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Predicting the Unpredictable: The 2016 Elections
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As we approach the 2016 presidential election, the Hammer Museum offers a variety of election-themed talks and screenings. Learn more about our Election Fever programming.
As we approach the home stretch of the 2016 elections, two experts join us to assess the likely outcome of November’s vote: UCLA political science professor Lynn Vavreck—an expert on campaigns, elections, and political advertising—and American University political historian Allan Lichtman, who has correctly predicted every presidential winner since 1984. Moderated by Ian Masters, journalist, documentary filmmaker, and KPFK 90.7 FM radio host.
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Pros and Cons of Building a Pond
Consider the Facets of a Homemade Fish Pond Before Digging
By Joe Cadieux of midwestponds.com – So, you’re considering building a pond. Well, there are few things to think about before heading into a project of this nature. In this article, I hope to enlighten potential pond owners to the benefits and pitfalls of adopting an aquatic resource to love and cherish forever more.
Attract Wildlife to Your Property:
All life as we know it needs water to survive. Building a pond (especially in areas where there are few water resources) guarantees an increase in wildlife traffic through your property. Keep in mind all beasts will consider themselves welcome, including overland critters and fowl.
Raise Fish for Sport and Food:
A big part of a stable aquatic ecosystem is the fish that live within its depths. Raising and maintaining a good fishery helps manage the pond and provides a fun and nutritious resource for you and yours. Fisheries in small ponds must be harvested to remain stable. So, throw a few on the grill (or fertilize a tree) every now and then to keep the pond’s fish population at levels ideal for the size of the resource. Ponds can be managed either for a large number of small fish or a much smaller number of large fish. Your pond can only provide so much food and other resources, so it’s up to you to find the optimum balance of fish biomass vs. space/forage.
Ponds are Pretty and Valuable:
Ponds can be rustic and natural, or cultured and formal. Water adds an aesthetic that few other landscaping choices can provide. Water has fascinated mankind for millennia, and there are few things we as a species value as a life-sustaining resource more than good, clean water. Who doesn’t like hanging out at the pond with a beverage and some friends to watch a sunset?
By the way, a beautiful pond can increase property value of your homesteading land by 10-15 percent.
Ponds are Useful:
If you own a farm, ponds can be used for watering livestock and crops/gardens. Ponds can also be used as a heat sink for large structure HVAC systems, de-watering, runoff control and storm water retention. Ponds are as versatile as their design allows them to be.
Ponds are Fun:
This one is easy … Fishing, swimming, lounging about, wildlife viewing (with the occasional wildlife harvest if you are so inclined). There are boundless opportunities for recreation and leisure with pond ownership.
Let us not forget about winter. If you live in an area (as I do) where ice and snow is a way of life for us for half the year, there’s fun to be had here, too. Ice fishing and skating (I prefer ice hockey) on your pond gets you outside during the winter months, because we all need a little vitamin D during these times. If you are aerating your pond (and you SHOULD be aerating your pond) you are providing a fantastic wildlife asset for a time of the year when open water is rare in these parts. An open hole, contiguous with the shore, will bring in multitudes of critters. Species that are too shy to come out during the summer months will appear with regularity, so keep your binoculars handy.
Most of the cons of pond ownership relate to cost. Building a pond is expensive initially and requires upkeep.
Ponds require maintenance. Cleaning up debris and the occasional dead fish (among other tasks) are not insignificant responsibilities. Ponds obviously require more work than vacant land or even lawns, so know that at the bare minimum, you will be doing something to the pond twice a month to maintain a good healthy system.
Small ponds of less than 2-3 acres in size cannot take care of themselves. You will be required to fend off Mother Nature’s attempts at filling in the pond. Be diligent about noticing the indicators of an aging aquatic system. (I have several articles specifically on the subject of pond maintenance on the Water’s Edge blog.)
You will need a stock of pond products ($$$) and tools ($$$) to keep the pond looking nice. Some of the tasks will be fairly arduous in nature. For instance, an average algae treatment, performed by a certified applicator firm for a ½ acre pond, costs around $400-$500. I strongly encourage the use of natural products like bacteria and enzymes instead of chemical pesticides. Sometimes, however, small chemical treatments are necessary to get a pond to a state where you can maintain it naturally.
Digging the Pond:
Excavating a pond correctly is expensive. Every contractor with a backhoe thinks they are skilled at building a pond. Well I’m here to tell you they are not. In fact, most are truly bad at it. Be sure to interview a prospective excavator and go see some of the work they have done. I have pointers on digging a pond in another article at midwestponds.com.
If you are looking to get the most out of your initial capital expenditure, planning ahead is a must. It is not uncommon to have to spend $25-75K on site prep, pond excavation, and final landscaping for building a pond one quarter to one third acre in size. How your pond is constructed matters. Poor farm pond design will lead to higher maintenance costs and poor longevity overall for your pond system.
Bringing in wildlife is an overall positive aspect of pond ownership. Alas, not all critters are beneficial to the pond system. These nuisance creatures can damage the system and/or be detrimental to the pond ecosystem.
Here are a few to look out for:
• Muskrat: These large rodents show up to munch on your aquatic plants and stay to collapse banks and tunnel into your lawn. They can be discouraged by installing rock (rip rap) along your shoreline, but that is quite expensive.
• Canada Geese: These vermin of the sky are vile, useless creatures that are not ever welcome to the pond. Adult geese can poo 2 lbs. per day, they are loud and aggressive, and they eat too much and can wreck aquatic plantings.
• Mink and Otter: These members of the weasel family are superb fishermen and can eradicate all those fish you have raised from tiny fingerlings. I have witnessed 2-acre ponds relieved of their fish populations by an overzealous otter.
These critters are difficult to trap or discourage, and if left to their own devices, they will degrade your pond ecosystem. Once the damage is done, it is always a long expensive road back to normalcy. Most of the time, this process takes years to accomplish.
Each of these issues to building a pond, both pro and con, deserve way more time than I have dedicated to them here. I will explore more of these in future posts, so please look to my Water’s Edge Blog for more info. Further, I will be delving into more topics about the wild world of pond ownership in the near future. Stay tuned!
Joe Cadieux is the Senior Biologist for Midwestponds.com. Midwestponds was started to provide the products and advice needed to build and maintain water gardens and large ponds as naturally as possible. Joe consults and manages many lakes and ponds throughout southern Wisconsin and northern Illinois. He also takes special pleasure as a judge at the University School of Milwaukee’s Spring Science Fair.
Joe is a freshwater biologist with two degrees in fisheries/limnology and biology from the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point. He has 13+ years of experience in managing fresh water resources in the Midwest. He believes in integrated resource management as a tool to keep lakes and ponds happy and healthy. If the ecosystem is stable and balanced from the microbes on up to the fish and end users, a pond is a perfect resource for you and your family.
Joe grew up fishing, hunting, and camping with his family in the Midwest. At home he helped out on the hobby farm with the chickens, rabbits, and goats … and one goose (Gracie). Joe credits his father and his 6th grade science teacher for instilling the love of the outdoors and of course … SCIENCE! | <urn:uuid:0a438b76-a37c-4e3a-87c6-181e315b6ca7> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.iamcountryside.com/self-reliance/pros-and-cons-of-building-a-pond/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571056.58/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809155137-20220809185137-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.947098 | 1,748 | 2.078125 | 2 |
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Pippa Cuckson, one or if not the best equestrian journalist in the world, is never afraid to put the finger on the sore spots in the sport. Her article of 13 December on Horse Sport is hitting the nail on the head as she rightfully points out that countries with no discernible riders or athletes can swing major policy decisions.
Riding Removed from Pentathlon
Cuckson states that "ghost votes" from countries with no athletes at the highest echelon of the sport, the Olympic Games, can determine the future of the sport.
She uses the removal of riding from Modern Pentathlon as an example. The International Union Of Modern Pentathlon (UIPM) has 127 member countries, but just 28 sent pentathletes to the Tokyo Games.
"Yet 81% of UIPM member countries last month supported the removal of riding, as per the UIPM board’s demand, rather than first trying to improve riding skills," Cuckson wrote.
The same happened at the 2021 FEI General Assembly where ghost votes from countries inactive at the highest levels of the sport (e.g. Albania, Andorra, Angola, Antigua, Armenia, Barbados, Bahamas, Bosnia, Botswana, Cambodia, etc) carry equal weight compared to a vote from thriving horse nations such as Germany, U.S.A., Holland, Denmark, Great Britain. Furthermore, voting at the FEI General Sssembly is secret.
"It is widely thought that many of the 70 national federations (NFs) who voted to continue with three/no drop score have not/will never produce a single Olympic rider," Cuckson argued.
The FEI has 136 member countries, 50 ended up having a rider in Tokyo (compared with 41 at London 2012 and 43 at Rio 2016.)
"There is exasperation and anger that the views of expert, practising horsemen continue to be quashed by newbies who don’t know enough yet to evaluate the pros and cons for themselves. It may be how other sports do it, but only equestrianism has the welfare of an animal to consider," Cuckson stated.
Vote for FEI Dressage Committee Chair
The same democratic voting system is also applied for the election the chairs of the FEI discipline committees.
At the 2021 FEI General Assembly, Mexican judge Maribel Alonso won the election with 69 votes, followed by Martin Richenhagen with 24 votes, and Helgstrand with 9 votes.
Supporters of Richenhagen claim that the dominating dressage nations (mostly European countries) voted for the German businessman to head the FEI Dressage Committee and claim that Alonso had the support of the smaller, exotic dressage nations.
As the vote is secret, the truth of the matter will not be known.
Jumpers Roar, Dressage Rider more Quiet
Especially the Olympic team-of-three format has caused much upset amongst show jumpers with a further press conference on the matter at the 2021 CHI Geneva last weekend.
For dressage the format of a team of three has worked very well and brought excitement and more unpredictability to the discipline, which is generally considered dry and boring by outsiders.
The team of three for dressage has met with little resistance in the dressage world, except from the already strong dressage nations (Germany, USA, Denmark, Great Britain, Holland) who rather see their chances for medals supported even more with an additional rider and drop score. However they wave the banner of animal welfare rights to give more weight and ethics to their claim.
In addition the argument of those "strong" dressage nations that a team of three puts too much stress on the dressage horses and goes against animal welfare, gets totally undermined when the same top riders see absolutely no problem in fielding their Olympic horses six weeks later at a European Championships, and another few weeks later at the first World Cup Qualifier in Denmark or Saab Top 10 dressage competition in Stockholm, where the money purse works as a pot of honey.
For the FEI the team of three is a package deal, it counts for all three Olympic disciplines - dressage and jumping and eventing.
"The IOC will not increase the overall number of equine starters above 200 (jumping 75, eventing 65, dressage 60.) So the only way to admit more countries at Tokyo was by reducing team sizes from four riders to three ‒ hence no dropscore," Cuckson wrote. "It was simple math, combined with the faint hope that newer countries might at least be able to scrape together three riders rather than four. We were told the IOC had instructed the FEI to “change or be changed.”"
Cuckson added that, "knowledgeable people warned that no drop score would oblige riders to keep going when their horses were in difficulty for the sake of the team, and that “new” countries would be greatly overfaced by Olympic jumping and eventing tracks (...). This all came to pass in Tokyo, though the impacts were most apparent in jumping, less so in dressage and eventing. This has resulted, so far, in the jumpers alone continuing the fight."
Weighted Voting System
The FEI's democratic voting system - one vote per NF - is based on Swiss law. However, there are other sports which have a "weighted voting system" (tennis, swimming), or have less involved countries serve an “associate” spell of membership before they earn full voting rights.
Cuckson thinks this system will not happen in the FEI: "Could the FEI “demote” inactive NFs or alter the voting rights of existing members by statute? Yes, but a statute change requires a two-thirds majority vote and of course no-one is going to vote in their own disenfranchisement!"
She questions the FEI's efforts to increase the membership of countries which horse-unfriendly climates, or war-torn territories where there is no urge to develop horse sport.
Cuckson concludes, "Of course, there may have been a sincere desire to spread the joy of horsemanship to remote corners of the world; or to show the IOC that equestrian is global; or simply to guarantee enough votes to pass rule changes or policy decisions that the leading nations are likely to oppose. It’s probably a combination of all three. But having such a large bloc of unsophisticated voters also brings the serious risk they will lose the plot."
Read the full article on Horse Sport with many more details and quotes to support her argument.
David Stickland: Why A Team of Three Would Make For a Better Olympics
2024 Paris Olympic Format to be Approved at 2021 FEI General Assembly. Teams of Three Retained
Thomas Baur Resigns as EO Vice Chair, No Confidence in New FEI Dressage Committee
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Rashoka helps turn pandemic tide for Yezidi community
20 Jul 2021 By Deann Gayman | University Communication
Falah Rashoka heard a knock at his door.
Peering through the peephole, Rashoka recognized the man. He’d met him in the Yezidi refugee community — of which Rashoka is a member — but also knew the man had been sent home from work with a fever and was awaiting results of a coronavirus test.
It was May 2020, in the early months of the pandemic, with cases and deaths multiplying each day in Nebraska. Rashoka, then a master’s student at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln, knew many in the Yezidi community had contracted the virus as essential workers in retail, service or meatpacking jobs. There was a good chance the man standing at his door was ill with COVID-19.
“It was a very scary time,” he said. “There were a lot of cases among the immigrant and refugee communities. I think 85 percent of the (Yezidi) community got COVID-19.”
Rashoka was being very careful, following all the precautions in order to protect his own family, especially his 67-year-old mother, who had underlying health conditions. He hesitated to open the door, but the man needed help.
“He was holding his phone up,” Rashoka said. “I asked him to step back five feet and tell me what was going on.”
In Kurmanji, a Kurdish dialect, the man said he’d gotten a phone call with his results but couldn’t understand what the caller was telling him. Rashoka took the phone and listened.
“His test was negative,” Rashoka said. “When I hung up the phone and told him, he started dancing. He was so happy. I was happy, and relieved.”
The experience repeated itself — though not often with a joyful outcome — throughout the worst months of the pandemic, when Rashoka was a volunteer interpreter for Nebraska’s 23 health departments. He knew from his master’s thesis research that the biggest barrier to health care for refugees and immigrants was language, and he could fill the gaps in three of them.
“With very specific dialects, a lot gets lost in translation, and the health department was facing a problem with interpretation — nobody was available,” Rashoka said. “Miscommunication leads to misdiagnoses.”
Rashoka kept his research going, too, beginning a doctoral program in community nutrition and health promotion at Nebraska while simultaneously pursuing a second master’s in public health at the University of Nebraska Medical Center. Throughout the pandemic, Rashoka met with his research focus groups over Zoom and continued documenting the effects of COVID-19 on the refugee and immigrant communities. He’s published two papers and provided reports and information to various state and local agencies.
The health care barriers for immigrants he’d previously identified — social isolation, cultural differences, a lack of transportation or health insurance or knowledge of the United States’ health care system — were exacerbated by the pandemic.
“So many people lost their jobs, their insurance, their social contacts,” he said. “And interpretation was harder over the phone. Chronic disease has been worse because there are some who are still not able to get the right health care.”
To help alleviate the barriers, Rashoka and adviser Megan Kelley, assistant professor of nutrition and health sciences, developed a booklet in Arabic and English to be distributed to Yezidi and other refugee communities. The resource, “Using the Health Care System in Lincoln, Nebraska: A Resource for the Yezidi Community,” is a simplified guide to navigating health care — from finding the right provider to using the federal health insurance marketplace. He’s working to get it distributed widely now.
As the pandemic began to recede somewhat, Rashoka turned his attention to helping get minority groups vaccinated. He’s working with a team from UNMC and Nebraska to understand why some immigrants haven’t been vaccinated yet.
The language barrier is again playing a large role, but so is misinformation, which Rashoka said may be harder to overcome. The team is reporting its findings to the Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services in July, with the hope of guiding programs that will aim to get more people vaccinated.
“This study is imperative and the first of its kind to report reasons behind COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy among Nebraskans, especially with new COVID-19 strains that could (unravel) all this effort,” Rashoka said. “The study recommends reasonable solutions to these barriers, such as providing mobile clinics in hard-to-reach communities, offering training to more healthcare workers to give vaccines, having interpreters with cultural knowledge and a robust medical background in local health departments.
“In addition to campaigns to raise awareness on COVID-19 vaccine safety, we recommend administrating vaccines at community cultural centers and other sites that minority groups visit, and reaching out to community leaders and politicians to share with their supporters that vaccines are safe and needed.”
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A lot of public relations technique rests in language. It is built in the nuanced choice and combination of
words that are developed and tested through public opinion research – through polling and focus groups.
For example, Republican pollster Frank Luntz has made a career of massaging language to his clients advantage. In Luntz’s now infamous enviro-speak memo (pdf) to the republican party, he advises the following:
“The three words Americans are looking for in an environmental policy, they are (sic) ‘safer,’ ‘cleaner,’ and ‘healthier.”
“If you must use the economic argument, stress that you are seeking ‘a fair balance’ between the environment and the economy.”
You get the picture. Language – both suble and shifty – can be a powerful tool when trying to convince or, as in this case, confuse your audience. Luntz is good, but when it comes to twisting words – and doing so without conscience – no one can beat Steve “the Junkman” Milloy, who has made a handsome living for more than a decade twisting the truth for big tobacco and, now, big oil. It was Milloy who flipped the terms “junk science” and “sound science” to the advantage of industries that are willing to risk public health for private profit.
According to Elisa Ong and Stanton Glantz (pdf) in their peer-reviewed American Journal of Public Health (Nov. 2001, Vol. 91, No. 11) article, the terms “sound science” and “junk science” orignated in the tobacco industry’s battle to cast doubt about whether secondhand tobacco smoke is a Group A human carcinogen. The overall strategy, led by Philip Morris, was: “to form local coalitions to help us educate local media, legislators and the public at large about the dangers of ‘junk science’ and to caution them from taking regulatory steps…”
It was around this time that the PR masters at a huge D.C. firm called APCO Worldwide decided to create an Astroturf group called The Advancement of Sound Science Coalition (TASSC). The title alone is telling of their overall mission, which was to label any science calling for regulation on secondhand tobacco smoke as “junk science,” and any science minimizing the risks of secondhand tobacco smoke as “sound science.” It’s no surprise that the head of TASSC (pdf) was none other than Steve “the junkman” Milloy.
Fast-forward to the present day and the issue of climate change and we still see Milloy and other industry apologists using the terms “sound science” and “junk science” – to infuriatingly good effect.
To illutstrate, here are a few of the “sound” scientists Milloy holds up on his alter of scientific integrity:
Dr. Sallie Baliunas, who sat on the board of the Greening Earth Society, an industry front group created by the Western Fuels Association, and the George C. Marshall Institute a US “think” tank and sweetheart of the oil industry.
Dr. Fred Seitz, chair of Fred Singer’s SEPP project, and former chief scientific advisor to none other than RJ Reynolds. Ironically, in 1998, Phillip Morris labelled Seitz as “not sufficiently rational to offer advice.”
As far as “junk science,” Milloy would warn you against: the UK‘s Royal Society, the American Meterological Society, NASA, the American Geophysical Union, the United Nation’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and finally the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
You get my point. The entire concept of “junk science” and “sound science” has been turned on its head, not through any logical means, but purely through public relations trickery at the hands of smokin’ Steve Milloy.
What are we to do? There is only one thing to do. Turn this back on its feet by recognizing that Milloy and his colleagues are peddling “junk science” – an afront to the eminent scientists throughtout the world who submit their work to peer-reviewed, respectable journals (not to Fox News columns) to assure that their science is sound.
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Stochastic variational principles for dissipative and conservative systems
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In the frame of the method of statistical ensembles, relaxation to thermodynamic equilibrium can be efficiently described by using stochastic differential equations. This scheme is intrinsically non-invariant with respect to time reversal. However, we can consider an additional dynamical variable, called the importance function, whose meaning and motivation arises from the neutron diffusion theory. The resulting scheme is now time reversal invariant, with a complete symplectic structure. The equations for the density and the importance function are Hamilton equations for a properly chosen Hamiltonian, and obey a stochastic variational principle. On the other hand, we can consider the formulation of quantum mechanics, according to the stochastic scheme devised by Edward Nelson. In this frame a stochastic variational principle can be easily introduced. The theory is intrinsically time reversal invariant. We have still a symplectic structure, and canonical Hamilton equations. Here the conjugated variables are the quantum mechanical probability density and the phase of the wave function. We give a synthetic description of the two schemes, by pointing out their structural similarity, and their deep physical difference.
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RICHARD HARRIS: BP has repeatedly said there's no reliable way to measure their oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico by looking at the oil gushing out of the pipe. But scientists say there are actually many proven techniques for doing just that.
We asked Professor Steven Wereley at Purdue University to analyze videotape of the sea-floor gusher. He literally co-wrote the book on this technique, called PIV.
Professor STEVEN WERELEY (Purdue University): PIV is short for particle image velocimetry, and conceptually, it's a very simple technique.
HARRIS: A computer program simply tracks particles and calculates how fast they're moving. Wereley put the BP video of the gusher into his computer. He made a few simple calculations, and came up with an astonishing value for the rate of the oil spill - much higher than the official estimate of 5,000 barrels a day.
Prof. WERELEY: Seventy thousand barrels a day.
HARRIS: Plus or minus how much?
Prof. WERELEY: Oh, about 20 percent.
HARRIS: How confident are you in that?
Prof. WERELEY: Well, I guess I'm quite confident that it's within the bounds that we just discussed.
HARRIS: Given that uncertainty, the amount of material spewing out of the pipe could anywhere from 56,000 barrels to 84,000 barrels a day. It is important to note that it's not 100 percent oil. The very short video BP released starts out with a shot of methane.
Prof. WERELEY: And at the end, it seems to be mostly oil. And so there's potentially some fluctuation back and forth between methane and oil.
HARRIS: But assuming that the lion's share of the material coming out the pipe is oil, Wereley's calculations show that the official estimates are way low.
Prof. WERELEY: We're talking more than a factor of 10 difference between what I calculate and the number that's being thrown around.This is Barack's Katrina and, just like Bush, it's revealing how inept he is. How unwilling to call out Big Oil he is.
This should have been addressed already instead Barack allows BP to dither along while our oceans are destroyed.
Okay, Fringe. Great, great episode. Amazing. Oliva crossed over with Walter and some others. She's trying to find Peter but also trying to prevent the destruction of the two worlds. Other World Walter? A criminal.
Last night, Stan and I flipped and talked each other's shows:
Friday, May 14, 2010. Chaos and violence continue,
Oh, the stupidity. The Status Of Forces Agreement is a contract (it's a treaty) and as such it can be extended. We've gone over and over that point while idiots who want to pretend they know something about the law gas bag to the contrary. They don't know what the hell they're talking about.
We will spoon food one more time. If the SOFA could not be extended (or replaced with another contract), then you would not have Nouri al-Maliki speaking of US troops ever staying beyond the end of 2011, right? If it ends the war and the US occupation, then that's that. That means, since Thanksgiving 2008, I have been wrong and I have wrongly interpreted the SOFA and I didn't know what I was talking about. Except . . . Let's drop back to the July 23, 2009 snapshot for this little detail:
Aljazeera reports, "The Iraqi prime minister has admitted US troops could stay in the country beyond 2011." Yeah, he did it today and it's only a surprise if you've never grasped what the Status Of Forces Agrement does and does not do. The Washington Post, for example, has one person on staff who understands the SOFA completely. That's one more than the New York Times has. Drop back to real time coverage (Thanksgiving 2008) and you'll see the Washington Post could explain what it did and didn't do and get it right. No other US outlet can make that claim. (The Los Angeles Times hedged their bets but did appear to grasp it in an article co-written by Tina Susman.) McClatchy Newspapers? Oh goodness, Leila Fadel made an idiot of herself over the SOFA. Even more so than the New York Times (Elisabeth Bumiller -- in December and January -- offered some realities but they were lost on the other reporters at the paper). The Times just got it wrong. Fadel got it wrong and sang praises of it. It wasn't reporting, it was column writing passed off as such. Today, Nouri declared, "Nevertheless, if the Iraqis require further training and support we shall examine this at the time, based on the needs of Iraq." Sound familiar? It should. This month you should have heard Adm Mike Mullen make the same statement, you should have heard General Ray Odierno make it over and over beginning in May and US Secretary of Defense Robert Gates has made it many times -- generally he's asked when he's visiting a foreign country because US reporters don't really seem to care. One exception would certainly be Dahr Jamail who was on KPFA's Flashpoints yesterday and explained, "We still have over 130,000 troops in Iraq. Troops are not being withdrawn from Iraq. They are being relocated to different bases, some of the bases still within cities, but they are not being withdrawn thus far." Dahr's latest book The Will to Resist: Soldiers Who Refuse to Fight in Iraq and Afghanistan has just been released this month. IPA provides this context from Global Policy Forum's James Paul: "For all the talk of 'U.S. withdrawal' from Iraq, the reality on the ground is starkly different. U.S. troops still patrol the cities, in flagrant violation of the U.S.-Iraqi security agreement, while Washington remains hugely influential in the politics of the country. The gigantic U.S. embassy looms large in Baghdad, U.S. forces still hold thousands of Iraqi prisoners in the vast U.S. prison camp in the southern desert, dozens of U.S. military bases remain in place including the sprawling 'Camp Victory' complex in Baghdad and Washington continues to press towards its ultimate goal -- the de facto privatization of Iraq's vast oil resources."
Nouri spoke of US forces remaining beyond the SOFA's 'withdrawal' -- that firm, firm SOFA. Ooops. That's because it's a contract. Both parties can follow every detail on the page and still decide that they want to extend it. That's how contracts work. We'll be kind and not name today's idiot, but, oh, the stupidity.
Idiot wants to pretend he knows the SOFA and he knows the law. He gives no indication that he knows either. First, he's unaware that a contract can be extended by the parties involved the agreement or replaced with another contract. The SOFA only exists to replace the UN mandate (the earlier contract which provided legal cover -- post-invasion -- for the occupation). The SOFA could be replaced with something else. Blathering on like an idiot, Idiot writes about "the governing document here is the bilateral Status of Forces Agreement which calls for a withdrawal of combat forces by the end of the summer and all forces by the end of 2011."
I'm not in the mood kids. Idiot doesn't understand the law. And the quote demonstrates he doesn't understand the SOFA. The SOFA has no call, repeating NO CALL, for a withdrawal of combat foces by the end of the summer. Why would it have that? Bush didn't put it in. That's Barack. And that's not in the SOFA. The SOFA was pushed through the Iraqi Parliament on Thanksgiving day 2008. Barack hadn't been sworn in. So sorry, Idiot, you don't know what the hell you're talking about. Read the SOFA and find the end of summer reference. It's not in there. (If the SOFA's too difficult for you to master, you can refer to Karen DeYoung's Washington Post report from last March.)
On the topic of the drawdown, we'll note Brian Montopoli (CBS News) today:
As CBS News National Security Correspondent David Martin reported Thursday, "first the delay in the Iraqi elections and then the dispute over the results has forced Gen. Ray Odierno, the commander in Iraq, to slow down his withdrawal plans."
"Right now, it is still possible to move that many troops - but just barely," wrote Martin. "Any further delay in the drawdown will cause him to miss the deadline."
Justin Raimondo (Antiwar.com) weighs in:
With a complicit Democratic majority in Congress, and a Republican minority all too eager to keep us bogged down in Iraq until Kingdom come, no one is holding the Obama administration accountable -- and the American public, which never hears anything about Iraq in the "mainstream" media, doesn't even know what's happening. They voted for Obama, in the Democratic primaries and the general election, in large part because he promised to end the war. That he now appears to be reneging on his firm pledge comes as no surprise to us foreign policy mavens, never mind observers of the Obama Method -- which is to strike an angular stance, and then come up with all sorts of convincing reasons for abandoning his position. To the majority of Americans, however, the pledge to get out of Iraq is carved in stone, and the only way to erase it is to shatter the tablet on which the President's electoral mandate is written. What the Democrats are counting on is the complicity of the "opposition" party, which is not going to make Iraq an election year issue -- except insofar as they see it as a "model" for how to win the war in Afghanistan. The administration is also counting on the silence of the "antiwar" left, in congress and at the grassroots, simply because these forces -- easily bought off, and/or intimidated -- haven't given them any reason to worry in the past.
Counter-insurgency is war against a native people. It's colonialism and it was used to trick and then attack and slaughter the Native Americans and it was used during Vietnam and at other periods. It has a long, long history and a long, long history of human rights activists calling this war on a people out. But that history sorts drops by the wayside in the last ten years. While some have called it out -- and certainly James Cameron's Avatar drove the message home on what counter-insurgeny actually is -- people have been grossly silent. Barack groupies, of course, have to remain silent because Samantha Power, Sarah Sewell, Monty McFate, all of those counter-insurgency 'gurus' are Barack boosters and groupies don't call out their own. There is a development on the counter-insurgency front. Nancy A. Youssef (McClatchy Newspapers) reports it is now under internal criticism, "The biggest spur, however, is a growing recognition that large-scale counterinsurgency battles have high casualty rates for troops and civilians, eat up equipment that must be replaced and rarely end in clear victory or defeat."
Sahwa ("Awakening" Council and Sons Of Iraq are two other names) can be seen as a form of counter-insurgency or, more honestly, as paying the playground bully not to beat you up. Sahwa are Sunni fighters the US government put on the tax payer payroll because, as General David Petraeus and then-US Ambassador to Iraq Ryan Crocker repeatedly explained to the US Congress in April 2008, it stopped the Sahwa from attacking US military equipment and the US military. Nouri was supposed to have put them on the Iraqi payroll. It was announced repeatedly -- including in November 2009 -- but never really happened because "payroll" would mean every one of them would be paid and would be paid regularly. Martin Chulov (Guardian) reports that the Sahwa remain under threat and their leaders are assigned bodyguards while Nouri continues to distrust them:
Major general Mudhir al-Mawla, the director of the Sons of Iraq file in Iraq's national reconciliation commission, confirmed the scepticism in the government: "Ever since they began, there have been members of Maliki's administration who oppose them," he said. "They said they are like a militia and they all need to be disarmed. But they have played a very important role in giving precise information because they are locals. They know the locals and they know where their allegiances lie."
In March last year, in a move that underscored the distrust, Maliki's troops arrested a Sons of Iraq leader in the central Baghdad district of Fadhil and a two-day battle ensued. Ever since, he has been reluctant to travel to the frontline areas.
"[Maliki] came here once," said Awakening Council leader Sabah al-Mashadani in what was once another no-go zone in Baghdad, the former battlefield suburb of Adamiyeh. "He was very surprised when he was well received. He said: 'I thought everyone hated me here'."
In Arab Jabour, Sheikh Moustafa has never seen the prime minister, but he has seen his special forces, who arrested the sheikh in January on trumped up charges that he had killed five local men in 2007. The US military quickly took responsibility for the killings and Sheikh Moustafa was released in Maliki's name.
Sahwa asserts they protect the region from al Qaeda in Iraq. Lu Hui (Xinhua) reports, "Iraqi al-Qaida group has nominated its new leader called "minister of war" and vowed to continue deadly attacks with "dark days in blood color," said a statement posted on a militant website on Friday. The so-called "minister of war" of the Islamic State of Iraq was identified as al-Nasser Lideen Allah Abu Suleiman and he will replace Abu Ayyub al-Musri, who was killed in a military operation by Iraqi and U.S. forces last month"
Turning to Iraq, Liz Sly and Raheem Salman (Los Angeles Times) declare, "In an embarrassing rejection of Prime Minister Nouri Maliki's efforts to overturn his rival's lead in Iraq's inconclusive parliamentary election, a laborious manual recount of votes in Baghdad has turned up no evidence of electoral fraud and will not change the final outcome, officials said Friday." I disagree and we'll get to why in a moment. Jomana Karadsheh (CNN) states "it's not good news for Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki" and I disagree with that as well. Gabriel Gatehouse (BBC News) reports, "It took 11 days to recount by hand all 2.5m [million] ballots cast in Baghdad and the surrounding area. A spokesman for the electoral commission said the results would be made public on Monday and sent to the court for ratification." Khalid al-Ansary, Waleed Ibrahim, Jim Loney and Matthew Jones (Reuters) quote Independent High Electoral Commission spokesperson Qassim al-Aboudi stating, "There is no proof . . . that there was fraud or manipulation or big mistakes."
This is embarrassing for Nouri how? It be great if it were but how is it embarrassing if it is? Because no fraud was found? International observers were very clear that there was no fraud when Nouri was demanding a recount. If nothing had changed since then, this might be slightly embarrassing for Nouri. His political slate -- predicted to win -- had lost. If that were still the case, the recount results would be a major ha-ha.
But that's not how things stand. And the way it appears is Nouri stomped his feet for a recount but that was only one of the many stalling techniques he utilized to buy time to circumvent the Constitution and build a coalition. Screaming that there was fraud in the Baghdad recounts meant that others wouldn't rush to build a coalition with Ayad Allawi's slate (Iraqiya). Screaming fraud meant others might fear Allawi's lead would disappear. It bought time and Nouri, by that take, doesn't look embarrassed, he looks extremely crafty. Well played, puppet, well played. That hypothesis would explain why Steven Lee Myers (New York Times) reports, "Mr. Maliki's supporters had once claimed that the recount could reverse as many as 20 seats, but a spokesman, Ali al-Mousawi, said on Friday evening that Mr. Maliki would 'respect the results of the recount in Baghdad, whatever they were'."
Meanwhile Josh Rogin (Foreign Policy) reports on the post-no-fraud-recount scene in Iraq:
If Maliki is confirmed as Iraq's next prime minister, the U.S. will have a partner it knows well and has been carefully handling throughout the process. While some believe Maliki's actions in recent weeks show he will use any means to stay in power, the embassy's view is that he is something of an opportunist and can be encouraged to curb questionable behavior.
"Like any politician, Maliki will use all legal and political tools at his disposal," a senior embassy official said, referring to Maliki's work with the Accountability and Justice Commission, the controversial de-Baathification commission controlled by Ahmed Chalabi and Ali Faisal al-Lami.
Both Hill and his military counterpart, Gen. Raymond Odierno, have said publicly that Chalabi and Lami are heavily influenced by Iran and the embassy has no illusions about their goal. "This is an organization of questionable legitimacy employing less than transparent means to challenge a legitimate election," the senior embassy official said.
He also confirmed reports that Hill will leave in July and be replaced by Ambassador to Turkey Jim Jeffrey. Stuart E. Jones, a deputy assistant secretary who handles Balkan affairs, will replace Baghdad No. 2 Robert Ford, who is still waiting out his stalled nomination process to become ambassador to Syria. Jones was previously the deputy chief of mission in Cairo.
In Tal Afar today, Iraqis attempting to enjoy a football game were greeted with bombings. BBC News reports at least 10 people are dead and one-hundred-and-twenty wounded after a car bombing "at the entrance to the stadium" with possible bombings then following the first explosion. Khalid al-Tayi (AFP) notes the deaht toll climbed to 25 (cites Interior Ministry official for that figure) and quotes Hussein Nashad stating, "We heard a loud explosion and the people behind me shielded me from the shrapnel. I ran away, but then I heard someone shout 'Allahu akbar' (God is greatest), and then there was another explosion." Al Jazeera explains, "Friday's attacks follow blasts in the city last October and July that left dozens of people dead. In March 2007, 152 people were killed when truck bombs targeted markets in the town." In other reported violence . . .
Reuters notes a Baghdad bombing which claimed 4 lives and left eight people injured, a Mahaweel bombing which injured seventeen people and a failed bombing attempt in Tuz Khurmato on a provincial council member (who is also a Turkmen).
Reuters notes 1 police officer and one security guard were shot dead in Falluja by unknown assailants with silencers and 1 tailor ("specialising in military uniforms") were shot dead in Mosul.
In other Iraq news, Wednesday the Center for Disease Control issued an alert for a Q Fever Infection: Increasing reports of Q fever among deployed U.S. military personnel due to endemic transmission in Iraq, as well as a large ongoing outbreak of Q fever in the Netherlands, may place travelers to these regions at risk for infection. Healthcare providers in the United States should consider Q fever in the differential diagnosis of persons with febrile illness, pneumonia or hepatitis who have recently been in Iraq or the Netherlands. Physicians are encouraged to submit samples for proper laboratory testing and contact the CDC for consultation if needed. Q fever cases in travelers should be promptly reported to proper authorities. Background Since Operation Iraqi Freedom commenced in 2003, over 200 cases of acute Q fever have been reported among U.S. military personnel deployed to Iraq. Since several of these cases were identified after returning to the U.S. or when they were no longer serving on active military duty, a heightened awareness for Q fever infection occurring in military personnel and civilian contractors is necessary to ensure prompt diagnosis and appropriate treatment. Q fever is endemic in the Middle East, and transmission may be influenced by hot, dusty conditions and livestock farming practices which may facilitate windborne spread. In addition, a large number of Q fever cases have occurred in the Netherlands since 2007, with over 3,700 human cases reported through March 2010. Infected dairy goat farms are believed to be the source of the outbreak, and the majority of human cases have been reported in the southern region of the country. To date, no imported cases of Q fever have been reported among American travelers returning home from the Netherlands. Because travelers to these countries may have a higher likelihood of exposure to Q fever, the CDC Rickettsial Zoonoses Branch advises that physicians evaluate travelers returning from Iraq (particularly military personnel and civilian contractors) and the Netherlands with febrile illness, pneumonia or hepatitis for potential Q fever infection. Probable and confirmed cases should be reported to their local or state health department. Q Fever Illness Q fever is a zoonotic disease with both acute and chronic phases caused by the pathogen Coxiella burnetii. The primary mode of transmission to humans is inhalation of aerosols or dust contaminated by infected animals, most commonly cattle, sheep or goats. Direct animal contact is not required for transmission to occur as the organism may be spread by dust or wind. Infections via ingestion of contaminated dairy products and human-to-human transmission via sexual contact have rarely been reported. Q fever does occur in the United States, but fewer than 200 cases are reported annually. Although asymptomatic infections may occur, an unexplained febrile illness, sometimes accompanied by pneumonia and/or hepatitis, is the most common clinical presentation. Illness onset typically occurs within 2–3 weeks after exposure. The mortality rate for acute Q fever is low (1–2%), and the majority of persons with mild illness recover spontaneously within a few weeks although antibiotic treatment will shorten the duration of illness and lessen the risk of complications. Chronic Q fever is uncommon (<1%>Washington Week begins airing on many PBS stations tonight (and throughout the weekend, check local listings) and joining Gwen around the table this week are Charles Babington (AP), Juliet Eilperin (Washington Post), Martha Raddatz (ABC News) and Pete Williams (NBC News). And Gwen's column this week is "The Blog Wars." Remember that the show podcasts in video and audio format -- and a number of people sign up for each (audio is thought to be so popular due to the fact that it downloads so much quicker). If you podcast the show, remember there is the Web Extra where Gwen and the guests weigh in on topics viewers e-mail about. And also remember that usually by Monday afternoon you can go to the show's website and stream it there (including Web Extra) as well as read the transcripts and more. Meanwhile Bonnie Erbe will sit down with Melinda Henneberger, Eleanor Holmes Norton and Genevieve Wood on the latest broadcast of PBS' To The Contrary to discuss the week's events. And at the website each week, there's an extra just for the web from the previous week's show and this week's it's the homophobic 'leader' who traveled with a paid male escort who hires himself out for sex. For the broadcast program, check local listings, on many stations, it begins airing tonight. And turning to broadcast TV, Sunday CBS' 60 Minutes:
The Blow OutScott Pelley investigates the explosion that killed 11, causing the ongoing oil leak in the waters off of Louisiana, and speaks to one of the oil rig platform crew survivors who was in a position to know what caused the disaster and how it could have been prevented. The report contains never-before-seen footage of the minutes after the explosion and new information about what led up to it.
Gustavo DudamelNow that he is the musical director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Gustavo Dudamel wants to transplant in the U.S. the Venezuelan child orchestra system that changed his life. Bob Simon reports.
60 Minutes, Sunday, May 16, at 7 p.m. ET/PT.
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cbs newsbrian montopoli
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bbc newsgabriel gatehouse
the new york timessteven lee myers
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A man from Charlevoix is headed to space.
NASA Astronaut, Josh Cassada is visiting the International Space Station aboard the SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft in the coming months.
Cassada lives in Charlevoix with his family, but he’ll be calling the Space Station home for the next six months. He’ll perform space walks and other tasks to keep the Space Station up and running.
He says he’s honored to get the opportunity, but admits he’ll miss his family and the beauty back home in northern Michigan.
“I’m absolutely going to miss my family, but I’m so happy to know that they’re down there especially there in Charlevoix among friends and family in that beautiful environment,” Cassada says.
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The STILLMAN THEATER was among the most elaborate motion-picture houses in the U.S. It was conceived by Emanuel Mandelbaum, owner of the Knickerbocker Theater at East 83rd andEUCLID AVE., who wanted to open a downtown theater showing silent films instead of featuring vaudeville performances. The Stillman opened in 1916 on the former estate of STILLMAN WITT, a railroad builder, at 1115 Euclid Ave., and had a seating capacity of 1,800. A luxury hotel on the site (also called the Stillman) had been razed in 1902. As one of the 3 downtown outlets of the Loew's movie chain, it shared first-run MGM feature films with the STATE and the OHIO theaters. The Stillman was the first Cleveland venue to present The Jazz Singer (9n 1928) and Gone with the Wind (in 1940). The Stillman closed on 28 July 1963, although, for a period, remnants of the lobby were visible from the Statler garage entrance. | <urn:uuid:27557d0f-440b-4e39-94cd-d1983790aa63> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://case.edu/ech/articles/s/stillman-theater | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573744.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819161440-20220819191440-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.96484 | 216 | 2.296875 | 2 |
Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has temporarily suspended the Umrah pilgrimage operations which include the visit to the Holiest places in Mecca and Medina. Kingdom’s ministry of foreign affairs announced this news on Twitter on Thursday with a caption “We ask God Almighty to spare all humanity from all harm.”
The entry to the Prophet’s Mosque in Madina is also temporarily banned.
The Foreign Ministry called on citizens not to travel to countries where the coronavirus cases have been reported. The Saudi government is trying to block the deadly virus as neighboring countries including Kuwait, Bahrain, Iraq, and the United Arab Emirates have confirmed dozens of cases. Surprisingly, Saudi Arabia is only a major Middle Eastern country that has not reported any coronavirus case until now.
Apart from Middle Eastern countries, coronavirus which originated from China has been reported in Thailand, Japan, South Korea, USA, Canada, UK, Italy, Iran, Pakistan, and Australia too.
Saudi Arabia’s ban on Tourist-Visa travelers
The kingdom of Saudi Arabia is also suspending the entry of Saudi citizens and travelers from GCC (Gulf Cooperation Council) under the national identity card tourists except for Saudis, who are in abroad wish to return to Saudi Arabia; in this case, they can enter with the national identity card. The citizens of GCC who arrived in Saudi Arabia with national identity cards can also return if they wish. The details have been mentioned in the following statement shared on Twitter.
Saudi officials have stressed that the restrictions are temporary and will be continuously reviewed by the health authorities.
Ban on Umrah is for less than 60s days and will be lifted in the holy month of Ramadan, reportedly.
Indonesian President respect Saudi Arabia’s decision
Indonesian President Joko Widodo has respected the decision of the Saudi Arabian government to ban foreigners from entering the country for religious visits.
In a statement to media, he expressed that they respected and appreciated the Saudi government for prioritizing the health of the people.
Indonesia contributed the second-highest number of umrah pilgrims last December with 443,879 arrivals, just below Pakistan with 495,270 according to Saudi Hajj and Umrah Ministry data.
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BIS as part of a feature extraction workflow.
The emphasis is automation and objective parameter selection.
Quantitatively compare each segmentation run to ground
How do I choose the parameters? Don't. Run all possible segmentation combinations and choose the one that looks the best. That is how BIS is designed: Let the computer do the number crunching and the scientist chooses which output is best.
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Exploring the many ways that public High Energy Physics resources are employed to teach and outreach particle physics and computer science.
The current ATLAS model of Open Access to recorded and simulated data offers the opportunity to access datasets with a focus on education, training and outreach. This mandate supports the creation of platforms, projects, software, and educational products used all over the planet. We describe the overall status of ATLAS Open Data (http://opendata.atlas.cern) activities, from core ATLAS activities and releases to individual and group efforts, as well as educational programs, and final web or software-based (and hard-copy) products that have been produced or are under development. The relatively large number and heterogeneous use cases currently documented is driving an upcoming release of more data and resources for the ATLAS Community and anyone interested to explore the world of experimental particle physics and the computer sciences through data analysis. | <urn:uuid:209c0fed-692e-4d4b-b077-0dfbe5c4e7b3> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://indico.cern.ch/event/686555/contributions/2971025/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571056.58/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809155137-20220809185137-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.93676 | 190 | 2.546875 | 3 |
How London Redefined Jimi Hendrix
Jimi Hendrix may be one of Seattle’s most famous musical sons, but the legendary guitarist really made his name after he left home. A new show at the Experience Music Project, “Hear My Train A Comin': Hendrix Hits London,” argues that while Jimi Hendrix had a solid musical career in the United States, it wasn’t until he arrived in London in 1966 that he became the rock icon we remember.
EMP Senior Curator Jacob McMurray, who organized the exhibit, says London was the epicenter of music and youth culture when Jimi Hendrix arrived there. The British bands he encountered, bands like the Animals and the Rolling Stones, were infatuated with American blues music. They welcomed Hendrix and helped to promote his new band, the Jimi Hendrix Experience. According to McMurray, the Experience started out backing up more well-known acts. By the time Hendrix returned to the states in 1967 to play at the Monterey Pop Festival, the Jimi Hendrix Experience drew its own fans.
The EMP show includes more than 100 objects, from shattered guitars to some of the Sergeant Pepper-style mod clothing that Hendrix bought and wore around town. McMurray says the EMP actually owns more than 5,000 Hendrix-related artifacts. He says that’s one reason why Seattle and Hendrix are so closely associated. But the connection transcends the museum.
While Jimi Hendrix only played in Seattle a handful of times after he left home at age 17, his family stayed here, and Hendrix is buried in a local cemetery. His music may belong to the world, but at least a piece of his heart stayed home in Seattle.
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Low power system design has become a mandatory requirement not only for hand-held mobile devices but also for automotive infotainment systems. Furthermore, automotive systems need to be able to carry the user experience in the home and office over to the car. This increasing demand for high computation, high quality and low power solutions has forced embedded computing to turn to multicore systems. Consequently, embedded solutions based on multicore platforms have become common for many applications such as gaming, video, and image-processing in areas such as mobile, automotive, medical and industrial applications.
The challenge is to utilize multicore based system with available media frameworks that offer scalability of open source access and portability to achieve requirements for low-power, high-performance embedded applications. With the advent of powerful software and hardware programmable system-on-chip (SoC) FPGA devices, embedded system designers are able to design solutions to an exact form, function and performance fit for the requirements of the customer. These solutions are optimal, efficient, cost-effective addressing end customer requirements. The Xilinx Zynq SoC family of FPGAs is such a device.
This article describes the use of a low-cost, low-density Zynq FPGA in creating a computational platform for implementing infotainment systems for passenger vehicles, such as cars, buses, trains, airplanes and ships. Other applications for this kind of platform include digital signage and information displays in private and public venues such as hotels, hospitals, gas pumps, or kiosks as well as digital picture frames for consumer markets.
In-vehicle infotainment experiences face a dual requirement of matching the home or office user experience while meeting energy efficient requirement for automotive industry. In our case, the specific requirement was to build very low cost, low power, 720p30fps AV player solution with Video-Audio sync functionality able to interface with the customer’s hardware block implemented on programmable fabric. This objective was to be achieved with development of tightly coupled multicore software with real-time acceleration through hardware with an eye on vastly lower BOM, lower NRE costs, lower design risk and most important, faster time-to-market.
We proceeded to break down the requirements for the Atria Logic AL-AVPLR-IPC AV player to consist of a file reader, a de-multiplexer, an H.264 Baseline Profile HD decoder with color space converter, and an AAC-LC stereo decoder. Also included is an AV player application with build-in GUI for basic player operation, such as Play, Pause, Stop and Fast-Forward trick mode. OS support is via Ubuntu LTS as it provides multicore usages with very efficient core utilization factor. The AV player application is fully Linux GTK based, while the decoder itself is fully implemented in the Linux GStreamer open source multimedia framework. A block diagram of the player is shown below in Figure 1.
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Figure 1: Atria Logic AV Player block diagram (Source: Atria Logic Inc)
We zeroed in on the Xilinx Zynq-7000 device family’s Z-7010 as the most suitable option for this implementation meeting all the requirements. This ARM powered programmable SoC provides maximum CPU performance with the best thermal performance. At the same time, this device provides enough programmable fabric for those requirements that require accelerator engines able to fit into the logic arrays, ensuring sufficient performance even for this low power platform. One more reason for us to go with this device is the readily available, small form factor Zybo development board which expedited our development efforts for quick turn around.
In addition to programmable logic for custom implementation of glue logic, RAM and DSP functions, the Zynq architecture includes a dual core ARM Cortex-A9 CPU with Neon DSP engines, a complete array of serial I/O, USB and PCIe interfaces, encryption/decryption engine, GbE and memory controllers. Low power, integrated CAN bus interfaces and extended temperature variants make the Zynq family of fully HW and SW programmable SoCs an excellent fit for low power, low cost automotive infotainment applications.
Video decoding is handled up to HD resolutions of 1280×720 at 30 frames/sec, and stereo audio decoding at 48KHz. Audio and video are kept in perfect sync so that lip sync issues are avoided.
The challenge was to leave as much as possible programmable logic available for implementation of other functionality, while keeping power dissipation low. This meant that the implementation needed to take full advantage of the available ARM cores and Neon DSPs, while optimizing the firmware to run as efficient as possible. This was achieved by taking full advantage of the multi-threading and symmetric multi-processing (SMP) capabilities in Ubuntu.
Multi-Threaded Dual Core Player
The player specifies audio and video as part of pipelines running on separate threads for parallel execution on the two ARM Cortex-A9 cores. The AAC-LC audio decoder load is much smaller than the H.264 video decoder. Therefore, the video decoder is divided into two threads to take full advantage of both cores, which are running at 667MHz each. In Figure 2, Video Thread2 spawns a new thread, Thread4 and these two video threads are executed on two different cores.
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Figure 2: Multi-threaded video and audio decode execution (Source: Atria Logic Inc)
The AV player GUI application program starts on single thread, Thread1. Compressed audio data and video data are queued separately in Thread2 and Thread3, maintaining the stack overflow limits. De-multiplexing the audio and the video data in these two threads decouple the processing of the sink data in separate audio and video processing threads.
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The Ubuntu OS needs to estimate the maximum stack space that will be required for each thread. Multi-queue or separate queue elements for each thread or branch are used for tasks to get executed in parallel or in pipeline. All necessary locks for OS mutexes are initiated. Spawning a new video thread or keeping the audio thread on a particular core on small hold is done with the correct locking and unlocking of the memory sub-system stack space. On return of a thread, the process gets destroyed. However, Linux bare bone threads cannot automatically de-allocate the local stack memory. Thus, the parent process reclaims the memory space as thread clean up by adding stack space to the malloc ( ) free list. The code memory used for the AV Player is 16kB while the data memory is limited to 4kB. Overall system memory used for complete framework is limited to 512MB. This can be optimised to great extent by keeping only the used features of the Gstreamer framework and knocking out unused ones.
The multi-threading approach accomplishes the audio and video decoding, utilizing both cores optimally. Gstreamer was initially running the player inefficiently with CPU1 utilization of only 66% and CPU2 utilization of only 81%. Thread pipelining achieves nearly 100% core utilization, an improvement of 29-34%.
Efficiency and Performance with Neon DSP
A nearly 100% core utilization, however, was not sufficient to meet the performance requirements of the player. One option was to implement color space conversion in the programmable logic portion of the SoC. However, that would reduce the amount of programmable logic available for other system logic that might possibly be needed. Futhermore, it would not yield the proper quality using fixed point logic.
Therefore, we opted to implement the color space conversion module on one of the Neon DSP engines. The Cortex-A9 Neon MPE extends the CPU core functionality with the ARM v7 advanced SIMD and vector floating point instruction sets. Taking full advantage of the Neon DSP’s ability to perform floating point computations with 32-bit, 64-bit and 128-bit quad registers significantly accelerated the YUV420 to RGB444 color space conversions, and by utilizing parallel vector data arrangements for the SIMD operations, we managed to limit utilization of the two Neon DSP engines to only one.
The listing below shows the sample code listing of the color space conversion routine, using a Neon DSP engine. The Neon DSP also enabled parallel loads and stores of multiple registers, with on the fly data de-interleaving.
Listing: YUV to RGB color space conversion routine from on a Neon DSP engine (Source: Atria Logic Inc)
The Neon DSP code optimization for the color space conversion matrix routines was 1.4x to 1.64x. Table 1 lists the details of the results for different streams with different bitrates, sizes and complexities.
|Video Streams||Bit Rate||Resolution||Decoding FPS on Dual Core each @650MHz||Frame Rate on 2A9 + Neon||Neon Optimization Factor|
Table 1: Performance results for H.264+AAC Player with Neon DSP color space conversion code (Source: Atria Logic Inc)
Additional opportunities for load reduction include shifting the de-blocking filter execution to one of the Neon DSP engines.
On a Xilinx Z-7010 SoC FPGA with the ARM Cortex-A9 cores running at 667MHz, the implementation achieves decoding of 1280×720 at 20 frames/sec video and AAC-LC stereo audio at a utilization of nearly 100% capacity. In the Figure 3, CPU1 core utilization shows 99.3% utilization, while the CPU2 shows 100% utilization.
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Figure 3: AV Player multicore loading (Source: Atria Logic Inc)
Automotive Functional Safety & Quality
The AV Player implementation on the Zynq Z-7010 fully conforms to the MISRA 2000 compliance C code coding guidelines, fully passing the static QAC check. The implementation was also done in compliance with the ISO26262 safety compliance ASIL B guidelines.
With ever increasing need for low power, low cost solutions for various spectrums of applications, programmable SoC computational platforms provide unique solution with their value proposition. Complete value utilization comes from fullest use of available CPU cores and DSP engines wherever needed (for example image color space and its dynamic range quality or audio post processing enhancement or vision computing quality and accuracy) or programmable fabric for necessary hardware acceleration or performance improvement processing (both for video and/or vision).This, augmented with latest multicore processing techniques, can provide the foundation for designs targeting such applications.
One such solution for automotive infotainment, Atria Logic AL-AVPLR-IPC AV player achieves an optimal balance of performance, density and performance on the Xilinx Zynq Z-7010, with all of the device’s programmable logic remaining available for integration of other board logic, minimizing BOM cost and increasing system reliability. This approach offers an effective solution for implementing AV playback for a host of applications, such as infotainment systems for passenger vehicles, such as infotainment systems, digital signage and information, and digital picture frames that include video capabilities.
http://www.xilinx.com/support/documentation/user_guides/ug585-Zynq-7000-TRM.pdf – Technical reference manual
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The yellow-chevroned parakeet (Brotogeris chiriri) is native to tropical South America south of the Amazon River basin from central Brazil to southern Bolivia, Paraguay, and northern Argentina. Caged birds have been released in some areas, and the birds have established self-sustaining populations in the Miami, Florida, and Los Angeles and San Francisco, California. This bird seems to be doing better in its North American feral population than the closely related white-winged parakeet. The species is also established in the downtown area of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; and in Buenos Aires, Argentina; where it was introduced. The native population in South America continues to do well.
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The bird is 20–25 cm in length, and is mostly light green in color. It has a trailing yellow edge on its folded wings, which is also seen when the bird is in flight. It was considered conspecific with the white-winged parakeet until 1997.
The bird feeds mostly on seeds and fruit in its native habitat, and feral populations have adapted to take in blossoms and nectar. Feral birds also come to bird feeders. Wild birds primarily use disturbed forest and forest clearings around settlements. They rarely use deep tropical forest.
Yellow-chevroned parakeets usually find holes in trees for nesting. They also form nesting tunnels in dead palm fronds. The female lays four to five eggs. After raising their young, all birds form rather large communal roosts until the next breeding season.
- BirdLife International (2018). "Brotogeris chiriri". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2018: e.T22685963A130103839. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2018-2.RLTS.T22685963A130103839.en. Retrieved 13 November 2021.
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Understudy searching for a fulfilling and stable profession may wind up contemplating a nursing degree. With the numerous ways and claims to fame, there are endless freedoms for nursing understudies. Assuming you need a professional working intimately with patients and where you can have an effect, considering a degree in nursing might be ideal for you. Contemplating nursing in the US guarantees incredible business openings after graduation, offers the opportunity to examine various specialisms, and gives an assortment of courses and ways for understudies to pick the sort of nursing that is appropriate for them.
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The Family/Emergency Nurse Practitioner program plans attendants to give medical services to patients across the life expectancy in crisis and essential consideration settings. Program content is based on family nurture specialist planning yet, in addition, gets ready alumni to deal with the consideration of patients introducing to crisis settings with pressing and developing medical service’s needs.
2. Nursing Education by Duke University
Duke University is a tuition-based school. The School of Nursing has an application cutoff time of Dec. 1 and an application expense of $50 for U.S. occupants. The educational cost for the expert’s program at the School of Nursing is Full-time: $1,838 per credit. The School of Nursing at Duke University has 92 full-time employees.
Expert of Science in Nursing (MSN) Program offers eight progressed practice enlisted nurture majors and three non-clinical majors. You likewise have the choice of adding a forte to your course of study.
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The UNC School of Nursing offers a full supplement of highest-level projects for understudies at each phase of their nursing profession. From our pre-licensure projects to Master’s, DNP, Ph.D., and post-degree openings, to a wide cluster of proceeding with instruction programs, Carolina Nursing dominates at propelling the workmanship and study of nursing care.
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Vanderbilt University School of Nursing is getting readily gifted, experienced progressed practice medical attendants who are expanding admittance to quality medical care for individuals all over the place.
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Profoundly positioned Master of Science program from the UCFS plans enlisted medical caretakers to become progressed pioneers in medical services conveyance and wellbeing value.
College offers numerous claims to fame that permit you to foster the information, abilities, and certainty to dominate in the high-level practice jobs of medical attendant professional, clinical medical attendant subject matter expert, nurture birthing assistant, wellbeing strategy master, local area/populace wellbeing master, overseer, educator, and specialist. Whichever strength you pick, the coursework and residencies in this two-year program will furnish you with:
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7. Master of Science in Nursing by University of Michigan
Reliably positioned in the main 10 broadly, the University of Michigan MSN program is being refined by its workforce specialists, graduated class, and clinical accomplices to stay on top of things on developments in nursing schooling and financial development regions in medical services. We move this institutional information and vigorous framework to your nursing instruction by offering two unmistakable pathways, clinical or initiative, which position you for progress today and well into what’s to come.
University offers MSN degree in multiple courses majorly identified in 2 streams:
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8. Nursing Education by New York University
Nursing Education Program incorporates a solid center establishment that tends to all the fundamental information and abilities in building the instruction courses. There are 15 credits of forte courses in instruction that incorporate a broad investigation of learning hypotheses, proof-based showing methodologies, and active experience in utilizing innovation to improve learning.
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9. Nursing Course by Duquesne University
From its start, the Duquesne University School of Nursing has been characterized by grant, advancement, and understudy-centeredness. These characteristics have driven us to turn into a pioneer in graduate nursing schooling, offering on the web programs for medical caretakers like you to propel your profession.
M.Sc. in Nursing
On the off chance that you have acquired your BSN and are hoping to make the following stride in your nursing profession, the online Master of Science (MSN) in Nursing program offers the different specializations to assist with giving you the concentration to achieve your objectives.
Web-based nursing authentication programs offer medical caretakers with an MSN degree a chance to secure specific abilities that might not have been offered in their graduate degree program. Our post experts testaments will set you up for formal certificates by proficient associations.
10. MSN in Hospice and Palliative Care by Central Connecticut State University
Central Connecticut State University (CCSU), which is situated in the USA, has become the greatest college inside the Connecticut State Colleges and Universities framework. 83% of the college’s workforce hold Ph.D. degrees. With an understudy to workforce proportion of 15:1, the normal class size at the college is 23.
The MSN in Hospice and Palliative Care furnishes graduates with the information and abilities important to convey progressed nursing care for end-of-life and ongoing consideration patients and their guardians.
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Playgrounds play an essential role in fostering play and collaboration. In schools, children often need to cooperate in a certain way to promote a healthy learning environment. However, research supports that recess and play are essential factors in helping children build cognitive and social skills. Playgrounds are essentials for schools to help foster play and community building. Continue reading to discover 15 benefits of investing in a school playground.
The History of School Playgrounds
Playgrounds for schools have a rich history in the United States. Parks have long had a place in public spaces as foundational spaces for socializing and community building. In the past, people even had picnics and visited with each other in the neighborhood cemeteries. Plus, before Industrialization, humans lived a more pastoral life on the whole, with many people living on plots of land where their children would play.
Industrialization changed many things about human existence, including outdoor socialization. With the beginning of larger farms, families who relied on their small farms lost business and had to move to the cities. This move happened so quickly, and so many people moved to the cities that the quality of living conditions decreased rapidly. As a result, welfare organizations decided to begin a movement to provide spaces for children to play and enjoy the outdoors outside of their cramped and often unsanitary living quarters.
The playground movement gained traction beginning in Boston, Massachusetts, in the 1800s. The motivations behind this movement were to provide areas where children could practice becoming responsible citizens. These early playground designers took inspiration from German outdoor gymnasiums, which aimed to promote fitness and lower diseases in children by placing play equipment near schools.
Outdoor gymnasiums and sand gardens later developed into more dynamic apparatuses that swung and spun. This early playground equipment featured steel pipes, chains and ladders, many of which would be considered extremely dangerous by today’s standards.
In the later 20th century, child psychologists, doctors and other health specialists began to think about how playgrounds could assist in children’s social, emotional and physical development. They found that certain playground elements were able to excite the fascination and imagination of children, such as fantasy elements and interesting features. Additionally, there began to be a larger focus on safety, so equipment began to have more rounded edges and soft ground cover to prevent injuries.
Types of Playgrounds
There are hundreds of different types of playground configurations, so narrowing playgrounds into a few different types isn’t easy. However, there are a few specific playground categories to recognize when considering different types of school playgrounds.
The first relevant category refers to age range. While most people think of playgrounds as intergenerational spaces, specific safety concerns exist for children of different ages. As a result, most safety considerations take a few different age groups into account:
- Early childhood 5 and under: Children under 5 have unique needs when it comes to playground equipment. These children are still developing their abilities to run, jump and play, so this playground equipment has special considerations. Factors like height and other components help make sure kids are safe while allowing them to participate in fun and engaging activities.
- School-age 5 to 12: Kids in the 5 to 12 range have developed most of their physical capacities, so they’re able to run and jump with relative ease without assistance. These playgrounds may have more daring climbing elements and higher heights to present fun challenges for these children. These playgrounds may pose certain risks for children under 5 years old, which is why having a separate play space for younger children is crucial.
- School-age 9 and up: Since some older kids may not necessarily want to play on the playground anymore, they can play on fitness equipment. These features are designed to provide spaces for guided stretches and bodyweight activities that build strength and can encourage collaboration.
Another essential consideration when it comes to playgrounds is the designated theme. Some of the best playgrounds for kids have a special theme that can inspire creativity and imagination. There are a variety of exciting and fun themes you can organize your playground around:
- Natural: A natural theme plays on elements from the natural world, using trees, rocks and even dinosaur bones as inspiration for playground equipment. These nature-themed playgrounds often feature rope courses and boulders to climb on. Kids can pretend they’re exploring a magical forest or discovering dinosaurs on a digging expedition.
- Nautical: Preparing for a long sea voyage? Children will love playing on nautical-themed playground equipment and pretending to travel the seas with components like steering wheels, portholes and even a whole ship.
- Modern: A modern playground features more geometric patterns and shapes, with play cubes and netting. These playgrounds offer dynamic and unique climbing elements and spinning structures to engage and excite children.
15 Benefits of School Playgrounds
There are many reasons a school or daycare playground is a great idea. From building valuable social skills to building foundational muscle groups, school playgrounds can give students numerous ways to grow into healthy young adults.
Discover why you should invest in a school playground with these 15 wonderful ways installing a playground can benefit the children in your school community.
1. Build Motor Skills
When kids begin walking, they are able to experience an entirely new world. As they develop their coordination, they’re able to take more risks and branch out on their own. Motor skills, also known as coordination, are essential for children’s development. With the different activities and elements of a playground, kids can learn to develop new motor skills.
For example, some playgrounds may feature climbing elements, which help children build their arm and leg strength as well as balance and coordination. Additionally, swings are a beloved element of many playgrounds, and these features help children develop balance and coordination to get the swing in motion. Swings also help tune fine motor skills as kids grip the ropes or chains and hang on while swinging in the air.
2. Promote Physical Health
Many studies have documented the numerous benefits of exercise for children’s health. Playgrounds incorporate many different physical activities that stimulate children’s imagination in a way that gets them moving. The Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reports that physical exercise has a host of benefits for children, including:
- Improving cardiorespiratory health.
- Building strong bones.
- Increasing muscle development.
- Reducing anxiety and stress.
Playing on a playground can help build healthy habits in children because it promotes physical activity and physical health.
3. Encourage Outdoor Play
The outdoors are host to enormous opportunities for children to play and grow. The benefits of outdoor play are many, including building a connection to the environment and stimulating the senses in a brand new way. Having school playground equipment outside allows for free play in the outdoors, where kids might encounter and explore new things like plants and insects. Outdoor play can help children discover their place in the natural world and form a foundation for important academic concepts, such as biology, geology and physics.
4. Enhance Creativity
School playgrounds can enhance kids ‘ creativity with a whole new world open to them. Playground equipment has multiple elements that can stimulate imaginative and creative play, like slides, climbing equipment and swings. Kids can play common playground favorites, like king of the castle and hide and seek, or invent their own games to play.
Some playgrounds have different themes that can help draw out children’s natural creativity and imagination. Themes for playgrounds include modern, natural, nautical and even urban.
5. Build Social Skills
While there’s nothing like some parent-child time at the playground, the importance of playgrounds also resides in how they can build social skills with their peers. Meeting and playing with other children on a playground helps build social skills that are essential for childhood development. Some of these skills include:
- Respecting boundaries
When kids can practice communicating and cooperating with others through play, it can help them develop abilities that will benefit them for the rest of their lives. Playgrounds truly form the foundation of a healthy and balanced social life.
6. Increase Academic Performance
Another benefit of outdoor play for children includes increasing academic performance. Playgrounds include challenging elements that build skill and confidence, which can then translate to school performance. When kids are accustomed to trying new things and challenging themselves, they become more willing to exert themselves in school.
Adventures on a playground can build children’s tolerance for difficulty and failure while promoting endurance and persistence in the face of difficulties. These skills are invaluable when learning new concepts in school. In fact, studies show that outdoor play on playgrounds can help build cognitive skills, especially in STEM subjects.
7. Provide Opportunities for Outdoor Learning
School playgrounds provide opportunities for outdoor learning. Many different school curriculum incorporates the outdoors in their lesson plans, especially science. Using the playground during class can help reinforce lessons in science, such as studying the different animals and plants native to the area. Teachers can set a scavenger hunt outside to find different species of plants or encourage students to create their own “habitats” in a glass jar.
If there’s space, the playground area can also host a small outdoor garden where children can learn about growing food and the benefits of a healthy diet. Furthermore, subjects like math, art and even music can host lessons in the playground to provide a refreshing and stimulating environment for learning.
8. Promote Empathy
Some neighborhoods have great parks and playgrounds within walking distance while others may not. Having a playground at the school promotes inclusion and provides a place for children from all walks of life to enjoy the benefits of play. At the playground, kids engage with different children and can learn about others’ experiences. These skills will help build empathy and encourage them to relate to others as they continue to grow.
9. Get Kids Away From Technology
In today’s world, finding a space without a screen can be difficult, if not impossible. The beauty of an outdoor playground is the ability to get away from technology and the distractions of screens. There are enormous benefits to getting children away from their screens, tablets and televisions, including the following:
- Better sleep: Activities that children perform on screens, such as playing games and watching shows, stimulate the brain. While some of these games or shows may have educational content, this kind of brain stimulation can impact sleep. Getting children outdoors and reducing this screen time can result in better sleep.
- Improved behavior: Researchers have also found that kids who spend less time on their screens tend to show improved behavior outcomes. Having an outlet like physical activity can help kids behave better.
- Healthier habits: Another study found that children who spend less time on screens tended to have a lower level of unhealthy weight gain.
10. Build Self-Esteem
One of the most positive school playground benefits is that it can build self-esteem. There are many elements of a playground that challenge children, both physically and mentally. While it’s important to have age-appropriate playground equipment so it’s as safe as possible, incorporating challenging elements is also essential. When kids are able to overcome these challenges, it builds their confidence and self-esteem.
Challenges like climbing walls, slides and balance elements help build kids’ confidence in their abilities. These feelings can transfer over into other areas of their lives, such as school. Trying new things on the playground can make them more willing to learn new things and persist in their schoolwork, even when it’s difficult.
11. Provide Opportunity for Safe Risk-Taking
Similarly to how playgrounds allow children to challenge themselves, they also provide opportunities for safe risk-taking. While it’s crucial children feel safe and protected, providing areas in which they can safely take risks is important to stretch their comfort zone.
Activities like climbing up a wall or hanging from a swinging bar can be challenging for kids, but they can also help to build their tolerance for trying new things they may find scary. It can also build relationships with others through taking risks together.
12. Engage Multiple Senses
In school, teachers work hard to engage students. However, being outside can engage senses that are not practical to engage in a classroom setting. Playing outside can build children’s connection to their senses — new sights, smells, textures and sounds can help build nerve connections in the brain. These connections will help build children’s sensory awareness, in addition to helping them explore and grow in their curiosity.
Playgrounds for schools help children engage all their senses, which extends their learning outside the classroom. Through playing outside, they can explore leaves, grass, flowers — and even insects if they’re adventurous.
13. Promote Community Awareness
When playing on the playground, kids often have to work together to figure out tasks. They also have opportunity to cooperate with each other during games and speak with other kids they may not see every day. Playgrounds promote community awareness by helping children build bonds with each other.
Additionally, while cooperating with other children at a playground, kids can build their leadership and communication skills, which are essential to participating in the community as responsible citizens.
14. Stimulate the Immune System
One surprising benefit of investing in a school playground is that it can help support and grow children’s immune systems. Outdoor playgrounds that incorporate biodiverse elements can significantly affect children’s immune systems. According to studies, playgrounds with natural elements and diverse greenery can improve children’s immune systems in a month.
When children have stronger immune systems, they can fight off infections and bacteria more easily. While it may seem counter-intuitive that an outdoor playground can help children avoid getting sick, getting exposed to various germs in the outdoors teaches their immune system how to fight off sickness more quickly.
15. Help Children Confront Emotions
Lots of things happen on the playground. Kids can practice their creativity, let their imagination run wild and work with others. However, they might also experience emotions that aren’t necessarily positive — disagreements, jealousy, conflict and anger. When children play with each other, they might not have the same ideas about how they play or what activities they participate in.
When these interactions become tense, it may be tempting to intervene. While it’s important to ensure everyone is safe and okay, navigating tough situations help children learn how to cope and deal with negative emotions. For example, if there is a disagreement about who goes next in line for the swings, they learn how to collaborate with each other to find a solution. If emotions get high, a responsible adult can step in and coach them to find a solution to the issue.
The importance of playgrounds resides in their ability to generate innovative and authentic play. At Playworld, our goal is to foster an environment of inclusivity and community that reaches every child. We want our optimism for the future and our passion for enriching children’s lives through play to come through in every structure we create. That’s why we’re guided by five core beliefs:
- Inclusive design: We want every child to be able to enjoy the magic and wonder of playgrounds, which is why our core mission involves ensuring we create inclusive features that promote safety and fun for all.
- Craftsmanship: We take pride in each structure we create. Every one of our playgrounds is built with passion and pride based on our history of high-quality manufacturing.
- Innovative leadership: Playworld is an industry leader with a legacy of innovative design and solutions that reinvent play.
- Communities of the future: Our goal to enrich children’s lives through outdoor play comes from our deep investment and care for communities and how we can continue to build up communities for the future.
- Unity: We strongly believe that one of the best ways to unite humans is through play. By fostering a space that promotes play, we strive to create a positive environment.
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The enemies are always the others. But think about it: If you were on the “other” side, you yourself would be the enemy. These roles are exchangeable.
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Over the past half century research and training vessels have become very specialised and, mostly, very expensive. Almost invariably they are owned and operated by governments.
Training vessels, generally, seem to be gradually fading away. For most of last century, any self-respecting maritime country, and many others, possessed at least one sail training ship. Regattas, “tall ships” races, and other gatherings were organised for them world-wide. I well remember their visits to Australia for the bi-centenary celebrations of 1988. Very impressive.
Since then, though, while there is still some activity in Europe and the wider North Atlantic, it has steadily decreased. That is sad.
Training, increasingly, seems to be done “on the job”. That, probably, is a realistic approach in most countries but big crew-supplying nations like the Philippines and Indonesia might well benefit from having a sail training ship that actually goes to sea.
There are, of course, many, usually small, naval training vessels and some maritime academies and colleges possess vessels but, every year, it seems, there are fewer. We see very few on this website. That is disappointing. I am convinced that more of them, operated properly, would lead to higher standards of seamanship and, therefore, safety. The small specialised vessels are useful, as far as they go, but larger ones offering more general maritime training would provide greater benefits.
Marine Research • Maritime Training • Maritime Archaeology
Research vessels, on the other hand, are flourishing almost globally. As you will learn from this week’s feature, they are being launched thick and fast. They range from small inshore craft to large, powerful, long-range icebreakers. Some of them are very innovative and exciting craft.
This week’s offering ranges from a very impressive, electric powered inshore hydrography research boat from France’s Alumarine to a very large research icebreaker for China’s Chinare. The Xue Long 2 is 123 metres in length and has a deadweight of 4,500 tonnes along with a range of 20,000 nautical miles.
The British Cammell Laird-built RRS Sir David Attenborough is nearing delivery after an interminably long gestation period. It, too, is large at 129 metres LOA, and has all the “bells and whistles”. Could the Brits not, however, have dug up a more appropriate and historic maritime explorer to name it after than a television naturalist? There are dozens of them. How about William Dampier, an explorer with plenty of guile and spirit and, arguably, better known in his day than Attenborough is now? I preferred the mock name that was first mooted for the ship: Boaty McBoatface.
Canada’s Vancouver based SeaSpan Shipyard has produced three largish, 63-metre, Oceanographic Science vessels. Reviewed here is the fisheries science vessel Captain Jacques Cartier, named appropriately after a famous explorer.
Damen’s Constantia yard in Romania has almost finished a magnificent new icebreaker for Australia to replace the well worn, thirty-two-year-old, locally built Aurora Borealis that has served the country so well. It is expected to be delivered in January 2021.
Research and training vessels are an interesting sector of the wider maritime world. Because they tend to be owned by governments, little expense is spared on them. That helps to encourage, if not ensure, innovation. Plenty of that will be highlighted this week.
- Cassiopee – Innovative hybrid-powered boat to perform hydrographic duties at French Port of La Rochelle
- Capt. Jacques Cartier – Second in class of three large coast guard ships built for fisheries research missions in Canadian waters
- Xue Long 2 – Highly versatile 122-metre newbuild for China’s polar research missions
Features and Opinion:
– “The decision for the refit was…the result of a long-term gradual change in focus by the [Swedish Coastguard] towards environmental monitoring and protection.”
– by Nelson Dela Cruz, Baird Maritime‘s Philippines correspondent
News, Gear and Book Reviews:
- NATO maritime research arm mulling possible replacements for aging vessels
- REV Ocean joins global initiatives for ocean sciences, seabed mapping
- German cruiser sunk in WWII found off Norway
- Western and Central Pacific tuna monitoring expedition underway
- Turkish research ship to continue Eastern Mediterranean exploration amid rising tensions
- Canadian Coast Guard’s oldest active research ship returns to service following upgrade programme
- Rafnar UK RIBs to support Antarctic expedition
- Fassmer wins newbuilding order from Germany’s Alfred Wegener Institute
- Florida-based shark research group to conduct third expedition off Nova Scotia
- Sea trials completed for Germany’s newest hydrographic ship
- Dauphin Island Sea Lab takes delivery of new research boat
Recent Important Features:
– “The National Marine Fisheries Service was keen on finding out how much live tuna bait there was in Kapingamarangi and to pass on our findings to the local fishermen.”
– by Bob Iversen, retired Hawaii fishery biologist and a former officer in the US Navy
– “…if anyone ever gets around to revising deck cadet training to make it suitable for the modern era, I hope they will look to the past and include training modules.”
– by Alan Loynd, marine consultant and former general manager of the Hong Kong Salvage and Towage company
Remember to come back every day to see the latest news, opinion and vessel reviews!
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Controversial Jewish Film Director’s St. Petersburg Studio Firebombed
(JTA) – Firebombs were hurled at the studio of a renowned Russian-Jewish film director who is reviled by some nationalists for his controversial depiction of the love affair between Russia’s last czar and a ballerina.
The firebombs hit the windows of Alexei Uchitel’s studio in St. Petersburg on Wednesday night, causing a fire that did not spread into the studio’s interior and was extinguished before it could cause serious damage to the building, RIA Novosti reported.
Uchitel, whose film “Matilda” about the extramarital love affair of Nicholas II and the ballet dancer Matilda Kshesinskaya is set to premiere in October, told the Russian news agency that he did not know who perpetrated the attack.
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Many of my clients struggle when I encourage them to care for themselves. Often people are concerned that taking time for themselves away from there family is selfish. Other’s worry how setting boundaries to protect their own needs may hurt someone else. We all get stuck trying to figure out how to balance our needs with those of others. Isn’t it always right to put the needs of others before our own?
Recently I re-read The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein. This little book begins by describing the love between a little boy and a tree. It starts out as mutual relationship where there is an equal exchange of loving, playful interaction. Then the boy grows up and leaves, and the tree is sad. When he comes back the tree is happy and continues to love through giving his apples, his branches, and then his truck. At the end the tree is left only a stump and when the boy finally comes back as an old man and uses the stump as a chair, “the tree is happy but not really.”
What is the message of this short story. Is the tree an example for all us of how to love with generosity and self-sacrificing compassion? It seems so at first glance. But if you look closer perhaps you might see that the tree is an example of what not to do. He loves the boy, but not himself and in the end neither he nor the boy seem very happy. The boy is alone with no one and nothing to show for his life, and the tree is now only a stump.
When we love our spouse, a child, or a friend, it is of great importance to love ourselves in equal measure. An act of selfishness only benefits the one that takes it usually only by providing immediate pleasure or relief. An act of self-sacrifice only benefits the other person usually only by proving the same immediate pleasure or relief. However, an act of compassion values one’s self and others together by taking the needs of both into account and finding ways to serve both together. When we care for others while also caring for ourselves in equal measure, our care tends to be of a higher quality allowing us to support the other for their long term benefit.
For example, a working parent feels guilty for being away from their children so they neglect time for themselves and for their relationship with their spouse. They spend every second out of work trying to care for and experience positive quality time with their special child. This is good, important work. In the short term the child may prefer another trip to the park then two hours with a babysitter or grandparent. However, what if those two hours to recharge allows that Mom the energy to provide disciple instead of just giving the kid what they want to keep them from whining. Or it may keep that child’s parents relationship fed just enough so the child has the benefit of growing up with parents who love one another. Caring for yourself and your marriage is an act of self-compassion because it benefits all involved.
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By Jonathan O’Callaghan
At the smallest of scales, science can become rather weird. So weird in fact that metals and other materials can be altered to completely change their properties, such as making them resilient to water or bacteria.
This is the cornerstone of new research looking into the hidden world of surfaces, with the potential to improve our everyday lives by making dishwashers that clean themselves or longer-lasting batteries.
A key breakthrough that has enabled this to be possible is the ultrashort pulse laser. Until 10 years ago this technology had been too expensive and unable to produce high enough power to cause any interesting effects that could be applied on an industrial scale. But it has now been developed to a point where researchers can use it to change the structure of everyday items.
An ultrashort pulse laser is a laser that fires regular beams lasting less than 10 picoseconds – or 10 trillionths of a second. This tiny pulse duration is short enough that it can excite electrons on the surface of a metal and modify its properties before the energy is converted to heat as the electrons ‘relax’, or return to a stable state, between each pulse.
‘So what happens is you have a lot of very excited electrons that travel around the place, and then they all relax, and that’s converted to heat in one hit,’ said Dr Adrian Lutey, a mechanical engineer and research fellow at the University of Parma in Italy who works on a project called TresClean. ‘And you can provoke some very interesting modifications in this way.’
TresClean is looking at ways that ultrashort pulse lasers might improve a number of industries, particularly the food industry and white goods – such as dishwashers and washing machines – and investigating the limits of what might be possible.
The team is exploring how metal surfaces could be made resistant to water using lasers, including one of the world’s most powerful ultrashort pulse lasers at the University of Stuttgart in Germany, with an average power of one kilowatt. The lasers create tiny nanogrooves on the surface of the metal, and by trapping air bubbles, this stops water adhering to the surface. This rough surface has a similar effect to a lotus leaf, which has a surface chemistry that prevents water from sticking.
Using this technique, it’s possible to create liquid-repellent anti-bacterial surfaces. Bacteria thrive in water, so pipes and other equipment must be cleaned regularly to prevent any sort of build-up – a process that takes both considerable time and money. But if the surface never grew bacteria in the first place, this issue could be eradicated.
‘An analog is a bed of nails, the bacterial cells don’t haven’t anywhere they can attach to,’ said Dr Lutey. ‘Using laser texturing to produce an anti-bacterial response is cutting-edge.’
So far the results have been promising, with the team publishing a number of research papers on how effective the technique can be. They hope this could have a number of applications, for example in the food packaging industry, where milk and other liquid foods are transported by machinery. This must be cleaned every few hours using strong cleaning products.
‘If we can reduce the amount of cleaning required, we can reduce downtime and we can reduce any risk of contamination where cleaning products end up in the food,’ said Dr Lutey.
Similarly in dishwashers and washing machines, this can prevent a biofilm – a group of bacteria – forming inside the machine, which can cause a dishwasher tank to smell as bacteria float around. With laser-treated surfaces, these products could use less water and also get less dirty.
Laser techniques could be applied elsewhere. For example, boats have a common problem dealing with a biofilm ‘slime’ on their hulls where bacteria have grown. But if the hull of the boat could be made resistant to water, then the bacteria wouldn’t have anywhere to grab hold.
‘If we can reduce the amount of cleaning required, we can reduce downtime and we can reduce any risk of contamination where cleaning products end up in the food.’
Dr Adrian Lutey, University of Parma, Italy
People who have implants or drive electric cars could also benefit from these techniques. A project called Laser4Surf is using ultrashort laser pulses in a number of fields from battery production to medicine.
‘The idea behind this project is to develop prototypes that can get different properties in metallic surfaces,’ said project coordinator Dr Ainara Rodriguez from the Ceit-IK4 research centre in Spain.
She and a team of researchers are developing prototypes that use more than 800,000 laser pulses to heat material up to 6,000°C, which is hotter than the surface of the Sun. This sublimates the material, changing it from a solid into a gas, and allows its properties to be altered.
‘What we do is irradiate (heat up) the structure of the material with ultrafast laser pulses, which can increase the adhesion of the material, its hydrophobicity (the ability to repel water), or the colour of the metal itself,’ said Dr Rodriguez.
By using lasers to increase the surface area of batteries and prevent overheating, the team hopes to increase their life cycles by 30%, and their capacity by up to 60%. This raises possibilities in the future for creating batteries for electric cars that charge faster and last longer. In medicine, laser texturisation should make the bond between human bone and implant 80% stronger.
Crucial to the progress of this research will be proving that this technology can be advanced from the laboratory environment to industry. By July this year, the team hopes to have developed different prototypes that can test some of their ideas, before then looking at how this might be scaled up for more widespread use.
The research in this article was funded by the EU. If you liked this article, please consider sharing it on social media.
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Cleveland County sees highest positive COVID-19 test rate since start of the pandemic
Cleveland County has hit an unfortunate milestone in recent weeks. As the omicron variant of COVID-19 continues to spread, the county has seen its highest positive test rate yet.
According to the Cleveland County Health Department, as of Thursday 36.5% — a little more than one out of three people — tested for COVID-19 have positive results. That number eclipses the previous high mark for the county, approximately 20% in January 2021. It is also higher than the state positive rate of around 30%.
As of Jan. 28, there were 27,108 total cases in Cleveland County, and more than 1,540 reported in that week.
"As daily case counts increase, so do the number of hospitalizations," said DeShay Oliver, deputy health director for Cleveland County. "The highly contagious omicron variant is sending record numbers of people to North Carolina hospitals, straining hospital capacity."
In Cleveland County, there were 49 people hospitalized with COVID-19, and 339 people have died from the virus. The majority of those people were not vaccinated against the virus.
"The health department has been tracking Cleveland County resident COVID-19 deaths by vaccine status since July 2021. Since this time, 84% of Cleveland County residents who died from COVID-19 were unvaccinated. NCDHHS reports unvaccinated individuals make up 72% of hospitalizations and 83% of COVID-19-related ICU admissions statewide," said Oliver.
While some people testing positive for the virus are vaccinated, Oliver said their symptoms are milder and are less likely to send someone to the hospital.
At the end of January a little over half the county population had received at least one dose of the COVID-19 vaccine, and 49% of residents have received two doses or a single dose of the Johnson and Johnson vaccine.
Coronavirus testing: 5 things to know about getting tested for COVID-19 in Cleveland County
As has often been the case with COVID-19, spread in the community is reflected in the school system.
After achieving record low numbers in December, Cleveland County Schools reported 1,201 cases in January.
"Generally speaking, all of the positive cases would indicate quarantine and missed time at school," said Greg Shull, CCS spokesperson. "There would also be positive cases that overlapped an extended school break such as Christmas, and the quarantine time would have been when school was not in session."
Such a high volume of cases has led to some classrooms being closed in the last month.
"Class closures have been isolated and used to prevent additional contact and potential spread. We have not had to close grade levels or schools due to COVID," said Shull.
Student who have had to miss school due to COVID-19 exposures or quarantines are given opportunities to stay up to date on their course work through remote learning, Shull said.
If the spread of COVID-19 in the community starts to decrease, school officials remain optimistic they will see a similar trend in schools.
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Thematic Workshop on "Fostering Citizen-Focused Urban Mobility"
|Date:||26 November 2019|
The Policy Learning Platform organises a thematic workshop on 'Fostering citizen-focused urban mobility' on 26 November 2019.
During this one-day workshop our Low-carbon economy thematic experts, Katharina Krell and Simon Hunkin, will exchange experience and knowledge on how to foster citizen-focused urban mobility.
European cities face challenges in reducing the carbon-intensity of their transport systems as urban populations rise, whilst also ensuring that all citizens have access to mobility options, and that transport does not have an adverse effect on health and safety.
In most European cities, the car is king, and has been a top consideration in urban planning. Vehicle ownership rates dropping, but urban populations rising, it is clear that city priorities need to change to be more equitable, and that the adverse effects of motor vehicles (CO2 emissions, pollutants, injuries/accidents) need to be challenged.
As a result of both economic and social pressures, people are increasingly less likely to view ownership of a private motor vehicle as being a necessity. Cities therefore need to make more space for public transportation, cycling and walking, new sharing economy business models, and ICT tools.
There are a number of particular challenges to be tackled:
Transportation represents around a quarter of all greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in Europe. Within this, urban mobility is responsible for 40% of CO2 emissions;
70% of all other pollutants in the air are derived from road transport, with significant health impacts, contributing to a large and dangerous reduction in air quality in cities;
With city populations increasing, there is also a need to tackle congestion which is not only irritating for inhabitants and damaging for the environment, but also has significant economic impacts from reduced productivity and economic activity;
Major cities continue to grow, whilst provincial cities see population and economic decline, with aging populations and shrinking workforces.
Join us at this Policy Learning Platform Workshop to meet other Interreg project partners, Managing Authorities and Priority networks and exchange experience and knowledge on how to foster citizen-focused urban mobility.
On the same day, we will organise as well an Environment and Resource efficiency workshop on the topic urban ecosystems. Participants from both workshops will get the chance to meet and attend a joint session on 'Reviving city centers'.
What should you expect:
Hear about the latest developments regarding the European policy framework for mobility
Exchange experience and knowledge in improving urban transport performance
Understand what legal aspects need to be taken into account
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The creation and implementation of a dual career path program can dramatically improve an organization’s staff retention rates. Most organizations offer only one track for advancement for employees, the entry into management. Employees choosing not to enter into management are often left with little or no opportunities to advance within the organization. Longer term employees who chose not to pursue management or for whom management is not a skill set they either possess or wish to acquire feel advancement is not possible and often choose to leave the organization. A dual career path program creates multiple opportunities for staff to develop outside of entering into management. Dual career path programs should be intentional and well planned, if done correctly dual career path programs can be mutually beneficial for both employers and employees.
Dual career paths can be especially beneficial for front line clinicians who, after several years in an organization, would like to advance and have some job diversity outside of direct clinical care. As an example, many organizations are implementing electronic record systems, an ideal individual to provide tech support, help choose, create or implement a system is a clinician who uses or will use the system on a daily basis. A dual career program allowing clinical staff to participate in these activities, obtain necessary certifications or training allows them to grow and advance and provides the organization with a technology workforce with “real life” experience with the system. Additionally, these staff have credibility with other clinicians in the organization a critical element in electronic records training and development.
It is critical that the creation of a dual career path program is not perceived by staff as work that is in addition to their current tasks, that the opportunities are replacing some current responsibilities and are meant to provide opportunities for professional growth and development. As part of the roll-out of a dual career program, job descriptions need to be created or changed, managers need to be trained and at times a dual reporting structure needs to be created. Thought needs to be paid to how responsibilities will be “back filled” as individuals take on dual roles. The Institute for Family Health has created multiple dual role positions in behavioral health, creating a model that allows for clinicians to be in direct care a self-sustaining amount of time and have a dual role in other areas. The creation of this dual career path model has allowed for many employees to pursue other roles and helped advance the organization in areas of technology, clinical care, research, publications, evidence-based practices and compliance. The Institute supports employees in these dual roles by supporting certifications and /or advanced training in the secondary role, a small cost in exchange for increased employee satisfaction.
Dual career path programs can be helpful for many organizations, creating opportunities for employees, improving an organizations ability to recruit and retain their workforce, especially employees with longevity. Dual career programs can be created in any area an organization identifies as a need or employees have expressed interest in. While often challenging to implement, the outcomes have proven beneficial for both employers and employees. | <urn:uuid:ce124d67-0576-4af6-8473-0bba0affbaea> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.behavioralhealthnews.org/dual-career-path-development-a-critical-component-of-staff-retention-and-development/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571056.58/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809155137-20220809185137-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.962466 | 592 | 2.171875 | 2 |
Transverse (T2 and T2*) relaxation processes. A diagram showing the process of transverse relaxation after a 90° rf pulse is applied at equilibrium. Initially the transverse magnetisation (red arrow) has a maximum amplitude as the population of proton magnetic moments (spins) rotate in phase. The amplitude of the net transverse magnetisation (and therefore the detected signal) decays as the proton magnetic moments move out of phase with one another (shown by the small black arrows). The resultant decaying signal is known as the Free Induction Decay (FID). The overall term for the observed loss of phase coherence (de-phasing) is T2* relaxation, which combines the effect of T2 relaxation and additional de-phasing caused by local variations (inhomogeneities) in the applied magnetic field. T2 relaxation is the result of spin-spin interactions and due to the random nature of molecular motion, this process is irreversible. T2* relaxation accounts for the more rapid decay of the FID signal, however the additional decay caused by field inhomogeneities can be reversed by the application of a 180° refocusing pulse. Both T2 and T2* are exponential processes with times constants T2 and T2* respectively. This is the time at which the magnetization has decayed to 37% of its initial value immediately after the 90° rf pulse. | <urn:uuid:0373db97-2813-4cc2-8706-581e3a75a182> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://jcmr-online.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1532-429X-12-71/figures/4 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573744.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819161440-20220819191440-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.923184 | 287 | 3.25 | 3 |
Well connected - nationally and internationally
IÖB is active in Germany and internationally, working collaboratively in a range of research and development projects, which is reflected in joint conferences, joint projects and publications, etc. The institute is well connected to the Deutschen Gesellschaft für Ökonomische Bildung (DEGÖB) [German Society of Economic Education] and there are also close collaborative ties with colleagues from educational sciences as well as specialised scientific disciplines in academia.
Outside of academia, IÖB collaborates with many institutions from the world of politics, the economy and society. Alongside its cooperation with national bodies in Germany (e.g. membership of the German Alliance for Economic Education [BÖB]) and work with international partners (e.g. the Goethe Institute in Amman, Jordan), regional sponsors from Oldenburg and the surrounding area have played a vital role in supporting IÖB’s work from the outset.
There are currently six partners with whom IÖB has formal partnership agreements, and whose importance for IÖB goes well beyond the context of project work:
A natural synergy and close cooperation connect IÖB with IfÖB, the same-named institute of Faculty II at the University of Oldenburg. Ever since the establishment of IÖB as a spin-off from the University department, a cooperation agreement has been in place between the University and the affiliated institute. This agreement envisages cooperation in teaching and research. Both institutes are also tied together in Human Resources with joint appointments of academic staff, particularly of professors, to both institutes. Many long-standing members of staff have worked at both sites in Oldenburg. In teaching, IÖB’s learning content management system ECEDON is used by IfÖB, and IÖB staff are regularly called upon to teach degree-level course at IfÖB. In research, projects are partly conducted across the institutions in teams. Many research projects are only made possible by the complimentary partnership that exist between both institutions.
Given the similarities of the institutional research profile and numerous common research interests, there have been close ties between the Institute for Business Education in Vienna and the IÖB, e.g. common collaborative projects and doctoral colloquia. From the beginning of 2015, this partnership was formalised with an agreement, one that underpins the joint activities in teaching and research (e.g. joint conferences, publications, project proposals and guest lectures as well as staff workshops).
ZöBiS carries out cutting-edge subject-specific didactic research, continually conceiving and developing provisions that can be used in practice (e.g. teaching materials, continued professional development for teachers). There are a range of areas where ZöBiS research interests align with IÖB’s. After years of collaboration, the two institutes formalised the partnership at the end of 2015 with a formal cooperation agreement. Both institutes jointly publish the peer-review journal Zeitschrift für ökonomische Bildung (ZföB) [Journal for Economics Education], one that undergoes double blind review before publication.
From the outset, there has been a close cooperation with C3L. It supports IÖB, in particular, in further developing the learning content management system ECEDON as well as with the administration and modification of database systems underpinning each digital activity as well as technical support with research and development matters in digital teaching and learning.
In the context of the “Wirtschafts.Forscher!” (Eng: Economic Researcher) programme of the PwC-Stiftung (PwC Foundation), IÖB has a multi-year cooperation agreement with Dusseldorf education provider Education Y (LINK) and the Berlin agency Freiwerk B. Educational programmes (workshops, continued professional development for teachers, economic youth summits, etc.) and a modern virtual learning environment are developed jointly with IÖB and trialled in schools across Germany. The contents of this programme deal with the dynamic space where economics, ethics and digitalization meet.
Dating back decades, close ties with the State University of Novosibirsk, particularly in the context of the DÖBIS-NSK education programme (originally called ECO-DIGITAL), were institutionalised in December 2016 with a formal cooperation agreement. Through this joint initiative, both partners seek to introduce Economic Education using digital formats and technologies in Engineering classes in the region of Novosibirsk.
Entrepreneurship Education is increasingly playing a significant role in countries with developing economies. When transferring educational concepts into different national school systems, it is necessary to take local country-specific characteristics into account. Alongside the Goethe Institute in Amman and the QRTA, an established educational provider in Jordan, IÖB developed concepts for lessons in Economics and also qualifications for teaching staff in the “Entrepreneurship in Everyday Schooling in Jordan” (EISAJ) project, which was funded by the German Foreign Ministry. These concepts were tried and tested in Jordan.
An increase in school dropout rates and the increased trend towards studying are two developments putting pressure on the traditional German dual apprenticeship system in companies and schools. This is the reason why the different chambers of commerce headquartered in Oldenburg signed a cooperation agreement in 2016. The Chamber of Trade (HWK), Chamber of Agriculture in Niedersachsen (LWK) as well as Oldenburg Chamber of Industry and Trade intend to develop initiatives with IÖB, coordinating in a targeted way to improve the quality of the apprenticeship and the career guidance of young people in our specific region.
Close ties have existed since 2011 with the Methods Centre (WOM) in Gorzów (Poland). This is a public institute specializing in the organization and delivery of teachers’ continued professional development. In the context of the project to provide cross-border career guidance in the Euroregion Pro Europa Viadrina (2018-2021), WOM and IÖB are continuing with our longstanding and effective cooperation. Educational products (teaching and learning materials, teachers’ continued professional development courses, etc.) and information materials are being jointly developed as well as being trialled and tested in schools involved in the project. | <urn:uuid:26fa73c9-2859-4b7e-878d-280c42acd5f0> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://ioeb.de/en/collaborations.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572043.2/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814143522-20220814173522-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.946418 | 1,322 | 1.75 | 2 |
THE FOLLOWING IS A PRESS RELEASE FROM THE WASHINGTON DEPARTMENT OF FISH AND WILDLIFE
Washington State Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW) Police are asking the public for information on who shot two eagles, a bald and a golden, in southeast Washington.
The first bird was found near Payne Hollow, close to the Columbia/Walla Walla county line last week. A radiograph scan revealed that the bird had been shot, probably five to seven days before being found. The bird was still alive but so badly injured that it had to be euthanized.
A second eagle was found a day later, in the Tucannon Habitat Management Unit, which is located downriver of Little Goose Dam. A radiograph revealed a gunshot to the leg of the juvenile bird. Estimates are that this eagle was also shot about a week prior to being found.
The bald eagle is no longer considered endangered at either the state or federal level, but is listed as a “sensitive” species in Washington. The number of golden eagles is low in Washington and it is currently a candidate for the state threatened and endangered species list and is listed as a Species of Greatest Conservation Need (SGCN) under the State Wildlife Action Plan (SWAP).
“Under the Migratory Bird Treaty Act, such activities are a misdemeanor violation with a maximum penalty of six months in prison and $15,000 fine,” said Officer Chase Copenhaver with WDFW Police. “The Bald and Golden Eagle Act also has a penalty for a first offense- a maximum fine of $5,000 and one year’s imprisonment.”
People who come forward with information that leads to an arrest in this case may be eligible for a cash reward. Information can be provided to Officer Copenhaver at (509) 730-0828 or on WDFW’s Report a violation page, by calling 877-933-9847, emailing email@example.com, or by texting 847411 (TIP411) then entering WDFWTIP, followed by a space, and then entering your information. Tips can be submitted anonymously.
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Eradicating Covid-19 coronavirus seems unlikely but we are getting better at living with it – Professor Mark Woolhouse
The idea of eradicating Aids, malaria, or indeed any infectious disease, is hugely appealing.
Eradication means no more disease and subsequently, no need for interventions. It removes the need for costly vaccination programmes which are constantly challenged to stretch across hard-to-access populations in war zones or remote locations.
We no longer face a threat of resurgence should we ever let our guard down. Eradication is what economists call a global public good: everyone benefits.
So far, we have only eradicated one human disease: smallpox. That was a remarkable accomplishment, as there were ten million cases across 43 countries when the campaign began in 1967, yet the world was declared smallpox-free (other than some laboratory stocks) just 13 years later.
We are getting close with polio – though pockets of infection remain – and with dracunculiasis, an unpleasant worm infection in the tropics. Both campaigns have been running for over 30 years.
Eradication won’t happen unless key conditions are met. First, a robust system must be in place for detecting cases and monitoring levels of infection. Second, we need a way of interrupting transmission, such as a highly effective and easy-to-administer vaccine. Third, there has to be consensus as to how to proceed, and shared commitment to seeing the programme through.
In the terminology of public health, elimination is not eradication. The World Health Organisation defines elimination as the reduction to zero incidence of infection in a defined geographical area as a result of deliberate efforts, with minimal risk of re-introduction, and with continued measures to prevent re-establishment of transmission.
The US eliminated malaria in the 1950s. A few years ago, the UK was considered to have eliminated measles, but we have since lost our measles-free status.
The problem with measles is a steady trickle of imported cases that sometimes spark chains of transmission. Even so, thanks to a highly effective vaccination programme, measles in the UK is nothing like the public health problem it was 50 years ago.
We keep close tabs on measles cases – it’s a notifiable disease – and it’s important to keep vaccine coverage high. We will continue to do both whether the UK is technically measles-free or not. Unlike eradication, elimination is not an end point.
A leading science journal recently asked 100 experts about the prospects of eradicating or eliminating Covid-19. Hardly any of them thought that eradication was achievable in the foreseeable future. A minority thought elimination might be, but not everywhere and not quickly. Most experts have believed from the onset of the current pandemic that Covid-19 is here to stay.
Living with Covid-19 is a much less worrying prospect than it seemed last spring. We are rolling out an effective vaccine developed in under a year – an extraordinary achievement by any standards.
As a result, the public health burden is quickly becoming far more manageable. The fewer cases the better but there is no need to aim for zero and little chance of success if we tried.
Mark Woolhouse is a fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, and professor of infectious disease epidemiology at Edinburgh University. The RSE is Scotland's National Academy, which brings great minds together to contribute to the social, cultural and economic well-being of Scotland.
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Published: November 18th, 2020 by Andrew
If you are reading this guide, it is perhaps because you are curious to know more about CFD trading. Or maybe you have already started making some investments with this derivative instrument, and you want to have more information on how you can relate to the best strategies with CFD trading.
Whatever the motivation that drove you here, and whatever your level of financial knowledge is, we have good news for you. In fact, we want to share a series of information that will be very useful for improving your investment strategy with Contracts for Difference!
First, though, we want to give you a little initial tip.
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In this way you can use its demo account and, consequently, put into practice what you will find in the next paragraphs without any delay and in total safety!
Having clarified this, let’s kick off our guide on CFD trading!
What is CFD Trading
Let’s start right from the basics.
We define the CFD – Contract for Difference – as a contract between two parties, through which they agree to pay the difference between the opening price and the closing price of a particular underlying financial instrument.
Therefore, there is no actual purchase or sale of financial instruments, but only the existence of an agreement (in this case, between the Trader and the Broker) to regulate the difference in value between the opening and closing price of the position.
With these specificities, investing in CFDs is a way to speculate on the price movement, without owning the underlying asset. You can therefore try to earn with CFD trading without getting hold of gold, currencies, cryptocurrencies, commodities, stocks and much more!
The mechanism is quite simple. Indeed, the performance of the CFD reflects the price and the price trend of the underlying asset. Profit and Loss are established constantly, as the value of the underlying asset moves relative to the position of the opening price.
So, when you close the position of a CFD with the broker, you will get:
- A loss: if the price, of the underlying asset, moved in the opposite direction to that which you expected
- A profit: if the price, of the underlying asset, has instead moved in the same direction as you expected
For now, keep these concepts in mind:
- When trading a CFD with a broker, you do not own the asset you negotiate, but you are only speculating on the movement of the price, Up or Down
- It is not necessary that the market was always growing. In fact, you can also make a profit in a declining market, provided you have correctly predicted the direction
How CFD Trading works: an example
In order to understand, even more clearly, how CFD trading works, let’s make a practical example.
So, imagine that you want to invest in a share that is listed on the Milan stock exchange for 25 euros, and that you want to invest in 100 shares of the company. It follows that, if I had to buy a share in the traditional way, the budget to be allocated for this operation would be 2,500 euros (25 euros x 100 shares). You will also need to add commission or negotiation costs to this, which could further erode your margin of profit!
With CFDs you can operate in different ways:
- You can, for example, trade CFD stocks without leverage. In this case you can carry out the same operation as above, with even greater simplicity and without paying commissions and other charges;
- You can trade CFD stocks with leverage. For example, if you want to invest in stocks with 2x leverage, it means that in order to open a position of 2,500 euros you should only deposit 1,250 euros. The other part will be “loaned” to you by the broker, which will therefore allow you to immobilize less capital, while aiming for greater profits (but be careful, the losses will also be greater!).
But, why is CFD Trading free (commission free)?
The reason is that brokers get their income in another way: Spread.
When you open a position with a CFD, you will notice that the position will be opened immediately with a small “loss” equal to the size of the spread. This means that if your broker’s spread is 5 cents, then you will need the stock price to be at least 5 cents to reach the breakeven point.
Profits and losses in CFD trading
We continue to deepen the functioning of CFD trading with the example above. So, let’s imagine that the price of the underlying security continues to rise and reaches a price of 26 euros, from the initial 25 euros.
In the event that you have invested in CFD trading without leverage, then now your capital is worth 2,600 euros. A nice profit, net of the spread, equal to 100 euros.
If, on the other hand, you had invested with 2x leverage, you would still have made a profit of 100 euros, but immobilizing half of the capital. So, in terms of percentage, the CFD would have returned you much greater profits! Be careful, though: if the market had moved in the opposite direction, in fact, even the losses compared to your initial investment would have been greater. Remember, therefore, that both risk and profit are greatly increased due to leverage, and that you should handle this tool with particular care.
Read also: The best platforms for online trading
CFD Trading: Benefits
At this point, you should have already understood what the main advantages of CFD trading are. However, let us try to clarify them, in a synthetic list.
The leverage of CFDs is one of the reasons why trading with Contracts for Difference is often and willingly used, rather than direct trading with the underlying assets. The financial leverage provided by brokers such as eToro (official website) essentially depends on the type of financial instrument (it is lower for cryptocurrencies, for example, while it is higher for equities).
Thanks to leverage, you can take on large positions with less capital. Careful, however: as we have already had occasion to remember a few paragraphs ago, although in this way it is possible to gain large numbers faster, it is also true that the losses will be much larger.
The best CFD brokers such as eToro (official website), Trade.com (official website) and Plus500 will allow you to operate in all the main financial markets of the world, even 24 hours a day (thanks, for example, to Forex).
In short, you will have access to an infinite number of opportunities, within which to choose the ones that best refer to your financial strategy.
Trading with CFDs has minimal costs. The best traders that we report on this page do not charge any commission to enter and exit positions because, as we have already mentioned, they earn their profits with the spread. The extent of the spread will depend on the volatility of the underlying asset and, as a rule, has decreased in a fixed amount.
Even if in some moments it will not be possible to make Short Selling (as happened on some occasions in the coronavirus epidemic), with CFDs you can earn both with a growing market and with a decreasing market.
In short, you will not necessarily have to wait for the market to be in a growing phase in order to earn: it is sufficient that you correctly predict the evolution of the prices of the underlying asset you want to trade.
CFD Trading Risk
Of course, like any financial sector, CFDs also have risks that you should not underestimate.
The CFD sector is not fully regulated. This means that it is essential to know how to choose the right broker to avoid all sorts of problems.
Below, the official list of the best regulated CFD brokers in Europe:
Min. Deposit: 50€
Min. Deposit: 100€
Min. Deposit: 10€
Min. Deposit: 100€
Min. Deposit: 250€
Min. Deposit: 100€
Although, as we have already mentioned, the margin can increase your profit potential, the risk also increases!
It is very easy to lose sight of the total exposure that occurs when using a rather high leverage. For this reason, our suggestion is to start trading with CFDs without leverage or with a very low leverage.
Train using a demo account, such as the one you find on the official eToro website. Once you understand the functioning of the leverage, you can proceed with the completion of the CFD trading operations in leverage with real money.
CFD Trading for Beginners: how to do
Now that you have more information on what CFD trading is, what the advantages and what the disadvantages, let’s try to understand, step by step, how you can invest in CFDs with the best brokers on the market, such as eToro (official website) and Trade .com (official site).
Choose a Market
There are so many markets to choose from. For example, you can invest in currencies, commodities, stocks and indexes. Try to choose a market that you know well, especially at the beginning, because this will help you react to market developments with the right awareness.
Buy or Sell?
If you Buy, you go “Long”, if you Sell, you go “Short”. All major trading platforms allow you to invest in both directions with the same ease. Remember that the price of your CFD is based on the price of the underlying instrument. So if you have reason to believe that the market will grow, you should buy. If you believe it will decrease, you should sell.
How much to invest
Now you need to select the size of the CFDs you wish to trade. Brokers generally have rather low investment limits, thus allowing anyone to be able to start investing even with very limited capital.
Stop Loss and Take Profit
Imposing Stop Loss and Take Profit will help you better manage your profits and limit your losses. Most CFD strategies for beginners and experienced traders ALWAYS use the use of stop loss and / or take profit. So define them in line with your risk management strategy. Once set, the broker will automatically close the position down or up once the price has touched the set limits.
CFD Trading Strategies
Choosing a good market to invest in is not easy, but without an effective strategy it will be almost impossible to make a profit. You will therefore have to devote a large part of your initial efforts to finding a strategy that suits your trading style. But what are the best CFD trading strategies?
One is certainly “breakout”, which simply requires identifying a key price level for a particular security. When the price reaches the key level, you will have to buy or sell, depending on the trend. The main thing to remember with breakout trading is to avoid any trade when the market does not provide clear signals.
The second strategy is the “contrarian” one. In this case, your plan is essentially based on the awareness that trends don’t last forever. If the price of a security is falling, then a point is identified where it is believed to be near the end of the trend. Then, you enter a Buy position in anticipation of the trend turning in the other direction. Of course, you can follow exactly the same procedure if the price is rising!
We hope, on the sidelines of this study, to have provided you with sufficient elements to be able to understand correctly what it means to trade CFDs and what you need to do to start investing in contracts for difference.
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Three Types Of Pipe Insulation To Buy
If you're planning to tackle a plumbing job in your home, you'll want to start by visiting a local plumbing supply store. This retailer carries virtually everything you'd need for any plumbing job, whether it's in your bathroom, kitchen, laundry room, or elsewhere. While you'll need to buy a quantity of pipe and a few different fittings, don't overlook also buying some pipe insulation. Commonly gray or black in appearance, this product wraps around the pipes to prevent heat loss. If you haven't previously worked with pipe insulation, here are three types to buy.
You'll need to buy one or more straight pieces of pipe insulation. It's a good idea to estimate how much straight pipe you'll use in your project, and then ensure that you buy enough pipe insulation to cover it all. Pipe insulation is available in several diameters. Once you know the diameter of the pipe that you'll be using, you can buy the right type of straight insulation pieces. Pipe insulation is easy to cut to length with a utility knife, so don't worry about having a little more than you need. It's better to have too much as you can trim it to length, rather than not having enough.
Most plumbing projects involve pipe that bends at a 90-degree angle. Think about how many of these bends you'll have in your project so that you can buy the right number of elbow-shaped pipe insulation pieces. While it's theoretically possible to bend a straight piece of pipe insulation to cover a 90-degree directional change in the pipe, the finished product can look a little messy. You'll be a lot more pleased with the appearance of your work when you use elbow-shaped pipe insulation pieces wherever necessary.
Your local plumbing supply store also carries T-joint pipe insulation. This is a short piece of insulation that looks like the letter "T." This is the type of insulation that you'll want to use whenever there's a T-joint in your plumbing. For example, when one piece of pipe joins up with another piece, they meet in a "T" shape. Having a piece of T-joint pipe insulation will allow you to cover this area. This type of insulation can also work well around water shutoff valves, as they protrude from a pipe in a perpendicular direction. Learn more about pipe insulation for your next project by visiting a plumbing supply store. | <urn:uuid:137296ab-e740-4ce6-b7fc-f964aa6335f0> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://grupoballester.com/2022/07/13/three-types-of-pipe-insulation-to-buy/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571056.58/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809155137-20220809185137-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.964883 | 508 | 1.882813 | 2 |
November 22, 2021: The 300 MW Coal-Fired Power Project at Gwadar would create more than 1000 jobs for the local people and reduced the electricity shortage in the area, the official source said on Monday.
The $542.32 million worth coal-fired power project having the capacity to produce 300 MW electricity would initiate under the China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) at Gwadar.
The land has been acquired for the execution of the project and the Gwadar development authority would supervise the project.
The area of Makran division has supplied from Iran and power shortfalls in Iran have led to loadshedding in Gwadar, Turbat and Makran regions.
These areas are not connected with the National grid and are dependent on Iranian power supply. The government has taking steps to connect these areas with national grid to ensured uninterrupted smooth power supply to the domestic consumers to provide relief in the winter season, said the official.
The government has set a target to enhance the coal production to meet national energy needs and taking many measures to provide electricity to the consumers at cheap rates.
According to a CPEC Authority official, the mega project would move forward with more strength during the current year and the years ahead, which would further strengthen the bilateral relations between Pakistan and China. | <urn:uuid:dc480ac5-1414-4f3b-9f40-3b5efb3014b5> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://mettisglobal.news/300mw-coal-power-plant-to-create-1000-jobs-in-gwadar/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572833.95/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817032054-20220817062054-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.958139 | 270 | 2.171875 | 2 |
Global health has always been a major priority for French official development assistance (ODA). France led the international mobilization to fight the AIDS pandemic and was one of the founding members of the innovative organisations set in place to fight it: The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, in 2002, and Unitaid in 2006. It is therefore essential to have a figure to represent our country within international organizations (the Ambassador for Global Health represents France in the governance of the Global Fund and Unitaid).
The Ambassador also helps design and put in place the French Strategy for Global Health, implemented by French actors all around the world. She coordinates the health-related work of the Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs with the Ministry for Solidarity and Health, in liaison with national and international advocacy and development NGOs, scientists, local governments, parliamentarians, philanthropic foundations, the private sector and others.
After studying literature at Oxford University and politics at Sciences Po Paris, Stéphanie Seydoux started her career at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. She then joined ENA (Ecole nationale d’administration) and the General Inspectorate of Social Affairs (IGAS) in 2004. From 2007 to 2010, she was Head of Equality Promotion at the French Independent Equality Commission, before serving as Deputy Ambassador at the French Embassy in Kenya. Back in France, she became Head of the French Women’s rights department from 2014 to 2017. Seydoux was appointed French Ambassador for Global health in 2018. | <urn:uuid:9630f5b8-cf9e-488e-b469-d28ef04f122d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.diplomatie.gouv.fr/en/french-foreign-policy/development-assistance/priority-sectors/health/the-ambassador-for-global-health/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571056.58/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809155137-20220809185137-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.950408 | 309 | 1.804688 | 2 |
The Invisible Battle for Russia’s Future
There are homegrown democrats in Russia who do not automatically sympathize with the West. They rarely make the headlines, but they could be instrumental in leading the country to change from the top.
If asked to name the most important political protests that took place in Russia during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, most people would likely mention the Navalny protests of early 2021 and the demonstrations in Khabarovsk that lasted for the whole second half of 2020. Few would think of—or even remember—the small, mostly one-person demonstrations from July 2020, when a handful of people turned up to protest against the arrest of journalist Ivan Safronov, accused of betraying state secrets. Yet, as a phenomenon, these smallest of protests were in some ways the most curious ones—and this has to do with who turned up and why.
The Navalny protests showed the impressive geographical reach of a semi-organized opposition—boosted on this occasion by a general sense of dissatisfaction with the state of affairs in the country, and moral outrage over Navalny’s arrest, the glaring unfairness of which went beyond many people’s threshold of indifference. The Khabarovsk protests may have testified of the Kremlin’s inability to understand the thinking and emotions in far-away corners of the country, or to address their concerns.
The “Kremlin Pool” Protests
But the few people who turned up to defend Safronov were not die-hard opposition supporters, nor alienated souls from the provinces. Instead, they came from the Kremlin—or, well, almost. The bulk of those who turned up were Moscow-based journalists, often former colleagues of Safronov—people who work not just for opposition media, but also and mostly for state-approved or state-owned media channels. And yes, among them were journalists from what is called the “Kremlin pool,” i.e., those who have been cleared to cover the work of and travel with Russian President Vladimir Putin. In other words, they are quite unlikely to be subversives or revolutionaries.
One of those who got arrested after her single-person protest was Elena Chernenko, the diplomatic correspondent of the Kommersant daily newspaper, and as such a regular presence at the Russian Foreign Ministry. This is how she described her motivation to protest in an e-mail to me:
“I worked with Ivan for many years. We wrote a few hundred stories together and I know him as a sincere person who would give his last bit to help others. I would not in my wildest dreams believe him to be cooperating with foreign intelligence. So when I heard what happened I decided that I needed to do something. I painted a poster calling for openness and fairness and chose the first place that looked close enough to the FSB’s (Russia‘s counter-intelligence service) main building to me. That was the first time I had to go to a police station and the first time that I found myself in a court afterwards.”
A New Phenomenon
In principle, one could probably dismiss the whole episode as a small private matter of no consequence or wider significance: colleagues defending a colleague, so far without success (Safronov remains in jail) and no wider resonance in Russian society. Except this is not the first such occasion: in 2019, the journalist Ivan Golunov was arrested, with drugs planted on him by police officers. His arrest prompted similar, if somewhat bigger, demonstrations of solidarity, which resulted in his release, and also, highly unusually, in the trial of the police officers who had tried to frame him.
Even more importantly, it is not actually the protest itself that matters here. By the parameters of protests these one-person demonstrations by (semi-)insiders will always be small and may now stop altogether as the screws are being tightened once again and the Kremlin’s tolerance for dissent is diminishing even further. But what is important, and unlikely to disappear, is the wider phenomenon that made these protests possible, the iceberg of what the protests were but a small fleetingly visible tip: namely, the emergence in Russia of a growing and influential social layer of people who wish to have rules, laws, and ethical standards; who, furthermore, apply the same standards to themselves, but who are not revolutionaries; who often (professionally) collaborate with the powers that be; and who do not necessarily have a positive view of the West or Western democracy.
These people are most often to be found in professional circles; they are often of prime working age; and their demand for rules and laws has grown out of professional standards and personal ethics. There is hardly any sociological research about them, but an interested Russia-watcher is likely to spot them in many walks of life.
Journalists are maybe the least surprising representatives of this breed. Russian laws are harsh as well as vague, which means that the simple reporting of publicly determinable facts can under some circumstances get one arrested on charges that are secret, ostensibly for the sake of state security. That leaves journalists—quite regardless of their personal political views—with an unenviable choice: to change profession, to redefine their profession, or to try to find a way to demand a more lawful environment. The latter may but does not have to include participation in public protests.
But the same can be observed in many other walks of life, for instance, among foreign policy professionals who can be most astutely critical of Russia’s domestic politics, but for whom this does not automatically translate into sympathy or even respect toward the West. “There are many policies I disagree with—the idea of a sovereign Internet, the arrest of [theater director Kirill] Serebryannikov, and so forth—but I do not want to emigrate, and I do not think that Russia is [part of the] West,” one foreign policy expert described their position to me.
Maybe most astonishingly, the tendency can be observed even among the law enforcement services and security forces. London-based Russia expert Mark Galeotti, who keeps an eye on those circles, has repeatedly described cases of people in uniform choosing to serve the letter of the law, as opposed to the political order of the day. “Members of the security forces are increasingly willing to express criticisms of the government and their own conditions,” he writes, noting that in the future the government may have to fight for “the hearts and minds of his praetorians.”
The first instinct of a superficial Western observer might be to applaud the phenomenon and interpret it as a sign that Russia is finally ready to “shake off Putin’s dictatorship,” and return to the path of democracy that was taken by Central Europe, but that Russia abandoned at some point during the 1990s. That, however, would be misleading. The demand for rules and standards is in many important ways quite different from the pro-democracy movement of the late 1980s and early 1990s.
The Soviet democrats did not know the West, but admired it unconditionally. Today’s agents of democracy are the opposite—they know the West better, but take a bleaker view of it. Today’s striving for rules and standards is not rooted in an admiration of the Western model, but in real-life needs at home. Its agents are less likely to be from among the intelligentsia and more likely to be from among the professional class or medium-sized business owners. They are driven not by liberal ideology, but by their personal conscience and professional ethics. When it comes to expressing their position, public protest is not their first choice for doing so, but last. They are suspicious of ideology and organized movements, suspecting hidden beneficiaries behind both; but they want to be able to look at themselves in the mirror, and to make the world—or at least Russia—a better place, if in small ways.
At times, some anti-Western statements by pro-democracy Russians may also include a dose of political positioning. “It is disillusionment with the West as well as an attempt to accommodate oneself in Russia’s domestic political system,” the Paris-based analyst Tatiana Stanovaya, who coined the term “anti-Western liberals” in reference to the recent statements by the theater director Konstantin Bogomolov and politician Grigory Yavlinsky, explained to me in recent e-mails. “The problem is that to think liberally, in Russia that automatically means to be in favor of the West. But that is dangerous—you identify with the enemy and share his values.”
That way, for some people, expressing liberal views in an anti-Western fashion becomes a means of legitimizing them; they sacrifice the “Western” aspect in order to hang on to the “liberal” aspect that is more important to them personally. But it would be wrong to assume that such opportunistic use of anti-Western rhetoric automatically makes it less genuine. “It is a means of adaptation as well as a natural process that is linked to growing alienation from the West, mutual incomprehension,” stresses Stanovaya. “People want to preserve their identity, progressiveness, initiative, freedom … but the West for them is not an example of liberalism, but an example of its death.”
Interestingly, in its attempt to secure its future, the Putinist system is also trying to bind in the professional class, rather than just loyalists or children of today’s cluster of power holders. But in that vision, the future Russia will be administered by technocrats whose professionalism is brilliant, their loyalty unquestionable, but their positions adjustable according to the orders of the day. “The defining characteristic of a member of Putin’s successor generation is a resemblance to Austrian writer Robert Musil’s ‘man without qualities,’” is how Ivan Krastev and Gleb Pavlovsky have described the emerging administrative class. “He or she is best described as an expert in logistics with no identifiable political convictions or loyalty to a constituency. Under its emerging system, Russia would be a country governed by McKinsey consultants who are loyal to Putin and will preserve his policies once he is gone.” Thus, according to this counter-theory, people’s professional standards will not translate into politically meaningful demands, but rather, political loyalty will be the key for professional fulfillment; the first condition that gives access to professional jobs to start with.
Keeping an Open Mind
Which way it goes may be one of the big questions for Russia’s future: will people’s personal and professional standards end up pressuring the regime to reform, or will the regime manage to recruit enough loyalists to fill the ranks and ignore such demands? And if we assume that the more suppressive the regime gets, the more it needs to rely on loyalists, the thinner and poorer its professional base becomes, and the more fragile its future looks—then where is the point of no return or the tipping point? What does it look like?
These questions are being debated in Russia itself, and the West cannot refrain from pondering them either. However, the actual takeaway for Western policymakers should be a different and a simpler one. We should accept that it is hard for us to democratize Russia; and if Russia one day democratizes, then it will not be along the lines of the political processes that took place in Central Europe in the 1990s.
It will be something different: homegrown democratization that does not necessarily take the West as an unconditional model. This means that the West should give up its (sometimes subconscious) hopes of seeing Russia set the clock back to 1991 and starting it all over, with “proper democrats” in charge. It should stop using the words “pro-Western,” “democrat,” and “liberal” as synonyms in the Russia context, as not all Russian democrats are necessarily liberal, and not all liberals or democrats are inevitably pro-Western. Instead, it should keep an open mind to those curious indigenous sprouts of democracy that spring from the ugly political soil of today’s Russia.
Also, Russia is a top-down country. Any meaningful attempts for democratization or liberalization have always started from above and then made use of the pressure from below. For Andrey Sakharov to transform from a moral icon into a political figure needed a Mikhail Gorbachev who released him from his exile in Gorky and allowed him to be elected to the Congress of People’s Deputies. Likewise, to truly unlock his potential as a policy-maker (not just a regime-breaker), Alexey Navalny might need a change in the Kremlin that comes from inside the system. In making Russia change, both the “systemic” and “non-systemic” liberals will have a role. The role for the West is to offer respectful but politely distant support to both—as opposed to assuming that micromanaging democratic change in Russia is the West’s duty that it failed to discharge in the 1990s, and hence needs to try again.
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(WASHINGTON) — Retired Gen. Colin Powell, the first African American to serve as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and later as the first Black secretary of state, will be remembered and celebrated as a statesman, a warrior and a trailblazer Friday at the Washington National Cathedral.
While attendance was by invitation only, the private service began at noon and was nationally televised. ABC News and ABC News Live presented special coverage
Powell died last month at 84 from complications of COVID-19. Though he was fully vaccinated, his immune system was comprised from cancer treatments, his spokesperson said.
“It’s really hard to overstate the respect Colin Powell had,” said ABC News Chief Global Affairs Correspondent Martha Raddatz, who covered Powell’s career for decades. “When traveling around the world with him, it was almost like traveling with a king — but Colin Powell, of course, never acted like one.”
President Joe Biden, former President Barack Obama and former President George W. Bush, as well as former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, are scheduled to attend. Former President Bill Clinton, who was recently hospitalized with an infection, will not attend, an aide saying, “Under any other circumstances, he would have been there, but he’s taking the advice of his doctors to rest and not travel for a month very seriously. So Secretary Clinton will be there representing them.”
The iconic cathedral is where four presidents have had funeral services: Dwight D. Eisenhower, Gerald Ford, Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush.
Tributes were given by former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright and former Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage, as well as Powell’s son, Michael.
“He made pragmatism charismatic,” Albright said. “Beneath that glossy exterior of Warrior Statesman was one of the gentlest and most decent people any of us will ever meet.”
Armitage, in his tribute, recalled a time when Powell sang all of “Mamma Mia” to a “very amused foreign minister from Sweden and to a gobsmacked U.S. delegation — who’d never seen anything like it.” Earlier, the U.S. Army Brass Quintet played ABBA’s “Dancing Queen” — one of Powell’s favorites.
Powell’s son Michael delivered an emotional eulogy, talking through tears, about how one of his most powerful memories comes from his father holding his hand when he was young — and then holding his father’s hand as he lay dying at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center.
“We walk through this life holding hands with the ones we love. They guide us. They pull us out of harm’s way. They touch and caress us with love and kindness. One of my most powerful memories comes from holding my dad’s hand,” Powell said.
“That hand is still now, but it left a deep imprint on the lives of family and dear friends, soldiers and sailors, presidents and prime ministers and a generation of aspiring young people,” he said of his father.
Powell broke barriers serving under four presidents — Reagan, Bush, Bill Clinton and George W. Bush — at the very top of the national security establishment, first as deputy national security adviser and then as national security adviser. Later, he was nominated to be chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the senior ranking member of the U.S. armed forces and top military adviser to the president, and after that, secretary of state — the first African American to hold both posts.
As secretary of state, it was Powell who told the world that Iraq’s Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction and posed an imminent threat, assertions that later proved to be false. He told ABC News’ Barbara Walters in Sept. 2005 that he felt “terrible” about the claims he made in a now-infamous address to the U.N. Security Council arguing for a U.S. invasion.
When asked if he feels it has tarnished his reputation, he said, “Of course it will. It’s a blot. I’m the one who presented it on behalf of the United States to the world, and [it] will always be a part of my record. It was painful. It’s painful now.”
“To be that example of someone who admitted mistakes,” Raddatz said. “What an example for today’s youth — not only to have someone who rose to such a powerful position — but who looked at himself and reflected on what he had done right and what he had done wrong.”
Throughout his 35-years of service in the military, Powell, a decorated war hero who deployed twice to Vietnam, never made his political leanings known. Although he served under both Democratic and Republican administrations, it wasn’t until 1995 that Powell announced that he had registered as a Republican. He formally supported the candidacy of Democratic presidential candidates Lyndon Johnson, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton and Biden.
The reelection campaign of former President Donald Trump brought out Powell’s political side in the last years of his life, when he called on voters not to support the incumbent, Republican president, calling him dangerous to democracy.
In many ways, Powell, the son of Jamaican immigrants who grew up in the Bronx, was the embodiment of the American Dream. He left behind his wife, Alma Powell, and his three children, Michael, Linda and Annemarie.
In a statement Oct. 18 announcing his death, his family said, “We have lost a remarkable and loving husband, father, grandfather and a great American.”
ABC News and ABC News Live will present special coverage of the memorial service beginning at approximately noon EDT.
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During the years around 1820, C.W. Eckersberg was busy painting portraits of the affluent citizens of Copenhagen. The artist’s greatest patron during his young years, the merchant Mendel Levin Nathanson, commissioned two large family portraits.
The painting's two young girls
In one of the two works he painted Nathanson’s two oldest daughters, Bella and Hanna, in a sparingly furnished drawing room with simple panelling and furniture, including a table bearing a parrot’s cage.
The two girls are shown in uncompromising poses - one strictly frontal, the other strictly from the side – and as they look very much alike, it seems likely that the painter wished to create a variation on a theme; variations like those created by the famous Danish sculptor Bertel Thorvaldsen around the same time.
Symbolic readings of the painting
The parrot opens up the scene to symbolic readings. Due to their ability to imitate human voices parrots were often seen as symbols of good breeding, a suitable allusion for a picture of two young middle-class woman. At the same time, however, the caged bird can also be regarded as a metaphor for the two unmarried women’s sheltered situation while waiting - perhaps longing? - to move out into real life. | <urn:uuid:92d7b79f-bf27-41c0-a130-3a5e3123280a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://artsandculture.google.com/asset/mendel-levin-nathanson-s-elder-daughters-bella-and-hanna-c-w-eckersberg/8QF9T-CMgF7tZA | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570793.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808092125-20220808122125-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.971684 | 270 | 3.203125 | 3 |
Getting injured in the workplace is a much more common occurrence than most people realize. Millions of workers of all ages and trades get hurt every year. Workplace injuries are more prevalent in high-risk jobs, but they are not unheard of in even the mildest of workplaces.
Workplace injuries are as varied as the places in which they occur. The most common workplace injuries are:
- Repetitive strain injury
- Muscle strains
- Ligament and tendon sprains
- Cuts and lacerations
- Crushing injury
Spinal injury is a particularly worrisome and often seen workplace injury. The most immediate sign of a spinal injury is pain. Some spinal injuries also cause sudden inflammation, loss of muscle control and sensation. If the you have sustained a spinal injury and recognize symptoms of pain and loss of sensation, you must seek immediate medical attention.
Depending on the exact type of injury and level of severity, various treatments can be administered. However, regardless of the type of injury, there are basic first aid measures that must be enacted as soon as is possible.
- The patient’s breathing and circulation must be prioritized
- Immobilizing the injured area can significantly improve recovery
After hospital care has been administered, your doctor may suggest several options for ongoing treatment and physical therapy to actively foster the healing and rehabilitation process.
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Drone flametherower spits out a 25-foot-long, targeted stream of fire
Tempted as you might be to grab one of these for the impending zombie-apocalypse, the TF-19 Wasp from Ohio-based Throwflame is a serious piece of kit with potentially life-saving applications. From clearing critical infrastructure to pest management and forest fire back-burns, this modern-day dragon is nobody's toy.
Launched today, the TF-19 Wasp is not a flametherower drone per se, but rather a flamethrower drone attachment, designed to be compatible with most cinema/industrial drone platforms with a payload capacity of 5 lb (2.26 kg) or more – with Throwflame flagging the DJI S1000 as its platform of choice.
Drones are already used in various civil applications, from monitoring infrastructure to providing critical intel on forested areas during fire-season, so the idea behind the TF-19 isn't all that far-fetched. In fact, drones have been used in a limited capacity to drop incendiary devices into vegetation as a part of land management for some time. This however, is the first commercially available drone-borne flamethrower we're aware of.
Intended for use in locations that human operators can't readily access or those where proximity could endanger a person, the TF-19 Wasp can be deployed to clear critical infrastructure (like debris caught on power lines), deal with pests and nests, or used to ignite inaccessible vegetation in back-burn/pre-burn situations to aid firefighters in forest and rural locations. It could also be used for film and TV purposes, or as part of a pyrotechnics display.
One interesting thing about the TF-19 Wasp – in fact, all flamethrowers – is the legal status. It turns out the under US federal law, flamethrower drones (and their earth-bound cousins) are federally legal, unregulated tools and not considered to be firearms or weapons by the ATF. That being said, state laws may differ. For example in California, all flamethrowers need to be modified to restrict the effective range to less than 10 feet (3 m) – the TF-19's flame has a 25-foot reach – while in Maryland, a flamethrower is legal to own with a Type 9, Federal Firearms License.
The TF-19 Wasp is the brainchild of Cleveland Ohio-based Throwflame, which claims to be the oldest flamethrower manufacturer in the US, so one would hope the team knows what it's doing. The drone attachment weighs in at four pounds (1.8 kg), thanks to the ultralite 3K carbon fiber, has a one-gallon fuel tank providing 100 seconds of firing time and spits out a 25-foot-long, targeted stream of fire.
The fuel tank is mounted on a clever rail-slider system, which not only makes refueling easier, but also allows the operator to make adjustments to the center of gravity of the device to aid flight control.
Throwflame has priced the TF-19 Wasp at US$1,499, which is for the drone flamethrower attachment, not a complete fire breathing drone set-up. Complete systems are available upon request. A video of the fire-breathing drone going through its paces can be seen below. | <urn:uuid:96036e1c-94c8-465f-88da-40b6051295b0> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://newatlas.com/throwflame-tf19-wasp-flamethrower-drone/60649/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571056.58/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809155137-20220809185137-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.940735 | 709 | 1.875 | 2 |
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When you teach youngsters to read, it can be fairly the endeavor, particularly if your child is a first-time viewers. Among one of the most crucial reasons that you ought to educate kids to read is since they have extra possible to succeed in life. Reading Head Start Office
Kids have various reasons as to why they may not such as to read. Some just do not understand just how to read, while others might have a learning impairment. For others, there is just too much message and they can not focus on it long enough to select a sentence. It might likewise be that their eyes are just not prepared for such an education and learning and they require some assistance.
If you have any kind of concerns concerning how you should show kids to read, then consider hiring a tutor to read to them. There are several tutors available that can instruct children to read, so take your time to discover the best tutor for your kid. You can use a local library, or perhaps check out a website that uses tutoring services free of charge. Reading Head Start Office
You may intend to explore hiring a tutor that utilizes CDs with a variety of different lessons that will certainly assist your kid read promptly. A tutor may additionally request for some sort of feedback from your child, which is always a good concept. This will enable you to determine whether or not the tutor is listening carefully and is really educating the youngster the lessons that he requires to know in order to pass his tests.
Once you discover the right tutor for your kid, after that you will certainly require to offer him the correct products and directions. While some tutors have the ability to use audio books to assist your youngster discover to read, others are not. Reading Head Start Office
You intend to see to it that your youngster is ready to read before presenting him to publications. Reading to your kid at the exact same time as he is taking the tests will certainly additionally make the procedure much easier. As he starts to understand the letters and words, he will certainly be extra open up to attempting them out. If he does not get it right now, after that provide him a second reading, or if needed to send him to one more tutor.
It may take a while to discover a tutor that you can deal with conveniently, so you may need to go around numerous tutors prior to finding the one that is the best suitable for you. The best way to discover a tutor is by asking your youngster's classmates or friends if they can advise any person that they utilized or would certainly suggest. Reading Head Start Office
Below are some reading programs that have aided several children to learn just how to read.
ABC Mouse: Reading Head Start Office
ABC Mouse is an early discovering curriculum developed to instruct youngsters with developing hold-ups and also disabilities the ABC's (American alphabet, Arabic numbers, French letters, English letters and also many others). Early Learning Academy, Inc. is an on the internet learning system for children as much as age 8, created by Age of Learning Inc. Subscribers have the ability to access lessons online or through their mobile application. Reading Head Start Office
This educational curriculum uses easy, easy-to-understand ABC images to show children skills that will certainly help them build language abilities as they age. The program assists kids comprehend the ideas of checking, reading, composing as well as speaking English.
ABC Mouse supplies many different ways to learn the ABC's. As a moms and dad, you can pick from numerous interactive modules based on numerous age. These components can be quickly downloaded and install onto your computer and also utilized with other educational products, including videos, podcasts, video games, and so on Reading Head Start Office
. There are likewise audio CDs that include lessons on how to read, speak and spell the alphabet utilizing the ABC's. An additional option is a totally free on the internet quiz that can be completed with a minimum of 30 concerns to examine your child's understanding.
To encourage better reading, a fun video game is supplied in the ABC Mouse software program. As you complete each degree of the game, your youngster will certainly receive a skill rating. The greater the score, the simpler it will certainly be for them to comprehend the following level of the game. Reading Head Start Office
Parents that are preparing to enlist their kid in this curriculum must make sure that they have the best academic alternatives for their child. The ABC Mouse is among the very best choices because it has actually been created particularly for little ones with developmental delays or disabilities. This online academic software program is ensured to offer your kid a benefit when learning as well as speaking the alphabet.
With the ABC Mouse system, you can expect your child to establish as well as enhance communication skills, in addition to a better understanding of the ABC's. Additionally, you can anticipate your kid to have a positive perspective towards discovering as well as speaking the ABC's. Your youngster will certainly appreciate the video games, tests and also music-filled interactive lessons that feature the program. Reading Head Start Office
The curriculum consisted of in the ABC Mouse system is based upon the exact same raw materials as well as techniques utilized in traditional public institutions across America. The software does offer a distinct educational program that offers a distinct discovering experience. The software program has actually been developed to aid little ones with finding out handicaps, including Down syndrome, master language and boost their reading and also math skills.
The ABC Mouse is not a replacement for conventional public schools. However, it is a beneficial enhancement to any type of residence institution. Reading Head Start Office
Reading Egg: Reading Head Start Office
The early reading curriculum for youngsters can be split into two significant types-the very first is reading as well as the second reads games. It is essential that you recognize which one appropriates for your kid before you decide which one is the far better choice. The bright side is that a number of these reading programs have actually been developed by specialists. Reading is a terrific way to enhance the language skills of your youngster as well as these video games are perfect for instructing young children and also young kids how to read. Reading Head Start Office
Reading Egg is an on the internet early learning curriculum for infants and also toddlers. Reading Egg is an interactive, on-line supplement to conventional reading programs. It has enjoyable activities that you can have fun with your youngster. The tasks in this program will assist your child create his/her electric motor abilities, eye control as well as reading skills. Kids will enjoy the easy activities that you can select from and also they will certainly likewise learn a couple of beneficial realities as well as vocabulary words.
As a parent, it is extremely important for you to ensure that your kid is obtaining the best feasible education and learning for his/her advancement. You can not overlook any kind of part of his or her advancement. If you do so, it may affect your kid's progress later in life. Therefore, you need to ensure that you have the very best feasible sources readily available for him or her. One of the most vital resource is the early reading educational program for kids. This is because it is one of the most effective medium that you can utilize to boost the language abilities of your kid. By enhancing the language skills of your kid, he or she will certainly have the ability to understand what is taking place around him or her and also become more knowledgeable about the needs of others. Reading Head Start Office
The 2nd sort of early knowing curriculum is for toddlers. This is due to the fact that toddlers are still quite establishing their speech and body movement. You should ensure that they obtain the proper very early learning curriculum. Several of the basic points that you can include in their very early knowing educational program consist of stories, rhymes, and also basic tasks. You can likewise teach your youngster to make use of finger writing and also various other such abilities.
Reading eggs, on the other hand, is a very early learning educational program that is especially indicated for toddlers. The goal of this very early learning program is to help children improve their reading abilities. Reading Egg is an interactive supplement for youngsters who are finding out to read. because it is an interactive video game that allows your kid to interact with other kids and also find out at the same time. Reading Head Start Office
Reading Egg is a curriculum that will aid your youngster find out to read. while having fun! Your kid will additionally be exposed to many different themes which will certainly assist him/her to communicate with other children at home. Learning to read is important for your kid's future. A great start in the best direction will boost their vocabulary, punctuation and also their grammar. As a result, one of the most perfect option is to go in for a very early knowing curriculum that has actually been shown to work.
All About Reading: Reading Head Start Office
The All About Reading Program is a great means to present your little one to reading as well as to find even more about the globe in which they live. From background to geography as well as from the arts to science, educational program created by professionals in the reading field will certainly assist your kid become the great world-changer that they have always longed for! The program also provides a comprehensive consider what it implies to be reading – how to find your method via the message, to identify different types of literary expression as well as just how to construct significant sentences, all the while establishing the reading abilities that are very important to you and also your whole household. A highly effective early understanding educational program that is also geared towards creating a sense of self-worth, this program can have a profound effect on your youngster's capacity to read, recognize as well as appreciate their culture as well as to interact in English. Reading Head Start Office
Reading to kids is a fundamental part of their growth, so why not start the All About Reading program in pre-school? When a youngster is first presented to reading, their eyes are opened to a whole world of opportunities; this makes reading a vital developmental milestone. Once they are able to start to continue reading their very own, they will find that they appreciate this process as well as are normally attracted to it. This is where the All About Learning Program is available in. Your child will certainly love reading books, yet they will certainly also enjoy reading to a team of kids or learning to compose, due to the fact that this helps them develop their own individual style and also preference.
The very early learning program that you choose will give an interactive environment where the youngster can interact with others. This will include youngsters of various ages, from pre-school to primary school. The program can also be customized to fit your residence – whether you want to consist of a publication club for a set of youngsters or simply 1 or 2 children at a time. Several parents today understand that children require an early introduction to literacy and the All About Reading program has the web content to assist your child to create a love of reading. Not just will they appreciate it, they'll find out how to boost their reading skills and develop their own design of reading. Reading Head Start Office
By integrating reading into your kid's very early understanding educational program, you are providing the chance to explore various types of reading. They will certainly be presented to the happiness of language and the wonders of the composed word in their native tongue – something they may not have experienced in the past. In addition to getting the fundamentals right, they will certainly also get support to help them establish their very own sense of identification and self-regard – something numerous children are fighting with in this field. The All About Learning Program aims to assist kids create a love of reading and also motivate their minds via the process of discovery and expedition.
By permitting your child a higher degree of liberty in picking the based on read, you will be providing a higher degree of control and also freedom. The educational program consists of a wide range of subjects that vary from history and also location, to mathematics and even the current Hollywood smash hits. Kids are able to make their own options in the curriculum – and also you can take the opportunity to establish the skills required to write in the language in which they were educated. This is beneficial to both the kid as well as their advancement as an individual, so don't fail to remember to get included! Reading Head Start Office
All About Reading supplies some of one of the most amazing and innovative methods to reading that are readily available today. If your child has actually always wanted to read, but can not discover the moment to do so, then this is the program for them. Don't let your kids slide with the cracks. Make certain they are presented early in their lives, and also you'll discover that they will love learning. and also take pleasure in the experience!
Hooked On Phonics: Reading Head Start Office
Hooked On Phonics is an innovative, multi-generational mentor firm and manufacturer of very early knowing educational program for kids from preschool via fifth grade. Hooked On Phonics was begun in 1987 by a single mom whose three adolescent youngsters were battling to find out to read. Hooked On Phonics has come to be a leading company of teaching products for children and also remains to establish new and innovative items for young learning. Reading Head Start Office
Hooked On Phonics makes a variety of different products, however their most popular product is their very early understanding educational program for preschool through fifth quality. Their very early discovering educational program is available in several degrees of trouble, so moms and dads and also instructors can develop a simple knowing educational program for young children or a much more difficult one for older children. Hooked On Phonics additionally supplies books in addition to their very early discovering curriculum. These publications are geared toward little ones as well as attribute images and also storybooks concerning the alphabet, reading, phonics, and also language skills.
Hooked On Phonics also supplies the Hooked On Phonics Early Learning Curriculum System. This curriculum system is developed to assist kids from the time they are babies to the age of 5 begins reading to learn the ABC's as well as other words, expressions as well as words. This early discovering educational program includes a variety of publications, CD's and also on-line discovering software application. It likewise includes video clips and audio CDs with storybooks for little ones to pick up from. Among the most exciting facets of this educational program system is that youngsters can print out the storybooks they have picked for their very own individual use. Hooked On Phonics likewise has a very early learning program for preschool with fifth grade that is readily available at the website. Reading Head Start Office
On the internet education and learning is likewise provided at the web site. Hooked On Phonics supplies complimentary online courses as well as various other activities. They additionally provide a selection of mentor devices for parents, educators, and children thinking about discovering to read. They additionally provide books, songs sheets, interactive flash cards, interactive white boards, and various other interactive tools that make finding out to read enjoyable and amazing for kids. Hooked On Phonics likewise supplies cost-free online conversation online forums for parents as well as instructors who wish to chat with one another.
The company is dedicated to producing the most reliable discovering sources offered. as well as to making learning for youngsters's enjoyable for both parents and also children. They make every effort to fulfill the needs of moms and dads as well as teachers with innovative items and a parent can make use of. to be efficient in their understanding procedure. Hooked On Phonics believes that youngsters will learn more when learning is enjoyable and not difficult. Reading Head Start Office
With the help of these innovative understanding devices, moms and dads as well as teachers can achieve a strong structure for a child's growth. The items are not only educational, but they are enjoyable too!
Great Things from Teaching Your Child How To Read: Reading Head Start Office
Showing your child just how to read effectively, will enable them to establish their writing and also spelling abilities so that when they start to make a note of things, they recognize that the spelling of the word will not be a concern. which they will certainly have the proper pronunciation. when they are ready. After they have established an excellent grasp of the alphabet, they will certainly be able to learn more about the definition behind each letter as well as where each letter goes. Reading Head Start Office | <urn:uuid:7d1e50aa-3322-4118-a3c4-0c40de9d9f1d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://chicanawriter.com/reading-head-start-office/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571056.58/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809155137-20220809185137-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.974402 | 3,326 | 2 | 2 |
The students are assigned coursework during their academic years by their teachers. The main aim of these teachers behind assigning coursework to students is to see how well they have learned during their academic years and if they are ready to show their teachers how much they are capable of reproducing all that they were taught. not only this, but the teaches also check out students’ aptitude and potential to do well in their classes and see if students will be able to do equally good in their future careers.
It is necessary for the students to understand that they need to complete their coursework most capably and efficiently so that their teachers get to their hard work and efforts and grade them accordingly for their degrees. The students are assigned coursework Assignment Writing Service during their college or university years so that the teachers can see if the students are ready to get their degrees and enjoy a bright and secure future.
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The first public pay telephone was set up in 1878, just two years after Alexander Graham Bell invented the phone. The first coin-operated pay phone was installed in 1889 in Hartford.
For decades after the payphone's invention, many Americans relied on them because of the expense and difficulty in obtaining reliable home service. Only after World War II did the telephone become a household necessity.
Payphones found a place in popular culture. Clark Kent, alter ego of comic-book hero Superman, often changed into his Superman uniform in phone booths. Older movies often showed reporters rushing into phone booths to report breaking stories. In the late 1950s, college students competed to see how many could fit into a booth. (The record is 25, according to the Guinness Book of World Records.)
Since 1998, however, the number of payphones in service has shrunk to about one million from 2.6 million. The main reason has been the proliferation of cellphones. By late 2007, there were almost 251 million cellphone customers nationwide among a US population of 301 million.
For many years, AT&T's Western Electric division was the nation's major manufacturer of payphones. In 1996, AT&T spun off its phone equipment manufacturing and sales operation as "Lucent Technologies" (recently merged into Alcatel of France). In 1997, Lucent sold its payphone business to a competitor, Elcotel. (some info from The Wall Street Journal) | <urn:uuid:fa2a2a04-4a94-4e45-8fe3-51f49bda8ff4> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://4thefirsttime.blogspot.com/2007/12/1878-first-at-pay-telephone-2008-last.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570793.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808092125-20220808122125-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.972217 | 293 | 3.03125 | 3 |
Rapid urbanization and simultaneous population growth in developing economies have resulted in the generation of huge amounts of waste. While urban local bodies are formally engaged in providing waste management services to their citizens, collection and recycling functions are not performed effectively in many parts of the country – mainly due to a lack of legal orientation, weak sectoral development and a lack of know-how. on sustainable waste management companies.
As a result, in many developing countries, including India, waste collection and material recycling activities are largely carried out by the informal sector. In fact, the reason India – and other nations – haven’t been overwhelmed by their own waste is this so-called “informal sector” workforce. Seemingly unorganized, he is a super effective contributor to the circular economy cause. Unfortunately, little effort is made to integrate this sector and its operations into mainstream solid waste management systems.
The Center for Science and the Environment (CSE) believes that such integration is necessary to achieve a paradigm shift in waste management – this five-day online training program is based on this belief. The objective of the course is to provide information on the role of the informal sector in the waste value chain; actors involved in informal waste recycling; and different integration approaches and strategies.
- Informal sector actors and their functioning in the solid waste value chain
- Challenges and opportunities of informal waste recycling
- Informal Sector Integration Approaches and Strategies
- Successful Indian Case Studies
Who will benefit from the training
- Solid Waste Practitioners
- Academicians and students
- Emerging Solid Waste Experts
- Civil servants of various urban local bodies
- Consulting firms, start-ups
- Waste management industry
Participants will receive electronic certificates upon successful completion of the program.
For any questions, please contact:
Municipal solid waste management
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Email: [email protected]
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The waning moon is still bright, and I think to the Kingdom’s geckos that are starting to tuck in on the other side of the planet. It’s the fifth night sleeping in a chair by my mom’s hospital bed. I look over at her and my next thought is whether it’s Hypnos or Morpheus who rules over the land of eternal darkness, beyond the gates of the rising sun…
Chief Mom Officer recently posted about tax identity and corporate identity theft, followed by a great piece on protecting children’s identity. She posts:
27% of child identity theft crimes are committed by people who know the child – friends or family members, sometimes even parents. The remaining 73% of crimes are committed by criminals who steal the child’s information either through a data breach or good old-fashioned theft. They then create a synthetic identity for the social security number, using the real number combined with a fake date of birth to steal the identity and use it – likely undetected – for years.
The entire post is worth a read: Thieves Are Coming For Your Children – Protect Their Identities.
I recently started looking into securing the kids’ credit files, after we locked ours down following a string of fraudulent credit activity. It was easy enough for us to do, but what a chore it is to do the kids’ (minors). Some of the required documents make me wonder how the credit reporting agencies will use this info. And it makes me so angry that we have to pay fees for preventive steps (TransUnion charges a fee but Experian and Equifax do not)! It’s capitalizing on the front end, and then when a breach of their systems occurs, we get to shell out again for “further protection”!
Anyway, these sites below provide instructions on both obtaining your child’s credit report (minors should not have one) and requesting a security freeze:
- Experian – online portal available for submission of letter and attending documents
- TransUnion – charges a fee in some states
Additional tips to protect against Child Identity Theft from the Federal Trade Commission (FTC):
- Find a safe location for all paper and electronic records that show your child’s personal information
- Don’t share your child’s Social Security number unless you know and trust the other party. Ask why it’s necessary and how it will be protected. Ask if you can use a different identifier, or use only the last four digits of your child’s Social Security number.
- Shred all documents that show your child’s personal information before throwing them away.
- Be aware of events that put information at risk. For example, there’s an adult in your household who might want to use a child’s identity to start over; you lose a wallet, purse or paperwork that has your child’s Social Security information; there’s a break-in at your home; or a school, doctor’s office or business notifies you that your child’s information was affected by a security breach.
I’m taking the time to do this now, to prevent time-consuming and ongoing paperwork that the kids will have to go through if this ever happens to them. Identity theft leaves a huge burden of work on its victims.
My favorite chai recipe:
- Bring to a boil 2:1 ratio of Black tea:Lipton in ~2c water
- Add the following whole spices. I usually just toss a couple of each in to the pot or tea sock.
- Star anise
- Whole cloves
- Cinnamon (half a stick)
- Ginger (bash up some slices)
- Bay leaves
- Turn heat off
- Add palm sugar to taste
- Add 1 cup whole milk at the last part
New Paltz, NY, is a picturesque village in Ulster County (Hudson Valley region), just under an hour’s drive from NYC. We spent the weekend at a farmhouse before moving on to the hotel where I was attending a work meeting for three days.
This is the second year I attended a meeting held at Mohonk Mountain House, in the Mohonk Preserve that’s set in the Shawangunk Mountains. It’s the dead of winter, with very few activities and most of the trails closed due to ice. But it’s such an isolated, idyllic environment that the winter solace makes it so peaceful, notwithstanding the creepy “institution” vibe the setting gives!
On the weekend before we went to Mohonk, we stayed nearby in a farmhouse that we found through AirBnB. We had a lovely host at her fantastic historic farmhouse and barn, where the kids got to feed the chickens and observe some wildlife. I’m a fan of the hosting platform now!
It’s been a while since I posted. The NYC existence is more hyper-paced and complex than life was in Asia! On the one hand, there’s endless resources, not to mention a good network of similarly-minded families. I love the seasons, the snow and Christmas! Then on the other hand, I’ve never met so many medicated people before (e.g., Xanax)! Not sure if that’s a reflection of the circles I end up interacting with..? I’m sure the political situation has no small impact on this. For sure, the US environment is shockingly different after 11 years abroad, but it’s a more sobering change than a positive one. Anyway.. back to the cheerier topic of the holidays. We’re under a cold spell this past week but, unluckily enough (or maybe luckily!), we didn’t get any snow compared to the massive deluge that most of the Northeast experienced these past five days!
We were able to squeeze in the tourist trawl – past the Bloomingdales windows, through the five star hotel lobbies, down Fifth Avenue, taking in the windows of Bergdorf Goodman and Saks. Each of Bergdorf’s windows was designed by one of the city’s museums. So gorgeous – and then there’s Sak’s poshly decorated facade, complete with light show and blaring Christmas music you can hear from blocks away. We ducked away from that and into Rockefeller to show the kids the big tree. You’d think the crowds would be thin in this bitter cold but it isn’t. Fun times.. | <urn:uuid:135acbd2-10c5-48dd-a26f-e9eaa356dda0> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.abejero.net/page/5 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571056.58/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809155137-20220809185137-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.929706 | 1,397 | 1.648438 | 2 |
Dietary fiber is not one substance but many. It is defined as that portion of plant foods that cannot be digested by the nonmicrobial enzymes in the human digestive tract, and it includes a variety of different chemical components.
- The best accepted beneficial effect of dietary fiber is relief of constipation. Wheat bran, in particular, has been shown to be helpful in maintaining regularity.
- Some types of fiber including pectin, guar gum, and the fibers found in oat products, psyllium and legumes reduce blood cholesterol levels to a small but measurable extent. These products may be of value as an adjunct to a cholesterol-lowering diet.
- As a general rule, diets with more fiber-containing foods are believed to be healthier than diets with less fiber. It is uncertain, however, whether the benefit lies in the fiber itself. High-fiber diets are usually moderate in fat and calories and high in vitamins, minerals and nonnutritive phytochemicals. Any or all of these factors may be more important than the diets' fiber content.
- The use of fiber supplements for the purpose of preventing cancer or heart disease is not recommended. Instead, experts urge people to get their fiber from a well-balanced diet that includes grains, legumes, vegetables and fruits.
- Current dietary recommendations for people with diabetes do not call for higher fiber intakes than are recommended for the general public.
- Individuals who are dieting to lose weight often find it helpful to include high-fiber foods in their diets, since these foods are usually low in calories and so help to produce a feeling of fullness. It is uncertain, however, whether fiber has any specific benefits in weight control.
- For individuals who currently consume low-fiber diets, moderate increases in the consumption of fiber-rich foods are generally safe, as long as they are accompanied by increases in fluid intake.
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Part one of two
When Abigail Adams died in late October, 1818, her husband, John, brokenhearted, said, “I wish I could lie down beside her and die, too.”
Today, the two are entombed side by side, along with their son John Quincy and his wife, Louisa Catherine, in a well-lit, whitewashed crypt beneath the United First Parish Church in Quincy, Mass. I’ve come here to pay my respects to the former presidents and first ladies, but mostly I’m here to say thanks to John, and to remember him because he worried he’d be forgotten.
But according to historian Joseph Ellis, John Adams “was congenitally incapable of holding the pose.” As desperately as he wanted to be remembered by history, he knew all the posing and posturing was bullshit, so he just couldn’t hold the pose, couldn’t keep his mouth shut, couldn’t keep his pen still. Ellis describes it as “refreshing and often irreverent candor,” but the cost of candor was posterity.
“Monuments will never be erected to me,” Adams predicted in 1819, “romances will never be written, nor flattering orations spoken, to transmit me to posterity in brilliant colors….”
Ellis’ Pulitzer Prize-winning Founding Brothers, published in 2000, first brought Adams to my attention. Among that cast of notables, I quickly developed a fondness for John and Abigail. From there, I turned to David McCullough’s Pulitzer-winning bestseller, John Adams, published in 2001.
Adams was, McCullough wrote,
a great-hearted, persevering man of uncommon ability and force. He had a brilliant mind. He was honest and everyone knew it. Emphatically independent by nature, hardworking and frugal—all traits in the New England tradition—he was anything but cold or laconic as supposedly New Englanders were. He could be high-spirited and affectionate, vain, cranky, impetuous, self-absorbed, and fiercely stubborn, passionate, quick to anger, and all-forgiving; generous and entertaining. He was blessed with great courage and good humor, yet subject to spells of despair, and especially when separated from his family or during periods of prolonger inactivity.
In other words, he was human.
Much of this resonated with me, too, because Adams reminded me of myself, albeit it on a far humbler scale. By appreciating Adams’ passion and self-contradiction, I began to better understand those things in myself. Of America’s mythological Marble Men, here was one I could relate to rather than idolize.
That relatability proved to be a great gift because it opened doors that helped me appreciate what the Founders really did. The Fourth of July isn’t fireworks and picnics (pleasant as they are). When they signed the Declaration of Independence, they were literally putting their lives on the line for an idea; had they been caught by the British, they would have been hanged for treason to the crown.
That understanding—and appreciation—would come over time as I read more about the Founders. Ellis and McCullough changed the way I understood the people, and once I understood the people, I could appreciate the events.
* * *
I haven’t been the only person to develop a John Adams man-crush. When McCullough’s biography appeared, visitation at Adams NHP spiked to 167,500—up from 87,300 the year before. By 2009, visitation peaked at 253,600, forcing the park to close the Adams home for part of 2010 in order to make structural improvements to handle the dramatically increased visitation.
The HBO series in 2008, which won thirteen Emmy Awards—more than any other miniseries in history—marked another highwater event. There’ve been other books (Ellis’ Passionate Sage, about Adams’ post-presidential years in retirement, is a favorite), and even the musical 1776, with Adams as the lead character, saw a revival.
The resuscitation of Adams’ popularity has been gratifying to see (and be a part of). However, despite his long tenure on the bestseller list, his apparent cache with the Pulitzer committee, and his transformation into cable TV entertainment, the slow-moving progress of the Adams National Memorial discourages me. An Adams memorial should sit opposite Jefferson across the tidal pool in D.C.: the yin and yang, the north and south, the voice and pen, of American independence. Even physically, the two complemented each other: the short, stout, older energetic Adams and the tall, lean, younger reserved Jefferson.
Perhaps the neglect comes because his presidency was so misunderstood for years afterward. Perhaps it’s because he had to follow in the footsteps of Washington. Perhaps it’s because his legacy could not survive the twenty-four-year obscurity imposed by the Virginia Dynasty that followed him?
His biggest black mark was the infamous Alien and Sedition Acts, which threw political opponents in jail and threatened freedom of press. It was, in its day, a form of McCarthyism, a late-eighteenth century Patriot Act. Even Abigail—who typically had a pitch-perfect sense for politics—thought it was a good idea, although John signed it, he said, only “reluctantly.” The acts are hard to excuse, but given the fragility of the new Republic, I can at least understand where Adams’ good intentions were coming from.
But he kept America out of a war with France at a time when such a war would’ve wrecked the fledgling country. Losing the election was, in effect, proof that he’d done the right thing by resisting the hot passions of public opinion in favor of the country’s long-term survival. “To his dying day he would be proudest of all of having achieved peace,” McCullough wrote.
The presidency was really Adams’ reward for a Revolutionary career that spanned the better part of twenty-three years. His service in the Continental Congress was legendary, where he served on some thirty committees and functioned as the leading voice for independence. He orchestrated Washington’s position as head of the Continental army and Jefferson’s position as author of Declaration. He served as minister to France, the Netherlands, and then Great Britain, and he helped negotiate the Treaty of Paris, which ended the war. (Not to mention his subsequent eights years of service as vice-president, which he called “the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived”).
There would be no United States of America if it wasn’t for John Adams—yet America seems to love him and love to forget him all at the same time.
* * *
I pay my respects at Adams’ tomb because of these things: certainly, in the largest sense of all, he helped give me the freedoms I now enjoy, and he helped me appreciate the awesome responsibilities of self-governance (often abused or neglected, which would frustrate him apoplectically, I’m sure). Just as importantly, though, Adams helped me better understand myself.
The weight of my debt to Adams makes me want to stay involved in the political process, against a discouraging tide of dysfunction, abuse, and incompetence. It makes me want to live up to my responsibilities as a citizen. It makes me want to be a better person, human as I am.
The staff member who greets me at Adams’ tomb has all the Yankee warmth of February, but he knows his stuff and he’s ready to spin yarn. He says “chuhch” instead of “church” and “pahk suhvice” instead of “park service.”
Known as “the Church of the Presidents,” he says—which he pronounces “Chuhch of the Presuhdents”—the United First Parish Church is Unitarian. The parish dates back as far as 1639, but the meeting hall itself was built in 1828 from granite from the Adams family quarry on land set aside by John. There’s a high-domed ceiling inside, and at the far end of the room, I can see the pulpit backdropped by a red velvet drape. There are marble busts of John and John Quincy flanking the dais. Rows of pews face dutifully forward.
After a long, ribbony orientation, the guide leads me and three other visitors down to the crypt. It’s cool down here. The air feels a little damp. It smells old without stinking of age. The whitewashed walls whitewash away any gloom.
Our guide has to duck to step into the crypt itself, and we follow him in. Four granite slabs nearly fill the space: John, Abigail, John Quincy, and Louisa Catherine. On John’s grave, there’s a flag with fifteen stars; on John Quincy’s, a flag with twenty-four. Flowers have been left on all four tombs; the roses on John’s have dried to a dark maroon.
I expect some sort of stirring interpretation from the staffer or perhaps an inscription somewhere of an inspiring quote from one of the presidents.
No words could be more poignant, though, than the sublime story of Adams’ death. If anything about the American pantheon qualifies as the stuff of myth, it is this: Adams and Jefferson, the two patriots whose intertwining careers best typified the experiment of American independence and governance, who both played seminal roles in the drafting and adoption of the Declaration of Independence, both died on July 4, 1826—the fiftieth birthday of the country they worked together to found.
“Is it the fourth yet?” Jefferson asked from his deathbed before expiring. Adams, from his, said, “Jefferson survives.”
So, too, does Adams, forgotten as he often is, at least compared to his contemporaries. His survival is the less glorious, the less marbleized, the less mythic—and, thankfully, more human.
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The NFT market continues to grow. Many artists and creative people now use this new product format to share and sell their work, which has given independent artists an opportunity to sell their creations, monetizing and generating income online. Mainly this year, this market generated impressive sales volumes. A work of art by Beeple, entitled “Opus”, sold for no less than 69 million dollars in ethereum (ETH). A work of art by Banksy was even burned and turned into an NFT (the burning of the physical product ended up making the digital more attractive). Apparently, people open their pockets to invest in art to buy a digital and original version of it, something that they could have simply downloaded or captured. The high value of NFTs is attributed to a collective appreciation of art. But not everyone in space is convinced that people are spending millions on digital jpegs just because they invest in art. Since anyone can see these works, it doesn't matter how much the buyer pays for them.
Popular crypto-actives analyst Mr. Whale claimed that NFTs are simply a way for the rich to move illegally obtained money through a channel that makes it look legal. Whale pointed out that the subjectivity of art is what makes it so easy move money through NFTs. While one person may think a work of art is horrible, another may think it is the most beautiful piece ever made. And therefore, he would be willing to pay dearly for this work. The same logic is applied to the world of physical art, which is notorious for being used as a front for money laundering, especially given the price that seemingly meaningless artwork tends to tend. to be sold. Mr. Whale spoke with Cat Graffam, a faculty member in the Department of Art and Design at Laser University. Graffam agreed that NFTs are likely being used for money laundering. "I think it's possible that NFTs can be and are already being used 'to launder money in similar ways with physical art."
Mr Whale also commented on government regulations, stating that “I have no doubt that governments will eventually curb this trend. While there are a lot of unregulated NFT sales, that will definitely change in the future.” The point is that regulations with NFTs are as complicated as the way the NFTs themselves work. As with physical art, it is difficult to regulate and value a work of art, given its subjective nature. It would be tricky to determine which pieces of art are really worth the price paid for them, and which are not. Because of this, while CryptoPunks' NFTs seem silly to some, there's no telling that the people who are actually buying these NFTs don't truly appreciate the art they're paying for. Therefore, quantifying the value of these works will be an uphill battle.Read more:Buy and sell Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies on Coinext
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I received my first cover from Samoa, also known as Western Samoa. The entire island group, which includes American Samoa, was called "Navigator Islands". The Lapita people discovered and settled the Samoan Islands around 3,500 years ago. They developed a unique Samoan language and Samoan cultural identity. Cover is sent from capital city Apia.
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Pelwatte Dairy Industries Ltd, a leading manufacturer of locally produced dairy products has since its inception supported the local dairy industry and is on a quest to making Sri Lanka self-sufficient in milk.
“According to local statistics Sri Lanka spends 400 million dollars annually to import more than 80,000 tonnes of milk powder and milk based products. It is indeed a sad state of affairs that such a large sum of money is drained out of the country every year, especially when Sri Lanka is in possession of all resources necessary to be self-sufficient in milk. All facilities, highest grade cattle, ample grazing grounds, and highly skilled traditional dairy farmers are all at our disposal. Yet, we rely on unhealthy, chemically enhanced milk foods that are imported in to the country”, says Chairman Ariyaseela Wickramanayake.
Taking on this mission of uplifting the dairy industry in Sri Lanka, Pelwatte Dairy at present directly employs 350 people while 25,000 farmers and their families are benefitted indirectly by the company’s efforts. Almost 150,000 -200,000 liters of milk is collected per day at collections points situated in close proximity to dairy farming communities, before being transported to the Pelwatte Dairy factory in Buttala.
Many of Pelwatte Dairy’s direct employees have been with the company right from the start supporting the management’s noble vision. Another factor that has ensured the company’s high retention rate is that each employee is considered a vital part of the network and is treated with the utmost respect. All employees and their families are covered with health insurance, while all products are made available to employees are concessionary rates. An employee welfare association also ensures that the wants and needs of each employee are looked in to constantly.
Pelwatte Dairy has become such a part and parcel of people’s lives that 72-year old M. G. Chandrasena who is the current Executive Director has been involved with the company from the very beginning. He started off as the General Manager when the company commenced operations in 2008 by taking over a land in the Moneragala district which was an area reserved as a junk yard. After laying the foundation he was involved in all the tasks of importing machinery, installation, starting the farm, training the youth for the dairy industry and much more to get the constructions of Plant 1 done and initiate productions. In an area where employment was so difficult for the youth he was involved in recruiting and training from the casual worker to the graduates from that area. Pelwatte Dairy created many job opportunities in that area and has gone on to produce world class dairy products in Moneragala with the involvement of the locals. Chandrasena is today the most senior dairy farm manager in the country. Although he has completed 70 years and wanted to resign in April this year, the management decided to keep him longer due to his valuable input to the dairy industry.
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IJSRP, Volume 8, Issue 12, December 2018 Edition [ISSN 2250-3153]
Khalid Mohamed Reeh, Husein Elhadi sharif
The global financial crisis has led to the collapse of many financial organizations, banks and companies, which negatively affected the economic achievements that it have been achieved by many of global economies. It necessitates investigating the causes of the crisis, and taking all necessary actions and possible measures to deal with these issues and to avoid unpredictable consequences. here appeared the necessary to apply the principles and mechanisms of corporate governance, and activated it and to remedy shortcomings, as one of the tools and the main pillars to solve the financial crisis and avoiding the negative impacts, especially after some studies have proved that the wrong application to principles and mechanisms of corporate governance was the main cause of the crisis. | <urn:uuid:f667607e-c547-4e1a-abfb-f485d0eefc60> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.ijsrp.org/research-paper-1218.php?rp=P848009 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573744.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819161440-20220819191440-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.947133 | 172 | 1.875 | 2 |
Carolina Schutti’s receipt of the 2015 European Union Prize for Literature is amply justified by this beautiful book, full of characters who seem to have a life beyond the page.
This is the story of Maja, whose mother dies when she is still a child and who is then sent to a foreign country to live with her father. Maja feels doubly bereft after moving house: grieving for her mother as well as her mother tongue. Maja’s father is reluctant to look after her and moves away, leaving his daughter in the brusque care of her great aunt. Maja meets Marek, who has also experienced the loss of his cultural identity and becomes a father figure and friend to her. Schutti’s pared-down style enables her to narrate Marek’s complex story of war, love and loss in a concise, elegant way.
In the later chapters the adult Maja reflects on her life and relationships; she is lonely and secretly in love with a colleague of hers. At the end of the book she makes a journey back to her old home with her daughter. Readers may draw different conclusions about what the future holds. | <urn:uuid:97dca439-1fe6-46ab-9712-954abea05505> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.new-books-in-german.com/recommendations/once-i-must-have-trodden-on-soft-grass/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572212.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815205848-20220815235848-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.976996 | 247 | 1.632813 | 2 |
Convert to Islam or face the sword, Iraqi Christians told by Sunni extremists
ANKAWA, Iraq — Convert to Islam or face the sword.
That was the stark message Christians in the Syrian city of Raqqa received last year when ultra-fundamentalist Sunni extremists, proclaiming themselves to be members of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), seized power and launched a reign of terror against Shiites and Christians that has included beheadings and at least three crucifixions.
Aware of ISIL’s ferocious reputation for murder and mayhem, thousands of Christians who lived in Mosul and the surrounding Nineveh Plain fled in panic when ISIL rebels captured Iraq’s second largest city from government forces on June 10. Many of those who escaped have sought refuge in this Christian enclave in the Kurdish city of Irbil, only an hour’s drive away from Mosul.
“All who are left there now are a few handicapped or sickly Christians,” said a Chaldean Catholic nun wearing a blue habit whose religious community fled Mosul on foot, walking north for four hours on June 10 along with thousands of other Christian and Muslim refugees.
They all feared persecution at the hands of the insurgents who had suddenly arrived in their midst because they follow a harsh 7th century interpretation of the Qur’an that demands not only that women mostly stay indoors, but that church bells must never be rung, crosses must never be displayed and Christians must pay a “gold tax” in return for their lives.
The nun pleaded repeatedly that her name and her order not be disclosed, lest the rebels read her comments on the Internet.
“They’ve taken down every monument in Mosul, whether they depict Iraqi political figures or Catholics,” she said in impeccable French that she polished during a year studying in Montreal.
“They removed a statue of the Virgin Mary but as far as I know they have not destroyed it.”
About 120 parishioners attended Sunday mass at St. Elias Chaldean Catholic Church in Ankawa where Father Shahar gave a homily about the need for reconciliation. “I hope that peace will come again to Syria, to Baghdad, to Mosul and to Iraq,” was the priest’s only reference to the sectarian violence now convulsing the country.
Fear permeated the congregation on a day when ISIL fighters claimed another border town with Syria, making it easier for them to move arms in both direction because they control a large swath of northern Syria where they have been fighting Bashar Assad’s regime.
There have been Christians in Iraq since the 1st century when two disciples of Jesus brought the gospel here. As recently as 2003 Iraq had 1.5 million Christians. But since then there have been more than 70 attacks on churches, several priests have been murdered and the number of Christians has plummeted to less than less than 500,000. This latest spasm of sectarian violence is likely to lead to another mass exodus.
A 72-year-old parishioner, who would only give his name as Dominique, said he had been forced to leave Mosul for Baghdad in 1960 after his father was murdered for being a Christian. When the church he attended in Baghdad was blown up a three years ago, he, his wife and their son sought sanctuary in Irbil’s Christian suburb of Ankawa.
“To be a Christian in Iraq is to be subjected to terrorist acts,” said Dominique, who many years ago received a graduate degree in engineering from Wayne State University in Detroit. Dominique’s distant cousin, Archbishop Paulos Faraj Rahho, was kidnapped from his car and murdered in Mosul six years ago.
“We move from city to city in Iraq because we have believed in the promises of the government and of Muslim clerics that we would be safe,” he said, adding with grim laugh, “we now believe that we have run out of places to hide.”
Dominique’s son, Michael, who attended mass with his parents, said that although his family was safe for the moment in Iraq’s Kurdish autonomous region, “we cannot forget that Mosul collapsed in only two hours.
“We believe that the Peshmerga (the Kurdish army) are strong and on paper the Kurds give us more rights than anywhere else,” said Michael, who has a master’s degree in computer science from a British university. “Still, we have this feeling that we are guests in our own country. We know that the common issue that binds Sunnis and Shiites is that they are Muslims.”
While acknowledging that they had little information about Canada’s reaction to the plight of Christians in Iraq and Syria, Christians, Dominique and Michael said the perception among Iraq’s Christians was that the Canadian government was more interested in maintaining cordial relations with Muslim countries than in helping Christians in mortal peril. Nor did they feel that there was much chance that they would be allowed to settle in Britain or the U.S.
“We see that they give passports to Muslim terrorists and accept homosexuals who say they have been discriminated against and yet they refuse us entry,” Michael said.
The nun, Michael and his father all said in separate conversations that with Catholic, Orthodox Christian and Coptic communities also under siege in Syria and Egypt the only likely future for Christians was to leave the Middle East.
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The Power of The Black British Pound series was created to encourage the black community to acknowledge the power of being a conscious consumer as well as share the experiences of black British people, as we need more black British voices and experiences to be heard and shared.
The first guest for this series is Blogger Jason. Jason puts his passion and deepest thoughts into his writing, addressing some uncomfortable and incredibly necessary conversations. You can read all of this pieces on his website; JASON-RT.COM
From food and clothing brands to electronics and vehicles, purchasing the things we need and want has always been an inevitable part of our lives. But what are the implications of buying Black?
A quick definition: Conscious consumerism is driven by making purchase decisions that have a positive political, social, economic, environmental impact.
As an individual, it may be hard to see the benefits of being a conscious consumer. Nevertheless, what does buying from Black business or boycotting a company known for using sweatshops or refusing to hire Black people in senior leadership positions do in the long run?
I would hope, you’re supporting companies and producers that would be more willing to:
- Pay workers living wage
- Give more opportunities to other Black people
- Engage in environmentally friendly and provide workers with a healthy working environment
The impact doesn’t stop at you and just spending money and/or using the product. There’s a whole process that takes a product from the raw material stage to being displayed on shelves obviously, what happens to it after it comes to the end of life.
Along with price and quality, I more than understand why you might not want to invest but this is exactly how these big corporate companies started out. We need to support our people. These big companies do not care about us but our money. Once they realise, they’re losing money, that’s when we will see a change in society. That’s what other communities do it, Jewish, Asians and obviously, the Caucasians. They collectively invested in certain careers and focusing on internal growth and welfare. The only way we see a change in our community is to show strength, both financially and physically. That is buying food from solely Black businesses, no more Chinese, Indian or unseasoned British food. Obviously, there aren’t enough Black-owned groceries stores, so until we get there, your normal shop will do. Does Nike need your money for their latest trainers or tracksuit, no! We need to start hitting the pockets of these companies, who really do not care about us.
Review your transactions from your bank statements to see what businesses you regularly shop at, then do some research. You can start with UKBlackOwned or Webuyblack.com and if the business isn’t listed, there are other tools such as Twitter and IG that can help you learn more about your Black brands, businesses and companies. Unfortunately, if you find a company you don’t want to support or has bad customer service with, you can no longer shop there.
Don’t be quick to out these businesses for likes and viral moments on social media. Email the management nicely and hopefully, they can help with your query. If it’s still bad, simply do not shop afterwards, they won’t last long if that is their business model anyway.
Investing our money until Black Businesses not only keeps the money in our communities, it’ll create the changes we all want to see in society and globally. It’ll allow them to invest in us in more productive way. This is not to boycott other communities’ business but this is just another way to show how Black Lives Matter and it’s not to just to stop social injustice but also to stop killing us, otherwise, there won’t be any of us to buy anyway!
I understand, trying to research every single company you could financially support, can be time-consuming and overwhelming to the point of apathy, (trust me I know) but we need focus on where you spend your money most. Which is why I am fully focus on companies like;
- BBnatualsuk – Hair company – Found on IG
- Winny’s Meals – Found on IG (Caribbean Food)
- Lakey Apparel – Found on IG
- Independent Music artist – Apple Music
All Black owned!
You can say, I am not THAT invested (I am working on it) but I always on the lookout to expand my list if / and when I come across them. But if you know any that I should 100% be supporting then let me know either on Twitter or IG I’ll be happy to support our own.
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An international team of researchers led by scientists at Princeton University has found that a magnetic material at room temperature enables electrons to behave counterintuitively, acting collectively rather than as individuals. Their collective behavior mimics massless particles and anti-particles that coexist in an unexpected way and together form an exotic loop-like structure. The study was published this week in the journal Science.
The key to this behavior is topology—a branch of mathematics that is already known to play a powerful role in dictating the behavior of electrons in crystals. Topological materials can contain massless particles in the form of light, or photons. In a topological crystal, the electrons often behave like slowed-down light yet, unlike light, carry electrical charge.
Topology has seldom been observed in magnetic materials, and the finding of a magnetic topological material at room temperature is a step forward that could unlock new approaches to harnessing topological materials for future technological applications.
“Before this work, evidence for the topological properties of magnets in three dimensions was inconclusive. These new results give us direct and decisive evidence for this phenomenon at the microscopic level,” said M. Zahid Hasan, the Eugene Higgins Professor of Physics at Princeton, who led the research. “This work opens up a new continent for exploration in topological magnets.”
Hasan and his team spent more than a decade studying candidate materials in the search for a topological magnetic quantum state.
“The physics of bulk magnets has been understood for many decades. A natural question for us is: Can magnetic and topological properties together produce something new in three dimensions?” Hasan said.
Thousands of magnetic materials exist, but most did not have the correct properties, the researchers found. The magnets were too difficult to synthesize, the magnetism was not sufficiently well understood, the magnetic structure was too complicated to model theoretically, or no decisive experimental signatures of the topology could be observed.
Then came a lucky turning point.
“After studying many magnetic materials, we performed a measurement on a class of room-temperature magnets and unexpectedly saw signatures of massless electrons,” said Ilya Belopolski, a postdoctoral researcher in Hasan’s laboratory and co-first author of the study. “That set us on the path to the discovery of the first three-dimensional topological magnetic phase.”
The exotic magnetic crystal consists of cobalt, manganese and gallium, arranged in an orderly, repeating three-dimensional pattern. To explore the material’s topological state, the researchers used a technique called angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy. In this experiment, high-intensity light shines on the sample, forcing electrons to emit from the surface. These emitted electrons can then be measured, providing information about the way the electrons behaved when they were inside the crystal.
“It’s an extremely powerful experimental technique, which in this case allowed us to directly observe that the electrons in this magnet behave as if they are massless. These massless electrons are known as Weyl fermions,” said Daniel Sanchez, a Princeton visiting researcher and Ph.D. student at the University of Copenhagen, and another co-first author of the study.
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How AI and robotics are transforming the food industry?
AI algorithms and a transparent supply chain management system may improve packaging, shelf life, menu combinations, and food safety. Industrial robots save time, space, and improve jobsite cleanliness and safety. Food production robots are used for dispensing, feeding, cutting, packaging, sorting, and pick-and-place tasks.
Benefits of Robots in the Food Processing Industry
An increase in cleanliness:
Robot can't come into contact with the food in any way. Reduced occurrences of cross-contamination. Improved adherence to the law. Food safety has been improved.
Reduce the cost of production:
Save money by not having to pay for manual work or train new employees. There is no need for additional lighting or heat controls, which means lower energy costs. Production is unabated throughout the day and night.
Reduce material waste:
Less waste from scrap because of efficient use of base resources. There is minimal waste due to rejects because of the seamless processing. Capital expenditures are lowered by reducing material and product rejects waste.
Improved adherence to safety regulations:
Worked well under hazardous conditions. Make yourself indispensable by doing tedious work. Increases employee safety and reduces workplace accidents.
Improve product quality and uniformity:
Tiredness errors have disappeared. Controlled procedure. Accurate, fluent, and fast-repeating processing. Multiple sensors and quality control systems ensure product quality.
Increase your advantage in the market:
Rapid response from the supply chain. Customization and personalization are made possible by the increased product variety.
Reduce Production Time
Production times are reduced since the robot can operate at its optimum speed. There will be no delays due to tiredness, illness, or holidays. Improved efficiency.
Rapid process switching and reconfiguration. Sensor integration provides easy upscaling and downscaling of a wide range of products. Personalization, modification, and options are included.
Many benefits come with utilizing artificial intelligence in the food business.
A growing number of businesses in various industries are turning to artificial intelligence to boost their productivity and profits, cut down on waste, and better safeguard their supply chains from disruptions.
A Consumer-Driven Approach to New Recipe Development
Food businesses must renew their product portfolios to preserve their competitive edge and tap new revenue streams. AI helps companies anticipate client requirements rather than depending on surveys and trends.
Improved Management of the Supply Chain
Food makers must be able to manage their supply networks properly. Cutting-edge companies use artificial neural networks to monitor shipments at every supply chain step, improving food safety standards and complete transparency.
A Cleaning Method That Is More Efficient
Equipment and machinery used in the production of food must be well cleaned. It isn't just to prevent the spread of viruses but also to avoid cross-contamination of allergens. The downside is that this will take a lot of time and money.
More hygienic production Lines
Food safety breaches can cost producers. Infractions can cost a corporation millions in fines and reputational harm. AI in food manufacturing minimises risks in several ways. AI can also increase employee cleanliness. Facial and object recognition are increasingly used to assess cleanliness.
Sorting of food
A time-consuming and labor-intensive procedure, food sorting necessitates the employment of many workers. When sorting fresh produce, human sorters are tasked with removing products that don't meet the quality standards necessary for the sale. Must Read: Autonomous Shopping By AI
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Year of Publication
Todd D. Porter
NADPH-cytochrome P450 reductase is the electron transfer partner for the cytochromes P450, heme oxygenase, and squalene monooxygenase, and is a component of the nitric oxide synthases and methionine synthase reductase. P450 reductase shows very high selectivity for NADPH and uses NADH only poorly. Substitution of tryptophan 677 with alanine (W677A) has been shown by others to yield a 3-fold increase in turnover with NADH, but profound inhibition by NADP+ makes the enzyme unsuitable for in vivo applications. In the present study site-directed mutagenesis of amino acids in the 2'-phosphate-binding site of the NADPH domain, coupled with the W677A substitution, was used to generate a reductase that was able to use NADH efficiently in vivo without inhibition by NADP+. Of 11 single, double, and triple mutant proteins, two (R597M/W677A and R597M/K602W/W677A) showed up to a 500-fold increase in catalytic efficiency (kcat/Km) with NADH. Inhibition by NADP+ was reduced by up to four orders of magnitude relative to the W677A protein and was equal to or less than that of the wild-type reductase. Both proteins were 2- to 3-fold more active than wild-type reductase with NADH in reconstitution assays with cytochrome P450 1A2 and with squalene monooxygenase. In a recombinant cytochrome P450 2E1 Ames bacterial mutagenicity assay the R597M/W677A protein increased the sensitivity to dimethylnitrosamine by approximately 2-fold, suggesting that the ability to use NADH afforded a significant advantage in this in vivo assay. In addition to providing a valuable tool for understanding the determinants of nucleotide cofactor specificity in this and related enzymes, these mutants might also lend themselves to creation of bioremediation schemes with increased enzymatic activity and robustness in situ, as well as cost-effective reconstitution of enzyme systems in vitro that do not require the use of expensive reducing equivalents from NADPH.
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Everything we breathe, ingest, or absorb through the skin gets into the bloodstream and eventually passes through the liver. Because the liver is the body’s primary detoxifier, keeping it healthy is critical to your overall health, including proper metabolism and function of your hormones.
As unglamorous as it sounds, the liver operates somewhat like a sewage treatment plant. The liver takes everything we put into our bodies—whether it is swallowed, inhaled, or absorbed through the skin—and filters it. The liver’s filtration process separates the nutrients that the body needs for energy and all of its other functions and prepares to dispose of that which the body does not need, such as metabolic waste, toxins, and excess substances. Specific liver functions include:
- Converting fats, proteins, and carbohydrates to energy and nutrients
- Creating bile to break down fats and eliminate fat-soluble toxins and excess substances, including excess hormones
- Removing harmful chemicals, bacteria, and excesses
- Metabolizing drugs and breaking down alcohol
- Storing vitamins and minerals, such as iron
- Storing sugars as fuel (glycogen) for future use
- Helping to maintain fluid and electrolyte balance
- Creating serum proteins that act as hormone carriers
- Creating immune substances, such as gamma globulin
- Filtering blood, regulating blood clotting, and storing extra blood for quick release
- Manufacturing testosterone and the estrogen hormones
- Regulating sex hormone levels and eliminating excess hormones
Health problems can arise when we put things into our body, both consciously and unconsciously, that are toxic or build up an excess or toxicity over time, such as:
- Oily, processed foods
- Man-made chemicals including preservatives, pesticides, and lead from paints or gasoline
- Alcohol and drugs (therapeutic or otherwise)
- Excess hormones
Health problems can also occur if the nutrients that the liver needs to process toxins or excesses are in limited supply. Like a sewage treatment plant that is short-staffed, if these nutrients are in short supply, the liver cannot process as quickly or as thoroughly as needed. If the liver becomes overburdened because of insufficient nutrients, the toxins or waste build-up and the excess can escape back into the body, leading to serious health concerns.
The liver plays a vital role in the body’s use of hormones, both those that are produced naturally in our bodies as well as those hormones that are “introduced” via hormone therapies. It acts as a hormone processor, manufacturing and/or regulating some hormone levels and directing various hormones to perform their proper function in other parts of the body. But when the body experiences a hormone excess (whether produced by the body or introduced by hormone therapy), the liver may not be able to process the hormone(s) as quickly or efficiently, causing a hormone imbalance.
Of primary concern for women’s health is the liver’s role in regulating the sex hormones, primarily the estrogen hormones. This is a consideration for women undergoing hormone therapy, whether it is conventional hormone replacement therapy (HRT), typically consisting of synthetic hormones that are not biologically identical to human hormones, or biologically-identical hormone therapy (BHT).
Researchers are gaining new insight into how estrogens are metabolized and the effects of that metabolism. They found that estrogens break down into estrogen metabolites that have varying levels of estrogenic activity, and that the stronger the estrogenic effect, the greater the risk of developing estrogen-related cancer.
Phase I and Phase II Pathways
The liver metabolizes hormones and other substances using two primary phases known as the Phase I and Phase II pathways. During Phase I, some hormones or substances are metabolized directly, but often they are converted into intermediate forms, which are then further metabolized in Phase II. Cumulatively, these two phases of biological transformation are how the liver provides the body with nutrients and supports the excretion of excess or toxic substances in the urine, liver bile, perspiration, and exhaled air.
The pathways depend on a large number of nutrients, including enzymes and amino acids, and their availability (or lack thereof) seems to have a significant influence on the metabolic outcome. For example, the Phase I pathway is the main metabolic pathway for the estrogen hormones. In premenopausal women, the ovaries produce estrogen, primarily estradiol, most of which the body converts to estrone, and eventually estriol. The liver then metabolizes the remaining estradiol and the converted estrone, breaking it down further, and excreting the excess from the body.
Some researchers and practitioners now believe that the liver’s ability to metabolize estrone is the key to understanding estrogen-related cancer risk. During Phase I metabolism, estrone is converted into various metabolites including 2-hydroxyestrone, a very weak estrogen, and 16-alphahydroxyestrone, a very potent estrogen. If the conversion process favors the stronger form(s) rather than the weaker form(s), then tissue that has an abundance of estrogen receptors, such as the breasts and uterus, may be more vulnerable to excessive estrogen activity, potentially leading to the formation of fibroids or the stimulation of estrogen-sensitive cancers.
Many factors may affect Phase I processing, including extreme overload, the effects of alcohol or drugs, a lack of nutrients, or interference from other substances. For example, grapefruit juice may slow down the enzymes in Phase I, potentially altering hormone balance. Additionally, many prescription drugs are metabolized in Phase I, which may also interfere with the liver’s ability to handle estrogen hormones. On the other hand, Indole-3-carbinol (I3C), a phytonutrient derived from cruciferous vegetables (e.g., broccoli, cauliflower, cabbage, and Brussels sprouts), stimulates enzymes that promote the metabolism of estrogens into milder forms, potentially reducing the risk of estrogen-dependent cancers. | <urn:uuid:994bd7e2-a2ce-4482-ae24-2d8f57df924e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.womensinternational.com/blog/portfolio-items/liver/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570793.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808092125-20220808122125-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.913451 | 1,251 | 3.21875 | 3 |
College applications are all about showing off to the admissions committee, and what better way to do so than to lead with your most impressive academic awards.
What are the best academic honors and awards to put on a college application?
In this guide, we give you
0+ academic honors examples
to give you an idea of what types of achievements colleges like to see most on applications.
In addition, we explain what counts as an academic honor or award, go over different impressive academic honors and awards examples you can get, and give you useful tips for effectively talking about awards on your application.
What Is an Academic Honor or Award?
First things first, what counts as an academic honor or award?
an academic honor or award is any major achievement you’ve made and been recognized for in some way.
The form of recognition can range from an actual object, such as a trophy or plaque, to prize money, a title, or verbal recognition.
Typically, an academic honor will fall into one of the following categories:
Distinction, honor, or honorable mention
for which you won’t usually receive a physical object or award—just the title
A diploma or certificate
indicating the completion of a program or recognizing an accomplishment in a program or other activity
Prize or award
won from a contest, competition, or tournament
given in recognition of an outstanding (academic) accomplishment
in a highly selective and competitive group or society
If you’ve won any awards for specific activities such as a sport you play or a club you’re part of,
it’s better to list these in the extracurricular activities section of your application
instead of in a separate awards section.
So what are some honors and awards to put on a college application? Up next, we’ll take a look at
more than 70 academic honors examples.
Academic Honors and Awards Examples
Here, we give you
a list of 70+ academic honors and awards examples you could include on your own college application,
from prizes won in national and international contests to school-based distinctions and awards.
All the academic honors examples below are grouped by category and listed alphabetically.
Note that this is
an exhaustive list of all academic honors and awards you could possibly have, so if you have an achievement that doesn’t exactly match one of the examples below, don’t worry—you can still put it on your college application!
Advanced Placement (AP) Awards
- AP International Diploma (APID)
- AP Scholar with Distinction
- AP Scholar with Honor
- DoDEA AP Scholar
- International AP Scholar
- National AP Scholar
- State AP Scholar
- IB Diploma
IB Middle Years Programme (MYP) Certificate
- Governor’s Volunteer Award
- National Student Volunteer Award
- President’s Award for Educational Achievement
- President’s Award for Educational Excellence
- President’s National Service Award
- National Hispanic Scholar
- National Merit Commended Student
- National Merit Finalist
- National Merit Scholar
- National Merit Semifinalist
- School-based National Merit Scholarship winner
- Foreign language award
- High class rank (e.g., top 10%)
- Honor roll/GPA award
- National Honor Society membership
- Perfect Attendance Award
- School-specific award
- School subject-specific award
- Student of the Month/Term/Year
- Subject-specific Honor Society membership (e.g., Science Honor Society)
Competitions and Contests
Award for high placement (1st, 2nd, 3rd, or 4th) or participation in any major (academic) contest, such as the following:
- AAN Neuroscience Research Prize
- Academic Decathlon
- Academic Triathlon
- American Regions Mathematics League (ARML)
- B.E.S.T. Robotics Design contest
- Conrad Spirit of Innovation Challenge
- Davidson Fellows Scholarship
- Doodle 4 Google
- Google Science Fair
- Intel International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF)
- International BioGENEius Challenge
- International Chemistry Olympiad
- International Mathematical Olympiad
- International Photography Awards (IPA)
- Kids Philosophy Slam
- Microsoft Imagine Cup
- MIT INSPIRE
- MIT THINK Scholars Program
- Model UN
- National Academic League
- National Academic Quiz Tournament
- National Economics Challenge by CEE
- National Geographic Bee
- National Geographic Student Photo Contest
- National High School Mock Trial Championship
- National Science Bowl
- National Science Olympiad
- Quiz Bowl
- Regeneron Science Talent Search (STS)
- Regional/National Junior Science and Humanities Symposium
- Scholastic Art & Writing Awards
- Toshiba/NSTA ExploraVision Awards
- University Interscholastic League (UIL)
- Boy Scouts/Eagle Scouts awards
- Employee of the Month
- Girl Scouts awards
- Merit scholarships for college
- Musical performance award
- National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) winner
- National Poetry Writing Month (NaPoWriMo) winner
- Publications (such as short stories, art pieces, essays, etc.)
- Volunteer award
- Work award or promotion
The Best Honors and Awards to Put on a College Application
Of the dozens of academic honors examples above, which ones will look the most impressive on a college application?
we explain the top four qualities a truly impressive academic honor will have.
Note that an honor doesn’t need to have
these qualities, though if it does, then it is definitely an excellent one to put on your application!
#1: It’s Highly Selective
One quality you want to highlight on your application is the selectivity of the award or honor you’ve won.
In other words,
the academic award will be one that a lot of students try to win, making it difficult to achieve.
For example, because national and international contests and competitions draw so many student competitors, winning an award like these would certainly impress the admissions committee.
The more selective an academic honor or award is, the more impressive it’ll look on your college application.
Academic Honors Examples of Highly Selective Awards
- National Merit Scholar
- Google Science Fair winner
- National Student Volunteer Award
#2: It’s Unique
Admissions committees see a lot of honor roll and National Society honors on college applications (not that these are bad
they’re just fairly common). So if you’ve won a particularly unique or rare award, definitely include it on your application, as this will
help you stand out from the crowd.
A unique award can be highly selective; it can also be one that is less well known or that highlights something creative, surprising, or impressive about you.
For instance, maybe you won the Most Innovative Employee award at your part-time job after you pitched the idea to create and manage a social media page for the company.
Academic Honors Examples of Unique Awards
- Specific school-based awards (e.g., Most Confident Speaker in Chinese Class)
- Local or community-based awards
#3: It’s Relevant to Your Academic Interests and Strengths
Another academic award or honor that’s
great to include on your college application is one that’s relevant to your academic interests and strengths.
These are typically subject- or field-specific awards, such as English or writing awards, math awards, etc.
For example, if you’re planning to major in engineering, you’d want to detail any awards you might have won in science, math, or engineering contests.
Relevant awards indicate to the admissions committee not only that you’re truly committed to the field you want to study, but also that
you’re one of the most promising students in your field.
Academic Honors Examples of Relevant Awards
- AP award
- Writing award or publication (if you’re an English or creative writing major, for example)
- STEM award (if you’re a STEM major)
- Model UN (if you’re a political science or IR major, for example)
#4: It Highlights Your Leadership Potential
An impressive academic honor or award will also emphasize your leadership potential.
These are typically
awards that involve group or collaborative work.
o if you ever led others to success
as a captain or president, for instance
this kind of honor would look great to potential colleges.
Just make sure that you explain on your application
what kind of role you had and how your leadership specifically led your team to success.
Academic Honors Examples of Leadership/Group Awards
- Volunteer awards
- Girl Scouts or Eagle Scouts awards
How to Talk About Honors on Your College Application: 4 Tips
Since you likely won’t have a lot of room to write about academic honors and awards on your application,
it’s important that
you present your academic achievements in an effective, impressive way.
Here are some tips on how to talk about the awards you’ve won.
Tip 1: Open With Your Most Impressive Awards
Admissions officers don’t usually spend a lot of time with each application they get, so you want to make sure that you’re catching their eyes right away by starting with your most impressive honors and awards.
These will generally be
awards that are highly competitive and required a lot of work and commitment on your end.
Tip 2: Focus on Your Spike
A “spike” is a particular academic passion you have.
For example, if you’re a science buff who plans to major in chemistry, you’d want to emphasize your spike on your application by focusing primarily on your chemistry- and science-related activities and awards.
Having a spike will ultimately help you stand out from other applicants.
To learn more about how you can develop a spike, check out
our guide on how to get into Harvard and the Ivy League
Spikes: good for hedgehogs and college applications.
Tip 3: Describe Awards That Are Vague or Unclear
Not all academic awards and honors are well known or obvious, especially if they’re unique to your school or area. Therefore, m
ake sure that you’re using the space you have in the awards section of your application to
describe any academic honors that the admissions committee is probably unfamiliar with.
The last thing you want an award to do is confuse admissions officers, so be clear about what it is, how you won it, and what makes it impressive.
Tip 4: Explain the Competitiveness of the Award
For each academic award or honor you’ve won, you want to clarify its level of competitiveness by
explaining the scope of the competition.
For example, was the science tournament you won a national one? A local one? A school-based one?
Note that if the award has the word “national” or “international” in it, you shouldn’t have to add much explanation to its description since it’ll be obvious that the award is fairly selective.
The overall point here is to
Recap: Honors and Awards to Put on a College Application
As you can see, there’s a huge variety in the types of academic honors and awards examples you can put on your college application.
The 70+ academic honors examples listed above are just some of the possible honors you could include.
In general, the best academic honors to include on your application will have some or all of the following qualities:
- They’re highly selective/competitive
- They’re unique
- They highlight your academic interests and strengths (your “spike,” that is)
- They emphasize your leadership skills/potential
You won’t have a ton of space on your application to explain the academic awards you’ve won, so it’s important to
use the room you have wisely.
To reiterate, h
ere are our four best tips for how to talk about your academic awards and honors on your application:
- Open with your most impressive awards and honors
Focus on your spike
your biggest academic passion and commitment
- Describe any vague, unclear, or lesser-known awards/honors you’ve received
- Explain the competitiveness of the award
Now get out there and win some awards!
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hoping to snag a distinguished AP award
, read our guide to get tips on how you can do this.
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and how you can achieve honors status at your own high school.
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Writing in today’s Wall Street Journal, William McGurn asks a serious question:
Are babies better than abortion?
Mr. McGurn is responding to a sobering new study recently released from the Chiaroscuro Foundation, a private nonprofit organization. He writes:
After crunching the latest statistics from New York City’s Health Department, the foundation reported that 41% of pregnancies (excluding miscarriage) in New York ended in abortion. That’s double the national rate.
As a society, does this figure say anything about the choice between a baby and abortion? Even for those who believe the choice for an abortion belongs to a woman alone and ought to be unfettered by city, state or federal law, is there any ratio such a person would say is too high?
The question becomes even more compelling when broken down by race. For Hispanics, the abortion rate was 41.3%—i.e., more than double the rate for whites. For African-Americans the numbers are still more grim: For every 1,000 African-American live births in New York, there were 1,489 abortions.
Earlier this month, representatives from the Chiaroscuro Foundation organized a press conference in New York City that brought together a broad coalition: The Most Reverend Timothy M. Dolan, Archbishop of New York, the Reverend Michel Faulkner, founder and pastor of the New Horizon Church in Harlem; Rabbi Chaim Dovid Zwiebel of Agudath Israel of America; and Leslie Diaz, spokeswoman of Democrats for Life, among others.
The goal was simple but significant: to bring attention to the tragedy of abortion and forge practical dialogue between representatives of the most affected groups.
Unfortunately, as McGurn points out, the Mayor of New York City didn’t attend the press conference nor has he responded to the crisis surrounding the rising abortion rates in New York City. If anything, New York City’s leadership appears bent on supporting policies that will make abortion more, not less common. McGurn writes:
The speaker of the City Council, Christine Quinn, is pushing a bill designed to make it harder for people who are trying to help women keep their babies. Bill 371 targets Crisis Pregnancy Centers, and would require them, among other things, to advertise on site that they do not perform abortions or provide abortion referrals. It tells us something that there appears to be no interest in requiring that, say, Planned Parenthood post in their clinics some telling information of their own: 324,008 abortions nationwide against only 2,405 adoption referrals in 2008, the most recent year for which it reports statistics.
I began today’s reflection by mentioning the Chiaroscuro Foundation. The word “chiaroscuro” is “an artistic technique characterized by strong contrasts between light and dark.” What’s unfolding in New York City (and all around the world for that matter) regarding the sanctity of life is just that – a contrast between what is right and wrong, between life and death.
As believers, we’re called to be bright light in a dark world (Matthew 5:16, 6:22, Luke 11:35, John 1:5). However grim and sobering these new statistics, I pray they will embolden – not discourage – us to tackle the job at hand. It’s not easy. It’s never been easy. But may our prayer for strength echo the words of the old hymnist who once wrote: “We’ll walk in the light, beautiful light, Come where the dewdrops of mercy are bright, Shine all around us by day and by night, Jesus, the light of the world.” | <urn:uuid:8ba7663e-4a72-48e1-b377-f18379eba247> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://jimdaly.focusonthefamily.com/are-babies-better-than-abortion/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571056.58/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809155137-20220809185137-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.940854 | 770 | 1.679688 | 2 |
The Future of Biotechnology in India
In the past two decades, the number of students pursuing pure sciences has decreased. Right around the same time, two branches of life sciences emerged – Biotechnology and Microbiology. While microbiology was being offered as a B.Sc in graduation, Biotechnology took form as both B.Sc and B. Tech. These courses were popular in western countries, but began picking up momentum in India around the time. | <urn:uuid:e176130d-e9cd-419f-97fe-131f3555dbea> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.magazinesworld.org/the-future-of-biotechnology-in-india/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570793.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808092125-20220808122125-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.984023 | 90 | 1.8125 | 2 |
CU graduate student Kate Starbird and Project Empowering the Public with Information in Crisis are using Twitter to aid relief efforts in Haiti.
“Tweak the Tweet” is a means of organizing information for those communicating on Twitter about the aftermath of the earthquake in Haiti. Starbird, a 34-year-old PHD student focusing on social media and education, said the program is employing a different use of Twitter to aid those in need.
“’Tweaking the Tweet’ is not a software system,” Starbird said. “It’s just an idea of how people can use Twitter differently during times of crisis to communicate information differently so that computers can make sense of it and people can react to it.”
“Tweak the Tweet” uses emergency-related hashtags on Twitter to organize information, according to Project EPIC’s
A hashtag is the # symbol that is placed before the name of a topic someone is searching for on Twitter. The hashtag is a way for people to find tweets that share a common topic, according to Tech for Luddites Web site.
There are two main types of hashtags used in the “Tweak the Tweet” program: Main hashtags and data hashtags, which are listed on Project Epic’s Web site.
By tweeting using these hashtags, emergency communications become more machine-readable and are passed on to a number of sources, according to EPIC’s Web site.
Haitians in need of assistance can text a family member from the ground who can then translate their needs into a tweet with hashtags. These tweets are then organized into a list where the name, need and location of the person are clearly read and sent to sources where they can be accessed by relief efforts, Starbird said.
“The hashtags let the computer know the next three words will be a location or a contact and if it knows that the word need came before it, it’s easier to classify things, and make it easier for the computer to help,” Starbird said. “It can process them in near real time.”
Students have said they are excited at the efforts being made by Starbird and her colleagues.
“I think it’s a really good idea,” said Kelli Dorband, a 22-year-old senior accounting major. “It’s awesome that she took initiative to help someone else in need.”
Dorband said she thinks that despite the current conditions in Haiti, “Tweak the Tweet” provides hope for those affected and their families.
“It might be hard because no one can really get into Haiti right now,” Dorband said. “But definitely if people in Haiti are connecting with tweets, it should help.”
Virginia Arnett, a 20-year-old junior music major, said she thinks that through the use of detail the program can be particularly helpful.
“This will definitely be effective especially if people can give specific details,” Arnett said.
Starbird and her colleagues have been following tweets and monitoring the lists created around the clock, she estimates around 20 hours a day.
Starbird said efforts are being made to ensure “Tweak the Tweet” is as user-friendly as possible.
“What we’re trying to do is make the syntax as useable as possible and see how many people are using it and try to push it out there to as many people as possible so they’ll use it,” Starbird said.
She said since launching the syntax, she and her colleagues have been feeling a lot of different emotions.
“We’re nervous that we’re not helping enough but we’re hopeful that we’re helping some, that we can help more in the future and that somehow we can make a difference,” Starbird said. “It’s not our normal role as researchers, so it’s emotional in a different way.”
For more information on getting involved with translating tweets, or to find CU’s EPIC program on Twitter, visit Project EPIC’s Web site.
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So by now you have most likely heard the story of Rachel Dolezal, the former head of The NAACP chapter in Spokane, Washington. Dolezal was born white but started telling people she was a black woman over the past few years. At the time of this writing, she has appeared on national television and is in talks to have her own reality show. We can debate ad nauseam the ramifications of her actions, but there are certain aspects of this controversy that you as a leader must pay attention to. If you miss the key teachable moments from this story, you can hurt yourself in the future.
Teachable Moment #1: Be honest to yourself first and foremost
Dolezal apparently told her brother to not blow her cover as her appearance started to change over the years. A statement like this shows a clear aspect of deception on her part. As a leader, you have to come to terms with your identity before you engage the masses for two reasons: 1) You will have more clarity of mind, which is crucial for a leader; and 2) You won’t have to worry about being exposed as a fraud and losing credibility to the people that mattered most—your original constituency. As the African proverb goes, “When you tell the truth, you don’t need a good memory.” Be honest now to save yourself from unnecessary drama later.
Teachable Moment #2: Your diversity is an asset so don’t try to blend in
I work in the area of social justice. On a daily basis, I work to end serious issues like child trafficking, slavery, homophobia, racism, anti-Semitism, and more. In this work, I have met people of all races and backgrounds all dedicated to a common cause. The leaders who were the most ineffective were the ones who believe they have to shun who they are in order to better contribute to a movement. I am reminded of a recent example of Ben Affleck who tried to hide a story about his ancestors possibly owning slaves. Everyone knows that Affleck is a humanitarian and committed to human rights so why does he need to hide “his” history? If anything, his story shows that we do not have to inherit the prejudices of our ancestors. It’s a story to be told! We’re stronger as a community when we embrace our background and use it as a place of reference, not residence.
Teachable Moment #3: Do you want to be Kim Kardashian or a Dr. King?
Wow, tough comparison right? Both are public figures right? Both are talked about throughout the world right? The question becomes: what are people saying when they talk about Kardashian and King? Note: I am not judging or condemning Kardashian. I’m just using her story for comparison purposes. Dr. King’s claim to fame despite any flaws he had was being a servant to humanity. Kardashian will be remembered by many as someone who rose to fame from her recorded sexual encounter with singer Ray-J. Decades from now as we ignore more and more history, Kardashian may be remembered as a great humanitarian on her chosen causes. After all, there are many illegal and nefarious activities behind some of the greatest names and corporations in history but we have selective memories right? Dolezal is about to cash in with reality shows and book deals not based on her commendable work as a civil rights leader, but as someone who turned out to be a fraud. What do you want to be remembered for? A leader is only as good as her legacy.
At the end of the day, you have to decide what type of leader you want to be. We live in a pop-culture world that celebrates the worst of us. Don’t be so hungry for fame and exposure that you’re willing to sell your soul to the highest bidder. Don’t compromise your integrity for a paycheck. You may argue that Kim Kardashian is ultra-rich and can do whatever she wants right now. Yes, that is true. There is great benefit to having wealth but I believe there is a greater benefit to service to others, especially public service if you are a leader. Be honest with yourself, respect the diversity you bring to the table, and do your best to choose a positive legacy to be remembered for despite what others may say about you. The rise, fall, and rise again of Rachel Dolezal is a cautionary story for us all, but only if you read the story! | <urn:uuid:5bf47a44-44f7-4f1f-b0de-8ee868675e7f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.upstanderinternational.com/tag/naacp/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573744.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819161440-20220819191440-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.972425 | 919 | 2.265625 | 2 |
MINE WORKING REMEDIATION
Mine working remediation specialists in the treatment of old mines effecting building and construction work.
What are shallow mine workings?
Across the former coalfield areas of the United Kingdom shallow mine workings represent a problematic legacy left behind from the extraction of the coal. Typically, pillars of coal were left in place to hold up the roof of the mine.
Once the mine was abandoned these shallow mine workings have the potential to collapse at any time. If this occurs under or near a structure it can cause mining induced subsidence of sufficient magnitude to require complete demolition of the structure.
How would I know if I had a shallow mine workings problem?
Local Authority planners are required to consider the ‘safe and stable’ nature of a site as part of the
A range of data sources are available to help identify if you might have a problem including an on-line Coal Authority interactive map viewer.
In most cases where shallow mining is suspected the planners will require a mining risk assessment to be undertaken by a Consulting
Engineer; this will most likely include rotary boreholes.
If the assessment identifies shallow mine workings and these are considered to represent a risk, then the developer will be required to undertake some form of remedial action.
What can be done to rectify a shallow mine workings problem?
Normally this will be the consolidation of the shallow mine workings through drilling and grouting.
Drilling and grouting involves drilling holes to just below the level of the old mine workings, placing a liner in the boreholes, through soil (and rock) to keep the hole open, and injection of grout (a mixture of PFA and cement) to consolidate the old mine workings so that they can no longer collapse.
The spacing's of the holes and the grout mix can be altered to suit the site conditions or the purpose of the work.
Why use Groundshire?
Groundshire are a family owned and operated company. Drilling and grouting is our primary business, it is what we do and what we are good at.
We offer a range of services to our clients and our prospective clients that few of our competitors can match. We are approachable and we are prepared to offer advice free from obligation.
Across the Durham and Northumberland coalfields we have access to a huge collection of mining
maps that date back 150 years. These maps are often our first point of reference when determining
if there is likely to be an issue or not.
Although our key skills are in the treatment of mine workings, we are experienced professional
Engineers with relevant earth science degrees and with a detailed understanding of Geological and Engineering principles.
We carry Professional Indemnity insurance that allows us to design and implement our own works.
We at Groundshire have the expertise and experience to design appropriate treatment grids, which can often result in significant cost savings
In combination our knowledge of mining, geology and the planning process can provide you with a review of the land that you intend to purchase prior to sale that will prove invaluable in negotiation.
We provide this service from small single house plots to developments whose budgets are in the
tens of millions of pounds.
What do I get for my money?
Our designs are prepared by Specialist Engineers in line with the recommendations of CIRIA Publication C758, “Construction Over Abandoned Mine Workings”, as well as Coal Authority, NHBC and Local Authority planning requirements. These are backed by our Professional Indemnity Insurance.
Our works are carried out competently and to Industry Standard Specifications, our workmanship is backed by our Public and Products liability insurance. We provide completion reports for our projects that allow subsequent construction to be undertaken with complete confidence.
This is in line and above industry standards for all your insurance needs.
We will provide ongoing support if required.
What is the outcome?
The outcome is that the ground we have worked on is safe and stable and is suitable to build on.
We future proof your land.
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Does that mean the camera crops the image? Does the camera magnify the image? Does it change the focal length of the lens? Something else going on?
Well, right off the bat we can eliminate the magnification or focal length questions. The focal length of the lens is a property of the lens and is not changed by what camera body it is attached to. A 50mm lens is a 50mm lens. No special voodoo magic in a camera body is going to change the focal length of the lens. What does change is the field of view of a lens. The lens projects an image circle. Different cameras make use of different angles of view within the projected image. Smaller sensor cameras discard the outer range of the circle. Is that a crop? You have to decide for yourself. I don't think it really matters. But some folks get very religious about this. Look at the figure here and decide for yourself if you want to say the camera is cropping out the outer range of the image circle or if you want to describe it some other way...
In the above example, the full rectagle is what your eye sees. The larger black circle represents the image circle projected by the lens. The blue rectangle represents what a full-frame 35mm size image sensor records. The red rectangle represents what a 1.6 crop-factor camera sees.
I think the entire situation is better comprehended by folks who grew up using a variety of different camera formats--especially a view camera with different size film backs, like my Deardorf 5x7 that also takes a 4x5 back. When you change the camera back from 5x7 to 4x5 without moving the camera or changing the lens you simply get less of the image in the frame. The lens didn't magically get larger. The image didn't magically get larger. The image projected by the lens is still exactly the same. It is just the area of it that is covered by film got smaller.
For those folks who never used a camera before, I don't really think it makes much difference in your taking photos. It does, though, make a difference if you are reading a book or article that assumes you are using a 35mm film (or full frame sensor) camera with lenses designed for those cameras. You have to take into account the crop/conversion factor. When a text says that you need to use a 70mm or greater lens for "normal" perspective in a portrait you have to convert that to say 44mm or greater if you have a 1.6 crop sensor (typical of many Canon dSLR cameras) or 47mm or greater with a 1.5 crop sensor (Nikon). It isn't the lens that distorts, it is the distance between the camera and the subject. But that is the subject for another blog entry.
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From UPSC perspective, the following things are important :
Prelims level : Belt and Road Initiative
Mains level : BRI analysis. Challenges
Background of BRI
- The BRI was conceived as a response to the vast overcapacity in infrastructure-related industries due to credit-fuelled growth in China in 2008 following the global economic recession when its exports started dwindling.
- In 2009, former Deputy Director of China’s State Administration of Taxation came up with a proposal called the Chinese Marshall Plan.
- He suggested that China should utilise its vast foreign exchange reserves, expertise in building infrastructure, overcapacity in iron, cement, aluminum, glass, coal and shipbuilding industries and unemployed labor to meet the infrastructure demand in Southeast, Central Asia, and Africa.
- Announced in 2013, the BRI consists of a belt of rail routes, highways, oil and gas pipelines and other infrastructure projects extending from Xian in Central China through Central Asia, Russia, West Asia, and Europe.
- There is also a branch extending from Kashgar in Xinjiang to Gwadar in Baluchistan via Pakistan occupied Kashmir (PoK).
- The ‘road’ segment comprises a network of ports and coastal infrastructure stretching from eastern China across Southeast Asia and South Asia, the Gulf, East Africa through the Mediterranean up to Rotterdam in Europe.
Progress so far
- According to China, more than 120 countries have signed and joined the BRI.
- China’s trade with these countries since 2013 has grossed more than $5 trillion and investment has totaled about $200 billion for 2,600 projects.
- In the first seven months of 2019, China’s trade with BRI countries was 6% higher than the growth of its global trade.
- BRI has not succeeded in the full utilization of overcapacity in infrastructure industries. China has been forced to close many companies. About one-third of its projects are failing due to several anomalies.
- There is no open tendering, competitive bidding or practice of an independent pre-feasibility or environmental impact studies, as per global norms.
- Many projects suffer from a lack of local inputs, protests on land procurement, pollution, performance delays, corruption, financial viability, unsustainable debt, and low investment returns.
- The interest rates charged by China are high, upward of 3% on government loans and 17%-18% on commercial loans with a sovereign guarantee of the local government.
- As many loans turn non-performing assets, China is becoming selective in giving new loans.
- Some BRI projects do not make economic sense.
- The cost of transportation by the 12,000 km-long Yiwu-London rail line will be twice more expensive than shipping.
- The cost of supplying crude oil and gas from Gwadar port to Tianjin in northeastern China via the 7,000 km-long pipelines proposed by China will be $10 per barrel costlier than the ocean freight.
- Many countries such as the Maldives, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, and Malaysia have asked China to restructure or downsize the BRI projects.
- India has decided not to participate in BRI over concerns relating to sovereignty, lack of transparency, openness, financial sustainability, high interest and the ‘tied’ nature of these loans.
- The growth of BRI is down as China’s investment in these projects in the first quarter of 2019 grew only by 4% compared to 22% in 2018.
President Xi promised at the second Belt and Road forum that China would ‘fine-tune’ the BRI with open consultation, clean governance, and green projects.
1. The Belt and Road Initiative is a global development strategy adopted by the Chinese government involving infrastructure development and investments in Asia, Europe, Africa, the Middle East, and the Americas.
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Wild elephants killed four Rohingya refugees, including three children, as they were building a shack on forest land in southern Bangladesh Saturday, police said.
The incident occurred at Balukhali camp in Cox's Bazar district, where hundreds of thousands of Rohingya have set up makeshift shelters since fleeing violence across the border in Myanmar.
"They were trampled to death by seven or eight wild elephants. They include a woman and three children," Afrozul Haq Tutul, deputy police chief of Cox's Bazar, told AFP.
Two people were also injured, he said, adding all the victims were Rohingya who were building a shack in a part of the forest where wild elephants frequently search for food and shelter.
This is the second time Rohingya refugees have been attacked by wild elephants in the area. Earlier two Rohingya — an elderly person and a child — were killed by elephants as they were sleeping in a makeshift shelter.
An estimated 536,000 Rohingya have arrived in Bangladesh since a fresh outbreak of violence erupted on August 25 in Myanmar's westernmost Rakhine state.
Space at established refugee camps in Bangladesh has been all but exhausted, with new arrivals hacking away trees and other vegetation anywhere they can to erect shelters from the monsoon rain.
Many newly arrived refugees are camping in the open or along roadsides, where they rush aid trucks for food and other desperately needed supplies.
The Bangladesh government has allocated 3,000 acres of forest land to build proper shelters for the refugees but many have already set up shacks before the actual construction begins.
A Cox's Bazar district forest official told AFP that clashes between animals and refugees were "inevitable" as the camp areas have been a roaming ground for elephants for centuries.
"The is a reserve forest land, frequented by wild Asian elephants all the time," he said, speaking on condition of anonymity.
The authorities want to extend the existing camps around Kutupalong and Balukhali into a refugee city for 800,000 Rohingya, but the United Nations has warned such a settlement would be dangerously overcrowded.
The latest violence erupted after Rohingya militant raids on 30 police posts in Rakhine triggered a military crackdown.
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While the country has come a long way in 400 years, the basic form of jury trials remains the same. Civil and criminal cases are often tried before a panel of citizens. These citizens swear or affirm they will carry out their role as a jury to the best of their ability. Understanding the jury’s role and obligations can help expert witnesses communicate effectively with juries.
The Role and Responsibilities of the Jury
A jury typically consists of people who represent a cross-section of the community. The role of the jury is to consider the facts of a case, weigh evidence, and return a verdict. The verdict can be “guilty” or “not guilty” in a criminal case. In a civil case, the verdict can be “liable” or “not liable.”
While juries have a heavy responsibility, their role is limited. The judge has significant power to decide which evidence will appear before the jury. As such, the judge’s decision may heavily influence the jury’s decision-making.
A judge may make a ruling deeming a witness unqualified to be an expert, for instance. That ruling will prevent that witness from sharing their informed opinion with the jury. Without the witness’s perspective, the jury may come to a different conclusion about whether a defendant caused a plaintiff’s injuries or whether the plaintiff is entitled to compensation.
The judge may also place the jury’s focus on particular issues that the jury must resolve. In medical malpractice claims in Indiana, for example, a medical review panel, consisting of three physicians, determines causations. If the physicians find that the defendant did cause the plaintiff’s injuries, the case may proceed to a jury trial. However, the jury can only decide on questions of compensation.
In this case, the judge will instruct the jury not to decide whether the defendant caused the plaintiff’s injuries. Rather, the judge will instruct the jury to take causation as an established fact and decide what damages, if any, are appropriate.
Legal Boundaries for the Jury
Juries perform their role within several legal boundaries.
First, the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (FRCP) and corresponding state rules set minimum and maximum enrollment for juries. Under FRCP 48, federal civil trial juries must have at least 6 and no more than 12 members. Each member must participate in reaching a verdict unless the judge excuses a juror.
Judges also give specific instructions to a jury. Instructions may come before the trial begins, at the close of evidence, or both. Often, a judge will give trial-related guidance to a jury before the trial begins. The judge will also give instructions on the jury’s specific duties and considerations after the attorneys present all the evidence.
General guidance includes topics like whether or not the jury may take notes and what to do if a juror needs to use the bathroom or attend to another urgent need. Jury instructions explain issues like the burden of proof and how to weigh the evidence.
Both federal and state courts typically submit questions to the jury in writing. These questions are often broken down into individual yes/no queries. FRCP 48 also allows federal court judges to require juries to return a “special verdict,” or a finding on each issue of fact, without offering a “general verdict,” or a yes/no answer to “Is the defendant liable?”
If the answers to these questions are inconsistent with one another, a judge must either send the jury back to reconsider its answers and verdict or order a new trial.
Best Practices for Experts Testifying in Jury Trials
A jury is a group of people from the surrounding community. Jurors come from all walks of life, educational backgrounds, and personal histories. To provide the best possible assistance to a jury:
Provide clear, concise explanations of technical facts as they apply to the case. The jury doesn’t need to understand the entire field. They need to understand which principles apply to this specific situation and how.
Imagine a case in which the plaintiff alleges a curling iron overheated due to defective wiring, causing second-degree burns. The jury doesn’t need to understand all the details of electrical current or skin anatomy. They need to answer specific questions, like “What went wrong in the wiring to cause this much heat?” and “Was that enough heat to cause second-degree burns?”
Know which issues the jury is deciding. Discussing causation when the jury is only present to evaluate damages, for instance, will confuse the jury and may even lead to a mistrial. Know which facts the jury is allowed to accept as given, and address the questions the jury needs to answer.
Distinguish questions of fact from questions of law. “Did the wiring cause the curling iron to overheat?” is a question of fact. However, “Was the curling iron manufacturer negligent in wiring the curling iron this way?” is a question of law. Jurors are required to stick to questions of fact. Expert witnesses support jurors best when they also stick to questions of fact.
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A light earthquake with magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) was reported 10 kilometers (6 miles) from Mamasa in Indonesia on Monday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 43.14 km (27 miles). Event id: us2000j7wm. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000j7wm. The 4.4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 04:20:25 / 4:20 am (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 06/01/19 / 2019-01-06 20:20:25 / January 6, 2019 @ 8:20 pm. Exact location of event, longitude 119.4497 East, latitude -3.0054 South, depth = 43.14 km.
Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Palopo, Majene, Mamuju (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 83 km (52 miles) from Palopo (c. 129 300 pop), 49 km (30 miles) from Polewali (c. 58 200 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Rantepao (c. 40 400 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Majene (c. 37 700 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Mamuju (c. 15 000 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days thirty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year.
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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 10 km SE of Mamasa, Indonesia. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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Good news! TFOCS is now fully open source, and free for for both academic and commercial use. More details in this announcement. Or head straight to the download page…
TFOCS (pronounced tee-fox) provides a set of Matlab templates, or building blocks, that can be used to construct efficient, customized solvers for a variety of convex models, including in particular those employed in sparse recovery applications. It was conceived and written by Stephen Becker, Emmanuel J. Candès and Michael Grant.
More information about the software can be found in the paper and the user guide.
The algorithm is not restricted to conic models; see chapter 4.6 of Stephen Becker’s 2011 PhD thesis for a description of the algorithm in terms of conjugate functions rather than dual cones.
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The following is an excerpt from ADAS Guide 2021: Features & Packages by Manufacturer, a comprehensive look at how the world’s top OEMs approach advanced safety technology. Along with descriptions of each ADAS feature offered currently by brand, the guide provides a deeper look into the propriety names manufacturers use for bundling ADAS technologies, what features they deem most important and are currently expanding on, what sensors they use, and how they approach advanced safety technology overall.
According to data from the World Health Organization, globally, 1.35 million people are killed in road-related incidents each year, with an additional 20 to 50 million people suffering non-fatal but potentially disabling injuries. In 2019 in the United States alone, there were 36,096 traffic-related fatalities, according to preview data from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), which includes occupants in passenger vehicles and large trucks, motorcyclists, pedestrians, and cyclists.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) says that about 90 people each day die in the U.S. from motor vehicle crashes. According to NHTSA, the current research shows that the vast number of vehicle crashes are tied to human error, and advanced driver assistance systems have the potential to save lives and injuries by reducing the number of crashes.
In its simplest form, ADAS provides a suite of driver assistance tools to create a safer, more comfortable driving experience. To better understand the intricacies of ADAS, it helps to recognize that ADAS assists the driver in the safe driving process by reducing fatigue and extending the driver’s attention – essentially adding extra eyes, ears, and reflexes. ADAS helps the driver recognize and manage the myriad of variables in the surrounding environment, thereby mitigating possible dangers.
Two Categories of ADAS
Generally, ADAS falls into two categories: passive and active. The passive system will alert a driver to a potential threat with an audible beep, a dashboard light or a haptic vibration, allowing the driver to take appropriate action to avoid a collision or other hazard. The active system also alerts the driver to the threat, then takes action by accelerating, braking or steering to avoid the hazard if the driver does not act.
For the operator of a lone vehicle on a long stretch of uninterrupted road, the task of driving is a fairly simple one. Barring the occasional deer, moose, kangaroo or other animal on the road, the driver must pay attention to weather conditions, current speed, and traffic signs during the journey.
In this scenario, ADAS can relieve the driver of the need to maintain a consistent speed, can deploy systems to “read” road signs and relay information back to the driver and can monitor the vehicle’s performance between the center lane markings and the edge lane markings and alert the driver to take corrective action (or, in some cases, nudge the vehicle back to the center of the lane). On the other end of the spectrum is the driver operating a vehicle in a city environment. Here, the driver must navigate multiple intersections, complex and sometimes competing driver instructions and alerts, pedestrians, cyclists, emergency vehicles and varying road conditions, in addition to weather and speed.
In these circumstances, ADAS can help create a safer, more comfortable experience by alerting drivers when another vehicle is in their blind spot, when a vehicle or pedestrian is in danger of crossing from behind, when a vehicle could potentially enter into a driver’s path at an intersection, and when a pedestrian enters the driver’s forward path. In some cases, ADAS features blend into semi-automated driving, when the vehicle’s systems take over the task of driving on a preset highway or when the steering or braking take over for the sake of crash avoidance.
Brief History of ADAS
Cruise control, arguably the first precursor to modern ADAS, is a feature long included in vehicles. In fact, most don’t remember a time before cruise control existed, and for good reason. Cruise control, the fatigue- and gas-saving feature that allows a driver to maintain a set speed without touching the accelerator, was invented by Ralph Teetor, an accomplished mechanical engineer and inventor who was blind from childhood.
As president of the Society of Automotive Engineers in 1936, Teetor spoke openly about concerns for safety and the variable speeds of drivers, according to an article in Smithsonian Magazine. Teetor invented the Speedostat, an early cruise control, and patented a version of this technology in the 1940s. Speedostat was first offered in luxury vehicles by Chrysler in 1958 and eventually dubbed “Cruise Control” by General Motors.
Cruise control was considered a non-essential extra until the 1973 oil embargo against the U.S., which resulted in a 1974 nationwide 55 miles per hour speed limit as an effort to conserve gas. (Some sources claim that in addition to saving 167,000 barrels of oil per day, some 4,000 traffic-related deaths were avoided per year, thanks to the imposed speed limit.) For his pioneering work, Teetor was inducted into the Automotive Hall of Fame in 1988.
Anti-lock brakes, too, exist as the earliest ADAS innovations. Dating back to the 1920s and used on aircrafts, anti-lock brakes were advanced by Bosch when the company registered a patent in 1936 for a mechanism that would prevent the locking of brakes in a car. In acquiring a 50 percent share of the German company Teldix in 1973, which was developing and testing an antilock braking system (ABS), Bosch moved into the ABS development sphere, eventually taking over Teldix entirely. By 1978, Bosch released its first production-ready version of ABS.
The Five Eras of ADAS
As history shows, ADAS development was slow until the tail end of the 20th century, with marked development and deployment from 2010 to today.
In a 2018 presentation at the Center for Advanced Automotive Technology at Michigan’s Macomb Community College, Carla Bailo, president and CEO of the Center for Automotive Research, shared a general timeline of ADAS development, which stretched back to 1990 with ABS and electronic stability control (ESC). ABS keeps the wheels from locking during sudden and sharp braking, and ESC helps drivers maintain control of the vehicle during extreme steering maneuvers. Assist features, such as lane keep assist and pedestrian avoidance, came online in luxury vehicles around 2010, and, Bailo predicted, all new vehicles will come equipped with a full suite of ADAS technologies by approximately 2030.
NHTSA further describes the evolution of ADAS in the “Five Eras of Safety.” In its chart, NHTSA refers to the first ADAS systems of seat belts, cruise control, and ABS as safety and convenience features that dominated from 1950 to 2000. These predate today’s more advanced systems, but when used, can be effective in preventing traffic crashes and fatalities and reducing driver fatigue. For instance, according to the CDC, most drivers and passengers who are killed in auto accidents are unrestrained.
Among drivers and front-seat passengers, seat belts reduce the risk of death by 45 percent and cut the risk of serious injury by 50 percent. Seatbelts have saved an estimated 255,000 lives since 1975. (According to NHTSA, 50,457 lives have been saved by frontal airbags between 1987 and 2018.)
The advanced safety feature decade of 2000 to 2010 offered ESC, lane departure warning, blind-spot detection, and forward-collision warning as passive alert systems. At this stage in the ADAS evolution, technologies grew by leaps and bounds. The next era, 2010 to 2016, saw the rise of advanced driver assistance features like rearview video via reverse cameras, lane centering assist, rear cross-traffic alert and even systems that incorporated some level of automation, like automatic emergency braking.
The current period of ADAS (2016 to 2025) is considered the era of partially automated safety. This means features that include lane-keeping assist, adaptive cruise control, traffic jam assist, and self-park. Beyond 2025, NHTSA predicts as yet unnamed fully automated safety features will become more common. These features are already available to some extent today, depending on the automaker.
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Blockchain technology has shown its ability to revolutionise different industries, even in its infancy. The features of decentralisation, transparency, and immutability are appealing for business sectors all over the world, but the industry leading the way in implementation is finance.
Blockchain technology is a decentralised, distributed, and public ledger that is used to record transactions across many computers within a network. Because of its design and properties, blockchain is secure, transparent, and nearly impossible to alter.
In the finance industry, this underlying technology allows the transfer of currency with confidence that the transaction is secure and reliable.
The benefits of blockchain come from the following properties:
Distribution: Numerous copies of the ledger exist throughout the network. Each time a new transaction and block are added, everyone within the network receives a copy. No single entity controls the ledger, but the system is designed to provide everyone with the same information.
Immutability: A blockchain provides an accurate, chronological history of transactions. Because each person within the network has a copy, it’s nearly impossible to alter or erase transactions or to add information that hasn’t been verified. Doing so successfully would require a coordinated attack on hundreds – or even hundreds of thousands – of computers simultaneously, which is unlikely.
These features have many obvious benefits for the banking and finance industries. Here are some ways businesses are harnessing the power of blockchain:
Transferring money to other countries presents many problems and challenges for consumers and financial institutions. People send billions of dollars internationally each year, and the process is usually expensive, laborious, and error prone.
Blockchain can change all that. Many major banks have adopted international payments with blockchain technology, which saves time and money. Consumers can also use blockchain money transfers to complete electronic transfers with mobile devices, avoiding the cumbersome process of visiting a money transfer facility, standing in line, and paying fees for a transaction.
Most funds move through financial institutions, such as banks or credit card processing centres. Each of these steps adds a layer of complexity, along with fees that can become costly.
The benefits of blockchain-based transfers for merchants include:
Reduced fees: When customers pay with a credit card, merchants pay processing fees that cut into profit. Blockchain payments reduce or eliminate fees by streamlining the transfer process.
Eliminated insufficient funds: Consumers sometimes pay for goods or services with a bad cheque, which causes a loss and additional fees for merchants, as well as the possibility of a legal hassle to recover. Blockchain-based payments can give merchants the confidence of knowing that the transaction is good within a few seconds or minutes.
The benefits of blockchain-based transfers for individuals include:
Fewer scams: Online scams are a concern for many individuals, but blockchain-based payments are quick and reversible. They’re also less expensive than using banking services, especially for pricey items.
Less time and money: The safest payment methods are cash, wire transfers, and cashier’s cheques, but cash is untraceable, wire transfers are time-consuming, and cashier’s cheques can be forged. With blockchain-based payments, all of these issues are removed for greater confidence.
Money transfers aren’t the only way blockchain can revolutionise banking. Blockchain is an excellent method of tracking transactions and ensuring accurate, secure information, such as:
Title details: A distributed ledger is nearly impossible to alter, making it easier to track ownership. Transfers of ownership and liens can refer to the ledger to verify the information, so there’s more trust.
Smart contracts: Transactions can be costly, complex, and time-consuming, but blockchain offers an opportunity for automation. Smart contracts can track when a buyer pays and when the seller delivers, as well as address any problems that come up during the process. Automated systems also reduce human error and work 24/7.
Blockchain’s low costs give startups a chance to compete with major banks, promoting financial inclusion. Many people are looking for an alternative to banks because of restrictions like minimum balance requirements, low access, and banking fees. Blockchain can provide an alternative that uses digital identification and mobile devices, free from the hassle of traditional banking.
Blockchain stores information in a ledger with transaction information within each block, along with a unique hash that refers to the previous block. Every person within the network receives a copy of the transactions as well. Because of these features, blockchain technology is resistant to distributed denial-of-service attacks, hackers, and other types of fraud.
Without the threat of cyber attacks, the expense of conducting business is reduced, helping all parties involved save money and stress.
Digital currencies are the new wave of assets that rely on blockchain. Though digital currency is already in use, blockchain companies are lowering the barrier of entry and providing a seamless exchange of the most popular cryptocurrencies as a banking alternative.
Though banking faces a lot of strict rules and regulations, more and more financial institutions are realising the potential of blockchain technology and cryptocurrencies. As the major players in these industries conduct tests to discover innovative use cases and opportunities, we’ll begin to see more blockchain-based solutions for transparent, accessible, and reliable financial transactions. | <urn:uuid:5a6ee62a-2f15-40a8-99a0-5e445f84b0c9> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.salesforce.com/eu/blog/2020/02/how-financial-services-are-implementing-blockchain-technology.html?bc=WA | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570793.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808092125-20220808122125-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.935339 | 1,070 | 3.25 | 3 |
China prepares environmental action for Tibet
Chinese officials have announced a new “ecological security” plan for Tibet, which has the fastest rate of global warming in the world.
Climbers who visit Tibet see the most visible sign of global warming in the region: the shrinking glaciers of Mount Everest. The glaciers have receded by 170 metres over the past decade. Chinese scientists have concluded that the average annual temperature in Tibet is increasing by 0.3 degrees Celsius every 10 years – the fastest rate in the world.
According to the Reuters news agency, Chinese environment officials have prepared a plan to resolve the problems caused by climate change, population growth, overgrazing and pollution.
“In recent years the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau has felt the effects of global warming and our environment has certainly experienced changes,” said Zhang Yongze, director general of the region’s environmental protection bureau. “Our Qinghai-Tibet Plateau is actually the most direct victim of global warming.”
The new “ecological security” plan, which initially could cost 10 billion yuan ($1.5 billion), will soon be presented to the Chinese government and could be announced by the end of the year.
The actions listed in the plan are to turn grasslands into protected forests, restrict grazing, create “green” jobs for Tibetans and develop more hydro-electric power stations. Hydro power is opposed by some conservationists, as it would mean building power stations on the rivers of Tibet.
“The solution to problems like global warming is out of our hands, but this document will give us a framework to work in,” Zhang said.
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Here is the IFSC & MICR Codes of State Bank Of India,Imlai, Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh. Also get the latest address, contact number of State Bank Of India, Imlai.
|Bank:||STATE BANK OF INDIA|
|Branch Code:||007716 (Last Six Characters of IFSC Code)|
|Address:||Dist Jabalpur, M P 483110|
IFSC code is allotted by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) to all banks and its branches. The IFSC code of a bank can be commonly found on a bank account passbook, cheque leaf issued by the bank or on the RBI website. Any kind of fund transfer through a bank requires a valid IFSC. The different types of fund transfers are NEFT, RTGS and IMPS.
The 11 alphanumeric code of IFSC is structured in a pattern where the first four characters representing the name of the bank, while the last six characters represent the branch of the bank. The fifth character is generally 0 (zero) reserved for future utilisation. The format of IFSC is as below.
|Bank Code||0||Branch Code|
The IFSC code of Imlai, STATE BANK OF INDIA is SBIN0007716
The address associated with SBIN0070130 is
DIST JABALPUR, M P 483110
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Narcissism is a personality trait characterized by grandiosity and inflated self-views. A large body of research has linked narcissistic personality with different characteristics of the self, including grandiosity, the need for admiration, egocentricity, high self-esteem, a lack of emotional empathy, and alexithymia. Research suggests that narcissistic features of grandiosity and the need for admiration stem from distorted self-views and self-enhancement. Some studies have shown that the middle frontal gyrus (MFG), medial prefrontal cortex (MPF), orbitofrontal cortex (OFC), precuneus (PC), and anterior insula (AI) are involved in self-enhancement and self-evaluation. Research also suggests that AI, the right dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC), and the right posterior cingulate cortex (PCC) might contribute to the lack of empathy. Future research will be dedicated to combining methods from Genetics, Electrophysiology, Biochemistry, and Brain Imaging Technology to construct a neuro-physiological model of a narcissistic personality. | <urn:uuid:f056d8ca-27c6-4c23-ad7a-8097ac4d6ee5> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://journal.psych.ac.cn/xlkxjz/EN/volumn/volumn_208.shtml | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571056.58/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809155137-20220809185137-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.895511 | 222 | 2.9375 | 3 |
April 11, 2019
April 11, 2019
Later this year, after more than four decades as the nation’s leader in director education, NACD will blaze a new path by launching the first-ever certification program for board members in the United States. Here’s more on why and how.
NACD was founded with the objective of equipping directors with the knowledge they need to serve with confidence in the boardroom. Just as with every other profession, directors benefit from best practices, research-driven education, and shared experiences. As fiduciaries overseeing enterprises, directors need to understand both the companies they serve and the environment around them, as well as the particular demands of their oversight and advisory roles.
Much of that preparation comes from a director’s own career experiences, combined with the “on the job” training they will have received while serving on a particular board. But today, given the pace of change in business conditions, shifting stakeholder expectations, and the growing number of first-time directors serving on boards, external director education is needed more than ever. That is why we developed a director education framework in 2015 to provide an established foundation that underpins the content for our thought leadership and for NACD’s 300 local and national director education programs.
So why are we taking director education a step further now with a certification program? Ira M. Millstein, chair of the NACD Blue Ribbon Commission on Director Professionalism, noted in his 1995 pioneering article on the “professional board” that “while we should not hear any significant calls for requiring ‘official’ director certification in the United States, many US boards will do their own certification simply through the process of selection and periodic performance reviews. They will seek competent, credible, knowledgeable candidates who are capable of, and willing to, do their homework.”
This informal process of board certification has worked for many years, as has our long history of providing director education and credentialing via our Fellowship program. But today the expectations that directors must meet or exceed are greater than when Millstein wrote his article. As a result, we are formalizing director education with a nationally recognized credential that will serve as a seal of approval affirming that new directors have the knowledge, skills, and abilities needed to serve competently on a board. While we can never certify a director for his or her ethics, we can certify competency in a baseline body of knowledge, bolstered by additional continuing education requirements (which incidentally do include ethics as part of the curriculum).
Here are four reasons why we have taken this additional step in our evolution:
Our first step in moving toward certification has been—in collaboration with hundreds of board members serving on the boards of all types of companies—to develop a comprehensive overview of the knowledge, skills, and abilities (KSAs) that are required for corporate directors to lead with confidence in the boardroom. Next, we are working with select members of our community of more than 20,000 members to help create an exam that verifies those KSAs. Exam registration also comes with a comprehensive study guide that will help certification applicants prepare for the test.
To provide guidance and direction for the new certification program, NACD has formed and is leveraging a steering committee of highly experienced corporate directors and corporate governance practitioners that includes these distinguished individuals:
This is an impressive group of some of the best minds in board governance, and I am honored that they have agreed to devote time to this historic effort.
With directors like these on our steering committee, our members who have volunteered to inform the test development process, and with all the leading-edge resources NACD has developed through the years, I sincerely believe we are creating a meaningful and effective credential for directors.
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The agreement, which will run from 2017 to 2022, covers research and development activities that reflect a high level of strategic alignment between the two partners, allowing for longer term strategic investments that will benefit levy payers and the whole Australian wine sector.
Key grape and wine sector priorities to be addressed under this agreement include:
- developing and evaluating new winegrape varieties with robust disease resistance
- breeding new rootstocks with greater tolerance to pests, salinity, heat and water stress
- producing wines with unique flavours from grape varieties bred specifically for Australian conditions
- developing new strategies to manage harvest timing and alleviate compressed ripening and harvest windows caused by climate change
- new digital technologies to better estimate yield, crop condition and grape quality, and
- future proofing Australia’s grapevine germplasm.
Wine Australia CEO Andreas Clark said, ‘This strategic agreement with the CSIRO will help to support the profitability of the Australian grape and wine sector and deliver timely, relevant and valuable outcomes for Australia’s grape and wine community.’
‘We are delighted to continue our long-term partnership with Australia’s internationally renowned research organisation and we eagerly anticipate the benefits for the Australian grape and wine community from robust new varieties with greater pest and disease resistance that make wines with unique flavours. Growers and winemakers will also benefit from better vineyard management tools, and an ongoing source of excellent planting material for the Australian winegrowing community.’
CSIRO Agriculture and Food Research Director Dr Lynne McIntyre said, ‘These research projects will help to secure the productivity and sustainability of Australia’s wine sector for the coming decades, and provide even better products for Australian and international consumers.’
‘CSIRO has worked with Wine Australia since its inception to deliver solutions to problems facing the Australian grape and wine community. This new co-funded collaborative agreement recognises the importance of developing innovative solutions to the economic and environmental challenges facing the Australian wine sector over the next 30 years, and will build on past achievements, as well as utilising exciting new technologies.’
Under the strategic partnership agreement, Wine Australia will contribute $19 million and CSIRO $18 million towards the priorities.
This agreement is the second in a series of bilateral partnerships between Wine Australia and major research institutions under a new research and development funding framework that aims to allow the Australian grape and wine community’s research partners to be better able to make strategic investments and plan for the future, maintain technical capabilities in key areas, and have greater flexibility to pursue promising research results within an overall agreed framework.
About Wine Australia
Wine Australia supports a competitive wine sector by investing in research, development and extension (RD&E), growing domestic and international markets and protecting the reputation of Australian wine.
Wine Australia is an Australian Commonwealth Government statutory authority, established under the Wine Australia Act 2013, and funded by grape growers and winemakers through levies and user-pays charges and the Australian Government, which provides matching funding for RD&E investments.
As Australia’s national science agency, CSIRO pushes the boundaries of what is possible in innovation, science and technology. CSIRO delivers impact nationally & globally through collaboration with industry, governments and communities. CSIRO’s diverse breakthroughs and inventions benefit billions each day, from WiFi and flu treatments to insect repellents and plastic banknotes. | <urn:uuid:d0e72341-2c83-46e7-bac9-6d26168220a8> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.csiro.au/en/News/News-releases/2017/Wine-Australia-and-CSIRO-sign-$37-million-investment-agreement | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573744.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819161440-20220819191440-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.920917 | 704 | 1.546875 | 2 |
Sightsavers researches the impact of exclusion and inclusion in elections and works in partnership with disabled people’s organisations in developing countries to address policy implementation, access, and stigma and discrimination.
We are also designing political participation projects in Senegal and Cameroon, both of which promote inclusive elections. This means people can enter polling booths and cast their votes independently (whether electronic or paper-based); where political parties equitably represent disability issues and people with disabilities can participate as candidates; and where all voters have accessible legal documentation and information, such as party manifestos, so they can vote.
A systematic review aiming to identify, appraise and combine available evidence to understand what practices have already taken place in African countries to support the political participation of people with disabilities, and what effect they have had at local and national levels.
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The renewable revolution has been a catalyst for the wind energy market during recent years, with the global wind market growing at an incredible pace. It’s estimated that over 1.1 million people work in the sector, with the role of “wind turbine technician” said to be the fastest growing job in the U.S. and Australia.
The World Embraces Wind Energy
The job growth is hardly surprising. The Global Wind Energy Council recently reported that 28 countries worldwide have more than 1 GW of installed wind capacity, and that number is still on the incline. The next couple of years are looking positive for installations, especially across the U.S. and Mexico. That’s despite market trepidation caused by the Trump administration’s potential effect on the renewable energy sector.
Several developments are worth watching. For example, Vestas has a number of manufacturing, and engineering, procurement, and construction projects on its plate in the U.S. The recent merger between Gamesa and Siemens should be interesting given Gamesa’s strong offshore fleet and Siemens’ position in the wind energy market. In addition to these, there are a lot of larger owners, operators, and developers looking more dominant, like EDP Renewables, which plans to add between 400 MW and 500 MW of power each year to both new and existing facilities for the next four or five years.
As a result of the market success so far, the U.S. has seen carbon emissions fall by 3% and the economy grow by 1.6%. The wind sector is poised for more growth, particularly now that tax credits for both solar and wind are being extended until 2020. There is also a positive outlook globally, with the likes of India and Turkey dubbed important markets to watch this year, and cost reductions for 3-MW turbines on the horizon, which could spur future projects.
Developing Strong Safety Practices
As the industry grows, so do the risks. In a once self-regulating environment with few legal requirements, the wind sector has evolved. Working on wind projects is now classified as a high-risk job. Maintenance employees are in the vicinity of both high- and low-voltage equipment, and many turbine technicians are required to perform heavy-lifting activities on a regular basis.
With continual changes in legislation and the constant introduction of innovative emerging technologies, the implementation of health and safety procedures across wind farms is clearly business critical for original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), especially as projects stint towards more rural areas. How can we approach safety standards as a means of minimizing these risks?
Ultimately, it’s about a shift in attitudes, working to instill a culture of workforce wellbeing in order to prevent injuries universally. We’ve already seen a number of major players in the industry begin to offer training and certifications, and as this safety culture becomes a more weighted priority, requirements for OEM certifications will become more and more competitive. This has come as a direct result of trade associations actively pushing legislation and procedures as a means of improving health and safety on wind farms.
Whilst many health and safety regulations are subject to location directives, such as the European Framework Directive on Safety and Health at Work adopted in 1989, there are a number of ways to safeguard employees working on wind farms aside from what may seem to be the obvious, personal protective equipment.
As previously discussed, endorsing training standards are fast becoming one of the more effective ways to ensure that health and safety procedures are adopted internationally, enhancing health and safety awareness throughout workforces, and instilling the safety culture that is becoming more significant to the wind sector.
The prominence of emergency response training for the renewable industry is on the rise with the industry working with governments, regulators, and emergency services to ensure that they are fully prepared for emergencies that may arise. A prime example of this is the basic obligation for BOSIET (basic offshore safety induction and emergency training) for global offshore projects. The training program not only consists of emergency response training and offshore safety instruction, but it also details safety assessment requirements. The program has, in turn, driven up demand for the skillset.
All companies seek to deploy fully qualified safety professionals across wind farm projects as a means of mitigating hazards. From maintaining all relevant documentation to writing incident reports and eliminating or controlling hazards, the specialists manage safety practices throughout the entirety of the project. These roles are integral to wind farms, creating a safe working environment and ensuring safe work practices for construction, manufacturing, and operations and maintenance activities.
As the sector progresses to keep up with the emerging energy economy, health and safety procedures will evolve too. The winds of change may be causing a stir across the energy world as it stands, but what we know for sure is that the industry will remain committed to delivering a safe and sustainable environment for its workforce, regardless of these transformations. ■
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It determines the required margin and amount of funds traders need to have in their trading accounts in order to take a position. Put simply for beginners, leverage allows you to take a position of much higher value than the monies deposited in your trading account. So in other terms, a higher leverage means a lower margin requirement to place a trade.
We’ll guide you through the process when you come to the point of opening a live account, but just as an overview, we’ll need an identification document and your proof of address to open your account. It’s important to note that the pip value is defined by the quote currency. However, when the quote currency is the USD the value of a pip is always the same!
Uncover more information about stock markets by learning how to see bullish candlestick patterns, and put them to work within your technical analysis. Unlike most MetaTrader 4 platforms, you’ll have access to integrated Reuters news. Pivot points are a technical indicator that traders use to predict upcoming areas of technical significance, such as support and resistance. They’re calculated by averaging the high, low and closing prices of a previous period.
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Our blog provides this kind of information as well as sites like Bloomberg and Reuters which have huge amounts of information available. The value of each currency depends on the supply and demand for it, thus determining the ‘exchange rate’ between the two currencies. The exchange rate itself is basically the difference between the value of one currency against another.
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Investing in over-the-counter derivatives carries significant risks and is not suitable for all investors. Margin trading in the financial markets is speculative and implies a high level of risk, including full loss of deposit. The founder of Six Figure Capital, Lewis Glasgow, has only been trading since 2013, but he has used that short time very wisely. Within just a few years, Lewis developed and successfully traded a new method for generating signals that has won international acclaim. Becoming an “overnight” success sparked Lewis’s passion for teaching, leading him to develop a 14-day course based on real market experience that was launched in 2016.
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Forex is attractive to people looking to earn extra money from the comfort of their homes. For those who are willing and able to commit to learning the ins and outs of Forex trading, it offers several advantages, such as low capital requirements and ease of entry into the market. For people with a solid foundation of knowledge and the ability to control their emotions, it does offer the opportunity to generate income, either part-time or as a career. There is no cost for access to FX Academy educational materials and trading tools.
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Buying and Selling a pair depends on the market conditions of their currency. For example a negative announcement from the European Central Bank, could cause the euro to drop significantly against the dollar. So, a trader would likely sell the pair EUR/USD meaning they sell EUR and buy USD in the hope that it will gain over the EUR due to the announcement. If you have your eyes fixed on the Tokyo trading time and research the best forex pairs to trade during Asian session, don’t skip this article.
Is forex a gamble?
When trading Forex, there are a lot of traders who approach this full-fledged business as if it were a gamble, and of course, this does not bode well. It may seem that Forex trading and gambling have a lot in common. In both cases, it is mainly about games with probability.
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This financial market is now more accessible than ever, as technology allows traders to buy and sell stocks anytime, anywhere. Please note that foreign exchange and other leveraged trading involves significant risk of loss. It is not suitable for all investors and you should make sure you understand the risks involved, seeking independent advice if necessary.
Read our top recommendations on how to become a successful forex trader. The FX Market a.k.a. the Foreign Exchange Market is a decentralised exchange where all the world’s currencies are actively traded. While other markets have a centralised location, FX trading takes place electronically, anywhere and everywhere. Use our trading tools such as Stop Loss, Stop Limit and Guaranteed Stop to limit losses and lock in profits. Get FREE real-time forex quotes and set indicators to easily analyse charts.
Consider opening a Forex account with Statrys, and in under 72 hours you’ll be able to make trades in 11 currencies at competitive prices. New traders with small accounts can therefore make relatively large amounts of profit depending on the amount of leverage they choose. Considering that on average 95% of forex traders fail, trading isn’t an easy skill to acquire. The Bank reminds its clients that if they require a wider scope of cryptocurrencies they can explore the recently launched P2P crypto exchange service. Dukascopy Bank’s marketplace for P2P exchange can process any blockchain. Therefore, it provides a secure environment to transact in virtually any token given that there is a counterparty willing to take the opposite side of the trade.
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The most frequently traded pairs are the euro versus the U.S. dollar (EUR/USD) and the British pound versus the U.S. dollar. Most traders speculating on Forex prices do not take delivery of the currency but, instead, predict the direction of exchange rates to take advantage of price movements. They do that by trading derivatives, which allows them to speculate on a currency’s price movement without taking possession of the currency. One of the key aspects of Forex trading is the ability to trade using “leverage”.
As always, the Bank is grateful for any feedback that may help us improve our services and that can be provided via our Customer Support chat. “At FXCM, we’ve been serving our clients for over 20 years. In that time, the world of Forex trading has changed a lot.” Trade popular currency pairs and CFDs with Enhanced Execution and no restrictions on stop and limit orders. So, basically a trader would use forex to hedge against other positions in other asset classes or for other forex positions. Now you’re caught up with how to decide what trading strategy you’d like to use, let’s go through some of the common strategies used.
Having successfully taken aspiring traders from rookie to expert using this method, Six Figure Capital makes our list as the best crash course for learning to trade Forex. 75.2% of retail investor accounts lose money when trading CFDs with this provider. Dukascopy Bank enables new cooperation with the registered Swiss/Lichtenstein digital assets exchange Smart Valor. A forex trader effectively creates a ‘hedge’ where they protect a position they already have from an undesired move in the market.
Dukascopy Bank has developed a marketplace for P2P exchange of cryptocurrencies. It is organized as a bulletin board, whereby the clients can place their offers to buy or sell tokens against fiat currencies. Currently, the list of available tokens includes 12 major names with further plans to expand the accessible instruments to altcoins and NFTs. So, whether you’re new to online trading 24option or you’re an experienced investor, FXCM has customisable account types and services for all levels of retail traders. Every day there’s trillions of dollars traded on the Forex Market, making it the largest financial market in terms of sheer volume traded. However, this used to only be available to the likes of big banks, financial institutions, huge corporations, and hedge funds.
73% of retail investor accounts lose money when trading CFDs with this provider. As we mentioned previously, we don’t recommend jumping right into trading on a live account. However, by using a demo account you can trade and learn with no risk to your capital! A demo account is quite simply an account with a broker that mimics live trading conditions. You’ll be able to see the prices that brokers offer, check out how fast their execution is and, test or improve your strategy on an entirely risk-free basis.
Even Reddit has countless pages in which not only forex traders but also stock, options, futures, and other traders, share their ideas. As mentioned several times, a forex trader can choose to work whenever they want, a key difference between a normal 9 to 5 and trading. The opposite then happens; traders begin to sell under the impression that the price has to go back down.
If you want to learn more about Forex trading, read the full article. To see a full list of currency pairs offered by Plus500, click here. Mitigate against forex trading risk with our range of stop and limit orders, and keep an eye on forex prices with customisable alerts. When you trade CFDs you do so with leverage – meaning you can win, or lose, a significant amount more than your initial deposit – called your margin. Though not actually a cost to you, the margin you pay makes a big difference to the affordability of your forex trade. Open an account quickly and easily – you could be set up and trading forex today.
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When you buy or sell a currency pair and hold it overnight, a Swap or Rollover fee may be paid or charged to you. This is the funding component which is needed to maintain your position. It must be pointed out that it is extremely imperative to understand the risks involved in Forex trading for pamm investing beginners using high leverage. Traders must find the appropriate level that suits their trading style, as the effect of leverage is that both gains and losses are magnified. Online trading, web-based research and analysis combined with competitive pricing have made the market more accessible. | <urn:uuid:14d3a62c-76e8-4e1f-8db5-ffd4bfdc7ff9> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://dragonbikes.co.uk/7-incredible-benefits-of-online-forex-trading/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572833.95/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817032054-20220817062054-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.942621 | 3,025 | 1.601563 | 2 |
The YAML schema for DockerBuild native step is as follows:
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The following unit was developed with the understanding that diseases are an ever evolving crisis whose continuous ebb and flow through history helped to shape humans as a species. Human response to outbreaks has led to innovations in sanitation, modern medicine, and scientific discovery. Understanding transmission and developing treatments have allowed humans to gain a form of mastery over what was previously thought to be an unstoppable force. However, as humans respond to diseases, diseases reply with new out breaks and re-emergence of pathogens that devastate populations and upset the tentative balance we have fought hard to win. This unit provides students and teachers the chance to explore the arms race between humans and emerging infectious pathogens.
At the time this unit was conceived, several potential dangerous pathogens were emerging in the global population. While this unit focuses on these outbreaks and several notable outbreaks in recent history, there is room to utilize current discoveries to keep this unit up to date and relevant in the classroom. Furthermore, as with all emerging diseases, time is required to fully understand the nature of their transmittance and origin. As such, information included in this unit may be outdated. It is highly recommended that the materials provided in this unit are supplemented by current research and articles in order to provide the most up to date picture of the emerging diseases discussed.
This unit touches five major topics areas and necessary background information. While the scope of this unit is very broad and may take between four and six weeks to complete, each of the topic area can be reduced to form five mini-unit or lesson plans. This particular unit was developed for high school students in either biology or biomedical science courses. The materials and activities in this unit plan can be scaled down to accommodate younger students or can be extended to build a strong science enrichment program. | <urn:uuid:a8f11a07-1f68-41bb-ae25-f3935bb0a50a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://teachersinstitute.yale.edu/curriculum/units/2014/4/14.04.11.x.html/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570793.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808092125-20220808122125-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.968066 | 353 | 3.71875 | 4 |
|FRITZ, KATELYN - North Carolina State University|
|ANDRES, RYAN - North Carolina State University|
|NEWMAN, CASSIE - North Carolina State University|
|OAKLEY, ANDREW - North Carolina State University|
|CLEVENGER, JOSH - Hudsonalpha Institute For Biotechnology|
|DUNNE, JEFFREY - North Carolina State University|
Submitted to: Crop Science
Publication Type: Peer Reviewed Journal
Publication Acceptance Date: 5/10/2022
Publication Date: 5/10/2022
Citation: Fritz, K.R., Dean, L.L., Hendrix, K., Andres, R.S., Newman, C.S., Oakley, A.T., Clevenger, J.P., Dunne, J.C. 2022. Flavor quality and composition of accessions resources in the North Carolina State University peanut breeding program. Crop Science. Accepted Author Manuscript. https://doi.org/10.1002/csc2.20774.
Interpretive Summary: Peanut flavor has not been considered important in the breeding of new peanut cultivars. This research evaluated the flavor of peanuts after roasting using a trained descriptive panel and the established peanut flavor lexicon. As the North Carolina State University peanut breeding program focuses on the Virginia market type peanuts, those entries into the Uniform Peanut Performance Tests (UPPT) and selected varieties from the NCSU breeding program were studied. Statistical analysis of the data identified two cultivars with higher flavor impact that could prove valuable in maintaining and increasing desirable peanut flavors in subsequent variety development.
Technical Abstract: Plant breeders often focus on production traits such as yield and disease resistance, while quality traits such as flavor are given low priority. Food manufacturers and consumers have expressed interest in superior flavor experiences suggesting that flavor attributes should play a more prominent role in selection. Flavor attributes were evaluated among a subset of the North Carolina State University (NCSU) peanut germplasm collection to simplify flavor analysis and selection, confirm a recent lack of progress in flavor improvement and identify new sources of flavor improvement in Virginia-type peanut. Multivariate and principal component analysis identified eleven flavor attributes and five principal components that should facilitate selection of improved peanut flavor. Analysis of historical variety trial data identified a significant deterioration in the roast peanut flavor and a modest improvement in other critical flavor attributes over the last twenty years. Based on these findings the accessions ‘Chimera’ and ‘NC Bunch’ were chosen to initiate a crossing program to develop Virginia-type peanut cultivars with improved roast peanut flavor. | <urn:uuid:fb14c99e-ccf8-4d50-9212-067e57a5f38d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.ars.usda.gov/research/publications/publication/?seqNo115=389542 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571056.58/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809155137-20220809185137-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.857521 | 596 | 1.9375 | 2 |
Little is known about Bethea's life before he arrived in Owensboro in 1933. Born around 1909 in Roanoke, Virginia, Bethea was an African-American man orphaned after the death of his mother in 1919 and his father in 1926. He worked for the Rutherford family and lived in their basement for about a year, and then he moved to a cabin behind the house of a man named Emmett Wells. He worked as a laborer and later rented a room from a woman, Mrs. Charles Brown.
During the early morning of June 7, 1936, Bethea entered the home of Lischia Edwards on East Fifth Street by climbing onto the roof of an outbuilding next door. From there, he jumped onto the roof of the servant's quarters of Emmett Wells' house, and then walked down a wooden walkway. He climbed over the kitchen roof to Edwards' bedroom window.
After removing a screen from her window, he entered the room, waking her. Bethea then choked Edwards and violently raped her. After she was unconscious, he searched for valuables and stole several of her rings. In the process, he removed his own black celluloid prison ring, and failed to later retrieve it. He left the bedroom and hid the stolen jewels in a barn not far from the house. | <urn:uuid:d5c6b59b-e6c4-4bbc-854d-cbdef2d30e08> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.thecenterforruleoflaw.org/rule-of-law-blog/category/capital-punishment | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570793.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808092125-20220808122125-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.983087 | 269 | 2.078125 | 2 |
MRU reads for literary freedom
Trying to stop kids from reading can have opposite effect, Docherty says
Mount Royal University, in support of students’ intellectual and creative freedom, celebrated Freedom to Read week with students, faculty and staff staging open readings of banned books in front of the library during the lunch hour.
University president David Docherty took part in the event by reading a passage from The Wars by Timothy Findley, a novel that was recently banned by the Bluewater School Board in Ontario due to its violent and sexual content, the same school board that banned The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck when Docherty was in high school.
After The Grapes of Wrath was banned at his school, the first thing Docherty did was go to his local library and find a copy. He was only wondering what kind of content the adults were trying to hide, but it introduced him to a lot of new ideas and concepts, and opened his eyes to the world of politics.
This has led to Docherty to a slightly different view on book banning. He is all for it —— but with good reason.
“Kids will ask, ‘what don’t they want me to know?’ and seek out books on their own,” he said. For this reason, Docherty joked that public grade schools should be banning more books.
In August 1939, by a vote of 4 to 1, the board of Associate Famers of California approved a resolution banning The Grapes of Wrath from county libraries and schools, according to Banned Books Awareness.
To this day, the book continues to be burned and banned for its “depiction of migrants” and for claims of vulgar language and sexual references.
Jessie Loyer, a librarian at MRU, ran the event this year. It is her first year running the event, which she thinks it is a great op- portunity to bring attention to the library.
Loyer supports reading in all forms, and is always surprised when young adult novels turn up on banned book lists. Young adult books, Loyer said, are an opportunity to open up lots of people’s worlds.
Another lover of literature is Pattie Mascaro, a member of the support staff at the university who holds an undergraduate degree in English. She believes many banned books have very powerful and surprising ideas, and doesn’t see the reason for banning books.
Mascaro is a particular fan of speculative fiction, which includes genres like fantasy, sci-fi and horror. “It is a place where people can explore ideas that may be to scary to explore in a real life situation,” she said. That is why she chose to read from the banned book The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins.
Mascaro said events like Freedom to Read are important because people think of book banning as something that happened 50 years ago, but it is very current. It happens to books for all ages, from Lolita to Harry Potter to Where the Wild Things Are.
Docherty said it’s significant when kids are given reasons to seek out books on their own. “The importance of reading is paramount,” he said. | <urn:uuid:1cd22859-fdfd-41f9-8cb3-da3594e24f5f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.thereflector.ca/2013/03/08/mru-reads-for-literary-freedom/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570793.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808092125-20220808122125-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.976116 | 674 | 2.296875 | 2 |
Mid-Cities between Dallas and Fort Worth; inc. 1896. Arlington had a population increase of over 64% between 1980 and 1990 and remains a fast growing city. It produces motor vehicles and parts; transportation, medical, electronic, and oil-field equipment; and rubber and plastic products. Six Flags over Texas, a huge theme park, is there, and the city is home to the Texas Rangers baseball team and Dallas Cowboys football team. It is also the seat of the Univ. of Texas at Arlington.
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The Bia West District is one of the 261 Metropolitan, Municipal and District Assemblies (MMDAs) in Ghana and forms part of the 9 MMDAs in the Western North Region.
The Bia West District was carved out of the erstwhile Bia District in 2012 by the Legislative Instrument (LI) 2014 and has a total surface area of 1,344 square kilometres. The District capital, Essam is located 420km to the northwest of Sekondi-Takoradi and 250km to Kumasi.
The Bia West District shares boundaries with the Bia East District to the north and east, the Republic of La Cote d’Ivoire to the west, and Juaboso District to the south.
The population of the District according to 2021 population and housing census stands at 115,881 with 59,955 males and 55,926 females. | <urn:uuid:678643fc-fac7-47a3-a434-795c4131fdb2> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://www.ghanadistricts.com/Home/District/201 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571056.58/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809155137-20220809185137-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.916562 | 186 | 1.84375 | 2 |
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