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Brooklyn Park, Md. (WBFF)- Health officials are now adding three more names to the growing list of opioid-related deaths across Maryland.
Two from Anne Arundel County and one from Frederick died from the carfentanil-related overdoses.
The synthetic opioid carfentanil is said to be 50 times deadlier than heroin and 10,000 times deadlier than morphine, according to Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene.
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Creating and following a household budget is one of the best ways for families to save for college, retirement and other future endeavors. Begin by assessing your spending habits, budgeting accordingly and spending wisely, and your budget can help you build a secure future for you and your family.
Assess your current income and spending habits
Before you can build a budget, you need to have a clear picture of your financial situation and where your money already is going. According to Wachovia, you should begin by identifying all areas of income, including salaries, bonuses, retirement accounts, life insurance policies, owned properties and cars. Then, move on to your spending habits. Use recent bank statements, ATM receipts, credit card bills and household bills to figure out where your money is going every month.
Create a realistic budget
Once you see how much money you have and how much money you owe in a typical month, it's possible to create a realistic budget. You may find that a budget based on your current spending habits doesn't leave much room for errors or unexpected expenses. If that's the case, identify areas where you can curb your spending. Food, hobbies and evening activities often are areas where families may be able to cut back.
Track your budget
Use online tools, software or personal spreadsheets to help monitor your budget every month. You may find it difficult to cut your spending, and these tools can help you keep track of every penny spent. Consumer Reports likes the free budgeting tools Buxfer, Geezeo and Yodlee Money Center for household budgets.
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Adjust your budget when possible
Have you noticed that you've spent $100 on groceries every week for the past few months, instead of the $125 a week you once spent? Once you notice a trend in reducing your budget, make a note of it. Then, direct the savings directly to your savings account so you don't run the risk of overspending just because you can.
Creating and following a household budget is one of the best ways for individuals and families to save for whatever lies ahead. Assess your income and spending, set a realistic budget, use available tools to keep your budget up to date, and adjust for savings whenever possible. With these four money-saving tips in your pocket, a budget that works for you is a sure thing! | <urn:uuid:e87f4520-ff04-4382-a0b5-f901ab523ebf> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.womansday.com/life/work-money/tips/a3788/money-101-how-to-create-a-household-budget-77242/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573744.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819161440-20220819191440-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.946817 | 481 | 2.578125 | 3 |
The Omicron variant can partially evade protection from two doses of Pfizer and partner BioNTech’s COVID-19 vaccine, the research head of a laboratory at the Africa Health Research Institute in South Africa said.
But the study showed that blood from people who had received two doses of the vaccine and had a prior infection was mostly able to neutralize the variant, suggesting that booster doses of the vaccine could help to fend off infection.
Alex Sigal, a professor at the institute, said on Twitter there was “a very large drop” in the neutralization of the Omicron variant relative to an earlier strain of COVID-19.
A separate lab test by virologist Sandra Ciesek of the University Hospital Frankfurt painted a somewhat bleaker picture.
Exposing the blood of vaccinated individuals to different virus variants, she found that the ability to mount an antibody response to Omicron in people who had three shots of BioNTech/Pfizer was up to 37 times lower than the response to Delta.
An antibody response to Omicron half a year after a two-shot regimen of Pfizer/BioNTech, Moderna or a mixed course of AstraZeneca/BioNTech was not even measurable, Ciesek added.
She posted only selected findings on Twitter and the university said the paper had not yet been published.
“The set of data underscores that it makes sense to develop a vaccine that is adapted to Omicron,” Chiesek tweeted, adding that no conclusion could be drawn about protection against severe disease.
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Neutralisation von Omicron versus Delta sind fertig: 2x Biontech, 2x Moderna, 1xAZ/1x Biontech nach 6 Monaten 0% Neutralisation bei Omicron, auch 3x Biontech 3 Monate nach Booster nur 25% NT versus 95% bei Delta. Bis zu 37fache Reduktion Delta vs. Omicron pic.twitter.com/w0gHww26sg
— Sandra Ciesek (@CiesekSandra) December 8, 2021
The Omicron variant, first detected in southern Africa last month, has triggered alarms globally of another surge in infections, with more than two dozen countries from Japan to the United States reporting cases.
The World Health Organization classified it on Nov. 26 as a “variant of concern,” but said there was no evidence to support the need for new vaccines specifically designed to tackle the Omicron variant with its many mutations.
Sigal’s lab tested blood from 12 people who had been vaccinated with two doses of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine, according to a manuscript posted on the website for his lab. The preliminary data in the manuscript has not yet been peer-reviewed.
Blood from five out of six people who had been vaccinated as well as previously infected with COVID-19 still neutralized the Omicron variant, the manuscript said.
“These results are better than I expected. The more antibodies you got, the more chance you’ll be protected from Omicron,” Sigal said on Twitter.
He said the lab had not tested the variant against blood from people who had received a booster dose, because they are not available in South Africa yet.
According to the manuscript, the lab observed a 41-fold decline in levels of neutralizing antibodies against the Omicron variant.
Sigal said on Twitter that figure is likely to be adjusted after his lab does more experiments.
While neutralizing antibodies are an indicator of the body’s immune response, scientists believe other kinds of cells such as B-cells and T-cells are also stimulated by the vaccines and help protect against the effects of the coronavirus.
The preliminary data does not indicate that the vaccine is less able to prevent severe illness or death. While lab tests are under way, BioNTech CEO Ugur Sahin said last week “we think it’s likely that people will have substantial protection against severe disease caused by Omicron”.
There is not significant data yet on how vaccines from Moderna, Johnson & Johnson and other drugmakers hold up against the new variant. All the manufacturers, including Pfizer and BioNTech, are expected to release their own data within weeks.
BioNTech’s Sahin told NBC News on Tuesday that the drugmaker has data coming on Wednesday or Thursday.
Top U.S. infectious disease expert Dr. Anthony Fauci said on Tuesday that preliminary evidence indicates that Omicron likely has a higher degree of transmissibility but is less severe.
He said the United States was doing its own tests to determine the protectiveness of the current vaccines and expects results sometime next week.
Umer Raffat, an analyst for Evercore ISI, cautioned against reading too much into a single study, noting there has been significant variability in measuring declines in antibody levels in previous lab studies.
Till now, the Omicron variant has been reported in 57 nations and the number of patients needing hospitalisation is likely to rise as it spreads, the World Health Organization said on Wednesday.
The WHO, in its weekly epidemiological report, said more data was needed to assess the severity of disease caused by the Omicron variant and whether its mutations might reduce protection from vaccine-derived immunity.
“Even if the severity is equal or potentially even lower than for Delta variant, it is expected that hospitalisations will increase if more people become infected and that there will be a time lag between an increase in the incidence of cases and an increase in the incidence of deaths,” it said.
On Nov. 26, the WHO declared the Omicron variant, which was first detected in southern Africa, a variant of concern. It is the fifth SARS-CoV-2 strain to carry such a designation.
The number of reported COVID-19 cases in South Africa doubled in the week to Dec. 5 to more than 62,000 and “very large” increases in incidence have been seen in Eswatini, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Namibia and Lesotho, it said.
The spread of Omicron, coupled with enhanced testing and low vaccination rates may have played a role, it added.
Referring to the risk of reinfection, the WHO said: “Preliminary analysis suggests that the mutations present in the Omicron variant may reduce neutralising activity of antibodies resulting in reduced protection from natural immunity.”
“There is a need for more data to assess whether the mutations present on the Omicron variant may result in reduced protection from vaccine-derived immunity and data on vaccine effectiveness, including the use of additional vaccination doses,” it said.
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Frequently Asked Questions
These are FAQs for candidates and elected officials. FAQs for activists and volunteers can be found in the pledge toolkit.
Why should I take the No Toxic Money pledge?
The No Toxic Money pledge is an important signifier to voters, to potential donors, to the media and the public that a politician is willing to stand with the people, reclaiming our democracy from the undue influence of powerful electric monopolies, Duke Energy and Dominion Energy. It is a public acknowledgment that the climate is in crisis, and that the solutions to climate change do not lie with these electric monopolies. In fact, they continue to block progress toward meaningful solutions. Climate impacts are mounting, and the status quo of insufficient or non-existent action cannot continue. The data from the U.S. Energy Information Administration shows that carbon emissions from the U.S. energy sector increased by 1.9 percent from 2017 to 2018 largely because energy companies expanded their natural gas projects. Thus the pledge includes the moratorium on Duke and Dominion’s new fossil fuel infrastructure projects such as the proposed Atlantic Coast Pipeline. Refusing Duke and Dominion’s contributions and supporting the moratorium symbolically frees a politician to take bolder stances for real climate action, unbound from ties to dirty energy.
What does it mean to take the No Toxic Money pledge?
Taking the pledge means that a candidate’s campaign will adopt a policy to not knowingly accept any contributions from Duke Energy and Dominion Energy’s PACs, executives, lobbyists or affiliates. The pledge is forward-looking from the filing deadline for the 2020 General Election (December 20, 2019) but it does not apply retroactively to contributions prior to 12-20-19. The commitment begins the moment a politician takes the pledge.
How does a politician sign the pledge?
In order to sign the No Toxic Money pledge, a politician or their campaign staff should ensure that they understand what they are signing, then provide verification that they have signed and filled out the webform This verification can come in the form of a scan of a signed pledge or a virtual commitment (webpage, blog post, stylized graphic, etc.), either sent directly to email@example.com or posted online on a campaign account. A politician or their campaign staff should then fill out the online webform to alert the No Toxic Money coalition that they have signed, provide verification, and provide contact information in case any further questions should arise.
Many politicians have used the pledge-signing moment as an opportunity to highlight their commitment, by publicly sharing a photo of signing the pledge, releasing a short campaign video explaining their reasoning, or even sending out a fundraising appeal based on the pledge.
What type of contributions does the pledge apply to?
The No Toxic Money pledge applies specifically to contributions from Duke Energy and Dominion Energy’s corporate PACs, named executives, and lobbyists. The No Toxic Money pledge intentionally does not apply to the large majority of Duke and Dominion employees, as contributions from rank-and-file workers do not send the same political signal as contributions from company executives and lobbyists. The PAC portion of the pledge does not apply to labor union PACs, only to Duke Energy and Dominion Energy PACs.
What does the pledge mean by “executives”?
The No Toxic Money pledge focuses on refusing contributions from the Named Executive Officers of Duke Energy and Dominion Energy. This is a category of top executive officer legally defined by the Security and Exchange Commission in 17 CFR 229.402, and functionally covers a company’s CEO, CFO, and next three high earners at an executive level. These executives are listed annually in a company’s 10-K filing or annual proxy statement (DEF 14a). More detail can be found here in the relevant section of the Code of Federal Regulations.
What does the pledge mean by “lobbyists”?
The No Toxic Money pledge includes rejecting contributions from the federal and state registered lobbyists of Duke Energy and Dominion Energy. This includes both “in-house” registered lobbyists who work directly for Duke and Dominion and outside registered lobbyists at external lobbying firms who are registered to lobby on behalf of Duke and Dominion.
- Federal registered lobbyists of the U.S. House of Representatives are searchable here.
- Federal registered lobbyists of the U.S. Senate are searchable here.
- State registered lobbyists for all 50 states are searchable from the links here.
What should a pledge signer do if they receive a prohibited contribution?
If a politician who has taken the No Toxic Money pledge receives a prohibited contribution, the campaign should act within a reasonable timeframe to address the contribution. The preferred action is for the campaign to return the money.
What is the process for resolving a potential violation of the pledge?
The No Toxic Money pledge coalition is not able to actively monitor all contributions to ensure compliance with the pledge. However, if a politician signs the pledge, they are expected to abide by it fully and to notify the coalition if they have any questions about specific contributions.
If the No Toxic Money coalition is notified that a pledge signer may have violated the terms of the pledge, it will investigate and confirm whether an identified contribution violated the pledge. If a violation has occurred, the coalition will notify the politician and give them one week to return the contribution(s) in question, as noted above. If the politician returns the contribution, they will remain on the pledge. If not, they will be removed from the list of pledge signers.
What if a pledge signer runs for reelection? Or runs for a different office?
It is the position of the No Toxic Money coalition that when politicians take the No Toxic Money pledge, they are taking it as a serious commitment to stand up to electric monopolies and align with people, not polluters. For this reason, a pledge signer is considered to remain a pledge signer indefinitely, though they are welcome and encouraged to re-sign the No Toxic Money pledge during any future election or reelection campaigns.
If a politician runs for office and signs the pledge, they are a pledge signer throughout their campaign, and if elected are expected to remain faithful to the pledge in all future fundraising.
A No Toxic Money pledge signer is considered to remain a pledge signer in any run for an office different than the one they currently hold, unless they notify the No Toxic Money coalition otherwise. Politicians are welcome and encouraged to reaffirm their signing of the No Toxic Money pledge when entering a new race for a different office than the one they currently hold. However, the coalition will assume they remain committed to the pledge unless updated by a signer, or given reason to believe otherwise.
If a politician runs for office but is unsuccessful, they remain a pledge signer in future elections unless the coalition is notified otherwise. That said, we encourage politicians to re-sign the No Toxic Money pledge, whether they are seeking the same office as in prior runs, or a new, different office. A politician will always be listed on the No Toxic Money website with the most recent office they have run for as a signer. | <urn:uuid:b340e390-76ef-4079-bb32-ebf5168258d4> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://notoxicmoney.org/faq/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571538.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812014923-20220812044923-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.937516 | 1,460 | 1.875 | 2 |
Discovering the New Age, Part 4
Sorting out Mind from Emotion
The Law of Economy and Waste
Doris just received a very large credit card and decided to make the most of it. Unfortunately she was a captive of her own emotional desires and not only overspent, but spent wastefully. Instead of checking for sales and finding the best price she often spent more than double what she had to on various products. Then when a store brand would do the job she would buy the much more expensive name brand. In addition to this she would often buy overlapping products. For instance, she had many more shoes than she needed and three cell phones when all she needed was one.
Shirley also received the same card, but took a reasonable approach and just used it when it was logically necessary. She shopped around and made sure she got the best price on needed items and used store brand and generic items when there was negligible difference in the quality. She refused to buy overlapping products and just purchased what she could efficiently use.
By using her mind and common sense Shirley subjected herself to the Law of Economy.
And what is that? DK mentions it often in the Bailey writings. It is basically this.
The creative Intelligence of the Universe follows a path which produces the greatest efficiency while using the smallest possible expenditure of energy. Those who follow the Law of Economy produce very little if any waste.
The Law of Economy can be seen at play from the sub atomic level on up to atoms, molecules, cells and all living things. The efficiency of nature is spectacular indeed.
We human beings have made many advancements in technology by observing nature, but we seem to really lag behind in incorporating this law in our lives and politics. Too many of us are like Doris and not enough like Shirley.
Unfortunately, most governments throw efficiency and the Law of Economy out the window and spend like Doris, often with no means to pay the final bill.
Here is the really strange part. Many who are quite conscientious about their personal budget and see themselves as common sense Aquarians will support extremely wasteful government spending. If government borrows to spend on a product or service they approve of, they give it their support while not even making a smidgen of effort to calculate the waste involved or voice concern.
Supporting government programs involving extreme waste is like being married to Doris and just trusting that she is doing the best possible job in making effective use of her credit card.
Does such wrong-headed support belong to the emotional Piscean mind or the mental Aquarian?
The answer should be obvious.
There is tremendous waste and inefficiency in most levels of government “help” and spending. I’ll just pick one – healthcare.
Before government started allocating spending on its citizens in an attempt to lower healthcare costs health care was pretty reasonable. I know because I had an accident at the age of 13 in 1958 that caused me to undergo six operations and spend a total of three months in the hospital. Four of those operations were by a renown specialist, the equivalent of which would charge a huge amount today.
My first stay in the hospital lasted a month and my room cost was $8.00 a day. The most expensive room was $14.00, but being concerned about money and having no insurance we opted for the most economical available.
$8 in 1958 dollars equals just $66.50 in 2016 dollars. That was a bargain any way you look at it.
The accident happened at the worst possible time. My Mom just divorced my Dad and received no child support. Our only means of support was from both of us picking fruit in the summer and my mom worked for near minimum wage at a potato processing plant for the rest of the year.
Could a fruit picker with no insurance pay off major surgery and a month’s stay in the hospital today? Not hardly. Today’s bill could easily run a quarter of a million dollars.
Now here is the crazy part. We paid off all the medical bills using our own money with no help from the government or insurance companies. My mom did take out a loan, but paid it off.
For later corrective surgery we did receive some help from a private charity, but again government was not needed or involved.
Today a typical stay in the hospital is around $4,000 a day or more. That means if I had to stay in the hospital today, the cost would be about 500 times more than in 1958. Adjusting for inflation it would still be about sixty times as much.
The irony is that, today, gas prices are a primary sore point with the public, the media and politicians. Everyone wants to investigate “Big Oil” for gouging us. Many also want to penalize them by taxing more of their profits.
But, even though gas prices seem high we should be praising big oil for holding their prices as low as they are.
The price of gas in 1958 was 39 cents a gallon in the area where I lived, and no one was grumbling about Big Oil. If the price of gas had risen 500 times, it would now cost $199.50 a gallon!
Why is it that by 2016 the price of gas and many other items has risen less than ten times the 1958 price, whereas a hospital room has risen around 500 times? It is puzzling that no one is asking this question. Even more puzzling is why people are not grumbling more about big hospital than they are about big oil or other commodities.
This great inefficiency started to plague us about the time that government stepped in to help us with our medical bills in the form of Medicare and Medicaid.
When these programs started in 1965, they seemed like a good idea to many, especially in consideration of the cost projections at the time. The public was sold on the idea that Medicare’s $3 billion cost in 1966 would only reach an inflation-adjusted $12.0 billion by 1990. The actual cost in 1990 was a whopping $67 billion. The “experts” were off by 7.44 times. Total Medicare spending reached $440 billion for fiscal year 2007, or 16 percent of all federal spending. Since that time, spending has continued to rise.
The only larger categories of federal spending are Social Security and defense.
The question is whether the bill could have even passed if the public had been given an accurate representation of what the actual cost would be.
In addition to this, the annual cost to taxpayers of Medicare and Medicaid fraud (not counting waste) is estimated to be around $100 billion. One estimate of the fraud of the whole health care system is $272 billion a year.
The bottom line is that there is no way one can claim he is in harmony with the Aquarian energies of the mind when if he supports programs that create such extreme waste. Anyone not ruled by pure emotion would support the elimination of waste and applying the Law of Economy before spending money on new programs that will do more of the same.
When I tell someone today. who thinks the government is doing a great job with our medical dollars, about the time before such programs when even a fruit picker did not need insurance because he could pay his own way, his eyes just glaze over and mumbles something to the effect that, “things are different today.”
Yes, things are different today and not in a good way, Government is extremely inefficient with our money in most areas of endeavor and the common sense, mental, Aquarian, new age attitude should be to shout, “Stop! Let us fix this problem before we throw even more money at such a broken system.”
Woe unto them that decree unrighteous decrees, and that write grievousness which they have prescribed;
For he saith, By the strength of my hand I have done it, and by my wisdom; for I am prudent: and I have removed the bounds of the people, and have robbed their treasures, and I have put down the inhabitants like a valiant man:
And my hand hath found as a nest the riches of the people: and as one gathereth eggs that are left, have I gathered all the earth; and there was none that moved the wing, or opened the mouth, or peeped.
Isaiah 10:1, 13-14
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by: Vera Raposo
If you are creating a photo album for your baby for the first time, or
are unsure where to begin in creating a scrapbook of your baby's first
year, here are some tips to make it quick and easy to preserve your
photos and memories:
Rather than including every photo you take of your baby, organize your
pictures according to the month they were taken and chose a few of your
favorites from each month.
You can make single page or several pages from each particular month and stage of development without having to spend a large amount of time gluing every single photo into your scrapbook.
Be sure and include birth announcements and baby shower invitations as a special touch.
Keep a notebook or calendar within easy reach to record milestones in
your child's development. You can then coordinate the events on your
calendar with the month-by-month photos.
It is always a good idea to keep an ongoing journal of special times in your baby's life so that you can include those moments in your scrapbook. It does not have to be elaborate or detailed, just a few special dates and events that you can include as text next to your pictures.
How to Make a Quick, Easy Baby Album
About The Author
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The safety and well-being of our students is our number one concern. We constantly do our best to keep our school a safe and carefree place for everyone. However, accidents do happen and children do get sick while on campus. In the event of an accident or injury, the student is first sent to our beautiful clinic. There, our extremely capable nurse, Nurse Mavronicles, will assess the situation. If she deems it necessary, she will contact a parent, so the child can be picked up and brought home or to the doctor. If Nurse Mavronicles is unable to reach a parent, she will then call the emergency number written on the child's enrollment card.
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When you’re looking for a vehicle, should you get new or used? Both have strengths and weaknesses that should be considered before you make up your mind. We’ve gathered the pros and cons for buying both new cars and vehicles that are pre-owned or “new to you.”
For comparable models, a used vehicle will, of course, be cheaper than a new one, but that’s not necessarily the whole story. You may be tempted to bypass mainstream models to get a premium vehicle that you can’t afford new, but be sure your budget can handle its higher repair and insurance costs. At the other end of the scale, a brand-new, entry-level model might cost the same or even less than a higher-end used vehicle, and it’ll have a warranty.
If you’re shopping used, a certified pre-owned (CPO) vehicle from a dealer likely will cost more than a regular used car, but might be worth it to you for the extra peace of mind. These come with a factory-backed warranty, and because the automaker would prefer you didn’t have to collect on it, the vehicle will have low mileage, and will have undergone inspection and any necessary reconditioning to help prevent potential problems.
No question here: If you buy new, you’re the one eating that initial depreciation, and we all know the value drops as soon as you start the engine and drive off the lot to take it home. Even so, the big picture can be a bit more complicated. It’s common for a premium model to continue to depreciate at a faster rate than a mainstream model, and if it’s used but still relatively new, that loss is on your books. In the pre-owned market, a higher-end model from a mainstream automaker may ultimately be a better deal than a vehicle wearing a higher-class nameplate.
New or used, if you’re borrowing the money to buy it, you need to do your homework. You could save a bundle on interest if you make the right choice. With a new vehicle, you’ll be offered financing through the dealership. If incentives are available, they could include low interest on the loan. That’s likely better than what your bank will give you, and could bring the total cost of a new car much closer to that of a used one.
Check dealer financing over at the pre-owned lot, too, to see if you can get a better rate than through your banker. That might lessen or eliminate the gap between a newer model on the lot, versus an older one you’re looking at buying privately. No matter what you’re buying, we recommend talking to your bank about loan pre-approval before you do anything. That’ll give you your interest rate and payments, so you can compare it to what a dealer offers you and use it as a bargaining chip.
The Choice and Convenience
The nod obviously goes to a new vehicle here, because you can order precisely the trim and options you want; while on a used car, the first owner had that opportunity. If you’re buying a used vehicle privately, you’ll have to first find the one you want, work around the seller’s schedule to see and test drive it, and possibly set up an appointment with your mechanic to give it a once-over. If the price difference is close, you might decide your time is worth as much, or more, than the extra you’ll pay for the new model.
When you’re considering a vehicle, talk to your insurance company to get some idea of what it’s going to cost to cover it. An almost-new premium vehicle could potentially end up costing more than a brand-new mainstream model.
Ask about gap insurance, which covers the difference between what you owe and what the vehicle’s worth if it’s written off in a crash. That gap can be pretty wide if you’ve elected for a long financing period and are making minimal payments against the loan’s principal. It’s most commonly offered for new cars, but may be available on a used one if it’s new enough, or is a pricier premium model.
While much depends on the model you’re considering, new cars overall will have more up-to-date technology than used ones. If you must have the latest in connectivity or driver-assist functions, then you’ll have to go for new, or at least a used one from a recent model year. If that isn’t a must-have, or if you prefer a vehicle with simpler controls, you can save some money by opting for a vehicle made before the automaker ramped up the tech inside.
A new vehicle has the edge here, with repairs covered under warranty, some for several years. Depending on the vehicle and the manufacturer, some may also include a period of free scheduled oil changes. If a used vehicle is new enough, it might have some of that factory coverage still on it, but for the most part, you’re usually out-of-pocket for repairs on used vehicles.
Some people may feel it’s worth the extra money to get the warranty for a new or newer vehicle, and if so, go for it. You might be offered third-party warranty on a used vehicle, but we don’t recommend it, because these often come with tight restrictions and exacting maintenance schedules to keep them valid. You’re better off socking away the money you’d have paid for it, and using that for any repairs needed in future. | <urn:uuid:94918402-6a36-4040-bc7d-18c9c20fe146> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://wwwb.autotrader.ca/editorial/20210512/pros-and-cons-of-buying-new-vs-used-cars/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572833.95/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817032054-20220817062054-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.953989 | 1,214 | 1.539063 | 2 |
Got clutter? Who doesn’t? We all fall prey to the suffocating effects of having too much of what doesn’t serve a purpose.
When I meet with clients one thing I hear often is that they have no idea how the clutter happened in the first place. That perhaps somehow clutter fairies dropped in, in the middle of the night, and left…stuff. Of course, that is not how happens. But clutter does happen, and it can happen very quickly.
Why do we get cluttered?
Well, for starters we don’t question what comes in. We let in more and more without regard to whether we really need it, like it, or will use it. We don’t look for any indication of whether it serves a purpose. And when we let things in without any strict criteria we often and easily end up with too much.
The other reason is we let in things without regard to where things should be housed. Or whether we have the space at all for it. When things come in with no clear home, they pile up. And that gives clutter a fighting chance.
There are 3 thought patterns that contribute to why we bring in more.
Understanding them and seeing if any resonate with you is a good way to change unhelpful behaviors and stop clutter from taking up valuable space in your place.
1. Emotional avoidance.
Ask yourself: are you emotionally avoiding something and buying or keeping things because it is more of a dopamine hit and makes you feel good? You wouldn’t be alone in feeling that. A lot of people do. Perhaps you buy more because you think it will solve a problem or at the least will distract you from dealing with a problem? While scary, it is better to look and dig deep into why you need the distraction. It is better to face the fear. Otherwise, you end up with more stuff that in the long run will create an entirely new set of problems.
You aren’t the only one who has this unhelpful thought pattern. We all do a lot of comparing ourselves to other people. Social media is one major root of this. All media, in fact, contributes. You get so much information, so quickly, but you can’t process it, or slow yourself down enough to ground yourself and make meaning of it. You can’t sort out what is mentally essential to keep. That instinct to compare yourself can often cause you to buy more as a way to keep up with what others have. You, like many others, make the mistake of seeing what others have on Instagram or Facebook, or in advertisements on television, and believing that these people are happy because of those things.
The reality is happiness doesn’t come from things. We would all be better served by remembering that.
3. Scarcity thought process.
I have also heard this described as a poverty mentality. It is living your life in unnecessary scarcity and fear and can lead you to make poor decisions about the possessions you keep or bring into your home.
The scarcity mindset gives you an excuse to hang onto random possessions. It can lead you to believe there will never be enough of what you want or need. And this stems from having a “lack of” mentality. You never feel what you have is enough. And often, you feel you are not enough. With a scarcity thought process you constantly think you might someday need something and won’t be able to get it. You get pulled in by marketing messages that tell you “now is the time to buy this because it won’t be here tomorrow.” So you to buy it now or buy more now, or hang onto more than you need. You don’t question whether buying more or keeping things “just in case” solves any real problem.
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WASHINGTON -- Ninety years ago, Congress approved a law known as the Jones Act that sheltered the nation's coastal maritime industry from foreign competition.
Now critics ask whether the law is hindering the response to the Gulf of Mexico oil spill by keeping the United States from accepting help from vessels flagged in other countries.
Officially known as the Merchant Marine Act of 1920, the Jones Act requires that cargo transported by water between U.S. ports be carried on U.S.-built, flagged and crewed ships.
"I think it's had a tremendous impact on the availability of [oil] skimmers," Barnett Lawley, commissioner of the Alabama Department of Conservation and Natural Resources, said Thursday. Lawley had complained earlier this week about a lack of skimmers working in Mobile Bay.
But the Obama administration and a U.S. maritime industry trade group denied that the Jones Act is having any such effect.
"I've never seen an issue get as confused as fast as this one," said Ken Wells, president of the Louisiana-based Offshore Marine Service Association, which represents U.S.-flagged vessels that tend offshore drilling rigs.
At a Senate hearing this week, Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., called for the law's repeal. Within a week of the Deepwater Horizon explosion that triggered the spill, McCain said, "thirteen countries, including several European nations, offered assistance from vessels and crews with experience in removing oil spill debris."
Similar notes have been sounded by other Republicans. Among them is Sarah Palin, the former governor of Alaska and McCain's vice presidential running mate in 2008, who recently noted that then-President George W. Bush temporarily relaxed the law's requirements after Hurricane Katrina in 2005.
But in an interview last week, U.S. Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen told Fox News that foreign skimming equipment is being accepted.
Although acknowledging that the Jones Act could affect the availability of dredges and offshore supply ships, Allen said that no waiver requests had been presented to him.
Even so, Allen this week announced streamlined handling for requests.
"Should any waivers be needed, we are prepared to process them as quickly as possible," he said in a news release.
In prepared testimony for a Thursday congressional hearing, David Matsuda, acting head of the U.S. Maritime Administration, confirmed one waiver request but said that it was for foreign-built barges when there were "many available equivalent" U.S.-flagged vessels.
For McCain, repeal of the Jones Act is not a new goal.
"The philosophy that we need to protect our industries troubles me," he said at one 1998 Senate hearing. Also opposed are farm interests, who believe that it raises their shipping costs.
To Wells, the act's detractors may now be attempting to use the spill "as an excuse to achieve something they haven't been able to achieve before."
His organization contends that foreign competitors are able to undercut American firms in part by failing to pay taxes and skirting safety standards.
Outside of the three-mile limit, foreign-flagged oil skimmers are free to operate in the Gulf without a waiver, Wells said.
For American vessel owners and operators, he added, the cleanup work has become more vital because of the Obama administration's six-month halt to deepwater drilling.
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Tennessee lags in cancer-fighting policies, report says
Tennessee lags most of the country in policies designed to fight and prevent cancer diagnoses and treatment, according to a new progress report.
The state received red or yellow classifications — falling short or making progress, respectively — in 10 legislative categories from the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network's "How Do You Measure Up" report. An estimated 37,650 people in Tennessee will be diagnosed with cancer in 2016, according to the organization. About 14,560 people will die because of cancer in 2016.
Cigarette tax rates, smoke-free laws, increased access to Medicaid and restrictions on indoor tanning machines were among some the categories in which state laws do not support policies that have proven to impact the rate, diagnosing or treatment of cancer, said Lynn Williams, the Tennessee government relations director for the organization.
Public policies, such as an increased cigarette tax rate, do affect people's health, said Williams. If the state's current cigarette tax rate, $0.62 per pack, was increased by $1 it would keep an estimated 32,900 people under age 18 from becoming adult smokers, according to an analysis from ACS CAN and the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids.
Tennessee's cigarette excise tax ranks it 42nd in the country. A $1 increase would put it at 24th, between Delaware and New Mexico.
"That is a very key way to illustrate how legislature could affect health outcomes and the lives of many people across the state," said Williams.
Tennessee is one of two states in the 2016 scorecard to not receive a single green, or doing well, classification. There were only two states, Maine and Massachusetts, to receive the top rating in seven of the categories. Williams works with volunteers from across the state to communicate with elected state and U.S. leaders on policies that relate to cancer.
"We do have a challenge here in Tennessee," said Williams.
Expanding Medicaid would increase access do diagnostics and treatment. Williams said she's been in touch with the House Speaker Beth Harwell's 3-Star Healthy Task Force about how it would cover cancer patients, particularly if it had a work or training component.
The state's policies in pain management that earned a yellow classification are a bright spot for Williams, who said the acknowledgement that cancer patients sometimes have special pain management needs is encouraging.
Tennessee's Anti-Cancer policy rankings
- Cigarette Tax Rates: Red
- Smoke-free Laws: Red
- Tobacco Prevention and Cessation Program Funding: Red
- Medicaid Coverage of Tobacco Cessation Services: Red
- Indoor Tanning Device Use Restrictions: Red
- Increased Access to Medicaid: Red
- Breast and Cervical Cancer Early Detection Program Funding: Yellow
- Access to Palliative Care: Red
- Pain Policy: Yellow
- Oral Chemotherapy Parity: Yellow
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Equity Crowd Source Funding — Part 1: A basic primer
On 28 March 2017 the Corporations Amendment (Crowd-sourced Funding) Act 2017 (Cth) (Act) received Royal Assent, paving the way for crowd-sourced equity funding.
What is Equity Crowd Source Funding?
It is a mechanism (an online platform) that will enable eligible companies to raise capital by offering securities (only new ordinary shares) in the company to a large number of investors, including retail investors.
Without the Act, a company may only offer securities to retail investors without a detailed and extensive disclosure document (generally referred to as a prospectus), if the offer falls within one of the limited exceptions set out in the Corporations Act 2001 (Cth). Failure to comply with this requirement is, amongst other things, a criminal offence.
Who may operate the online platform?
The law creates a new type of financial service, being a crowd-funding service and a person that operates a crowd-funding platform will be regarded as providing such a service. The Act states that the person must hold an AFSL that expressly authorises the provision of a crowd-funding service. The legislation refers to this person as a CSF intermediary. The CSF intermediary occupies a central role in the CSF régime.
How much may a company raise under the CSF régime?
A company may raise up to $5 million in any 12 month period.
What is an eligible company?
The company seeking to raise the funds must:
be a public company
have its principal place of business in Australia and the majority of its directors must ordinarily reside in Australia
not be a listed company
not have as its main purpose investing in securities
not have consolidated gross assets or annual revenue of more than $25 million
What is the relevance of being a public company?
A company that is a public company (as opposed to a private or proprietary company) is one to which the Corporations Act imposes fairly stringent corporate governance and reporting requirements.
Public companies must, for example, have an auditor, prepare financial statements that must be audited, send the financial statements to all shareholders and convene annual shareholders’ meetings at least once every year. All these requirements can be both costly and time-consuming, particularly if the company has a large number of shareholders.
Although the new Act requires companies seeking to raise funds via the CSF régime to be established as, or be converted into, a public company, the corporate governance and reporting requirements described above may be disregarded for a maximum of five years from the date of registration as, or conversion to a public company. So, under this concession, the fundraising company will not be required to hold an annual general meeting under the usual rules; it may provide (unaudited) financial reports to its shareholders online (as opposed to printing and mailing them out); and the company will not be required to appoint an auditor or to have audited financial reports until the company has raised more than $1 million from CSF offers.
Is a disclosure document still required?
Yes, a CSF offer document must be prepared in relation to each CSF offer. However, there is no requirement for the document to be lodged with ASIC. The level of disclosure to be included in the offer document will, in general, be less rigorous and detailed than the requirements that apply to the more usual disclosure documents. Details of what a CSF offer document must contain will be specified in the regulations, which are yet to be published. Also, the information contained in the offer document must be worded and presented in a clear, concise and effective manner.
ASIC will retain the power to issue a stop order if it becomes aware that the information in a CSF offer document does not comply with the regulations.
Publication of the CSF offer document will be on the online platform of the CSF Intermediary and the platform must include a facility that enables a person to apply for securities to which the CSF offer relates. In fact, only offers for subscription made through the online platform may be accepted.
There are a number of investor protections that apply to all investors and some that apply only to “retail clients.” With regard to the latter, the protections include the following:
a retail investor may not invest more than $10,000 per issuer via a particular intermediary within a 12 month period. No limit applies to non-retail investors.
a retail investor has 48 hours after making the investment to change his mind and withdraw the investment— a cooling off period.
neither the issuer nor the CSF intermediary may provide financial assistance to the retail investor in connection with the investment.
a retail investor must be given and sign a risk acknowledgement statement before its application is capable of being accepted
Who is a retail client?
An investor will be a retail client unless one or more of the following tests are satisfied:
the price of the securities on offer or the value of the financial product is $500,000 or more
the securities are being acquired by a small business (employing less than 20 people or in the case of a manufacturing business, less than 100 people)
where the securities are being acquired by a business that is not a small business, the investor produces a certificate from a qualified accountant confirming net assets of at least $2.5million or gross income (during the last 2 financial years) of $250,000 respectively;
the investor is a professional investor.
What is the role of the CSF Intermediary?
The role of the CSF intermediary is cardinal and includes:
‘gatekeeper ’ obligations, such as performing various diligence checks, exercising its judgement as to whether to not publish or continue to publish an issuer’s offer document;
ensuring the online platform operates in accordance with the requirements set out in the Act;
ensuring that retail investors receive the benefit of the relevant investor protections to which they are entitled;
the obligation to close or suspend an offer as required and handle application monies appropriately.
The CSF régime is intended to assist small-scale businesses (including start-up companies) raise funds from a large number of investors by providing an additional funding option for these companies that might otherwise struggle to obtain finance. Although there are currently a number of operators of online platforms offering investments in Australian companies, legislative impediments have precluded companies from being able to tap into the retail investment community. The new Act addresses this issue. However whether and to what extent the CSF régime will be embraced, will depend in a large part on whether AFSLs believe the obligations and risks to be undertaken and assumed as a CSF intermediary will be sufficiently offset by the benefits (financial and otherwise) to be gained from the new business model this presents to them.
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On 6 August, after an extraordinary night in the Olympic Stadium, the Sun‘s Oliver Harvey was moved to write: “A ginger bloke from Milton Keynes, a mixed race beauty from Sheffield, an ethnic Somali given shelter on these shores from his war-ravaged homeland. This is what Britain looks like today. Three Britons from wildly different backgrounds that gave this generation its 1966 moment.” His colleague Anila Baig added: ” We’ve heard a lot about belonging and loyalty and allegiance, Muslim first or British first. On Saturday Mo Farah gave us the answer: British Muslim and proud proud proud.”
What a difference four months make. As summer sun gives way to winter snow, Sun Political Editor Trevor Kavanagh has posted an editorial painting a rather different picture: “Yes Africa is a terror hotbed, but fanatics are here too.” There is no evidence of any British Muslim involvement in, or support for, the atrocities taking place in Algeria, but Kavanagh isn’t going to let that inconvenient fact stand in the way of a broadside against the British Muslim community whose most prominent athletics representative his paper was recently lionising.
Out come the usual myths and misrepresentations. We are told Britain is home to hundreds of thousands of Muslims from all over the world, but warned “not all are grateful. Indeed, some are outspokenly defiant”. We are not told what they are supposed to be grateful for, or what they are defiant of , which complicates any effort to analyze this bizarre claim, but how about this for starters: Do Muslims identify with Britain? Are they proud of British democracy and institutions? Are they integrated into British political and social life? Yes, yes, and yes.
As my colleagues and I have shown in a report for the government’s Migration Advisory Committee, Britain’s Pakistani and Bangladeshi heritage populations (the bulk of the British Muslim population) are more likely than white native born Britons to say they belong in Britain, and more likely to express trust in the British Parliament. Other research has shown that British Muslims rate being British as central to their identities, and are more likely to express pride in Britain than other groups, something Kavanagh’s own newspaper noted “shatter[s] the myth that Muslims are not patriotic”. In Kavanagh’s world, British Muslims are resentful and defiant. Out in the real world of evidence, a world reported by his own news desk, Muslims are proud British citizens, often more attached to British culture and institutions than other groups.
Then there is the vexed issue of integration. Kavanagh, echoing the notorious comments of Trevor Phillips, raises the spectre of segregated, Muslim-dominated inner city districts: “One London borough is so staunchly Muslim it has become known as the Islamic Republic of Tower Hamlets.” Really? I don’t know who refers to Tower Hamlets this way (and Kavanagh doesn’t enlighten us) but it strikes me as an odd way to characterise a borough which the most recent census recorded was 32 per cent Bangladeshi, 31 per cent white British, 12 per cent white other, and 25 per cent from a host of other heritages including African, Caribbean, and Chinese. Tower Hamlets is not an “Islamic Republic”. In fact, Muslims constitute just over a third of the population, and are massively outnumbered by those who are either Christian or state no religion at all, as Kavanagh would have known had he bothered to visit the Tower Hamlets website before smearing a whole London borough. The community Kavanagh demonizes as a ghetto of Muslim fanatics is in fact a proud melting pot of multiple ethnicities and faiths, where no group dominates. It is (to quote the Olympics-era Sun) “what Britain looks like today”.
Even if segregation were a problem (which it generally is not), it is not clear what would satisfy Kavanagh as a solution. Maybe Muslims could integrate by moving away from areas where they are concentrated towards more homogenously white areas, something University of Manchester census analysts have shown all ethnic minority groups have been doing? This won’t do for Kavanagh, who attacks it as Muslims “colonising the suburbs”. Leaving aside the absurd labelling of people often born and raised in Britain as “colonisers”, it is not obvious what Muslims caught in Kavanagh’s Islamophobic catch-22 are supposed to do. If they stay in the inner city areas to which their families first migrated, they are attacked as setting up segregated “Islamic Republics”. If they set out for the suburbs they are attacked as “colonisers” looking to impose their values on others. No matter that neither bears any resemblance to the everyday truth of ordinary, hard working Muslim families looking for decent, affordable homes, good schools and regular contact with friends and relatives, just like everyone else.
This kind of evidence-free, stereotype-laden assault on the British Muslim community has got to stop. In an era when all the relevant evidence is available at the click of a mouse, it is not acceptable for a senior journalist at the nation’s most read paper to make demonstrably false claims about one of its largest minority communities. Kavanagh’s article is irresponsible rabble-rousing of the worst kind. What a shame he didn’t think to talk to his more informed colleagues from the Olympics press-pack before launching into this ugly tirade.
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The audio recording of this sermon can be found here.
St. Mary’s Episcopal Church
The Rev’d Charles Everson
Isaiah 6:1-13, 1 Corinthians 15:1-11
February 10, 2019
“Holy, holy, holy, Lord God of Hosts! Heaven and earth are full of thy glory!” These words, referred to as the Sanctus – the Latin word for “holy” – have been sung in Christian worship from the very beginning, and they find their roots in our Old Testament passage from the prophet Isaiah.
It begins with a simple fact that seems rather out of place in such an awe-inspiring vision: “In the year King Uzziah died.” Uzziah was a real king in history. We know the date of his death, a few things about his political views, and we know that like many of Israel’s kings, he began his reign as a good king but ended up going completely off the rails with his pride being his downfall. He was then struck with leprosy as punishment, and lived the rest of his life under house arrest until his death.
It was in this historical context that Isaiah sees this vision of a very different kind of King. The vision is in the Temple in Jerusalem which the Hebrews believed was directly connected to God’s celestial palace in heaven. Isaiah sees the Lord sitting on a throne, high and lofty, and in addition to the throne, an altar is present. God has giant proportions in this vision with the hem of his robe filling the entire interior of the Temple. Angels with six wings were attending to him. Two of the wings covered their faces, two covered their feet, and with two they flew – another translator indicates that hovered is a better translation. They were calling to one another, Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God of Hosts! Heaven and earth are full of thy glory!
Their response to being in the presence of God was one of fear and trembling. Perhaps even terror. They covered their faces as God is so holy that they can’t even look at him. And they covered their feet because they’re in the presence of holiness and can’t let their feet touch the ground. Isaiah, faced with this awesome vision in the Temple, notes that the pivots of the thresholds shook at the voices of the angels as they sang this hymn, and the house was filled with smoke.
In a moment, when we sing the Sanctus, note that the altar party and even some in the congregation profoundly bow when we sing the hymn the angels sang in Isaiah’s vision, and you’ll see a decent amount of smoke arise. In a sense, we are entering into the holiest moments of our worship of God, a God who is so holy and powerful and awesome that we can’t help but avert our eyes, bow in deep respect, and pay homage.
Isaiah, faced with this almost fantastical vision of God in his throne room in heaven, responds by saying, “Woe is me! I am lost, for I am a man of unclean lips…yet my eyes have seen the King, the Lord of Hosts!” Faced with God’s holiness, he recognizes his sinfulness. The Hebrew words translated as unclean lips infer that he has a foul mouth and is perhaps even a liar, something you and I might be able to relate to. One of the angels took a live coal from the altar – so hot that tongs were needed – and touched Isaiah’s lips with it. Think about how sensitive your lips are. This must have been a terribly painful experience for Isaiah, but the result of it is that his guilt departs and his sin is blotted out. It is only now that he’s been forgiven that Isaiah can respond in the affirmative to God’s question, Whom shall I send? He says, Here I am; send me!
It would be really nice if the passage stopped here, and I could simply tell you, “recognize that you’re a sinner, accept God’s forgiveness, and then go out into the world and do God’s work!”
But God tells Isaiah to go to the people and tell them to keep listening but not understand. He tells them to make the mind of the people dull. Isaiah has to be confounded by God’s instruction, and asks, “How long, O Lord?” How long until you relent and turn from judgment to rescue and redemption? God responds not by giving a time and a date, but by saying that first the land has to be devastated.
Sometimes things get worse before they get better.
Zac, as you’re preparing for Holy Baptism, know that the waters of baptism won’t be quite as painful as the burning coal was for Isaiah, though, we could run down to the Missouri River to baptize you by full immersion which would have the opposite effect. But also know that responding to God’s holiness by acknowledging your sinfulness and accepting God’s forgiveness doesn’t automatically make your situation right. Same thing for me and for all of you who have been on this Christian journey for a long time: sometimes, our circumstances get worse before they get better, no matter how faithful we are to our Lord and to his teachings.
In his letter to the church at Corinth, Paul reminds us to hold firmly to the Good News he’s proclaimed to us – the good news that he received: that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the scriptures, and that he was buried, and that he was raised on the third day. This Good News, like the context of Isaiah’s vision, was rooted in history. This isn’t a myth or a fable. Christ actually died for our sins, was buried, and was raised on the third day. As if he knew the church at Corinth wouldn’t believe him, he begins to call witnesses: Peter, James, the twelve apostles, and five hundred other brothers and sisters who saw Christ with their own eyes after his resurrection. Like Isaiah, Paul responded to God’s call as an unclean man unworthy of such a calling – before his conversion, he persecuted Christians to the point of their death. Even he could be redeemed and reconciled with the holy God Isaiah saw in his vision.
Friends, some of us in our community are struggling. Struggling spiritually, financially, dealing with family dysfunction, physical illness, the awful effects of old age, and so on. And yet we continue to gather in this place with our parish family and choose to worship a God that is so holy and powerful that we must avert our eyes and pay homage. As you struggle, I encourage you to hold fast to the Good News that Jesus died for your sins, that he was buried, and that he was raised on the third day. Choose to hold fast to this Good News day after day, even when things seem so dire that there appears to be no hope. And choose to keep coming back to this Temple to encounter the Almighty in the beauty of holiness with your friends and family again and again.
This summary comes from Same Old Song podcast, Mockingbird ministries. https://www.mbird.com/podcasts/
Robert Alter. The Hebrew Bible: A Translation with Commentary. New York, NY: W.W. Norton & Company, 2019.
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News — Hate Crime Ambassador
We are proud supporters of the ‘Stop the Hate’ campaign. Our team members who attended the Hate Crime Ambassador (HCA) presentation in January, are now registered Hate Crime Ambassadors. Culver Square has an inclusive culture and it is important to us that hate crime is identified and victims are supported.
What is Hate Crime?
Hate crime is any incident, which may constitute a criminal offence, which is perceived by the victim or any other person as being motivated by prejudice or hate because of a person’s:
- Race, colour, ethnic origin, nationality or national origins, includes Gypsies and Travellers.
- Religion or faith and can include no faith.
- Gender identity includes Transphobia – resentment or fear of transgender people or transvestites.
- Sexual orientation. Including Homophobia – resentment or fear of gay, lesbian or bi-sexual people. Also resentment or hatred of heterosexual people.
- Disability – any physical, sensory or mental impairment whether short or long-term. Includes learning disability or difficulty.
Hate crime can take many forms including:
- Physical attacks – such as physical assault, damage to property, offensive graffiti, neighbour disputes and arson.
- Threat of attack – including offensive letters, abusive or obscene telephone calls and other intimidating behaviour as groups or individuals.
- Verbal abuse or insults, abusive gestures.
- Other abuse – offensive leaflets and posters, dumping of rubbish outside homes or through letterboxes, unfounded and malicious complaints and bullying at home, on-line, in school or in the workplace.
What can you do?
• Recognise that what is happening to you is a hate crime
• Understand that by reporting the incident you will get the help you need
• Don’t suffer in silence, the help you need is available, call us now…
• It will help police and support agencies if you keep a diary of events. Please remember to date and time entries and fully describe any individuals or vehicles involved.
If you experience Hate Crime:
• As soon as you can, go somewhere you know is safe and get help
• In an emergency call 999. Otherwise call the police on 101
• Tell the police what has happened and why you think it happened
• Do not drink alcohol after an incident as you will need to give a clear account of what happened
• If you do not have the confidence to talk to the police there are details of Hate Incident Reporting Centres (HIRCs) at essex.police.uk/hatecrime or you can report on-line at www.report-it.org.uk or call Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800555111.
In an emergency dial 999 or 112 (112 is a European equivalent number that works in UK.) Call the Non Emergency number for Essex Police on 101 to report any incident of crime.
There is a Language Line available to take details for those who do not speak English. Other facilities to contact Essex Police for non emergencies are the use of Type Talk via BT and Text line 07624 800101.
What can we do for you?
All incidents that are defined as hate crime are referred to a specialist team who work to ensure you are kept safe.
These specialist hate crime officers have established links with other criminal justice agencies, as well as many public and voluntary sector
organisations, that are able to provide you with other support and advice. The local policing team, hate crime officers and local community groups work together to try and resolve the problem.
For those with hearing or speech impairments use Minicom line: 01245 452828.
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The goals of BEM are to overcome work incapacity, prevent a recurrence of work incapacity, maintain employment and avoid occupational disability or invalidity.
Who should talk to BEM?
- If you have been unable to work for more than 6 weeks in a row, or repeatedly, within one year.
- If health problems are present, regardless of whether their origin is work-related or not, you do not have to wait until you have been unable to work for more than 6 weeks. You are welcome to approach BEM beforehand.
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The Covid-19 pandemic has made a shift in educational processes around the world into distance learning. Classroom studies with classmates were transformed into Zoom sessions at home, and students had to learn to study more independently. The transition to distance learning has brought about many changes — from increased demand for academic writing services live essayshark.com to a decrease in children’s socialization. Let’s delve into the pros and cons of distance learning and how it affects students.
Advantages of Distance Learning
- The ability to study anytime, anywhere. Distance learners can create their own schedules without being tied to a place of study. This is a great advantage for today’s youth.
- An opportunity to study at your own pace. Distance learners don’t have to worry about falling behind their classmates. Everyone needs their own rhythm to complete tasks. Some can easily write an essay in one day when others need to spend a week doing it. You can always go back to study more complicated issues, watch video lectures a few times, reread your professor’s correspondence or skip previously studied topics. The main thing is to pass intermediate and final exams successfully.
- Studying without interrupting your main work. You can easily combine work and studies remotely. It gives excellent opportunities for gaining experience.
- Availability of training materials. Students on a distance learning course don’t have the problem of a lack of textbooks or teaching materials. Access to all literature is opened automatically when the student enrolls, and they can review the materials an unlimited number of times and at any time they want
- Distance education is cheaper. Compared to traditional education, distance learning is statistically several times more affordable. This is because the distance learning fees do not charge the university for depreciation of buildings, monthly maintenance of many teachers, and support staff. Students, in fact, pay only for the knowledge they receive.
- Reduced workload. Since all classes take place at home, students don’t have to get up early, get ready, eat breakfast in a hurry, and drive to school or college. This reduces physical and mental stress levels. By saving time, students have free time for other activities.
- The skill of self-education. The skill of self-study is very beneficial for the future. Education experts believe that in 2030, learning will be a continuous process.
Disadvantages of Distance Learning
- You need independence and discipline. A student in distance learning studies materials independently and is responsible for their learning. Teachers do not supervise them, and this can be a real problem for people who are not limited.
- Distance education does not develop communication skills. Successful negotiation skills are one of the most important skills of today’s youth to learn. If the student will not communicate with people and will not be able to work in a team, they will have a hard time at work in the future.
- Gadgetization of life. Students are usually not limited to just attending classes and are involved in other extracurricular activities. However, the use of exclusively remote education forces students to spend almost all of their time in front of computer screens and with phones in their hands. Moreover, while studying, students often switch to entertainment content and social media on their gadgets.
- Information overload. The student self-regulates the pace of learning. To speed up results, it can be tempting to take a six-month course in a month. There is so much information that you get overwhelmed, and you lose your desire to learn.
- Lack of practice if the student does not work in parallel. Distance format is more suitable for successful, active, self-confident people who do not have much time to sit for classes, who are engaged in education in parallel with the main activity.
- Insufficient computer literacy. Unfortunately, not all cities and remote regions have access to the Internet and equipment for training, and there are people of different ages and statuses who have the technology, but they do not know how to use it.
- Some specialties cannot be studied through a distance-learning format. They include physical training, medicine, aviation, or arts. These fields are best learned on a full-time basis, as they require continuous theoretical and practical training and internships at the university.
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Does the institution make cultural competence trainings and activities available to all employees?:
A brief description of the cultural competence trainings and activities:
Below are 4 examples of cultural competence trainings offered through Yale's Organizational Development and Learning Center.
Taylor Cox: Exploring Diversity Issues (Intensive Session)
Diversity of staff continues to be an essential success factor for all organizations. A diversified staff improves customer service, creativity, outreach, and many other aspects of organizational life. This intensive session will further explore Mr. Cox's models and processes for creating a multicultural organization presented in the morning lecture. This talk is intended for those who want to learn more, in detail, about how to design and implement organizational change to create competency for diversity inclusion. This event is co-sponsored with the Yale School of Management.
Supporting your LGBTQ-identified child
The past few decades have brought tremendous social and cultural change that offer new opportunities for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer people such as marriage and broad acceptance in many communities. On the other hand, homosexuality is still a lightning rod issue in the political and religious realms. Once your child has “come out” to you, how can you best show your support as they navigate a world that may be unfamiliar to you. This workshop will discuss the challenges faced by LGBTQ people in their teens and twenties, and offer suggestions for ways parents and other family members can reach out and offer valuable support.
Latino Networking Group Annual Spring Networking Social
Join us for social networking: mix, mingle, and make new connections with the Yale Latino community. Featuring musical entertainment and delicious food from local New Haven restaurants, at La Casa, Latino Cultural Center, 301 Crown Street, New Haven. *PLEASE REGISTER ON SITE*
Intercultural Communication at a University: Strategies and Recommendations for Service Providers
This overview workshop offers evidence-driven knowledge, strategies, and recommendations for effective intercultural communication for service providers. It covers three main aspects of intercultural communication between non-native and native English speakers that pose challenges: accent, language, and culture.
Given the international and multicultural orientation of Yale University, service providers in various departments (e.g., healthcare, libraries, student services, human resources) often interact with individuals from various cultural and linguistic backgrounds. However, a mastery of intercultural communication skills is not intuitive; we do not have innate systems developed to interact successfully with people from other cultural groups. Even people with considerable experience often struggle with knowing what works and what does not. This workshop provides the foundation for effective intercultural communication based on scientific findings and will help both native and non-native English speakers interact more successfully with people from various cultural and linguistic backgrounds.
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Visual Arts / Indigenous Arts
Heather Morigeau is an award-winning Indigenous artist who came to the region from Calgary for the first iteration of the Suncor Indigenous Artist Program (a component of Artist in Residency). Morigeau created art and shared her expertise and experiences from October 26 until November 17, 2021.
During her residence, she held a series of workshops including resin casting and pine-needle basket weaving. This was the first time that the resident artist was able to teach workshops for multiple communities, including Fort Chipewyan, Anzac and Fort McMurray.
Morigeau’s contemporary expression of traditional Indigenous arts focuses on encapsulating Indigenous teachings and medicines. Her practice embodies her own healing journey from addiction, mental illness and colonialism.
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Re:View – ‘Out Of This World’
Entering the science fiction exhibition at the British Library, you are greeted with a giant flying saucer having crash-landed into shelves of books, an appropriate metaphor for SF’s impact on the world of literature. There’s also an immense tripod bestriding the show. much as the shadow of HG Wells continues to fall across SF.
The exhibition is divided into sections covering different genres within the genre, from apocalypse scenarios – there’s one from the late 1800s predicting the climate-change death of the planet – to the kind of body technology largely pioneered by William Gibson in ‘Neuromancer’.
There are books about our own future and alien world (I liked the 2D world scenario printed on a continuous flat book), parallel and virtual worlds, which I suppose fairly includes ‘Alice In Wonderland’, and utopias, although there are few fun reads about perfect worlds unless they go wrong. I’ve always liked Ira Levin’s underrated ‘This Perfect Day’.
Ballard, Lem, Asimov, Clarke, Aldiss and Dick are all represented – although I’d have liked a bit more about them (the exhibition is very user-friendly) and there’s stuff for the kids – a full-sized Tardis, interactive games and K-9 (yes, sorry, Dr Who is a children’s show although the BBC seems to think it replaces adult drama).
The nice thing about exhibitions at the British Library is that for once a bookshop feels entirely appropriate, and there’s a good selection of SF on sale.
BTW, in publicity for the beautifully designed upcoming ‘War Of The Worlds’ video game I wrote for Paramount, I’ve been described as one of ‘Britain’s top SF writers’ which I’m certainly not – looking at this collection of authors shows what a distinctive and difficult genre this is to get right. Too often SF is dismissed by academics, but a read through some of these classics would humble the hardest critic. | <urn:uuid:3fd37eca-cecd-43f1-837a-d6b4c30537df> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://www.christopherfowler.co.uk/blog/2011/07/26/review-out-of-this-world/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573744.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819161440-20220819191440-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.953828 | 446 | 1.515625 | 2 |
SCOTTS VALLEY — Officials here and in Santa Cruz are hailing a recently inked wastewater treatment deal as a win-win situation, with Scotts Valley saving $70,000 in fuel and disposal fees, and Santa Cruz saving $25,000 in electricity costs.
Since 2003, trucks filled with tons of solids left over from the wastewater treatment process have made daily hauls from Scotts Valley”s plant on Lundy Lane to a landfill in Marina. That”s a round trip of roughly 75 miles, or more than 500 miles each week.
But under an agreement signed earlier this month, that waste will be trucked less than 8 miles away, to the Santa Cruz wastewater treatment facility. There, it will be converted into methane gas and used to supplement the electricity used to power the plant, said Mark Dettle, Santa Cruz”s Public Works director.
As an added bonus, the collaboration will divert about 2,000 tons of waste from the landfill each year, Scott Hamby, Scotts Valley”s wastewater and environmental program manager, said at the March 6 council meeting where the item was unanimously approved.
But Scotts Valley is a latecomer to the waste-to-energy process. Starting in the 1970s, Santa Cruz”s plant began converting its biosolids into gas, and now does the same for Capitola and other parts of the county, Dettle said. He estimated the city pays $700,000 each year to purchase electricity to operate its plant, and without the biowaste, that figure would jump to more than $1 million.
“We were looking for a way to increase our gas production even more, possibly even taking commercial food waste to generate gas,” he said. But that would have involved a costly infrastructure modification, so the city instead approached Scotts Valley and proposed a 20-year agreement. The new arrangement will save Scotts Valley $60,000 in disposal fees and $10,000 in gas costs each year, Hamby said, and Dettle estimated Santa Cruz will be able to shave off about $25,000 from its electricity costs.
“It”s not a huge savings, but everything helps,” Dettle added.
But before the process can start, Scotts Valley must spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on capital improvements. The plant has to be altered so the biowaste can be watered down to about 4 percent to 6 percent solids, down from the current level of 12 percent to 16 percent. A tanker truck also has to be purchased so that liquid waste can be transferred to Santa Cruz. That will take about four months to complete, Hamby said.
A firm figure has not yet been nailed down, but the current estimate is $575,000, with those funds coming out of the wastewater capital reserve funds.
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Paul has been contrasting the wisdom of this world with the wisdom of God, showing how each considers the other to be “foolishness.” The question is whose wisdom will prove to be wise after all? Which one will prove to be foolish? This is the great cosmic debate between heaven and earth, and history is its dialog.
1 Corinthians 1:26-29 says,
26 For consider your calling, brethren, that there were not many wise according to the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble; 27 but God has chosen the foolish things of the world to shame the wise, and God has chosen the weak things of the world to shame the things which are strong, 28 and the base things of the world and the despised, God has chosen, the things that are not, that He might nullify the things that are, 29 that no man should boast before God.
Here we see that God has chosen nobodies to debate the somebodies. The weak debate the strong, peasants debating noblemen, the despised debating the revered. The deck is stacked against those who advocate the wisdom of God. They appear foolish, relying on faith, rather than on worldly wisdom and logic. But such is our calling, and so we ought to ponder it well, for we must be willing to appear foolish to the world in order to be wise in the eyes of God.
It is not a debate that can be won by the rules of worldly logic. Jews as a whole could never accept a Messiah who would die in shame on a cross, apparently in utter defeat. But the logic of the cross ended in the victory of resurrection. This defied all Jewish logic, and so they found it necessary to suppress the truth of His resurrection (Matt. 28:11-15).
Greeks as a whole could never accept a Savior who came from heaven as a good God incarnated on earth in evil flesh. But the wisdom of God saw the day of Pentecost, when the Holy Spirit descended upon the human flesh of the disciples and filled them as holy temples. This defied all Greek logic.
Fleshly minds could never accept the mind of the Spirit and give way to its authority, for human souls since Eden had ruled as if they were supreme. But when carnal minds were put in their proper place in submission, the power of God was manifested wherever they walked.
The purpose of God’s foolish wisdom was “that no man should boast before God.” Philosophers who won debates were honored, and they had the right to boast among men. But God causes His lowly debaters to lose their case in disgrace, so that they might afterwards confound the wise by the demonstration of the Spirit that defies all human logic.
God has no intention of allowing the fleshly soul to remain dominant over the spirit that is in us. The fleshly soul boasts over its victories. The spirit, infused with and empowered by the Holy Spirit, knows no reason to boast, for its power is not self-derived. Its victories come by the power of God, for the human spirit is merely a channel for the Holy Spirit to function without restriction.
1 Corinthians 1:30, 31 says,
30 But by His doing you are in Christ Jesus, who became to us wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification, and redemption, 31 that, just as it is written, “Let him who boasts, boast in the Lord.”
By identifying with Jesus, who was and is the incarnation of the Wisdom of God, we too have become the wisdom of God. We carry the same foolish message that Jesus carried, wherein He came to die for the people and be raised from the dead. But we have become not only the wisdom of God, but also His righteousness, sanctification, and redemption.
How could we be all of these things without boasting? It is only because the source is not soulish, but spiritual. The soulish mind did not conceive this foolish wisdom, nor did it figure out logically the secrets of righteousness, sanctification, and redemption. No, such things were far too foolish for the soulish mind to discover on its own or even to understand, once it was discovered.
What is righteousness? Our western minds normally make it synonymous with moral perfection. But the Hebrew understanding is justice—that is, to know or discern the mind of God to do what is right. A righteous person was a man of his word, one who could be counted on to do what he said he would do. Under the Old Covenant, it was a man who kept his vow—actually, the vow of his forefathers under the Mount, saying, “all that the Lord has spoken, we will do” (Exodus 19:8).
But in the end, all men have failed to fulfill that vow. Men proved to be incapable of attaining righteousness by that covenant, which was the basis of Jewish logic. But the Mediator of the New Covenant, Jesus Christ, became the righteousness of God in that He did all that was required, fulfilling the entire law which had prophesied of Him. The main work that He fulfilled was on the cross, all of which was prophesied in the feast of Passover. Therefore, as we identify with Him, we too are the righteousness of God in Christ, not because we may boast of doing right, but because we have faith in the ability of God to keep His vow in us.
Even though we are not yet perfected (except in a legal sense), we have faith that God is working in our hearts to bring us to that place of perfect righteousness that comes with immortality. We know that what He has started, He will finish. He works even now, and we now see evidence of change and spiritual growth in our being that extends into our behavior.
Our faith is in His ability, not ours; therefore, we have no cause for boasting. If we boast at all, we must boast about God’s ability to keep His New Covenant vow.
Paul says also that Christ has become our sanctification. Even as righteousness was given to us through the fulfillment of Passover, so also sanctification was given to us through Pentecost.
Under the Old Covenant, sanctification (qadash) was something that people did by pausing to set themselves aside for a time in order to cleanse their hearts in preparation for some special work or calling. It was part of the process of consecration or dedication that distinguished such people from those who did not have the same calling.
The people of Israel were told to sanctify themselves (KJV) or consecrate themselves (NASB) for three days in Exodus 19:10 (where the Hebrew word used is qadash). It was to prepare them for the Holy Spirit which was supposed to come upon them on that first Pentecost at Sinai. Although fear kept them from receiving the baptism of the Holy Spirit at that time (Exodus 20:18-20), the divine intent and purpose for Pentecost was revealed at that time.
Essentially their time of sanctification was to prepare them to become “a kingdom of priests and a holy nation” (Exodus 19:6). Israel as a nation was to be a priestly nation ministering to the rest of the nations in order to fulfill the Abrahamic calling (Gen. 12:3). Individual priests, too, were sanctified, or set apart from the rest of the people with a specific calling to minister to the priestly nation (Lev. 8:30).
Because Israel as a nation was too fearful to accept the Pentecostal call at that time, it never truly received the anointing to be a priestly nation. Pentecost (Shavuot) remained unfulfilled at that time under Moses. Only when Pentecost was fulfilled 1480 years later in the second chapter of Acts did a new anointed nation arise to fulfill that call. Those believers were anointed to succeed where Israel had failed. Hence, when Paul addresses the Corinthian church, he reminds them that Christ Jesus (“the Anointed Jesus”) had become their sanctification, making them part of the new priestly nation.
Unfortunately, as subsequent history has proven, the majority of the church has followed the pattern of Israel’s fear, for most have failed to attain this priesthood. Discounting the religionists who are Christians by earthly church membership alone, or by lip service to Christ, but not being begotten by the Father, we also see that many true believers, who have experienced Passover, have failed to move on into the anointing of Pentecost. Pentecost is the anointing of priesthood, even as Passover establishes one’s citizenship in the Kingdom.
In fact, Pentecost carries with it the anointing of both king and priest, for Jesus is our High Priest of the Order of Melchizedek, the King-Priest (Heb. 7:17). Hence, not only were priests consecrated, or sanctified, but also kings. The fact that King Saul was anointed and crowned on the day of wheat harvest (1 Sam. 12:17), i.e., Pentecost, shows that the church was crowned king in Acts 2:1-3. Saul was a prophetic type of the church in its call as king.
The problem was that many in the church—including the Corinthian church—failed to live up to the calling of the Melchizedek Order. They failed as priests and as kings, and for this reason Paul wrote to admonish them and correct their teachings and behavior.
The final item on Paul’s list is that Christ Jesus is our redemption. While there are many aspects of redemption, the fact that this is the third on the list identifies it with the feast of Tabernacles. This feast, as Paul says in 2 Cor. 5:1-4, is not about dwelling in booths made of branches from goodly trees. It is about being clothed upon with that tabernacle from above that is reserved for us in the heavens.
That heavenly garment brings immortality, Paul says. He writes of this also in Rom. 8:23,
23 And not only this, but also we ourselves, having the first fruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting eagerly for our adoption as sons, the redemption of our body.
Here Paul uses the same terminology as he used in 2 Cor. 5:4,
4 For indeed, while we are in this [earthly, mortal] tent, we groan, being burdened, because we do not want to be unclothed, but to be clothed, in order that what is mortal may be swallowed up by life.
We “groan” in this present body, or tent, for we are clothed with mortality. Yet our hope is “the redemption of our body.” We are to receive these new bodies at the fulfillment of the feast of Tabernacles. Meanwhile, Paul says, we have been given the “pledge” (arrabon) of the Holy Spirit (2 Cor. 5:5).
A pledge is what a debtor gives to his creditor as collateral on a loan. Paul uses the word arrabon, which is actually a Hebrew word carried over into Greek. It is used in Gen. 38:17, 18, where Judah gave Tamar his signet ring and staff as a pledge on his debt to her.
Paul tells us that the Holy Spirit is a pledge on a debt. In this case, the garment is the pledge. When Adam sinned, he incurred a debt that he could not pay, so God took his garment as a pledge. Thus he was found naked, and God then clothed him with “skins” as a temporary garment.
When Jesus died on the cross to pay the debt that Adam had incurred, God was required to give back the original garment that had been taken as a pledge on his debt. But God chose to keep it for a while longer. Hence, Paul says, our heavenly tabernacle, or garment, remains in heaven, where God is reserving it for us for another day.
God is holding our tabernacle, or tent, or immortal garment, in the heavens. Thus, God has borrowed it, giving us the pledge of the Holy Spirit as collateral. In other words, He owes us this garment and is, in that sense, the debtor, and we are His creditors. The fact that God has given us the Holy Spirit as a pledge proves this, because pledges are given by debtors to their creditors.
He plans to return our heavenly garments to us at the fulfillment of the feast of Tabernacles. This is the redemption of our body, for we will then be “clothed with our dwelling from heaven” (2 Cor. 5:2).
Paul insists that we have no more reason to boast about Tabernacle’s redemption than with Passover’s righteousness or with Pentecost’s sanctification. Why? Because all were secured by Jesus Himself, who came to fulfill God’s New Covenant vow. Hence, if we boast at all, we should boast about what Christ has done in fulfilling His vows and promises, not what we have done to fulfill our own vows.
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Airbus’ handover of the first A350-900 Ultra Long Range (ULR) opens a new frontier in non-stop air travel
With the delivery of the first A350-900ULR to launch customer Singapore Airlines (SIA), the A350 XWB Family is positioned to lead the way for new ultra-long-range operations, including on the world’s longest commercial route, between Singapore and New York.
Airlines already use the A350-900 and A350-1000 primarily for long-distance flights, but there is also demand for non-stop services on extreme long-haul missions, which is why Airbus developed its new game-changing variant.
The A350-900ULR – derived from the A350-900 – has an extended range of up to 9,700 nautical miles. This was achieved by integrating a modified fuel system, which increases the aircraft’s fuel carrying capacity by 24,000 litres without the need for additional fuel tanks.
With a maximum take-off weight (MTOW) of 280 tonnes, the A350-900ULR is capable of flying over 20 hours non-stop, combining the highest levels of passenger and crew comfort with unbeatable economics for such distances.
Setting new standards for long-haul travel
Since entering service in 2016, the A350 XWB Family has set new standards for long-haul travel in the mid-size category. Based on a clean sheet design, it has brought a step change in efficiency, reduced fuel consumption and lower cash operating costs compared to the older-generation aircraft it replaces. And in service both the A350-900 and A350-1000 are demonstrating high levels of operational reliability and maturity. The A350 XWB’s flexibility also means the A350-900ULR can easily be reconfigured as a standard -900, if required.
Evolving the ULR from the A350-900 was made possible thanks to extensive design and upstream industrial studies at Airbus, avoiding complex modifications. Some of the engineering development, for example, involved the relocation of sensors in the fuel system – enabling existing tanks to carry the maximum fuel load for the ULR. This eliminated the need for additional fuel tanks. | <urn:uuid:13c18802-07a8-4d66-a059-f0c799a68f68> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.airbus.com/en/newsroom/news/2018-09-ultra-long-range-a350-xwb-goes-the-distance | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570793.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808092125-20220808122125-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.919887 | 458 | 1.734375 | 2 |
The buzzword “tokenization” has been circulating through the ether for several years now. It is not only the crypto community that has recognized that the use of blockchain-based tokens makes a digital representation of almost all assets at least within the realm of possibility.
In early July 2021, Cointelegraph released a Security Token Report.
The report covers a wide range of relevant aspects of tokenization. It explains what it is all about, the differences between ICO and STO, which blockchains are relevant for the issue of security tokens today and much more. Supply and demand for STOs and related services are being analyzed and an insight into the market and its largest participants is given.
In addition to an overview of regulation in the USA, Switzerland and Asia, the report also offers a detailed representation of tokenization in Europe. We are particularly pleased that this part was written by us. Bryan Hollmann, Counsel at STADLER VÖLKEL and Oliver Völkel, founding partner at STADLER VÖLKEL, authored this part.
Now you can download the current Security Token Report 2021 also in German language here.
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“Piracy” is vital to preservation
Boing-Boing posted an article today that describes how “piracy” of computer software and video games from the 80s is vital for historic preservation. Without a “crack-scene” much of this content would be forever lost.
While reading the article, I couldn’t help but think how these “rogue” groups of hackers and crackers parallel our efforts to save and document our rich music history. Luckily for us, a lot of people have come forward with their personal collections. Every year that goes by, there’s another basement flood, rummage sale, spring cleaning or continued degradation of that old magnetic tape. If we weren’t doing this, who would be? This weekend, go into your closet, basement, or wherever you have your old punk tapes stashed… and dig out some gems, because YOU MAY OWN THE ONLY REMAINING PHYSICAL COPY OF IT IN THE WORLD. Do your part in preserving our rich musical heritage. Don’t forget to read the submission rules. | <urn:uuid:1e3b052b-e070-4dd0-a191-5a506944106b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.mkepunk.com/news/piracy-is-vital-to-preservation/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572212.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815205848-20220815235848-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.90541 | 229 | 1.554688 | 2 |
Lawmaker Wants to Do Away With Auto Straight-Party-Ticket Voting Option
Democratic State Representative Patrice Arent says Utah should get rid of the straight-party-ticket box, Utah voters can check when they go to the polls.
Arent says the straight-party-ticket box has caused a lot of confusion.
“Some people check it and think they’re done with voting,” Arent says. “And so they skip the non-partisan races like the judicial races. They will often also skip the ballot propositions and the constitutional amendments. And then there is just the confusion, people thinking they’ve voted for someone they didn’t vote for.”
Arent and Republican Representative Jeremy Peterson are sponsoring House Bill 119 to eliminate that box. She stressed people would still be able to vote for everyone in the same political party, but under they would have to do so candidate by candidate.
Arent says it’s the responsible way to vote.
“By looking at the individual names, it really does encourage thoughtful consideration,” Arent says. “And when people are having ballots mailed to their homes, it gives them time for thoughtful consideration.”
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Modeling is the process of formulating a mathematical description of the system. A model, no matter how detailed, is never a completely accurate representation of a real physical system. A mathematical model is always just an approximation of the true, physical reality of the system dynamics.Uncertainty refers to the differences or errors between model and real systems and whatever methodology is used to present these errors will be called an uncertainty model. Successful robust control-system design would depend on, to a certain extent, an appropriate description of the perturbation considered.Modeling the uncertainties in the switch mode DC-DC converters is an important step in designing robust controllers. This book studies different techniques which can be used to extract the uncertain model of DC-DC converters. Once the uncertain model is extracted, robust control techniques such as
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According to Joseph Watson, Jr., to understand a person, one has to understand who his heroes are and who he admires.
Watson, who spends his days teaching about public advocacy, issues management and shaping public opinion in political contexts, focuses on the ideals of individuals who have helped guide his professional path.
“Encouraging civility and civil discourse are my true motives,” Watson says, explaining not only what guides him, but what characterizes his heroes.
He is proud that his list of heroes is bipartisan, and includes Mother Teresa, William F. Buckley, Jr., Robert F. Kennedy, and Martin Luther King, Jr., among others. And, then there are material nods to his other heroes, including his penchant for bow ties, a tribute to the late Democratic Sen. Pat Moynihan, and his black, horn-rimmed glasses modeled after those worn by Atticus Finch in the film, “To Kill a Mockingbird.”=
It was Watson’s father who planted the seed of a career related to politics at an early age.
Watson grew up in a household where his father, a union steelworker, followed Democratic politics and regularly watched shows like “Meet the Press” on television.
An ideology class in college led him to re-examine his political leanings, with a new fascination for conservatives like former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and later, former Housing Secretary Jack Kemp.
It was also during this time that Watson started tutoring students in economics and realized the satisfaction that comes from teaching.
“I am most comfortable prepping others,” Watson explains. “I like working behind the scenes, and I get a natural high from working with young people to help them achieve their goals.”
Two years out of law school, Watson began working on Capitol Hill where he served as the legislative director for Sen. Peter Fitzgerald, which led to an appointment working on Internet policy in the George W. Bush Administration. A move to the private sector in 2005 brought him to Exelon, a Fortune 100 energy company, where he ultimately served as the director of public advocacy.
Three years ago, the urge to teach returned to Watson, and he left Exelon to serve as the Carolyn Caudell Tieger Professor of Public Affairs Communications. The Public Affairs Professional Certificate program is offered in partnership with the School of Public and International Affairs and is the first of its kind in the country, offering an education that promotes a holistic combination of political science, journalism and public relations courses for undergraduates.
While Watson doesn’t care for the current climate of political divisiveness, he does appreciate the learning opportunities it provides.
“Whatever is going on, we are going to talk about it,” Watson says about his teaching that brings students together at watch-parties during political debates and mid-term elections.
Watson also relishes the special topics courses he teaches, including one on civil rights and his current class on the women’s rights movement taught for the centennial of the 19th Amendment that gave women the right to vote.
“Martin Luther King, Jr. and Susan B. Anthony used public affairs communications to achieve their objectives and create an environment where those laws were passed. I teach my students to use those same tools.”
Watson also directs the intensive Grady D.C. program each summer where students live in Delta Hall while working full-time internships and taking an online class.
“One of the most important lessons I can teach is how to renormalize bipartisan relationships and friendships,” Watson says. “It’s important at an early age for students to get comfortable with people they may not see eye to eye with and have meaningful conversations.”
Watson is proud to be working alongside Tieger in developing the program. Tieger is a 1969 alumna of Grady College who has prospered in a public affairs career spanning more than 40 years in Washington, D.C., and most currently in Naples, Florida.
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Skunks and Porcupines, Masters of Defence
Skunks, in contrast to porcupines, are positively cuddly with soft, luxuriant fur, just begging to be stroked.
Chances are you can outrun a skunk or a porcupine. These mammals are even slower than we are. But don’t attempt to prove your superior speed by running after them.
Both skunks and porcupines have evolved stunning defences that have rendered speed unnecessary. They conduct their affairs in an unhurried fashion despite living among fleet-footed and toothy predators such as bears, wolves, coyotes and foxes.
Skunks and porcupines, of course, protect themselves in very different ways. Porcupines bristle with 30,000 quills that can penetrate flesh more effectively than hypodermic needles. These quills detach easily upon contact with a canine’s nose or a bear’s paw.
Skunks, in contrast to porcupines, are positively cuddly with soft, luxuriant fur, just begging to be stroked. But this isn’t recommended. Being squirted by a noxious cocktail of chemicals, sprayed from twin nozzles near the skunk’s anus, would be your reward.
These jets of spray can travel at least three metres and can temporarily blind would-be predators. The staying power of the stink is impressive, but apparently there are easy ways to neutralize it. (Tomato juice isn’t one of them!)
Alas, in nature, as in the fantasy world of fictional crime-fighting heroes, defence is never absolute. Superman’s nemesis is kryptonite; Sherlock Holmes is tormented by the diabolical Moriarty.
A porcupine’s arch foe is the fisher. This large weasel attacks the face and unprotected belly of the porcupine, avoiding the sharp quills. And a skunk’s nemesis? The great-horned owl. With a limited sense of smell, these aerial tigers are partial to skunk on the menu. Attacking silently from above likely protects their eyes from the skunk’s spray.
In fable, the slow and steady tortoise beats the speedy hare in a race. In real life the plodding skunk and porcupine also triumph. (Well, most of the time!)
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F-4C “Phantom II”
SERIAL NUMBER: 63-7567
Wing Span — 38'5"
Length — 58'3"
Height — 16'6"
Maximum Speed — 1433 M.P.H. at 40,000 Ft.
Service Ceiling — 56,100 Ft.
Range — 900 Miles
Crew/Passengers — 2 crew
Armament — 16,000 Lbs. of bombs or 8 air-to-air,or surface to air missiles, Vulcan 20 mm gun pod Engines —
2 x General Electric J79-GE-15 turbojet engines rated at 17,900 lbs. thrust each
Originally designed to a U.S. Navy specification calling for a twin engine all weather fighter, the Phantom took five years to design. The prototype first flew on 27 May 1958. The F-4 crew sits with the pilot in the front of the tandem cockpit, and the radar intercept officer (RIO) in the rear. The RIO manages the radar and the electronic counter measures equipment.
In November of 1961, the second prototype F-4 set some impressive performance records, including a 1,606 m.p.h. speed record, and a time to climb record to 49,212 feet in one minute, 54 seconds.
The F-4C has the General Electric J79-15 engine rated at 17,900 lbs. thrust and the APQ-100 radar system. The first F-4C flew on 27 May 1963. By mid 1966, 10 squadrons of F-4C's were in service in Vietnam. In 1967, the F-4C was returned stateside and replaced by the F-4D in Vietnam. The war record of the F-4C is impressive. From 1965 to 1967, they accounted for 42 kills over enemy "MIG'S".
Our F-4 is a "C" model designed specifically for USAF use. Early in its career, it was converted to an EF-4C Wild Weasel flak suppression aircraft and was last operated by the California Air National Guard, Fresno, CA. On 9 April 1986, it was sold to Flight Systems Inc, Mojave, CA, with civilian registration of N402FS. By June of 1987 it was displayed at Travis Air Museum.
Captain Steve Ritchie was the first U.S. Air Force ace in Vietnam. His first and fifth kills were in an F-4D, while his third and fourth kills were in an F-4E. The leading ace in Vietnam was Capt. Chuck De-Bellevue, who destroyed six enemy aircraft.
5,057 F-4 "Phantom II's" of all models were built between 1958 and 1979.
Our F-4C is currently on display at the David Grant Medical Center gate.
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Flekkerøy or Flekkerøya is an island and residential district in Kristiansand municipality in Agder county, Norway. The district is located within the borough of Vågsbygd, and it consists of 4 main neighborhoods: Berge/Andås, Kjære, Lindebø/Skålevik, and Mæbø/Høyfjellet. The district covers all of the island of Flekkerøya which lies within the city of Kristiansand. Since 1989, the island (and district) has been connected to the mainland through the Flekkerøy Tunnel, a 2,320-metre (7,612 ft) long subsea road tunnel. The island has 3,632 inhabitants (as of 23 October 2013). Flekkerøy Church is located on the island.
Since the 15th century, Flekkerøy was an important harbour along the Skagerrak, and since 1540 it has been considered as the most important outport in the whole region of Southern Norway. In 1555, the first fortifications were built, but it was torn down in 1561. Anne of Denmark and James VI of Scotland came to Flekkerøy in 1589.In the early 17th century, the harbour again became of strategic importance, and in 1635 the island was visited by King Christian IV who decided to build the Christiansø Fortress to protect the harbour. In 1656, a new fortress called Fredriksholm was built, and Christiansø soon decayed.
In 1807, about 250 people lived on the island, and in September 1807, English ships anchored at the harbour. The local people fled, Fredriksholm fortress was blown up, and the island was pillaged. In 1848, a cannon battery was built, but in 1872 it was abandoned, and in 1874 the partially rebuilt Fredriksholm fortress was also closed down for good.
In 2005, the remaining military properties on Flekkerøya were secured for public outdoor recreation by the Ministry of Climate and Environment.
The 10 largest politics parties in Flekkerøy (2015):
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Boston is a city in the United States, the capital of the state of Massachusetts. Located on the Atlantic coast, in New England, at the mouth of the Mystic and Charles Rivers, it is the most populous city in the state. The city spans a relatively small territory and includes the boroughs of East Boston, Charlestown, Roxbury, Dorchester, Brighton, West Roxbury, Jamaica Plain and Hyde Park. The climate, humid and temperate, is characterized by cold winters (the average temperature in January is -1 ° C) and moderately hot summers (21 ° C in July); annual rainfall is 1090 mm. Boston is New England’s largest financial and industrial center. The economy of the city is oriented towards the service sector, more than half of its active population occupies positions related to tertiary activities.
The apex of the Boston industrial network is represented by information technology, which here reaches unparalleled levels of technological research. The rest of the industrial production is oriented towards fabrics, rubber and clothing. The development of the publishing sector is also noteworthy.
An important center of study, the city has two prestigious universities, Boston University, founded in 1839, and Northeastern University founded in 1898. Also close to the city are Cambridge University and Harvard University., from 1636.
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Its many academic institutions and institutes, its historic attractions, its financial power and its quality of life, make this city a magnificent place to live, work or visit, Boston continues to be one of the best American cities to live..
This extraordinary city has earned the nickname ‘Athens of America’ for the beauty of its historic center and the intensity of its cultural and scientific activities. Numerous museums, including the Museum of Fine Arts. Other notable buildings, dating back to the colonial era, are the Old North Church and the Massachusetts State House.
Paul Revere House, the oldest building in the city, is located in the North End, a few blocks away from the Old North Church, on which the two lanterns were hung that warned Paul Revere of the advance of the English.
The Freedom Trail begins at Boston Common, the first public park in the USA, and the city’s green lung, as well as a favorite area for relaxation and recreation.
North of the park shines the golden dome of the new State House. King’s Chapel was Boston’s first Anglican church. The Old Corner Bookstore, one of the best bookstores in the city, was Boston’s literary center as early as the 19th century. Other highlights on the Freedom Trail are the Benjamin Franklin statue, the Old South Meeting House, Faneuil Hall, a meeting place for settlers, and Bunker Hill, the scene of a major battle during the American Revolutionary War. The long history of the city also and above all relives in the historic district of Beacon Hill (slightly away from the Freedom Trail), which from the seventeenth century to the present has been preserved intact, with romantic noble residences that embellish both sides of the cobbled streets.
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Before the area was overrun by European explorers and settlers, the region of Massachusetts, where Boston is now located, was inhabited by Algonquian Indian tribes, mainly in parts of the coast and in the river valleys of the interior. At the beginning of the seventeenth century, due to diseases introduced by Europeans, there was a drastic decrease in the number of Indians.
The first settlers arrived in 1630, were followers of Puritanism, led by John Winthrop, and hailed from Salem. In 1750 it was already a commercial center, where many industries developed. During this time the city already had 15,000 inhabitants, and its life was strongly influenced by political clashes with England, and by the power exercised by congregationalism. In 1661, missionary John Eliot published the first book in the Western Hemisphere, a bible. He traveled through the Boston area converting many Indian tribes with the help of the Bible. After a long wandering, he settled with Natick’s Indian believers. But most of them died when they were exiled to Deer Island, after the “War of King Philip.” In 1773, the first signs of insurrection appeared in Boston. The city was the center of opposition to England. This opposition would later culminate in the War of Independence.
In the decade from 1760 to 1770, Boston was the main center of opposition to English hegemony, which tried to impose its laws, not counting the opinion of the American colonists. After numerous clashes with British troops, the episode of the Boston Tea Party took place on December 16, 1773, it was a protest against the tea tax that was imposed by the British, and was the cause and starting point for the insurrection of all. the other colonies against British power. After the insurrection there were the battles of Lexington and Concord, and subsequently the battle of Bunker Hill which took place on June 17, 1775, in Boston; nine months later, the British withdrew from the city,
During the American Civil War, Boston and Massachusetts sent various regiments to fight, among them the 54 of Massachusetts, the first regiment composed of black men in the history of the United States, or the 56 and the Harvard Regiment, also known as the Regiment. 20 Massachusetts Infantry Volunteers.
In the second half of the 19th century, Boston incorporated some of the neighboring cities, including them in the metropolitan area. Hundreds of immigrants began to arrive, first from Ireland, people fleeing the hunger of that country, and later from Canada, Russia and Italy. When the waves of Irish immigrants arrived, several thousand were quarantined on Deer Island, and more than 800 died as a result of the harsh conditions on the island. Such was the immigration from Ireland that currently, the Irish-born community has considerable influence in the life of the city. In 1900 Boston was the capital of New England, and had achieved a leading position in various sectors such as finance, education and medicine. In 1950 the city reached its maximum population level, with 801,444 inhabitants, a figure that began to decrease continuously since then, it is estimated that in 1990 the population was about 570,000 inhabitants. | <urn:uuid:92eb6f6d-652e-4dff-83a8-f4507a90ec42> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.simplyyellowpages.com/boston-massachusetts/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573744.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819161440-20220819191440-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.973145 | 1,311 | 2.34375 | 2 |
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Hi. I am Art Caplan. I'm at the Division of Medical Ethics at the New York University Grossman School of Medicine.
In my line of work running the medical ethics division, sadly, one of the toughest jobs I have is to get involved when there are disputes among family members or between family members and doctors about end-of-life care for terminally ill patients. How far do you push aggressive care? When do you back off? How do you manage a good death? Do you have hospice? Do you have adequate hospice? Can they go home and receive hospice care?
One of the toughest issues that COVID-19 created is deciding what to do with a highly infectious patient who's dying and you're very afraid that you're going to communicate that disease, whether it's COVID-19, Ebola, Zika, or some other highly contagious disease, to family members who want to be with the dying person, staff, chaplains, or others.
Many facilities, both nursing homes and hospitals, would not let anybody in the room of someone who had COVID-19 for fear of infecting that visitor, staff member, or family members. My own mother died in a nursing home with my sister at the window, trying to hold up messages to her as she died because they would not let anyone in the room.
I have to give some praise to one of our hospitalists here at NYU. She worked on this issue and she and I talked about it. She came up with an agreement that we would not let people die alone, and I don't think we should. If a family member is willing to go into the room with a person, we owe it to them to provide protective gear, explain the risks of being there, and let them make the decision as to whether they want to take that risk to be with their dying loved one.
If staff members want to go in — a chaplain, someone trying to provide meals, or just to hold somebody's hand — I don't think we should require it. I think we should let people volunteer. Again, the obligation is to be vaccinated and make sure you have the proper protective gear.
I also think we need to set up hospice a little differently than we have in the past, with more iPads, iPhones, or possibilities for electronic communication that are easy to use so that someone who is really ill, elderly, or has dementia can use those technologies to have a semblance of stimuli and even a sense of companionship.
I learned a lesson from COVID-19 in dying and infectious disease. We have improved our end-of-life care. Palliative care is much better. Many people are very good at it, but we can't abandon it even when there are risks associated with the reason the person is dying. We now have vaccination. We have protective gear. People can discuss whether one person can go in, try to make it as safe as possible for them, let the staff understand their options and risks, and decide what they want to do.
We have to try harder to make sure that no one dies alone. That's not the right way to manage dying in any sort of plague.
I'm Art Caplan at the Division of Medical Ethics at the New York University Grossman School of Medicine. Thank you for watching.
Arthur L. Caplan, PhD, is director of the Division of Medical Ethics at New York University Langone Medical Center and School of Medicine. He is the author or editor of 35 books and 750 peer-reviewed articles as well as a frequent commentator in the media on bioethical issues.
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The 2013 Minnesota Legislature faces some of the most critical issues in generations when it meets for the first time today. Minnesota faces a $1.1 billion shortfall in FY 2014-15 ($2.0 billion when inflation is included) and is suffering from years of deficits, budget gimmicks and quick fixes.
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Grassroots Activism in NOLA is About Making a Difference in the Community
by Anitra D. Brown
Retired army major and businesswoman Tracey Riley is a member of a local organization called The Collaborative, a group that advocates for economic equity and access, particularly for Black-owned businesses. It is as a member of this group that Riley says she became more aware of the millions of dollars in public money controlled by boards and commissions across the city and of the fact that Black New Orleanians rarely benefit from this spending.
“You’ve got special interests groups called to serve on these boards and commissions and, in great part, excluding our community,” Riley says. “The public has a right to know. And I am okay with going up and asking questions.”
Eventually, she and other community members such as Belden “Noonie Man” Batiste and Kim Ford began making the rounds at various board meetings, calling attention to the fact that Black-owned businesses are often left out of the public contract and procurement processes and demanding change.
Last spring, Riley sent an e-mail to the head of the New Orleans Tourism Marketing Corporation, asking questions about how it spends the millions in sales tax money it gets each year to market the city. And she and others showed up at NOTMC board meetings.
This is one area where Riley is happy to report some results.
“The (New Orleans Tourism Marketing Corporation) was the first board meeting that I attended and spoke up at in March.”
Leaders at NOTMC did not just listen to their concerns. They acted, she says, by reaching out to tourism-related Black-owned businesses, exploring ways to help them increase capacity and even providing business opportunities for Black photographers, videographers and event planners. NOTMC also reached out to McKenna Publishing Company, long-time publishers of The New Orleans Tribune; The New Orleans BlackBook, a comprehensive directory of Black-owned businesses; and Welcome magazine, a guide for Black tourists to New Orleans, published since 1999.
Spurred by the concerns lodged by the activist citizens, NOTMC turned to the resources available in the New Orleans BlackBook. And they partnered with McKenna Publishing on the 2108 edition of Welcome magazine to heighten the visibility and distribution of the directory of tourism-related Black-owned businesses in print and online just before Essence Festival. The goal was to spur more economic activity at more Black-owned businesses, many of which in recent years have reported feeling left out of the boon during the annual music and culture event, which brought more than 500,000 mostly Black visitors to New Orleans and generated more than $200 million in economic activity this year.
Riley says she saw the positive impact of those efforts.
“It was just a matter of establishing relationships, linking us all together and sharing data,” Riley says. “And we saw an increase in tourism activity during Essence festival, not just within a few blocks of the convention center, but at businesses across the city. One small change had a huge impact. NOTMC is actually intentionally making decisions. That is success.”
Riley, Batiste, Ford and others are now focusing on the redevelopment of the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center, another agency that gets millions in public funds each year. They have become regulars at the convention center board meetings, speaking up and airing their concern that Black businesses and workers will get left out of the convention center’s planned $558 million redevelopment if deliberate action isn’t taken.
“Our intent is to go around the city and get before other boards and do the same,” Riley says.
Riley, Ford, Batiste and others that sound alarms, demanding accountability, equity, and action are what we call Tree Shakers. They are not afraid to make a lot of noise . . . to shake some trees, so to speak, raising their voices and even a few eyebrows for the causes of equity and justice.
Those who aren’t ready or willing to hear what they are saying might take to calling them rabble-rousers, trouble makers or even gadflies—busybody meddlers. Those words are code used to discount such activists.
But the truth is tree shakers are the folk that undertake important causes with little regard for their own time and resources. They don’t get paid to attend meetings, make public comments for the record, research information, send e-mails, post to social media or organize protests. Sometimes their own livelihoods suffer as a result of their activism. Yet, when their work yields result, they don’t necessarily directly benefit from the results of their own actions. Still, they do what they do in order to shake the trees so that the fruit will fall.
The visible, tangible increase in economic activity at many Black-owned businesses during the recent Essence Fest, the long lines at neighborhood restaurants, visits by tourists to sections of the city other than the French Quarter and downtown – that was fruit falling from shaken trees.
“What harms my sister or my brother harms me,” Ford says. “I have children, grandchildren, nieces and nephews; and I need for them to be in a world where they have opportunity. (Injustices) are so prevalent, yet so unnoticed, I feel compelled to speak out. It’s a calling on my life.”
It is impossible to talk about tree shakers without mentioning the important role of the jelly makers, those individuals who are in the right place at the right time with the right skills. They are able to pick up the fruit that falls from the trees and turn it into power and resources—sweet jelly. Whether they acknowledge it or not, there is hardly anyone in any community of color that exercises real political power or enjoys significant economic success – a jelly maker – that did not benefit from the work of tree shakers. In a perfect universe, jelly makers appreciate the tree shakers and show it by using their political might or economic resources to improve community. Sometimes the universe is perfect. To be sure, New Orleans has some jelly makers that help complete the circle. It’s kismet. Creating power and capacity that strengthens and serves the community is why tree shakers do what they do. Unfortunately, far too many jelly makers conveniently forget just how they got the fruit they enjoy. They don’t use their success to build community. They may even ridicule, ignore and treat tree shakers with disdain despite the reality that they very success they enjoy is rooted in the tree that was shaken by someone else.
A City of Tree Shakers
New Orleans is a city with a deep history of selfless activism. Some have become institutions in this city whose traditions of community activism have become models for others to mimic, such as the legacy left by Dyan French Cole, better known as Momma D.
Cole, whose legacy of activism in New Orleans stretched 50 years at the time of her death in 2017, was one of the outspoken voices to ring out in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. In December 2005, barely three months after the storm, she testified passionately before a bi-partisan congressional committee convened to investigate the government’s preparation and response to Katrina.
French Cole boldly used the national stage to talk about the treatment of storm victims and the signs that even then, barely 90 days after the storm, that the rich and powerful were eyeing a broken New Orleans with plans to push out poor and working people, land grab and gentrify the city.
“I didn’t go anywhere,” Cole told members of Congress during her testimony. “Why? Because I didn’t have to. Why? Because I live in America. I’m free. Katrina didn’t do this. The isms of America did this…My neighbors want to know where their children are…They want to know where their deceased are…And they want to know where there rights are…We ain’t going nowhere.”
Local activist Angelina Elder has been inspired by Mama D, counting herself among what she calls Mama D’s Village. Elder fights today in the same defiant spirit and has consistently raised her voice regarding injustices in public education, with special attention to the poor conditions at and privatization of John McDonogh High School.
And French Cole’s own son Byron Cole has picked up the mantle left by his mother. In addition to being among those raising questions and demanding equity in the economic arena, he recently organized a community boycott against a 7th Ward convenience store after a Black man who had reportedly stolen a six-pack of beer was allegedly chased down and killed by another Black man at what some contend was the behest of the owner.
Byron Cole has also made a few bids for elected office, including throwing his hat in the race during the last mayoral election. And while he has not yet won an elected position, his attempts to translate his grassroots work to elected office follows a long-tradition of tree shakers who become jelly makers to serve the community in a different way. Consider that the Rev. Avery Alexander, who served nearly 25 years in the state legislature, Mayor Ernest “Dutch” Morial, former Atlanta Mayor Andrew Young, and U.S. Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.) were all community and civil rights activists before they were political leaders. And they are just a few examples.
While activists like French Cole must be remembered and honored, there are veteran tree shakers still with us today, who have not allowed the passing of time to hinder their fight for justice.
Longtime activist Malcolm Suber, a driving force behind Take ‘Em Down NOLA, the coalition of individuals and organizations that pushed for the removal of confederate monuments in public spaces across the city.
And while the last of four monuments earmarked for removal was razed in May 2017, Suber and Take ‘Em Down NOLA have not slowed their social action.
In March 2018, Take ‘Em Down NOLA held a first-of-its-kind summit designed to commemorate the removal of the four monuments and strategically align efforts to remove other statues and monuments that are symbols of White supremacy. The three-day summit ended with a demonstration to promote a new ordinance to remove all symbols to White supremacy in the city of New Orleans.
Meanwhile, Suber and others, including Angela Kinlaw, another prominent member of the Take ‘Em Down NOLA coalition, have lent their voices to the battle Gordon Plaza residents are fighting as they demand to be relocated from the Ninth Ward neighborhood they now know was built on a toxic landfill.
Another veteran tree shaker is Carl Galmon, a local civil rights activist and member of the National Voting Rights Museum & Institute who is one of the grandfathers of local community activism movement. He has fought against voting obstacles in the U.S. and Louisiana for decades. He has been an tireless advocate for equity in public education, economic parity. And he has challenged racism across the globe, organizing the Louisiana State Committee Against Apartheid in the 1980s.
From voting roll purges and voter ID laws to gerrymandering to a lack of polling places, Galmon continues to point out tactics that keep African-American and other people of color from voting.
“Voting is a sacred right” Galmon maintains, citing the hundreds of African-Americans who have died for the right to choose who represents them in government. When one considers the power vested in elected officeholders, the ability to make laws—even if the law is unfair, unethical, and oppressive—it becomes clear that voting is critical for maintaining democracy.
In 2015, Galmon called attention to a lack of polling sites, particularly in Ponchartrain Park. He pointed out that the majority of the city’s African-American population lives east of Canal Street, but that there were only two polling places for the residents of that community since Katrina.
Pontchartrain Park residents were thankful for his advocacy.
“We only have one place where we all go to vote, on the highway,” said Gretchen Bradford, president of the Pontchartrain Park Neighborhood Association. “Prior to Katrina we had locations at schools and churches, now if you don’t have a car or you’re disabled, it’s inconvenient. Over 65 percent of our residents are over 70 years old. Carl is setting the pace for this movement and we appreciate him for that.”
Voting rights are also important to Ford who has focused on helping senior citizens, a group she calls “chronic voters”, by teaching them how to use social media and technology to get and share information.
Riley also points to the use of social media as a tool to share information and mobilize people, noting how social media fueled the Black Lives Matter movement and the focus on police brutality and disregard for Black life in the wake of killings of Trayvon Martin and Michael Brown.
“There is more than one way to get a message out and to get access to information,” Riley says. “(Activism spurred through social media) has shown us that it is okay to stand up and speak out—to go to our government and leaders and say ‘we have a problem’.”
To be sure, there is no shortage of challenges to face and trees to shake.
In addition to her efforts surrounding economic parity, an issue she describes as detrimental to the Black community by comparing it to “modern-day lynching, Ford is also at the center of a movement address issues in the criminal justice system.
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Could seaweed potentially replace salt?
Posted: 6 July 2016 | Victoria White, Digital Content Producer | 2 comments
Researchers conclude that brown algae could be used as a salt substitute and help to reduce the salt content of industrially processed foods…
Fraunhofer researchers have shown how seaweed, which has a naturally salty taste, has the potential to replace salt.
Without salt, many foods seem tasteless and bland. “Salt acts as a natural flavour enhancer, has a conserving effect and is essential for the human organism,” explains Dominic Wimmer, a researcher at the Fraunhofer Institute for Process Engineering and Packaging IVV in Freising. However, these positive effects are lost if we eat too much salt.
Around 77 percent of our salt intake comes from industrially processed foods. The biggest problem is the sodium that salt contains, which can contribute to high blood pressure, heart disease, kidney ailments, osteoporosis or even stomach cancer.
In the EU-funded TASTE project, Fraunhofer IVV researchers have been working with partners across Europe to investigate whether seaweed could be a good substitute for salt. Saltwater algae taste naturally salty and contain minerals such as potassium and magnesium, as well as trace elements. The researchers conclude that brown algae could be used as a salt substitute and help to reduce the salt content of industrially processed foods.
TASTE’s research focused on three large saltwater algae: Ascophyllum nodosum, Saccharina latissima and Fucus vesiculosus.
Processing the algae
The researchers also checked out what salt substitutes are currently available on the market. These range from mineral salts and aromas to flavour enhancers. “We needed a benchmark to help us decide how to process the seaweed,” Wimmer says. Part of the preparatory work was to develop a common flavour language that all project partners understood.
The researchers determined what substances the seaweed species contain. “We then developed the process engineering based on the data. The goal was to come up with an algae product that can be processed industrially as a salt substitute,” Wimmer explains. The challenge was to grind the algae so as to preserve the minerals they contain, while removing odour-intensive substances.
And so the researchers ground, cooked, blanched and dried the algae. Parallel to this, two partners took care of the enzymatic treatment of the algae. The result was a brownish-green seaweed powder that could be used industrially as a salt substitute in the future.
To investigate what food tastes like when flavoured with the seaweed, experts took a look at white bread. Their conclusion: the brownish-green colour of the seaweed powder is still apparent after baking and the salty taste is not as strong as with salt. But the researchers say it is easy to process and can help to reduce the salt content. “Salt can’t be replaced entirely: as a functional baking ingredient, there’s nothing quite like it,” Wimmer says. | <urn:uuid:98752e32-58a8-44ba-8e86-6b5129a392a3> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.newfoodmagazine.com/news/25566/seaweed-salt/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570793.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808092125-20220808122125-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.951971 | 648 | 3.046875 | 3 |
How Much Does an Aesthetician Make?
Aestheticians are personal care workers who apply treatments and makeup to the skin. You can become an aesthetician through a certificate program lasting four months to more than a year, or in a two-year associate degree program. After completing accredited training, you must pass practical and written tests to receive a state license. As of 2020, the average aesthetician salary was around $41,230 per year, but actual earnings vary by industry and location.
Aesthetician Salary Ranges
The average aesthetician salary of $41,230 was for a year of full-time work as of May 2020, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, or BLS. This is equivalent to an hourly rate of $19.82, and most aestheticians work full-time. However, the median salary was lower at $36,510 per year. In other words, 50 percent of all aestheticians surveyed annually earned less than $36,510.
To further elaborate, the BLS surveyed 46,640 aestheticians nationwide in 2020, not including those who are self-employed. Ten percent of aestheticians earned less than $22,850 per year, and 10 percent earned more than $64,610.
For purpose of comparision, aesthetician salary data compiled by the job site Indeed showed an average annual salary of $35,631, or $19.85 per hour. Indeed salary estimates were based on 1.2K self-reported salaries as of December 2021.
According to the BLS survey, personal care services, including spas and beauty shops, were the largest employer, with 29,530 aestheticians earning an average annual pay of $40,910 per year. Health and personal care stores employed 4,960 workers who made an annual aesthetician salary of $37,170.
The amusement and recreation industry, which includes fitness centers and country clubs, employed 1,210 aestheticians, with an average pay of $37,620 per year. Traveler accommodations, including hotels and casinos, employed 1,790 workers earning an average of $40,390 annually.
Medical Aesthetician Salary
Three highest-paying industries for aestheticians in 2020 were in medical fields, according to the BLS report. Medical aestheticians work for health-care providers, treating the skin of patients with special needs because of cancer, surgery, illness or trauma. Physicians' offices employed 5,980 medical aestheticians at an average pay of $47,010 annually. A small percentage worked in hospitals and outpatient care centers annually averaging $46,010 and $43,010, respectively.
Aesthetician Salary by State
California had 6,250 jobs for aestheticians, the largest number of any state, and aestheticians there earned an average of $40,550 per year. Four states had average annual wages greater than $52,500 for aestheticians in the 2020 government survey. Colorado led with $58,480 average yearly pay. The state of Washington was next at $56,940, followed by Hawaii at $54,540 per year. In both Connecticut and Oklahoma, aesthetician salary averaged a little more than $52,500 per year.
The number of positions for aestheticians will grow by 29 percent between 2020 and 2030, faster than the projected 8 percent growth for all other U.S. jobs, according to the BLS. Increases will result from the development of new treatments and an aging population's desire to receive them. The opening of new salons and spas will also increase job opportunities. Experienced aestheticians will have the best prospects of finding work, the BLS says. | <urn:uuid:e7cf3145-5a19-4110-b956-97f8ce645266> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://work.chron.com/much-aesthetician-make-3621.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573744.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819161440-20220819191440-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.973846 | 775 | 1.984375 | 2 |
The Life of a PirateChristian Calhoun
The life of a pirate meant signing a contract in which you state that you’d agree to work for a certain amount of time. If you deserted during this time, you could get keel-hauled (tied to the ship, then dumped overboard so that you would drown or die from the wounds received), lashed by the crew, or abandoned on an island. If you decided to steal from the team, whether gold or rationed food, you were punished by choice of the crew or captain.
There were very few doctors, and little or no medicine. The carpenter or the cook were often the ones who ended up amputating an arm or leg. It usually ended in death, but this death was preferable over scurvy. If you contracted scurvy on a pirate ship, it meant a slow painful death, including the symptoms of losing your teeth, bleeding gums, blood spots under your skin, swelling in the muscles, jaundice, fatigue, and depression.
To contract information on the whereabouts of treasure, pirates would torture people. The most horrible pirates would make others watch their loved ones or officers lose their limbs until they died. On one account, the infamous pirate, Blackbeard, cut off the fingers of women to get the rings they refused to relinquish.
The idea of being free, sailing across the ocean, and looting does sound enjoyable. But that is not what happened. If the Barbary pirates caught you, you could expect never to return home, and die a slave in a foreign country. If you were captured and sold by an English pirate, you could expect similar results, unless you complied to their wishes and gave them yer belongings.
Many pirates were sailors treated horribly by their Captains while serving the Navy. They turned pirate because of the harsh conditions. To be fair, conditions on a pirate ship were often better than those on a British warship. Pirates often had the liberty of voting for their captain and Quartermaster, and even choosing their loot, as long as it was sensible.
I am not attempting to snuff out yer dreams of fighting alongside pirates during the 17th or 18th century. But most people don’t know about the harsh conditions that pirates underwent. Being a pirate wasn’t all fun and games. It was life and death. | <urn:uuid:4291562a-9b5d-4da0-becc-c36993dc2470> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://missyblackpirate.com/the-life-of-a-pirate/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573193.35/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818094131-20220818124131-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.981117 | 484 | 3.234375 | 3 |
Malfatti Glassware Hand-Blown Beer Glasses
Glass, they say, is never quite a solid. It is a sort of liquid, suspended in its own interpretation of time. Never is this more apparent than in these hand-blown glasses from Malfatti.
Created in upstate New York of borosilicate glass (lead-free, of superior durability, resistant to chemical and temperature shock, it’s the stuff they use to make scientific laboratory glass) each of these feather-light pieces is unique in its imperfections, each tells its own new history.
Hold one up and gaze through it. Better yet, fill it with something refreshing. Holds a whole bottle of beer.
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Researchers on Tuesday found a memory corruption vulnerability in PolicyKit (now known as polkit), a Set User ID (SUID) root program that’s installed by default on every Linux variant — a vulnerability they say has been hiding in plain sight for more than 12 years.
In a blog post, Qualys researchers said this easily exploited local privilege escalation vulnerability (CVE-2021-4034), dubbed PwnKit, lets any unprivileged user gain full root privileges on a vulnerable host by exploiting the vulnerability in its default configuration.
The researchers explained that polkit offers an organized way for non-privileged processes to communicate with privileged processes. It’s also possible to use polkit to execute command with elevated privileges using the command pkexec followed by the command intended to be executed with root permission.
This discovery was important and caused concern among security researchers because a successful exploitation of the PwnKit vulnerability lets any unprivileged user gain root privileges on a vulnerable host. The Qualys researchers said they were able to obtain full root privileges on default installations of Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora, and CentOS. The researchers said other Linux distributions are likely vulnerable and probably exploitable.
News of PwnKit raised eyebrows at the highest levels of the intelligence community. Rob Joyce, director of the National Security Agency’s Cybersecurity Directorate, raised these concerns in a tweet on Wednesday:
“CVE-2021-4034 in a system tool called Polkit has me concerned. Easy and reliable privilege escalation preinstalled on every major Linux distribution. Patch ASAP or use the simple chmod 0755 /usr/bin/pkexec mitigation. There are working POCs in the wild.”
An open source vulnerability like this is an issue for both cloud and on-premises systems, with both needing to be patched or mitigated to prevent it from being exploited, said Bud Broomhead, CEO at Viakoo. However, in terms of scale of impact, Broomhead said it’s a much bigger issue (order of magnitude bigger) for on-premises systems because of the number of them and how they are dispersed across an organization. Broomhead said patching cloud-based systems can be done more quickly with fewer people.
“This is a big deal,” Broomhead said. “Unlike fully proprietary systems where a single manufacturer can issue a single patch to address a vulnerability, a single open source vulnerability can be present in multiple systems, including proprietary ones, which then requires multiple manufacturers to separately develop, test, and distribute a patch. For both the manufacturer, and end user, this adds enormous time and complexity to implementing a security fix for a known vulnerability."
John Hammond, senior security researcher at Huntress, added that this latest Polkit pkexec vulnerability has certainly caught the attention of security practitioners. Hammond said the attack vector offers an extremely easy method for privilege escalation — allowing a low-privilege user account to readily become the administrator or super user account "root."
“What’s so concerning with this vulnerability and exploit is just how simple it is to perform; the attack can be staged in even a single script,” Hammond said. “This adds a lot of pressure to the frowned-upon bad practice of redirecting code right into the Linux shell — something suggested by lots of different applications to make installation more convenient."
Hammond added that much like another headline-making vulnerability uncovered by the Qualys team, (a buffer overflow in the sudo utility dubbed "Baron Samedit"), this weakness has been present in a practically ubiquitous Linux utility for more than a decade. Before Qualys discovered the flaw in polkit, Hammond said the attack vector itself had been publicly known and discussed for several years.
“It's scary to think of this attack vector being used alongside the Log4shell exploit,” Hammond said. “By weaponizing both an easy initial access vector and easy privilege escalation vector, mass compromise of Linux machines could be trivial. Perhaps if the two vulnerabilities were discovered and disclosed at the same time, December of 2021 would have been vastly different for the cybersecurity industry.” | <urn:uuid:7ddf17cd-a70b-4d97-bef5-8b1081d5f236> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.scmagazine.com/editorial/news/cloud-security/local-privilege-escalation-vulnerability-found-on-polkit-program-found-on-every-linux-variant | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573744.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819161440-20220819191440-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.938685 | 861 | 1.992188 | 2 |
Exterior House Brick Painting
From Ontario to Toronto, Canadian homes had always been known to have been greatly influenced by British home-makers. This is the reason why most homes across the country are made of exterior bricks or stone.
Toronto brick houses has been a landmark of its own for hundreds of years. Yorkville and Cabbagetown are just some of those stunning places that best reminds us of this tradition. It has been a popular choice because even if put side by side against competing exterior siding materials, bricks and stones will outlast them all.
But again here we go again with the fact that not even something as sturdy as bricks can withstand the test of time. It may be element-proof but not when it is heavily damaged by weathering. House exterior bricks are also slightly porous so cleaning it up will be troubling if it has not been protected by exterior finishes prior.
Replacing outside bricks isn’t just a bright move after all. The costs can be financially aggravating. Our suggestion for your exterior brick walls: paint it! We have had numerous experience from customers quoting for the same problems. As Toronto brick homes are always popular choices, we give them just one answer every other time: paint exterior brick finishes and we’ll prove the differences.
Why Paint the Towns Brick Homes Instead?
- If curb appeal is important to you (from the mind of a seller), attractive colour finishes make your brick home shine above the rest.
- Porous untreated exterior bricks are way more expensive to maintain than painted ones. The cleaning is an upkeep that is also a downside if untreated.
- As was previously stated, painting it is less hassling and more affordable than choosing to replace your sidings with other materials that wouldn’t last as long as bricks.
- Installing brick sidings is extremely difficult, repainting them instead of replacing will mask the problems present in weathering to renew your home’s facade in a more convenient manner.
- Costly repairs is a major let-down for brick homeowners. The right paints can prevent all of these by protecting very old bricks from further weathering and crumbling.
- As for the porosity of untreated bricks, painted exteriors can help protect it from mould-formation and make the cleaning as easy as power washing.
- Painted brick exterior sidings attracts less damaging plant outgrowths such as ivies therefore lessening the negative impacts of such scenarios to its aesthetic preservation.
Why Let Handyman Painters Toronto Do the Painting For You?
- Experience. We are under the direct supervision of Home Painters Toronto, one of the area’s most trusted professional painter companies for the past 25 years. We have received A+ ratings from BBB and consistent 10 stars review ratings from HomeStars.com, directly coming from satisfied customers themselves.
- Free Colour Consultation -Be it just personal preference or a compelling reason to pick colours for a looming exterior brick painting job, our colour experts can give you the technical advice you need basing on firsthand experience.
- Beyond Quotes – By calling this number: 647-494-5545 for FREE or emailing firstname.lastname@example.org, rest assured we’ll also offer industry advice on all aspects of your exterior brickhouse painting project.
Will You Have Other Service Alternatives?
Apparently, painting brick exteriors isn’t the only choice you may have. Some homeowners may also try out staining. Curb appeal can also be enhanced by not focusing much on bricks per se but rather, other parts of the exteriors such as shudders, landscaping, shutter doors, and even awnings!
Some word of advice from our experts regarding colour palette for your exterior brick painting in Toronto:
- Sidings aren’t the only parts of your home’s exterior that will need some freshening up, accent colours to cover up other details such as window casings, shutters, garages and even architectural detailing can mean a great deal in the overall curb appeal of a home after every project.
- It is nice to know which colours goes best for what colours and how can your preferred palettes match up with actual effective colour scheme combinations. It takes an expert’s eye to determine all this. The same is true for application procedure and the finishing touches. Don’t just let any company do it for you.
- Handyman Painters Toronto will not just offer you perspectives-changing advice, we’d also do our best to satisfy your painting requirements and clean up the mess afterwards so all you have to worry next is when to invite friends and colleagues to celebrate your new home’s reinvented facade.
Call us now and give our services a try. You won’t regret it.
Also check our Attic repair page too.
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From Our Lips to Your Ears: News, Music and Information from Audio Information Network of Colorado
“Access to your programming opened a whole new world for me. I hadn’t been able to access grocery ads in many years and that alone has really helped me feel independent.” – AINC listener Richard from Thornton
Did you love your local morning newspaper, but your arthritis is now keeping you from holding the paper and turning its pages? Are you reaching for your old CD collection to play your favorite music, but can’t find it because you simply can’t read the jacket?
Audio Information Network of Colorado (AINC) can help—for free!
AINC brings print to life by providing local news and information in audio format via on-demand podcasts in English and Spanish. Our mission is to empower those who can’t read print to be self-sufficient, connected to their communities and continuously learning through audio.
Our audio services can be accessed via land line, smart phone, tablet, computer, or a special digital receiver for access to over the air broadcasts (no internet required).
We have recently begun providing “smart speakers” (the Amazon Echo). Voice activated devices can be life changing to people with visual or physical challenges that prevent them from accessing their favorite news, information and music.
“Is it for me?”, you ask. Well, here are some of the things you could do with a smart speaker from AINC:
Listen to local news and information. Through AINC’s own Alexa skill (a skill is a voice driven smart speaker capability similar to an app), you can listen to local news. Thanks to Community Development Block Grants for Commerce City and Thornton, we recently added even more local information and city newsletters to regular programs. Local newspapers include the Commerce City Sentinel-Express, Northglenn-Thornton Sentinel and the Westminster Window. Practical information like grocery discount ads, transit guides and other consumer info is also available in audio.
Play music. Alexa makes it easy to access your favorite music, like that CD you can’t find. Through streaming services, available for free, such as Pandora and Spotify. By simply saying “Alexa, play songs by the Beatles”, you can avoid the frustration of not being able to find your CD.
Make phone calls. Technology advancements have rendered corded phones and land lines nearly obsolete. With Alexa’s help, even your cell phone might be sidelined, with your new found ability to make phone calls via simple voice commands…hands free!
Set medication reminders. At the end of the day, do you find yourself saying to yourself “oops, forgot to take my…”? With the help of Alexa, you can stay on top of your vital medications without a full-time caregiver. It’s as simple as saying, “Alexa, remind me to take my medication at 10:00 AM.”
Make lists. Add to your lists without the frustrating process of looking for a pen that works! Alexa can keep you on top of your grocery needs so you don’t forget that critical ingredient for your favorite recipe.
Don’t have internet? AINC can help qualifying listeners find and sign up for discount internet in their neighborhood and can pay for initial setup fees.
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Opinion | 'Fed Up' ads reducing gun crimes
Homicides in Memphis declined by 10 percent from 2016's record-setting year to 2017. Through the first quarter of 2018, homicides are down nearly 38 percent below 2017.
While it’s not perfect, it’s real progress. And these are not just percentage points, they’re human lives -- on both ends of the gun.
About a year ago Trust Marketing & Communications signed a $300,000 city contract with the City of Memphis. The initial contract was for a six-month comprehensive marketing campaign (including media costs) targeted to reach and affect perpetrators and potential perpetrators of gun crime.
At that point last year, the city basically was on track to equal or surpass the previous year's record in homicides. Violence, shootings and homicides dominated local TV newscasts and headlines.
Everybody seemed to be looking "side-eyed" at Mayor Jim Strickland, reminding him, "You campaigned on reducing crime, now show us something." So the mayor did his homework, talked to people and researched past efforts that were successful.
That’s how he found the study from the University of Memphis Center for Community Criminology and Research.
Over a three-year period (2003-2005) the UofM conducted research on the media campaigns running during that time and produced a Project Safe Neighborhoods Media Campaign Impact Analysis.
This empirical research concluded:
- The media campaign had a direct impact on reducing firearms crime.
- The impact of the reduction due to the media campaign was statistically significant.
- The deterrent impact disappeared as the media message faded.
- During the time of the public awareness campaign, Memphis homicides dropped to the lowest level in 25 years.
Trust Marketing had helped realize those successes, so Mayor Strickland reached out to us. My team collaborated with the mayor’s team, Operation Safe Community, and city, county and federal law enforcement officials.
The "Fed Up" campaign was born out of a broad collaboration also including state lawmakers and the Memphis Crime Commission. The campaign works to proactively save lives of potential victims and potential perpetrators by utilizing a method called Focused Deterrence.
Messages of deterrence, especially highlighting bad consequences a perpetrators’ actions could have, are directly communicated to potential offenders, primarily males 18-34 years old.
We don’t talk about them; we speak real talk directly to them in their vernacular ("Don’t lose your head, use your head mane.") and on their turf. Everybody else is quite literally eavesdropping.
We know that the messenger is as vital as the content of the message. The target audience responds stronger to someone authentic.
Jerald Trotter, the talent on the television commercial, is an ex-con who spent 12 years and 9 months in prison for a gun crime. He convincingly communicates the punishment and sentencing severity, having spent the time equivalent of somebody’s life from first grade through freshman year of college, in prison.
According to The Trace (thetrace.org), an independent, nonpartisan newsroom reporting on America’s gun violence crisis, "A recent study found that focused deterrence when correctly implemented, results in a roughly 20-60 percent reduction in shootings and killings."
As Mayor Strickland told the news media last year, "It works."
The sustained payoff, however, will be driven by taking our anti-gun violence messengers and messaging into high schools and middle schools. Four high schools are already scheduled this month.
The return on investment of taxpayer funds has yielded: lives saved, savings from the costs of years of incarceration, and even the savings of taxpayer dollars that subsidize emergency rooms and trauma centers that treat gunshot victims.
Is this an effective use of taxpayer money? You decide.
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On the morning of September 11, 2001, I was skipping school. In all of the scheming knowledge of my youth, I had scheduled an appointment to get new glasses that morning. So I spent a few extra hours in glorious sleep, and then channel-surfed while waiting for my ride.
Somewhere between Saved by the Bell reruns and ESPN, I briefly saw a scene of smoke billowing out from the first of the Twin Towers. But reports were at first confusing, unclear, and I left my house unaffected by the ominous footage.
I learned what had happened that morning from a television at a LensCrafters in Buffalo, N.Y. In perhaps the most mundane establishment in America, I watched the harrowing truth begin to reveal itself on the news scroll: “Planes strike World Trade Center in coordinated attack” … ”Pentagon third target” … “towers collapse.”
I was stunned; it all seemed surreal. I made my way to school and was finally dropped off around 1 p.m. Once there, I realized that while I was out gallivanting around suburban Buffalo, my classmates and teachers had been sitting rapt in classrooms living through that terrible morning together. In the library, students on study break and teachers with a free period watched the news on a projector. I sat with them.
How was it possible for all of this death to occur on such a frivolous morning? As we tend to personalize these tragic events, I thought, “Am I really just a missed appointment away from dying?”
I have a theory that the moments that resound with us the most are those that contain in them the greatest dissonance, the kind that jolt us from our comfort. When they come, we realize our lives will never be the same, and—what is most unsettling—that our lives were never exactly what we thought they were in the first place. America received a jolt on Sept. 11, 2001, and the dissonance—the tensions raised by the events of that fateful morning—remains unresolved.
The immediate and lingering effects of September 11 on individuals are varied in scope and shape. We still mourn those who died that day: Our family members. Our friends. Our fellow Americans. All made in God’s image. Our actions, as a nation and as individuals, have been influenced by our desire to ensure their deaths are not in vain. We remember where we were on 9/11, and we never want to be there again.
We felt the tension between war and peace. We entered this century with hopes for a new era of peace, but on 9/11, Americans were exposed to a sophisticated, unprecedented enemy. And so instead, this young century has been dominated by war.
The case for our action in Afghanistan and Iraq was in large part that the conflicts were prerequisites to peace. But as the costs of those wars rose, public support wavered.
This tension between war and peace is evident in our present consideration of military action in Syria. In fact, one of the primary tasks the Obama Administration has in making its case to the American people is to make clear that this is not “another Iraq”—arguing that our intervention in Syria would be limited, and would not put our troops at significant risk.
Another lesson of 9/11 has been invoked to make the case for intervention in Syria: Inaction might allow the same type of vacuum formed by human suffering that has boosted Al-Qaeda recruitment and fueled their war against the West. Would our inaction on military intervention now result in a greater military commitment and sacrifices down the road? Would our inaction result in more suffering—more war—in Syria or in other areas of the world? In a war-weary country, we still must grapple with the idea that we live in a time of conflict.
Another great dissonance in American life since 9/11 has been between our twin desires for freedom and security. In the wake of 9/11, when security was our most obvious and pressing need, Americans gave up a measure of their freedoms. Our routines changed: We now give our airport farewells at the security checkpoint where we assent to extensive screenings, and D.C. tourists can no longer drive down Pennsylvania Avenue in front of The White House.
Our laws changed: the Patriot Act, signed into law in the aftermath of 9/11, greatly expanded the government’s intelligence gathering capabilities—it allowed the government to see into more of our lives. Americans had even more tolerance for restricting the rights of others, shown by prolonged detainment in facilities like Guantanamo and torture of suspected terrorists and their accomplices.
Today, so far removed from 9/11, we are now renegotiating the lines between freedom and security that were drawn in response to the terrorist attack. Torture is now banned, and our nation’s intelligence agencies are now under great scrutiny and criticism. But each measure of freedom and privacy gained comes with it the worry that it will be that loosened freedom that causes the next 9/11. The tension persists.
Finally, 9/11 struck at a growing American ethos: that of diversity and tolerance. Just as America seemed focused on moving beyond the prejudices of her past with an intellectual openness to all things, our nation was attacked by a network of individuals motivated not by rational interest, but by a very specific set of ideas about morality, about God and about justice.
Some shallow and reactionary Americans claimed Islam was our national enemy. Mosques were vandalized. The opening of new mosques was protested. Hate crimes against Muslim Americans (and those who looked like them, including Sikhs) increased. The propriety of profiling in law enforcement and at our airports was discussed without much consideration for the humanity of those involved.
All of this was wrong, un-American and un-Christian. But we were forced to consider that there is evil in this world, and we were forced to determine who carried it and what it looked like. And certainly, there are ideas that must be condemned, and ideologies that must be defeated. An ideology that excuses terrorism as a necessary means, justified through a distortion of Islam or any other religion or set of ideas, cannot be ignored out of a sense of propriety or sensitivity. Tolerance falters where evil begins.
These tensions—between war and peace, freedom and security, tolerance and truth—were always present in America, but they were exacerbated by 9/11. In some ways, I wonder if we haven’t stopped running from those towers since that awful day.
Out of this dissonance, there is no one Christian answer to the concrete policy challenges we face. What we cannot do is fall into two opposing, yet equally damning camps: those who ignore these tensions and demand of those in power that they find ways to fulfill all of our desires fully, or those who out of arrogance insist that these tensions can be navigated without consequence.
Both ignorance and arrogance deny reality, and Christians are people who hold tightly to reality, because that is where God is present with us. There are concrete decisions to be made, and Christians should take on the work of helping make them even as we understand that in this broken world our answers will always be imperfect.
I remember where I was on Sept. 11, 2001. I was at LensCrafters. And I didn’t know Jesus. I had no idea where to go when the planes hit the towers; I just wanted to run.
A lot has changed since that day.
As I thought about a Christian approach to these post-9/11 tensions and this changing world, I was surprised to find myself turning to the scriptures President Bush and President Obama turned to when they spoke to the American people about that day.
From the Oval Office just hours after the attack, President Bush extended comfort to the American people from Psalm 23: “Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I fear no evil, for You are with me.”
Ten years later, President Obama read Psalm 46 in front of the pool that now commemorates where the North Tower of the World Trade Center used to stand: “God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble. Therefore, we will not fear, even though the earth be removed, and though the mountains be carried into the midst of the sea … the Lord almighty is with us.”
We do not need to ignore the dissonance of our day or arrogantly claim we have figured out the way through this valley we are in. The world and its choices are imperfect, but we need not move forward in fear. The Lord is our Shepherd, our refuge and strength, and one day He will “make wars cease.” Perhaps we should stop running from the tensions and be still in them, knowing that He is God.
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Electrician falls to his death from an old wooden transformer platform.
Iowa FACE 98IA053
A 47-year-old male city electrical supervisor died from injuries suffered on July 20, 1998 when he fell 25 feet from a wooden utility platform. He was removing transformers from the platform when a plank gave way under him. The platform was built to hold electrical transformers, not electrical workers. It had two cross beams between two poles and planks bolted onto the cross beams. The planks were not adequately supported to hold the weight of a person standing close to the edges, and there were no guardrails. The platform was deteriorated from the weather, and may have also been damaged in a fire that occurred two days before. The platform was fairly wide which made it difficult to gain access to the transformers from an aerial lift bucket.
The electrical supervisor and an assistant arrived at the job site at 7:30 am with a bucket and digger truck. The assistant moved the truck near the transformer platform, and the supervisor went up in the bucket to the platform level. He stepped onto the platform and removed the secondary and ground leads so the three transformers could be removed from the platform. He hooked a sling on the middle transformer and climbed back in the bucket. After lowering and removing the transformer, he went back into the bucket and up to the platform level to remove another transformer. He stepped on the platform again and walked across to remove the end transformer. Suddenly, a plank came loose under him and he fell 25 feet to an alley. The assistant immediately radioed for help. When the crews arrived the electrical supervisor was pronounced dead at the scene from severe head and neck injuries.
RECOMMENDATIONS based on our investigation are as follows:
- Employees of electrical workers should establish a training program which includes job specific hazard recognition, fall protection, and safe aerial lift use procedures.
- Employers should provide fall protection devices when needed and ensure that they are maintained and used properly.
- Owners and operators of electrical utility installations should ensure that the installations are maintained in a safe condition.
The Iowa FACE program became aware of the incident from a newspaper article and began an investigation. Information was gathered from police reports, city documents describing the incident, and an interview with city employees during a site visit. Photographs of the site were taken which showed the missing board on the platform, the transformers that were to be removed, and the new transformers sitting on metal framing adjacent to the old wooden platform.
The city had approximately 2,300 people and employed 26 full-time workers. The city government had a limited safety program, but no safety manager. The safety committee worked through the workers’ compensation office, had monthly meetings, and videos for most training situations.
The electrical supervisor had worked for the city for 11 years, and was a member of AFSCME, Council 61. He was in the process of becoming certified, and had completed one year of a 4-year apprenticeship program through the Iowa Association of Municipal Utilities (IAMU).
Three transformers were scheduled to be removed on Wednesday, July 22, 1998. On Saturday, July 18th, a transformer fire occurred which was assumed to be caused by overload. The fire was extinguished and new transformers were connected. On the following Monday morning, July 20, 1998 two city employees arrived on site to remove the old transformers. They were on site for about 15 minutes before the injury occurred. The weather was clear and sunny.
The on-site investigation was conducted on August 4, 1998. The three transformers that were scheduled to be replaced, were situated on a wooden platform about 25 feet above ground level. The platform was made of eight 2″ X 12″ wooden planks, each about six feet long, bolted onto two 3″ x 12″ cross beams between two poles. The cross beams were about a foot apart, fastened to the sides of the poles. The distance between the poles was 10 feet. The platform was built to hold the transformers in line at the center on top of the cross beams. A new metal transformer platform had been installed next to the old one. Newer transformer platforms are usually constructed of steel, and some have guard rails installed.
The platform was not designed as a safe working platform. The planks did not have cross members or bracing near the edges and therefore did not provide adequate support for the weight of the worker. Furthermore, there was no guardrails to protect the worker from falling (see photo). The wood platform may have had some damage from the fire two days earlier, although this could not be clearly observed. The boards still in place appeared quite rotten and did not look capable of supporting human weight. Based on observation from ground level, the platform did not meet the requirements of a safe working platform.
The electrical supervisor and an assistant arrived at the job site at 7:30 am with a bucket and digger truck. The assistant moved the truck near the transformer platform, and the victim went up in the bucket to the platform level, approximately 25 feet from the ground. The assistant remained in the digger truck operating the boom to lower the transformers to the ground. The men were in the process of removing the second transformer when the victim walked across the platform to remove another transformer. A single plank came loose and the victim fell 25 feet to an alleyway, landing on his head. The assistant immediately radioed for help, and when crews arrived, they noticed the severe head and neck injuries, and the supervisor was pronounced dead at the scene of the accident.
The procedure of removing and connecting transformers was semi-routine for these men. A city employee stated that although some transformer stations have platforms, they usually work out of the bucket when performing this type of work. The victim had not received training in fall protection, and whether working from inside or outside the bucket, did not wear any fall protective equipment.
CAUSE OF DEATH
The official cause of death from the medical examiner’s report was, “severe head and neck trauma”.
RECOMMENDATIONS / DISCUSSION
Recommendation 1: Employees of electrical workers should establish a training program which includes job specific hazard recognition, fall protection, and safe aerial lift use procedures.
Discussion: An initial assessment of the job-at-hand should include identification of the hazards involved. The platform in this case showed signs of hazardous working conditions, even from a visual inspection from ground level. The absence of cross members, braces, and guardrails, as well as the deterioration of the wood planks, were evident signs of hazardous conditions. Fall protection precautions should be considered before entering such platforms. Electrical workers should be trained in safety precautions specific for aerial lifts and accessing elevated electrical installation. This training should emphasize that the employee remain in the bucket when it is elevated, and wear fall protection equipment. Only trained persons should operate aerial lift controls or work in the bucket. This work situation was likely complicated by the width of the platform, which may have prevented access to the transformers from the aerial bucket. If no other safe method was available, the planks could have been cut shorter to gain access from the bucket.
Recommendation 2: Employers should provide fall protection devices when needed and ensure that they are maintained and used properly.
Discussion: Electrical workers at risk of fall from work levels four feet or more above the ground or working surface must be protected by some form of fall protection. Paragraph 1910.269 (g)(2) contains fall protection requirements for electric power generation, transmission, and distribution in the electric utility industry. Even when working from the bucket of an aerial lift, workers are required to wear a body belt and lanyard attached to the boom or basket [29 CFR 1910.67(c)(2)(v)].
Recommendation 3: Owners and operators of electrical utility installations should ensure that the installations are maintained in a safe condition.
Discussion: The transformer platform was not well designed for safe maintenance work. It was too wide to enable accessing the transformers from a bucket, yet it was not built for safe access while standing on the platform. There was no cross bracing to provide adequate support for a worker and there were no guardrails to provide fall protection. The platform wood planks had clear evidence of deterioration from the weather. The owners of electrical utility installations should replace unsafe work platforms and provide safe working conditions for electrical workers.
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How to Find the Intrinsic Value of a Business
What You Will Learn
- How to Find Intrinsic Value and Why it is Important in Value Investing
- How to Use the Two Parts of the DCF Method to Easily Find Intrinsic Value
Over the past few years of supplying intrinsic value calculator utilizing Discounted Cash Flow to the masses, I receive many similar questions and I wanted to address the issue of adding back shareholders equity to the DCF method. You can use these methods to clearly determine the Intrinsic Value of a Business.
Backtracking a bit, I’m an engineer by trade so I have the tendency to be a little too analytical. When I first started studying DCF, it was all about theory.
But as you know, most of what you learn in school is never applied in the real practical world.
My calculations used to involve WACC (Weighted Average Cost of Capital) as the discount rate, and a simple method of finding the present value for each year (up to 5 or 10 years) and then adding it all up to get the “sum of future cash flows”.
(Check out Aswath Damodaran’s excellent presentation on DCF inputs (pdf) for a better understanding on the theory of DCF.)
But back to the point on adding shareholders equity.
How to Value a Business and Discover the Intrinsic Value of a Business
Intrinsic Value of a Business
The DCF method I use involves two parts.
- 1) Finding the sum of the future cash flow, which everyone agrees with.
- 2) Calculating the excess cash to figure out the net worth of the company. The excess cash is the cash that is left over by the business that is not used for any operations.
The intrinsic value formula then becomes
Intrinsic Value = Present Value of Future Cash Flow + Excess Cash
I can rewrite this formula as
Intrinsic Value = DCF + [Total Cash – MAX(0,Current Liabilities-Current Assets)]
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A Real Life Small Business Example
To put it into perspective, toss aside the modern financial modeling hat for a second and think of yourself as a small business owner.
The truth is that most small business owners do not understand financial statements or much about accounting beyond the basics.
What the small business owner does know however, is how much cash the business generates and what their business is worth.
If you look in the local papers or do a quick search for businesses on sale on the internet, you will find a commonality for the asking price.
Take a look at this example of a B&B in the state of Washington where I live.
The intrinsic value as defined by the seller is very simple.
You have gross income to show how much business it gets, net cash flow, inventory, real estate and FF&E (Furniture Fixtures & Equipment) aka PPE.
These are all assets that produce cash flow and anything remaining will then be added to the intrinsic value, thus the formula above.
In theory you would rarely value a business in such a manner, but in the real world, not everyone is a finance graduate capable of applying multiples and Greek formulas to their business.
Applying it to Stock Market
As a value investor, you agree that the stocks listed on the indexes are real businesses and real business have chairs, desks, computers and other assets that must be included into the asking price for the company. You also have to distinguish between operating and non operating assets.
Assets that add to the cash flow are already included in DCF while the assets that are not, such as extra cash in the bank or an old property that still has value, would be added to the DCF value.
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Plane lands at South Pole to rescue ailing doctor
PUNTA ARENAS, Chile (AP) – A small propeller plane fitted with skis landed safely Tuesday night at the South Pole, completing the first part of a dangerous mission to rescue an ailing American doctor.
Flying through the pitch black of the polar winter, the eight-seat Twin Otter concluded its 10-hour flight from Rothera base on the Antarctic peninsula across from Chile to Amundsen Scott-South Pole station at 8:02 p.m. EDT.
”They landed safely and without any problems” said Valerie Carroll, a spokeswoman for U.S.-based Raytheon Polar Services.
She said that the plane’s crew would remain at the pole for 10 hours to rest, refuel and assess Dr. Ronald S. Shemenski’s condition. They were expected to fly out early Wednesday morning.
Even though the howling winds and blinding snow had eased, temperatures at the South Pole dipped to minus 76 degrees, or 119 degrees below zero with wind chill. Forecasters said that visibility had improved to five miles with gusting winds and blowing snow.
It was the second dramatic rescue attempt in 24 hours. Earlier Tuesday, a New Zealand air force plane successfully evacuated 11 American staffers from a research station on the other side of the frozen continent.
Flights to the South Pole are normally halted from late February until November because of the extreme cold and darkness. But health emergencies at the isolated, frigid Antarctic outposts forced rescuers in both operations to make the dangerous flights.
The plane departed from Rothera at 10:34 a.m. EDT to retrieve Shemenski.
The Twin Otter and a companion plane had arrived at Rothera from Punta Arenas late last week. Blowing snow and low visibility postponed the flight by two days, but clear skies and improved conditions at the pole allowed the departure Tuesday, Carroll said.
The only physician among 50 researchers working at the polar station, the 59-year-old Shemenski recently suffered a gall bladder attack and has been diagnosed with the potentially life-threatening condition known as pancreatitis.
A registered nurse at the South Pole helped take ultrasound images that were sent back to doctors in the United States for diagnosis. Pancreatitis is the inflammation of the pancreas and can happen when a gallstone passes down the bile duct, irritating the gland.
Dr. Gerald Katz, Shemenski’s physician, said Shemenski needs surgery and that authorities wanted to evacuate him before harsher winter weather set it, making a future rescue impossible.
”There’s no doubt that the proper treatment for him is not available at the South Pole,” Katz said in a telephone interview from Englewood, Colo. ”In this case, most people would have considered treatment within three weeks after the condition was diagnosed.”
The rescue team included two pilots, an engineer, a nurse and a replacement physician for the polar station. The plane arrived in darkness with bone-chilling cold, a sheet of ice as a runway and no tower to guide the landing. Barrels of flaming debris were to be set up to light the runway.
A successful rescue would mark the second time in two years that a doctor has been plucked from the pole in a medical emergency. In October 1999, Dr. Jerri Nielsen – then the only physician at the Amundsen Scott-South Pole Station – was evacuated after she discovered a breast tumor that was diagnosed as cancerous.
Reached in North Carolina, Nielsen said her wait for the evacuation was very difficult. ”You wonder, ”Will it be tomorrow? Will it be the next day?”
She said she knew what Shemenski was going through.
”I think he must have a lot of mixed feelings. I know I had a lot of mixed feelings. He probably doesn’t want to leave them, but at the same time he knows he’s ill. I’m sure he’s also concerned about the people who are risking their lives to rescue him,” she said.
On the opposite coast from the Rothera base, rescuers were also forced to move quickly to evacuate four ill Americans at McMurdo Antarctic Base.
In a 15-hour round-trip journey from Christchurch, New Zealand, a C130 Hercules landed on McMurdo’s ice runway, spending just one hour on the ground to pick up the evacuees and refuel. Engines were kept running to prevent them freezing in the air, which was 22 degrees below zero. ”The weather was a little bit iffy … but we managed a quick change down on the ice,” pilot Nathan McDonald.
The sick Americans were joined on the flight by seven other U.S. staffers, who authorities said were returning because of ”family emergencies.” Two of the evacuees were suffering from ”critical conditions,” government research group Antarctica New Zealand said in a statement. The two were taken to a hospital in Christchurch, where their conditions were stable Tuesday night, the statement said without elaborating.
Antarctica is the fifth-largest continent, 1 times the size of the United States. Nations including the United States, Britain, New Zealand and Argentina carry out experiments at bases dotted across the continent. They are regularly serviced by flights during the summer months but batten down the hatches and reduce staffing for the polar winter.
On the Net:
Raytheon Polar Services: http://www.polar.org
National Science Foundation: http://www.nsf.gov
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The Queensland government has this week opened its largest startup precinct in Fortitude Valley’s TC Beirne building, a place for entrepreneurs and investors to “collaborate, collide, succeed and shine”.
Dubbed ‘The Precinct’, Leeanne Enoch, Queensland’s Minister for Innovation, Science and the Digital Economy, said at the launch that the space is intended to draw an influx of startups to Queensland to position the state as a rich investment hub.
“The Precinct will help position Queensland as an ideal destination for startups, where the best and brightest come to transform new ideas into high growth businesses,” she said.
Development was funded by the Government’s $405 million Advance Queensland initiative, which looks to support state innovation; $6 million was contributed to The Precinct’s construction.
“The ultimate vision of Advance Queensland is to get the whole State participating in creating jobs of the future and anticipating issues that may arise from an increasingly diverse global economy. By doing so, Queensland will be better positioned to compete in the global economy in the future,” said Enoch.
In addition to office spaces, The Precinct holds a number of other facilities too, including a child care centre to cater for parent-entrepreneurs. The space itself spans roughly 5000 square metres, with 80 percent of the building already leased out to tenants.
Amongst the founding tenants are River City Labs, One Ventures, Myriad, the Open Data Institute of Queensland and the CSIRO’s Data61.
In addition to joining the innovation precinct, Data61 also announced today a $16.7 million partnership with the Queensland Government.
According to Enoch, the partnership will allow businesses, organisations and government access to the company’s knowledge base.
She explained, “[They will gain] CSIRO Data61’s expertise in turning complex data into knowledge and using these insights to help create new approaches to service delivery and solve real problems every day.”
As part of the deal, Data61 will also develop a Functional Programming Open Lab, which Enoch said will deliver new job opportunities within Queensland, including ten starting engineering positions.
Also housed within The Precinct is the office of Queensland’s Chief Entrepreneur Mark Sowerby, who described Queensland as “way ahead of the curve” in opening the collaborative hub.
“Cohesion and networks are crucial in order to successfully develop Queensland as a startup economy,” he said.
Looking to support the next wave of startup talent through another avenue, today saw Sowerby partner with traveller and ‘Best Job in the World’ winner Ben Southall to create the ‘Venturer’ program.
Inspired by Southall’s adventurous lifestyle, the program will see a chosen entrepreneurs receive one-on-one mentoring and workshops opportunities while travelling alongside Southall in the outdoors.
Venturer will develop the trip beside other programs including Queensland’s Startup Catalyst, which organises international ‘missions’ to startup hubs such as Silicon Valley, with the purpose of developing an entrepreneur mentally.
“Startup Catalyst has a great track record of equipping people with a ‘global-first’ view. We want to take this further by working on the emotional and mental side. The entrepreneurship journey requires pushing boundaries, both physically and mentally, but I strongly believe people are universally surprised by what they can achieve when tested,” said Sowerby.
“The Venturer program will build skills and character traits that are fundamental to entrepreneurialism, such as resilience, problem-solving, resourcefulness, risk management, creative thinking and leadership.”
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Chronic coughing, wheezing, and struggling to catch your breath are all alarming symptoms of respiratory distress that can be signs of either asthma or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). With overlapping symptoms, the two conditions can be hard to differentiate. At Premier Health Care Inc. in St. Petersburg, Florida, Vijaya Cherukuri, MD, diagnoses and treats asthma and COPD. To determine what’s causing your respiratory distress, call or schedule an appointment online at the practice today.
Asthma is a respiratory condition in which your airways narrow and swell and may produce extra mucus. It can cause coughing, shortness of breath, and wheezing, or a whistling sound when breathing.
Asthma can be a minor inconvenience for some or a life-threatening illness for others. Unfortunately, there is no cure for asthma, but close monitoring and medication can control symptoms.
While there isn’t a definitive reason why some people develop asthma and others don’t, experts believe the cause is a combination of environmental and genetic factors. Allergies, cold air, exercise, smoke, certain medications, and gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) can trigger asthma attacks.
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is an inflammatory lung disease that limits airflow from the lungs. Like asthma, COPD symptoms include coughing, excess mucus, shortness of breath, and wheezing. Typically, smoking or long-term exposure to irritating gasses causes COPD.
Despite being a progressive disease, proper management and medications control COPD.
In developed countries, smoking is the leading cause of COPD. Smoking and smoke irritate the lungs and damage the elasticity of the bronchial tubes and air sacs. Lungs can then over-expand, trapping air in the lungs during exhalation.
In about 1% of COPD patients, the cause is a genetic disorder that limits your production of a protein called AAT, which is important for protecting the lungs.
Identifying and avoiding the triggers of an asthma attack are crucial toward treating the condition. Allergy medications and quick-relief and long-term asthma medications, including inhaled and oral medications, can also prevent asthma attacks and help with symptoms.
A combination of oral and inhaled steroids, lung therapies, and surgery are all used to treat COPD, depending on the severity of the condition.
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Mechatronics engineering is an interdisciplinary program combining electrical and computer engineering and mechanical engineering fundamentals.
Mechatronics engineers work in diverse fields that include automation and control of mechanical systems. This includes, but is not limited to, advanced manufacturing systems, robotics, autonomous driving, navigation, and unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV), intelligent systems, remote diagnostic and telesurgery, autonomous underwater vehicles (AUV) and remotely operated underwater vehicles (ROV), machine vision, advanced sensing and instrumentation and communications.
Mechatronics engineering at Memorial
Memorial’s mechatronics engineering program is unique in that it is a co-operative education program; and students will acquire up to two full years of industry experience prior to graduation.
As a mechatronics engineering graduate, you will ready to contribute to the growing high-tech sector and the future digital economy. You will complete courses in mechanisms, programming, electronic circuits, automatic control, sensors and instrumentation and computer aided engineering. You will have the opportunity to choose elective courses in areas of interest to you, such as autonomous robotics and vehicles, machine learning, image processing and the Internet of Things.
To apply for admission to the Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science, indicate bachelor of engineering in the appropriate place on the undergraduate application for admission. In addition to meeting the general admission requirements, you will also need to meet the admission requirements set out by the Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science.
Sample first year
Wondering what courses you would take in your first year? Check out a sample program of suggested courses for Engineering One.
Sample courses beyond first year
A bachelor of engineering degree, with a major in mechatronics engineering, prepares students for a variety of careers including:
- communications, Internet-of-things, micro electromechanical systems (MEMS), robotics design
- control of precision manufacturing and industrial equipment to maximize safety and energy efficiency
- design of artificial limbs such as mechanical hands
- design of navigation systems and autonomous vehicles, such as search and rescue vehicles for harsh environments or disaster zones
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Audition Preparation and Script Analysis
Breaking down a script for a project or an audition can be a daunting task for beginners. It requires refining your acting technique in order to create realistic characters and to serve the story you are telling.
To get started, it’s a good idea to answer a few simple questions, listed below, that will help you discover the truth behind the words and create full, rich moments.
Truly knowing what your characters are talking about and why your characters need to do what they are doing will bring urgency, life, and reality to the scene. Each moment and choice must be specific. Give this process 100% of your energy and you will uncover clear and unique choices.
Once you have broken down your script and are ready to rehearse with other actors, be sure to stay present and open, moment by moment, and actively listen to the other actors. Truthfully connecting to other actors in the scene is the key to organic authentic human behavior.
Audition Preparation & Script Analysis I: Begin by answering these questions:
- Who – Who is the character? What are their beliefs, philosophy, and career? You are going to use your voice, body, and truth to discover and create each character you play.
- What – What is going on in the scene? What are the circumstances? What does your character want? What is your character doing?
- Where – Where is the scene taking place? Be very specific about the place that the scene occurs. What are your surroundings?
- When – When is the scene happening?
- Why – Why is your character performing the actions in the scene?
Audition Preparation & Script Analysis II: Add more specificity by integrating the following:
- Overall Objective/Needs/Desires– The overall objective has to do with what the character wants and needs in life. Their deepest desires.
- Scene Objective- The scene objective has to do with what the character wants in the scene.
- Actions/Intentions/Goals- The action steps the character takes to get what they want.
- Unit- A unit is a large segment of the script that may contain smaller “beats.” Units change when a major action happens in the story.
- Beat– A beat is a smaller action or thought that changes when new thoughts or actions arise.
- Emotional Life- The emotions the character feels throughout each scene.
- Moment Before– The events that just happened before the scene starts.
- Activities– Activities involve handling props or doing things like getting dressed, tying your shoes, eating, playing a game.
- Commit to Activities– You must really do any activity your character is engaged in.
- Present Moment Awareness– Always stay connected to the present moment. Truly listen “moment to moment.”
- Use all of your senses– Acting demands that you use your total body and senses to stay present. That means, see, feel, hear, smell, taste.
- Stay true and spontaneous– Acting requires the actor to be open to every emotion and feeling that spontaneously comes up in a scene. Be available to your acting partners.
- Obstacles– Internal and external blocks that get in the way of the character’s ability to accomplish their needs or desires.
- Back Story– The back story is the character’s personal history built by the key facts and phases in the script.
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In this article we will go through the steps required to import audio from the Behringer X-Live card or any other Multichannel WAV File into Cubase or Nuendo.
The Behringer X-Live Card allows you to record up to 32 channels, live from your Behringer X32/M32 etc. console directly to inserted SD Cards. A very powerful and useful feature. You can then play back the recorded file and it can be mixed in real time and / or used as a live sound check and so on.
However, what if we want to bring these channels into our favourite DAW Host? (which is of course Cubase or Nuendo).
The X-Live card records up to 32 channels. They are combined into a single WAV file, known as Multichannel WAV. If you play this file on some applications, you will hear only certain parts of it. What we want here is to have the ability to bring all channels into Cubase and mix the tracks independently.
Luckily, because you are using Cubase or Nuendo the procedure is actually very simple.
Step 1. Extract the files from the X-Live SD card by inserting the card into your computer (you will of course need an SD card reader). I like to place the files in a folder by date and then rename them depending on what they are, for. Renaming does not affect the use of the files.
In this case you can see I have put the files in a folder named 20190704 (the date of recording) and named each file after the set it was recorded from.
These files each contain 8 channels because I set the X-Live to record only 8 channels, (all I needed for this gig).
Once that is done, we open Cubase and create a new project.
Step 2. Drag the file (in this case “Set 1”) onto the Cubase project window.
Note: you can also import using the Pool or Import Audio.
You will see Cubase’s Import Options Dialog. Set this how you like it but make sure to check Split Channels.
After a short while the files will appear in Cubase. Note that all channels will be separated. So for example if you have a stereo pair (linked channels) in your mixer, they will appear as two separate mono channels when imported. Example Channel 7/8.
You can then go ahead and mix your recording as you would with any other recording inside Cubase.
Remember: If you do have stereo pairs (linked channels), you should obviously pan them left and right. It is a good idea to then send them to a Group in Cubase so you can control them easily.
That’s it done!
Many other folks must extract these files before they can use them. This is another reason to love Cubase and Nuendo.
Also, it is worth noting that if your files exceed a certain length (size) they will be split into separate files. They will line up with the next file. So you simply drag in the next file and line them up against the previous one.
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Increasingly we live our lives online. We communicate through email, create communities in social media, pay our bills online and hold memberships with online services. Do your really know your full digital picture? What happens to it all when you die?
Digital Account Checklist
Use the checklist below to track all your digital accounts. As you list your accounts, consider using an online password manager to store your many passwords. These services not only securely store your passwords; they will turn over your password to assigned individuals at an appropriate time. It’s vitally important that someone you trust can easily access these accounts, ensuring the transfer of important information—including your privacy and identity—is preserved.
- Email accounts (primary, business, “junk email”)
- Social media, such as Facebook, Instagram, Twitter
- Cloud storage, such as DropBox, iCloud, Microsoft OneDrive, Google Drive
- Entertainment, such as video, music and gaming sites
- Food/delivery services
- Web hosting/blogging sites
- Money management and productivity tools
- Health/medical subscriptions
- Home security system
- Online subscriptions to newspapers, magazine and newsletters
This list is not exhaustive. You may also ask yourself, “Where do I have important documents stored online?” or “What online accounts auto-renew from my bank account?”
What to do with it all?
This listing of all your digital accounts and passwords is extremely sensitive, and should be treated with confidentiality and safety. Consider using Plan My Affairs Personal Affairs section to list all your digital accounts without passwords. In this section, you can provide instructions for the location of your passwords, such as an online password manager or a secure location. You may also consider creating a digital will, which spells out how people may approach handling their online identities after their death. | <urn:uuid:3c1321fb-c429-4d39-a0e6-493cf6dbf931> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://planmyaffairs.com/how-to-manage-your-digital-life-for-the-future/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570793.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808092125-20220808122125-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.910172 | 394 | 2.03125 | 2 |
|Year : 2022 | Volume
| Issue : 1 | Page : 30-37
Intestinal rehabilitation in critical illness
Sicheng Li1, Peizhao Liu1, Ye Liu2, Jinjian Huang2, Xiuwen Wu3, Jianan Ren3
1 LA Key Laboratory of Trauma and Surgical Infections, Research Institute of General Surgery, Affiliated Jinling Hospital, Medical School of Nanjing University, Nanjing, China
2 PLA Key Laboratory of Trauma and Surgical Infections, Research Institute of General Surgery, Jinling Hospital, School of Medicine, Southeast University, Nanjing, China
3 PLA Key Laboratory of Trauma and Surgical Infections, Research Institute of General Surgery, Affiliated Jinling Hospital, Medical School of Nanjing University; PLA Key Laboratory of Trauma and Surgical Infections, Research Institute of General Surgery, Jinling Hospital, School of Medicine, Southeast University, Nanjing, China
|Date of Submission||28-Mar-2022|
|Date of Decision||18-Apr-2022|
|Date of Acceptance||19-Apr-2022|
|Date of Web Publication||17-Jun-2022|
PLA Key Laboratory of Trauma and Surgical Infections, Research Institute of General Surgery, Affiliated Jinling Hospital, Medical School of Nanjing University, Nanjing 210002
PLA Key Laboratory of Trauma and Surgical Infections, Research Institute of General Surgery, Affiliated Jinling Hospital, Medical School of Nanjing University, Nanjing 210002
Source of Support: None, Conflict of Interest: None
Intestinal rehabilitation is a treatment strategy to promote the resumption of enteral nutrition and transoral diet in the residual small intestine of patients with short bowel syndrome from the early stage, which mainly includes four phases: total parenteral nutrition, parenteral combined enteral nutrition, total enteral nutrition, and transoral diet. New meanings and indications have been continuously given in clinical practice over the years. It is currently being applied to treat gastrointestinal (GI) injuries in critical illnesses. This review discusses the current conditions of diagnosis of GI injury and intestinal rehabilitation treatment at home and abroad in critical illnesses.
Keywords: Critical illnesses, intestinal rehabilitation, nutrition
|How to cite this article:|
Li S, Liu P, Liu Y, Huang J, Wu X, Ren J. Intestinal rehabilitation in critical illness. World J Surg Infect 2022;1:30-7
| Introduction|| |
The gut is one of the most important and complex organs in the body, consisting of epithelium, immune system and microbiome, and plays an essential role in the maintenance of health and pathophysiology of critical illnesses. The gut is considered the motor of multiple organ dysfunction in critical illness., Our early understanding of gastrointestinal (GI) dysfunction was not systematic and comprehensive because of the lack of a clear definition and objective criteria. Therefore, most of our diagnosis and treatment of patients' GI function is based on experience rather than following clear guideline evidence. In addition, the lack of early-alert predictors with highly sensitive and specific is a crucial factor limiting clinical practice and researches.
In 2020, the Section of Metabolism, Endocrinology, and Nutrition of the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine (ESICM) jointly proposed a systematic review and research agenda for GI dysfunction in critically ill patients. The agenda summarizes the five main aspects of monitoring, the relationship between GI dysfunction and prognosis, GI function and nutrition, the treatment of GI dysfunction, and the pathophysiological mechanism, focusing on key areas with insufficient clinical evidence. It provides a broader perspective and direction for future research.
Intestinal rehabilitation is a bundle of treatments that promotes the maximization of remaining intestinal function through pharmacological, surgical, and nutritional methods, allowing the patient to be completely or partially weaned from parenteral nutrition (PN). In clinical practice, we found that the application of systematic intestinal rehabilitation therapy may be an effective means of treating acute GI injury (AGI) in critically ill patients and improving outcomes.
| The Development of Intestinal Rehabilitation|| |
The concept of classical intestinal rehabilitation, which refers to the promotion of residual intestinal adaptation and intestinal rehabilitation after bowel resection through dietary modification, pharmacological treatment, and surgical procedures to meet the body's need for nutrient digestion and absorption, was first proposed and applied to the treatment of short bowel syndrome. In the middle of the last century, the most primitive intestinal rehabilitation therapy began to take shape. Meyer et al. reported the patient with short bowel syndrome who underwent complete resection of the small intestine below the middle colon artery opening, leaving only about 46 cm of jejunum. During the 22 follow-up years, this patient can tolerate the adjusted diets, take a variety of trace elements daily, inject Vitamin B12 every week, defecate 2 to 3 times every day, and can maintain a normal social life., In 1966, Dowling et al. showed that the ability of the intestinal mucosa to absorb glucose can be compensatory increased after bowel resection. This provides a theoretical basis for the later transition to enteral nutrition in patients who rely on PN in the early stages. In 1994, Lennard pointed out that “the future of research is the improvement of absorptive capacity through diet, drugs, and growth factors.” In 1995, Byrne et al. proposed the promotion of intestinal adaptation as the target of pharmacological treatment, using growth hormone, glutamine, and modified diets to promote residual intestinal tube absorptive capacity.,, This is the original definition of “intestinal rehabilitation.”
With the deepening of recognition in GI function and injury, intestinal rehabilitation has been given many new meanings in clinical practice. General intestinal rehabilitation refers to the promotion of maximum residual intestinal function through pharmacological, surgical and nutritional means, so that the patient can be completely or partially weaned off PN and gradually return to a transoral diet. General intestinal rehabilitation is applicable to GI injury caused by various diseases but is not limited to the treatment of short bowel syndrome. For AGI due to critical illness, intestinal rehabilitation is not only a treatment concept but also a practical treatment measure. In critical care, intestinal rehabilitation can be divided into four stages: total PN, parenteral combined with enteral nutrition, total enteral nutrition, and transoral diet.
| Gastrointestinal Injury and Treatment in Critical Illnesses|| |
Intestinal rehabilitation is primarily aimed at maintaining the homeostasis of the GI environment, improving GI injury/failure, and shutting down the engine effect of the intestine. The purpose of this section is to describe the importance of using intestinal rehabilitation in critical illness, and the detailed mechanisms of injury and protection are not discussed here.
The concept of the gut being the motor of multiple organ dysfunction syndrome (MODS) and the undrained abscess of multiple organ failure (MOF) as described by Marshall and Meakins has altered considerably over recent years as our understanding of gut barrier dysfunction and bacterial translocation in humans has improved. Specifically, the relationship in humans still remains circumstantial, and there is no level 1 evidence to directly connect the two. However, the understanding of the pathophysiological mechanisms of the intestine in critical illness is continuously updated.,, To determine directly whether bacterial translocation occurs in humans, Deitch cultured mesenteric lymph nodes obtained from 42 patients undergoing dissection without clinical infection and found that simple intestinal obstruction of the colon or small intestine in the absence of necrotic bowel appeared to be associated with bacterial translocation. The present studies show that some critical illnesses, such as trauma and infections, transfer to sepsis is mainly due to the translocation of intestinal bacteria. Intestinal barrier function is impaired, forming bacterial translocation, which is the most important biological event in sepsis. In anatomical terms, the intestine in critical illness can be damaged sequentially from the mucosa and the muscularis to the plasma membrane. In functional terms, these morphological injuries are mostly accompanied by impairments in motor function, digestive and absorptive functions, and multiple barrier functions. These dysfunctions may lead to intestinal flora disorders, abdominal compartment syndrome, MODS, and MOF. Several clinical studies show that GI dysfunction is associated with poor prognosis in critical illness.
The largest published study of factors independently associated with bacterial translocation and intestinal dysfunction found that 130 of 927 patients (14.0%) who underwent open surgery had bacterial translocation. Postoperative sepsis was more common in patients with bacterial translocation (42.3% vs. 19.9%; P < 0.001). This study showed that only emergency surgery and preoperative PN use were associated with increased bacterial translocation in a multivariate analysis. The use of PN and gut dysfunction is obviously linked, and therefore, the finding of enhanced bacterial translocation was inevitable. Intestinal barrier dysfunction leads to distant organ injury, of which the lung is the most frequent and important. Dickson et al. detected abundant intestinal-specific bacteria (Mycobacterium spp.) in bronchoalveolar lavage fluid from patients who were diagnosed with ARDS, and confirmed a positive correlation with the degree of systemic inflammatory response. In addition, intestinal tissue edema and mesenteric vasoconstriction due to intestinal inflammation can further amplify intestinal injury and even lead to nonocclusive mesenteric ischemia, which is a form of acute intestinal ischemia caused by spasm of the superior mesenteric artery. Nonocclusive mesenteric vascular ischemia is an end-stage manifestation of sepsis, congestive heart failure, cardiac arrhythmias, acute myocardial infarction and severe blood loss, with a high mortality rate.
Current therapies for GI dysfunction rely mainly on the treatment of the primary disease and still lack specific treatment to maintain the mucosal integrity of the GI tract. It is more important to answer the question of how to control a series of immune disorder reactions triggered by the loss of mucosal integrity, such as systemic inflammatory response syndrome, and sepsis. Intestinal rehabilitation is a readily available and feasible treatment strategy. Early enteral nutrition significantly attenuates the inflammatory response in the intestine, restores intestinal villi morphology, and reduces intestinal epithelial cell apoptosis. This is an important theoretical basis for the use of enteral nutrition to significantly improve critical illness. In addition, the reasonable administration of early PN is also necessary. Early PN may be protective against both muscle wasting and fat loss, while diaphragm function is a major determinant of the ability to successfully wean from invasive mechanical ventilation. Mechanical ventilation harms the structure and function of the diaphragm. The muscle fibers were significantly atrophied after 18 h of mechanical ventilation., Early PN may result in some protection of diaphragm structure and function due to the overall protection of muscle mass, leading to improved respiratory mechanics during deconditioning and reduced ventilatory time.
Besides the classical administration of parenteral and enteral nutrition, the management of intestinal microecology should also be included in the concept of intestinal rehabilitation. Research on the intestinal microenvironment has been booming in recent years. The intestinal microbiota is important for a variety of intestinal functions, such as the fermentation and absorption of enteral nutrients, the establishment of the immune system, and the growth and integrity of the intestinal mucosa. In inflammatory bowel disease, the role of enteral nutrition in alleviating the inflammatory status of the intestine and maintaining intestinal remission has been widely demonstrated, although the exact mechanism is not clear., Imbalanced intestinal microbiota can increase susceptibility to sepsis by increasing pathogenic bacteria, initiating an inflammatory immune response, and decreasing beneficial flora products such as short-chain fatty acids. In addition, the development of sepsis and antibiotic therapy targeting sepsis can further deteriorate the intestinal flora, leading to increased end-organ damage. Targeted flora therapies such as probiotics, synbiotic agents, and selective digestive purification may reduce the risk of sepsis. Specific characteristics of gut bacterial flora can predict intensive care unit (ICU) patients' progression.,, The abundance of pathogenic species, such as Enterococci, was increased to varying degrees in deceased septic patients, suggesting that these species are potential biomarkers in ICU. Liu et al. further demonstrated that ICU enterotypes are closely associated with clinical outcomes of patients. During the development of sepsis or septic shock, ICU patients exhibit 2 dysbiosis patterns (ICU E1 group consists mainly of the genus Mycobacterium and a certain unclassified genus of Enterobacteriaceae; ICU E2 group consists mainly of Enterococcus spp.) and are not affected by age, sex, BMI, and external factors (infection site, antibiotic use, etc.); ICU E1 group is associated with the development of septic shock. Kentaro et al. found that prophylactic supplementation of synbiotics prevents sepsis patients from complicating enterocolitis and ventilator-associated pneumonia. We believe that targeted interventions in the intestinal microenvironment are an important direction for future research in intestinal rehabilitation. In relation to the risk of developing a clinically important outcome, intestinal overgrowth is defined as ≥ 105 potential pathogens per milliliter of GI secretions, including “abnormal” aerobic Gram-negative bacilli, “normal” bacteria and yeasts, and is a key event prior to the development of primary and secondary endogenous infections. Selective digestive tract decontamination (SDD) is antimicrobial prophylaxis designed to control overgrowth. SDD controls overgrowth by achieving high antimicrobial concentrations effective against “normal” and “abnormal” potential pathogens, rather than by selectively controlling overgrowth. A complete SDD regimen using parenteral and enteral antimicrobials can reduce lower respiratory infections by 72%, bloodstream infections by 37%, and mortality by 29%.
In addition, the acquired weakness in the ICU characterized by malnutrition due to the metabolic disorders of the body caused by the primary disease and the long-term lack of a regular transoral diet are important factors affecting the regression of acute critical illness. Girard et al. summarized these patients with the concept of chronic critical illness. In recent years, concepts such as “persistent inflammation, immunosuppression, and catabolism syndrome” and “persistent critical illness”, have been proposed, although with its focus, to describe a category of patients who are too weak to leave the ICU. The original aim of intestinal rehabilitation is to increase the absorptive capacity of the remaining intestine through a series of planned treatments, which is particularly evident in the treatment of short-bowel syndrome. Improving intestinal absorption dysfunction can increase the effectiveness of nutritional therapy and thus prevent chronic critical illness. In addition, by adding additional nutritional factors, drugs and vitamins, maintaining intestinal barrier function and preventing intestinal bacterial translocation can prevent multi-organ dysfunction and reduce the incidence of mortality and chronic critical illness. The administration of a systemic treatment strategy based on intestinal rehabilitation will be another important future direction for research in critical care medicine.
| Monitoring of Gastrointestinal Injury|| |
Symptoms of GI injury are nonspecific. Currently, techniques to monitor GI dysfunction in critically ill patients are limited. The evaluation of GI injury is also not included in mainstream illness severity scores, such as sequential organ failure assessment score, acute physiology and chronic health evaluation II (APACHE II) score. This may be because for the group that formulated the critical care scoring system, there was no acceptable metric for evaluating the degree of intestinal damage. This has led critical care investigators to ignore the extent of intestinal injury in patients when using these scores to evaluate baseline data of patients. However, the degree of intestinal injury is essential in the evaluation of the critically ill patients' underlying condition, the adjustment of medical decisions, and the clinical prognosis of the regression. Since there is no consensus on the best way to measure the severity of intestinal injury/failure, how to determine the time to start intestinal rehabilitation therapy and to detect the effects of rehabilitation are still important issues that have yet to be studied in the clinic.
Varsha et al. highlighted the limited applicability of existing scores to critically ill patients by comparing 14 GI dysfunction scoring tools that have been reported in the literature. On the one hand, it provides a rather objective evaluation of the existing scores, and on the other hand, it provides a reference for the establishment of a more clinically useful GI function scoring system. The method widely used in clinical practice for measuring gastric residual volume has significant limitations in the assessment of total GI function. Increased gastric residual volume is an important manifestation of feeding intolerance during enteral nutrition, but it only refers to the poor dynamic function of the GI tract and lacks evaluation of its absorption and barrier function.
The Working Group on Abdominal Problems as part of the perioperative intensive care section of the ESICM proposes a set of definitions and grading systems of GI dysfunction in critical illness that is applicable both for clinical and research purposes in 2012. It clarifies the definition of four severity levels of AGI. Provide terms and definitions for better clinical communication and comparison between future studies. AGI is the malfunctioning of the GI tract in critically ill patients due to their acute illness, which can be divided into primary and secondary. Primary AGI is caused by a primary disease or direct injury to the GI tract. It is commonly reported in the early stages of GI injuries, such as peritonitis, abdominal surgery, and abdominal trauma. Secondary AGI is caused by severe illness or injury to tissues and organs other than the GI tract, no primary disease of the GI tract at the beginning of the disease, and AGI is the result of a second strike, such as AGI that occurs after pneumonia, heart disease, nonabdominal surgery or trauma, or cardiopulmonary resuscitation [Table 1].
Correcting existing malnutrition, which preparing for surgery and recovery, is another major aim of administering intestinal rehabilitation. However, in critically ill patients, weight or BMI does not accurately reflect their nutritional status because of the influence of fluid resuscitation, abnormal metabolism, and other pathological factors. The European Society for Clinical Nutrition and Metabolism guideline recommended a general clinical assessment, including weight change, physical examination, general assessment of body composition, and muscle mass and strength, to assess malnutrition in ICU. Clinicians rely on clinical experience heavily in assessing nutritional status and making medical decisions. The American Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition guideline recommended nutritional risk determination using the nutrition risk screening 2002 (NRS2002) and the nutrition risk in critically ill (NUTRIC) score to determine which patients could benefit from nutritional support. However, the nutritional risk scale is a risk assessment of critically ill patients at the time of admission and does not reflect the effect after treatment. Haines et al. used the urea/creatinine ratio and changes in the cross-sectional area of the psoas muscle at the level of the L3 and L4 vertebrae in their study to measure muscle catabolism in critically ill patients. Compared to general clinical assessments and nutritional risk scales, which are subjective, this is a more objective evaluation method that has been reported in the literature. There is wide variation in how nutritional status is evaluated, but there is no doubt that all ICU inpatients need to be screened for nutrition within 48 h of admission. Any critically ill patient who stays in the ICU for more than 48 h should be considered at risk for malnutrition, while intestinal rehabilitation should be started as early as possible.
| Management of Intestinal Rehabilitation|| |
The old theory of “gastrointestinal rest” has been discouraged in the last 30 years by the popularity of the theory of gut bacterial translocation. Prolonged “gastrointestinal rest” leads to a lack of intraluminal nutrition of the intestinal mucosa, which in turn leads to intestinal barrier dysfunction and liver function injury., Critically ill patients receiving early total PN had a significantly impaired intestinal barrier, as evidenced by intestinal villi atrophy, inflammatory infiltration, increased enterocyte apoptosis, and abnormal tight junction protein expression. However, when GI dysfunction occurred in patients complicated with inflammatory edema of the intestinal wall, extensive adhesions in the small intestine, or persistent intestinal paralysis, it was wise to carry out the “gastrointestinal rest” by stopping enteral nutrition. Forced administration of enteral nutrition, especially total enteral nutrition, may increase the burden on the stomach and intestines, aggravate the AGI, and cause complications such as intestinal perforation and intestinal necrosis. In this case, total PN can be used to supplement the nutritional substrate, combined with growth inhibitors and GI de-pressure. This not only helps to reduce the edema of the intestinal wall, reduce the secretion of intestinal fluid, but also helps to reduce intestinal contents and intra-abdominal pressure, thus achieving the purpose of giving “gastrointestinal temporary rest” and eventually restoring the function of the GI tract. Therefore, early PN should not be completely abandoned because of the risk of increasing the incidence of infectious complications. Doig et al. demonstrated in a randomized controlled clinical study that early PN in critically ill patients with relative contraindications to short-term enteral nutrition was not significantly harmful to patients' outcome. In contrast, the duration of invasive mechanical ventilation can be reduced by early PN. The administration of PN within 24 h of ICU admission did not result in a significant difference in 60-day mortality or the rate of ICU-acquired infections. But interestingly, this did not significantly reduce the length of stay in ICU or hospital. A randomized, controlled, multicenter, open-label, parallel-group study showed that for patients in severe shock, the incidence of vomiting, diarrhea, intestinal ischemia, and acute pseudo-intestinal obstruction was higher in the early enteral nutrition group than in the early PN group.
Enteral nutrition is a trump card for intestinal rehabilitation, but feeding intolerance is its main complication. Enteral nutrition should be tried repeatedly in patients with AGI. Early enteral nutrition, i.e., initiated within 48 h of ICU admission, is included in the critical care nutrition guidelines., Enteral nutrition is not always applied in full volume. By providing 1/4 of the body's total energy needs through the intestine, the pharmacological effect of enteral nutrition to improve intestinal barrier function can be achieved. However, the administration of early enteral nutrition is not ideal. A multicenter clinical study covering 118 ICUs in 116 hospitals showed that only 32.7% of critically ill patients received enteral nutrition within 48 h of ICU admission. Multivariate analysis identified AGI as a major obstacle to the initiation of enteral nutrition. Interestingly, Jin et al. showed that the rate of secondary infection was significantly lower in the early enteral nutrition group than in the late enteral nutrition group. Regression analysis showed early enteral nutrition as a protective factor for secondary infection. The early enteral nutrition group had better improvement in AGI grading and serum albumin levels, and the percentage of enteral nutrition-related bloating was significantly reduced. The above evidence suggests that AGI is not a contraindication to initiating enteral nutrition and is not specified as such in the guidelines. In addition to the timing of enteral nutrition administration, the choice of enteral nutrition energy density is also a hotspot issue. For critically ill patients, the guidelines recommend matching energy intake with energy expenditure to prevent cumulative energy deficits, which are associated with poor outcomes., A single-center study showed that the combination of high-calorie delivery and organ failure increases mortality in patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome. Compared to patients with low organ failure and low-calorie delivery, patients with high-caloric delivery and low organ failure, low-calorie delivery and high organ failure, and a combination of high organ failure and high-calorie delivery have a progressively higher mortality rate. The degree of organ dysfunction in critically ill patients has important implications for energy requirements and prognosis. A multicenter, double-blind, randomized controlled study showed that high-energy-density compared to regular energy density (1.5 Kcal/ml vs. 1.0 Kcal/ml) did not affect survival time, days rely on organ support, survival and discharge from the ICU and hospital or organ support, or the incidence of infectious complications or adverse events. However, this study was controversial in terms of energy density infusion criteria and grouping., After resuming total enteral nutrition for some time, do not rush to resume a transoral diet, especially the total transoral diet. The GI tract can tolerate 24-h continuous tube feeding of enteral nutrition solution, but it may not be able to tolerate the one-time “meal” transoral diet. The enteral nutrition was gradually reduced, while the transoral diet was gradually increased, and the transoral diet was steadily restored.
Even if the oral diet is allowed, it is not a random diet for patients but a diet with a full range of nutrients and enough energy and protein as directed by a nutritionist. Patients are prevented from having the partial diet leading to poor nutrient intake or aggravating AGI due to gluttony. As our understanding of GI injury and failure continues to advance, the connotation of intestinal rehabilitation should also be enriched. In recent years, the concept of precision nutrition has emerged. Precision nutrition is derived from the theory of nutritional genome, which refers to the identification of individual differences in nutrient absorption ability based on genomics and the selection of nutrients suitable for each individual based on the differences, to achieve nutritional balance., Precision nutrition provides multidimensional and dynamic nutritional recommendations, i.e., precise nutritional interventions for the right person, at the right time, to achieve health. We believe the organic integration of precision nutrition and intestinal rehabilitation will lead to more specific treatment strategies and better therapeutic results.
| Conclusion|| |
Under the multidisciplinary medical model, the connotation of intestinal rehabilitation has not only been updated but also no longer limited to the treatment of short bowel syndrome. Intestinal rehabilitation in a broad sense can be applied to various critically ill patients with GI function injury. Patients in the ICU have the characteristics of high heterogeneity and fluctuating conditions. For the acute critical illness period, postresuscitation, recovery period, and chronic critical illness period, different intestinal rehabilitation strategies should be considered individually. However, the lack of tools for early and accurate determination of GI injury in critically ill patients is a problem that needs to be solved urgently. This determines the time for intestinal rehabilitation to start, adjust, and stop. Combining the existing AGI grades, starting intestinal rehabilitation for the corresponding patients as soon as possible, focusing on the sequential use of parenteral and enteral nutrition, and scientific and reasonable supplementation of nutritional factors are essential to improve the prognosis of critically ill patients.
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While there are many challenges associated with the development and building of new housing in the United States, some of the most formidable barriers are the rising costs associated with financing, buying land, finding suitable labor, paying for materials and the often arduous, time-consuming process of obtaining approvals and entitlements to build. In turn, these costs are generally passed along in the form of higher sales prices and rental rates for new housing.
According to the Center on Housing Markets and Finance at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), between the beginning of 2000 and the middle of 2018, its own pricing index for residential land in the United States climbed by nearly 90 percent, or close to twice the rate of inflation for that same time period. Increases were even steeper in high-demand areas in coastal California, with prices rising 170 percent in San Francisco, 184 percent in San Diego, 212 percent in San Jose and over 225 percent in Los Angeles.
Rising construction costs are also impacting home prices and rents. From 2010 through 2018, the national single-family construction price index rose by an average of 3.2 percent per year (rising to 3.6 percent in 2018 alone) versus 2.6 percent per year between 1990 and 2000. Similarly, the multifamily construction price index increased by 4.7 percent per year from 2010 through 2018 (rising to 5.1 percent in 2018 alone) versus an average annual increase of 3.7 percent between 1990 and 2000. These indices are even higher for in-demand metro areas such as New York, Los Angeles, and the San Francisco Bay Area.
Both materials and wages continue to put pressure on new building projects. According to an annual report by Jones Lang LaSalle, during 2018 construction materials costs rose by 4.0 percent, while wages among construction workers increased 3.4 percent. In addition, a relatively low unemployment rate among construction workers of 5.1 percent by year-end 2018 (down from 5.9 percent a year earlier) continued to contribute to a national construction backlog that reached 9.04 months, down just over 4.0 percent from recent highs noted the previous year.
But there’s an even more important cost hidden to most of the public, which is the complex array of regulations and fees imposed by cities and counties for new development. Although some of these fees go directly towards supporting new development, others go towards maintaining essential city services which benefit everyone in the community.
In housing-starved California, these fees can add up. According to the series on construction costs by UC Berkeley’s Terner Center for Housing Innovation, using the most recent comprehensive data sets from 2015, average impact fees in the state were almost three times national averages. These fees can make attainable housing even more challenging to build since such projects can increase the amounts of subsidies required. Moreover, there is a continued lack of transparency for fees, as municipalities can demand additional project-specific fees or requirements on top of existing published development fees, which can add significant additional carrying costs.
Local land-use regulations—such as environmental regulations including the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) or minimum parking requirements—can increase development costs more. Even when developers check the right boxes for regulations and fees, the permitting and entitlement process -- which is particularly complex in California -- can extend development timelines in ways that are not predictable. These delays in processing or approval timelines can greatly increase the cost of development as companies continue to pay carrying costs while awaiting slow-moving approvals.
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1,260 DAYS (New book published October 2021)
Memoirs of a Student's Ph.D Journey from 2013 to 2015 by V. G. Pierce-Kelly (December 2019)
Days of Noah - Words of Warmth, Wisdom, and Warning! (Amazon)
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The Need for Science: to understand how and why all people change over time..
this assignment is due in 10 hours….. must have done within 10 hours…..
Child Development chapter summary
Use the attachment book and do Chapter 4 Summary
Choose one way to respond to the chapter from the following list. You must choose a different response type for each reading response:
A. Outline the chapter. I expect to see not just titles/subtitles but short descriptions to help you organize and understand the material. Please show the big ideas, medium sized ideas, and small ideas. Your may use Roman Numerals or bullet points. Please see me if you have questions. Here is what a sample outline should look like:
I. Understanding How And Why
A. The Need for Science: to understand how and why all people change over time.
1. The Scientific Method
2. Begins with Curiosity
B. Describe at least 3 concepts and the understanding that you now have based on your own childhood experiences or from your experiences as a caregiver.
C. Choose 6 questions from the “What Have you Learned” section throughout each chapter. Type the question and your response.
D. What do you value and appreciate from this chapter? What concept/idea could you personally apply as a parent or teacher? What concept/idea is still unclear or fuzzy?
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As a distributor, you focus on the sale of aspiration systems, or you use an aspiration system as this detection method best suits your environment. The maintenance on the detector is carried out at set times; the filters are replaced, vital parts are checked and the settings are carefully analysed.
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Does education aid reach countries that need it most? Check out the data maps
In Mali, 31% of primary-age children are not enrolled in school and aid for basic education totalled about $44 million in 2012-13. Neighbouring Niger, where the out-of-school rate of 37%, received $26 million. And conflict-ridden Sudan, where 46% of children are not school, got only about $7 million.
These startling facts come from a new set of data maps – which show that the aid flow is not necessarily reaching countries with high rates of out-of-school children.
One of the new Sustainable Development Goals is to achieve 12 years of universal primary and secondary education for every child by 2030. But there are fears that attempts to expand access to secondary education may result in the most marginalised children being left behind.
To reach every child, an extra $39 billion is needed each year, according to estimates from the United Nations agency UNESCO and the Education For All Global Monitoring Report. To fill this gap, the new Internsational Commission on the Financing of Global Education Opportunities brings together 20 world leaders – with UN Special Envoy for Global Education Gordon Brown as chair – to find alternative sources of funding and to better deploycurrent resources.
The maps have been produced by OECD-DAC, the UNESCO Institute for Statistics. They highlight the gap between the SDG promise and the reality. There are 124 million children and youth excluded from school and aid to education is slowing. The maps help to answer the question of whether aid reaches the countries with the greatest needs.
By clicking on the image below, you can explore this data:
- Duration of compulsory education by country
- Percentages and numbers of out-of-school children at primary and lower secondary levels – and boys compared to girls
- Amount of aid to basic education by country (bilateral and multilateral)
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The city of L'Aquila, located in central Italy, is a beautiful gem that gained international attention in 2009 after a devastating earthquake damaged much of the town. But, happily, L'Aquila is getting renewed attention for a much more positive reason, thanks to a photo posted by Redditor daenel.
When people commit to a tattoo, they usually expect to have just one image permanently inked on their skin.
We've seen some incredible storm clouds, but nothing quite like this.
We've all come across an optical illusion that has tricked our eyes, but how often has it been on someone's face? Vancouver-based makeup artist Mimi Choi uses her skills to transform her own visage into mind-boggling images that look like Surrealist paintings. Even if you look closely at the photos, it is hard to tell how she manages these visual tricks.
A well-done optical illusion will challenge your brain and your eyes.
Photographer Accidentally Captures Brilliant Optical Illusion of “Three-Headed Deer” Roaming in Forest
At first glance, photographer Renatas Jakaitis appears to have captured something straight out of science fiction.
Are you afraid of heights? If not, you might be tempted to climb this staircase to the sky. South African land artist Strijdom van der Merwe is the creator behind Staircase to Heaven, an illusionary sculpture that looks like a set of endless steps that reach the clouds. However, once the viewer views the sculpture from a different angle, the visual trick is revealed. This piece is actually a vertical ladder that’s just 4.5 meters (14.
What do you see among these zigzag lines?
With so many distractions in everyday life, it can be hard to stand out—especially if you’re in advertising.
Strange, mysterious things can happen in the mountains. Among the more scientifically explainable phenomenon one may encounter at high altitudes is the Brocken spectre. These unnaturally large shadows show up on clouds, shifting fast and decorated with rainbow halos. These shadowy figures are named for the Brocken, a mountain peak in the Harz Mountains of Germany. Due to its height, the peak often extends above low cloud or fog cover.
When you first set your eyes on a pair of jeans by the brand LEJE, you might think that you’re...
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Opened in September in d’Alzon, DTS is recruiting its second promotion.
While today’s high school students’ desires must be realized through the Parcoursup software, the Institut d’Alzon has already received more than 300 requests for its 25 open places in DTS medical imaging. The 27 students of the first year finished their internship yesterday and so far no one has been left behind.
Baptiste, 19, entered shortly after high school without really knowing what to expect. He has just completed his internship at Carémeau with Marion who was a nursing assistant and has decided to retrain. Both evoke primary qualities to pursue the profession of medical imaging technician “Benevolence, Taste for Contact”. Even if medicine is becoming more and more technical, the manipulators of radios, scanners or MRIs are also and above all caregivers who are confronted with suffering and death.
“We have voluntarily opened places for students with different profiles. More like scientific high school graduates, but also technology high school graduates and people in retraining. These imaging professions have different facets”, explains Virginie Cote, director of higher education at the Lycée d’Alzon.
For Professor Jean-Paul Bérégi, who directs the training, progress in imaging is so rapid that the programs are almost obsolete before they are even applied… “Medical innovation is permanent and today imaging affects all specialties. The appetite for imaging, diagnosis, screening and follow-up is found in all doctors… In France there are 100 million cases per year!”
It’s not a working student diploma, but it boils down to the same thing
The young people trained in three years must therefore be both versatile and excellent technicians. The training mixes anatomical-physiological aspects to bring everyone up to speed, then technological (how a scanner, MRI works) and finally digital (how to use and understand image reading software). “When I startedsmiles Agnès Amblard, Health Manager at CHU, We were trained in chemistry: how to develop x-rays, developers, fixers, etc. The job isn’t the same anymore!
Over three years, during the course, the students will be visited by 80 different speakers, professionals from the public or private sector, who will come to give lessons. Internships are also essential. “It’s not a work study diploma, but it boils down to the same thing. We are at a turning point in national education where we are adapting education as closely as possible to the needs of professionals in the sector. We’ve been working on it for six years, we got the green light in February 2021 to open in September, but we knew it would work.” underlines Yvan Lachaud, who works on other projects.
Medical equipment maintenance training would find its employment pool in Nîmes (University of Lille holds the title, its dean is due to be changed soon in Nîmes), as would physiotherapist training. The observation is easy; Of the last hundred physiotherapists passed by the CHU in recent years, 64 of them were trained in Spain and 22 in Belgium.
High age pyramid and increasing demand for images
In Nîmes as elsewhere, in the hospital (with 120 technicians) as in the private sector, the average age of imaging technicians is high. Replacing retirement and meeting the growing demand for medical images, two reasons to encourage young people’s education. If the DTS corresponds to a degree of license (Bac +3) and therefore allows the continuation of studies in the master, they are only 6% to continue in France. It must be said that everyone else finds a job immediately. | <urn:uuid:68e3717e-1320-4a25-a473-ddfd35acfa29> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://besthelpworld.com/nimes-the-first-medical-imaging-students-on-the-right-track/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570793.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808092125-20220808122125-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.964781 | 788 | 1.679688 | 2 |
Romans 2:3 Parallel Verses [⇓ See commentary ⇓]Romans 2:3, NIV: So when you, a mere human being, pass judgment on them and yet do the same things, do you think you will escape God's judgment?
Romans 2:3, ESV: Do you suppose, O man—you who judge those who practice such things and yet do them yourself—that you will escape the judgment of God?
Romans 2:3, KJV: And thinkest thou this, O man, that judgest them which do such things, and doest the same, that thou shalt escape the judgment of God?
Romans 2:3, NASB: But do you suppose this, you foolish person who passes judgment on those who practice such things, and yet does them as well, that you will escape the judgment of God?
Romans 2:3, NLT: Since you judge others for doing these things, why do you think you can avoid God's judgment when you do the same things?
Romans 2:3, CSB: Do you think--anyone of you who judges those who do such things yet do the same--that you will escape God's judgment? | <urn:uuid:8099793e-7038-4a4f-b009-bd7493857706> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.bibleref.com/Romans/2/Romans-2-3.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570767.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808061828-20220808091828-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.947343 | 257 | 1.851563 | 2 |
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FUEGO EN EL 23
The musical troupe hailing from Ponce, Puerto Rico, created by the venerable Enrique “Quique Lucca” Caraballo in 1954, evolved from the Conjunto Internacional, also formed by Lucca, in 1944. The group was joined by bongo player Antonio “Tato Santaella,” as well as trumpeter and guitarist Filiberto Ojeda Rios, who later gained fame and recognition as the trumpet master of the world-renowned Cuban musician Arturo Sandoval, who was also the famed leader of the Puerto Rican independence movement.
Lucca was a huge fan of La Sonora Matancera and their musical style, which incorporated a complete percussion section with only trumpets in the brass section, harmonizing with the piano and vocals. When naming his band, Don Quique –as he is affectionately known throughout the music world– added not only his Cuban homonym, but also the name of the city where the group originated: Ponce, Puerto Rico. At that moment, the world-renowned Sonora Ponceña was born.
The band’s zeal for Cuban musical expression is clear in the songs chosen for this recording, especially in Fuego en el 23, a hit written by the legendary Arsenio Rodriguez. The number became an enormous success, and over time, was emblematic of Ponceña. Undoubtedly, the masterpiece contributed to the marked international recognition that the legendary Sonora Ponceña now enjoys.
Another magnificent song, the bolero hit Nosotros, was also a huge hit that became a classic, one that is consistently listened to now, and will undoubtedly live on well into the future.
The merengue number El sancocho prieto, written by Dominican composer Luís Alberti, was also hugely popular and widely distributed throughout the world..
This album also includes the song Tercio de acero, one of the first compositions by the distinguished Puerto Rican composer Catalino “Tite” Curet Alonso, who had already begun to gain recognition as a master of contemporary musical inspiration, and would soon be showcasing his talents as an integral part of the evolution of the musical genre that would later be known as salsa.
The production showcases the dexterity of a sensational pianist who graduated from the Puerto Rican Conservatory of Music: Enrique Arsenio “Papo” Lucca. The eldest son of the orchestra conductor was first recorded at the age of 12; since then, he has been considered a virtuoso. “Papo’s” piano is undoubtedly one of the most explosive pianos in the Caribbean musical tradition, and his multiple musical collaborations indisputably adorn the ornate Caribbean style.
“Casabe sabe,” written by the legendary Quito Vélez; “Deseo salvaje,” by Víctor Rivera; “El hablador,” by Julio Barreto; “Caridad,” by the well loved Patato y Totico; “Rinkinkalla,” by Juan Bruno Tarraza; and “Aprendí más que tú,” by Luis Guillermo Texidor, round out the excellent mix of songs that make this album a classic of the times. Boricua, Dominican, and Cuban composers pour themselves into the Luccas’ masterful arrangements, giving the production the Caribbean flavor that only Sonora Ponceña can deliver.
Currently, Sonora Ponceña has enjoyed more than 50 years as a musical institution, not only in their native Puerto Rico, but throughout the world. Their long trajectory in Afro-Caribbean music has seen many excellent musical productions and successful songs, but when studying their rise in popularity throughout the world and history, it is imperative to begin with the album Fuego en el 23. This is the album that blew the doors of success open for the group now led by Papo Lucca, who has continued in the heroic footsteps of Don Quique.
“En el 23 de la 110
no se puede estar tranquilo
te diré por qué
Fuego… que vengan los bomberos… que me quemo”
“In building 110, floor 23
Nobody’s resting peacefully
Fire! Bring the firefighters! I’m burning alive!”
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Exercise is a vital component of every healthy lifestyle.
It’s the single best thing you can do to improve your health other than quitting smoking, and if exercise came in pill form it would be called the wonder drug. Regular exercise is linked to improved mood, long-term mobility and is a vital part of reducing cognitive decline in aging adults.
While exercise is an important key to healthy living, it’s also important to take precautions as we age to prevent injury. Here are some tips from our Friendship at Home team for seniors who want to work out as they age in place:
Doing a proper warm-up before exercising is a critical component of avoiding injuries. Spending five to 10 minutes stretching your muscles and moving joints through their full range of motion increases the amount of oxygen muscles receive, relieves tension in the body and allows the heart rate to increase slowly. Warming up eases the body into movement and can prevent long-term damage to muscles and joints.
Using modified versions of standard exercises like wall pushups or knee planks can reduce the chances of injury. Listening to the body and modifying accordingly prevents injury while retaining the benefits of exercise. Using muscles beyond their ability can be counterproductive, and modified movements can target muscles more efficiently without causing unnecessary strain on joints.
Just as it’s important to warm up, it’s important to cool down. This allows the heart rate to ease back into its natural rhythm, prevents soreness, regulates blood pressure and avoids lightheadedness. A 3-5 minute cool down that stretches targeted muscle groups prevents injury and prepares the body for rest.
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Federal and state laws that make debt collection harassment illegal are all well and good, but unless you know what counts as “harassment,” it’s hard to know what to look out for.
Both the FDCPA (federal law) and the FCEUA (Pennsylvania law) make it illegal for collectors to engage in “any conduct, the natural consequence of which is to harass, oppress, or abuse any person,” when collecting a debt. Basically, collectors can’t harass or abuse you! This very broad language includes profanity, talking down to you, threatening to tell your neighbors about your money problems, calling your house dozens of times a day, and many other possible scenarios.
Both laws also forbid the use of any “false, deceptive, or misleading representation or means” in connection with the collection of a debt. In other words, collectors can’t lie to you or mislead you to get you to pay. Some examples of false or misleading collection tactics include trying to collect more than you actually owe, threatening to have you arrested unless you pay, or pretending to be from the sheriff’s department or another government agency.
If you have experienced a form of harassment discussed above or would like to learn more, contact our harassment lawyers at (412) 378-5854. In addition to forbidding various types of harassment, the FDCPA and FCEUA also make it illegal for collectors or creditors to contact you if they know you are represented by a lawyer. | <urn:uuid:ed0a745b-4fae-446b-9638-7edc54f27d8a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://consumerjusticelawyer.com/what-counts-as-debt-collection-harassment/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571911.5/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813081639-20220813111639-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.939669 | 315 | 2.078125 | 2 |
Nothing stopped them—no wind nor rain nor sun!
Side by side—these pioneers from every land:
All pulled together—That's how...the West was won!!!"
How the West Was Won is a 1962 epic Western film by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. The last major feature filmed in the classic three-strip Cinerama widescreen format, it tells the story of the westward-bound Prescott family through four generations and many events in American history. Famously, the cast boasts more than twenty big-name stars of the era, including Jimmy Stewart, Debbie Reynolds, Gregory Peck, George Peppard, John Wayne, Henry Fonda, and Eli Wallach. In fact, there were probably more big-name stars with major roles in this film than any other in the history of Hollywood. The film also had three directors, although one of them, Henry Hathaway, helmed three of the five stories; the other two were John Ford and George Marshall. The epic music score, by Alfred Newman, is also pretty famous.
There was a television show loosely based on the movie in the late '70s. Moderately successful in America, but a huge hit in Europe, where it's still well-known.
This film contains examples of:
- Animal Stampede: After learning of King's plans, Zeb has the Arapahos stampede a group of buffaloes to destroy the railway camp.
- Artistic License History: How does anyone manage to explain the background for the American Civil War without mentioning the slavery issue at all? It's likely that the film is Manifest Destiny propaganda, and so deliberately glosses over the issue altogether.
- Bandit Clan: "The Rivers" segment features Walter Brennan as "Alabama Colonel" Hawkins, the leader of a clan of river bandits who prey on unsuspecting settlers moving westward into the Illinois Country.
- Bayonet Ya: After realizing that the Confederate deserter is going to kill Ulysses S. Grant and William Tecumseh Sherman, Zeb uses his musket's bayonet to stab the deserter in the gut.
- Big Damn Heroes: Linus Rawlings arrives just in time to save the Prescotts from the river pirates.
- Big Eater: Linus Rawlings enjoys dinner with the Prescotts.Linus Rawlings: Thank ya, ma'am. That's right tasty.Rebecca Prescott: You've only ate four plates, I was beginning to think you didn't like it.Linus Rawlings: No, well, it don't pay to eat too much on an empty stomach, ma'am.
- Cassandra Truth: Ultimately subverted concerning Gant; town marshal Lou Ramsey initially doesn't believe Zeb when he claims that Gant is trying to cause trouble but later agrees to help his attempt to ambush Gant during a planned train robbery.
- Comic-Book Adaptation: A comic book version was published in conjunction with the film's release, as was the practice back then with all family and children's films. In the comic book, when Sheriff Ramsay tries to prevent Zeb Rawlings from going after Gant, Rawlings whacks Ramsay over the head with his rifle and knocks him unconscious, which explains the bandage on Ramsay's forehead in the next scene. No such explanation is offered in the film; it is as if somebody had edited something out.
- Dark Is Evil: Charlie Gant wears mostly black.
- Dark Is Not Evil: The Sheriff played by Lee J. Cobb also wears dark colours.
- Dawn of the Wild West: The first part of the movie involves the migration of the Prescott family through the wilderness of Illinois country during the 1830s.
- Dead Guy Junior: Zeb's children in "The Outlaws" (Prescott, Eve and Linus) are named after their deceased ancestors.
- Death by Despair: Eve, after her husband is killed in the Civil War.
- Defector from Decadence: As a result of his involvement in the Arapahos' destruction of King's camp, Zeb resigns from the U.S. Cavalry.
- Designated Girl Fight: Lilith takes on the only female in the pack of river pirates when they fight.
- Determined Homesteader: The Prescott family.
- Disappeared Dad / Missing Mom: Lilith and Eve's parents, as well as one of their brothers, is killed in the first act.
- Due to the Dead: Being a pious man, Zebulon believes that everyone deserves some sort of funeral and a spot in Heaven, no matter what they did in life, so after he and his party (including Linus) defeat the Indian rustlers that tried to ambush them, they burn the casualties in a funeral pyre made from the rustlers' portable trading post and, at the end of a brief prayer led by Zebulon, intercede for the rustlers. Later, after he himself dies trying and failing to save his wife during a deadly trip along the rapids, their remains, upon recovery, are buried under a nearby tree.
- End of an Age: In the last segment, there's a running theme that the days of hot-shot gunslingers and train-robbing outlaws are almost at an end, with all the most famous examples of each having died already. The big showdown between Marshal Zeb Rawlings and outlaw Charlie Grant is portrayed as one of the last of its kind as the West loses its wildness.
- Epic Movie: With an epic scope that spans decades of American history, an all-star cast, gigantic (for the time) action scenes involving hundreds of extras, and even real animals, the film lives up to the idea of an epic movie.
- Fake Shemp: For unknown reasons, John Ford refused to let James Stewart play his character's dead body. Rather than use a dummy, he used a double who looked nothing like Stewart.
- Faux Affably Evil: Gant. Being played by the very likable Eli Wallach helps.
- Fish-Eye Lens: The entirety of the film was shot through two paired fisheye lenses, a purposeful choice by John Ford to show the open, sweeping landscape of the West. It works beautifully for its intended purpose, but when used for close-ups inside buildings... not so much.
- Generational Saga: The film follows the Prescott family and the next three generations of their descendants from 1839 to 1889 as they move increasingly further west to the Pacific Ocean.
- Grave-Marking Scene: Eve talks to her parents' graves as Zeb goes off to war.What could I do, Pa? He's Linus' boy. Always was more Linus' blood. I guess that's why I love him so much. But you've got to help me pray, Pa. Help me pray.
- Hell-Bent for Leather: The trope name is used as a Precision F-Strike in the title song.
- Heroic BSoD: All Julie can do is watch in sadness as Zeb leaves home so he can thwart Gant's train robbery.
- Improbable Infant Survival: Averted with one of the Prescott boys dying as a child. Played straight with Zeb's children, who are kept safely out of the way with their mother and great aunt while Zeb deals with Gant.
- In the Back: Linus kills one of the river pirates by throwing an axe at his back.
- An Immigrant's Tale: The film begins in the early 1800s with a group of settlers from the east encountering the hazards of the wilderness, both natural and human, and traces their families through to the later part of the century.
- Large Ham: The performances in this movie (most noticeably from Gregory Peck) tend to be "bigger" and broader than what one generally expect from the genre. This is because the Cinerama photography made close-ups impossible, so the actors felt they had to "play up" their roles and emotions in order to make up for it.
- Charlie Gant easily out-hams everyone else in the entire movie, with the possible exception of Zebulon Prescott.
- Love at First Sight: During Lilith's showgirl years, Cleve becomes immediately smitten with her. Towards the end of "The Plains", he invokes the trope to the letter shortly before he proposes.
- Ms. Fanservice: Lilith in her showgirl years.
- Narrator: Spencer Tracy narrates the film.
- Out-Gambitted: Gant didn't know Zeb's friend would agree to help ambush his gang during the attempted train robbery.
- Overprotective Dad: Zebulon, who becomes suspicious the next morning when he thinks his daughter slept with Linus Rawlings.
- Pony Express Rider: Referred to:Even while North and South were being torn apart, East and West had been drawn together by the Pony Express, the most daring mail route in history. Eighty riders were in the saddle at all times, night and day, in all weather. Half of them riding east, half riding west between Missouri and Sacramento, carrying mail cross-country. Unarmed, they rode to save weight. Five dollars a letter, the mail cost, and on thin paper, too. It was courage, skill and speed against hostile Indians, bandits, hell and occasional high water. Even as they rode, men were already building a faster message carrier across the country, the Overland Telegraph.
- Precision F-Strike: In the title song, yet!
- Professional Gambler: Cleve Van Valen, who joins a wagon train to avoid paying his debts. The fact that Eve has inherited a gold mine also contributes.
- Punch-Clock Hero: The only reason Zeb joins the U.S. Army during the American Civil War over Eve's objections is that he wants to seek out glory and escape from his mundane farming life.
- Scenery Porn: Big, sweeping, gorgeous landscapes.
- Screw This, I'm Outta Here!: At the end of "The Railroad", Zeb decides to leave the U.S. Cavalry for good after the Arapahos use the buffaloes to destroy Mike King's camp.
- The Smurfette Principle: There's only one woman in the gang of river pirates.
- Sophisticated as Hell: The settlers (including mountain man Linus Rawlings) triumph over a gang of Indian rustlers that nearly robbed them, or worse than merely robbed them. As the survivors burn the casualties in a massive funeral pyre, Zebulon and his party offer this humble prayer to the Most High:Zebulon Prescott: And now, let us pray: O Lord, we thank Thee for our salvation. We commit the souls of our dead to Thy gentle keepin'. We pray for the speedy recovery of our wounded. And now, another matter: O Lord, without consulting with Thee we have sent Thy way some souls whose evil ways passeth all understanding. We ask Thee humbly to receive them... whether You want 'em or not. Amen.
- Stalker with a Crush: Mr. Morgan. Cleve to an extent, both for Lilith.
- Stock Footage: The film utilised footage from other epics, none of which were in Cinerama. It took the Mexican army marching past the Alamo from The Alamo (1960), a Civil War battle and shots of a riverboat from Raintree County and (then) present-day America from This is Cinerama.
- Title Drop
- To the Tune of...: The English folk song "Greensleeves" is rewritten as "A Home in the Meadow", which recurs throughout the film as a song sung by Lilith.
- War Is Hell: By the time of the Battle of Shiloh, Zeb finds out the hard way that the American Civil War isn't what it seems to be.
- What the Hell, Hero?: Zeb to the Confederate "deserter" he had befriended before being forced to kill him to protect Generals Grant and Sherman.Zeb Rawlings: Why did you make me do that?
- While You Were in Diapers: The film ends with Zeb and his family riding off and Lilith starts singing "A Home in the Meadow":Prescott Rawlings: Aunt Lilith, do you know that song? That's our song!Lilith: Your song? I sang that song long before your pa was ever born.
- Would Hurt a Child: Gant threatens to kill Zeb's children.
- You Called Me "X"; It Must Be Serious: Zeb says goodbye to his mother before heading off to war.Zeb: Mother, I...Eve: Why'd you call me that? It's always been Ma before.Zeb: I don't know. All of a sudden... Ma didn't seem enough somehow. | <urn:uuid:4c1bd6ed-4921-4665-8266-1ae05859cbc5> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/HowTheWestWasWon | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573193.35/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818094131-20220818124131-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.957095 | 2,705 | 2.015625 | 2 |
Of the 14 Covid-19 fatalities in Nepal, 11 people died at quarantine centers. Of them, nine tested positive for coronavirus infection through a PCR test while two tested negative, and the results of three are awaited.
Similarly, six among the total national Covid-19 fatalities died after being transferred to hospitals from respective quarantine centers upon showcasing severe symptoms.
A few days ago, the government issued a directive and instructed authorities concerned to send people home without an RDT or a PCR test after they have stayed in quarantine centers for 14 days.
Such a decision has only abetted the rapid spread of the virus as most Covid-19 infected persons in Nepal have been asymptomatic along with an increase in the number of deaths due to Covid-19.
Even the earlier decision of the government to use RDT for mass testing was in contradiction of the WHO recommendation and the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) guidelines which require RDT to be conducted only for individuals placed in isolation in hospitals.
And even if the result turns out to be negative, a retest with PCR is mandatory.
Today, a man who used to work as a clear at the Bayalpata Hospital in Achham District put himself on fire after sprinkling petrol all over his body in front of the hospital.
The man along with 32 other staffers were fired by the hospital two months ago, citing “economic crisis”. He has been taken to Nepalgunj for treatment.
Quarantine centers are jampacked and poorly-managed, lack of information coupled with ill-managed quarantine centers are forcing citizens to flee quarantines and attack security as well as healthcare professionals, citizens are dying of hunger, poverty and for want of medical care, testing labs are inundated with overwhelming number of pending samples, situation even worse in rural settings.
To top it all, economy is crashing in the absence of a concrete plan.
Nepal became a federal democratic republican state in September 20, 2015 (Aswin 3, 2072 BS). The country demarcated seven provinces with the adoption of a federal system so as to decentralize power and development works.
However, decision-making still relies on Kathmandu — the central capital, with the leadership in the valley hogging all power and liable to lethargic response as well as responsibility. | <urn:uuid:f124ba3f-f135-4392-b477-b32ca7228dfc> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://aawaajnews.com/social-news/increasing-covid-19-cases-amid-months-long-lockdown-puts-government-in-grim-light/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571056.58/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809155137-20220809185137-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.964714 | 483 | 1.78125 | 2 |
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About the OECD Thematic Review of ECEC and the United States' participation:
Invited by the participating countries, OECD expert teams evaluate each country's policy, programs and provision for children from birth to compulsory school age. Prior to the review, participating countries publish a background report describing current policy and practice, and outline the challenges that ECEC policy faces in the coming years. After the expert review, the OECD publishes a country note that discusses the issues observed, and suggests solutions and recommendations for the consideration of the competent authorities.
The United States was the sixth country to host an OECD review team as part of the first round of reviews. Prior to the visit, a background report on ECEC policy in the United States was commissioned by the U.S. Department of Education, Office of Educational Research and Improvement. After analysis of the background report, a review team composed of an OECD Secretariat member and three experts with diverse analytic and policy backgrounds visited the United States from September 26th to October 8th, 1999. The United States country note was published in July 2000. | <urn:uuid:96fffe29-b031-4b27-bd99-d729b864b220> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://childcarecanada.org/documents/research-policy-practice/04/08/oecd-thematic-review-early-childhood-education-and-care-5 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573744.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819161440-20220819191440-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.94211 | 233 | 2.03125 | 2 |
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A rarer variety of Aglaonema. Native to tropical South-East Asia & New Guinea.
- Easy care and hardy.
- Commonly called 'Chinese Evergreen' even though it is native to South-East Asian areas like Thailand and Indonesia.
Growth pattern: Rosette
Water: Little and often. Keep moist but not waterlogged..
Ideal Position: South or east facing.
Light: Bright, indirect light.
Recommended Substrate: Jungle Mix
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The lower central and lateral incisors often become crowded over time, and this is quite a common problem in adults. Crookedness of the lower incisors isn't just an aesthetic issue. Crooked lower incisors may also affect the way you speak and eat. The crookedness affects the way the upper and lower teeth come together. Cosmetic dentistry has several different approaches to correct this issue.
Composite bonding or composite veneers
Composite bonding is a material that cosmetic dentists use to fill teeth, repair chips and cracks, and hide the crookedness of teeth. Because composite starts as a resin, dentists can choose an appropriate color before they apply the resin to your teeth. And being a resin, dentists can sculpt the composite material into whatever shape best suits the situation.
In the case of lower crooked teeth, a cosmetic dentist will first remove some enamel from select areas of the teeth to be bonded. This creates a rough surface that the bonding material can cling to easily. And once applied to the teeth, the cosmetic dentist can manipulate the resin and cover the crooked teeth, so that they appear straight.
However, composite bonding isn't suitable for you if you grind your teeth at night since the massive pressure of grinding can damage the bonding.
Porcelain veneers do the same thing as composite bonding. But porcelain is a much stronger material than composite bonding. And porcelain is very similar to enamel in appearance and strength, which makes it a longer-lasting and more attractive material.
When you smile, you generally show your upper teeth and very little of your lower teeth. This is why porcelain veneers are more common on the upper teeth. But if your lower teeth are very crooked and you tend to show your lower teeth too when you smile, porcelain veneers can help to cover up your crooked lower teeth.
Recontouring or enameloplasty
Because teeth tend to push toward the front of the mouth as you age, the bottom incisors become crowded over time. This causes them to overlap each other, with some teeth protruding forward out of the mouth and some teeth protruding backward into the mouth.
A cosmetic dentist can use enameloplasty to remove some of the enamel from the edges of your lower teeth. This is useful when teeth are beginning to overlap. Removing some enamel from the edges of the overlapping teeth can reduce the severity of the overlap. But it is usually a good idea to combine enameloplasty with bonding.
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2 March 2021
Toddlers should see a dentist for the first time by the age of twelve months or by the time their first tooth comes in. But if you are a parent with toddlers anything like mine, the prospect of going to the dentist (let alone anywhere!) can be pretty intimidating. My kids were a handful growing up. They had tantrums any time we would have to sit in a waiting room, and they refused to get in the dentist's chair during their first few visits. So, I had to employ a professional to help me make the transition to finally getting them in that dental chair without all the screaming and crying. I know I'm not the only parent in this situation, so I decided to share the information I've learned with others who can use a little help. You can find all my advice right here on these pages! | <urn:uuid:9d924e4b-187d-4424-84a2-49c01feba244> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://loweparker.com/2021/03/02/how-cosmetic-dentistry-can-fix-crooked-lower-incisors/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570793.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808092125-20220808122125-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.948919 | 724 | 2.34375 | 2 |
There’s no arguing that every travel destination in the world had been hit by the current situation, resulting in loss of revenues daily. And Philippines, is no exemption to that. The travel industry is probably the most affected of all, famous travel destinations had to close to prevent any spread of this pandemic or else, suffer.
Philippines is one of the top travel destinations of the world, where tourist from abroad and local are flooding during this time of the year, summer.
The top destinations of the Philippines include El nido (Palawan), Siargao Island (Mindanao), Camiguin Island (Mindanao), Panglao (Bohol), Boracay (Aclan), and more. Image those places without tourist, that looks does weird right!
Of course, as of now, Covid-19 pandemic is still recking havoc in the country, and people had limited mobility. The government had doing all necessary measures to prevent the further spread of the Covid-19 while preventing also the closure of many business, which will have bigger impact to the economy.
Pre Covid-19 Pandemic…
Tourism was one of the sources of income of the country, with millions of foreign visitors had visited the Philippines last year, which translate also into billions of revenues. Prior to pandemic, the country is steadily increasing the number of visitors every year, which means that revenue was also increasing from this industry alone.
|Just arriving in Camiguin Island|
During this time, tourists were already crowding the top destinations of the country, since summer in the Philippines was the best, compare to other tropical countries. And one of the reasons, Filipinos were known for their hospitalities, which by the way, love by foreign tourist.
With the rehabilitation of Boracay was finished last year, there’s no arguing that it will reclaim its place in the top travel destination of the world right now. And Boracay was known destination by many, because of its very fine white sand and a crystal-clear blue water.
Of course, not just Boracay had been booming before the pandemic, other destinations in Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao also. With new places or travel spot was continue to be discovered, means that more places had been visited previously.
The Current Situation…
With many municipalities and cities are already in General Community Quarantine (GCQ), this does not mean that people could freely travel now. Still, people are not encouraged to go outside during this time, because the very threat of Covid-19 is still present.
So, if people are not being allowed to travel now, then the travel industry is still in need of support from the government. If the travel industry of the Philippines is in “critical condition”, then the Philippine Tourism also.
No travel on those places will result in no tourist, means that many businesses related to travel industry or tourism had been forced to temporarily shutdown or lay offs many employees just to keep their business alive.
The government’s plan to aid on those small businesses is a crucial action, that will keep them a float during this time, where all the tourism activities is halt. Continuing in operation during this time, is an important action in part of many businesses to help the economy at least.
As to tourism involved businesses, this time is the most critical one, because they may not survive this pandemic after all. Especially, if their revenue is solely based only on the tourist at all.
Let say, the world now is Covid-19 free, and the Philippine Government declares also, but the damages had already been done. People on this time, will have second thoughts on traveling, especially when visiting such travel destinations. And those measures, might still play during this time, which will have a huge impact to many businesses in tourism or travel industry of the country.
Businesses related to Philippine Tourism will definitely have measures to still implement in order to prevent new pandemic to happen again. The travel industry of the country also will have such measures to implement, which will create an impact both the tourist from abroad and domestic.
As to the saying “the world will be never the same again” but we must just accept it, that our previous travel habit will change for good. We can still travel to our favorites relaxation spots but we must follow what ever rules and guidelines they set.
But the good thing is that, we don’t know what will happen to Philippine tourism after this pandemic, whether it will be booming or result into a doom.
My Final Thoughts…
The Tourism of the Philippines is a vital part of our economy, and allowing it to die is just like allowing some Filipinos to die also. Many business owners have invested a lot of their money and probably their lifetime in building that business.
Many businesses today are affected on this situation, but hope is not all lost, you just need to find a solution or a different angle to make that business at least earn something. We should learn the hard lesson that Covid-19 pandemic had brought to us, whether you’re a business owner, a worker or a simple tourist.
As to the part of tourist, Philippines is still a top travel destination of the world, but there will be some rules or guidelines to implemented after this situation. May be something will be change, but the experience is still there. So, travel after this but be cautious on where to go.
STAY HOME GUYS! And JUST ENJOY YOUR STAY WITH YOUR FAMILY
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“Well, an old stump is good for sitting and resting” – and perhaps also for playing
Orna Ben-Zioni & Beeri Ben-Shalom, BO -Landscape Architects
Pippi’s garden was really lovely. You couldn’t say it was well kept, but there were wonderful grass plots that were never cut, and old rosebushes that were full of white and yellow and pink roses–perhaps not such fine roses, but oh, how sweet they smelled! A good many fruit trees grew there too, and, best of all, several ancient oaks and elms that were excellent for climbing.
The trees in Tommy’s and Annika’s garden were not very good for climbing, and besides, their mother was always so afraid they would fall and get hurt that they had never climbed much. But now Pippi said, “Suppose we climb up in the big oak tree?”
Tommy jumped down from the gate at once, delighted with the suggestion. Annika was a little hesitant, but when she saw that the trunk had nubbly places to climb on, she too thought it would be fun to try.
–Pippi Longstocking, by Astrid Lindgren (1945)
Nowadays, children are hardly ever lucky enough to climb trees.
Today’s parents compete with each other as to who will be the most protective of their children. Over recent years, anxiety has become the most desirable quality for the “good parent.” The message is: the more we prevent our kids from engaging in activities that might injure them, the healthier a generation we are raising, one which is safeguarded, protected and overly supervised.
“At the heart of the obsession with safety,” argues Hannah Rosen in her article “Overprotected Children” (published online in the e-journal Alachson, 2014), “is the basic assumption that children are just too fragile, and lack the knowledge required to assess risks in each situation.” Rosen’s article reviews the development of overprotection of children over the past 30 years. It reached a point of having lawsuits filed by parents, for example, due to their child bumping into a log and stumbling in a grove of trees in a play area. She presents a survey of playgrounds that in the 1990s became sterile and boring – safer, yes, but much less interesting.
Rosen describes research studies showing that challenging play environments force children to do what frightens them, to overcome their fears and make decisions. This is a decisive part of the process of maturing and developing. Children who fail to undergo this process suffer from phobias and do not develop the self-confidence necessary for being independent of their parents.
As landscape architects, much of our work involves designing for children. We have recently been partners in the planning of kindergarten and elementary school grounds. We were surprised to be faced with the full force of the phenomenon. Parents demanded that we remove all of the low logs we planned for the grounds we designed, logs which formed the borders of the garden rows in the small garden plots in the schoolyards we designed. The logs, elements for play and practice in balancing, were the focus of parents’ fears that their children would fall and hurt themselves. Once we received a report from the Ministry of Education stating that the school grounds must be free of any protrusions or elements to climb on or bump into. This forced us to close down the little theatre we had planned for the yard – “The children might fall from a height from the seating walls.”
But the legislation and anxiety do not stop at the school or kindergarten fence; they send their feelers into the open spaces, as well, into the places where children have a bigger degree of freedom, places which facilitate free play, experimentation and discovery.
Our office recently received the commission to design Hashomrim Park in Kiryat Tivon, Israel. This is a long-standing playground in the heart of an oak and pine forest which had been stripped of its play installations after failure to comply with the Standards Institute of Israel’s standards. The design concept was to make maximum use of the frame of old trees in the park and use their broad shade. We would lead people towards the play area with paths between the trees while maintaining all of the required safety margins around the playground installations. This is why we made the pathways twist around between, near, and around the trees, taking utmost care to preserve each and every tree which altogether provided immediate quality of the space and a wide shady area.
To our intense regret, the more agencies came to inspect the park, the more they demanded that we cut down more and more trees. At first, it was a recently planted tree, then it was an old tree whose fate was sealed, followed by the order of execution against the trees that were “too close” to the play area. Finally, an order was issued to cut down the tall tree that was growing “too close” to the seating area. Thus, we had to cut down many mature, old trees. We were upset but nevertheless decided that “an old stump is good for sitting and resting (The Giving Tree, Shel Silverstein (1964)) – and perhaps even for playing. We asked the contractor to slice up the tree trunks that had been cut down, and created a sculptural play environment, which (of course) preserved the trees in their original environment, in a slightly different function…
Needless to say, when the trees were cut down, we lost not only the shade required for a playground but the spirit of the park was damaged as well as the essential feeling around which the park was built – and thus we felt that the branch we were sitting on was cut down under us.
There has always been tension between our children’s safety and their development of sense of danger and exposure to challenges supporting growth and maturation. We must make wise decisions, which may sometimes mean that we must understand that “it’s impossible to create the perfect environment for our children, in the same way, that it’s impossible to create perfect children” as Rosen stated. It is worthwhile taking the risk because avoiding risk also has its price.
Landscape architecture: Landscape Arch. Orna Ben-Zioni and Landscape Arch. Beeri Ben-Shalom are partners/owners of BO- Landscape Architects.
Design associate: Landscape Arch. Idit Israel
Size: 13,000 sq”m
Year of completion: 2014
Client: Kiryat Tivon Local Council, Israel.
Contractor: Sahr Khaldi.
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20th-century Composer Quotes
This fact, the surfacing of structure in an undeliberate action, is too big to take on here, but it was enough to convince me that the structuralists—the advocates of planning music before you hear or care what the plan gives you—were right: do not rely on unplanned music; it comes out as though it were planned, but planned by someone you cross the street to avoid.
Nowadays, all students have access to and indeed most own computers and are comfortable with the software used to compose music. There are probably too many musical options for them now and the trick is to limit the number of musical ideas so as to develop structure and continuity in their work.
Do I have to tell you about the spiritual cannibalism of the culture, our culture, which has been bombarding us with ultrasensory overstimulation aiming to reprocess us into full-time consumption machines, stealing above all from us our time (not an inch of time without an imprint of message), and even our very sense of time (to be measured in lengths of no more than one message unit each) under the guise of entertainment, and even of 'art,' commoditizing the eternal, hyping the primal? Our time is the sine qua non of our identity. We need to take extreme measures to reclaim it for ourselves and each other.
In the future (...) people will become more sensitive and aware than they are now. They will have to, because society will become more complicated, more full of people, with more different things happening. People will have to become much cleverer and much sharper. Then they will like my music.
You read reviews by top reviewers of films that not only had remarkably interesting scores, but films whose effectiveness was absolutely enhanced, and frequently created by the music, yet the reviewers seem unaware that their emotions and their nervous reactions to the films have been affected by the scoring. This is a serious flaw. Any film reviewer owes it to himself, and the public, to take every element of the film into account
The hotel wasn't that empty, however. Soon an old man walked unsteadily out of the nearby lounge and plopped himself into a big easy chair beside the piano. There, he slowly sipped his wine and watched me play. I felt distracted and uneasy, trapped on the bench where at any moment he might request one of his favourite tunes, one I most likely did not know how to play. [...] He said me: Who will play your music if you don't do it yourself?
I hope it is clear... that the ways in which pitches represent pitch classes, and the ways pitch classes abstract pitch, must be examined in order to describe any kind of musical sense or progression, and that if one steps back into abstracted considerations derived without respect to such concerns, an understanding of the qualities of musical uniqueness will continue to be suppressed in favor of generalizations, which at best evoke a vague sense of what a piece may be doing, perhaps in common with some other pieces, but not what one piece is doing, all by itself.
Collaboration is being open to each other's ideas and benefiting from each other's perspectives in an open way. Collaboration is all about rewriting and rewriting and rewriting and helping each other to constantly improve a piece. And, it's also about spurring each other on to doing really great, hard work — it's easier to do it in a collaboration than on your own. | <urn:uuid:3f731b3f-6477-46e0-bd16-196b06444d60> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://libquotes.com/20th-century-composer-quotes | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570793.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808092125-20220808122125-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.977051 | 716 | 1.976563 | 2 |
Raoul Dufy (1877-1953) was a French painter, whose paintings on open-air recreational events, such as boat or horse races, concerts, and parades, stunned art admirers and critics, alike. With ‘Fauvism’ as his signature style, Raoul’s paintings were supreme riots of his experimentation with bold colors, which would transform eventually into majestic and ingenious styles. He would dramatically render his subjects in a background of bold colors, to depict his optimism and enthusiasm that left his critics shocked and mesmerized. In short, Dufy’s paintings exhibited enthusiasm and vibrancy, rather than ‘Realism,’ as evident in his most famous painting “Regatta at Cowes.”
Raoul Dufy’s ‘Decorative Style’ is still famous and is adopted to paint many ceramics, textiles, and public buildings. Among his many masterpieces, is his most famous painting “Regatta at Cowes,” (1934), exceptionally known for its colorful representation of the boat race along the French Riviera. Dufy painted this masterpiece when he stayed at a famous resort on the Isle of Wight. At this time, he witnessed many small yachts gearing up for the race. This spectacle inspired Dufy to use his brilliant brushstrokes and create the masterpiece.
In “Regatta at Cowes,” Raoul Dufy painted the randomly organized yachts, possibly fluttering in the light breeze, in a bold blue backdrop, capturing the energy and the ‘Romanticism’ of the sea environment. For his use of colors here, Dufy is referred as the ‘Painter of Light,’ as his skies and seas are bluer than normal. This immensely colorful painting depicts Dufy’s pursuit of unbridled joy, enthusiasm, and emotional rendition, without making a social statement. This masterpiece truly portrays the artist’s love for depicting everyday scenes as ‘Still Life.’
Paul Dufy’s “Regatta at Cowes” is currently exhibited at the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., USA. After displaying the boat race at Cowes, Dufy went on to explore more riversides, such as Deauville, Trouville, where he portrayed his chic boats with much élan amongst a more ‘Romantic’ backdrop than his earlier works. “Regatta at Cowes” continues to enthrall art lovers for its fervor, luminosity, and enthusiasm. The brilliant manifestation of the boat race at Cowes makes this masterpiece unforgettable and endearing to all its art lovers, while being a timeless and an important milestone for ‘Fauvism.’Immobilienmakler Heidelberg Makler Heidelberg
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I chose to commit my act of informal defiance while I was grocery shopping. I went to a familiar shop I visit often, and where I recognize some of the cashiers. There, I randomly approached other shoppers and attempted to engage in conversation about the items they were looking at. Depending on the shopper, I either suggested other items or asked their opinions on the items they were taking from the shelves.
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This is a deviant act because approaching strangers without a valid reason, such as returning a lost item or asking for directions is considered rude. Most importantly, engaging strangers in conversation is unexpected in the current social order (Heslin 164). Under the strain theory, the reason for this behavior is deviant can be explained by privacy being a goal in North American culture (Heslin 174). Thus, denying people this privacy is a rejection of this goal along with the institutionalized means of reaching it, making it an example of retreatism (Heslin 174). An alternative interpretation is an acceptance of being social as a cultural goal, but rejecting the primary means of achieving this, attending social gatherings, which classes such acts as innovation (Heslin 174). Furthermore, for some people, this behavior can be examined under the control theory. From this perspective, one’s inner and outer controls, such as internalized moral principles and the potential disapproval by others, prevent him or her from deviating (Heslin 167-168). The pushes and pulls in this situation might be the need to socialize, difficulty deciding on a purchase, or desire to help others.
The shoppers’ reactions to being approached were both positive and negative, but not particularly pronounced. Most engaged in conversation, albeit reluctantly, but tried to end it as quickly as possible. However, one older person was amicable and seemed to enjoy the conversation. I started by asking whether she liked the flavor of the thing she was holding. When the person said that she had never tried it before, I said I did, did not like it, and suggested a different one. She thanked me for the advice, smiling and continuing to what can be described as idle conversation. These responses can be seen as a form of positive sanction (Heslin 164). However, this was the only example of a positive response out of the six people I approached.
Another respondent initially assumed I was an employee of the shop or was trying to promote a brand. When I said I was not, his facial expressions and tone changed from neutral to negative. He refused to engage further and suggested I “go prank someone else.” His frown and disapproving shaking of his head were informal negative sanctions (Heslin 164). This can be seen as the most negative response to the experiment.
The other four shoppers reacted similarly to one another; they engaged in the conversation neutrally, answering my questions in short phrases and without going into any detail. Their negative sanctions were similar to the ones described above: frowning and shaking their heads. Notably, I observed no verbal sanctions or attempts at formal sanctions, such as calling the security. Furthermore, once the conversation was over, they resumed their shopping.
Another observation is related to a significant change in the respondents’ attitude during the debriefing process. Once I informed them that I was doing this research for a paper, their attitudes changed once again. The overall shift was positive, with smiles and nods as positive sanctions. Two respondents wished me luck with my paper, and one asked for details about this assignment and expressed interest in my findings so far.
The observations in this experiment suggest interesting findings about deviant behavior. The mild informal sanctions for unsolicited questions and advice show that while this behavior is considered deviant, it is not perceived as serious or uncommon. This may be related to the validity of asking for advice or giving suggestions as a reason to approach strangers. Additionally, the reaction of he person who refused to engage was significant in that it exposed the reasons he perceived as valid for approaching stranger.
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The older person’s reaction is another point of interest, which can be interpreted in two ways. One, considering that social norms change over time, it is possible that people follow them to different extents. This is related to the differential association theory, where different groups can exist in society that affect views on conformity and deviance (Heslin 166). Two, it is possible that engaging in conversation with me was also a deviant act, where the pushes and pulls to deviate outweighed the person’s controls (Heslin 167-168). In either case, there is evidence for reciprocity in deviant behavior.
Finally, people changing their attitudes quickly when the context and perceived reason for the approach change once again point to the low severity of such deviance. Furthermore, this observation exposes the nuance in this social norm as the perceived reason has such a significant effect on the respondents’ reaction and willingness to engage. Thus, the act of engaging strangers in conversation is not necessarily deviant by itself; the context of a specific interaction makes it more or less deviant.
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Researchers in a study on maternal overdose have found that having a child apprehended made a mother 55 per cent more likely to have an unintended non-fatal drug overdose. For Indigenous women, the odds of reporting an unintended overdose are double — when compared to non-Indigenous women who had not lost custody of their children.
“I would say that I was saddened by these findings but not surprised,” says Brittany Bingham, a co-author of the report and member of the shíshálh Nation.
The findings, published this fall in the International Journal of Drug Policy, are the result of two studies conducted between 2010-2018, in which more than 1,000 women from across Canada participated.
Bingham is the Director of Indigenous Research at the Centre for Gender and Sexual Health Equity at the University of British Columbia (UBC) and Vancouver Coastal Health. She says that the impacts of ongoing colonization on Indigenous women mean they experience more barriers to keeping their kids than their non-Indigenous peers.
“We seem to find in this research that unfortunately many of the Indigenous women are facing additional barriers and harder circumstances,” Bingham says.
According to data published by the Ministry of Children and Family Development, 67 per cent of children in government care are Indigenous, even though Indigenous youth under 15 make up just 10 per cent of the province’s total population under 15. It’s been reported that there are more Indigenous children in care today than there were at the height of the residential school system, which operated between the 1830s and 1996.
Meaghan Thumath, first author of the report and assistant professor at the UBC School of Nursing, says the impact of having a child removed can cause women with underlying substance use disorders to relapse. It’s also important for those who create policy for the child welfare system to consider the impact of child apprehension on mothers, she says.
“Child reunification is an essential service,” she said in a press release on Nov. 19. “Denying a mother access to their children can result in profound grief and loss, exacerbating substance use and increasing risk of overdose.”
Thumath was motivated to study the effects of child apprehension after working with pregnant women and new mothers as a street nurse and at the Sheway Pregnancy Outreach Program, in downtown Vancouver, she says.
“Many of the women I worked with would work extremely hard, do everything they could to convince the system that they were ready to parent,” says Thumath.
“We [as support staff] would all think that things were going very well,” she says, and that they would get to keep their kids.
“[But] they would come back empty handed.”
Bingham says that the child welfare system and other colonial institutions have disrupted the matriarchal structure of many Indigenous communities. Child separation, she says, is creating a “huge void” in communities’ knowledge sharing systems, which they are trying to reclaim.
“Indigenous women continue to move through these situations where it’s been one thing after another put in their way from this colonial agenda,” says Bingham.
“Somehow Indigenous women continue to be strong and survive.”
These instances of separation and their resulting health issues create a “ripple effect” in families and communities, says Bingham.
A policy brief from the Centre states that “Indigenous People’s child custody removal is deeply embedded in ongoing racist policies and colonial history of forced family separation and genocide.”
This legacy includes the lasting impacts of residential schools and the 60’s Scoop. Given Canada’s historical record of systematically removing Indigenous children from their families the threat of child apprehension still affects Indigenous mothers to this day.
“The threat of child apprehension is causing Indigenous women to feel a constant sense of surveillance,” says Bingham. “That creates trauma in and of itself.”
The report recommends that social workers and health care staff receive training in overdose prevention, cultural safety and trauma-informed practice to support family reunification.
“Urgent action is needed that decolonizes and overhauls child welfare systems to make space for Indigenous self-determination and community responses,” said Bingham in a press release from UBC.
Thumath says that the research shows two things. The first is that the Canadian child welfare system needs to change dramatically. The second is that Indigenous mothers need to be provided with much more support in the event that their children are taken from them.
“In the short term while we work on transforming the child welfare system, we also have to immediately support women who have had their children removed,” says Thumath. “It should be absolutely a last resort, but if they have to be removed we need to wrap supports around that woman right away.”
The report itself calls for immediate large scale systemic change of the child welfare system. Among the urgent recommendations it makes, it states that “large scale systemic transformation, Indigenous self-determination and decolonizing approaches are essential to support Indigenous women’s rights as mothers.”
It also states that the number one reason for child apprehension in British Columbia is poverty.
Sophie Pierre, one of the co-authors of the report is the former chief of ʔAq̓ am, a member band of the Ktunaxa Nation. She says that in her experience, it isn’t enough to simply shift child welfare jurisdiction to Indigenous communities because the system itself doesn’t change in that process.
“We need to turn our thinking away from funding solutions that have proven to not work,” says Pierre. “We need to invest in families…[ so we] don’t have one generation always creating fodder for the next generation.”
Pierre says that today’s funding models focus on putting “band-aids” over problems rather than investing in supporting families so they can keep their kids. She says that she is both hopeful about the change that is to come, and frustrated with how these issues are being handled.
“You’re talking about lives,” says Pierre. “I don’t want to be talking about programs and formulas when you’re talking about babies and mothers.” | <urn:uuid:382f7c00-96dc-4908-8eef-d85dfe84b29a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2020/12/03/immediate-large-scale-systemic-change-of-the-child-welfare-system-needed-say-researchers.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573744.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819161440-20220819191440-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.96748 | 1,341 | 2.625 | 3 |
(St. Simon [St S] from 1817 time-travels back to 1776 and conveniently sits next to Adam Smith [AS] in a bar)
AS: Hello good sir, I am Adam Smith from Scotland. From where do you hail?
St S: Good day to you, I am called Claude Henri de Rouvroy but most commonly Henri de Saint-Simon of France.
AS: It is nice to meet you. Say, what are your thoughts regarding this glorious rise of industry and capitalism in Europe, particularly in the United Kingdom?
St S: Glorious? It is the foremost poison of our society that exists today. This shortsighted drive for progress and profit will lead to the destruction of the economy itself!
AS: I respectfully disagree. Capitalism will be catalyst to a new era of progress from industrialism! A revolution, if you will.
St S: This revolution of which you speak may seem appealing, but you must consider the long-term results of it.
AS: The long-term results? Of course there will be long-term results! The consequence of this progress is nation-wide wealth and success on a scale only imagined in dreams!
St S: I completely disagree. How do you define this success of nations? Keep in mind the personal consequences of industry in addition to the social consequences to not only the business owners, but of families and the unemployed.
AS: Would you not concur that the success and reputation of a nation is derived from two things: its skill with regard to labour, and of the number of citizens thus employed? Moreover, are not the recent innovations towards the de-specialization of professions the source of great production and new opportunities to work, and consequently wealth for the nation?
St S: The wealth of a particular nation need not be based solely on its productions. This individual egotism, this laissez-faire, laissez-passer mentality in industry leaves out consideration for the workers and those who are run out of business because of competition. One can hardly consider a nation holistically wealthy when the select few benefit from the toils and despairs of many.
AS: I offer a counterpoint that these successful few spur production and opportunities for labour for the good of the nation. Through the division of labour, with one labourer being skilled in a single aspect of production, the production efficiency and quality of goods will increase exponentially. As a result, the quality of life of even the poorest of families will become incomparably better over the majority of families in savage nations that suffer from poverty.
St S: I would hardly consider the cycle of all available workers rushing into the each successive industry with the promise of success efficient. It is a waste of resources; this action leads to deficiencies in the other industries while leaving countless men who have lost their jobs to your so-called innovations in industry with only the promise of future success to satiate their hunger.
AS: Your views are troubling, and they are only detrimental to the marvelous industrial revolution on which we are on the precipice.
St S: It seems we are of opposite beliefs then, and it appears that we will not be able to come a mutual understanding. I bid you farewell, but with a few parting words: remember my words in 30 years, perhaps you will see the errors in your beliefs. | <urn:uuid:30e75261-7df0-47eb-b2d6-4cdab7abe637> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://blogs.dickinson.edu/quallsk/2012/10/04/on-capitalism-smith-vs-st-simon/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570793.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808092125-20220808122125-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.94737 | 690 | 1.820313 | 2 |
Addressing the climate crisis requires bold and rapid collective action
- Egypt's COP27 presidency vision is to move from negotiations and planning to implementation. Now is the time for action on the ground. It is therefore incumbent upon us to move rapidly towards full, timely, inclusive, and at-scale action on the ground.
- We need to harmonize our global efforts. If we are to meet our pledges and commitments words must be turned into action.
- Globally, the increasing frequency and intensity of extreme weather events is impacting the lives and livelihoods of millions of people. Rising global average temperature and rapid global warming are causing alarming consequences on human beings and all other forms of life on earth.
- In fact, the climate crisis will aggravate social, economic and environmental threats. Thus, urgent actions are needed to address the climate crisis and to strengthen the implementation of response with an aim to create a resilient planet.
- Our collective efforts to combat the adverse impacts of climate change are necessary/crucial if we are to secure a sustainable future for all.
Once again, we must implement now. Together we can succeed through just and ambitious collective action which leaves no one behind.
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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) yesterday proposed an amendment to the federal budget bill that would bar the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the nation’s main infrastructure-regulating and building agency, from issuing permits under Section 404 of the Clean Water Act for “the discharge of dredged or fill material resulting from an activity to construct a pipeline for the transportation of oil or gas” – effectively blocking the construction of new energy infrastructure. If passed, the amendment would prevent the Corps from constructing, repairing, or working on roughly 8,000 projects per year. The House Committee on Rules will consider the proposal in a hearing this morning.
Below is a statement that can be attributed to me, Craig Stevens, spokesman for the GAIN Coalition:
“Rep. Ocasio-Cortez’ proposal to block the construction of critical energy infrastructure is deeply troubling. This short-sighted political move jeopardizes both our nation’s energy and national security, and would carry significant economic ramifications that will negatively impact Americans across the country if passed. Traditional energy sources like natural gas and oil continue to play a vital role in fueling the American economy, and modern pipelines like Dakota Access and Keystone XL are key to ensuring safe, reliable, and affordable transport of energy to American consumers across the nation.” | <urn:uuid:b5e9779a-8bec-41b2-a558-4029e52633fe> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://gainnow.org/2020/07/28/gain-opposes-budget-amendment-to-block-pipelines/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570793.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808092125-20220808122125-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.921155 | 276 | 1.90625 | 2 |
The evils of alcohol were delineated all across North America which eventually led to prohibition, or the dark ages for alcohol. Of course many people were addicts of alcohol so they maintained their supply no matter how severe the penalties. This of course led to the repeal of prohibition and to less overt crimes and criminals.
Then came a long period of time which were the normal days of alcohol. This lasted for a good fifty years. But eventually the other extreme began to be reached.
The mystery of the French began to be “solved”. How could a people eat such a high fat diet and not have the resultant shortening of lifespan that was expected from this? Scientists began to focus on red wine and especially resveratrol. The claim began in earnest that red wine in small daily doses was good for life expectancy.
The rest of the alcohol industry saw this and began to get a bit jealous. It started simply. White wine has resveratrol, only in smaller quantities than red wine.
Then more odd studies began to be done and the surprising conclusion was that all alcohol could be good for your health.
This was the golden age of alcohol. The earliest shots across the bow were that binge drinking alcohol is bad. Binge drinking was defined as consuming more than one or two servings in a day. This small amount is not how most North Americans consume alcohol. Most people would rather binge on the weekend and spend the rest of the week alcohol free.
Maybe North Americans could change their habits away from binge drinking and thus live longer lives. With alcohol of course.
But now, some studies have come out documenting the one or two glasses a day thing and are saying that alcohol is bad for you no matter how it is metered out. It looks like we have hit the end of the road for alcohol being good for us.
There are even rumblings that resveratrol is not that good for you. Maybe there’s another reason for the imperviousness of the French to their indulgent diets.
Personally, I wouldn’t be surprised if one or a few of the alcohol giants had bankrolled the earlier studies that showed alcohol was a plus. Indeed their business might have reached a peak after all those pro alcohol studies.
Those of us who were more likely to binge than meter out alcohol can now laugh at the allegedly responsible alcohol metering types. Now we can laugh and say “At least I get a buzz.”
Regardless, I expect the future alcohol studies to say that alcohol, if anything, is a minus to your health. Especially when you drink at alcoholic levels. I think the golden age of alcohol is over. | <urn:uuid:30591b1e-a22b-45fb-8d26-71187666f57a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://larryrusswurm.com/2017/12/09/the-golden-age-of-alcohol/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573744.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819161440-20220819191440-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.981862 | 548 | 2.21875 | 2 |
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Starting a new business is fun & exciting, but it can be full of obstacles & mistakes, if you are not careful. That’s why we put together our top 10 steps you should take when starting your new business.
Step 1: Am I an Entrepreneur? There’s a big difference between wanting to start your own business and being ready to start your own business. The Small Business Association (SBAamerica.com) offers a free 40-point Questionnaire for potential entrepreneurs. In a nutshell, you should know the business you’re looking to enter, be prepared to risk some money and a lot of time, plus have some idea of how to manage your financial resources & basic business challenges. The Questionnaire also asks a few questions about your emotional state, which may be just as important for you to understand before you begin.
What are the Traits of an Entrepreneur? A study conducted at Southern Methodist University’s Business School (Cox.SMU.edu) identified a dozen personal and emotional characteristics associated with successful entrepreneurs. Some are obvious – self confidence, an attraction to challenges, and a need to control & direct. Some traits are less obvious – good health helps, because entrepreneurship can benefit from energy. Also, entrepreneurs often have a low need for status, at least as measured by stuff you own. The challenge matters more than the wealth for many successful entrepreneurs. And, while entrepreneurs can be “work hard-play hard” folks, they tend to be very serious about business with a realistic, disciplined & objective outlook about how their company does and how their people perform.
Buy-in. You probably need to have friends & family on board with your entrepreneurial vision as well. You will be working hard – maybe harder than you’ve ever worked before – and you’re probably going to have to make some personal sacrifices in time & money to be successful. You need to be ready for the reactions of the people close to you.
What’s your Vision? You need to know what you really want out of your business. Some people start their own business to find freedom from corporate life. Some want a chance at taking their idea and making $$ out of it. Some people they have something that will really benefit the world. Whatever your motivation, you need to know why you’re doing this, so you can align your company’s goals with your own.
Step 2: Now let’s start Planning.
The best way to know what you’re facing, is writing a Business Plan. Then you can get your ideas on paper & show it to others. This will help you clarify it. A Business Plan makes you sit down and think deeply about what you’re going to need to do to make your business work. Banks & Investors and even some potential employees will generally want to see one before you can get their attention. Both the SBA.gov & SCORE – a Business Mentoring group of retired executives – have tools & guides to help you write a business plan.
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Angela Rayner, Labour’s deputy leader, got herself widely noticed (as she intended) by calling Boris Johnson and his colleagues “scum” during her party’s annual conference. The incident stirred memories of an earlier Labour insult, which featured in The Daily Telegraph’ s letters page, to which Alistair Lexden contributed on 30 September.
SIR - Richard Lyon (Letters, September 28) recalls how Nye Bevan’s foolish “lower than vermin” speech of 4 July 1948 (inaugurating the NHS) inspired the creation of a Tory Vermin Club, with branches in many constituencies.
An enthusiastic young election candidate, Margaret Roberts, was at the forefront of recruitment. In her memoirs, Lady Thatcher described how “we went around wearing ‘vermin’ badges—a little blue rat. Those who recruited 10 new party members wore badges identifying them as ‘vile vermin’; if you recruited 20 you were ‘very vile vermin’.”
By the 1950 election, the club had brought about 120,000 new members into the Conservative Party. Bevan was soundly rebuked by Herbert Morrison, who said that his comments “did much more to make the Tories work and vote than Conservative Central Office could have done.” How about a Scum Club? | <urn:uuid:92b69a76-120d-4e75-b46c-bbff22e8ca0c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.alistairlexden.org.uk/news/scum-club | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570793.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808092125-20220808122125-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.969071 | 294 | 2.125 | 2 |
Welcome to Bromeliads.info – a blog dedicated to the education of bromeliad enthusiasts around the world.
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Make It a Point to Ask About Points
When inquiring about rates, ask if the interest rate quoted requires the payment of ‘points’. Many loan programs allow you to receive a lower interest rate by paying a fee in points. One point equals 1% of the loan amount, and the more points you can or wish to pay, the more you can lower your interest rate. Paying points is not a requirement; it’s just an option that lenders offer to accommodate the immediate or long-term monthly payment concerns of home loan customers.
The Annual Percentage Rate (APR) Is the Key
When shopping for a home loan, make sure to ask lenders for the annual percentage rate (APR) and the interest rate, so you can compare the cost of the loan accurately to other available home loan rates. The APR adds in the other costs required to make the loan to the interest rate (which determines the amount of your monthly payment). The APR determines your loan’s total finance charge, expressed as a percentage over the scheduled life of the loan. After you apply for your home loan, you will receive a Truth-in-Lending Statement. Homeowners sometime find this document confusing because it states the APR only, and not the interest rate.
The APR reflects the true cost of a mortgage loan over its full scheduled term as a yearly rate because, in addition to the rate of interest charged on the loan, the APR includes certain other prepaid finance charges. These charges may include, origination fees, loan discount points, private mortgage insurance premiums and the estimated interest, prorated from closing date to month end. The Example below (for illustrative purposes only) assumes $1,000 in additional finance costs, and a $300,000 loan. Certain closing costs may also be charged that are not included in this calculation.
Example Interest Rate and APR Comparison:
30-Year Fixed-Rate Mortgage
- Interest Rate: 4.000%
- Total Points: 1
- APR: 4.133%
30-Year Fixed-Rate Mortgage
- Interest Rate: 3.875%
- Total Points: 2
- APR: 4.233%
The APR reflects the true cost of a mortgage loan over its full scheduled term as a yearly rate because, in addition to the rate of interest charged on the loan, it includes certain other prepaid finance charges. These charges may include, but are not limited to, origination fees, loan discount points, private mortgage insurance premiums and the estimated interest, prorated from closing date to month end.
In this example, the loan with lower interest rate would be the more expensive option when the total points are also considered.
Locking or Floating
A lock gives you a specified period of time — typically from 30 to 60 days — of protection from increases in interest rates.
If you choose to float your interest rate, then your rate will fluctuate with the market. The benefit to floating is that you would have the option of locking at a lower level if interest rates decrease. The risk, of course, is that you would face a higher interest rate if interest rates rise before you lock.
Generally, you’ll be able to lock once you have found a property and have an accepted offer. When you lock, make sure the lock period allows enough time for your loan to be processed. If your lock period expires before you’re transaction closes, your interest rate may be adjusted to reflect current market conditions.
Some loan programs allow a one-time float down option that can be used during the rate-lock period. The one-time float down allows you to seek a lower rate should rates drop while your loan is locked, if you qualify.
No one knows if rates will rise or fall, so it’s impossible for a home loan consultant to tell you whether or not you should lock or float your loan. The decision is yours. For more information on home loans ask your Locations agent for the name of a Compass Loan Originator (LO) who will explain all of the terms of the home loan and give you the most current interest rate information. | <urn:uuid:247fe084-aaf7-4912-829a-e363b098d365> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.locationshawaii.com/learn/home-buying/what-to-ask-a-lender/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573744.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819161440-20220819191440-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.94158 | 848 | 1.960938 | 2 |
Whenever you want to share your knowledge and experiences from your research activities, it is important to know what you can share and how you should proceed.
Disclosure of data
Register data that you have used in your research can only be made available to someone else after a formal request to access the data. In the public sector, the rules on publicity and confidentiality necessitate a data-protection assessment, which includes, among other things, that the principal conducts a new risk assessment before the information can be disclosed. The organisation where you performed the research (the research principal) is responsible for the disclosure and for ensuring the risk assessment is carried out. These rules can also be updated for a request to access data that has been used and exists within your own organisation.
Your experiences are valuable
You are also encouraged to share the experiences that you have gained through your research work. For example, valuable experiences can be:
- the software code used
- knowledge of content and coverage of registers
- the meaning of different variables and their usefulness
- lessons learned during the research process. | <urn:uuid:8e40c3c1-f4ab-447c-a10e-86e94df1ac3e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.registerforskning.se/en/guide/share-experinces/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570793.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808092125-20220808122125-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.958812 | 217 | 1.828125 | 2 |
For some comments on the poetry of Aristonoös, including a translation of the hymn to Hestia, see P.LeVen, "The Many-Headed Muse", pp. 294-302 ( Google Books ).
[A] The Delphians have granted to Aristonoös, since he has composed hymns to the gods, both for himself and for his descendants, proxeny, the status of benefactor, priority in access to the oracle, privileged seating at games, priority in receiving justice, inviolability during both war and peacetime, freedom from all taxes and the same rights as enjoyed by the Delphians. When the archon was Damochares, and the members of the council were Antandros, Erasippos and Euarchidas.
[B] Aristonoös of Corinth, the son of Nikosthenes, composed this hymn to Pythian Apollo:
Paian to Apollo
[C] A hymn of Aristonoös to Hestia:
Let us sing holy Hestia, queen of the holy ones, who holds forever sway over Olympos and the omphalos in the recesses of the earth, and the Pythian laurel, you who dance in the the lofty temple of Phoibos, enjoying the oracular voices of tripods, and Apollo's golden seven-stringed phorminx, whenever he plays it to exalt, with you, the feasting gods in his hymns. Hail, daughter of Kronos and Rhea, who alone brings fire to the honoured altars of the immortals; Hestia, give us, in exchange for our prayers, prosperity without impiety and to sing and dance around your bright-throned altar for ever.
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Acoustic methods are routinely used to provide broad scale information on the geographical distribution of benthic marine habitats and sedimentary environments. Although single-frequency multibeam echosounder surveys have dominated seabed characterisation for decades, multifrequency approaches are now gaining favour in order to capture different frequency responses from the same seabed type. The aim of this study is to develop a robust modelling framework for testing the potential application and value of multifrequency (30, 95, and 300 kHz) multibeam backscatter responses to characterize sediments’ grain size in an area with strong geomorphological gradients and benthic ecological variability. We fit a generalized linear model on a multibeam backscatter and its derivatives to examine the explanatory power of single-frequency and multifrequency models with respect to the mean sediment grain size obtained from the grab samples. A strong and statistically significant (p < 0.05) correlation between the mean backscatter and the absolute values of the mean sediment grain size for the data was noted. The root mean squared error (RMSE) values identified the 30 kHz model as the best performing model responsible for explaining the most variation (84.3%) of the mean grain size at a statistically significant output (p < 0.05) with an adjusted r2 = 0.82. Overall, the single low-frequency sources showed a marginal gain on the multifrequency model, with the 30 kHz model driving the significance of this multifrequency model, and the inclusion of the higher frequencies diminished the level of agreement. We recommend further detailed and sufficient ground-truth data to better predict sediment properties and to discriminate benthic habitats to enhance the reliability of multifrequency backscatter data for the monitoring and management of marine protected areas. | <urn:uuid:71dd0588-e487-416b-9b1f-ad915c1a35f8> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.sams.ac.uk/science/research-papers/name-557061-en.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573744.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819161440-20220819191440-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.890646 | 359 | 2.0625 | 2 |
Do you need underlay for carpet on concrete floors?
In general, carpets without underlay have a much shorter lifespan and are more at risk of rapid wear and tear. Underlay is especially important if you’re planning on laying carpet over concrete as it will help make walking across the room much more comfortable.
Do you need underlayment for carpet on concrete?
As concrete is a cold hard surface and a carpet creates a warm layer on top, there is a danger of condensation and damp forming on the underside of the carpet. For the best results, invest in a good-quality synthetic underlay to provide extra cushioning and a barrier between your carpet and the floor.
Can you put carpet on concrete floor?
As a general rule, you can lay carpet over concrete. Concrete provides a stable subfloor for carpet, and carpet can be installed on it using the tried and true method that virtually all carpet installation contractors use. You can also install it yourself, however, you need many specialized tools.
Do I need underlay on concrete floor?
Concrete bases need an underlay with a moisture barrier, a damp proof membrane (DPM) or a separate barrier to protect the floor from damp. If the sub-floor is wooden the choice of underlay will depend on what is being laid on top.
What do you put on concrete under carpet?
So we have a concrete subfloor. And I have concrete tack strip I'm actually using the basic strips that you could get at any of the big box stores.
What type of carpet pad is best for concrete floor?
Frothed foam padding is a good choice to use on concrete floors, because it responds well in heavy-traffic areas. This can be a plus for carpeting a family room or recreation room that has a concrete subfloor. Frothed foam is densely packed and will adhere well to the concrete and the carpet backing.
How do you attach carpet to concrete?
- Place the edge of the carpet against the width or starting wall. …
- Spread a 3-foot wide layer of carpet adhesive all the way across the floor in front of the roll of carpet with a triangular trowel. …
- Roll the carpet slowly onto the adhesive, flattening it with a board to keep it smooth and bubble free.
How do you lay underlay on a concrete floor?
Spray flooring adhesive on the concrete at one end and onto the underlay. Put the underlay down, press down to ensure its stuck well. Then walk down the underlay by shuffling your feet (don’t do it too hard but enough to stretch it slightly). Then repeat of spray both underlay and concrete.
How do you insulate a concrete floor under carpet?
The Ecotech floor foam insulation kit for insulating underneath carpets laminate wood and vinyl floors Ecotec floor foam is designed to reflect radiant.
Do I need a rug pad on concrete?
In order to keep your outdoor living space safe, you’ll need to secure your outdoor rug to the hard surface it lays on. The best, most effective way to do this is with the right carpet pad for concrete floors.
Do I need vapor barrier under carpet in basement?
Even if you have a concrete floor under your carpet, as in the case of a finished basement, you should still install a moisture barrier under the carpet. Liquid spills can do more damage to concrete than you might think, and can even erode concrete or cement board over time.
What do you put under your basement rug?
Most residential carpets are installed over padding. On a cold, hard basement floor, a soft pad is essential for comfort and warmth. Underpad is generally fine to use in a basement, provided it is also synthetic. Opt for a polyurethane foam pad, and stay away from a rubber pad.
How thick should a rug pad be?
¼ -inch thick
A rug pad should be ¼ -inch thick. A thicker rug pad will add too much height which can cause a range of issues. A ¼-inch rug pad will add the right amount of padding and make a thin rug feel a little thicker.
What can you use instead of a rug pad?
What can you use instead of a rug pad? If you’re just looking for non slip grip, a simple fix to a runaway rug is to put a bead of silicone glue, hot glue, or caulking around the underside of the rug.
Are rug pads worth it?
Most people using area rugs on their floors often wonder if rug pads are worth buying. Since rug pads are known to prolong the life of any area rug and prevent damage to any floor, they are most definitely worth buying.
Should rug pad be same size as rug?
The rug pad should be about one inch less than your rug size on all four sides. So if the size of your rug size is 8’x10′, then the rug pad size should be 7’10”x9’10”, a total of two inches less in each dimension, which is the same as one inch less on all four sides.
What do you put under a rug to make it softer?
Add a layer of carpet padding underneath your rug—it’s thicker and cheaper than a typical rug pad. The next time you wash that pile of dishes in the sink, your feet will thank you.
How close to the edge should a rug pad be?
about an inch
Once the pad is properly trimmed, place it where you want the rug to lie on the floor, and position the rolled-up rug on one end, so that the edge of the rug is on the floor about an inch in front of the edge of the pad. Make sure your sides are evenly lined up, so that you have about an inch on each side.
How much do you cut off a rug pad?
How Do I Trim a Rug Pad? Most rug pads can be cut to the correct size, so buy one that’s slightly larger than your rug so you have room to customize it. You always want a rug pad to be completely hidden under your rug and to be roughly one inch less than your rug’s overall size on all four sides, notes Hyman.
What’s the purpose of a rug pad?
Acting as an extended buffer between your rug and the floor, a rug pad prevents the fibers of your rug from being crushed, and prolongs the life of your rug. Rug pads protect your floors.
Can you cut a rug with scissors?
We would recommend a pair of good quality sharp scissors of suitable size, but, if you feel more comfortable with a cutter, go ahead and use that. Once you have found the right way to cut the carpet, also bring a large ruler and a felt-tip marker to mark cutting lines behind the carpet.
Can I use carpet padding under an area rug?
Yes, absolutely. A rug pad provides a protective barrier between your area rug and hardwood floors. Hardwood floors are generally slippery and if your area rug has a rubber backing, your house becomes a slipping hazard.
What’s more important carpet or pad?
Padding has higher R value (which measures a material’s ability to keep heat from passing through it) than carpet which keeps the room warmer. Carpet padding also helps dampen sound. This is especially more important for upstairs rooms, but even in a basement, a pad reduces sound more than just a carpet by itself.
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This morning we are featuring on ControlGlobal.com an article from Red Herring about the potential for hacking on the power grid. The article points out the usual stories about the plants that have been hacked, or had virus trouble, and quotes some people who know what they are talking about, like SecureSystems Insider columnist Dale Peterson from Digital Bond.
Here’s my problem with this.
In the very early 1970s, some of my friends were leftist radicals (junior Weathermen, and so on) and they would always be talking about bringing down the grid to stop the Vietnam War. As we all know, it never went down. Because of my peculiar cast of mind, I decided to see what it would take to do it, since all these “parlor pinks” were satisfied with talking about it. I figured out several ways that a dedicated group of less than 20 terrorists could do it.
Now, I am not the brightest bulb in the box. If I could figure it out, so could my friends in the 70s, or al Qaeda in the 90s or today. Red Herring’s articles note that in Afghanistan, plans to disrupt the grid in the United States were recovered from al Qaeda computers.
So why then hasn’t it been done? There are lots of groups, both here and abroad, with agendas that would lend themselves to that activity.
Maybe the reason is that it isn’t that easy after all.
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Fiscal cliff, or fiscal slope? There are lots of names for the year-end event
Descriptions range from 'austerity crisis' to 'fiscal obstacle course.'
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke is credited with popularizing the term “fiscal cliff” earlier this year to describe the tax hikes and spending cuts the country faces at the start of 2013. Asked during a Wednesday press conference if he still believes "cliff" is an apt characterization, Bernanke said he does. Here’s how other economists, lawmakers, and writers have described the year-end … oh, you know.
- Fiscal cliff. “In terms of the terminology, well, people have different preferences about what they want to call things. I think it’s a sensible term because I think of the fiscal policy providing support to the economy. If fiscal policy was very contractionary, then the economy would, I think, go off a cliff. I think it’s reasonable to be concerned about this. I don’t buy the idea that a short-term descent off the fiscal cliff would be not costly.” (Ben Bernanke, Dec. 12 press conference).
- Austerity crisis. “The tax hikes and automatic spending cuts that would kick in after Dec. 31 would sharply curb our federal deficit through enacting major, sudden austerity measures that would save the U.S. government about $720 billion in 2013 alone…. The reason the fiscal cliff is so scary is that it’s an austerity crisis.” (Suzy Khimm, The Washington Post, Nov. 9)
- Fiscal slope. “The sooner policymakers enact legislation to put the budget on a sustainable long-term path without threatening the vulnerable economic recovery, the better. But, as they prepare for an almost certain postelection 'lame-duck' session of Congress, policymakers should not make budget decisions with long-term consequences based on an erroneous belief: that the economy will immediately plunge into a recession early next year if the tax and spending changes required under current law actually take effect on January 2 because policymakers haven't yet worked out a budget agreement…. In fact, the slope would likely be relatively modest at first (and then much steeper if 2013 unfolds without a fiscal resolution).” (Chad Stone, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, Sept. 24 report).
- Fiscal obstacle course. “For various reasons, 'fiscal cliff' is a poor metaphor, most importantly because there is no single cliff but rather a series of separable tax and spending provisions that can be extended or ended. We thus propose a different metaphor—the fiscal obstacle course—with the obstacles in question standing in the way of rapid economic recovery and lower unemployment.” (Josh Bivens and Andrew Fieldhouse, Economic Policy Institute, Sept. 18 report).
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The Clean Cooking Alliance (CCA), a program of the United Nations Foundation. works with a global network of partners to build an inclusive industry that makes clean cooking accessible to the three billion people who live each day without it. Established in 2010, CCA is driving consumer demand, mobilizing investment to build a pipeline of scalable businesses, and fostering an enabling environment that allows the sector to thrive. Clean cooking transforms lives by improving health, protecting the climate and environment, empowering women, and helping consumers save time and money. In alignment with the Sustainable Development Goals, CCA is working to achieve universal access to clean cooking by 2030.
CCA seeks to make high-impact clean cooking solutions desirable, affordable, and accessible for consumers and viable for businesses to provide sustainably at scale. It supports companies that design, manufacture, distribute, and retail biomass, ethanol, biogas, and LPG-based clean cooking solutions in addition to more efficient wood and charcoal cookstoves. It also supports technology innovation with the aim to commercialize new technologies such as highly energy-efficient electric cookers for off-grid/mini-grid communities.
CCA has been leading a system-wide Strategy development process. Launched in mid-2020 and expected to continue throughout 2021, the Clean Cooking Systems Strategy aims to secure commitment and mobilize collective action toward achieving Sustainable Development Goal 7 - access to affordable, reliable, sustainable, and modern energy for all. The emerging Strategy has been co-created with over one hundred stakeholders from the clean cooking ecosystem and adjacent spaces, including partners from the energy access, electricity, food systems, health, climate, and gender sectors.
The Market Strengthening team’s mission is to foster the development of a pipeline of sustainable, scalable, and investable clean cooking businesses that can attract capital to scale and replicate, accelerating the transition to cleaner cooking technologies that meet consumers’ needs. The three areas of intervention of the Market Strengthening team include the Venture Catalyst, the Market Catalyst, and the Demand Catalyst. The Venture Catalyst focuses on improving the pipeline of investment-ready businesses through business-level interventions; the Market Catalyst focuses on improving the enabling environment that helps such businesses succeed through market-level interventions and the Demand Catalyst focuses on understanding consumers and driving demand through interventions targeted at consumers. Gender is a core and cross-cutting theme of the three Catalysts.
The Director, Public Sector Engagement will join the Market Strengthening team to contribute to the identification, design, and implementations of interventions that seek to improve country-level enabling institutional and policy environments for strong and sustainable clean cooking markets in Sub-Saharan Africa. The Director, Public Sector Engagement will be expected to work heavily through partnerships so as to leverage other institutions and efforts and scale the reach and depth of CCA’s work. Partners might include country-level clean cooking associations, trade, manufacturing, and other industry bodies, civil society organizations, enterprises, advocacy organizations, and international organizations.
The Director, Public Sector Engagement will also work closely with the Strategy and Development team, the Evidence and Impact team as well as with the Chief of Staff and the Global Partnership team on strategic cross-cutting CCA government-related initiatives relevant to the work of the Market Strengthening team, such as the Delivery Units Network and the Evidence to Action Hub.
This position is a remote position based in the U.S. or U.K.
- Country-level interventions
- Assessing gaps and needs for national policy environments that support dynamic clean cooking markets in collaboration with the Evidence and Impact team, in Sub-Saharan Africa
- Designing and implementing CCA’s strategies for awareness-raising, policy reforms, institutional development, governance, and programmatic public interventions around clean cooking market development in specific countries, in collaboration with the Evidence and Impact team, in Sub-Saharan Africa
- Developing partnerships for engaging with national policymakers around clean cooking
- Engaging in partnerships to support the mobilization of civil society and private sector actors and institutions around clean cooking policy issues in collaboration with the Evidence and Impact team, in Sub-Saharan Africa
- Mobilizing partnerships and funding from bilateral and international donors around clean cooking country initiatives in support of the Strategy and Development Team
- Supporting the Haiti Country Director and government engagement team of CCA’s Haiti Cookstoves and Clean Energy Markets project
- Multi-country Sub-Saharan Africa interventions
- Designing and implementing multi-country initiatives
- Identifying, scoping, and designing opportunities for new national policy initiatives for the Market Strengthening team and for cross-cutting CCA areas
- Playing an important role in the development, roll-out, and implementation of a Clean Cooking Delivery Units Network. The locally-run delivery units will coordinate across relevant ministries, organize, and oversee funding, engage industry and private sector, establish policies and regulations related to clean cooking, and represent national interests in global events and dialogue
- Developing public resources for clean cooking market development for policymakers, such as tools, platforms, databases, knowledge briefs, and networks as well as contributing to and acting as the main touchpoint and driver of the Evidence to Action Hub for policymakers in close collaboration with the Evidence and Impact team
- Monitoring national clean cooking policy developments, government action, and market system initiatives and acting as an internal and external go-to point, knowledge disseminator, and thought leader in this area
- Designing and facilitating workshops with key stakeholders for the purpose of multi-stakeholder coordination, multi-stakeholder problem-solving, and co-creation
- Translating evidence into policy insights and recommendations through various means
- Supporting the work of the Clean Cooking Evidence to Action Hub, including by providing insights on policymaker needs
- Helping to shape CCA’s learning agenda around national policies and market system development
- Support the implementation of the Clean Cooking System Strategy in the Market Strengthening Team
- Other duties as assigned
- Graduate degree required
- At least 10 years of related professional experience required
- Practical work experience with market development / industrial development / private sector development and trade policies and programs in Sub-Saharan Africa
- Practical experience with the mechanics of policy transformation processes, including policy prioritization, policy design, and policy implementation
- Practical experience navigating complex policymaking and policy implementation environments in Sub-Saharan Africa
- Experience providing evidence-based policy advice to and interfacing with midd and high-level government officials (e.g., Minster level), particularly in areas of energy, health, and/or industrial development
- Solid foundation in economics and trade
- Track record of designing tools for policymakers
- Experience with the facilitation of multi-stakeholder collaboration and co-creation processes involving government, the private sector, and civil society
- Ability to cultivate effective working relationships with people, internally and externally, from a wide variety of types of organizations, cultural backgrounds, and areas of expertise
- Ability to translate technical reports and academic papers into concise policy implications and guidance
- Demonstrated project management skills, including managing teams and budgets on a tight timeline
- Experience working on market development, public health, policy development, energy access, clean cooking fuels, and cookstoves in low- and middle-income countries preferred
- Demonstrated interest in the social and environmental impact dimensions of the products and business models that CCA supports, and the ability to liaise and collaborate with other colleagues within CCA and those in the sector at large
- Experience using data to drive policy recommendations and action
- Experience with public sector innovation preferred
- Solutions-oriented and able to manage and advance multiple task and responsibilities in a dynamic, fast-paced environment
- Ability to think stragetically
- Attention to detail and strong organizational skills
- Problem-solver with a proactive, no-task-is-too-small nature who takes initiative
- Team-oriented, supportive work style, and able to work independently
- Excellent communicator, able to synthesize and convey complex information clearly in written and oral form, in particular, development of visual assets to present design findings
- Excellent judgment and creative problem-solving skills, including negotiation and conflict resolution skills
- Ability to work under pressure and handle stress
- High ethical standards and ability to maintain confidentiality and discretion with sensitive information
- Proficiency in Office Suite (Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint), with particular emphasis on ability to create compelling and professional PowerPoint materials
- Ability to meet regular attendance/tardiness policy
- Note, a case study assessment is part of the interview process
Benefits & Compensation
For full-time, benefit eligible employees, UNF offers an excellent range of benefits, including:
- a choice between two health plans through UnitedHealthcare (PPO or HDHP with HSA)
- dental insurance
- vision insurance
- flexible spending accounts
- 403b retirement savings plan with a generous matching contribution
- group term and supplemental life insurance
- short-term disability
- long-term disability
- health club discounts
- commuter subsidy
- back-up care
- employee assistance program
Additionally, all benefit eligible employees have 12 paid holidays, 20 vacation days, 10 sick days, 3 personal days, and 8 weeks of family leave care.
The United Nations Foundation is proud to be an equal opportunity and affirmative-action employer. The United Nations Foundation provides equal employment opportunity to all employees and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.
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Fourteen Coeymans-age patch reefs and bioherms have been identified along the Silurian-Devonian outcrop belt in northeastern Pennsylvania, northwestern New Jersey, and central New York. Detailed petrographic analysis of samples from five reefs has led to development of a regional diagenetic model.
Diagenetic fabrics show evidence of near-surface conditions that developed in five successive stages. The reconstruction of the diagenetic history of the reefs is as follows: (1) lithologic development of the reef facies, (2) syndepositional infilling by detrital micrite in pores, fractures, and cavities to form geopetal structures, (3) early subaerial emergence in which minor amounts of calcite cement were precipitated in a freshwater vadose environment, (4) a regional transgression that briefly resubmerged the reefs, followed by subaerial exposure, which led to a mixing of fresh and marine pore waters resulting in localized development of silica cements and dolomite precipitation, and (5) continued subaerial exposure of the reefs where large-scale freshwater phreatic conditions resu ted in total porosity occlusion by stable low-Mg calcite.
Stage 4 shows the most regional variation in fabrics and conditions. An abundance of various forms of silica has been described in the Coeymans reefs of central New York. These varied forms resulted from fluctuations in pH and salinity. Stage 5 is the most pervasive within the reefs studied. Common phreatic fabrics are syntaxial overgrowths on crinoidal grainstones, drusy calcite rims, and neomorphic spar with crystals coarsening and completely filling the central parts of all remaining pores.
The model developed in this study leads us to infer that Coeymans reefs found in the shallow subsurface would not be favorable hydrocarbon reservoirs. The possibility does exist that localized porosity development occurs in untested reefs within the deeper subsurface portions of the basin.
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