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Because most female Frenchies are unable to give birth naturally, Cesarean sections are nearly always required. Cesarean sections are expensive, although the expenses will vary depending on the individual. What is the average cost of a C-section for a French Bulldog? In the United States, the cost of a French Bulldog C-section will range between $600 and $2000.
- 1 How much does it cost for a French Bulldog to give birth?
- 2 How much is a dog C-section cost?
- 3 Are French Bulldogs born by C-section?
- 4 Do Bulldogs need C-sections?
- 5 Are C-sections covered by pet insurance?
- 6 Can my French Bulldog give birth naturally?
- 7 Why are French Bulldogs so expensive?
- 8 Do all French Bulldogs need surgery?
- 9 How long is a French Bulldog C-section?
- 10 How long does a dog C-section take?
- 11 How many cesarean Can a dog have?
- 12 What dogs Cannot give birth naturally?
- 13 How many litters can a bulldog have?
How much does it cost for a French Bulldog to give birth?
In order to give birth naturally, Cesarean sections are nearly always required in the case of female Frenchies. Cesarean sections are costly, however the exact cost will vary. A French Bulldog C-section is about how much it costs. Depending on where you live, a C-section for a French Bulldog will cost between $600 and $2000.
How much is a dog C-section cost?
Cesarean Section in Dogs: How Much Does It Cost? If it is possible to do the procedure at a standard veterinary facility, it might be completed for as low as $500. It is possible that the cost of transporting the dog to an animal hospital or emergency clinic will exceed $2,000.00.
Are French Bulldogs born by C-section?
The majority of French bulldogs need to be artificially inseminated, and because of their “purebred” physical characteristics, they are usually delivered through C-section. Although Lyla should’ve been spayed before being bred, the only operation she should’ve had was one done by a qualified veterinarian before she was bred.
Do Bulldogs need C-sections?
The English Bulldog, like all other Bulldogs, is noted for having a huge head, which makes them excellent candidates for cesarean section delivery in most cases. C-sections are performed on 86.1 percent of the litters born to these breeds, according to the CDC. Because of their fetal-maternal disproportion, these Bulldogs are also prone to dystocia during pregnancy.
Are C-sections covered by pet insurance?
If your pet is scheduled for a C-section as a result of medical risk factors, the C-section will be covered once the applicable waiting periods have been satisfied. Once the waiting periods have been satisfied, all unplanned C-sections are eligible for coverage under the plan.
Can my French Bulldog give birth naturally?
If your pet is scheduled for a C-section as a result of medical risk factors, the C-section will be covered once the waiting periods have been satisfied. Once waiting periods have been satisfied, all unplanned C-sections are eligible for coverage.
Why are French Bulldogs so expensive?
The fact that French Bulldog puppies are so costly is mostly due to the high expenditures associated with breeding the breed. In order for Frenchies to procreate, they must undergo artificial insemination c-sections, which can cost the breeder anything from $1,000 to $3,000 each procedure. It is quite expensive to breed them. They’re in high demand right now.
Do all French Bulldogs need surgery?
When it comes to their noses, French Bulldogs, like other brachycephalic dogs, have stenotic nares, which are constricted, slit-like nostrils that are typically present. Fortunately, surgery may be used to treat stenotic nares, and it is typically suggested for both moderate and severe forms of the condition.
How long is a French Bulldog C-section?
C-sections are commonly scheduled at our practice 62 days following the woman’s ovulation to avoid the need for an emergency room visit in the middle of the night. In the majority of cases, 63 days after ovulation corresponds to a due date that is within 24 hours of her desired due date.
How long does a dog C-section take?
C-sections are commonly scheduled at our practice 62 days following the woman’s ovulation to avoid the need to go to an emergency room in the middle of the night. Her optimum due date is usually within 24 hours of the time she has left after ovulation at 63 days after ovulation.
How many cesarean Can a dog have?
“The concern here is if there is any cruel behaviour associated with a dam’s many, or back-to-back births,” says the author. Several competent breeders feel that C-sections should be restricted to no more than two or three times in a dog’s lifetime in order to safeguard the health and quality of life of both the mother and her future puppies.
What dogs Cannot give birth naturally?
It has also been discovered that certain brachycephalic dogs are unable to reproduce on their own and that some are unable to give birth naturally. For example, “mating on their own is quite difficult for French bulldogs since the majority of female French bulldogs have extremely small hips.”
How many litters can a bulldog have?
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Airbnb’s investors have reportedly pushed the company’s valuation to over $10bn, leading some industry commentators to claim that this type of valuation proves we are in a second dotcom bubble.
This time round, there are some sound business models, which are disrupting industries not rebadging it. Airbnb is a disruptor, and needs to be examined before we come back to the question whether we’re in another bubble.
Some commentators are comparing Airbnb to Lastminute.com. While Lastminute.com was seen as revolutionary for its day, it was essentially just another retail channel for existing travel operators – perhaps you could describe it as the latest style of travel agent. Whereas Airbnb is a total disruptor to the travel industry.
Airbnb is a marketplace which enables anyone to rent some space in their home to another person – in Airbnb parlance they are described as a host offering space to a guest. It doesn’t have to be a spare room – there are plenty of sofa beds available to rent.
It’s also worth noting – because the valuation reflects so – that Airbnb is one of those rare products which has managed to target small, cheap offerings such as the sofa bed marketplace, to short-term, full house rentals in nice areas. It’s also used by business travellers as well as tourists. At Endava, I know some of our suppliers who stay in Airbnb locations when they visit London.
Airbnb is a global phenomenon. Because Airbnb is a pure marketplace, a bit like eBay, it handles no (expensive) stock, or supply chain, or bulk upfront purchasing from travel operators. This keeps its profits consistent.
Airbnb’s launch was perfect timing – during a recession when people want to earn more money (by renting out some space), and others want to stay somewhere for less money.
Some commentators are saying that the model is simple to duplicate and therefore Airbnb will be a short-term investment. However Airbnb has become synonymous with renting space in someone’s house – it is already the first place to check. And as more people book through Airbnb, and users rate hosts and guests, the user ratings will become more reliable in the same way as eBay’s rating system has become. See “No one wants to stay in an axe murderer’s house, and no one wants to rent a spare room to an axe murderer“.
And that’s where I can foresee a problem – if Airbnb receives some negative publicity about a robbery (or worse) between a host and a guest, this could destroy Airbnb’s reputation overnight.
So are we in another bubble?
I’ve demonstrated how Airbnb already has a solid business model, with some potential pitfalls. Now let’s return to the original question: are we in another bubble?
Let’s compare eBay and Marks & Spencer. M&S shares have increased 45% over the last five years. eBay shares have increased 345% in the same period. Surely signs of a bubble?
Well perhaps not – if we look at the total sales for eBay – just for clothing – in 2013 was $8.999bn (£5.46bn) . Compare this to total worldwide revenue for Marks & Spencer in the same period of £10,026. eBay’s total sales for 2013 was $83,330 (£50,521bn). Total sales for eBay means something slightly different though, because that’s the total transaction amount which flows through the market. eBay earns a commission from that transaction – which in 2013 was a total of $16.047bn revenues (£9.72bn) . That’s a 21% operating margin (GAAP), compared to M&S of around 7.5% .
One of the key reasons for the huge difference is the lack of legacy business costs and ultimately – stock. eBay is a marketplace, M&S is a retailer. Airbnb is a marketplace, Lastminute.com is a travel agent.
There’s always a flip side
There are examples of company IPOs and valuations which do seem high at the moment.
For instance King, the makers of Candy Crush, have IPOd today valued at $7.6bn (shares were also 7 times oversubscribed). This is a company who operates in a highly disloyal market of smartphone games, although I think there’s room in app stores for a giant games publisher equivalent to EA in the games console market.
Then there’s Facebook who spent $2bn in WhatsApp and yesterday spent $2bn on Oculus VR which is a brand new company, with only 75,000 orders to its balance sheet. In my opinion, WhatsApp was a great purchase because it’s been, and still is, a major disruptor to the telco industry, and Facebook need to increase its instant messaging and voice product offering. (Read this Bloomberg article to see how much of a disruptor WhatsApp really is).
The Oculus purchase currently feels like a very high valuation, although I still stand by my prediction that 3D environments will take over web browsers for many applications in the nearish future.
In conclusion, the current stock market conditions and valuations are not the same as the first dotcom bubble. There are some companies which are currently overvalued (in my opinion), but there are many more who are here for the long-term.
(Disclaimer: Please don’t base any of this content as investment advice – they are simply my personal opinions).
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We speak to writer Paul Tobin and artist Ron Chan about Earth Boy, their graphic novel about an underdog student at an elite space academy. The Spy Who Raised Me is an unusual and exhilarating graphic novel with so many twists that readers will need to go back and skim it once more. A woman with social nervousness will get a surprise acceptance to ninja school in our exclusive preview of Shy Ninja, our subsequent week from BiG.
The following is an inventory of the top comedian books geared for kids. You can make sure that there is something they may like to dig into. Jin Wang is the new kid at a school where he’s the one Chinese American scholar and wants to be an all-American boy. Danny is an all-American boy and had it all…at his old school, but now he has to start once more at his new school.
When a child is simply studying to learn, comics can be a great complement to help foster love and pleasure for books. As detailed in this fantastic handout, “Raising a Reader,” from the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund, comics have a lot to offer younger readers. For that crucial first stage of early reading (ages 5-8, grades K-2), though, it might be hard to search out applicable comic e-book studying materials. Many mothers and fathers will either disregard comic books as a reading option or assume that any old superhero comic will do. The applicable vary of decisions for this particular age group and studying degree is definitely fairly narrow, but it contains some fabulous picks. As a common rule, graphic novels and comic books share their tales utilizing a visually based caricature format.
This collection is perfect for followers of high school manga and Nancy Drew alike. These charming books inform varied tales of Mr. Wolf’s fourth-grade class. The children undergo completely different issues and have lots of adventures, all whereas Mr. Wolf tries to help them as much as he can. Grade faculty readers will definitely relate to these slice-of-life stories, and lecturers will absolutely relate to Mr. Wolf’s challenges.
That realism amidst the fantasy world she exists in is what makes this collection so pleasant for youths. Pearson has a wonderful, European sensibility to his cartooning, which matches the vaguely Northern European setting of the tales and makes these books a delight to read. Marvel freaked out comics fans worldwide once they killed Peter Parker of their alternate universe “Ultimate” line, and tapped another person to take up the spider go properly with.
This comic has all the fundamental elements of the Fantastic Four. You have the banter, comedy, and rivalry between the Thing and the Human Torch and the robust relationship between Sue Storm and Reed Richards. Combine that with the high journey and cosmic exploring and you have an excellent read in your hand for you or your child. One of the few comics geared extra for girls, this comedian is about with Spider-Man and Mary Jane in high school.
Joined by his loyal companion and pet dog Snowy, his best mate Captain Haddock, and adviser Professor Calculus, Tintin takes investigative journalism to a brand new stage within the comedian collection. Originally written and revealed in French by Belgian writer Herge, the series became highly in style and was translated into 70 languages. Also, there are films and television exhibits based on comedians. Perfectly ordinary wanting children with massive power, a journey to magical realms, being stranded on strange islands and meeting unknown tribes, solely to flee from them to keep away from wasting your life.
Still reeling from the lack of his mom, Jonas escapes into his vivid daydreams. After making his method through a portal in his grandmother’s strange painting, he finds himself misplaced in a fantasy world, unable to return. Daniel Lieske’s arresting comic sequence has also been revealed in print format by Lion Forge. Before evenSky High, the tremendous kids of Public School 238 have been delivering a splendidly deconstructed version of superheroic action.
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Plumbing is a field that deals with the conveyance of fluids in a variety of applications. Plumbing involves the use of pipes, valves, plumbing fixtures, tanks, and other apparatuses to transport fluids from one place to another. If you’ve ever wondered what a plumber does, this article can help.
Plumbing is a crucial part of construction projects. Running water is a constant, so having a well-functioning plumbing system is necessary to control water consumption. It helps to keep your water bills down while protecting your home from mold and rot. Plumbing systems are also essential for water quality, as they keep your home safe from contaminants. But plumbing isn’t just a practical tool; it also contributes to your overall health. When your home isn’t working properly, it can lead to a host of health problems. That is why it is best to hire Plumber Spring TX to make sure your plumbing system is in great condition.
The plumbing industry is a specialized field. While many plumbers are self-employed, much work for smaller businesses. Other plumbers choose to work for a larger entity. Large buildings, municipal buildings, school districts, and airports all hire plumbing staff to keep their buildings running smoothly. Plumbing is important to our country’s infrastructure, and military jobs often require experience with plumbing. Likewise, large aircraft, yachts, and motor vehicles require plumbing.
In general, plumbing jobs include installing and maintaining pipes, valves, and appliances. They also include public water supply systems and venting systems. However, plumbing jobs don’t include drilling water wells, installing water softening equipment, manufacturing plumbing equipment, or installing a septic system. A properly functioning plumbing system helps you keep your home safe from floods. It also ensures proper sanitation. So, whether you’re planning to build a new home or remodel your existing one, there’s a plumbing job for you.
Drains are essential parts of your plumbing system. They prevent sewer gas from entering your home by trapping wastewater. When a drain is clogged, a plumber can quickly fix the problem. But a plumber can’t fix every problem immediately. Plumbing professionals can use a camera to inspect the clogged pipes and provide you with a solution to prevent flooding. You can also find out whether or not a drain is backed up by a blockage.
For new constructions and remodels, plumbers can use PEX for piping. It’s flexible and requires fewer fittings than rigid plumbing systems. It’s best if you’re installing a plumbing system in a new home or a re-pipe project. PEX is particularly useful in corrosive water areas, where water can build up and cause problems. It also stretches in freezing conditions and returns to its original size when it thaws. As a bonus, PEX is extremely freeze-resistant, which is rare in any other material.
The plumbing system is made up of many components that work together to make sure water flows into a building and removes waste. Supply pipes take clean water from a water source into the house, and drain pipes carry wastewater out. While older pipes are being phased out because of potential health risks, newer pipes are becoming the norm. Each type of pipe has its strengths and weaknesses. For residential use, supply pipes are the main source of water, while drain pipes carry wastewater from a building.
Pipes and tubes are the most common pipes used in plumbing systems. Pipes are typically formed from cast iron or extruded materials and are used in residential plumbing when new constructions are not yet built. The plumbing trade refers to them as iron. While they’re durable and easy to install, they’re expensive and hard to work with. The plumbing trade also calls them “iron,” and they’re typically used for repairs and replacement in existing systems and in hotels.
In residential homes, pipes carry water to the kitchen faucet and take waste to the sewage system. Plumbing systems have been around since ancient times, and used clay pipes to transport water. More modern materials like polyvinyl chloride and cross-linked polyethylene became the main choices for pipes in the twentieth century. Regardless of what type of pipe you have installed, there is likely a plumbing company near you that can provide the services you need.
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Korea and the Concept of Human Rights during the Cold War Era
Special Report | July 09, 2021
Hun Joon Kim
Professor of Political Science and International Relations at Korea University
The Global NK Special Report Series looks into key concepts regarding North Korea and inter-Korean relations. In this issue, Professor Hun Joon Kim discourse on human rights in Korea compared to discourse that has unfolded in international politics on the whole during the Cold War. Through such a comparison, the issue discusses how the concept of human rights transformed on the Korean peninsula.
The term “human rights,” coined in Western Europe and subsequently spread across the world, was generally understood among Koreans as "the rights bestowed upon people by the Heavens (Nature)." Western ideas, including human rights, were introduced into the Korean peninsula upon the opening of the ports through different channels. The idea of human rights in particular is known to have been imported by Yu Kil-chun. Seoyu-gyeonmun (西遊見聞, "Observations on Travels in the West"), a travelogue authored by Yu, described human rights as freedom and Tong-ui ("the universally accepted principles and justice") entitled to every person. Tongnip Sinmun (The Independent), an early Korean newspaper, helped disseminate the idea of human rights as "natural and inalienable rights bestowed upon by God” among the public and called for gender equality and the abolishment of social hierarchy based on this idea. However, upon Japanese colonial rule began discourse on human rights rapidly receded; without a government of their own, the Korean population could no longer claim any of their natural rights. Yet, things began to change following the March 1st Movement in 1919, upon the establishment of the Provisional Government and as the liberation movement gained strength. There were several turning points concerning discourse on human rights in the following years during Korea's national independence and nation-building process in August 1945. A whirling vortex of the Cold War soon followed. Against this backdrop, this paper examines the similarities and differences found in the discourse on human rights in Korea in comparison with that in the international arena.
Discourse on Human Rights in Korea and International Community
Discourse on human rights in Korea and that in the international community generally share three similarities. First, the trajectory in the development of the idea of human rights split along the ideological fault-line. Human rights was a major factor that distinguished the liberal bloc from the Communist bloc in international politics; mudslinging and propaganda against each other ensued along the line.Such Cold War logic was reflective on the Korean peninsula. Discourse on human rights in Korea stemmed from criticism on human rights infringements in North Korea and the Soviet Union. Second,discourse on human rights in Korea and in the international community both took a critical stance against the U.S. following the civil rights movement. The Communist Party in China showed their support for the movement while deploring the status of human rights in the U.S. Korea also expressed concerns on the issue, reflective of the global trend. However, Korea voiced criticism in a tone different from that of Communist and non-allies; while their criticism against the U.S. focused on racial discrimination and highlighted economic and social rights, Korea found fault with the violation of the key principles of the free world, such as freedom and equality. Third, the notion of human rights both within and outside Korea diversified itself into sub-categories. On the international level, the human rights agenda was subdivided into civil, political rights and economic, social, cultural rights. The subcategories were later divided further into human rights issues specifically concerning females, children, torture, racial discrimination, the disabled, and the like. This trend was reflective in Korea, which dealt with the human rights of women, children, and the disabled in the mid-1970s. In areas of education and social welfare, approaches were made based on human rights.
However, discourse on human rights in Korea exhibits differences from the global discourses in three aspects. First, the trajectory of the development of human rights in Korea sometimes was not necessarily aligned with that of the international community. A case in point is the Universal Declaration of Human Rights adopted in December 1948. During this time, discourse on human rights surged in Korea. An interesting point, however, was that the declaration had little to do with the soaring domestic interest in the topic. In fact, discourse on human rights developed mostly with a focus on internal issues, such as building a new country and a new government.
Second, particular events were perceived as issues related to human rights in Korea and emphasized in varying ways. The 1970s, during this which the Helsinki Accords were signed and Cambodia was the spread of communism, is reflective of such differences. While international attention was focused on the Helsinki Accords, Korea was more heavily focused on the emergence of Khmer Rouge and the communist regime in Cambodia. Domestic discussion on this issue aptly illustrates how the idea of human rights has been aligned with domestic politics and inter-Korean relations. In its editorial, The Dong-a Ilbo, a major Korean newspaper, argued that the communization of Cambodia stemmed not from the weakened military but from the domestic issue of infringements on human rights. This line of reasoning was understood as a tacit warning to Park Chung-hee and his "Yushin" regime for its abuse of human rights. Meanwhile, the Korean leadership’s perceived this from a different perspective and thereby responded differently. At that time, the Democratic Republican Party was concerned about a possible Communist spillover on the Korean peninsula following events that unfolded in Indochina and factored this in its foreign policy. It issued a warning against the U.S. Congress and the media, which had been blasting South Korea for its disregard of human rights. In particular, the Korean government expressed its dissatisfaction with the Congress hearing focused on the issue of Korea's human rights led by Rep. Donald Fraser. The Park regime maintained that the U.S. should also pay attention to the status of human rights in North Korea as much as it did on that of South Korea. It is worth noting that discourse on human rights in Korea was less concentrated on the Helsinki Accords, representative of the agreement between the liberal and the Communist blocs, than on the ongoing conflict in Indochina, in which tensions between the two blocs were visibly present. This suggests that Korea identified itself more with Southeast Asia than with Europe, during a time of continued confrontation with North Korea. Thus, the two global incidents were domestically perceived differently due to the aforementioned domestic situation. This shows that international politics was refracted by domestic politics or local politics on the Korean Peninsula.
Third, conflict within the liberal camp, mostly left unnoticed in the international political scene, is laid bare when looking into the human rights discourse in Korea. In the 1970s, the U.S. government and the Congress in particular, closely monitored the status of human rights among its allies. During the earlier stages in which U.S. criticized its allies, South Korea, while accepting of some points of U.S.’ criticism, it emphasized the uniqueness of the confrontation between the two Koreas. That is, South Korea’s logic was based on the fact that although it embraced the universality of human rights, limitations and restrictions were inevitable. However, after Jimmy Carter took office, and U.S. pressure on Korea increased and the two countries began to collide head-on over human rights. Korea expressed unease claiming that the U.S. excessively criticized the South when the U.S. faced its own issues regarding human rights. Further, South Korea went on to state that U.S. criticism on human rights is an interference of human rights that violates the principles of sovereignty.
Human Rights Discourse in Korea during the Cold War through Interaction with International Discourse
In sum, human rights discourse in Korea during the Cold War evolved, through its interaction with international discourse on the subject. As is the case with all concepts of social science, the notion of human rights has continued to change drastically over time and across space. Since the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948, the concept of human rights underwent astonishing transitions. South Korea's case during the Cold War era is an apt demonstration that simultaneous interaction within the international and domestic realms were important in the development of human rights. With a focus on human rights, it is evident that while South Korea was influenced by international forces during the Cold War era, the manifest dynamics were different from that observed in international politics. Domestic discourse was reflected in inter-Korean, ROK-U.S., and international politics and influenced the international development of the concept of human rights. The trajectory of the evolution of the concept of human rights in South Korea during the Cold War also carries significant implications for us in 2021, during which debate over human rights has unfolded between the U.S. and China. ■
■ Hun Joon Kim is professor of Political Science and International Relations at Korea University. His publications relevant to this field include The Massacres at Mt. Halla: Sixty Years of Truth-Seeking in South Korea (2014), Transitional Justice in the Asia Pacific (ed. 2014), “Are UN Investigations into Human Rights Violations a Viable Solution? An Assessment of UN Commissions of Inquiry” (2019), and “The Prospect of Human Rights in US-China Relations: A Constructive Understanding (2020).”
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About this area:
Santa Cruz is located along the north side of Monterey Bay on the central coast of California. Surrounding counties include San Mateo to the north, Santa Clara to the east, and Monterey to the south. Mild weather, natural beauty, a major university, and proximity to the Silicon Valley contribute to the economic opportunities as well as the quality of life in the county. With an abundance of coastline, accessible beaches, and nearby mountains, Santa Cruz County is a popular vacation and recreation area. | <urn:uuid:df7d820f-e21f-4375-a233-87b4a922a470> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://labormarketinfo.edd.ca.gov/cgi/databrowsing/localAreaProfileQSResults.asp?selectedarea=Santa+Cruz+County&selectedindex=44&menuChoice=localAreaPro&state=true&geogArea=0604000087&countyName=&submit1=View+Local+Area+Profile | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573744.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819161440-20220819191440-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.956317 | 109 | 1.59375 | 2 |
ART: A survival tool…a tool for ENGAGEMENT, RESEARCH, INSIGHT . . . GROWTH.
Public-art, Environmental & Activist collaborations often encompass rich educational components. See Social Change , Wakefest and Wakefest TreeDressing
Many public art commissions include participation of people living/working near the art site. See The Mechanics of Gauging a Trade, the Flower Petal Mandala Project .
Schools: A range of residencies, workshops or Social Entrepreneurship projects, for schools & communities may be arranged through MASC.
Curriculum Links: Critical thinking, problem solving, collaboration, research, math, social/moral studies, spatial analysis, public presentation, language arts, science, social change or activism. Project design & materials-focus are flexible, developed with school staff.
Universities & Symposiums: cj has been invited to discuss her work in the contexts of art, activism, civic change, law, women’s studies, social sciences & labor.
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A former elite soldier has told the Federal Court that he doubted whether Ben Roberts-Smith should have been awarded the Victoria Cross, Australia’s highest military honour, and he told “a lot of people” the war veteran was a bully.
Person 43, a former Special Air Service soldier who was medically discharged from the Defence Force in 2017, gave evidence in Mr Roberts-Smith’s defamation case in Sydney on Friday that the only witnesses to the acts for which his former comrade was awarded the Victoria Cross in January 2011 were members of Mr Roberts-Smith’s own team.
He believed this cast doubt on the award, which was conferred on Mr Roberts-Smith for his actions in a 2010 battle in Tizak, Afghanistan, during which the SAS came under fire from Taliban machine gunners.
The process by which Mr Roberts-Smith was considered for the award was conducted “in secrecy, without involvement of the rest of the [SAS] troop”, Person 43 said. He had expressed the view that “it is in doubt and there should have been more investigation before awarding it”.
“Are you sure you’re not bitter about not getting an award?” Mr Roberts-Smith’s barrister, Arthur Moses, SC, said.
“Very sure,” Person 43 replied. “I’m not an attention seeker; I don’t want any awards.”
But he admitted he did not witness Mr Roberts-Smith’s actions in Tizak. Person 43 agreed he still held the view that the award of the Victoria Cross was shrouded in doubt, and said he told a “lot of people” that Mr Roberts-Smith was a bully.
“Did Mr Roberts-Smith bully you?” Mr Moses asked. “No,” Person 43 replied.
Asked about his feelings towards his former comrade now, Person 43 admitted: “I don’t particularly like him.”
Person 43 was called this week to give evidence for The Age, The Sydney Morning Herald and The Canberra Times in the defamation suit filed against the mastheads by Mr Roberts-Smith.
Mr Roberts-Smith alleges a series of articles published in 2018 portray him as a war criminal. The newspapers are seeking to rely on a defence of truth and allege Mr Roberts-Smith committed or was involved in six murders of Afghans under the control of Australian troops, when they cannot be killed under the rules of engagement.
Person 43 gave evidence on Thursday that he was involved in capturing an elderly Afghan man in a tunnel during a mission with Australian soldiers in 2009, countering a claim by Mr Roberts-Smith that no men were taken from the tunnel.
The newspapers allege that two men were taken from the tunnel and that Mr Roberts-Smith asked another soldier, Person 4, to shoot one of the men, and shot the second man himself.
Mr Roberts-Smith has said he did not order any killing but shot one combatant in battle, and that no men were discovered in the tunnel at Whiskey 108.
Person 43 rejected as “ridiculous” suggestions by Mr Moses that the events he described at Whiskey 108 were a “story”, and insisted he had “told facts”.
The trial continues.
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George E. Woodberry Quotes and Quotations
The sense that someone else cares always helps because it is the sense of love.
I am quite sure that no friendship yields its true pleasure and nobility of nature without frequent communication, sympathy and service.
"Old times" never come back and I suppose it's just as well. What comes back is a new morning every day in the year, and that's better.
Always begin anew with the day, just as nature does. It is one of the sensible things that nature does.
To be faithful to your instincts and the impulses that carry you in the direction of the excellence you most desire and value ... surely that is to lead the noble life.
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Care @ Home is an initiative by the college for the educational upliftment of poor children, deprived of either of their parents. Through this venture our institution provides all the required facilities from the primary level of education itself to the children irrespective of their caste or religion. The provide free tuition, education materials, health aid, dress materials, medical insurance, food and essential commodities including festival food kits, personal development and motivational workshops, counselling sessions, ability enhancement workshops, travel allowance for adoptee’s guardians to attend PTA meetings, etc.
Teachers act as mentors to analyze the educational progress of adopted students. The mentors stand for a teacher cum parent to every single student. The range of students starts from first standard to higher secondary. The adopted student is free to choose any institution in his/her convenience and is provided all required financial assistance. A male student can continue his education till he finishes his post graduation and a female student is supported until her marriage. Each adopted student is provided with four pair of new clothes and school uniforms at the beginning of the academic year. During festivals like Eid, Vishu, Onam and Christmas, the students are gifted with new clothes. Stationery and toiletry are provided regularly.
The guardians of the adoptee are free to redress their grievances and analyze the progress of the student in a monthly meeting on every second Saturday. We conduct cultural programmes, counseling sessions to promote their mental wellbeing. Selection takes place through application process and the monitoring committee will decide the least privileged from the given applications. The shortlisted adoptees will have to face a detailed enquiry by the concerned authority to ensure the deserved. Financial source is mostly made up by public contributions and sponsorship. Our student alumnae also join their hands with us by sponsoring adoptees. The Valanchery unit of MES supports the activities of Care @ Home. | <urn:uuid:421faa13-36b5-4c2b-aa76-c53d2022299e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://meskeveeyamcollege.ac.in/Home/Outreach/MES%20Care/2359 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573744.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819161440-20220819191440-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.953315 | 379 | 1.84375 | 2 |
By George Bao Aug. 3, 2016
LOS ANGELES – When Arianna Quan, a Chinese American, is crowned Miss Michigan who will be competing in this year’s upcoming Miss American contest in September, many Chinese, whether in the United States or in China, say Quan is not beautiful, or even ugly, and questioned the criteria for Americans to judge whether a Chinese is pretty.
Quan was born in Beijing and moved to the U.S. when she was six. She became a naturalized U.S. citizen at 14 and is now studying transportation design at Detroit’s College for Creative Studies.
Usually when a Chinese American makes achievements in the U.S., he or she would become the focus of attention whether in the Chinese community in the U.S. or in China. But this time, Quan got a different treatment:
“She’s ugly AND she isn’t Chinese,” one Chinese wrote in a post over the social media.
“She’s 23?! Why does she look like she’s 43?” another Chinese questioned her age. Actually to say someone looks older than his or her age is a negative comment.
“Is it a spoof by the U.S.?” another Chinese asked.
“Michigan must be a place where people are judged by their virtues not by their appearances,” wrote another.
Chinanews.com, a website in China, carried a story Wednesday to discuss the phenomenon. It’s headline is interesting: SO MANY PEOPLE SAY SHE IS UGLY BUT HOW MANY CAN SAY THEY LIVE MORE BEAUTIFULLY THAN HER?
The story pasted the criteria the beauty contest organizers used for the selection of Miss Michigan, and among them, talent consists of 30 percent, life style and fitness in swimsuit consists of 15 percent, composite score consists of 25 percent, final question consists of 20 percent, and evening wear consists of 15 percent.
The story listed Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg’s wife Priscilla Chan and other Chinese celebrities in the U.S. to show that those Chinese women may not be considered as very beautiful in the eyes of some Chinese, but they, like Quan, have lived a “beautiful life” through their efforts and self-confidence.
They have also demonstrated to the people living outside of China the intelligence and character of the Chinese sons and daughters and their resolve and action daring to pursue their dreams, the story wrote.
There are supporters in the U.S. too. Pham Thanh Huong, a Vietnamese, wrote on the website: “Yes, I am an Asian (Vietnamese) but I see Adriana very beautiful and impressive. She represents a natural beauty. She does not look like the dolls coming out from the beauty salons which can not differentiate from one another!
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Synonyms of perk
- 1. fringe benefit, perquisite, perk, benefit
- usage: an incidental benefit awarded for certain types of employment (especially if it is regarded as a right); "a limousine is one of the fringe benefits of the job"
- 1. perk up, perk, percolate, pick up, gain vigor, recuperate, recover, convalesce
- usage: gain or regain energy; "I picked up after a nap"
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The sixth in our series of articles serialising ANDREW CRAIG’s book How to Own the World: A Plain English Guide to Thinking Globally and Investing Wisely goes into the advantages awaiting investors who work to “own the world”.
Andrew has worked in the City of London for over 20 years. In 2011, he founded plainenglishfinance.co.uk, a personal finance website that aims to help people to improve their finances.
When I talk about “owning the world” I mean:
You should own a wide variety of investment products or assets. In the long run you will want to have cash, shares, bonds, commodities and property, not just one or two of these.
You should aim to own assets from all over the world, not just one geographical area such as the UK or the USA.
You will recall from earlier in the book that the world economy as a whole continues to grow. You will also remember how important it is to be diversified. Owning the world means that you end up being diversified both geographically and by asset class.
But what does this mean?
“Geographically diversified” simply means that if one part of the world is having a difficult time, perhaps Europe or the USA, you still have a good chance of making money because you have exposure to another part of the world that is going up a great deal, for example certain emerging markets or Japan. Every year, different parts of the world are stronger than others.
Rather than trying to work out where the best place for your money will be next year, which is difficult and time-consuming, it is easiest just to be invested in every major part of the world. This means that you benefit from the consistent growth of the world economy as a whole. Bear in mind that the world has only really ever had ‘down’ years across the board in times of major war.
One of the biggest mistakes people make with their investments is that they tend, in the main, to own assets from their own country. This means two things: firstly, that when that particular country or geographical area has a difficult time, their investments there will struggle. Secondly, that they miss out on the potential for explosive growth that comes with owning what some would deem to be more exotic parts of the world.
It is worth noting that stock markets in many of the faster-growing areas of the world can double or even triple over quite short periods of time. With that sort of performance, you don’t need to have a large share of your money exposed to these markets in order to enjoy a material impact on growing your wealth and achieving the sorts of numbers we saw at the beginning of this book.
There is no guarantee that this will continue. The trend might even reverse, and growth in the USA and the UK might one day again be better than in places like China, India and Brazil (at the time of writing this third edition of the book this is basically the case – underscoring the point).
The key point here is that you may not want to spend too much time trying to work out what is going to happen. A simpler approach is just to ensure that you have exposure to the world as a whole. As the world keeps growing and developing, this approach will give you the best chance of benefiting from that growth.
I would repeat that the only time the world as a whole has failed to grow has been in times of major wars. If we are unlucky enough for the “Third World War” to happen in our lifetimes, your investment performance might be the least of your concerns. Having said that, without wanting to sound horribly cynical, smart money has usually found that even wartime can be reasonably lucrative. Even in the case of another world war, there will be opportunities for the informed and enlightened to keep their money safe and possibly even to grow it.
Leaving aside that rather depressing possibility, however, in the more normal run of things, “owning the world” simply means that you want to end up with exposure to everywhere: the UK, Europe, the USA, Japan and the rest of Asia, as well as various emerging markets. You will want to own assets in as many places as possible so that you catch those doubles and triples over the years, and benefit from the explosive growth of the global middle class. In an ideal world, you might also own a wide range of types of company – large and small – in all of these regions.
One of the reasons relatively few people pursued this sort of strategy in the past is that it used to be very hard for a private individual to invest like this. It is also the case that relatively few financial advisers have a grasp of how to do it or even why it is a good idea for all the reasons we looked at earlier in the book. Not that long ago, this strategy realistically wasn’t possible for a private individual. Today you can get closer than ever before to this sort of asset allocation without paying crazy fees – even if you only have a small amount of money to start with.
Diversified by asset class
“Diversified by asset class” means that in those dreaded crash years when shares (equities/stock markets) fall off a cliff, as most of them did in 2000 and 2008, for example, you won’t lose a vast chunk of your money like everyone else. You’ll actually have a good chance of having a positive year (or at least a far less negative one than most people) because, even though your shares might have fallen in value, you will own other assets such as property, bonds, gold, silver, oil and other commodities. Many of these will have held up very well in a bad year for shares. The reason this happens is due to a phenomenon called “negative correlation”.
It is often the case in investment that certain types of asset tend to go up when others go down; that is to say, they are negatively correlated. This relationship in real life is never exact, but if you own a wide variety of types of asset rather than, say, just shares or just property, you have a much better chance of seeing your money continue to grow if there is a stock market or property crash, for example.
Gold went up in value every year from 2000 until 2011. What a shame that the vast majority of people in the world did not own any. Before that, shares had gone up virtually every year for a decade or so, whereas gold went sideways or down for a long time. In 2007–9, stock markets around the world crashed by more than half but oil hit an all-time high in 2008 and gold was up nearly 20 per cent in 2009.
In the long run, it is much easier to own a mixture of assets so that you have a better chance of owning something that goes up when another type of asset crashes.
To summarise: the holy grail here is your money being put to work with the minimum of effort but the maximum exposure to the world as a whole. Ultimately, you will want to be the proud owner of a wide variety of assets – shares from all over the world, cash, commodities, bonds and property – so that you will benefit from global growth, wherever it is, in the future.
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The Mint Julep, a cocktail of mint leaf, bourbon, sugar, and crushed ice, has been the official drink of the Kentucky Derby for nearly a century.
So how is it that the Mint Julep came to be synonymous with the most prestigious horse race in the United States?
The julep cup itself is a longstanding southern tradition. For wealthy southerners, silver or pewter cups were popular gifts for weddings, christenings, and graduations. Monogrammed and dated to mark the occasion, they were handed down as family heirlooms. Such cups were also perfect for cocktails – when held by the top edge or bottom, the crushed ice inside will create a frosty exterior.
As for the beverage, the Mint Julep appeared in 1784 as a remedy for pain and upset stomach. In the early 1800s, Virginians would sip brandy or rum juleps over breakfast.
The drink made its way west, from the high society of Virginia to the working class of Kentucky, and brandy was replaced by bourbon, a liquor that was less inexpensive and more readily available. Juleps became akin to coffee at dawn for farmers facing long days in the fields.
In 1938, the Mint Julep became Churchill Downs‘ signature drink. It was sold for 75 cents in a collectible souvenir glass. Today, more than 120,000 juleps are served at the Kentucky Derby each year.
2.5 ounces of bourbon whisky
1 tsp. sugar
2 tsp. water
Fresh mint sprigs (stems removed)
Place 3-5 mint leaves at the bottom of the cup and muddle gently. Add sugar and water and crush slightly. Fill cup with crushed ice. Add bourbon and garnish with a mint sprig.
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If you’re a homesteader—or even just a pet owner—your animals probably mean the world to you. And as with anything you care about, it’s important to educate yourself on ways to protect them.
In survival situations, animals get hurt just like we do. Animal injury isn’t so much a matter of “if” but rather “when.” That means you can’t forget about your animals’ first aid needs, along with your own.
Here are the items that should be at the top of your list for a domestic animal or livestock first-aid kit. If you don’t have them yet, don’t worry, it’s never too late to start!
Saline Solution/Antibacterial Solution
Cleanliness matters all the time but especially when you administer first aid. Saline solution is a great way to clean your hands before and after performing first aid. It’s also a great way to clear the wound area so you can get a better look at the situation you’re dealing with.
After saline solution, antibacterial solution should be next on your list. Use an antibacterial solution to clean a wound and prevent bacteria from causing an infection. You can also use antibacterial solutions to clean your hands or anything else that comes into contact with your animal’s wound.
This may seem like complete common sense, but it’s worth the reminder to check up on your gauze. Gauze and bandages are needed to cover any open wound, cut, scrap, or burn.
Once you clean the wound, cover it to prevent additional bleeding and to keep it free of dirt and germs. Make sure you have enough gauze and bandages for multiple days. They will need to be changed often, so plan accordingly and don’t skimp in your livestock first-aid kit! Stock for the proper number and size of your animals, and then add a little more.
Spray dressing is a super easy item to pack into a first aid kit. We all know that animals don’t sit still, so it can be hard to treat their wounds with contact dressing.
Spray dressing, on the other hand, requires no contact and is a way to treat minor scrapes and cuts in hard-to-reach places or when animals won’t sit still. The spray also acts as an antibacterial and can even help with scabbing.
We all know animals eat things they shouldn’t. Sometimes that means your breakfast waffle disappears… sometimes it means your animals get themselves into something that can cause serious harm. If that happens, activated charcoal may just save their life.
Activated charcoal is commonly found in tablets made specifically for pets. This stuff acts as a sponge for toxins your pet ingests. If administered correctly, it should remove many poisonous substances. Even if your animal improves, make sure to call the vet right away.
When animals get injured, they feel the pain no different than humans. Unfortunately, that can make them hard to handle.
Different animals will react to pain in different ways, but injured animals are usually skittish to the touch. They may even try to kick or bite you. Having an extra leash, muzzle, or other restraint on-hand may be helpful if you need to keep animals still while you treat them. While no one wants to restrain an animal, it may be necessary to treat their wounds or keep them from making an injury worse.
Tweezers (One for you and One for Your Livestock First-Aid Kit!)
Finally, you should always keep a pair of tweezers in your livestock first-aid kit. Tweezers are great for pulling splinters. Animals don’t wear shoes (other than some of our furry hooved friends) so they’re more prone to injury from stepping on sharp objects. Having a good pair of tweezers can help you pull something out of a paw quicker and easier than with your fingers, all while helping keep your hands clean.
No matter what your plans are, make sure to keep your animals in mind when you create your first aid plans. If you need, you can purchase pre-made kits online or you can collect individual items for a homemade kit. Either way, just make sure to plan for those that can’t plan for themselves.
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Former slave plantations have been popular wedding venues in the South.
However, civil rights advocacy group Color of Change is raising objections about this practice.
Pinterest, The Knot and Wedding Wire, three of the largest sites for online destination wedding planning, are among those that have cut back on promoting plantations as wedding venues.
Zola, a major wedding planning platform in the US, has removed all plantation venues from its website. Zola spokesperson Emily Forrest told BuzzFeed News, “We reevaluated all our venues listed on Zola and determined we will not allow vendors to list who are plantations.” She added that the company is “actively evaluating” posts featuring wedding photoshoots at plantations.
Rather than putting pressure on these plantation venues, Color of Change Vice President Arisha Hatch told BuzzFeed News that wedding planning websites may be more motivated to address concerns about plantation weddings because the websites don’t profit directly from them.”
“Weddings should be a symbol of love and unity. Plantations represent none of those things,” a Pinterest spokesperson told BuzzFeed News. Pinterest will restrict plantation wedding content on its website, and is working on de-indexing Google searches for plantation weddings, according to the Buzzfeed report.
And from Dhanusha Sivajee, CMO of The Knot Worldwide, an indication that they’re currently working on new guidelines to ensure wedding vendors on their websites don’t use words (“wonderful,” “charming” or “elegant”) that glorify, celebrate or romanticize Southern plantation history.
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Nigeria holidays for most students in Nigeria start from late March to early April.
I am talking about the first holiday of the year – also called the Easter holiday. This is the shortest student holiday period; most times it lasts for just about two to three weeks.
While the long holidays begin in late July to mid Septembers, this is the longest holiday for students in Nigeria, for many, it is time for sober reflections,
a time to stare at the previous academic term in retrospect and proffer better strategies in order to properly tackle the next academic term.
The last holiday in Nigeria starts from late December to early January, this is the Christmas holiday, it marks the end of every calendar year.
It is mandatory for primary and secondary schools to observe these holidays at the stipulated period but the case varies for different tertiary institutions.
Public holidays in Nigeria are times when all strenuous activities are set aside to honor an event, a tradition or a person. Offices are shut down and people are either resting at home or seeing sights.
Nigeria holidays are always a time for a family reunion the Christmas holiday is a time to visit loved ones in different parts of the country, to eat together and merry.
There are about twenty different public holidays observed in Nigeria, let’s look at the merriest events in the next couple of minutes.
The Christmas Holiday
This is the merriest and loudest event observed in Nigeria and around the world, at this period people are seen traveling in troops to a different parts of the country to be with their loved ones.
Christmas in Nigeria is observed yearly
on the 25th of December
Eid al-Kabir (Feast of the Sacrifice)
This is Another memorable Nigerian holiday period, this is a feast celebrated by our Muslim brothers in Nigeria. At this time, the rich celebrate this season in Mecca, the holy land; while the rest of the people celebrate it with their loved ones. The Eid al-Kabir is celebrated on the 6th of November.
Below are the lists of other Nigeria holidays, (Note Muslim festivals are timed according to local sightings of various phases of the moon so most of the dates below are just approximations.) According to 2020
Nigerian Public Holidays For 2020
New Year’s Day – 01 January
Mouloud (Birth of the Prophet)- 15 February
Good Friday – 10 April
Easter Monday – 12 April
Workers’ Day – 01 May
Eid al-Fitr (End of Ramadan) – 24/25 May.
Independence Day – 1st October.
Eid al-Kabir (Feast of the Sacrifice) – 31 July.
Christmas Day – 25 December.
Boxing Day – 26 December.
These are the major holiday periods in Nigeria for the year 2020, there are some other days that are mildly celebrated in Nigeria like democracy day as well as Valentine’s day.
Valentine day is always celebrated by the youths on the 14th of february but it is never a public holiday.
You may wanna visit Nigerian Beaches on a holiday
I will like to read your comments below.
What activities do you engage in during the holidays?
Where do you spend your holidays
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Tokyo Tech News
Published: February 28, 2013
Non-volatile bistable memory circuits being developed at Tokyo Tech pave the way for highly energy-efficient CMOS logic systems
Developments in low power, high performance CMOS logic technology are vital to the future of microprocessors and system-on-chip (SoC) devices for personal computers, servers, and mobile/smart phones. Much of the processing in these computing systems is carried out using a volatile hierarchical memory system in which bistable circuits such as static random access memory (SRAM) and flip-flop (FF) play an essential role for fast data-access. However, the power to these bistable circuits cannot be switched off without losing their data. This inability to turn off power is a fundamental problem for energy consumption in CMOS logic systems.
The method for saving energy in CMOS logic systems, called power-gating, uses architecture to cut the supply voltage to idle circuit domains, effectively putting them to power shut-off state to avoid leakage and thereby save static energy. Satoshi Sugahara and his team at the Tokyo Institute of Technology have proposed a new architecture of power-gating using non-volatile SRAM (NV-SRAM) and non-volatile FF (NV-FF) circuits, called non-volatile power-gating, so that the size of logic circuit domains for power-gating is optimally designed, supply voltages to the domains are cut at the optimum times, and the energy cost of the logic circuits is worthwhile.
Over the past few years, Sugahara and his team have been developing non-volatile bistable memory circuits (NV-SRAM and NV-FF) required to establish non-volatile power-gating systems with better overall performance and energy efficiency than conventional power-gating systems1-8. In particular, the researchers have built pseudo-spin metal–oxide–semiconductor field-effect transistors (PS-MOSFETs) for use in the non-volatile bistable memory circuits.
The PS-MOSFET can be configured with an ordinary MOSFET coupled with a spin-transfer torque magnetic tunnel junction (STT-MTJ), and it can reproduce the functions of spin-transistors – in which different electrons spin states or magnetization configurations of the ferromagnetic electrodes are used to control transistor output1. Spin transistors can also store non-volatile information1. In a typical bistable memory circuit, an inverter loop consisting of cross-coupling two CMOS gates is used to store each memory bit. In the new non-volatile bistable circuits, PS-MOSFETs are added to the inverter loop.
Previous attempts to build non-volatile bistable circuits with STT-MTJs have resulted in performance degradation, because the STT-MTJs interfere with their fundamental circuits of the inverter loops. To overcome this problem, the team designed NV-SRAM and NV-FF circuits using PS-MOSFETs. In these circuits, the STT-MTJs can be electrically separated from the inverter loops by the PS-MOSFETs and thus have no degradation effects on the bistable circuit performance.
The NV-SRAM and NV-FF circuits built by Sugahara’s team have performed well under tests so far, compared to conventional SRAM/FF circuits. They also developed architectures for minimizing break-even time (that is an important performance index of power-gating) of the NV-SRAM and NV-FF circuits, including a ‘store-free’ shutdown, wherein existing data is not rewritten, thereby dramatically saving energy.
These new transistor and circuit designs could be pivotal in the development of faster, more energy-efficient processing in future CMOS logic systems. Most importantly, as the researchers state in a recent publication2-5, “Proposed architectures have excellent compatibility with present microprocessor/SoC technologies”, and “Proposed non-volatile bistable circuits using PS-MOSFETs can dramatically reduce the energy issues caused by static power dissipation in advanced CMOS logic systems”
1. S. Sugahara, and J. Nitta, Proceedings of the IEEE, “Spin-Transistor Electronics: An Overview and Outlook”, vol.98, no. 12, 2010, pp. 2124-2154.
2. Y. Shuto, S. Yamamoto, H. Sukegawa, Z.C. Wen, R. Nakane, S. Mitani, M. Tanaka, K. Inomata, and S. Sugahra, “Design and performance of pseudo-spin-MOSFETs using nano-CMOS devices”, 2012 IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting (IEDM2012), December 10-12, 2012, San Francisco, CA, USA, paper 29.6.
3. S. Yamamoto, Y. Shuto, and S. Sugahara, "Nonvolatile flip-flop using pseudo-spin-transistor architecture and its power-gating applications", 2012 IEEE Intl. Semiconductor Conference Dresden-Grenoble (ISCDG), September 24-26 2012, Grenoble, France.
4. Y. Shuto, S. Yamamoto, and S. Sugahara, “Analysis of static noise margin and power-gating efficiency of a new nonvolatile SRAM cell using pseudo-spin-MOSFETs”, 2012 IEEE Silicon Nanotechnology Workshop (SNW2012), June 10-11, 2012, Honolulu, HI, USA, paper 4-3.
5. Y. Shuto, S. Yamamoto, and S. Sugahara, “Static noise margin and power-gating efficiency of a new nonvolatile SRAM cell based on pseudo-spin-transistor architecture”, 4th IEEE Int. Memory Technology Workshop (IMW2012), May 20-23, 2012, Milano, Italy, paper 16.
6. Y. Shuto, S. Yamamoto, and S. Sugahara, “Evaluation and control of break-even time of nonvolatile SRAM based on spin-transistor architecture with spin-transfer-torque MTJs”, Jpn. J. Appl. Phys., vol.51, no. 4, 2012, pp. 040212/1-3.
7. S. Yamamoto, Y. Shuto, and S. Sugahara, “Nonvolatile delay flip-flop using spin-transistor architecture with spin transfer torque MTJs for power-gating systems”, IET Electronics Letters, vol. 47, no. 18, pp. 1027-1029, Sept. 2011.
8. H. Dyball, “A new spin on the MOSFET”, IET Electronics Letters, vol. 47, no. 18, p. 1007, Sept. 2011.
Fig. 1 (a) Circuit configuration of PS-MOSFET, in which the STT-MTJ connected to the source of the MOSFET feeds back its voltage drop to the gate, and the degree of negative feedback depends on the resistance state of the STT-MTJ.(b) Simulated output characteristics and current-induced magnetization swiching (CIMS) behavior of the PS-MOSFET.
Fig. 2 (a) Circuit configuration of our proposed NV-SRAM cell, in which two PS-MOSFETs are connected to the storage nodes of a standard SRAM cell. (b) Proposed positive edge triggered non-volatile delay-FF (NV-DFF) that consists of a conventional latch (LAT) and a non-volatile LAT (NV-LAT). The NV-LAT and NV-FF can also be configured by connecting PS-MOSFETs in the same manner as the NV-SRAM cell.
Fig. 3 Schematic of nonvolatile power-gating processor/SoC using NV-SRAM and NV-FF. In the system, logic circuits on a chip are partitioned into several circuitry domains, called power domains that are electrically separated from power-supply lines and/or ground lines by sleep transistors. These domains can be shut down during standby mode without losing their data, and thereby highly energy-efficient power-gating can be achieved, i.e., the static power is considerably reduced even during system run-time. | <urn:uuid:1720d95f-d4c9-4b0f-9b0a-a6ded1610aab> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.titech.ac.jp/english/news/2013/022937 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573744.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819161440-20220819191440-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.852797 | 1,825 | 3.046875 | 3 |
The Amazon River as well as its tributaries and surrounding rain forest hold approximately 45 freshwater turtle and terrestrial tortoise species. They're organized into 15 genera, according to the Turtle Taxonomy Working Group’s 2011 annotated checklist. The region’s turtles exhibit remarkable diversity in terms of evolutionary history, ecology and morphology.
Aquatic and Semiaquatic Cryptodira
The Amazon basin is home to 14 aquatic and semiaquatic species of the order Cryptodira, which retract their heads straight back into their shells. Five species of slider turtle (Trachemys), three mud turtles (Kinosternon) and the South American snapping turtle (Chelydra acutirostris) all have relatives in North America. The sliders are gregarious, diurnal turtles that consume plants and animals. The mud and snapping turtles are primarily carnivorous, nocturnal turtles. The snapping turtle is the largest, sometimes approaching 20 inches in length. Five species of wood turtle (Rhinoclemmys) native to the region vary greatly in their biology and natural history. Wood turtles are omnivorous. The spot-legged wood turtle (Rhinoclemmys punctularia) is primarily aquatic, the brown wood turtle (Rhinoclemmys annulata) primarily terrestrial.
Two native terrestrial tortoises, members of order Cryptodira, inhabit the Amazon rain forests. Yellow-footed (Chelonids denticulata) and red-footed (Chelonidis carbonaria) tortoises are similar in many respects, but yellow-footed tortoises prefer the humid rainforest interior while red-footed tortoises prefer the rainforest margins and adjacent savannas. The red-footed tortoise reaches only about 18 inches in length and 30 pounds; most yellow-footed tortoises are larger, sometimes reaching 30 inches in length. Both have broad diets, relative to other tortoises, but are primarily herbivorous, subsisting on flowers, fruits and herbaceous plants.
Mesoclemmys and Podocnemis
South America is home to 29 species of the order Pleurodira; also known as the side-necked turtles. Two genera contain more than half of these species: Mesoclemmys and Podocnemis. Genus Mesoclemmys has the most representatives, with 10 described species – almost 22 percent of the region’s total turtle diversity. Genus Podocnemis contains six species, including the giant Amazon River turtle (Podocnemis expansa). At one time, Amazon River turtles formed aggregations of more than 100,000 individuals on sandy beaches -- this no longer occurs, as the turtles and their eggs have been overhunted. Among the largest freshwater species in the world, these turtles may exceed 30 inches and 200 pounds.
Other Pleurodira Genera and Species
Thirteen more members of the order Pleurodira live in the Amazon basin. Four species in the genus Phrynops -- another group of turtles known as the side-necked turtles -- are highly aquatic and can reach 18 inches. Genus Peltocephalus has one species, the bigheaded Amazon River turtle (Peltocephalus dumerillianus), which reaches 18 inches, too. The single genus Platemys species, the twist-neck turtle (Platemys platycephala), is closely related to the three local species of Acanthochelys. Most of these species are small, though the recently discovered Pantanal swamp turtle (Acanthochelys macrocephala) reaches 9 inches or more. Both species of the genus Hydromedusa, the snake-necked turtles, are primitive species who prefer shallow, clear streams of the region. The red side-necked turtle (Rhinemys rufipes) is a poorly known species of South America who inhabits the Amazon River and some of its tributaries. The monotypic genus Chelus contains only the bizarre mata mata (Chelus fimbriata) whose name literally means "I kill." Mata matas lurk in murky waters, their fringelike protuberances helping camouflage them from passing fish. Mata matas capture prey by quickly sucking in the victim with a large quantity of water.
- Turtle Taxonomy Working Group: Turtles of the World, 2011 Update; Annotated Checklist of Taxonomy, Synonymy, Distribution and Conservation Status
- ReptileChannel.com: Amazon Turtles
- British Chelonia Group: The South American Tortoises
- National Aquarium: Giant Amazon River Turtle
- University of North Carolina: The Mata Mata
- Arkive.org: Big-headed Amazon River Turtle
- California Turtle and Tortoise Club: Twist-Necked Turtle, Platemys Platycephala
- Arkive.org: Pantanal Swamp Turtle
- Tortoise Trust: Rhinoclemmys Pulcherimma Manni
- IUCN Redlist: Rhinoclemmys Annulata
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[OPINION] Ushering in a new urban future centered on people and the planet
More than 70 mayors and a thousand representatives from the world’s most influential cities convened in Copenhagen in Denmark last month for the seventh C40 World Mayors Summit to define the “the future we want” and ultimately signal a paradigm shift of urban policy to address the climate emergency.
The global summit brought together leading climate voices like former United States Vice President Al Gore, New York Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres, along with champion mayors from leading global cities like Paris, Los Angeles, and Copenhagen.
The Philippines was represented by the only C40 member city in the Philippines, Quezon City, led by Mayor Joy Belmonte and her city delegation, as well as the Bases Conversion and Development Authority (BCDA), led by Chairman Greg Garcia.
C40 is a global network of 94 of the world’s biggest and most influential cities driving climate action. Overall, these cities represent a quarter of the global economy. (READ: Aiming for zero: cities, companies ramp up climate goals)
Tagged as the most important climate-related event of the year, the global summit made headlines around the world as C40 mayors launched a Global Green New Deal. This new initiative aims to form a broad global coalition of city champions, businesses, youth movement leaders, and citizens working towards a just urban transition to eradicate carbon emissions by 2050.
This new deal will put people and the planet at the core of decision-making. It aims to globally and collectively redefine urban policy as we enter the 2020s, a crucial decade that will make or break the fight to keep global heating below the 1.5 degrees goal outlined in the Paris Agreement. (READ: Why the Philippines should declare a climate emergency)
The future we want
The Global Green New Deal offers an alternative urban vision marked by tremendous ambition and urgency. It envisions an urban future with zero carbon emissions and defines decarbonization pathways in key urban systems such as transportation, buildings, and waste while putting humans at the core of such a transition.
It also signals a shift of the global paradigm of progress in cities towards new parameters and standards with people and the planet at its core.
While the new deal defines several pathways to achieve a zero carbon future, 3 areas of transformation stand out. Urban policy should embrace (1) zero waste economies, (2) people-oriented mobility, and (3) clean energy for all.
First, cities need to rethink urban policy based on zero waste or circular economies. Progress should be defined not by how much is generated, but by how much waste is averted and diverted. This could go into the core of individual behavior where broader urban policy will play a key role.
Rapid economic industrialization has not only depleted natural capital but also generated massive waste that is now choking canals, landfills, waterways, and oceans at large. This has led to adverse health impacts on humans as well as marine life.
Second, cities should facilitate and lead the transition towards people-oriented mobility. Cities have conventionally been designed to take in and move as many private cars as possible. With worsening traffic and pollution that we are experiencing in major capitals like Metro Manila, cities are now looking towards post-automobility. (READ: FAST FACTS: State of Metro Manila’s public transport system)
Gustavo Petro, former mayor of Bogotá in Colombia said, “A developed country is not a place where the poor have cars. It's where the rich use public transportation.”
The new urban era should be defined by pedestrianized streets and sidewalks, bicycles, people-friendly planning, buses, mass transit systems, and other local transport solutions. This will allow more citizens to move and gain access to diverse transport options regardless of socioeconomic class, while making the air we breathe cleaner and cities less congested.
Finally, clean and renewable energy should drive power in cities. This goes to the core of energy generation by divesting from coal-fired power plants and ramping up solar, wind, and geothermal energy. (READ: Is renewable energy unreliable? and other questions about RE answered)
From the demand-side, cities can look into mainstreaming stronger energy conservation and efficiency standards across residential, government-owned, and commercial buildings which account for more than half of greenhouse gas emissions in cities globally. Sometimes, this could mean embracing innovative local solutions and building designs. (READ: Local developers return to Filipino roots with 'green' buildings, designs)
The Global Green New Deal offers an alternative vision of the urban future that confronts that world’s greatest global challenge, the climate crisis. It is a work in progress that will have to be articulated, (re)shaped and pursued collectively while putting the most climate-vulnerable sectors and communities at the core.
On the importance of working for a future that truly empowers people and the planet, I borrow the words of US Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez during her impassioned speech at the C40 Summit:
“At the present moment, solving the climate crisis is no longer a primarily scientific question. It is now a political one. The scientists have done much of their job and now it is the time for us to do ours. Just as they have created the technologies and identified the targets, we must create the political will. A Green New Deal centers the leadership of frontline communities from minors to farmers to indigenous communities, working in poor communities and urban communities alike. Not only because it is the right thing to do – it is. Nor because is it where we can find solutions – we can. But also because it is the winning political coalition that can empower change.” – Rappler.com
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The Baker-Hamilton report on Iraq has begun to strike waves in the Mideast on Wednesday. Hassan Harisha, deputy head of the Palestinian Legislative Council, says that the report is of the utmost importance.
"The Americans have understood that the source of the region's problems is the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and that it must be resolved."
According to Harisha, the US administration seems to want real change in the Middle East. He emphasized however that the Palestinians are wary of optimism over such American reports and initiatives.
"The Americans have made declarations in the past and President Bush himself pledged that a Palestinian state would be established in 2005 and here we are at the start of 2007 and no Palestinian country has come into being.
"So that with all the importance of this report and the expectation that it will be implemented, we are cautious not to be too optimistic about it."
Harisha added that the report was achieved after the Americans sank in the Iraqi mud, and under the pressures of that mud "the Americans realized that the reason for the Iraqi crisis, the instability in the Middle East and their situation here in the region all starts with our conflict and the need to resolve it."
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Almost half of all Americans say that someone in their house owns a gun. It’s no wonder why. Our right to bear arms is protected by the second amendment right behind free speech, and with all of the civil unrest in the past two years, it’s no wonder why people would use that right.
But guns can only keep you safe as long as you handle them safely. As long as he’s familiar with gun safety, a gun will keep a good citizen safe.
This article will walk you through some of the most important safety tips to remember when handling a gun, so you can ensure that you keep your family safe.
1. Never Point Your Gun At Something You Don’t Intend To Shoot
The first item on our list is the most philosophically important. It’s important to turn your safety on — but your safety can fail. It’s important to keep your guns unloaded — but sometimes you can forget.
The only way to ensure that no one doesn’t accidentally get shot is to be hyper-vigilant about this rule.
Freak accidents happen all the time, but if you can get yourself in the habit of doing this, you’ll highly limit the consequences of these accidents.
2. Know Your Target and What Lies Beyond
This is yet another rule that mainly exists in your own head. You can keep your gun very clean, store it in the correct place, and only point your gun at things you intend to shoot, but if you don’t confirm your target, you’re likely to injure someone.
Unlike what you see in movies and video games, bullets don’t just stop. They keep traveling until they’ve run out of force.
No matter what you shoot, you need to identify what it is, and what lies beyond it. Sure, you could be shooting at a deer in a hunt. But if you don’t stop to look, your bullet could travel through the deer and straight into another hunter.
3. Keep Your Gun In a Proper Holster
Once again, guns work differently than you see in movies and video games. If you don’t handle them correctly, there’s a good chance that they can go off.
When you’re traveling with your gun, store it in a proper holster. Good holsters are designed to be comfortable, reliable, and ensure the safety of you and everyone around you.
Alien Holsters are some of the best out there. Check out the options that they have and choose the individual gun that’s right for you.
Gun Safety is a Priority
Our right to bear arms exists so good citizens can keep themselves safe during worst-case scenarios. However, this all means nothing if they wind up injuring themselves when holding a gun.
If you’re thinking about owning a gun, you have to consider gun safety. Never point your gun at something you don’t intend to shoot, know your target and what lies beyond, and keep your gun in a proper holster, and you’re far more likely to stay safe.
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When it comes to self-defense tools, people have different options. They can opt for martial arts training, a personal firearm, or virtually anything usable as a makeshift melee weapon. People may also opt for a relatively simple tool that doesn’t require training: pepper spray. A popular self-defense weapon for civilians (and even law enforcers), pepper spray is readily accessible from local outlets or online stores such as Mighty Defenses.
Pepper spray’s popularity is mainly due to its effectiveness. It’s a non-lethal self-defense tool that works best as a stunner. Spray some into an attacker’s face, and you’ll buy enough time to escape by temporarily incapacitating the perpetrator. But how does it work?
When Spice Isn’t Nice
Victims of pepper spray are in for a bad time. During a series of protests at the University of California, Davis in 2011, demonstrators are doused with a huge amount of pepper spray. One of them is student David Busco, which claimed that the pain is like “thousands of pieces of glass shooting into the eyes.”
Pepper spray’s potent agent is the substance capsaicin. It’s the same thing that makes chili spicy. Capsaicin induces a ‘burning’ sensation by binding to the taste receptors on the tongue (as well as the surfaces of the eyes, lungs, and skin). Since capsaicin is an irritant, it stays bonded to vulnerable tissue until alcohol or vegetable oils dissolve it. Mammal’s milk (not instant, powdered milk) also helps because of casein, which ‘washes’ away capsaicin-like detergent washes away grease.
Capsaicin is also classified as an inflammatory agent. It induces discomfort by amplifying allergic sensations, as well as the sensitivity of everything it touches. But then, this is the least of the worries of pepper spray victims. In the right concentration, pepper spray can even cause respiratory and cardiac problems. It’s been tested lethal on mice in the right amounts—118.8 mg per kg of capsaicin is lethal to half of the mice in laboratory tests, according to a 2004 study by the University of North Carolina.
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Gaelic football is a variant of soccer that is played in Ireland. The sport is very similar to modern-day football but has its own distinctions. Teams usually have 15 players instead of 11, use hands and legs, score goals as well as points. A lot of players have excelled in this unique sport, so today, we take a look at the Sven greatest Gaelic footballers of all time.
1. Jack O’Shea
The big man from County Kerry, Ireland, is considered one of the greatest ever Gaelic footballers. Jacko, as he was fondly called, played from the 1970s to the late 1990s. O’Shea featured for St Mary’s and Leixlip. He won 2 Kerry club titles, 10 Munster titles, and 7 All-Ireland titles during his long-storied career. He played in midfield. He was given the footballer of the year award four times.
2. Mick O’Connell
A legend of Gaelic football, Mick is regarded as one of the best ever to play the game. The 84-year-old played for various clubs during his decorated career, winning many county and inter-county titles along the way. O’Connell won 3 Kerry titles, 12 Munster titles and 4 All-Ireland inter-county titles. Mick played in midfield, and his record stands 56 appearances and 1-121 scores.
3. Sean Purcell
The late Purcell is respected as one of the greats in the sport. Sean was a centre forward who played only for Tuam Stars throughout his 15-year career. The Master, as he was fondly called, also featured for Galway County. He won 10 club titles and also won 7 Connacht and 1 All-Ireland inter-county titles. He died on August 27th, 2005.
4. Dick Fitzgerald
One of the forerunners of the game and arguably its greatest exponent. Dick played as a right wing-back and featured for his local side Dr. Crokes located in Killarney, Ireland. He played in the early 1900s. Fitzgerald won 3 Kerry titles during his career. He also won 10 Munster inter-county titles. He won 5 All-Ireland titles, two of which were back-to-back titles as captain between 1913-1914. He died in 1930. A stadium built in his honour, The Fitzgerald stadium, was opened in 1936.
5. Kevin Heffernan
The late Heffernan was a Gaelic football player and coach. Heffo, as he was fondly called, played for the St Vincent’s club with whom he won 15 Dublin titles between 1948-67. The left corner forward featured for Dublin County for 14 years with 115 appearances and 52-226 scores. He went on to win 4 Leinster and 1 All-Ireland title. He died in 2013 at the age of 83.
6. Stephen Cluxton
Stephen Cluxton is one of the best players ever to play Gaelic football. Cluxton is a outstanding goalkeeper, his kick-outs are exceptional and he is a leader to his team. The current captain of the Dublin County is considered as the best goalkeeper of all time, and the most influential footballer in GAA history. He won the GAA-GPA All Stars Awards six times, and names All Stars Footballer of the Year in 2019.
7. Peter Canavan
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Q: Why is it important to say please?
A: Although you may speak English fluently, you may not speak it well enough so don’t be surprised to learn it’s the North American who may be justified in calling you impolite!
A request, however kindly stated without “please” is perceived as unfiltered bossiness. What’s lost in translation is that you’re accustomed to asking for something in your language without having to actually add please because politeness is implicitly encoded in your verb endings. English is simple and efficient, but it’s limited because users originate from somewhere else and lack shared values. So that’s a really good reason to remember to say please (and thank you, but that’s another story) next time you’re at the checkout counter.
Here’s the wordy backstory: “Please” is short for if you please, or rather if it pleases you to do this: French si il vous plait, Spanish por favor Italian: per piacere and literally means “you are under no obligation to do this.” So, if you say, pass the peas (not that you have to) the invisible meaning is we (who speak this non-English language) have a mutually agreed upon social contract of shared meaning which would be impossible not to comply with. So when you ask someone to pass the ketchup, you are actually giving an order, softened by adding please.
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Cameron, M.P. & Poot, J. (2011). Lessons from stochastic small-area population projections: the case of Waikato subregions in New Zealand. Journal of Population Research, published online 25 March 2011.
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Subnational population projections in New Zealand by means of the conventional deterministic cohort-component method have had a tendency to be conservative: underprojecting fast-growing populations and overprojecting slow-growing ones. In this paper we use a stochastic population projection method as an alternative. We generate population projections for five demographically distinct administrative areas within the Waikato region of New Zealand: Hamilton City, Franklin District, Thames-Coromandel District, Otorohanga District and South Waikato District. The results are compared to official subnational deterministic projections. The accuracy of subnational population projections in New Zealand is strongly affected by the instability of migration as a component of population change. Differently from the standard cohort-component method, in which net migration levels are projected, the key parameters of our method are age-gender-area specific probabilistic net migration rates. Generally, the identified and modelled uncertainty makes the traditional ‘mid-range’ scenario of subnational deterministic projections of limited use for policy analysis or planning beyond a relatively short projection horizon. We find that the projected range of rates of population growth is wider for smaller regions and/or regions more strongly affected by net migration. Directions for further development of the methodology are suggested.
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5 Credit Score Misconceptions
Credit Knowledge Begins With Dispelling Certain Credit Myths
Let’s start with the misconception about what constitutes a “good credit score.”
Misconception No. 1: A credit score of 600 is good.
“In no universe is 600 a good score,”
But yet about one in five Americans think that a credit score above 600 will qualify a person for any credit card. It won’t. Credit scores generally range from 300 to 850; a score of 600 is actually below average.
A score of 600 is “going to make it really hard to get credit, and if you do get credit, you’re going to pay a lot for it,” Sukhu said. “In most of the formulas, you’re going to want above 700, ideally above 750.”
A score of 600 “unlocks department credit cards, which will qualify people at the lower end of the credit score. But those credit cards have annual percentage rates in the high 20s to low 30s.
Once you’re in the 700 club, you start to unlock the top-tier financial products, Sukhu said. And top-tier financial products mean you can borrow money for less and make your life far less expensive.
Misconception No. 2: You start off with perfect credit score.
Eleven percent of Americans think people start off with a perfect credit score, according to y2kcreditsolutions.
“It’s something you build from scratch,” Sukhu said. “It takes a while to build your credit over time, but you can really trash it overnight.”
That doesn’t mean you start at a zero credit score, however.
“You start with no information. You would really be referred to as having no credit history, or having a thin file, and from there you work way up..
Misconception No. 3: Carrying a balance on your credit card improves your credit score.
Again, no. Carrying a balance does not improve your credit score. Yet, two in five Americans think just that.
“There’s no upside to carrying a balance. Basically, you’re paying interest for no good reason.”
“That one we’ve been beating our heads over for decades,” Sukhu said. “There’s no upside to carrying a balance. Basically, you’re paying interest for no good reason.”
To build your score, continue to use your card lightly, but regularly, Sukhu said.
There never was a good reason to carry debt on your credit cards, but today there’s a good reason not to.
People who pay their balances in full are considered a lower risk for lenders than those who don’t.
“Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac told mortgage lenders that if this data is available, you should use it,” Sukhu said. In fact, paying off your balance every month just might put you over the edge in the eyes of a lender when it comes to getting approved for a mortgage.
Misconception No. 4: Checking your credit score hurts your credit report.
It does not. But this misconception might explain why 12 percent of Americans have never checked their scores.
There are two types of inquiries into your credit report: a hard pull, done by banks when you apply for credit, and a soft pull, which happens when you check your credit score.
The soft pull this is displayed by you Credit Card or Credit Karma is not accurate either. Those sites are set up to merely let you know if anyone is using your Social Security number to open fraudulent accounts in your name.
Consumers are allowed 6 inquires a 12 month calendar year, Any more than that will be abuse of credit and will drop your scores. So, pull your credit wisely!
Misconception No. 5: You should spend close to your credit limit.
“There’s a myth that it shows more responsibility to run up your card and then pay it off,” Sukhu said.
“What we tell people is 30 percent or less is good, 20 percent or less is better, 10 percent or less is best.”
It’s quite the opposite. You want to keep your credit utilization low.
“The credit score formulas like to see a big gap between what you’re using and what you’re allowed to use,” Sukhu said. “What we tell people is 30 percent or less is good, 20 percent or less is better, 10 percent or less is best.”
The two big factors that make up your credit card score are:
1. Payment history. (Do you make payments on time?)
2. Utilization. (How much credit do you use that is available to you?).
“These two factors make up 65 percent of your credit score,” Sukhu said. Of the five factors used to determine credit scores, these are the two consumers should worry about.
Sukhu also suggests new credit card users be cognizant of their spending. If your credit limit is low, say at $1,000, spending just $300 will put you at your 30 percent utilization rate before you know it.
Have questions? Need help managing your credit? Let’s talk!
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|Process:||Produces active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) – manufactures various products in batches|
The customer needed more production capacity, and were aware that capacity was available within the batches and steps - but they did not know where. They also wanted to know why there was so much spread in production time for different batches.
However, process engineers who understand the process are not data scientists, and vice versa. There can be concerns with using data scientists without sufficient information upfront and because of the investment required. Therefore, an easy-to-use tool – better than Excel - that allows process engineers to perform a pre-analysis would be extremely useful.
„With the help of TrendMiner, we could easily get insights into the duration of the production batches and the steps between them.“
Dr Taede Weidenaar, Senior Consultant Digital Transformation
BCAP (Bilfinger Connected Asset Performance Platform) integrates data as a single source to unlock hidden potential. TrendMiner, as one of the benefits of using (licensing) BCAP, facilitated a very easy, low-cost route to providing a first root cause analysis. It allows process engineers to search past process behaviour, and achieve a diagnosis by instantly finding similarities and patterns. | <urn:uuid:252a4fdf-444c-47f8-97cb-34dc9eff742e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://digitalnext.bilfinger.com/resources/use-cases/reveal-capacity-gains-based-on-self-service-analytics | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573744.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819161440-20220819191440-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.934112 | 281 | 1.648438 | 2 |
Search the frequency of a variant or a group of variants (haplotype) in the GISAID database. The search will yield the population frequency of all the genomes containing the variant(s). Only substitutions coded as e.g. "C241T" are allowed. In the results section, CovidPhy will also provide the frequency of the variant(s) along the time since the beginning of the pandemic.
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Online classes offered for personal enrichment
Posted On: 08/22/18
The Continuing Education Department at Kankakee Community College is offering online classes for personal enrichment this fall.
“Beginning Conversational French” includes practical, common French phrases which are useful for those visiting a French-speaking region of the world. Topics will include speaking in various situations and learning some cultural tips. Cost is $94.
The “Conversational Japanese” class will be guided by a native Japanese instructor. Participants will gain cultural knowledge, useful conversational phrases and vocabulary words particular to a specific area of travel. Audio aids and Japanese words written in the English alphabet will also be offered. Cost is $94.
“Introduction to Interior Design” teaches how to transform plain living spaces into beautiful and functional rooms. Lessons will include designs from floor to ceiling, color theory, industry trends, floor plans and other basics. Careers in interior design will be introduced. Cost is $94.
“Creating a Successful Business Plan” shares methods to turn business ideas into a solid plan for financing and long-term success. The course covers creating a business plan, which is often a difficult first step on the path to small business success. Cost is $94.
The “SAT/ACT Prep Series” has two courses, one to prepare for the math section and the other to prepare for the verbal questions. It helps students maximize time on each portion of the tests. Weekly assignments encourage work with your classmates and the instructor to maximize performance on the ACT/SAT. Cost is $199.
The start date options for all courses are Sept. 12, Oct. 17, Nov. 14 and Dec. 12. These courses do not award college credit. More information and registration is at ed2go.com/kankakeecc. For more information or to make a payment, phone KCC at 815-802-8206. | <urn:uuid:eae98b0a-7f3d-4c78-8f54-d2f8688a9cd2> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://news.kcc.edu/archive/2018/08/22/online-classes-offered-for-personal-enrichment/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573193.35/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818094131-20220818124131-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.92437 | 402 | 1.859375 | 2 |
Following the election of Conservative Doug Ford as premier July 7, Ontario, Canada, has canceled the province's generous tax incentives for electric cars, according to an announcement on Wednesday on the Ministry of Transportation's website.
The move was widely expected after Ford ran on a platform of cutting government expenses, which included canceling the credits.
The credits, which included up to $10,645 ($14,000 Canadian) for the purchase of an electric car in the province, were funded by a carbon tax, which Ford also canceled.
Electric car buyers in Ontario rushed to purchase before the incentives ended and the move is widely expected to decimate electric car sales in Canada going forward. Ontario represented about 40 percent of the country's electric car sales.
In its statement, the Ontario Ministry of Transport said: "Ontario cancelled the cap and trade program as part of its commitment to bring gas prices down by 10 cents a litre and help reduce costs for Ontario families and businesses by $1.9 billion dollars per year.
"Given the Electric and Hydrogen Vehicle Incentive Program and the Electric Vehicle Charging Incentive Programs are funded through cap-and-trade proceeds, these programs are cancelled."
Consumers effectively have 60 more days to buy electric cars out of dealer inventory and register them if they want to get the credit. That means that Teslas, which are sold direct from the factory based on customer orders are no longer eligible unless they were registered by Wednesday.
Buyers of the Chevy Bolt EV will also likely be left hanging, as Chevrolet had a year-long waiting list for the car.
The same restrictions apply to installations of electric-car charging stations that were eligible for an 80 percent rebate.
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So, what is for you bad taste or bad manners, is it shouting, spitting making fun or criticizing some poor soul, bad taste can be hidden behind many a bad action and can be found in anyplace at anytime,people who are badly educated and have no respect for another when talking to them or in many cases down to them, someone who offers a service to you whether it be directly or by phone deserves the same respect you would like to receive, or maybe when someone criticizes another for what they are doing or their form of expressing themselves, I personally believe that if you have nothing nice to say, it is maybe better that you say nothing ! Another great annoying thing is when you hear comments regarding someone walking down the street, women are not objects and should be treated with the respect they deserve, do women whistle after men, as if calling the dog ?
Is it so difficult to live and act within the un-written rules of society, to be listened to when you are talking, or to continue doing another job when they are supposing to be dealing with you, or maybe sharing a lunch or dinner break with you and only attend their mobile phone. Bad manners can also be seen when someone enjoys causing a scene in a public place, which includes other people by force, even if it is only having to witness such behaviour.
To respect the order of a simple line or the rights of other people, their bad day, does not have to be that of others, violence towards others is always bad taste and bad manners. That respect is not shown to older people or anyone for that matter.
To have to share a table with people with bad manners can be a very unpleasant experience, basic table manners are very easy to acquire.
Basic manners are so easy, a simple smile please and thank you, can go a long way, we do not have to be experts just sensible and considerate to others, if we follow the basic rule of treating others as we would like to be treated we generally cannot go wrong.
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Donald Trump’s prime strategy is to undermine the U.S. system of justice – and make lots of money for himself in the process.
The parallels between the Leninist power usurpation in early 20th century Russia and the Trumpian brigades in today’s United States are becoming ever more eerie.
Will Trump direct the Republican Party of Texas and the Texan government to instigate an actual secession effort?
Like their German counterparts in the 1930s, Donald Trump’s Republican enablers in the U.S. Congress have lots of intelligence but no principles.
How the U.S. handles the U.S.-Mexican border will say much about its character as a nation.
The German legal system offers a perfect way out of a great U.S. legal conundrum during Trump’s second impeachment trial.
Could Spain — not post-war Germany or post-Maoist China — serve Americans as a model to rid the U.S. of Mr. Trump for good?
Democracies are only as healthy as their institutions: A conversation with Gurcharan Das.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is spineless and acts irresponsible for commercial reasons, except for brief moments.
Until just now, a Trump loyalist, Lindsey Graham — the political chameleon — changes yet again as a new political season is upon Washington. | <urn:uuid:6a377a3b-4eab-41c7-9f12-7aaeeb3025a3> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.theglobalist.com/tag/donald-trump/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573193.35/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818094131-20220818124131-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.943219 | 284 | 1.5 | 2 |
That answer is easy - China. 80 percent of the world's wigs are Chinese origin.
It is important to understand that wig manufacturing is labor-intensive and requires a strong industrial base. India is the world's leader in human hair for wigs but lacks the infrastructure for production and technology.
India primarily manufactures hair extensions and weaves with very little wig manufacturing. Increasing labor costs means China is outsourcing some of its labor to over locations like Nigeria and Ghana. Both countries have a large wig market and produce mainly synthetic hair wigs.
Another portion of China's labor went to Cambodia because of trade friction with the U.S. and cheaper labor. However, the best wig production is Chinese and in Chinese industrial clusters. The only production that has left the mainland is low-end, cheaply made wigs and wig products. | <urn:uuid:bc7bf18e-5054-4adb-871b-ce3d27867304> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://sourcingnova.com/products/wholesale-human-hair-wigs/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573744.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819161440-20220819191440-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.963766 | 168 | 2.4375 | 2 |
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FDA publishes the final Q3D Elemental Impurities guidance.
FDA published the final Q3D Elemental Impuritiesguidance on Sept. 9, 2015. The guidance was developed by the Quality Expert Working Group of the International Conference on Harmonization (ICH). The guidance outlines a process for assessing and controlling elemental impurities in drug products by using risk management, including a platform for developing a risk-based control strategy to limit elemental impurities.
The guidance applies to new finished drug products and new drug products that contain existing drug products (i.e., products containing purified proteins and polypeptides, their derivatives, and products of which they are components, and drug products containing synthetically produced polypeptides, polynucleotides, and oligosaccharides). Not covered in the guidance are herbal products, radiopharmaceuticals, vaccines, cell metabolites, DNA products, allergenic extracts, cells, whole blood, cellular blood components or blood derivatives, dialysate solutions not intended for systemic circulation, elements that are intentionally included in the drug product for therapeutic benefit, gene therapy products, cell therapy products, or tissue engineering products.
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Two-year-olds can experience sleep regression at some point in their lives. This condition is normal and usually lasts for several weeks. If you’re concerned about your child’s sleep, you may try various methods to improve their sleeping habits. You can start with some tips from the Baby Sleep Site 2 year old sleep regressions . The following are some of the most helpful techniques. Remember that your child’s behavior may not be related to the cause of the sleep regression.
– Record your baby’s sleeping schedule. It will help you determine if there’s a pattern. You can try a different bed or a higher-quality mattress if it’s a nightly issue. If your child cries when they don’t sleep well, it could be a sign of developmental disorder or a more serious underlying issue. So the first thing to do is monitor your child’s sleep patterns and daily schedule.
– Avoid waking your toddler during the night. Often, this is a symptom of separation anxiety. It can cause your child to have night terrors or nightmares and disrupts sleep. If your child has a night terror, try bringing them a stuffed animal to help them sleep. Changing total hours of sleep can also be helpful. Remember that your child will not stop talking about the problem until you’ve addressed their sleep issues.
The causes of sleep regression are many. While every child is different, sleep regression can occur from a toddler’s second birthday to 2.5 years of age. Identifying the problem and implementing a plan can help your child overcome this difficulty. If your child has sleep problems, talk to your pediatrician about the cause and how to fix the problem. In most cases, it’s a normal development phase and should pass on quickly.
Another cause of sleep regression is overtiredness. It is often due to a lack of napping, but it can also be caused by illness or a big change in your toddler’s life. Make sure your child has a regular bedtime routine and reinforce it. In addition, try to adjust your toddler’s nap times. If your toddler is overtired, try to avoid waking them up in the middle of the night.
Another cause of sleep regression is the potty training process. Your child may not be ready to take naps right away, or they may protest during their nap. Whether they have just started to potty train or aren’t ready yet, it’s important to take your toddler out for a potty before bed. It will help them to sleep more peacefully at night. If your toddler is still refusing to take naps, this can cause sleep regression.
You must know that this process is normal and will pass in time. However, you should be aware of the possible causes and treatments. Common misconceptions about sleep regression include crying it out, changing bedtimes, or changing the baby’s routine. It is not always the case. As a parent, you should be patient and understand that this will pass. So, keep in mind these tips to get a good night’s sleep. | <urn:uuid:0fd3831a-fcec-4a01-8a33-cf36fd7ce953> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://yourbabycareguide.com/how-to-help-your-two-year-old-overcome-sleep-regression/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570793.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808092125-20220808122125-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.947004 | 646 | 2.546875 | 3 |
The source for this post is online at 2013-05-06-texture-atlas.rkt.
A texture is a silly graphics word for an image that adds color or texture to a 3D model. For our purposes, it means the same thing as image.
A texture atlas is a single image with many smaller images inside of it, along with an index of where the sub-images appear in the large image. Historically, these are also called tile sets and sprite sheets, but those terms imply certain graphical styles.
This post discusses why texture atlases are useful and how to generate them, using Racket.
Every object in an OpenGL scene will typically have a texture applied to it, and every scene is likely to have many objects in it. This implies that a given scene will use many textures.
For example, this scene uses five textures:
Unfortunately, it is relatively expensive in OpenGL to change the current texture. (Sidebar: This is because changing the texture means binding it into some special GPU memory, which may require a CPU to GPU memory transfer if it isn’t already loaded. It is true that you can a few "current" textures, but the number is small enough that it isn’t useful for rendering a lot of objects.)
If we were to program the rendering in the most obvious way:
Then the render would run very slow. In an example that I wrote, this ran at about 15 frames-per-second. (If you aren’t in the know: you want 60 FPS.)
(Sidebar: You may find opengl:set-current-texture! distasteful, but there’s little you can do about it at the low-level: OpenGL is an extremely stateful system where small functions that do little amounts of drawing work depend a huge number of imperatively modified and globally set variables. It has a parameterize-like stack to record and unroll these changes, but it is still necessary to understand the role all these global variables.)
Instead it can be useful to combine all the textures into a single mega-texture (not to be confused with a MegaTexture):
Then, you can write code like:
This code sets the texture a single time for OpenGL and at each object’s rendering stage, just updates a few floats that are used in some of the computations. This is a lot faster, in my example the program ran at about 30 to 40 FPS.
Designing your renderer like this actually puts you on the path of being able to combine all your drawing into a single OpenGL call that runs a GPU program that interprets the data and uses the texture atlas behind the scenes:
This is even faster. (My example now renders a single frame in about 1 millisecond, which is 16 times faster than is necessary for 60 FPS.)
But I won’t go into the drawing details any more.
Instead, we’ll focus on how to go from a big list of images into a single image. We could express the job of a texture atlas generator as:
It consumes all the images and produces two things. First, the actual atlas. Second, a mapping function from the original image to its location inside of the atlas.
The code that does the reading and writing of a directory of images, plus the recording of the lookup into a file, is pretty boring and straight-forward. It’s just 100 lines and a bit boring.
In this post, we’ll focus on the interesting algorithm that a texture atlas generator runs. But is it really interesting? Isn’t it obvious how to pack a lot of images: just line them up from end to end.
This atlas actually isn’t that bad, but it’s a side effect of using a small number of textures. I hope you see how the problem generalizes.
This is bad because of the unused space at the bottom because some textures are tall and others are short. Before trying to think of clever ways to solve this, we should see if there’s pre-existing work... and of course there is: this is the bin packing problem!
Bin packing is an NP-complete problem wherein you must find the optimal layout strategy for a set objects, each with different dimensions and worth. (Actually, we’ve seen bin packing before because the knapsack problem from 2013-04-09: Branch and Bound in Racket is a special case.)
The problem description can be generalized to arbitrary dimensions, but for texture atlases, we only care about the 2D case. Moreover, we need to pack every image, so there is no need to reason about the value of different packings. Thus, we just want to fit all of the images in the big image, while minimizing the area. (The reason to minimize the area should be obvious: area equals graphics card memory, transfer speed, etc.)
The basic algorithm we’ll use is to start from the "all in a line" version and then repeatedly remove a pixel from the right and add a pixel on the bottom and try to fit the images again. This algorithm is from Richard E. Korf.
However, some of the realities on the OpenGL world are going to make this super trivial. First, most GPUs perform better with square textures, so we only need to consider square atlas sizes. Second, it is best if textures are sized in powers of two. This drastically reduces the search space of possible texture atlas sizes.
(Sidebar: Why is it best if textures are sized in powers of two? The easy answer is that many versions of OpenGL don’t support anything else, but that’s a cop-out because it doesn’t explain why that would be the case. The real reason is that texture coordinates inside of a texture are specified using a number from 0 to 1 and not a pixel number. Floating point operations where you divide by 2 repeatedly to go from a pixel to the 01-coordinate or multiplying by 2 to go back are more efficient and less lossy.)
These things will greatly inform our algorithm. However, most of our code is reusable if you want to get non-power-of-two-square image packing. Without further ado, let’s get into the code!
The first thing to think about is the interface. The output will be the length of a side of the atlas and a list of placements. A placement will be a simple structure that combines an X coordinate, Y coordinate, and the element. On the other side, it will take a list of opaque elements along with accessors that extract their width and height.
(struct placement (x y e) #:transparent) (define (pack e-w e-h l) <pack-body>) (provide (struct-out placement) (contract-out [pack (-> (-> any/c exact-positive-integer?) (-> any/c exact-positive-integer?) (listof any/c) (cons/c number? (listof placement?)))]))
The body of pack is fairly straight-forward: we decide what power of two to start with, then we order the elements to speed up the search, then we try atlas sizes until the first fits. (Since we try from the bottom, the first success is "optimal".)
It is also a little obvious where to start looking. If all your textures add up to 647 pixels in area, then you won’t be able to fit that into 16x16 atlas, because it only has 256 pixels, the smallest size that could work is 32x32. Thus, the starting power-of-two is five.
A useful heuristic when bin packing is to place large objects first, because they create large areas of empty space around them, so we’ll just sort all the objects by their area and put the large ones first.
Next, we repeatedly try larger and larger sizes until one works. The core algorithm receives (a) the desired dimensions, (b) the object accessors, and (c) the objects and then returns the placements. We use a for/or so that the first non-#f result is returned and ensure that we always return #f on failure (which is impossible, by the way.)
The core algorithm is based on the concept of a layout. A layout has a width and a height and is either totally empty, totally occupied by an element, or is divided into four quadrants.
The algorithm starts with the entire space empty and repeatedly tries to insert objects until it fails (or runs out of objects.) This final layout then needs to be flatten to the individual objects.
We use an escape continuation to jump out of the loop on the first failure and we rely on the flattener layout->placements, which traverses the object and keeps track of where it is in the overall structure.
(define (layout->placements x y ly) (match ly [(space _ _) empty] [(occupied _ _ e) (list (placement x y e))] [(quad _ _ (list ul ur ll lr)) (append (layout->placements (+ x 0) (+ y 0) ul) (layout->placements (+ x (layout-w ul)) (+ y 0) ur) (layout->placements (+ x 0) (+ y (layout-h ul)) ll) (layout->placements (+ x (layout-w ll)) (+ y (layout-h ur)) lr))]))
The insertion routine is fairly basic too. If the space is occupied, we fail. If it is free, and the object fits, then put it in the upper left and split the space. Otherwise, try to put it in each sub-space and use the first success.
(define (insert s e-w e-h e) (match s [(occupied _ _ _) #f] [(space w h) (define e_w (e-w e)) (define e_h (e-h e)) (and (<= e_w w) (<= e_h h) (quad w h (list (occupied e_w e_h e) (space (- w e_w) e_h) (space e_w (- h e_h)) (space (- w e_w) (- h e_h)))))] [(quad w h subs) (define new-subs (for/or ([inner (in-list subs)]) (define new-inner (insert inner e-w e-h e)) (and new-inner (replace subs inner new-inner)))) (and new-subs (quad w h new-subs))]))
This code is a little bit immoral because it treats the list of quadrants uniformly, but in fact each has a special meaning. Therefore, a better definition of quad would be (struct quad layout (ul ur ll lr)), but that would require ugly code duplication in insert. Similarly, we could be a little more efficient by ignoring the upper left, because we know we always put things in it when we create a split.
This code produces beautiful atlases like:
If you’d like to use this code at home, you should put it in this order:
(require racket/contract 2htdp/image racket/match racket/list) (let () (define opengl:draw void) (define opengl:set-current-texture! void) (define opengl:set-texture-offsets! void) (define object-texture void) (define object-gpu-code/texture void) (define render-object-geometry void) (define the-texture-atlas #f) (define texture-atlas-lookup #f) (let () <naive-render> (void)) (let () <atlas-render> (void)) (let () <gpu-render> (void))) <generator/c> (define (num->pow2 n) (inexact->exact (ceiling (/ (log n) (log 2))))) <layouts> (define (replace l from to) (cond [(empty? l) empty] [(eq? from (first l)) (cons to (rest l))] [else (cons (first l) (replace (rest l) from to))])) <insert> <flatten> <place> <interface> (define N 10) (define l (build-list N (λ (i) (cons (add1 (random 100)) (add1 (random 100)))))) (printf "~v\n" l) (pack car cdr l)
The production version is online here, and is a little different.
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The 16th International Architecture Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia closed on Sunday 25 November showed a continuous growth in visitor numbers. The Finnish pavilion’s Mind-Building exhibition gained an enthusiastic reception both among biennale visitors and international media. In March 2019, the exhibition will travel to Helsinki.
The theme of Mind-Building, the story of Finnish libraries and their architecture responded well to the Biennale Architettura 2018 Curators’ ‘Freespace’ Manifesto. A record number of 90 000 visitors saw the exhibition during the six months in Venice, while the total number of visitors in the Biennale Architettura has also continued to grow: this year, in addition to the almost 15,000 attendees of the preview days, a total of 275,000 people visited the 16th International Architecture Exhibition, in comparison to the 260,000 in the previous 2016 edition.
Mind-Building and the Finnish library institution gained particular attention due to the upcoming opening of the state-of-the-art Helsinki Central Library Oodi but also because of the increased global appreciation of democratically available education. A multitude of international journals and channels highlighted the Finnish Pavilion on their must-see listings and published articles about it, including CNN, The Guardian, Financial Times, Monocle, Abitare, Domus, Icon, Blueprint, Wallpaper, Elle Decor and Frieze.
“The Finnish Pavilion shows the world just how interesting a library can be,” stated Monocle.
“Designed by Alvar Aalto in 1956 […], the Finnish Pavilion is one of the Giardini’s most compact. Yet Mind-Building is among this year’s most expansive offerings. Curator Anni Vartola, a critic and scholar, has cannily taken the Biennale’s theme of Freespace as an opportunity to delve into the history of Finland’s public libraries – institutions that, open to all and devoted to fostering access to texts, could stake a claim as the ultimate ‘Freespace’,” mused Abitare.
“The Finnish exhibition ‘Mind-Building’ [is] a multi-contributor micro-museum of library design. […] The show is a rich, focused curatorial paean to the transformative power of public libraries, both on the individual imagination and on the wider society,” wrote Frieze.
Making Finnish architecture internationally known and increasing global interaction in the field of architecture are at the core of Archinfo Finland’s activities. One of the most significant arenas for this is the Biennale Architettura in Venice. This year Archinfo Finland was for the first time in charge of Finland’s representation at the International Architecture Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia.
“I couldn’t be more pleased about the wide attention the exhibition and our library buildings have received. This gives us a fantastic foundation for continuing to make Finnish architecture visible and known around the world,” states Hanna Harris, Commissioner of Mind-Building and Director of Archinfo Finland.
“Choosing library architecture to represent Finland in this year’s International Architecture Exhibition in Venice is a tribute not only to the Finnish library institution and library architecture but also to Finnish democracy. I am delighted that our libraries and architects have gained such a great reception at this prestigious international stage, both in Venice and in the media,” says Director General Riitta Kaivosoja of the Ministry of Education and Culture, Finland, which was the project’s main supporter.
The Finnish Pavilion’s events programme included an architecture theme week organised in over 20 libraries in Finland during the first week of October and, in the last week of the architecture biennale, a library seminar organised within the Biennale’s ‘Meetings on Architecture’ series in Arsenale, Venice. During the same week, the Pavilion of Finland offered complimentary library workshops run by Helsinki City Library librarians. In addition, two books were launched in conjunction with the exhibition: a book on the Pavilion in the series Architecture by Alvar Aalto published by Alvar Aalto Museum and Alvar Aalto Libraries by Sirkkaliisa and Jari Jetsonen.
After the closure of the Biennale Architettura 2018, the Finnish Pavilion’s exhibition may be revisited in March 2019 when Mind-Building arrives to the place where the whole story of the exhibition as well as Finnish library architecture up until today culminates: Helsinki Central Library Oodi. Opening on 5 December, the new flagship building by the Finnish practice ALA Architects will turn the eyes of the entire library world to Helsinki. More information on the upcoming Mind-Building exhibition at Oodi will follow in January.
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Illinois State University’s School of Theatre and Dance and its Black Actors League will celebrate the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington with readings from a play about presidential honoree Bayard Rustin.
Citizens from across this country will converge upon our nation’s capital on August 28, 2013, to commemorate and celebrate the 50th anniversary of the historic March On Washington. In 1963, timed to coincide with the centenary of the Emancipation Proclamation and following President John F. Kennedy’s announcement in June that he would submit a civil rights bill to Congress, this march for jobs and freedom transfixed the nation, inspiring the young Martin Luther King Jr. to declare “I Have a Dream!”
Now, 50 years later, people at Illinois State are coming together to remember Rustin, an unsung hero who helped lead, organize, and preside over a logistical campaign that was unprecedented in American activism—the March on Washington. About 250,000 participants traveled from across the country during that march—young and old, black and white, celebrities and ordinary citizens.
Scenes from Brian Freeman’s play, Civil Sex, will be presented Wednesday, August 28, at 11:30 a.m. and 12:30 p.m.,on the Quad, directed by Professor Lori Adams. The play includes characters such as Rustin, Senator Strom Thurmond, Malcolm X, and A. Phillip Randolph, in scenes based on debates and arguments leading up to the March on Washington. Assistant Professor of Acting and Movement Duane Boutte will reprise his role as Rustin in these readings, with other faculty and students in the School of Theatre and Dance.
Later in the evening, patrons are invited for a full reading of the play at 8 p.m. in Kemp Recital Hall (Centennial East Building, first floor). Both events are free with an opportunity to generate fresh insights into the March on Washington.
For more information about the play, contact Boutte at (309) 438-3955 or firstname.lastname@example.org. Parking for the evening event is free in the School Street Parking Garage at 400 West Beaufort Street in Normal. Parking for daytime events is available in the South University Street Parking Deck for a small fee. Accessible seating and assisted-hearing devices are available by calling the box office at (309) 438-2535. | <urn:uuid:b246145c-8bec-44e1-a7e5-2fb02c826743> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://news.illinoisstate.edu/2013/08/drama-marks-50th-anniversary-of-kings-march-on-washington/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573744.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819161440-20220819191440-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.938982 | 499 | 1.679688 | 2 |
At its regular meeting on Dec. 17, the New Orleans City Council passed a measure to prohibit discrimination in the workplace, housing, and public accommodations based on the way Black women choose to wear their hair. Mayor LaToya Cantrell signed the law days later. New Orleans City Councilwoman-at-large Helena Moreno introduced the legislation earlier in December.
According to recent national studies, Black women are 50 percent more likely to be discriminated against or lose their jobs because they wear braids or other natural hairstyles.
Moreno’s ordinance is similar to federal legislation called the CROWN (Creating a Respectful and Open World for Natural Hair) Act that aims to correct racial injustices by making hair discrimination illegal at the federal level. Members of the U.S. House of Representatives, including U.S. Rep. Cedric Richmond, introduced the bill in December 2019 and passed the CROWN Act in September 2020. However, the U.S. Senate still has yet to hear or pass the bill, which was introduced there by Sen. Cory Booker.
While the effort has stalled at the federal level, cities and states around the country have taken steps toward similar protections in their own communities. California, New York, New Jersey, Virginia, Colorado, Washington, and Maryland have all passed CROWN Act legislation.
And cities, including Pittsburgh and Kansas City have done the same.
Councilwoman Moreno says it is time for New Orleans to join this movement.
“We know an overwhelming number of Black women report that they change their natural hairstyle to avoid prejudice in the corporate work environment. It’s unfair and speaks of pervasive discrimination in the workplace. We won’t let it happen here,” Moreno says. “New Orleans must do better and dismantle long-standing barriers to success for Black women, and this is just another step in creating an equal playing field where all can succeed. I want to thank advocates like Nia Weeks from Citizen SHE for helping bring this issue forward.”
The ordinance only applies within the boundaries of the City of New Orleans, but Councilwoman Moreno and advocates are seeking introduction of similar legislation before the Louisiana Legislature so that protections are applicable statewide in the private and public sectors.
Weeks has been advocating for some time now to make CROWN Act ordinances and legislation a reality in New Orleans and throughout the state.
“Black Women’s lives are intersectional. In every move we make, whether it’s gaining employment, seeking housing, or going to school, we have to consider every aspect of life, including how people react to how we look,” says Weeks, founder and executive director of Citizen SHE United, an organization that advocates for an annex the collective policy agenda to address the needs of Black women across Louisiana. “Our hair, although intrinsically a natural aspect of being human, is a space fraught with controversy that has had the ability to hinder our acceptance and capacity in all areas of life. This ordinance speaks not only as a letter of respect and care for Black Women in New Orleans, but serves as a device that will aid in removing harm placed on Black Women because of choice of hairstyle.” | <urn:uuid:e5c94711-4977-417f-b9a1-2b9a5d5f3863> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://theneworleanstribune.com/2021/01/04/new-orleans-city-council-passes-crown-act-ordinance/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573744.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819161440-20220819191440-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.960969 | 652 | 2.5 | 2 |
Oregon State University is purchasing a five-acre parcel along the central Oregon coast that will be the shore-based facility for converting wave energy captured from a test site to be located about seven miles offshore into utility-grid accessible power. In December of 2016, the university was awarded a grant of more than $35 million from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Water Power Technologies Office to develop the wave energy test site, which will be designed to allow commercial wave-energy developers to test different technologies for harnessing the untapped energy of ocean waves.
Wave energy has the potential to provide clean, reliable electricity to meet the world’s rising energy demands, experts say. Globally, the marine energy market is projected to reach nearly $700 billion by the year 2050, and the World Energy Council estimates that 10 percent of the worldwide electricity demand could be met by harvesting ocean energy. The project, known as PacWave, will offer pre-permitted, grid-connected wave energy testing in an open-ocean environment, according to Burke Hales of OSU’s College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences, which is coordinating the effort.
“The test facility will provide a dependable and robust environment for the burgeoning wave energy sector to test their technologies, better understand what it takes to link ocean-generated power to an existing grid, and both improve performance and reduce costs,” Hales said. The site will have a peak capacity to generate as much as 20 megawatts of electricity, or enough to power about 2,000 homes – about 10 percent of the total residences in nearby Lincoln County. “The power generated is something of a bonus, albeit a real, tangible benefit,” Hales noted.
“The 20-megawatt figure is the maximum capacity, not the anticipated steady output,” he added. “There will be times when the ocean is flat and glassy and there just won’t be enough wave power to generate energy, and other times when it is so rough the energy converters will be on overload. That will be one of the engineering challenges going forward.”
The PacWave ocean test site will be located on a sandy-bottomed stretch of the Pacific Ocean away from popular commercial and recreational fishing reefs, and outside of recognized shipping and tow lanes.
The size of the test area will be approximately one nautical mile in dimension measured east to west, and two nautical miles measured north to south (a nautical mile is about 1.1 regular miles) in water that is about 80 meters, or 262 feet deep. The ocean site will have four different testing “bays,” each of which can accommodate 5-6 wave energy converters. Those converters will be connected to an offshore node that will relay the energy via buried cable to the shore-based facility and the power grid.
“We’re not developing the wave energy ourselves,” Hales said. “We are providing the testing facilities and accreditation for the people in the business. We have the marine infrastructure and support system to make it work, and of course the power of the Pacific Ocean nearby.”
In addition to new technologies, OSU also will monitor the environmental impacts of wave energy instrumentation, led by ecologists at the university’s Hatfield Marine Science Center in Newport. “We’ve also been working with the fishing community, which has been very supportive of the project,” Hales said.
The total cost for the project is estimated at $50 million. The university is seeking additional funding from the state of Oregon, donors, foundations and corporations.
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Curing Bad Cat Breath. Cat breath smells like death-cat breath smells like fish-cat breath smells like poop-cat breath freshener-cat water additive for bad breath-cat has bad breath and weight loss. Cat proprietors recognize for a reality that awful cat breath may be downright lousy. It isn’t that a whole lot unique from horrific human breath, as both are caused by bacteria discovered in the mouth that breaks protein down and releases the sulfur compounds out into the air. Sulfur smells truly awful on its personal, which is why breath containing it smells bad as nicely. The bacterium that causes horrific breath with cats is generally associated with a buildup of tartar across the teeth. Tartar is yellow in coloration, referred to as a coating of bacteria, food, and minerals.
To treatment your cat from horrific breath, you’ll need to dispose of the accumulation of tartar. There are numerous cat ingredients out there that are designed to reduce the accumulation of tartar, many containing enzymes with a purpose to actually dissolve it. You may also deliver your cat treats as properly, as lots of them will assist get rid of and prevent tartar. If the accumulation of tartar is horrific, you could want to have your cat’s enamel professionally wiped clean. once the tartar has been removed, the terrible breath will go away.
You will be capable of easy the tartar off your cat’s tooth at domestic. There are numerous kinds of toothpaste available for pets, to be had in numerous unique flavors. You’ll want to get a mechanical toothbrush, because the motion may be very crucial for putting off tartar buildup. Kinds of toothpaste that include enzymes will dissolve tartar, supporting to remedy terrible breath. if you begin early with brushing your cat’s teeth, you can certainly do away with any type of tartar buildup on the way to ultimately cause horrific breath.
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A few bacteria that result in tartar can be determined on your cat’s weight-reduction plan. whilst you feed him, you need to constantly make sure that the meals he consumes don’t contain a number of microorganisms. in case you store wholesome and feed him only wholesome ingredients, it could help his horrific breath an amazing deal. whilst you provide your puppy a deal, make sure that the deal is designed to help with tartar. After your cat has finished eating, you could brush his tooth or rinse his mouth out. This way, you’ll get the bacteria out of his mouth earlier than it has time to build upon his enamel.
From time to time, cats may additionally have a horrific odor of their mouth that doesn’t come from tartar or terrible breath in preferred. In those rare instances, it can be either liver or kidney sickness. if you word bad breath and it isn’t tartar, you ought to take your cat to the vet. even though it can be something to do with tartar, it’s higher to be secure than sorry. Your veterinarian can pinpoint the hassle, will let you understand what the reason is – and how you need to go about solving it.
Why Does My Cat Have a terrible Breath?
in keeping with global Cat Care, 85% of cats have a few shapes of dental disorders, and it is no wonder why. A cat’s tooth and gums (aka gingival tissue) have evidently taken place bacteria. As those germs multiply and are not removed via brushing, they can increase a microorganism plaque film on the teeth; this film hardens through natural minerals in your cat’s saliva and turns into tartar. The microorganism on your cat’s mouth that are not eliminated launch pungent compounds when they break down leftover food particles. not handiest does this purpose cat terrible breath, but mouth bacteria can travel via the blood to diverse organs, wherein they can motive infections throughout the body, often resulting in coronary heart and kidney sickness. the buildup of tartar additionally forces the gums down, causing them to recede, which loosens the roots of the enamel. eventually, those loose teeth fall out. This all makes for one smelly and painful kitty mouth.
Cats also can divulge their enamel and gums to foreign objects — from bugs they catch and consume to nonfood items which could reason injury or oral trauma. in addition to these assets, cats are acknowledged for his or her common hairballs and vomiting. consider how foul your breath might turn out to be in case you could not ease your mouth after being unwell and also you start to apprehend why cat bad breath develops.
Further oral causes of halitosis (the medical call for bad breath) in cats encompass oral tumors, abscesses from dead teeth, and inflammatory gum situations.
The source of the cat’s terrible breath cannot continually be traced to the mouth. a number of the more commonplace systemic causes of awful breath in cats are extreme medical conditions that necessitate prompt clinical remedy.
Persistent kidney disorder: Kidney sickness affects about one out of each 3 cats, suggested puppy health community. As kidney characteristic decreases, waste products, along with urea and ammonia, building up inside the cat’s blood. this will motive the cat’s breath to smell like urine or ammonia.
Diabetes mellitus: Diabetes mellitus is an ailment of the pancreas. truly placed, diabetes mellitus is a failure of positive pancreatic cells to regulate blood sugar. if your cat’s breath stinks like a fruity smell, this is a sign of ketoacidosis, which may additionally occur in diabetes. it’s a doubtlessly existence-threatening condition.
Gastrointestinal hassle: Breath that smells like feces can arise with continued vomiting, mainly when there may be a bowel obstruction. Bowel obstructions are a medical emergency.
As you could see, bad breath in cats is anything but a frivolous and stinky inconvenience. at the same time as awful breath in human beings can be related to nonserious reasons, which includes ingesting garlicky meals, horrific breath in cats is greater frequently a longstanding and extreme condition. luckily, there is usually an answer.
Getting rid of horrific Breath: home remedies & expert pointers
The intention of remedy is straightforward enough: set up cat breath that is unfastened from offensive odors. if you are starting with a kitten with a healthy mouth, imposing a plan of right oral hygiene might be pretty simple, provided you’re steady and devoted. Brushing your cat’s enamel is every other powerful manner to prevent the accumulation of tartar. You should use toothpaste made especially for cats, that is available at pet delivery stores or your vet’s office. You have to also purchase a unique cat toothbrush to make this mission easier for your cat — and also you. Brushing should be completed several times weekly at a minimum, and preferably, day by day. this may be a venture, especially inside the getting to know phase. stay with it and maximum cats will discover ways to tolerate it as part of their day-by-day habitual and can even experience the eye from you.
You should also timetable an expert cat enamel cleansing with your vet at the least as soon as 12 months. This procedure would require them to position your cat below anesthesia — this is not simply to make it easier for the vet to extra easily navigate your cat’s tooth even as they may be asleep, however teeth cleanings for pets often calls for extra massive cleaning that an ordinary toothbrush just can not attain. This regularly consists of the removal of difficult-to-reach plaque and tartar that can shape below the gum line. Your vet may additionally suggest X-rays to look for damaged or cracked teeth, which may be commonplace amongst cats.
Gray British shorthair cat yawning. if your cat has periodontal, or gum disorder, your first goal is to deal with the oral purpose of the awful breath. A whole oral examination below anesthesia is vital to diagnose the motive and the extent, in addition, to correct it.
If systemic sickness is the purpose of halitosis, your veterinarian will in all likelihood want to perform diagnostics to determine the motive. as soon as the motive is identified and managed, a home dental care recurring needs to be mounted.
There are oral care products and even foods to fight your cat’s terrible breath and dental disease. Feeding your cat a vet-approved dental care cat food with scientifically validated tartar-lowering components is a simple and effective option. unique components and uniquely fashioned kibble had been proven to significantly lessen plaque formation and tartar buildup, helping to hold fresh breath.
Consider, a neutral-smelling breath is an indication of a healthy mouth and a wholesome cat. the sector Small Animal Veterinary affiliation suggested that dental and oral illnesses are via ways the most not unusual hassle dealing with our pets today. hold your cat’s oral fitness to assist preserve their common health.
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How to Cure Bad Cat Breath
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Bottom Line: Given Russia's economic and financial links to world markets, sanction decisions need to consider the realistic possibility of contagion.
Conventional wisdom has it that sanctions will impose a cost on Russia, but that absent a major intensification of the conflict the effects will be concentrated in the region with limited global impact. To date, sanctions have been modest, targeting a limited number of individuals, their companies, and small banks. But a set of tougher industry-wide sanctions affecting finance, energy, and defense are reportedly under consideration.
In part, this belief in limited, regional contagion reflects a relatively sanguine view among investors about the prospects of an escalation of tensions, a position many in the foreign policy community do not share. If the probabilities and the implications are hard to measure, it is not surprising that many in the markets choose not to give much weight to severe downside scenarios. That optimism could prove untenable if the darker views of Russian president Vladimir Putin's plans prove accurate.
In addition, it is often argued that Russia simply is not critical to the global markets. For example, Goldman Sachs Research argues that despite contributing 3 percent of global gross domestic product (GDP) and significant energy exports, Russia's limited integration in global supply chains and international financial markets means "repercussions for the global economy of current tensions might be relatively small." Their firm's greater concern is that Russia may respond to sanctions by turning inward. From that perspective, the long-term isolation of the Russian economy is the primary legacy from sanctions.
These arguments are reflected in current market prices. Though Russian bonds are down 6.9 percent and equities are down 9.6 percent on the year, global equity markets are broadly unchanged and appear more likely to be moved by industrial country growth and rate developments rather than shifting information on sanctions. Emerging market spreads are near historically tight levels, further suggesting delinkage from Russia (and risk appetite from yield-hungry investors). One can either be comforted by the stability of global markets or concerned about the prospect of a sharp market correction if these assumptions are disproved.
Last month I looked at the case for sanctions having a material effect on Russia. I argued that the answer was yes, primarily because of Russia's complex, leveraged, and opaque financial linkages with the West. This month, I turn the focus to the channels for contagion within and outside Russia if the conflict intensifies and the West moves to extend sanctions to entire industries such as energy, finance, or high tech. Sanctions have never been imposed on a country as large and complex as Russia, making quantification difficult, but a preliminary assessment suggests effects that are far more sizeable than indicated by conventional wisdom. It is a mistake to focus on whether Russia is big enough to matter; what will matter for the contagion debate is that the Russian market is too interconnected with the world to ignore. However, policies can be put in place to limit the dislocations for the West.
Domestic Markets: Tight Macro Policies Magnify Sanctions
Russia's economy already was weakening before the Ukraine crisis. Between 1999 and 2008, growth averaged 7 percent, but the Russian economic miracle was deflated by the financial crisis. Activity fell more than 10 percent from 2008 to 2009, and the subsequent recovery has been disappointing. Sanctions have tipped the Russian economy into recession, with some forecasts showing that intensified sanctions could result in a sudden stop in capital flows that would lead Russia's economy to fall 4 percent or more this year.
Russia has limited scope to ease policies to offset a sanctions shock that cut off its access to global capital markets and restricted trade. The scope for fiscal expansion is limited by concerns about inflation and priority military spending, while monetary policy is constrained by the external weakness and concern that high inflation could undermine the government's support with pensioners and the poor. In the face of large-scale capital outflows, the central bank has raised interest rates twice and allowed the exchange rate to depreciate. If such pressures continue, Russia does have large amounts of international reserves. Assuming that gold and three months of imports are untouchable, there is still around $125 billion remaining that could be spent defending the exchange rate. Nonetheless, with capital outflows of $60 billion to $70 billion in the first quarter alone, the scope for foreign exchange intervention is limited. Meanwhile, the central bank is funding state spending through a variety of instruments, such as infrastructure bonds and joint ventures, potentially crowding out new private sector lending. This suggests little scope for an easing of policy to offset a sanctions shock.
Channels of International Contagion
The effects of sectoral sanctions for Russian growth could be quite severe. However, whether that shock reverberates through the global economy depends less on the magnitude of the Russian recession and more on the economic and financial channels through which Russia is linked with the West. Though much of the public discussion has focused on critical trade ties, the prospect of contagion there may be limited, while the financial channels of contagion have the potential for outsized spillovers.
Global Trade: It's About Commodities
Russian raw materials—energy, agriculture, metals and mining—represent the bulk of Russian exports. Sanctions can block trade in these goods, both directly and through restricting the financing of this trade, potentially causing disruptions in global production of raw material–intensive manufacturing. Beyond raw materials, however, the links are more limited. Russia exports few manufactured products to the West. Russian supply chains are dominated by the former Soviet Union and Russian exports are not critical inputs to Western manufacturing beyond its role as an energy supplier. Anecdotally, though, some large U.S. manufacturers fear a disruption of production if rare raw materials for which Russia is a major supplier are blocked.
Much of the discussion in the press has focused on the effects on the energy industry, given the importance of Russian exports to Europe. A cutoff in natural gas exports certainly would create bottlenecks in supply and a spike in natural gas prices. By some estimates, the increase in gas prices could be 20 to 40 percent. What would happen to oil prices? Arguably, the effects would be much smaller, as non-Russian sources fill the European gap and Russia sells to Asia. Indeed, given the global nature of oil markets, the end result may be more a reallocation of oil supplies than a substantial shift in supply. Some economists have argued that oil prices may even fall if non-Russian producers react to the disruption in supplies by releasing oil from reserves and pumping more, but it would be unusual to see a sustained and globally coordinated policy that more than offsets any global shortfall. My base assumption would be little or no change in oil prices after a few months for markets to adjust. Finally, the dependence of Russia on oil and gas revenue (65 percent of exports and 35 percent of revenue) leads optimists to suggest that Russia might look elsewhere to retaliate, particularly if ongoing capital flight continues to pressure international reserves and the currency.
Financial Linkages: Bigger Than They Seem
I have argued elsewhere that the costs of sanctions will be greatest in the financial arena, given the high degree of leverage and opacity in Russian financial linkages to the West (Figure 1). First, sanctions and retaliation could force a rapid deleveraging of Russian financial institutions. This sceario could cause sizeable losses for Russian and international investors, which would be compounded by the reduction in global risk appetite. Second, a flight to safe havens might lead Group of Seven (G-7) treasury securities to rally, but risky assets could be hit globally. Third, financial market sanctions could have dramatic effects not only on Russian financial institutions but also on the markets in which they operate. For example, Russian banks hold significant derivative positions and sanctions on those companies could damage liquidity and market trust.
The high level of uncertainty gives rise to a defacto tax on financial intermediation, which is another feature exacerbating the contagion from financial sanctions. It is evident from the sanctions to date that the major effects on Russia stem from concerns that financial ties with Russian companies could lead to future problems. The high costs of unwinding financial relations acts as a break on making deals today.
The prospect of financial distress is hard to measure, but the experience with past emerging market crisis underscores the vulnerability that comes from high levels of debt. Russia has large external debts (over $700 billion, or 34 percent of GDP), of which two-thirds is public debt. State-owned enterprises are highly leveraged and dependent on the central bank for liquidity to fund external asset purchases. Financial sanctions could, by freezing assets, expose investors to losses on gross rather than net positions. Foreign exposure to Russian equity is more limited, suggesting that losses in those markets will not have independent and significant effects on global markets.
Finally, any disruption to payments systems could have cascading consequences. Those of us of a certain age recall the Christmas tree–light problem. If one of the lights malfunctioned, the entire chain would not work, and it was painful trying to figure out which light was causing the outage. Similarly, if any U.S. entity is involved in any link of a chain of transactions, the potential exists for the entire transaction to fail. That is the interconnectedness problem at the core of sanctions in the complex financial markets we have today.
Figure 1: Costs of Sanctions in the Financial Arena
It is too sanguine to assume that the effects of sanctions, should they intensify to include whole sectors of the Russian economy, will be limited to the region. In the end, it is a global market, and delinking Russia from it will have important implications for all parties. At the same time, these costs must be weighed against the costs of doing nothing and the risk of protracted instability. At a time when Russia is testing the existing rules of the international order, preserving the integrity of the Ukrainian state and supporting its economic and political reform may tip the balance toward action.
Looking Ahead: Kahn's take on the news on the horizon
Japanese Quantitative Easing
Faltering growth and inflation prospects will increase pressure on the Bank of Japan to double down on quantitative easing.
Emerging Market Growth
Evidence grows that the emerging market slowdown will persist. How will markets adjust to emerging markets growing more slowly than industrial countries?
Federal Reserve Meetings
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ASTM International - ASTM G71-81(2009)
Standard Guide for Conducting and Evaluating Galvanic Corrosion Tests in Electrolytes
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Use of this guide is intended to provide information on the galvanic corrosion of metals in electrical contact in an electrolyte that does not have a flow velocity sufficient to cause... View More
Use of this guide is intended to provide information on the galvanic corrosion of metals in electrical contact in an electrolyte that does not have a flow velocity sufficient to cause erosion-corrosion or cavitation.
This standard is presented as a guide for conducting galvanic corrosion tests in liquid electrolyte solutions, both in the laboratory and in service environments. Adherence to this guide will aid in avoiding some of the inherent difficulties in such testing.View Less
1.1 This guide covers conducting and evaluating galvanic corrosion tests to characterize the behavior of two dissimilar metals in electrical contact in an electrolyte under low-flow conditions. It can be adapted to wrought or cast metals and alloys.
1.2 This guide covers the selection of materials, specimen preparation, test environment, method of exposure, and method for evaluating the results to characterize the behavior of galvanic couples in an electrolyte.
Note 1-Additional information on galvanic corrosion testing and examples of the conduct and evaluation of galvanic corrosion tests in electrolytes are given in Refs (1) through (7).
1.3 The values stated in SI units are to be regarded as standard. No other units of measurement are included in this standard.
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What Everyone Should Find out about Industrial Wastewater Treatment
For the reason that early 1970s, effluent water high quality has been improved at Publicly Owned Treatment Works (POTWs) and different point supply discharges by means of major public and non-public investments prescribed by the Clean Water Act (CWA). Many people are under the impression that the water which comes out of a plant is clean. Good waste water treatment maximizes the reusing of water for sustainability and nature preservation. Silt Management: Sand and grit removing gear is utilized in silt removal, quickly recycling wash water and reusing this helpful commodity for irrigation or additional washing. The sand filter is the most commonly used filter. Fine-grade filtration systems are prone to fouling from biological progress, yeast, and different microorganisms; performing bench checks or consulting with filter manufacturers about specific functions is recommended. If 600,000 miles of current sewer systems aren't renovated, the quantity of deteriorated pipe will enhance to 44% of the total network by 2020.22 In 2012, U.S. A grease trap must be provided for the wastewater inflow pipe. The grease discovered on the floor of some wastewater can be eliminated easily by means of this method. Filtration is the old technique of removing harmful substances from the water.
Within the twenty first century, clean water and environmentally pleasant industrial processes are more critical than ever. Once improved sanitation and hygiene exist at world scales, our reliance on antibiotics will decline resulting from more equitable entry to clean water. This sad story is shockingly common, particularly in places where pollution is rampant and clear water is proscribed. An estimated 14,748 POTWs provide wastewater assortment, treatment, and disposal service to more than 238 million folks.6 Use of reclaimed water for consumption is turning into more common, significantly in areas liable to drought or with growing water demand (such as the U.S. In massive remedy plants sufficient vitality could be generated in this way to supply extra electricity than the machines require. polymers for wastewater treatment of life provides us the luxury of utilizing numerous merchandise to make our lives more snug and simple, but it surely comes at a price. In keeping with the paper, utilizing wastewater to observe COVID-19 gives a number of benefits over other strategies, such as clinical testing.
This Grayl bottle also affords comparatively simple clear-up, an necessary issue if you are utilizing pure water. Wastewater has plenty of affect on the pure world and it is very important deal with it effectively. The remaining wastewater then has to go through Tertiary Treatment the place newer technologies like microfiltration or very advantageous membranes are used for filtering the water and cleansing it to a purity that is nearly as good because the natural water. Fortunately, we can make the wastewater potable and usable by using wastewater therapy applied sciences that filter and treat the wastewater by eradicating contaminants equivalent to sewage and chemicals. Heavy Metals Removal: The completely different remedy technologies in eradicating heavy metals in wastewater embody electrodialysis, chemical precipitation, chemical oxidation, ion alternate, discount, ultrafiltration, reverse osmosis, and adsorption. Four common methods to treat wastewater embrace bodily water remedy, biological water therapy, chemical therapy, and sludge therapy. Chemical additions of ferric salts and lime improve coagulation and sedimentation processes for improved solids removing in addition to elimination of toxic pollutants.
Pollutants contaminate receiving water through many pathways: level sources, non-level sources (e.g., air deposition, agriculture), sanitary sewer overflows, stormwater runoff, mixed sewer overflows, and hydrologic modifications (e.g., channelization and dredging). The biosolids are trucked off site to be made into fertilizer or used for agriculture. Gallons of water are used every day, for domestic, industrial, agriculture. Properly treated wastewater is usually a reliable water supply for many functions. So as to fulfill ambient water quality standards, complete maximum day by day hundreds (TMDLs) considering both level and non-level supply pollutant loadings will be developed. Despite the development in effluent quality, point supply discharges continue to be a significant contributor to the degradation of surface water high quality. The water then flows into giant clarifiers the place the organisms can settle to the bottom. 1. Waste stinks. If waste is released immediately into the environment, then it will possibly get very smelly in a short time. The portable lab means scientists can go direct to the placement where a waterborne illness is thought to be current and display screen a water sample for genetic materials-with results out there inside a day or two. Insufficient remedy causes fecal sludge and other types of water pollution that may spread illness and drive antimicrobial resistance.
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“We are in a mobile world and we have to think mobile-first.” ~ Kristin Hall, Google
If that sounds familiar, like you’ve read it somewhere before, it’s probably true. You may have read it as the lead-in for our May 25th blog post, “Will Google’s Mobile Algorithm Cost You Leads?” We are repeating the opening quote because it is, in fact, true. This blog is based on the same fundamental concept, but the focus is slightly different.
Mobile Technology Is Still a New Field
Apparently, if you build it, they do come. Mobile device use is getting more and more popular with every passing day. The leading edge technology companies are driving everyone to mobile. At the moment, the use of mobile is still somewhat faddish, driven by Millennials – older people, including business owners, not so much … at least not in terms of using mobile to shop for goods and services. Chances are, if you are not a Millennial, you are not even thinking about shopping on a mobile device, let alone advertising on them. Just be aware that the trend toward mobile advertising for the purpose of lead generation is gaining ground.
Mobile Advertising Is a New Field
You don’t have to be in the home improvement business to understand the importance of lead generation. Something has to been done to keep leads flowing into small businesses of all kinds, regardless of economic conditions. Leads are the life-blood that keep businesses going. Leads are particularly important in businesses like home improvement because, although you are sure to secure some measure of repeat business, repeat business does not come as quickly as it does to the local McDonald’s. You can’t afford to wait for repeat customers. You always have to be working at generating new leads.
Because mobile is the newest, greatest, “up-to-datest” thing, some digital marketing companies are pressing customers to get in on the mobile advertising bandwagon before it leaves them behind. Some promote mobile advertising by suggesting your website will suffer if you don’t advertise on mobile. That is exactly why we are publishing this post.
Mobile Advertising Can Be a Mine Field
Mobile advertising is so new that there are really no established standards or metrics to determine how successful it really is. “In this sense, the mobile advertising industry is a victim of its own voracious ascent.”
As a result, mobile advertising is already a victim of massive fraudulent activity. It is estimated that cyber criminals will steal over $6 billion from digital advertisers in 2015. One analyst reminds us that “Fraudsters … fashion new strategies specifically to target the mobile app environment.”
Mobile Advertising Is Like Swimming at a Beach Without a Lifeguard.
“No Lifeguard on Duty” signs could be posted every ten feet along the beach, but swimmers and surfers still go there because the signs also inevitably say, “Swim at Your Own Risk.” That often turns out to be a risk not worth taking.
“According to mobile attribution company Apsalar, for every valid in-app purchase (IAP) made in China, there are 273 fraudulent ones.” The advertisers pay for those clicks. Don’t ignore the signs. Frankly, no one knows if mobile advertising will ever be safeguarded.
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MS, Minnesota State University, Manakato, Experiential Education (1995)
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We often look at others in fascination of their success and say to ourselves, “I wish I could be as successful as _______”. Leaving it all to a dream to think about, and yet never take action towards.
When in reality, what makes that person ANY different than you or I? On a human level, the answer is really a resounding NOTHING! There’s nothing different and there’s nothing that’s really holding you or I back from achieving the same level of success.
The only difference are the things they are doing, the way in which they are thinking, and the belief they have in themselves.
However, by studying more successful people, or even competitors in the industry you want to be in, we can break down their behaviors, their mentality, AND their tactics to start seeing the same results for ourselves.
We call this “Modeling”. As Tony Robbins puts it, “Success leaves clues, it’s not just because they are lucky”.
The benefit for all of us in today’s world is that the success clues are left out in the open for all of us to see, analyze, interpret, and then implement.
Therefor, if we take the time to really dive in to the actions, behaviors, mindset, tactics and routines of those more successful than ourselves, we each can start to climb the success ladder that others have climbed before us.
Modeling Success Does Not Mean Copying Others
What I am not implying is that you go find the person you want to be and start to just copy everything they do. Each person must take their own path, speak from their own voice and think with their own mind.
However, you can start to adopt new beliefs, take on new routines, and even start to talk about similar topics with your own take or spin on it.
And while there is no shortcut to success, there is definitely a path that has been carved out of the landscape by others. Successful people or even your top 10 competitors have already taken that path and PROVEN that it can be done.
In fact, if you look into the landscape and you can’t find a competitor that’s successful, then that’s a RED FLAG! You don’t want to be the pioneer, because they are the ones who get arrows in the back. Instead, you WANT to follow the path already laid out for you!
As you set out to find the people or person that you want to model yourself after, you want to take a look at both the Tactical steps they take in their business, but you also need to take a look at the Mental steps they take as well.
But before we start to take in and model the behaviors of others, we need to make sure that we understand how to leave our egos at the door and understand how COMPETENCE works, and how we can work to achieve the level of competency that other more successful people have achieved.
The Four Stages Of Competence
Before we dive into this portion of the article, let me preface by first stating that it’s O.K. to be incompetent on something that you’ve NEVER done before!
In fact, it’s one of my favorite parts of becoming an entrepreneur is that by searching out the things we are incompetent at, we have the opportunity to become better, more well rounded at skills that we would have never sought after to begin with.
But by identifying that we are incompetent at something, that is ACTUALLY the first step of growth in that topic.
So with that, let’s talk about the Four Stages of Competence:
So now that I’ve laid out the 4 levels of competency, let’s put some real world applications on them to better define it.
On level 1, you aren’t even aware that there is something that you don’t know. For example, if you only use TikTok to watch videos, you may not even be aware that there are creators making thousands of dollars a month creating content. You don’t know how they monetize, you don’t know how they drive traffic. You’re unconsciously incompetent.
If that is the case, then I just helped you reach level 2. You’re now aware that you’re incompetent on how people make some crazy money on TikTok!
As you can probably tell, it’s a lot easier to go from level 1 to 2, than it is to go from level 2 to level 3. That’s where modeling the behaviors and tactics of more successful people really starts to kick in.
The goal is grow yourself into Level 3: Consciously Competent where you now are comfortable putting in the work and practicing the skills it takes to, for example, make money creating content on TikTok. You can put together a video, you have a strong 3 second hook, you are including a good Call to Action, and you’ve embedded links into your profile.
The goal is to grow into Level 4. Where you can just start to do the things without having to put much thought behind it. A great example of Level 4, is if you have been driving for more than a year… you can probably drive without thinking to much behind it.
Modeling Tactical Behaviors AND Mental Behaviors
It’s important to remember that successful people aren’t just that way because they DO the right things. They also BELIEVE the right things.
You can start to model all the tactics and strategies they use, but if your mindset isn’t in a similar place as theirs, will you truly see the success that they do?
The answer is probably not. If you go into your business thinking that money is a difficult thing to get your hands on, then it’s going to be. However most successful people believe in an abundance mentality. That there is more than enough to go around for everyone, they are just going to go work for a bigger piece of the pie for themselves.
Yet, at the same token, if all you’re taking in is the mindset and belief system, without diving into the daily tactics they deploy in their business, then you’ll never develop the tangible skills that your competitors have developed over time either.
You have to do BOTH.
So before we dive into the 7 steps you can take to start modeling BOTH tactics and behaviors, be sure to download this weeks Free Guide with a worksheet on modeling. I’ve sectioned out places you can take notes on your competitors or someone you look up to in your industry of choice, so you can see right on paper what they are doing.
Now, that you have that downloaded, let’s start diving into the questions you can start asking yourself.
Modeling Tactical Behaviors
- Start by writing down your Top 5 Competitors, and Top 3 People You look up to. – I don’t want you to start with just one. If you have a business or you’re looking to start a business, find people that do it already. Start searching and find the top 5 that show up. On the other hand, there are people I’m sure you look up to online that you may consider a mentor. Write them down so you can start going deeper.
- Go through their online ecosystem – Start your deep dive. You want to see their entire foot print. Sign up for a freebie, start receiving their emails, go through their sales funnels. How are they communicating through their long form content.
- What topics are they talking about? – If you’re looking through their content, what kinds of topics are resonating with their audience? How can you produce similar content but different? How can you communicate the same topics but use your own words and thoughts along the way?
- What is their content cycle? – Here you want to see how they produce their content. How often do they publish a new blog post? How often do they post a new video. How often do they post on Instagram, Facebook, TikTok? Why? As you start to see how often they produce, maybe you should be too?
- What are their Call To Actions? – This may be one of the most important intangibles that most people look past. A call to action gets SOMEONE to do SOMETHING. This moves people forward in their funnels, gets them to comment on a post, gets someone to subscribe to a channel. Write down multiple calls to action so you can start to curate quality CTA’s.
- How do they show up on social? – First, where are they? Facebook? Instagram? Twitter? How often are they there? Do they schedule their posts? Do they focus on written word? Video? GIF? What’s the mix of their content? When you start to know how they show up, you can start to model that behavior.
- Start finding commonalities between the 8 you’re researching. – Remember what I said before… success leaves clues. What are the common things you’re finding between the 8 people you’re researching? You should probably start in the common traits.
Modeling Mental Behaviors
- What is their “Story” – At the beginning of most content, or somewhere embedded in their webpage is the “Story”. This is the story that they have built up around them that they use to express their goals and motivations for what it is they do. How can you start to craft YOUR “Story”
- What are their beliefs about money? – Believe it or not, but successful people think about money much differently than the average person. Here you should be hearing a lot about abundance and law of attraction. These are belief systems you should probably start adopting.
- What is their morning routine? – This has become a real hot topic over the last decade as modeling success has become more common (and successful in it’s own right). This isn’t to say that you should simply copy what others do in the morning, but maybe you don’t HAVE a morning routine. This is an opportunity to start building one.
- How do they value and manage their time? – As people become more successful, they tend to view their time differently. The days of sitting on the couch binging Netflix becomes a thing of the past as you realize that time is a depreciating asset and you can never get it back. So how do your competitors and mentors spend and maximize their time?
- What are their core values? – Successful people tend to operate off a core set of principles and values. This is the framework for which they use to make decisions, build their business and work with their clients.
- Where do they place their attention? – It’s incredible to see where successful people place their attention. You won’t find it placed on frivolous drama or when the next season of Hell’s Kitchen is coming out. This gives you insight into how their prioritize their work and you’ll be surprised at how many people will explain this directly to you.
- Start finding commonalities between the 8 you’re researching. – Again, where can you find intersections in the 8 people that you are researching? If you start to find commonalities within this framework, then it’s something you should probably start adapting in your daily life.
Set The Right Expectations In Your Mind
As you start diving in to how you can begin modeling the behaviors of your competitors and mentors, it’s so crucial to set the right expectations with yourself. How long did it take THEM to be successful.
While there is absolutely the possibility that you can do it faster by following them down the path, it doesn’t mean that success by acting like someone else can happen overnight.
Know that any business or venture takes time, consistency and resiliency.
The other part to keep in mind is the Time vs Money matrix. If you want to learn from these people, there is most likely a good amount of free content. That free content is great and you should take in all of it, but being that it’s free, you’re most likely not getting all the steps.
Paying for courses, masterminds and coaching can absolutely speed your growth up faster, but understand that it’s going to get more expensive the closer the access you can get. Only you can decide on the speed in which you operate at, but those are definitely options you can take.
I hope this guide on modeling behavior has helped, as this is the exact steps that I’m using for myself in my journey to build my business and find more and more success on our path.
Again, feel free to download the free guide sheets with space for you to do your modeling research so you can accelerate your growth!
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Whether your make your own butter or just stock up on a good sale at the store there are ways to preserve it. The simplest method is to freeze it. However, freezing anything leaves you dependent on a power source.
A better way to preserve butter for 3 years (some sources say even longer than that) is to can it. Always pressure can butter instead of water-bathing it. Butter is dairy and non-acidic so the water bath method will not stop botulism.
By removing the water from the butter you are essentially making clarified butter also known as ghee. This is a shelf-stable butter that stays soft and spreadable and does not need to be refrigerated when opened unless you want firmer butter.
- Butter – salted or unsalted or a combo
- 1/2 pint widemouth jar for every 1 3/4 sticks of butter
- Pots for melting butter, boiling lids etc..
- Pressure canner
- new lids
- pot holders
- cookie sheet
- jar lifter
- white vinegar
Step 1 – Set your oven to 250°F and let it warm up while you prepare your jars on a baking sheet. Heat the jars at 250°F for at least 20 minutes to sterilize. You can use the boiling method or dishwasher method if you prefer. Boil some water in a small pot and lower heat to simmer the lids.
Step 2 – Prepare your canner as recommended by the canner manufacturer
Step 3 – Cut your butter into smaller chunks so it will melt faster. Add butter to the pot over low/medium heat as you cut it to allow for it to melt while you continue working.
Step 4 – while stirring your butter continuously bring it to a boil. Once it has boiled for a few minutes you can reduce it to a simmer. Simmer it for 20 minutes while continuing to stir so it does not scorch.
Step 5 – You will get a foamy white layer on top of the butter. Scrape the foam off. You can save it for recipes or discard it but I like to keep it and use it very sparingly when I want salt and butter in something. It can be very salty so you may want to give it a try before you decide what you want to do with it.
Step 6 – Once you have skimmed your butter and it has simmered 20 minutes begin quickly ladling it into the jars leaving a 1 inch head space.
Step 7 – Once the jar is filled up to the proper headspace make sure to wipe the rim clean with your vinegar dampened towel. With the fat in the butter if you do not get a clean rim you will not get a good seal and your efforts will be wasted.
Step 8 – If you have a large enough canner you can double stack the jars and get them all in one batch but if not your will have to process them in two batches.
Step 9 – Process the butter for one hour at 10 pounds of pressure (please adjust for your elevation).
Step 10 – Once jars are processes and the canner depressurizes remove jars from the canner and let them sit until completely cooled. DO NOT OPEN CANNER UNTIL IT IS COMPLETELY DEPRESSURIZED!
Once the jars start to cool you will want to shake the jars gently to mix the milk solids and the ghee back together. Shake gently about every 10-15 minutes until it looks like butter again.
As the butter solidifies, the solids will be dispersed throughout the liquids and it will look like you expect butter to look.
Check for seals after jars are completely cool. Store canned butter in a cool, dry, dark place. Properly stored your butter should last for 3 -5 years.
You can try creating flavored butters as well, such as garlic butter, honey butter, herbed butter – not only can they flavor your bread, but they go great on popcorn so don’t be afraid to experiment.
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If there is one piece of writing that students tend to consider too mentally taxing, too physically draining and too intellectually bankrupting, then it is the task of dissertation writing. It is a task that can stretch itself for weeks, months and in most cases, for years, as most students prefer procrastinating and delaying this task for as long as they can.
A dissertation requires a student to put their best foot forward, as they aren’t only required to think out of the box, but they are also required to bring nuance to their writing, which is otherwise missing, due to the daily taxation and exhaustion they course their mind through.
An abstract of a dissertation comprises of a short and condensed summary of what can be expected in the ensuing narrative; it enables potential readers to review and gauge whether the dissertation is worth reading and it primes the headspace of the reader, as they get a gist of what they’re immersing themselves in.
That being said, writers and students also need to realise that even though an abstract is placed at the very beginning of the document. It is, however, most certainly the last element that needs to be written by the writer, as it comprises details that can change or can experience a shift through the course of writing out a dissertation. Hence, be diligent enough to compress each detail that stands out in your dissertation, as including crucial elements is of paramount importance.
Follow through on the below-mentioned elements to comprehend how to map out an abstract for a dissertation.
Keep It Short
There is no need to stretch out your writing, as the key to crack open an excellent abstract is to cut straight to the chase. Rather than rambling on for paragraphs, condense your narrative and see to it that you tie up the narrative within 150-300 words, as the shorter it is, the easier it will be for the reader to understand.
Moreover, it shouldn’t be too complicated in nature, as an individual with no knowledge of your dissertation, should be able to understand your concept.
The abstract mustn’t lack any details, as you mustn’t leave the reader with doubts lodged into their headspace. The objectives, the literature reviewed, the methodologies utilised, the process of analysis and the conclusion should be presented, as it isn’t wise to leave surprises for your readers.
The abstract must detail the research problem, which are the theoretical and practical problems that the research solves. It should comprise the aims, which are the intentions and basic purpose of the research and it should comprise your thesis statement, which speaks about you’re looking to argue through the entire length of your narrative.
Showcase Your Prowess
From the outset, you need to set the tone right, as displaying an authoritative academic tone will enable you to represent yourself as someone who understands and is fully aware of each element that is engaging with your narrative.
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Today on the Doc On The Run podcast, we’re talking about what makes a stress fracture high risk for a runner.
There are lots of different ways to classify stress fractures. In fact, there’ve been many different classification schemes published in medical journals that are taught to physicians in medical school, and there are many ways to think about risk when it comes to stress fracture classification.
But as a runner who gets an aching pain in your foot or leg and you’re worried that you have a stress fracture, you really have to think about this not just the way that doctors who are taught about treating specific illnesses think about stress fractures. But you have to think about what makes a stress fracture high risk for you specifically as a runner.
The base assumption when you have a stress fracture is that you are either going to continue to run or you want to get back to running as quickly as possible. So in that sense, you have to think about the loading that actually happens to the bone and then what the consequences of loading that bone might be if you really do have a stress fracture.
Now, most doctors, when they think about stress fractures and risk, really think about two primary considerations. The first one is the propensity for the bone to actually heal without trouble.
If you have really good blood flow in a bone, then we usually consider it low risk. For example, the heel bone or the calcaneus is one of those bones that we know has really, really good blood flow. As such, it actually heals very quickly when it develops a stress fracture or even a traumatic fracture if you fall off a ladder or something like that. So because it can heal very quickly, most doctors think of calcaneal stress fractures as being low risk.
Now, some bones actually have really poor blood flow. For example, the fifth metatarsal bone, which is on the outside of your foot, the one that goes to your little toe on the outside of your foot. That bone we know at the base of the bone where the shaft turns into the bulky part of the bone at what we call the metaphyseal-diaphyseal junction, right where that transition happens where the bone flares out toward the base. Well, that particular area of that particular metatarsal bone has relatively poor blood flow. That’s where you develop this thing called a Jones fracture.
Jones fractures are notoriously hard to heal just because that area of the fifth metatarsal bone, it has very, very poor blood flow. So if you get a Jones fracture, we know that they have a high risk of going on to developing a nonunion where the bone doesn’t really heal.
But if you have a stress fracture near the end of the metatarsal bone in the shaft of the metatarsal bone near what we call the neck of the metatarsal, we know that it’s going to heal without any real difficulty. That would actually be low risk. So you can have bones that have good blood flow, bones that have bad blood flow, and that helps determine the risk.
Now also, you have bones that we know absorb a lot of force or are extremely difficult to fix if they actually break. The navicular bone or the two little bones underneath your big toe joint, those are bones that can develop stress fractures that we think of as high risk actually for two reasons.
The sesamoid bones don’t really have great blood flow. If you fracture them, the way the blood flow comes into the bones can actually disrupt the blood flow and make it extremely difficult to heal. And because they’re two little bones about the size of kidney beans, when you walk on them, we put a lot of force through them and it can be very, very difficult to fix them if they break. So oftentimes when they break, we have to take them out or just remove them. And you really don’t want to remove a bone if you’re a runner, obviously.
So the bones that we think of as being high risk with stress fractures are the anterior tibial diaphysis, or the front of the leg, right at the crest of your shinbones. If you feel in the middle of your your shin, there’s a ridge right in the middle of that bone. If you have a stress fracture in that area of your tibia, that’s considered high risk. The base of the fifth metatarsal bone, or the bone on the outside of your foot, that can be high risk.
A medial distal tibial angle fracture right where that bump on the inside of your ankle bone is, well, that is the end of your tibia. If you develop a stress fracture there, that can actually crack and turn into an ankle fracture.
The navicular bone right at the top of your arch is also very high risk because if it breaks, it is a huge problem. If it breaks, it can disrupt the blood flow in a similar way that the sesamoid bones can. The sesamoids of course are also high risk.
Now, most doctors in published classification schemes will say that the calcaneus or heel bone is low risk. But I actually consider it high risk because I think if you hear that it’s low risk and you have a calcaneal stress fracture and you keep running on it, you may actually break it. The heel bone is basically like a hard boiled egg. It’s a thin shell with a soft center. When you crack it, it kind of blows apart like an egg dropped on the sidewalk. So for that reason I think that it’s actually really kind of high risk.
Just to recap, the ones that are high risk are if you have a stress fracture in your shin and you can actually feel it on the front of your leg right where there’s that thick ridge, that sort of sharp ridge that runs down the front of your leg, that is an anterior tibial diaphysis stress fracture, and that is high risk.
If you have pain in your fifth metatarsal on the outside of your foot, in the middle of the foot, that also is very high risk because that could turn into a Jones fracture. If you have ankle pain and you’ve been told you have a tibial stress fracture, that’s very high risk. I
f you have any pain in the midfoot where the navicular bone is, that’s very high risk. And then if you have pain under the big toe joint where the sesamoid bones are, those are also very high risk. If you have a stress fracture of the heel bone, that also is very high risk because even though it can heal quickly, it could break apart and explode.
But the other ones that are low risk are if you have posteromedial tibial stress fracture, that kind of feels like a shin splints, then that is really not that bad and really much lower risk than an anterior shin stress fracture. The metatarsal shafts, meaning two, three, four, and even five if it’s further out toward the toes, those are all low risk. The fibular stress fractures are very low risk because it’s a non-weight bearing bone.
Now, if you have a stress fracture that you think is high risk, you have to figure out what your goals are because obviously, you do not want to keep running on a stress fracture if you’re going to make it worse.
So you need to figure out what your goals are. Do you really have a race that you want to do right away or do you really want to keep running forever?
Do you really have a goal of running a race that’s four weeks, or six weeks, or six months away?
Those are really important considerations when you have a stress fracture. So you’ve got to figure out your goals.
The most helpful tool to do that is the Injured Runner’s Goal Worksheet. It’s on the website under this episode. Just go get it, print it out, fill it out, and it’ll really help you figure out what you need to do to get back to running as quickly as possible.
One simple step you can take is start with the Healing Runner’s Goal Worksheet.
It will help you take what you know about goal setting in running and use what you already know to focus your healing. It’s free.
Go get it now!
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Newswise — August 2, 2016 – The high levels of caffeine in energy drinks may lead to cardiac complications, suggests a case report in the July/August Journal of Addiction Medicine, the official journal of the American Society of Addiction Medicine (ASAM). The journal is published by Wolters Kluwer.
The case adds to previous reports of adverse cardiovascular events related to consuming energy drinks, including abnormal heart rhythms (arrhythmias). The lead author is Dr. Maryam Sattari of University of Florida, Gainesville.
Arrhythmia Sends Energy Drink User to the Emergency RoomThe patient was a 28-year-old man seen in the emergency department after developing vomiting with blood. On examination, the only abnormality (other than obesity) was a very fast heart rate—about 130 beats per minute.
An electrocardiogram revealed an abnormal heart rhythm called atrial fibrillation: a common type of arrhythmia that can lead to serious complications if sustained. Further tests showed no other heart problems.
The patient said he routinely drank two Monster energy drinks per day—for a total caffeine content of 320 milligrams—along with two or three beers. No other common causes of his heart rhythm abnormality were apparent.
With medications, the atrial fibrillation resolved over 48 hours. Endoscopy showed a tear of the stomach and esophagus, probably caused by forceful vomiting. The patient was sent home in stable condition; at one year's follow-up, he had no further symptoms of arrhythmia.
Although several factors might have contributed to the patient's atrial fibrillation, Dr. Sattari and colleagues write, "We believe that energy drink consumption played a key role." They point out the 160 mg caffeine content of a Monster energy drink is about four times higher than in a caffeinated soft drink (The caffeine content of coffee drinks varies widely, but may be even higher).
A review of the medical research identified at least eight cases of cardiovascular events linked to energy drinks, such as Monster or Red Bull. The researchers discuss several mechanisms by which the high caffeine content of these products might lead to cardiovascular events. These include other ingredients, such as taurine, that might heighten the effects of caffeine; using energy drinks along with alcohol or illicit drugs; or high stress levels.
Energy drinks have become increasingly popular in recent years, especially among adolescents and young adults. Marketed as "nutritional supplements," these beverages are not subject to the caffeine limits on soft drinks, or to the safety testing and labeling required for medications.
This and previous reports are "suggestive but not conclusive" that the caffeine in energy drinks may cause abnormal heart rhythms and other cardiac complications. "We suggest that arrhythmia could be a complication of energy drink consumption," Dr. Sattari and coauthors write. They encourage health care providers to ask about energy drink intake in otherwise healthy young patients with unexplained arrhythmias.
Article: "Energy Drink Consumption and Cardiac Complications: A Case for Caution" (doi: 10.1097/ADM.0000000000000234)
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Love and kindness needed during pandemic
Although the world has drastically changed in the past 10 months, there’s some things concerning me more than the virus itself.
Some people may have read the quote circulating, “we are not all in the same boat, we are in the same storm, some have yachts, some have canoes and some are drowning.”
Each person is managing this differently. Some have completely lost their livelihoods, jobs, and all connection to others. Some still have work, a paycheque and a large family to connect with daily.
Some are physically not able to wear a mask and are now facing daily bullying from this. Often these people already face anxiety or other serious health problems without the confrontation of having to explain their situation when entering a grocery store to purchase simple necessities. Once being allowed to enter they then may endure dirty looks or name calling.
As a fit and healthy person who has discovered panic attacks come on fairly quickly after putting on a mask, I have experienced this first hand.
A month ago, masks were not mandatory and I was able to walk into a store with the right to breathe and smile at others. Things have drastically changed and I’m feeling this weighing on my mental health. I know I am not the only one…
I ask store managers/owners and employees to familiarize yourselves with the rules on this and for other shoppers to please show some compassion for the ones you see unmasked as it may not be their choice.
The definition of health is to be free from illness and injury. This includes many things other than COVID.
This pandemic is becoming more of a mental health crisis lately. Let’s keep each other thriving with love and kindness. Give someone a compliment, offer to pay for someone’s groceries, smile at a child. It’s the little things that count right now.
In the words of John Lennon:
“A very merry Christmas
And a happy New Year
Let’s hope it’s a good one
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13th AFIS (Association for Franco-Irish Studies) Conference
Université de Lille (France) (24-25 May, 2019)
Theme: Margins and Marginalities in Ireland and/or France
French and Irish societies have been characterised in recent times by major upheavals wrought by the threat of terrorism, the collapse of economic and social structures, mass migration, the diminished role of organised religion, the ghettoization of minorities, increased homelessness and a general distrust of institutions. As a result of all these changes, the margins are now beginning to attract more and more people who find themselves placed in disadvantaged circumstances through political upheaval, and/or economic or cultural necessity.
Living on the edge may be imposed by circumstances; it may be chosen by those who wish to identify with the marginalized; it may even be a natural home for those who reject conventions. In all cases, it is a place teeming with contradictions, where worlds are made and unmade, a locus of both opportunities and lack of opportunities. On the margins, stereotypes and norms are challenged, dependence and independence co-exist, as do rejection and mattering (Nancy Schlossberg). Migration in particular fosters marginality as the clash of identities confines the migrant to a structure of ambivalence (Robert Park and Adam Weisberger) that leads him to become ‘something different’. As a consequence, margins may be a crucible for the reinvention of reality, a cradle of innovation and a seed of creativity.
The margins and the condition of marginality have therefore sometimes been a source of inspiration for artists, musicians, writers, mystics and even those engaged in culinary activity. Occasionally, distancing oneself from what is perceived to be a ‘desirable’ or ‘accepted’ mode of existence can help one to see things more clearly. However, clear thinking runs the risk of discommoding the ruling classes who have a vested interest in keeping things as they are. The tension between the centre and peripheries and the interaction between them fuel the dynamics of change. But the world is racked by instability and uncertainty about the future, as climate change and political disquiet dominate international debates, but without any resolutions being implemented. Questions of ‘truth’ and ‘authenticity’ inundate a public discourse that is preoccupied with instantaneous communication, the validity of which it is impossible to gauge.
This conference seeks to address the contribution of the margins to reflections on the present situation and to the elaboration of the necessary transformations that may eventually emerge from the current confusion, an increasingly relevant topic for France and Ireland.
Certain issues that might be addressed could include the following:
- The impact of increased marginality on French and Irish societies: Are things different now than they were in the past?
- The Irish diaspora in France and its contribution to the current re-invention of French society and identity;
- The way Churches and ruling elites deal with the issues that emerge as a result of the margins becoming home to more and more groups, some disadvantaged and others who freely choose this condition;
- Food studies as an example of the cultural hybridity fostered by the development of marginalities;
- Fictions of place – making room for the margins;
- Positive and negative marginalities;
- Round tables are planned around food studies and the diaspora.
Fr Tony Flannery, a founding member of the Association of Catholic Priests, Ireland
Dr Máirtín Mac Con Iomaire (Dublin Technological University, Cathal Brugha Street)
Dr Pilar Villar-Argáiz (University of Granada, Spain), editor of Irishness on the Margins: Minority and Dissident Identities (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)
Nancy K. Schlossberg, "Marginality and Mattering: Key Issues in Building Community", New Directions for Student Service, N° 48, 1989, pp. 5-15.
Robert Park, "Human Migration and the Marginal Man", American Journal of Sociology, vol. 33, N° 6, May 1928; Adam Weisberger, "Marginality and its Directions", Sociological Forum, vol. 7, N°3, 1992, pp. 425-446. | <urn:uuid:915c755d-91fe-4345-a136-6ac958f7ff7b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.efacis.eu/event/margins-and-marginalities-ireland-0 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573744.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819161440-20220819191440-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.925842 | 899 | 1.585938 | 2 |
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When she says no, the bottle beckons more brightly — for men and for fruit flies, according to a new study that found that male flies that had been repeatedly spurned by females were more likely to turn to alcohol to self-medicate their frustration.
As a topic of study, drunk fruit flies may seem trifling, but what the findings reveal about the neurochemistry that drives behaviors like sex and eating may point the way to new drugs to fight both addiction and obesity.
Researchers performed several clever experiments to determine the relationship between sexual frustration and drinking in male flies. Some lucky males were allowed four days of mating for six-hour sessions at a time (each bout of fruit fly copulation takes 20 minutes) with an abundance of sexually receptive females — the female-to-male ratio was a satisfying 5-to-1. The male flies were housed either together or alone.
The unlucky experimental group was introduced to females that had already mated and had no desire to mate again. The females ran away, kicked and stuck out their egg-laying organ to fend males off. The male flies underwent this exercise in sexual frustration and rejection three times a day, for an hour at a time, over four days. Again, some of the males were kept in containers with other male flies, while others were isolated.
A third group of males was exposed to the sad sight of decapitated virgin females — a situation that resulted in sexual frustration, but no active rejection.
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After these experiences, the flies were given a choice of ordinary food (yeast and sugar) or food that had been spiked with the kick of 30-proof spirits (yeast, sugar and 15% alcohol). Not surprisingly, the sexually rejected flies boozed much more than the mated group — with those males that had been spurned and alone hitting the sauce the hardest. The flies that had been sexually frustrated but not rejected also drank more than those that had been allowed to mate. However, when flies that had first been rejected were later given a chance to mate, their extra preference for alcohol disappeared.
So what was going on in the flies’ brains? Researchers found that a neurotransmitter called neuropeptide F, or NPF, which seems to be linked with fruit flies’ reward system, was strongly predictive of whether the flies drank. NPF was low in sexually frustrated flies — lower in flies that had been isolated than in those that had company in their misery — which appeared to drive them to drink.
Both mating and drinking alcohol increased NPF levels. Moreover, when NPF levels were artificially reduced in mated flies, they continued to show an extra preference for alcohol — just as if they hadn’t mated. “These data suggest that activity of the NPF system is regulated by at least two rewarding experiences, mating and [alcohol] intoxication,” the authors write.
The researchers also found that activating the NPF system was itself pleasurable to the flies, suggesting that it may create the feeling of satisfaction associated with drinking and sex.
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Humans do not have NPF, but our brains and those of other mammals do contain a related substance called neuropeptide Y, or NPY. In rodent studies, researchers have found that infusing NPY into the brain’s reward areas produces reactions similar to those seen with alcohol and other recreational drug use. It also has been shown to reduce anxiety and relieve the fear and distress that accompanies drug withdrawal.
NPY is also involved in the regulation of appetite and in the response to stress in humans. Reduced levels of the neurotransmitter are seen in people with depression and PTSD.
The authors provide new insights into a neural circuit that links a rewarding social interaction with a lasting change in behavioral preferences. Identifying the NPF system as critical in this linkage offers exciting prospects for determining the molecular and genetic mechanisms of reward and could potentially influence our understanding of the mechanisms of drugs of abuse.
Lead author Ulrike Heberlein, professor of anatomy and neurology at UCSF, who led the research, said in a statement: “If neuropeptide Y turns out to be the transducer between the state of the psyche and the drive to abuse alcohol and drugs, one could develop therapies to inhibit neuropeptide Y receptors.”
It bears noting, however, that prior strategies that have sought to block pleasure in order to fight addiction have been far less successful than those that offer a type of drug that acts similarly to the one that the addicted people seek. For example, maintaining addicts on methadone or buprenorphine — which act similarly to opioids like heroin and Oxycontin — has long been shown to be more successful than treating them with opioid-blocking drugs like naltrexone (implantable forms of naltrexone have not yet been directly compared).
So a drug that acts similarly to NPY could potentially turn out to be an excellent substance to fight addiction, depression and anxiety — but of course would also probably carry the risk of being addictive, just as methadone does. Only more studies will tell. | <urn:uuid:340f8114-a50e-45e9-9f3c-0825f4d482ed> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://healthland.time.com/2012/03/16/sexually-frustrated-flies-are-driven-to-drink/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573193.35/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818094131-20220818124131-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.979383 | 1,067 | 2.234375 | 2 |
When you work for a salary, at the end of every month you gain your expected gratification. But, if you work hard to make the world a better place, and measure your progress toward a cause as your compensation, the expected gratification may be delayed. How can you guarantee not only your project’s sustainability, but also the sustainability of yourself?
The changemakers’ fatigue, when it’s not a real burnout, is an under-represented phenomenon that is now coming out more and more often as one of the challenges that people in the impact sector need to be aware of. Why does it happen? How can you protect yourself? How can you thrive and not merely survive in your work?
At Amani Institute, an entire course of the Post-Graduate Certificate in Social Innovation Management, called The Inner Journey of the Changemaker, is dedicated to building the muscles for facing this fatigue. Along with studying the different angles of Innovation, Leadership, Communication, and Management (while applying their learnings in the field in Kenya, India or Brazil) Amani Fellows learn how to understand their deep motivations, vulnerabilities, strengths, in order to read themselves better as well as understand the context in which they are operating.
This is crucial because we become part of the ecosystem we are trying to change, and we are affected by it.
In her 20-year career in the social sector, Ilaina Rabbat, Co-Founder of Amani Institute witnessed how common burnout is in social innovators’ lives, in fact she close to experiencing it herself. That’s why she decided to learn the scientific reasoning behind her empirical observation and, while pursuing a Masters’ Degree in Applied Positive Psychology at The University of Pennsylvania (UPenn), she focused on what makes changemakers thrive or survive.
Interviewing people who are following their calling and working in the social sector, Ilaina has discovered that every social entrepreneur (or intrapreneur) starts their venture with a very honest and deep connection to purpose. These are amazing human beings, determined, courageous people who are driven by a vision. The dark side is that their mission and the strong desire to help, can make them blind towards themselves, can make them ignore both the advice of loved ones and the requests for help that come from their own bodies.
All of the changemakers that Ilaina interviewed have 10 common characteristics that act as a compass for all of their actions and choices: positive relationships, self-awareness, sacrifice, work centrality, responsibility, privilege, empathy, motivation, impact achieved and prioritizing. The way the characteristics are interpreted by the individuals will determine if they are closer to surviving their calling, or thriving in it.
Take for example our sense of responsibility: we all feel responsible to change things for the better. It could be the environment, childhood education, healthcare… And in every single project we show a deep commitment to our responsibilities. But we can’t be responsible for everything. We see more and more complex problems out there and we can’t push ourselves to solve all of them at the same time. The endless sense of responsibility is the dark side of the positive sense of responsibility that narrows down problems to identify limited, tangible, achievable goals for us to reach.
This strongly connects to sacrifice. We are all ready to sacrifice a lot in order to have a career of impact. One person sacrifices sleep to ensure they are spending more time in the field, another person lets go of a big salary in the private sector, another doesn’t spend a lot of time with their family… The difference here is in how we perceive this loss. I sacrifice because I want to, it’s a decision I made. Or… I have no choice, I must work at night, I can’t spend enough time with my family, I’m compelled to have a frugal life in a complicated context.
As long as you are aware it’s your own choice and you don’t feel obliged to, sacrifice is a further motivation to achieve your goal and help you thrive. Vice versa, if you feel trapped in sacrifice determined by the situation, you more easily get stressed, or depressed.
As you can see in the chart below recounting the 10 variables Ilaina examined in her Master’s Thesis (read the full version here), a lot is related to overcoming a binary perspective: me versus them (the people I’m willing to help). It’s about you andthe people you want to help. You are part of the picture.
Remember what flight attendants say on the plane: “Put on your oxygen mask before helping others put on theirs.”
Amani Institute is a non-profit organization based in Kenya, India and Brazil to develop professionals and organizations who lead social impact. The Social Innovation Management program is a 6 month hybrid program (3 months online and 6 months in Nairobi) and brings together changemakers from all over the world to learn from global master practitioners at the top of their fields. | <urn:uuid:a8a4a29c-51ca-41ff-aa56-d07cbec32f4f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.tbd.community/en/a/ten-variables-will-make-you-thrive-not-just-survive-while-working-social-impact | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573744.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819161440-20220819191440-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.95031 | 1,048 | 1.765625 | 2 |
Why Art Programs are Beneficial to Students
From the perspective of an arts student…
Why is it that when budget cuts are needed in schools, art programs are often among the first ones to go? Sure, I’m an arts student so I should be asking myself this, but a program in art education provides students of all ages with a solid groundwork for their educational, emotional, social, and (most obviously) creative development.
Improved Learning Skills
I read once that programs in art education can ultimately help students to excel in other academic areas. Art programs have the potential to help improve a student’s memory and concentration skills, develop decision-making and critical thinking skills, enhance communication and listening skills, but also encourage focus and discipline.
As a student taking part in theater at school and who dances an excessive amount of hours throughout the week, I can confirm that what I once read is true. Although my memory isn't that good, I tend to stay focused during school, put myself out there in terms of communication and I find myself to also be a great listener. Over half of my friends are in the arts department too and they all have acquired these skills because of such a wonderful program.
Enhanced Social Skills
An arts education can also help a student to improve self-esteem and social skills. It’s known that children who participate in art education programs learn to work as part of a team and understand different points of views. Additionally, they are also capable of developing an understanding and an appreciation for different cultures, which then can translate to an increased sense of tolerance and social acceptance.
Little story: I had a friend once who wasn't at all enrolled in any type of arts like I was. I always tried to make him listen to different types of music and artists but he just shut my choices off. I tried so many times until I finally gave up. He was into what he knew.. period. Nothing could change that. I, on the other hand, liked to discover new music genres and open up to different perspectives, let people intrigue me and enroll me into their world. I accepted whatever came my way whereas my friend wouldn't even care to think what came rolling down his way.
Art programs encourage students to be creative and use their imagination as much as possible. As this increased emphasis on creativity happens, children cherish new ways of thinking about the world in general. Needless to say, art programs are a critical aspect in helping students to magnify their understanding of their place in relation to the rest of the world they live in. Students are often asked to “think outside the box” in terms of problem solving. Art programs encourage novelty and nonlinear thinking, skills that can be used not only in academic settings but in the professional world as well.
Being told by my teachers many times to let my imagination take me has definitely helped me outside of school, and outside of the arts departments and programs. I've opened up to new ways to solve problems that I would've most likely never even thought about if I hadn't had “thought outside the box”.
There’s a reason why schools offer arts education in the first place so why suddenly take it away? Sure, as mentioned at the very beginning, because of numerous budget cuts. See it this way, if the school can cut the arts department, can’t it cut one of the sports teams? There are so many sport clubs outside of school grounds where children and teens can join compared to artistic development areas, so why not keep the arts program and cut one or two of the less-membered teams? It’s for budget sake after all, isn't it? | <urn:uuid:83dc6e7a-11de-480d-9b96-c9da54552831> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://medium.com/@anne.frederique.turbide/why-art-programs-are-beneficial-to-students-3bbcbdfd9f8f | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573744.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819161440-20220819191440-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.979031 | 756 | 3.078125 | 3 |
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FOTCIENCIA is an initiative to bring science and technology closer to the general public through scientific photography. The images presented must include a little text explaining them. The winning images could win up to 1,500€ and will be part of a catalogue and an exhibition that will travel through Spain in 2022-2023.
The EUNIC AI Science Café Series aims to present current and timely topics alongside the proposals for innovative, bold and inspirational solutions to tackle key issues. The contributors are experts from the EUNIC member states, many of whom represent international teams and their counterparts from the United Kingdom. | <urn:uuid:1788f17c-9e19-45ee-87c4-56aad3079a8b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://spainculturescience.co.uk/events/category/science/2021-09-29/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573744.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819161440-20220819191440-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.939672 | 144 | 1.78125 | 2 |
Welcome to the SGAC Tanzania page
Tanzania is considered one of the pioneers of the development of space exploration and Earth observation in Africa. Although we do not yet have an official Space Agency, we have contributed to the African space race in the continent.
Through Ardhi University and the Directorate of surveys and mapping, Tanzania together with other three countries developed the interim results of independent solutions of the very first official computation for The African Geodetic Reference Frame (AFREF); a unified geodetic reference frame for Africa, fully consistent and homogeneous with the International Terrestrial Reference Frame (ITRF).
The natural occurrences of space related phenomena in Tanzania have greatly influenced our interests for space exploration. For instance, Tanzania is home to one of the world’s largest meteorites to ever hit the Earth’s surface. Located in Mbozi district, Mbeya, the meteorite was discovered in 1930 and it measures 3 meters long, 1 meter high, and weighs an estimated 16 metric tons. Also, astronomical experts describe Tanzania’s geographical positioning as the most suitable in support of space exploration activities.
SGAC Tanzania is therefore a group of students and young professionals who strive to benefit from international organizations that encourage space activities in order to accelerate initiatives and achieve the best for our country, Africa, and the world at large. | <urn:uuid:1c8754d7-238d-4765-830a-4541229054cd> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://spacegeneration.org/regions/africa/tanzania | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572043.2/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814143522-20220814173522-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.906738 | 272 | 2.15625 | 2 |
LONDON (Reuters) - A new way to decipher a person’s age by looking into the lens of the eye could help forensic scientists identify bodies, Danish researchers said on Tuesday.
Their new technique uses radiocarbon dating to measure special proteins known as lens crystallines that develop around birth and remain unchanged for the rest of our lives. They are the only part of the body apart from teeth that do so.
The researchers correctly identified the ages of 13 people within one-and-a-half years by analyzing a carbon isotope called carbon 14 trapped inside the crystallines, they reported in the journal PLoS One.
“In forensics we are always looking for ways to identify deceased persons,” said Niels Lynnerup, a forensic scientist at the University of Copenhagen, who led the study.
“We found with this method you can determine almost to the year, the year of birth.”
Scientists have long used radiocarbon to date fossils or bones. More recently, researchers have applied the technique to tooth enamel to tell the age of people who have recently died, Lynnerup said.
The technique employed in the lens analysis is based on the sudden increase in atmospheric carbon 14 beginning in the 1950s until a test ban a few years later when the Soviet Union and the United States began testing nuclear bombs.
These experiments more than doubled the amount of atmospheric carbon 14, which gradually began to decline toward normal levels after the ban, Lynnerup said.
Scientists have recorded these levels annually, giving the Danish team a benchmark to date a person’s birth by matching the corresponding year in which the carbon 14 atmospheric content was as high as in the person’s eye lens.
The researchers also said their technique could one day help scientists in other fields date proteins and other molecules in the body to determine when cancer tissues or cells develop.
The new method offers certain advantages.
For one, lifting up the eyelid to extract the lens is often much easier then extracting part of the tooth needed for an accurate reading, he said.
The downside is that a lens disappears after a few days as the body decays while a tooth provides a sample scientists can use even after a few years, Lynnerup said.
“Removing the lens is completely identical to a cataract operation,” he said in a telephone interview.
Reporting by Michael Kahn, Editing by Maggie Fox and Mary Gabriel
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“People say that they will wait until. the Christian Church has decided the issue. Let the devil wait for that; I will not. For the Christian Church has already determined everything. The members of the body are united and need not wait until the body’s filth says or decrees whether or not the body is sound. This can be ascertained from the body’s members, but not from its urine, excrement, or filth. Thus we, too, do not want to wait until pope and bishops sit in council and decide that this or that is true. They are not part of the body; they are not good and sound members. They are Junker Filth, the snot on the sleeve and dung itself; for they persecute the true Gospel, which they know to be God’s Word. It is evident from this that they are filth, stench, and the devil’s own members.
Consequently, we must declare: The Christian Church has already decided the issue, for this is the universal doctrine, believed by all baptized Christians. Such a decision does not emanate from an external assembly. It springs from a spiritual council and does not require a convention. It is permissible to convoke a council to regulate fasting and prayer, vestments, the confirmation and confession of the true articles of the Creed, or other issues, as was done at the Council of Nicea. But no council can decide the truth of Christian doctrine. No, there I simply say: ‘This is my stand on Baptism. I believe that the Gospel is true and holy. This is my stand on the Lord’s Supper’” (Luther’s Works, v. 23, p. 287). | <urn:uuid:8dacea58-0077-4e2f-a05a-00f9e17f0bad> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://trinityh.org/44-we-need-not-wait-for-a-decision-the-word-has-already-spoken-the-truth/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572043.2/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814143522-20220814173522-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.955313 | 368 | 1.78125 | 2 |
Apps To Improve Your Quality Of Life
Imagine apps dedicated to disease prevention while helping more people achieve health and fitness.
Clinica is a user-friendly web and mobile app that integrates shopping and a healthy lifestyle to obtain overall wellness which will, ultimately, improve the quality of life.
How we made it
Data from these health apps will be uploaded to the Nutritas Health user profile via APIs and other data integration technologies to create a detailed personal health record that can be reviewed with physicians during telehealth consultations.
In addition to providing instant medical consultations, users can also sign up for a monthly subscription which includes a monthly consultation with a physician and analysis of data taken from their health apps. The seamless integration of physician-reviewed health content with physician-approved health products and telehealth consultations creates a significant business opportunity that no other company in the world is currently pursuing.
The tech stack for the project:
- iOS/Objective C
- Validic API
- 23AndMe API
- Nutritionix API
- ManageBGL API
Clinica has two main components: Integrated shopping and Health tracking. Through Integrated shopping, healthy food, personal care products, and other fitness-related merchandise can be bought using the app. The Health tracking feature on the other hand is an online health record that stores and integrates data from wearable fitness devices and apps used by the subscriber.
Phase 1 of the project is to provide health content and entails publishing hundreds of search-engine optimized physician-reviewed articles per day utilizing a content creation studio. This studio consists of freelance writers, editors, and medical doctors. The content will get indexed on search engines such as Google and will subsequently attract millions of people to the Nutritas Health website on a daily basis.
Phase 2 of the project is to build an online shop for health products and entails selling physician-approved supplements, organic food, and personal care products thereby creating the online version of Whole Foods. Each product in this shop will be reviewed for safety and efficacy by a board-certified physician.
Phase 3 of the project is telehealth consultations and entails providing users with the ability to consult with physicians and nutritionists via live video chat within 10 minutes of requesting a session. Sessions can be provided this quickly through an online session management system which sends text messages to on-call clinicians when sessions are requested. This third phase will be enhanced by integration with a world-class suite of health apps that allows users to measure biometrics such as sleep quality, physical activity level, and blood pressure from the comfort of their home.
Understanding the Problem
Clinica is a project by Nutritas Health which aims to become the premier global health and wellness platform that empowers consumers with the information, products, and personalized care they need to lead a healthy lifestyle. The project aims to provide its users with physician-reviewed health content, physician-approved health products, and telehealth consultations.
There are currently companies that provide one of these three services as a standalone product, but there are currently no companies aiming to provide all three in an integrated fashion with a focus on preventative healthcare.
What We Learned
Undertaking such a large project was a first for the company. More than 15 developers were working simultaneously to reach milestones. The team had to tackle a lot of challenges in the process of building the apps. For one, the client was based offshore and communication was hindered by the time zone differences. To overcome such challenges, the team gave the client daily updates on the work progress through a daily stand-up meeting. It also helped that there were dedicated project managers for both the web and mobile team to keep the cadence of the group. | <urn:uuid:643d3a6c-efdf-40be-9390-88e310597451> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://ingenuity.ph/case/clinica/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573744.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819161440-20220819191440-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.955164 | 775 | 1.507813 | 2 |
How was the Pneumococcal Genome Library (PGL) created?
We screened 1,091 PubMed articles and identified 211 peer-reviewed publications with at least one naturally-occurring pneumococcal genome. Genomic data were unavailable for 42/211 (20%) articles. We identified discrepancies in a further 54 (26%) articles, e.g. the inclusion of invalid accession numbers or an incorrect total of accession numbers. We began by adding data from publications for which all data could be recovered.
What data are currently in the Pneumococcal Genome Library?
The PGL contains 33,480 genomes from 130 publications. Articles were published between 2001 and 2020, and individual genomes were included in up to 52 publications. Isolates were collected in 82 countries between 1916 and 2018 and correspond to >90 serotypes.
Will more genomes be added to the Pneumococcal Genome Library?
The first version of the PGL was created in 2019 with a major update in 2021. Of the remaining publications, 69/81 require author follow-up. If you are an author of a pending publication and would like to discuss having your article added to the PGL, please contact Melissa Jansen van Rensburg and Angela Brueggemann.
Using and contributing to the Pneumococcal Genome Library
We hope that this will become a useful resource for the community and we welcome feedback. If you have studies that you would like added to the library, please contact melissa.jansenvanrensburgndph.ox.ac.uk (Melissa Jansen van Rensburg) and angela.brueggemannndph.ox.ac.uk (Angela Brueggemann). | <urn:uuid:af62beb1-73db-4039-9a26-a1f80881626a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://pubmlst.org/organisms/streptococcus-pneumoniae/pgl/information | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573744.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819161440-20220819191440-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.931529 | 360 | 2.484375 | 2 |
How did books create new culture of reading? Explain with three examples.
Access of books created a new culture of reading habits. The following examples state the same
(i) Earlier reading was restricted to the aristocrat class only. Common people heard sacred texts read out, ballads recited and folk tales narrated. Now books reached a large section of people, so ‘reading public’ increased instead of‘hearing public’.
(ii) Printers began publishing popular ballads and folk tales with beautiful illustrations. These could be sung or recited at gatherings.
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Texas Teacher Offering $1,000 for His Students that Get Perfect Score on the STAAR Test
It's a week that a lot of students dread, STAAR testing. Looks like at one school you have a massive incentive to do really good on the test.
If their was a day that I hated in school it was standardized test day. I don't know why, but these days felt like so much more pressure was on you as a student. Here in Texas we have the STAAR test. Good luck to all the students in our area that are taking this thing, I know it can be a little stressful. Don't worry, you got this!
However, I bet you wish you lived in the Southside ISD here in Texas this week. Over at Matthey Middle School, teacher Israel del Valle is offering something to his students that do well on the test. If you receive a perfect score, he will give you $1,000. That's right, out of his own pocket. He says he is prepared to get a second job to pay his students off if he needs to.
Israel says he thinks eight of his students legitimately have a chance of getting a perfect score. He has 120 students in total that you would possibly have to pay. “I’m hoping they blow out my expectations,” he said. “Joking around this week, I keep telling them, you’re going to make me broke. You’re going to make be broke. But, they’re excited to kind of push me and I’m excited to make it happen. And for all reasons, if I’m going to have to take out a loan or go into debt for these kids, it’s definitely worth it.”
What I think is even cooler, if they miss five questions or less, they’ll get $100. If they miss 14 or less, they’ll get $50. So even if you're not perfect, you still have a chance. Israel del Valle was the Southside ISD teacher of the year in 2021 and I can see why. You can tell he truly wants his kids to do well, even if a bribe motivates them to study even harder.
I know I would have paid attention more in school if $1,000 was on the line.
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MMAP Project Leader, Windham Graves, began the MMAP (Multi Modal Additive Printer) project in the summer of 2012. Funded through the Florida State University Research Foundation (FSURF), MMAP is a 3D printing platform for use in materials research, experimental form generation and human-scale art making with an 8x6x4 foot print envelope. To date, he has experimented with ABS plastic, wax, high-density polyethylene and a variety of concrete and aggregate mixtures. Recently, Graves retrofitted the MMAP printer with a specialized extruder designed to handle concrete and ceramic materials. His next series of tests will focus on printing with ceramic, generating large-scale prints for kiln firing. FSU MFA graduate and Instructor at Valdosta State University, Mark Stafford, provided assistance with the project, lending his expertise with ceramic materials. Form Lab Project Fellow, Michael Rees, utilized MMAP earlier this year and FAR staff looks forward to inviting more researchers to the facility to experiment with this unique piece of equipment.
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President-elect Donald Trump and Republicans in Congress are looking for a way to quickly repeal the Affordable Care Act (ACA) without millions of Americans losing health insurance. However, quick and easy is unlikely, experts say.
The emerging strategy is "repeal, delay, and replace," and it comes with a host of complications, writes Robert Doherty, senior vice president of governmental affairs and public policy at the American College of Physicians, in an opinion piece published online December 13 in Annals of Internal Medicine.
If Congress is able to pass a repeal-and-delay law, Doherty says, millions will lose coverage because insurers, unsure about a replacement plan, will likely flee the ACA insurance markets by the end of 2017.
The strategy may have direct consequences for many groups, according to Doherty. "The people who will be most affected by repeal include working-class people, women who are concerned about loss of coverage for contraception, and entrepreneurs with medical conditions who fear they will have to give up their start-ups for jobs that offer coverage — not to mention the many more people with pre-existing conditions who may again find themselves turned away by insurers."
Budget Reconciliation Strategy
The GOP likely will use budget reconciliation to repeal parts of the ACA early in the Trump administration. Under that approach, senators can't filibuster a bill, so it could pass with a simple majority, easily done with Republican votes.
However, reconciliation would only work for those parts of the ACA that reduce the federal deficit. Congress can't use it to eliminate provisions that are "merely incidental" (determined by the Senate parliamentarian) to reducing the deficit.
The GOP tried a test bill early in 2016, which, as expected, President Obama vetoed. Under that bill, the parts that would have been "merely incidental" would have included required minimum benefits, bans on not covering people with pre-existing conditions, and a ban on limiting annual and lifetime coverage.
Republicans will likely try a similar bill in 2017, Doherty writes.
"Some conservatives want to expand reconciliation to include repeal of the entire law, arguing that the whole law affects the deficit," Doherty says.
Overhaul Won't Come Quickly
Tom Miller, resident fellow of the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative think tank based in Washington, DC, told Medscape Medical News that changes will likely come at a much slower pace and be less drastic than Doherty and others have projected.
He said about repealing parts of the ACA: "I would agree with him that it's difficult. I would disagree that what makes the healthcare industry comfortable is most important."
Miller says changes will come somewhere between the extreme rhetoric of the opposing sides that now say either the whole Act needs to be blown up or nothing is touchable because changing one thing changes everything else.
"Things are going to tone down a bit, when you need some more support for this, particularly if you can't do it through reconciliation, and you're dealing with a 60-vote requirement. That puts a real damper on irrational exuberance," he said.
Miller also says a quick repeal is unlikely. "Even with the Affordable Care Act, with a supermajority, it took [the Democrats] a year and three months in reality once the president got into office to enact something," he said. "And they barely got it through with these political margins and then you were waiting another three and a half years for the real stuff to get put in place."
One thing both sides want to keep amid the changes is the subsidies, he said. However, they will likely be distributed differently, he added. Some people will get subsidies for the first time and others will see their subsidies reduced.
"A good bit of the insurance regulation rules will be harder to change," Miller says, "and they can't simply be quickly transformed through a budget reconciliation measure."
The talk among the GOP so far has centered on making Medicaid a block grant program, so states could have more say in who gets it and how much they get, which will mean a reduction in federal funding, fewer people covered, and fewer benefits over time, Doherty says.
Miller said he doesn't see a fixed-dollar block grant for each state but probably per capita allotments for parts of the program. He agrees, however, that, over time, federal allotments will be less generous.
People in the "old" Medicaid system will probably do better than those in the expansion Medicaid, he suggests, because one of the places from which money will be taken will be the expansion populations with a much higher federal match.
The future overall share of Medicaid will be traded off with opportunities through a tax-credit structure to "buy your way up" into private insurance coverage, he said.
Overall, he said about impending changes to the ACA: "The magnitude will be less than the folks opposed to the current law hope and won't be as drastic as those supportive of the law fear."
Doherty points out that changes to the ACA will be felt beyond insurance coverage. He says some groups who are authorized by the ACA that are now in the line of fire include the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation and the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute.
Mr Doherty has reported personal fees from the American Clinical and Climatological Association, outside the submitted work. Mr Miller has disclosed no relevant financial relationships.
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Ultimately, health is not a luxury; it’s a requirement for living a pleased, meeting life. Keeping your mind and body energetic is vital to healthiness. Healthiness assists you live your life and prevent disease. By picking a healthy and balanced lifestyle as well as consuming the appropriate foods, you’ll be able to maintain the physical functions of your body as well as improve your psychological wellness. But it doesn’t stop there. It also extends to your social life. Healthy living is an essential goal for any kind of person.
Social components of health are problems in the setting where a person lives. These elements impact health and wellness outcomes on a series of degrees, including wellness standing, lifestyle, and functioning. They typically add to the broad health and wellness variations we see in society. Moreover, accessibility to health care services and health results are additionally impacted by social components. Healthy and balanced People 2020 especially addresses these variables, and incorporates high quality health care into each topic area. It is very important to note that there are some elements that affect health in a much more direct method. Learn here
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As a middle school teacher, Dan has long had a front row seat to the struggles of vulnerable children. But few stories compared to that of William, a 13-year student who was in a foster placement. With his biological mom in prison and a string of broken placements behind him, William was seeking guidance from a secure, caring adult, and he found that in his teacher, Dan. They quickly developed a strong connection.
Then, when William’s third “almost-adoption” fell through, Dan temporarily opened his home to William. But what was supposed to be temporary turned into long-term. Dan had always thought he might become an adoptive dad, and William entering his life felt like the perfect time to step into that role. So after a few months of living together, they began the adoption process to formally become a family.
For a short time, things went very well. Dan and William communicated, showed respect for one another, and had a camaraderie that felt almost like a friendship. But as the months went on, and as Dan increasingly embraced the role of a parent/rule-enforcer instead of friend/mentor, the situation became more difficult.
Then when William entered high school, things began to spiral out of control. A new school meant new freedoms and a new group of friends. Difficult behaviors began to emerge, borne out of mental health struggles that William had previously kept hidden from the adults in his life.
Then COVID-19 hit, and, as Dan puts it, the wheels fell off. William was subjected to the anxieties associated with distance learning and a lack of socialization. And to top it off, his biological family came back into his life, adding to his growing list of stressors. At this point, his mental health struggles were impossible to keep hidden from Dan; reckless behaviors like drug use, self-harm, and sexual acting out emerged. William was beginning to lose his identity.
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A balanced diet is an important part of overall health. It provides a person with essential nutrition, including sufficient fiber, fluid, macronutrients such as protein, and vitamins and minerals. In addition, a balanced diet provides adequate food energy. But what makes a diet balanced? What are some of the things you should look for? This article will help you decide whether a particular food is good for you. By following these guidelines, you’ll have a better chance of a balanced diet.
The American Heart Association recommends a healthy dietary pattern that includes foods from all five food groups. These recommendations can be tailored to individual needs and cultural preferences. They encourage the consumption of a variety of whole grains, vegetables, fruits, nuts, and seeds, low-fat dairy products, and minimally processed foods. To maximize the benefits of your diet, a balanced diet should include a variety of calorie-dense foods.
Protein is another important part of a well-balanced diet. Dairy products, including calcium-fortified varieties, are excellent sources of protein. Choosing low-fat versions is best. Other sources of protein include tofu, bean curd, mycoprotein, and Quorn. Fish is another good source of protein and is high in omega-3s. Despite being high in calories, fish is a healthy choice for a diet.
Carbohydrates should comprise one-third of your diet. These include foods high in fiber and other nutrients. Choose green, orange, red, and white vegetables. Avoid starchy vegetables, as they can contain added sugar or syrups. Wholegrains, on the other hand, contain more vitamins and minerals. A diet rich in whole grains will provide you with more energy and lower your risk of cardiovascular disease.
A healthy diet includes foods in moderate amounts. Fruit should be eaten in lesser portions than vegetables, primarily due to the natural sugars that they contain. On the other hand, vegetables need not be moderated. A person should read the nutritional labels of foods they eat to ensure they do not fall into the excess or deficiency categories. If you’d like to learn more about moderation in a balanced diet, visit the USDA SuperTracker site.
Moderation in a healthy balanced diet depends on individual preferences, appetites, physical activity levels, and dietary needs. In addition, determining your own level of sweet tooth can help you decide how much you should eat. The key to eating in moderation is to compare your current eating patterns to your fitness goals. Moderation in a healthy balanced diet can be as simple as calculating caloric intake and reducing portion size.
Eating in moderation has no hard and fast rules. It simply means eating a reasonable amount of something. This approach will help you lose weight. It’s not about avoiding unhealthy foods, but rather allowing yourself to indulge in a little bit of them occasionally. This is a great way to lose weight! It’s easy to follow, and your body will thank you. Just make sure to keep your portion sizes low and avoid excessive snacks.
Saturated fats are found in many food products and are a natural part of many foods. Most are found in animal sources, but some can also be found in plant foods. Regardless of the source, it is important to reduce saturated fat intake and limit portions. If you are planning on eating red meat, for example, choose skinless chicken or fish. Instead of butter or other solid fats, try canola oil. Also, replace whole-fat dairy products with low-fat versions. And don’t forget to eat more whole grains.
However, saturated fats aren’t all bad for you. While many studies suggest that these fats may not cause heart disease, it is important to keep in mind that they are not created equal. Foods high in saturated fats are usually considered processed and contain a higher risk of disease than foods with low amounts. Foods high in saturated fats are usually found in fast food, processed foods, sugary baked goods, and meat. In moderation, you can add coconut and grass-fed beef to your diet.
While there is no single source of saturated fat, saturated fats are found in red meat and dairy products. Some people also find them in coconut or palm oils. Saturated fats can raise blood cholesterol levels and increase the risk of heart disease. But a diet high in unsaturated fats can lower cholesterol levels and reduce your risk of heart disease. If you are concerned about your diet’s saturated fat content, talk to your dietitian before eating these foods.
Salt is a chemical compound containing sodium and chloride. It is widely used as a seasoning and for flavoring foods. It is the most common source of sodium in the average diet. Although a small amount of sodium is essential for good health, most people tend to consume far more sodium than is necessary. This is a result of our tendency to add salt to our meals and snacks. So what is the right amount of sodium to eat?
Sodium is naturally present in many foods. However, the average American consumes about five teaspoons of sodium per day. This is more than the recommended daily allowance. Ideally, we need only a quarter-teaspoon of salt. Even if sodium is naturally found in foods, it is added during processing. We need about one teaspoon of sodium daily, but we consume so much salt in processed and fast food that we are now getting dehydrated.
To lower your sodium intake, you should cut down on the amount of table and cooking salt. The same goes for hidden salt. Hidden salt is responsible for more than seventy percent of sodium in the average diet. Try to choose fresh fruits and vegetables that have a lower sodium content than canned or packaged vegetables. Look for low-sodium versions of common foods like bread and pasta. You should also cut down on packaged and processed snacks.
Whether we like it or not, carbohydrates are a vital part of a balanced diet. They provide energy and are found in fruit, vegetables, whole grains, and starchy vegetables. They take longer to digest than simple sugars and fats and provide the body with the energy it needs. When we don’t eat enough carbohydrates, we store the excess in our liver and muscle cells or turn it into fat. As a result, a diet low in carbohydrates is known to cause fatigue, muscle cramps, and poor mental functioning.
There are two types of carbohydrates: healthy and unhealthy. You should limit the amount of unhealthy carbohydrates you eat and focus more on eating foods rich in fiber and vitamins. Also, you should limit your intake of added sugars and consult with your healthcare provider to determine the right amount of carbs to eat. The Australian Dietary Guidelines recommends a daily intake of 45 to 65% carbohydrates. But you may want to eat a little more, or a lot, depending on your body’s needs.
To get an idea of how many grams of carbohydrates you should eat per day, look at the labels on processed foods. While refined carbs are convenient, they lack essential nutrients and are detrimental to your metabolic health. Instead, choose fresh fruit, whole grains, and vegetables. And remember to increase your physical activity as well. If you are worried about your diet, there are many resources available to help you plan your next meal.
A well-balanced diet contains enough protein to meet your needs. Too much protein, however, can cause problems. Fortunately, there are many healthy sources of protein that can help you meet your daily protein requirement. Some of these sources include meat, poultry, fish, soy, beans, and tofu. Other high-protein foods include nuts, seeds, and pulses. In addition to these high-protein foods, you can also substitute them with carbohydrate-rich food sources.
For most people, the amount of protein in their daily diet should be around 10% to 35% of total calories. In addition, active adults may need as much as 1.2 to 1.7 grams of protein per kilogram of body weight per day. This translates to 82-116 grams of protein daily for a 150-pound person. However, the official recommended daily allowance for healthy adults is 0.8 g/kg per day, or 54 grams of protein.
Protein is broken down into 20 different amino acids. These acids are the basic building blocks of your body, and each one has its own beneficial effects. Tryptophan, for example, produces serotonin, a neurotransmitter that reduces the symptoms of depression and improves cognitive function. If you’re looking for ways to increase your intake of protein, consider adding a few small servings of fish to your daily diet.
You should be aware of the fact that a diet with a balanced amount of fat is healthier than one that is deficient in this nutrient. This is because fat has a higher calorie density than carbohydrates or proteins. In addition to making you fat, high fat intake can increase your risk of heart disease and stroke. For these reasons, health experts recommend replacing saturated fat with polyunsaturated and monounsaturated fats.
While fat is often associated with high cholesterol levels and weight gain, some kinds of fat have health benefits. For example, some fats have protective effects for the heart and immune system. However, these benefits only work if you consume the right amounts of each type of fat. Therefore, it is vital to understand what types of fat are healthy for your body and which are harmful. A balanced diet consists of a mix of both types.
The amount of fat in a balanced diet varies, but you should limit saturated fat to no more than 20% of your total caloric intake. The recommended amount of fat for adults should be between twenty and thirty percent of your calorie intake. Typically, saturated fat constitutes around 10% of our diet. A balanced diet should also include a lot of fruits and vegetables and protein from various sources. It is also important to limit the amount of highly processed foods. Choose whole fruits and vegetables instead of potato chips and other snack foods. | <urn:uuid:075de666-ef67-425b-a226-47a9ad79cbbd> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.ethnicfoodshow.com/what-makes-a-balanced-diet-healthy/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573193.35/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818094131-20220818124131-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.95349 | 2,065 | 3.546875 | 4 |
Organizational Behaviour Assignment: Identifying Importance Of Team Effectiveness
Drawing on your experience working in the team, in addition to your knowledge of team effectiveness and other relevant topics covered in this course, your essay should focus on the following points:
• Define team effectiveness and briefly reflect on whether your team was effective according to this definition.
• Provide a brief overview of the team effectiveness model (Robbins et al., 2019). Drawing on the team effectiveness model, explain and reflect on two factors that (a) contributed to your team’s effectiveness and/or (b) were areas in which the performance of your team could have been improved. Your reflections should be clearly linked to theory and research. Note. Leadership is already covered in this essay, so leadership should not be one of these two factors.
• One of the elements within the team effectiveness model is leadership, which has an important impact on team functioning and effectiveness. Analyse your experience of leadership within your team and explain specific strategies you can employ to effectively lead teams in the future. Your reflections should be linked to theory and research on leadership.
Rationale for this organizational behaviour assignment
One of the underlying rationales for this subject is to make sense of the way people behave at work by combining multiple sources of knowledge (e.g., our own observations, reflections, experiences combined with theory and systematic research). Our ability to reflect on, and make sense of, our experiences, is an effective form of learning. Learning takes place when we reflect on our personal experiences and try to make sense of them with reference to existing and emerging understandings of the world (e.g., theories and systematic research). An important aspect of reflective learning is that it allows us to plan better ways of dealing with similar experiences in the future: It is not sufficient simply to have an experience in order to learn. Without reflecting upon this experience, it may be quickly forgotten, or its learning potential lost. It is from the feelings and thoughts emerging from this reflection that generalisations or concepts can be generated. And it is generalisations that allow new situations to be tackled effectively. (Gibbs, 1988).
Reflecting on your experience working in a team, and linking these experiences to the concepts, theories, and research you are exposed to in this subject, is a particularly effective way to learn about team effectiveness and the impact of leadership in teams. These reflections will also guide you in more effective teamwork and leadership practices in the future. Reflective thinking is also a key step to critical thinking and analysis.
Overview of Individual Essay
For this assessment, you are asked to reflect on your teamwork experiences in relation to the planning of your team’s presentation for A2 in this subject. This will require you to take a step back from the experience and think about your key learnings elicited from working in a team. In addition to identifying your key learnings in the essay, you will need to link your key learnings to concept, theories, and research discussed in this subject.
To support your analysis, you need to cite at least 6 peer-reviewed journal articles. Articles that relate to these topics can be found in full-text format in databases such as ProQuest, Business Source Premier, and PsycInfo. Integrating literature throughout your essay provides the necessary depth to prevent your essay from being overly descriptive, allowing you to critically analyse your teamwork experience and plan strategies for more effective teamwork in the future. In your analysis, you could consider whether academic literature supports, contradicts, explains, or extends your key learnings and why (or why not) this may be the case. Be sure to conclude each analysis with a clear summary statement about the integration between your key learnings and the literature (i.e., creating summary statements of learning based on your integration of experience and evidence). You should also reflect on how you will apply your key learnings in your future team work.
In organizational behaviour, as opined by Schwarz and Bennett, (2021), Team efficacy is the ability of a bunch of participants, generally with expertise, to operate together to achieve goals established by a command, staff members, or team captains. In the present organizational behaviour assignment, Teamwork models and leadership assist everyone in understanding the better management methods for achieving ideal team productivity.The key purpose of the essay is to identify importance of team effectiveness and reflect on my own team performance. I have analysed the study based on the application of team effectiveness model.
2. Main Discussion: Brief Overview of Team Effectiveness Model
According to the view of Madsen, Townsend& Scribner,(2020), team effectiveness has been considered as a strategy based on which the cohesiveness among team members can be developed. The effective leadership and composition are two key factors to ensure the team performance.
Based on the above view, I can say that my team has effective leadership quality which has helped me to ensure the team skills.
Explanation of Team Effectiveness Model
The Robbins Team Effectiveness Model within organisational behaviour helps the employees to share their parts of information and create decisions that help each other to perform with their definite responsibility within their respective areas. Moreover, this generates positive synergy through coordinated efforts. Thus, as stated by Robbins et al., (2020), the individual's efforts and operations result in better performance in the workplace. However, there are certain types of team under the team effective model such as follows,
Under these teams, individuals utilize the computer technology which ties together the physically dispersed individuals for achieving the common goals (Wood et al.,2015). Thus, this helps in the ability to overcome space and time constraints.
Hence, the team effectiveness model holds four categories of factors such are follows, Context: Adequate resources, Structure and leadership,Surrounding of trust,Evaluation of performance and rewards systems
Composition: Abilities of members, Allocation of roles, Personality, Team size, Diversity, Member preference and flexibility
Work design: Variety of skills, Identification of task, Significance of task, autonomy Process: General purpose, Specific goals, Efficacy of team, Conflict levels, Social loafing
Two factors from the model contributed to the team effectiveness
From the above Team Effectiveness Model, two factors that have contributed within the team effectiveness of my workplace are context and work designs. Initially, context includes adequate resources where my team depends upon the resources that help them to sustain and the resource scarcity decreases the abilities of the team performance and job effectiveness. Secondly, structure and leadership helps my team members where they are designated with specific jobs and it ensures all the members are equally contributing and sharing the workload. Moreover, the climate of trust helps in creating trust among the team members that has helped us in facilitating cooperation and bonding. Moreover, as stated byDarmawan et al., (2020),Performance Evaluationand providing reward enhances reflecting the team performance, employee performance development and so on.
Furthermore, Work Design helps in accomplishing the important duties; impactful teams must collaborate and take collaborative accountability. Hence, our team has become more than just a name only squad. Thus, variations inside the work design classification involve autonomy and freedom within my team, the capacity for using different skills and talents within the team, the opportunity to accomplish a complete and recognizable task or commodity, and operating on an activity that has a significant influence on each other within the our team. According to my views, these attributes boost member inspiration and efficiency. These work design attributes help in encouraging my team members because it enhances the members with the feeling of obligation and possession over the task and make the task more enjoyable to accomplish. Hence, both of these factors have successfully contributed within the succession of our team effectiveness that have increased the productivity and performance within the workplace.
Areas of performance to be improved
The areas that need to be improved within my team are Composition and Process. The factor of composition involves the variables which show how the team within my workplace needs to be staffed where the individuals must possess different kinds of skills and abilities along with technical expertise which were generally lacking within my team. Moreover, as opined by Luu and Narayan, (2017), it also involves Personality that is the significant individual behaviour and attitude towards others and seniors, allocation of diversity and roles where the team are created with individuals coming from diverse backgrounds and plays various roles allocated to them along with size of team consisting of 10 members. However, we have lacked on this ground as our teams were larger than size and there were misunderstandings created on certain situations. Furthermore, Process is the final category where a team shares the common purpose that offers commitment, direction and momentum which was missing from our workplace. Moreover, specific goals helps in translating the common purposes with clear communication, team efficacy encourages confidence among the members, conflict levels that helps on becoming stagnant and apathetic which improves the team effectiveness and lastly, social loafing where individual coast on the team efforts where individual; contribution could be identified.
However, in our team all such factors could be implemented through the help of Tuckman’s Five Stage Group Development Model that consists of
Forming: Members are forming because they are unsure regarding the team's mission, structure, and governance. Storming: Dispute among group members and opposition to the restrictions is called storming and it enforces on individual identity.
Norming: It occurs when members create strong relations, cohesion, and a shared set of requirements for appropriate behaviour.
Performing: It reveals that the cohort is completely operational and the emphasis has shifted from discovering each other to job performance.
Adjourning: A group involved with finishing up operations rather than continuing them. Importance of leadership on team effectiveness As evidenced by Choi, Kim & Kang, (2017), effective team leaders maintain high team spirit and keep employees inspired to function well. Rulers could also influence self-esteem by fostering a cooperative environment among teammates, encouraging them to operate together to accomplish team objectives rather than focusing solely on individual priorities. Following strategies can be adopted in order to enhance the team performance.
The effectiveness of leadership is linked with the personality, physical, social and intellectual traits that help in differentiating the leaders from the non-leaders. Hence, the trait approach of leadership reflects specific traits like Big Five Personality Trait and Emotional Intelligence that are highly linked with the leadership (Robbins et al., 2020). I can implement the strategy of trait approach for enhancing the team cohesiveness in the future.
Behavioral approach/Task oriented leadership strategy
This approach helps in identifying the behaviour of the efficient leaders regarding what should a leader do and perform for the improvement of the workplace. Moreover, this approach states that leaders are made and not born as leadership is considered as the set of skill that is to be taught and identification of effective leadership behaviour that helps in reaching the potential. Thus, effective leaders are considered to be relationship-oriented and task-oriented(Martins, 2020).
The present study focuses on the organizational behaviour with emphasizing on team effectiveness and leadership. Hence, the study focuses on explaining the team effectiveness model of Robbins that consists of context, composition, work design and process. Gradually, the study explains the two factors that have successfully contributed in team effectiveness and other two factors that are needed to be improved. Lastly, the study explains the significance of leadership in team effectiveness.
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On Tuesday in Bahawalpur The Punjab Wildlife Department rescued two bears from Bear Baiting during a raid. A man identified as Allahyar illegally kept the bears at his temporary residence in Yazman has been arrested.
According to the Wildlife Deputy Director Zahid Ali, The wildlife department had received information about a bear being kept in captivity in the area after which a team was sent for a survey.
After a Couple of days the team was informed of the appearance of a bear in Yazman and later after the raid, two bears were discovered in the cage.
According to Assistant Director Muhammad Abrar A case has been filed against Allahyar for violating sections 11 (animals found dead or killed or caught unlawfully), 12 (certificate of lawful possession) and 21 (penalties) of the wildlife act.
The Defendant was released after the approval of his bail plea against a sum of Rs 20,000 in Yazman Court.
Moreover, The wildlife department officials told the court that the cabinet passed a law two months ago in which such licences were declared illegal and unvalid.
Since according to the Allahyar’s Lawyer, Haji Tahir the owner of the bear had a licence that allowed him to hold bears captive.
Last month, the department had rescued two bears from Chishtian and Bahawalnagar. Two men were arrested and a fine of Rs10,000 was imposed on each of them.
The two rescued bears have been moved to the Bahawalpur zoo temporarily. The department is, however, making arrangements for them to be moved to a suitable place.
Bear Baiting will not be allowed in the region as the Punjab wildlife department announced In January, however the cruel and violent activity was banned in Pakistan in 1980 but it continues till today. | <urn:uuid:a752afb1-ea36-4713-9acd-c5572d721610> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.economy.pk/bear-baiting-is-illegal-two-bears-rescued-in-bahawalpur/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573744.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819161440-20220819191440-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.987352 | 370 | 1.710938 | 2 |
It is not just for calculating rainfall, an electronic rain gauge is much more. There’s possibly no better way to awaken your or your kids internal weather fanatic than by having one. Your portable weather station will not be complete without one, and with regards to learning it is a great tool.
Perhaps you built your own rain gauge, or helped your children make one for a school project. How accurate do you think it is. If accuracy matters to you, you probably know an electronic rain gauge will never be beaten. They are ideal devices for a school and seats of learning and education. Taking into consideration those factors, if you are looking for a rain gauge the obvious choice is an electronic rain gauge. Hands on experience of these weather evaluation tools helps build up a better understanding of exactly how weather works and various weather patterns.
As you look at more complex models you’ll find some include additional capabilities including the ability to calculate spillage. For people who want to keep a close watch on rainfall patterns and are more concerned with rainfall patterns going haywire worldwide, this is an ideal tool to start with. Perhaps your portable weather station measures the heat index and wind speed. That’s not adequate. If you don’t determine precipitation amounts you aren’t gaining all the details you need.
Here’s another interesting and yet typical use. Many people like to use weather devices as part of their home decor. It’s for those who have the trendiest hobbies as well as those interested in home decor!
It’s also beneficial in gardening information and gives an overview of the soil pattern one could anticipate at their area. Plus understanding how much it rained is critical to decide how much water you have to add, if any. This is true for a master gardener or anyone with a little vegetable garden in their backyard.
And if you don’t want to run outside on a stormy night to gather and document your data, be sure to select one with a wireless data transmission base. Wireless bases can supply live data, directly to your living area! A tracking range of hundred feet will display accurate precipitation rates along with outdoor temperatures.
A newer model electronic rain gauge has additional features such as temperature and humidity measurement sensors. Those functions will not be necessary obviously if you are presently obtaining those measurements via some other equipment.
You can buy one of many rain measurement devices on the market, and even regular tools are good. They’re just not as precise. Regular units also will not track and record your data. If you are a serious weather nut, or simply need the information to be sure your garden or yard are receiving the proper amount of water, an electronic gauge is definitely your best selection. | <urn:uuid:b623bfb3-3997-4b25-899c-c14ea5f4e6b4> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.zhakei.com/the-advantages-of-an-electronic-rain-gauge/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573744.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819161440-20220819191440-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.95208 | 559 | 2.203125 | 2 |
What’s the point of a day off if you can’t spend time in the great outdoors and breathe in some fresh air. Sure, with all the noise, chaos and erratic power situation, it’s best to find a nice spot away from the bustling metropolis and drive out.
While Chennai has absolutely no dearth of charming and interesting spots to drive to, many are not aware of these. Fancy a little bit of history and other tales of yore? Then try and plan out a weekend fort drive. All situated well within a drivable radius from Chennai, these historic places and forts will give you a break from the ubiquitous off-city destinations.
Alamparai Fort: The ruins of Alamparai Fort are situated at Kadapakkam, about 50 km from Mahabalipuram. Cruising through ECR, you will have to cross Muttukadu before you hit the spot. Built in the late 17th century during the Mughal era, the Alamparai Fort also served as a bustling trading zone then. When the French were defeated by the British, the fort was captured and destroyed in 1760 AD. More recently, the structure was damaged in the 2004 Indian Oceanearthquake. It’s a picturesque spot, very placid and relaxing.
Ranjankudi Fort: This is a 17th century fortress located about 17 km north of Perambalur. The fort was constructed by a feudatory of the Nawab of the Carnatic, and is the site of the great Battle of Valikonda between the British East India Company and Chanda Sahib in 1751. The fort contains a palace, residential buildings, underground chambers, mosque and a flag mast.
Gingee Fort: The Gingee fort is one of Tamil Nadu’s most respected historic spots, situated in Villupuram, as close as a drive to Puducherry. Usually dubbed the ‘Troy of the East’, the impregnable citadel began with the construction of a small fort by the Chola dynasty in the ninth century. Since then, it has passed from the hands of the Vijayanagara Empire to the French as well as the British. Gingee fort has an interesting array of sights within its boundaries, staring from the wide moats to the Kalyana mahal and the military gymnasium. A must for photography enthusiasts, Gingee fort holds a lot more than just a shadow of the past.
Vellore Fort: The Vellore fort owes its origins to the Nayaks of Vijayanagara. Built somewhere around the 16th century, the fort is famous for having been the stronghold where Tipu Sultan’s family was held hostage. Yet another interesting fact to note is that, what we refer to as Chennai and Tirupati today were dominions that came under the Nayaks of Vellore fort. One of the mostimpressive examples of a ground fort in the south, this one houses a temple, a church as well as a mosque. The temple within the fort is famous for its detailed and magnificent carvings. | <urn:uuid:1819a7c7-35ca-4e86-8ed4-75f8dd232205> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://hinddesh.com/2012/09/04/four-famous-forts-in-tamil-nadu/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570793.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808092125-20220808122125-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.966321 | 651 | 1.75 | 2 |
was born in 1927 as Irmgard Cuz Heinemann in Guatemala. Her mother was Maya Kekchi, her father German. Her early childhood she spent in a simple hut on a finca near Senahú, Alta Verapaz. She was called Nan. For education her father took her to Germany. After the War, longing for her home country and helped by her early memories, she started to paint scenes of indigenous life and mythology. In 1971 having achieved international recognition she went back to Guatemala with her family.
Nan Cuz died on the 11th of November 2019 at the age of 92 years.
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This paper examines the relationship between age-related cognitive decline and three potential workplace outcomes: 1) coping with increased job difficulty; 2) shifting to a less cognitively demanding job; and 3) retiring early. It uses data from the Health and Retirement Study (HRS) and the O*NET database. Critical components of the analysis are the metric used to measure cognitive decline, inclusion of cognitive reserve as an independent variable, and the use of overlapping 10-year observation windows. A key limitation is that the study cannot conclusively discern a causal relationship between cognitive decline and workforce exit.
The paper found that:
- About 10 percent of workers between the ages of 55 and 69 experienced steep cognitive decline over a 10-year period.
- Workers experiencing steep cognitive decline were more likely to “downshift” to a less demanding job or retire than workers experiencing no cognitive decline.
- Workers experiencing steep cognitive decline retired significantly earlier than planned, compared to workers who experienced no change in cognitive ability.
- Workers without cognitive reserves were more likely to exit the workforce and retire earlier than planned, compared to workers with cognitive reserves.
The policy implications of the findings are:
- Cognitive decline might prevent a significant minority of older individuals from working to their planned retirement ages, and thus should be considered when assessing reforms that incent delayed retirement.
- Policies that support “downshifting” to a cognitively less demanding job might help workers at risk of steep cognitive decline to remain in the labor force.
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In a small trial in the Netherlands, Dutch firm NovioSense has shown that its device for measuring blood sugar levels through tear fluid is comparable to current continuous glucose sensors.
Currently, the standard method for people with diabetes to measure their blood sugar requires finger pricking multiple times per day, which can be painful and inconvenient. In recent years, companies like Medtronic, Dexcom or Abbott have launched devices that can measure glucose continuously by placing them on the skin, but they can be expensive.
Hidden under the lower eyelid, NovioSense’s glucose monitor could offer an invisible and affordable option to continuously monitor glucose levels. According to Chris Wilson, CEO of NovioSense, the device’s price could be “significantly lower” than that of current continuous glucose monitors. “We want this to be accessible to all diabetics,” he told me.
In the Phase II trial, the sugar levels of 6 patients with type 1 diabetes were monitored using NovioSense’s eye device over a period of 4.5 hours. The results showed that the eye glucose monitor yields results comparable to that of standard blood tests and continuous glucose monitors, and the patients did not report any discomfort.
The device consists of a flexible metal coil that is covered with a hydrogel layer. Inside the hydrogel there’s an enzyme, called glucose oxidase — the same one used in sugar blood tests. In the presence of glucose, this enzyme produces an electric signal that is picked up by a nanosensor in the metal coil. In the final design of the device, the company plans to add a microchip to wirelessly transfer the data to a smartphone.
With the number of people with diabetes increasing rapidly, many are seeking to develop new non-invasive methods to monitor sugar levels that get around finger pricking.
Others have tried to develop eye glucose monitors, including the famous Google lens, but so far they’ve struggled with accuracy. The developers at NovioSense believe that placing the sensor in the eyelid, where the tear volume is higher, can make a big difference.
The company is now about to start an additional clinical trial that will recruit 24 patients to investigate whether the device can accurately measure big changes in blood glucose levels. Detecting low glucose levels, which can be life-threatening, is a known challenge for glucose sensors that do not measure glucose directly from the blood.
With these promising results in hand, the company is getting ready to scale up. “We will open a series A investment soon and we are working to get the device launched in 2020,” said Wilson.
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When it comes to card-based games, many of us are very likely to be familiar with Apples To Apples, Uno, or (the more mature) Cards Against Humanity.
And though there’s nothing quite like letting your inner competitive-self out, for those who are looking to swap out points for collective self-reflection, conversation card games might be your jam.
Conversation cards have become a go-to icebreaker tool for people seeking ways to foster connection away from their screens.
Whether you’re planning a dinner night, team bonding exercise, or intend on using it as a self-reflection tool, conversation card games have offered people a framework to embrace humanity, vulnerability, and develop better conversation habits.
The best conversation card games ultimately challenge us to listen and empathize with ourselves and others. When played in a safe, affirming environment, we’re reminded how valuable it can be to courageously engage in hard conversations.
Conversation cards are one of the most entertaining and meaningful ways to stop and think about the world and people around us — and that’s when the magic happens!
We’ve scoured marketplaces, tested some of the coolest conversation cards in the game, and have ultimately curated a list of the best decks that we felt empower people to go out and do good in the world.
By the way, some of the links in this article are affiliate links, which means if you make a purchase after clicking a link, we may earn a commission at no extra cost to you. Thank you!
Our favorite conversation card games for adults:
What’s good: Whether you’re looking for inspiration to impact the world around you (check out their Impact Deck), an entrepreneur who needs a little help stepping outside of their comfort zone (Courage Over Comfort Deck is the way to go), or a parent seeking ways to help their children feel seen and heard (the Little Talk Deck is so sweet), there’s a pack that helps you create meaningful life habits that empower you to go out and do good in your community and workspace.
Details: The Icebreaker Deck (which is the one we tested) contains 150 conversation prompts that spark meaningful discussions and move you from small talk to real talk (perfect for the kitchen table or the conference room).
This deck comes packed with six different categories: life, random, deep, experience, if you could…, and would you rather…
- Packaging and design: The box is small and easy to grab, throw in your bag, and bring along to a dinner with your partner, family, or friends.
- Sample questions:
— What do you regret not doing when you were younger?
— What book have you read recently that you would recommend and why?
— Would you rather have a rewind or pause button on your life?
- Why it’s special: We love how most of the questions are general enough that you could ask them again and get a different answer — especially with some of the deeper questions, the cards could present an opportunity for vulnerability with loved ones.
Other Notes: Though we did enjoy our experience using BestSelf, we want to flag a “would you rather” question that came across as ableist: “Would you rather not have arms or legs, and why?”
It’s important to us that companies remove such language from their products. We hope that BestSelf Co. considers removing this question and similar questions from future print runs.
Update: Within 72 hours, the Best Self Co. team read this article and reached out to thank us for pointing this out. They said they're already working to edit this deck and exclude this card from future print runs. We're glad to see them taking action so quickly.
→ Shop the Icebreaker Deck online.
Let’s Get Real Bro
Where to buy: Let’s Get Real Bro
What’s good: Described as “Cards Against Humanity meets your therapist,” Let’s Get Real Bro (LGRB) is geared towards dudes (but playable by all). They aim to create space for men to talk about their feelings, emotions, and masculinity.
Their focus on men’s mental health support doesn’t end with the card game. With every purchase, they donate $1 to support men’s mental health, as well as offering one free month of therapy from BetterHelp!
Details: This deck comes packed with 90 questions (separated into three levels), six dry erase cards, and markers. Players take turns selecting a card while others jot down their responses. The first player to get to three points wins.
Ideal for 1-6 players and for ages 17 and up, each game comes with one free month of therapy from BetterHelp.
- Packaging and design: Consistent with its bold (obsessed with their color scheme) and sleek branding, LGRB does a fantastic job of giving us all the necessary details to play in a straightforward way. Its compact box makes it easy to have on hand.
- Sample questions:
— What’s your internal gas tank at?
— Describe your emotional state in the last week as a weather pattern or landscape?
— What’s the first thing you feel/think when you hear the term “male privilege”?
- Why it’s special: I enlisted my partner, Andy, for his honest feedback! Andy is not one to share intimate emotions in group settings, so I thought this would be a great case study!
Though admittedly it felt awkward and a bit foreign to him (at first) he appreciated that LGRB eased players into the game with funny and interesting icebreaker questions!
The dry erase boards, markers, and point system make it a little more like a game and relieves a lot of pressure for players who don’t traditionally have these kinds of conversations.
Other Notes: Mental health (just like our physical health) is so important. I think it’s great that companies like Let’s Get Real Bro are trying to destigmatize mental health for men. I fully intend to gift this pack to every male-identifying member in my family!
→ Shop the Let’s Get Real Bro deck online.
Loam: Down To Earth Deck
Where to buy: Loam
What’s good: Intersectional environmentalists, you’ll love this conversation deck! Loam — a team of compassionate and creative activists — has created a thoughtfully curated deck that specifically focuses on cultivating intersectional conversations that touch on advocating for climate injustice, racial justice, LGBTQ+ rights, Indigenous sovereignty, and feminism.
To reduce waste and avoid overproduction, Loam hand-assembles their decks and only offers pre-orders. Their packaging is also plastic-free — we love that in a card deck!
Details: Loam is a beautifully-designed set of 40 conversation cards created to nurture healing and take action toward building a sustainable world.
- Packaging and design: I was beyond impressed with their packaging and design, especially since most card decks come shrink-wrapped in plastic. This pack simply came wrapped in a thin piece of kraft paper and a beautifully designed box.
- Sample questions:
— What is your first significant memory involving water? The sun? The Earth? Wind? Lightning?
— What do you need in order to grow?
— What privileges do you possess (e.g. racial, gender-based, financial, educational)? How can you intentionally use those privileges to disrupt harm to the more-than-human world?
- Why it’s special: I love the idea of gathering close friends and centering the conversation around climate change, advocacy, and care (for ourselves, our planet, and others). If you’re mindful about your purchases and want something that is as close to eco-friendly as possible, this deck is a great option for you!
Other Notes: For community organizations or libraries interested in stocking this deck, they can reach out to Loam via their contact form in the footer of their site for special rates.
→ Shop the Down To Earth Deck online.
In Our Feelings
What’s good: Though we feel like we know the ins-and-outs of our closest friends, In Our Feelings cards dare us to dive even deeper! The game comes with best practices on how to ensure your time with “friends, family, co-workers, or death metal unicycle club” is set up for success.
They recommend agreeing on a time limit or number of rounds before beginning; this helps ensure everyone feels comfortable playing and knows that the conversation won’t go on forever.
Details: This deck includes 45 question cards, eight “Group Feel” cards, and instruction and story cards. Ideal for a group of 2-8 friends and small enough to pop into a purse or back pocket!
- Packaging and design: Created by design agency Luum, this card deck is beautifully designed, and aesthetically pleasing. The cards are light blue and minimalist in their design.
- Sample questions:
— What’s your favorite travel misadventure?
— When was the last time you felt truly creative?
— When was the last time you stood up for yourself?
- Why it’s special: What makes this game unique is its “Group Feel” cards. In general, you pass the deck around, and the person who picks the top card off the deck answers that question during their turn. If they find the question especially interesting, they can play their “Group Feel” card to invite everyone else to answer the question as well.
Where to buy: unCURATED
What’s good: unCURATED was designed and created in Atlanta and printed in the USA using environmentally friendly and sustainable printing methods.
What makes this game unique is its “Shared Agreements” card. Before the game, players agree to abide by the card’s guidelines, which are inspired by The Circles of Trust developed by Parker Palmer and The Center for Courage and Renewal as well as Dr. Cherini Ghobrial's extensive research on recovery groups.
Details: This pack was created to spark meaningful conversations to cultivate all the things essential for our emotional well-being and connection with others. It includes 50 cards that are separated into three rounds of creative questions.
- Packaging and design: These colorful cards are designed by artist Niki Malek and make even the most challenging questions feel whimsical.
- Sample questions:
— Round 1: What emoji do you use most frequently?
— Round 2: If you could know the answer to one question, what would you ask?
— Round 3: What is one thing you wished you never believed?
- Why it’s special: This deck was created by Dr. Cherini Ghobrial, a proud first-generation Egyptian American, with the goal of helping people “pursue health beyond physical well-being.” Her life experiences and passion for helping people shine through this deck.
→ Shop the unCURATED Card Game online.
We’re Not Really Strangers
What’s good: WNRS is an essential card game for any conversationalist who is sick of the same small-talk or gossip that dominates their relationships. It provides thought-provoking prompts that will resonate with almost anyone and encourages healthy vulnerability for all.
Developed by photojournalist Koreen, We’re Not Really Strangers (WNRS) was inspired by conversations and questions asked when she was in the field as a photographer.
Details: The original WNRS set includes 150 carefully crafted questions and wildcards and is ideal for 2-6 players. The cards are arranged into three sections to help guide your conversations, and a pad and two pencils are included in the box.
- Packaging and design: WNRS has a very simple design, sticking with the brand’s signature white and red color scheme to allow for the simple goal of reading questions as a means to connect with someone new.
- Sample questions:
— Do I remind you of anyone?
— How do our personalities complement each other?
— How are you, really?
- Why it’s special: My ideal hang-out is sitting on the couch with a cozy beverage and a friend, ready and willing to talk about my feelings. WNRS is an awesome way to invite people into conversation and community without it feeling weird or awkward.
Other recommended conversation starter games and decks:
What’s good: Actually Curious is a family-led, Black-owned socially conscious business using the science and psychology of emotional connection to teach the tools of active listening and empathy.
Their team drew references from psychologists, journalists, crisis negotiators, game developers, their parents, and friends to develop a game that centers around empathy while getting into important topics. Expansion packs include Happy Hour, Culture, and Human Rights.
Details: Based on the science of trust-building and emotional intelligence, this deck has four levels that help you get more vulnerable as you build trust.
The Curiosity Edition consists of 52 pocket-sized cards and is produced with ethical labor and a sustainable paper supply.
— What are you willing to fight for and why?
— What makes you unique?
— Name three things you’re grateful for and why?
rosewell: Dinner Parties
Where to buy: rosewell
What’s good: rosewell is a woman-owned business focused on creating considerate, inclusive, and welcoming conversations around intimacy. This sustainably-printed deck makes zero assumptions on sexuality, gender, or preference.
Details: This beautifully minimal black and white set features a collection of 50 questions on emotional, intellectual, and physical intimacy.
— How do your morals impact everyday life?
— What is something that comes naturally to you?
— How do you approach opposing opinions?
Esther Perel’s Where Should We Begin - A Game of Stories For Couples
Where to buy: Esther Perel
What’s good: Created by therapist Esther Perel, (who you may know from her widely popular podcast “Where Should We Begin? With Esther Perel”) comes a card game that prompts conversations about stories we rarely share.
Details: This kit comes with 250 story cards, 30 prompt cards, and 12 tokens, and can be played with 2-6 players.
— A person who doesn’t know they’ve impacted my life is …
— I’ve never shared the whole story about the time …
— The last thing I looked at that I wasn’t supposed to …
Flex Factory’s ReFlex #1
What’s good: This Black woman-owned small business seeks to create a conversation card experience that encourages refreshing banter and real connection through its ethically-made relationship-affirming decks. You can bust these cards out any time, any place, and with anyone (even by yourself as a self-reflection exercise).
Details: This water-resistant deck is for those who are sick of answering basic questions and want to go a little deeper. Complete with 49 prompts on love, life, death, politics, religion, career, and psychology.
The School of Life’s The Therapy Game
What’s good: Created by The School of Life — a global organization of professionals and specialists helping people connect with thoughtful mental health resources and tools — they’ve curated a slate of emotionally intelligent questions designed to build a safe space to listen and speak to one another in the comfort of their own home.
Details: This beautifully-designed deck covers categories like work, sex, relationships, anxiety, and self. The game comes with 100 cards, a timer, and an instruction booklet to guide you through it.
— Who do you need to impress?
— What did you learn about relationships from your parents?
— If you were a friend of yours, what would you tell yourself about the challenges you face?
TableTopics Original Edition Cube
What’s good: TableTopics has been developing award-winning conversation starter sets for the last ten years (including a pet expansion pack that I fully plan on adding to my conversation cards collection).
With over 35 products sold in specialty stores across the U.S., Canada, and the world, they got almost every social situation covered for you!
Details: Their ‘Original Edition Cube’ card kit comes with 135 cards filled with fun, thought-provoking prompts created for adults, but appropriate for ages 12 and up.
— Is it more important to be book smart or street smart?
— If you could have front row seats to any concert, who would you like to see?
— If you could give all human beings one virtue, which would you choose?
- We linked to Amazon for accessibility, but absolutely encourage you to shop directly from game-makers or Amazon alternatives. We've also discovered many of these card decks at IRL and online bookstores.
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Organisations and people we want to work with or who inspire
BEACH, Brighton Employability Advice and Careers Hut, for young people in Brighton & Hove, has been designed for young people by young people in Brighton & Hove to bring them into contact with employers and provide young people with advice about getting a job.
Tomorrow’s People helps disadvantaged adults and young people to get and keep a job.
A short film about how Tomorrow’s People helps disadvantaged people to get their lives on track:
The T2A Alliance evidences and promotes effective approaches for young adults throughout the criminal justice process. T2A is a coalition of 12 of the leading criminal justice, health and youth organisations, convened by the Barrow Cadbury Trust.
Young Fabians Policy Commission on Youth Unemployment
A leadership programme for 19-25 year olds for talented young adults from diverse backgrounds, to equip them with the knowledge, networks, skills, and confidence to transform their communities in Britain and beyond for the better.
Examples of social action campaigns from 2012-13:
Manchester 2012-13 Social Action Campaigns: Community Cohesion, PlatformMCR, E-Minds, smART, Raising Youth Aspiration and Motivating Young People
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Apps for Education Stories July 13, 2015
Apps for Education Stories June 26, 2015
Google’s new courses help teachers seeking to integrate its services into the classroom
Google wants schools to take advantage of its Apps for Education suite of productivity tools and services, but it also recognizes that proper professional development is essential to enabling educators and transforming education. The company today announced the release of a free training platform that provides interactive lessons with a focus on how to successfully complete real classroom tasks and objectives using Google products.
The new platform is called Google for Education Training Center and builds upon a recent survey by the American Federation of Teachers which found that 71% of educators and administrators surveyed cited “adoption of new initiatives without proper training or professional development” as a primary source of stress in their work lives. The new tools are supposed to help teachers apply Google’s tools in the classroom and beyond.
The lessons, like how to get students collaborating using Drive and Docs, are organized around the three themes above and range in difficulty from beginner courses to those targeted at teachers who already know their way around Google’s products quite well but might inspiration on how to differently using the products with their students.
As part of the announcement, Google says that it has brought on the Chicago Public Schools, a school district including over 600 schools and 400,000 students, as a launch partner for the Training Center. The district will use Training Center as a part of its technology professional development program, and the course will count towards its teachers’ professional development hours.
“The Training Center reflects what we value most about education, focusing on the process of learning rather than the tools themselves,” the company says. More information about the Training Center and to try the lessons, Apps for Education customers can visit g.co/edutrainingcenter.
Apps for Education Stories June 22, 2015
Google Apps customers can now create large numbers of accounts faster
Apps for Education Stories March 31, 2015
Google has today announced that it’s bringing new sharing controls, alerts and “audit events” to both Google Drive for Work and Google for Education over the coming weeks. Security is one of the biggest concerns that companies have about moving their data to the cloud, and Google hopes these new features will help make the transition just a little bit easier…
Apps for Education Stories January 14, 2015
Google announced today that it’s releasing mobile apps for its Google Classroom service for both Android and iOS devices. The company officially launched Classroom to its Apps for Education customers in the US during the summer offering them a web-based platform for planning lessons, handing out assignments, and working alongside students. Teachers and students will now be able to access those features from mobile devices through the new apps and Google is also adding a could of new features to the platform.
In addition to a new teacher assignments page and archiving functions for Classroom, Google notes that the mobile apps will let users snap a photo to share or attach to assignments, share content from other apps, and access content cached for offline viewing. expand full story
Apps for Education Stories October 14, 2014
Google just announced some enhancements and new features rolling out to its Google Classroom service today including much improved controls for teachers. Google Classroom, a platform for teachers to plan lessons, assignments, and work alongside students in real-time, was announced earlier this year and first opened to all Apps for Education users in August. expand full story
Apps for Education Stories September 30, 2014
Today, Google announced Drive for Education, a new part of its Apps for Education platform that will offer unlimited storage. Similar to Drive for Work, Drive for Education supports individual file sizes of up to 5TB, along with automatic encryption. “Every file uploaded to Google Drive is encrypted, not only from your device to Google and in transit between Google data centers, but also at rest on Google servers,” wrote
Apps for Education Stories August 12, 2014
After announcing a preview of “Google Classroom” back in May, today Google has opened up the tool for educators to all Google Apps for Education users. Classroom offers teachers a slick platform to plan lessons, assignments, and work alongside students, and today Google also announced some new features its implemented on advice from educators that have been previewing the software. Google is adding new collaboration tools that allow teachers to work with students while they work on assignments: expand full story | <urn:uuid:73962e87-8f0b-495b-83ca-186428c8daf3> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://9to5google.com/guides/apps-for-education/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570793.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808092125-20220808122125-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.962137 | 937 | 1.945313 | 2 |
The recent bankruptcy filing by the city of Detroit has caused million of U.S. workers—both public and private—to worry about the stability of their pensions and retirement plans. Regardless of whether you plan to get by in retirement with an employer pension, money from a 401(k) or Individual Retirement Account, or with the help of Social Security, it’s smart to plan ahead for financial security during your Golden Years.
With that in mind, here are five mistakes that can ruin your retirement—unless you sidestep these common pitfalls.
Mistake #1: Putting Off Saving Until the Last Minute
Are you one of those people whose retirement planning amounts to little more than crossing your fingers, and simply hoping for the best?
If so, you may be in for a rude financial awakening once you hit retirement.
Just ask the millions of Americans living on Social Security as their sole income source. The average Social Security check is only about $1,200 a month. That’s like getting paid the equivalent of today’s federal minimum wage rate of $7.25 an hour.
Instead of sticking your head in the sand, it’s time to get serious about saving money today—in preparation for the future. Setting aside some funds in a retirement account such as a 401(k) or an IRA not only gives you a tax break on your current income taxes, it also helps you establish that all-important nest egg you’ll need once you leave the workforce.
After all, you don’t want to wake up at age 50 or 60 and realize you have absolutely no savings whatsoever. Under such a scenario, you’d likely have to work well into your 70s—or maybe longer.
Mistake #2: Paying excessive or hidden fees
Let’s assume that you are socking away funds into an employer-sponsored retirement account, like a 401(k) or a 403(b). Do you know exactly how much you’re paying for those funds, in terms of fees?
High investment fees are an unnecessary evil in today’s competitive marketplace, and those fees can erode your investment returns in a big way—even when you don’t realize it. For instance, the typical fees associated with mutual funds can range from a very slim 0.2% to as high as 5%.
It might not sound like a lot if your fund company is charging you, say, 1.5%. Under that scenario, however, you could actually lose about $100,000 or more over a 30 to 40-year investing period, compared with a person paying 0.5% in fees, according to a GAO report, and research by Demos.
So whenever possible, seek out low-cost mutual funds, such as index funds, as opposed to higher cost, actively-managed mutual funds.
Don’t forget too about other fees that eat into your finances over time. This includes bank fees on checking accounts, student loan interest or annual credit-card fees. Do what you can to diminish each of these fees and you’ll be better off in the long run.
Mistake #3: Following the Herd
Remember when everyone and their brother on Wall Street wanted to get in on buying shares of Facebook when the social media giant went public in 2012? Well unfortunately, a lot of investors in Facebook learned the hard way that it doesn’t pay to chase the “hottest” stock of the moment.
If you want to invest successfully for retirement, you have to pick the right investments and develop an overall investment strategy that’s suitable for you and your particular circumstances.
Forget about what your Uncle, cousin, or your best friends are doing. Focus instead on your personal needs, your risk tolerance, and your specific long-term investing goals.
Mistake #4: Acting As the Family Piggy Bank
If family and friends are constantly coming to you to “borrow” money, you could be setting yourself up for financial disaster once you hit retirement.
By repeatedly “loaning” money or giving it indiscriminately whenever relatives and friends ask, not only are you going to have less cash available once you stop working, you’re also going to find yourself in a cycle that’s hard to break.
Even when you leave the workforce, realize that if you’ve been serving as your family’s human ATM machine, that pattern isn’t going to change.
Your loved ones are still going to come to you for money once you hit old age. And if you’re the type of person that just can’t say “no,” you could wind up with a whole group of relatives—sons or daughters, nieces and nephews, siblings and so on—that rely on you for financial support and help.
Instead of jeopardizing your financial health in retirement, muster up the courage to start saying “no” to people who keep coming, time after time, to ask you for money.
Mistake #5: Focusing Solely on Money
Lastly, everyone wants to be financially comfortable in retirement. And that’s fine. Just recognize that money is only one aspect of the equation.
Based on my work as a money expert for AARP, I know that happy, successful retirees did indeed save and engage in financial planning. But they also tended to a lot of other important things: like maintaining good health, considering their proximity to kids and grandchildren, evaluating the weather in the state in which they retired, and stepping up the level of social interaction they had with others after they stopped working.
If you fail to pay attention to these other crucial aspects of your life, you won’t have happiness and contentment in retirement, regardless of how much money you have in the bank.
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Your rubber gaskets are important for keeping your machinery healthy and functional. However, while they help to keep your machines running smoothly, rubber gaskets also need steps taken to keep them working smoothly and efficiently. A good way to lose money is to not properly coat your gaskets, something that isn’t uncommon in this industry.
Today, Coating Systems will take a look at why rubber gasket coating is so important. Specifically, we will look at four reasons why you need rubber gasket coating and what might happen if you don’t utilize it.
1. Maximum Lubrication and Protection
A major aspect of keeping your machinery up and running for as long as possible is proper lubrication and protection. This includes more than just rubber gaskets. Depending on what machinery you are protecting, other types of seals will play a major role too, all with the goal of lubricating and protecting the machines.
While lip and quad seals work to keep debris out, rubber gaskets will prevent leakage. Leakage can be a big problem for industrial machinery, and having properly lubricated gaskets can help prevent that.
2. Cosmetic Appeal
Another benefit of rubber gasket coating that is often forgotten is the cosmetic appeal. These coating solutions come in a variety of different colors, which serve multiple cosmetic purposes. The first is aesthetic appeal. The most useful benefit will come from color coding certain gaskets and parts. Using rubber gasket coating to color code your machinery can make your employees’ jobs easier and also prevent mishandling.
If they are properly taken care of, rubber gaskets can be used multiple times. One of, if the not the biggest benefits of rubber gasket coating is the money that it can save you by not only keeping your equipment healthy but also by keeping your gaskets functional. Rather than having to replace gaskets, rubber gasket coating gives you the ability to reuse the gaskets. Coating will help extend the life of your gaskets and as a result, save you money.
Related Post: Rubber Gasket Coating: How Does It Work?
4. Heightened Performance
Lastly, and arguably most importantly, rubber gasket coating is important because it will raise the level of performance for both your gaskets and your machinery. Having well lubricated and coated gaskets will improve friction and sealing on the gaskets, which will make your machinery run more smoothly.
Contact Coating Systems For Rubber Gasket Coating Solutions
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Symphony No. 4 (Mendelssohn)
|Symphony No. 4 in A major|
|by Felix Mendelssohn|
|Composed||1833, revised 1834|
|Performed||13 May 1833|
The work has its origins, as had the composer's Scottish 3rd Symphony and The Hebrides overture, in the tour of Europe which occupied Mendelssohn from 1829 to 1831. Its inspiration is the colour and atmosphere of Italy, where Mendelssohn made sketches but left the work incomplete. Below is a snippet of a letter he wrote to his father:
This is Italy! And now has begun what I have always thought ... to be the supreme joy in life. And I am loving it. Today was so rich that now, in the evening, I must collect myself a little, and so I am writing to you to thank you, dear parents, for having given me all this happiness.
In February he wrote from Rome to his sister Fanny,
The Italian symphony is making great progress. It will be the jolliest piece I have ever done, especially the last movement. I have not found anything for the slow movement yet, and I think that I will save that for Naples.
Mendelssohn completed the symphony in Berlin on 13 March 1833, in response to an invitation for a symphony from the London (now Royal) Philharmonic Society. He conducted the first performance himself in London on 13 May 1833 at a London Philharmonic Society concert. The Germania Musical Society of Boston gave the first performance in the United States, on 1 November 1851, with Carl Bergmann conducting.
Mendelssohn himself, however, remained dissatisfied with the symphony. He completed revisions to the work, particularly the last 3 movements, in July 1834. However, he never published the symphony during his lifetime. The symphony was published in 1851, in the original version given at the May 1833 premiere. The scholar John Michael Cooper has investigated in details the history of Mendelssohn's revisions to the symphony. Christopher Hogwood has edited a critical edition, published by Bärenreiter, of the symphony that includes the original standard version and Mendelssohn's revisions to the last 3 movements.
The published 1851 version is the standard edition performed generally by symphony orchestras. The revised version received its first commercial recording from Sir John Eliot Gardiner and the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra in 1999, and has received occasional live performances. Edward Greenfield has commented on Mendelssohn's changes between the two editions, in relation to the reasons for continuing performances of the standard edition:
Surprisingly for so perceptive a composer he undermined the original's freshness, smoothing over melodic lines (as in the Pilgrim's March) and extending linking passages. A fascinating comment on the danger of second thoughts after white-hot inspiration."
The joyful first movement, in sonata form, is followed by an impression in the subdominant minor of D minor of a religious procession the composer witnessed in Naples. The third movement is a minuet in which French horns are introduced in the trio, while the final movement (which is in the parallel minor key throughout) incorporates dance figurations from the Roman saltarello and the Neapolitan tarantella. It is among the first large multi-movement works to begin in a major key and end in the tonic minor, another example being Brahms's first piano trio.
A typical performance lasts about half an hour.
- The title is Mendelssohn's.
- Mendelssohn to Abraham Mendelssohn, from Venice, 10 October 1830.
- Ralph Blumenthal (2002-01-31). "Moving Mendelssohn Beyond Weddings; A Project to Rediscover a Life's Work". The New York Times. Retrieved 2020-11-26.
- Cooper, John Michael (April 1992). "'Aber eben dieser Zweifel': A New Look at Mendelssohn's Italian Symphony". 19th-Century Music. 15 (3): 169–187. doi:10.2307/746423. JSTOR 746423.
- Stewart-MacDonald, R. H. (February 2005). "Review of Mendelssohn's 'Italian' Symphony by John Michael Cooper". Music & Letters. 86 (1): 129–135. doi:10.1093/ml/gci015. JSTOR 3526043.
- Edward Greenfield (1999-05-14). "Other classical CD releases". The Guardian. Retrieved 2020-11-26.
- Barbara Eichner (2020-11-19). ""Die lustige Sinfonie, die ich auf das Land Italien mache": Zu Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdys Vierter Symphonie (programme notes for 20 November concert)" (PDF). Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra. Retrieved 2020-11-26. | <urn:uuid:bda3e674-be7e-4188-96d7-e55bd391e694> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symphony_No._4_(Mendelssohn) | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573193.35/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818094131-20220818124131-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.9155 | 1,120 | 2.40625 | 2 |
In the Northern part of India, the festival is celebrated by the name Bhai Dooj during the Diwali season. In Nepal, it is celebrated as Bhai Tika, after Vijaya Dashmi on the 5th day of Diwali. In Bengal, the festival is celebrated on the second day after Kali Puja by the name Bhai Phonta. And, in western India in Gujrat, Maharashtra, Goa, and Karnataka, the festival is celebrated by the name Bhau Beej or Bhai Beej.
Regardless of the differences in the name, Bhaiya Dooj is celebrated
under the common significance, which denotes the duty of a brother in
protecting his sister. On this auspicious day, the sister invites her brother
for the ceremony and lunch or dinner. During the Puja, but unlike Raksha
Bandhan, the ceremony doesn’t include Rakhi. Instead of that sisters only apply
a red or other Tilak as per their culture, and do Aarti. After the Aarti
brother gives a gift to the sister and in return gets one.
The main significance behind this day is that the Tilak applied by
the sister signifies her heartfelt wish for her brother’s long life. Also, the
day signifies every brother’s duty which is to cherish their bond with sister
and protect her from bad things.
Considering the second day of the Shukla Paksha of Kartik, this
year Bhaiya Dooj will be celebrated on the 16th of November. As for the Muhurat
for Bhaiya Dooj, according to the Drikpanchang, the best time for the Bhaiya
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Dentists will deal with kinds of teeth care or gum issues on a daily basis in Australia, but some occur much more frequently than the rest. These common issues can be prevented with good dental hygiene at home and visiting a dentist twice a year for regular cleaning and checkups. Sometimes people with great dental care routines might still have to deal with dental issues as well. So if you are suffering from dental problems, facing discomfort or dealing with pain or sensitive teeth, do get it checked out as soon as you can without delay – or the condition will worsen.
Tooth decay is probably one of the most common issues that people deal with that are also known as cavities or dental caries. Tooth decay can be prevented by good brushing techniques, daily flossing, dental checkups and eating less sugar or caffeinated foods or drinks. Eating more sugary or starchy foods can increase the chances of tooth decay. Younger children are usually the most common sufferers of this issue due to their enamel being less tough than adults. Tooth decay is also common in older people due to age factors.
Stained or Discoloured Teeth
This is an issue that is commonly faced by older people, smokers or even those who suffer from certain medical conditions too. Drinking large amounts of caffeinated drinks such as tea or coffee can cause this issue. Nicotine-stained teeth are also commonly seen in smokers as well. It is common for people to resort to a better teeth whitening procedures to removes stains and discolouring.
Gum Disease or Periodontitis
Gum diseases are sometimes an indicator of other health issues and dental clinic and around Australia often have patients with such issues. Periodontitis is caused due to plaque build-up where the bacteria starts to affect the gums by eating away at the tissues and ligaments. The sooner you visit a dentist the better – especially when you start noticing the symptoms. It is better dealt with during the early stages as is it can take longer to reverse when it has progressed further, and it can be quite painful with bleeding gums.
Enamel degradation is probably one of main issues that causes dental cavities which occurs when the enamel wears down. The teeth can become more stained and discoloured as well. While the enamel cannot be repaired, this issue can be prevented quite easily by cutting back on fizzy drinks, sugar or wines. A good dental routine complete with flossing is the best way to prevent this issue. | <urn:uuid:a420a7a2-57ea-45da-8d29-fb7f85de12af> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://heartburnsucks.com/some-common-dental-problems-that-can-be-fixed/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570793.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808092125-20220808122125-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.973021 | 512 | 3.078125 | 3 |
Here in the year of 2020 of the 21st century, we descendants of the people who created and first started singing the blues set to music, way back in the 19th century, are still singing the blues today. Those people who historically gave us the reasons to write and sing the blues because of our ill treatment and overwhelming oppression could not truly understand, appreciate or relate to our historical or present-day pain and suffering.
We African Americans have often been told that times have changed. We have been told by the powers that be throughout this country’s history and our existence to stop crying, to get over it, to move on, and for the most part we have tried to do so. We have tried to stop complaining and crying about our collective pains, and that is why the blues was created. It was the only form that black people could use to express the pain and seemingly never-ending suffering that we were and still are experiencing.
It was the only form that we could use that would not get us murdered by those in power who wanted us to be content enough to not stand up and speak out against everything negative that was happening to us.
We are tired of pretending that times have changed and hearing how much times have changed because in reality the times have not changed all that much in certain aspects of American life. We know this from the brutal killing of George Floyd by a white policeman in front of the eyes of the world. We know this when certain catastrophic events happen that reveal just how times have not changed, events like hurricane Katrina or other natural and man-made calamities that have exposed the truth about this country’s treatment or lack thereof concerning black and brown people.
This modern-day coronavirus pandemic is just the latest example of how much times have not changed. Just as former President George W. Bush did not care about black people during hurricane Katrina, as rap and hip-hop artist Kanye West stated back then, this present-day President Donald J. Trump doesn’t care about black people either before, during and after this Covid-19 pandemic. The exposure to this pandemic is one more spot on a long list of examples of just how vulnerable black people are to dying from lack of access to health care, as has been true throughout our history in this country.
Our tortured history has shown over time that health care, or lack thereof has played a pivotal part in our lives, and more important, our deaths, especially in preventable deaths. But America as a whole is not about prevention, it is about reaction. Well, preventable deaths for the rich and powerful is a given, but for the rest of us, especially we black, brown and Native Americans, it sometimes seems as though our deaths are welcomed by the healthcare system which is an arm of the rich. Neither cares about us, and if they can’t make money off of us and our suffering, then the hell with us.
African Americans make up on 13 percent of the population in this country, yet no matter what state you go to we are the majority of the people who are dying from this coronavirus, except in certain parts of New York where Latinos are the majority, and on reservations where Native Americans are the majority.
It appears that in every positive index in America, black people are at the bottom of the list, from jobs to home ownership, to wealth, to life expectancy, to health care access, to college or higher education and more.
Yet we are always at the top of the list when it comes to negative things in this country: mass incarceration, the death penalty, lack of health care, historical racism and injustice, generational poverty, institutional racism, discrimination that is built into all public and some private policies, police brutality, and just about everything else negative in this country.
Yet, it is we who are blamed by those in power and their supporters for our own demise and ill treatment. We are blamed for having to eat processed foods and cheap foods, for having to live in food deserts. We are blamed for being overweight, for having diabetes and hypertension. We are blamed for all the underlying health care or medical problems that we as poor and marginalized people have. We are blamed for living in rat- and roach-infested ghettos because of social or economic pressures out of our control. We are blamed for being black, for all the negative things that happen to us because of the color of our skin.
This is why we are still singing the blues, as this is our past, present and probably future in the good ol’ US of A.
The modern day plantation/prison system in this country is having its own problems with the coronavirus pandemic. This is because historically speaking, the prisons have been used to warehouse its unwanted and expendable people: black people. Inside these modern-day plantations, real health care is virtually non-existent. There is no social distancing, and depending on what state you’re in, there is no hand sanitizer or anything else. But this is just fine for most of Americans because they see black people as a problem people who should be locked up.
When a white person does something illegal, he or she is just one bad person. But when it’s a black person, he or she is from a problem people, and all problem people should be put away in cages, or murdered. This is all part of the history of black people in all states, especially in those ex-slave states like Mississippi, Alabama, Louisiana, Florida, Georgia, Texas, and others, that all now have Republican governors, all voted for Trump, and all have disproportionate numbers of black people who have suffered and died from coronavirus. Those are also the states that did not and do not want their residents to have Obamacare. So while in some cases chronic health conditions play a part in why blacks are disproportionately getting and dying from the coronavirus, the country’s historical treatment and social factors have a large part to play in this disaster.
As was stated recently by Stephen Thomas, professor of health policy and management director of the Maryland Center of Health Equity at the University of Maryland School of Public Health: “The data is clear and has been clear for decades, African Americans, Latinos and other minority groups live sicker and die younger.” He also said: “We cannot close our eyes or put up blinders to the disproportionate impact of this disease on racial and ethnic minority communities.”
I say, “Nor can we close our ears as to the real reason why black people continue to sing the blues.”
Here are some examples of the different types of blues that we sing, although our blues are close to what many others are experiencing at this point in history. Still, in disproportionate numbers are our pain, suffering and deaths.
- The Depression blues
- Another black person was brutally killed by a white cop blues.
- Police brutality blues.
- My loved one died from Covid-19 blues.
- I ain’t got no health care blues.
- I ain’t got no health care insurance blues.
- I can’t get a doctor to treat me blues.
- I lost my job blues.
- I don’t have a job blues.
- I need a job blues.
- I’m homeless blues.
- I ain’t got no money blues.
- My house was foreclosed on in 2008 blues.
- I’m still called a nigger blues.
- I don’t have any food blues.
- I can’t feed my children blues.
- I’m still in prison blues.
- I’m innocent on death row blues.
- I was stopped while driving in a white neighborhood blues.
- I was stopped driving while black blues.
- I was arrested for walking while black blues.
- They think I’m a criminal blues.
- I can’t even get welfare blues.
- I’m followed around the store without getting service blues.
- I go to a segregated school blues.
- I live in a segregated neighborhood blues.
- Mitch McConnell and his Republicans don’t care about black people blues.
- White supremacy is still alive and well in America blues.
- I experience racism and discrimination blues.
- We have lead in our drinking water blues.
- I got life in prison without parole blues.
- I got the coronavirus blues.
I could go on and on about why black people sing the blues, but my point has been made. That, along with this: According to the APM research lab staff’s May 5, 2020 report, “If black Americans had died of Covid-19 at the same rate as white Americans, about 9,000 of the nearly 15,000 black residents who have died in these states would still be alive.”
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I’d say “free societies” don’t exist in a vacuum; they have fairly liberal cultural backgrounds that allow them to exist without imploding. When you introduce more closed cultures to these societies they seem to take advantage of the freedoms afforded to perpetuate their system. I think this is similar to why we don’t allow completely free speech; people take advantage of free speech to push ideas that are diametrically opposed to the ideas upheld by free societies. Hopefully, my rambling made sense.
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This argument has always struck me as misguided. It effectively gives permission to the majority to declare any minority position to be ‘wrong’ or ‘harmful’ and therefore deserving of ‘righteous intolerance’. It gives the authority to determine what is right or wrong to the court of popular opinion. It opens the doors to a kind of mob rule in which any unpopular or uncomfortable opinion is squashed simply for being different.
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A Hindu temple is opening on October 14 in the Tea suburb of South Dakota’s largest city Sioux Falls, which is claimed to be the “first Hindu temple in the Dakotas”.
North Dakota and South Dakota, states in the Great Plains region of USA, are spread out in about 147,814 square miles area. There is a considerable growth of Hindu populations in the Dakotas.
Grand opening of Hindu Temple of Siouxland (HTOS), earlier scheduled to open on August 26, was delayed due to waterlogging caused by unexpected rain. Cost estimates for the two phases of the temple are listed as $585,000. Bhoomi Pooja of the temple site was held in 2016.
Ancient Hindu rituals to be performed at this Hindu Temple Opening Ceremony (Prana Pratishtha) and murti sthapana include sacred pitcher worship, consecration of deities, ceremony of fire and lights, flowers offering, liturgical dance, bhajans, etc. These rituals are believed to “endow the temple deities with divine power and bless the community in which they reside”. All are invited to the opening celebrations which will be followed by community lunch.
Meanwhile, distinguished Hindu statesman Rajan Zed, in a statement in Nevada today, commended efforts of temple leaders and area community towards realizing this much needed Hindu temple.
Rajan Zed, who is President of Universal Society of Hinduism, further said that it was important to pass on Hindu spirituality, concepts and traditions to coming generations amidst so many distractions in the consumerist society and hoped that this temple would help in this direction. Zed stressed that instead of running after materialism; we should focus on inner search and realization of Self and work towards achieving moksh (liberation), which was the goal of Hinduism.
“Mission and Objectives” of HTOS in southwest of Sioux Falls include: “Practice ideals of Hinduism through worship, education, and community involvement”. It is seeking donations and plans to celebrate “Festival of Lights” on November three. Archana Chatterjee and Muthukumarappan are Trustees Chair and Vice Chair, while Ramesh Singh and Kalyan Boinapalli are President and Vice President respectively.
Hinduism, oldest and third largest religion of the world has about 1.1 billion adherents. There are about three million Hindus in USA.
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Hotels are considered the most popular form of accommodations among travelers. But there are also other alternative accommodations that you can choose from if you think hotels are far too expensive for your budget or if you just want a change.
Here are three accommodation options you can choose from:
Hostels are one of the most inexpensive lodging options for travelers. This form of accommodation actually provides some options for you – you can either stay in a private room or a dormitory style room which you share with other people. The living areas are communal in a hostel. Even though hostels were originally meant for the youth and for young travelers, it has now become a popular choice for families, for single travelers, and even couples and seniors. These travelers are realizing how affordable hostels and are, which allows them to save more money and stretch their travel budget.
An accommodation option that is becoming quite popular among leisure and corporate travelers are serviced apartments. These accommodations are, as the name implies, an actual apartment that is made available for short term lease for travelers. One of the reasons why serviced apartments are becoming popular is because you get far more for the money you spend. Apartments are far more spacious, more private and has a homey atmosphere. It’s the reason why more families are choosing serviced apartments over other forms of accommodations.
Bed and breakfast
Although bed and breakfasts (B&B) and similar establishments (farm stays, for example) are usually considered for extremely short stays, it is becoming popular as well for longer stays. These establishments are becoming popular because it is a great chance to experience authenticity and to be able to see the area through the eyes of the locals. You’ll be able to converse and interact with the local, eat the local cuisine and even hear of stories and attractions that are off the beaten path. | <urn:uuid:07d14c59-bf0b-4659-adc8-eca6a18f0511> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.travelogger.net/tips/accommodation-alternatives-to-hotels/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572212.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815205848-20220815235848-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.968029 | 384 | 1.6875 | 2 |
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