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Makrana White Marble- The oldest and the best quality marble in the world.
Makrana is a town in the Nagaur district of Indian state of Rajasthan. Makrana is famous for the white stone as marble mined from the mines around it. It is said that the Taj Mahal was built from Makrana marble. Makrana is a small town, but it has plenty of marble outcrops. Most of the residents in this town work as marble miners.
The town is well linked to railroads and other forms of transportation.
Known for its white marble reserves, Makrana is a small town in Nagaur district, with a deposit of 56 million tonnes and 40,000 laborers working in 400 mines in the several ranges of the Aravallis. Makrana, along with Rajsamand, are the main centers of marble in Rajasthan. Calcite in nature, Makrana Marble is regarded as the oldest in age and finest in quality.
Makrana is source of employment to at least 1 Lac people of about 100 surrounding villages. The famous Victoria Memorial of Kolkata, the world famous Taj Mahal in Agra, Raudat Tahera in Mumbai and Jain Temple of Dilwara in south Rajasthan are built from Makrana Marble.
Makrana has various mining ranges, popularly known as Doongri, devi, Ulodi, Saabwali, Gulabi, Kumari, Neharkhan, Matabhar, Matabhar kumari, Chuck doongri, Chosira etc.
Doongri, devi, Saabwali, Ulodi, Chosira and Neharkhan are famous for white marble, whereas Ulodi is famous for Albeto Marble. These mines produce white-brown belt beautiful marble. Gulabi stands for pink plain and pink Adanga marble whereas almost all mines produce Adanga marbles with brown and grey sheds.
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The purpose of this work is to enhance KinasePhos
The purpose of this work is to enhance KinasePhos, a machine-learning-based kinase-specific phosphorylation site prediction tool. Experimentally verified kinase-specific phosphorylation data were collected from PhosphoSitePlus, UniProt, GPS 5.0, and Phospho.ELM. In total, 41,421 experimentally verified kinase-specific phosphorylation sites were identified.
A total of 1380 unique kinases were identified, including 753 with existing classification information from KinBase and the remaining 627 annotated by building a phylogenetic tree. Based on this kinase classification, a total of 771 predictive models were built at the individual, family, and group levels, using at least 15 experimentally verified substrate sites in positive training datasets. The improved models were observed to be more effective than other prediction tools.
For example, the prediction of sites phosphorylated by the Akt, CKT, and PKA families had accuracies of 94.5%, 92.5%, and 90.0%, respectively. The average prediction accuracy for all 771 models was 87.2%. For enhancing interpretability, the Shapley additive explanations (SHAP) method was employed to assess feature importance. The web interface of KinasePhos 3.0 has been redesigned with the goal of providing comprehensive annotations of kinase-specific phosphorylation sites on multiple proteins.
Protein phosphorylation is an important eukaryotic post-translational modification. It involves the transfer of a phosphate group from ATP to specific amino-acid residues in the substrate. Phosphorylation is catalyzed by a number of protein kinases, which regulate a variety of signaling pathways and biological functions important in DNA repair, transcriptional regulation, apoptosis, immune response, signaling, metabolism, proliferation, and differentiation. Dysregulation of intracellular phosphorylation networks contributes to the occurrence and development of multiple multifactorial diseases, including cancer, cardiovascular disease, obesity, and others.
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Enjoy the Music.com's March 2020 Contest
Win An Audio Note UK IZero Vacuum Tube
For Audio Note UK's Zero range, they decided to design an integrated amplifier rather than a preamplifier / power amplifier combination. The result is the IZero Integrated Amplifier ($2480), and it has exceeded all of this British company's expectations. Offering a level of performance that was previously considered unthinkable for an amplifier of such diminutive size and price, the IZero is something very special. It is said to produce a bold, rich, smooth, and delicate performance, whilst offering a level of fine detail finesse that is quite incredible! Valve compliment consists of four ECL82 triode / pentodes operating in Class A/B. This produces 8 Watts per channel, two channels for stereo, to be the control and power center of any high-fidelity audio system. Internally, it features a level of component quality that is unmatched at this price point; including their own Audio Note UK custom designed and manufactured output transformers.
Audio Note UK's IZero stereo vacuum tube integrated amplifier has been specifically engineered for sonic performance rather than technical specification. It also fulfils all Audio Note UK Level Zero criteria:
1. Valve output stage
2. Class A weighted operation, with switching to Class A/B at high output, and
3. High quality materials and components
It is well known that the accurate reproduction of music, not just sound, requires the purity of the incoming signal to be preserved. It is therefore not difficult to conclude that to achieve this goal and to retain the musicality of the original performance, the complexity of the circuitry itself must be kept to a minimum. Audio Note UK says, "In contrast to the majority of the audio industry, we design our circuits intending to minimize non-harmonic and time-based anomalies, rather than producing vanishingly small harmonic or low intermodulation distortion measurements. These non-harmonic amplitude and time base distortions have a highly perceptible and adverse affect on the signal waveform, and it is far more important to address these factors than participate in the increasingly irrelevant numbers game that chases 'perfect measured response'."
As a result, the I Zero has been designed for maximum linearity and minimum transient distortion. Of course this is within the capabilities of cost-effective and compact design. Audio Note UK chose to use a pair of the now rarely seen triode / pentode ECL82 valves for the output stage in push / pull configuration. This marvelous small envelope design was widely used in radios and early televisions as an output valve, and is run in Class A until 80% of its rated power. After this, when the amplifier is operating at high power / close to its maximum possible output, the I Zero switches to Class A/B to provides low-heat, reliability, and long life.
Audio Note UK copper wiring, high quality film resistors, and metallized Mylar film signal capacitors are used in key areas of the circuit. These, along with in-house designed and manufactured custom Audio Note UK output transformers with copper primaries and secondaries, ensure the parts quality are of a level expected from this highly acclaimed British company. Their own in-house designed high quality connectors, switch gear, volume control, and trimmings are also included.
The winner of Enjoy the Music.com's Audio Note UK IZero vacuum tube integrated amplifier contest gets their choice of either White, Aluminum and Acrylic Black finish.
Want to learn more? Visit their website at www.AudioNote.co.uk
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Low Earth Orbit and Very Low Earth Orbit Satellites (e.g. Starlink)
A constellation of satellites that follow much lower orbits than geostationary or geosynchronous, but must complete an orbit many more times per day to keep from crashing to earth. This enables communication with satellites that are closer and through much less atmosphere. But it also means that the satellite you communicate with comes into view and leaves your dish's view, requiring a hand-off of communication and picking up a new satellite, over and over again. That makes the service dependent on a wide enough view of the sky to pick up a new satellite before losing contact with the current one. How wide that view must be is dependent upon how many satellites are up in which orbits that are visible from your location. Starlink satellites range from roughly 300 km to 500 km altitude, completing an orbit in roughly 90 to 95 minutes. The closeness also means there is far less latency (the time to send a packet to a satellite and for that to come back to earth elsewhere and be connected onto the internet and reach its destination. Up to the satellite and down adds roughly 2 (VLEO) to 6.6 milliseconds (LEO) to the packet latency from its other internet travels. [low latency] Starlink uses multiple radio bands (LEO satellites (500 km elevation) will transmit in the Ku (12- to 18-gigahertz) and Ka (26.5- to 40-GHz) bands, VLEO satellites (300 km elevation), will use frequencies up in the V band, between 40 and 75 GHz), some of which are absorbed by heavy rain or ice, but because of the fairly direct path through less atmosphere, this is much less of a problem than for geostationary satellite communications, however Starlink's statement on the subject includes this: "Heavy rain or wind can also affect your satellite internet connection, potentially leading to slower speeds or a rare outage." See starlink.com/faq for their complete statement and other things you should know as you consider starlink. | <urn:uuid:697588b3-1047-40eb-83fb-27d681c0715d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.somervillemaine.org/broadband/broadband-internet-technologies | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570793.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808092125-20220808122125-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.937943 | 425 | 3.71875 | 4 |
Low-current installations that is low-voltage installations are systems and networks operating with low voltage that are intended to supply electricity, signal states and various communication protocols over distribution networks from the so-called “central units” to terminals. They form the basis for the operation of any kind of access-control systems, alarm systems, monitoring systems, telecommunications, IT, digital television networks, intercoms and fire-protection systems.
Thanks to modern low-current systems not only we can get good night’s sleep, but we can also achieve measurable benefits in terms of reducing the consumption of various major and controlled systems consuming lots of energy (heating, cooling, mechanical ventilation, RES, etc.).
We have more than thirty years of experience in consulting, designing, implementing and servicing complex low current installations.
We deliver copper or optical fibre structured cabling for LAN. We have authorised fitters of such companies as MMC, AT&T, R&M, Cobi Net.
We perform measurements and certification of LAN for R&M.
We install alarm systems (intrusion detection systems) used to protect private and public property.
We install access control systems that enable companies to monitor entries and exits and to grant access to particular locations for authorised persons.
We install video monitoring systems, CCTV that enable monitoring of events in real time with the use of recorders and cameras.
We install intercoms (voice identification of people) and video intercoms (visual identification).
We deploy working time records to enable companies to monitor the attendance.
We implement comprehensive fire protection solutions.
We install fire detection systems (SAP) intended to detect a fire hazard, signal and warn of the threat.
We provide comprehensive solutions in terms of fixed fire-fighting equipment, in particular those intended for data centres (safe extinguishing with gas).
We install monitoring systems and systems for managing technical systems of structures/buildings (SMS/BMS) and DCIM. We provide integration of the aforementioned systems with our round the clock monitoring system at our Customer Service Centre in order to provide our customers with immediate service support 24/7/365.
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National Invasive Species Awareness Week Feb. 28 – Mar. 4 Encourages Action to Combat Harmful, Non-Native Plants and Wildlife
Feb. 28, 2022
Media Contact: TPWD News, Business Hours, 512-389-8030
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AUSTIN – During National Invasive Species Awareness Week (NISAW), Feb. 28 – March 4 this year, the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD) asks Texans to help slow the spread of invasive species affecting our state’s natural resources and economy. The Office of the Governor has recognized NISAW with an official proclamation.
“Each year, a week is dedicated to raising awareness about the dangers of invasive species,” said Governor Greg Abbott. “At this time, I encourage all Texans to learn more about the steps Texas takes to control populations of invasive species and how all Texans can help prevent their spread. By continuing to be wise stewards of our natural resources, we can ensure a better and brighter future as we build the Texas of tomorrow.”
Invasive species are non-native to an ecosystem and can cause environmental or economic harm to human health and quality of life. In addition, invasive species are expensive to prevent and control, and can cause costly damage to crops, fisheries, forests and more, costing approximately $219 billion across the U.S., according to recent estimates. Many invasive species are spread inadvertently or intentionally by humans, who play an important role in preventing their spread.
A variety of plants, animals, insects and even diseases can become invasives when they enter a new environment, growing or reproducing rapidly and potentially outcompeting native species. This allows them to become established and problematic across large areas. They can be introduced by humans in a variety of ways, including intentional introduction through aquarium dumping or bait releases or accidentally as “hitchhikers” carried through recreational activities. These risky activities can include hauling firewood long distances for a campfire or moving a boat from one reservoir to another without properly cleaning, draining, and drying it first. Once introduced, some species can harm native species and ecosystems, impact recreational activities, damage infrastructure and require costly, long-term management in cases where control is possible.
This year for NISAW, TPWD offers five easy actions to help prevent or slow the spread of invasive species in Texas.
Never Dump Your Tank
Don’t dump anything, whether it’s fish, animals or plants, out of an aquarium into any of Texas’ waterbodies. The same is true for flushing them down the toilet. Whether saltwater or freshwater, there’s a good chance your aquarium fish, animals and plants are not native to Texas. If they are dumped into the wild, they can quickly introduce diseases and establish themselves at the expense of native aquatic life, vegetation and reef systems. Learn more on the Texas Invasives website.
Similarly, you should never release any animal that you have purchased as a pet into the wild. Most likely your pet is not native to Texas and could cause serious harm to our native species and ecosystems. Find more resources on the Don’t Let It Loose website.
Only Use Native Gulf Shrimp as Bait
Shrimp is a popular bait choice, but not all shrimp species can be used as bait because some can introduce diseases. While not harmful to humans when eaten, imported shrimp may carry several known viruses or diseases that can spread to native Gulf shrimp species and other shellfish such as crabs and crawfish, causing considerable harm to both saltwater and freshwater environments. Many of these viruses can survive the freezing process and therefore may be present even in imported shrimp sold in the freezer sections of grocery stores.
Never use imported fresh or frozen shrimp in Texas waters. Imported shrimp includes all shrimp species not native to the Gulf of Mexico, including shrimp from other countries like Venezuela or Thailand, or from other non-Gulf states like California. Learn more about bait shrimp on the TPWD Fishing with Bait Shrimp website.
When landscaping near your home or planting a garden, it’s important that you choose plants that are native to your region. Non-native plants can escape cultivation and become invasive and have an impact on water quality, biodiversity, fish and wildlife habitats, and more.
Don’t Carry Hitchhikers
You could be carrying invasive species with you and not even know it. Insects and plants, including plant seeds, can hitch a ride on your clothes, shoes, gear or even your firewood. You can help stop the spread by removing plants, animals, and mud from clothes, boots, gear, pets and vehicles, cleaning your gear before entering and leaving recreation sites, using only local firewood and simply staying on designated roads and trails. Learn more on the Play, Clean, Go website.
Clean, Drain and Dry Your Boat and Gear
Boaters can help keep zebra mussels, giant salvinia and other invasive species from being moved and harming more lakes. We ask all boaters to take a few minutes to properly clean, drain and dry boats and equipment every time they go boating before they leave a lake. Remove plants, mud and debris from the boat and trailer, drain all the water from the boat and gear and then open up compartments once you get home and allow everything to dry completely.
For more information on how to properly clean, drain and dry boats and equipment, visit the TPWD YouTube channel for a short instructional video. If you have stored your boat on the water at a lake with zebra mussels, it may also be infested. Before moving it to another lake, call TPWD at (512) 389-4848 for guidance on decontamination.
Learn more about aquatic invasive species on the Stop Invasives page of the TPWD website.
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The Tahoe Truckee Unified School District’s Career Technical Education and Adult Education programs combine basic life skills learned in the vocational-technical classes of yesterday with real life skills that the students of today will need to thrive in the world of tomorrow.
“We’ve backward-mapped it,” explained Todd Wold, TTUSD’s manager of College and Careers: Career Technical Education and Adult Education. Rather than kids going off to college merely because it’s expected, the goal is to identify each student’s aptitudes and talents, based on their hobbies and interests, to find a complementary career path.
TTUSD offers all of its high schoolers the opportunity to learn real life skills that will further their post-secondary education lives through its Career Technical Education Pathways. There are eight pathways available to students in the district’s three high schools: North Tahoe, Sierra, and Truckee. Although the pathways are open to any grade level, students typically begin exploring them in the 10th grade as a lot of them are a two-year cycle. The district requires completion of one year of a pathway in order to graduate, but that way, students have the option to follow through to the end.
At North Tahoe, students can choose between engineering technology or food services and hospitality, while Sierra High offers emergency response. At Truckee High, engineering technology and food services and hospitality are also available in addition to information technology, product innovation and design, and welding and materials jointing. As an open-enrollment district, students are welcome to commute to a different school to take a pathway that isn’t offered on their own campus.
The overall goal, says Wold, is to ensure that every student in the district graduates ready for college, a career, and life, whether they decide to go directly into work life or on to higher education. Career Technical Education Technician Chelsea Walterscheid sees the pathways as a way for students to explore the pursuit of different careers.
The selection of which pathways to offer is deliberate on the district’s part, Walterscheid said, “filter[ing] into an industry in our area.” She noted that the current pathways fit into careers with some of the area’s largest employers such as the Tahoe Forest Hospital District, local town governments, the hospitality industry, and even TTUSD itself.
Both Wold and Walterscheid have access to data on labor force trends, from throughout the region down to specific zip codes, providing insight into which careers have the most promise for employment — with livable wages, Wold stressed — after graduation, whether that be from secondary or higher education.
“We have 300-plus graduates a year that need to either go to college or go into a career. So, where are those openings?” he said, noting that skills learned in all of the pathways cross many different sectors. For example, math and measurements are equally important in the culinary and engineering classes as they are in Gone Boarding, the product innovation and design pathway at Truckee High in which students design and manufacture their choice of stand-up paddle, surf, skate, snow, or wake boards.
In the culinary arts program, students don’t simply acquire cooking skills. They learn the ins and outs of running a commercial kitchen using state-of-the-art equipment and typically walk away with certificates in areas such as food handling and safety. Kids in the emergency response program can earn up to seven different certifications in areas like CPR and first aid, with the option to pursue further training through Sierra College. At age 18, they’re allowed to obtain an emergency medical technician certification.
“Our community is phenomenal at working with us and partnering with us,” said Wold, noting that the CTE pathways would not be possible without members of the local business community and the community at large, which showed its support through passing several education-related tax measures over the years.
Local business owners, a number of whom sit on the CTE Pathways Advisory Committee, have shown their support as mentors and through job-shadows and internships for students. Tax measures A, AA, E, and U have contributed to facility improvements and supplies needed to run each of the programs. For instance, about half of the recently added west wing of Truckee High School houses the CTE pathways classrooms. At North Tahoe, the culinary arts room is being renovated to resemble a restaurant-like setting.
“We’re very appreciative of the community and their support, and we definitely could not do this without them,” Wold said.
In addition to strong community support, CTE Pathways is fueled by additional grant funding from the state and federal governments, having received well over $6 million in grants to date. Such grants cover everything from supplies specific to each pathway to Walterscheid’s position.
In addition, the current school year marked the first time the district has offered a full elective class in “adulting.” Previously, it had been available as part of a 25-minute student success reading enrichment period.
“Adulting was a class idea students had told me about when I was student teaching in 2017,” explained Truckee High teacher Courtney Delgado. “They wanted a space where they could learn about what it would feel like to be on their own.”
Principal Logan Mallonee liked the idea and permitted Delgado to start teaching during the enrichment period. As interest grew, she supported adulting becoming a full elective for juniors and seniors. Delgado created a curriculum based on input from parents and students.
“I’ve tried to design the course to be applicable for all high schoolers; no matter what their future plans entail. It’s a great way for them to think ahead to their future and make plans in a low-risk situation,” she explained. “Researching first apartments, common pitfalls of living on your own, first jobs, future career paths and how to get there, financial literacy … it’s less scary in the real world if you’ve seen it once before somehow. I’m just trying to provide an overview of being a young adult out on your own so they feel a tiny bit more prepared for the world.”
As student needs change, so will the curriculum. The current course focuses on career paths (how to get to your dream job), budgeting and building savings, credit cards and building credit, buying big ticket items like a car or house, nutrition and cooking for yourself, mental health, emergency preparedness (car accidents, natural disasters where you live, basic first aid), safe travel, and working with others (communication skills).
“At the end of the day, our students are going to leave and have to make decisions on what they’re going to do with their adult lives,” Walterscheid said. “If we can spend the time they have with us exposing them to a variety of career and postsecondary education options, then we have helped prepare them for these big decisions.” | <urn:uuid:6f451a33-33e1-4ceb-954e-fe6bba9ea997> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.moonshineink.com/mountain-life/collegecareer-life/?utm_source=californialocal.com&utm_medium=californialocal&utm_campaign=CaliforniaLocal | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570793.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808092125-20220808122125-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.964356 | 1,492 | 2.609375 | 3 |
The challenge is to operationalise an Open Science rationale for one or more of the societal challenges defined under Horizon 2020. This should be done by a knowledge coalition based on a quadruple helix model of innovation in which civil society organisations, industry, government and academia are committed to work together and share knowledge and data among each other and interested third parties, thus putting Open Science in action in order to produce Responsible Research and Innovation solutions for a particular societal challenge. As citizens and civil society organisations are becoming increasingly involved in research and innovation projects and processes, an input by Citizen Scientists can be considered for the present specific challenge.
Proposals can be inspired (but not exclusively) by previous Mobilisations and Mutual Learning Action Plans (MMLs) funded by the European Commission, in their methods or actual design and outcomes. MMLs bringing together a wide diversity of actors to deliberate and share on matters of science, technology and innovation, they can ensure an evidence-based, both knowledge and value-driven approach in support of EU policies. The proposals should enable trans-disciplinary research and innovation cooperation.
Proposals will focus on one or more of the following challenges, at multiple geographical scales (global to local):
To be of real impact, proposals must ensure research and innovation solutions and their possibility can be increased by public-private partnerships whereby Citizen Science can also involved,
In line with the strategy for EU international cooperation in research and innovation (COM(2012)497), international cooperation is encouraged.
The Commission considers that proposals requesting a contribution from the EU of the order of EUR 3 million would allow this specific challenge to be addressed appropriately. Nonetheless, this does not preclude submission and selection of proposals requesting other amounts.
This action allows for the provision of financial support to third parties in line with the conditions set out in Part K of the General Annexes.
The knowledge coalitions and the adoption of a responsible research and innovation approach will facilitate the uptake of socially acceptable innovative solutions. The topic will provide an Open Science pilot which will become a reference for other scientific endeavours. It will demonstrate how Open Science and RRI can be used to foster effective science-policy-society interfaces to support research and innovation at various geographical levels, in Europe. It will foster socially responsible citizen science approaches embedding the concept of RRI. It will provide EU leadership in this emerging practice of science, within Europe and in a wider global context.. | <urn:uuid:2b3dd63c-fafd-4ae6-a7a3-c42c741c441b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.up2europe.eu/calls/topic-putting-open-science-into-action-swafs-10-2017_224.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570793.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808092125-20220808122125-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.899029 | 507 | 2.1875 | 2 |
Uzbekistan is a large country with many interesting cities and attractions, so we recommend not only to make routes in advance, but also to plan what transport you will be traveling on.
In the article, we will talk about transport infrastructure and about convenient ways to move between cities.
The subway is present only in Tashkent and is considered the first underground transport in all of Central Asia. In total there are 29 stations.
Metro is a great alternative to buses and taxis, especially in the morning and evening, when there are traffic jams in the city. Yes, be prepared that Tashkent pays a lot of attention to safety: metro workers can inspect bags and luggage. The thing is that the subway was and remains a strategically important object of the country.
By the way, the construction of the subway began after the fatal earthquake of 1966, when most of the infrastructure was destroyed. Already in 1977, in honor of the 60th anniversary of the USSR, the first metro line was opened in Tashkent, which connected Chilanzar with the city center. The work did not stop, and already in 1991 the engineers opened the second metro line, and in 2001 the third.
Each Tashkent metro station is a separate attraction. All of them have an unusual architecture: marble and granite finish, columns, bas-reliefs. It is so interesting to study the stations that you can devote it all day, especially when it is hot outside.
If you really like the metro stations – do not hesitate and photograph them as a keepsake. Since 2018, photo and video are allowed.
The railway connection between the cities is good. The length of all roads is 3645 km. The main branch of the railway is the Trans-Caspian, which connects the capital with all the cities on the banks of the Amu Darya River.
Uzbekistan has a railway connection with all the neighboring states: Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, Afghanistan and Kazakhstan.
In 2009-2011, the country received the first high-speed trains. The largest roads of Uzbekistan:
Tashkent-Samarkand (connects four regions: Tashkent, Syrdarya, Jizzakh, and Samarkand. The road is 334 kilometers long);
Samarkand-Bukhara-Karshi (reduces the trip time to the capital to 3 hours).
A train is a safe mode of transport, but if you need to quickly move from one point to another, it is better to rent a car or take a taxi.
The main airport is in the harbor. Islam Karimov, 5 km from the city center. Not only regular, but also charter planes arrive at the airport.
The infrastructure of airports (Tashkent, Bukhara, Navoi, etc.) is developed at an average level: the waiting rooms are small but comfortable. There are shops, cafes, and snack bars at the airport.
Domestic flights are carried out between the largest cities of the country. Flights are operated by Uzbekistan Airways. To use the services of the company, you need to buy a ticket and arrive at check-in 3 hours before departure.
Domestic flights are suitable for those who have little time and want to see several cities in Uzbekistan in one day. For example, you can get from Tashkent to Samarkand in an hour (ticket price $ 11), from Tashkent to Bukhara in 1 hour 40 minutes (price – $ 30), from Tashkent to Nukus – 1 hour 35 minutes (price – $ 60).
Rent a Car
Roads in the country are good, but car rental services are not. As an alternative solution, you can rent a car with the driver.
You can rent scooters and bicycles in Uzbekistan, however, plan your route in advance. The fact is that in the northern region the terrain is not quite suitable for such walks, so it is better not to go here by two-wheeled transport.
Buses, trolleybuses, trams, and taxis
Almost anywhere in Uzbekistan can be reached by minibusses and buses. Flights are made not only by state but also by private companies. In major cities, in addition to buses, trams, and trolleybuses run.
Taxis in Uzbekistan are inexpensive. You need to agree on the fare in advance, otherwise, you will pay more at the end of the trip.
You can travel around Uzbekistan by car, metro, air and water, the main thing is to choose the appropriate transport, which will reduce the time for travel from point A to point B.
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You may have noticed that GTK+ master has a large number of changes in the CSS area. As some like to put it:
Oh NO! they’re breaking themes again!
Which is certainly one way to look at it, but I think it misses the point a little bit – since the effort is actually meant to make life easier for anybody who wants to change the appearance of GTK+ widgets.
What changes are we making ?
As a first step, we are introducing CSS nodes. A CSS node has an element name, a state and it can have style classes. Each widget has one or more CSS nodes, and they are organized in a tree. GTK+’s CSS machinery matches CSS selectors on this CSS node tree, and as a result, each node carries a full set of CSS properties.
The transition to CSS nodes is mostly done in GTK+ 3.19.2.
In a second step, we will integrate CSS nodes into size allocation and rendering. This will bring consistent support for margins, padding and min-width/height for all widgets. This step is currently being prepared on the wip/otte/gadget branch.
None of this is exposed as API yet (with some small exceptions, such as gtk_widget_path_iter_set_object_name ) . It needs more time to prove itself before we are ready to offer this as stable API.
Why are we doing this ?
There are a number of reasons for doing these changes. In no particular order,
- Element names and style classes use by widgets for their CSS nodes (and their tree relationships) are now documented and provide a stable interface for themes and custom CSS.
- Element names provide a level of abstraction over the direct use of type names, and will allow reuse of CSS. You wil be able to add a “check” node to your own widget, whereas you can’t call your own widget GtkCheckButton.
- CSS nodes are permanent. This implies that they can carry state, e.g. for running CSS animations. They can also notify on state changes.
- CSS nodes can explored and manipulated in GtkInspector.
- CSS nodes (in particular, the second phase) force us to clean up all the irregularities of the current widget rendering and move to a much more regular model, where every node draws a background and a frame.
- Positional selectors such as :first-child now work everywhere, including parts of a widget. You can e.g., use :nth-child(even) to style notebook tabs.
What do you have to do ?
If you maintain a theme or custom CSS for an application, update your selectors to use the documented element names and classes. The changes in Adwaita can serve as an example for the kind of changes that are needed.
If you use GTK+’s style machinery to render non-widget content (like mutter does for window decorations), use
gtk_widget_path_iter_set_object_name to make your widget paths look like the widgets they imitate.
If you have code that pokes colors out of GtkStyleContext to do your own rendering, you should really port to use the gtk_render APIs and custom CSS. If you want to keep your existing code working for now, you need to minimally fix gtk_style_context_get_color calls to use the correct state. Ie. go from
gtk_style_context_get_color (context, GTK_STATE_FLAG_SELECTED, &color);
gtk_style_context_save (context); gtk_style_context_set_state (contexts, GTK_STATE_FLAG_SELECTED); gtk_style_context_get_color (context, gtk_style_context_get_state (context), &color); gtk_style_context_restore (context);
What else is new ?
Support for help overlays got merged into GTK+ and is available in 3.19.1. We’ve gotten some feedback from early adopters and added a few more features, so things should be in good shape for wider adoption: please add it to your favorite GTK+ application, and update this page if you do so.
Wayland support is progressing. So far in 3.19, the focus has been on straightening out issues with window and popup sizing and positioning. Many of the remaining gaps will be fixed by integrating the protocols that have been under discussion for a while now: DND actions, tablet support, pointer lock,… Jonas just revamped the Wayland protocol development process, which should lead to faster progress on this front. For more details, see Jonas’ mail. | <urn:uuid:20213bd6-25d5-4477-a17c-dde7af89a44c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://blogs.gnome.org/mclasen/2015/11/20/a-gtk-update/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571056.58/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809155137-20220809185137-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.889498 | 1,005 | 1.734375 | 2 |
The risk of insertional mutagenesis inherent to all integrating exogenous expression cassettes was the impetus for the development of various integration-defective lentiviral vector (IDLV) systems. packaging cell collection by transduction and stable transfection, respectively. High-titer (~107 infectious devices (IU)/ml) cSIN vectors were regularly generated. Furthermore, screening of single-cell clones stably transfected with PPT-deleted vector DNA resulted in the recognition of highly efficient maker cell lines generating IDLV titers higher than 108 IU/mL, which upon concentration improved to 1010 IU/ml. IDLVs generated by stable maker lines efficiently transduce CNS cells of rodents. Overall, the availability of high-titer IDLV lentivirus packaging cell collection explained here will significantly facilitate IDLV-based fundamental technology study, as well as preclinical and buy 58749-23-8 medical applications. Intro The recent successes of integration-competent lentiviral vectors (ICLVs) focusing on individuals hematopoietic come cells (HSC) in altering the pathologic program of fatal genetic diseases possess opened a fresh method in treating incurable diseases.1C4 However, the prospect of broadening the usage of the above therapeutic methodology to include nonfatal diseases is limited by the risk of insertional mutagenesis inherent to all developing vectors. Indeed, data accumulated from numerous preclinical studies possess raised major issues concerning the oncogenic potential of gamma-retroviral and lentiviral vectors.5C10 These issues have materialized in several human being medical tests in which autologous bone marrow transplantation of gamma-retroviral vector-transduced HSC resulted in growth development.11C13 Taking a related therapeutic approach, Cavazzana-Calvo gene in progenitor cells. Biosafety issues concerning ICLV-associated insertional mutagenesis and the desire to control the advantages of lentiviral vectorsincluding low immunogenicity, high capacity, and the ability to transduce nondividing cellswere the inspiration for the development of integration-defective lentiviral vectors (IDLVs). Generally, IDLVs are packaged into vector particles transporting class I integrase mutants in which one amino acid in the DDE conserved catalytic triad (mainly the M64 residue) is definitely mutated.14C21 Several studies possess shown different levels of illegitimate integrase-independent integration (up to one integration event per 200 vector genomes).14,20,22C24 However, the development of the polypurine tract (PPT)-deleted IDLVs by Kantor and HSC applications. Therefore, we wanted to characterize the effectiveness of IDLVs generated Rabbit polyclonal to FARS2 by the above stable vector generating cell lines at transducing rat CNS. To this end, IDLVs generated by cell clones 3-12-136, 3-12-1179-22 and 3-8-1179-1 were concentrated and purified by ultracentrifugation as explained by Kafri striatal transduction by integrating and nonintegrating lentiviral vectors. Five weeks after bilateral 1 l vector infusions, both the nonintegrating (panel a) and the integrating (panel m) lentiviral vectors transduced neurons in the … Conversation First stable IDLV packaging IDLVs present efficient gene delivery of large genetic cargos into dividing and nondividing cells with minimal risk of insertional mutagenesis (inherent in ICLVs). Progressively, study organizations possess been using these vectors as a means to deliver marker genes and restorative genetic cargos to a plethora of cell lines and main cells and to numerous target body organs sites- or PPT- erased vectors24,29 buy 58749-23-8 to packaging cell lines. Stable transfection of vector DNA to packaging cells is definitely the second strategy explained in this study for generating stable IDLV generating cell lines. We used this strategy (which is definitely self-employed of the vectors integration effectiveness) to buy 58749-23-8 incorporate PPT-deleted vectors into packaging cell lines. Transfection of linearized (nonconcatemerized) vector plasmid DNA adopted by Bleocin selection resulted in buy 58749-23-8 the business of two stable heterogeneous vector-producing cell swimming pools. These showed vector titers higher than 107 IU/ml with VCNs of 14 and 59. As expected, 8 out of 30 separated vector generating cell clones exhibited titers 2C10-collapse higher (>108 IU/ml) than the titers generated by the above cell swimming pools. The lack of correlation between p24gag concentration and VCN to vector titers suggests that recognition of highly efficient vector generating cell clones cannot become centered on these two guidelines. The business of the 1st PPT-deleted IDLV maker cell lines enhances the overall biosafety of the IDLV system as it combines the advantage of minimal illegitimate integration conferred by PPT-deleted vectors with the security and effectiveness gained by vector production by stable maker cell lines. Overall, the business of stable PPT-deleted and standard IDLV generating cell lines facilitates the utilization and enhances the security of the IDLV system, making it more appropriate for medical tests. Materials and Methods Plasmids The lentiviral vector pTK136, pTK1179, pTK945, and the packaging cassettes NRF (Int+), pTK939 (Int-) were generated, as explained previously.24,62 The inducible packaging system pTK1574 was derived by cloning a SacII/PvuI fragment containing the tetracycline-regulated element and the human being CMV minimal promoter into related sites in pTK939. The resultant pTK1574 expresses the integrase-deficient (M64E) HIV packaging cassette (eliminating the HIV-1 nef, vif, and vpr genes). | <urn:uuid:5710f456-2680-462e-98c1-31f76d8fca0f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://inno-406.info/the-risk-of-insertional-mutagenesis-inherent-to-all-integrating-exogenous-expression/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570793.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808092125-20220808122125-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.909166 | 1,252 | 2.0625 | 2 |
WinCT-FRD can produce a graph in real-time from the flow rate data transmitted from balances with the Flow Rate Display (FRD) function.
*The FRD function is currently available with GX-A/GF-A Series of multi-functional precision balances.
- The weight and flow rate values transmitted from the balance can be simultaneously displayed on a two axis graph on the monitor.
- You can check changes in weight and flow rate simultaneously in real time.
- The axis scale of a graph automatically changes according to the data. It can be also changed manually.
- The graph can be printed out using a printer or saved as an image file.
- The recorded data can be saved in CSV or TXT format.
- To graph both weight and flow rate, please set the application mode of the balance to Flow Measurement Mode. Refer to the GX-A/GF-A series manual for information on setting up the balance. | <urn:uuid:f25b2dce-ab31-4507-85d8-6f7b54a65b28> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://weighing.andonline.com/support/software-downloads/winct-frd | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572212.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815205848-20220815235848-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.848136 | 210 | 1.53125 | 2 |
Scientists in Dario Alessi’s group at the University of Dundee have discovered a new molecular switch that may be the key to why nerve cells die in Parkinson’s.
Around 5% of people with Parkinson’s inherit genes that directly cause the condition. And this research sheds new light on how genetic mutations in a gene called PINK1 lead to rare early onset forms of Parkinson’s. This could lead to new treatments. You can find more details in the article published in the journal Open Biology. | <urn:uuid:f18d8ee0-9866-4e3a-95bb-21c8fff65b73> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.edinburghparkinsons.org/molecular-on-off-switch/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570793.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808092125-20220808122125-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.910853 | 108 | 2.65625 | 3 |
Getting Your Written Message Across Clearly
In today's information overload world, people don't have time to read book-length emails, and they don't have the patience to scroll through badly constructed blogs for "buried" points. It's vital to communicate clearly, concisely and effectively.
Have you ever faced a situation similar to the following scenario?
A colleague has just sent you an email relating to a meeting you're having in one hour's time. The email is supposed to contain key information that you need to present, as part of the business case for an important project.
But there's a problem: the email is so badly written that you can't find the data you need. There are misspellings and incomplete sentences, and the paragraphs are so long and confusing that it takes you three times longer than it should to find the information you want. As a result, you're under-prepared for the meeting, and it doesn't go as well as you want it to.
Why Are Writing Skills Important?
The better your writing skills are, the better the impression you'll make on the people around you – including your boss, your colleagues, and your clients. You never know how far good writing skills will take you: they help to create a positive personal brand, which opens many new doors.
In this article and video, we'll look at how you can improve your writing skills and avoid common mistakes.
What are writing skills? Click here to view a transcript of this video.
5 Ways to Improve Your Writing Skills
Getting your tone right is just as important as using correct spelling – and there's a lot more to think about too! Work through these five key writing skills to be sure to cover everything.1.
1. Write for Audience and Format
The format, as well as your audience, will define your "writing voice" – that is, how formal or relaxed the tone should be. For instance, if you write an email to a prospective client, should it have the same tone as an email to a friend?
Start by identifying who will read your message. Is it targeted at senior managers, the entire human resources team, or a small group of engineers? With everything you write, your readers, or recipients, should define your tone as well as aspects of the content.
2. Pay Attention to Composition and Style of Writing
Once you know what you're writing, and for whom you're writing, you actually have to start writing.
A blank, white computer screen is often intimidating. And it's easy to get stuck because you don't know how to start. Try these tips for composing and styling your document:
- Start with your audience – Remember, your readers may know nothing about what you're telling them. What do they need to know first?
- Create an outline – This is especially helpful if you're writing a longer document such as a report, presentation, or speech. Outlines help you identify which steps to take in which order, and they help you break the task up into manageable pieces of information.
- Use AIDA – If you're writing something that must inspire action in the reader, follow the Attention-Interest-Desire-Action (AIDA) formula. These four steps can help guide you through the writing process.
- Try some empathy – For instance, if you're writing a sales letter for prospective clients, why should they care about your product or sales pitch? What's the benefit for them? Remember your audience's needs at all times.
- Use the Rhetorical Triangle – If you're trying to persuade someone to do something, make sure that you communicate why people should listen to you, pitch your message in a way that engages your audience, and present information rationally and coherently. Our article on the Rhetorical Triangle can help you make your case in the most effective way.
- Identify your main theme – If you're having trouble defining the main theme of your message, pretend that you have 15 seconds to explain your position. What do you say? This is likely to be your main theme. Our article on Inverted Pyramid Writing explains how to grab your readers' attention and get your message across quickly.
- Use simple language – Unless you're writing a scholarly article, it's usually best to use simple, direct language. Don't use long words just to impress people.
3. Have a Writing Structure in Place
Your document should be as "reader friendly" as possible. Use headings, subheadings, bullet points, and numbering whenever possible to break up the text.
After all, what's easier to read – a page full of long paragraphs, or a page that's broken up into short paragraphs, with section headings and bullet points? A document that's easy to scan will get read more often than a document with long, dense paragraphs of text.
Headers should grab the reader's attention. Using questions is often a good idea, especially in advertising copy or reports, because questions help keep the reader engaged and curious.
In emails and proposals, use short, factual headings and subheadings, like the ones in this article.
Adding graphs and charts is also a smart way to break up your text. These visual aids not only keep the reader's eye engaged, but they can communicate important information much more quickly than text.
4. Avoid Grammatical Errors
You probably don't need us to tell you that errors in your document will make you look unprofessional. It's essential to learn grammar properly, and to avoid common mistakes that your spell checker won't find.
Here are some examples of commonly misused words:
- "Affect" is a verb meaning to influence. (Example: the economic forecast will affect our projected income.)
- "Effect" is a noun meaning the result or outcome. (Example: what is the effect of the proposal?)
- "Then" is typically an adverb indicating a sequence in time. (Example: we went to dinner, then we saw a movie.)
- "Than" is a conjunction used for comparison. (Example: the dinner was more expensive than the movie.)
- "Your" is a possessive. (Example: is that your file?)
- "You're" is a contraction of "you are." (Example: you're the new manager.)
- Note: Also watch out for other common homophones (words that sound alike but have different spellings and meanings) – such as their/they're/there, to/too/two, and so on.
- "Its" is a possessive. (Example: is that its motor?)
- "It's" is a contraction of "It is." (Example: it's often that heavy.) (Yes, it is this way around!)
- Company's/Companies (and Other Possessives Versus Plurals)
- "Company's" indicates possession. (Example: the company's trucks hadn't been maintained properly.)
- "Companies" is plural. (Example: the companies in this industry are suffering.)
To learn more about commonly misused words, misused apostrophes, and other grammatical errors, see our articles, Punctuation Basics – Part 1 and Part 2, or take our Bite-Sized Training session on Written Communication.
Some of your readers won't be perfect at spelling and grammar. They may not notice if you make these errors. But don't use this as an excuse: there will usually be people, senior managers in particular, who will notice!
Because of this, everything you write should be of a quality that every reader will find acceptable. So, be conscientious in your writing.
5. Proofread Your Work
The enemy of good proofreading is speed. Many people rush through their documents, but this is how you miss mistakes. Follow these guidelines to check what you've written:
- Proof your headers and subheaders – People often skip these and focus on the text alone. Just because headers are big and bold doesn't mean they're error-free!
- Read the document out loud – This forces you to go more slowly meaning that you're more likely to catch mistakes.
- Use your finger to follow text as you read – This is another trick that helps you to slow down.
- Start at the end of your document – Proofread one sentence at a time, working your way from the end to the beginning. This helps you focus on errors, not on content.
More than ever, it's important to know how to communicate your point quickly and professionally. Many people spend a lot of time writing and reading, so the better you are at this form of communication, the more successful you're likely to be.
Focus on these five areas to improve your writing:
- Write for your audience and format.
- Pay attention to composition and style of writing.
- Have a writing structure in place.
- Avoid grammatical errors.
- Proofread your work.
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Meal of Messiah is a resource like the Passover Haggadah. On the final day of Passover, which commemorates the crossing of the Red Sea, there is a custom to end the season of redemption with an additional, less formal seder. Called Se'udat Mashiach (Meal of Messiah), this event focuses on the ultimate redemption and the messianic banquet that will take place in the future.
The Torah commands us to sanctify God's Name, but our English versions of the Bible go so far as to conceal his Name. Cut through the condemnation, misinformation, and superstition regarding the Sacred Name. Understand the historical, linguistic, and theological implications of keeping God's Name holy. Hallowed Be Your Name is an insightful and gracious look into one of the most vexing arguments in the Messianic Jewish movement.
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Christian anti-Semitism built the road that led to Auschwitz. In the Holocaust, two thousand years of anti-Jewish replacement theology culminated in genocide. European Christianity sat as if bewitched in the cold darkness of indifference just outside a fiery circle of doom while the ovens roared and the smoke of six million innocent Jewish lives filled the skies over Europe. This book is about remembering what happened in the past, understanding how we contributed to the nightmare, and learning from those mistakes to change the future.
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Who is the most influential person in history?
Leonardo da Vinci. He was one of the most creative inventors of all time;
his inventions are still with us today.
~ Larry Cohen, Beacon (Dad)
President Franklin D. Roosevelt, because he saved the world from being
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Eve, because without her there would have been no da Vinci or Roosevelt.
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Cybersecurity aims to protect the digital data that is available on different online platforms. It consists of diverse techniques, tools, and practices for storing, compiling, and evaluating the data present on information systems. It prepares the system for any attack and keeps on updating regularly as attackers are evolving with inventive ideologies taking over the industry. Every cybersecurity professional needs to define the fundamentals of cybersecurity for developing a robust network to defend their databases. Students passionate about cybersecurity must opt for cybersecurity courses in Singapore or any other part of the world considering their available resources. Here’s something to remember in terms of cybersecurity fundamentals and their importance:
The CIA triad
This forms the fundamental of cybersecurity in every institution as it is designed to guide focus on integrity, confidentiality, and availability. Security policies are constructed to avoid unauthorized activities like deletions, modifications, and accesses. Employers are keen on imparting training sessions to their employees so that they can act as a first mechanism against any cybersecurity threats.
The basic fundamental of cybersecurity is not to disclose the data of their clients or stakeholders to any kind of unauthorized party. The sharing and the dissemination of information are to be carried out through private channels. The confidentiality factor is often compromised by institutions as hackers can crack the poorly encrypted data and end up disclosing sensitive data by MITM attacks. Data encryption, security tokens, biometric verification, two-factor authentication, and many other techniques are incorporated to establish confidentiality in digital information systems.
The concept of integration is developed by focusing on the modification element of digital information. It is the most important part of cybersecurity where organizations focus on developing strategies to protect their data from being modified by unauthorized parties. If there is any kind of malware into your web pages, then it can be used to modify the programs or information endangering the integrity element of confidential data. Organizations incorporate some standard measures like cryptographic checksums, data backup plans, using file permissions, uninterrupted power supply mechanisms, and many other related techniques to guarantee the integrity of their digital data.
The most important aspect of cybersecurity is the safe access of all the stakeholders to their digital data. We can make the best use of data only when it is accessible at the right time to the right people. The organization often comes across hardware failures, DDoS attacks, programming errors, or any other human errors which limit their access to confidential digital data. Implementing firewalls and reducing redundancy can help in securing the data.
Professionals in this domain have to focus on availability, confidentiality, and integrity all at the same time to ensure that the data is secured by all means of cybersecurity fundamentals. They have to understand the principles for crafting a quality security policy. So, if you are aiming for a career in cybersecurity, it’s important to start by developing a deeper understanding of its fundamentals which can be gained by signing up for a cybersecurity course. | <urn:uuid:3bc72fe5-96c8-4673-80c6-efa3309d5ffe> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.newsforpublic.com/cybersecurity-fundaments-importance/?quad_cc | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573193.35/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818094131-20220818124131-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.934609 | 588 | 3.671875 | 4 |
Bangkok, Thailand - Kingdom of
SUPPORTERS OF AUNG SAN SUU KYI MARK 15TH ANNIVERSARY OF UPRISING WITH
DEMONSTRATION IN BANGKOK.
Nearly 30 supporters of Myanmar pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi
hold a peaceful demonstration outside the United Nations building in
Bangkok on August 8, 2003, marking the 15th anniversary of the 1988
student uprising and massacre. A senior Thai general denied a report
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|Title||The power prior: theory and applications.|
|Publication Type||Journal Article|
|Year of Publication||2015|
|Authors||Ibrahim, Joseph G., Ming-Hui Chen, Yeongjin Gwon, and Fang Chen|
|Date Published||2015 Dec 10|
|Keywords||Bayes Theorem, Clinical Trials as Topic, Historically Controlled Study, Linear Models, Models, Statistical, Research Design, Statistics as Topic|
The power prior has been widely used in many applications covering a large number of disciplines. The power prior is intended to be an informative prior constructed from historical data. It has been used in clinical trials, genetics, health care, psychology, environmental health, engineering, economics, and business. It has also been applied for a wide variety of models and settings, both in the experimental design and analysis contexts. In this review article, we give an A-to-Z exposition of the power prior and its applications to date. We review its theoretical properties, variations in its formulation, statistical contexts for which it has been used, applications, and its advantages over other informative priors. We review models for which it has been used, including generalized linear models, survival models, and random effects models. Statistical areas where the power prior has been used include model selection, experimental design, hierarchical modeling, and conjugate priors. Frequentist properties of power priors in posterior inference are established, and a simulation study is conducted to further examine the empirical performance of the posterior estimates with power priors. Real data analyses are given illustrating the power prior as well as the use of the power prior in the Bayesian design of clinical trials.
|Alternate Journal||Stat Med|
|Original Publication||The power prior: Theory and applications.|
|PubMed Central ID||PMC4626399|
|Grant List||P01 CA142538 / CA / NCI NIH HHS / United States |
R01 GM070335 / GM / NIGMS NIH HHS / United States
GM70335 / GM / NIGMS NIH HHS / United States
P01CA142538 / CA / NCI NIH HHS / United States
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Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) seek to understand how very small changes in the human genome can contribute to disease risk. Advances in genomic sequencing and computational technologies have made it possible to include huge numbers of people in these investigations. That effort has revealed many new genetic links to disease, and has taught us more about the biological basis of some disorders. New GWAS studies have aimed to learn more about the genetics and biology of a mysterious disease, schizophrenia; one included data from over 121,000 people from around the world, which was collected by the SCHEMA consortium, and another, data from 320,400 people from the Psychiatric Genomics Consortium (PGC). Scientists have identified novel mutations in many genes that significantly increase the likelihood of a schizophrenia diagnosis.
Reporting in Nature, the two studies have suggested that schizophrenia is a result of a breakdown in synapses, the junctions were neurons meet and send signals to one another. The studies indicated that errors in different genes can ultimately lead to similar dysfunctions that impact the risk of psychiatric and neurodevelopmental disorders.
The researchers noted that there are few effective treatments for psychiatric disorders, and these studies can reveal new drug targets because they show how the disease can arise, and "exactly which genes matter," said a co-corresponding author of the SCHEMA study, Benjamin Neale, the director of genetics at the Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research at the Broad Institute, among other appointments.
"We've tried for years and years to gain this kind of traction on the biology of schizophrenia," said Stanley Center director Steven Hyman. "Realistically, it will take yet more years to translate these results into biomarkers and treatments that will make a difference in the lives of people who are suffering with this devastating illness. But it is highly motivating to have a compelling path forward."
This work has taken decades and the efforts of many people and institutions. The genetic data that was gathered, however, represents African American, Ashkenazi Jewish, East Asian, European, Latinx, and other populations. Scientiists have been improving genetic studies by including people of diverse backgrounds; such studies are more likely to bring us an accurate picture of disease, and greater equity in medicine.
The SCHEMA (SCHizophrenia Exome Meta-Analysis) Consortium was established in 2017, and has looked for schizophrenia-linked genetic variations in the part of the genome that codes for protein, called the exome. The exomes of 24,248 people diagnosed with schizophrenia and 97,322 that had not been were analyzed. The researchers were looking for variations in genes that affected a gene's ability to generate a protein of the correct length, so-called protein truncating variants (PTVs).
"In general, any given person has a roughly one percent chance of developing schizophrenia in their lifetime," said Neale. "But if you have one of these mutations, it becomes a 10, 20, even 50 percent chance."
In the SCHEMA study, ten schizophrenia-associated genes were found along with 22 candidate genes that probably influence schizophrenia risk, but need further confirmation.
Previous work has suggested that schizophrenia risk may increase when synapses are reduced, or pruned, too much. The SCHEMA study seems to confirm that hypothesis, and also revealed other schizophrenia-linked genes including GRIN2A and GRIA3, which encode for parts of the glutamate receptor, found on neurons. Glutamate has previously been implicated in schizophrenia. GRIN2A mutations have been associated with other neurodevelopment disorders as well. PTVs in the genes highlighted by this study were responsible for increasing the risk of schizophrenia by 20 to 52 times.
In the PGC analysis, 287 genetic regions were found to be related to schizophrenia risk, including 120 genes. Several of those genes were also revealed by SCHEMA. In the PGC study, the researchers noted that the regions that were identified were primarily active in neurons in the brain, and are mostly related to neuronal function.
"Our hope was that we would end up with some amount of overlap in the stories that the common and rare variant associations were telling us," said Neale. "And we see overlap pointing to a relationship between synaptic biology and schizophrenia risk."
SCHEMA also determined that PTVs are more likely to lead to schizophrenia, while missense mutations are related to neurodevelopmental conditions.
"In these results, we may be seeing how synaptic abnormalities or losses begin in schizophrenia, giving us openings to diagnosing and treating people much earlier than we can today," said Hyman. | <urn:uuid:84aef79d-7a3d-4a08-a55f-e3e241b36185> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://varnish.labroots.com/trending/genetics-and-genomics/22513/huge-genetic-risk-studies-reveal-schizophrenia-basis | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570793.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808092125-20220808122125-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.973257 | 930 | 3.578125 | 4 |
Joseph Rowntree research: Support, help and dependency in Hebden Bridge
Wednesday, 22 January 2014
The Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF) commissioned this paper as part of its programme on risk, trust and relationships, aiming to build understanding of the little explored territory of risk, trust and relationships in our ageing society. Researchers were Helen Spandler, Meg Allen, Yvonne Prendergast and Lynn Froggett from the University of Central Lancashire.
This report is based on findings from the first phase of a two-year research project in Hebden Bridge. They looked at the "small, everyday acts of kindness that sustain us throughout our lives." They say that this has rarely been a topic for research and it could be argued that the focus on 'official' social care policy has marginalised concerns about care and support in everyday life.
Their aims were to draw out the implicit 'rules' surrounding the giving and receiving of help; to understand the language in which we frame acts of kindness; and to identify the mediating factors which can foster or inhibit mutual aid in communities.
They chose Hebden Bridge not for its 'representativeness' but because in many ways it is atypical. It has a reputation for being a cohesive town with strong support networks based on established community activism as well as traditional extended families. The perception of the town, as a place where mutual aid and community ties are strong, makes it a potentially rich context for the exploration of low intensity support.
They described our town as follows:
"Hebden Bridge ('Hebden') nestles in a steep valley on the Yorkshire side of the Pennine Hills. It grew at the end of the nineteenth century as a thriving mill town, a major producer of woollen goods for urban markets, but its manufacturing status was undermined with the introduction of cheaper imports. By the 1960s, its story echoed that of a hundred other mill towns across the north, a lack of local employment, few facilities and deteriorating housing stock (Spencer, 1999).
"In the 1970s, however, Hebden began to experience a revival with the influx of a new wave of urban dwellers; artists, writers, musicians and 'New Age' activists who were seeking a place to settle, a place to explore their creativity and develop alternative lifestyles. This inward 'hippy' migration continued into the eighties, developing Hebden's reputation as an alternative refuge. People started to see its potential for a more community-based way of life that was felt to be missing in more urban environments (Barker, 2012).This potential also resulted in an inward migration of lesbian, gay and bisexual people who have chosen to live in the town. More recently, a sizeable population of well-educated professionals have chosen Hebden as a place to live and work (it is within easy commuting distance of a number of cities such as Leeds, Manchester and Preston) or to retire.
"There is also a feeling locally that inward migration in the last decade has resulted in an increasing 'gentrification' of Hebden Bridge. The local website 'HebWeb' describes these more recent incomers as 'wealthier yuppie types' and there is a sense that these new arrivals have yet to find a place in a town where hill farmers rub shoulders with crystal healers, lesbians and city commuters."
They spoke to 69 men and 82 women. All participants were white and largely from Hebden Bridge (72%) and the surrounding area. Early findings suggest that positive emotions are important, especially in relation to giving support, and lends some support to research in the 'positive psychology' tradition, which suggests that engaging in helping others boosts positive well-being.
They also identified a need to take more account of the role of social conflict and emotions in the 'decision-making ecology' around informal support relationships.
The next stage of the research begins in autumn 2013 and will focus on things such as how "prevailing discourses of dependency interact with prevailing norms of reciprocity in preventing people asking for help?" And "How do current notions of independence and dependency resonate in people's lives and impact on the giving and receiving of support in everyday life?" | <urn:uuid:0f2d7209-1fcc-4ded-8ab0-5fbfdb05e4b1> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://hebdenbridge.co.uk/news/2014/021.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571056.58/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809155137-20220809185137-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.964452 | 859 | 1.554688 | 2 |
Zoe Harris’s husband, Geoff, had dementia and was unable to communicate his basic needs to caregivers. This had serious consequences at times, as when he spent 72 hours in respite care to give Zoe a rest from taking care of him at their home in Horsham, about 60 kilometres south of London.
“Geoff drank his tea black, but the default in England is milky tea,” Zoe says. “He actually became very seriously dehydrated as a result of spending a weekend in a care home, where they knew nothing about him, and ended up essentially losing the ability to walk because of that dehydration.”
After Geoff started living in a care home full time in 2010, Zoe began sticking Post-it notes on the wall beside his bed to help caregivers know his basic preferences and things he would like to talk about.
“That eventually led to a wall chart that I laminated, so I could update it whenever I wanted, and we used symbols so the staff could find the information quickly and easily,” Zoe says. “And it wasn’t to replace the care plan, but those can often end up being over 100 pages. And the reality is care staff don’t have time to read them.”
These details might seem unimportant, but they contribute to building a strong relationship and creating trust between the patient and caretaker.
“This was just the pertinent facts that they needed to know about him, and to help them develop a relationship with him,” Zoe says. “And when the care manager said, ‘Can I have some of those for other residents?’ I realised that actually this simple tool had the potential to improve the care for thousands of other people who were in the same position as Geoff.”
That’s how Zoe started MyCareMatters (previously Care Charts UK), a social enterprise organisation improving the care of people living with dementia and helping others who cannot communicate for themselves in a care setting. The MyCareMatters Care Chart has been adopted by more than 1,400 care homes in the United Kingdom. | <urn:uuid:c2939864-4fc1-4343-9464-713fe2fcaadd> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.eib.org/en/stories/people-with-dementia | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570793.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808092125-20220808122125-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.981044 | 443 | 1.515625 | 2 |
Doug Dallmann was in his early thirties when he first noticed blood in his stool.
“But, since it only happened occasionally and didn’t cause any pain, I didn’t give it much thought and never brought it up with my doctor,” he wrote in a personal account of his experience.
A few years later, when the bleeding became more frequent and intense, he decided to get it checked out. He was told that the cause was tiny rips in his intestines, which can’t really be treated.
“I just figured it was my lot in life to live with blood in my stool, and returned to ignoring it,” he wrote.
But then he started feeling sharp pains in his pelvis and knew something was seriously wrong. At his annual physical, it didn’t take long for his doctor to find the tumor. At just 40 years old, he was diagnosed with stage 3 rectal cancer.
Unfortunately, Dallmann’s experience reflects a growing trend seen across the country. Since the 1990s, the rate of colorectal cancer (which includes cancers of the colon and rectum) has more than doubled among adults younger than 50. Not only that, but more younger people are dying from the disease.
This rapid increase is especially puzzling because the rate of colorectal cancer has plummeted among older adults—largely due to regular colonoscopies and lower rates of smoking.
“We don’t understand a lot about the causes, the biology, or how to prevent early onset of the disease,” said Phil Daschner, a program director in NCI’s Division of Cancer Biology. “And that’s important to learn more about because it may affect [approaches for] the treatment and survivorship of early-onset colon cancer.”
In September, more than 400 leading scientists from academia, industry, and government, along with patient advocates, gathered online to exchange ideas and information about colorectal cancer in younger adults. The goal of the think tank, organized by NCI and the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), was to identify research priorities that address important questions about the disease.
Although the participants discussed several different aspects of early-onset colorectal cancer—including prevention, treatment, and survivorship—identifying risk factors and causes for colorectal cancer in younger adults emerged as the top priority.
Rising Rates Around the World
Nearly 18,000 people under the age of 50 will be diagnosed with colorectal cancer this year in the United States, said Rebecca Siegel, MPH, of the American Cancer Society. But the disease is still relatively rare, affecting far less than 1% of younger adults.
Some groups have been hit by the rising trend more than others. For instance, although people of all races can develop colorectal cancer at a young age, the spike has mostly been seen among Alaska Natives, American Indians, and Whites.
However, Blacks are still more likely to get colorectal cancer at a young age than Whites, even though the gap is shrinking, said Nathan Ellis, PhD, of the University of Arizona Cancer Center.
The United States isn’t the only country facing the alarming rise in early-onset colorectal cancer, noted Jeffrey K. Lee, MD, of Kaiser Permanente Northern California. Similar trends have also been documented in Canada, New Zealand, Australia, and some parts of Europe and Asia. In most of these places, the number of cases in younger adults started trending upward around 1995.
Causes of Colorectal Cancer in Young Adults
Experts don’t know what’s causing the jump in colorectal cancer among young adults. But they do know some factors that raise the risk of colorectal cancer in older adults, including obesity, physical inactivity, and smoking.
“Some of those [risk factors] have become more common over the last 45 years, along with this rise in early-onset cases,” said Daschner, who helped plan the think tank. So, it’s possible that some of the same factors are responsible for the rise of early-onset disease, he noted.
On the other hand, there may be a set of unique risk factors for colorectal cancer in younger adults that researchers haven’t yet identified, he added.
Although certain genetic conditions—like Lynch syndrome and familial adenomatous polyposis—raise the risk of developing colorectal cancer at a young age, only 10% to 20% of early-onset colorectal cancers are caused by inherited factors, explained Kimmie Ng, MD, of Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.
When the incidence of a disease changes by generation, that suggests the culprit is something in the environment, rather than something biological, Ng added, with many other meeting participants agreeing.
Diet, Gut Bacteria, and Inflammation
Most of the discussions about the possible causes of early-onset disease converged on three interrelated factors: diet, bacteria in the gut, and inflammation.
There’s mounting evidence linking an unhealthy diet—in particular, one high in processed meat and fat, and low in fruits and vegetables—to early-onset colorectal cancer.
Likewise, several studies have found that being overweight or obese may raise someone’s chance of getting early-onset colorectal cancer. Using data from electronic health records, Nathan Berger, M.D., of Case Comprehensive Cancer Center, found that half of younger adults with colorectal cancer were overweight and 17% were obese.
Unhealthy diets have become more common in past decades, the researchers pointed out. And the number of children and adults who are overweight or obese continues to climb.
In addition, Americans are spending more time sitting and less time being active. Studies have found that more TV time is also linked to a higher risk of early-onset colorectal cancer, said Yin Cao, ScD, MPH, of Washington University in St. Louis. But it’s not clear if that’s because being less active can lead to being overweight.
Other scientists have turned their focus to bacteria that live in the gut, also called the gut microbiome. Certain types of bacteria have been pegged as accomplices in the growth and spread of colorectal cancer, and some may affect how well certain cancer treatments work.
In lab studies, toxins from several types of bacteria that are normally found in the human gut caused cancer in the intestines of mice, explained Cynthia Sears, MD, an infectious disease expert from Johns Hopkins University.
Perhaps not surprisingly, gut bacteria are affected by the food and chemicals we eat, drink, and breathe. Studies have shown that diet, obesity, exercise, and some drugs (such as antibiotics) can all change the number and types of bacteria in our guts.
Unhealthy diets and gut bacteria are connected in another way, too. Both can lead to inflammation—the body’s reaction to injury, disease, or irritation. In one study of mice, a high-fat diet triggered gut inflammation and accelerated the growth of tumors in the intestines.
As for gut bacteria, some bacterial toxins intensify inflammation, Sears noted. Studies have also shown that certain gut bacteria can recruit immune cells that help cancer grow, as well as block immune cells that fight cancer. Inflammation can also generate harmful chemicals that can mutate DNA and promote cancer, explained Ng.
In addition, certain chronic diseases, including irritable bowel syndrome, Crohn’s disease, and diabetes, can cause inflammation in the gut. Half of younger adults with colorectal cancer also have a chronic condition that can cause inflammation in the gut.
The effects of these factors could start very early in life—in childhood, infancy, or even in the womb—noted Caitlin Murphy, PhD, MPH, of the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center.
Chemicals in Environment
Scientists are also examining factors in the environment as potential causes of early-onset colorectal cancer. Such factors include things like air and water pollution, chemicals in soil and food, and pesticide use.
The National Toxicology Program, led by NIEHS, has identified 18 chemicals that cause cancer in the intestines of mice or rats, said NIEHS Director Rick Woychik, PhD, who also heads the National Toxicology Program. Some of these chemicals might damage DNA, potentially leading to harmful mutations in cells of the colon and rectum.
Other chemicals may have more indirect effects, pointed out Barbara Cohn, Ph.D., M.P.H. of the Public Health Institute. For example, mixtures of certain environmental chemicals (sometimes called endocrine disrupters and obesogens) can disrupt the body’s metabolism, leading to obesity, she said. Even though some of those chemicals are now banned, their use in earlier decades could have effects later in life for people who were born back then, Cohn explained.
In addition, some environmental chemicals may have harmful effects on the complex assortment of bacteria in the gut, Woychik noted.
People are exposed to many chemicals at the same time, some of which may interact in different ways, he added. So, it’s important to consider all of an individual’s environmental exposures over the course of their life, including exposures in the womb, said Woychik. How those chemicals interact with a person’s genetic and epigenetic characteristics is also important, he added.
Informing Approaches for Prevention and Treatment
Defining the causes and risk factors for early-onset colorectal cancer will likely help inform approaches for prevention, screening, and treatment, Daschner said.
For instance, health care professionals could recommend lifestyle changes or more frequent screening tests to people who, because of their exposures, are at higher risk of developing colorectal cancer at a young age.
A few medical organizations have lowered, or are in the process of lowering, the recommend age to start colorectal cancer screening from 50 to 45. For those younger than 45, tailoring colorectal cancer screening approaches to each person based on their risk factors (called precision screening) may improve the efficiency and cost-effectiveness of screening, said Lee.
Homing in on the causes and risk factors will also help scientists uncover the underlying biology of early-onset colorectal cancer. More specifically, it can help scientists pinpoint specific molecules that drive the growth of colorectal cancer in young people. Which, in turn, could hatch new ideas for colorectal cancer screening and treatment.
For example, some screening tests check for specific molecules made by colorectal cancer or polyps (growths that could turn into cancer). Knowing which molecules are key to the growth of early-onset tumors could help researchers design screening or diagnostic tests that are tailored for younger adults. It could also help them develop treatments that target those key molecules (an approach known as targeted therapy).
First, More Awareness
Although the coronavirus pandemic forced this long-planned think tank to be held online, it still brought together people with expertise in many different areas, Daschner said.
“We hope the meeting will spur research collaborations across these different areas” to make more progress, he added. To continue to promote research in this area, NCI has issued a funding opportunity for research on the causes of early-onset cancers.
But for now, many at the meeting agreed that there’s an even more pressing step: spreading awareness of the early warning signs of colon cancer in younger adults.
Both young people and doctors need to shed the notion that colorectal cancer is an “old person’s disease,” several meeting participants stressed. People should get used to looking at their stool and noticing changes, they noted.
“In retrospect, I wish I had paid more attention to the symptoms,” noted Dallmann, the young man who initially ignored his symptoms and was misdiagnosed for years. That’s why he continues to share his story. It’s inspired several family members and friends to get screened, he said, and a few were found to have polyps.
“It feels like a small repayment for the amazing outpouring of support I received from my friends, co-workers, families, my cancer support group, and those in the online cancer community who I’ll likely never meet,“ he said. ”I hope that I can continue to pay it forward.”
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9 Craziest Foods That Have Ever Been Dyed Green (Slideshow)
March 16, 2017
Yeah, we’re not sure if these foods look so appetizing anymore
9 Craziest Foods That Have Ever Been Dyed Green
People around the United States make everyday dishes green to celebrate Ireland. This last of these results in some pretty bizarre combinations. From cottage cheese to lemons to spaghetti, here are 9 foods that have been dyed green — whether you want them to be that way or not.
This one is particularly gross when you think about it. This cheese curd may taste creamy and mild, but it looks, well, less than appetizing. When you dye it green, it resembles less a breakfast staple than something that might come out of your nose. Looking for a green cottage cheese dish? Try adding in some pesto for a dip that is creamy and fresh but not stomach-churning in appearance.
Dr. Seuss’ unnamed protagonist refused green eggs and ham for a reason — green eggs just look rotten. But deviled eggs are one of the easiest foods to color, so it’s done in households across the U.S. for St. Paddy’s Day. Whether you just dye the yolks or go super-saturated by dyeing the whites too, this breakfast food suddenly turns bizarre.
There are a number of ways to dye your grilled cheese green for St. Patrick’s Day without waiting for your cheese to mold. You can take a cue from the rainbow grilled cheese and flavor a white cheese with basil for a kick of flavor in addition to color. Or, you can simply forgo flavor and just add some green food dye to mozzarella or provolone cheese. If you want to take your love of the Irish to the next level, make your own bread at home and dye it green.
Wait… Aren’t green lemons just limes? No, silly! Because lemons are so lightly colored, you can dye the inside of them really easily. Slice your lemons, place them in green water, and watch them turn color. If you find success with green lemons on St. Patrick’s Day, keep them around for April Fool’s Day. Your friends will think they are squeezing lime juice into their drinks when really it’s lemon. (We never said it was a particularly good prank.)
Macaroni and Cheese
Dyeing mashed potatoes green is really easy since this food is naturally white, but it turns this fluffy, creamy side dish into what essentially looks like slop. If you want a more delicious way to turn this food green, consider adding chopped parsley or chives into the pot before you mash the spuds.
No, we’re not talking about pesto or a spinach noodle — we’re talking about plain ol’ spaghetti. To turn pasta into little green worms, you can either make your own dough by hand, infusing spinach or green food dye during the process, or boil some boxed pasta in green-dyed water. Top it with a green Alfredo sauce for the ultimate “why is this dinner this color?” meal. | <urn:uuid:8045f44c-68fd-4c8a-b97b-43573852247f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.thedailymeal.com/holidays/9-craziest-foods-have-ever-been-dyed-green-slideshow | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570793.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808092125-20220808122125-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.91544 | 716 | 2.03125 | 2 |
With a longitudinal (2020–2021) completion, a set of 300 urine samples of individuals suspected of UTI was characterized based on the biochemical analysis and Kirby Bauer's disc diffusion method. Throughout, a total of 167 samples revealed UTI positivity by obtaining bacterial growth. Reporting that E. coli (69.4 %) was the most dominant when compared with Klebsiella (14.3 %), Proteus (5.9 %), S. aureus (4.7 %), P. aeruginosa (3.5 %), and Enterobacter (1.7 %), respectively. Gender-wise discrimination showed that E. coli was highly distributed among female (50.2 %) patients. A prominent percentage of E. coli (41.9 %) was found in the age group between 21-40 years. Isolates of E. coli represented the highest degree of resistance to Amoxicillin and Ceftriaxone (85.3 %), while highly sensitive to Amikacin, and Tazobactam (94.8 %). S. aureus was found highly resistant to Amoxicillin, Levofloxacin, Sulbactam, and Doxycycline (75 %), while highly sensitive to Meropenem, and Cefotaxime (100 %). Proteus spp. was found highly resistant to Sulbactam, and Cefotaxime (100 %), while highly sensitive to Tazobactam (100 %). Enterobacter was found highly resistant to Gentamicin (100 %), while highly sensitive to Aztreonam (100 %). Klebsiella was found highly resistant to Levofloxacin, and Doxycycline (91.6 %), while highly sensitive to Amikacin, Tazobactam, Gentamicin, and Cefoxitin (75 %). P. aeruginosa was found highly resistant to Nalidixic acid (100 %), while highly sensitive to Meropenem, Ceftriaxone, Gentamicin, and Cefotaxime. In conclusion, the Amikacin and Tazobactam were seen to be effective for empirical therapy of UTI.
Received: Nov 09, 2021; Accepted: Jan 14, 2022; Published: March 24, 2022
Shah, S. H.,
Jan, S. A.,
& Qazi, I.
Current Epidemiological Status and Antibiotic Resistance Profile of Urinary Tract Infection,
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SEC chief Gary. Gensler said that cryptocurrencies that are pegged to the value of traditional financial assets are subject to securities laws. It should be noted that not only stablecoins are considered as securities, but also tokenized shares.
“It doesn’t matter if it’s a stock token, a security-backed stable value token, or any other virtual product that provides access to underlying securities,” said the head of the US Securities and Exchange Commission.
US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen also spoke about the need to quickly create a regulatory framework for stablecoins during a meeting of the presidential working group on financial markets.
The head of the SEC commented that all centralized and decentralized platforms must operate within the framework of securities laws. | <urn:uuid:af9be66f-8d11-4f09-9998-4ee4b8004867> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://babylon.zam.io/market/news/stablecoins-are-subject-to-securities-laws/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571056.58/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809155137-20220809185137-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.946613 | 152 | 1.710938 | 2 |
By William K. Black
February 22, 2017 Bloomington, MN
Kenneth Arrow, one of the giants of economics, has died at the age of 95. He became a Nobel Laureate in 1972. As a young lawyer in 1977, I saw him in action as an expert witness on the subject of risk. The context was setting the rates for shipping oil through the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System (TAPs). Arrow testified about the risks of oil prices falling. The FERC administrative law judge thought such a scenario was ridiculous. Within four years, oil prices fell sharply. Arrow’s experience was a common one for economists dealing with lawyers – the ALJ ignored him.
The New York Times obituary for Arrow is revealing about how the conventional wisdom distorts economic theory in a predictably skewed fashion. It begins by discussing Arrow’s “impossibility theorem,” which states that where there are more than two choices it is impossible to construct perfect majority choice systems. | <urn:uuid:93849aa8-9726-427a-9dbc-161028b2c448> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://neweconomicperspectives.org/2017/02/22 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570793.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808092125-20220808122125-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.97604 | 203 | 2.6875 | 3 |
During a June 29 Houston City Council meeting, an ordinance was passed that allocates roughly $7 million in ARPA funds toward homeless encampment and abatement services for the Houston Solid Waste Management Department.
The ordinance is a three-year contract with a one-year option to renew with the company Whittaker Lane Contracting LLC. Under the contract, which has a maximum amount of roughly $9 million, Whittaker will help the SWMD with encampment cleanups.
The initial $7 million will be used to fund the three-year contract, and the SWMD will return to City Council should more funding be made available, the ordinance said.
The scope of the work includes a series of environmental cleanup services, such as pressure washing, disinfectant services, full sanitization, trash pickup, waste disposal, special biochemical waste and portable cleaning.
District A Council Member Amy Peck, who spoke in support of the ordinance, said she believes the Texas Department of Transportation should aid in the encampment cleanups under the state overpasses since it is responsible for those roadways.
“We’ve seen how successful the cleanups have been, but it definitely is a lot of money,” Peck said. | <urn:uuid:b09ba83f-0945-459f-a91d-e27fdaac3f80> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://communityimpact.com/houston/heights-river-oaks-montrose/government/2022/06/30/houston-oks-7m-in-coronavirus-relief-funds-for-cleanup-of-homeless-encampments/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573744.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819161440-20220819191440-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.955141 | 253 | 1.53125 | 2 |
Benefits Of Walking With Dementia
Throughout our lives, we are told of the many benefits that walking can have on our overall health. From helping to keep excess weight at bay, reducing heart rate, improving the cardiovascular system amongst other benefits.
When living with dementia, the benefits increase once more. So why is it equally as important to get a walk in a couple of times a week, even after a diagnosis?
There are varying stages of dementia, and no two people living with dementia will have the same experiences. Whatever the experiences are, maintaining, or even starting a healthy lifestyle can help to reduce the impact that dementia can home. This includes regular walking.
One of the many benefits includes improving cognitive function. While we are aware that one of the biggest impacts that dementia can have on an individual is cognitive decline, very few are aware that walking can help to combat this.
While there is no sure way of stopping the decline, improving health through walking is likely to slow the decline.
Walking a number of times a week, at the same time and on the same days can help with routine. While the health benefits will also be vital, keeping a routine will again reduce the effects of dementia.
This routine can help the individual create a sense of normality to their week, that they may otherwise lose.
Unfortunately, while not a direct result of dementia, those who are living with dementia will often find that their weight starts to increase too. While walking has great benefits on the cognitive functions that are affected by dementia. It will also greatly improve weight management, particularly when walking becomes a part of the resident’s daily activities.
General Health Benefits Of Walking
Even for those residents who aren’t living with dementia, we greatly encourage those who can get up and do some daily walking. There are a number of health benefits for all who get involved.
- Maintain a healthy weight
- Prevent or manage various conditions, including heart disease, stroke, high blood pressure, cancer and type 2 diabetes
- Improve cardiovascular fitness
- Strengthen your bones and muscles
- Improve muscle endurance
- Increase energy levels
- Improve mood, cognition, memory and sleep
- Improve balance and coordination
- Strengthen immune system
- Reduce stress and tension
If you or your loved ones are living with dementia, and are interested in moving into one of our luxury care homes, such as Twyford House Alsager and Charlotte House Bebbington please get in touch with a member of our team today who will be happy to assist you. | <urn:uuid:8d558ca3-9a61-466c-b691-ffab02c70052> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://lovettcare.co.uk/knowledge-hub/benefits-of-walking-with-dementia-2/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570793.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808092125-20220808122125-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.941446 | 540 | 2.390625 | 2 |
UK energy and climate policy could be more susceptible to industry lobbying and a lack of investor confidence should it leave EU energy market and state aid rules, experts told the EU Energy and Environment sub-committee meeting on the impacts of Brexit on energy and climate policy this week.
Speaking to MPs on Wednesday, Michael Grubb, professor of International Energy and Climate Change at UCL, outlined the consequences of a ‘full Brexit’, including leaving EU State aid rules. These rules generally prohibit any form of support by a government that might allow a company to gain an advantage on a competitor.
If the UK is no longer subject to the EU’s state aid rules then this could present new opportunities for lobbyists, Grubb explained.
He said: “it increases one’s freedom of manoeuvre, to support certain kinds of industries looking for particular State support”.
Grubb continued, stating that “one then has a little less confidence as to what the UK is going for” which would have impacts on investor confidence, for example, “and may be more subject to lobbying pressures for State hand-outs.”
Dropping State aid rules could even allow lobbying for government hand-outs on projects like Hinkley Point C. The UK government previously had to significantly modify the terms of the project due to the EU rules.
And there are already many examples of the close relationship between the oil and gas industry and government, as seen for example, with its long-held relationship with BP. So, it’s likely this may increase once we’re out of the EU.
State aid rules had previously been criticised during the Brexit campaign by Energy Minister Andrea Leadsom.
“There is an area of energy policy where leaving could really help the UK bill payer,” she said. “And that is in getting away from the huge restrictions of EU State Aid rules.”
She continued: “We’ve seen only recently how help for our steel sector is subject to EU State Aid, making it not only difficult, but also painfully slow to save our steel!”
Post Brexit Energy Options
Grubb, along with Anthony Froggatt, senior research fellow at Chatham House, also gave examples of how other non EU European countries interact with Europe on energy.
Froggatt gave the example of Switzerland’s relationship with the EU and how it has spent a number of years unsuccessfully negotiating a bi-lateral energy deal with the EU.
He said that being totally out of the EU Energy Market may allow the UK to financially support projects like Hinkley Point C, but may leave it less able to exchange electricity with European neighbours.
Grubb envisaged a more Norwegian style arrangement with the UK remaining a part of the EU energy market – a body set up to ensure secure energy supply by fully integrating national energy markets and allowing the free-flow of energy between countries.
He said it “would have economic benefits, and political dis-benefits, with the UK subject to laws but no longer at the law-making table”.
Both experts suggested it was best for the UK to remain if possible, in the internal energy market post-Brexit.
The Need For Investor Certainty
Froggatt made clear the importance of reassuring investors in UK energy infrastructure, in low carbon development, and ensuring a smooth transition for carbon markets.
One example came after the Brexit vote, when Siemens froze new wind power investment until the outcome of referendum became clearer.
Another example given by Grubb was how referendum negotiations might cause a pause in the rollout of interconnectors – undersea cables which share electricity between Ireland, the UK and Europe that are the “amongst most reliable sources of electricity supply.”
The pair also expressed uncertainty over whether the European Investment Bank, currently a major investor in UK energy, would continue to invest in projects in a country that had left the European Energy Market, and which no longer sat on its board.
Indeed in a Parliamentary debate on Brexit, Energy and Climate Change on Tuesday, the now former Energy Secretary Amber Rudd said she was unable to confirm whether the UK would still be able to access loans from the bank. | <urn:uuid:c0a87e42-dd62-45a2-937b-8f1a50ab523d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.desmog.com/2016/07/14/leaving-eu-state-aid-rules-could-increase-lobbying-government-hand-outs-energy-and-climate-policy-professor-warns-mps/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570793.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808092125-20220808122125-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.957062 | 872 | 1.828125 | 2 |
Photo by Jarrett Wrisley
I still remember the first time I ate something painfully spicy.
I was eight years old, and it was my birthday. My family and I were on vacation in South Carolina. Because it was my birthday, I got to choose where we would eat dinner that night, and I picked Thai.
So there we sat at some mall-bound, Myrtle Beach Thai restaurant as I proudly ordered the meal, including one fish dish that was written on a paper takeout menu in menacing red script. The waiter giggled as I ordered it, and asked me if I was sure that I wanted it, which is probably the most insulting question a person can ask an eight-year-old boy.
The birthday boy spent the rest of the meal blowing bubbles in a glass of ice water. Everyone, staff included, sat there and laughed."
When the dish arrived, it looked benign--a bowl of yellowish, watery soup. In my young, American life, tastes were like traffic lights--only red meant danger--and so I was unmoved. I took one bite, and my eyes started to water. I took another, held back tears, and surrendered. The birthday boy spent the rest of the meal blowing bubbles in a glass of ice water. Everyone, staff included, sat there and laughed.
Today, twenty-odd years later, I was reminded of this. I was researching a story in Bangkok, and found myself on the less-traveled side of the Chao Pharya River, in Thonburi. In this prosaic part of the city, full of tattered used clothes markets and grungy car garages, there are a handful of Southern Thai restaurants (which aren't all that common here). I ate at the busiest one, called Ruen Thai. And unlikely as it may sound, that childhood episode came rushing back in a spoonful of gaeng som.
Photo by Jarrett Wrisely
Geang som is a thin, sour fish curry eaten in the south. Authentic versions of this dish are especially hot and sour, lacking the cooling qualities of coconut milk found in the rich curries of Thailand's Central Plains (and the kind of curries one usually finds in Thai restaurants overseas).
Unlike Central Plains curries, gaeng som is very simple to make. It's usually flavored with tamarind, chilies, galangal, gapi (fermented shrimp paste), shallots, tumeric, lime juice, and sometimes black pepper. Fish and potatoes, pineapple or bamboo is added to the soup. I've eaten gaeng som dozens of times in the south, but something about this particular dish--perhaps it was the color, or the unforgiving intensity of its sharp, sour heat--sent me straight back to childhood shame. I'm pretty sure I ordered gaeng som so many years ago.
I sat with the kind owner of the restaurant, Khun Achara, who has been cooking Southern-style Thai curries in her humble location for 29 years. And she was delighted to feed me. That day, her staff had prepared about 15 curries, a half-dozen dips, and a few soups that sat behind the counter. At Ruen Tai you just point, shoot, and sweat.
The best thing I ate was pad phet sathor, which was a spicy wet curry of pork, chilies, shrimp paste and a stinky bean called sathor (those green pods you see hanging in the front of her shop--that's them). Sathor is a fixture of Southern Thai cuisine, and when eaten raw has a caustic bite that probably screamed "Watch out!" to the first brave souls that ate it. Cooking tempers this effect, but the beans are still bitter and sulfuric--like a mouthful of Brussels sprouts and bottle rockets.
But when combined with other ingredients--fragrant shrimp paste, perfumed lime leaves, lemongrass, chilies, coconut milk and pork--the end result is strangely delicious.
As I chatted with Achara, I slurped careful spoonfuls of the gaeng som, which was cooked with fluffy chunks of fresh mackerel and crisp slices of pickled bamboo. My eyes started to bulge, and my forehead beaded with sweat. She refilled my plate of herbs and crisp cucumbers--cooling companions to what is regarded as Thailand's spiciest school of cookery.
Ruen Thai is located at 375/4 Thanon Phran Nok, Thonburi,+66-2-411-0842.
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In order to comply with the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), employees who work an extra hour on the day when daylight savings time ends each fall must be compensated for that extra hour. For most full-time employees, this extra hour will be paid at the overtime rate (time and one-half). Conversely, those employees who work one less hour when daylight savings time goes into effect each spring are only eligible to be paid for the actual hours worked. To implement this requirement, Payroll/Personnel Specialists with 24-hour facilities need to take the following actions:
Start of Daylight Savings
- Identify those
employees who worked the graveyard shift beginning on Saturday, March 9 and
ending on Sunday, March 10, 2019 who reported an extra hour on their timecards.
- Example: A shift from Saturday 11 pm to Sunday 7 am will actually be scheduled for a 7 hour shift, and will lose 1 hour.
- Input Pay Adjustments
to pay those identified employees for one less hour. Employees will need
to code 1 hour of vacation for the missing hour.
- To get that 8th hour it will need to be manually added by entering 1 hour vacation time. The system will NOT automatically top-up an extra hour of vacation.
Please Note: With Supervisor/Manager approval employees could alter their shift to start an hour early or end an hour late to make up for the daylight savings hour.
End of Daylight Savings
- Identify those
employees who worked the graveyard shift beginning on Saturday, November 2 and
ending on Sunday, November 3, 2019 who did not report the extra hour on
- Example: A shift from Saturday 11 pm to Sunday 7 am. will actually be scheduled for a 9 hour shift, and will work one additional hour.
- Input Pay Adjustments to pay those identified employees for one extra hour at the rate of time and one-half. Part-time employees should be paid 1 hour of straight time if their weekly total hours worked is equal to or less than 40 hours including the extra hour.
Provide this memo to all staff in 24-hour facilities to make them aware of this and to provide guidance on how to code their timecards on the days of daylight savings time.
Departments/Divisions impacted by this change include:
|Coroner’s Office||Probation||Public Safety Communications|
|Health System||Human Services||Sheriff’s Office|
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Dementia is the progressive deterioration of cognitive function and behavioral abilities due to neuronal cell death. Individuals with dementia often lose their memory, language skills, the ability to focus, visual perception, reasoning, and problem solving. Although dementia is more commonly diagnosed, with nearly 10 million new cases of dementia worldwide each year, it is not a normal part of aging. Research has shown that there may be various potential causes of dementia, including insulin resistance, diabetes, and hypertension. More recently, studies show that changes in sleep patterns and dysregulation of the sleep–wake cycle due to pathophysiological processes affecting the hypothalamus and brainstem are common in patients who have Alzheimer’s disease, but it remains unclear whether sleep duration prior to old age is correlated with an increased risk of cognitive decline and dementia.
According to a new longitudinal study published on April 20, 2021 in the journal of Nature Communications, sleeping 6 hours or less per night at 50 and 60 years of age was associated with a higher risk of late-onset dementia compared with those who sleep at least 7 hours per night. Researchers analyzed data from 7,959 individuals who participated in the Whitehall II study starting in 1985 and followed their health for 25 years extracting data on their sleep duration at ages 50, 60, and 70 years. Sleep duration was self-reported among the participants; however, 3,900 study participants also wore a watch device overnight. Persistent short sleep duration was associated with a 30% increased dementia risk among all age groups; however, after adjusting for cardiometabolic or mental health issues, which are known risk factors of dementia, sleep duration at age 70 was not associated with dementia. The lowest dementia incidence was observed among participants who slept at least 7 hours per night, regardless of their age when the sleep duration was measured. This study showed no correlation between long sleep duration and dementia incidence.
Aside from recommending middle-aged individuals (approximate age range, 45 to 65 years) to adopt an anti-inflammatory, whole food diet that is low in refined carbohydrates with minimal added sugars, along with a moderate intensity exercise regimen, patients may find taking sleep-supportive nutrients and botanicals with relaxing properties to be helpful for improving overall sleep duration. Melatonin, inositol, L-theanine, 5-hydroxytryptophan (5-HTP), gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA), Montmorency tart cherry powder, and other calming herbs, such as lavender, California poppy, chamomile, passion flower, and valerian root. Magnesium supplementation has been shown to support overall relaxation, sleep time, and sleep efficiency, whereas magnesium deficiency has been shown to negatively affect sleep quality.
Encourage patients to avoid excessive alcohol or caffeine intake and to avoid eating too close to bedtime to help reduce sleep latency. Excessive stress and insufficient daytime exposure to natural sunlight can also reduce the body’s natural production of melatonin; therefore, getting outside during the day and managing stress may support the body’s natural sleep–wake cycle and support healthy aging and brain function.
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CHANNELS OF FULFILLMENT DAILY DEVOTIONAL FOR FEBRUARY 9, 2022 (The Lamb of God.)
TOPIC: The Lamb of God.
TEXT: (John 1 vs. 23 – 34)
I welcome someone to the very presence of God. Do you know that sheep is soft-hearted, upright, elegant and meek. They are usually very quiet and gentle, holding themselves aloof from the world. In a herd, all the sheep tends to listen to their leaders and show esteem to them. No wonder Jesus spoke in John 5 vs. 30 saying, “I can of my own do nothing: as I hear, I judge and my judgment is just; because I seek not my own will, but the will of my Father which sent me”.
Jesus was the Lamb of God who listens and does the will of His Father. As He hears He judges. On your behalf Jesus will hear, decide deliberately with God and all the host of heaven to uplift you and cause you to stand on the mountain top. Amen!! It is the Lamb of God that delivers from the hand of sin. In verse 36 of today’s scripture we saw, “And the next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him and saith, Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sins of the world”. He is the lamb and He taketh away the sins of the world. If He takes it away then why should you stay with it?
He takes out sin in us which we cannot take out by ourselves and lives in us to actualize perfection with us. Why then did you chose to retain sin and carry out the works of the flesh when Jesus came to take them away, why would you have them kept? “Nothing that defileth shall enter into the kingdom of God”. Horace Bushnell said, “O thou lamb of God that taketh away the sin of the world, what thou bearest in thy blessed hands and feet I cannot bear, take it all away.
Hide me in the depth of thy suffering love; mold me to the image of thine divine passion”. His will is to take them all away. The greatest miracle is not the breeze of anointing. It is not the blind who saw neither is it the dead that arose but it is the transformation of men. A change of heart where one can gladly say, the things I use to do before, I do them no more. God bless you earnestly, Amen! Hold God by discipline!!
- Oh God I thank you for your word to me.
- Father arise and show me your strength and power.
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Dr. Ikenna Onwuekwe – A Professor of Neurology, has urged physicians and new mothers to pay good attention to babies during childbirth, noting that poor oxygen supply to the brain of a newborn can cause epilepsy.
Onwuekwe also noted that unborn babies whose mothers are infected with rubella – a contagious viral infection can also be exposed to the neurological disorder, adding that babies can be exposed to risk factors while in the womb.
He, however, clarified that there is a difference between epilepsy and isolated seizures which can occur from multiple causes.
He further stressed that epilepsy can be treated successfully with medications and if necessary, a surgical procedure.
According to Onwuekwe, children with epilepsy can develop normally and continue their education, while adults with the condition can be responsible members of family and society. | <urn:uuid:cbada038-8b0d-4631-b025-d5b04582ac9e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://africanian.com/health/lack-of-oxygen-at-birth-can-cause-epilepsy-in-newborns/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571056.58/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809155137-20220809185137-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.968125 | 169 | 2.78125 | 3 |
Drainage Calculations Guide
A guide for the provision of drainage designs and supporting information for development sites.
This document is intended for those applicants proposing to submit designs and modelling outputs as part of planning applications for sites within Essex. It should only be used when read in conjunction with the Essex SuDS Design Guide.
The document focuses solely on variables so that the outputs from all drainage design software can be submitted. It will specifically detail the appropriate parameters and to use in order to meet the requirements of the Essex Sustainable Drainage Design Guide (2019). In doing so this will allow for the more efficient processing of applications and reduce the likelihood of comments and questions being returned and minimise the risk for design changes to be asked for.
Parameters and the specific values that are required to be used to meet the LLFA standards are given in RED. Values that are advised but can be changed from the recommended figures are given in BLUE. All other values should be left as defaults. Justification will need to be provided where advised values are changed from those suggested and also where parameters not specifically referred to are changed from their defaults.
SuDS Planning advice can be sought from the Development and Flood Risk Team at any stage of the development process and it is recommended that this be considered if applicants have any questions or concerns regarding designs and their potential to meet standards.
A CV value of 1 should be used for sites where the majority of the site area is impermeable. It is expected that a newly developed site should be designed in a way where no surface water can collect and pool unintentionally in areas of depressions or cracks. If large areas of a site are permeable it should be considered whether these large areas will contribute to the positive drainage system. If they do not then an equivalent area should be removed from calculations associated with site runoff.
HR Wallingford have addressed the incorrect use of 84% as a runoff coefficient value on their UKSUDS website stating that “ This approach was justified in a paper in the 1990s based on the original runoff model in the Wallingford Procedure which was issued in 1983. This justification is a misuse of the correlation equation which had been developed and has since which been rendered obsolete based on the fact that the original equation was shown to under-predict runoff for large rainfall events.”
Input parameters and system design settings
This section details the input parameters and variable values necessary to design a drainage system that will meet the LLFA’s SuDS standards.
Rainfall: FSR or FEH can be used.
M5-60 (mm) and Ratio-R: For software including in built mapping the exact site location should be selected. Where manual location values are entered supporting evidence should be provided to demonstrate the correct location and values have been used.
Design Return Period: Should be set to 1 year as a default.
Time of Entry (mins): Should be set to 5 minutes as a default.
Maximum Rainfall Rate (mm/hr): Should be set to the maximum value the software allows. This parameter can cap the maximum rainfall intensity able to enter a system so if a modelled storm has an intensity higher than the input value then all water above this is lost. Whilst few events exceed this, and only for short periods when they do (meaning the volume lost by capping is small), it can still lead to water being unaccounted for. Therefore, it is recommended that the maximum value be entered to avoid this. Justification and details must be provided if values less than 150 mm/hr are used.
Volumetric Run-off Coefficient (Cv): This can be left as the default value but it is preferred to set it to 1 to remove any losses between rainfall landing and reaching the drainage network.
Minimum Backdrop, Cover Depth and Pipe Flow: This should be set based on conversations and agreements with the body adopting the drainage post completion.
Additional Flow/Climate Change: This should be used to set an appropriate value for urban creep, accepted as 10% of roof areas only. Climate change values should not be entered here. Alternatively, a 10% urban creep allowance on roof areas can be added to the overall site area, however it should be clear within the text that this has been done.
Areal Reduction Factor: Should be left as the default value of 1 unless a site is of a significant size.
MADD Factor: This must be set to 0. The default value assumes that 20m3 of water is lost between hitting the ground and reaching the drainage network. The value has been determined from real world developments where storage is created from things such as localised depressions and cracks in paved surfaces. For new developments these should not exist so to avoid underestimating volumes entering the drainage network this value should be set to 0.
Storage Volume in Pipe Network (m3): This must be set to 0. If pipes have been deliberately oversized to provide storage this volume will be taken account of in the modelling and this value should still be set to 0.
The following parameters should be used when modelling the designed drainage system to check performance during different return period events. Matching system design values should be used where required.
Summer Volumetric Run-off Coefficient (Cv): This can be left as the default value but it is preferable to set it to 1.
Winter Volumetric Run-off Coefficient (Cv): This can also be left as the default value but it is preferable to set it to 1.
Modelled Storms: System performance should be modelled for the 1, 30- and 100-year return period storms.
Climate Change Values: Appropriate climate change values are only required to be included for the 100 year return period storm.
Greenfield Runoff Calculations
The methods outlined within the calculating runoff rates section should be utilised.
Note that the Q (1yrs) (l/s) pre-development runoff values are expected to be met by developments in Essex for greenfield sites. For brownfield sites a 50% betterment must be achieved and therefore rates cannot exceed 50% of the calculated pre development runoff rate.
Area (ha): Must be the total pre-development site area, in hectares.
SAAR and Soil Index: These should be set based on the specific site location.
Climate Change: This should be set to 0 to produce a current day value.
Urban: This must be set to 0 to allow calculations for an undeveloped site. If it is a brownfield site, the percentage of impermeable area should used.
Region: This must be set to Region 6.
Storage estimation and calculation
Quick estimates can be provided for developments at the outline stage to demonstrate compliance however full and detailed calculations should be supplied for developments seeking full planning permission or where they are required to discharge conditions. All other values previously covered should be used relevant to the site location or match those previously entered.
Rainfall: FSR or FEH can be used.
Return Period: This should be set to an appropriate value to size the storage. Designs demonstrating that there will be no flooding for the 30 year (no climate change) and 100 year (plus climate change) must be provided for developments in Essex.
Storm Duration: Results for the critical storm should be provided and as such it is recommended that all periods from 15 minutes to 1 week are run to ensure this is identified. Storm ranges should be run for both summer and winter rainfall profiles.
Map: For FSR Rainfall only. The exact site location should be selected using the in-built map. Justification and supporting evidence should be provided if manual values are entered.
Cv (Summer): This can be left as the default value, but it is preferable to set it to 1.
Cv (Winter): This can also be left as the default value, but it is preferable to set it to 1.
Maximum Allowable Discharge (l/s): This is the 1 in 1-year greenfield runoff rate calculated for the site. If the ‘Rural Runoff Tool’ is not utilised the value should be determined from another appropriate source and justification and evidence of the calculations provided. For brownfield sites a minimum of 50% betterment is expected and therefore discharge rates cannot exceed 50% of the calculated 1-year rate.
Infiltration Coefficient (m/hr): Only values calculated from site infiltration testing should be input. A specific value can be entered manually, or a rate can be calculated by clicking on the calculator to the right and entering the appropriate site test result values. Generic infiltration rates based on publicly available soil and geology data can be used for outline applications and these values and information sources must be clearly stated.
Climate Change: This should be used to set an appropriate value for urban creep, accepted as 10%. Climate change values should not be entered here. Alternatively, a 10% urban creep allowances on roof areas can be added to the overall site area, however it should be clear within the text that this has been done.
Safety Factor: An appropriate value should be entered here. For infiltration features, the Safety Factor is most likely to be 2 for individual property soakaways. If a feature is designed to infiltrate surface water from a large area of the site, Safety Factors should align with those outlined within the contents of Table 25.2 in section 25 of the CIRIA C753 SuDS Manual. Justification should be given for any Safety Factors used.
We are aware that some Safety Factors can lead to significant feature sizing which can result in the viability of these features or the use of infiltration being compromised. Where this is the case, we would be willing to consider additional mitigation, such as high-level cut offs and/or exceedance routings to minimise the risk to downstream properties and infrastructure. This would consequently allow for a lower Safety Factor to be considered.
This section provides details on the specific outputs that can be included with planning application submissions to allow the drainage to be appropriately assessed. They can be provided as pdf documents or excel tables.
The listed variables are the minimum that should be included to meet the requirements of the Design Guide. Please note that failure to provide certain aspects, or failure to include sufficient detail, will result in questions and requests for further information, which will likely cause delays. Whilst additional outputs can be provided please be aware that these will require additional time to assess and could cause avoidable delays.
The following aspects should be appropriately covered within the outputs to allow them to be assessed:
- Design criteria and input variables
- Drainage network details
- Manhole schedule
- Area summaries
- Outfall details
- Modelled storm details and simulation criteria
- Online flow control structure details
- Offline controls structure details (if these exist within the design)
- Summary of results for critical storms. Results should be provided for the 1yr, 30yr and 100yr plus 40% climate change storms.
- Greenfield runoff rate calculations
- Storage calculations
- Storage feature details
- A pdf drawing should be provided at an appropriate scale showing the layout of the drainage system/s with the pipe and manhole numbers clearly labelled to allow cross-referencing. The locations of all storage and attenuation features must also be clearly shown.
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Coinsurance clauses are commonly found in a builder’s risk completed value policy. As one might deduce merely from the name, a coinsurance clause involves the policyholder becoming a co-insurer of the risk of loss with the insurer. In other words, certain conditions would result in the insurance company not paying the total amount of loss, thereby leaving the policyholder to bear the remainder of the loss amount. The insured and the insurer jointly assume the risk.
Those unfamiliar with such a clause are probably wondering why any policyholder would even consider a coinsurance clause. The benefit of buying an insurance policy with such a clause is that the policyholder will usually have relatively low premiums compared to other similar policies that don’t contain a coinsurance clause. That said, anyone considering a coinsurance clause should understand what it entails and requires, so that they aren’t taken by surprise with penalties if a loss should occur.
A typical coinsurance clause found in a builder’s risk completed value policy will say that the insurer will not pay more for any loss than the proportion that the limit of insurance bears to the value of the structure described in the declarations as of the structure’s date of completion.
The way a coinsurance clause works with the policy limit is often a source of confusion for policyholders. Take a loss of $20,000 with a policy limit of $100,000 for instance. It would superficially appear as though the insurer would be responsible for the total loss. However, once the coinsurance clause is figured into the equation, the insurer might not be responsible for paying the total loss amount. This will depend on the policyholder maintaining enough insurance to avoid the coinsurance penalty.
If the coinsurance is applied, it might look something like this:
Still using the $100,000 policy and $20,000 worth of damage from above, the completed value of the project will be determined as $120,000 at the time of loss. The value of the $100,000 policy is only 80% of the $120,000 actual value of the project. So, the insurer is only responsible to pay $16,000, which is 80% of the 20,000 dollars worth of damage.
Anytime the policyholder receives a lesser sum than what the full value of the claim is because of a shortfall between the completed value of the project and the policy limit, it’s termed a coinsurance penalty. The discrepancy between the two numbers can be the result of a number of mistakes made by the policyholder.
Policyholders often make the mistake of failing to report when expected costs are surpassed. Any increased completed value must be shown in the policy limit when costs overrun original figures. The best way to make sure the policy limit is updated is by keeping your insurance agent apprised to the overruns so that the appropriate changes can be made.
All too often a policyholder makes the mistake of setting their limit of insurance based on the amount of the construction loan for the structure. Most of the time, the completed value of the project is greater than the amount of the construction loan. An example would be a significant portion of a building project being funded by cash, but not computing the cash amount when totaling the completed value. If the insurance is only for the financed amount, then the policyholder will suffer a coinsurance penalty for any losses.
Another common mistake occurs when the policyholder doesn’t include profit and overhead in the completed value. These are generally figured at 10% for each. If not accounted for, this can cause a substantial coinsurance penalty.
Sometimes, it’s what shouldn’t be included that may lead to problems. Land value, excavations, and underground work, for example, shouldn’t be included in the completed value. These aren’t covered losses on typical policy forms. So, the policyholder would just be paying additional costs for items that wouldn’t be covered during loss. | <urn:uuid:1c0d9806-5ed2-4c2d-b08a-38ed79c436f8> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://neubergerinsurance.com/understanding-a-builders-risk-coinsurance-clause-common-mistakes-and-penalties/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570793.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808092125-20220808122125-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.946441 | 819 | 1.578125 | 2 |
I’ve been doing a series on drunk driving and alcohol-related harm (which can also include impaired work performance, domestic trouble, violence, crime, risky sex, fetal disorders, brain damage and many other health problems). Can – and should – we do more to control alcohol?
Last time, I wrote about programs designed to curb alcohol abuse through persuasion. But the evidence that they work is, well, less than persuasive. So is it time to start cutting people off?
With the help of a fine recent literature review by Peter Anderson, Dan Chisholm, and Daniela C. Fuhr in the medical journal The Lancet, we can look at the totality of the evidence on alcohol control, including policies to limit its availability through regulations.
Here’s one we already have: the minimum drinking age (MDA) of 21. We have a really good idea what the effects of MDAs are because we have neat natural experiments to study; states started reducing age limits (starting in 1969) and then turned around and began raising them (starting in 1976). What happened when they did?
As reported by Ann T. McCartt and Bevan B. Kirley, a sample of 33 studies found that forbidding alcohol for 18-21 year olds reduced alcohol-related crashes in that age group by between 10 to 16 percent. This effect has been consistently demonstrated, though perhaps it’s smaller than one might have hoped for.
Raising the MDA further is probably out of the question. But there are ways we could enforce it more strictly, like extending initiatives that allow parents to be sued if underage drinkers leave their home and get into fatal crashes. Worthwhile, or worringly draconian?
In the other direction, there is a movement out there to lower the MDA to 18, on the fairly logical grounds that if you’re old enough to vote or register for Selective Service you should be old enough to drink. Some college presidents think that campus drinking could actually be brought under better control if all students were legal.
And it should be noted that in Europe most MDAs are between 16 and 18, and their DUI problems are less severe than ours (though as I’ve noted, their other DUI-related policies, like blood alcohol content limits, are generally stricter).
Still, whatever the merits of these arguments, the evidence unsurprisingly shows that lowering the MDA would result in more road deaths.
(It’s interesting how much wiser we grow as we age. As a philosophically immature 18 year old, I considered the MDA one of our most iniquitous public policies, but just three years later I had a profound theoretical breakthrough and suddenly realized it is resoundingly just. Today, I think a cutoff at age 41 would be ideal.)
I went to college in Boston, where liquor stores were closed on Sundays. I can attest to the fact that this cut down on our Sunday alcohol consumption. (I guess we must have cleaned out the stash on Saturday nights.)
Studies have backed this observation up. I have not seen numbers on whether limiting the hours alcohol can be served would decrease drunk driving per se, but Sergio Duailibi and colleagues found that when the Brazilian city of Diadema enforced a cutoff in alcohol sales at 11pm (most bars had been open 24 hours), there was a 29 percent drop in the murder rate.
As for a reasonable step in this direction that might not totally ruin our good times, what about allowing bars to stay open as late as they do now but requiring them to stop selling alcohol an hour before closing time? This would give people a chance to sober up before they hit the road. A similar policy seems to work reasonably well for sporting events.
What’s the evidence on regulating the number of alcohol outlets? Fewer bars and liquor stores might theoretically translate into lower alcohol consumption and DUI. However, the limited data are inconclusive. Indeed, it is possible that having fewer alcohol outlets might actually lead to more driving, and thus more accidents, as people head to those places that are open.
Then again, a persuasive body of research has indeed linked a high density of alcohol outlets with other forms of alcohol-related harm. Nobody wants to return to Prohibition, but some tightening of the granting of liquor licenses might at least be worth some consideration.
When was the last time a bartender refused you service or took away your keys on the grounds you’d had one too many? Katharine Ker and Paul Chinnock have found very little evidence that programs designed to get bars and restaurants to limit alcohol abuse have proven effective.
In large part this is because serving places don’t follow through on the initiatives, which is understandable enough given the economic incentives they face. And it is consistent with evidence I showed you earlier, which demonstrated that educational material produced by the alcohol industry sometimes actually promotes positive views of drinking, and that promises by the alcohol industry to restrict advertising usually don’t seem to bite.
So in sum it seems as if certain types of restrictions on alcohol availability might bear fruit. But are these the best way to go? Economists might not think so. For the most part, they believe that price signals (e.g. through taxation), not regulations, are a more promising tool for shaping behavior.
Why? Here’s one example. At heart, many programs designed to mitigate alcohol-related harm involve raising the “generalized costs” of drinking (in terms of time, money, hassle, etc.). But taxing people in the currency of time or discomfort (e.g. by making them drive farther to buy beer) would raise no revenue and indeed would ultimately cost the government money (fewer liquor license fees and less sales tax revenue). On the other hand, increasing alcohol taxes would actually raise money for the public coffers even as it limits destructive behavior.
Another issue is that these regulatory policies might be considered an unnecessarily blunt instrument. Cutting off bar service an hour early would penalize all drinkers, not just those who have shown a predilection for mixing alcohol and dangerous behavior.
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Holiday harmony can be polluted by pet odor
Your home is spotless, and the inviting aromas of a holiday meal fill the air. But as you open the door to your guests, their twitching noses suggest they smell something you didn't.
"I see you still have that cat," your older sister says disapprovingly. Her nose twitches again. "And the dog, too."
But pet odors aren't irresolvable. Eliminating them can be challenging, but following a few simple tips from the experts can leave your house smelling fresh and clean this holiday season.
One source of pet odors is urine, whether from long-ago puppy training days or from a pet who is having accidents now. Pete Duncanson, director of training for ServiceMaster Clean, a leading provider of residential and commercial cleaning services, says the key to effectively eliminating pet urine odor in carpet is to use a bacteria/enzyme digester.
"Bacteria/enzyme digesters work well, but they work slowly. So be sure to leave the solution on as long as directed," he said. "Urine has probably penetrated down into the carpet and pad, so use enough solution to reach as far down as the stain did." He recommends covering the area with plastic for several hours after treatment, and he warns that heavily soiled carpets may need professional cleaning and deodorizing.
Not sure where the urine smells are coming from? A simple black light, available in pet supply stores and catalogs for less than $20, or even free with purchase of many odor removal products, will pinpoint any sources of urine in carpet, baseboards or walls.
Bacteria/enzyme digesters can also be used to deodorize litter boxes, although if the surface has become scratched or roughened, they should be replaced. Look for boxes with Microban already in the plastic to fight odors from the start.
What about "eau de dog"? Its source is hair, dander and oil — on your pet, and in your carpets and upholstery. The cure for both is the same: a brisk brushing and a good shampooing. Start by having your dog professionally groomed, or brush out all her loose hair and bathe her. Next, tackle your carpets and upholstery.
"To remove pet hair from carpets, use a vacuum that has a good beater brush or roller brush," said Debra Johnson, a training manager for the cleaning professionals at Merry Maids. "Plain vacuums don't generate enough 'lift' to get all the pet hair up from the floor."
Johnson also recommends pet owners use vacuum cleaners with HEPA filters if possible and has one more hint: "Vacuum bag fresheners are an easy way to enhance your guests' perceptions of 'clean' when they enter your home," she said. Follow up by shampooing your carpet with an extraction cleaner, which can be rented from many stores.
To get pet hair out of dog bed covers and upholstery, purchase a rake made for this purpose from a pet supply or home improvement store. Use your vacuum's upholstery tool to pull up loose hairs and dander, and finish with an upholstery cleaning and deodorizing product.
Keep odors from returning by using a slipcover on your sofas, scooping or changing your cat's litter box daily, washing your dog's bedding at least weekly, and keeping washable mats and throw rugs on your pets' favorite spots on the carpet.
Finally, check out true vapor steam cleaners. Using the same Italian technology that powers espresso machines, they deliver pressurized vapor at between 240 and 260 degrees Fahrenheit. They're as easy to use as a vacuum cleaner and are completely safe for you, your kids, your pets — including birds — and the environment. Unlike extraction cleaners, including those with onboard hot water heaters, true steam cleaners will also kill fleas, flea eggs and dust mites, will wipe out mold, mildew, fungi, bacteria and viruses, and won't leave any chemical or soapy residue behind to attract dirt.
High-quality residential units can cost as much as $2,000. A sturdy home-use model, such as the DeLonghi SteamIt, runs around $400.
(What are your favorite tips for cleaning up after pets? Send them to firstname.lastname@example.org and we'll share them.)
Q: I live in an area not too far from a big regional park. I'm always seeing "lost cat" signs, and I suspect coyotes are killing my neighbors' cats. (That's one reason why I keep my cat in at night.)
I know you've mentioned this before, but maybe it's time for another warning.
— P.G., via e-mail
A: Coyotes are everywhere, and they are just as happy to eat pets as wild animals.
Work with your neighbors to remove or move food sources that attract coyotes, such as pet food left outside, garbage cans that aren't securely closed or compost piles. If food sources are denied to them, the animals will move on to a more promising area.
Large dogs are not at high risk of attack, but small dogs and cats are tempting to coyotes. The only way to keep cats truly safe is to turn them into indoor-only pets, since a free-roaming cat is not safe day or night. For small dogs, do not let them out unsupervised, and walk them on leashes to keep them close to you. While there have been incidents of dogs being taken off the end of the leash, most coyotes won't want to get that close to a human to risk it. And try to avoid letting any of your dogs out at night if you can.
While these steps will not completely protect your pets, they will reduce the risk from these ever-more-common predators.
— Gina Spadafori
Q: I want a Christmas tree, but my cat can't resist the decorations. Suggestions?
— T.D., via e-mail
A: Cats love to follow motion, pouncing on toys as if they were prey. When stringy substances are eaten, however, they can bind up in a cat's intestines and often must be surgically removed. Strings that are electrified, such as power cords and lights, offer even more hazards.
If you can't keep your cat away from the tree — by keeping him out of the room when you're not around, for example — then I'm afraid the danglies can't be part of your holiday decor.
— Gina Spadafori
(Do you have a pet question? Send it to email@example.com.)
Pet Connection is produced by a team of pet-care experts headed by "Good Morning America" veterinarian Dr. Marty Becker and award-winning journalist Gina Spadafori. The two are also the authors of several best-selling pet-care books.
On PetConnection.com there's more information on pets and their care, reviews of products, books and "dog cars," and a monthly drawing for more than $1,000 in pet-care prizes. Contact Pet Connection in care of this newspaper by sending e-mail to firstname.lastname@example.org or by visiting PetConnection.com.
- A heroic man saved his neighbor's dog from a house fire in Weymouth, Mass. The dog, a German shepherd named Isabel, was home alone when the house caught fire. Neighbor Sal Litterio broke through a window in the burning home when he heard the dog barking and was able to pull the scared Isabel out through the thick smoke. "As long as Isabel is safe, the house can be replaced; my neighbors can't (be)," he said.
- Bottled water for dogs? You bet, and in flavors such as parsley, ice cream, chicken, hot dog and lemongrass. Dogs also have their variation of the sports drink in K-9 Quencher, which provides a powdered formula with vitamins, trace minerals and electrolytes. The powder can be added to water to improve taste and increase drinking.
- Researchers are pioneering a way to develop human skin. The skin, called Episkin, has been developed by L'Oreal in Lyon, France. Skin is collected from people who have volunteered to donate their skin after having cosmetic surgery and is then able to be grown in the laboratory. Episkin not only will decrease the need for animal testing, but will also make products for humans safer, since the testing medium is closer in properties to human skin.
- The jellyfish population is exploding worldwide because of global warming. Reproduction is temperature-related, and with the increased temperature of the seas, mating and "blooming" (when jellyfish reproduce in huge numbers in the same area) are happening sooner, allowing jellyfish to eat fish eggs from spawning fish before they get a chance to hatch, rapidly depleting many fish populations.
— Dr. Marty Becker and Mikkel Becker Shannon
Many pet lovers make the mistake of believing veterinarians are pretty much interchangeable. In fact, you're doing your pet a disservice if you don't put a little effort into choosing the right veterinarian.
Any veterinarian you consider should be technically proficient, current on the latest treatments, and willing to seek out more information on your pet's behalf or work with a veterinary specialist. A good vet should be able to explain what's going on with your pet in a way you can understand and be willing to answer your questions, so you can make a responsible decision on your pet's behalf.
Ask friends, co-workers and neighbors for recommendations. Over the years, animal lovers can tell which veterinarians are knowledgeable, compassionate and hardworking. Those veterinarians are always talked up by satisfied clients. Other factors may help you narrow down your list of possibilities:
- Is the clinic or hospital conveniently located, with hours you can live with? If you have a 9-to-5 job, a veterinarian with a 9-to-5 clinic doesn't do your pet much good. Many veterinarians are open late on at least one weeknight and for at least a half-day on Saturday.
- What kind of emergency care is available, if any? Although emergency veterinary clinics are prepared for any catastrophe, they are not familiar with your pet. If your veterinarian's practice does not offer 24-hour care, does it work with one that does?
The final call on whether a particular veterinarian is right for you comes down to intangibles. If you don't feel comfortable, you're less likely to ask your veterinarian questions, and the lack of productive communication hurts your pet in the long run.
— Gina Spadafori
Keeping a dog well-groomed is as much about health as appearance. Fortunately, most dog lovers do purchase at least the basic equipment for the grooming needs of their pets. What they own (multiple answers allowed):
Brush 92 percent
Nail clipper 69 percent
Comb 44 percent
Toothbrush 28 percent
Electric clippers 19 percent
Source: American Pet Products Association
If you are using treats to train your dog, reduce the amount of food you provide during meals to keep your dog at a healthy weight. Treats are an important part of training, but you don't want to end up with a well-mannered pet with weight problem.
If your dog is always a little hungry, you may be able to use 10 percent of his daily kibble for training and save treats for teaching him new behaviors.
If your dog does not work for kibble, even when hungry, then you may need to increase daily exercise during training. Exercise is a great relationship builder, as your dog associates you with an enjoyable excursion. Exercise is also a great stress reliever and may help your dog focus better during training sessions.
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Picking the right school and the right program can be tricky. All online colleges are not created equal. Some won’t accept credits transferred from other schools. Others are not accredited at all. You could spend the time and money to take classes only to find out later that you can’t use the credits to get the degree you want at the school you were accepted to or that your employer won’t recognize a degree because it’s from the wrong program.
So how can you be sure that you are on the right track? First things first.
What is Accreditation?
Accreditation is essential to everyone involved. For a school to be accredited, a professional organization or council reviews the school’s practices and programs to ensure that they meet or exceed the standards for education that have been set by the organization. This is important for a couple of reasons.
- Students can be sure that an accredited university or college will meet their educational needs and provide them with financial aid options.
- Colleges and students will be able to determine which credits can be transferred between their preferred schools and programs.
Types of Accreditation
There are different types of accreditation a school can receive; institutionalized or specialized either nationally or regionally.
To receive an institutionalized accreditation, the school as a whole must meet specific industry standards. Specialized accreditation is for certain programs of study that meet or exceed industry standards.
Some schools that you can expect to have national accreditation are technical, religious, vocational, and correspondence schools. These schools usually get national instead of regional accreditation because they are for-profit schools with a focus on student careers.
Regional accreditation holds schools to a higher standard than national accreditation. These schools are state-owned or non-profit institutions that are more focused on academics than careers.
When deciding on a regional or nationally accredited school, it is essential to make sure that whatever school you plan to transfer to will take your credits. Most regionally accredited schools will not accept credit transfers from nationally accredited schools. It is much easier to transfer credits from a regionally accredited school to a regionally accredited school.
What type of career you plan to have should inform what kind of accreditation you look for in a school. If you are interested in learning a vocation or trade, national accreditation is what you will need. If you want to go a more traditional route, then a regionally accredited online college is the one for you.
Further Reading: Regional vs National Accreditation
How do I know if a school is accredited?
A school that is accredited will want you to know it. Most college websites will share their accreditation status on their website’s home page. You can also check the website’s site map or scroll to the bottom of the home page and look for a link to accreditation. Be wary of schools that use terms like “licensed” or “recognized.” If you are unsure after looking at the school’s website, you can check the Council for Higher Education Accreditation’s directory to see if they are listed. For online schools, you can also check accreditation at ACICS or Education Connection.
You can check your school’s accreditation by visiting the following:
- Middle States Commission of Higher Education
- Northwest Commission of Schools & Colleges
- North Central Association of Colleges & Schools
- New England Association of Schools & Colleges
- Southern Association of Colleges & Schools
- Western Association of Schools & Colleges
To check distance learning accreditation, visit:
- The Accrediting Council for Independent Colleges & Schools
- The Distance Education & Training Council
Cheapest Regionally Accredited Online Colleges
When choosing a college, it is essential to find one with great teachers and a program that gives you the education you want. However, expensive colleges will leave you with a mountain of debt that won’t be easy to get rid of anytime soon. The following colleges are some of the cheapest around but that doesn’t mean they have skimped on quality. With a host of programs to choose from, there is something here for everyone.
This online college has an institutional and specialized accreditation through the Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities. With tuition at $2,805 a year, it’s no wonder it was rated as the most affordable online college available by SR Education Group. Their list of available fully online programs include early childhood development, land surveying, graphic communications, and RN-BSN.
This non-profit college is run by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. Although it is run by the LDS, it accepts both LDS and non-LDS students. They offer 350 online courses with seven online associate degrees and eleven bachelor degrees. This school also received an institutional accreditation with eight programs getting specialized accreditation as well. Tuition is around $3830 per year, making them an affordable option for the more conservative college applicant.
With tuition at $5,250 a year and an institutionalized accreditation by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges, UT of Permian Basin is an excellent choice for the online learner. In addition to their institutional accreditation, they also received specialized accreditation for at least eight of their programs, including a bachelor of arts or music, education, nursing, and social work. They even have some degrees that can be earned in as little as eight weeks.
Self Paced Regionally Accredited Online Colleges
Many people today need flexibility in their school schedules for many reasons, including working full time while in school and raising a family. Self-paced regionally accredited online colleges offer lenient courses designed so that busy people can finish their degree without the stress of inconvenient class times, group projects, and driving to campus every day.
Whether you are an undergraduate or graduate, TESU has an online course that will cater to your needs and busy lifestyle. With more than 100 areas of study and the ability to get an associate or a bachelors degree, TESU has the self-paced courses to take your career to the next level on your time.
Rasmussen College is regionally accredited so all of your credits should transfer seamlessly. Their hybrid model, called Flex Choice, allows students to choose a mix of courses that fits their lifestyle, including traditional courses, self-directed courses, and competency-based courses. Their affordable tuition and shorter programs are ideal for people who want to improve their work standing at a pace that works with their hectic schedules.
The University of North Dakota was awarded Most Innovative of Best Colleges by the U.S. News and World Report in 2018. They have two options for distance learners – the more traditional online degree programs as well as a self-paced program that gives the student up to nine months to complete their courses. This program is available for enrollment at anytime or day during the year. This gives the student complete control over when they begin and finish a course of study.
No matter which of the regionally accredited online colleges you choose, it is up to you to get the most of your education. By making sure that the school is regionally accredited and that the program is appropriate for your position, you will get the most of your degree whether you choose a self-paced program or a cheaper one. Your future awaits, so get started toward making more money today by enrolling in a program of study that fits your life and career goals.
List of Regionally Accredited Online Colleges
American InterContinental University is a regionally accredited college system with six campuses, both in the United States and abroad. Its virtual division, AIU Online, offers accelerated associate, bachelor, and master degrees.
AT Still University of Health Sciences Online
AT Still University of Health Sciences has built its online program on the strength of practical healthcare disciplines for college graduates. Distance learning revolves around a quarter system, enabling attendees to earn a master’s degree in 1.5 years (at the rate of two classes per quarter) in Still’s Arizona School of Health Sciences.
Baker College Online
Baker College Online bills itself as a career-focused college. While the school’s Blackboard system is online 24 hours a day for students to listen to lectures, discuss content, and complete assignments, the school sets regular deadlines for students to get the work done.
Bellevue University Online
Bellevue University Online offers liberal arts and vocation-focused programs year-round, with all-day online access. Students can take classes, discuss lessons and complete research, earning a degree at their leisure within a prescribed timeframe.
Benedictine University Online
Originally founded as Chicago’s St. Procopius College in 1887, Benedictine is now an academically diverse university located in Lisle, Illinois. The online branch offers graduate degrees geared toward professionals who are serious about advancing their careers, so the admission standards and tuition are both fairly high.
Boston University Online
When studying at Boston University Online, students can complete the coursework at their own speed, as long as they meet deadlines designed to push them along at an acceptable pace. Dedicated students usually have enough time to take two courses per semester, one course after the other.
Bryant and Stratton College Online
Bryant & Stratton, a workplace-focused college, has distilled more than 150 years of teaching experience into its online program. Students use a software called TopClass to navigate the 7.5-week classes, all conducted in a virtual classroom.
Champlain College Online
While Champlain College Online touts the flexibility it offers in its career-focused online education, the college says students should be willing to dedicate 13 to 14 hours per week to “attending” class and doing assignments. Distance-learning classes are spread over six sessions per year.
California University of Pennsylvania Global Online
California University of Pennsylvania, part of Pennsylvania’s public higher-education system, launched its Global Online campus in 2004. The university offers a variety of online master’s degrees and certifications as well as two undergraduate programs.
The Chicago School of Professional Psychology Online
Open only to college graduates, The Chicago School of Professional Psychology Online offers both a broad curriculum for generalists and the opportunity to focus on a niche.
Capella University Online
More than 20,000 students in all 50 states and 56 other countries attended Capella University in 2007, making this for-profit company one of the largest online campuses.
Eastern Kentucky University Online
Since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, the master’s program in homeland security has become a cornerstone of Eastern Kentucky University’s online curriculum. Overall, the distance education branch serves more than 10,000 students.
Everest University Online
Up to 80% of the online classes at Everest University focus on what students can apply in the professional world, making it a practical avenue for obtaining a degree at the associate, bachelor’s or master’s degree levels.
Cambridge College Online
Blended distance-learning supports Cambridge College’s mission to reach out to working adults. The school offers some courses that are fully online and some that are conducted nearly half on the web. Most programs require in-person interaction.
Charter Oak State College
Charter Oak State College is one of the “big three” non-traditional colleges offering flexible degree completion opportunities. Charter Oak allows students to earn personally-tailored degrees by transferring credits from regionally accredited schools, taking exams, proving life experience, and taking online courses.
Fielding Graduate University Online
Fielding Graduate University seeks to attract adults in mid-career for master’s and doctorate programs in the schools of Psychology, Human and Organization Development, and Educational Leadership and Change.
Florida Hospital College of Health Sciences Online
Florida Hospital College is arming candidates in those growing ranks with an online bachelor’s degree. The faith-based school — the campus is at Florida Hospital of the Adventist Health System — runs on the trimester system.
Franklin University Online
Franklin has a full catalog of undergraduate majors in practical disciplines such as business and computers, plus a master’s business track. Classes are offered from 15 weeks in duration down to a speedy three weeks.
Colorado Technical University Online
Colorado Technical University is a private, for-profit college opened in 1965 to offer career-oriented education. Students are encouraged to virtually attend live lectures that feature online student discussions, but class sessions may also be viewed later.
Gonzaga University Online
The ability to handle two three-credit courses per semester can enable Gonzaga University Online students to make steady progress toward a highly regarded master’s degree. Gonzaga was recently ranked third among master’s universities in the West by US News and World Report.
Graceland University Global Campus
Graceland University developed its virtual global campus in 2005, and it’s quickly becoming the school’s most popular educational arm. Graceland focuses its online degrees on two service-oriented fields: nursing and teaching.
Herzing College Online
Herzing College Online has made a deep commitment to distance learning with nearly two-dozen undergraduate degrees and a select choice of master’s degrees in business administration.
Iowa Central College Online
A two-year school that focuses on providing job skills and laying the foundation for a bachelor’s degree, Iowa Central allows students to complete an associate degree online. The school also has a few correspondence courses, done through the U.S. mail.
DeVry University Online
A private, for-profit college, DeVry University boasts nearly 22,000 full-time and 26,000 part-time students at 23 brick-and-mortar campuses and online. The curriculum focuses on practical applications, and courses are taught primarily by professionals rather than professors.
Drexel Online University
Drexel Online is a subsidiary of Drexel University, a reputable brick-and-mortar college in Pennsylvania. Its virtual programs are aimed primarily at working professionals.
Keiser University eCampus
Keiser University’s eCampus caters to students hoping to quickly parlay their degrees into better positions in the workforce. Nearly two-dozen associate and bachelor’s options, plus three graduate degrees, are available online. They’re aimed at fields that are often in high demand such as computers, business and health care.
eCornell, a subsidiary of Cornell University, is an online professional development program that offers courses in a variety of business fields, including management, human resources, finance and hospitality.
Fort Hays State University Virtual College
Fort Hays State University Virtual College is part of a public state university system. While this means the schedules and programs are more traditional, it also means the tuition is lower than that of many of its competitors.
George Washington University Online
The George Washington University online distance-learning program is a relatively small part of this 25,000-student traditional, not-for-profit university. The online program’s emphasis is on its wide variety of graduate and certificate health science programs, including a healthcare MBA.
Marist College Online
Marist College focuses its online programs on master’s degrees and degree-completion for undergraduates. The school’s eCourses are open to qualified students around the world.
Kaplan University Online
Professionals who still work in the field teach Kaplan University’s courses. In addition to student discussions and online quizzes, courses include Web field trips in which students research topics online.
National American University
National American University’s broad curriculum and inclusive entrance standards provide a welcoming platform for most students. Attendees must finish the work within the eight- and 11-week courses, but there’s plenty of wiggle room in that time frame.
New England College Online
A small liberal arts institution with a flexible admissions policy, New England College has incorporated distance learning into the majority of its programs. Its exclusively online format is aimed largely at graduate students who tend to be working professionals.
Norwich University Online
Norwich University’s online graduate studies focus on peer interaction at a brisk pace. A basic load for students to take is one six-credit seminar every 11 weeks, putting them on pace to complete their master’s in 18 to 24 months. The school touts the learn-on-your-own-time flexibility of its graduate programs, a departure from Norwich’s more regimented undergraduate military bent.
Rasmussen College Online
With a full menu of associate degrees plus select options for a bachelor’s degrees, Rasmussen College Online has positioned itself as a viable step into higher education. The college devises the curriculum to suit the working world, assuring the career-minded that their academic pursuits will have professional relevance.
Saint Leo University Center for Online Learning
Many of Saint Leo’s associate, bachelor’s and master’s studies are primarily aimed at building professional competence. The online branch now boasts more than 5,000 graduates from programs in business, law enforcement, and technology.
National University is a private, non-profit university system offering dozens of online programs in addition to its brick-and-mortar courses held on California campuses. Programs at National University are designed for adult learners with five or more years of work experience.
Tiffin University Online
Tiffin University welcomes scholars, students who have yet to prove themselves, and established adults alike. Its schools of arts and sciences, business, and criminal justice and social sciences generate degree opportunities for distance learners at the associate and master’s levels.
Tulane University Online
A master’s certificate in business program highlights Tulane University’s distance-learning options. Students receive streaming video lectures from the same faculty that teaches at Tulane’s A.B. Freeman School of Business, ranked among the top 50 business schools annually by U.S. News and World Report.
University of Cincinnati Online
The University of Cincinnati devised its menu of distance-learning options primarily from health care, education, and criminal justice. In keeping with its distance-learning roots, begun in 1984, Cincinnati continues to offer fire science programs as well.
Northcentral University is a regionally accredited for-profit online college with headquarters in Arizona. They are known for flexibility in admissions requirements (not asking for standardized test scores) and teaching schedules (no set class times or residencies).
The New School
The New School is an innovative brick-and-mortar college with a focus on creativity and social justice. Students at their New York City campus choose from fields like fashion and design with a strong liberal arts focus.
Villanova University Online
Villanova reaches out to working professionals with online certifications intended to turbocharge the climb up the corporate ladder — or strengthen the foothold at the top. The university stakes its reputation — a No. 1 ranking by U.S. News and World Report in the north region — on its professional education certificate program.
Winston-Salem State University Online
Winston-Salem State University often blends distance learning with other modes of course delivery. However, transfers from within the state of North Carolina can finish a multipurpose bachelor’s degree completely online. Online master’s degrees are available in health care — some with clinical obligations.
Online Azusa Pacific University
Azusa Pacific University is a respected brick-and-mortar California college offering accredited online masters’ degrees, certificates, and bachelor completion programs. Degrees can be earned online or through online / in-class blended learning.
Strayer University is a network of campuses and online programs designed for adult learners with full-time jobs. Strayer University actively works with students to apply transfer credits from other colleges, exams, professional certifications, portfolio learning, and the military.
Thomas Edison State College
TESC is known as one of the “big three” colleges that make it convenient for students to transfer previously earned credits, receive credit via testing, and earn credit for life experience. Classes are offered online and through independent study.
University of Massachusetts Online
The University of Massachusetts Online offers virtual degree programs from respected and established traditional colleges. Students can enroll in online classes from the University of Massachusetts campuses such as Dartmouth, Amherst, Boston, Lowell, and Worcester.
Worcester Polytechnic Institute Online
Online graduate students at Worcester Polytechnic Institute work in the same semester rhythm as their on-campus counterparts — but study to their own beat. Worcester Polytechnic considers its distance education another conduit to deliver the same rigorous course content. The school’s Advanced Distance Learning Network programs revolve around business, technology, engineering and fire safety.
Western Governors University
Western Governors University is a non-profit virtual college founded by the governors of 19 western states. Unlike most colleges, Western Governors University has no required courses – instead, students prove their understanding through writing assignments and exams.
|Abilene Christian University||33330|
|Abraham Lincoln University||7500|
|Adams State University||20456|
|American InterContinental University||Not Provided|
|American International College||34470|
|American National University||14886|
|American Public University System||6880|
|American University – MBA||46615|
|Anderson University – SC||26970|
|Angelo State University||17161|
|Anna Maria College||37130|
|Antioch University Online||19776|
|Appalachian State University||22109|
|Argosy University Online||13438|
|Arizona State University||$15,691 – $27,372|
|Arkansas State University||14778|
|Ashford University||$10,632 – $13,400|
|Augustana University – SD||31960|
|Austin Peay State University||23153|
|Baker College Online||9360|
|Ball State University||25942|
|The Baptist College of Florida||11100|
|Bethel University – IN||28030|
|Bethel University – MN||36210|
|Bethel University – TN||16552|
|Boise State University||22642|
|Bowling Green State University-Main Campus||18593|
|Brookline College Online||$14,500 – $15,515|
|Bryan University Online||$15,400 – $15,447|
|Buena Vista University||32854|
|California Baptist University||32256|
|California Coast University||4725|
|California Institute of Advanced Management||20000|
|California State University-Fullerton||18730|
|California State University-Northridge||18755|
|California State University-San Bernardino||18765|
|California University of Pennsylvania||15326|
|Capitol Technology University||24788|
|Carnegie Mellon University||53910|
|Carrington College||$13,975 – $54,125|
|Central Christian College of Kansas||17240|
|Central Methodist University||$5,760 – $23,770|
|Central Michigan University||23670|
|Central Washington University||22010|
|Chamberlain College of Nursing||19375|
|Chaminade University of Honolulu||24514|
|Charleston Southern University||24840|
|Chicago School of Professional Psychology Online||13530|
|Cincinnati State Technical and Community College||7393|
|City University of Seattle||16920|
|Claremont Graduate University||34836|
|Cleveland State University||13829|
|College of Saint Elizabeth||33131|
|The College of Saint Scholastica||36212|
|Colorado Christian University||30370|
|Colorado Mesa University||20330|
|Colorado State University-Fort Collins||28903|
|Colorado State University-Global Campus||9000|
|Colorado State University-Pueblo||25547|
|Colorado Technical University – Online||Not Provided|
|Columbia International University||22390|
|Columbia Southern University||6600|
|Columbia University in the City of New York||57208|
|Columbus State University||16920|
|Concordia College – New York||31600|
|Concordia University – Nebraska||31000|
|Concordia University – Portland||30270|
|Concordia University – Texas||30600|
|Concordia University – Wisconsin||28600|
|CUNY John Jay College of Criminal Justice||14460|
|Dakota State University||12077|
|Dallas Baptist University||27480|
|Delta State University||6859|
|Dickinson State University||9226|
|East Carolina University||23420|
|Eastern Illinois University||13868|
|Eastern Kentucky University||18250|
|Eastern Michigan University||29200|
|Eastern New Mexico University-Main Campus||11788|
|Eastern Oregon University||19682|
|ECPI University Online||15051|
|Edinboro University of Pennsylvania||14668|
|Emporia State University||19918|
|Excelsior College||Not Provided|
|Fairleigh Dickinson University-Metropolitan Campus||39446|
|Fayetteville State University||16791|
|Ferris State University||18588|
|Fitchburg State University||16235|
|Florida Atlantic University||17276|
|Florida Gulf Coast University||25162|
|Florida International University||18954|
|Florida State University||18786|
|Fort Valley State University||19738|
|Framingham State University||16000|
|Franciscan Missionaries of Our Lady University||12764|
|Franciscan University of Steubenville||26430|
|Frostburg State University||22262|
|Full Sail University||23694|
|Gardner Webb University||30700|
|George Mason University||34370|
|The George Washington University||53518|
|George Washington University – Engineering||53518|
|Georgia College & State University||28060|
|Georgia Institute of Technology||33014|
|Georgia Southern University||17142|
|Georgia Southwestern State University||15802|
|Georgia State University||23971|
|Grace College and Theological Seminary||23170|
|Grand Canyon University||17050|
|Hazelden Betty Ford Graduate School of Addiction Studies||33542|
|Hope International University||31800|
|Illinois Institute of Technology||45864|
|Indiana Institute of Technology||26370|
|Indiana State University||19452|
|Indiana University – Bloomington||34845|
|Indiana University – East||19038|
|Indiana Wesleyan University Online||25980|
|Indiana Wesleyan University Online – Adult Education||25980|
|Iowa Central Community College||7665|
|Iowa State University||22472|
|Jackson State University||18314|
|Jacksonville State University||15582|
|James Madison University||27230|
|John Brown University||26144|
|Johns Hopkins University||52170|
|Johnson & Wales University-Online||13365|
|Kansas Christian College||$5,460 – $7,640|
|Kennesaw State University||$8,066 – $17,329|
|Kent State University at Kent||18544|
|Kentucky State University||19638|
|Kentucky Wesleyan College||25070|
|Kettering University Online||42490|
|LA Film School – Online||29500|
|Lewis-Clark State College||18410|
|Louisiana State University – Shreveport||20320|
|Louisiana Tech University||18558|
|Loyola University Chicago||43078|
|Loyola University New Orleans||39492|
|Lubbock Christian University||21794|
|Marian University – Wisconsin||27400|
|Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences||32590|
|McNeese State University||15958|
|Metropolitan State University of Denver||20149|
|Michigan State University||39406|
|Middle Tennessee State University||26348|
|Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary||7810|
|Midwestern State University||10644|
|Miller-Motte College Online||$10,800 – $11,740|
|Miller-Motte Technical College Online||$9,500 – $12,420|
|Minnesota State University at Mankato||16216|
|Minnesota State University-Moorhead||15878|
|Minot State University||6810|
|Mississippi State University||22358|
|Missouri Baptist University||26020|
|Missouri Southern State University||11568|
|Missouri State University||14746|
|Missouri University of Science and Technology||25918|
|Montana State University||24071|
|Montana State University-Northern||18171|
|Morehead State University||13426|
|Mount Aloysius College||22430|
|Mount Mercy University||30582|
|Mount Vernon Nazarene University||28090|
|Murray State University||23820|
|National American University Online||$6,075 – $15,075|
|National Louis University||10440|
|Nebraska Methodist College||15980|
|New England College||36954|
|New Jersey Institute of Technology||31918|
|New Mexico State University||21022|
|New York University||50464|
|Nicholls State University||8979|
|North Carolina A&T State University||19416|
|North Carolina Central University||19106|
|North Carolina State University||27406|
|North Dakota State University – Main Campus||20692|
|North Greenville University||19150|
|Northeastern State University||14022|
|Northern Arizona University||24841|
|Northern Illinois University||23816|
|Northern Kentucky University||19104|
|Northern Michigan University||15736|
|Northern State University||11210|
|Northwest Missouri State University||12908|
|Northwest Nazarene University||29000|
|Northwestern State University of Louisiana||18710|
|Notre Dame of Maryland University||36070|
|Nova Southeastern University||29930|
|Oakland City University||23700|
|Ohio Christian University||20240|
|Ohio State University-Main Campus||29696|
|Ohio University-Main Campus||21360|
|Oklahoma Christian University||21670|
|Oklahoma State University-Main Campus||23776|
|Oklahoma Wesleyan University||26090|
|Old Dominion University||27900|
|Olivet Nazarene University||34940|
|Oral Roberts University||26792|
|Oregon Institute of Technology||28367|
|Oregon State University||29457|
|Ottawa University Online||11815|
|Our Lady of the Lake University||28192|
|Pacific Oaks College||28725|
|Parker University Online||15564|
|Penn Foster – Healthcare||Not Provided|
|Penn Foster Career School||Not Provided|
|Penn Foster College||Not Provided|
|Pennsylvania State University-World Campus||13988|
|Pinnacle Career Institute Online||$15,765 – $20,465|
|Point Park University||30130|
|Portland State University||26130|
|Post University Online||Not Provided|
|Purdue University – Main Campus||28794|
|Purdue University Global||$11,581 – $16,246|
|Purdue University Northwest||17129|
|Queens University of Charlotte||33532|
|Rasmussen College Online||10935|
|Regent University Online||17288|
|Rochester Institute of Technology||40068|
|Rogers State University||15210|
|Sacred Heart University||39820|
|Saint Cloud State University||16462|
|Saint Francis University||35066|
|Saint Joseph’s College-New York||26550|
|Saint Joseph’s University||43880|
|Saint Leo University Online||22220|
|Saint Louis University-Main Campus||42166|
|Saint Mary’s University of Minnesota||33560|
|Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College||29510|
|Saint Xavier University||33380|
|Sam Houston State University||18022|
|San Joaquin Valley College||30175|
|Savannah College of Art and Design||36410|
|Saybrook University Hybrid Online||27439|
|Seton Hall University||40588|
|Siena Heights University||25932|
|Simmons University School of Social Work||39600|
|South Dakota State University||11689|
|South University Online||13354|
|Southeast Missouri State University||12720|
|Southeastern Oklahoma State University||15390|
|Southern Arkansas University||12156|
|The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary||18860|
|Southern Illinois University – Carbondale||28107|
|Southern Methodist University||52498|
|Southern New Hampshire University Online||11520|
|Southern Oregon University||24630|
|Southern University and A & M College||18080|
|Southern Utah University||20288|
|Southwestern Assemblies of God University||19994|
|Southwestern Christian University||13880|
|Southwestern College – KS||28750|
|Southwestern Oklahoma State University||13905|
|Spring Arbor University Online||27750|
|St. Bonaventure University Online||33331|
|St. Catherine University||38170|
|St. John’s University||40520|
|Stephen F. Austin State University||17676|
|Sterling College – KS||24985|
|Tarleton State University||17111|
|Tennessee Tech University||24377|
|Texas A & M University-Commerce||20884|
|Texas A & M University-Corpus Christi||18925|
|Texas A & M University-Kingsville||22102|
|Texas A&M University-College Station||36606|
|Texas Tech University||18652|
|Texas Woman’s University||17446|
|Thomas Edison State University||9820|
|Thomas More College||30270|
|Toccoa Falls College||22104|
|Touro University Worldwide||14600|
|Trevecca Nazarene University||25100|
|Trident University International||9240|
|Trine University Online||10832|
|Truett McConnell University||19480|
|Ultimate Medical Academy||$15,500 – $15,550|
|Union College – KY||26080|
|University at Buffalo||27068|
|University of Alabama||28100|
|University of Alabama at Birmingham||19032|
|University of Alabama in Huntsville||21480|
|University of Alaska Fairbanks||19183|
|University of Arizona||11800|
|University of Arizona – Engineering||35307|
|University of Arkansas||24308|
|University of Bridgeport||32250|
|University of California – Berkeley||42184|
|University of California – Los Angeles||41275|
|University of California-Irvine||41752|
|University of Central Arkansas||15047|
|University of Central Florida||22467|
|University of Central Missouri||14150|
|University of Charleston||30400|
|University of Cincinnati||27334|
|University of Colorado Boulder||36220|
|University of Colorado Colorado Springs||19498|
|University of Colorado Denver||25259|
|University of Dallas||38716|
|University of Dayton||41750|
|University of Delaware||33150|
|University of Denver||48669|
|University of Detroit Mercy||41158|
|University of Florida||28659|
|University of Florida – Community Sciences||28659|
|University of Georgia||30392|
|University of Hartford||38910|
|University of Houston||22066|
|University of Houston-Clear Lake||19270|
|University of Houston-Downtown||16430|
|University of Idaho||23812|
|University of Illinois at Springfield||20938|
|University of Illinois Urbana – Champaign||31194|
|University of Iowa||30609|
|University of Kansas||26592|
|University of Kentucky||28046|
|University of La Verne||41450|
|University of Louisiana-Lafayette||23616|
|University of Louisiana-Monroe||20570|
|University of Louisville||26286|
|University of Maine||30282|
|University of Maine at Fort Kent||12075|
|University of Mary||18224|
|University of Maryland – College Park||33606|
|University of Maryland University College||12336|
|University of Massachusetts – Amherst||33477|
|University of Massachusetts-Boston||32985|
|University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth||28285|
|University of Massachusetts-Lowell||31865|
|University of Memphis||21029|
|University of Michigan – Ann Arbor||47476|
|University of Michigan – Dearborn||24706|
|University of Michigan-Flint||21165|
|University of Minnesota Digital Campus||$11,338 – $26,603|
|University of Minnesota-Crookston||11814|
|University of Minnesota-Twin Cities||26603|
|University of Missouri||26506|
|University of Missouri at Saint Louis||25505|
|University of Missouri-Kansas City||19793|
|The University of Montana||24943|
|University of Mount Olive||19700|
|University of Nebraska at Kearney||13194|
|University of Nebraska at Omaha||20320|
|University of Nebraska-Lincoln||24098|
|University of Nevada – Reno||21788|
|University of New Haven||38170|
|University of New Mexico||22038|
|University of North Alabama||15128|
|University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill||34588|
|University of North Carolina at Charlotte||20266|
|University of North Carolina at Greensboro||22409|
|University of North Carolina at Pembroke||17605|
|University of North Carolina at Wilmington||21065|
|University of North Dakota||20047|
|University of North Texas||20504|
|University of Northern Colorado||21132|
|University of Northern Iowa||19241|
|University of Northwestern – St. Paul||30794|
|University of Northwestern Ohio||11050|
|University of Notre Dame||51505|
|University of Oklahoma-Norman Campus||26919|
|University of Phoenix||$9,608 – $9,960|
|University of Pittsburgh-Pittsburgh Campus||30642|
|University of Redlands||48072|
|University of Saint Francis||29430|
|University of Saint Mary||27720|
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Mindfulness may seem like a trendy buzzword that represents an abstract concept, but the practice of mindfulness is a legitimate and accessible self-help technique with proven benefits. The practice of mindfulness isn’t limited to a mountain-top monastery or an upscale yoga studio, and it isn’t restricted to ancient gurus or those who seem naturally earthy and zen; mindfulness comes in many forms, has many advantages, and can help people of all ages improve their mental health and emotional well-being.
What is Mindfulness?
Simply put, mindfulness is focusing on the present moment. It sounds absurdly easy — almost mindless, ironically, enough. But in reality, clearing your mind of intrusive thoughts, worries, and to-do lists and learning to manage and prioritize your emotions is a challenge that takes intentional effort and practice.
Mindfulness Activities for the Family
Consider exploring the following mindfulness activities together as a family.
Guided meditation is a surprisingly easy way to get started, especially with all of the technology and apps readily available. Start with an attainable goal in order to get everyone on board, such as a five-minute mindfulness session before bed each night. If kids believe it’s delaying bedtime, by even a few minutes, they’re a lot more likely to embrace the idea. Experiment with videos on YouTube or an app like Headspace or Calm, create a comfortable and quiet place, settle in, and focus on your breathing. Remember that it’s called a mindfulness practice, not a mindfulness perfect — your mind will wander. That’s fine. When that happens, just refocus on your breathing. It’s important not to get attached to your stray thoughts and perceived meditation failures; just let it go. It will get easier.
Yoga is a form of meditation in motion, and practicing yoga poses is a great way to introduce mindfulness for kids. Many of the poses are named after animals, which introduces a playful touch to an activity that combines exercise and helps to build self-esteem. One of the advantages of yoga is that it’s easy to become a witness to your own progress as poses become less strenuous with practice. With a focus on breathing, stillness, and strength it quickly becomes more than just exercise. Pick up a kid-friendly yoga DVD, take local family-friendly classes, or look up yoga poses to practice together.
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Mindfulness moments can happen anywhere. Take a nature walk and ask your child to find an object of interest, like a small rock, a flower, or a leaf for an easy hands-on mindfulness exercise. Invite them to sit down, engage in mindful breathing exercises, and take a few moments to quietly observe and then ask them to share what they noticed, with an emphasis on the five senses.
Simply drawing your child’s attention to the present moment is a form of mindfulness — ask them to take note of how their bare feet feel in the grass, how the sun feels on their shoulders, how the wind feels in their hair. It helps build an appreciation for the natural world and reminds them to “zoom in” and enjoy the here and now.
Mindfulness Books for Kids
If you’re looking for more inspiration to start a mindfulness practice with your children, story time is a great way to introduce the concept and to learn more together. Explore the following children’s books at your local bookstore or on Amazon for more mindfulness exercises for kids:
I Am Peace: A Book of Mindfulness by Susan Verde
This picture book is appropriate for young children in preschool through third grade. It teaches lessons about being fully present, managing emotions, making good choices, practicing empathy, and appreciating nature. The colorful illustrations and simple messages make a gentle but powerful impact on the importance of living a balanced and thoughtful life. This book also includes a kid-friendly guided meditation. I Am Yoga, I Am Love, I Am Human, and I Am One are other books in the series that offer valuable life lessons.
A Handful of Quiet: Happiness in Four Pebbles by Thich Nhat Hanh
Thich Nhat Hanh is a highly revered Buddhist monk, Zen teacher, peace activist, and best-selling author who teaches the art of mindful living and meditation. Hanh created pebble meditation to help introduce mindfulness to children in a way that would resonate with their playful and imaginative perspectives. This beautifully illustrated book uses the physical example of a pebble for children to focus on, provides guided practice, and leaves room for the child to add their own words and art to the story. Although marketed for children in kindergarten through grades four, A Handful of Quiet is meaningful to readers of all ages.
Sitting Still Like a Frog: Mindfulness Exercises for Kids (and Their Parents) by Eline Snel
With cute illustrations, simple exercises, and an included 60-minute audio CD of guided meditations, Sitting Still Like a Frog is an easy and accessible introduction to mindfulness and mindfulness-based practices for children ages five through 12. This book contains 11 mindfulness meditation exercises that help children calm down, fall asleep more easily, manage complicated emotions like anger and anxiety, and improve their patience, awareness, and focus. The accompanying CD is also a great tool to help ease battles over bedtime.
Meditation is an Open Sky: Mindfulness for Kids by Whitney Stewart
This simple picture book, geared towards children from pre-school to fourth grade, uses clear language and playful illustrations of an elephant and a monkey to share nine easy exercises that serve as tools for sorting through complicated emotions. The techniques outlined in the book are designed to help children improve focus, relaxation, clarity, and feelings of security while emphasizing wisdom, kindness, good decision-making, self-control, and openness. Introducing these meditation practices from an early age builds self-awareness that can help empower children to make good choices with confidence throughout life.
The Lemonade Hurricane: A Story of Mindfulness and Meditation by Licia Morelli
The Lemonade Hurricane is an excellent way to present the concept of meditation, mindfulness, and inner peace to young readers through a whimsical story of a young boy named Henry and his sister Emma. In an effort to calm the boisterous chaos that Henry embodies, Emma teaches him how to sit, bow, and take deep breaths to find contentment and stillness. Simple meditation techniques are shared at the back of the book to encourage children to carry the lessons learned in the book into their own lives. This fun and easy story is ideal for children who are three to five years old.
Breathe Like a Bear: 30 Mindful Moments for Kids to Feel Calm and Focused Anytime, Anywhere by Kira Willey
Children from pre-school to third grade learn to manage their bodies, breathing, and feelings wherever they are — whether running errands, finishing homework, or at their desk at school. Breathe Like a Bear features happy, peaceful illustrations and short, easy exercises that focus on mindful breathing and movements that can be done anywhere to find calm, improve focus, and feel energized while improving emotional well-being.
Peaceful Piggy Meditation by Kerry Lee Maclean
If you’re looking for a down-to-earth and fun, but relatable story versus the new age, esoteric vibe that so often accompanies meditation materials, Peaceful Piggy Meditation is the perfect choice. The cute pig characters featured in the illustrations struggle with everyday issues, such as sibling conflicts, complicated emotions, and playing video games and emphasizes the importance of finding a quiet spot to take a break and just breathe. The central message focuses on how and why meditation makes you feel happier, but also includes techniques and encouragement to practice as a family.
Breathe and Be: A Book of Mindfulness Poems By Kate Coombs
Introduce children ages four through eight to poetry and mindfulness all at once with this beautiful book about appreciating the world around us. Through calming illustrations and lyrical prose, Kate Coombs connects physical sensations to the beauty of the natural world in a way that reminds us that the simple act of cultivating awareness can bring joy and inner peace.
My Magic Breath: Finding Calm Through Mindful Breathing, by Nick Ortner and Alison Taylor
My Magic Breath brings a sense of wonder to the practice of meditation by pointing out how simply breathing can make you feel better. This interactive picture book by New York Times bestselling author Nick Ortner shows children from preschool to third grade how they can transform negative emotions into a sense of serenity, self-awareness, and balance by focusing on their breath and acknowledging “bad” feelings without attachment.
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This report outlines the methodology, results, and learnings from a Progress Assessment conducted by Nutrition International’s Nutrition Technical Assistance Mechanism (NTEAM) for a technical assistance assignment by the Technical Assistance for Nutrition (TAN) project in Bangladesh to support the Revitalization and Restructuring of the Bangaldesh National Nutrition Council to Steer National Level Nutrition Actions in the Country.
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Madison Co, MS (July 30, 2022) - Several workers were severely burned during an explosion on the morning of Thursday, July 28th morning explosion at a saltwater disposal site in Madison County.
At least six people sustained burns on more than half of their bodies. One worker was burned over 100% of their body, according to the Madison County Fire Coordinator.
Two of the victims were med-flighted to the University of Mississippi Medical Center for immediate treatment.
As of Friday, the cause of the explosion was still under investigation.
The workers were in the process of changing out two of the four storage tank facilities that hold products from oil wells with new fiberglass tanks. As they were getting ready to go into service, one of the older tanks exploded.
The Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality was requested to the scene to aid in the investigation.
The victims are employees of the Mississippi-based welding and fabrication company, W.S. Red Hancock.
Our thoughts are with the injured victim and their family at this time. We hope for their full recovery.
Toxic Tort Claims in Mississippi
A toxic tort is a civil claim filed by a victim who has sustained physical and/or financial damages due to exposure to a dangerous substance. Typically, these include pesticides, dangerous or defective pharmaceutical medications, and other hazardous chemicals or materials.
Toxic torts frequently involve:
- Exposure at Work: Workers exposed to dangerous materials or chemicals in the course of performing their duties are at a much higher risk of developing workplace illnesses, including life-threatening and debilitating diseases. For example, workers who are exposed to Asbestos which causes mesothelioma, a deadly form of cancer.
- Exposure at Home: People can be exposed to dangerous substances in their communities and homes, particularly when there are spills or leaks that contaminate their food, water, or air. In a fire involving a toxic substance, the smoke can cause widespread illness and disease.
- Pharmaceutical Medications: The pharmaceutical industry has a duty to make sure its drugs are safe for consumer use. Unfortunately, they tend to prioritize profits and allow knowing toxic medications into the retail market. There are many pharmaceutical drugs that have caused patients to experience serious and unintended illnesses.
Toxic exposure can take place during the course of a victim’s work, as the result of leaks or spills that impact the environment, or when a victim ingests a dangerous substance in the belief that it was safe when used as intended.
Toxic torts are complicated cases that involve multiple areas of the law. This is one of the reasons why working with a lawyer who has the versatility and experience to take on this kind of challenge and produce a successful resolution to your case.
The most common causes of toxic torts in Mississippi are those involving:
- Occupational exposure and disease
- Exposure to asbestos causing mesothelioma, asbestosis, and other respiratory issues
- Defective or dangerous medications
- Spilled fuel and other chemicals
- Gas and oil leaks
- Polychlorinated biphenyls
- Polluted water
- Insecticides, rodenticides, and pesticides
If you or a loved one has endured an illness or injury caused by exposure to a toxic substance, you may be entitled to file a toxic tort claim against the negligent party.
If you sustained injuries due to the carelessness, negligence, or dereliction of another person or entity, our lawyers are prepared to investigate your potential personal injury claim. Contact a toxic tort attorney at Germany Law Firm, PLLC by calling (601) 487-0555 to schedule a case evaluation.
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With increasing digitalization, the resultant data is being produced at an unprecedented speed. No wonder then that data is being termed as the new global currency. Deriving value from data brings up numerous opportunities to improve business outcomes and support customer relationship processes. Traditional data analytics tools are not enough to analyze this data. You need data science to make sense of all your customer data.
Join this webinar to learn how to know your customers better with the help of data science. Find out what skills are required to handle customer management related data science projects, and what’s relevant for your industry.
- Find out how to leverage data science for customer management
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Ethereum Merge: What Do We Know?
Soon, the Ethereum Mainnet will merge with the Beacon Chain Proof-of-Stake (PoS) system, which will mark the end of Proof-of-Work (PoW) for Ethereum and the full transition to PoS.
What do we know about the Merge, and what does it set the stage for?
What is the Merge?
The Merge is joining the existing execution layer of Ethereum (i.e., the Ethereum Mainnet that is currently in use) with a new PoS consensus layer, the Beacon Chain.
The Beacon Chain is a coordination mechanism for the new Ethereum ecosystem, a blockchain spine for creating new blocks, ensuring these new blocks are valid, and rewarding validators with ETH for keeping the network secure.
When the Ethereum Mainnet and Beacon Chain finally come together, PoW will be permanently replaced by PoS. As a result, the Merge will help Ethereum to become more scalable, secure, and sustainable by eliminating the need for energy-intensive mining and securing the network using staked ETH.
Ethereum Merge Date
The Merge doesn’t have a certain established date, however, Tim Beiko, leading Ethereum developer, has revealed that the Merge could happen between August and November 2022.
Still, many believe that an early merge will take place in August. Some say 2022 may signal the dawn of Ethereum domination.
Sharding and the Merge
As previously mentioned, one of the main objectives of the Merge is improving Ethereum’s scalability.
The overall poor blockchain scalability has been a subject of a long-standing debate in the crypto community. In large public blockchains like Ethereum, the scalability problem translates to nodes demanding higher transaction fees to process on-chain transactions. Moreover, it also means a high carbon footprint. Sharding appears to be a solution. Interestingly, the term comes from database research where a shard literally means “a piece of a larger whole”.
To explain the term further, sharding is splitting up the burden of handling the large amount of data needed by rollups over the entire network. Rollups handle multiple Ethereum transactions by “rolling” them up into a single piece of data before submitting them to the blockchain.
Being a multi-phase upgrade, sharding will provide secure distribution of data storage requirements, which will eventually enable cheaper rollups and facilitated node operation. These more easily operated nodes enable Layer 2 solutions in order to offer low transaction fees while leveraging the security of the Ethereum ecosystem.
The only safe way for sharding to enter the Ethereum blockchain is via a PoS consensus mechanism. When merged with Ethereum, the Beacon Chain will pave the way for sharding to improve the scalability of Ethereum.
What you also need to know is that the Beacon Chain contains all the logic for keeping shard nodes secure and synced up. The Beacon Chain will coordinate network stakers, assigning them to shards they need to work on. What’s more, receiving and storing shard transaction data that is accessible by other shards will also facilitate communication between the nodes.
As a result, everything will be kept up-to-date on the Ethereum blockchain.
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Hello out there in the blogosphere. How are you? I hope life is treating you well and if not read a good news story here or at JoAnna’s 🙂
You know that recycling and being ecofriendly is a passion of mine. So I was quite excited to find a good news story about a business called Loop on the Good News Network. Apparently, they are delivering your everyday grocieries in re-usable containers. You clean them and send them back where the will be sterilised and then used again. Hence the milkman reference. Find out more about them here on the Good News Network.
I think this is an absolutely brilliant idea, but does it work? Let’s find out via Jamie from “My Imperfect Zero Waste Life.”
I still think its a brilliant idea but there are drawbacks and I get the feeling you need to have some spare money to use this service. Never the less, its one way of becoming more eco-friendly.
products in a loop.
is that so eco-friendly?
who knows the answer?
Sorry for a rather short post today but as you can imagine I am a little pre-occupied with life outside the blogosphere :-).
This post takes part in “Good News Tuesday” inspired by JoAnna on “Anything Possible”. Please head over and find more wonderful and inspiring stories. Thanks!
Happy Tuesday to you all despite everything!
ust one more thing before you go: The hospital that is treating me for cancer is fundraising for a dedicated breast cancer unit which would allow same-day diagnosis and better premises for patients and staff.
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Check a Domain Controller Configuration with the DCDiag Tool
How do I use the DCDiag tool to check a domain controller configuration?
After promoting a server to a domain controller (DC), or when you’re experiencing some problems with Active Directory – and suspecting a DC configuration issue – the dcdiag.exe command-line tool can be extremely useful.
There are 27 basic tests, including checking registration of DNS records, name resolution, AD replication, and Flexible Single Master Operations (FSMO) roles. If your DC fails any of the tests, it likely indicates a problem. To run the tool locally on a Windows Server 2012 DC, open an elevated PowerShell prompt, type dcdiag, and press ENTER.
Useful DCDiag switches
To run DCDiag against a remote DC, specify the /s:<dcname> switch and replace <dcname> with the name of your DC. If necessary, you can also specify a username and password when executing dcdiag against the remote DC.
/s:<dc name> /u:<domain name>\<username> /p:<password>
Typing an asterisk (*) instead of your password in the command above will generate an additional prompt where you can enter the password for the specified user separately and the text will be hidden.
The /c switch initiates more thorough testing, most notably more comprehensive DNS testing. Before running dcdiag, especially if the DNS test results are of particular interest, you might want to flush the DC’s local DNS cache to ensure that any results the tool returns are resolved from a DNS server. The cache can be cleared by running ipconfig /flushdns.
The /v switch gives verbose output which can be useful when you need more information for troubleshooting purposes.
Useful as DCDiag is, sometimes it reports tests as failed when there may not be any problem. This is more likely to occur if you are running DCDiag from Windows Server 2012 against a variety of different versions of Windows Server. For instance, the FrsEvent test reads the event log for the file replication service, but access to the event log is blocked by default by Windows firewall in later versions of Windows Server. For a full list of potential issues with dcdiag tests, see Microsoft’s page on DCDIAG.EXE /E or /A or /C expected errors.
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Since Marissa Mayer became chief executive of Yahoo, she has been working hard to get the Internet pioneer off its deathbed and make it an innovator once again.
She started with free food and new smartphones for every employee, borrowing from the playbook of Google, her employer until last year. Now, though, Yahoo has made a surprise move abolishing its work-at-home policy and ordering everyone to work in the office.
A memo explaining the policy change, from the company's human resources department, says face-to-face interaction among employees fosters a more collaborative culture - a hallmark of Google's approach to its business.
In trying to get back on track, Yahoo is taking on one of the country's biggest workplace issues whether the ability to work from home, and other flexible arrangements, leads to greater productivity or inhibits innovation and collaboration. Across the country, companies like Aetna, Booz Allen Hamilton and Zappos.com are confronting these trade-offs as they compete to attract and retain the best employees.
Bank of America, for example, which had a popular program for working remotely, decided late last year to require employees in certain roles to come back to the office.
Employees, especially younger ones, expect to be able to work remotely, analysts say. And over all the trend is toward greater workplace flexibility.
Still, said John Challenger, chief executive of Challenger Gray & Christmas, an outplacement and executive coaching firm, "A lot of companies are afraid to let their workers work from home some of the time or all of the time because they're afraid they'll lose control."
Studies show that people who work at home are significantly more productive but less innovative, said John Sullivan, a professor of management at San Francisco State University who runs a human resource advisory firm.
"If you want innovation, then you need interaction," he said. "If you want productivity, then you want people working from home."
Reflecting these tensions, Yahoo's policy change has unleashed a storm of criticism from advocates for workplace flexibility who say it is a retrograde approach, particularly for those who care for young children or aging parents outside of work. Their dismay is heightened by the fact that they hoped Ms. Mayer, who became chief executive at 37 while pregnant with her first child, would make the business world more hospitable for working parents.
"The irony is that she has broken the glass ceiling, but seems unwilling for other women to lead a balanced life in which they care for their families and still concentrate on developing their skills and career," said Ruth Rosen, a professor emerita of women's history at the University of California.
But not only women take advantage of workplace flexibility policies. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, nearly as many men telecommute.
The bureau says 24 percent of employed Americans report working from home at least some hours each week. And 63 percent of employers said last year that they allowed employees to work remotely, up from 34 percent in 2005, according to a study by the Families and Work Institute, a nonprofit group studying the changing work force.
During the recession, the institute expected employers to demand more face time, but instead found that 12 percent increased workplace flexibility, said Ellen Galinsky, its president and co-founder. She attributed this to companies' desire to reduce real estate costs, carbon footprints and commuting times.
Technologies developed in Silicon Valley, from video chat to instant messaging, have made it possible for employees across America to work remotely. Yet like Yahoo, many tech companies believe that working in the same physical space drives innovation.
A Yahoo spokeswoman, Sara Gorman, declined to comment, saying only that the company did not publicly discuss internal matters.
The company's memo, written by Jackie Reses, director of human resources at Yahoo, and published on All Things D, a blog on digital issues, said: "Some of the best decisions and insights come from hallway and cafeteria discussions, meeting new people and impromptu team meetings. Speed and quality are often sacrificed when we work from home."
In part, the memo looks like an effort to bring a Google spirit to Yahoo, said Colin Gillis, an analyst at BGC Partners who covers both companies.
"Marissa's trying to increase the energy and output and change the culture of the company," he said. "She brings all the Google lessons to the table, and Google is very focused on having your life revolve around their campus so you can spend a significantly larger chunk of time at work."
Still, Google, as well as Facebook, does allow people to work remotely on a case-by-case basis. But both companies also strongly stress in-person collaboration.
Standard Silicon Valley perks like cafeterias with free food, shuttle buses, gyms, ice cream parlors and dry cleaners not only make employees' lives easier, but keep them on campus during the day and promote contact with other employees. Nearly all tech companies have desks packed tightly together without walls and communal work areas with sofas and beanbags.
Zappos, the e-commerce company owned by Amazon.com, previously allowed some customer service agents to work from home, but now has a rule against working remotely. The company locks all office doors except one so employees are forced to run into more people on the way out, and budgets fewer than 100 square feet per employee, versus the standard 120 square feet or more.
"It's to maximize those serendipitous encounters," said Zach Ware, who oversees campus development at the company. "The success of our company is built on our culture, and our perspective is you can't really do that on e-mail."
Some companies outside the tech industry are also re-evaluating flexible work arrangements. In addition to Bank of America, certain industries that deal with sensitive client information, like health care and finance, have more restrictions on working remotely.
Yet more companies embrace flexibility. At Aetna, 47 percent of workers telecommute, up from 9 percent in 2005. The company provides secure Internet and phone connections, locked file cabinets and shredders. During that period, the policy has saved the company $78 million in real estate costs, said Susan Millerick, an Aetna spokeswoman.
At Booz Allen, employees can work at home or sign up to work at a desk in another branch, called "hoteling." The policy has been vital to employee retention, said Christopher Carlson, a senior associate in human resources at Booz Allen. He works from his home in Florida, where he moved from the Washington, D.C., region to care for his aging parents.
"It allows me to integrate my work and life and be successful at both," Mr. Carlson said. "And I spend less money on gas."
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Hugo Chavez Flunks Economics
In this article about Hugo Chavez pledging to offer oil to poor Americans at a deeply discounted price comes this little gem.
Chavez is seen by some as the biggest problem to emerge in Latin America since his hero, Fidel Castro, seized power nearly a half century ago. And it all has to do with oil and Chavez’s repeated threats to cut off the U.S. from Venezuela’s oil supply.
The U.S. gets more than 1 million barrels of oil a day from Venezuela.
Hugo, buddy, oil is traded on a global market. As such, putting an embargo on the U.S. all by your lonesome would do practically nothing since the U.S. would go to the global market and buy 1 million barrels there while somebody else bought the 1 million barrels we no longer bought from you. Now maybe if you just stopped producing those 1 million barrels the price might go up a bit. If you could get OPEC to follow suit then things could get pretty bad…but at the same time you’d be hurting your own country since you’d be losing out on that revenue as well. | <urn:uuid:0f06b223-9ffb-4d01-a13e-1d5a5b07d64a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.outsidethebeltway.com/hugo_chavez_flunks_economics/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573744.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819161440-20220819191440-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.967229 | 242 | 1.945313 | 2 |
The questions politicians should ask
This time I have questions for you, but I don’t have an answer for them. For this thought experiment, I’ll split the problems into two sections and have come up with your solutions to those present political problems.
Feel free to post your suggestions in the comments; if any of them is good, we can forward them to the White House and some representatives.
Section 1: How do we ensure the decentralisation of power and sustain democracy, at least by the measure we have today?
The Conservatives argue that today’s left-wing party is pushing for the demolishment of States powers and that the states should become a single nation ruled by a single party with immortally elected politicians powered primarily by the Oligarchs of the country.
The Liberals seem to argue that the existing democratic system has been rigged and abused by the dominating White-Straight-Families who are also former-slave owners and that the only true exit from Slavery would be to Socialise our government by dissolving the states and centralising the power into a federal government which then (we are promised) that it will be socialised (Like the former Soviet Union) where the government will have no president and be effectively run by the will of the people.
I’m concerned that the Socialist future will be worse than the current Decentralised democratic system we have, as we have no systems in place that prevent the centralisation of power in addition to a good portion of conservatives today tend to push outdated rhetoric that has little to do with saving the government and more to do with restoring religion, god, and ban homosexuality; from a grand scheme of things Roe V Wade and LGBTQ are smaller scale identity politics in comparison to the threat of collapse of democracy we are facing in the country. The forward party talks about making voting better; however, the bigger issue at hand is that voting altogether is losing power, and instead, corporations vote with money, while citizen’s money (taxes) are being deducted with no control or permission from the citizen ergo citizens money-vote is pre-cast to the federal government by default.
Section 2: The Fair-Trade / Free Market Capitalism is dying due to economies of scale, the evolution of the internet market, and the upcoming automation era (Think new industrial era = x¹⁰).
One way we’re addressing this is with UBI, which solves the poverty and homelessness problems; however, the end of capitalism also means the end of the competition, patent wars, and intellectual property. Soon we will be entering an age where a super-government owns all infrastructure and as major industries and infrastructure become public domain. Innovation and competition in those industries will stop; and instead, we will focus more on scalability and optimisation of the existing technology as it will be outdated; a USSR example of this is insisting on busses and holding off developing bullet trains, abstaining from investing in microchip and computer technology, demanding improving typewriters instead, so on and so forth.
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It’s essential to have the ability to trust your intuition in making decisions. In the present, thanks to the power of intuitive software which allows you to make decisions quickly and effortlessly without worrying about the consequences. What is intuitive software and how can you make the most from it? Intuitive software is a kind of software that has been designed to be simple to use. It is commonly utilized by those who are not comfortable with computers or don’t have the time to master complicated software. The software that is intuitive can be extremely intuitive and allows people to perform tasks quickly and effortlessly. There are a variety of intuitive software, that are suitable for various applications. A program that is intuitive is a user-friendly and simple option.
The future of computing lies in intuitive software, which is often appreciated. The programs make use of the power of artificial intelligence to grow and learn with time, becoming more efficient at working on tasks. This software is being used across a range of industries from healthcare to retail. The applications for it are endless. As Intuitive software continues to develop, it will become increasingly essential for businesses to adopt the programs to stay in the game. There are numerous advantages to Intuitive software in comparison to other programs. Perhaps most importantly, it is far more adaptable and flexible in its ability to adapt to changing needs and conditions.
Intuitive software is vital in keeping a business operating smoothly. Through automation of tasks and making it simple to find the data you require, intuitive software can allow you to work more efficiently and effectively. Additionally, it can also help you to reduce errors and time. Intuitive software is an excellent instrument for any business. You can improve your bottom line and your business efficiency through investing in Intuitive Software.
Software that is user-friendly can make it easier to do your work more efficiently. It can automate repetitive tasks and combines information into one interface. The intuitive software was created to be simple to use, so that you’ll spend less time learning to utilize it, and you can spend more time working. If you choose to invest in a user-friendly software will help you increase your efficiency and stay ahead over your competition.
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Engagement of employees is enhanced by the software making it easy for employees to find the information and tools they require to complete their tasks. It’s simple to navigate and use, so employees can find the information they require quickly and quickly begin working on their tasks without being overwhelmed. The software is intuitive and has reminders as well as task lists that can keep employees on track and organized. Users will be less distracted from searching for information, and will spend more time working productively if all information is available in one location. The use of intuitive software can improve employee engagement and job satisfaction.
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Intuitive software was designed to be intuitive from the very beginning. With minimal training new users can discover what they’re looking for fast. This means that they are more likely to stay with the product over the long haul. Users are also able to return to the program easily after a long break. They don’t need to spend hours relearning how to use the program; they can return to where they were when they left. This makes it more likely that users will continue to utilize the software, even if they’re not using it every day. A high level of customer retention is crucial for any company as well as intuitive software is one way to achieve it.
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In my last post I considered the benefits of applying the ESD framework to our interpretation of the history and philosophy of science in early modern Spain. We saw that, in spite of the appearance of the terms “empiric” and “rationalist” in the work of some of the Spanish intellectual figures of the period, the ESD framework had a lot more to offer than the traditional RED framework. Today I want to introduce a particular controversy that highlights the advantages of working with the ESD in our examination of science and philosophy in early modern Spain.
The whole controversy began with the publication of a book by a scholastic figure: Gabriel Alvarez de Toledo (1662-1714), librarian to the king. In 1713 he published Historia de la Iglesia y del Mundo (History of the Church and the World), a book in which he gives an interpretation of Genesis consistent with the theory of atomism. The book stands at the crossroads of the experimental/speculative divide and as such it offers us a great insight into the uniqueness of the development of philosophy in early modern Spain. The book is an attempt to adopt the ideas of the new science within a scholastic framework. Alvarez begins his chapter on the creation of the sensible world with a presentation of his atomism:
At the beginning, the matter of the Sensible World was a tangled mass of imperceptible small bodies, which were the primitive state of the creative action, of the material Substance. These tiny bodies differed in their form, and due to them, through movement were capable of creating the various compositions that make this Fabric, which is as varied as it is beautiful. Each tiny body had its own place, and in this way they had extension, though this does not mean that they were subject of division, given that the principle of them was Creation, dividing them would be annihilating them.
Here we have a case where a scholastic figure attempts to adopt the new science into his scholastic system, explaining the creation of the world through the union and separation of corpuscles of various kinds. Alvarez adds a note to the passage quoted above where he explains how his account of the creation based on corpuscles and the indivisibility of matter is consistent with the power and wisdom of God. First he explains that God created all things independent of each other, giving each corpuscle its individuality, and that this is not contrary to the process of Creation, since compound bodies are nothing but united corpuscles, whether these bodies are created already as compounds or not. Regarding the indivisibility of the corpuscles, Alvarez explains that, being the result of simple Creation, corpuscles cannot be divided, since this would entail that each of the divided parts would have to exist either through creation or generation, and neither of these options is possible. He goes on to say that the heterogeneity in form, and the extension of these corpuscles is clear, and he finishes the note with a caution which highlights the care taken by the scholastics who adopted theories from the new science. One way of preventing any suspicion of heresy was to claim that the theory was not certain, but rather that it was a probable hypothesis. This is what Alvarez does to conclude his note, saying that “…we do not propose our maxims as evident, but we are satisfied to leave it in terms of probable”.
However cautious Alvarez was, the scholastics still saw his book as a threat to their beliefs and set out to criticize it. This was the beginning of a controversy that would involve the leading intellectual figures of the time. Two scholastic thinkers, Fransisco Palanco and Juan Martin de Lessaca set out to attack Alvarez´s book and the new science, while Diego Mateo Zapata and Juan de Najera replied defending the Novatores and calling for the replacement of the old, scholastic science with the new.
We will look at the details of each of the texts in forthcoming posts. For now, I want to conclude by commenting on the nature of the experimental/speculative divide in early modern Spain. The Alvarez-Palanco-Zapata-Lessaca-Najera controversy shows that the experimental and speculative ideals stand at two opposite ends of a whole spectrum. While the scholastic Palanco and Lessaca stand clearly closer to the speculative end, Alvarez, a scholastic intellectual, stands closer to the middle, with Zapata and Najera standing at the experimental end. In fact, both Zapata and Najera began their intellectual life closer to the speculative end, but went on to fully embrace the methodology of experimental philosophy as time went by. To complicate the scene even further, during the final years of his life Najera gave up on experimental philosophy and went back to defend the scholastic, speculative way of thinking. This highlights the complexity of the Spanish intellectual landscape, while at the same time providing us with the opportunity to shed light on such a landscape by examining it from the ESD framework.
Juan Gomez writes…
One of the most exciting tasks of my research has been to track the introduction and reception of the ESD in early modern Spain. I have illustrated the adoption and praise of the spirit of experimental philosophy in various texts by the Spanish Novatores, and I looked in a bit more detail at the work of Benito Feijoo (posts 1, 2, and 3). In spite of the insistence to abandon scholastic and Aristotelian methods and science, the progress of natural philosophy in early modern Spain lagged in comparison to the rest of Europe. In fact, the Novatores themselves recognized this lack of progress, as is clear from a letter by Feijoo which I will be sharing with you today.
In 1745 Feijoo published a collection of letters, most of them responding to a range of criticisms directed against his Teatro Critico Universal. Letter 16 in the second volume of that collection is Causas del atraso que se padece en España en orden a las Ciencias Naturales (Causes for the backwardness of Spain regarding the Natural Sciences). Feijoo gives six reasons (causes) for this backwardness, in all of them placing the blame on the scholastic philosophers and their way of thinking.
The first cause is the narrowness of most of the teachers, whom Feijoo describes as “Everlasting ignorants, set on knowing only a few things, for no other reason that they think that there is nothing else to know, aside from those few things they know.” Feijoo goes on to describe this kind of teacher, who only knows scholastic logic and metaphysics, and laughs when hearing words like ‘new philosophy’ or ‘Descartes.’ However, when asked to explain the claims of the new philosophy or those held by Descartes, they stay silent because they have no knowledge of them. (Note: experimental philosophy and new philosophy are not identical, even though the former was sometimes referred to by the latter name. For example, Descartes was commonly regarded as a new philosopher, but not so much as an experimental philosopher.)
People like the teachers described above have spread throughout Spain a disdain for ‘the new’, the second cause identified by Feijoo. They think that, since every sacred doctrine labelled ‘new’ is rejected immediately for being suspicious, the same rule applies for theories about the natural world. So they must reject the teachings of Galileo, Huygens, and Harvey, as well as all the new instruments and machines developed in the seventeenth century, holding on to their scholastic and Aristotelian science as the one true system. Feijoo comments that this attitude backfires, since rejecting anything because it has been labelled ‘new’ entails that there could never have been any progress in natural science (the Aristotelian system was also ‘new’ at some point).
But aside from rejecting the new philosophy because it is ‘suspicious’, the Spanish scholastics also reject it because all it presents is “a few useless curiosities.” (This is the third cause given by Feijoo.) What the scholastics do not realize, Feijoo tells us, is that under this criterion their theories lose against those of the modern: “Which would be more useful: to explore in the physical world the works of the Author of Nature, or to investigate through large treatises derived from the Entity of Reason, and logical and metaphysical abstractions, the fictions of human understanding?” Feijoo also contrasts between the method of learning in the confines of the classroom of the scholastic, and that of the modern, based on experiments and observations.
The fourth cause rests on the mistaken notion held by the scholastics that the new philosophy is identical to Cartesian philosophy. Feijoo comments that although Cartesian philosophy might be new philosophy, new philosophy is not Cartesian philosophy, the same way men are animals but animals are not men. Highlighting the ESD, Feijoo goes on to divide philosophy into two kinds:
“Philosophy, taken in all its extension, can be divided into Systematic and Experimental. The Systematic has many different members, e.g. Pythagoric, Platonic, Peripatetic, Parascelsistic, or Chemical, that of Campanella, that of Descartes, that of Gassendi, etc.”
Feijoo clarifies that he advocates not that the Spaniards embrace one of the former systems, but rather that they do not close their eyes to “Experimental Physics”, which:
“without regard for any system, investigates the causes through the sensible effects; and where it cannot investigate the causes, it settles for the experimental knowledge of the effects… This is the physics that reigns in Nations: the one cultivated by many distinguished Academies as soon as it emerged in France, England, Holland, Etc.”
The achievements of this experimental physics are illustrated by the discoveries regarding our knowledge of the properties of air, of fluids and mechanics, all of them unattainable by relying on the physics of the schools.
Feijoo identifies as the last two causes the mistaken idea that the new philosophy clashes with religion, and the jealousy and pride of the scholastics in Spain that prevented them from accepting the triumphs of other men of science from different European nations. I will not examine them here. Instead I want to conclude the post by pointing out that, not only there is enough evidence to confirm the presence of the ESD (at least in some form) in early modern Spain, but also that it can provide us with an interesting framework to interpret the development of natural philosophy and science in early modern Spain.
One of the features of Early Modern Experimental Philosophy was the rejection of the ‘old ways,’ the Scholastic system of philosophy in particular. We have shown in this blog ample evidence of the attack on the Scholastics by those who promoted Experimental Philosophy. We have been showing how the ESD plays an important role in the early modern period, but we have focused mainly on the work of experimental philosophers. In this post I want to present a text that defends the usefulness of the logic of the Scholastics (the use of syllogistic logic in particular). The text is by Edward Bentham (1707-1776), a teacher of divinity in Oxford for twenty years. In 1740 he published Reflections upon the nature and usefulnes of logick as it has been commonly taught in the schools.
In this text, Bentham does not explicitly attack the “new philosophy.” In fact, at some points he recognizes some of the flaws that the promoters of experimental philosophy found in the Scholastics. But his general claim is that those who reject Scholastic logic are making a huge mistake. In the first couple of pages Bentham tells us that most of the treatises in Logic were “wrote in abstruse Scholastic Language,” and these lead the “moderns” to reject “the dry Systematical method of delivering rules.” But these thinkers end up doing more damage by their rejection of Scholastic logic:
- They launch out into various disquisitions upon abstruse subjects; and often draw the illustration of their rules from the depth of other sciences. And by this means, while they seem to enrich the mind with new discoveries, and therefore entertain the Fancy, they perplex the Judgment; While they promise to give the understanding more activity and freedom, they really rob it of that balast, by which in prudence it should be kept steady, and be prevented from being hasty and precipitant in its determinations. Thus enquiries into the nature of our Souls, our Sensations, our Passions and Prejudices, with other springs of wring judgment, make a part of the natural History of Man, rather than a part of Logick, and are of too mixed a nature to fall under general rules.
Bentham seems to be arguing that Scholastic logic should be learnt before exploring any of the other sciences, but this is not to say that the former is all that is needed and the rest of the sciences are useless. On the contrary, they are at the same level: “At the same time that we admire the ingenuity and great learning of later Philosophers, let the exact method and accuracy of the Scholastick Systematical Logicians be entitled to our praise and imitation.” Bentham does admit that there are some flaws in the Scholastic system, but they have nothing to do with the logic. He goes over the different parts of Scholastic logic, and when discussing syllogisms he tells us:
- Now it must be own’d, that in discourse upon ordinary matters, we have no occasion, either to put ourselves to the trouble of continually applying a common standard, or to tie ourselves up to the strictness of Scholastick form, in order to perceive the agreement or disagreement above mentioned [Syllogisms]: Nor can it be any great edification to an inquisitive Student to be told in such variety of form, as sometimes he is in treatises of Scholastick Logick, that Man is Animal. But yet he may find his account in learning those general rules, which are applicable, as a test, to all reasoning, however varied or disguised by the advantage of witty turns and good Language.
Bentham considers Syllogisms to be of great use, and in the final pages of his text he confirms the importance of Scholastic Logic and attacks the moderns who reject it:
- Since the decline of Scholastick learning, though Science of every kind has received prodigious improvements by the labour and sagacity of exalted Genius’s, yet we find the common run of reasoners as bad as ever; –not more knowing, but much more conceited; –not so ambitious as to improve their knowledge, as to conceal their ignorance; –determining magisterially upon points, without knowing or considering the first principles, of what they are discoursing of; –taking themselves to be masters of every subject, upon which they can raise an objection…
In a previous post, Peter Anstey commented on the Straw Man problem for the ESD. But this text by Bentham shows that there was still some appreciation for Scholastic Logic, especially the use of syllogism. Despite all the criticisms of the Scholastic system made by the promoters of experimental philosophy Bentham defended their logic. As Kenneth Winkler points out in his chapter (Lockean logic) in The Philosophy of John Locke: New Perspectives, Bentham was one of the thinkers who attempted to adopt a kind of Lockean logic but without giving up syllogistic. Determining if Bentham was after all (beyond logic) a speculative philosopher requires a lot more than a blog post, but I will keep working on it and follow up on this issue in the near future. | <urn:uuid:f213b2cc-21b1-4321-9f0f-dd06e7a7bcea> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://blogs.otago.ac.nz/emxphi/tag/scholastics/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573744.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819161440-20220819191440-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.960066 | 3,346 | 2.671875 | 3 |
What Is Er Diagram And Purpose Of It?
- Entities as Words
- Drawing an ERD for Database Design
- Entity Relationship Diagram Symbols and Notations
- Diagrammatics for Documentation
- Physical Data Models
- Cardinality of an Employee and His Department
- A Novelist's Guide to the World Wide Web
- ER Diagrams
- Entity Sets and Relationship
- Entity Relationship Modeling
- An Entity Relationship Diagram
- ER Diagrams for Database Development
- A Diagram of an ER
- Visualizing and Manipulating Entities in Design
- Double rectangle representation of weak entity type
- Enhanced Models for Database Design
Entities as Words
Entities act upon each other. Think of relationships as words. The student might register for a course.
Drawing an ERD for Database Design
The database is an essential part of the software systems. ER diagram is used in database engineering to produce high-quality database design. Communication is provided by an ER model.
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varchar for a string and int for a number are examples of attributes that describe the kind of attribute they are. It is important to ensure the use of types that are supported by the target RDBMS when drawing an ERD. A foreign key is a reference to a primary key.
It is used to identify relationships. Foreign keys can be used. Multiple records can share values.
A foreign key is used in referencing another entity in the ER diagram example below. A relationship between two entities is a sign that they are related. A student might enroll in a course.
Entity Relationship Diagram Symbols and Notations
ERD stands for Entity Relationship Diagram and is a diagram that shows the relationship of entity sets in a database. ER diagrams help to explain the logical structure of databases. ER diagrams are created from three basic concepts.
The ER model is a high-level conceptual data model diagram. The ER model helps to analyze data requirements. The ER Model shows the relationships between real-world entities.
Creating an ER model in the database management system is considered a good practice. The symbols which are used in the Entity Relationship Diagram Symbols & Notations are diamond, rectangle and oval. The ERD diagram has some sub-elements that are based on the main elements.
ERD symbols and notations are used to represent data that is related to each other. An entity set is a group of entities. It may contain entities that share the same attribute values.
Entities are represented by their properties. All attributes have their own values. A student entity may have a name and age.
Diagrammatics for Documentation
When documenting a system, look at it in multiple ways to understand it. ERD diagrams and data flow diagrams are used to show the contents of a data store. They help us to see how data is connected in a general way, and are useful for building a database.
Physical Data Models
Entities interact with each other in relationships. A customer buys software online, for example, with a relationship marked with a verbs. If an entity connects the occurrences between two different entities, it is called a recursive relationship.
A department manager may be the supervisor of his subordinates or one of them. One or more instances of the entity A are associated with one or more instances of the entity B. A company may cooperate with different part-time workers, while a freelancer may offer part-time services to several companies.
The physical data model gives users guidance on how to construct their systems and associated data, and assigns more detailed technical details to each entity. logical data models are used for physical data models. You can save it on the Edraw team or personal cloud, print it out in different paper sizes, share it on your social networking platforms, or export it to a wide range of different formats.
Cardinality of an Employee and His Department
An entity is a real-world item that is not created by another. Each row of a table is a representation of an instance of that entity. An attribute is a property that describes the entity.
A relationship is the association that describes the interaction between entities. Cardinality is the number of instances of one entity that can be associated with another. There may be one-to-one, one-to-many, or many-to-many relationships.
Let's consider two real-world entities, an employee and his department. An employee has a number, name, and department number. The department number and name can be defined as attributes.
A Novelist's Guide to the World Wide Web
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Some people may be confused about how to use a connector. It is easy. You can see that the entity shape has lots of green marks if you move the connector towards it.
The red mark indicates that the two have connected. A table is used to represent entities. They are an essential part of the diagrams.
The attributes related to the entity are listed in the table. They are also called fields. Keys are used to categorize.
The ER diagram needs tables to be more efficient. The keys are used to link tables. There are two types of keys.
The components of non-software and software systems are documented in the program. The behavior and other structural information are represented in two separate diagrams. The composition association relationship is a form of aggregation and was named in the latest edition of the software.
Entity Sets and Relationship
An entity set is a collection of entities. Entities with similar values may be included in an entity set. A teacher set may include all the teachers of the school from all faculties, while a student set may include all the students of the school.
The entity set does not need to be disjoint. There is a range of values that can be assigned to attributes. A student's name cannot be a numerical value.
It has to be written in the alphabet. A student's age can't be negative. 1.
Key is an attribute collection of attributes that uniquely identifies an entity. The roll_number of a student makes him identifiable. 2.
A combination of attributes is called a composite attribute. The student address is a part of a larger address that includes pin code, state, and country. There are 4.
Entity Relationship Modeling
TheEntity Relationship is a great-levels conceptual information model diagram. The idea of true-entire world entities as well as the relationship between the two are what makes Entity-Relation product. ER modeling helps to evaluate details demands to produce a data bank.
It is a very good practice to complete ER modeling before you start using your data source. An entity might be a person, a celebration, or a concept. The features of organizations should have a characteristic.
An Entity Relationship Diagram
It is important to have a good Entity Relationship design at the beginning to make a database. Let's learn about an Entity Relationship Diagram and how to create one using a professional tool. An employee, a student, a car, a building, a course, or an action could all be considered entities.
Several entities are combined together by sharing common attributes and values. Students in a university are an entity of various individuals. They are in a class, which can be any class.
All kinds of characteristics related to an entity are defined by attributes. It is a single property that explores an entity, letting us know what data is in it. An ellipse is used to depict an attribute in an Entity Relationship Diagram.
A relationship is a way of connecting two or more entities. They are used to identify which entity depends on other entities. Tom and Chemistry are linked with a relationship that depicts Tom studies Chemistry.
Cardinality is a vital component in an Entity Relationship Diagram. It helps us understand how two or more entities are linked. There are different types of cardinalities in an ER diagram.
ER Diagrams for Database Development
The structure of the database is represented by an Entity-Relationship Model. ER Modelling is a process that requires you to analyze all data requirements before you implement your database. Peter Chen proposed ER Diagrams in 1971 to create a uniform convention that can be used as a conceptual modeling tool.
There were many models presented and discussed, but none were suitable. Charles Bachman offered data structure diagrams that inspired his model. The ER diagram is used to describe the conceptual design of databases.
A Diagram of an ER
EER uses a program. The acronym for Unified Modeling Language is UML. The class diagrams show the entities.
Visualizing and Manipulating Entities in Design
The design phase can be opened up to non-technical stakeholders by being able to graphically view and manipulate your entities. They don't need to learn database development to understand what's happening. An ERD is easy to use and allows them to contribute their business knowledge to the design.
Business and technical people should be able to understand a logical data model. The ERD provides a common language to use. Tools can automate the process of creating a database once you have an ER diagram.
Double rectangle representation of weak entity type
A double rectangle is used to represent a weak entity type. The total participation of weak entity type is always. The strong entity type has a double diamond relationship with the weak entity type.
Enhanced Models for Database Design
Conceptual and physical ER diagrams are available. The foundation for logical data models can be found in conceptual diagram models, as can the relationships between ER models. Generalization and specialization are not the same.
Generalization combines entities that are lower in level into one that is higher. High-level entities are divided into lower levels. Two entities are treated as one entity.
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Travel Guides: Barcelona City Guide
Barcelona is a city of breathtaking architecture that can be seen from the marvelous monuments to the historic districts.
The city has become one of the most popular destinations in Europe with a warm Mediterranean climate, rich culture and hearty cuisine. Its thriving food scene also makes it one of the top-rated cities for foodies.
Popular attractions and monuments
The Sagridia Familia is undoubtedly one of the main attractions of the city, if not of the mainland. This unfinished architectural masterpiece has now reopened its doors to visitors, who can marvel at the sheer scale of effort and creativity required for such a project. The facade is almost finished and visitors can tour the interior which houses the tomb of the infamous architect.
The Sagrada Familia may be the main attraction, but Barcelona Cathedral is also worth a visit. This enormous Gothic structure is a fine example of Catalan Gothic architecture from the 15th century. Entrance to the Temple and the cloister is free.
You can now also visit Casa Batlló, the dragon-roofed building turned museum. Immerse yourself in the breathtaking new tour of Gaudi’s magical house. You can also discover the ultramodern space of the Gaudi Cube.
The Case Mila, a World Heritage Site, also known as ‘La Pedrera’, is another fine example of Gaudi’s work, which was restored and opened to the public in 1996. Another popular attraction is the Art Nouveau building.
Designed by Jean Novel, Torre Agbar is one of Barcelona’s modern landmarks and at 426 feet this impressive steel and glass structure towers over the city.
Art and culture
The Picasso Museum is one of Barcelona’s most popular attractions, showcasing some of Picasso’s early works with paintings, drawings and ceramics.
You can also visit the Palau Nacional (National Palace), one of the city’s main attractions and home to the National Art Museum of Catalonia. An impressive magic fountain sits at the front of the structure. The museum has one of the best examples of Romanesque art. It also houses a wide selection of Catalan paintings from the Gothic period.
Las Ramblas is a popular avenue with tourists, with plenty of shopping opportunities. You will also find many restaurants, cafes and market stalls in this area where you can find great souvenirs. There are also many hotels and bars, so if you want to stay in the central and bustling area this is the place.
For foodies, Barcelona does not disappoint. Offering a range of gastronomic delights that reflect the city’s artistic flair. In addition to classic dishes, you will find inventive cuisine unique to this city in many of the best restaurants.
For a delicious interpretation of Spanish and Mediterranean cuisine, head to La Gastronómica located in Carrer de Calabria. If you are looking for a more refined and relaxed dining experience, you should try Rao, which serves modern Catalan cuisine using the best local ingredients. For a more laid back outing with great service and authentic Paella, head to Micu Maku.
Parc Güell is a public park designed by the famous Catalan architect Antoni Gaudi. Opened in 1926 and listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, this urban park features many touches of Gaudi, who himself designed many mosaics and sculptures. A great place to relax, the park is full of winding green paths. A ticket will give you access to the area where you will find most of Gaudi’s works.
Barcelona has some great beaches, which are popular during the summer months. Barceloneta beach attracts the biggest crowds. Here you will find plenty of entertainment, food and drink options, as well as water sports such as kite surfing.
If you’re looking for a more laid-back beach vibe, you can head to Sant Sebestia located in the eastern part of town. It’s still bustling, but less than the main beach, and offers a lot more waterspout options.
As a major economic and tourist hub, Barcelona enjoys an excellent commercial scene. Offering an impressive mix of boutiques and international brands to suit all tastes. Head to Mercat Santa Caterina for a wide selection of shops. If you are looking for high end and big brands then head to Passeig de Garcia. | <urn:uuid:8cbe438c-4a25-46a8-9e2d-9684a1382909> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://vermonttravelguides.com/travel-guides-barcelona-city-guide/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570793.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808092125-20220808122125-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.940296 | 941 | 1.703125 | 2 |
TIPS on Teaching Large Classes Online1
1. Develop a Course Routine
As part of managing students’ expectations it is important to have a clear course routine. For example, submissions of assignments or exercises on certain days, quizzes on certain days, lecture responses to questions on forums on certain days. Ensure that your Moodle site clearly indicates where students can find details about your course and its contents. Also, make sure that assessments are clearly indicated and linked to CLOs as well as activities students will be doing on the course.
2. Create and Maintain a Social Presence
In an online environment the presence of the lecturer becomes paramount. Presence can be maintained through video recordings, voice recordings, drop-ins in break-out rooms, email communication, virtual office hours, and through contributions to forums.
3. Have Students Work in the Same Groups
Divide students into smaller working groups. This way students can build up confidence and provide support to each other throughout the course, and groups of four/five students, rather than individuals, can be contacted via check-ins. Include activities where groups provide feedback to each other.
4. Deliver Your Lecture in Chunks
Whether lectures are delivered synchronously or asynchronously, divide your lecture into 10-12 minutes sessions. Make sure that synchronous sessions are recorded and made available to students who cannot be present. Each mini presentation can be followed by a group activity (using break-out rooms in Zoom). At the end of the lecture, sum-up key learning points through a quiz or guided reflection activity. For first year students, make sure that activities are simple until they get used to working in an online environment. Build on those activities step by step before moving onto activities that needs more technical skills.
5. Check for Understanding
Make use of classroom response systems during teaching – such as Mentimeter or Zoom polling. Check for understanding during the lecture by posing questions which students can answer using the chat function or Q and A forum. Also, make sure that students have access to activities where they can assess their learning. After each teaching session, students can be asked to post the ‘muddiest point’, or they can be asked one or two ‘exit questions’ and post their individual or group answers on a discussion board. The answers can be used as a starting point for the following lecture.
6. Set Up a Forum for Q and A
Make use of discussion forums or discussion boards. For large classes, it may help to divide these into themes or threads, for better management. Be careful not to ‘interfere’ too much. Often students will answer other students’ questions. Do have guidelines as to when and how you will respond to issues posted. Also, include an area on your Moodle site for FAQs where students can be referred to. This stops you having to answer the same question several times.
- Mayes-Tang, Sarah. Teaching Extra-Large Classes Online: 5 Principles I’m Following
- Teaching Large Classes. Faculty Innovation Centre. The University of Texas at Austin.
- Teaching Large Classes Online. Centre for Excellence in Teaching and Learning at Oakland University.
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This post was written by cataloger Catherine Falzone.
If Marie Antoinette had survived the French Revolution, she might have come to live in the Pennsylvania woods. The American Historical Manuscript Collection (AHMC) contains documents from the founding of Asylum (or Azilum), the French refugee settlement located in Pennsylvania that was intended for the French royals.
After the French Revolution began and the royal family had been discovered escaping to Varennes in 1791, Louis de Noailles (brother-in-law of the Marquis de Lafayette) and Antoine Omer Talon, both loyal to the king, plotted to smuggle the royal family out of Paris. After Louis XVI was imprisoned in August 1792, Noailles and Talon began to plan a community in America for French exiles.
Noailles purchased a tract of land from American financier Robert Morris (1734-1806) and John Nicholson (1757-1800), his partner in land speculation. The two had bought thousands of acres of land in Pennsylvania, but had been having a hard time attracting settlers. Noailles and Talon hired Charles Bué Boulogne, a French lawyer who had been acting as land agent in America for other French buyers, to find a suitable place for a settlement. They found it on the banks of the Susquehanna River, in present-day Bradford County, Pa., near the landmark called “Standing Stone.” Morris and Matthias Hollenback, a Wilkes-Barre judge and trading post operator, worked to secure the deeds for the Asylum Company.
Facsimile of original survey of Azilum town plot, 1794, Laporte’s copy. Murray, Elsie. Azilum, French refugee colony of 1793. Athens, Pa.: Tioga Point Museum, 1940. New-York Historical Society.
The two letters in the AHMC from Boulogne to Hollenback—dated October 3, 1793, and June 19, 1794— are evidence of the work that went into planning the community. In the first letter, Boulogne writes that he has received tables, sashes, and frames, and would like the rest to be forwarded. In the second, he is trying to manage the luggage of John Keating (an Irish-born land manager employed by Morris) and Noailles and to have items delivered from Hollenback’s store.
Letter. 1793 October 3. MS2958.1079, Charles Boulogne letters to Mathias Hollenback. New-York Historical Society.
Letter, p. 1. 1794 June 19. MS2958.1079, Charles Boulogne letters to Mathias Hollenback. New-York Historical Society.
Letter, p. 2. 1794 June 19. MS2958.1079, Charles Boulogne letters to Mathias Hollenback. New-York Historical Society.
In 1794, French aristocrats and bourgeoisie arrived in the Pennsylvania wilderness, bringing their refined notions of landscape design and architecture to the backwoods, to the amusement of local farmers. Most of the new settlers had never engaged in any farming or physical labor and relied on Americans, who sometimes took advantage of their ignorance by overcharging.
The jewel in the crown of Azilum was the three-story log house called the “Queen’s House” or “La Grande Maison,” intended for Marie Antoinette and her children. However, unbeknownst to the French émigrés, she had already been executed on October 16, 1793. They probably did not learn of her death until the spring of 1794, when the House and other buildings were already well underway. In spite of this disappointment, followed by news of the Dauphin’s death in 1795, development continued.
La Grande Maison. Murray, Elsie. Azilum, French refugee colony of 1793. Athens, Pa.: Tioga Point Museum, 1940. New-York Historical Society.
But Azilum did not even last ten years. Due in part to the economic downturn of 1796-1797, the difficult setting, and the loss of some of its leaders, the settlement gradually declined in population; the final blow came in 1803 with Napoleon’s loosening restrictions on exiles returning to France. In 1809 a traveler described the town as a ruin.
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Author: C. Bothelo
“I feel very strongly that the ideal shouldn’t be mastery of another language, because that’s an unachievable goal and holding it up as the aim just makes students feel hopeless… We should emphasise the pleasures of languages, rather than the need for complete competence.”
—Marina Warner, “English that’s good enough: The mastery of English is not the intimidating ideal any non-native should seek: a smattering will do.” The Guardian, March 13 2012.
Having attended the Multilingual, 2.0? symposium this past weekend at the University of Arizona, this was a question/topic that came up in several of the talks as it relates to education and language policy planning and ideology. In Deborah Cameron’s talk “The one, the many and the Other: representing mono/multilingualism in post 9/11 verbal hygiene,” one of the more challenging topics she brought was that of ‘standards.’ She argued that linguists don’t want to talk about norms or language standards when examining language policies but until they are willing to have a sensible discussion on “norms” in the establishment of language policy, then the linguists will always lose.
While I found myself generally agreeing with Ms. Warner’s piece and her overall push for not demanding “native speaker proficiency” as a rule for language learning, her discussion glossed over just how complicated this subject area is. The claim that “It is possible to speak another language fluently and yet make continual mistakes in it—mistakes of word order and phrasing, register and weight of terms used, and numerous other pitfalls” reveals that she is applying a popular notion of “fluency” meaning “native-like” or “near-native-like” ability and is not recognizing that a language speaker/learner can have varying levels of proficiency depending on the field (speaking, writing, listening and reading). ACTFL’s proficiency guidelines (for speaking, writing, listening, and reading) include Distinguished, Superior, Advanced, Intermediate, andLow, all of which have sub-categorizations.
I couldn’t agree more with her advocating “for multilingual households, for foreign-born mothers—and fathers—for the benefits of different tongues and their speakers, and for the cultures they originate in. I also see value in making the crossing from one language to another without fear or inhibition, and above all for not minding “making mistakes.” To say that “Languages matter, but smatterings will do,” however, ignores learners’ needs and requirements for successful communicative interaction. I would suggest rather than saying a smattering will do, it would be more helpful to work on an inclusive language policy that actually defines what a “smattering” of language is, for what areas of proficiency, for what group(s) of speakers, and being critical of who is making these determinations and for what purposes.
Deborah Cameron’s abstract from Multilingual, 2.0?
I begin with one of the questions offered by the organizers of this symposium: ‘If multilingualism is founded on an assumption that we are shifting away from a monolingual perspective, how sound is that assumption? Can one shift away from that which does not exist in the first place?’… However assiduously academics may seek to criticize or deconstruct them, ‘monolingualism’ and ‘multilingualism’ undoubtedly exist in the world as ideological constructs, and in my view their existence has material and significant consequences; but it is difficult to generalize about the way in which they are constructed or imagined for different languages, nation-states, historical periods and geographical/ social locations. Representations of monolingualism/ multilingualism are also representations of particular languages (and people) in particular times and places: that inevitably shapes their form and the cultural work they do. | <urn:uuid:c18a28f4-c313-4c07-9798-f7eafcb2a765> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://cercll.arizona.edu/blog/a-smattering-of-language-will-do/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570793.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808092125-20220808122125-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.950766 | 852 | 1.71875 | 2 |
Host-associated microbiota play a critical role in host fitness by providing nutrition, enhancing digestion capabilities, and by providing protection from pathogens. Here, we investigated the effects of two environmental stressors, temperature, and salinity, on the microbiota associated with zebra mussels (ZMs), a highly invasive bivalve in North America. To examine this in detail, lake-collected ZMs were acclimated to laboratory conditions, and subjected to temperature and salinity stress conditions. The impact of these stressors on the diversity, composition, and dynamics of ZM-associated microbiota were assessed by using amplicon- and shotgun-based sequencing, and qPCR-based approaches. Elevated temperature was found to be the primary driver of ZM mortality, although salinity alone also increased its likelihood. Stressor-induced ZM mortality, which ranged between 53 and 100%, was concomitant with significant increases in the relative abundance of several genera of putative opportunistic pathogens including Aeromonas. These genera were only present in low relative abundance in ZMs obtained from the control tank with 0% mortality. Shotgun sequencing and qPCR analyses indicated that the relative and absolute abundances of pathogenic Aeromonas species (particularly A. veronii) were significantly greater in temperature-induced dead ZMs. Taken together, our results show that environmental stress, especially elevated temperature (> 25 °C), is associated with the rapid mortality of ZMs as well as the proliferation of putative opportunistic bacterial pathogens.
Bibliographical noteFunding Information:
Funding for this study was provided by the Minnesota Aquatic Invasive Species Research Center, through the Minnesota Environment and Natural Resources Trust Fund, as recommended by the Legislative-Citizen Commission on Minnesota Resources, and by the Minnesota Agricultural Experiment Station.
© 2020, The Author(s).
Copyright 2020 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
- Invasive species
- Microbial communities
- Zebra mussels
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History's great achievers have always managed themselves. That, in large measure is what makes them great achievers. They were once rare exceptions, but in today's world most of us will have to learn to manage ourselves. Peter F. Drucker, author of Management Challenges for the 21st Century, explains that success in the knowledge economy comes to those who know themselves - their strengths, their values, and how they best perform. This article, which originally appeared in the March-April 1999 Harvard Business Review, is offered in audio form exclusively through Audible.
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Along the southern frontier of the European Union, a small but growing number of aspiring jihadists are blazing trails by road and ferry to Syria’s battlefields, sidestepping heightened airport security and slipping through the holes in Europe’s intelligence dragnet.
Some fighters follow meandering bus routes through several countries en route to the more loosely guarded border of Bulgaria to Turkey. Others engage in what authorities call “broken travel,” using family visits or holiday destinations as an initial leg to mask their final destination.
That was how the wife of Paris terrorist Amedy Coulibaly slipped into Syria days before her husband killed four people at a kosher grocery last month. The woman, Hayat Boumeddiene, drove from France to Spain, then flew to Turkey before joining Islamic State in Syria. She later called for others to join her, in an interview with the militant group also known as ISIS or ISIL.
Western diplomats and intelligence officials say most aspiring European fighters still try to fly directly to Turkey, which borders northern Syria.
But the growing use of alternative routes magnifies a security challenge for EU policy makers: How to catch suspected militants without undermining the bloc’s commitment to free movement across a region where passport and customs checks at national borders have been effectively abolished.
U.S. intelligence agencies reported last week that despite greater Western efforts, foreign fighters are streaming into Syria and Iraq to join extremists. An estimated 20,000 foreign militants there include at least 3,400 Europeans. About 100 in Syria are believed to be from the U.S.
A series of high-level EU meetings in Brussels this month is seeking to revamp the EU’s counterterrorism strategy by bolstering information exchange. European officials say intelligence agencies have in recent months expanded the sharing of terror suspect names. On Thursday, EU leaders agreed to broaden use of the region’s law-enforcement databases—including passenger flight details—to block the exit of potential fighters.
Traditionally, European countries shied away from such regionwide intelligence sharing, largely because some countries are seen as having weaker law enforcement standards with the potential for leaks that could compromise ongoing operations and intelligence gathering.
Since the summer, Interpol and Europol have increased the number of names on their travel blacklists, but national intelligence agencies still continue to prefer working bilaterally, according to Alexander Evans, the head of the U.N.’s efforts to sanction al Qaeda and Islamic State.
Some nations also fear that sharing too much personal information about its citizens could violate privacy laws, said EU and United Nation diplomats.
Even as the EU tries to tighten security, would-be fighters target vulnerable exits. Databases shared among EU members and its allies work well at busy border crossings—Istanbul airport, for example—compared with places that have less technological infrastructure, European officials said. Weak points include Turkey’s 170-mile border with Bulgaria and the daily ferries that shuttle between Turkish-occupied northern Cyprus and mainland Turkey, they said.
Hundreds of Europeans have traversed the country’s border with Turkey en route to Syria, Veselin Vuchkov, Bulgaria’s interior minister, said last month.
In the weeks since terror attacks in Paris and Copenhagen left 19 dead, Bulgaria has approved expansion of its border fence with Turkey and agreed to deploy military personnel on the Turkish border. The U.S. military last year began training Bulgarian border police.
Turkish media on Thursday cited a report by Turkish intelligence that some Islamic State militants were planning to cross into Bulgaria to carry out attacks in EU nations. Turkish intelligence officials declined to comment.
Senior Western officials including U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry , U.K. foreign secretary Philip Hammond and the EU counterterrorism chief Gilles de Kerchove visited Sofia last month to discuss border security.
“We are doing as much as any EU nation to boost security, but with the added surveillance of arrivals at Istanbul airport, more people are coming to Bulgaria,” a senior Bulgarian official said. The official added that determined people could still cross some areas of the Bulgaria-Turkey border, especially at night, which was one reason for expanding the fence.
Bulgarian authorities in January arrested Fritz-Joly Joachin, a self-confessed associate of the Charlie Hebdo attackers. Mr. Joachin, a convert to Islam of Haitian origin, was traveling on a bus near the border with Turkey, officials said. The warrant for his arrest was based on allegations by his wife that he had tried to kidnap their 3-year-old son.
Mr. Joachin was with three men who, officials said, continued traveling toward Syria. One of the men, Cheikou Diakhaby, had spent seven years in an Iraqi prison after his arrest in 2004 for fighting U.S. forces.
Six days later, after the Paris attacks, France issued a second warrant alleging Mr. Joachin belonged to a terrorist organization, prompting Bulgarian authorities to extradite him to Paris. He has denied the charge.
Police in Turkey later arrested Mr. Joachin’s traveling companions and extradited them to France. “The Bulgarians missed these people, and they shouldn’t have,” a senior Turkish foreign ministry official said. “It’s not the first time this has happened, and it’s a problem.”
Bulgarian authorities, meanwhile, allege Turkish authorities are lax about travelers crossing into Bulgaria, exposing the EU to returning jihadists.
In June, Imran Khawaja, a 27-year old Briton who spent six months fighting in Syria, crossed into Bulgaria from Turkey and was met by his brother. The men drove through Europe. Mr. Khawaja was put on a U.K. blacklist after posing for a photograph with a severed head in Syria.
Mr. Khawaja, who faked his own battlefield death on social media, was arrested trying to sneak into the U.K. He was sentenced last month to 12 years in prison.
“What happens the day after ISIL is finished?” asked one Cypriot security official, referring to Islamic State. “We have to be vigilant not just for Europeans trying to travel to Syria, but trying to come back.”
In Cyprus—a far less-traveled route for militants—authorities have beefed up checkpoints at the U.N. divide between the Cypriot Republic and the breakaway Turkish-occupied north. New screening equipment has been installed and names of European travelers are now run through security databases.
Officials in Nicosia are pushing for more data sharing but say it will be nearly impossible to stop every jihadist among the 2 million annual tourists.
“The major problem is the lone wolves,” said Elena Rafti, the chief security policy director for Cyprus’ Ministry of Foreign Affairs, speaking of individuals who take on militant beliefs on their own, with no connection to known groups.
Once militants cross into northern Cyprus, the job becomes more complex. Most of the international community doesn’t recognize the Turkish-occupied north, complicating extradition and intelligence sharing, diplomats say.
A senior Cypriot security official said about a dozen known Western militants have flown into Larnaca and crossed into northern Cyprus. European intelligence agencies suspect more have used that route.
Northern Cyprus’ officials say they aren’t to blame. “The massacre in Paris is something that should force people to think rationally, not emotionally,” Erhan Ercin, Undersecretary of Northern Cyprus’ Foreign Ministry, said in an interview. “We are willing to cooperate with those who are willing to cooperate with us…if they have a blacklist, share it.”
Last summer, a Scandinavian man on a blacklist, disappeared after booking what appeared to be a vacation in Cyprus, a Western diplomat said.
After landing at Larnaca airport, the suspected jihadist went to the island’s Turkish-occupied north and boarded a ferry to Turkey. Once there, he hopped on a bus and headed to the Syrian border to join Islamic State.
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General Liability Insurance For Horseback Riding Lessons Businesses
All businesses, regardless of industry, face risks that should be covered by insurance. The most common and comprehensive type of policy business owners invest in is general liability insurance.
Some of the risks general liability insurance covers are:
- Bodily injury
- Property damage
- Medical payments
- Legal defense and judgment
- Personal and advertising injury
While businesses aren't legally required to carry general liability insurance, operating without it is extremely risky. If your business is sued, you could end up facing fees totaling hundreds of thousands of dollars (or more). Having a sufficient general liability insurance policy in place to help compensate for these damages is the only way to prevent this type of event from devastating your business.
Learn more about the risks covered by general liability insurance.
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COMMON SITUATIONS THAT GENERAL LIABILITY INSURANCE MAY COVER FOR A HORSEBACK RIDING LESSONS BUSINESS
Example 1: One of your horses gets loose from the stable and a vehicle hits it, causing extensive damage. The owner of the vehicle is seeking payment for damages and has named your company in a lawsuit. General liability insurance should cover the cost to repair or replace their vehicle, personal injury claims stemming from the lawsuit, and your legal expenses.
Example 2: One of your client’s horses suffers an injury during a lesson and they are blaming your business for the incident. The business owner can turn to their general liability policy for damages awarded by the courts.
Example 3: Your employee was overheard at a dinner party insulting the other horseback riding lessons business in town. They are suing your company for defamation of character, claiming their business has suffered as a result.
Of course, this is not an exhaustive list of perils a general liability insurance policy will cover, and some conditions may result in a particular peril not being covered. It's always best to talk to your agent in-depth about the specifics of your policy to avoid blind spots in coverage.
Learn more about the risks covered by general liability insurance.
Cost Of General Liability Insurance
On average, horseback riding lessons businesses in America spend between $300 - $700 per year for $1 million in general liability coverage.
Check out the chart below for a snapshot of average general liability insurance expenditure across a variety of industries:
Several factors will determine the price of your policy. These include your:
- Number of employees
- Per-occurrence limit
- General aggregate limit
You may be able to acquire general liability insurance at a discounted rate by purchasing it as part of a business owner's policy (BOP) rather than as a standalone policy. A BOP is a more comprehensive solution that includes multiple forms of coverage, such as business interruption and property insurance.
Other Types Of Coverage Horseback Riding Lessons Businesses Need
While general liability is the most important type of insurance to have, there are several other forms of coverage you should be aware of. Below are some other types of insurance all horseback riding lessons businesses should obtain:
Professional Liability Insurance
Both humans and horses are unpredictable, leaving much room for unexpected incidents. If a client claims your company did not deliver the agreed upon services, they could hold you liable. Professional liability insurance offers protection against these claims.
Due to the significant liability exposure, businesses should address any potential coverage gaps with their insurance professional and inquire if a policy is claims-based or occurrence-based.
Workers Compensation Insurance
The above policies cover your assets and clients, but not your employees. The state requires carrying workers compensation insurance for staff, which covers medical bills and lost wages if they experience an on-the-job injury or illness. Due to a higher risk for injury, business owners should carry coverage limits higher than their state’s legal minimum requirements.
Workers compensation is generally purchased as a standalone policy.
Types Of Coverage Some Horseback Riding Lessons Businesses May Need
In addition to the policies outlined above, there are a few other types of coverage your horseback riding lessons business may require depending on certain aspects of your operations. Some of these might not apply to you, so be sure to ask your agent which policies are right for your business.
Commercial Auto Insurance
This business venture will likely take you on the road from time-to-time. When you use a vehicle for business purposes, insurance carriers require a commercial auto policy, excluding business-related accidents on a personal auto policy. This policy covers damage to your auto, as well as other damaged vehicles and injured parties, should you cause an accident. Most states regulate the minimum coverage required, leaving many underinsured and exposed to potential lawsuits. Your insurance professional can assist in determining the best coverage limits for your needs.
You can purchase commercial auto insurance as part of a business owners’ policy (BOP) or as a standalone policy.
Commercial Umbrella Liability Insurance
There are so many factors that are out of your control. Horseback riding lessons businesses can add another layer of protection against liability claims with a commercial umbrella policy. This policy picks up if you exhaust the underlying general liability policy limits.
Additional Steps To Protect Your Business
Although it’s easy (and essential) to invest in business insurance, it should not be your frontline defense. Yes, insurance will compensate for your business’ financial losses after an incident occurs, but it’s much better to avoid losses altogether.
With this in mind, here are several things you can do to better protect your business:
- Use legally robust contracts and other business documents. (We offer free templates for some of the most common legal forms.)
- Set up a limited liability company (LLC) or corporation to protect your personal assets. (Visit our step-by-step guides to learn how to form an LLC or corporation in your state.)
- Stay up to date with business licensing.
- Streamline your business’ internal processes. This will remove unnecessary variables from common tasks and create a safe, consistent environment for conducting business.
- If your business is an LLC, look into LLC Insurance.
Steps After Getting Business Insurance
Depending on where you are in your business building process, here are some other actions you may need to take before getting started:
- If you’re just starting, finding the best name for your business is a great first step. Check out TRUiC’s Business Name Generator.
- After finding the perfect name, get a logo with our Logo Generator.
- Every business needs a website. Using a website builder like the GoDaddy Website Builder or Wix makes building a website simple and fast! Check out our review of the Best Website Builder.
Business Insurance is the Best Way to Protect Your Business
If you're starting a new business, then you need business insurance. It's as simple as that. The protection offered by an LLC will protect your personal assets, but your business's assets are still open to liability in the case of a lawsuit or other loss.
Be sure that everything you've built is safe by getting business insurance.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is included in a business owner’s policy?
A typical business owner’s policy includes general liability, business interruption, and commercial property insurance. However, BOPs are often customizable, so your agent may recommend adding professional liability, commercial auto, or other types of coverage to your package depending on your company’s needs.
What is the difference between business insurance and general liability insurance?
"Business insurance" is a generic term used to describe many different types of coverage a business may need. General liability insurance, on the other hand, is a specific type of coverage that business owners need to protect their assets.
Do I need insurance before I start a business?
You should invest in insurance coverage for your business before your first interaction with a customer. Although the cost of insurance may seem high for a brand new business, it’s best to be proactive when it comes to protecting your assets. After all, you can’t buy insurance to cover a loss that has already occurred.
Will insurance protect my business from everything?
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Rights and Resources for LGBTQ Youth and their Parents, Families, and Allies
LGBTQ (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Questioning) foster care youth face serious risks and challenges. Just like other young people, they need acceptance, understanding, support, and resources. It is also important for foster parents, families, and allies to have the resources needed to support LGBTQ youth in foster care.
The information below provides local and national support and resources for LGBTQ youth and those who care about them. LGBTQ Resources in Maine
Out! as I Want to Be offers LGBTQ weekly drop-in meetings on Wednesdays and Fridays in Rockland.
Outright L/A located in Lewiston offers a weekly drop-in space for LGBTQ youth under the age of twenty-two.
MaineTransNet offers trans, ally, and questioning youth a voice in Portland and Bangor.
Youth Guardian Services is a youth resource and offers support services to LGBTQ youth on the Internet.
Maryville University Online: College guide; The guide explains some basic terminology used by the LGBTQ community and provides tips for choosing a college that has adequate LGBTQ support. It also covers college application information and lists scholarships that are available to LGBTQ students.
Advocates for Youth Advocates for Youth works alongside thousands of young people here in the U.S. and around the globe as they fight for sexual health, rights, and justice.
Gay, Lesbian, Straight Education Network (GLSEN) – Nationally, GLSEN works to ensure safe schools for ALL students, regardless of sexual orientation and gender identity. Also, visit the Southern Maine chapter webpage or the Downeast chapter webpage for more information.
Supporting Your LGBTQ Youth: A Guide for Foster Parents – In May of 2013, the Child Welfare Information Gateway published this factsheet. This factsheet discusses the unique risks and challenges LGBTQ youth face and how foster parents can reduce those risks and create a welcoming home.
Parents, Families, and Friends, of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG) – Offers support, education, and advocacy resources for parents, families, friends, and straight allies.
Trans Youth Equality Foundation – Portland, Maine based foundation that provides education, advocacy, and support groups for transgender youth, their families, and allies.
Addressing the Needs of LGBTQ Youth in Foster Care – This article focuses on the difficulties LGBTQ youth face while in the foster care system and how adult allies, CASA volunteers, in particular, can advocate for youth and support them during their time in care. (CASA’s The Connection, 2009)
GLBT National Help Center: 1-888-843-4564 (Hotline)
1-800-246-7743 (Youth talk-line)
GLBT online peer support
Trevor Helpline Crisis Intervention for LGBT Youth: 1-866-488-7386
In the Life: Foster Care’s Invisible Youth (film)
Published by In the Life Media, this film shares the stories of LGBTQ foster care youth
Trans Youth Equality Foundation Podcast
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The Berklee College of Music has announced a new slate of online degree programs, including two in music creation, cementing its status as the first accredited non-profit music institution to offer Bachelor degrees on the web. Online students will soon be able to enter programs focusing on Electronic Music Production and Composition for Visual Media, along with a degree for Music Studies.
Berklee Online, which launched in 2003, now offers five different Bachelor of Professional Studies degrees. The new music-creation degrees were chosen to focus on in-demand skills in a quickly evolving music industry, explained Carin Nuernberg, Berklee’s Dean of Continuing Studies. The Boston-based school teamed with Pro Tools maker Avid to create several of the new online production courses.
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Kofta, Kafta, or Kafka is often characterized as the Middle Eastern version of a hamburger. Yes, it’s made with ground beef, ground lamb, or both, but that’s pretty much where the similarity ends. Kofta is more like a sausage without the sausage casing. Sure, you can make this into patties like a burger and eat it on a bun and I guess that would be a burger, but generally, you eat kofta as is or in the occasional pita roll-up. I recently had Kofta as meatballs for the first time in a Moroccan restaurant in Paris, but they were over-spiced, overcooked, and the texture was all wrong, so don’t let bad preparations turn you away.
At my house, we might make kofta at any time, but it’s mostly for special occasions. Nonetheless, it’s a great food for grilling out in the summer. The flavors are best over a wood charcoal grill because that gives you the most authentic flavor, but the spices in the meat are so good that any grill will do. There are some recipes where the kofta is steamed/boiled or fried, but I don’t think they’re anywhere near as good as grilled. You tend to lose the tender texture when you aren’t grilling.
Once you’ve made the kofta it’s really pretty versatile. Eat it as is, in a sandwich with fresh vegetables and a cucumber yogurt sauce, or dip it into some hummus or barbecue sauce for a completely different blend of flavors.
Makes 24 pieces of Kofta at about 106 calories per piece.
Egyptian Grilled Kofta Recipe
Grilled Middle Eastern ground beef with spices.
- 2 pounds of 85/15 ground beef (about 1920 calories respectively)
Note: You can also use half ground beef and half ground lamb (or even all lamb), but make sure the lamb is really fresh or it can ruin the flavor.
- 1/2 cup of pureed onion (about 20 calories)
Note: You can also use very finely diced onion, but pureed is the way to go.
- 1/4 cup of diced parsley
- 1/3 cup of seasoned breadcrumbs (about 110 calories)
- 1/4 cup of vegetable oil (about 480 calories)
- 1/8 teaspoon of Lebanese Seven Spice
Note: This is NOT the same as Chinese Five Spice and if you don’t have it, don’t worry about it because the recipe is pretty forgiving.
- 1/2 tablespoon of salt
- 1/4 teaspoon black pepper
- Juice of half a lime (about 5 calories)
Note: If you don’t have a lime, it’s ok to skip this ingredient.
- Optional Spice Alternative: Instead of the Lebanese Seven Spice, parsley, salt, black pepper, and lime, you can use this stuff called “Spysi” that you can find at some Middle Eastern stores. It contains a packet of a lot of dried onion and mysterious spices (I’m serious, there’s very little description), but it gets you most of the flavors you need. Even with the dried onion though, you should still add pureed onion on your own.
- Large bowl for mixing
- Two large plates
- An outdoor or indoor grill
- Food processor for onions and parsley
- Cup, tablespoon, and teaspoon measurements
- A wooden spoon
- Puree an onion or two in the food processor.
- Using a food processor or very sharp knife, chop up some fresh parsley into very small pieces.
- Dump out two pounds of ground beef into a large bowl.
- Add the parsley, onion, oil, breadcrumbs, lime juice, and all of the other spices to the ground beef.
- Mix all of the ingredients using your hands (use latex gloves if you need to) by folding them over and over. Don’t mash the meat too much if you can avoid it. Just fold and churn until everything is well mixed. At this point the meat should smell delicious, but don’t eat it yet!
- Once mixed, grab a little bit of the meat (just enough to fit in the palm of your hand) and roll it into a ball.
- Then skewer the meatball with the handle of a clean wooden spoon and start to work the meatball into the shape of a sausage or hot dog. Make sure the meat is evenly distributed around the wooden spoon so that no side is too thick or thin. The Kofta will shrink when they cook, so don’t make them too short.
- Carefully remove the kofta from the wooden spoon handle and place aside on a plate. The kofta should have a hole through the middle, so don’t try to seal off the ends or anything. Repeat this process of rolling the kofta until all of the meat is finished.
- Set the grill to high heat if it’s an indoor grill or medium-high heat if it’s an outdoor grill and when the grill is hot, start grilling the kofta. Of course, I recommend using a wood charcoal grill for maximum flavor, but any grill will do in a pinch.
- After five minutes on one side, rotate the kofta onto the other side and grill for another 5 minutes. Then grill it a couple of minutes more on the un-charred sides. At this point, you can determine how you like the meat. I prefer it medium, but if you like it well done or medium-well, then just keep checking the meat until it’s where you want it.
- Place the kofta aside when cooked and remember that if you stack them together on a plate that they’ll cook a bit more even after you take them off the grill. Serve them immediately for the best taste, but they can also very easily get reheated in an oven or even the microwave.
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The first delivery to NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida is the result of four years of development and construction, and represents the achievement of a key milestone in the project. ESA selected Airbus as the prime contractor for the development and manufacturing of the first ESM in November 2014.
The ESM is a key element of Orion, the next-generation spacecraft that will transport astronauts beyond low earth orbit for the first time since the end of the Apollo program in the 1970s.
The module provides propulsion, power and thermal control and will supply astronauts with water and oxygen on future missions. The ESM is installed underneath the crew module.
Oliver Juckenhöfel, head of on-orbit services and exploration at Airbus, said, "The delivery of the first European Service Module for NASA’s Orion spacecraft is a hugely significant moment, and NASA’s ground-breaking deep-space mission is continuing to pick up speed. Very soon, the crew module and the service module will come together for the first time at Kennedy Space Center, and integration and testing can then begin."
The launch of the Orion spacecraft with NASA’s new Space Launch System rocket is known as Exploration Mission-1 and is scheduled for 2020. This mission will be uncrewed and will take the spacecraft more than 64,000 kilometres beyond the Moon in order to demonstrate its capabilities. The first human spaceflight mission, Exploration Mission-2, is planned for 2022.
"Working on the Orion project has cemented our exceptional, efficient and close relationships with our customers, ESA and NASA, and with our industrial partner, Lockheed Martin Space. We are committed to further reinforcing the trust that ESA and NASA have already placed in our know-how and expertise when it comes to the development and construction of the first ESM," Juckenhöfel said.
The design of the Orion spacecraft enables astronauts to be transported further into space than ever before.
The spacecraft will transport the four astronauts into space, providing life support for the crew during the flight and enabling a safe return to earth’s atmosphere, at extremely high re-entry speeds. NASA will use this mission beyond the moon to develop the capabilities to send humans to Mars – heralding a new era of human spaceflight.
More than 20,000 parts and components are installed in the ESM, from electrical equipment to engines, solar panels, fuel tanks and life support materials, as well as several kilometres of cables and tubing.
The ESM is a cylinder that is around four metres in both height and diameter. Comparable to the European Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV 2008 – 2015), also built by Airbus, it has a distinctive four-wing solar array (19 metres across when unfurled) that generates enough energy to power two households. The service module’s 8.6 tonnes of fuel can power one main engine and 32 smaller thrusters.
At launch, the ESM weighs a total of just over 13 tonnes. In addition to its function as the main propulsion system for the Orion spacecraft, the ESM will be responsible for orbital manoeuvring and position control.
ESM also provides the crew with the central elements of life support such as water and oxygen, and regulates thermal control while it is docked to the crew module. Furthermore, the unpressurised service module can be used to carry additional payload.
Airbus is a global leader in aeronautics, space and related services. Airbus recently signed a statement of intent with the Australian Space Agency (ASA) in September of this year.
Airbus has been committed to growing Australia’s space industry and in June 2018 selected Wyndham airfield in Western Australia as the first flight base for its pioneering Zephyr solar-powered unmanned aircraft. Along with military operations, Zephyrs can be used for precision farming guidance, environmental and security monitoring, and to provide internet coverage to regions of poor or zero connectivity.
Airbus and the ASA have a shared interest in enhancing the competitiveness and capability of the Australian space industry. This includes the growing importance of commercialisation at every point along the space value-added chain, from research and development to high-tech manufacturing, transportation, satellite operations and consumer services based on satellite signals and data.
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A method for controlling a gyratory crusher having a frame supporting a crushing head (3) with a first crushing shell (4), and a second crushing shell
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The Massachusetts Department of Transportation (DOT) and the Rhode Island DOT are assessing and addressing roadway contributions to total maximum daily loads (TMDLs). Example analyses for total nitrogen, total phosphorus, suspended sediment, and total zinc in highway runoff were done by the U.S. Geological Survey in cooperation with FHWA to simulate long-term annual loads for TMDL analyses with the stochastic empirical loading and dilution model known as SELDM. Concentration statistics from 19 highway runoff monitoring sites in Massachusetts were used with precipitation statistics from 11 long-term monitoring sites to simulate long-term pavement yields (loads per unit area). Highway sites were stratified by traffic volume or surrounding land use to calculate concentration statistics for rural roads, low-volume highways, high-volume highways, and ultraurban highways. The median of the event mean concentration statistics in each traffic volume category was used to simulate annual yields from pavement for a 29- or 30-year period. Long-term average yields for total nitrogen, phosphorus, and zinc from rural roads are lower than yields from the other categories, but yields of sediment are higher than for the low-volume highways. The average yields of the selected water quality constituents from high-volume highways are 1.35 to 2.52 times the associated yields from low-volume highways. The average yields of the selected constituents from ultraurban highways are 1.52 to 3.46 times the associated yields from high-volume highways. Example simulations indicate that both concentration reduction and flow reduction by structural best management practices are crucial for reducing runoff yields.
|Title||Estimating total maximum daily loads with the Stochastic Empirical Loading and Dilution Model|
|Authors||Gregory E. Granato, Susan Cheung Jones|
|Publication Subtype||Journal Article|
|Series Title||Transportation Research Record|
|Record Source||USGS Publications Warehouse|
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|Title: 03/12/1993 - Iron oxides as used in pigment coloring operations.|
|Record Type: Interpretation||Standard Number: 1910.1200(d)(1)|
March 12, 1993
Dr. Shaun A. Gill
Regulatory and Research Manager
300 North Washington Street
Alexandria, VA 22314
Dear Dr. Gill:
Thank you for your letter of October 26, 1992 that requested clarification on the hazard classification of iron oxides, as used in pigment coloring applications.
OSHA's Hazard Communication Standard (HCS) 29 CFR 1910.1200(d)(1) requires that chemical manufacturers and importers evaluate chemicals produced in their workplaces or imported by them to determine if they are hazardous. Employers are not required to evaluate chemicals unless they choose not to rely on the evaluation performed by the chemical manufacturer or importer for the chemical. The hazard evaluation is a process which relies heavily on the professional judgment of the evaluator, particularly in the area of chronic hazards. The performance- orientated approach of the hazard evaluation does not diminish the duty of the chemical manufacturer, importer or employer to conduct a thorough evaluation, examining all relevant data and producing a scientifically defensible evaluation.|
OSHA's compliance directive, OSHA Instruction CPL 2-2.38C, "Inspection Procedures for the Hazard Communication Standard," states that any substance with a specific OSHA Permissible Exposure Limit (PEL), regardless of the health effects, is covered by the HCS and an MSDS and label must be developed and transmitted downstream by the chemical manufacturer, distributor or importer. This is consistent with the requirement in the HCS that any substance with an OSHA PEL be considered one of a "floor" of hazardous chemicals covered under the HCS. An OSHA PEL has been established for iron oxide (dust and fume) [see Federal Register Vol. 54, No. 12, enclosed], and therefore an MSDS and label must be developed and transmitted by the chemical manufacturer, distributor, or importer.
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The toxicity of iron oxide in humans is conflicting. However, "McLaughlin, whose opinion on the subject is widely accepted, believes that the presence of iron oxide dust or fume in the lung causes pigmentation (termed siderosis) that is responsible for the changes seen in exposed individuals' chest x-rays" [FR Vol. 54. No. 12]. Additionally, "OSHA believes that any occupational exposure that causes foreign substance to lodge in body tissues is undesirable" [FR Vol. 54. No. 12).
We realize the FDA has granted approval to iron oxides for use as a food colorant. However, their approval is based on evidence indicating no adverse health effects at concentrations associated with its use as a food additive. FDA approval of iron oxide as a food colorant is not entirely relevant to occupational exposure from iron oxide. In general, occupational exposures are higher in concentration, of longer duration, and at greater frequency. Therefore, it is inappropriate to conclude that FDA approval, as an approved colorant, is evidence that iron oxide dust is not hazardous.
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While chemical manufacturers are required to evaluate the hazards of chemicals they produce; the mere presence of a hazardous chemical in a product does not necessarily result in coverage under the HCS. It must be available for exposure. Employee "exposure" is defined by the HCS to include any route of entry (inhalation, ingestion, skin contact or absorption) and also include potential (e.g., accidental or possible) exposure, including foreseeable emergencies. For example, employee exposure to iron oxide occurs during the manufacturing processes associated with iron oxide (powder, ore). To meet the HCS's requirement, a hazard evaluation of iron oxide (powder, ore) must include a thorough assessment of both physical and health hazards. Additionally, it is OSHA's established policy that "the chemical manufacturer or importer must consider the potential exposures that may occur when downstream employers use the product and address the hazards that may result from that use on the label and MSDS prepared for the product. Only by considering all these factors can the chemical manufacturer or importer accurately evaluate the hazards encountered during the anticipated use of the product" [see FR Vol. 52, No. 163, Appendix B; and CPL 2-2.38C p. A9, enclosed].|
Roger A. Clark, Acting Director
Directorate of Compliance Programs
October 26, 1992
Dear Ms. Garrahan:
Enclosed are the November 6, 1992 DCMA comments submitted to Mr. Charles Adkins, Director of Health Standards Program DOT/OSHA supporting the classification of iron oxides, as used in pigment coloring applications, as non-hazardous.
Please contact me if you need further information. I will await your reply concerning the status and/or response of the November 6, 1991 DCMA comments. Thank you.
Shaun A. Gill
Regulatory and Research
November 6, 1991
Dear Mr. Adkins:
Enclosed are comments of the Dry Color Manufacturers' Association in support of classifying iron oxides, as used in pigment coloring applications, non-hazardous pursuant to OSHA standards and definitions.
This concerns a matter originally brought to the attention of OSHA in a March 3, 1991 letter to Mr. Ira Wainless from Mr. Douglas P. Kelly of Mobay Corporation, and a follow-up letter of April 30, 1991 from Mr. David Hackathorn of Mobay Corporation to you.
Please let us know if you have any questions concerning this.
J. Lawrence Robinson
Executive Vice President
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Stories of Place and Space Told through Dance and Theater in Boyle Heights and Watts
Starting this weekend, you have the unique opportunity to explore two important neighborhood spaces through theatrical performances.
Tonight, the Watts Village Theater Company kicks off “Riot/Rebellion,” a play based on the stories of those that lived through the Watts Riots of 1965.
The Riots, which lasted for a nearly week in August, were touched off when 21-year old Marquette Frye was pulled over by the California Highway Patrol on suspicion of drunk driving. When his mother came to the scene at Avalon and 116th that night, a scuffle occurred and a number of people were placed under arrest. Rumors of what was happening — including that a pregnant woman might have been kicked by police — spread quickly, stoking residents’ long-simmering resentments toward the rampant police brutality of the day. Crowds began to gather around the scene. As more police were sent in to quell the angry residents, they were met with anger, shout-downs, and rocks. The ensuing unrest lasted six days, saw the arrival of thousands of National Guardsmen, and resulted in 34 deaths, over 1000 injuries, nearly 3500 arrests, and millions in property damage.
But the stories of those that participated in and/or survived the Riots had never really been collected en masse or presented in dramatic form. So, two years ago, the Watts Village Theater Company began interviewing witnesses in order to compile a dramatic history of events and both get a grasp of the true mark they left on individuals, the wider community, and the socio-economic history of Los Angeles and make that history accessible to the people that lived it or live in the shadow of it.
When I first spoke with the then-artistic director of the WVTC about the project a year and a half ago, he spoke of wanting to stage the play at the intersection where it all began. The company has since decided to perform the play at Mafundi, a theater that opened soon after the Riots and was seen as a refuge and place of healing for the community. If you’d like to check out the play, it runs through November in Watts. Details can be found here. A conversation with playwright Donald Jolly conducted by Intersections South L.A. can be found here.
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If you’re in the mood for the intersection of dance and L.A. landmarks, look no further than Heidi Duckler’s site-specific The Groundskeepers, which is being staged at the Linda Vista Hospital in Boyle Heights. The building holds a century of history and apparently, according to Wikipedia, opened “to great fanfare” and “even had its own Jersey cows, chickens, and a garden to provide patients with the freshest milk, butter, eggs, poultry and vegetables.” (Cows!)
Closed in 1991, it has since served as a beloved backdrop for Hollywood (see a list here), including To Live and Die in L.A., Pearl Harbor, and Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Anyone who passes through there on a regular basis is likely familiar with seeing some sort of strange action taking place on the hospital’s grounds. My personal favorite was a faux police chase that ended up with the bad guy on the roof, tossing off handfuls of money which fluttered slowly down like dying birds and unfortunately were not real.
The performance will give you what will probably be one of the last opportunities to explore a space which has been off limits to the public for two decades before it is converted into affordable housing.
It begins on the grounds, where an older gentleman — acting as a former patient — speaks of being bedridden and longing for what lies beyond his window. From there, performers begin creeping out of the building and onto the fire escapes, launching themselves up and down the stairs and over the railings, grasping for air and each other to the rhythm of a haunting score created by Lu Kunene.
After the first piece, the audience is split into groups and guided through different parts of the hospital where performers play within the confines of a boiler room, a creepy basement hallway, a back lot, and, finally, a chapel where they and the audience are bathed in sound and light projections.
Sitting in the chapel, waiting for the final performance piece to begin, I found myself next to a mother and daughter who said they had enjoyed the performance immensely. The daughter attended Mendez High School, and was there with a number of other students (and some extended family) that had been invited by the dance company to attend the dress rehearsal. The mother said she’d never seen anything like it and wanted to know more about the origins of the piece and the style of dance she was seeing. She imagined the dancers to be portraying mental patients, she said, and so she felt the performances to be manifestations of their inner struggles.
I said I felt more like some of the pieces were expressing a desperation to escape or the struggle (and sometimes failure) to connect with others, but I wasn’t sure.
“Ooh,” she said. “I wish I had been thinking about it that way. That might have been more fun.”
Either way, the performance is worth your while.
The structure of the building is remarkably intact and, at least the areas where we were, unblemished by tagging or other human intrusions. The scattered remains of old medical and electronic equipment, all coated in thick layers of dust, give you a sense that you’ve stepped back in time and help prepare you to get lost in the stories of those that might have gone before you. And the final piece, reuniting all the dancers and the audience in an immersive and achingly intimate experience, will leave you slightly haunted but also wanting more.
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Being the first course in the minor SCB, it serves as an introduction into the topic of sustainability in general and the chemical and biotechnological aspects of it in particular. The following topics will be discussed: Element cycles, Energy, Circular production and use of materials, and Climate change. Course material consists of slides and literature of guest lectures, videos and online sources. The course aims to convey the many ways we are influencing the planet and the urgency and possiblities to address the non-sustainable nature of our actions.
This course is available only for students in the minor Sustainable Chemistry and Biotechnology.
At the end of the course students:
are aware of the many different ways mankind affects the living and non-living environment
can critically discuss the effects of mankind on the climate, biodiversity, land use atmosphere and the oceans, in terms of element cycles and show insight in the quantitative aspects
can describe and discuss the transitions required to reach a sustainable interaction between mankind and the planet, in relation to varying socio-economic status of peoples
can convey views on sustainability in a convincing way
Mode of instruction
Guest lectures and group work. The students will work in small groups to better understand specific sustainability issues and the directions in which solutions need to be found. The results will be presented to and discussed with the other student groups. Students will be trained in presentation skills using a digital skills platform.
The four topics mentioned under ‘Description’ will each be concluded with a group presentation used for assessment. Presentations 1-4 will have weight 0%, 20%, 30% and 50% with a group level grade. Peer review of the group work is used by the teachers to adjust the final individual grade by at most minus or plus 1 point out of 10.
To be announced.
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How Do You Make An App Look Good?
How much does it cost to create an app? How Much Does It Cost to Make an App on Average? It may cost from tens to hundreds of thousands of dollars to develop a mobile app, depending on what the app does. The short answer is a decent mobile app can cost $10,000 to $500,000 to develop, but YMMV.
Can one person make an app? “It’s possible for one person to create an app. However, there is no guarantee whether or not that app will be successful. Amidst all this, hiring a team of app development experts will give you a cutting edge over others and pave way for your app’s success.”
How long does it take to create an app? On average, apps can take anywhere between three and nine months to develop, depending on the complexity of the app and structure of your project. Each stage in the process takes different amounts of time to complete, but the most time-consuming of these tend to include: Writing a project brief: one or two weeks.
How Do You Make An App Look Good? – Related Questions
Can I build my own app?
An app maker is a software, platform, or service that allows you to create mobile apps for Android and iOS devices without any coding in just a few minutes. Whether you are a beginner or a professional, you can use an app maker to build mobile apps for your small business, restaurant, church, DJ, etc.
Can I create an app for free?
App development is no longer just for professional developers. Now everyone can build mobile apps with a free version of an award-winning low-code app development platform.
Does it cost money to put an app on the App Store?
In order to be able to submit apps to the App Store, you need to be enrolled in the Apple Developer Program. It costs $99/year but it will give you access to a bunch of different benefits including: Access to submit apps to the App Stores on all Apple platforms.
Are apps profitable?
Take a look at the difference between the iOS and Android purchases. The two platforms combined for 99% of the market share, but Android alone accounts for 81.7%. With that said, 16% of Android developers earn over $5,000 per month with their mobile apps, and 25% of iOS developers make over $5,000 through app earnings.
How much does an app earn per download?
4. How much does Google pay per download of an Android app? Ans: Google takes 30% of the revenue made on the Android app and gives the rest – 70% to the developers.
Can you make an iPhone app just for yourself?
Yes, you can run your own apps on your phone. You need a paid iPhone developer account though. Purchase a developer account for $99 from Apple. Create a developer provisioning file and build to your device.
Is making an app easy?
Android makes this process simple, while iOS likes to keep things in a controlled environment. There’s pros and cons to both approaches, but the bottom line is you need to jump through one last hoop. You can simply upload your app file on any android device and test it in a live environment.
How much is an app worth?
If you have a really good app, your app’s worth is typically equal to 1 year’s revenue (App Value = 1 year’s revenue). But don’t sell yourself (or your app) short. Below are the 3 tips to guarantee a lucrative sale.
Why does it cost so much to make an app?
Why is app development so expensive? The easiest explanation is that apps are cheap; it’s the engineering and design talent that’s expensive. If you look in the App Store, you’ll see over a million different apps. These were all built by independent developers, yet the bulk of these apps will never earn a penny.
What is the best free app creator?
A customizable app design tool, Buildfire is good for developing Android, iOS and web mobile applications. This app builder supports over 10,000 apps.
How do you know the price of an app in the App Store 2020?
If you scroll down to the Information section of the listing in the App Store there is an “In-app purchases” section which shows subscription prices.
How do you distribute an app?
Distributing your apps by email
To do this, you prepare the app for release, attach it to an email, and send it to a user. When the user opens your email on their Android-powered device, the Android system recognizes the APK and displays an Install Now button in the email message.
Why do most apps fail?
Why mobile applications fail often owe to being unoriginal, lacking important features, have no obvious target audience or suffer from mobile app development failures or have usability issues. Yet, the most common reason behind why mobile apps fail financially is that their owners can’t properly monetize the apps.
Why is making apps hard?
For an entrepreneur with no coding abilities, there are three main factors that contribute to the difficulty in building a competitive mobile app in today’s market: the cost of development, lack of experience, and the inability to secure the right development team.
Can you become a millionaire by making an app?
This is the ultimate way to become a millionaire, get your App designed and developed once the product is ready, start acquiring users, create a rock-solid pitch for Investors or crowdfunding, get the Money and invest in your app, it will make you a Millionaire in just a matter of time, and this can be as easy as
How much do free apps make per download?
How much money do apps make per download? The average revenue per app download varies significantly but the average is $0.60 to $1.20.
How does TikTok make money?
Like YouTube, TikTok offers paid advertisements for brands to promote their products and services. Brands can use TikTok For Business to enhance their marketing solutions through features such as in-feed videos, brand takeovers, hashtag challenges and branded effects.
Is it hard to create an app like TikTok?
To start making an app like TikTok, you need to prepare a list of required features beforehand. The number of features and their complexity are the main components of the application development cost. To build an advanced feature for a TikTok-like app, the developers require more time.
What is the most successful mobile game?
The top-grossing mobile game is Honor of Kings (2015), also known as Arena of Valor internationally, a multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA) game published by Tencent.
How hard is it to make an app?
If you’re looking to get started quickly (and have a little Java background), a class like Introduction to Mobile App Development using Android could be a good course of action. It takes just 6 weeks with 3 to 5 hours of coursework per week, and covers the basic skills you’ll need to be an Android developer.
How hard is it to make an iOS app?
Compared to normal computers all resources are very limited: CPU performance, memory, internet connectivity and battery life. But on the other hand users expect apps to be very fancy and powerful. So it is indeed very hard to become an iOS developer – and even harder if you don’t have enough of passion for it. | <urn:uuid:ffee95e6-78bb-4e73-a3c8-32c663e4bdf6> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.laquiete.org/how-do-you-make-an-app-look-good/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573193.35/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818094131-20220818124131-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.939011 | 1,572 | 1.914063 | 2 |
Affiliations: [a] Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
| [b] Centre for Applied Health & Social Care Research, Kingston & St George’s, University of London, London, UK
| [c] Camden Neurology & Stroke Service, Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK
| [d] School of Health Sciences, Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen, Scotland | [e] Cambridge Public Health, Interdisciplinary Research Centre, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
Correspondence to: Ledia Alushi, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, Herschel Smith Building, Robinson Way, Cambridge CB2 0SZ, UK. Tel.: +44 7931709730; E-mail: [email protected].
Abstract: Background:Educational interventions promoting the role of physical activity (PA) aim to address knowledge, poor exercise self-efficacy, and low outcome expectations, which are well-researched barriers to PA participation in healthy and in people with chronic conditions. However, little is known about the effectiveness of educational interventions in addressing these barriers in people with Parkinson’s (PwP). Objective:To examine the content of education interventions that promote PA behavior in PwP, and to assess their effectiveness on physical and psychosocial outcomes. Methods:An electronic search (12/2021) of MEDLINE, EMBASE, CINAHL, PubMed PsycINFO, the Web of Science and the Cochrane Library was conducted from 1990 to 2021. Education interventions, alone or combined with other strategies, promoting PA in PwP were included. Quality was assessed using the Johanna Briggs Institute and National Institute of Health quality assessment tools. A narrative synthesis was performed. Results:Six studies were identified. Five interventions were comprised of education and exercise sessions. Improvement in physical and psychosocial outcomes were suggested but delineating the exact impact of education was impeded due to lack of assessment. Conclusion:Few interventions exist that provide knowledge, and skills promoting PA participation, and fewer are addressed towards newly diagnosed PwP. There is lack of assessment over the effectiveness of education as a tool to facilitate PA participation in PwP. Lack of assessment poses the risk of potentially disregarding effective interventions or adopting ineffective approaches without the evidence. Education interventions can boost PA engagement by increasing factors such as exercise self-efficacy, but further interventions are required to assess this model of relationship. | <urn:uuid:1fd60eaf-4bd4-45ef-b42a-78e501786e84> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://content.iospress.com/articles/journal-of-parkinsons-disease/jpd223259 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571056.58/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809155137-20220809185137-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.935439 | 517 | 2.09375 | 2 |
Leisure education has two major goals: initiate and enhance lifelong learning. This is achieved by informing and educating people about leisure activities that are socially acceptable. The individual needs to be helped to gain a broader understanding of how, where, why and with whom particular activities and leisure interests can be pursued and developed. One way in which this is achieved is by helping the individual to learn better and functional ways of developing leisure behavior in such a way as to enable the person to adapt the environment to meet needs during free time.
This is an important skill for everyone but becomes especially so for people with disabilities. People have to be guided to which activities they can benefit from and helped to learn particular skills. For some people who have a disability this has to be addressed in a more specific way.
The activities revolving around leisure education focus on serious leisure rather than the casual type. In fact, the main feature of all education is its intentionality. It is delivered and acquired in a systematic way. On the same lines, serious leisure can be described as the systematic pursuit of deep satisfaction through an activity involving a hobby or a volunteer activity, were one needs not be professionally trained to carry it out. This activity should be one were those who pursue it find it so interesting that they launch themselves in the aim of acquiring and expressing its special skills and knowledge.
Such an interest in a leisure activity can be determining in a person’s life and make a difference between boredom and listlessness and enthusiasm. Sometimes people with disabilities, who may not be gainfully employed and may have a limited social life, need a structure to help them improve their quality of life. Through a structured approach leisure education helps one to embrace the idea of developing one self through leisure activities. Education in this sense becomes more interesting and is directly applied to impact the lives of people.
Inspire & Leisure Education
Through its programmes and services Inspire is aiming to implement the concept of serious leisure for people of all abilities but is dedicated to give free of charge services for all persons with disability. Our aim is to keep on providing these services for free, however the financial constraints that we are being faced with are great and support from all those interested and involved in helping us get our message through is vital.
It must be recognized that leisure education programmes for children (and adults) with disabilities contribute to the improvement of the quality of life of these people. The aim of Inspire is to try and implement a programme of effective leisure education for people with disabilities and other children and youths. By providing its services through its various activities and programmes, Inspire is trying to enhance the quality of life by increasing their level of interaction with others in such a way that they will be able to achieve self-support, be accepted and become involved members of society.
What is Inspire doing?
Inspire is promoting the introduction of models for developing sensory abilities, motor coordination and basic sports skills. These models tackle the development of serious leisure skills through a system of multi-dimensional leisure activities such as music, art, craft, drama, sport, nature-oriented activities, special events, information technology and other lifelong leisure activities.
Inspire is trying to develop children’s abilities to interact with peers through individual, group sports and games using special assistive equipment, such as the ones that are provided during go-carting, or the helping aides that are used in the gym and hydrotherapy pool.
Inspire is trying to assure continued community support through designing leisure programmes so that such activities can be enjoyed by people with all abilities, such as the use of the Iasis fitness centre, which provides the use of a hydrotherapy pool and use of gymnasium. In the near future there will also be the multi-sensory rooms and the use of computers and internet café’ with full accessibility for people with mobility and intellectual difficulties.
Enjoyment is a word which for most of us denotes having fun and pleasure. For Inspire enjoyment implies a considerable degree of psychological involvement, which captivates the attention of the person engaging in it and one that brings about positive feelings. All this can happen only by incorporating teaching strategies that involve the setting up of clear goals, the provision of relevant positive feedback and the posing of appropriate challenges to different skills and abilities.
Inspire has been the leader in offering leisure services to people with disabilities in Malta. For the past fifteen years Inspire has opened its doors to children, youths and adults alike to try and help in the best possible way, whilst promoting leisure as a much needed part of life which shows a society’s level of development and complexity. | <urn:uuid:00d369df-13b6-44cb-8562-73a300fa86af> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://inspire.org.mt/our-services/leisure/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571056.58/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809155137-20220809185137-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.971441 | 948 | 3.09375 | 3 |
2. ‘Through Faith We Understand . . .’1
There can be no doubt that the theory of evolution functions as a strong bulwark for the kingdom of Satan today. Most people in Britain and elsewhere stand firmly in opposition to the claims of the God of heaven, and they are strengthened in doing so by the confidence with which the idea of evolution is promoted, particularly by those who have scientific credentials. And evolution is usually promoted in such a way as to imply that there is no need for a Creator. It is not a large step to a belief that God does not exist.
It is no accident that scorn is poured on anyone known to believe in what is usually described in a derogatory way as Creationism – and this is especially so if they have an academic position in the world of science. No doubt Satan is extremely active in tempting men and women to oppose the truth about creation and to promote evolution – a theory which, very likely, would long since have been totally discredited were it not that the only viable alternative is to believe that the God of the Bible created the whole universe. And the Bible indeed calls everyone to this belief in the true God; it demands: ‘Know ye that the Lord he is God: it is he that hath made us, and not we ourselves’ (Psa. 100:3). Everyone ought to receive this as a statement of the obvious; yet how unwilling people generally are to submit to this fact! Scientists seem to be more or less conscious that if they accept the existence of God, their consciences will then tell them that they ought to turn to him in repentance – a thought which is no more welcome to most people in twenty-first-century Britain than it was in first-century Athens.
There can be no doubt that the widespread acceptance of the theory of evolution and the corresponding rejection of the scriptural doctrine of Creation are major factors in contemporary resistance to the gospel. We may note that, in spite of the superficiality of so much American religion, there is widespread acceptance in that country of the fact that God created all things; yet within the scientific community there is the same militant opposition to the doctrine of Creation. For instance, the American organisation, the National Academy of Sciences (NAS), insists vehemently that science is a totally-naturalistic activity, claiming that ‘reliance upon naturalistic explanations is the most basic characteristic of science’.2 In other words, to introduce into the study of nature any idea with religious implications – particularly, the idea of God as Creator – is unacceptable in science.
In a 1981 resolution, the Academy stated: ‘Religion and science are separate and mutually exclusive realms of human thought whose presentation in the same context leads to misunderstanding of both scientific theory and religious belief’.3 Phillip Johnson comments:
If the NAS were to declare explicitly that science favours atheism over theism, the pretence that science and religion are separate subjects would have to be abandoned. It would follow that creationists should have a fair opportunity to argue that the naturalistic conclusions presented to the public in the name of science are philosophical assumptions rather than empirical findings and that there is nothing in the nature of science that requires legitimate empirical research to be based on a dogmatic adherence to metaphysical naturalism’4
– in other words, adherence to a philosophical belief that nothing exists beyond what in some way can impinge on our senses, that nothing exists beyond what we can see and hear and handle. Such a view demands that there is no supernatural, and especially that there is no God.
Johnson argues elsewhere:
Understanding the crucial role of philosophy in Darwinism is the key to understanding why the theory is so controversial and why scientists want so badly to dodge the hard questions. Biologists have authority over questions of biology, but they have no authority to impose a philosophy on society. Once the public understands what they are doing, the biologists will lose their power to exclude dissent. That is why it is so important for them to insist that ‘evolution is a fact‘. Change that to ‘evolution is a philosophy’, and the game is over.5
We should not be too easily disturbed about possible conflicts between science and the Bible. The physical evidence is what it is, though much more may be gathered in the future; the basis for the conflict lies in the interpretation of the evidence, which is liable to change from one age to the next. The Epistle to the Hebrews teaches us that it is ‘through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God’ (11:3). In Scripture we have clear testimony that the earth and all the heavenly bodies were created by God’s direct command, and we are to receive that testimony by faith. There is no alternative; scientists may theorise but it is only by a form of faith that they can accept these theories – of ‘the big bang’, for example – as true.
In the end, the difference between one form of faith and another resolves itself into a question of authority: that of God or of the scientific community. We ought to have no difficulty in believing God rather than man. W S Plumer quotes an earlier writer:
That the worlds exist we know by our senses; that they were originally made is obvious to our reason; but that they were made by the word of God, and that out of nothing, could be known only by revelation and understood by faith.
And Plumer himself goes on to make a statement which is no less true today:
Unbelief in our day . . . is very offensive to God . . . For if the ancient worthies [of Old Testament times], who had but a few revelations, yet believed God, embraced all the promises they had and acted accordingly, how criminal must we be, who live in the full blaze of gospel light, and yet faithlessly turn away from the holy commandment, and by unbelief show that we have no confidence in God.
A few sentences later he quotes from Scripture verses which are highly significant in this context: ‘If we receive the witness of men, the witness of God is greater . . . He that believeth not God hath made Him a liar’ (1 John 5:9, 10).<6
- The other three articles from this 2008 Theological Conference paper can be found on the Banner of Truth website:
Part 1 – ‘Much of the Power and Wisdom of God’.
Part 3 – The Consistent Scripture Testimony.
Part 4 – ‘God Has Given Me All Things’.
- As reported by Phillip E. Johnson in Darwin on Trial, Monarch Publications, 1994, p. 14. It should be noted that, while Professor Johnson deals with Darwinism in a highly-effective fashion, he does not accept that the Scripture account of creation should be read literally.
- Quoted in Darwin on Trial, p. 123.
- Philip E Johnson, Reason in the Balance, IVP USA 1995, p. 190
- Philip E Johnson, Testing Darwinism, IVP USA 1997 pp. 56-7
- Commentary on Hebrews, Baker reprint, 1980, pp. 453-4
Rev Kenneth D. Macleod is editor of The Free Presbyterian Magazine, from the September 2009 edition of which this article is reproduced with kind permission.
The Greatest Story Ever Told 10 June 2022
In Exodus 18 Moses spends a whole chapter on his father-in-law Jethro. I think it’s safe to assume that Moses didn’t promise to give him a prominent spot in his book in order to win brownie points with the in-laws! So why then is this chapter here? One of its main purposes is to do […]
The Lord has Given You the. . . 6 May 2022
Do you find yourself constantly surprised by the things that God says are important as you read through Scripture? I found this, yet again, just a couple of weeks ago when I came to preach on Exodus 16 and was confronted by a whole chapter about manna. More space is given to it in Exodus […] | <urn:uuid:d9c8a09c-bf21-45f5-a1eb-b030dc867f5b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://banneroftruth.org/uk/resources/articles/2009/creation-2sup1sup/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571056.58/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809155137-20220809185137-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.96446 | 1,683 | 2.1875 | 2 |
Ratories had been collected in video-laboratories, together with the aim of offering teachers with a simple instrument to continue the activity in the course of on the web teaching. The video format consisted of a cartoon, set within a typical day of college having a group of major school students. The video is comprised of 8 clips, a single for each different topic, that are linked to each other, but at the exact same time independent. Attached to every clip there’s an info sheet addressed to teachers, containing some information on wholesome nutrition and life style, a summary on the subject and workouts for the students. All videos have been previously tested having a manage group of teachers and students getting constructive comments. All college leaders involved within the laboratories expressed interest in pursuing using the educational nutritional system.Nutrients 2021, 13,five of2.two.5. Policy Environment Brochures with the project specifics were prepared. They contained tips on healthful eating and had been distributed to students, households, religious communities, associations, pediatricians, common practitioners, and other wellness pros (Supplementary Materials Figure S3). 2.3. Phase 3: Enrolment on the Target Population and Outcomes two.3.1. Universal Approach Meetings and conferences for the nearby community and for the distinctive religious communities of the districts (Muslim, Chinese and Orthodox) had been organized to present the tools created to promote healthy transcultural nutrition and healthier life-style. Educated operators (like cultural mediators) have been invited to moderate these meetings. The explanation for needing to modify behavior was presented as the necessity of stopping obesity, considered a disease related with lowered self-esteem, depression, nocturnal sleep apnea, physical workout intolerance, short-term orthopedic challenges, too as metabolic and cardiovascular complications that can be manifest given that adolescence. 2.three.two. Neighborhood Targeted School teaching and understanding was implemented in principal schools inside the three districts, in suburbs having a higher density of migrants and/or low-SES households. Main college in Italy consists of children and adolescents aged 64. So as to participate, major schools didn’t have to be involved inside a major wellness education diet/nutrition-related project. College administrators, college leaders and local overall health officials worked with each other to create and implement the program. Thirty-two school classes were contacted, and 30 accepted to participate in the plan. Students at the same time as families were invited to participate. All the students with the 30 classes had been enrolled simply because the activity was proposed as part of the college program on the choice from the class council. Participants inside the nutritional laboratories were asked anonymously to complete a preand a post-intervention questionnaire (after one month) in an effort to evaluate the finding out improvement. Questionnaires, which differed in accordance with age (60 and 114 years old), have been created by the CFoscari 5-Hydroxymethyl-2-furancarboxylic acid Data Sheet University of Venice, together with the collaboration of professionals and academics working inside the field of nutrition. Questionnaires integrated: three queries to check the children’s know-how; two concerns connected to their eating habits and also the level of physical activity practiced; three questions relating to the satisfaction regarding the activities proposed during the workshop, the cookbook, and also the app (Table two).Table 2. Lists of concerns used to verify students’ Quinolinic acid site know-how and habits. Students Aged 60 Year. | <urn:uuid:9b3ef043-71dd-4f05-b6d5-9be7f5565366> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://cathepsin-s.com/2022/06/27/5629/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570793.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808092125-20220808122125-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.960138 | 716 | 2.671875 | 3 |
Since the US carried out a drone strike in Kabul on Sunday that witnesses say killed 10 civilians, the Pentagon and the White House have defended the bombing, claiming it targeted ISIS-K. But relatives of the victims strongly deny that any of them were affiliated with ISIS and want answers from Washington.
“They have to give us answers. Is our blood so worthless, we don’t even get an explanation?” Ramal Ahmadi, a brother of one of the dead, told The Associated Press. Ahmadi said a missile hit his brother’s car as he pulled up the family’s home and children ran out to greet him.
The US claims the car was laden with explosives and a secondary blast is why there is such a high civilian casualty rate. But Ahmadi and other witnesses dispute Washington’s claim.
Emal, another Ahmadi brother, told AP that if the car was full of explosives, the blast would have done much more damage and pointed to two undamaged gas cylinders. “If the car was filled with explosives like the Americans say, why didn’t these cylinders explode,” he said. “How could the wall still be standing if this car had been full of explosives?”
Every person killed by the strike was related to Ahmadi’s. Emal lost a three-year-old daughter to the US drone and asked how the Americans could not see they were bombing a yard full of children. “They have such high technology they can see an ant on the ground, but they couldn’t see a yard full of children?” he said.
Some of the Ahmadis have worked for the US-backed Afghan security forces and US-based NGOs in Afghanistan, including the oldest brother Zamarai and a nephew Nasir Haideri, who were killed in the strike. Nasir and Zamarai both applied for Special Immigration Visas to evacuate to the US.
The slaughter of the Ahmadi family is not an anomaly for US drone strikes. In 2015, documents leaked by Daniel Hale, who was recently sentenced to 45 months in prison, revealed that during a five-month period between 2012 and 2013, 90 percent of the people killed by US drones were civilians.
While Hale’s leaks were published over five years ago, US drone strikes still regularly kill civilians, and there is virtually no oversight. The slaughter of the Ahmadi’s has received wide media coverage because it happened in Kabul as the US was exiting Afghanistan. But US drone strikes are often carried out in remote villages, where there are no reporters.
After the suicide bombing at the Kabul airport, the US launched a drone strike in a remote area of the Nangarhar province. The Pentagon claims the strike killed two “ISIS-K planners,” but their names or any other details have not been released.
While the US has no more troops in Afghanistan, drone strikes could continue. During a speech after the withdrawal was completed, President Biden threatened more airstrikes against ISIS-K.
“We have what’s called over the horizon capabilities, which means we can strike terrorists and targets without American boots on the ground, or very few if needed. We’ve shown that capacity just in the last week. We struck ISIS-K remotely,” Biden said, describing the strike that killed the Ahmadis. “And to ISIS-K, we are not done with you yet.” | <urn:uuid:15e14632-6a1e-4367-adcd-65f5d222ca55> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://news.antiwar.com/2021/09/02/victims-of-us-drone-strike-in-kabul-want-answers/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573744.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819161440-20220819191440-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.9783 | 726 | 1.578125 | 2 |
Many of us are several weeks into stay-at-home directives from our governments and health officials. For many, social distancing means sharing a confined space with romantic partners while navigating new stressful issues including sudden unemployment, working from home, child care and the never-ceasing uncertainty.
Unsurprisingly, there are reports of divorce rates skyrocketing in China since the outbreak of COVID-19. Instability and stress can exacerbate insecurities and increase conflict for couples. As a scholar and a couple and family therapist, I offer five practical, evidence-based tips for couples when being stuck at home is making you feel stuck in your relationship.
1. Take space
Sharing a physical space with your partner for extended periods of time can increase pressure and stress. Without the daily routine of leaving the home, your space may begin to feel very small and irritation with one another may escalate quickly.
Research demonstrates that actively choosing to take alone time can contribute to relaxation and reduced stress. Consider taking regular blocks of alone time each day, whether it is a walk around the neighbourhood, closing the door to a room where you will not be disturbed or engaging in an activity that is just for you.
Communicating how you plan to take space will help your partner know how to support your efforts, and will encourage them to do the same. If you’re not taking care of yourself, you will have little to offer your partner.
2. Where possible, use “I” statements
When you need to tell your partner how you feel, try to speak from your perspective as opposed to accusing them of doing something wrong. For example, “I feel really defeated when I continue to find dirty dishes in the sink. Is there any way you can help me keep the kitchen clean?”
Using “I” language has been found to reduce perceptions of hostility and anger. “I” statements can help your partner hear your perspective instead of interpreting it as an attack and becoming defensive.
3. Press pause
Press pause on conflicts that are not going anywhere and set a time to try again later. When conflicts become heated, many couples enter into an automatic “fight, flight or freeze” response.
Our brains can experience conflict as a threat, and emotions and defences can become activated. When this happens we shut down and conflict resolution becomes impossible. If you notice you or your partner getting angry or distressed in a conflict, request to put the conversation on pause to give you both a chance to step back, breathe and think.
Once stress levels are lower, complex thinking, reflection and reasoning become possible. Set an agreed upon time to return to the discussion when you’re both awake, nourished and feeling more calm.
4. What’s your part?
If you find yourself continuing to get stuck in conflict with your partner, ask yourself, what part do I play in this conflict? Do I nag or pursue my partner when I am feeling anxious? Or, do I have a tendency to shut down, or avoid my partner when I am feeling pressured?
Emotionally focused therapist and researcher Sue Johnson, has found that couples often get stuck in problematic interaction cycles. Considering what role you take in a conflict cycle can help you try out new positions.
For example, what happens when you respond to your partner’s anxiety with compassion as opposed to feeling annoyed and walking away? What happens when you share your worries with your partner, instead of getting angry at them for not taking the garbage out, or not helping enough with child care?
5. Acknowledge strengths
Try to acknowledge one another’s strengths. What special skills does your partner have to get through hard times? If your partner is the one making home school schedules for the kids, or braving the grocery store while you work, let them know they are appreciated and compliment their ability to handle difficult situations.
Note what strengths they have that you admire. As recent research demonstrated, greater appreciation for one’s partner’s strengths predicted increased relationship satisfaction and intimacy. Acknowledging your partner’s positive attributes creates more good feelings between you.While these tips will help you mitigate conflict in your relationship, remember to not expect perfection. These are stressful times, and you will inevitably lose your patience and experience frustration. Compassion for yourself and your partner will go a long way as you navigate these uncharted waters together. | <urn:uuid:f850a91c-13fa-40fc-95d5-f4f008d678cb> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://globalnews.ca/news/6821372/coronavirus-quarantine-relationship-tips/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571056.58/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809155137-20220809185137-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.948536 | 910 | 2.515625 | 3 |
Bible School to Eye Children's Problems
YUKON The vacation Bible school program of Town and Country Christian Church, 2200 S Cornwell, will tackle some modern-day problems while encouraging spiritual growth Monday through Friday under a huge tent.
This year's theme is "Join Sgt. Scripture and the Army of the Lord Under the Big Tent."
The goal of the event is to give children an atmosphere that promotes Jesus Christ and his teachings, to encourage children to open their Bibles and to reach parents who may have physical and spiritual needs.
Five of the lessons to be presented will deal with drugs and alcohol, suicide, divorce, verbal and physical abuse, and peer pressure.
Classes and the teachers involved are: preschool, Carolyn Hays;
kindergarten through third grade, Sandy Beezley; fourth through sixth grades, Kathie Smith; older children, Cindy Perkins; and adults, Kent Perkins.
Some of the activities planned are T-shirt painting, volleyball, soccer, aerobics, rapping to Christian music and a film.
A closing graduation program will be held at the church Aug. 13.
Bus transportation to the weeklong event is available in the Oklahoma City metro area. For information: 354-7749. BIOG: NAME:
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ou may not even realise it, but while you sleep, you could be sharing your space with tiny, invisible to the eye visitors called dust mites. The microscopic pests thrive in dark areas, making your bedroom the most infectious room in the house, ideal for dust mites.
These creatures can irritate those who suffer from allergies, inflame the skin and are highly unhygienic. This is why it’s so important that when you detect them, you kill the dust mites immediately for your health and wellbeing.
What Is A Dust Mite?
Dust mites get their name from the environment they thrive in: The dust. The tiny, microscopic creatures, which are the relatives of spiders and ticks, irritate your skin, cause rashes to form and trigger allergies. In fact, dust mites are one of the most common triggers to allergy sufferers that absolutely love humid, dark spaces where dust falls. They’re only millimetres in size and feed on dead skin cells, the primary ingredient in dust. Dust mites can even cause asthma and eczema to develop in young children.
The typical life span for a dust mite is only a couple of months. Males live for only 30 days, unlike females who can reside in your bed for up to three months. But even dead dust mites are extremely unhygienic and can reduce the air quality around your bedroom.
Fibre surfaces are their favourite, as well as moist environments like your mattress because of the sweat and air that traps humidity beneath your sheets. This is why it’s so important to protect your bed against them and why you need to kill them off right away. Their home will only grow if you don’t.
Difference between dust mites and bed bugs
Because they reside in the same area, people commonly confuse the dust mite with the bed
bug, but they’re actually very different. While you can’t see dust mites, you can see bed bugs which are longer visual bugs. Similarly, they both cause allergic reactions and are very unclean; however, unlike dust mites, bed bugs bite the skin and feed off blood.
Signs You Have Dust Mites
Although you can’t see them, there are many signs that make it relatively easy to determine if you have dust mites. Of course, if you have allergies, you’ll probably find them flaring up more frequently when you’re in your bedroom. Aside from that, the most common signs your bed contains dust mites are:
- Runny nose
- Itchy, watery eyes
- Sore throat
What makes them multiply and get worse
If you don’t treat your dust mite problem immediately, it could potentially get worse and cause more severe irritation to the skin. If your bed doesn’t offer the right amount of ventilation or absorb humidity, you could find your dust mite situation is dire, as this is their favourite type of environment. High temperatures and indoor smoking also contribute to their growth.
Simply dusting your area isn’t going to help; in fact, it could potentially just flare up your allergies more as they’ll be circulating airborne around you. Unwashed sheets and bedding have also proven to make the dust mite situation worse.
How To Kill Dust Mites
The great news is there are several helpful ways to treat dust mites and kill them off. This includes:
1. Cleaning: Strip all your bedding from your mattress and wash whatever you can on a warm wash. Hot water kills and removes any dust mites hiding in your bedding, meaning they can’t return. If you can’t wash your sheets and pillowcases on hot, then put them in the dryer for about ten minutes; the warmth in a dryer can kill them just as effectively as a washing machine can. However, if you don’t have access to a dryer, you can also steam clean them out as a last resort.
2. Vacuum: Using a vacuum cleaner is a fantastic way to eliminate dust mites completely. By running a cleaner along your mattress, it will pick up and remove all the mites living within the bed.
3. Use baking soda: This natural powder is perfect for collecting and trapping dust mites. Not only that, but it also cleans, absorbs moisture and removes odours that reside in the mattress. Leave it on for at least 15 minutes, and then use a vacuum to extract the powder and dust mites from the bed for a deep clean.
4. Declutter your bedroom: Things that take up space gather dust very quickly, so, therefore, you should remove as much of that clutter as possible to limit the amount of dust in your room and, therefore, dust mites. Do this regularly to ensure they stay away.
5. Spray tea tree and eucalyptus oil: These two natural oils are anti-bacterial, anti-viral and anti-fungal, which means they can kill most things, including dust mites. They disinfect the area for a clean, hygienic finish. You can even make it yourself at home.
How to Avoid Them In The Future
Now that you’ve entirely removed your dust mite problem from your mattress, it’s essential to protect it from getting them again. The great news is it’s actually quite simple to do so, and there’s a number of effective prevention methods.
- Use allergen-proof bed protectors and toppers. These are specifically designed to keep out dust mites and your allergies at bay. They’re tightly woven to prevent any little creatures from gathering and spreading in your mattress.
- Buy a hypoallergenic mattress or anti-allergy. Like the toppers and protectors, these mattresses are a great solution to dust mites and causing allergy flare-ups. These hyperallergic mattresses, commonly made out of memory foam or latex, have a combat design that makes it almost impossible for dust mites to get into and irate your allergies.
- Wash your sheets regularly. This may seem like an obvious step, but it’s probably the most essential way to prevent dust mites. By washing all your bedding regularly on a hot wash, including your sheets, pillowcases, toppers and blankets, you’re ensuring that any dust mites you may have had been killed. If you can’t wash it, you can freeze your bedding if you have the space; freezing it does the same as adding hot water does; it ultimately kills them off.
- Keep the humidity levels down. Dust mites absolutely love hot, smoke ridden places, so it’s vital that to avoid them, you keep your humid levels below 50 per cent where they won’t thrive. You can do this with a dehumidifier or simply with your air conditioner.
- Pick the right bedding. This is crucial because some beds can trap heat or dust easier than others can. Read up about the mattress you have and see if it’s what’s causing your dust mites to thrive. Ideally, you want a bed that has excellent airflow and doesn’t absorb moisture.
- Clean and vacuum your mattress. By deep cleaning your mattress every few months, you lower the risk of getting dust mites. To find out more about how to properly clean your bed, check out MyDeal’s guide HERE.
- Buy covers and mattresses that come with zippers. Enclosed spaces make it hard for dust mites to get into, which makes mattresses that offer this feature a great way to counteract dust mites.
- Keep pets out of beds. Just like humans, our animals shed dead skin cells regularly and can contribute to the number of dust mites living in our beds. By removing them from the bed, there’s less chance you’ll develop dust mites.
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Homily of Bishop Kevin at Easter Vigil 2018
Seven or eight years ago, I bought a piece of software for my computer called Adobe Acrobat. For those of you who are not familiar with it, Acrobat is a computer programme for creating and editing secure documents. I have found it very useful over the years, but recently it started causing me problems. More than once, having spent a few hours working on a document I found it couldn’t be saved.
One day a message popped up to tell me that this version of Adobe Acrobat was no longer being supported. I was invited to upgrade to the latest version. All I had to do was click on a button, fill in a few details and I was nearly done. But then there was the little matter of an annual payment by credit card. I’m sure most of us have had this experience with a computer, or a mobile phone or some other form of technology.
My first reaction was to say to myself “there must be some way around this”; “I’ll get it sorted myself”. I resisted for a few weeks, but it gradually became clear to me that there was no salvation without making the commitment. On Thursday evening, I finally gave in and paid the price. Within a few seconds the big red “X” on my screen became a reassuring green “tick” and my new version of Adobe Acrobat kicked into life. You may wonder what that has to do with Easter, but I’ll come back to that later on.
We have listened to a lot of readings from Scripture this evening, and they are only a selection of the readings which are proposed for use at the Easter Vigil. The story of salvation is a long and complex story but, in the final analysis, it is all about Jesus Christ the Son of God. Everything in the Old Testament leads us to Jesus; his birth and life, his death and his resurrection. Everything in the New Testament is built on Jesus; his birth and life, his death and his resurrection.
The heart of the message is that God the Creator, who has loved us from the beginning, had compassion on us and sent his Son to free us from the power of sin and death, through laying down his own life. Now he is forming us into a new creation through his Holy Spirit. This is what all our readings are about this evening, including the ones we have not listened to this year.
Our first reading this evening is all about the loving plan of our Creator God, who brought into existence a world which is teeming with life and energy. It is a world in which “everything is connected”, as Pope Francis reminds us (LS 91). After each part of the story, we hear, almost like the chorus of a song, that, “God saw that it was good”. Pope Francis goes on to say that God’s plan includes the creation of humanity, in his own image. In other words we are created for relationship with Him. “This shows us the immense dignity of each person, who is not just something, but someone” (LS 65).
According to Pope Francis Pope “the creation accounts in the book of Genesis suggest that human life is grounded in three fundamental and closely intertwined relationships: with God, with our neighbour and with the earth itself. According to the Bible, these three vital relationships have been broken, both outwardly and within us” (LS 66). That is the meaning of sin; the frustration of God’s plan. It’s a bit like when my Adobe Acrobat no longer works the way it was intended to.
If we are to understand the next reading from Exodus, we need to see it as part of a much bigger story of how the children of Israel ended up as slaves in Egypt. The passage we heard this evening is the beginning of an epic journey through the wilderness. The red “X” on the doorposts of their houses will eventually become the green of the promised-land, a land flowing with milk and honey. It is a triumphant and joyful moment, which is commemorated every year in the Jewish Feast of Passover. It marks the beginning of a new and better “version” of God’s people.
But like me sitting in front of my computer screen, the people of Israel prevaricated. They didn’t want to go back, but the way forward was difficult. They sat in the wilderness and grumbled. They were, as the Lord said to Moses “a stiff-necked people”. At times, it seemed that God himself must lose patience with them, but no. He remained true to his promise.
We don’t often listen to the reading from Baruch at the Easter Vigil. It comes from another time of exile, when the people of Israel found themselves in captivity in Babylon. Baruch invites them to reflect on how they came to be there in the land of their enemies. He suggests that they had “forsaken the fount of wisdom”. The prophet Jeremiah uses a similar image when he says:
[My people] have forsaken me, the spring of living water,
and have dug their own cisterns,
broken cisterns that cannot hold water. (Jer. 2:13)
In other words they had lost their sense of direction, which came from being the people of God. Baruch invites the people of Israel to recommit, so that they can once again have life and light and length of days in their own land.
In any society, when the priorities of individuals take precedence over the common good, the essential relationship of trust breaks down and the structures of society are weakened. As we listen to this reading, we might ask ourselves about the priorities we have for our own society. Has our “operating system” become deformed because spin has taken the place of truth, or because we set more store on being clever than on being wise. Baruch’s invitation to the people of Israel is: “listen to commands that bring life”. That same invitation is given to us today.
We listened to two readings from the New Testament, one from St. Paul and the other from St. Mark. Like the little message that popped up on my computer screen last week, these readings bring us the good news that there is a solution to all that is broken in our lives and in our society. This solution, of course, is not a programme, it is a person; Jesus Christ.
The good news comes in two parts. The first part is an amazing fact of history. Jesus who died is risen. The story, as told by St. Mark is simple and uncomplicated. The women came; they saw the stone rolled back. Instead of the body of Jesus, what they found in the tomb was a young man in a white robe. He entrusted them with the message that Jesus would meet them in Galilee, back where it all began. The sun may have been only rising, but the Son of God had already risen.
Like every human story, there is the moment when everything falls into place. For the disciples on Easter morning the good news was that Jesus is alive, but very quickly they began to see that, if He had risen as He promised, then His promise of eternal life for all who believed in Him was also a reality. This is a very strong theme in all the writings of St. Paul.
In the early years of Christianity, it was the usual practice for Christians to be immersed from head to toe in the waters of Baptism. For St. Paul, that was a powerful symbol. Going down into the water was like going into the tomb with Christ; dying to the old way of life. Coming up out of the water, then, Christians were filled with the new life of Baptism. This is what we celebrate in every Baptism. Even without physical death, we already begin to live the new life of the Resurrection.
How is this possible? Well, bear with me if I go back once more to Adobe Acrobat. As I said at the beginning, there is always the little matter of a price to be paid. In our case, however, Jesus Christ has already paid the price for us, through his own life of self-giving and service and through his death on the cross. Never before, in the history of humanity, has anyone been so close to the Father. Never before has anyone responded so generously and completely to the Father’s love – and He is one of us. We were unable to save ourselves, but he has brought about our salvation. The “heavy lifting” has been done. Paul’s message to us is that “if in union with Christ, we have imitated his death, we shall also share his Resurrection”.
Jesus said, I have come that you may have life and have it in abundance. Today, He wants to share with each one of us the new life of the Resurrection; a life that conquers death forever. It remains for each one of us to accept the gift; to choose life. This is not just about the future; it is about the here and now. As Jesus said: “the kingdom of God is already within you”.
If the kingdom of God is already within us, then we should already be able to see the signs of it in the Church and in the World. If we aspire to Resurrection at the end of time, then one of the signs of the kingdom within us and among us will inevitably be the way in which we respect life, support life and celebrate life in every situation; the life of the family; the life of the hungry and the homeless, the life of the mother and father, the elderly and the unborn. Everything is connected.
As we look forward to the World Meeting of Families and a visit from Pope Francis, my prayer for you and for your families and for our whole society is that we would be filled with all the hope and the blessing of this season of new life and fresh beginnings. | <urn:uuid:2fd87dd2-176e-4f25-b66c-8575d6f8abc0> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.elphindiocese.ie/homily-of-bishop-kevin-at-easter-vigil-2018/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570793.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808092125-20220808122125-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.979469 | 2,097 | 1.53125 | 2 |
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The following table provides information about the project.
STAZIONE ZOOLOGICA ANTON DOHRN
|Coordinator Country||Italy [IT]|
|Total cost||244˙269 €|
|EC max contribution||244˙269 € (100%)|
1. H2020-EU.1.3.2. (Nurturing excellence by means of cross-border and cross-sector mobility)
|Duration (year-month-day)||from 2016-12-01 to 2019-11-30|
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Ocean acidification (OA) is expected to profoundly alter the diversity and function of marine ecosystems, as well as the services they provide to society. Thus, understanding how future oceans will function in the face of OA represents one of the major challenges and needs for marine science and management.
However, most of the studies to date on OA have consisted of short- to medium- timescale laboratory experiments of single species exposed in isolation to OA. Consequently, our understanding and ability to predict the impacts of OA at the community and ecosystem levels are extremely limited. There is, therefore, a great need for empirical investigations of the long-term effects of OA on marine ecosystems exposed to high pCO2, as found around naturally acidified systems.
To fill the remaining knowledge gap of the emergent effects of OA on coastal marine ecosystems, I will adopt a multidisciplinary perspective by integrating three novel approaches: 1) functional-community level studies in natural CO2 vent systems; 2) use of newly developed multi-stressors experimental FOCE systems; and 3) genomic studies of the adaptive capacity of marine species to OA. Moreover, we will use virtual reality to increase public understanding of OA.
This research, based on innovative and high-level training, is expected to generate a better understanding and ability to assess marine functional biodiversity vulnerability. Future4Oceans has a strong link to management and policy advice at EU and international levels. It directly addresses the H2020 Work Programme priorities of climate action and sustainable environment. This project will not only reinforce, extend, and diversify the scientific expertise of the fellow by facilitating the development of methodological skills but propel her career towards scientific independence and professional maturity.
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Teixidó N, Gambi MC, Parravaccini V, Kroeker K, Micheli F, Villeger S, Ballesteros E
\"Data and R codes for the research article \"\"Functional biodiversity loss along natural CO2 gradients\"\". Nature Communications\"
published pages: , ISSN: , DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.1475464
Nuria Teixidó, Maria Cristina Gambi, Valeriano Parravacini, Kristy Kroeker, Fiorenza Micheli, Sebastien Villéger, Enric Ballesteros
Functional biodiversity loss along natural CO2 gradients
published pages: , ISSN: 2041-1723, DOI: 10.1038/s41467-018-07592-1
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Nearly 80% of electronic messages circulating in the world are sp@ms. Without any international legislation that would effectively fight sp@mmers, there is no reason for this percentage to drop. The only response, therefore, lies in the increasingly strict filters imposed by software and messaging servers. And this will have a concrete influence on the layout and content of the Newsletters.
The ITU ( International Telecommunications Union ) is trying to put in place legislative, technical, and educational solutions to fight against spam (sp@ms) on a global level, but the task is far from simple. In the United States, for example, spammers are more or less protected by an “antisp@m” (sic!) law of 2003 which, under the justification of free trade, leaves them practically a free hand to continue…
But the market is not going to wait for legislation to be put in place to adapt to this invasion of offers of Viagra, Rolex at unbeatable prices, financial investments not to be missed, not to mention the widow of the late president. of the Nigerian Oil Company which needs help to get its 120 billion dollars out of the country.
The adaptation of consumer behavior and the new antisp@m solutions will have a direct influence on the marketing possibilities that have been established in recent years around messages in HTML format (which include a layout and images).
First, more and more companies are configuring their anti-sp@m filters to no longer let through messages that contain links to images placed on external servers (potentially a link-activated by an employee can lead to a virus).
Second, the latest email client software (Thunderbird, Outlook, Eudora, etc.) is also configured to no longer automatically display images contained in messages. It will be up to the user to expressly activate this possibility for each new message. But how many people will bother?
In addition, to fight against ” phishing ” (which consists of luring users with a link that does not lead to the right site), certain software warns if a hidden link does not correspond to the address indicated in the message. This considerably reduces the confidence of users and therefore the click rate.
There are many reasons why a message would not be delivered or displayed. Between the antisp@m filters of access providers, the mail servers that are subscribed to the SpamCop blacklist, the installation by consumers of third-party software ( Norton AntiSpam, McAfee SpamKiller, etc.), and finally the filters messaging software which is becoming more and more strict.
Filters that block images will force email marketers to increasingly favor that good old text format. The layouts will certainly be lighter to be able to integrate images that appear in the message as an attachment and are no longer posted on an external server. This makes it possible to guarantee correct display, even in messaging software that no longer displays them automatically.
It is always surprising to see that some mailings use images to display the most critical information (the title, the promotional offer, etc.). Not only are consumers not going to bother to click the “view images” button and never know what that great deal was on offer to them. In addition, a message that contains little real text compared to the images has a good chance of being identified as sp@m and never being delivered.
The lack of external images (and the absence of automatic display) will influence the ” reporting ” of message opening statistics. It is often an external image that is used to count the opening rate of messages when using an e-mail sending solution.
The links that appear in the messages will also become elements to be taken into account. Email programs are beginning to incorporate so-called “ ScamWatch ” filters that warn the user if a destination link does not match the one displayed. It is, therefore, necessary to pay particular attention to the way of writing the links, because let us not forget that in most cases, the links lead first to the service provider’s server to be able to count the clicks before redirecting the visitor to the final page.
Unfortunately, few online email marketing services incorporate these restrictions into the way they send messages. They continue to offer HTML-formatted post solutions that place images and links that pass through their servers. The effort was mainly put on the antisp@m control of the structure of the messages (textual contents) and on the negotiations with the main access providers to appear on the “white lists” (senders who are authorized to pass through filters).
They should start adapting their tools so that the solutions fit together around the client’s mail server and their web server. Using the company’s servers makes it possible to clearly sign the sender, correctly authenticate the message by antisp@m filters, and offer “trusted” links in the messages.
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Aerial mapping company Bluesky International is using state of the art, aircraft mounted lasers to create a 3D model of the Quantock Hills in Somerset.
As England’s first Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty the Quantock Hills has a distinctive character with exceptional beauty and cultural heritage. Commissioned by the Quantock Landscape Partnership Scheme, the high precision terrain mapping project will improve the understanding how people have lived and worked in the area for thousands of years.
A 5 year £2.6 million programme the Quantock Landscape Partnership Scheme (QLPS) was created to conserve and celebrate the landscape of the area. Significantly funded by the National Lottery Heritage Fund it is led by the Quantock Hills Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB) which is in turn hosted by Somerset County Council.
“The Landscape Partnership Scheme was developed in response to the pressure and opportunities we face as one of the finest and oldest Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, including the changing agricultural economy and recreational usage,” commented Bill Jenman, Landscape Partnership Scheme Manager. “The scheme also hopes to increase the understanding of the development of the Manorial landscape and how this underpins the character of the Quantocks.”
“As part of this work we have commissioned Bluesky to undertake a high resolution LiDAR survey,” he continued. “For large scale topographical survey work, such as archaeological investigations and desk-based archive studies, there is really no substitute for good LiDAR coverage and I am excited about what this data will reveal about the industrial heritage as well as potentially some missing pieces of the medieval and prehistoric picture.”
The QLPS commissioned Bluesky to capture nearly 200 square kilometres of ‘leaf off’ LiDAR data at a resolution of 16 points per metre (ppm). The data will be captured during the winter 20 /21 flying season using Bluesky’s newly upgraded LiDAR sensor. The original LiDAR data and any derived datasets, such as elevation models and hill-shade images, will be made available to all project partners including the South West Heritage Trust and Somerset County Council as well as the Environment Agency.
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Vestmannaeyjar came to international attention in 1973 with the eruption of Eldfell volcano, which destroyed many buildings and forced a months-long evacuation of the entire population to mainland Iceland.
Approximately one fifth of the town was destroyed before the lava flow was halted by application of 6.8 billion litres of cold sea water.
About 1500 people decided not to come back to the islands.
In 1979 We visited Heimaey, in the archipelago south of Iceland mainland, which is the only inhabited island here, and home to Eldfell. You could still boil an egg in the lava ashes, and putting down a finger would make your skin peeling off.
Our plan was to revisit now, 40 years later, to see in what ways the island had changed.
The photos show the views from the ferry takeoff and in the header, you can spot the whole range of the archipelago islands in the distance. | <urn:uuid:b4b6a30b-63fb-40a3-8c86-80a95b88b86b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://lagottocattleya.wordpress.com/2019/07/11/thursday-thoughts-going-vestmannaeyar/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571056.58/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809155137-20220809185137-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.968569 | 191 | 2.59375 | 3 |
(a, top) Tangent angle, is the angle between and the average direction of motion of the animal, . (bottom) Example space-time plot of , corresponding to the bottom trial in c. The diagonal bands indicate a head-to-tail traveling wave propagated at constant speed. (b) The two dominant PCs representing . The solid lines are the experimental results, the dashed lines are sine fits to . Coefficients with 95% confidence bounds were , , , , , . Both vectors were divided by the same maximum value such that the maximum amplitude was one. These two PCs account for 91% of the variance. (c) The amplitudes and associated with the PCs in e. Color indicates the frame number for all trials (N = 9, n = 30) combined. The trajectories move counterclockwise around the circular structure, indicating a traveling wave. The radius of this circle is the amplitude of the wave of . See Stephens et al., 2008. | <urn:uuid:06b1e95b-829b-49ba-b344-cfe12940ebaf> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://elifesciences.org/articles/51412/figures | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570793.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808092125-20220808122125-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.919374 | 198 | 3 | 3 |
In January this year, when a British judge refused to allow Julian Assange’s extradition to the US, to face espionage charges — and a potential 175-year sentence — for the work of WikiLeaks in helping to expose US war crimes in Afghanistan and Iraq, and the groundless basis of most of the US’s supposed reasons for holding men indefinitely without charge or trial at Guantánamo, the US government should have backed down and allowed him to be freed to be reunited with his family.
Judge Vanessa Baraitser’s ruling, sadly, avoided the heart of the case — whether publishing damaging material in the public interest is a crime (which it isn’t, and mustn’t be allowed to be, if freedom of the press is to mean anything) — but homed in unerringly on the considered opinion of a psychiatrist that, if transferred to a maximum-security prison in the US, awaiting trial, Assange, because of his mental health issues, would take his own life.
The ruling was a valid condemnation both of the brutality of the US prison system in general, and of its particular unsuitability for those with mental health issues, and it was a vivid reminder that, back in October 2012, Theresa May, when she was home secretary, had refused to allow the extradition to the US of Gary McKinnon, a hacker with Asperger’s syndrome, a form of autism, on the very same basis, and that the extradition of Lauri Love, another hacker with Asperger’s, had been refused by two High Court judges in February 2018.
Over the years, the fact that Assange also exhibited signs of Asperger’s had largely been ignored as a picture was created instead of some sort of uniquely arrogant individual, even though, when I met him in April 2011, to work as a media partner on WikiLeaks’ release of classified military files from Guantánamo, it had appeared obvious to me that he had Asperger’s.
It was some relief, therefore, when, during his extradition hearing last October (at which I submitted evidence about the importance of the release of those files), Dr. Quinton Deeley, a consultant neuropsychiatrist, “diagnosed Assange with Asperger’s syndrome after witnessing a two-hour autism assessment and conducting six hours of phone calls with [him] in Belmarsh prison”, as the Press Gazette explained at the time.
Giving evidence, Dr. Deeley said, “To my mind, it’s clear Mr. Assange presents as a person with an autistic spectrum condition.” As the Press Gazette noted, “He described Assange as ‘an intelligent person’ who shares the characteristics of ‘many high-functioning people on the autistic spectrum’, including engineers and computer scientists.” He also said that “he has ‘difficulty discussing his own emotions’, with a ‘primary focus on his own thoughts and interests’ and noted a ‘failure to initiate or sustain’ conversations.”
Instead of accepting Judge Baraitser’s ruling, however, as one administration — that of Donald Trump — seamlessly gave way to another, that of Joe Biden, the extradition request remained firmly in place, and the US government set about working out how to appeal Judge Baraitser’s ruling.
The approach taken resembles that of an abuser who has been caught out and responds by pledging to change their ways, even though such promises are profoundly untrustworthy. The US authorities have promised that, if extradited, Assange will “not be held before trial in a top security ‘Supermax’ prison or subjected to strict isolation conditions”, as the Guardian described it, and have also promised that, “if convicted [he] would be allowed to serve his sentence in Australia.”
James Lewis, the barrister representing the US government, told the High Court that the assurances “are binding on the United States”, even though that is untrue, as no mechanism exists whereby any government, court or any other organization outside the US can challenge the US government if they fail to honour their assurances. In addition, the US government has also carefully reserved the right to alter these assurances if Assange “commit[s] a further offence”, as the BBC described it, with no sign of what “a further offence” might mean.
As for the Australia promise, Assange’s barrister Edward Fitzgerald “said in a written submission [that] Australia had not yet agreed to take Assange if he was convicted”, and added that, “[e]ven if Australia did agree”, the US legal process “could take a decade, ‘during which Mr Assange will remain detained in extreme isolation in a US prison.’”
The US also took aim at the testimony provided last autumn by neuropsychiatrist Michael Kopelman, who had flagged up Assange’s suicide risk, but had, as the Guardian described the position taken by the US, “misled the previous judge by omitting to mention that Stella Moris, a member of WikiLeaks’ legal team, was also Assange’s partner and had two children with him.”
To my mind, the fact that Assange would be thoroughly separated from his partner and children rather tends to reinforce the notion that he would be a high suicide risk if extradited to the US, but then what do I know, as I’m not the abuser saying whatever it takes to get Assange into my grubby and punitive hands.
Assange also has other reasons not to trust a word the US government says. In summer, it was revealed that, as the Guardian described it, “Sigurdur Thordarson, who was a teenage worker at WikiLeaks before becoming an FBI informant, broke cover … when an Icelandic news website, Stundin, reported that he had ‘fabricated’ evidence cited by the US.”
As the Guardian proceeded to explain, Thordarson, “who has a series of convictions for sexual and financial crimes in Iceland”, received “a promise of immunity from prosecution in return for co-operating with the FBI”, but “has since told the Guardian that his participation with US authorities was borne ‘out of fear’ because he knew that charges were ready to be filed against him over hacking allegations.”
“I was not expecting that the indictment from the US … would make a major mistake like this. If this helps Julian to be freed from prosecution … furthermore the extradition, then I’m very happy that would help,” he said.
Even more alarmingly, Yahoo News reported last month that, in 2017, the Trump administration —led by a president so incoherent that, at one point, he had lavishly praised WikiLeaks — had “plotted to kidnap the WikiLeaks founder, spurring heated debate among Trump administration officials over the legality and practicality of such an operation.”
As the article explained, “Some senior officials inside the CIA and the Trump administration even discussed killing Assange, going so far as to request ‘sketches’ or ‘options’ for how to assassinate him. Discussions over kidnapping or killing Assange occurred ‘at the highest levels’ of the Trump administration, said a former senior counterintelligence official. ‘There seemed to be no boundaries.’”
And if this sounds outlandish, it may be instructive to note that, when I was working with WikiLeaks on the release of the Guantánamo files in April 2011, the Daily Telegraph, which had replaced the Guardian as WikiLeaks’ main UK media partner, and had also taken over sponsorship from the Guardian of the Hay Festival of Literature and Arts, got very excited about putting him on as a speaker. As Assange was, at the time, under house arrest in Norfolk, they proposed flying him there and back by helicopter to avoid breaking his curfew, to which Assange responded by stating that his lawyers had advised him never to travel by helicopter, because they were the easiest vehicle to sabotage.
It may be that, at the time, Assange was paranoid, but, as last month’s revelations show, evidence exists that, at least under Donald Trump, the US government was considering how to murder him. The figureheads may have changed, but the entities responsible are still part of the US government. How can they be trusted with Julian Assange’s health if his extradition goes ahead, and how can the British authorities ignore the reality of his Asperger’s diagnosis, and not insist that his proposed extradition, like those of Gary McKinnon and Lauri Love, must be denied? | <urn:uuid:9e3b97d9-916d-4035-8d19-cc3dff27e39f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.eurasiareview.com/31102021-us-makes-groundless-promises-in-julian-assanges-extradition-appeal-oped/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570793.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808092125-20220808122125-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.975534 | 1,832 | 1.601563 | 2 |
10 Reasons Why Preventive Health Checkup Saves Money
It’s really easy to put off going to the doctor. After all, you’re rarely excited to go spend time there. Therefore, it’s easy to think of plenty of other things you would rather do. If you’re feeling healthy and well, then it’s even easier to put off those appointments. However, there are a lot of good reasons to get regular checkups with your medical professionals. A preventive health checkup saves you money. More importantly, it can save your life.
10 Reasons Preventive Health Care Saves Money
The most important reason to keep your regular doctor checkups is because it lets you catch problems when they’re still small. Therefore, you can more easily correct issues. This can be lifesaving. Preventive health screening for heart attacks, cancer, stroke, diabetes and other major diseases can save your life.
So, that’s the big reason to keep those appointments. But it’s also important to recognize that a preventive health checkup saves money in a variety of different ways.
1. Treatment is Less Costly When Problems Are Caught Early
Catching health issues early saves both lives and money. Nearly all treatments are significantly easier, less invasive, and less costly if you catch a health problem early on. The worse the problem gets, the more it invades your body. Therefore, the harder treatment is. Thus, the more it costs. Catching problems early makes it easier to treat them. This is better for your health and it’s better for your bank account, too.
2. Developing Rapport with a Doctor Helps You Make Good Decisions
If you keep those regular appointments with the same doctor year in and year out, then you really get to know them. This allows you to develop rapport. In other words, you trust each other. Having a good working relationship with your doctor makes it easier to discuss any type of issues that arise. You’re better able to make the decisions that are right for your health. Your doctor is able to understand your varied situations, including financial concerns. The more comfortable you feel discussing all things with your doctor, the more likely it is you’ll be able to work together to improve your health while saving you money.
3. You’ll Have Time to Research Different Options
If you wait until you’re already in a lot of pain before you see a doctor, then you’re going to feel desperate for an immediate solution. As a result, you might grab the first option you’re offered, no matter the cost. In contrast, a preventive health checkup saves you money by giving you time to consider all treatment options. You’ll know in advance whether a small issue might require greater care down the road. Therefore, you can compare treatment options, shop around for better rates for some treatments, etc.
4. Chances Are You’ll Develop a Healthier Lifestyle
If you know that you’re going to see your doctor on a regular basis then you’re probably going to implement those good habits that you know they’re going to ask you about. This goes for all medical professionals including therapists and dentists. For example, when I started making dental cleaning appointments every three months instead of every six months, I became much more consistent with twice daily flossing.
How does this save money? Obviously, the healthier you are the less you’ll spend on medication and other expensive treatments. But additionally, healthy choices sometimes also save you money. For example, switching from an expensive diet of processed food, soda and takeout to one rich in fresh produce and water might reduce your grocery bill. In this way, a preventive health checkup saves money.
One of the best money-savers in preventive health care is that a lot of people take the advice to stop smoking. Reducing your vices to improve your health helps saves you money.
5. You’ll Help Keep Health Care Costs Down at Work
Research indicates that preventive healthcare improves workplace productivity. Therefore, many employers offer incentives in order to keep up your preventive health checkups and routines. Plus, if you’re someone whose health issues might prevent them from regular work, those checkups are vital in getting you back to a steady income. This, preventive health care can help you to miss less work, earn more money, and take advantage of employer health incentives.
6. You Might Get Better Health Insurance Rates
Depending on your health insurance, you might be able to receive better rates when you commit to preventive health care. After all, your health insurance company doesn’t want to pay out large sums for people who are in terrible health. Instead, they are happy to pay small sums for you to keep your health issues under control. Check with your personal health insurance to find out if preventive health care can save you money on your premiums, deductibles, and/or co-pays.
7. You Might Improve Health Insurance Rates For All
The more people who engage in better preventive health, the better off everyone in society is. The costs of supporting those who can’t work due to illness can be very high. If more people work to support preventive health measures, overall health can rise. Working together in community, this has the potential to lead to better health insurance rates for larger groups, not just individuals.
8. Preventive Health Checkup Saves Money on Life Insurance
Are you looking into getting life insurance? If so then you might want to visit the doctor first. Oftentimes your health directly affects your life insurance rates. Preventive health care improves your health. Plus it can show the life insurance company that you take care of yourself. As a result, you might get better life insurance rates.
9. Better Able to Set and Meet Goals
Taking care of your health improves the rest of your life. Preventive health care, including preventive mental health care, can help you optimize your wellbeing. As a result, you’ll have the energy and drive to pursue the things that mean the most to you. As you better set and meet your goals, you can improve your financial situation. You can pay down debt and increase savings as you move that energy towards higher levels of success.
10. You Set A Healthy Stage for the Next Generation
Making preventive care a priority in your life sets an example for the next generation. In the case of prenatal care and childhood preventive care, it also directly impacts your child’s health journey. As a result, you might find that the preventive care you do now saves money for the generations that came after you in your family. More importantly, it can significantly improve their quality of life.
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Six students in city and geography studies at U of T Scarborough spent 10 days in Japan earlier this year, gaining a deeper knowledge of the country's community-building initiatives.
Students spent time at the University of Tokyo during the trip in January, making connections with their host families and visiting Tokyo and Tōhoku, which was devastated by the tsunami in 2011.
The all-expenses-paid exchange program for Canadian undergraduates also included students from Ryerson University and the University of Waterloo. The trip to Japan was followed by planning students from the University of Tokyo and Waseda University travelling to Toronto last month.
“Working with the Japanese students was a really great experience,” says Da Chen, a fifth-year student in city studies. “The exchange of ideas really helped us gain a better understanding of our representative cities.”
Human Geography Professor Andre Sorensen, the main organizer for the exchange, said the event was part of an initiative by the Japanese government to thank Canada for contributions to post-disaster recovery efforts after the 2011 tsunami in Tōhoku.
“The goal is to build a network of young people who will go on to build ties between our two countries,” he says.
Chen was interested in learning about the public-private collaboration in the planning, construction and management of the transit system in Tokyo and how it could be applied in Toronto.
“We have many similar policy issues,” says Sorensen. “The exchange program provides opportunities for people to be able to discuss their differences and similarities.”
For Khliden Lamparero, a fourth-year city and mental health studies student, visiting the rural towns in Tōhoku that were affected by the 2011 tsunami, provided the most powerful lessons.
“Learning the stories of the people that survived the event or who lost loved ones, and the Japanese people's resilience and eagerness in helping to build their community again was truly a humbling experience,” says Lamparero.
Back in Toronto, Canadian undergraduates returned the favour when University of Tokyo students visited them last month, taking them around the city and using their city studies knowledge to answer questions about planning and development
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NICE new quick guide 'Assessment and diagnosis of autism: what to expect' is based on NICE 'Autism spectrum disorder in under 19s' guideline.
More than 1 in 100 people are autistic. This affects people in different ways. It can bring strengths but also some challenges that can impact on how comfortable, healthy and happy you feel. Getting the reight disgnosis and support is important.
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Thursday 28 June 7pm, Amnesty International, 25 New Inn Yard, London EC2A 3EA Free entry, donations will be collected
Under the premise of “modernization” Israel is trying to push Palestinian Bedouins off their land, away from their agricultural way of life, and into crowded crime-stricken townships which offer no employment. Recently, following years of struggle, the people of Umm Al-Hiran were bullied into sacrificing their rights by signing contracts to leave their homes. They must be gone by September to make way for the Jewish-only town of Hiran that will be built on their land while they are displaced to Hura where they will face an unclear future. Their request to remain in a separate neighbourhood next to the new town was rejected with scorn. Which village is next in line to be pushed off its land?
Khalil Alamour is the Director of the Alhuquq Centre for Empowerment and Human Rights. He is an activist and an advocate for the social and political rights of Bedouins in the Negev. He is a teacher who a few years ago qualified as a lawyer to represent his community in the Israeli courts. Despite a few impressive victories, the determination of the current Israeli government to push the Bedouins out of the Negev seems stronger than ever.
From his home village of Alsira in the Negev, Khalil can see the abundant water and constant electricity supplied to the Jewish inhabitants of the Negev including to lone Jewish farmers, but which are denied to Bedouin communities. Meanwhile, other Bedouin communities under Israel’s control, such as Khan al-Ahmar in the West Bank, face imminent threat of displacement and demolition. The Israeli government incites the Jewish population against the Bedouins in both the state of Israel and within the West Bank and presents them as a “lawless” and “violent” people to justify their persecution.
Khalil Alamour will speak of the current predicament of the Bedouins in the Negev, their struggle to maintain their rights, and the importance of support and solidarity from activists around the world. Come and find out what you can do to help stop further demolitions and displacement.
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- Eating more fiber, drinking more water, and exercising regularly can help normalize gut issues.
- If you have bowel issues, cramps, or acid reflux often, see your primary care doctor or a specialist.
- The best specialist depends on symptoms, insurance, and preference of eastern vs. western medicine.
Gas, bloating, diarrhea, constipation: If you're experiencing gastrointestinal discomfort, you're not alone.
A 2020 study polled over 73,000 people in 33 countries and found nearly 40% of adults — mostly women — have some kind of functional gastrointestinal disorder.
Looking at just the US, Canada, and Great Britain, the report found more than 1 in 4 adults have a GI issue.
And if you're one of these folks chances are you've tried over-the-counter medication or some form of an elimination diet.
But if your chronic digestion problems continue to persist, it's important to rule out any underlying medical conditions like Crohn's disease, ulcerative colitis, and more.
That's where finding the right specialist is crucial.
When should you see a specialist?
Most people have already trial-and-errored with their diet by the time they're looking for a doctor, says Ashkan Farhadi, MD, a gastroenterologist specializing in IBS at MemorialCare Orange Coast Medical Center.
If you can't find a pattern among what you're eating, and the basics of eating more fiber, drinking water, exercising, and starting a prebiotic and probiotic routine haven't helped, it's time to see a specialist.
Knowing what kind of doctor to turn to for treatment can be confusing — not to mention expensive and exhausting with insurance coverage and paperwork.
We've made it simple — below outlines exactly what kind of expert you should see for help with any kind of chronic gut issue.
Who to see: Primary care physician
Best option for: Initial treatment and tests; obtaining a specialist referral; leveraging an established medical history with your PCP
When to see them: If you've been going to the same primary care physician (PCP) for years, they're the ideal first stop as they're familiar with your medical record and general lifestyle. If your insurance requires a referral for a specialist, this will also be your initial go-to.
What to expect: Your PCP will review your medical and medication history, and ask about patterns in your gut symptoms, mental state, diet, and exercise.
So, it can be extremely helpful for them if you have a food journal that's tracked how you feel after each meal.
A PCP may run lab tests to rule out basic underlying issues (e.g., thyroid issues, bacterial infection). If your symptoms are fairly straightforward, they can also recommend certain trial therapies to attempt to treat you so you don't need to see a specialist.
How to find one: Search providers via your insurance. If you don't have insurance, the cheapest option for a PCP is often telemedicine services.
Who to see: Gastroenterologist
Best option for: People with health insurance; severe symptoms; a family history of GI issues
When to see them: A gastroenterologist is one of the three types of specialists you can see.
You'll want to see a specialist if the initial line of treatment from your PCP doesn't fix your symptoms.
Gastroenterologists focus on function and diseases of the esophagus, stomach, intestines, and other digestive organs. If you are having bloody stools, severe abdominal pain, or have multiple days consecutively without bowel movements, a GI doc is the person you should turn to, says gut health specialist Heather Finley, RD, who works in private practice with a doctorate in clinical nutrition. These are red flags for an underlying condition; the main purpose of seeing a gastroenterologist is to rule a more serious issue out.
What to expect: The gastroenterologist will evaluate your symptoms to determine next steps. If they think you have an underlying condition, they may run stool and blood tests. They may also schedule you for an upper endoscopy or colonoscopy if they suspect you have something like ulcerative colitis or an infection. If you do, you'll continue to see a gastroenterologist for individualized treatment.
But if your issues are from diet, gut bacteria, or lifestyle, your treatment then focuses on ongoing education (i.e., stress management, exercise, probiotics, adapting your diet to stressful periods of your life), which can come from the GI doc or from another specialist.
How to find one: Search providers via your insurance.
Who to see: Nutritionist
Best option for: People without insurance; with Celiac disease; who can't get an appointment with a gastroenterologist soon
When to see them: If a gastroenterologist deems your issues nutritional, they may send you to a nutritionist for ongoing education, particularly if you have Celiac disease. But you can also start here, "especially if you are having uncomfortable bloat, constipation, gas, or diarrhea and don't want to wait months to get into the gastroenterologist, or are wanting to use a more holistic approach," says Finley.
If you come to an RD with those red flag symptoms, they'll likely send you to a gastroenterologist.
What to expect: An RD is going to look at your medical history, symptoms, and lifestyle, as well. If you haven't already had a stool analysis or blood work, they may send you to a physician who can run some lab tests. These tests will look for infections, bacterial overgrowth, digestive insufficiencies, and thyroid, vitamin D, and iron levels, which should pinpoint the problem.
If the issue is non-medical, a nutritionist's treatment focuses on changing your diet, taking supplements if needed, and shifting your lifestyle to manage stress and get more sleep. This process is quite similar to how a gastroenterologist handles treatment, but with more of a holistic emphasis.
After digestive symptoms have calmed, the focus becomes adding foods back in to find a new norm among a calmer gut. All in all, Finley says she typically sees clients for a minimum of three months, but ideally six to reinforce sustainable changes.
How to find one: Look for a registered dietician (RD/RDN) or licensed dietician (LD/LDN) first, and then one who specializes in gut health specifically. You can search "gut health RD" in Google or, surprisingly, Instagram.
Who to see: Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) practitioner
Best option for: People who favor Eastern medicine; who have more general feelings of sluggishness, exhaustion, and improper absorption; who haven't seen relief with the help of other specialists
When to see them: Similar to a nutritionist, if you aren't having red flag symptoms, you can start by seeing an eastern medicine specialist (they'll also send you to a GI doc if they spot these alarming symptoms).
Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) incorporates techniques that have been used as treatment in eastern or Asian culture for centuries, including herbal medicine, acupuncture, cupping, and more.
If you can't find any patterns between your diet and GI issues, or are also grappling with total-body issues like fatigue and strange inflammation, TCM can be helpful as it looks at the body as a whole, explains Jenelle Kim, doctor of Chinese medicine, master herbalist, founder and chief formulator of JBK Wellness Labs.
While TCM has a long proven history behind it, practitioners are often also more expensive; they're usually not covered by insurance and prescribe herbs and supplements that aren't filled by a pharmacy and, therefore, can be more costly.
What to expect: Your TCM practitioner will analyze how all the systems in your body are working via a traditional pulse and tongue diagnosis, and then go over your chief complaints, history, lifestyle, eating habits, general mental state, and any labs you've had run. They may prescribe or perform acupuncture, as well as herbs, supplements, or probiotics to help balance your gut bacteria.
Kim says people often feel an improvement after one to three treatments, but it takes six weeks or more of weekly acupuncture and herbal adjustments for sustainable changes.
How to find one: Practitioners should be state or nationally board-certified (NCCAOM) and specializing in gut health. Use the NCCAOM database to find someone near you, or try Wellset, a telehealth platform connecting you with acupuncturists, Ayurveda specialists, functional medicine practitioners, and more. Look for the blue checkmark which confirms the practitioner is certified and passed a background and reference check.
Gastrointestinal symptoms like bloating, gas, and nausea are more common than you may think. But you don't have to tolerate it.
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|Abstract:||Academic failure among university students studying in universities and higher educational institutes has become a major problem since recently. Numerous researches are being done to understand the reasons for this situation. Among these researches, Educational Data Mining (EDM) has played a major role in the past few years. One reason for these failures is that the students do not have a clear understanding about the degree programs when they enter the institute and have no idea about the knowledge offered through these different degrees. Sometimes students tend to select degree programs on someone else’s opinion too. This research aims to identify the factors such as past educational results, main subjects followed in previous studies, success in entry level module exams and any other potential factors that may have an effect on the performance of the university students and hence affect their selection of the degree program. In this research, information about students of Sri Lanka Institute of Information Technology (SLIIT) has been used to understand these factors. Among many degrees available at SLIIT, only three main degree areas are considered for this project: Bachelor of Science (Special Honours) in Information Technology, Bachelor of Science (Special Honours) in Computer Systems & Networking, and Bachelor of Science (Special Honours) in Information Systems. This thesis describes different data mining methodologies used to identify performance factors and provide the most significant factors correlated to academic success. First an initial analysis of the data set was done to understand the data set and based on the nature of the data set it was decided to classify students into two groups as ‘fail’ and ‘pass’ according to their performance which is measured using the Cumulative Grade Point Average (CGPA). In this study data mining techniques such as Neural Networks and Binary Logistic Regression are used. Generated models are evaluated to identify the best fitting model for the data set using classification tables, gain charts, lift charts and ROC curves using Area Under the Curve (AUC) values. These results and models can later be used to predict the most suitable degree stream for a new student in order to successfully complete the degree and also it will be useful for institutions to plan the programs accordingly, provide guidance for students, setting standards and in turn produce students with great success.|
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Is a Pediatric Dentist Expensive?May 28, 2020 6:51 pm
When it comes to finances, there’s never one simple answer for whether something is expensive or not since everyone has different budgets. What one family may consider affordable may be expensive to another. Then, on top of that, each patient requires different treatments and those treatments come in a wide range of varying prices.
At Tots to Teens Pediatric Dentistry and Orthodontics in Lytle, TX, we provide high-quality, affordable orthodontics and pediatric dentistry. And we only recommend treatments we believe are in the best interest for our patients’ oral health. Read on to learn about our financial options, including accepted dental insurance providers and options for those who are uninsured or underinsured.
The cost of your dental procedure or orthodontic treatment depends on the complexity of your treatment and if you have dental insurance. To make sure there are no surprises when it comes to paying for dental treatment, we’re happy to give accurate cost estimates before you go through with any procedure. If you’re ever unsure of how much you’ll have to pay out of pocket for your dental care, we invite you to ask our team and we’ll be happy to get you the information you need.
We are in-network with many insurance providers, including Delta Dental, Metlife, United Concordia, GEHA, AETNA, and Cigna. We also accept Medicaid, FSAs, and HSAs. Call us to confirm whether we accept your dental insurance plan!
Options for the Uninsured or Underinsured
Tots to Teens Pediatric Dentistry and Orthodontics has affordable financial solutions even if you’re not insured. We accept cash and most major debit and credit cards. Our Lytle office also offers a military discount and a cash discount. Or you can split up your treatment costs into smaller monthly payments with CareCredit®. With this financing option, you don’t have to front 100% of your dental expenses all at once. CareCredit is like a healthcare credit card that breaks your healthcare expenses into payments of 6, 12, 18, or 24 months, with little to no interest. We also accept financing through LendingClub.
Are Finances Holding You Back?
If you’re ever concerned that visiting the dentist may be too expensive for your family, please reach out to us. We never want our patients to sacrifice their smiles and wellness because of finances. With our many different payment options, we’re here to help you find a way to fit your family’s oral healthcare needs into your budget.Contact Us
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If you’re a fan of horror movies in general, and Friday the 13th in particular, then you must have heard of the Jason Voorhees statue at the bottom of Crystal Lake in the United States.
This life-size statue of this monstrous figure has been lining the bottom of this lake since 2013. At the origin of this eccentric idea, a certain Curtis Lahr.
This man was passionate about the saga, so he decided to make a perfect replica of Jason Voorhees. He did so with his hokey mask and machete, and placed it at the bottom of the lake in Crosby, Minnesota. But a diver who ventured there, discovered this statue five years later!
The choice of location is not, however, risky. We planted the statue where Megan Garris and Tommy Jarvis managed to trap Jason Voorhees at the bottom of Crystal Lake. This is what will certainly give goosebumps to those who dare to venture into this lake.
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He has to paint all words with big “G” yellow, those with small “G” green, those without big or small “G” blue – that’s how Brian explains his German worksheet. And soon it is no longer white, but colorful. Anyone who sees the sheet will award it to first grade in an elementary school. The first classes are six to seven years old. But Brian is already ten. He officially belongs to the support center in Süderbrarup, the area of intellectual development. And even though he has been going to school for four years, he has virtually never seen the inside of the support center in the Schleswig-Flensburg district: right from the start, his lessons have been in the nearby primary school.
Teaching according to individual abilities
Brian and seven other children make up the so-called campus class. “We have very different children here. We have children who have fetal alcohol syndrome who have difficulty concentrating. We have children who simply learn more slowly. Some are also a little restless and have difficulty staying seated,” explains the special educator . Ann-Kathrin Störmer. That’s why they all have their help classes here, but they also go to the primary school’s regular classes as a campus class – either all eight together or separately, depending on individual talent. As Brian continues to color his worksheet, he says, “Above all, I’m good at sports, I got an A there. My favorite subject is math, otherwise German, but I can’t read very well yet.” And because he is relatively more fit in math than in German and because he enjoys it a lot, he goes to the “normal” math class once a week.
“Inclusion is not a problem for us”
He packs his notebook and pencils and walks down the hall. Here, everyone works for themselves, with tasks adapted to their own level of learning. “I have to count plus here,” Brian tells math teacher Wolfgang Schäfing, who is now sitting next to him. “Twelve plus one is 13,” he calculates. “How do you know?” asks Schäfing. “I make it easy for myself, two plus one is three, so twelve plus one is 13,” Brian says proudly. “Well then you have learned the trick,” praises his teacher.
Wolfang Schäfing is also the head of Nordlicht School Süderbrarup: “I always say very provocatively: Inclusion is not a problem for us. No child asks: ‘Why are there only eight children in the class? Why is Brian with us today? Why does one of them count up to 100, the other only up to ten? ‘ Nobody cares.”
Everyone learns and plays together
They have had the concept of campus classes since they were founded five years ago – back then, several village schools were merged into this school. “Before the foundation, of course, we also thought about inclusion,” Wolfgang Schäfing recalls. “
The goal is for all children – whether they have a disability or not – to meet, learn together, play together – in class, but also in the schoolyard. “The children come here and think that all schools are like that, it is nothing special for them. And we have already reached this goal: that it is nothing special,” says Schäfing.
Campus classes also in primary schools
The neighboring school at Thorsberger Hede also participates in this concept. There are currently two campus classes here. There will be four in the new school year. The principal here, Malte Bachmann, sees this as a benefit for all children:
“The children who need support get out of their comfort zone are not in the shelter’s protected space. They must also make their presence felt in the cafeteria or schoolyard – and realize that they can do the same. Conversely, all other students must learn. a considerate but also natural contact with people with disabilities. ”
Support centers crowded
The concept of campus classes already exists at other schools in Schleswig-Holstein, but these are still exceptions. When it comes to this kind of inclusion, Schleswig-Holstein is among the leaders in the national average. Either children with disabilities – regardless of form – come to the classes individually in ordinary schools, or the children are taught separately in a special center. There are 83 of these support centers – with focus points such as mental development, physical or social development. But some of these centers are crowded: more need than space. A third support center is therefore planned in the Schleswig-Flensburg district. The principals of the regular schools in Süderbrarup do not think it makes sense: “It costs millions and takes years. For some students, it would mean more paths,” says Wolfgang Schäfing from the Nordlicht school. He thinks it would be better if the existing mainstream schools were instead expanded and rebuilt in such a way that more campus classes could be created.
Campus classes in the coalition agreement
In fact, the idea of campus classes seems to be getting more and more attention in politics: The school leaders from Süderbrarup have just been invited by a working group in the Ministry of Education to report on their experiences. The coalition agreement for the new state government states:
“We consider the establishment of campus classes to be a suitable way to enable inclusive learning for school students with a focus on intellectual development. We are launching a framework concept for this.”
Inclusion until it is nothing special anymore
Brian has successfully solved his math problems. During the breakfast break, he goes back down the hall to his class. But it does not last long either: After the holidays, he and two of his classmates switch to the neighboring school. The teachers here and there are sure that it will work too. They just keep on with inclusion until it’s nothing special anymore. | <urn:uuid:fa727c3d-2de5-497a-863b-99ee818cf785> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://brexitbunker.uk/2022/07/01/campus-class-suderbrarup-when-inclusion-is-no-longer-special-ndr-de-news/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571056.58/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809155137-20220809185137-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.975724 | 1,289 | 2.6875 | 3 |
All we have to do is have some kind of per connection certificate store or flag. If acme is in the first packet and the special certificate exists, send it. Otherwise send the normal certificate, for a very short window of possible brokenness. Letsencrypt may or may not require correct alpn negotiation. Should be simple.
I'm happy running the acme client separately and listing my domain instead of doing it all on demand inside twisted.
> On Mar 23, 2019, at 4:06 PM, Daniel Holth <firstname.lastname@example.org> wrote:
> HOLY REGEX BATMAN
> class _ConnectionProxy(object):
> def bio_write(self, buf):
> if ACME_TLS_1 in buf:
> self.acme_tls_1 = True
> self.bio_write = self._obj.bio_write
> return self._obj.bio_write(buf)
> Now we can choose the acme certificate store in the sni callback and
> make letsencrypt happy!
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A well-managed business will surely generate extraordinary profit potential.
To manage a business so that it can compete and survive is certainly not an easy job. Currently, what is being favored by business people is to do business into a franchise business.
Doing a business a franchise today is seen as one way to increase the acceleration of the development of a business. Many franchise businesses are aggressively promoting both online and offline. So far making the business, a franchise can be counted on to boost sales.
But don’t forget that franchising is also not as easy as building our own business. The following are some tips for franchising a business that you need to know.
# Choose Franchise Selectively
Recruiting the right franchise is one of the most critical aspects of your company’s franchise. Make the right choice – right, always learn your potential franchise partners. No need to rush in determining your prospective franchise see also their track record in entrepreneurship.
Also, explore attitudes, attitudes, whether they can be trusted or vice versa. Because in the future, the franchise is the spearhead in your business trip franchising. If you choose the wrong franchise will certainly be very detrimental for yourself and also the business that you manage.
You can also make a selection by specifying the rules in your work contract, for example, by providing a target that must be achieved within three or six months after work begins. If you cannot meet these targets, the franchisee you choose should be evaluated.
# Prepare a Clear Business Concept and Plan
The first time you have to do as a franchisor is to make a good and clear concept for your prospective business franchisee. Because, of course, as a new franchisee must be able to provide sufficient explanation about the goals and targets that you want to develop.
In addition, a good and clear business concept is certainly more attractive for your potential business partners to participate in your work plan. Therefore, prepare your business plan correctly, which you can later offer to your potential franchise partners. If deemed necessary, you can also use a team of experts to create a business master plan in preparation for your company to become a franchise.
# Perform Tight Control
Control is very necessary for a franchise business, especially if you are a franchisor. Product quality is still a priority, so there should be no difference in quality between franchises. When product quality is not maintained, it will make the image of the franchise business that you are building to be destroyed.
Besides quality, excellent service is also a major factor in the success of your franchise. Make standard – standard both product quality and service standards in the franchise that you manage. By having a standard that you have made, then control of Franchisee will be easier.
# Provide Adequate Training
Solid training will benefit both parties, the franchisee, and the franchisor. At the most basic level, solid training helps franchisees understand the basic components they need to run their daily operations. This can also be a guarantee of a smooth and successful start to your franchise.
Training also really helps you as a franchisor in ensuring employees have sufficient skills. Provide marketing training, self-management, and anything that can support the sustainability of your franchise business going forward.
# Create Documents From Your Franchise System
The documentation here does not mean taking photos of your franchise, although that is also necessary. But the documentation here relates to the documents that you must submit to each of your franchisees. You must spend a significant amount of time studying and documenting the system that you have created and then conveying it to your franchisee.
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