into your bloodstream. If you add a few drops of the tincture to your food, it’s the same as eating edibles (see above).
Among all types of weed concentrates, hash, or hashish, is the most ancient. It’s very easy to collect resin from the cannabis plant, and farmers have been doing this for centuries. The crudest method is to roll fresh flowers in your hands so that the resin sticks to them. Then you can roll the resin into a dark-colored ball. This is called ‘hand-rubbed hash’ or ‘finger hash’.
Alternatively, you can take dried flowers and use a sieve to collect tiny resin glands (trichomes) that fall from them. This dry-sift hash, or kief, is loose or powdery and lightly colored compared with hand rub hash. Sometimes, it’s pressed into blocks of various sizes for easier storage and transportation.
Unpressed and pressed hashish.
Similar to kief is ice hash (ice water hash). Sometimes, they call it ‘bubble hash’ because it bubbles when you heat it with a lighter. This form of hashish looks the same – a light-colored loose mass of trichomes but its method of production is different: you put fresh or dried buds and ‘sugar leaves’ into a bucket with ice-cold water which makes trichomes very brittle and they fall off easily when you stir the mix. Then you catch the trichomes using a series of mesh screens.
This is the purest form of cannabis concentrates. As a source, distillers take any other whole-plant concentrate, such as cannabis oil, and further purify it, removing fats, chlorophyll, and waxes but also aromas and flavors. What is left is the odorless but super potent mix of cannabinoids. Distillates can be used to manufacture edibles, tinctures, vape cartridges, and other products.
Distillates have a very consistent chemical composition and quality and contain minimal impurities. They also can be used to extract specific cannabinoids from the mix.
They are odorless and tasteless, cost more, and you’ll need proper training in chemistry and special lab equipment to make them. The effect of distillates can be overwhelming for new users.
MAJOR TYPES OF WEED AND EFFECTS
Dividing cannabis plants into Indica and Sativa varieties is a time-honored tradition. Most weed enthusiasts believe that these two are very different in the way they grow and the way they smoke.
We’d say that this distinction is useful as a rough approximation, but don’t put too much trust in it. More and more research shows that many commercial Indicas and Sativas are totally mislabeled and their actual genetic composition is all over the place. However, this shouldn’t bother you too much because if it looks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then it’s a duck (Indica/Sativa) for all intents and purposes.
A comparison between Indica and Sativa leaves and buds.
Cannabis Indica hails from the mountainous region of Hindukush in Afghanistan and has naturally adapted to a rather harsh environment that favors small height, bushy structure, short internodes, compact flower clusters, and a lot of resin. Indica plants mature quickly and – for whatever reason – have broad, roundish leaves that are dark green.
Smokers believe that the principal effect of Indica is the so-called body stone – a blissful feeling of relaxation when you don’t want to move a muscle and feel waves of euphoria coursing under your skin. Indicas are said to induce ‘couch-lock’ and, in larger doses, make you fall asleep.
The sedating and narcotic effects of Indica are great for patients with various physical ailments. Due to its heavy-handed relaxation, it’s best to use Indica as a nighttime smoke because, if you take it during the day, it may induce fatigue and kill motivation.
Many multiple sclerosis (MS) patients swear that medical marijuana helps them with muscle spasticity, stiffness, cramps, and associated pain. Some believe that Indicas are more effective than Sativas in easing these symptoms.
Research shows that pain is the most common reason people turn to medical marijuana. They say it helps with the pain of various origins, including migraines and other headaches, fibromyalgia, and, above all, neuropathic pain (e.g. in MS). Indicas – as more body-oriented than Sativas – seem to be better painkillers.
Soldiers who fought in Afghanistan and tried the local hash (made of Indica, of course) reported that for a few hours it made them oblivious of the daily dangers of war. People use anxiolytic properties of Indica in peacetime, too. Just don’t forget that low doses of THC may reduce anxiety and higher doses may have the opposite effect – make you more anxious or even paranoid.
Cannabis use for insomnia is a very controversial subject. While weed – especially of the Indica variety – will certainly help you fall asleep and stay asleep, the situation may get even worse as soon as you stop the use. Cannabis withdrawal (mild as it is) can nevertheless turn even a healthy young person into an insomniac for several days. So proceed with caution!
Indica was a godsend for generations of illegal growers because indoors you need compact and fast-flowering plants. Besides, Indicas tend to produce denser and heavier buds which makes them more rewarding cultivars. Their short flowering time also benefits growers who live in climates with short summers – where Sativas have no chance to mature but Indicas do.
Cannabis Sativa was first described in the 18th century by Carl Linnaeus who knew only this one variety cultivated in Europe and America, and it was a tall plant with narrow light-green leaves, fibrous stalk and branches, a very small amount of resin, and insignificant psychoactive effects. In short, it was what we now call hemp.
Today, when we say Sativa, we usually mean something else. Yes, it’s tall, but it’s also quite resinous and its buds pack enormous potency. Sativa strains on the modern cannabis seeds market all hail from either South Africa or such tropical countries as Thailand, Vietnam, Columbia, Mexico, Hawaii, etc. They are so psychoactive probably because the harsh tropical sun which is heavy on the UV spectrum led to the selection of the most resinous and THC-rich strains. (One theory maintains that THC protects cannabis from UV radiation.)
Effects of Cannabis Sativa are quite different from those of Indica. They energize the user, lift their mood, and make them talkative, social, focused, and motivated. When you smoke a Sativa in the evening, it’s very difficult to fall asleep, and in the morning, it can act like coffee. Nevertheless, taking too much can make you disoriented and dizzy to the point that you pass out.
The characteristic psychoactive effects of Sativas make them more suited to treating mental conditions rather than physical ailments. However, THC is THC, and it can still kill pain and fend off nausea, and in Sativas, it does so without making you lazy or tired. So, if you prefer an active lifestyle, you should experiment with Sativas and Sativa-dominant strains.
One of the main symptoms of ADHD is the inability to focus, and many smokers report that weed (and especially Sativa) makes it easier for them to concentrate on the task at hand and maintain this focus for hours.
We still don’t know exactly why weed makes us crave food so much. One theory says it’s because THC stimulates receptors in our olfactory bulbs so that we’re seduced by the appetizing smells. Be it as it may, ‘munchies’ are a real thing, and cannabis can stimulate appetite even in people with wasting syndrome as well as in AIDS and cancer patients.
The mood-lifting property of Cannabis Sativa makes it a good candidate for an antidepressant, but please be aware that research on cannabis use for depression is very limited. We still don’t know very much and can’t give you any medical advice. (This goes for any condition really, and you should always consult a health professional before deciding to self-medicate.)
Sativa is not the easiest type to grow because indoors, it tends to fill all available space and demand more, and outdoors, tropical varieties often start flowering when it’s too late in the season, so they never get a chance to mature. Nevertheless, Sativas have so many unique and desirable characteristics that breeders work hard on keeping them while adding such Indica traits as manageable size and short flowering time. This leads to the emergence of great Sativa-dominant hybrids that anyone can grow.
Here’s the bad news for all you Indica and Sativa purists: most of the strains on the market are the hybrids of the two. But is it really that bad? Far from it.
First of all, by combining very distant lineages, hybrids are especially hardy and healthy plants. There’s even a special term ‘hybrid vigor’ which speaks volumes. Second, hybrids give you some interesting combinations in terms of cultivation and effects.
This strain of weed is called S.A.G.E. which literally means Sativa Afghani Genetic Equilibrium.
We have described the effects of Indica and Sativa at some length above, but if you mix these two in a hybrid, the high tends to start with an uplifting, energizing rush of Sativa and end with a more sedating and relaxing Indica ‘stone’.
Sativa-like open bush structure with long internodes is hardly a desirable feature for most indoor growers because they simply don’t have enough vertical space, and, besides, tall plants aren’t very good performers under artificial lights. And the longer flowering time of Sativas makes them unsuitable for most temperate climates.
These are enough reasons for breeders to try and curb the tropical temperament of pure Sativas with Indica influence. That’s why hybrids are so popular – they produce relatively short and fast plants but with effects that may range across the whole Indica/Sativa spectrum.
As we’ve explained above, hemp isn’t really a different type of plant but the same species – Cannabis Sativa. The important difference is the levels and ratio of THC and CBD in it. With lower levels of THC and higher levels of CBD, hemp has zero recreational appeal, and, frankly, it’s not cultivated for its cannabinoid content in the first place. Rather, its main value as a cash crop is its fiber.
Though a bit more ‘anorexic’, hemp looks almost exactly like her psychoactive cousin.
According to a famous cannabis advocate Jack Herer, hemp is the most versatile crop in the world. Some of its many uses have been known to mankind for centuries, others are discovered all the time. And when we think this plant has no more surprises up its sleeve, creative minds come up with yet another way to make our life better with hemp
A well-known fact about cannabis seeds is that they contain those exact amino acids that are essential for human well-being. No other seeds, fruit, or legumes have a chemical composition so finely tuned to make us fit and healthy. They’re also rich in good unsaturated fats, and including them in your diet contributes to longevity.
Hemp is a very fibrous plant and can be turned into all kinds of natural, hypoallergenic, robust, and durable fabrics. The word ‘canvas’, by the way, comes from ‘cannabis’. In the past, both the merchant fleet and the navy depended on hemp not only for canvas but for all kinds of ropes as well. One of the reasons Napoleon went to war with Russia was that the Russians wouldn’t stop selling hemp to the Emperor’s archenemy – Great Britain.
Hemp seed oil can be turned into biodiesel, but, more importantly, cellulose can be made into ethanol which is a very efficient form of fuel as well. Of course, any plant matter contains cellulose, but cannabis is a champion of producing the largest biomass in one season.
Hemp fiber provides stability to ‘hempcrete’, a wonderfully light but strong building material with a reduced carbon footprint compared with regular concrete. ‘Hempcrete’ blocks also make walls better insulated against cold and heat. Hemp fibers retain integrity in humid conditions and are perfectly non-toxic.
The CBD hype of recent years made the demand for the substance skyrocket, and the only way to meet this global demand is to distill CBD from hemp (because hemp is legal almost everywhere while medical marijuana is still illegal in most countries). So, besides obvious industrial uses, hemp can be of therapeutic value as well.
Strangely, some European countries, including Italy, allow the sale of hemp for smoking. These buds with extremely low THC levels (called ‘cannabis light’) look and smell like your regular ‘dank’ – compact, beautifully trimmed, and sticky – but their only effect is that of mild relaxation of the mind. They have the same health benefits as other CBD products, and their side effects are the irritation of the airways caused by smoke.
Hemp is among the easiest crops. If you grow it for seeds, you have to make sure the chosen strain matures in your climate. However, most hemp varieties (with less than 0.1-0.2% THC) are early-flowering plants, so there are usually no issues with that. Growing hemp for fiber is even easier as this plant doesn’t require many fertilizers and adapts its bush structure to the number of seeds you sow per square area. The only difficulty will be meeting legal regulations because authorities tend to view this crop with suspicion.
Cannabis Ruderalis was described only recently as a small and flimsy feral plant growing in Siberia and some parts of Northern Europe. This subspecies has adapted to harsh climate conditions and short summers, so they have a very short life cycle and start flowering automatically in contrast to other types of cannabis that enter the flowering stage as summer ends and fall begins.
Ruderalis has an extremely low cannabinoid content, and nobody uses it for recreational purposes. The effect is there but you have to smoke a lot to slightly cloud your mind and feel a weak buzz, and it all subsides within a half hour.
With no recreational value and too small to be of any use as industrial hemp, Ruderalis was long considered a worthless plant but eventually turned out to be among the most useful. The Joint Doctor and other pioneer breeders have discovered that one can add a small of Ruderalis DNA to different types of cannabis and get a cultivar that is still big, productive, psychoactive, and fragrant but also flowers automatically and finishes incredibly fast. Such plants are called autoflowers, and they are arguably the most popular type of seeds sold today.
THC VS CBD
Now that the whole world is aware of CBD and its medical benefits, more and more growers and smokers demand CBD-rich varieties. However, they are still a niche product in both seed shops and dispensaries as most people prefer their weed to be rich in THC.
When choosing between different types of cannabis, most customers pay attention to the levels of these two cannabinoids in their buds. Next in their list of considerations are the genetic type (Indica or Sativa) and the terpene profile (smell and taste).
Unlike THC, smoking CBD doesn’t make you feel anything unusual beyond being chill and relaxed.
High-THC strains are the Holy Grail for long-time recreational smokers and medical users who’ve built up a high tolerance but may not suit casual smokers and first-timers who may experience unpleasant overdoses every time they smoke too potent buds. They should start with THC levels in the 10-15% range.
Some people may experience anxiety and paranoia from too much THC. For them, 1:1 THC:CBD varieties may work best because one can mitigate the anxiety-producing effects of the other. And finally, if you only need the therapeutic benefits of CBD and no mind-altering nonsense, choose a high-CBD weed with the maximum percentage because there could never be enough of a good thing.
Knowing your way around the different types of cannabis is important, but often it’s easier to just choose some strain that has become a household name over the years. With these highly coveted varieties, the potency, the effects, and the flavors are known in advance because everyone seems to have tried them and is glad to share their experience with the rest of the world.
We have chosen a few such strains that, time and again, are featured in various top lists of the most popular cannabis strains ever. They range from long-time classics of the European seeds market and Amsterdam’s coffee shops to the US dispensaries’ longtime darlings to the most explosive terpene bombs of today.
|Strain Name||THC, %||Flavor||Autoflowering Version|
|White Widow||15-25||wood, flowers, earth||White Widow Auto|
|Northern Lights||16-21||spice, pine, hash||Northern Lights Auto|
|Cheese||15-20||cheddar, skunk, earth||Cheese Auto|
|OG Kush||19-26||skunk, citrus, spice, pine||OG Kush Auto|
|Sour Diesel||18-26||gas, skunk, citrus||Sour Diesel Auto|
|Blue Dream||17-25||sweet, blueberry||Blue Dream Auto|
|Pineapple Express||16-26||pineapple, spice, wood||Pineapple Express Auto|
|Girl Scout Cookies||17-28||sweet cookies, mint||Girl Scout Cookies Auto|
|Gorilla Glue||18-25||gas, coffee, earth||Gorilla Glue Auto|
Some of the popular cannabis strains of the past and present.
We hope our post has given you an idea of how cannabis can be classified into different types based on its origin (Sativa/Indica), forms of its final product (flowers, edibles, concentrates, etc.), and THC vs CBD content. It’s easy to understand and memorize before your planned visit to a dispensary or seed shop, or you can bookmark this page for later reference if you want. Thanks for reading and we wish you happy explorations in the world of cannabis!
WHAT IS THE STRONGEST WEED?
The strongest lab-tested samples of weed nowadays have over 30% THC. Different sources have different lists of champions, and we have compiled them in the table below.
A word of caution: Even if many of these strains are available in seed form or sold as buds in dispensaries, it doesn’t mean that they have the same jaw-dropping potency. These varieties definitely have the POTENTIAL to be that strong but only the best of the phenotypes and in the hands of a master grower. Hoping to get these results in your own home garden is like thinking you can go for your regular morning jog and break an Olympic record.
|Brownie Scout||37.5%||Future #1||37.28%|
|The Toad||37%||Godfather OG||Over 34%|
|Grease Monkey||31%||Chocolate OG||Close to 30%|
|Bruce Banner #3||Up to 30%||Pacman OG||29%|
|99 Problems||28-30%||Gorilla Glue #4||27-30%|
|Irish Cream||Over 27%||White Tahoe Cookies||Over 27%|
|Blue Walker||26.77%||Durban Kush||25-27%|
|Purple Punch||Over 26%||Ghost Train Haze||25-27%|
The strongest marijuana strains and their THC levels.
WHAT IS THE STRONGEST STRAIN OF WEED 2022?
According to HighTimes, the world record of the strongest strain ever, which was set in 2019 but still stands as of 2022, was 37.5% THC for the in-house strain Brownie Scout grown by an Illinois marijuana producer Green Thumb. Another world record was set in 2018 by the strain Future #1 from 7 Points Oregon. This strain of weed was tested at 37.28 percent.
WHAT IS THE STRONGEST STRAIN OF HYBRID?
There are many potent hybrid strains out there, but if you want one of the strongest and at the same time easy to find, the best choice might be Gorilla Glue #4, or simply GG4. This hybrid strain is a staple in many dispensaries and is also widely available in seed form. The plants grown from these seeds are incredibly sticky and routinely pack 27-30% THC. GG4 is a cross of Chem’s Sister, Sour Dubb, and Chocolate Diesel.
WHAT IS THE BEST STRAIN EVER?
The answer really depends on who you ask. As you have probably figured out from this article, there are so many different types of cannabis and people have so many different tastes that everyone has their own personal favorite. Some cherish fond memories of classics like White Widow, Northern Lights, Skunk #1, and AK-47, others swear by new designer varieties from the US, such as Gelato, Bruce Banner #3, and Girl Scout Cookies. Skim through this post again, and you’ll find all the usual suspects.
WHAT STRAINS HAVE THE LONGEST-LASTING HIGH?
The rule of thumb is that the stronger the high, the longer it lasts. There are exceptions, of course, and you may come across some buds that give you an intense rush almost immediately and taper next to nothing within half an hour. But, generally, if you need a long-lasting high, choose the highest THC strain. Alternatively, use edibles as they take their sweet time to kick in but, once they do, the effect last seemingly forever.
WHAT IS THE RAREST STRAIN?
Generally, the rarest genetics that no money can buy are those that grow naturally in far-off and hard-to-reach places and draw upon unique local soils and other features of the landscape and climate for their one-of-a-kind flavors and effects. An example is the Ketama strain which you can find in seed form but can never make it smell and taste the way the Moroccan original tastes and smells. For that, you need the native soil of the Ketama valley. Other examples include Black African Magic, Oaxacan Highland, Malawi Gold, and other tropical Sativas.
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There’s been a surge in online shopping in Australia as a result of state-imposed lockdowns, with new figures from the Bureau of Statistics showing $3.7-billion was spent online in July – the highest level recorded for a single month – and an increase of $603-million, or 19.3%, compared to June.
Online food sales increased 12.8% in July compared to the previous month, while non-food online sales increased 21.9% in the same period.
Australian Retailers Association CEO, Paul Zahra, said the lockdowns have accelerated trends already occurring in the retail industry, with many more customers choosing to shop digitally from the convenience of their homes.
Customers already experiencing delivery delays
Unfortunately, it is also contributing to the supply chain disruptions and delays some customers are currently experiencing.
“It’s no surprise to see a surge in online sales, with so many people subject to stay-at-home orders in July as lockdowns began to take hold,” Zahra observed.
“Unfortunately, this bigger demand is contributing to the increased stress our supply chains are already under, which has been an ongoing issue for Australian retailers throughout the pandemic.”
Less air cargo is putting pressure on shipping
According to Zahra, there are several factors that are compounding the problem as the busy Christmas shopping season approaches.
“The capping of incoming international flights has put significant pressure on shipping, and we are seeing container costs escalating [to] up to four times their usual rate. Retailers are having to order stock much earlier than they normally would, with most larger retailers building up healthy inventory levels to ensure that they can satisfy their customers,” he said.
“The key message for consumers in all of this is to be prepared. Give plenty of time for your items to be delivered and it’s also an important reminder not to leave your Christmas shopping till the last minute. These issues are likely to be with us for the months ahead, so consumers should consider shopping early to avoid disappointment.” | <urn:uuid:b981ed3d-24a6-4c00-94ef-f775c8fe18e4> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.australiantimes.co.uk/news/as-christmas-approaches-beware-of-delays-for-online-purchases/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572212.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815205848-20220815235848-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.964716 | 429 | 1.507813 | 2 |
New York City is the most populous city in the United States, and it has multiple attractions and fun activities ideal for a family, especially with kids.
The city has museums, theatres, and recreational facilities that young ones can explore and enjoy. Some of its parks feature vast playgrounds where kids can play, interact and have fun with their families.
Read on for several fun activities that you can do in NYC as a family and that children will love.
1. Empire State Building
The Empire State Building’s construction began on March 17th, 1930, and it has spectacular panoramic views, which enable children to view the Manhattan buildings.
They can explore exhibits about the skyscraper’s history and its place in popular culture. You can also visit Art Deco Icon, which places visitors over 1,200 feet above NYC.
2. One World Observatory
It offers the best kid activities in NYC, featuring one of the fastest elevators globally.
Children and adults will also get to experience one of the tallest buildings in the world with an amazing view on its 100th floor of the sky portal and the city.
3. New York Botanical Garden
The botanical garden is famous for its outstanding exhibitions. It is an around-the-year kids’ attraction with a children’s adventure garden where they can run through a maze, examine lily pads, and climb boulders.
The garden has an annual holiday train show during the winter, a fantastic must-see view.
4. Central Park
It is among the most visited and popular parks globally. The park is vast and there is so much to do! It hosts a castle, conservatory garden, zoo, boathouse, massive playgrounds, and rooms where kids can play and have fun.
The children get an opportunity to have a horse carriage ride or go on the iconic carousel.
The first Americas public park is a haven where individuals can escape the chaos of the city to bask and recharge in a serene environment.
5. Statue of Liberty
Every child would love a visit the statue of liberty at some point. Kids taller than four feet are an advantage since they can climb to the statue’s crown top.
Besides, in the lobby of the liberty statue’s pedestal, you can inquire about a kids’ audio tour available for kids from six to ten years old.
From here, children can access Ellis Kid for an interactive exhibition that takes children through the immigration journey to the U.S.
This attractive destination provides an immersive experience to children as it lets them access espionage-themed activities such as dodging through lasers and solving puzzles.
It lets the kids know the kind of spies they are, for instance, agent handlers and intelligence analysts, among others.
7. FAO Schwarz
A visit to FAO Schwarz provides a unique experience that sparks incredible childhood imaginations. It is an iconic toy store in NYC that most kids would love to visit.
It provides games and interactive experiences, and children see life-sized stuffed animals and high-end toys.
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Stairfoot Station Heritage Park group has been formed to commemorate and celebrate the rich Industrial Heritage and Culture of the Stairfoot basin. This area in the last century was an important centre of industry and commerce comprising of….
Linen Industries, Railways, Mining, Glass Industry
Canals, Brickyards, Tar Distilleries
The station, which was sited in the Stairfoot area of the Trans Pennine Trail, was a major distribution hub of communication for the transport of the many commodities produced from within the area.
If you enjoy local history or have a story to tell us about your knowledge of this unique area, we’d like you to join us between 12 pm and 2 pm at the official launch of the group to learn about how we’d like to take the project forward and whether you’d like to be part of this journey. | <urn:uuid:f519fc5f-775f-4638-a4fa-7ae39d701747> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://stairfootstation.co.uk/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572833.95/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817032054-20220817062054-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.952864 | 189 | 1.65625 | 2 |
Lessons When Studying in London
University doesn’t just give you the academic knowledge to gain a degree in your chosen subject – it also teaches valuable life skills. Moving away from home or moving abroad to study is a huge challenge, and the journey will help you develop and grow as a person. London is one of the best places to study in the world, and the city offers numerous life lessons. Here are just a few things you will learn when studying in London.
Living in the UK gives you a chance to learn about lots of different cultures, not just British values. London is one of the most multicultural cities in the world, which makes it a fantastic place to explore and discover. There are many different international cultural festivals in London so when you’re not studying you can gain an insight into different traditions and lifestyles, and sample worldwide flavours. Study in London and will return home more open-minded with a global outlook on life.
Moving away from home instantly gives you more independence, as you have to fend for yourself in the big wide world. Living in London is perhaps the biggest test of independence, because it is so huge and busy, and difficult to navigate. Things will go wrong somewhere on your journey but it will all be a learning curve and you’ll find out how to navigate the city and be completely self-reliant. The first step to becoming independent in London is figuring out the London zones and many different lines for the underground, but you’ll soon be exploring the city in no time!
How much you value your family and friends
As the saying goes, absence makes the heart grow fonder, and you do need to spend time away from your loved ones in order to appreciate them. You can stay in contact with your family and friends back home while you’re living and studying in London in a variety of ways, but you’ll still probably feel homesick at times. This will teach you to cherish the time you spend with loved ones once you move back home.
Treasure every minute
Not everyone has the chance to travel the world while they study, so make every day count. Whether you’re staying in London for six weeks or three years, it’s an amazing experience and you’ll learn how to say yes more often and try new experiences. Studying in London teaches you not only to step out of your comfort zone, but to embrace it.
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In the Pastoral Letter, Archbishop of Armagh, Eamon Martin and Bishop Michael Router emphasize that Pope Francis is inviting the faithful all over the world to come with him “on a journey” as a “Synodal Church”.
They note that the word synod means “walking together” and “indicates a way of being together as Church and ‘discerning’ how best to spread the Gospel amidst the challenges of life in the 21st century.”
In the letter, both Archbishop Martin and Bishop Router encourage Catholics to respond to Pope Francis’ call and “set out on a synodal journey in the Archdiocese of Armagh.”
“We want to involve as many people as possible so that we can harvest the ideas and wisdom of all the baptised and listen to the sense of the faith that is alive in the People of God,” they say.
“Our challenge,” they continue, “is to discern together what the Holy Spirit is telling us at this critical juncture in our history.”
The theme which Pope Francis has chosen for the synodal process 2021-2023 is: For a Synodal Church: Communion, Participation, Mission, and both Church leaders express the hope that the “forthcoming synodal process will bring us closer together and help us to recognise that we are united by our common baptism – as members of the Body of Christ.”
They acknowledge that although the faith has been handed on for centuries in Ireland, “we live today in a very challenging secular environment, where, sadly, many people do not know the joy of encountering, believing in, and following, Jesus Christ.” But they also express the hope that “the life of the Church will be much richer and more dynamic if all baptised Catholics can find ways to answer God’s call and bring a variety of gifts to the service of all.”
Both Archbishop Martin and Bishop Router stress no one is excluded from the synodal process and all “are invited and welcome to participate.” They also underline that laymen and women “have a vital role to play.”
The Archdiocese of Armagh over the next few months, will be joining the worldwide synodal consultation, and will soon be inviting the faithful to respond to a number of questions.
This initial phase will lead to further opportunities for people to participate at the diocesan and national levels.
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The federal government has announced a detailed review of laws related to electronic surveillance in order to determine what can be done to make it easier for law enforcement and intelligence agencies to track and apprehend bad actors.
This review of electronic surveillance follows numerous appearances by Mike Burgess, the director-general of the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation, before parliamentary committees and in the media during which he outlined concerns about ASIO’s inability to track certain extremist actors online.
A discussion paper called Reform of Australia’s electronic surveillance released by the Department of Home Affairs this week for public comment places the concerns of ASIO and other law enforcement agencies at the centre of the review.
It says that there are times when access to specific information is required by agencies to protect the community from “serious crimes and threat”.
“Without access to this information, law enforcement agencies could not prevent and prosecute the most serious criminal activities, such as child sexual abuse, organised crime and cybercrime,” the discussion paper says.
“For ASIO, access to this information and data is critical to protect Australia from serious national security threats, such as terrorism or foreign interference with our democratic institutions.”
Electronic surveillance issues are covered by a range of laws including the Telecommunications (Interception and Access) Act 1979, the Surveillance Devices Act 2004, and part of the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation Act 1979.
“These Acts protect several different kinds of information and data from unauthorised access, and only allow government agencies to lawfully access information and data in limited circumstances,” the discussion paper says.
“The Acts also require companies that own telecommunications infrastructure and provide telecommunications services, to protect this information and to assist government agencies to gain access to it in certain circumstances.”
Dennis Richardson, the former secretary of the Department of Defence, reviewed the existing framework in a review of the legal framework for the intelligence community.
Richardson found that the laws currently in place were outdated, inconsistent, complex and inflexible.
“This puts at risk the effectiveness of protections for people’s information and data, and the proper governance of agencies who access this information,” this discussion paper says.
“It also creates difficulties for agencies when investigating serious criminality and threats to national security.”
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Knight Prototype Fund awards $600,000 to innovative museum technology projects. Twelve projects – from AR to remote access – that help people engage with the arts will each benefit.
The twelve winning arts and technology projects all aim to help the cultural sector in adapting and thriving in the digital age
The $600,000 grant has been made available from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. The Foundation asked for ideas back in February, under the auspices of the Knight Prototype Fund which backs early-stage, innovative ideas.
“While the importance of arts institutions in building community remains unchanged, the preferences and expectations of audiences have transformed in the age of technology,” said Victoria Rogers, vice president for arts at the Knight Foundation. “Museum-goers increasingly demand personalized, interactive and shareable experiences. These projects help pave a way forward for cultural organizations to expand and command their use of technology to connect with and inspire audiences.”
The winning projects now have nine months to create or refine their prototypes. Project leaders will attend a demonstration day in April 2019 to share their work.
The 12 winning organisations are:
- The Adrienne Arsht Centre for the Performing Arts. ArtsESP offers forecasting software that helps cultural institutions make better, data-based seasonal planning for events.
- Alley Interactive. Exploring the Gallery through Voice will look at how interfaces such as Amazon’s Alexa, can give remote audiences access to an exhibition experience.
- The Bass. The Bass in VR employs 360-degree photography technology to help remote audiences engage in an exhibit in a vital way.
- Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art. AR Enhanced Audio Tour will develop mobile software that can deliver immersive audio-only stories. A painting or exhibit will ‘know’ when a visitor wearing the device will walk up to it, which will cue the audio. The AR programme is likely to use bone-conduction headphones that provide sound through a bone behind the ears so visitors can still hear what’s going on around them.
- Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University. The Smart Label Initiative creates a system of labels combining super-thin touch displays and microcomputers. These can give audiences interactive informational content about artwork.
- Institute on Disabilities at Temple University, in collaboration with People’s Light. Improving Arts Accessibility through Augmented Reality Technology aims to make theatre and performance art more accessible. It is aimed at deaf people, those who are hard of hearing, and non-English speaking communities. The system integrates AR smart glasses with an open access smart captioning system.
- MIT Centre for Art, Science & Technology. ConcertCue is a mobile app for classical music audiences. It receives real-time programme notes at precisely-timed moments of a live performance.
- Monument Lab. Civic Portal encourages public input on new forms of historical monuments. The digital tool lets users identify locations and topics for possible public art and monuments in cities. It also allows them to create designs.
- The Museum of Art and History at the McPherson Centre. Who’s Coming? is a mobile app that allows cultural institutions to capture visitor demographic data. It can increase their knowledge on who is, and isn’t, participating in programmes.
- Newport Art Museum, in collaboration with Work-Shop Design Studio. Feedback Loop enables audiences instantly to share their feedback and reflections. The hardware and software is aimed at testing the recording and sharing of audience thoughts.
- Wick Poetry Centre at Kent State University Foundation. The Traveling Stanzas Listening Wall aims to produce touchscreen installations for public locations. They would let users create and share poetry. The inspiration would be a variety of historical documents and oral histories alongside multimedia stories concerning current events and community issues.
- Wikimedia District of Columbia, in collaboration with the Smithsonian Institution. The Wiki Art Depiction Explorer uses crowdsourcing methods to improve Wikipedia descriptions of artworks in major collections.
“There is no textbook detailing how the cultural sector should adapt to keep pace with—and benefit from—rapidly evolving technology innovations,” said Chris Barr, director of arts and technology at Knight Foundation. “These experiments will help fill this knowledge gap and provide lessons learned for connecting people to the arts through technology.”
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How Does Javaburn Work
JavaBurn is a dietary supplement that can aid you melt fat and improve your body’s metabolism. And also as if that had not been exciting enough, it really utilizes natural active ingredients to aid power up your morning cup of java, coffee. How Does Javaburn Work
Found solely on JavaBurn.com, JavaBurn is scientifically verified when incorporated with coffee to help fire up metabolic rate activity in terms of both performance and speed function. In the beginning, it appears like an unappetizing powdered supplement, yet then individuals will discover it as an incredibly practical stimulant that supercharges your metabolic rate as well as power levels naturally. Also, JavaBurn specifies that this coffee formula enables you to shed a visible quantity of weight in a brief span without weight loss, exercising, or putting in any initiative whatsoever.
With that said being said, several questions jump out like, Does JavaBurn Supplement Work?. If YES, then Just how? Is there a means of setting off weight-loss while eating your favorite foods and also preventing workouts? Let’s see if we can sort fact from fiction bordering the highly sought out formula, an initial of its kind as well as patent-pending formula, JavaBurn.
What Exactly Is JavaBurn? How Does Javaburn Work
JavaBurn formula is a powdered weight-loss supplement that is uniquely marketed online by JavaBurn.com. Each formula pack costs you as reduced as $29 per pouch, consisting of all-natural components outlined listed below, that will certainly accelerate your metabolism when incorporated with coffee.
JavaBurn powder suppliers suggest adding one Bag of formula every early morning in your coffee as well as mixing it. Once it liquifies (Really Rapidly), caffeinators prepare to drink, really feel supercharged, and relocate an advance in their weight-loss trip.
This formula includes the main ingredients such as L-theanine, environment-friendly tea remove, green coffee bean essence and also chromium to name a few. Environment-friendly tea extract has plenty of a catechin called EGCG, causing weight reduction as well as healthy metabolism. By including the JavaBurn formula to your daily coffee cup, you can increase your metabolic rate as well as experience a lot more easily accessible weight-loss results according to its developer, John Barban.
Who Created JavaBurn?
JavaBurn is manufactured by a firm that operates its service under the exact same name. The firm makes JavaBurn in the United States and is led by John Barban, a very embellished wellness as well as health advocate with differing levels as well as distinctions in the world of physical fitness, metabolic rate and also supplements. After years of consulting and supporting popular brands such as MuscleTech, NxLabs, Slimquick, ADS, BlueStar Nutraceuticals, or Empowered Nourishment Products, John went on to develop among the very best nighttime fat heater supplements in Resurge ever before created, and also currently has an additional high quality and also distinctively positioned item in the JavaBurn coffee improving booster supplement.
What Is The Role Of Metabolism In Weight Management?
Metabolic rate assists your body transform your food into energy. Throughout this challenging procedure, calories in your food as well as beverages are integrated with oxygen to release power. That power manages the functioning of your body.How Does Javaburn Work
It likewise manages the number of calories you Burn while resting, working out, as well as executing day-to-day activities. If your body has a robust metabolic process, it will Burn much more calories during these activities. Also, you will really feel extra energised as well as charged with a far better metabolic process rate.
On the other hand, a slower metabolic rate makes your body battle to Burn weight. Therefore, your body starts saving fat stubbornly around your stomach and also thighs. In uncommon situations, you get excessive weight gain setting off lots of medical troubles like hypothyroidism, cardiovascular disease, and also much more. You really feel exhausted throughout the day, and also your body burns fewer calories as a result of a slow metabolism price. Individuals stay embeded this weight-gaining cycle till they realize “Adjustment Is The Requirement.”
The formula of JavaBurn insurance claims of pacing up the metabolism along with coffee. Is JavaBurn that much EFFECTIVE?. We’ll find out even more!
What Makers Of JavaBurn Powder Say
” There’s never ever been anything also close to JavaBurn ever before attempted. As for myself, my group, my entire family … And also tens of countless everyday women as well as guys can confirm … Amazing your metabolic process … Torching off fat from your trouble areas … Appreciating unbelievable all-day power …”.
Above is the straightforward insurance claim of JavaBurn makers that this formula is blowing up to boost your metabolism and also boost overall wellness. This statement lots of weight reduction supplements can’t make. Taking a sufficient amount of JavaBurn powdered formula can substantially lose weight, Burn fat, and transform your life totally.
It is super easy to consume JavaBurn. As per the guidelines of JavaBurn.com, the very best time to take the JavaBurn weight-loss formula remains in the morning when you will begin your day. Since every brand-new early morning brings you a fresh, energetic, and also joyful life, and that’s where it strikes in different ways.
In each box, you obtain 30 single-serving packs. Every pack contains powder for one serving. You need to add the formula to your morning coffee cup. As quickly as you stir the powder and it dissolves, you can drink your coffee.
What Else Can Be Convenient Than This! The Very Best THING is that it’s tasteless not to change the preference of your morning coffee as well as supercharge it all at once. And it functions despite what you include your coffee, cream, sugar, or absolutely nothing. Likewise, You do not always require a healthy and balanced diet plan or excessive exercise.
Before you recognize them, all parts (EGCG, L-theanine, chlorogenic acid, environment-friendly tea extract, as well as high levels of caffeine) combinedly begin working to enhance your metabolic process and Burn harmful fat.How Does Javaburn Work
It appears interesting that a powder while including coffee can make you reduce weight. The parts inside the JavaBurn weight-loss supplements are all-natural metabolic boosters that are protective with recovery advantages. They don’t include artificial materials, artificial tastes, as well as colors that damage your body. In the weight loss supplement market, you will locate it the only powder that produces no negative impacts at this price.
You don’t call for any prescription to take JavaBurn powder. However, it needs to likewise not be taken with any kind of OTC-based medicine. Prior to eating JavaBurn, it is MANDATORY to consult your doctor if you are currently under any kind of drug or treatment. You can talk with your physician concerning supplements security and caution.
It is advised not to take a higher dose in the hope of faster outcomes. Overconsumption may lead to numerous digestive system concerns, which might make you unwell.
Just How Does JavaBurn Work?
Much of us have actually currently tried various diets, supplements, and works out to drop weight, but it doesn’t appear to work. Over, we discussed exactly how weight loss is closely linked to your metabolic rate level. Your metabolism should be efficient as well as fast to Burn even more fat. If it is not, your metabolic rate is slow as well as slow-moving. Metabolic process is the vital determiner of whether you lose weight or stay overweight. Just how much food you consume and exactly how it gets melted likewise depends on your metabolism level.
JavaBurn benefits are enormous that might aid you Burn five times much faster. It is like an auto-pilot boosting your metabolic rate and also minimizing as well as burning your fat to get you in shape. JavaBurn utilizes 100% natural, vegan, gluten-free, and also non-GMO active ingredients to supercharge your body’s metabolism. This formula complies with a nutritional synergy to put all the nutrients with each other as well as deal with your body to create outstanding outcomes.
The manufacturers of JavaBurn fat burning powder for blending with your early morning coffee brew (hot or chilly) case that this supplement promptly melts fat far from stubborn problem locations like the stubborn belly and thighs. You notice the most effective results after 90 to 180 days of taking the formula. It is suggested to get JavaBurn in a larger package to get optimum weight management outcomes.
It begins with clearing all toxic products away from your body, carrying out a full body clean and also detox. Offered anti-oxidants in the formula scavenge complimentary radicals from the body cells and run a detoxification procedure. Likewise, this process does not get rid of any productive elements.
The greatest factor for reduced metabolic process starts with poor digestive tract wellness. JavaBurn works with inflammation in the gut to improve it. It starts fixing this major concern till the body returns to typical food digestion and also immune system. Furthermore, you return with better diet regimen control and routine bowel movement.
Many individuals are not aware of the fact that digestion and resistance are associated. Any type of enhancements in digestion cause better resistance. Some JavaBurn elements service cardio health and wellness, regulate high blood pressure as well as sugar levels to heal them.
How Much Weight Can JavaBurn Help You Lose?
After taking the JavaBurn formula, several clients are pleased and affirming they lost ample weight. You can watch the JavaBurn Reviews and the weight-loss success stories on JavaBurn.com.
JavaBurn has a big client base already. John Barban and also the JavaBurn manufacturers team claim that the business gets these evaluations each day, as well as this is just a title portion of their fat burning benefits formula. They liked the dish of placing powder as well as coffee together to improve and enhance metabolic function.
What Does JavaBurn Do Inside the Body?
The makers of JavaBurn claim the formula starts working in seconds to accelerate your metabolic rate degree and aid your body shed more weight naturally.
Here’s just how the JavaBurn Makers discuss the results of their formula:.
When you mix and also consume alcohol JavaBurn in your early morning coffee, the formula starts to increase your metabolic process within a few secs of consumption. Currently, your body absorbs the components in JavaBurn, as well as your metabolic rate obtains high for the remainder of the day. You really feel EVEN MORE energised.
You Burn a lot more calories as your body has a greater metabolism the entire day than you usually would. This leads to extra considerable weight management results, more calories shed while still, and much less fat absorption from the foods you take.
This is the reason that the John Barban group claims you require zero initiative, eat your favorite food, exercise as low as you like or do not, and you will still shed sufficient amounts of weight by taking JavaBurn daily.
What Are The Ingredients In JavaBurn?
Each of JavaBurn components has proven health advantages to supply you. These all are 100% all-natural, medically proven components to have a significant effect on your metabolic rate and body’s energy level. This is an extremely uncommon mix of components that are all scientifically researched in their own right as well as has been created as an all-natural coffee booster improvement formula that functions to properly maximize both the speed as well as efficiency of the metabolic process feature.How Does Javaburn Work
With a full JavaBurn coffee supplement facts nutritional label available, both as a real consumer as well as online item image version, it is very easy to see what the formula consists of per each individually packaged stick-shaped pouches.
The JavaBurn active ingredients are as adheres to along with dosage strengths; 300mg of Eco-friendly tea essence, 20mcg of Chromium (as chromium chloride).
100mg of L-Theanine, 100mg of L-Carnitine, 200mg of Chlorogenic acid from green coffee bean essence (coffea arabica), 20mcg of Vitamin D3 (as cholecalciferol), 1mg of Vitamin B6 (as pyridoxine hydrochloride) and 5 mcg of Vitamin B12 (as methylcobalamin) with a total of 15 calories as well as 2g of total carbohydrates per JavaBurn supplement bag.
The following are the JavaBurn ingredients that are useful for slimming down and what several of the current research is showing:
Vitamins— One can not forget the beneficial stimulants in the JavaBurn supplement components list like Vitamin D3 (as cholecalciferol) (( 20mcg dose)).How Does Javaburn Work
Vitamin B6 (as pyridoxine hydrochloride) (( 1mg dosage)) and also Vitamin B12 (as methylcobalamin) (( 5 mcg dosage).
Environment-friendly Coffee Bean Essence– JavaBurn integrated one of one of the most popular removes for helping assistance progressed weight-loss impacts in its specialized nutrient of chlorogenic acid. Delighting in several years in the limelight for its well-publicized benefits for energy as well as burning stomach fat, the environment-friendly coffee bean extract in the JavaBurn coffee enhancing enhancer is genuinely a terrific touch to an already nutritionally dense beverage powder mix.
Chromium– Chromium is a needed mineral your body wants for several metabolic processes. Chromium manages blood glucose as well as carbohydrate intake. It is located that many individuals with diabetes have a lower chromium degree in their bodies. That is the reason diabetic person individuals take chromium supplements. There are numerous diet tablets and also weight-loss supplements that make use of chromium for its results on fat burning and also carb blocking.
L-Carnitine– This is an amino acid primarily located in fat burning and also bodybuilding supplements online nowadays. L-carnitine is essential as your body needs it to produce muscular tissue fibers. Many researches reveal that L-carnitine is helpful to reduce weight and also support an energetic way of life. Nevertheless, JavaBurn calls for no workout or diet programs, but L-carnitine can help your body recoup from the extreme exercise you do to accelerate your weight reduction outcomes.
L-Theanine– Integrating the L-theanine as well as high levels of caffeine improves focus and also gives mental clearness. Normally, L-Theanine is taken in a pile with caffeine which is an all-natural mixture of environment-friendly tea. Researches claim that green tea can remove several of the side effects of caffeine, like stress and anxiety and restlessness. Many individuals come across these side effects when taking large quantities of caffeine. In JavaBurn, L-theanine supports cognition, making it less complicated to slim down and shielding your brain.
Environment-friendly Tea Fallen Leave Essence– JavaBurn contains quality green tree fallen leave essence that maximizes your weight-loss benefits. Green tea fallen leave remove is among the most prominent diet ingredients to help cut off weight. High anti-oxidants lower your body’s oxidative stress and anxiety by fighting cell damage due to free radicals. It’s rich with epigallocatechin gallate (EGCG), providing anti-inflammatory results. The weight loss impact in green tea extract is because of EGCG, backed by countless research studies. It is additionally thought that it is high in the antioxidant count as well as aids get rid of toxins, contaminants, and waste materials. It additionally supplies vital vitamins that your body needs to transport its functions as well as keep a high immunity level. Every one of these trigger weight gain if you do not handle them seriously.
What do JavaBurn Consumer evaluations say?
Seeing the useful JavaBurn presentation on the official internet site by John Barban will certainly reveal several video clip reviews of real clients and also their weight loss, power enhancing results to date. Below are a few JavaBurn customer evaluates for context that can be located on JavaBurn.com (any JavaBurn prior to and also after photos, unless it comes directly from the producer’s website) that shares their success story on the coffee booster formula:.
- A male declares he shed 37lbs while taking the JavaBurn fat heater.
- One more male claims that he boosted his high blood pressure as well as cholesterol degree after taking JavaBurn and that his doctor was impressed by his all-natural weight-loss.
- One female asserted that she now matches her high school jeans once again after taking JavaBurn Supplements. This is something she never thought she ‘d have the ability to do likewise. Later on she discloses just how JavaBurn helped to decrease stubborn fat layers.
- A 49-year old woman provided a JavaBurn review that she shed 42 extra pounds while taking JavaBurn; she additionally claims to be healthier and also a lot more energetic than ever before, defining JavaBurn as “life-changing.”.
During the video clip description of the JavaBurn supplement, John Barban alludes to the truth that 10s of countless people have already attempted his products in between JavaBurn as well as Resurge with recognizable assistance in the areas of melting fat, losing weight, more power as well as total health. However what does the most up to date scientific research claim regarding mixing the JavaBurn components with any type of sort of coffee mix for improved metabolic feature and also regrowth?
The weight loss coffee formula by John Barban is really cost effective as well as only readily available on the main JavaBurn site, JavaBurn.com. Each pack contains an one month supply (1 month offering has 30 independently packaged bags per box).How Does Javaburn Work
It is basic to get JavaBurn coffee booster pouches straight from the maker’s website for the lowest prices online.
- One Bag for thirty day supply: $49 [starter pack]
- Three Bags for 90 day supply: $102 ($ 34 per bag) [most prominent]
- Six Bags for 180 day supply: $174 ($ 29 per pouch) [best worth]
Keep in mind all 3 of the one, three or 6 pouch options do bring a +$ 9.95 Shipping Fee on each, which would mean clients can conserve even more by purchasing the three or six-month supply packs to prevent paying a monthly delivery fee.
As John Barban described in excellent detail during the unfolding of JavaBurn’s inner workings, it is advised to purchase least a 90 day supply for optimum results rather than buying a single pouch for just one month just to want to continue adding the efficient and also easy JavaBurn coffee increase metabolism formula. Additionally, as the JavaBurn manufacturers claim, you get the best results after 90 days as well as on to six months of use.
JavaBurn Assurance And Reimbursement Policy.
You get a 60 days money-back assurance on JavaBurn. If you find it not working, there is a choice to request a full reimbursement within 60 days from the day of purchase.
Likewise, if you get tear or vacant packs, call the JavaBurn, you will obtain a complete refund within two days.
Severe JavaBurn Fraud Hazards and also Dangers?
It is a very valid inquiry to question the JavaBurn rip-off threats with such a category-creating formula that has actually never been carried out in this fashion prior to. But there are a couple of vital cautions all consumers need to recognize regarding the feasible JavaBurn frauds due to the fact that there may be as well as likely will be real danger to avoid when shopping for the very best JavaBurn cost with the greatest expense financial savings as any clever client would do. Assuming correct due diligence is done prior to making an order of JavaBurn coffee booster supplement today, it is necessary to ensure all consumers becoming clients know what the study states in advance.
As John Barban and also his group make it extremely clear during the rollout of the JavaBurn item, there are no intermediary or reseller representatives entailed with the coffee boosting supplement to help maintain the prices down for the end individual, you. This suggests there is only one legit web site to go to when intending to put an order for JavaBurn. Do not buy JavaBurn on Amazon, eBay, GNC or any other third-party supplier industry or purchasing system as it will not be the genuine variation of the patent-pending formula of rigorously checked and confirmed JavaBurn ingredients. The most affordable expense as well as finest bulk buy rates choices get on the main web site JavaBurn.com where every order is backed by an unconditional 60-day refund guarantee. Buying JavaBurn from any other system or internet site aside from the main shop is dangerous and also a true caveat emptor circumstance. This has a tendency to happen as supplement’s gain prestige as well as recognition that affordable knockoffs and also counterfeit ripoffs begin flooding the market. These choices obviously do not have any kind of stability as far as testing, component pureness and also potency in addition to not being eligible for the item’s money back guarantee otherwise gotten directly from the supplier.
So in between the very best prices alternatives, safest and also most effective active ingredients tested of the formula, and also an extremely safe repayment approach; there is no factor to succumb fake JavaBurn rip-offs serving as fraudulent vendors and also resellers trying to make a fast buck on such an effective product.
Last Feedbacks On JavaBurn Reviews.
By choosing the JavaBurn fat burning formula, consumers might improve their metabolic process and health every early morning with a mug of coffee. For as reduced as $34.95 per month, JavaBurn is a small tweak that supercharges your morning coffee and also speeds up metabolic process for quick as well as dependable weight-loss results. According to the manufacturers, you can still drop weight while consuming your favored food and avoiding workout as well.
In closing, there is really a lot to love with the formula as well as management combination that JavaBurn offers the globe. By aiding millions of coffee enthusiasts improve their wellness by maximizing the rate and also efficiency of metabolism every early morning, JavaBurn’s patent-pending exclusive blend of active ingredients sure are tough to hand down provided the company’s technology development, the brand name’s openness as well as item’s formula. Suitable with any type of sort of dark roast, medium roast or light roast coffee blend, JavaBurn adds to every routine coffee or americanos or coffees consume alcohol that assists the body job towards dietary synergy for sparking the complete fat burning mode each and every day.How Does Javaburn Work | <urn:uuid:5e73ac0f-d794-4196-a753-0917de105c26> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://4nutritionalsupplements.com/how-does-javaburn-work/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573193.35/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818094131-20220818124131-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.952052 | 4,750 | 1.507813 | 2 |
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This latest report from Report Buyer focuses on the manufacture of glass and glass products, an industry that is dependent on demand from other sectors of the economy, all of which have been under pressure.
The glass manufacturing industry contributed 0.3% towards total manufacturing and the value of glass sales amounted to R9.317bn in 2015.
The industry is dominated by three large players: PG Group, which owns companies in both the building and the automobile glass sector; Consol Glass, the largest producer of glass packaging products in Africa; and Nampak, which has increased glass bottling production capacity and now manufactures one-third of all glass bottle products in South Africa. Role players have been the focus of Competition Commission enquiries into allegations of price fixing and the division of markets since 2010, with the most recent investigation focusing on the automotive glass fitment and repair services industry. ;
Imports of glass products, which are cheaper than locally manufactured goods, are on the increase and pose a threat to the local sector. During 2015 glass and glassware to the value of R3.509bn was imported, up from R2.870bn in 2014 and R2.566bn in 2013. In response the larger companies are looking at expansion in the rest of Africa in an attempt to offset declining domestic profits. ;
The Manufacture of Glass and Glass Products describes the industry in South Africa, highlights current conditions and discusses the factors influencing the success of the sector. Five industry players are profiled, including the dominant three manufacturers as well as Natglass Distributors (Pty) Ltd t/a National Glass, which is a manufacturer and wholesaler of flat glass, aluminium sliding doors, windows and mirrors, and Northern Hardware and Glass (Pty) Ltd, which manufactures glass products for the building and automotive industries.
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Centenary University Equestrian Center receives the Gold Medal Horse Farm Award for 2020 by the New Jersey Equine Environment Stewardship Initiative
The University is recognized for its outstanding equine farm and dedication to environmental sustainability and management.
HACKETTSTOWN, NJ, Dec. 11, 2020—The Centenary University Equestrian Center received the Gold Medal Horse Farm Award for 2020 at a virtual Evening of Science & Celebration on Nov. 12. The prestigious distinction, presented to no more than five farms annually, recognizes outstanding equine facilities in New Jersey, with a focus on environmental sustainability and management. The award underscores the efforts of the equine industry to maintain the beauty of the state.
The award is conferred by the New Jersey Equine Environment Stewardship Initiative, sponsored by the Rutgers University Equine Science Center, the New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station, and the New Jersey Department of Agriculture Division of Natural Resources. The initiative highlights environmentally friendly farms, promoting the sustainability of agriculture and encouraging public support for the industry.
Centenary’s award-winning Equestrian Center comprises 64 acres in Long Valley, NJ. The complex houses 90 horses and includes two indoor arenas, a newly renovated outdoor arena, a derby field, and an eight-horse Kraft horse walker.
All New Jersey horse farms can apply for the Gold Medal Horse Farm Award by submitting an environmental assessment report and a documented Animal Waste Management Plan or Comprehensive Nutrient Management Plan (CNMP). Centenary’s equine farm follows a CNMP developed with the assistance of the USDA-Natural Resources Conservation Service.
Application also requires a site visit. Proper manure storage and a biosecurity program to minimize disease risk are important aspects of the evaluation. In addition, water quality, soil erosion, stream and water management, feed and pasture management, and sanitation are reviewed. Background scenery, fencing, buildings, and cleanliness are also weighed in the judging.
Centenary’s equine center makes innovative use of advanced knowledge in the field and innovative tools, such as a repurposed dairy barn cleaner. The waste generated by 90 horses is removed daily, stored in a facility with concrete flooring and block walls, and removed to a compost facility monthly. The farm is also committed to pasture management: soil samples are taken annually and pasture land is fertilized for optimal growth and performance.
“It is our goal to continue appropriate manure management and pasture maintenance, and to continue the best management practices for equine farms in New Jersey,” said Kelly Munz, department chair and professor of equine studies. “On behalf of everyone at the Centenary University Equestrian Center, we are honored to be receiving the Gold Medal Award for equine environmental stewardship.”
Centenary’s nationally recognized Equine Studies program offers bachelor of science degrees in business management, equine science, equestrian public relations and media, and equine training and instruction. A degree in animal health is also available, allowing students to work with the Equine Center’s veterinary team. Centenary also has a therapeutic riding program, and the Equine Program has fielded multiple championship riding teams.
ABOUT CENTENARY UNIVERSITY Founded in 1867 by the Newark Conference of the United Methodist Church, Centenary University’s academic program integrates a solid liberal arts foundation with a strong career orientation. This mix provides an educational experience that prepares students to succeed in the increasingly global and interdependent world. The University’s main campus is located in Hackettstown, N.J., with its equestrian facility in Washington Township. The Centenary University School of Professional Studies offers degree programs in Parsippany, as well as online and at corporate sites throughout New Jersey. | <urn:uuid:6b427040-b03e-4705-9f1a-e2e8206b8afb> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://sandbox.centenaryuniversity.edu/blog/2020/12/11/equestrian-center-receives-the-gold-medal/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572212.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815205848-20220815235848-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.931771 | 767 | 1.992188 | 2 |
Television Essay for Students and Children in English
Television is one of the most widely used forms of entertainment all over the world. Nowadays, almost every household is equipped with at least one television set. Initial reports referred to the device as the “idiot box.” This is due to the fact that entertainment was the main focus back then. There will be no informative channels, as there are now. Watching the invention of tv, a large number of people began to watch it exclusively. People began to be afraid of it because it was particularly attractive to children. That is, children spend significantly more time watching television than they do studying. However, television channels have evolved over time. More and more channels with a wide range of specialties began to appear. As a result, it educated us while also entertaining us.
Negative Effects of TV on Young People
We can see how television encourages social ills such as violence, eve-teasing, and other forms of bullying. Second, it is harmful to our physical health. If you sit in front of the television for extended periods of time, your vision will deteriorate. Neck and back pain will be caused by your posture. It also has the additional effect of addicting people. People become addicted to tv and avoid social interaction as a result. As a result, they spend more time alone, which has an impact on their social life. They are at risk because they have become addicted to their television programmes. Fake news, which is broadcast on news channels, is the most dangerous type of information. The majority of media channels now only serve to spread government propaganda and misinform the public. The result of this is a great deal of discord in our otherwise peaceful nation. We must exercise self-control when watching tv. Parents must limit their children’s tv viewing time and encourage them to engage in outdoor activities. Parents, don’t take everything you see on tv at face value. We need to be better judges and act wisely in the absence of outside influence.
Is television good for your health?
There are numerous benefits to the invention of television. It contributed to the provision of low-cost entertainment for the general public. Because they are so inexpensive these days, anyone can own a television and enjoy entertainment. It keeps us up to date on current events around the world. With the Internet, you can now get news from all over the world. In a similar vein, educational programmes on science, wildlife, and other subjects are broadcast on television. Television also encourages the development of new skills. They also have programmes with motivational speakers on the schedule. People are motivated as a result of this. Television also helps to broaden our horizons. It broadens our knowledge of sports, national events, and other topics. While television has many benefits, it also has some disadvantages. We will talk about how television corrupts the minds of children and teenagers. | <urn:uuid:38f14ed7-3545-46b6-b25b-180d0ddc8ec1> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://theessayworld.com/essay-on-television-television-essay-for-students-and-children-in-english/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571911.5/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813081639-20220813111639-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.974262 | 595 | 2.46875 | 2 |
As the world transits to cleaner energy, the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) says Nigeria is prepared to play a strategic role in the new global energy order.
According to the NNPC Group Managing Director, Mallam Mele Kyari, technology and innovation are facilitating a new global energy order that will decarbonize the world and safeguard the environment.
Kyari spoke at the Decade of Gas Pre-summit Conference held Monday in Abuja, with the theme, “Towards Gas-Powered Economy by 2030.”
He said renewable energy such as solar and wind which would be key components of the new energy mix that were largely influenced by seasons and were non-transportable to demand centres where they are in short supply.
He said under the circumstances, natural gas, and by extension blue hydrogen, would be heavily depended upon as transition fuels to play a key role in the clean energy drive and would provide significant proportion of the global energy mix as well as guarantee feedstock to gas-based industries.
“Nigeria under the visionary leadership of President Muhammadu Buhari has committed huge resources to ensure that domestic gas infrastructure reach every corner of our country to deepen natural gas utilization.
“It will spur investment in power and gas-based industries, grow the economy and generate employment for millions of our young people,” Kyari said in a statement by Dr Kennie Obateru, Group General Manager, Group Public Affairs.
The NNPC boss Nigeria as a gas nation with over 203trillion standard cubic feet (tscf) of proven gas reserves is monetizing the huge gas resources spurred by numerous policy and industry interventions since 2016, culminating in the declaration of 2020 as the year of gas and progressing into the decade of gas from 2021.
NNPC and its partners, he said, have embarked on a number of strategic projects to deepen delivery of gas to the domestic market and elevate the build-up of greater potentials for export.
“The completion of the Escravos-Lagos Pipeline System Phase 2 (ELPS II), commissioning of the Obiafu-Obrikom-Oben (OB3) Lot 2, the NPDC Oredo Gas Handling Facility, and the SEEPCO Gas Processing Plant can be easily cited, even without mentioning ongoing strategic backbone gas infrastructure projects such as the Ajaokuta-Kaduna-Kano (AKK) pipeline, the OB3 final hook-up, the Nigeria-Morroco pipeline and several other gas-based industries initiatives.
“All these will herald the sunrise of gas revolution in our country within the decade,” Persecondnews quotes Kyari as saying.
He announced that as part of the journey to make the Decade of Gas a reality, the Federal Government has also rolled out the Autogas initiative to provide alternative cleaner and cheaper transportation fuel to petrol.
“The initiative has received huge support from the entire energy industry and gained tremendous traction.”
Kyari lauded President Muhammadu Buhari for his foresight, leadership and support for the oil and gas industry geared towards transforming the Nigeria’s energy landscape. | <urn:uuid:ef84cb69-6ca2-48c3-b28c-c656ffeaff92> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://persecondnews.com/2021/03/29/nigeria-buys-into-new-world-energy-order-set-to-play-strategic-role-says-nnpc-chief-kyari/amp/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572833.95/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817032054-20220817062054-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.939331 | 656 | 1.84375 | 2 |
In this letter to the next president, I will be arguing that gun violence need to be stopped and I will give some suggestions as to how we can fix ...
This talks about immigration and police brutality
Police in the U.S. are affecting us negatively and their acts should be put to an end. Our safety and concerns matter!
Police on civilian crime is increasing dramatically. If we can't trust the ones that are supposed to protect us , who do we trust?
I wrote about child abuse and how the next President should take more actions on trying to stop or prevent child abuse from happening.
Police brutality is an issue that matters to many people, an issue that needs to be adressed.
Police officers need to lower their amount of killings, racism, and take responsibility for their actions.
I am a junior at Science Leadership Academy @ Beeber. As an insider from the African American community, these are my views on police brutality. ...
Learn from me, a 15 year old African American female, from Philly, what issues need to change in my environment, in effort towards a better America.
Dear Next President, My name is Melvin Carter a high school student from Philadelphia. I believe there is a serious problem with police brutal...
Sad information about police brutality in the U.S that the next president should come up with solutions.
African Americans losing their lives and policemen walking free.
This letter is about The police brutality towards African Americans and Latinos.
In my letter to the next President, I argue that gun violence and police brutality is never the right answer.
A letter to the president of my thoughts on police brutality against African Americans in America and some solutions.
My letter is about what "Police Brutality" looks like.
Dear Next President: What if you were just walking and were mugged would you choose your belongings or would you run and most likely be killed or...
A letter by Roy Acevedo
Any officer violating an individual's right should be fined, charged, and jailed.
This is an important issue that needs to be handled immediately. We need to stop police brutality.
In this letter to the next president I evoke the issues of police killing innocent young African Americans and the consequences of there actions ar...
This is about how police brutality has gone overboard killing innocent people of color in the U.S and death
In this letter, I assert that gun violence is a huge crisis in the U.S. Young teenagers (mostly African Americans), are meeting untimely deaths due...
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Recall the first debate between Senator Ted Cruz (R, TX) and Beto O’Rourke, Progressive-Democratic Party candidate for Texas Senator. Ol’ Beto told the tale of a mistreated Dreamer [emphasis added]:
the salutatorian at tiny Booker High School in the Texas Panhandle, recently deported to his country of origin, not even speaking the language.
It didn’t happen [emphasis added].
The honor student in question was actually the valedictorian.
She spoke the language.
It happened a decade ago, not recently.
And most importantly, said Yamile Guerrero Rosales, “I wasn’t deported….”
Oh, the lady was, at the time, here from Mexico, and she had to deal with six months of paperwork concerning her then baby, still stuck in Juarez. But she’s now a naturalized citizen (tough to achieve after having been deported) and an accountant for a Booker area company.
Aides insist that O’Rourke was operating on second-hand information. But come on, even the Dallas Morning News checks this kind of information, why didn’t O’Rourke? Even if this was nothing more than an honest mistake—I’ll spot him that, tentatively—he’d repeated that tale on the campaign trail several times before he got to the debate and got fact checked.
Nor is this the first serious…error…O’Rourke has made (he now claims that an unidentified passenger in his own vehicle corroborates his claim). It likely won’t be his last. Is this the level of “carelessness” we want representing us in Texas?
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Throughout the course of the coronavirus pandemic, health experts have been exploring the reasons why some patients experience more severe symptoms.
ContaminantsApr 13, 2021
Manganese in Drinking Water: Nuisance or Danger? The water system that serves Roswell, Georgia, is considered a “blended water source” because the water originates from the Roswell Water Treatment Plant, which draws water from the Big Cr
TechnologiesApr 6, 2021
In 1977, Cape Coral, Florida, was the first U.S. city to operate a water treatment facility using reverse osmosis (RO) on a large scale as the only means of producing potable water.
ContaminantsMar 23, 2021
Updated for 2021! How does manganese get into our water? How can we treat and reduce it to acceptable levels? Your questions answered in this update infographic.
ContaminantsMar 9, 2021
Canada has always been an active proponent of environmental sustainability.
ContaminantsMar 2, 2021
At the end of 2020, the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (WDNR) directed the public works director of Grantsburg, Wisconsin, a small village near the Wisconsin-Minnesota border, to post a “Do Not Drink the Water” public notice about high
ContaminantsFeb 25, 2021
The water crisis in Flint, Michigan, showcased the dangers of exposure to drinking water contaminated with high levels of lead.
People & PlacesFeb 24, 2021
Our CEO Rich Cavagnaro is an avid reader. Below he shares the list of his favorite books of 2020 and why he recommends each selection.
GeneralFeb 23, 2021
The recent extreme weather in Texas shed new light on underlying problems with the state’s infrastructure.
GeneralFeb 2, 2021
The amount of water treatment solutions available in the marketplace vary widely for scale and application. A range of advanced water treatment systems can work for different industries, facilities and even households.
ContaminantsJan 19, 2021
While we still await action on an enforceable national standard for PFAS, or per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, in drinking water, the U.S.
GeneralJan 5, 2021
We did it, everyone. We all made it through 2020!
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Sara Tedeschi, MD, MPH
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Associate Physician, Division of Rheumatology, Brigham and Women's Hospital
About the Researcher
Dr. Tedeschi is a rheumatologist and clinical investigator at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. After receiving her medical degree from Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, she completed her internal medicine residency and rheumatology fellowship training at Brigham and Women’s Hospital.
During her rheumatology fellowship, she received a Master in Public Health degree from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. She completed a year-long training in musculoskeletal ultrasound through the Ultrasound School of North American Rheumatologists and incorporates ultrasound into her clinical practice and research.
Dr. Tedeschi has led studies on risk factors for systemic lupus erythematosus, bone health in lupus, the relationship between diet and rheumatoid arthritis, and the use of vascular ultrasound to evaluate giant cell arteritis. Dr. Tedeschi’s current NIH-funded research focuses on methods for identifying calcium pyrophosphate crystal deposition disease (CPPD), a form of crystalline arthritis, through the use of imaging modalities and electronic health record data.
Dr. Tedeschi is a member of the Lupus Foundation of America Medical-Scientific Advisory Council. She also serves on the leadership team of the American College of Rheumatology/European League Against Rheumatism CPPD classification criteria committee and is co-chair of the OMERACT CPPD Working Group. She is the 2016 recipient of the Lupus Foundation of America's Gary S. Gilkeson Career Development Award.
"The LFA Career Development Award provided me with an opportunity to carry out two research studies aimed at better understanding bone health in lupus patients. I believe this prestigious award also stood out on my application for an NIH-funded K23 Mentored Patient-Oriented Research Career Development Award, which is currently supporting my research effort.”
2016 Career Development Award Project
Title of Project: Bone Turnover and Osteoporotic Fractures in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus
Project Summary: Osteoporosis is an insidious and often devastating complication of SLE. However, little is known about recent osteoporotic fracture rates in SLE patients or the real-world effects of glucocorticoids (GC) and lupus nephritis on fracture risk. Furthermore, while vitamin D deficiency is common in SLE, vitamin D supplementation’s effect on bone turnover in SLE is unknown.
Among racially-diverse U.S. Medicaid enrollees, 2000-2010, we have identified >57,000 SLE patients (22% with nephritis). Incident osteoporotic fractures of the hip, wrist, humerus and pelvis will be identified. We will calculate fracture incidence rates and rate ratios in SLE and non-SLE patients, in subgroups by age, race and nephritis, and investigate the effects of GC dose.
Among SLE patients, we will test if fracture rates have declined and investigate prescriptions of GC, bisphosphonates, and vitamin D from 2000-2010.These analyses will be complemented by a study leveraging data from a randomized controlled trial of vitamin D vs. placebo in racially-diverse SLE subjects.
Using blood samples from trial baseline and end, we will assay the bone turnover markers C-terminal telopeptide of type I collagen and procollagen type I N-terminal propeptide. This trial will allow us to test if vitamin D repletion decreases bone turnover in SLE subjects, critical knowledge for combatting osteoporosis in SLE. Multivariable linear regression models will evaluate the effect of vitamin D vs. placebo on changes in bone turnover markers.
The proposed studies will be the centerpiece of Dr. Sara Tedeschi’s comprehensive research training program at Brigham and Women’s Hospital Lupus Center. She has assembled a multidisciplinary team of seasoned mentors and scientific advisors and will attend classes and national conferences. Her results will provide crucial data for osteoporosis prevention strategies in SLE and will position her extremely well for continued career development as a dedicated lupus clinical researcher.
Publications Resulted from CDA Award:
Tedeschi SK, Aranow C, Kamen DL, LeBoff M, Diamond B, Costenbader KH. Effect of vitamin D on serum markers of bone turnover in SLE in a randomized controlled trial. Lupus Sci Med. 2019 Sep 17;6(1):e000352. doi: 10.1136/lupus-2019-000352.
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Creative Leaders don’t plan for what’s coming, they envision and create.
The all important, never fully seen , never fully touched – Future.
We try hard to see it. Try hard to avoid it. Try hard to plan for what it will be.
Try, but when it is here it is never the future. It is now, something else.
Still thinking on the future is one of the most uniquely human abilities we have.
Still more Creative Leaders are those that don’t plan for what’s coming, but imagine and create the future.
See this concept of the future can be thought of in three very different ways.
In one, we are standing still and the future is coming at us. It’s like we are standing in a pipe and the water of time is a never ending rush. Rushing at us, rushing past us.
In the second concept we are on a timeline flying forward to the future. Every successive moment the future becomes the present and we fly unendingly forward. Hurled at the future, grasping for what’s good.
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Digital marketing can be confusing. If you come from a traditional marketing background, it can be overwhelming to learn the digital marketing language. The best way to start learning a new language is to understand some of the key terms or words used. There are a lot of acronyms used in digital marketing, so it’s best to start with a glossary of digital marketing acronyms if you want to keep up with the conversation. Digital marketing is pivotal to the success of your brand’s marketing strategy, so it’s important for you to know what people mean when they say:
1. CPA (cost per acquisition) – is when a specified action, determined by the advertiser, takes place. You only pay for acquisitions, such as specific products bought or donations made.
2. CPC (cost per click) – is the price you pay each time someone clicks on your displayed advert. Ideally, the person is then directed to a landing page. Keep in mind that you could be paying for the same person clicking on your advert multiple times.
3. CPL (cost per lead) – is when you only pay for the leads that you receive from a digital advertising campaign. A lead is attained when people provide their information by, for example, filling out forms and subscribing to receive newsletters.
4. CPM (cost per thousand) – is a pricing model whereby brand’s are charged for every 1000 times an advert is loaded and displayed on a web page. You are paying for 1000 impressions, so it does not have to be a unique view. The same person could be seeing the advert on a few different pages. It is a good option if you want to increase brand awareness, but an alternative should be considered if you want to increase reach.
5. CTA (call to action) – is an instruction requesting people to take immediate action after seeing your brand’s advert or reading your brand’s content, such as “apply now”, “learn more” or “download here”.
6. CTR (click-through rate) – is the number of people who click on your advert or link divided by the number of times the advert or link is shown. A higher CTR percentage indicates a higher engagement with a brand.
7. KPI (key performance indicator/s) – is a measurable value used by a brand to determine whether or not key business goals are being achieved. In digital marketing, it refers to the key metrics used to measure the success of digital marketing efforts.
8. PPC (pay per click) – is often used interchangeably with CPC, as they both mean the same thing.
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The Jogye Order of Korean Buddhism plans to build a large-scale meditation complex in front of Bongam-sa, a temple in the city of Mungyeong in South Korea’s Gyeongsang Province. Mungyeong Global Meditation Village, the brainchild of Bongam Temple of the Jogye Order and a group of Seon monks, aims to facilitate and promote the practice of Korean Seon (Zen) meditation.
Bongam-sa was founded in 879 and is considered the center of Korean Seon meditation. The temple grounds are generally closed to the public as the monks meditate in closed rooms, except for the public holiday to mark the Buddha’s birthday. In order to create a space where the public can experience Seon Buddhism without disrupting the monks’ practice, the temple came up with the idea of the Mungyeong Global Meditation Village.
The idea was first mooted in 2009, and in April this year, the committee responsible for the project acquired 120,000 square meters of land for the project and received approval from the city government for the first construction stage.
The complex will be located at the foot of Mount Heeyang and will include meditation and education facilities, accommodation, restaurants and other amenities, and will accommodate up to 300 people.
The resort was designed by Hanrahan Meyers Architects, a New York-based architectural firm committed to sustainable design, which won the resort’s bid through an international competition. Their design is modern but takes into account the natural environment and the building style of traditional Korean temples. Hanrahan Meyers Architects are experienced in creating Buddhist sacred spaces, having designed the famous Won Dharma Center in Claverack, New York.
The Global Meditation Village project aims to promote Seon Buddhism. “Buddhism is in decline and the country is facing many problems, while all of humanity is witnessing a serious disconnect between the material world and the spiritual world,” noted Monk Euijeong, head of the committee in charge of the project. . “Seon should lead the civilization of the 21st century and [we] also plan to revive the spirit of Seon in South Korea to reach out to the world. (Yonhap News Agency)
A groundbreaking ceremony to celebrate the first day of construction is scheduled for Thursday. The first stage of the project, which will include a visitor center and access road, a meeting room, an office, a restaurant and a conference room, is expected to be completed by December 1. The second stage, which includes the rest of the complex, is due to be completed in 2021 to coincide with the 1,200th anniversary of the arrival of Seon Buddhism in South Korea.
Construction is estimated at some 29 billion won ($26 million), partly funded by central and local government, in addition to private donations.
When the complex is completed, it will house various programs, including those taught in English, on traditional Seon mediation for the general public. According to monk Euijeong, the committee hopes to attract famous Buddhist monks and teachers such as Jin Hyeok, Hyunghak and Hae Min. He added that discussions are ongoing on how to make the Seon School’s meditation techniques more accessible to the general public.
The Jogye Order is a school of Seon Buddhism and the largest Buddhist tradition in South Korea, with roots dating back 1,200 years to the unified kingdom of Silla (also known as Later Silla) (668–935 ). Over the past few decades, the Jogye Order has noted a dramatic decrease in South Korea’s Buddhist population. According to 2010 data from the Washington, D.C.-based Pew Research Center, the majority of South Korea’s population (46.4%) has no religious affiliation, with Christians making up the largest religious segment of the population at 29, 4%, while Buddhists represent 22.9%.
The Jogye Order spearheads various initiatives to promote Korean Buddhism in South Korea and abroad. It is hoped that the “Korean Wave” will spark overseas interest in Korean Buddhism.
The Buddhist order to build a village for ‘Seon’ meditation in the southern city (Yonhap News Agency)
“한국에 禪 열풍 일으킨다”…문경에 세계명상마을 건립 (Yonhap News Agency)
문경봉암사앞 ‘세계명상마을’ 첫삽.. “한국선불교알립니다” (Korea Timetables)
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Each university uses different terms and methods for their residence life program, however there are also many similarities. Residence life generally consists of a staff of professionals and students working together to create community and to provide activities, assistance, and advice to students living on residence.
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In order to be represented, one must have the choice of their representation because this cannot be imposed. It is for this reason that no dictatorship can be a representative of a people. It tramples the Human rights, it can torture it, it can submit it to its will but never represent it. A power that claims itself, doesn’t represent but only itself and when it pretends to hold elections while it controls in an authoritative manner without ever leaving the possibility of free expression, it doesn’t constitute but an tactical element within a barbaric strategy which doesn’t concern but the territory and never the men and the women which suffer by its dictatorial influence. From the beginning of its existence, polisario it wasn’t anything but a tool of false politics. It has not will of representing the population of Sahara. It uses the pretext of its existence to exploit financial and diplomatic resources. The polisario is nothing but an ideological error as an entity. It can convince neither the people of Sahara nor the international community on its objectives. It is more and more clear that this structure really mocks the existence of a people within this region. Its vision wouldn’t be different if it were inhabited. Also its principal function is uniquely capable in provoking locale frictions to destabilize the region. The polisario is not but a low-level collaborator who doesn’t have the scope to go beyond. He isn’t allowed to play but locally and this, thanks to a hidden source of financing mode allows him to survive without really living until he is depended to its source. It is even more interesting on a strategic level that this structure which constantly speaks of the independence of a people, is not capable of being so itself. The polisario has not but the status of a sub-fighter in a confrontation that far exceeds it because of the absence of it representativeness. The people of Sahara know exactly what they are doing with the polisario since the latter has never been able to be viable on its own. It knows that without financing he would have ceased to exist long ago. Therefore they don’t expect anything of this structure nor from his puppet entity. They have already made their democratic choice for their representative and this has nothing to do with the polisario. They are conscious this past error was nothing but a political manipulation which aims to contaminate the region without worrying about its fate. The people of Sahara that live in the Provinces of the South, have their own representatives. This point is particularly important since it constitutes the living proof of the non representativeness of the polisario with this one. Furthermore the evolution of the situation in Morocco like its reintegration in the African Union, shows the way to obtain concrete results, conclusive and reliable. Leaving a political enclave, Morocco, represents a strategic opening with clear prospective and its recognition over the international levels opens the horizons. The polisario is a structure of the past which doesn’t have future because it is within a state of emergency which without external support would be vegetative. Also the vision of the people of Sahara is already independent of this entity. In this sense, it would be good to realize it more formally in order to transcend the obstacles and permit a total liberty towards polisario. Its persistence to claim rights which it doesn’t represent, shows the limits of its game. The polisario is not but a subordinate actor who cannot claim anything national and international . Only as long as we do not realize its superfluous character, we give it an importance it does not have. The people of Sahara will be definitely free when the polisario will have ended because the people need to express themselves without fear without barbaric retaliation. The people of Sahara belong to Humanity and their Rights belong to the Rights of Humanity in the face of barbarity. | <urn:uuid:942e0e29-84d3-4df8-b997-3aa826d61501> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://lygeros.org/34938-en/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572212.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815205848-20220815235848-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.9661 | 787 | 1.757813 | 2 |
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That’s the route that Dr. Amber Schmidtke, 40, and her family, who live in Kansas City, took during the pandemic. Over the summer, for example, she and her family packed up their camper and traveled for three weeks through Colorado and Utah. Camping, she said, is “sort of pandemic-proof.”
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Experiences of living with type 2 diabetes in Pakistan: the role of culture and family in physical activity
International Journal for Equity in Health volume 21, Article number: 103 (2022)
Diabetes-related guidelines recommend lifestyle changes for people living with type 2 diabetes (PLwD). In South Asian (SA) families, cultural and contextual expectations often influence people’s decisions. However, broad explanations provided in the existing literature and theories concerning family involvement can increase the chance of health professionals overlooking the complexities of family roles within SA communities. Previous literature has identified the need to examine the perspectives of PLwD and their family members in Pakistan to shed light on factors perceived to support and hinder recommended physical activity (PA) to manage type 2 diabetes. This study explored (1) the enablers of and barriers to PA in the context of PLwD in Pakistan and (2) family involvement regarding PLwD’s engagement with PA.
Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 30 PLwD and 17 family members of PLwD who were recruited in metropolitan Lahore (Pakistan) and primarily used state health services available to relatively disadvantaged populations. Interviews were transcribed and analysed using thematic analysis.
Three themes were identified: (1) Going for a walk as a feasible PA; (2) the role of family members in influencing PA; and (3) gender differences and cultural acceptability of an activity. PA enablers for PLwD consist of gender-specific opportunities for activity facilitated by peers and family members. Culturally acceptable opportunities for PA in Pakistan for specific genders and age groups within the socio-cultural context constituted an essential factor. In this study, all women with diabetes described walking as the only acceptable form of PA, whereas some men mentioned other activities such as running, playing cricket, and cycling.
Medical guidelines must consider patients’ daily routines, account for cultural and familial expectations of different genders and age groups, and address social and physical barriers encountered by these different groups to encourage PA among PLwD in SA cultures.
Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) has become a leading cause of disability worldwide . In recent years, 41 million deaths occurred annually due to non-communicable diseases (NCDs) in low- or middle-income countries (LMIC) . As in the case of other LMICs, Pakistan faces the burden of an increase in T2DM. The International Diabetes Federation reported the number of people living with type 2 diabetes (PLwD) (20–79 age range) in South Asian (SA) countries as follows: Pakistan, over 7 million; India, 69.1 million; and Bangladesh, 7.1 million. However, the statistics reported do not separate the cases of type 1 and type 2 diabetes, making it challenging to identify the exact number of T2DM cases . Aamir et al. reported that the prevalence of T2DM across Pakistan was 17%. The number of cases in Pakistan is expected to rise to 13.8 million in 2030, raising concerns and suggesting a need to explore diabetes management and control . One reason for the increased prevalence of T2DM in SA countries, such as Pakistan, is a carbohydrate-rich diet and physical inactivity .
Like many other countries, Pakistan has an NCD unit within the Ministry of Health. However, it does not have a strategy to reduce physical inactivity . Moreover, in Pakistan’s public sector, there is a three-tiered healthcare delivery system: primary care facilities for outpatients (basic health units and dispensaries), secondary district hospitals that provide basic care for PLwD and outpatient care, and tertiary care hospitals in urban areas [9, 10]. There is no specific care pathway prescribing diagnostic and therapeutic processes for PLwD in Pakistan. For access to doctors and medical treatment, PLwD can visit private clinics or government-based outpatient clinics . In the private sector, clinics, hospitals, and NGOs provide services to PLwD [8, 12]. Some organisations focus on educating people about diabetes [8, 13]. It is unclear what impact these educational efforts have due to a dearth of literature assessing their effectiveness.
The World Health Organization’s “Global Action Plan for the Prevention and Control of NCDs 2013–2020” aimed to motivate people to work towards an active lifestyle not only to reduce risk factors for diabetes but also to control the disease . Limited financial resources make the investigation of potentially more cost-effective factors, such as enabling physical activity (PA) in PLwD, necessary.
The United Kingdom’s Department of Health and Social Care, through its Chief Medical Officer, recommends 30 minutes of exercise at least five times a week for PLwD, including brisk walking, exercising in a gym, or participating in sports . Similarly, in Pakistan, the National Association of Diabetes Educators of Pakistan recommends walking for 30 minutes 5 days a week, along with a range of other exercises . Physicians in Pakistan recommend walking to most PLwD because it is considered safe to engage in moderate-intensity walking .
Some of these guidelines may not be helpful in SA communities. There are multiple accounts in the literature of cultural disparities in SA communities regarding the choice of PA between men and women. A systematic review highlighted that women are less active than men . A study in Pakistan reported walking as a common activity for both genders, but men were more likely to cycle than women, and walking was more culturally acceptable for women . This disparity in choices in PA is unacknowledged in general guidelines provided by the National Association of Diabetes Educators of Pakistan . The guidelines make similar general recommendations for men and women with diabetes (a one-size-fits-all approach).
Furthermore, few studies exist that explore factors influencing PA in Pakistan compared with studies conducted on Pakistanis living abroad [7, 18]. In one study , PLwD preferred walking a distance less than one mile. A gender difference was also seen; men under the age of 40 preferred to cycle (those over the age of 40 preferred to walk a distance of one to five miles), whereas women were reportedly more involved in household activities. Moreover, a study of Pakistani immigrants living in the United Kingdom showed that exercise is seldom regarded as a priority. Women especially reported inactivity. One reason was the unavailability of same-gender activities, as multi-gender activities conflicted with their religious beliefs . This indicates that culture and religious beliefs can be barriers to engaging in PA. Imran et al. describe these social pressures as cultural influences whereby social norms inform the acceptance of gender-specific behaviour for PLwD.
Many factors specific to Pakistani culture may influence PA. In Pakistan, a family is a close unit, more collectivistic [20, 21] than individualistic . The family system can be nuclear or joint. The nuclear family consists of two generations (parents and children), whereas in a joint family, three or more generations live together, including grandparents, brothers and their wives, sisters and their husbands, uncles, aunts, and nephews/nieces . Generally, the male members make decisions in household affairs or daily matters . Certain behaviours are expected of each family member, and these vary across age and gender. Parents’ and children’s roles in Pakistani society vary. The father is seen as an authority figure, responsible for making decisions regarding the family and looking after family members . Cultural family roles in Pakistan, as in other SA countries or collectivistic societies, are heavily influenced by tradition [23, 25]. Maintaining identity within these roles is important and may influence the amount of support provided, and control exerted, in the family towards different family members [23,24,25,26].
Families within a particular culture act as enablers regarding PA. For example, Samir, Mahmud, and Khuwaja collected information regarding reasons for physical inactivity from obese family members accompanying patients at a hospital in Pakistan. They concluded that a lack of family support can be a barrier to engaging in PA. More than 50% of respondents reported that the absence of a family member accompanying them for PA, particularly a spouse or child, decreased their desire to exercise. They also showed that people living in a joint family system were more likely to be inactive compared to those living in a nuclear family system. Although the study does not provide reasons for this inactivity observed in joint family structures, it can be assumed that the presence of more people in a household may lead to fewer chores and therefore less PA for individual members. In addition, environmental barriers were also reported: an unsafe neighbourhood, lack of places to go, and lack of time.
Lawton et al. explored experiences and perceptions of Pakistani and Indian people with T2DM in Edinburgh, United Kingdom, in relation to PA. They found that the choice by participants to perform PA was dependent on factors such as fulfilling family obligations, limiting the exposure of women in mixed gatherings, and a lack of sports activities. Similarly, family influences related to health aspects were seen in both SA people living abroad and those living in their home countries; however, their influence, along with the cultural setting, was not considered a central management point. A study in Pakistan showed that doctors regarded family members as important in managing the treatment of the patient. As the authors noted, “There is no difference between the patient as an individual and his family. Both are one and the same” (p. 94).
The broader societal and cultural context in which PLwD live is an under-explored area. Many studies on PLwD have focused on individualised education patterns and self-regulatory practice for lifestyle changes [30, 32]. Taking a PLwD-centred and individualised Western approach may not be successful in a collectivistic culture . A culturally appropriate programme of lifestyle modification requires sensitivity to people living in collectivistic societies. As Greenhalgh report, a health programme that only targets meeting educational goals will not succeed as behaviours are also influenced by traditional and cultural beliefs.
People living in close relationships and in communities influence each other’s behaviour at a social level. This acts as an enabler if it facilitates lifestyle adjustments and a barrier if it does not. Therefore, different theoretical perspectives at various levels (from the individual to the societal) shed light on this study’s research questions by considering how personal beliefs, family involvement, and social contexts affect lifestyle adjustments: the common-sense model of illness for individual-level health cognition, health-related social control for that at the interpersonal level, and the Society-Community-Family model for that at the social and cultural level.
This study aimed to understand the experiences of PLwD and their family members in Pakistan regarding PLwD’s PA engagement for managing type 2 diabetes. To this end, the following research questions were posed:
How do PLwD incorporate doctors’ recommendations for PA to manage diabetes while living in Pakistan?
What do PLwD and their family members perceive as enablers and barriers to PA engagement for managing type 2 diabetes while living in Pakistan?
What strategies do PLwD or their family members employ to help PLwD engage in PA?
This qualitative study employed a single, semi-structured interview of each participant. Two separate interview guides were created, one for PLwD and the other for family members of PLwD. Semi-structured interviews were the data-collection method of choice due to their flexibility in allowing issues to be explored in detail [36,37,38]. This method adds depth to the understanding of issues pertaining to engaging in PA for PLwD in Pakistan.
The two interview guides for PLwD and their family members were developed based on Keogh et al. , Sullivan-Bolyai et al. , and the researchers’ reading of the relevant literature, informing the design of the interview guide exploring the experiences of PLwD. These guides were developed after reviewing the literature that provided the background to the conceptual framework of this study [39, 40]. The initial interview guide was pilot-tested and modified as needed (e.g. questions needing elaboration or use of different words). The interview guide for PLwD focused on their understanding of their condition followed by details of the PA they performed and how it influenced the management of their diabetes. Regarding PA, they were asked about what does and does not work for them and about their views on their family’s involvement with their PA. Similarly, the interview guides for family members of PLwD focused on their understanding of the diabetic family member’s condition. Regarding PA, they were asked about what had and had not worked for their family member with diabetes as well as their views on their family’s involvement with the PA of the PLwD.
Data collection: settings and participants
Participant recruitment started with purposive sampling and gradually progressed to snowball sampling. The sampling strategy was changed to increase the possibility of recruiting willing participants living within the same metropolitan region (Lahore). Recruitment sites were selected based on similarities in the characteristics of PLwD as provided by hospitals in Lahore. Moreover, the diabetes centres covered PLwD from a wider area than done by general practitioner clinics, which would limit the research not only to a single doctor but also to PLwD living in that locality. The sites are not named to maintain the confidentiality of the places where data were generated.
Sampling, recruitment, and consent
The participant inclusion criteria were as follows:
Individuals with T2DM for at least 1 year’s duration, as they would be familiar with their condition; they would also be able to speak knowledgeably regarding their experiences living with diabetes (LwD) and regarding enablers of and barriers to the recommended PA.
Individuals living with at least one adult family member; those living on their own would have different environmental factors influencing them than someone living with family members.
Individuals aged 30 years and above, as the prevalence of T2DM in SA communities starts increasing at age 25.
For family members
Individuals 18 years or older.
Individuals living in the same household as the person LwD; it did not matter if the family member had a medical condition as long as it did not hinder their ability to support PLwD PA, and the individual had to be involved in the care of the person LwD.
This study was approved by the Ethics Committee of the University of Brighton. The recruitment sites granted permission. Participants provided informed consent before data collection.
Thirty PLwD (13 men, 17 women; 30–70 years) and 17 family members of PLwD (4 men, 13 women; 22–61 years) were recruited.
The sample comprised 17 women (30–54 age group n = 10; 55+ age group n = 7) and 13 men (30–54 age group n = 6; 55+ age group n = 7). The majority were married (n = 26), a small number were widowed (n = 4), and around one-third had no formal education (n = 11). Most PLwD used medications (n = 21). People with diabetes were more likely to come from a joint family system (n = 18) in comparison to those coming from a nuclear family (n = 12). All respondents lived in an urban setting, and almost half were employed (n = 14).
Most of the 17 family members recruited were married (n = 11; single n = 6). The majority had some form of education (5th grade n = 2; 8th grade n = 2; 10th grade n = 1; 12th grade n = 4; 14th grade n = 3; master’s and above n = 3). There was an almost equal representation of participants from both types of family systems (nuclear n = 9; joint n = 8). All respondents resided in an urban setting, and most were unemployed (n = 11).
Interviews were transcribed in Urdu, translated into English, and then analysed using thematic analysis . The transcribed interviews were re-read to gain a better sense of the data (familiarisation). Initial thematic categories were drawn from various theoretical backgrounds and the literature. After the first 16 transcripts had been reviewed, the authors re-evaluated the codes and moved towards a data-driven approach that was more informative regarding the participants’ experiences and that was better able to answer the research questions. Similar codes were grouped to determine how they aligned in terms of the subthemes. The questions addressed were as follows:
What happened, where did it happen, when did it happen, and why did it happen? The most important question was why, as it helped reveal patterns within the data.
What made this different? Why were some changes easy for some PLwD but not for others?
The themes and subthemes did not remain fixed; they were refined while writing the results section. The subthemes needed further refinement to better understand what participants said in the interviews and answer the research questions. The results section thus went through multiple iterations. The material background helped clarify patterns and highlighted that a particular situation that was an enabler for some was a barrier for others based on their role within the culture.
Three themes were identified: (1) Going for a walk as a feasible PA, (2) the role of family members in influencing PA, and (3) gender differences and cultural acceptance of an activity. Quotes exemplifying the subthemes are presented in each subtheme’s description.
Theme 1: going for a walk as a feasible PA
The findings of this study revealed that walking was a strong subtheme among PLwD and an important type of PA recommended to them. The first theme captured available options for activities acting as enablers and highlighted that walking was the preferred form of PA for PLwD.
Subtheme 1: walking as a common form of PA that is adjustable to people’s needs
All the PLwD and their family members mentioned walking as a form of PA for PLwD, and it was the dominant activity noted in the interviews.
I do not do any exercise; I only walk as an activity. (25, man LwD, age 55)
Our study found that PLwD and their family members perceived walking as the preferred PA, as it can be adjusted according to the situation, the health, and, for a few, the age of the PLwD.
If someone accompanies me for morning prayers [to the mosque], I walk at his [peer’s] speed. If I go alone, I walk fast. When I walk up the street, on my way back, my speed gets slower. (16, man LwD, age 46)
Walking was preferred because it is feasible for a variety of reasons. One such reason is that PLwD can easily adjust to and sustain this type of PA. Going for a walk could easily be adjusted in terms of pace according to the person’s routine, bodily ability, and age. For PLwD and their family members, walking was also perceived as safer and less intense than other types of PA.
He is perfectly fine. He can walk for a longer duration. If you suggest that he starts running, he will have knee pains. He opts for activities that fit better with his age and ability. (10, wife of man LwD)
Similarly, a small number of men LwD described their preference for walking over going to a gym:
Look, walking is our exercise. If I go for one hour of walking, I treat the walk as exercise. I do take normal walks. I don’t get a lot of time. And it is pointless, what do you call those places of working out … ?
Interviewer: The gym?
Gym, I don’t like to go there.
I do not want to be a bodybuilder. I do not want to lose weight. My weight is normal. My weight is around 70 [kg]. I think it’s a good range. Why would I need to increase the weight to 80/90 [kg] or reduce it to 60 [kg]? I do not need it. (13, man LwD, age 68)
This respondent described how he perceived that the reason a person would go to a gym would be to build muscle, gain strength, or lose weight. Although PLwD should aim to lose weight, the respondent had an average body weight. This illustrates that perceived use of a PA influences engagement with that activity.
Women were found to be even less likely to go to a gym. None of the women LwD talked about visiting gyms. This may be because women LwD find walking itself to be sufficiently challenging due to their age and poor health:
I can’t walk like I used to. I am also old, 50 [years of age]. How long can I live after that? Exercise is for good health like walking. If you keep sitting, you fall ill. Your body will suffer from a lot of ailments. That’s why I keep walking. (14, woman LwD, age 50)
This woman made a conscious effort to go for a walk and, given her health and age, was the only form of PA in which she could regularly engage. Walking was her PA of choice: ‘There are many other exercises, but I don’t do them’.
The ability to do vigorous exercise was associated with cultural beliefs regarding age. Age was perceived by participants to be associated with strength, which decreases with age, and so forms of PA that were felt to require substantial strength were deemed to be inappropriate. Walking, by contrast, was deemed acceptable because it was perceived to not involve much strength and required less energy.
Subtheme 2: weather/environment
The recommendation to walk outdoors regularly is not easy in places that have extreme weather, a polluted environment, or limited facilities (e.g. community parks). Some PLwD and their family framed their experience with engaging with PA in terms of unfavourable environmental aspects.
In winter, it is difficult to walk in the morning as the wind is blowing and there might be more chance of getting sick with a cold. So, I [prefer to] walk in the evening. If I am not able to walk, then I rest for months until the winter passes. (19, woman LwD, age 60)
Similarly, a family member of another woman LwD described this situation as follows:
She will start to go for a walk when the weather changes [to more pleasant weather]. (13, husband of woman LwD).
Family members considered the weather itself to adversely affect health, so they did not encourage PLwD to walk in bad weather. People with access to outdoor spaces for PA tried to make modifications to sustain their PA. A woman LwD described how peer support allowed her to go for a walk before sunrise to avoid hot weather and how walking in a group created a safer environment in the dark. Yet, despite the weather proving to be a barrier for some PLwD, others were able to walk even in these conditions. This suggests that PLwD may engage in walking if it is part of their routine, irrespective of the weather.
Some people do not engage in outdoor activity due to a lack of suitable facilities.
I walk along the road [pavement]. I do not have a garden, and there is not a park nearby. So, I can only walk on the road in the streets. If there is a park, then the person can even walk barefoot. In our area, there is no facility of this sort. (23, man LwD, age 56)
Walking, although the preferred mode of PA for both genders, has its constraints. Even this simplest of activities can be hindered by environmental barriers.
Theme 2: the role of family members in influencing PA
Not everyone in our sample received help from family members with their PA because expectations and the type of help needed varied with family roles, gender, age, and position. These cultural factors influenced both a person’s ability to engage in PA and whether help from a family member would be offered. Thus, an individual’s position within the family was an enabler for some people LwD to engage in PA and a barrier for others.
Subtheme 1: family roles and help offered to women
A cultural expectation of helping elders in the family was found to be an enabler for engaging in PA for these individuals. However, among women, such help was offered to those who were older, with no such help offered to younger women. Older women LwD accepted the help offered by family members and welcomed the idea of a family member accompanying them for a walk. Children, irrespective of their gender, accompanied older women LwD on their walk.
For the past few days, my son has accompanied me for a walk. He offers to go for a walk, and we walk for about 30 minutes. Usually, he is busy at night, so we can’t go for a walk then. However, when he has time, he asks me to go for a walk with him, which I do. (28, woman LwD, age 52)
Women seemed to prefer to rely on others (e.g. children) to encourage them to engage in PA. However, this sort of reliance could become a barrier if family members were unable to provide help consistently.
My father’s health was not good, and she [her mother] wanted both of us to go for a walk with her. My brother would accompany her for a walk. My brother and I had a busy schedule because of which we could not accompany her at times. (9, daughter of woman LwD)
As stated, women LwD were found to prefer to be reliant on others, suggesting that older women LwD were less likely to make an effort to engage in PA if internal sources within the family structure were not motivating them. However, help offered to older women by family members (e.g. facilitating peer meetings for older women) was found to be an enabler for these women to engage in PA.
The responsibilities associated with the role of older women LwD in the family were not found to be a barrier with PA engagement, but this was not the case for younger women LwD.
There should be something [exercise] that a person can do at home. It is difficult to go for a walk on days when a person washes clothes or has a guest. A person gets tired. (3, woman LwD, age 31)
Younger women LwD were found to lack the internal sources of support within the family structure and were culturally expected to have more responsibilities in terms of running the household and offering help to others in the family. Additionally, women LwD were limited by their husbands’ restrictions on outdoor activities, though these changed as they grew older.
It is my opinion that I can do anything I like. I can easily go anywhere if I wish. Previously, I had to ask my husband before going outside the home, but now there is nothing like that at all. Either this is due to my age, that I am permitted, or it is known that I have to complete the task on my own. Earlier, my husband would take me along and bring me back himself, but now I can go anywhere. I have to inform him of my whereabouts though. (24, woman LwD, age 45)
Overall, a woman’s age and position in the family could be a barrier to engaging in PA as these activities were dependent on the help offered and the permission of their husband, as head of the family, which reflects the cultural expectation of family hierarchy.
Subtheme 2: Family roles and help offered to men
Many men LwD stated that involving family members was unnecessary, implying that they considered it intrusive. If family members did not understand the importance of this cultural perception of men’s role and their ability to make their own decisions, it sometimes created problems in family interactions. Regarding the involvement of family members, a man LwD and his wife responded as follows:
I do not need help from my family for exercise. I know what to do. It depends on the person if they want to start doing exercise. (17, man LwD, age 55)
He [her husband] will not go for a walk with me since I am a wife and not a friend. He likes doing these kinds of activities [walking] with his friends. Even if I ask him to come for a walk, he will not enjoy it. Going for a walk with me will be a duty for him as a husband. (10, wife of man LwD)
She further added:
We have not changed anything in the household to enable physical activity. (10, wife of Man LwD)
Men preferred to be independent in making decisions about their tasks. This was elaborated upon by a family member (1, wife of man LwD) who described the relationship issues she encountered when telling her husband to go for a walk:
I have been asking him to go with me for a walk after the [morning] prayers. We can walk for an hour or half an hour. He says, ‘I do not want to go for a walk’. My younger son insisted that his father goes for a walk with me. However, he said no. If we emphasised it, he would have become angry. He would verbally abuse [me] and start shouting. (1, wife of man LwD)
Men LwD may not be willing to accept help as it may imply that they are not in control of the situation. The wife in this response attempted to influence her husband’s decision by making the decision herself to go for a walk, which disturbed the hierarchical interaction between husband and wife. However, women who were able to recognise this aspect of the culture used indirect strategies to influence their husbands. For example:
I do encourage him by commenting on his looks. I think it helps if someone asks him what he has been doing to maintain his physical appearance. He feels happy when people notice that he has made an effort, and this encourages him more. (10, wife of man LwD)
Similarly, another family member of a man LwD provides further information regarding family involvement:
We do not plan anything else for the time slot that he [her father] allocates for walking. (8, daughter of man LwD)
The comments above show that the specific nature of the help needed differs between genders. Family members wanting to offer help used methods that were more culturally acceptable to men LwD. Such methods included less intrusive involvement from family members and avoiding the use of direct suggestions by their wives.
Theme 3: gender differences and cultural acceptability of an activity
Cultural acceptability of a behaviour is an essential enabler for engaging in PA.
Subtheme 1: cultural expectations regarding gender-specific activities
None of the women LwD or their family members in this study described an activity other than walking, whereas some men LwD mentioned running, playing cricket, and cycling. Some middle-aged men described taking part in more vigorous activities, which may be due to their health and ability to engage in such activities.
I play cricket on the weekends. I play cricket in the morning before having my breakfast. I am a bowler. (2, man LwD, age 37)
Cultural acceptance of behaviour was found to play a dominant role in men’s behaviour in this context. The efforts of men LwD to engage in vigorous activity (e.g. running on the road) were less acceptable in certain social settings because it was considered something unusual in that context.
I do not run at a fast pace on the road. I run slowly. People will say look at me and make fun by asking, ‘Why is he running?’ Moreover, there is no park, no space; then I have to ride the bicycle at a fast pace to work. (26, man LwD, age 57)
It may be unusual to see someone running on the road. However, riding a bicycle was common among working-class men. Performing vigorous activities in an unusual setting may give rise to unwanted attention.
Subtheme 2: gender-based activity
Some PLwD and their family members described engaging in same-gender peer support groups that enabled their PA. Not everyone had the option of outdoor walking. If they did, they were supported by same-gender peer-support walking groups. A woman LwD and her daughter-in-law describe their experiences below:
I never miss a walk. I go for a walk with everybody. When we walk together [with peers], we don’t feel any difficulty, even if I am not well. There are three to four women, so we keep chatting while walking. There is this park nearby; we make two or three rounds of it. I started with one round, and now we do three rounds. We walk at a slower pace. We can’t walk fast. (14, woman LwD, age 50)
Even if my family members are asleep, I go for a walk without them. My neighbours and I go for a walk after offering morning prayers. We gather one another and go together as a group. All of us have diabetes. (14, woman LwD, age 50)
Now she [mother-in-law] also encourages other women living in the neighbourhood to go for a walk. (4, daughter-in-law of woman LwD)
Same-gender peer support was found to be culturally acceptable in an Islamic country. Women and the elderly reported the opportunity to gather in same-gendered groups in a garden or in their neighbourhood to go for a walk. These groups sustained walking because they were both only women’s groups and also a gathering of women who shared similar interests. Walking therefore became enjoyable because it involved having a group of friends of the same gender and served as a form of socialisation. However, this peer support was not available to everyone, particularly younger women LwD, some of whom expressed a desire to have someone to support their PA.
If I have to go to the park, I will need to cross roads, which I am scared of after having ‘sugar’. My legs tremble, and I feel that my health is not the same as before. That is the reason I need someone to accompany me. (3, woman LwD, age 31)
Most men LwD reported going for a walk alone, though some went with their peers.
I try to have someone [a friend] accompany me when I go for a walk. In case I faint, I have someone to help in that situation. People go with me to offer morning prayers [in a mosque]. I feel the need to have someone accompany me when I go for a walk, which can also benefit them. (16, man LwD, age 46)
Peer support for men LwD could be effective as it provided not only motivation but also a peer environment in which they could comfortably ask for help.
Similarly, a family member reported that men LwD were more motivated to walk with their peers.
In the beginning, we had to force our dad to go for a walk. Now he has a walking buddy who lives nearby. So, he feels motivated to go for a walk. Either he calls him, or his friend calls him to ask if he wants to go for a walk. They go for a walk together. (8, daughter of man LwD)
It appears that going for a walk becomes more sustainable as an enabler for men LwD if help comes in the form of companionship. This companionship can be considered a form of social support.
This study adds to the understanding of culture as an important factor in helping PLwD incorporate purposive, deliberate PA into their daily lives. Culture, based on the findings here, can be conceived as the important role played by gender, age, and place in the family hierarchy which underpins many of the findings. In addition, the physical and socio-economic context are other important elements in shaping what PA is possible for a person LwD and how a household member may help or hinder their engagement in PA.
The guidelines for PA in Pakistan are similar to Western guidelines, which are more suited to individualistic cultures than collectivistic cultures. Our findings suggest that these guidelines may not be as effective in leading to behaviour change in a society in which family and cultural roles are central. Moreover, even in the same culture, one size does not fit all. Our findings suggest that people of different genders and ages are subject to different limitations, which provides some with more opportunities than others to engage in PA. Furthermore, our findings suggest that a family member can only support someone LwD with their PA if their help does not conflict with conventional norms of the hierarchical family structures embedded within Pakistani culture.
Walking is preferred by people from SA cultural backgrounds, whether residing in their native countries such as Pakistan [7, 42] or in the West [18, 28]; this is supported by the current study. Previous studies have reported reasons for not engaging in PA similar to some of the reasons noted here, including household routines; difficulty finding the time [19, 27, 43]; cultural limitations such as requirements for a same-gender environment, which is unavailable in gyms ; a lack of places to go for a walk [27, 44]; and the absence of a family member to walk with . However, previous studies [45, 46] have not acknowledged the importance of the familial context in which people live, resulting in gaps in knowledge that may account for differences among study findings in SA communities versus Western communities. This study showed that opportunities for PA vary considerably across gender, age, and family role. PA options are guided by the cultural rules governing expected and appropriate behaviours. These behaviours are guided by hierarchical structures that inform the power dynamics among family members, influencing decisions about whether or not to engage in PA.
The cultural expectation that support will be offered to the elderly, for example, acts as enabler for PA such as walking. It is a sign of respect to make sure that they, especially women, have their needs met, which is associated with the description of a good son or daughter in this culture [23, 26, 34]. Additionally, in Pakistan, like other Muslim countries, adult children have a religious obligation to show respect by expressing kindness towards and obeying their parents .
Similar to the previous literature, this study suggests that although family involvement can be helpful for encouraging PA in PLwD , it can also be a barrier . Women can become more dependent on others for being physically active. It can hinder older women LwD regarding their ability to engage independently in PA. Nevertheless, it is important to understand that adult children cannot directly stop offering support, as older adults may see this as a sign of disrespect and a lack of care [23, 47]. Family involvement could be used in the initial phases and later shifted to peer support, where women help women LwD to be more independent in regard to their lifestyle decisions.
These cultural beliefs and religious obligations may support older women, but they may act as a barrier for younger women who are culturally expected to offer support to other vulnerable family members. Their agency is influenced by the cultural interpretation of roles and responsibilities within the family. There appears to be a strong preference in SA communities to fulfil the expectations associated with these roles, as supported by Majeed-Ariss et al.’s study of first- and second-generation Pakistani women LwD in the United Kingdom. They found that British Pakistani women LwD wanted to maintain their identity in their families. First-generation Pakistani women who were homemakers wanted to fulfil their role of looking after others rather than putting themselves first. Identity within the family is strongly supported by PLwD in SA culture. Therefore, medical recommendations must work with cultural expectations regarding societal and familial roles to avoid conflict with everyday behaviour.
Men benefit more from engaging in PA, either with their peers or alone. The cultural role of men is to be independent; they must be in control and able to make their own decisions [23, 26, 34]. Medical recommendations around family members’ involvement must encourage an approach that does not conflict with these traditional roles.
Lifestyle adjustment is not about addressing just one aspect of the cultural environment (e.g. health beliefs); rather, a large number of factors are at play: family role, gender, and age are three crucial factors shaping SA communities. These factors inform the link between agency and control among family members and influence lifestyle change.
Medical recommendations often involve activities that do not fit with women’s schedules or cultural expectations. One way to offer support for self-care behaviour to younger women LwD could be by, in future studies, recording their steps through wearable technology or mobile applications to obtain information on the amount of activity performed over the course of a day . Information on the amount of energy expended during household chores could then be used to make recommendations regarding the duration or intensity of these activities to attempt to match the current activity-related recommendations for PLwD.
Campaigns should be developed based on an understanding of these home-related activities, and younger women should be encouraged to engage in these. Younger women should be encouraged to see these activities as forms of exercise. It is important that doctors/physicians recognise them as valid forms of PA; otherwise, encouraging women to recognise them as such will fail. These approaches would not only provide options for PA but would also give the women agency to make decisions related to healthcare recommendations.
Men’s cultural roles are centred on being independent and strong, and they make many decisions within the family . Control is less appreciated when it comes from people lower in the family hierarchy .
Strengths and limitations of this study
Considering these findings, it is critical to be mindful of the limitations of the methods used. Semi-structured interviews were used to elicit the perspectives of participants. However, the details gathered through interviews and an exploration of participant behaviours on site led to the understanding that the choices around lifestyle changes observed in a natural setting could provide a more detailed account.
Another limitation of the study is that no clinical data or records were obtained. Above all, no data on levels of glycaemia were collected and future research should aim to combine qualitative interview data with biological markers of self-care and disease status.
The sample reflected people from lower- or middle-income socioeconomic backgrounds, limiting the findings to these demographics. Given the need to move away from a middle-class bias in research, and target what is sometimes referred to as underserved groups in society, this is a strong positive aspect.
The guidelines for PA implemented for PLwD in Pakistan are the same as those published in Western high-income countries, which regard PLwD as responsible for their own health and as having options readily available to them. However, that is not the case for every member of SA families. Unlike in Western contexts, societal norms, cultural expectations, and health beliefs that inform the behaviour of PLwD in SA communities are given little consideration, possibly explaining the less successful health outcomes observed in SA communities. Doctors’ recommendations could be more family-centred focusing on the options available to specific families and family members, given their age, gender, and family role, to help them successfully engage in PA to manage their condition.
Medical teams and the Ministry of Health in Pakistan should acknowledge the cultural forces and constraints faced by PLwD. Furthermore, they should draw on the norms of Pakistani populations and groups to enable behaviour change within the family and social context. Health promoters and educators in government and clinical settings need to work with, rather than ignore, cultural values and norms regarding age, gender, and role in families, as well as individual health beliefs.
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- LMIC :
Low- or middle-income countries
- LwD :
Living with diabetes
- NCD :
- PA :
- PLwD :
People living with type 2 diabetes
- SA :
- T2DM :
Type 2 diabetes mellitus
- WHO :
The World Health Organization
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Tariq, O., Rosten, C. & Huber, J. Experiences of living with type 2 diabetes in Pakistan: the role of culture and family in physical activity. Int J Equity Health 21, 103 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12939-022-01706-4
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Accidental support group nurtures Latino women
by Jill Ragar Esfeld
KANSAS CITY, Kan. — Fresh flowers are a well-known staple at Keeler Women’s Center here.
Saint Michael the Archangel parishioners Ana Maria Sauer and Mary Ellen Rodriguez noticed this when they first approached director Sister Carol Ann Petersen, OSB, with the idea of starting a health education program for Latino women.
But after two years volunteering at the center, they realize the flowers are so much more than a nice touch: They’re a symbol for what happens to women who come here.
A seed is planted
Both Rodriguez and Sauer are registered nurses with years of experience, including time at the Birth Center in Wyandotte County, part of Mercy and Truth Medical Clinics, where Sauer still works.
“So we were familiar with some of the needs of the community here,” said Rodriguez.
The two met through their daughters and started a friendship that was nurtured by their similar backgrounds. Rodriguez is from Chile and Sauer is from Mexico. Both speak fluent Spanish.
“I stopped working and was home trying to figure out what I was going to do,” said Rodriguez. “My daughter worked for MOCSA (Metropolitan Organization to Counter Sexual Assault) and she told me what a wonderful place Keeler is.
“I talked Ana Maria into coming here with me to see what we could do.”
The initial plan pitched to the Keeler Center was to start a program in Spanish sharing what they knew best — health information.
“But it has grown beyond that to encompass everything under the sun,” said Rodriguez. “The topics are so varied, I couldn’t list them.”
Though health topics were a great starting place, Rodriguez and Sauer soon found participants had a thirst for information on a wide range of topics — and an even greater desire to express themselves.
“We prepared extensively,” said Sauer, “but we soon found out they wanted to share more than we could teach them.
“So we shortened our talks and let them share. Some of them are very educated women — so they have knowledge.”
“So we call ourselves Grupo de Mujeres which [means simply] “Women’s Group,” said Rodriguez.
A support group is born
Because many of the women work evenings while their husbands work the day shift, the women’s group meets on Tuesday mornings.
Anywhere from 8 to 18 participants are welcomed each week. Most come from families struggling to make ends meet.
Rodriguez and Sauer were both surprised and delighted to find their group becoming a lifeline for Latino women.
“They needed to just share their experiences,” said Sauer.
“Many Latino women,” added Rodriguez, “especially who are undocumented, are very isolated.
“And so it’s difficult for them to find a place where they can feel comfortable and can share what women share, whether it is about their children or home.”
Sister Carol Ann agreed.
“Most of them come from around here,” she said. “And, frankly, the neighborhoods are not really safe to be out walking or to be sitting on the front porch.
“It’s hard for women to find a place where they belong.”
Though it was not their original intention, Rodriguez and Sauer have created the perfect environment to meet that need.
In fact, the group has become so essential and routine, participants are gravely disappointed when a meeting has to be canceled.
“Tuesdays, even if it is snowing and they have to walk four or five blocks,” said Rodriguez, “they’re here.”
“Yes,” added Sauer. “They look forward to it.
“One of the women works nights and comes after work, without sleeping. It’s amazing; she says it just makes her week.”
“So this has been a godsend I think for many of the women,” said Sister Carol Ann. “They have found a place here in the group.
“And they have also made friendships that have gone outside the group — that’s what I had hoped for.”
Every subject welcomed
As the group has grown, so has its subject matter — expanding from health to self-help.
“We discuss everything,” said Sauer. “We read the books and we make a summary and we share it with them.”
“We found that they really like self- help [materials],” added Rodriguez. “Currently, we have a woman from Arvest Bank who has offered to come and do basic understanding of finance.”
Sauer recently attended a seminar on teaching M.K. Mueller’s book “8 to Great: The Powerful Process for Positive Change.”
The book presents eight steps or “highways” that the happiest, most successful people have in common.
“It’s about positive change,” explained Sauer. “We read the book and had a summary for them.
“Each day, we shared one of the ‘highways,’ and they really liked it.”
Rodriguez and Sauer look for presenters who are bilingual and are interested in sharing their expertise with the group.
“Our goal this year was to incorporate a little more English,” said Rodriguez. “For instance, we did one meeting on understanding vocabulary when you go to the doctor or to the pharmacy.”
Growth in knowledge and understanding
As they’ve grown closer to the women in their group, Rodriguez and Sauer have seen their own interest in issues of immigration grow as well.
They see firsthand the struggles of hard-working immigrant families.
“It has been profound,” said Sauer. “To see other people who are struggling and making such an effort. It’s amazing.
“It puts into perspective our own lives. I really admire these women.”
Rodriguez also has been inspired by the women’s group.
“I think how much suffering you must go through every day,” she said, “that you would risk your life — the life of your family — to cross thousands of miles alone, not knowing where you’re going, not knowing the language.”
“They just want a better life,” added Sauer.
Now with Grupo de Mujeres, many immigrant women who once lived in isolation have a safe place to share, learn and make friends.
“Sister [Carol Ann] and her flowers,” said Rodriguez. “That’s just the perfect picture to think of.
“These women are frightened and alone, and we’ve seen them form bonds between themselves and us, with the community, with the center.
“That has been a wonderful gift.”
“The purpose of the Keeler Center is empowering women,” she said. “We’re helping empower women with knowledge.
“But it’s a learning experience for us, too. They give us so much.”
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The process of applying to citizenship or green cards is complicated and overwhelming. Keep reading to discover information about the roles of immigration lawyers.
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Like a side-view mirror, sometimes on maps, things look bigger to us than they actually appear. Think about it; a world map shows Greenland as this giant landmass the size of South America when really it’s quite tiny, comparatively speaking.
Then there is the Mongolian Empire, a massive region conquering of over nine million square miles. But what does that area look like on a map when compared to the rest of the world? Don’t worry; these maps will shed light on the true scope of things and may even help you obtain a more worldly perspective.
Red Features A Total Population Greater Than The Gray
As you can clearly see by this map, Americans tend to favor the coastal states, considering the red areas represent a greater population than that of the gray area. With a vast majority of “red” being in southern California, it seems as though people flock to the west coast for the lifestyle: the promise of year-round summer.
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How Do Bongs Work? How to Use Bongs & Other Cannabis Glass
Published on 3/11/22
When it comes to popular ways to consume cannabis, a bong is always near the very top of the list. For some stoners, smoking a bong is the far and away the best way to get high. With an easy-to-pack bowl and a cool, smooth hit, it's no wonder why! But for many novice stoners, using a bong, bubbler, pipe, or any other form of cannabis smoking glass can be intimidating and seem overly complicated. The reality, however, is far from the truth!
That's where we here at Where's Weed come in! This article will break down in detail exactly what is a bong, what a bong is used for, and how to use one, answer the question of how bongs work in detail, and how bong smoking compares to other methods in the bong vs. blunt battle. Let's get into it!
What is a Bong?
For those cannabis novices out there, we think it's important to give you a basic rundown of what exactly a bong is. While the modern-day, high-quality bong is likely made of top-notch glass, civilization has used water pipes to consume cannabis for thousands of years. In fact, the word "bong" actually comes from the Thai word "baung," which was a bamboo tube used to smoke.
Today, you can find bongs in all shapes and sizes online, at your local head shop, or even with your local artist specializing in pottery. They're a versatile, relatively simple to use, and convenient way of consuming cannabis with no need to roll joints, blunts, or any other type of rolling paper. Simply put, the answer to what is a bong used for is smoking!
How Does a Bong Work?
So now that you know exactly what a bong is, let's go more in-depth about how one works. After all, it's entirely possible that you might have used a bong before without ever stopping to wonder how it actually works. Well, simply put, a bong works as a handy cooling and filtration method for smoking cannabis.
Pretty much every single bong in existence has three basic components: a bowl attached to a downstem, a chamber for water or some other type of liquid, and a mouthpiece to inhale through.
You'll pack the dried and preferably ground up cannabis flower of your choice into the bowl attached to the downstem. You'll want to make sure that the bowl is packed loosely enough for airflow but tight enough to get a good amount of cannabis per bowl. Once the bowl is packed, it will be ready to light.
The downstem is inserted into the chamber, which will hold a liquid like water. As the cannabis in the bowl is lit, the smoke will travel through the downstem, into the chamber holding the water, and then stay until inhaled via the mouthpiece. The water in that chamber, often referred to as "bong water" for the experienced stoner, filters and cools the smoke down on the inhale, so it's less harsh on the lungs. While some stoners will argue for some other bong water uses, the main ones to keep in mind here are for use while smoking.
Once that smoke filters through the water and is stored in the chamber, the last step of the smoking process is ready. You'll put your mouth into the bong's mouthpiece, creating as airtight of a seal as you possibly can while inhaling. That inhale will pull the smoke from the main chamber up into your lungs, which will deliver the activated cannabinoids into your system!
While every bong is slightly different in its look and feel, that's the way that pretty much every bong works! So if you're ever in the middle of a smoke session and wonder, "what does a bong do, man?" now you'll know!
Bongs vs. Other Methods of Smoking
So now that you know what a bong is, how it works, and how to use one, one question remains: What makes them so special compared to other smoking methods? Why do so many opt for bongs over other methods when it comes to smoking cannabis? Well, the answer lies in the bong water we mentioned before!
So unlike joints, blunts, or any other form of smoking, bongs have a built-in filtration and cooling factor. The smoke from joints and blunts tends to be hotter and harsher than the smoke that comes from a bong. That's because the water takes that harsh edge off of the smoke by filtering and cooling it off a bit, something that doesn't happen aside from the filters in a blunt or joint.
While the claims that a bong does any serious filtering of the harmful stuff you'll find in cannabis smoke are overinflated, it does a good job of cooling the temperature. That temperature drop is helpful on the lungs, leading to less stress on the throat and lungs on inhale.
While it's probably not accurate to call smoking from a bong "safer," it does have some clear and obvious upsides compared to the average joint or blunt.
The Bottom Line
At the end of the day, using a bong can be a great way to simply and easily smoke cannabis without the need to learn how to roll joints and blunts. All you need to do is be able to pack a bowl and have access to a little bit of water. As long as you have a bong, a lighter, and some cannabis, you'll be able to have a great time!
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How warehouses and industrial land continue to keep up with the world around them
Frequent supply chain disruption, merchandise shortages, freight delays and an “always on” approach to meeting consumer demand: it’s just another day in industrial. A sector full of sharp demands and a constant state of flux, trying to meet the latest needs of the moment.
For some, that might mean working to mitigate labor or supply shortages, and for others, it means diving headfirst into expansion opportunities for a critical piece of supply chain infrastructure: the warehouse.
Almost all the goods we purchase spend at least some time in a warehouse during their lifecycle, so while it may seem like that big bulky mass of brick-and-mortar near the highway may not have that much relevance to your daily life – it is probably playing a much larger role than you realize.
What is the current outlook for warehouses and industrial land? And what changes or advancements are we seeing now and into the future for this sector as our love for e-commerce and delivery only continues to grow? We explore below.
Industrial and logistics have never seen an acceleration like the current environment
“The reality is the industrial and logistics asset class has been on an amazing run the past few years. You speak to anyone who's been in the industry, regardless of their career length, and they'll probably tell you they have never seen an acceleration like we are seeing right now.”
Jeff Miller, Senior Vice President, Head of Industrial, Oxford Properties Group
Pandemic-driven rises in desire for e-commerce and delivery, paired with transportation and supply issues and general consumer demands for closer to consumer logistics, have combined for a sector pushed to the brink, brimming to life, and shaping into a nearly half trillion-dollar global market.
“The pandemic has only grown the trend of investing more into industrial, based on new and evolving needs and challenges. I have never seen more investment activity and demand activity from investors trying to put money to work in the industrial asset class at any point in time in my career, I don't think that's going to stop, I think that there will be continued pressure.”
Erik Foster, Head of Industrial Capital Markets, Avison Young
This pressure is what experts are seeing even as industrial land supply becomes increasingly scarce – a result of many trying to capitalize at once on current climates.
As demand begins to outpace supply of industrial land and labor, some are leaning on creative solutions to make ends meet, such as multistory warehouse offerings, robotics and automation.
With demand for warehouse space outpacing available land in many markets, it’s creating an interesting challenge and opportunity for industrial real estate owners who find themselves asking: when you can’t expand out, where else can you go but up?
Multistory warehouses have been popular in Asian markets for quite some time, decades even, but current trends have started to see them popping up in North American markets now too. Lease rates paired with lack of available land give justification to build these types of facilities. As well as give the asset class an opportunity to explore alternatives that give local markets options for how and where warehouses are located.
For those able to neatly make existing land work with their warehouse needs but find labor or efficiency shortages are costing them, some are turning to robots to close needs gaps. Yes, robots.
That warehouse down the street from you just might be completely automated, and you’d never know for sure unless you stepped inside.
Growth in the sector will continue to ebb and flow to meet the unique needs of individual markets and populations.
Whether single or multistory, run by humans or robots, or a hybrid combination of the two, most modern warehouses and projected options for future builds are keeping individual market needs in mind.
Data around purchasing, market size and make-ups, and so much more, are driving key decisions around current warehouse evolutions and new build projects (which are also seeing some of the longest construction lead times in history as cost and availability of materials remains complex).
Last mile focuses and micro-fulfillment needs are becoming increasingly important as delivery windows shorten to match modern consumer cravings. After all, when Amazon can get you items same day, it puts pressure on the whole supply chain system to get products to consumers at lightning speed as well.
Looking ahead: what we see holding true for warehouses for years to come
For the foreseeable future, we see many of these trends and challenges remaining for a sector being pushed to its limits from every angle.
Companies will be forced to look at the buildings, processes, and plans, and likely need to be just a little more creative and innovative to win the day.
Multistory and micro-fulfillment centers will continue to gain in popularity, many occupiers will begin to see where and how they can lean on robotics and automation to increase efficiency and keep up with demand, retailers will rethink the role of warehouses in their operations (considering them a key piece of their store’s multichannel offerings) and diversified investment across the sector will remain a hot ticket well into the future.
With so many cool things happening in and around these boxes, it’s likely we’ll all be thinking about them a bit differently from here on out – as critical pieces of real estate bringing goods that much closer, and that much faster, to the communities that need them.
This article shares key takeaways from Changing Places podcast episode The new warehouses: the sleeping giants of industrial land, which features expertise from Avison Young’s Erik Foster and Oxford Properties’ Jeff Miller. For more, take a listen now:
Have you noticed more warehouses popping up in your neighborhood? What do you think of multistory warehouse or warehouses run by robots? Share your thoughts after listening to the episode across social media platforms using the hashtag #ChangingPlacesPodcast.
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Arising from an initial “ultimate challenge” for universities to make themselves relevant to the solution or amelioration of global societal problems, the initial approach was one of devising inter-disciplinary problem-based challenges based on real issues identified by individuals from within and outside the university. These largely featured problems of sustainability, taken in a very broad sense, but later extended to include issues of, for example, ethics, entrepreneurship and humanitarian aid.
Preparing students to tackle complex real-world issues of societal responsibility led to a problem-based (PBL) approach to learning. Why PBL? And, can PBL cope with different student audiences in terms of different disciplines, levels and differing expectations? Starting with a question about the purpose of higher education in the face of increasing complex global problems, the expectation was that a problem-based approach would facilitate transformative and engaged learning, but does this work in practice? Building on a wide review of the appropriate literature, this study draws on the experiences of lecturers, facilitators and students who have been involved in the development process of a series of PBL units. The paper also looks at the background to both engaged and also transformative learning.
The evolution of the series of course units, over a decade or so, is elucidated and models of PBL delivery are compared. With development and transfer to different and larger audiences, greater scaffolding has been incorporated and mixed modes have been developed; assessment has also developed alongside the development of the course units. Three factors seem to have considerable influence: subject discipline, level (and maturity) of students, and the previous experience of students. Whilst problem briefs should be challenging, they need to be readily accessible to all students. Where enabling competences have not previously been embedded, then these need to be incorporated. Design of the peculiar circumstances of each case needs to examine the sensitivities of the institution, and individual departments, and the skills and expectations of both staff and students. The development of the underlying course unit to a range of different circumstances raised a number of issues. These are described and the approach taken to their resolution given.
Evaluation of the efficacy of the course units has taken a number of forms. This covers student feedback, which includes nominal group results and reflective reports. A small study of former students suggests that the PBL approach enables an engaged approach and the development of generic and employability competences. Early offerings of course units were also evaluated through questionnaires and other forms of feedback, both from students but also from facilitators and colleagues. PBL with repeated group assessments, and individual reflection, can lead to transformative learning in a variety of situations.
This sequence of course units began with a premiss that universities needed to pay heed to issues of global societal responsibility and that, in so doing, they needed to equip students to work across disciplinary boundaries, to tackle complex issues that have no single ‘right’ answer and also to participate in the management of change. PBL afforded a route to achieving those aims. However, the concepts need not just to be ‘taught’ but also to become embedded in the students’ mind-set: students need not just to participate but also to engage. The evidence is that the enquiry-based approach enables student engagement not just with their own learning but also with the wider world. Conclusions are drawn about the transformative nature of the approach, the challenges to implementing it and its ability to adapt to different circumstances. | <urn:uuid:d53900cf-9187-4e1f-b271-9d408ddb1a12> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/publications/engaging-with-global-societal-challenges(cf6ad6b5-7eb8-4b22-9abb-a092ad75eb97).html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572833.95/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817032054-20220817062054-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.967436 | 704 | 2.25 | 2 |
There is enormous uncertainty around how the Government will and should respond to the many challenges the Covid-19 pandemic poses to society. Much of this is inevitable. We are living through a protracted emergency of a kind nobody alive has lived through.
In recent days, there has been growing criticism of government decisions aimed at slowing the spread of the virus, how those decisions are arrived at, and how they are communicated. This has been in part because the overall strategy of the Government is unclear.
Initially, the main focus was on slowing the rate of infection so that the number of ill people would not explode, leading to hospitals being over-run and leaving healthcare workers having to decide who should get treatment and who should be left without.
Last March and April, the risk of this scenario unfolding was frighteningly real, based on the rate at which the virus was spreading globally and the surging numbers in the Irish hospital system.
Now the risks around the healthcare system being swamped in the foreseeable future are much lower even if they remain very real. Data collected across the world show that since the initial outbreak there has not been the sort of sustained exponential growth in cases or deaths which would bring about the worst-case scenarios even though the response has varied considerably across 200-odd jurisdictions.
Closer to home, figures from the nation's hospitals also provide some reassurance, particularly in the context of a considerable increase in confirmed cases of the virus over the past three weeks (from a very low base).
In the most recent seven-day period ending yesterday, 17 people suffering from Covid were admitted to hospital. That is up very slightly from previous weeks, but it remains a fraction of the daily admissions of last spring. In the seven days to Wednesday, April 15, for instance, 258 people were admitted to hospitals suffering from Covid.
When it comes to intensive care units (ICUs), the difference between now and the early stages of the outbreak are even starker. Yesterday's figures showed that there were six Covid suffers in the Republic receiving intensive care treatment. That is up on the low point - of four cases - in late July but a fraction of the 155 Covid patients in the nation's ICUs at the peak in April.
Most importantly of all, there is no indication that the very low number of deaths from the disease is on the rise.
As people get used to living with a new risk to their health, however low it is for the majority, they will need stronger and clearer reasons to continue accepting unprecedented disruption to their lives.
To give people and businesses more clarity on why and when any tightening would take place, a greater focus on hospital admissions and numbers in intensive care could be the way to go.
If the Government was to set thresholds of cases in hospital, above which new measures might be initiated, it may provide a clearer and more predictable rational for new measures.
For instance, if the Government was to flag in advance that when the numbers of Covid patients in ICU surpass 20 and/or if hospital admissions hit 30 a day, and the trajectory of both figures pointed to further increases in the future, then new restrictive measures would be introduced (these figures are purely illustrative suggestions and decisions on thresholds would clearly need to be set by those who manage the healthcare system).
The Government should also state clearly that its central objective in managing the disease is to ensure that hospital capacity will not be exceeded. While it was the explicit objective early on, it has not been mentioned more recently even if it is implicitly the main health objective in managing the health emergency.
At a time when the health impact of Covid is very limited, the much-predicted fatigue with restrictions and the uncertainty around the timing of their introduction is materialising.
Frustration could well turn to anger in the months ahead as the disruption to life grinds on into a bleak-looking winter.
It could turn to anger as the reality of an economic depression begins to bite - it is inevitable in the months ahead that more businesses in the worst-affected sectors either will be forced to close or will do so voluntarily in the absence of any viable path back to profitability.
This will turn a disastrous employment situation from temporary to long term for hundreds of thousands of people.
Against this backdrop, the need for clarity on how the Government intends to minimise the damage of this natural disaster is paramount.
Everyone has an interest in preventing the hospitals from turning away patients, including the young and healthy who are at very little risk from Covid, but who may need hospitalisation for other reasons.
Appealing both to people's concern for the wider good and their own self-interest may be a more effective means of managing this catastrophe than tired-sounding clichés of 'We're all in this together'.
At a time of such bleakness, anything that passes for positive news needs to be grasped.
From an Irish perspective, the past week or so has brought some good economic news, at least in relative terms.
Among all 27 EU countries, Ireland was the only one to record an increase in the amount of stuff its factories churned out in the first half of the year and - closely related - it was unique in growing its manufactured exports.
At a time when most sectors are being clobbered by the pandemic, and mass business closures are coming down the line, having one of the engines of economy accelerating should help soften the impact of the Covid crash. | <urn:uuid:515046ec-5e5b-4cb3-905d-edbce448eed7> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.independent.ie/opinion/comment/were-all-in-this-together-ditch-the-cliche-and-appeal-to-peoples-self-interest-instead-39463959.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572833.95/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817032054-20220817062054-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.970594 | 1,115 | 2.234375 | 2 |
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This stuff is tested in both this year’s and last year’s mocks…watch out! ************************* 1.Effect of the external interest rate environment a.Return on the default-free benchmark assuming no change in forward rates b.Return due to change in forward rates 2.Contribution of the management process a.Return from interest rate management (duration, convex, yield crv ch): How well the manager predicts interest rate changes. Each security in the portfolio is priced as if it were a default-free security. The interest rate management contribution is calculated by subtracting the return of the entire treasury universe from the aggregate return of these repriced securities b.Return from sector/quality management: Repricing each security in the portfolio using the average yield premium in its respective category. c.Return from issue selection: Total return of a security minus all the other components. d.Return from trading activity (residual effect): Total portfolio return minus all the other components
i believe there is an Unexpected changes in fwd rates/external interest environment component in 1)1.Effect of the external interest rate environment as well. can someone confirm?. thanks
i read the piece again and actually the first one (a) is the expected, the second one (b) is the unexpected component, thanks for pointing this out.
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Eukaryotic chemotactic cells can recognize chemical substance gradients more than a wide range of concentrations. Gip1 adjusts G-protein shuttling between the 1137608-69-5 supplier cytosol and the membrane layer to assure the availability and biased redistribution of G proteins on the membrane layer for receptor-mediated chemotactic signaling. An explanation is offered by This mechanism for the wide-range sensing seen in eukaryotic chemotaxis. Chemotaxis in eukaryotic cells can be noticed in many physical procedures including embryogenesis, neuronal wiring, injury curing, and resistant replies (1, 2). Chemotactic cells talk about simple properties including high awareness to superficial gradients and 1137608-69-5 supplier responsiveness to a wide powerful range Rabbit Polyclonal to IKK-gamma (phospho-Ser31) of chemoattractants (3, 4). For example, individual neutrophils and cells can feeling spatial distinctions in chemoattractant focus across the cell body in low gradients as low as 2% and display chemotaxis over a 105C106-flip range of history concentrations (5C7). Hence, wide-range realizing and version are important features of chemotaxis as well as various other physical systems such as visible sign transduction (8). Nevertheless, the root regulatory systems in eukaryotic chemotaxis stay uncertain. The molecular systems of chemotaxis are evolutionarily conserved among many eukaryotes that make use of G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) and heterotrimeric G aminoacids to identify chemoattractant gradients (3, 4). In cells, extracellular cAMP functions as a chemoattractant, and 1137608-69-5 supplier presenting to its receptor cyclic Amplifier receptor 1 (cAR1) activates G aminoacids (G2G) along the focus gradient, leading to the account activation of multiple signaling cascades including the PI3KCPTEN, TorC2CPDKCPKB, phospholipase A2, and guanylyl cyclase paths. In comparison to the spatial distributions of cAMP/cAR1 G-protein and association account activation, downstream signaling paths are turned on in an incredibly biased way at the posterior or anterior of the cell (3, 4). For example, localised sections of phosphatidylinositol 3,4,5-trisphosphate (PIP3) are produced at the plasma membrane layer by an intracellular sign transduction excitable network (STEN) and function as a cue to control the pseudopod development of motile cells (9, 10). Because PIP3 sections have got a continuous size of a few microns in size fairly, this excitable system can assure a continuous result of chemotactic replies over a wide range of concentrations. Nevertheless, it can be uncertain how chemical substance gradients are sensed adaptively over a wide range in the sign transduction cascades upstream of STEN. Understanding into this relevant issue can be supplied by microbial chemotaxis and various other physical systems, such as photoreceptor rhodopsin (8). Chemoreceptor methylation in bacterias confers a wide chemotactic range (11). In light version, the phosphorylation of rhodopsins in the visible program qualified prospects to rhodopsin down-regulation by arrestin, which obstructions physical discussion with G-protein transducin (12). Phosphorylation-dependent receptor internalization can be a feature of various other systems for controlling intracellular replies (13). General, in these physical systems, the chemical substance adjustments of receptors are essential for controlling the powerful range of the response. Regularly, cells revealing unphosphorylated mutant cAR1 display a slim chemotactic range (14), and phosphorylated cAR1t have got decreased affinity for cAMP (15). Hence, chemical substance adjustments of chemoattractant receptors are also essential in eukaryotic chemotaxis as a system to expand the chemotactic range. In addition to the receptor adjustments, G aminoacids are phosphorylated and hired from the cytosol to the plasma membrane layer upon receptor arousal in cells (16, 17), although the relevance of these actions on wide-range adaptation and sensing is unknown. Right here we record that a story regulator of G proteins, G protein-interacting proteins 1 (Gip1), can be important for the wide-range chemotaxis in cells. Gip1 regulates G-protein localization between the plasma and cytosol membrane layer. | <urn:uuid:2e735ae9-5d38-4340-aa2f-f5b09100c7fd> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://ruerup-rente24.com/eukaryotic-chemotactic-cells-can-recognize-chemical-substance-gradients-more-than-a/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572212.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815205848-20220815235848-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.870935 | 968 | 2.140625 | 2 |
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