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Getting Wound Up
In this step of how to string a bass guitar, you will wind the strings on the post.
Place the cut end of the bass string all the way straight down into the hole in the center of the tuning post.
Bend the string at a right angle.
Begin winding the bass string on to the post.
Keep tension on the string with one hand as you wind the string so you get tight wraps around the post and the string doesn’t slip out of the bridge.
Make sure you are winding it on the correct side of the post! It shouldn’t angle off the nut. Did I mention this already?
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If you were tasked with defining the design process – you could take it in a lot of different directions and you’re going to have a lot of options. Andrew and I are going to attempt to tackle this topic and discuss how we go about solving the tasks set before us when creating architecture. Welcome to Episode 101: The Design Process.
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Today, Andrew and I are talking about the design process – which at first blush might be one of the most open-ended topics in the history of topics. Making a determination on what the “design process” means to us was the first step in understanding how our conversation was going to go.
Problem-Solving without Inspiration jump to 1:55
So here is a starting point – at least for me – on what the design process can mean: It is basically a systematic, and typically linear problem-solving process that is formulaic and allows creative people a methodology to going about their business without needing “inspiration.” Most examples I’ve found, or those that I was essentially taught are 4 or 5 steps that yield a result …. Which does not mean that it is the best result or the one that you want or expect.
Plan -> Mock Up -> Build -> Measure
Motive of Design -> Pre-Design Phase -> Requirements -> Design Phase -> Product -> Post Design phase
All of these sorts of models have a built-in check to make sure that through the creative act, concepts don’t veer off course. The problem with these sorts of models is that we don’t always design or create to necessarily solve a problem. What if I want to design a new Life of an Architect Podcast logo? Obviously, there will be objectives and things I want to achieve, but those things aren’t necessarily associated with a problem.
These two models – and there are a lot of variations on this methodology, most of which are applicable but not specific to the practice architecture – align themselves fairly close to that most architects organize their process around: programming/schematic design/design development/construction observation … with smaller and complete cycles taking place through each step of this process. I have discussed various aspects of this process in blog posts over the past few years, not with any big picture in mind but more as a response to questions I was receiving at the time. Every single project starts the same way and in general, they all follow the same process of: Discovery – Exploration – Presentation – Modification – and then Execution.
Let’s get into it …
Discovery jump to 13:14
This is essentially the programming phase and it generally starts with a few meetings to understand the what’s and how’s of a project based on the needs and desires of the clients. When we start the process of collecting information, we start by asking a lot of questions – and we use a questionnaire to jump-start this part of the process. (see the smashed together image above for a sample of questions…)
- Begin at the beginning by asking questions and collecting responses– interestingly, people don’t always know what they want, or at least there are varying degrees of agreement between the “stakeholders” that will eventually live in the house in the future. Part of this process identifies what one person values and when it is disproportionate to what their partner values.
- Understanding the motivation behind the actual answer– we want everything to work in concert together. This is truly the embodiment of when a thing is greater than the sum of its parts. This frequently means that we ask questions that go well beyond how many bedrooms and bathrooms someone wants. How do you live – How do you want to use the spaces – Will the house support your actual lifestyle?
- Understanding what rooms are the most important for your life–to follow up on that last point focused on the idea of “what you want” versus “what you think you want” versus “what you actually need”.
These are the things that make fundamental differences when we go about the process of creating a program and understanding each person’s priorities. In order to design a successful project, especially a residential project, you need to develop a relationship with your client that goes beyond functionality based solely on needs. Yes, there will probably be bedrooms and bathrooms, a kitchen, some living areas, and sometimes the odd side room, etc. but it’s important to understand how each client will want to use the spaces in order to give them what they want, which does not necessarily mean what they are asking for …
Part of the role of an architect is to be an interpreter and translator – to listen to what the client is saying and then to digest, interpret, reformat, and then present that information back to them. The goal is to ultimately protect the client from themselves (another major role) and to scrape away all the nasty bits of conflicting thoughts and imagery they have been assembling into a clearer and more representative picture of what they are after.
Exploration jump to 26:46
We’ve gone through the data-collection period and now that we have answers to our initial questions and it’s now time to start exploring possible solutions. This happens in different ways – we prepare plans, we collect inspirational imagery, and we typically go through a red dot green dot exercise with those images. We do massing studies, site evaluation, square footage takeoffs using a room matrix (which captures all those spaces that everybody needs but people don’t generally think to include on their list of needed spaces)
We also discuss the red dot / Green Dot process of identifying inspiration images – an exercise where we collect inspiration images to help facilitate our conversation. This is a slightly different process than simply reviewing the images that the owner has collected and presented. These days, the owner will frequently show up with knocked-out Pinterest pages that they have been pinning for years. This is always helpful and we will get the owners to provide comments about why these particular images were tagged, but the challenge starts when a) one person in the process does not like the images pinned by the other, and b) the process of image collection has been going on for so long that the images are all over the place and it is difficult to articulate a singular vision.
Presentation jump to 32:34
Presentation is just a catchy way to say we prepare drawings and documents for the purpose of communicating the results of our discovery and the ideas we are developing. Understandably not everyone reads drawings well so we use a variety of techniques to present our information. Diagrams, 3D renderings, photographs, physical models – whatever it takes to help facilitate an informed conversation.
If I have any anxiety about this process, this is the point in the process when it would take place. Despite it never happening, all I want is for people to be happy with what we have put together, recognize that we did listen to their comments and that we have assembled all our ideas regarding the process so far into a course of action … but I still have not been able to shake the dread of what happens if someone really dislikes the direction we are attempting to go? So far in 30 years, it hasn’t happened but it doesn’t stop me from having some anxiety about it.
Modification jump to 38:17
After we have presented our initial thoughts and ideas, and the clients have had a chance to internalize and provide feedback, we take all the information we have received and organize a strategy to execute any possible or needed modifications. While it happens more than I would have thought, we don’t expect to get everything 100% right out of the gate. This frequently has to do with understanding the priorities of our stakeholders. One of the things that always drives me a little batty is when I hear architects say that they have “developed three schemes to present today … here is the first option.” Blah!!
We are supposed to be providing a service based on our experience and training and while there are always different ways to develop solutions and those are typically different more times than not simply based on how the priorities have been established. A different arrangement of priorities should create a different solution – and a lot of time clients don’t really understand their own priorities until they’ve had a chance to react to the work we are presenting to them. We rarely have to start over when there is a shuffling of priorities, normally it is a few modifications that are just a part of the overall solution.
I’ll even go so far as to say that modifications don’t just happen because the stakeholders have a different opinion or different priorities than the ones we’ve made. As the project develops, we might make a modification because of some construction tolerances we want to create, or a material we want to use and how it fits into the construction assembly. Sometimes we’ve just had some time to take a pause and with a fresh set of eyes, we see something that is not what we think it should be and we make design redlines (which are internal and just between architectural team members.)
Execution jump to 47:59
This means exactly what you think it means … finalizing all the previous stages into a final product. There is execution at every one of these levels and whatever scale you want to break this list of steps down into, execution is the last one that happens before you go back to the level of Discovery – Exploration – Presentation – Modification – and then Execution once again. I don’t feel the need to elaborate on this part of the process in great detail since it feels specific to which step you are in and is self-explanatory.
What’s the Rank jump to 51:15
Andrew and I are still trying to feel our way through this new end-of-the-episode segment. We both feel like it has promise but I will confess that we actually recorded this segment twice. We originally ranked “hair color” but after having a chance to sleep on it, I felt bad and didn’t want to hurt anyone’s feelings for something that can not be controlled and yet remains aesthetically superficial. So I asked Andrew if we could record a replacement and we came up with …
How would you Rank the Top 5 condiments??
A condiment is defined as a sauce type element that is applied after the food is prepared to enhance the flavor … Andrew defined this as a liquid-based so that we don’t introduce spices (like salt and pepper)
Bob’s Top 5 Condiments = Mayonaise / Mustard / BBQ sauce / Ketchup (not catsup, for those of you that are broken …) / Ranch Dressing
Andrew’s Top 5 Condiments = Mustard / Sriracha / Mayonaise (kewpie mayo specifically) / BBQ Sauce / Ranch Dressing
It was actually hard for us both to come up with 5 since I don’t actually use a lot of sauced-based condiments. We had to debate if things like “salsa” could be considered a condiment. What about soy sauce? Andrew originally had salsa as his #3 but we eliminated salsa as a condiment, which I now think was a mistake … salsa is now my unofficial #2-5 ranked condiment.
EP 101: Design Process
The design process for each person is different even though there will always be some similarities between processes. For me, I typically sketch through my ideas – a process that has remained steadfast over the entirety of my career – but over the past 2 years due to work-from-home requirements associated with the coronavirus, I have moved closer to an all-digital process. I would be kidding myself if I didn’t at least acknowledge that this modification had some impact on my workflow. It was during this time period when I was isolated and didn’t have my normal creative process to rely upon, I started thinking about my own design process and I assembled my own sequence process of Discovery – Exploration – Presentation – Modification – and then Execution. While I am quite sure that those five items have always been present in some capacity, I didn’t focus on that exact process and see that it had value for those times when I was just starting at a blank piece of paper and was wondering where I should begin. Hopefully, today’s conversation has given you something to think about and you can find some order to your own process.
Cheers, and good luck!
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Push Not the River has been hailed as Poland's version of Gone With The Wind for good reason. Like GWTW, it takes place in a time of turbulent transition when Poland was partitioned by Russia, Prussia, and Austria. It's based on the actual diary of Countess Anna Maria Berezowska which details her life and times in Poland from 1779-1794. It is a wonderful read and teaches us much about the political and social climate in Poland at the time.
And now we are about to be gifted with James Martin's sequel to Push Not the River... Against a Crimson Sky. ACS will be available August 8th, which is just around the corner. I've read an advanced copy of ACS and can tell you that it too is a wonderful read. ACS picks up where PNTR leaves off in 1794 and takes us through various military campaigns with Napoleon, Dabrowski, and Poniatowski, along with the fictional lives of Anna Maria Berezowska and her family and friends. It has something for everybody... history, drama, romance, and intrigue.
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The June 2022 deaths of 53 people, victims of heat stroke, in the back of a tractor-trailer in San Antonio, Texas, show the dangers of crossing the U.S. southern border without authorization.
Such fatalities result from two intersecting phenomena. One is the massive growth in the federal government’s policing system in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands since the mid-1990s. The other is the strong and profoundly unequal ties between the United States and the home countries of most unauthorized – or undocumented – migrants.
‘Prevention Through Deterrence’
Since 1994, when I began to research the roots and impacts of U.S. border and immigration enforcement, U.S.-Mexico border policing has radically changed. Beginning during Bill Clinton’s presidency, this transformation has involved infusing massive amounts of resources – in the form of personnel, technology and infrastructure – into a multifaceted system of border control.
The number of Border Patrol agents has grown from roughly 4,200 in 1994 to more than 20,000 today. Typically, 80% to 90% of them are stationed in the U.S. Southwest. Spending has increased as well. In 1994, the Border Patrol’s budget was US$400 million. In 2021, it was $4.9 billion – an approximately 700% increase in inflation-adjusted dollars in less than 30 years.
Complementing the growth is a federal border policing strategy called Prevention Through Deterrence. Introduced in 1994, the strategy concentrates policing personnel, surveillance technology and infrastructure in and around border cities and towns. Its goal is to push unauthorized migrants into remote areas characterized by harsh and dangerous terrain, forcing people to abandon their efforts to reach the United States.
As Doris Meissner, Clinton’s head of Immigration and Naturalization Service, later reflected, “We did believe that geography would be an ally to us.”
U.S. officials anticipated that unauthorized border crossings “would go down to a trickle once people realized what it’s like.” Instead, the deterrence policy has compelled migrants to take ever greater risks, resulting in more deaths.
Rising death toll
Traversing the southern borderlands has long proved deadly for migrants.
In the late 1800s, for example, unauthorized Chinese immigrants died in the deserts of the borderlands as they tried to avoid policing associated with the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act, a law that barred most immigrants from China. And in the 1980s and 1990s, many people, mostly Mexican nationals – sometimes numbering in the hundreds – died annually trying to enter the United States without authorization.
With Prevention Through Deterrence, however, deaths grew markedly.
According to U.S. Border Patrol statistics, there were an average of 359 fatalities annually from fiscal years 1998 to 2021 in the Southwest borderlands. This represents about one death per day over 24 years. Fiscal year 2021 saw 557 fatalities, the highest death toll on record.
Since these deaths occur among a clandestine population, no one knows what percentage of total migrant trips end in tragedy.
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Two female students posted a video on social media expressing their dismay, frustration, and confusion about the Ghana Education System. The young ladies who updated the video on Tik Tok busily loading and parking woods. The ladies argued in the video that they were sent to school to study but instead, they are being used as laborers.
The creation of new syllabus in the Ghana Education System has call for the creation of new textbooks to support the new topics which will be taught in schools.
Here is a guide to check BECE school Placement and do the self placement or a senior high school if you were not automatically placed by the Automatic Placement System. The BECE school Placement also known as SHS school Placement officially begin soon. Here is all you need to do to check the BECE Placement. According to the Ghana Education System(GES) the senior high school Placement will begin soon. The senior high school Placement portal subsequently to be operational as well as today. After the release of
For every nation to develop, it's human resources and natural resources should be effectively utilize to achieve this goal. For the human resources to develop it solely depends on the education system provided by the country to it's youth. It's time we had a very hard conversation about Ghanaian education, the future of the youth, and whether we think the current trajectory by WAEC will lead to future forward education for the next generation.
GES Reconsiders Dismissal Punishment, But, Surcharges 13 Students For The full Cost Of Damaged Items
Last week, the public was served with a list of students reckoned to have engaged in some examination malpractices and vandalism. These 14 students were reprimanded to terminate their paper writing. This directive from the Ghana Education Service (GES), had it that these students had been expelled and therefore cannot write their remaining exam papers. This was as a punishment to students from, per the list released by the Ghana Education System, the Battor Senior High School, Sekondi College, Juaben Senior
In total, about 525,000 graduates who qualifiedwill seek placement into 721 SHS, technical and vocational schools of their choices which have declared about 535,000 vacancies.Over 450,000 students have gotten their selected choices of schools.The rest will use the self placement method.
The Ghana Education System sees everyone to be running something similar to tracking system with the exception of Kindergarten, Primary and JHS schools. The tracking system came into existence when the large number of students were admitted during the FREE SHS Campaign. The Kindergarten and Primary school students resumed to school on 15th January, 2021 for the first time since March, 2020 when the country was alarmed by the Covid-19 pandemic. They will be at home from April, 16th 2021 to May, 4th 2021 Since
Thanks for clicking on this article. Please like, share, comment and also follow me. Punishment is given to people who violates rules. In Ghana Education System, students can be punished when they go wayward from the rules and regulations of the school. There are many forms of punishment which can be given to students who violates rules and regulations in school.
"Thanks President. The Free SHS Paid Off" - Ghanaians Appreciate Him As WASSCE Results Are Released.
Today, December 8th, WASSCE 2021 results were released and people have mixed feelings about their results. WASSCE results are really important in the Ghana Education System because it decides whether one goes to the tertiary institutions or not. The statistics for this year 2021, WASSCE results, are not bad.
Altogether, around 525,000 alumni who qualifiedwill look for arrangement into 721 SHS, specialized and professional schools of their decisions which have pronounced around 535,000 opportunities.More than 450,000 understudies have gotten their chosen selections of schools.The rest will utilize the self situation technique.
One of the most trending news in Ghana today is the guy who was asked to form a sentence with "him or her".We all know that this question should be very very easy to answer.
Kindly FOLLOW AND SHARE for more updates. The Ghana Education Service (GES) has made a project for distribution of laptops to teachers in senior high schools (SHSs) under the ‘One Teacher One Laptop’ initiative. This project is established to improve the standard of the education in Senior High School.The distribution will be gone by Regional Director of every region in the country.
The report recognized that technology can play a key or important role in widening access to education to a wider section of the population and literacy education for facilitating educational delivery and training at all levels.Technology helped a lot in Ghana during the pandemic by enhancing scope of education through the facilitating of mobile learning and inclusive education. | <urn:uuid:5cb46aea-3ca4-4a34-ac71-62828f7b4bdc> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://gh.opera.news/tags/ghana-education-system | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570793.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808092125-20220808122125-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.969664 | 997 | 1.804688 | 2 |
Recently, Water Protection Association of Central Kansas ("WaterPACK") completed an economic study in cooperation with Kansas State University to evaluate the value of irrigation in Groundwater Management District No. 5. This evaluation includes an understanding of the overall value of irrigation to the District as well as the impact of restrictions in water use.
WaterPACK and Kansas State University has provided this study for area water users to have a better understanding of the water resources of this local region. The District appreciates WaterPACK's willingness to share this information. | <urn:uuid:98268261-eebe-411f-a5ab-9b9ae27379ef> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://gmd5.org/waterpack-economic-study | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571222.74/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810222056-20220811012056-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.916374 | 111 | 1.742188 | 2 |
20th August, 2016 – Just about four years ago a huge earthquake shook the heart of Italy. The epicentre of the earthquake was about 10 miles north-east of Norcia in the picturesque hills of Umbria. It is a beautiful region of forests, waterfalls and charming villages. It is the green heart of Italy, filled with farms, orchards and lush, productive fields. It is the place where the regions of Lazio, Umbria and Le Marche meet. The earthquake of four years ago was so strong it was felt in Rome, at least 100 kilometres from the earthquake zone. Every few years there is an earthquake in Italy that makes the news. Towns and villages in ruins fill our TV screens. There are many, many more earthquakes that don’t even make the news. Seismic activity in Italy is a continuing and constant story. This article aims to explain why…………..
The story continues…….
27th March, 2021: A series of earthquakes – at a depth of 10 kms below the surface. Centred in the Adriatic Sea off the coast of Puglia.
13th July, 2020: Udine – Forni di Sotto – an area just north-east of Venice is rocked by an earthquake – 9 kms below the surface of the Earth. It’s magnitude is 3.7, which means it will be felt by all those living within about twenty minutes of the tremor.
25th December, 2018: Seismic activity in and around Mount Etna, Sicily
28th January, 2017: The seismic activity in Italy which started in August, 2016 continues in Central Italy. Ten days earlier – 18th January there was an earthquake in Central Italy, the tremors and earth movement sent shock waves through the region, resulting in an avalanche that engulfed a hotel. The force of the avalanche displaced the hotel downhill by tens of meters. Almost thirty people lost their lives. This is all part of a continuing seismic pattern that has seen tens of thousands of quakes in Central Italy since August of last year.
30th October, 2016: A series of earthquakes started in late August, in Italy’s central mountainous area, about two hours east of Rome. For several months Central Italy was jostled and rocked by thousands of tremors and several strong earthquakes. On 26th October, there was a large earthquake west of Visso, hundreds of people were evacuated to the coast for their safety. Then on the morning of 30th October, another huge earth tremor struck just to the north of Norcia, Umbria. This quake registered 6.6 on the Richter scale. Ever since the quakes have continued, shaking the hills and small towns of this mountainous area. I can’t even imagine how frightening and concerning these ground movements are for the local people. In fact the local people had to endure months of quakes and minor quakes, which eventually came to an end several months later.
24th August, 2016: Amatrice: The small town of Amatrice was severely damaged by a violent earthquake – hundreds of people lost their lives. Houses collapsed and roads destroyed.
For a lay person’s guide to Italy’s earthquakes:
Italy is a long peninsula of ancient rock that runs approximately north to south, from Austria and Switzerland to Sicily and the coast of North Africa. The Mediterranean Sea is a huge basin that is being gradually squeezed between the two gigantic continental plates of Europe and Africa. The backbone of Italy is a range of mountains called the Apennines. There is a tectonic fault line that runs down much of these mountains. If you think of the Earth’s surface as a series of plates moving in relation to one another, a bit like a 3-D puzzle or the bones that make up the skull of a new born baby, then you can visualise the edges of these plates, pulling apart in some places and pushing together in others. The plate boundaries are generally areas of construction or destruction. These plate boundaries are frequently associated with volcanoes and earthquakes. From the plate boundaries run fault lines, often at right angles to the plate edge, these fault lines complicate matters greatly. Pressure can build up along these fault lines until dramatic movement occurs which results in an earthquake. Movement along the San Andreas Fault in California is monitored constantly in an attempt to predict future quakes.
Italy’s fault lines are very active in geological terms. In the last twenty years there have been three major earthquakes and numerous smaller ones. The beautiful town of Assisi was hit in 1997 by a quake which damaged the famous Basilica of San Francisco. It took years to restore the church and it’s medieval frescoes. In 2009 there was a quake in L’Aquila which destroyed the town and killed hundreds of people. In 2016 an earthquake measuring 6.2 on the Richter scale destroyed Amatrice, a pretty little mountain town known all over Italy as the birthplace of a special pasta dish – Pasta al’Amatriciana. Not far from Modena in Emilia Romagna there was an earthquake in 2012 which shook the buildings so hard enormous wheels of Parmesan Cheese fell from the shelves in the drying houses where they are stored to age for ten to fifteen years.
So why do people live in ‘earthquake prone’ areas? Well they live here for many reasons. Volcanic rocks produce, over time excellent, fertile soils that are wonderful for farming. Let’s take Vesuvius as an example – this is a huge volcano, an active volcano, located on the Bay of Naples. It will probably erupt again at some point in the future. After Milan and Rome, Naples is one of Italy’s largest cities. In the event of a volcanic eruption there would be a massive ejection of gases and rock into the atmosphere. The vacuum created by the explosion would create very strong onshore winds as air rushes in to fill the void. These strong winds would prevent people leaving the area by sea. The motorway around the bay would become gridlocked within an hour with cars trying to flee. The result would be catastrophic. However people, especially Italians, love to be near family. Family connections and relationships bind individuals to a town, a village, even a street. Familiarity is reassuring it provides us with security and predictability.
As the Apennine Mountains have been contorted and twisted through geological time. So this has led to the formation of beautiful metamorphic rocks, especially the marbles of Carrara. The Carrara Marble quarries just north of Pisa have the finest, whitest marble. Famously used by Michelangelo when he sculpted ‘David’ in the 16th century. This Apennine marble was also used to decorate the Cathedral of Florence, interiors of palaces and aristocratic homes. Marble was brought from Pistoia, Prato and Carrara. Each town was known for the colour and perfection of its stones. Green from Pistoia, red from Prato and white from Carrara.
I’ve been working in Italy for thirty years. The Italians are resilient people. They will rebuild and they will survive. The Italian peninsula is one of the most beautiful, rich and diverse landscapes of Europe. This is the land of olive oil, fine wines, cheeses, hams and delicious fruits and vegetables. A land of skill, design and ingenuity. A land of literature, art and culture. A land of profound humanity and kindness. Italy will endure and we can support the Italians by continuing to visit and showing that we care.
- Livello di pericolosita in Italian means ‘level of danger’ in English.
- The USGS – United States Geological Survey does an excellent job monitoring seismic activity globally. It also has an informative web site, full of detail and live up-dates. The address is www.usgs.gov
- In Italy there is a National Centre for Earthquakes showing quakes and tremors, their location, depth and power – it is called INGV and provides extensive information on seismic activity. Italy’s ‘live’ seismic activity monitoring service
- The INGV – Italy’s National Seismic Monitoring service also produces live updates of all measurable seismic activity. Here’s more from the recent Udine quake of July 2020 – INGV link: https://bit.ly/32gIMGn
- The Volcanic Eruption of Mount Vesuvius, Bay of Naples in 71 AD changed the shape of the mountain and covered the towns of Herculaneum and Pompeii in pyroclastic material, ash and debris, to a depth of more than a hundred metres. Vesuvius – volcanic eruption, Herculaneum & Pompeii
- These maps of Sicily and the volcano of Etna, show clearly the fault lines that cause seismic activity in Southern Italy and Sicily.
- Inspired by recent eruptions down the south-east flanks of Etna (Sicily) read this article: https://wp.me/p5eFNn-63m
- Updated: 30-10-2016
- Updated: 29-01-2017
- Updated: 26-10-2018
- Updated: 24-01-2019
- Updated: 20-07-2020
- Updated: 28-03-2021
A fantastic and detailed ‘seismic map’ published in late 2018 by Italy’s INGV:
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|2019 El Paso shooting|
|Part of right-wing terrorism in the United States|
|Location||7101 Gateway West Blvd.|
El Paso, Texas, United States
|Date||August 3, 2019 |
10:39 – 10:45 a.m. (MDT UTC−06:00)
|Target||Hispanic and Latino Americans|
|Mass shooting, hate crime, mass murder, domestic terrorism, right-wing terrorism|
|Weapons||WASR-10 AK-47–style semi-automatic rifle|
|Accused||Patrick Wood Crusius|
On August 3, 2019, a mass shooting occurred at a Walmart store in El Paso, Texas, United States. In the terrorist attack, a far-right individual allegedly killed 23 people[n 1] and injured 23 others. The Federal Bureau of Investigation is investigating the shooting as an act of domestic terrorism and a hate crime. The shooting has been described as the deadliest attack on Latinos in modern American history, and is the deadliest mass shooting in the US to conclude with an alleged perpetrator being caught alive to face legal repercussions.
Patrick Wood Crusius, a 21-year-old from Allen, Texas, was arrested and charged with capital murder in connection with the shooting. Police believe a manifesto with white nationalist and anti-immigrant themes, posted on the online message board 8chan shortly before the attack, was written by Crusius; it cites the year's earlier Christchurch mosque shootings in New Zealand and the far-right conspiracy theory known as the Great Replacement as inspiration for the attack.
The shooting occurred at a Walmart Supercenter near the Cielo Vista Mall on the east side of El Paso. The shooter walked into the store carrying what is believed to be a WASR-10 rifle, a semi-automatic civilian version of the AK-47, and opened fire just before 10:40 a.m.
The store manager witnessed the killer begin firing in the parking lot prior to entering the crowded store. He issued a "Code Brown", designating an active shooter, to his employees, who began helping customers evacuate or hide. Many customers and employees fled to other stores in the adjacent mall or hid under tables or in shipping containers located behind the building.
First responders began to arrive within six minutes of the initial 9-1-1 call. The El Paso Police Department, Texas Rangers and paramedics responded to the scene along with the FBI and the ATF.
After the shooting, a suspect, Patrick Wood Crusius, drove to the intersection of Sunmount and Viscount, where he allegedly identified himself as the shooter and surrendered to Texas Rangers and an El Paso motorcycle officer.
The shooting has been described as the deadliest anti-Latino attack in recent U.S. history, resulting in 23 deaths and 23 injuries. One victim died the day after the event, another victim died two days after, and a third died eight months later on April 26, 2020. Among the dead were thirteen Americans, eight Mexicans and one German. The names, ages, and citizenships of 22 of the dead were released by the El Paso Police Department on August 5. Seventeen were 56 or older, two were in their 40s, two in their 20s, one was 36, and one was 15.
Thirteen victims were taken to the University Medical Center of El Paso, and another eleven to the Del Sol Medical Center. Two children, ages 2 and 9, were transferred to El Paso Children's Hospital after their conditions were stabilized. The Del Sol Medical Center patients were between 35 and 82 years old.
Patrick Wood Crusius (born July 27, 1998) was arrested shortly after the shooting and charged with capital murder. A 21-year-old white male, he was last known to have lived in his family's home in Allen, Texas, in the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex, approximately 650 miles (1,050 km) from El Paso. He graduated in 2017 from Plano Senior High School, and was enrolled at Collin College from 2017 until spring 2019.
Police said he bought the gun used in the attack legally, but provided no details about the purchase. During his first interrogation, he told detectives he had targeted Mexicans, according to an arrest warrant affidavit.
The El Paso police chief, Greg Allen, said that they are "reasonably confident" that a manifesto, titled The Inconvenient Truth, was posted by the suspect on the online message board 8chan shortly before the shooting. It identifies the type of weapon used in the attack; the suspect's name was revealed in a separate document in the post. Site moderators quickly removed the original post, though users continued sharing copies. Claiming to have been inspired by the Christchurch mosque shootings in New Zealand that killed 51 people earlier the same year, the author expresses support for the perpetrator of the Christchurch shootings and bemoans grievances such as environmental degradation, "cultural and ethnic replacement", and a "Hispanic invasion".
The anti-Hispanic, anti-immigrant manifesto promotes the white nationalist and far-right conspiracy theory called the Great Replacement, often attributed to the French writer Renaud Camus. While the document uses language about immigrants similar to that used by U.S. president Donald Trump,[n 2] such as referring to a migrant "invasion", it states that the author's beliefs predate Trump's presidency, and that Trump should not be blamed for the attack. The author's "racially extremist views", according to The New York Times, could be used to prosecute the shooting as a hate crime or domestic terrorism.
The manifesto states that Democrats would soon control the United States partly due to an increasing Hispanic population, an idea that had gained acceptance for years on right-wing radio shows. Criticizing both the Democratic Party and Republican Party for allowing corporations to "import foreign workers", the author describes the shooting as an "incentive" for Hispanics to leave the country, which would "remove the threat" of a Hispanic voting bloc. While primarily focused on ethnic and racial grievances, the document also expresses fears of automation's effects on employment and blames corporations for overusing natural resources.
The arrest warrant affidavit says Crusius waived his Miranda rights, confessed to detectives that he was the shooter, and admitted that he targeted "Mexicans" during the attack.
There are multiple investigations and jurisdictions involved with the case. FBI officials in El Paso served multiple warrants in the Dallas area and interviewed acquaintances of Crusius in Dallas and San Antonio.
On February 6, 2020, Crusius was charged with 90 federal charges: 22 counts of committing a hate crime resulting in death, 22 counts of use of a firearm to commit murder, 23 counts of a hate crime involving an attempt to kill, and 23 counts of use of a firearm during a crime. Federal prosecutors of the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Western District of Texas are seeking the death penalty, but the final decision on whether a federal capital sentence will be sought will be made by the Attorney General of the United States.
Crusius waived his federal bond hearing on February 12, 2020, during his first federal court appearance. A trial in federal court is expected before the trial in state court. On July 23, 2020, Crusius entered a plea of not-guilty to federal charges. He also waived his arraignment on those charges.
In July 2020, the federal court granted a defense motion for more time to investigate "a number of 'red-flag' mitigation themes" as federal prosecutors decided whether to seek a death sentence. In the motion, the defense said that Crusius had "severe" lifelong neurological and mental disabilities; that he was treated with anti-psychotic medication after his arrest; and that he was in a "psychotic state" when arrested.
The trial was delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Texas and the large volume of evidence. At a February 2022 hearing, the defense team requested a trial start date of March 2025 or later, while federal prosecutors asked for a June 2023 trial date. Defense attorneys said they needed more time to comb through 1.76 million files and 763 gigabytes of video obtained through the discovery process, and told U.S. District Judge David C. Guaderrama that the defense might raise an insanity defense. In the same hearing, the prosecution team said that the federal government had not yet decided whether to pursue the death penalty.
Crusius was indicted on capital murder charges by a Texas grand jury on September 12, 2019. He pleaded not guilty to capital murder charges at his arraignment on October 10, 2019, at the El Paso County Courthouse. Mark Stevens, a San Antonio criminal defense attorney, was appointed by the state court to represent Crusius, along with defense attorney Joe Spencer. On April 28, 2020, prosecutors announced they would be seeking a new capital murder charge following the recent death of a twenty-third victim after he spent nine months in the hospital.
The state trial is expected to occur after the federal trial. Proceedings were delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic and the massive amount of evidence in the case.
Several funeral homes in El Paso and Ciudad Juárez announced they would provide funeral services for free to the families of the victims as a sign of solidarity for their community. Ciudad Juárez's Rotary International chapter organized a vigil in Ciudad Juárez. They gathered at a park and lit candles and shone cellphone lights in El Paso's direction as a sign of solidarity.
Antonio Basco declared his wife's funeral on August 16 to be open to anyone who wished to attend. Hundreds of people from El Paso and other parts of the country attended, and flowers were sent from around the world.
El Paso musician Khalid held a benefit concert for his home city on September 1, featuring several high-profile artists and introduced by fellow El Paso native and former US Representative Beto O'Rourke.
One week after the shooting, a citizen from Ciudad Juárez, Jorge Luis Martínez Chávez, ran a total of 22 miles, a mile for each of the people killed in the Walmart shooting (one additional victim died months later), starting at the Zaragoza bridge in Juárez, Mexico, and finishing at the Walmart memorial in El Paso where the attack was perpetrated.
Two days after the shooting, a Walmart corporate employee sent a memorandum to Walmart's entire e-commerce division, which includes thousands of employees, urging a "sick-out" strike to force the corporation to stop selling guns. Walmart later sent out a memo instructing workers to remove signs and displays that "contain violent themes or aggressive behavior" and pledged $400,000 for funds that were aimed at helping the victims of the mass shooting. On September 3, the company announced it would stop selling ammunition for handguns and assault rifles in the United States, as well as ask customers not to openly carry firearms into their stores.
Terrorism experts, including Peter R. Neumann, cited the Great Replacement conspiracy theory as a common factor among several similar attacks. The Southern Poverty Law Center's Hatewatch blog linked the shooting with the earlier Christchurch mosque shootings and the Poway synagogue shooting, citing the similar white nationalist contents of the respective attackers' manifestos. Jonathan Greenblatt, chief executive of the Anti-Defamation league, said that the shooting, as part of a series of similar attacks, indicated a "global threat" of white supremacy. NATO secretary-general Jens Stoltenberg urged countries to work together to prevent "lone wolf" attackers who find inspiration in one another's actions. Others, including the writer Daniel Okrent, disputed the "lone wolf" idea, pointing to the ways in which technology allows those with similar violent ideologies to congregate online.
Several commentators attributed both the El Paso and Christchurch shootings to an ideology of eco-fascism. The Washington Post described the El Paso and Christchurch shootings as examples of an eco-fascist trend among white supremacists. Writing in GQ, Luke Darby referred to the "distinctly environmental theme" of Crusius' alleged manifesto. Jeet Heer in The Nation described the manifesto as being based in "Malthusian fascism", a worldview in which different races vie against one another in the face of environmental crises such as global warming. Mainstream environmentalists, including the executive director of the Sierra Club, denounced the attacker's alleged white-supremacist motivations.
President Donald Trump condemned the shooting as "hateful" and an "act of cowardice" later that day. He promised that his administration would provide "total support". In a later statement, Trump announced after the shootings in El Paso and in Dayton, Ohio, that all US flags, both domestic and abroad, would be flown at half-staff until sunset on August 8. In a speech from the White House on August 5, Trump said: "In one voice, our nation must condemn racism, bigotry and white supremacy. These sinister ideologies must be defeated. Hate has no place in America." On August 7, Trump said he was "concerned about the rise of any group of hate", whether it was "white supremacy, whether it's any other kind of supremacy, whether it's antifa".
Within two days of the shooting, #WhiteSupremacistInChief reached the number one trend on Twitter as critics pointed out that statements in the suspect's alleged manifesto mirrored comments Trump had made in the past, including references to illegal immigration as an "invasion" and telling an unspecified group of "'Progressive' Democrat Congresswomen, who originally came from countries whose governments are a complete and total catastrophe" to "go back and help fix the totally broken and crime infested places from which they came". Media outlets also highlighted an incident in May 2019 where an audience member at a campaign rally suggested shooting illegal migrants crossing the border, to which Trump responded with a joke, saying, "only in the Panhandle you can get away with that".
A statement released by former president Barack Obama stated, "We should soundly reject language coming out of the mouths of any of our leaders that feeds a climate of fear and hatred or normalizes racist sentiments," which has widely been interpreted as a criticism of Trump's specific rhetoric. Trump's remark that violent video games contributed to such mass shootings, a view echoed by other politicians such as House Minority Leader of the United States House of Representatives Kevin McCarthy and Texas Lt. Governor Dan Patrick, drew criticism from the video game industry, as past studies have found that no link exists between shootings and video games, and accused the government of using the medium as a scapegoat.
U.S. Representative Veronica Escobar, who represents El Paso in Congress, brought a town hall meeting in the city to an early close following the shooting. Escobar later said there was also a hate epidemic, with domestic terrorism resulting from the dehumanization of others. Texas Senator Ted Cruz issued a written statement deploring "this unspeakable evil." Beto O'Rourke, a native of El Paso who represented the city in Congress from 2013 to 2019, said he was "incredibly saddened" but that "The [El Paso] community is going to stay together. Everyone's resolved to make sure this doesn't continue to happen in this country." Texas Governor Greg Abbott called the shooting "a heinous and senseless act of violence". Texas Senator John Cornyn said that gun violence would not be solved by focusing on law-abiding citizens. Texas Lt. Governor Dan Patrick said violent video games were partly to blame.
Members of the Democratic Party criticized Trump's anti-immigrant rhetoric in the wake of the shooting, including congresswoman Escobar and 2020 presidential candidates O'Rourke, Cory Booker, and Joe Biden. Other 2020 candidates called for political action to eliminate gun violence, including Booker, Pete Buttigieg, Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, and Andrew Yang. The incident also caused many celebrities and media figures to debate gun rights within the United States, with some condemning the perceived inaction of many political figures in stopping the large number of mass shootings in the country. That same evening, Moms Demand Action, which had a convention that weekend in Washington, DC, led a march and vigil outside the White House in support of gun control in the United States and the ban of assault weapons.
The day after the shooting, some prominent Republicans, including Texas Land Commissioner George P. Bush, also spoke of the need to combat white-supremacist terrorism. Texas senator Ted Cruz decried the shooting as a "heinous act of terrorism and white supremacy". On Twitter, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein classified the attack as "white terrorism". Many Latinos interviewed by The New York Times said they felt disturbed at becoming targets of white-nationalist violence.
Dan Stein, the president of the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), issued a statement on Twitter denouncing the shooting, with no mention of Crusius' alleged manifesto. The group regularly makes similar anti-immigration arguments to those contained in the document, prompting worries of political fallout from the shooting among FAIR and similar groups, according to David Nakamura in The Washington Post. Both Stein and Mark Krikorian of the Center for Immigration Studies, which also advocates restrictions on immigration, dismissed any connections between Crusius' ideology and their own.
In response to the shooting, some 8chan users claimed that the shooter was "our guy". The purported manifesto of the shooter, after being deleted, was re-uploaded by some users, while others commented that it showed "zero effort", or claimed that it was fake. Following the attack, Cloudflare terminated its website security service for 8chan, commenting that "8chan has repeatedly proven itself to be a cesspool of hate". The site later went dark after its server rental provider Voxility discontinued its service. Journalist Robert Evans has cited the shooting and the preceding Christchurch and Poway shootings as being part of a series of mass shootings driven by the "high score" culture that began with the Columbine High School massacre.
Trump visited El Paso and Dayton on August 7. The president and first lady also met with the mayors of El Paso and Dayton. In El Paso, protesters showed up at the site of the shooting, some claiming that Trump's attitude and statements had led to the shooting; Two days before the visit, congresswoman Escobar said that Trump was "not welcome" in the city and declined an invitation to meet with him. The White House published photos and a video of Trump's trip; in some photos, Trump was pictured smiling and giving thumbs up gestures, while the video was focused on Trump shaking hands and posing for photos. Trump said that he had an "amazing day" of visits, praising the "love, the respect for" him as president.
Mexican president Andrés Manuel López Obrador extended his condolences to the families of the victims, both Americans and Mexicans. López Obrador also criticized the "indiscriminate use of weapons" in the United States. The Mexican Secretariat of Foreign Affairs (SRE) identified the eight Mexican citizens killed, and the seven Mexican citizens wounded, in the attack. The Mexican victims killed in the attack came from Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua City, and Torreón, Coahuila. One of the victims, identified only as "Rosa," who had also offered to testify, was deported on January 30, 2021, because of a minor traffic violation.
Javier Corral Jurado, the governor of the Mexican state of Chihuahua, offered his assistance to Texas governor Greg Abbott and El Paso mayor Dee Margo, and said that Chihuahua authorities were ready to assist in any capacity if needed by the U.S. government. The Chihuahua government also directed Chihuahua residents and Mexican citizens affected by the attack to Mexico's executive committee for Victims (Spanish: Comisión Ejecutiva de Atención a Víctimas), and set up a phone line for Mexican citizens who needed assistance. The Mexican Consulate in El Paso provided consular assistance to Mexican nationals affected by the attack, and sent personnel to visit Mexican victims treated at the hospitals. The SRE confirmed that the consul Mauricio Ibarra Ponce de León would coordinate with El Paso and Ciudad Juárez officials.
On August 4, Mexican Secretary of Foreign Affairs Marcelo Ebrard announced that Mexico would issue a formal charge against the suspect for terrorism against Mexican nationals should Mexico's Attorney General's Office (FGR) support it, and possibly request his extradition from the U.S. to Mexico to face those charges. If the suspect is charged with terrorism, it would be the first time in history that Mexico issues a criminal charge of this nature for a crime committed in the U.S. In addition, it would guarantee Mexico access to information about the case. Ebrard also stated that the Mexican government would remain in contact with the victims' families throughout the investigation and trial, and that they would press charges against the individual(s) or firm who sold the weapons to the suspect. Former Mexican president Felipe Calderón offered his condolences on Twitter, and also directed a message against Trump. He said that notwithstanding if the attack was confirmed to be a hate crime or not, that Trump should stop his "hate speech" and "stigmatization".
UN Secretary-General António Guterres condemned "in the strongest terms the terrorist attack against Latinos on Saturday in the Texas city of El Paso" and called for everyone to work together to combat violence born of hate, racism and xenophobia. Recently the UN launched an action plan to "fight against discourses that incite hatred".
The incident was mentioned by Pope Francis during a speech in St. Peter's Square on August 4, in which he condemned attacks on defenseless people and said he was spiritually close to the victims, the wounded, and the families affected by the attacks that had "bloodied Texas, California, and Ohio". The Gilroy Garlic Festival shooting happened in California around a week before the El Paso shooting, while the 2019 Dayton shooting occurred in Ohio less than 24 hours after.
Uruguay and Venezuela issued travel warnings to avoid certain cities in America, including Baltimore, Detroit, Albuquerque, Cleveland, Memphis, Oakland, and Buffalo and citing "proliferation of acts of violence" and "growing indiscriminate violence, mostly for hate crimes, including racism and discrimination". Both countries warned their citizens to avoid any place with large crowds, including shopping malls, festivals, and "any kind of cultural or sporting events". Japan issued a similar travel warning, advising its citizens to pay attention to the potential for gunfire "everywhere" in the U.S., which they described as a "gun society". President Trump threatened undefined retaliation against countries and organizations that issue travel warnings on the United States because of gun violence.
Indeed, the gunman who killed 22 people at a Walmart store in El Paso on Aug. 3 pushed the total number of victims slain in domestic right-wing terrorism since 2002 to 109.
But in another sense, if U.S. authorities confirm that the document was written by the 21-year-old white male suspected of committing the atrocity, then there was plenty of time—numerous years in which violence by far-right, white-supremacist extremists has emerged as arguably the premier domestic-terrorist threat in the United States.
The threat of the 'great replacement,' or the idea that white people will be replaced by people of color, was cited directly in the four-page screed written by the man arrested in the killing of 22 people in El Paso over the weekend [...] The shooting in the immigrant-rich town of El Paso on Saturday was among the deadliest attacks in the United States motivated by white extremism since the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing that killed 168 people, according to the A.D.L.
The shooting, however, brought white supremacy to El Paso's doorstep, forcing the city to confront anti-Latino racism and white supremacy that has always existed in the U.S.
The deadliest attack to target Latinos in modern American history, the shooting in El Paso, a city that is 80 percent Hispanic, has deeply disturbed Latinos across the United States.
The 21-year-old suspect in [the El Paso] shooting, considered the deadliest anti-Latino attack in modern US history, allegedly authored a racist anti-immigrant 'manifesto'.
...the Aug. 3 shooting in El Paso, the deadliest anti-Latino attack in modern American history
[T]he massacre in El Paso was the deadliest anti-Latino attack in modern American history
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Our map legend is revolutionary because it is designed specifically for businesses in developing nations like Nicaragua. Traveling should be an adventure and there is always a bit of trepidation, of course! But you don’t need anxiety about where you can purchase bottled water or where you can get a tire fixed or even where you can purchase gasoline. Eco Travel Maps has you covered again! We show you every business and every service so you can enjoy the authenticity of Nicaragua's wild side while leaving your logistical worries at home. | <urn:uuid:6ebf5852-dde0-42d1-a909-0d4b62878c3a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://ecotravelmaps.com/map-innovation | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571222.74/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810222056-20220811012056-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.951513 | 1,115 | 1.609375 | 2 |
Best Practices in Behavior Change and Stopping Human Error
Come and learn best practices in Behavior Change and Stopping Human Error at the 2010 TapRooT® Summit. Sign up for this track and be part of these dynamic best practice sessions. (Read bios of the presenters on the Summit website):
Combining TapRooT® with INPO’s Error Prevention Tools to Improve Human Performance
Rob Fisher and Ron Pryor will discuss how Alcoa Davenport Works improved performance by using TapRooT® tools to identify vulnerabilities, and known error reduction techniques to reduce the probability of events related to human errors.
Influencing Without Authority
If only management would do the right thing!
The employees will not follow the rules unless being watched!
If the EHS/HSE department were not placed under XXXX in the Organization, I could get something done!
Management supports every corrective action after an incident happens.
Guess what? You have more control and influence than you realize:
1. Learn about influence Networks that make sense (it is not always about the job title).
2. Learn how to perform a Stakeholder Analysis (it is amazing how different this is from your actual company’s organizational chart).
3. Discuss live examples where it worked.
4. Decide what your next step is to influence without authority.
Practice Fixing Human Performance & Behavior Problems: An Interactive Exercise Session
Chris will also be leading this workshop … a time to put it all together. Here’s what attendees will work on:
1. Listing burning issues and discussing:
What’s been tried
What did not work
2. Based on what’s learned that week, you’ll identify what may be the gap between the issue AND solution.
Be prepared to dig deeper than the surface
Work with your industry AND outside industry peers
Work with the available* Behavior and Human Error presenters
(* some presenters are only present the day of their presentation)
Plan a follow up session
Coaching Skills to Sustain Behavior Change
Executive Coach Jennifer Mounce is returning to the Summit for the second year. Participants walk away from this session with coaching skills and a coaching model that can be used in any work environment to support creating behavioral change in the workplace.
But that’s not all for this session, Tom Brower will also be presenting Practical Human Factors Lessons Learned.
Measuring Fatigue Using FACT
Rainer Gutkuhn from Circadian Technologies will be presenting this best practice session. There is now a global body of scientific evidence that shiftwork in the 24/7 workplace is a high risk occupational safety exposure, and that the development of Fatigue Risk Management Systems (FRMS) has emerged as the internationally accepted standard for managing the inherent costs, risks and liabilities of shiftwork. This session will review the new ANSI standard for FRMS in refining and petrochemical industries, as well how the other industries as diverse as Aviation, Railroads, Mining and Utilities are implementing Corporate FRMS systems as a continuous improvement process. It will also provide examples of fatigue management tools that can provide the analytics needed to ensure the success of programs for optimizing shiftworker health, safety and quality of life.
Using Mistake Proofing to Stop Human Error
Dr. John Grout will present how significant injuries are avoided and dollars are saved by companies around the world when they implement simple ideas that either eliminate the chance for a mistake to occur or make a mistake easy to detect. This concept (and the techniques that generate these simple fixes) is called Mistake-Proofing. It is also known as Poka-Yoke (pronounced POH-kah YOH-kay). This session will help you find practical, effective ways to remove the opportunities for error. What will you learn?
· Why we make mistakes
· Basic concepts of mistake-proofing
· Where mistake-proofing works well and where it does not
· Where mistake proofing fits in your quality or safety toolbox
· How to create poka-yokes that solve quality or safety problems
Lesson Learned About Human Factors & Generic Causes from Recent Airline Incidents
AND DON’T FORGET our 2010 Keynote speakers.
ANOTHER OPTION for learning how to stop human error is our special 2-day course held just prior to the Summit (October 25-26):
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Spaces are where content lives on Subsocial - all posts must be made inside of a Space. All users are free to create as many Spaces as they want. A Space can function as a personal Space, or as a community. Users can follow Spaces in order to see posts from that Space on their Feed. The owner of a Space is able to moderate the Space, as well as change how it is set up, for example, allowing followers to post in the Space, or disabling downvotes. If desired, the owner of a Space can effectively transform the Space into a DAO.
Transferring ownership of a Space allows you to set someone else as the owner, meaning they will have all the powers and responsibilities that come with it. Transferring ownership is a two sided process - once you initiate the transfer, the recipient must accept ownership of the Space.
The owner of a Space can set other accounts as editors of that Space. Being an editor allows you to post in a Space, and edit and hide posts that you make in the Space (you cannot edit or hide posts made by others). This feature is useful for things such as collaborative blogs or newspapers.
Posts are how you put content (whether that is text, audio, an image, or a video) on Subsocial. Posts have to go into a Space. Posts are able to be commented on, as well as upvoted or downvoted. Posts can be shared to other Spaces.
Comments are replies to a post that are visible below a post.
Upvoting is a reaction to a post that signals you like it. The number of upvotes a post has received is visible to everyone.
Downvoting is a reaction to a post that signals you do not like it. The number of downvotes a post has received is visible to everyone.
Sharing a post is similar to retweeting a tweet on Twitter. You can add an easily visible comment along with it when you share it. Sharing a post is similar to a post, as posts must be shared in to Spaces. Shares can also be upvoted, downvoted, commented on, and shared.
Your feed is a collection of posts from Spaces that you follow.
Your profile is linked to your Subsocial account address, and is an overview of your activity on Subsocial. You can set a profile picture and a username for your account, as well as a personal website link. Below your profile overview is a collection of all of your posts, comments, reactions, and Spaces. You can view others’ profiles to see this information about them.
SUB is the ticker for the Subsocial token, which powers the Subsocial blockchain. SUB can be used to perform actions on the network, or burned to generate energy (NRG).
NRG is created from burning SUB, and can be used to perform actions on the network. NRG is not transferrable. When burning SUB to create NRG, a multiplier greater than 1 is used, meaning that users will be able to perform more actions with 1 SUB worth of NRG than they can by spending 1 SUB directly.
NRG can be created in a different wallet than the one that burnt the SUB tokens, allowing friends or applications to let you have NRG without having to worry about SUB tokens.
An account address is just what it sounds like, an address for your account. Addresses are usually long strings of letters and numbers, and are used to perform transactions on blockchain networks. In the Substrate ecosystem, each account has multiple addresses, as there are multiple chains. You may or may not be able to access all of them depending on the wallet that you use.
A cryptocurrency wallet is simply software that allows you to control your crypto. It is separate from your account, as you can log into a single account from multiple wallets. Examples of wallets include Polkadot.js, Polkawallet, Fearless Wallet, and Metamask.
Sub.ID is a tool built by the Subsocial team as a gift to the Substrate ecosystem, with the aim of helping to improve the user experience in the ecosystem. One of the main problems with the Polkadot.js wallet is it is not set up in a way that allows easy and smooth access to different chains, and has no way to see multiple chains at once. Sub.ID let’s you see your balances and addresses for multiple Substrate based chains at one time, and if someone else gives you just one of their Substrate addresses, you can look them up on Sub.id and find their addresses for other chains. This will make it easier to tip people, as you can pay them on whatever Substrate chain you wish.
Spaces can create their own token just for that Space, and use it for various purposes. The tokens could be given governance powers and distributed to members of the Space to transform the Space into a DAO. The tokens could enable a revenue share where ad revenue from the Space is distributed among token holders. These Space tokens will be transferable and tradeable.
A subnet is a front-end (website/app) built to connect to the Subsocial chain, but it only shows a subsection of content. Polkaverse is a good example. If someday someone makes a front-end similar to Instagram that only shows content with pictures, that would be another good example of a subnet.
Various Substrate blockchains feature on-chain identities, which means that users can make claims about themselves (such as their name, their email address, their Twitter handle, etc.) which can then be independently verified by a third party for a small fee, if they so desire.
A Decentralized Autonomous Organization. DAOs essentially function like normal businesses or non-profit organizations, but with much less of a hierarchical organization. Instead of having a CEO at the top and a bunch of workers at the bottom, DAOs put everyone on an even playing field, and reward members based on their contributions.
Substrate is a framework that is essentially composed of building blocks called pallets, which allow developers to easily build cutting edge blockchains. Substrate is built with the Rust programming language and was created by Dr. Gavin Wood, who created Ethereum. Subsocial is built with Substrate.
Validator nodes maintain blockchains through a consensus system. This allows the network to function properly without any disagreements between parties as to what events took place on the chain. Validator nodes are computers that are run by node operators. In exchange for their services they receive tokens.
The InterPlanetary File System is a decentralized storage network commonly used by blockchain projects looking for a storage solution. It is similar to a torrent network where users download content to their machines, and upload it to people that wish to access it. IPFS node operators are able to choose what content they host on their node. Subsocial uses IPFS for multimedia storage.
CIDs are Content Identifiers, and are used as addresses for files hosted on the IPFS network. The CID is generated from the cryptographic hash of the content, which means that if the content changes in any way, the CID will change.
Roles act as groups of permissions within a Space that are applied to anyone with that particular role. For example, a Space might create a Moderator role, and give it the permissions to hide posts and block users from that particular Space.
Permissions let you manage your Spaces, such as whether only you can post in it, edit posts, or whether anyone that follows the Space can post in it. Using permissions you can disable features like downvotes if you are not a fan of them, or turn off comments. Permissions can be assigned to various roles within the Space.
On Subsocial, moderation only takes place within Spaces. The owner of a Space, or appointed moderators, are the only ones capable of moderation - there is no central authority that can moderate, like on traditional social media. This means that outside of Spaces there is no moderation. Nobody can delete your Space, or moderate it for you, unless you appoint them as a moderator. The ONLY way that you could be moderated is if you are posting content that is being hosted on an IPFS node, and the node operator decided to stop hosting it. However, anyone is free to host their own IPFS node.
Censorship is when someone or something limits your freedom of expression. While you can be censored in other people’s Spaces, you cannot be censored in Spaces that you own.
Tipping is the simplest way to reward someone for the content they have created, whether it is an article, a video, or simply a joke that made you laugh. Tips will go directly to the account that created the post or comment, with no intermediary skimming some off of the top, like what happens on existing content monetization platforms.
Subscriptions will allow you to set up recurring payments for access to a creator’s Space or other unique content. The frequency of payments will be determined by the content creator, for example they could decide to offer a daily subscription instead of a monthly subscription.
Spaces will be able to select or vote on a panel of experts, who will vote on what content is the best. The creators that made the highest voted content will receive rewards.
PPV allows content to be accessed one time for a fixed fee, if you want to access it again, you will have to pay again.
Space owners or governance committees will be able to sell ad Space in their Space in order to generate revenue. This revenue can either be captured by the owner or committee, or distributed amongst all holders of that Space’s Space tokens, or anything in between.
The Subsocial team offers various off-chain services to improve the user experience of using Subsocial, such as a search function, notifications (including email notifications and feed updates), personal settings, and the in-development telegram bot for notifications.
Notifications alert you to people following you or any of your Spaces, voting or commenting on your posts, or sharing them.
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Products from Vertere
Vertere Tempo Precision Motor Drive
The music we hear when playing vinyl records, in reality, comes from the motor! The motor is the only source of energy in the system. It is this energy that drives the record past the stylus thus making the music we hear.
Any amount of noise or fluctuation in the drive system will adversely impact on the music. Detail, dynamics, timbre, timing and musicality are just some of the qualities that will suffer as a result.
The Tempo takes control of the record player motor and provides it with smoother drive with lower noise and lower distortion. Its internal circuit as with the reference motor drive is uniquely microprocessor based providing a pure sine wave in the digital domain and then converted to analogue via an on-board DAC. Two waveforms are derived, a cosine and a sine, which are then amplified using two bridged amplifiers to power the motor.
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Manganese poisoning: symptoms of intoxication with potassium permanganate
Manganese is one of the key elements involved in the process of functioning and development of organs and systems of man, but with a large intake of its effects becomes neurotoxic in nature. Manganese poisoning is most often found in workers of hazardous industries. It occurs slowly enough, but if delayed detection leads to the damage irreversible.
Properties and applications of manganese
Pure manganese does not exist in nature. It is found in the form of compounds with various metals. This element easily reacts with oxygen, insoluble in water and soluble in acids.
The greatest application of manganese has received in the industry. With it, steel is made with high strength, which is further used in the manufacture of armor and rails. Not less demanded of manganese in process of welding, in the manufacture of various electrical components.
Ways of poisoning manganese
Manganese is characterized by a high toxicity, so toxicity of this element is common propolene workers in the mining, processing plants, steelmaking plants, enterprises for the production of components for electric appliances.
In addition to manganese poisoning as a result of penetration of the element through the respiratory system, it is possible to enter this substance in the human body through the digestive system, in rare cases through the skin.
Manganese tends to accumulate in the human body. The main places of its accumulation – the brain, liver and lungs, bones. Prolonged exposure to this element in humans, found fibrous changes and pneumonia, asthma, damage to the nervous system irreversible.
Poisoning through the respiratory system
Symptoms of poisoning by manganese, and methods for treatment of the problem, differenciate depending on how the item came to the human body. Penetration of manganese through the upper respiratory tract is characterized by a chronic course of the process of intoxication, difficulty of detection in the initial stages and the impossibility of complete recovery.
Symptoms of poisoning
Most cases of manganese poisoning occurs as a result of its chronic effects in terms of production or in the use of narcotic substances of artisanal production.
Symptoms manifestations of intoxication in this case is not immediate and depends on the stage of the process. There are three stages of poisoning:
- The stage of functional disorders. At this stage, the intoxication is diagnosed difficult, as characterized by minor ailments, which rarely pay attention. Poisoning is manifested by the following symptoms:
- loss of appetite;
- memory impairment;
- decreased muscle tone of the upper limbs.
On clinical examination at this stage reveals increase in the volume of the thyroid gland, signs of gastritis. Do women have menstrual disorders, men – reduced potency. For poisoned person is characterized by changes in mental activity, reflected in the narrowing of range of interests, decline, shallowness of thinking, high distractibility. When carrying out the production associated with the use of manganese, a regular psychological research workers, possible early detection of signs of intoxication. The cessation of contact with the chemical element at this stage will prevent further changes in the Central nervous system of the person, but does not guarantee full recovery of health.
- Stage progression. With continued intake of manganese irreversible disturbances in the functioning of the nervous system. Symptoms of toxic encephalopathy:
- loud and slow speech;
- rare blinking and the weakening of facial expressions;
- increase muscle tone;
- the transformation of the gait with impaired movements of the upper limbs;
- reduced abdominal reflexes.
- Phase of manganese parkinsonism. At this stage show signs of brain damage. Patients become lethargic, they have slurred speech, sudden slowing of movements, violation letters. Gait changed, often observed walking on their toes. There is a decrease of intelligence, the weakening of critical thinking, periods of apathy can change to emotional explosions, accompanied by shouting, crying or laughing. In addition to violations on the part of the nervous system, the possible pathological changes in the functioning of the internal organs: gastritis, reduction of antitoxic function of the liver, a metabolic process.
To distinguish manganese encephalopathy from other diseases with similar symptoms, the following diagnostic methods:
- magnetic resonance imaging. In the pictures you can clearly see the places where chemical element and its volume;
- laboratory examination of blood. This analysis allows to determinecomorbidities to adjust therapies based on the detected abnormalities;
- electroencephalography. Using this method is determined by the condition and functioning of the brain before treatment and during the implementation of certain therapeutic measures.
Methods of first aid and surgical treatment depends on what stage has been identified manganese intoxication. Thus, upon detection of symptoms of poisoning at the stage of functional disorders is rather the cessation of human contact with the chemical element. For recovery doctor most frequently prescribed intravenous vitamin B1, glucose, tamazin-calcium. In some cases, the medications used to improve sleep, reduce spasms and headaches. The patient was recommended to increase the amount of consumption of milk products. During the year the patient it is advisable to take a few courses antidote therapy.
Therapy of poisoning by manganese at the stage of encephalopathy consists of the stages listed below:
- The excretion of toxins. To do this, various techniques can be used: washing stomach and intestines, forced diuresis, blood purification.
- Appointment of symptomatic treatment. Used drugs to reduce the Parkinsonian symptoms. In each case they are tailored to suit the individual and available signs of the disease.
- Administration of drugs that stimulate the recovery process. Patient is prescribed medications to improve blood circulation and metabolic processes in the brain, the normalization of the stomach and liver, restore metabolic processes in the body.
- Passage antioxidant therapy. For six months the patient must take drugs that neutralize the effects of toxins on the body.
- Rehabilitation physiotherapy.
Upon detection of intoxication with manganese in the second or third stage of the disease to completely eliminate the damage of chemical element, it is impossible. At these stages they become irreversible. Therefore, the possible effects of manganese encephalopathy of the brain:
- mental decline;
- psychiatric disorders, such as schizophrenia, hallucinations;
- epileptic seizures;
- a coma;
Poisoning through the digestive system
In addition to intoxication by inhaling particles of manganese, situations of poisoning by potassium permanganate as a result of its local or internal appointment. In contact with undissolved crystals of potassium permanganate or Selenomethionine solution on the skin or mucous membranes produces chemical burns. In human blood increases the level of potassium and manganese.
Intoxicated with manganese through the digestive system in humans the following symptoms:
- increased salivation;
- pain in the stomach;
- nausea and vomiting with specks of blood;
- a state of nervous excitement;
- the occurrence of seizures.
The area of the mouth and lips may be covered by spot burns upon exposure to crystals of manganese. The mucous membranes of the mouth and throat become brownish-purple shade, they formed ulcers and erosions, visible swelling.
The ingestion of concentrated potassium permanganate solution can cause swelling of the larynx, a narrowing of the glottis and suffocation. Death of adults occurs by ingestion of 0.3-0.5 g of manganese per kilogram of body weight, in children ingestion of 3 g of substance.
First aid for intoxication
Emergency care of poisoned person is to perform the following procedures:
- To wash out the stomach by drinking large amounts of warm water and induce vomitinguntil the allocated liquid will become transparent. For greater efficiency you can prepare the following solution: in a container with two liters of water add 100 ml of hydrogen peroxide and 200 ml of 3% acetic acid.
- Water of the patient of 0.5% ascorbic acid solution.
- To clean the mouth with cotton swabs soaked in 1% strength ascorbic acid solution.
- To ensure the flow of air into the room.
Other measures to detoxify the body of manganese should be conducted by qualified medical personnel.
The complex of therapeutic measures for human detoxification with manganese poisoning depends on the degree of organ damage and may consist of the following activities:
- the introduction of calcium disodium salt of EDTA;
- blood infusion upon detection of heart failure;
- the appointment of agents to maintain blood pressure and cardiac activity;
- the introduction of painkillers;
- the of calcium supplementation for the prevention of bleeding;
- anticonvulsant medicines if necessary;
- drugs for maintenance of kidney and liver;
- preventive and curative measures to eliminate edema of the larynx.
When using manganese in the production process, it is important to observe safety precautions when in contact with the substance:to work in a well ventilated area, wear a respirator, take a shower after work, to undergo scheduled medical examinations. Workers of industrial enterprises should be the correct diet because a vitamin deficiency often leads to anemia, which increases susceptibility to manganese.
If suspected poisoning should be screened and go to work area with no toxic substances. Upon detection of manganese intoxication contact with this element is forbidden. When establishing the second and third forms of poisoning people eligible for the issue of disability.
A solution of potassium permanganate used in the home for washing the stomach in case of poisoning, should be properly cooked to avoid getting burn mucous membranes. To make it, a few crystals of manganese dissolved in a liter of warm water. The resulting liquid should have a light pink hue.
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For most business owners, branding is a confusing topic.
Many of them don’t know that there’s more to branding than just their logo and style guide.
While a logo is an important part of branding, it’s not all that there is to it.
A brand is an experience; it’s the sum of every interaction your customer has with your company and its product/services. Your brand represents what your company stands for.
It tells the story of why, how and what you do and it communicates the values, purpose and personality you have as a business. It’s what helps people find you, trust you and buy from you.
Let’s take a look at what all you need to build a strong brand:
Get to know your brand.
Before you start putting together visual elements of your brand, you need to get to know your brand.
This is done by defining your brand mission, vision, your ideal client or target audience, the personality you want to portray and the values you stand for.
Together these things help build your brand identity.
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Playing outside is not just about letting off steam. It is a vital part of childhood that helps children develop physical strength, coordination and balance. It can also provide opportunities for children to learn and develop:
Social Skills – when they play with other children they learn to communicate, share, collaborate and empathise with others.
Imagination and creativity – outside play is often open-ended and children need to be creative about what and how games are played.
Thinking and problem solving skills – as children assess risks and tackle new challenges they learn about having a go, persistence and perseverance and the success those attributes can bring.
Sense of self – as they master new skills and play with other children they improve their competence and confidence in their own physical and social abilities.
Sense of connection – to place, to peers and to their local community and environment.
Self care skills – managing physical and social challenges helps children to learn about keeping themselves safe.
To support these broad learning outcomes, play spaces should include areas for active, free, quiet, social, imaginative, creative, exploratory and natural play. By inviting children to use their own initiative, explore possibilities and take chances we can provide them with opportunities to learn. Remember your own childhood – where was your favourite place to play?
• MUSIC ADVENTURES
Did you know that 90% of a child’s brain is developed by the time they are 5 years old? That is why we believe music is so important in the lives of young children! Music sparks excitement and adventure in children, creating an optimal environment for learning, and promoting success in their musical experiences.
The Preschool Music and Movement Adventures program is taught at preschools & childcare centers in Forsyth, Iredell, Davie, Davidson Counties and surrounding areas.
• Classes Include:
• Instrument Playing
• Singing Games
• Rhythm Patterns
• Tonal Patterns
• Instrument Recognition by Sight & Sound
• Movement Games
• Musical Concepts
• ART ADVENTURES
• In recent years, school curricula in the United States have shifted heavily toward common core subjects of reading and math, but what about the arts? Although some may regard art education as a luxury, simple creative activities are some of the building blocks of child development. Learning to create and appreciate visual aesthetics may be more important than ever to the development of the next generation of children as they grow up.
• Motor Skills: Many of the motions involved in making art, such as holding a paintbrush or scribbling with a crayon, are essential to the growth of fine motor skills in young children. According to the National Institutes of Health, developmental milestones around age three should include drawing a circle and beginning to use safety scissors. Around age four, children may be able to draw a square and begin cutting straight lines with scissors. Many preschool programs emphasize the use of scissors because it develops the dexterity children will need for writing.
• Language Development: For very young children, making art—or just talking about it—provides opportunities to learn words for colors, shapes and actions. When toddlers are as young as a year old, parents can do simple activities such as crumpling up paper and calling it a “ball.” By elementary school, students can use descriptive words to discuss their own creations or to talk about what feelings are elicited when they see different styles of artwork.
• Decision Making: According to a report by Americans for the Arts, art education strengthens problem-solving and critical-thinking skills. The experience of making decisions and choices in the course of creating art carries over into other parts of life. “If they are exploring and thinking and experimenting and trying new ideas, then creativity has a chance to blossom,” says MaryAnn Kohl, an arts educator and author of numerous books about children’s art education.
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Have you ever noticed on days you aren’t very active, you almost seem MORE tired than when you get exercise? Yet when you get some exercise, your energy seems to shoot through the roof! Why is that?
The act of exercising actually stimulates the brain and body – and it is incredibly important for our well-being!
Our challenge for this week is to walk for 10 minutes, three times per week. Studies link exercise with a lower risk of heart disease and stroke. Exercise has been associated with up to a 30% improvement in mental abilities.
Exercise can be difficult to keep in your schedule and it is critically important. Starting with walking is a good beginning to an exercise program because it does not require any special equipment, clothing or shoes. And of course it is important to start slow and build up both time and speed.
Good ideas for staying on a walking program include:
Find a walking buddy
Walk the same time each day
Schedule your walk on your calendar
Tell friends or others that you are exercising
Make a goal around your walking program
Wear headphones with inspiring music
As the people at Nike say, “Just Do It!”
In a very short amount of time, possibly just by the end of the week, if you increase your exercise you will see a dramatic increase in your energy, and a much better outlook in your mood!
Successful Weight Loss
The amount of physical activity you do is one of the most accurate predictors of your long-term weight maintenance, according to information from the National Weight Control Registry reported in the March/April 2011 issue of the “Health and Fitness Journal.” Out of over 6,000 participants in the NWCR, walking is the most popular method of burning calories via exercise. If you weigh 160 lbs, you burn 183 calories per hour walking at 2 mph and 277 calories per hour at 3.5 mph.
Reduces Prostate Cancer Progression
Walking is important as a natural method for reducing prostate cancer mortality. Brisk walking at a pace of at least 3 mph for three hours a week reduces the chances of developing indicators of cancer recurrence and the need for a second round of treatment, according to a study on 1,455 U.S. men by researchers from the University of California at San Francisco reported in the May 2011 issue of the medical journal “Cancer Research.” The study revealed the importance of brisk walking. Going for a walk at a rate of less than 3 mph did not produce the same positive results.
Slows Progression of Alzheimer’s
Walking five miles per week for five to ten years slows down the progression of Alzheimer’s disease in patients and healthy adults according to a 20-year ongoing study by the University of Pittsburgh reported at the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America in November, 2010. The researchers found an association between higher rates of physical activity and greater brain volume and recommend cognitively impaired adults walk five miles per week to slow progression and healthy adults walk six miles per week as prevention.
- “Cancer Research”; Physical Activity after Diagnosis and Risk of Prostate Cancer Progression: Data from the Cancer of the Prostate Strategic Urologic Research Endeavor; Erin L. Richman, et al.; May 2011
- EurekAlert!: Walking Slows Progression of Alzheimer’s
- “Journal of the American Medical Association”; Gait Speed and Survival in Older Adults; Stephanie Studenski, et al.; January 2011
- American College of Sports Medicine; Weight Control Registry Reveals Secrets to Lasting Weight Loss; March 2011
- MayoClinic.com; Exercise for Weight Loss: Calories Burned in 1 Hour; December 2009
- MayoClinic.com; Walking: Trim Your Waistline, Improve Your Health; December 2010
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On July 1, 2021, we witnessed history as more than 130 countries approved a framework to reform international tax rules. It was agreed that the OECD/G20 Inclusive Framework on Base Erosion and Profit Shifting (BEPS) would take a two-pillar approach, with adoption planned for 2023.
Pillar One aligns taxing rights more closely with local market engagement and is intended to address the challenges posed by electronic commerce and digitization. This is a departure from the standard international tax rules of the last century, which have often required businesses to have a physical presence in a country before that country has a right to tax.
Pillar Two establishes a global minimum taxation framework through a series of interconnected rules. It is an unprecedented agreement on a global minimum level of taxation that stipulates a floor for tax competition among jurisdictions.
Numerous challenges face tax professionals as the emerging BEPS framework becomes clearer and they prepare for adoption. Among these challenges are:
- Inconsistent rules. Model rules were released in December 2021; however, the market still lacks the detail to apply them effectively. It is critical for tax leaders to understand how and when they will need to update their organization’s systems to produce the data needed to comply with the final rules. Legislative differences across various countries will make it difficult to track when laws come into effect in relevant jurisdictions.
- Capturing the right data. Another key challenge is capturing the data at the correct level of granularity to enable and, where applicable, automate the calculations.
- Increasing disclosures. Adding BEPS 2.0 to the existing array of global or regional frameworks is sure to challenge tax professionals. Current reporting obligations include the Global Reporting Initiative’s global tax reporting standard (GRI 207) as well as the public country-by-country reporting rules of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development and the European Union. Tax leaders must have a thorough understanding of each relevant framework and how to reconcile their organization’s disclosures under each.
- Building stakeholder understanding. Senior business leaders are, quite rightly, very concerned about the impact of BEPS 2.0 on their businesses, due not just to the tax impact but also to the process and reporting/compliance changes. Tax professionals must understand new requirements and any predicted changes to tax profiles in enough depth to explain it in nonfinancial terms to key stakeholders. Stakeholders are likely to have a surface-level understanding but may not have considered the wider business impacts of adopting BEPS 2.0. For example, tax function budgets are expected to rise, and any employee who touches the compliance process needs to be aware of new data collection and reporting requirements. The high volumes of data that must be gathered and analyzed could push existing tax reporting processes and technology to the breaking point.
- Strained resources. Tax teams are continually asked to do more within the same time constraints. Therefore, process efficiency gains are essential and can be achieved by adopting more sophisticated, streamlined, and integrated (and dedicated) technology solutions.
- Alignment across multiple teams. It will be critical for tax functions to liaise closely with finance teams to ensure consistency in tax and accounting data. Working from the same system and the same set of numbers will be key to success here.
- Individual country reactions. Most countries have reacted positively to the proposals. But before adopting BEPS 2.0, countries will need to examine their existing tax processes, for example reconsidering incentives to attract foreign investment. Tax professionals need to keep a finger on the pulse of their relevant jurisdictions to understand how their group will operate locally and on a global scale.
For the best outcomes, tax professionals preparing for the reform should do so collaboratively, working closely with other departments and using the right tools to ensure that all needs are met. Many of the above challenges require long-term systematized solutions, but here are a few immediate actions that tax professionals would be wise to consider:
- Develop a BEPS working group and/or leverage external project management. Multidisciplinary collaboration will be essential when trying to identify and manage the full range of potential business impacts of BEPS 2.0. Responsibilities will span across many departments, including finance and transfer pricing. With new developments every month, it would be wise for tax professionals to build an internal working group to ensure all decisions are made with an integrated mindset. Alternatively, given the scale and complexity of the impending requirements, some organizations are appointing dedicated project managers to coordinate the skills and knowledge needed for success.
- Talk to your community. Consulting with peer groups and partner firms is critical for improving the depth and breadth of your understanding and to learn how other organizations are evaluating the impact to their process and systems.
- Update scenario modeling (and maybe systems). The reforms become even more complex when you consider their intersection with existing domestic rules. With each new update of the rules, previous modeling will need to be redone. Tax leaders need to consider revisiting the assumptions and limitations used in any prior modeling and run new calculations when needed.
- Integrate the right technology tools. International companies must use the appropriate assessment tools to model impacts, evaluate interdependencies, and minimize the extent of additional Pillar Two top-up tax or other undesirable outcomes. To develop a truly integrated approach and cope with increasing pressure on their teams, tax leaders need a solution that can pull data from multiple sources and enable collaboration with the finance function. Dynamic organizations and changing statutory environments demand a system, like Longview Tax among others, that pulls data from your ERP or consolidation system, boosting collaboration, time savings, and timely delivery of accurate data.
- Utilize recent year-end reviews to identify data gaps. For international companies, recent year-end reporting and analysis present an opportunity to gauge the organization’s readiness to comply with the impending BEPS 2.0 data and reporting requirements. Tax leaders can use this information to see what data is already being collected, what needs to be adjusted before use, and what other information may be needed for compliance or to support elections.
At insightsoftware, we believe that taking a collaborative approach is the only way to address major reforms like BEPS 2.0. We’ve created customer and partner working groups to identify and prioritize the requirements that are of highest concern. We are working with these groups over the coming months until we are confident in our understanding of the situation. After this period of consultation, we will present the results back to them with a prioritized list of the enhancements we will make to our products.
We have dedicated a significant percent of our engineering capacity in the fall to delivering on this list of prioritized enhancements, based on the feedback we have received. We know BEPS 2.0 has the potential to substantially impact our customers and anticipate it will remain a focus in our road map for multiple future releases. From the ability to book an accrual and calculate global anti-base erosion (GLoBE) adjustments, filing at a later date, to tracking and potentially restating historical positions, we are working hard to ensure our customers’ success when it comes time for BEPS 2.0 adoption.
Sooner or later, BEPS 2.0 is coming. There is speculation that BEPS 2.0 adoption will be delayed to the first quarter of 2024. But this does not change the inevitability of a new framework; it just gives us more time to prepare. Tax leaders must move quickly to assess potential impacts, advise senior executives and other stakeholders on coming changes, and determine what needs to be done to comply with the new rules and manage their implications. Collaboration and automation through the right tools will be critical to staying agile and successfully navigating BEPS 2.0 adoption.
Jamie Eagan, the vice president of product management at insightsoftware, is responsible for the controllership group of solutions which includes the Longview Tax and Longview Transfer Pricing products. He leads insightsoftware’s suite of financial close and consolidation, tax, and disclosure management solutions globally.
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The Great War in the 21st Century
In The Legacy of the Great War: Ninety Years On (2009), Jay Winter identifies four generations of critics, historians, novelists, and other cultural producers that engage with the representation of the First World War: “the Great War generation,” who had first-hand experience of the First World War; “the generation ‘fifty years on’,” writing in the 1950s and ‘60s; the “Vietnam generation,” working primarily in the 1970s; and the “transnational generation,” which broadly encompasses the more contemporary representations of the Great War. Winter adds that “everyone writing today draws upon or reflects upon earlier publications in this field,” speaking to the importance of intertextual and cross-generational analyses of the war.
This panel invites papers that address the First World War in contemporary literature, film, television, memorial art, and other media, taking into consideration this crucial point: that, given the death of all the war’s survivors, contemporary representations of the War constitute memories of memories or responses to prior representations even as they resituate the war’s meaning in relation to current events and emergent conceptual paradigms. Given the recent centenary of the First World War, this panel invites papers that consider the conflict as it figures in our contemporary collective consciousness, and that address some aspects unique to the “transnational generation”: the recognition that the Great War’s effects were “trans-European, trans-Atlantic, and beyond.” | <urn:uuid:f1bfa228-9b5a-49e9-86be-575d140320b8> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2020/01/31/the-great-war-in-the-21st-century | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571222.74/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810222056-20220811012056-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.913781 | 333 | 2.578125 | 3 |
If you would like to display files created in MS Word, Excel, Equation, PowerPoint, Corel, Mind Manager, etc. you can use the OLE component. The OLE component can display files created with any application that supports OLE 2.0. If this application supports in-place activation, you will also be able to edit these files without quitting SuperMemo. For example, if you insert an MS Word document into an OLE component and switch to editing mode, SuperMemo menus and toolbars will be replaced by Word menus and toolbars.
As all other components, the OLE component is available from the Compose toolbar. To be able to edit files inserted in the OLE component you will need an appropriate server application (e.g. MS Word, Corel, Mind Manager, etc.). However, you do not need any software to display these files in the presentation mode.
To add an OLE component, click three points:
- OLE button on the Compose toolbar
- Top-left corner of the area you want your OLE file displayed (in the element window)
- Bottom-right corner of the area you want your OLE file displayed
If you want to import a ready file, right-click the OLE component, and choose Insert OLE object, click Create from File in the Insert Object dialog box and choose the file by typing its name or clicking Browse.
If you want to create a new file and edit its contents, right-click the OLE component, and choose Insert OLE object, and pick from the list of OLE servers available in your Windows installation. When you click OK, the appropriate server will be called and you will be able to edit your file (e.g. Microsoft equation, Excel chart, PowerPoint presentation, etc.). When you press Esc, SuperMemo will display the file in the presentation mode (i.e. the way it will look during repetitions or on the computer of the users of your collection).
Please note that the pop-up menu in the OLE component is mode sensitive, i.e. it will display the OLE server pop-up menu in the editing mode and standard SuperMemo options in the presentation mode. In the presentation mode you will be able to use options such as Display At, Answer, Border, etc. In the editing mode you will be able to use options depending on your OLE server (e.g. if your server is MS Excel, you will be able to use Cut, Copy, Format cells, etc.).
The simplest way to switch between presentation and editing modes is to choose one of the following:
- Alt+click over the element display area
- press Ctrl+T until you reach the OLE component
- click the Editing mode button (blue-notebook) on the Format toolbar
In the picture below, an Excel spreadsheet is being edited inside SuperMemo (notice the standard Excel toolbars right below the element toolbar) via OLE in-place activation:
If your OLE server shows stability problems or does not work seamlessly with SuperMemo, your OLE file may still work fine in the presentation mode. You will be able to redistribute your collection without worrying about its performance on the user's machine.
You can use mind-maps with SuperMemo
From: Pascal Heimlicher
Sent: Tue, Aug 07, 2001 1:53 AM
Is there a possibility to learn with mindmaps I've created in MindManager. Where can I find a description?
If you would like to use mindmaps editable with Mind Manager via OLE, see: OLE component. You can also export mindmaps as graphic files and used them with image components. Some of users on this Yahoo eGroup use Mind Manager. You could share the experience or simply browse their messages. Remember to turn off the Scaled parameter in your template (on the element menu)
Learning large mind-maps
From: Marcelo de Oliveira Azevedo
Sent: Tuesday, August 20, 2002 1:02 AM
I'm having troubles with large mindmaps: I can't see the entire one. What's the solution?
If you are using mind-maps with OLE, their behavior will depend on the mind-map OLE server. If you are using mind-maps with HTML or with the image component, you can view the file with F9.
It is important to know that in active recall, you only need a small portion of your mind-map to efficiently execute your repetitions. Ideally, you should convert your mind-map to a graphic file and paste only small portions of this file as separate topics. Then, you can use questions referring to individual portions of the map or use occlusion tests to cover parts of the map. Asking questions about the mind-map is by far simpler and often more effective. Occlusion tests are harder to build but easier to recall. Consequently, you may want to use occlusion tests on large volume material where speed of learning is more important than precise map recall.
In any case, large mindmap preview in SuperMemo should not be necessary
It is possible to use Acrobat Reader files with SuperMemo
From: Mala Kaur
Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2001 6:03 AM
I wanted to import PDF files to SuperMemo for reading and copying certain items for further analysis. I initially tried to use Insert OLE object but I found OLE mechanisms unstable
Another approach is to use the web browser (HTML) component. Then use Insert HTML link : HTML file (on the HTML component pop-up menu) and link to the PDF file. Using this option the PDF file is not immediately visible as only files of type *.txt, *.htm, *.rtf are listed. To visualize the PDF files on your drive type in *.pdf in the file name field and they become visible in the File window. Naturally, you need to have Acrobat Reader installed to view the file in SuperMemo. You can, of course, copy the text with the tools provided for the PDF viewer and use it for further SuperMemo purposes. The same method works for Excel files, Word files, etc.
SuperMemo will often not be able to use a given server to display your data correctly
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Sent: Dec 2, 1998
When I create an MS Equation formula in the OLE component, the equation is unnaturally large and distorted. How can I go around this bug?
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You know that protecting your skin from harmful UV rays is non-negotiable. But what about protecting marine environments from your sun protection? Traditional sunscreens contain harmful chemicals that can damage coral reefs (among other things). From sun protection clothing and using a hat for sun protection to reef-safe sunscreen, here are seven ocean-friendly alternatives to cover up with this summer.
There’s nothing worse than coming home from a long day by the water with the painful, tender feeling of a fresh sunburn. And sunburns don’t just hurt. They can lead toharmful issues down the road such as skin damage, premature aging, and even skin cancer.
But the most common way to avoid sunburn–sunscreen– has its own set of dangerous secrets. Most traditional sunscreens contain harsh chemicals, the most common of which is oxybenzone. When swimmers use chemical sunscreen, it inevitably washes off into the water. These chemicals are best documented for damaging the fragile marine ecosystem. But they can have harmful effects on rivers and lakes, too. The chemicals found in traditional sunscreen lotion can bleach coral reefs, inhibit the growth of green algae, and cause defects in fish and dolphins.
Luckily, there are many reef-safe sunscreen alternatives. Before you cover up with that bottle of drug store sunscreen, try out these planet-friendly options:
7 Reef Safe Sunscreen and Sun Protection Alternatives
Collect a few sun protection shirts
One of the easiest and best ways to avoid sunburns is by literally covering up. But not all clothing protects you the same. To ensure that you’re truly safe from those UV rays, look forsun protection shirts with a UPF rating. UPF, which stands for ultraviolet protection factor, designates just how good a material is at blocking UV rays. The higher the number, the better. For ultimate protection, look forsun protection shirts with a UPF rating of 50+.
Pick a UPF-rated hat for sun protection
You can’t beat a UPF-ratedhat for sun protection for a reef-safe and sunburn-free solution. Hats offer non-stop coverage for the parts of your body that are most likely to suffer from skin damage. And with nothing to lather on, you can enjoy nature knowing you’re leaving it free of chemicals. Just make sure that the head covering you choose is UPF rated by a trusted source, such asARPANSA. For hot and humid days, look for ahat for sun protectionmade of lightweight and breezy materials likerecycled plastic ororganic raffia. We lovethis style for complete protection.
Try thisall-natural, reef-safe sunscreen for your face
Raw Elements is leading the change towards trulyreef-safe sunscreen. Going beyond cutting out the top polluting chemicals, their face sunscreen is entirely plant-based, Leaping Bunny Certified, and even biodegradable. It’s a chosen favorite by many beaches in Hawaii, which have some of the strictest rules about which sunscreens can be used in their waters. Looking for a tinted face sunscreen? Try theirtinted daily moisturizer. It’s SPF 30 and comes entirely plastic-free.
How to tell if sunscreen is reef-safe?
Many sunscreen brands may claim to be “reef-safe.” But the unfortunate truth is that this is not always true. The term “reef-safe sunscreen” isn’t regulated at this time. So you’ll have to take matters into your own hands to find an environmentally safe option.
First, look for a sunscreen that is oxybenzone-free. This is the most harmful chemical in most sunscreens. But there are many other chemicals that can still cause damage, so your best bet is to look for a mineral-based sunscreen. Mineral sunscreens will most commonly have an active ingredient of zinc oxide. Finally, look for a non-nano mineral sunscreen. Certain places, such as Hawaii, have specific guidelines about what ingredients are allowed on their beaches. Make sure to check out information specific to your destination before traveling.
Invest in a beach umbrella or canopy
If you prefer to relax on the sand rather than in the water, a portable shade solution can offer a fantastic, reef-safe alternative to chemical sunscreen. Just like clothing and hats, look for a beach umbrella or canopy that’s UPF rated. Preferably, choose one that’s UPF 30+. Just make sure to toss on that UPF shirt and a hat if you head into the water or out for a walk.
Lather your body with mineral-based sunscreen
Spending your day doing something active outdoors? If it’s hot out, it’ll be hard to wear protective clothing that covers your whole body. Areef-safe sunscreen for your body is a must. Badger is a fantastic choice for mineral-based sunscreen. With just five ingredients, 98% of which are certified organic, they offer one of the cleanest choices for your skin and the planet. By using zinc oxide rather than harsh chemicals, theirreef-safe sunscreen protects without damaging marine life. Find protection from 30 to 50 SPF ontheir website.
Clothing with sun protection doesn’t stop on land: UPF-rated surf clothes
Headed out to catch some waves? While you’ll surely want to slather on somereef-safe sunscreen for your face, you can protect your body with UPF-rated surf gear. Look for wet and dry suits with a UPF rating. And in the summer, consider using a UPF-rated rash guard shirt. While it’s not a complete alternative to chemical sunscreen, a rash guard can protect commonly burned spots like your back and shoulders from the sun. Just remember to cover any other areas of the skin with a quality, mineral-based sunscreen.
Don’t forget the sunglasses
Yep- your eyes can catch a sunburn, too. Actually, exposure to bright sunlight can seriously damage your eyes and lead to cataracts and long-term damage. So using a pair of sunglasses when you’re outdoors is important. As with reef-safe sunscreen and UPF-rated sun hats and clothing, you’ll want to ensure the sunglasses you choose offer real coverage. Look for sunglasses that are labeled to have 100% UV protection. Alternately, look for the label UV 400, which is the highest level of UV rating you can get from sunglasses. While polarized glasses offer protection from glare and make it easier to see in sunny, wet, and snowy conditions, they don’t automatically offer UV protection. The ideal pair of sunglasses will be polarized and rated UV 400. Paired with propersun protection clothing, you’ll be set for a safe and fun day in nature!
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This Sunday, November 5th, the United States will “fall back” an hour as daylight savings ends. While a majority of smartphones, computers and DVRs will automatically adjust to the time change, there are still some clocks that will require a manual set back. Therefore, make sure all manual clocks are set back an hour before going to bed this Saturday to enjoy an extra hour of sleep.
In addition to setting your clocks back, it would also be an appropriate time to make sure all smoke detectors are working properly as winter approaches and families begin to snuggle up by the fire. Daylight savings time ending means it will begin to get darker earlier. Here are some safety tips you should keep in mind:
- Prepare for Nighttime Driving – since it will begin to get darker earlier, make sure headlights and taillights are working so your vehicle remains visible on the road
- Be Aware of Others on the Road – this includes other vehicles, pedestrians, cyclists and animals. Due to the darkness, it may become difficult to see others on the road so make sure you drive cautiously
- Relax and Rest – take advantage of the extra hour by getting to bed at a reasonable time so you are well rested for the week
Enjoy your extra hour and be sure to stay safe on and off the road!
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Reprinted with permission from the Online Library of Liberty
Not long ago, I was looking through my inbox to find some document or the other that had been emailed to me when I noticed a message from my friend Amy Willis at Liberty Fund. There is, it must be noted, nothing unusual in that, as I contribute to the Fund’s EconLog from time to time, and she sometimes messages me with ideas that our readers might find of interest. On this occasion, she surprised me with a most unexpected honor; an invitation to contribute to a written roundtable on the legacy of Walter E. Williams. This is indeed an honor, and I ask the reader to forgive my fervor and briefly indulge my excitement at presenting this to you. You see, there are not many economists who look like me, and few of any shade spoke as clearly against the determinants of public policy that created a cycle of impoverishment for minorities than did Dr. Williams.
Few would dispute, at least those acting in good faith, the idea that our nation has a long and troubled history with regard to its racial minorities. The great grandson of slaves, Williams would have occasion to experience these troubles himself. While his childhood in Philadelphia seems to have been absent of many of the turmoils suffered by his brethren in other corners of America, his time in the army stationed at Fort Stewart in Hinesville, Georgia gave him his first taste of segregation and racially discriminatory policies. Initially, Williams dealt with his discontent by pulling pranks to cause his superiors discomfort and engaging in a campaign of writing letters to highlight discrimination within the armed forces. While these actions accomplished little besides resulting in a court-martial in which he was found not guilty of the absurd charges levied against him, they set Williams down a path not only of questioning racial disparities in America, but also of fixing a stern eye towards their root causes. To say that Williams continued to go against the grain is a great understatement.
It is a long-held piece of common wisdom that the specter of systemic racism is a blight upon the fortunes of African Americans. It is also common within conservative and libertarian circles to hold that Dr. Williams rejected this view, but in truth, much as this writer accepts this as truth, so did Dr. Williams. As he noted, he grew up in a time where Negroes, as they were then called, were denied the natural rights that citizens should enjoy simply because they were assumed inferior because of their race. Where Williams differed from the prophets of the common wisdom was in his determination of who was (and still is) to blame for the perpetuation of discrimination.
In the troubled days of yesteryear, Williams notes, it was the legitimate goal of champions of civil rights to secure equality under the law for racial minorities. Blacks were restricted, by the very laws that should have ensured protection of rights, from voting, freedom of travel and association, and basic rights of contract. These restrictions were violations of the American norms of private property, limited government, and rule of law long enjoyed by the enfranchised class. A succession of court, legislative, and municipal battles against entrenched interests were successful in securing those basic rights for those who were not members of the preferred majority. The problem then became, as Williams saw it, the well-meaning but ultimately futile attempts of civil rights thinkers to resolve any residual remnants of racial discrimination with further legal action.
It is important to understand that Williams does not claim that racism no longer exists. Instead, what he is saying is that absent legal barriers to advancement, resources spent in the service of fighting discrimination are wasted. Why are they wasted? The answer is relatively simple, as these resources would probably be better utilized fighting the same problem within the market. While discrimination imposes costs against those who are the victims of it, absent the artificial protections of state legitimacy, it also imposes costs upon the party that is doing the discriminating. Without those protections, the costs of racial discrimination cannot be hidden behind the veneer of law, or easily shifted to other parties.
Williams also utilizes the tools of economic analysis to demonstrate how good intentions result in the very thing they are meant to guard against. If, for example, the poor quality of education among Blacks is seen as a civil rights problem, then obviously the answer is to apportion more public dollars to bolstering majority Black schools, hiring more Black administrators, and hiring more Black teachers. The problem with this is that it has been tried ad nauseum, and it has failed spectacularly. Instead, Williams would argue that these resources would be better served finding free market alternatives to a failed system of public education, optimally constructed by local stakeholders who both understand their local communities and have something to gain from their improvement. It would also ameliorate a nasty side effect of such efforts; the de facto segregation of minority students into failing schools.
The most important thing Williams demonstrated was that affirmative action robbed African Americans of the power and responsibility of their own agency. He reveled in the fact that since the Civil Rights Act, African Americans had made the greatest gains of any racial group in America and in the shortest period of time. He noted that if the 2008 income of African Americans were taken as the gross domestic product of a separate nation, Black America would be the 18th richest nation in the world. This also represents the jumping off point for his greatest departure from the common wisdom. As Dr. Williams notes, some 30% of the African American population has been left behind despite the gains of Blacks in general, and the poverty rate among African Americans hovers at or around 30%. As social science continues to demonstrate, poverty is one of the biggest determinants of crime.
This modern poverty, Williams posited, it’s quite different from the poverty of yesteryear. While the poverty of his youth was simply an economic reality that one’s family learned to deal with, this modern poverty is the result of many corrosive factors including, as William notes, a lack of family. His analysis showed a high degree of correlation between growing up with a single parent, lack of educational attainment, and criminal activity. Naturally, a combination of the lack of skills resulting from poor education and the limited employment market that results from criminal records creates a cycle of recidivism and poverty that often lasts throughout generations.
While Williams did not deny that there are institutional factors and such social institutions as police departments that lead to disparities in arrest and prosecution, he remained skeptical this could explain larger problems within minority communities. Once again, utilizing the tools of economic analysis, he showed the Academy and policymakers that it was in fact their well-meaning paternalism that led to corrosive elements within minority communities. Moreover, policies such as minimum wage laws and occupational licensing create barriers to entry that discourage the spirit of entrepreneurship within the poorest elements of society. Actually, laws and policies such as these, while seemingly a manner of helping minorities and the poor, were originally instituted to price undesirable individuals out of the labor market. Recall that earlier we noted that discriminatory laws often hide the true price of discrimination and the cost that they impose upon those discriminated against. Williams was instrumental in showing that this paradigm holds for any type of laws that provide a group with special status, even if the intent is to right a historical wrong.
It has been a great privilege to provide some small insight into the overwhelming legacy of Walter E. Williams. Of course, I do not agree with all of the observations he made over the course of his long, distinguished career, but he was vastly instrumental in showing us that the best solutions to the racial problems that bedevil us don’t come from the government who all too often caused a problem in the first place. They are properly found within the free market, which, with all of its imperfections, imposes costs upon those who unjustly discriminate against others based on race, religion, sexuality, or for any reason at all. I can only hope that we have learned enough from him to continue and improve upon his work. | <urn:uuid:ec896114-f583-4411-acd4-605fce14ad24> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://goodofnews.com/2022/03/05/uncomplicating-a-complicated-world-the-shining-legacy-of-walter/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571222.74/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810222056-20220811012056-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.977936 | 1,632 | 2.421875 | 2 |
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F 451 Component 1 Replies 1 . The importance of Montag seeing his reflection in Clarisse’s eyes is that it shows that Clarisse is different. The girl with special.
In this dystopia that Ray Bradbury has made, Clarisse is the one particular unique portion of the society, the “flaw. ” 2 . In the childhood recollection that Clarisse caused Montag to remember, Montag was obviously a child and the power sought out in his house. Montag’s mom had lighted a candle light. He discovered an “hour of rediscovery, of such illumination that space shed its great dimensions and drew pleasantly around them, ” and the two mother and son transformed, hoping which the power doesn’t come back upon.. The two gestures, of Montag, that Clarisse pointed out were that Montag laughs in the things she says, regardless of in the event they’re funny or certainly not, and that he won’t take a short while or some timeframe to think before answering her questions. four. The Mclellans were looked at as peculiar mainly because they would delete word leave each of the lights open up in their house, stay up, and talk with eachother. Clarisse’s uncle would often get jailed pertaining to doing some thing “wrong” and against the law. five. Clarisse requires Montag, “Are you happy? ” and this is definitely significant because this question coils in Montag’s head for the rest of the book.
This kind of question leads to this apparent “revolution” in Montag’s head. 6. The extended metaphor that describes Clarisse through Montag’s sight when he travelled inside his home was, “She a new very slim face such as the dial of a small clock seen faintly in a darker room in the middle of a night when you waken to see the time and see the clock hinting the hour and the minute and the second, with a white silence and a shining, all assurance and knowing what it has to describe the night passing swiftly on toward further darknesses but moving also toward a brand new sun. ” 7.
Clarisse is inquisitive and thoughtful, and, at first, appears to irritate Montag because she challenges his beliefs with her wondering. In a world where browsing, driving slowly, and going for walks outside happen to be outlawed a conversation can be rare, Clarisse’s love intended for nature and curiosity of people is extremely unusual. She is required to go to a doctor for manners like trekking and pondering independently. Her family, and especially her dad, is in back of all of this. Through the night, the McClellan house’s lamps are on contrasting with the adjacent area’s peace and quiet and night.
Montag accuses Clarisse of thinking a lot of. In the end, Clarisse opens Montag’s eyes, and recognizes that he is totally different from everyone else. Ahead of they fulfilled, Montag was full of fascination with only of the fire. Montag’s feels fascinated by Clarisse, yet he likewise feels forced. Clarisse requires Montag’s “mask of happiness”, and forces him to confront the deeper truth of the scenario. She is such as a reflection of himself. He feels that she is linked to him in some manner, as if the lady had been awaiting him, fever currently brewing.
As Montag looks again on his meeting with her, the encounter appears more and more significant and significant. 8. Bed is distributed by Montag and his wife, Mildred. It can be cold plus the opposite of homey. The significance is that Montag refers to the room as “empty”, and then says that it is not physically bare because Mildred is laying there, but feels bare, characterizing Mildred. 9. Clarisse McClellan is actually a beautiful and “crazy” seventeen-year-old who introduces Montag for the world’s potential with her innocence and curiosity.
The girl with out-casted from society as a result of her odd habits, including hiking and asking queries, but your woman and her family seem to be happy with themselves and each other. 10. Clarisse says Montag is different from all other firemen in that he halts for her which is willing to have a dialogue with her. Most firemen tend to only walk away and enable her babble on to herself, but Montag seems enthusiastic about the things that Clarisse says. 11. The mechanical hound is actually a man-made creature. It is a “hollow” enforcer that kills items that it is developed to.
This either gets rid of or disables its “target”. Physically, the hound features eight-legs. A needle from the nose stuns, paralyzes, pains, poisons, and kills the victim. doze. Antisocial: unwilling or not able to associate within a normal or perhaps friendly way with other people, but , in the case of this story, antisocial means someone who can be odd, distinct, someone who will not follow the “rules” of society. This term is used for Clarisse. 13. Clarrise says that people may talk any longer. If they are doing talk, it truly is about some thing superficial which may have no genuine meaning or perhaps anything of these sort behind them. 4. Montag asks in the event burning books had been a fireman’s role in the society. The other firemen are stunned the question. This kind of question offends their comfy belief system, and Montag is dismissed as someone who is misinformed, but this can be just the beginning of Montag’s “awakening. ” 15. The woman said, “Play the man, Master Ridley, we shall this very day light this sort of a candle, by God’s grace, in the uk, as I trust shall by no means be put away. ” Beatty later points out this to Montag plus the others.
In 1655 a guy named Latimer said this kind of to his fellow Nicholas Ridley before they were burned up alive to get heresy. The same as the firemen will be ready to burn the books for his or her beliefs, the woman is ready to lose for her books and values. Montag abducts a few books and lays awake for hours thinking about the powerful message the fact that woman experienced said. of sixteen. Montag seems horrible pertaining to the old female, but , at the same time, he feels jealous of her. The girl with standing up for what is right, although he conceals behind his title. He steals books from her house and hides these to later go through.
Even though he feels bad for this, he could be actually rebelling. 17. All their job can be not to publish physical fires, as it must be, but to put out the fire of discontent. As long as people continued to be “happy, ” everything worked out. “Intellectuals” became very unforeseen and harmful people. People who read literature and believed for themselves shaped ideas against the government. Firemen became the “guardians of people’s comfort”. They eliminate books prior to people can read and use them to form ideas. These kinds of ideas can threaten equal rights and happiness of the people in culture. | <urn:uuid:1c10578d-0330-4154-95bf-47a1aff192b9> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://e-vocable.com/2104948-2/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571056.58/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809155137-20220809185137-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.973461 | 1,562 | 2.40625 | 2 |
In the present work, both the local response of the components of a building structure and the global response of the structure itself to blast loading are studied. The local response of the columns on the front face of a building, which experience high reflected pressures, is of utmost importance in the analysis and design of structures subjected to blast and is the subject of the first section of this study. The beams on the side faces and roof of the buildings experience loads produced by a travelling blast wave, which makes their response analysis somewhat complex. Analysis of such response is the second component of this study. For the two types of members mentioned above, the impact of simplifications and assumptions inherent in the current methodologies for calculating blast loading and for the determination of their dynamic response is examined. The response obtained from these methodologies is compared with that obtained from a refined analysis that uses a more exact representation of the blast loading as well as of the members. The objective is to find whether there are any inaccuracies in the current practice, and to suggest modifications, as well as new tools to improve the reliability of the response analysis, while maintaining the efficiency and simplicity of the current methodologies. The final part of the study is related to the analysis of the global response of the structures to blast loading. Different aspects of the global response of buildings to blast loads are analysed in a case study of a 10-story reinforced concrete building. The impact of different assumptions in application of the blast loads to the building and loading area of the frames are studied. Also, the global response of building structures to blast loading are compared to the individual member-by-member analysis in blast loading. In addition, comparison is made between the response of the building to blast and to seismic forces. | <urn:uuid:9d45375f-fbe2-40b3-b1e4-7039f67230c2> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://curve.carleton.ca/fa69205a-6d4a-4b61-819c-cef0260588ff | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571222.74/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810222056-20220811012056-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.95949 | 359 | 2.21875 | 2 |
Research activities (RTD)
The research activities in the NERIS-TP project have been subdivided into
3 work packages
The objective of the first work package is the adaptation of existing
simulation models of Decision support Systems, in particular the RODOS
system that they can treat the new ICRP 103 recommendations published in
2007. The new ICRP recommendations consider all exposure pathways within
a certain period and define a so called residual dose that should not be
exceeded. To deal with this new aspect, the existing simulation models have
to be adapted. Furthermore, ICRP recommends preparing for all possible
scenarios. To facilitate this preparedness aspect of ICRP 103, a new
module will be developed that supports the generation of scenarios and
the selection of management strategies.
The following methodology is envisaged.
This work is backed-up by the ICRP working group to be established in the frame of NERIS.
- Firstly, expand the existing Emergency simulation model EMERSIM in
RODOS such that it can be used as a screening tool to explore the need
for sheltering, distribution of iodine tablets, evacuation and relocation.
These actions should be modelled in an integrated way considering all exposure
pathways within one simulation process.
- Secondly, expand the simulation capabilities of the Foodchain module
AgriCP to have means to reduce the dose further after plume passage. One
important aspect here is the assessment / reconstruction of exposure during
plume passage, as this dose sets the framework for further optimisation
after plume passage.
- In parallel, expand the inhabited area model ERMIN such that
decontamination options can be used to reduce further the exposure after
The objective of the second work package is to strengthen the preparedness
at national and local level in European countries towards nuclear and
radiological preparedness and recovery. Based on the current status and
experience, the following activities will be carried out:
- Test the viability of local-national forums where emergency and recovery
strategies could be elaborated and cooperation mechanisms explored, involving
all levels and sectors that would be affected by a radioactive contamination
- Develop robust and user friendly tools to assist the territories and
local communities in preparing for the local cooperation (within and between
territories and local communities) in case of incidents/accidents;
- Develop mechanisms and tools necessary for the feedback from local
level to national level on implementation of mitigating actions in a
response phase; and
- Foster cooperation between local, national and international stakeholders,
decision-makers and experts involved in preparedness and recovery, through
activities jointly with the European NERIS platform.
The third work package addresses the coupling of an emergency information
system such as the European early warning system ECURIE with a Decision
Support System (DSS) to have an automated assessment of doses and potential
consequences initiated by a message from an emergency information system.
A basic requirement is that the assessment be based on freely available
meteorological data. The following items will be developed to achieve
The system concerning the meteorological data calculation and transfer to the
DSS will be tested, optimised and evaluated for real cases.
- Computational tools to provide location, meteorological data and nuclides
release (source term) information to the Decision Support System, based on
the information contained in the message from an emergency information system.
- An automated framework to trigger the entire procedure, control the flow of
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Food Allergies and Robyn O’Brien
Why do Walmart, Kraft and Coke Cola send Europe, pure, unadulterated versions of their food products and we get the versions that contain genetically modified ingredients, dyes, flavor enhancers and preservatives?
- Why did allergy to peanuts double from 1997 to 2002?
- Why does 1 in 17 children under the age of three have a food allergy
- Why has there been a 256% increase in the rate of hospitalizations (doctors admitting patients not parents) related to food allergies.
Robyn O’Brien shares her personal story and how it inspired her current path as a “Real Food” evangelist. Grounded in a successful Wall Street career that was more interested in food as good business than good-for-you, this mother of four was shaken awake by the dangerous allergic reaction of one of her children to a “typical” breakfast. Her mission to unearth the cause revealed more about the food industry than she could stomach, and impelled her to share her findings with others.
Watch TEDxAustin Robyn O’Brien 2011 video.
About Robyn O’Brien:
Robyn authored “The Unhealthy Truth: How Our Food Is Making Us Sick and What We Can Do About It.” A former Wall Street food industry analyst, Robyn brings insight, compassion and detailed analysis to her research into the impact that the global food system is having on the health of our children. She founded allergykidsfoundation.org and was named by Forbes as one of “20 Inspiring Women to Follow on Twitter.” The New York Times has passionately described her as “Food’s Erin Brockovich.”
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- Food as Medicine or Poison – Journals, Articles, and Blog Posts - May 24, 2022
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For many people, the story of the Aztec crystal skulls begins and ends with the least memorable Indiana Jones movie in the storied franchise. To others, the crystal skulls have mystical psychic and healing powers. However, despite the Hollywood theatrics and online hype, not a single crystal skull has ever been pulled from an excavation site. The crystal skulls are all archaeological imposters.
And yet the real story of these fake crystal skulls is nonetheless filled with intrigue and mystery.
Are the Crystal Skulls Real?
In major museum collections around the world, you can find masterfully carved and haunting crystal skulls in all manner of styles and sizes. The smallest is a simple amulet, while the largest is bigger than a bowling ball. And for generations, museum visitors have been captivated by their allure. Even today, you can still see some on display.
But in the 1990s, an anthropologist named Jane Walsh at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History started to develop suspicions about these objects.
One day, the U.S. Postal Service delivered a football helmet-sized Aztec crystal skull to the Smithsonian Institution from an anonymous donor. The note claimed it formerly belonged to a Mexican dictator. A colleague gave the skull to Walsh to look after. She knew about the skulls’ history as popular museum attractions. And Walsh was also aware of their dubious side, having exhibited a skull in a museum exhibit that labeled it a fake. As she examined the new arrival, she spotted a handful of reasons to doubt it was a genuine artifact.
“It was much too big, the proportions were off, the teeth and circular depressions at the temples did not look right, and overall it seemed too rounded and polished,” Walsh and a colleague, Brett Topping, wrote in their book, The Man Who Invented Aztec Crystal Skulls: The Adventures of Eugene Boban.
And as she eventually started digging into the backstories of other crystal skulls, she saw a trend of clear red flags and a strange pattern of similarities.
Soon, modern scientific analyses would also show that these crystal skulls were cut with modern rotary tools, while in some cases, the rock originated from Brazil, rather than Mexico.
Science of the Crystal Skulls
Walsh started by examining the origins of a 2-inch crystal skull in a Smithsonian Institution collection. It had appeared seemingly out of nowhere in the late 1800s as part of a collection that came to the museum from Mexico. And in a catalog card written in the 1950s, she found an analysis done by a geologist named William Foshag — an expert in Mesoamerican carved stones.
Foshag’s investigation revealed that the object was “definitely a fake,” created with modern jewelry-making tools and techniques. In a trove of documents that accompanied the larger collection of artifacts, she also stumbled onto a potential suspect involved: a man named Eugene Boban. An 1886 letter claimed that this man had tried to sell a fake crystal skull to Mexico’s national museum.
Boban’s name would eventually appear throughout the investigation. One tiny crystal skull owned by the British Museum traced its origins through the prestigious Tiffany & Co. of New York. Records showed that a company partner bought it at a Boban auction in 1897. Again and again, their detective work seemed to trace the story of the crystal skulls back to a specific time frame — from the 1860s to the 1890s — and a single man, Boban. But who was he?
Boban and Fake Mexican Artifacts
Boban, a Frenchman born in 1834, was enthralled by Mexico and its history. He traveled there extensively and over the years, he eventually became an archaeologist working for a member of the French Scientific Commission in Mexico. Boban developed friendships with many of the greatest archaeologists of his day, and took great interest in collecting artifacts from across the region. Through catalogs and exhibitions, he sold artifacts to collectors and museums in the late 19th century.
Around the same time, experts had started noticing fake Aztec and pre-Columbian artifacts flooding museum collections. An 1886 article in the journal Science decried “the trade in spurious Mexican antiquities.”
The museums themselves weren’t ignorant about fakes, but they also didn’t know enough to avoid them. So, increasingly, they started turning to subject experts for help. That’s how Boban got his start. As Boban built a reputation as an expert in Mexican antiquities, museum curators trusted him to arrange deals. They couldn’t have realized that he was selling them forgeries — or that he had invented crystal skulls — because they didn’t know Aztec society well enough. Boban banked on that. And he managed to hide the skulls’ origins through fake purchase histories.
Who actually made the skulls then? In many cases, Walsh suspects Boban may have acquired them from aging Christian churches in Mexico that the government was tearing down. We may never know. But Boban himself also seemed to tip off future generations to his complicity in the crystal skull saga when he talked to a newspaper journalist in the year 1900.
Boban said: “Numbers of so-called rock crystal, pre-Columbian skulls have been so adroitly made as almost to defy detection, and have been palmed off as genuine upon the experts of some of the principal museums of Europe.”
Tower of Skulls
Meanwhile, real archaeological artifacts were also streaming out of Mexico. Excavations were uncovering new clues about the Aztec, a civilization that was just as advanced as its contemporaries in Europe. And museums and private collectors around the world were eager to get a piece of it. Curators were snatching up objects that seemed rare and exotic. Crystal skulls would have seemed like the perfect get.
Centuries ago, Aztec spiritual beliefs and ceremonies placed major significance on the human skull. They carved ornate skulls into stone and depicted their gods wearing human skulls as jewelry. When the Aztecs sacrificed humans, they’d rip out people’s hearts and put their heads on stakes.
In fact, between 2015 and 2017, archaeologists dug up a monumental Aztec tower at Templo Mayor in Mexico City that’s some 20 feet in diameter and was built from more than 650 human skulls. The discovery of this skull tower belies the staggering scale of human sacrifice happening in what was then the Aztec capital city. It also shows just how obsessed their culture was with the skull.
It wasn’t just the Aztecs, either. Going further back into history, the Maya and the Olmecs before them also used skulls in their spiritual practices and their art.
Mesoamerican people were also known for carving ornate sculptures and ceremonial objects out of hard stone and gems, including crystal. One of the most beautiful examples of their craftsmanship is a pair of goblets carved from crystal.
When you combine the pre-Columbian fascination with skulls with the technical prowess at carving stone, it may have been easy for some to believe that these ancient people could have carved skulls out of crystal. And for nearly 150 years, that subtext helped a number of museum exhibit curators feel comfortable about displaying their crystal skulls, despite long-standing questions about these objects’ true origins.
It was only thanks to a number of investigations like Walsh’s in recent years that archaeologists have largely come to the consensus that these crystal skulls are fakes. Some still display them from time to time because of the public’s extreme interest.
That doesn’t mean that all museums necessarily agree though.
On the British Museum’s web page detailing the crystal skull that came through Tiffany & Co., the curator’s notes include a wide range of hypotheses on where the object originally came from and how it was made, including notes about modern tools. But it stops short of calling it a fake.
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The Vega expert has several uses which alongside the Vega-check and EIS make it very useful for refining diagnosis. The person being tested holds one metal electrode and a hand or toe point is used by the practitioner with a non-invasive touch probe to make readings of resistance values. By the reaction of the measuring scale it is possible to see what items are causing potential problems for the person, particularly allergies, and also look for the areas of the organs and system which may be functioning poorly and allowing illness to take place.
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The great advantage of the Vega expert system, in the hands of a skilled practitioner, is that by manually testing items we can obtain the full scope of information which purely computerised systems often miss. We can test all age groups with Vega expert and I have had many young children and babies work very well with this technique.
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A lot of the work we do in healthcare marketing and communications is predictable. Brand-building, patient acquisition, and organizational support are long-haul types of activities that you sustain throughout the year. But when a new health threat emerges, brand communicators have to respond quickly to help people minimize their risk of infection and to keep fear from spreading unnecessarily.
That continues to be the case with the Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19), which emerged from the city of Wuhan and Hubei province in China. Authorities suppressed news of the initial cases, so when it finally hit the news cycle, it seemed to appear menacingly overnight. From that point on, the media coverage was almost breathless in its reporting on the quarantine of millions and disturbing visuals of jammed hospitals turning people away. Some of the images circulated online were haunting.
Fear Spreads Faster Than Facts
Even though the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) worked quickly to understand how COVID-19 spreads and its mortality rate, people thousands of miles away from the epicenter began to fear for their safety.
At times like these, brand communicators must find facts from trusted sources, like the CDC, and disseminate it across multiple touchpoints. The information has to be pushed out assertively, because fear raises cognitive barriers that make it even harder to absorb information and assess risk within an appropriate context. For example, at the same time that COVID-19 was making headlines, millions in the U.S. had the flu, more than 100,000 hospitalizations would occur, and more than 12,000 would die from its complications. Yet we are so accustomed to the flu that we perceive its risk as less than the risk of something new.
If you work in healthcare, you are part of a crisis response team with a responsibility to share evidence-based facts to combat fear and misinformation. The outbreak continues and our thoughts are with those who are impacted.
But with an ongoing dose of information, we can help reduce the spread of unnecessary fear and the spread of the virus. Learn more about COVID-19 from the CDC. | <urn:uuid:bb60168a-38a9-4713-8198-b10d1d1abb54> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://targetmarketing.adweek.com/tag/crisis-response-team/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571056.58/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809155137-20220809185137-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.959749 | 435 | 2.140625 | 2 |
You are probably mindful of the Diet Specifics label on foods—it’s been all around for a lot more than twenty a long time. What you may possibly not know is that the label has experienced a makeover—with advancements that can help you make balanced choices about the foodstuff you and your household eat.
Like the instance earlier mentioned, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (Fda) is launching a energetic new schooling campaign to introduce you to individuals improvements—and how you can use them.
Beginning now and for the next yr, you are going to see the marketing campaign in motion in a variety of spots and in a variety of techniques. Appear for vibrant advertisements on your grocery retail outlet buying carts in 8 destinations throughout the United States, as properly as on Facebook, Instagram and Pandora.
Also examine out the snazzy videos on YouTube and on fda.gov.
The redesigned label has a variety of new features for consumers like updated serving sizes to far better match how a great deal individuals eat and larger font measurement for energy. Also, new vitamins are listed, like Vitamin D, potassium and included sugars. FDA’s schooling marketing campaign aims to reach the typical populace and qualified sub-populations at amplified possibility of nutrition-associated long-term disorder.
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ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE, LEVEL 3, OPEN, (ESLCO), 1 credit
This course extends students’ skill in listening, speaking, reading, and writing in English for a variety of everyday and academic purposes. Students will make short classroom presentations; read a variety of adapted and original texts in English; and write using a variety of forms of text. Students will also expand their academic vocabulary and their study skills to facilitate the transition to the mainstream school program. This course also introduces students to the rights and responsibilities inherent in Canadian citizenship, and to a variety of current Canadian issues. | <urn:uuid:b42e00bc-8240-4a9a-8061-f3e4570559c9> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://www.jaspermy.com/index.php?route=product/product&product_id=58 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570793.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808092125-20220808122125-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.945316 | 125 | 2.625 | 3 |
Watch the declining volume for hints of what the market will do ...
Market technicians look at a lot of data, and sometimes seldom watched data like the Declining Volume on the New York Stock Exchange can become very important.
This morning, we will focus on only one type of formation on the DVOL and how it relates to a market bounce.
The market is very seldom in a state of true balance, and it is the degree of imbalance that often sets up buying opportunities for investors.
Take the NYSE's Down Volume for instance (symbol: DVOL). In today's chart, we inverted our data so it would track with the NYA Index's direction.
However, if you look at labels 1 to 3, you can immediately see three instances where the NYA Index did NOT track with the DVOL's trending.
In each of those three instances, the NYA Index went down, while the inverted DVOL went UP or Sideways. In other words, the opposite behavior of the Down Volume was trying to tell you something.
If the market was going down while the Down Volume was becoming less, then you would have to think that the amount of selling was starting to decrease and dry up.
That pretty much describes a positive divergence condition that was going on between the DVOL and the NYA Index at labels 1 through 3.
Comments: The best divergences often occur when the NYA Index has gone so low, that it falls below its lower Bollinger Band. That is an out of balance condition that needs to go back towards normality by re-entering the Bollinger band area.
When such a condition occurs, with a positive divergence coming from the inverted Down Volume, then an oversold condition is ready for a bounce. That is what we had a label 3 this week as seen on today's chart. There was not a lot of divergence occurring at label 3 in terms of "length of time", or the "rise on the slope", so it is very likely that this divergence will not have the impact that label 2's divergence had on the market. | <urn:uuid:bdbb5b31-15e6-43b4-873b-cc2d247a3ba8> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://safehaven.com/article/23350/this-dvol-divergence-can-tell-you-the-market-will-rise | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571056.58/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809155137-20220809185137-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.975538 | 428 | 1.78125 | 2 |
“Cajundome City” will premiere at 7:15 p.m. on Aug. 25, at UL Lafayette’s LITE Center. The film recounts the venue’s role as a Hurricane Katrina shelter.
The University of Louisiana at Lafayette’s new “Good to Geaux” containers are designed to be taken anywhere – except landfills.
The reusable hard plastic containers hold takeout meals from UL Lafayette’s Café Fleur de Lis, Cypress Lake Dining Hall and Lagniappe Café. They’ve replaced disposable plastic containers as part of the Good to Geaux initiative being coordinated by the University’s Office of Sustainability and Campus Dining Services.
“Good to Geaux is expected to keep about 225,000 disposable plastic containers out of waste streams each year, a significant stride in the University’s campus-wide push to produce zero waste,” said Gretchen LaCombe Vanicor, director of the Office of Sustainability.
The efforts underscore environmental objectives enumerated in UL Lafayette’s Sustainability Strategic Plan. The plan calls for reusing, recycling or composting trash.
Campus will benefit from Good to Geaux as much as the ecosystem, said Monica Rowand, the University’s sustainability coordinator. “The reusable containers will reduce the amount of trash that ends up in bins, which will reduce waste management services costs.”
As part of the program, students with meal plans receive one free container. Diners without plans can purchase their first container for $4.99.
After meals, empty containers are deposited into what Rowand describes as “reverse vending machines.” In exchange, “they get a non-monetary token that they redeem for another container before their next meal,” she explained.
Containers retrieved from the receptacles will be thoroughly washed and sanitized in industrial-grade dishwashers.
“We’re encouraging people to return containers immediately after they eat to prevent inundating dining services staff at peak meal times, and reduce the likelihood containers will get lost or broken,” Rowand explained.
Machines for returning containers are at five locations.
Cypress Lake Dining Hall and Lagniappe Café in the UL Lafayette Student Union each have one. Café Fleur di Lis, near Legacy Park Apartments, has a third machine. The Ragin’ Cajuns Food Court in Agnes Edwards Hall and the Cox Communications Athletic Complex also have machines.
Dining halls aren’t the only spots on campus where eco-friendliness is on the menu. During the 2018 football season, fans at home games began eating from reusable containers and biodegradable plates using wooden forks, spoons and knives.
The shift marked the latest gain in the University’s zero waste efforts at Cajun Field, a move that also saw composting added to existing recycling efforts.
The efforts mean as much as 75 percent of the recyclable and compostable materials recovered after football games are now diverted from landfills, Vanicor said.
Recovered materials go to facilities for recycling, and to the University’s 600-acre Experimental Farm near Cade, La., for conversion to compost that’s used to fertilize campus greenery.
Materials also, in some cases, end up as outdoor seats. Discarded ice bags and cling wrap are sent to a company that makes park benches from the plastics.
“Finding creative ways to convert waste into resources are central to responsible environmental stewardship, a role that the University remains committed to for the betterment of our campus and community,” Vanicor said.
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Using the Internet or the Securities and Exchange Commissions Website located at http://www.sec.gov/divisions/enforce/friactions/friactions2012.shtml perform a search on several U.S. health care publicly-traded companies and choose a health care organization that has been accused of committing health care fraud.
Write a four to five (4-5) page paper in which you:
Evaluate the level of SOX regulations that applies to for-profit and not-for-profit health care organizations indicating whether or not mandating SOX requirements for non-profits might reduce fraud and increase corporate governance. Provide support for your rationale.
Determine whether SOX has been effective in regulating ethical behavior of for-profit health care organizations. Defend your position.
Review the audit report issued by the external auditing firm from the companys Website for the year it was accused of fraud. Then determine whether the external auditors were negligent in preparing the audit report for the company. Formulate an opinion regarding which Internal Control was deficient or what GAAP was violated. Defend your position.
Determine what provision(s) of SOX was / were violated in the health care fraud case in question. Indicate whether or not SOX adequately provides sanctions to deter the behavior or if changes are needed to the regulations to remedy the issue(s) and thus ensure compliance.
Based on the fraudulent activity that occurred recommend two (2) improvements to the internal control environment to reduce those occurrences. Provide detailed recommendations.
Use at least four (4) quality academic resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and other Websites do not qualify as academic resources.
Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:
Be typed double spaced using Times New Roman font (size 12) with one-inch margins on all sides; citations and references must follow APA or school-specific format. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.
Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment the students name the professors name the course title and the date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required assignment page length.
The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:
Evaluate internal controls within an organization and create a risk assessment.
Analyze ethical theories to evaluate a decision-making process to determine compliance with professional codes of ethics.
Evaluate the health of organizations to assess the level of risk in an audit engagement.
Evaluate financial data for potential fraud and prepare an audit approach for detecting fraud.
Assess the risk of financial misstatement in an IT-based environment.
Use technology and information resources to research issues in accounting management.
Write clearly and concisely about accounting management using proper writing mechanics.
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UPDATE x AS y: alias invalid in "SET" expr
(1) By Mark Lawrence (mark) on 2020-09-01 09:57:52 [link] [source]
The following fails to parse:
CREATE TABLE atable(id INTEGER); UPDATE atable AS a SET a.id = 2 -- HERE WHERE a.id = 1;
The "a.id" is not accepted in a SET expression even though it works in a WHERE expression. For consistency it would be nice if it did so. Has only become interesting to me since the UPDATE ... FROM support was added - I wanted to qualify all column names.
Version 3.34.0 2020-09-01 00:26:21 3ca0b7d54d73d07cd6b32e650a809174bb1cd66ce5ecdb36f65b70899ea05824
(2) By Richard Hipp (drh) on 2020-09-01 11:39:33 in reply to 1 [link] [source]
The ability to put table-name qualifiers in front of the column names in the SET clause of an UPDATE statement is a MySQL-ism. I'm not aware of any SQL engine other than MySQL that supports that syntax.
(3) By AAsk (aa2e72e) on 2020-09-01 13:51:43 in reply to 2 [link] [source]
SQL Server supports it.
select 1 as id, 100 as value into #tmp update a set a.value = 2000 from #tmp a where a.id = 1;
Useful when you update a table using an inner or left join with another table and the new values come from the second table.
(4) By AAsk (aa2e72e) on 2020-09-01 13:54:39 in reply to 3 [link] [source]
The sql statements got joined - it should be
select 1 as id, 100 as value into #tmp;
update a set a.value = 2000 from #tmp a where a.id = 1;
(5.1) By Keith Medcalf (kmedcalf) on 2020-09-01 15:21:13 edited from 5.0 in reply to 4 [source]
That is a Sybase-ism. SQLite3 is not Sybase.
The tablename specified after the UPDATE keyword is included in the query processing and is not repeated in the FROM clause unless you want to have the same table included twice.
That is, in Sybase, when you have a FROM clause in an UPDATE statement then one of the tables in that FROM clause must follow the UPDATE keyword in order to specify which particular table of the join is being updated. This is a hold-over from the original SQL in which one spoke:
SELECT * FROM a,b ... FOR UPDATE OF a;
as the SQL statement and then proceeded to do an
UPDATE A SET col=value WHERE CURRENT OF CURSOR
as the select ran.
Sybase contracted this to:
UPDATE a set col=value FROM a,b ...;
and Microsoft stole Sybase 4 and renamed it SQL Server.
(6) By anonymous on 2020-09-01 16:19:47 in reply to 1 [link] [source]
I second this. Microsoft Access allows this as well and I was initially confused to learn this was not supported. Access allows performing joins in the table_specifier prior to the set_clause which makes table aliases far more useful as you can perform updates across multiple tables with a single query. | <urn:uuid:7c7267a0-3775-42eb-ab89-79a8c1a4873c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://sqlite.org/forum/info/8ff9a9687be5c733 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571056.58/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809155137-20220809185137-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.882954 | 762 | 1.6875 | 2 |
NCI Equity and Inclusion Program
NCI is committed to ending structural racism in biomedical research and supports the National Institutes of Health’s UNITE initiative. Equity and inclusion are not issues we address in isolation—they cut across everything NCI does and are integral to how the institute operates.
Tremendous progress has been made against cancer thanks to decades of investment in cancer research. However, certain groups still bear a disproportionate burden of cancer compared with others. We cannot make the progress needed to end cancer as we know it if segments of the population are not included.
Learn about the NCI Equity and Inclusion Program's (EIP) goals, why we’ve launched the program, how we'll accomplish these goals, and track our progress.
The NCI Equity and Inclusion Program is overseen and supported by the NCI Equity Council (NEC) and five working groups. Members consist of a diverse group of employees from across the institute, with different roles and responsibilities, experiences, and points of view.
Requests for information (RFIs) on health equity and funding opportunity announcements (FOAs) in cancer disparities research will be added to this page as they become available.
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Whew, wasn’t sure we were gonna make it there—a whole week of honoring our nation’s teachers; talk about exertion. And then Mother’s Day! I bet teacher-mothers currently feel enough gratitude to go a whole decade without being appreciated again.
Yes, now that our obligatory five business days of teacher appreciation is over, the general populace can move on to honoring other things for the rest of the year. Today, for example, is both International Nurses Day and Doce de Mayo. (It’s like Cinco de Mayo, but with a whole extra week to work out the kinks.*) And don’t forget today is also National Nutty Fudge Day—everyone likes fudge.
Appreciation weeks—or any Appreciation Interval of Time, really—might leave a void afterward, as life returns to the mean. But to help relive the glory of a good week for teaching, here’s a small sampling of some of the highlights from Teacher Appreciation Week:
Google reminded us all to thank a teacher with this lovely video about a would-be astronaut turned science teacher:
The Obama Administration, meanwhile, fresh off its National Teacher of the Year ceremony, invited 22 teachers to a White House social event to talk about policy and, for at least a brief moment, vegetables.
On Twitter, the Center for Teaching Quality ramped up its #TeachingIs campaign, timed to hit full effect during the week. The campaign aims to increase public understanding of what it takes to work in the teaching profession; the social-media effort accompanies several related posts by the organization’s bloggers.
Here at Education Week, the opinion bloggers got into the spirit as well. Teaching Toward Tomorrow’s Jennie Magiera did a five-part series on educators that inspire students. Stu Silberman, of the Public Engagement & Ed Reform blog, had a three-part series that allowed students to really go in-depth over their teacher appreciation.
And Education Week Teacher launched our One Day in Teaching project, combining the efforts of many of Education Week‘s departments, to create a compilation of what teachers’ days actually look like through photos. (We got hundreds of submissions, all of which you can see on Instagram by searching for #dayoftheteacher.)
If this all has you so excited that you’re already looking forward to next year’s Teacher Appreciation Week, you can’t go wrong looking on Pinterest for ideas, except in the sense that Pinterest is a black hole of time usage.
For now, though, teachers can return to the wonderful world of normal existence.
(Don’t worry, teachers—fudge faces some big problems, too.)
*Needed more tequila.
Image: A selection from “One Day in Teaching.” —brownbagteacher
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SOFTWARE suites, collections of major programs sold together, have been the rage for the past few years.
For less than the total price of the components purchased separately, you get a top-of-the-line word processor, spreadsheet, database and other programs.
The collections make sense for large offices, although it is difficult to imagine one person mastering Microsoft Word, Excel, Access and Powerpoint, to pick examples from the Microsoft Office suite.
For small offices, home offices or just plain homes, integrated programs such as Microsoft Works or Clarisworks make more sense.
Microsoft has now put together a kind of suite, or potpourri, called Home Essentials 97.
It is not meant for the home office, although it could be used in one.
There are a very elaborate word processor, an excellent encyclopedia, a leading integrated program, a greeting-cards maker, an Internet browser and challenging, if primitive, games.
The word processor is Microsoft Word 97. To call Word full-featured is not enough.
It is rather too much for writing letters to the children at college or notes to Mom.
I will not pretend that I have more than tasted it; I had not even gone beyond a few sips of Word 95, its predecessor.
The encyclopedia is Encarta 97, which sets the standard in the general encyclopedia field. It is invaluable for homework, and adults need to look up things, too.
The integrated program is Works 4.0, which combines a word-processing program that is more suitable for home use than Microsoft Word, with spreadsheet, database and communications programs.
I admit a bias toward Clarisworks, a similar but fuller integrated program, but there is no reason to complain about Microsoft's entry.
The Greetings Workshop lets you design greeting cards, invitations and similar documents, either from scratch or by adapting about 7,000 Hallmark designs and messages.
The browser is, of course, Microsoft Internet Explorer and, not surprisingly, the three Home Essentials CD-ROMs include the software to join the Microsoft Network.
Finally, we have arrived at the games: Asteroids, Battlezone, Centipede, Missile Command and Tempest.
These are old-timers, with simple graphics. Some use the mouse, but others, betraying their age, use the arrow keys on the regular keyboard or even on the number keypad.
I have not played them for years, and I am no better at them now than I was then.
Microsoft Home Essentials 97 is widely available for $109 or less. Microsoft Windows 95 and a CD-ROM drive are required.
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Reading time: 8-10 minutes.
The US Supreme Court recently upheld the ‘religious and moral exemptions’ granted to ‘Contraceptive Mandate’. The Affordable Care Act’s (hereinafter referred to as “ACA”) provisions require almost all employers to provide their female employees with contraceptive coverage through the group health plans. However, the Trump administration in 2017 issued new rules that granted exemption from this mandate and allowed those private employers who had ‘religious or moral objections’ to opt out of the mandate. On July 8th the US Supreme Court by a vote of 7-2, in Little Sisters of the Poor v. Pennsylvania rejected a challenge from the 2 States that had argued that the new rules violate both, the ACA and also the federal laws.
Facts of the Issue
The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania challenged this exemption clause and filed for an injunctive relief. In response to the challenge, the District Court issued preliminary injunctions against the exemptions. However, the Little Sisters challenged this order in front of the District Court which also reaffirmed the earlier decision. This is the third time when the dispute over contraceptive mandate has come before the US Supreme Court. The Health Resources and Services Administration, a division of the Department of Health and Human Services had issued guidelines to provide women with birth control in health plans free of cost.
However, the Federal Government created an exception by creating an ‘opt out’ process for churches and other places of worship from the mandate. The Court in Burwell v. Hobby Lobby, in 2014, upheld the same, but later the issue came back in the Court. This time the religious non- profit organizations challenged the Court’s decision and argued that even though there is a provision for ‘opt-out’ processes, it still created a significant amount of burden upon the exercise of religion. The Court however directed the dispute to the Lower Courts.
The present decision was arrived at after the emergence of a debate, after the Trump administration gave new standards that provided exemption for private employers that have religious or moral issues with giving their female representatives access to contraceptives. Pennsylvania and New Jersey went ahead to the Federal Court to challenge the exemption, contending that the new standards abuse both the Affordable Care Act and federal laws.
Legal Provisions Involved
The Obama-era contraceptive mandate was promulgated in August 2011. It was an outgrowth of the ACA. The mandate is in conformity with the recommendations of various health professional organizations. The Supreme Court, while considering the appeal filed by Little Sisters, observed that the ACA, gives Health Resources and Services Administration “virtually unbridled discretion to decide what counts as preventive care and screenings.”
That discretion is “equally unchecked in other areas, including the ability to identify and create exemptions from its own Guidelines.” Justice Clarence Thomas clarified, that “Since the principles making the exceptions were steady with the ACA, the Court didn’t have to say something regarding the administration’s contention that the exemptions were either required or approved by the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, a 1993 law that bars other government laws from setting a significant weight on a person’s free exercise of their religion. Having said that, Justice Thomas proceeded to say that it was suitable for the offices to consider RFRA in light of the fact that “the potential for strife between the mandate and RFRA is all around settled.”
At one point of time it was an established fact that the adults in US had the right to buy and use contraceptive medicines. But then the attention shifted towards ‘who gets to access and exercise this right?’ The action on part of the Trump administration is surprising because there seems to be a gap between the political decision and the ground reality. The basic question that arises out of the instant decision is, can the US Government drastically broaden the exemption from the contraceptive mandate in the name of religious freedom? Whether the Trump Administration followed the right procedure to broaden the exemption under the contraceptive mandate? These questions shall be expected to be answered in the future since this case does not seem to settle the dispute over the contraceptive mandate, and one can certainly expect further challenges to the instant decision.
The exemption has a huge impact on the lives of women, as it interferes with their reproductive rights. There can be a lot of disagreement on the statutory interpretation in the case. The exemption cannot be said to have a sound scientific ground. As Justice Ginsburg noted in her dissenting opinion, the religious beliefs of some people cannot outweigh the rights and interests of other people who might not share those beliefs. It therefore, raises many questions as to whether the Hon’ble Court’s decision was balanced and well thought out. However, as of now, the employers do have a clear way to exempt themselves from providing their female staff with contraception through the health care plans.
Author: Avani Jain, National Law Institute University, Bhopal.
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Be sure, this realistic oil filter will turn your picture into a piece of art in a few seconds. To create a high quality giclée print, several conditions must be met concerning the printer, the ink, the surface, and the resolution of the print.
Imitate an antique oil painting with this photo to oil converter and gather dozens of likes and retweets from subscribers on social networks.
How to make prints of oil paintings. $15 (cost of print) + $0 (no marketing costs) + $6 (shipping cost) + $20 (how much you would like to make per print) = $41 per print. Mount your art to an easel or wall using a level and make sure it is square to the camera. By the way, prints on paper (archival) are far less expensive than prints on canvas, so check the prices of both paper and canvas prints.
Look in the viewfinder to make sure the art is square and even on all sides. (found in the artist section of craft stores or in art stores). Consider the costs of making the prints when developing a pricing strategy.
Wait for a low humidity day to do this step. Add this oil paint effect and convert your photos into oil paintings online and for free. Instead, we have one of our highly trained professional artists use a special tablet and stylus through which they can create brush strokes with the use of their hand.
We don’t simply use filters; If you are familiar with a different type of software, go ahead and use it to help you make prints of paintings. If you do not have access to reliable natural light and don’t want to wait for a sunny day, you can use a soft boxes to create the ideal lighting.
How to sell prints of your art without printing or framing or mailing anything! How to photograph your paintings for print reproduction. Not only used for oil painting, artists have expanded its use to everything from acrylic paint and embroidery to photo canvas prints.
Spray adhesive can be a mess.i always do it outside. The professional image capture would cost about $150. Mount your dslr camera to a tripod and make sure your camera’s angle is perpendicular to the painting.
Place the newly cut mat board on top of your art, print or fine art photograph and secure in place using your frame. How many prints do you want to sell before you make that back? We are skilled photographers and lighting experts with years of printing.
Artists looking for the highest quality art copy and art reproduction services choose canvas giclee printing for their fine art printing services every time. This looks very impressive, and much better than prints, sure. First you need to obtain a high quality image of your original piece.
My cost to make a 12×16 giclee run. Professionals typically use adobe photoshop for this, but it's not the only option. By the 17th century, the canvas had spread throughout northern europe, superseding panels as the dominant support for paintings, a trend which continues today.
Oil paintings seem to be held in higher regard by art collectors compared to acrylic paintings (there are some exceptions to this of course). If your basic cost per painting is $50 for fixed costs plus $20 for materials, you will then add the 10 hours that it took you to paint the piece (that’s another $200). Cost of print + cost of marketing (if any) + cost of shipping (if you offer free shipping) + proffit = sales price.
You need a high quality digital image of your painting. You really cannot go wrong with oil paints. The best way to make this is to take a photograph of your painting with a dslr camera, in natural light.
In order to craft an authentic pixel painting effect, we have our special tricks. After cutting four straight lines, push the rest of the mat board through to create a gap. When the sealer is dry, apply the gel matt medium.
The sealer also helps to keep the print from wrinkling when the gel medium is applied. Ink is applied to the stone, paper is placed over the image and is then run through a press to make the print. If you are just starting out with painting, i suggest you jump straight into oil painting unless you really want to practice acrylics or watercolors.
Lithographs are created by drawing on a prepared stone or plate, applying gum arabic to the surface and then washing the substance away with a solvent, which leaves a stencil. Just as you decide on the size of your limited edition print run and stick to it, once you choose a format for how you would like to sign, date, and number your prints, be consistent. Some artists have their pieces professionally scanned, and others take high quality photographs of their originals.
(then you sell the original for gobs of money.) 3. Select the crop tool, located in all three programs on the main toolbar, and click to drag a rectangle around the portion of your image that represents your painting. Shop our selection of oil painting canvas prints.
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Perhaps the largest and most pervasive difficulty in special schooling, in addition to my own journey in education, is special schooling’s relationship to general schooling. The use of technology in special training helps break the barriers for individuals with disabilities and provide them with entry to the most relevant educational packages. If unresolved issues remain after attempts to resolve them informally, dad and mom and educators can use mediation to resolve disagreements a couple of child’s particular schooling wants (delivery by way of age 21).
In another predetermination case the court found that regardless of proof that a baby was making nice progress at a private faculty, and continued to want the companies that the non-public school provided, the school district solely placed the kid within the private school as a result of they had been engaged on a plan to transition him to a district primarily based placement.
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Antioxidants act as free radical scavengers thereby protecting healthy cells from the attack of the harmful free radicals. The antioxidant activity is attributed to vitamin C, polyphenols and tannins.
Amla contains high levels of polyphenols that protect the body from the oxidative properties of high blood sugar and prevens insulin resistance. Apart from this, this fruit also helps in proper absorption of insulin leading to a drop in blood sugar in diabetics.
Packed with antioxidant properties, amla helps the body fight the harmful effects of chemicals that are carcinogenic. It also inhibits the growth of cancerous cells and reduces the harmful effects of radiation and chemotherapy without reducing their beneficial effects as an anti cancer treatment.
The fiber, polyphenol and water content of amla combined with its anti inflammatory properties make it a great antidote for an upset stomach. Consume one teaspoon of amla juice on an empty stomach to deal with acidity and resolve a stomach upset.
Ayurvedic practitioners suggest, drinking amla juice once a day helps increase the virility and sexual vigour. It also increase the motility of sperm, enhance sperm quality and increase sperm production in men suffering from Oligospermia (a condition where a man has a low sperm count).
Being packed with vitamin C, amla or the Indian gooseberry contains numerous nutrients that actually help you live a longer and healthier life. Also, the presence of compounds like polyphenols, minerals like Iron and zinc and vitamins like Carotenes and Vitamin B complex in amla prevents various disease.
Amla maintains your blood cholesterol levels by inhibiting the the oxidation of LDL (Low density lipoprotein). I also prevents arthrosclerosis (accumulation of plaque in the arteries) due to its powerful antioxidant property, thereby protecting you from heart disease.
Amla acts as an excellent home remedy to protect the liver from oxidative damage caused by chemicals or alcohol. So after a long night of partying, have a piece of amla first thing in the morning, to get rid of that hangover and keep your liver safe.
Amla is packed with Vitamin A, which is essential in collagen production, a compound that keeps the skin looking young and elastic. When consumed on an empty stomach, it slows down the degradation of collagen and thus, prolongs normal ageing process.
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See handmade treats to give with style and good taste for Christmas.
The month of December is approaching and the Christmas spirit is starting to take shape. Thousands of people have already started preparations for the end of the year festivities. In addition to choosing the supper dishes and taking care of every detail of the decoration, it is also worth making Christmas souvenirs.
Creative and easy-to-make Christmas party ideas
Christmas is a perfect time to get creative, so consider putting some DIY ideas into practice (do it yourself). Just don’t forget one thing: Christmas party favors should play the role of bringing out good memories of the date.
The House and Party met pampering cheap and easy to make. Check out the ideas:
1– Santa Claus and Reindeer on an ice cream stick
Use brown cardboard to make a triangle. Then glue the piece to the ice cream stick and make details of the reindeer, such as the eyes, red nose and horns. The same tip goes for Santa Claus, but in this case you will need to use red and white cardboard, as well as a white candy tin. See the image below and get inspired.
2– Little Santa Claus
A child’s hand can serve as a base for making a good old man’s ornament. That’s right! Just mark the little hand on a piece of red cardboard paper and then cut out. The little fingers become Noel’s beard, except for the thumb, which is used to shape the hat. Use plastic eyes, glue and cotton to customize the work. Once ready, just tie a string and hang the ornament on the Christmas tree.
3– Handprint Tree
And speaking of little hands, here’s another idea that values the same technique: the handprint Christmas tree. This super cute and simple craft requires only paper towel roll, cardboard, paper plate, EVA with gold glitter, green cardstock and red and green pompoms.
Start the work by cutting out a triangle from cardboard. Cut two slits in the paper towel roll and secure the triangle. The next step is to glue the base of the roll to the paper plate with ribbons.
Mark the child’s hand 15 times on green cardboard. Cut each of the pieces and glue them, overlapping, on the cardboard triangle, as if they were the leaves of the tree. Decorate with pompoms and a star on the tip, made with EVA.
4– Santa Claus on the plastic plate
The little paper plate, painted with Santa’s face, is a graceful Christmas memento. To make this piece, all you need is red, skin tone and black inks. The beard of the good old man can be made with cotton pieces. It’s a great Christmas party idea for students.
5– 3D card with paper circles
Want to surprise this Christmas? So give away a beautiful 3D card. The three-dimensional effect is due to the circles, made with scrapbook paper, that decorate the Christmas tree.
6– 3D card with strips
And speaking of handmade Christmas card , here’s another tip that also values the 3D perspective: the ornamentation with strips of paper. Use strips of green cardstock to build a fun, stylish Christmas tree. Use green and red sequins to make your work even more beautiful.
7– Christmas tree with ice cream sticks
When it comes to Christmas party favors, ice cream sticks have a thousand and one uses. They can be used to make a mini tree shaped like a triangle and decorated with tiny pompoms. Don’t forget to use hot glue to attach a paper star to the top.
8– Reindeer Footprint
The child’s little hand turns into Santa Claus or tree. The little foot can give rise to a reindeer. Customize the small footprint, marked with brown paint, with plastic eyes and red pompom for the nose. Finally, draw the animal’s horns with a black pen.
9– Pompom goblins
A Christmas gift, which also serves to decorate the tree, is always welcome. These delicate goblins are made from felt pieces and small pompoms.
10– Elf of all paper
The elf, a typical Christmas character, also takes shape with a roll of toilet paper. To do this, just use acrylic paint to paint the clothes and draw the features on the cardboard. Use a piece of green cardboard to make the hat and decorate the tip of the accessory with a pompom. Felt scraps are used to customize the outfit.
11– Snowflake with ice cream sticks
Once again, ice cream sticks are used in Christmas crafts: now to make snowflakes. This fun ornament can be customized with glitter and pebbles.
12– 3D Reindeer
Simple to make, it only requires brown cardboard, plastic eyes and miniature red pompom. Each reindeer is mounted on a white card, taking into account the three-dimensional effect.
13– EVA Santa Claus
Looking for ideas for EVA Christmas party favors? Then consider this beautiful Santa Claus, made from pieces of white, green, red, flesh-colored and gold EVA. After marking the mold and cutting the pieces, use hot glue to fix.
14– Reindeer on felt
To assemble this souvenir is very simple, you just need to mark the pattern on the fabric and sew the pieces that make up the reindeer. See more felt Christmas ornaments with molds.
15– Christmas Slime
The Slime Fluffy has become a rage among children, youth and adults. How about adapting this game for Christmas? You can prepare the jelly in red color and store it in a glass jar, customized with Santa Claus’ clothes. Another tip is to put a brown jelly in a “fantasized” reindeer pot and a white mass in the snowman wrapper. Don’t be afraid to get creative!
16– Garnish with salt dough
In the United States it is very common to use salt dough to make Christmas ornaments. How about turning this tradition into souvenirs, which can be made together with the children?
The recipe takes 1 cup of salt, 2 cups of flour and 3/4 cup of water. Use a star-shaped cutter to shape the ornaments. Bake for two hours, until the dough is very dry. Decorate with little bells and ribbons.
17– Snowman with marshmallow
This charming snowman is made with a transparent Christmas ball, tinsel ribbon, mini marshmallows, black buttons and orange paper. A creative idea, different and super easy to do.
18– Mini Christmas tree with pine cone
Another option for a cheap Christmas party is the mini Christmas tree with pine cone. In addition to being super creative and themed, this miniature pine tree contributes to the Christmas decoration.
19– Pine Cone Goblins
Pine cones have a thousand and one uses in Christmas ornaments. They can be used to make little goblins with the children, just have glue, felt, wooden balls, colored pens and a lot of creativity.
20– Bell with bottle
Put into practice the techniques of recycling, through Christmas party favors with a pet bottle. An interesting tip is the bell made with the top of the plastic packaging, gold paint and a Christmas ball of the same color. Glue a beautiful ribbon to the piece to give it a personalized touch.
21– Snowman with brooch
How about betting on preachers dressed as snowman? These treats are themed and easy to make. All you need to do is finish with white paint and take care of the details, such as the pompom that represents the character’s nose and the little green cord, which takes on the function of a scarf.
22– Cork reindeer
There are countless ways to create Christmas memories without spending a lot of money, such as cork reindeer. To make this work, all you have to do is have some corks, mini red pompoms, plastic eyes and pipe cleaners at home to make the horn.
23– Emoji Christmas Balls
Communication via WhatsApp gave life to Emojis. These faces, which are the most successful in conversations through the app, serve as inspiration for a super creative Christmas ornament.
24– Santa’s Mason Jar
How about sweetening the lives of friends and family after supper? One way to do this is with this Mason Jar from Santa Claus. Decorate the glass bottle with buttons or the good old man’s belt. Then, put several sweets inside each package, such as red confections. The idea can also be adapted for goblin and snowman.
25– Pine with cinnamon stick
Even spices can be used to create Christmas party favors, such as cinnamon sticks. To make small Christmas trees, you’ll also need Canadian pine branches (even artificial), colored buds, and hot glue.
26– Peanut Snowmen
More than just cute: the peanut snowmen serve both to decorate the Christmas tree and also to give away.
27– Snowflakes with wool yarn
Pieces of cardboard, duct tape, yarn and safety pins are capable of shaping a beautiful Christmas star. Learn step by step how to make this ornament at home.
28– Artificial Sail Snowman
The LED artificial mini candle, widely used in decoration, can be transformed into a snowman or any other Christmas character.
29– Snowflakes with pegs
Do you have plenty of preachers in your house? Then use them to make snowflakes. The big secret is to disassemble the wooden parts and glue the parts upside down. Finishing is done by white paint and glitter.
30– Christmas ornament with photo
You can customize Christmas ornaments to give to family and friends. One suggestion is to include a photo of a special moment in the ornament.
31– Christmas cookies
Edible souvenirs are on the rise, as is the case with Christmas cookies. Prepare tasty cookies and decorate them with colorful sprinkles. Ah! Don’t forget to customize the packaging.
These Christmas tags follow a minimalist and recyclable proposal. To make them at home, all you need is cardboard, pages from an old book and sticks.
33– Sleds with ice cream sticks
Ice cream sticks, wood glue, bells and paint are the materials needed to make this super stylish treat.
34– Felt tree
Joining several felt squares, it is possible to create a small Christmas tree. Have a needle and thread to make the work.
35– Wood Slices
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I have heard that Freud wrote at length on the Grimm Fairy Tale: Little Red Riding Hood, highlighting all the suggestive themes and symbolism and "id-like" interpretations. However, I was not able to find any publications on Amazon. I then tried some basic internet queries and found little bits and pieces, but it all seemed to be alluding to it (mostly fan-fiction / random blogs). At this point I was a bit surprised because I was expecting this book to be more prominent and easy to track down and purchase.
Wenn der Wolf bei meinem Patienten nur der erste Vater-ersatz war, so fragt es sich, ob die Märchen vom Wolf, der die Geißlein auffrißt, und vom Rotkäppchen etwas anderes als die infantile Angst vor dem Vater zum geheimen Inhalt haben. Der Vater meines Patienten hatte übrigens die Eigentümlichkeit des „zärtlichen Schimpfens“, die so viele Personen im Umgang mit ihren Kindern zeigen, und die scherzhafte Drohung: „Ich fress’ dich auf“ mag in den ersten Jahren, als der später strenge Vater mit dem Söhnlein zu spielen und zu kosen pflegte, mehr als einmal geäußert worden sein.
Sigmund Freud (1918). ‘Aus der Geschichte einer infantilen Neurose’. In Sammlung kleiner Schriften, volume 4, pp. 608–609. Leipzig: Hugo Heller.
If in my patient’s case the wolf was merely a first father-surrogate, the question arises whether the hidden content in the fairy tales of the wolf that ate up the little goats and of “Little Red Riding-Hood” may not simply be infantile fear of the father. Moreover, my patient’s father had the characteristic, shown by so many people in relation to their children, of indulging in “affectionate abuse”; and it is possible that during the patient’s earlier years his father (though he grew severe later on) may more than once, as he caressed the little boy or played with him, have threatened in fun to “gobble him up”.
Sigmund Freud (1918). ‘From the History of an Infantile Neurosis’. Translated by Alix & James Strachey (1933). Collected Papers, volume 3, p. 502. London: Hogarth Press.
I found this by starting at Google Books Search and searching for “Sigmund Freud” “Little Red Riding Hood”. The very first snippet said, “The clinical discussion of ‘Little Red Riding Hood’ is on pages 498–515” of Collected Papers, volume 3, which was easy to find via the Internet Archive. It is one of Freud’s most well-known case histories, and remains in print, for example there is a Penguin Classics edition, translated by Louise Adey Huish, under the title The ‘Wolfman’ and Other Cases.
Seems LRRH is spread out across Freud's works:
This site lists some works that appear to be by Freud and may contain reference to LRRH:
- On The Occurrence in Dreams of Material from Fairy Tales
- The Uncanny
- Beyond the Pleasure Principle
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The numbers are staggering. In a survey conducted by McKinsey.co, 53% of employers – across several countries including Canada – are experiencing turnover at an all-time high.
Perhaps more concerning is that 36% of survey respondents who’ve quit their jobs in the last six months did so without a new job lined up.
What we’re witnessing is “The Great Resignation,” “The Turnover Tsunami,” “The Big Quit.” Whatever you call it, it’s the movement driven by the massive shift in employee needs and it’s picking up momentum as the pandemic impacts lessen.
Given the magnitude of this employee exodus, HR professionals will need to understand why workers are quitting and what they can do to turn the Great Resignation into the Great Retention.
Reason #1 for The Great Resignation: Burnout
It’s possible that many people delayed leaving their jobs in 2020 due to the uncertainty of the pandemic and that this sudden upswing in turnovers is as a result of a year’s worth of long overdue resignations.
But it’s also possible workers are quitting because of burnout. Many industries faced extreme increases in demand since the pandemic, especially frontline workers. People are feeling overworked and overloaded as a result.
That’s compounded with the other traumas that emerged with greater frequency last year like economic shutdowns, social injustices, loneliness and depression.
To say the effects of the pandemic has taken a deep toll on mental health is an understatement.
The Great Retention Opportunity for HR: Care for Employees
Yes, the rising workload is a cause for concern but it’s far from the only reason employees are leaving. At the end of the day, employees want to feel supported. Walk the talk and ensure your organization actually cares about its employees.
Some examples of what top employers are doing to support employees:
- Introducing care packages that are delivered to employees’ homes
- Having open and honest one-on-ones to understand what are the mental health impacts affecting your employees
- Promoting well-being like encouraging employees to use vacation time
- Including mental health supports in your Total Rewards packages, maternity leave packages, other workplace policies etc.
- Mental health newsletters with resources for combatting anxiety and stress
- Mental health workshops, training and related activities for staff (e.g. virtual yoga classes, meditation sessions)
- “Mental Escape Days” or “Mental Health Weeks” – a dedicated time employees can take off work and recharge
- No internal meetings on a specific day of the week
Catch the “Return to the Workplace: Part 1 – Prioritizing Employee Mental Health in Transitioning Back to the Workplace” webinar on October 26th for more on this topic. Click here to register.
Reason #2 for The Great Resignation: Poor Culture
It’s almost cliché to say that people don’t leave bad jobs, people leave bad bosses. But, for many people who’ve recently quit their jobs, that old adage rings true.
Culture matters. Good leadership matters. After all, culture, or the values and beliefs that set “the vibe” of the organization, largely influence how employees experience the workplace and what kind of leaders show up.
When an organization has a positive, transparent and respectful culture, they are more likely to attract and retain engaged employees. But when an organization has a poor work culture, one riddled with gossip, bad managers and inefficiency, employers are likely to have disconnected workers and increased turnover rates.
The Great Retention Opportunity for HR: Transform Culture
Great Places to Work, the global authority on company culture, identified six elements of a positive company culture:
- Community, team-building and a sense of belonging
- Fairness, which includes fair compensation and recognition, fair Total Rewards packages
- Trustworthy, credible and personable management
- Innovative organizations
- Trust, which includes trusting your employees to work flexible hours or remotely
- Mental health supports
HR professionals are the best advocates for their people and can use internal data, exit interviews, regular pulse surveys, workshops and meetings to identify which elements of culture need your attention.
Don’t miss the HRPA 2021 Fall Conference’s (November 16-18) special keynote on “Culture Transformation” hosted by Carolyn Byer, Head of HR at Microsoft Canada, and Naomi Titleman Colla, Co-Founder of future foHRward, to learn more about workplace culture.
Check out our other articles on enhancing workplace culture:
Tackling a Toxic Work Culture
5 Tips for Upgrading Your Attraction and Retention Strategies
4 Tips for Creating a Culture of Appreciation
Reason #3 for The Great Resignation: No Flexibility
Pre-pandemic, many workers were tethered to the office. In fact, before 2020, there were a large number of employers that didn’t think it was possible for employees to successfully work from home. But the last year-and-a-half has shattered these misconceptions. Employers understand that remote work models can help employees thrive.
At the same time, many employees are enjoying the benefits of a remote work environment. Even as businesses are reopening, recent research from Statistics Canada, shows that “90% of employees feel as productive or even more productive than they did in the physical workplace.”
The Great Retention Opportunity for HR: Be Flexible
The remote work model will be one of the most enduring changes of the pandemic. That means HR professionals and employers will need to work together to determine the extent employees can work remotely. Can employees work completely remote? Will there be an ad hoc choice of remote or on-site work at any given time or more fixed hybrid schedules?
HR professionals will also have to expand their definition of a flexible workplace. Meaning it’s no longer just about where employees can work but when employees can work. Can employees set their own time/hours? Can your staff create personalized work schedules that work for them?
Reason #4 for The Great Resignation: Lack of Meaning & Growth
Today’s employees are questioning the meaning of the daily grind. What’s the point of what I’m doing? Is it all worth it?
In fact, one of the top reasons driven, ambitious and hard-working employees are quitting is because they don’t feel connected to the company. They quit if their careers aren’t infused with meaning and purpose.
If there are little to no opportunities to refine their skills, challenge themselves or move up the ranks, they may search for another company that will allow them to flourish in these ways.
The Great Retention Opportunity for HR: Elevate Your Employees
Nurturing and developing talent can help employees stay at your company longer, attain job satisfaction and perform at their highest-level.
Here are some ways HR can help facilitate employee training and development:
- Help employees apply for open positions within the company when they express interest
- Understand your employees’ goals
- Ditch the “one-size-fits-all” plans. Encourage the use of individualized training plans for employees to meet your employees’ long-term goals and career aspirations
- Develop your managers into coaches to support employees’ development needs
- Encourage cross-collaboration between different departments so employees can develop new skills
- Make training programs and resources widely available in your organization
For more information on employee training and development, check out our hub of e-learning and resources.
Bottomline: The pandemic acted as a reset button for many employees. It was the opportunity for employees to reevaluate their work experience, reflect on what’s working and make the necessary changes to improve what’s not.
But the pandemic has also acted as a reset button for HR professionals.
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Interstitial cystitis, commonly known as 'Painful Bladder Syndrome' is a chronic health issue. With its symptom profile, it is often mistaken as UTI. However, there is no evidence of infection. There is no simple management to cure IC, nor is there one effective treatment that works for everyone.
In this webinar, expect critical insights and the latest development on the diagnosis, pathophysiology and management of painful bladder syndrome from three experts in this field.
This program will be moderated by Kath Schubach, ANZUNS President.
Registration for this event is FREE for ANZUNS members.
Dr. Jonathan Kam
Urology Fellow, Nepean Hospital
What is painful bladder syndrome? Anatomy, physiology and aetiology of bladder pain.
Jonathan completed medical school at the University of New South Wales of which he was one of two Scientia Scholarship recipients. He graduated in 2013 with distinction and was awarded the UNSW Medicine Foundation Year Graduates Medal and the Dean’s List Award for outstanding research and teaching.
Jonathan currently works as the Urology Fellow at Nepean Hospital. During his training he was awarded the Board of Urology Frank Gardiner award for the highest mark in the SET Specialty Specific Written examination in 2018 and Chris Farrell Prize for best registrar research presentation in 2019.
His current university appointments are Conjoint Fellow with the University of Newcastle and Research Fellow with the University of Sydney. He is the author of over 30 book chapters, peer reviewed articles and case reports, and has done over 50 presentations at state, national and international meetings.
Dr. Giovanni Losco
Urology Consultant, New Zealand
Management of bladder pain.
Originally from Christchurch, Giovanni joined Urology Associates after subspecialty training in the United Kingdom. He completed fellowship training in paediatric urology at the Diana, Princess of Wales Children’s Hospital in Birmingham and gained extensive experience in reconstructive urology, female urology, pelvic organ prolapse, urethroplasty and urological care of spinal injuries while working at the London Spinal Cord Injury Centre, Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital and the Institute of Urology, University College Hospital, London. Prior to that, he worked at Concord Repatriation General Hospital in Sydney where he focussed on bladder dysfunction with a particular interest in male and female incontinence.
In 2018 he was awarded a Travelling Fellowship where he spent time in the USA operating with world-leading surgeons in erectile dysfunction: Dean Knoll (Nashville, Tennessee) and Brian Christine (Birmingham, Alabama). He is able to share these skills and new techniques for the benefit of men in the South Island.
Before leaving New Zealand, Giovanni undertook his post-graduate training in Christchurch, Wellington and Palmerston North. He is delighted to be back in the South Island with his wife Emma and three girls, Isabella, Bianca and Hettie.
Alongside maintaining an interest in general urology in both adults and children, Giovanni holds a number of leadership positions: Clinical Director of Urology, Canterbury DHB; Chair, NZ Urology Clinical Directors’ Group; Director, Urology Associates; Trustee, Canterbury Urology Research Trust; Clinical Senior Lecturer, University of Otago, Christchurch; Examiner in Urology, Royal Australasian College of Surgeons; Prevocational Educational Supervisor, Medical Council of New Zealand; Clinical Lead for Urology, South Canterbury DHB, Timaru Hospital; consultant urologist, Burwood Spinal Unit; and sits on a number of ACC and Ministry of Health committees concerning reducing harm from surgical mesh.
Clinical Nurse Specialist & Cancer Coordinator, Waitemata DHB
Bladder pain nurse-led clinic
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The latest BiSCAPE campaign begins!
In previous news we have already told you about some campaigns of measures of air pollutants that we are performing at different sampling points in the BiSC study area (BiSCAPE subproject – (Barcelona Life Cohort Study Air Pollution Exposure). During these campaigns, we monitor 34 different locations, making simultaneous measurements at 10-12 points for 10 days ( we do 3 series per campaign).
In total, we will be running 3 campaigns to cover different seasons of the year, as pollutant levels tend to vary depending on the time of year. This Wednesday the 12th of January we are starting the winter campaign, the last one! The campaign lasts approximately one month (3 series of 10 days), until February 14.
We did the previous ones in July 2022 (summer campaign) and in October-November 2021 (autumn campaign). We previously ran an initial winter campaign in January 2021, but despite our best efforts due to various computer issues, we were unable to collect enough quality data and had to discard it.
Figure 1. Location of the 34 BiSCAPE sampling points.
The measures of these campaigns will help us to make a dynamic model of the distribution of air pollution components in the city throughout 2021 and 2022, information that will be complemented by the measures of individual exposure of the BiSC study itself. Measurements are being made from windows, balconies, and terraces of public buildings and private volunteer homes in the cities of Barcelona, Esplugues, Hospitalet, and Cornellà. Thanks to the creation of these models, we will be able to assign exposure to air pollutants to all the volunteers in the BiSC study, including those to whom we could not make the environmental visit (and those who, therefore, without the models, we would not have any information on the levels of pollution to which they are exposed). This information is very important to be able to properly estimate the impact that air pollution has on children’s health.
We hope this latest campaign is a great success!
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Fighting an English election
The local elections set for May 2019 are particularly important to Labour because the party can only gain a healthy parliamentary majority if it wins in these English towns and coastal areas. More than that, control of local councils will make a massive difference to the ability of a Labour government to deliver our programme. Andrew Gwynne, Shadow Local Government Secretary, recently told Labour councillors that 44% of our last manifesto would need to be implemented by local English councils.
While we don’t know when the next general election will be – and it could still be this year – many of the councillors elected in May will still be in office when Labour has the next chance to form a government. As we survey the landscape for these elections, there’s good reason to see them as an English election. By-elections aside, the only local elections Labour will be fighting are in England. There are elections everywhere except in London, some of the metropolitan borough and just a couple of counties. This means that most of seats contested will be in places where people are more likely to emphasise their English identity. But to win, we need to get the messages, the nuts and bolts of policy, and our organisation into the right state.
Call it England
The party political broadcast ‘Our Town’ was great, but why was a video that was obviously English – from the white cliffs to the local accents – put on Labour’s website as ‘Rebuilding Britain’? In the 2019 local elections, there is no danger of confusion between party messages for English voters and those in other parts of the union. This is a great opportunity to get English branding (as well as British) into campaign communications. We shouldn’t make the mistake of talking only about Britain when many voters strongly identify themselves, and where they live, with England.
Local stories, local people
One characteristic of people who identify as English is that they are also usually strongly rooted in localities. Depending where you are, this might be a region, a country, a town or a village. Our message cannot be identical in every place. We need to talk about where we are campaigning in the language and images that local voters recognise.
More than this, the party needs recognisable local spokespeople on the media. National voices – often based in London or in Labour’s city heartlands – don’t strike a chord in England’s smaller communities. Every part of non-city England needs to have a local Labour spokesperson, known to the party central and put forward when the media wants a Labour view of the issues in Lincolnshire, Sussex or Northumberland.
Fight every seat
In the 1990s, Labour ran ‘Operation Toehold’ – an effort to make sure we had a councillor in every single council. While we didn’t achieve the target, it sent a strong message that Labour thought everywhere could and would benefit from Labour representation and a Labour government. Today, Labour is seen even more strongly as party of the cities and of middle-class liberals. We have been losing ground in working-class towns and we need to re-kindle the ambition of 20 years ago. Jeremy Corbyn has already made a good start by aiming to fight every seat, but we need to fight every council hard.
Work on the policy
Labour may have a strong national story but it’s not always clear how things will work in towns and villages away from the cities, where bus services have disappeared, broadband hasn’t reached, the state (DWP, courts or health services) are miles away and retreating, and where school improvement means improving the only school. Key policies need to be fleshed out quickly.
Much policy is now devolved and what members in England think of as ‘Labour policy’ is actually only policy for England. We should be able to talk to English voters about what we will do for England. Across England, Labour CLPs are doing their best to put up candidates and flesh out policies for their community, for their part of this green and pleasant land. To help them in their endeavour, Labour nationally should heed the call of both our organisations for an English manifesto that every English community sees has something to offer them. We can be proud of much of what previous Labour governments and Labour councils have done for England– let’s now show that Labour stands for England’s future too. | <urn:uuid:57650604-adc1-4c2c-a154-6a47c3b35275> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://labourlist.org/2019/03/at-the-2019-local-elections-labour-must-show-it-stands-for-englands-future/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571222.74/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810222056-20220811012056-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.965578 | 910 | 1.773438 | 2 |
Diet vs Workout
Because our society is characterized by speed and forward, always looking for the easiest ways to achieve our goals. Body remodeling is no exception. Maybe you’re wondering how to lose weight easier? First adopting a diet more or less drastic or starting exercise? A study by researchers at Stanford University gives us the answer.
How to lose weight easily and long-term
If you’re accustomed to a lifestyle out into sedentary and eating sweets or high in fat foods, you probably think to take it easy. To start with either a diet or a workout program do not deplete your body. But let’s see what the tests say.
Researchers at Stanford University divided 300 subjects into four groups for the “lose weight easily” experiment:
- The first group was told to eat healthy at the same time to start training;
- The second group was advised to start with a healthy diet, and after a period include the sport in everyday life;
- The third group was advised to start with the exercise program, and while gradually change their diet;
- The fourth group made no change.
Lose weight easily experiment results:
- Those who adopted the diet and workout simultaneously managed to best meet the needs of researchers. 150 minutes of exercise per week, 5-9 servings of fruits and vegetables and less saturated fat 10% of total fat consumed.
- Those who started “weight loss program” diet failed to comply eventually the number of minutes per week devoted to movement throughout the year.
- Those who started with exercise were able to improve their diet, but could not fully respect the requirements of specialists.
When you start to lose weight easily just adopting changes in the diet, decreases the motivation to start a workout program. If the first step is to incorporate movement into everyday life, our body improves and our mood too. It is easier to take a diet with a lower caloric content.
Of course, you lose weight easily and faster combining the two “key ingredients” of a perfect body: healthy eating and daily exercise!
How to lose weight easily without being exhausted
If your lifestyle can not be labeled as “healthy”, these changes may seem difficult. Therefore, it is important not to jump into a drastic diet and overwork your body with exercises.
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Coronavirus is the latest addition to the cyber criminal’s toolbox. It’s able to crippling a company’s laptop networks with limited activity.
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I wish to reiterate the reality that I want to share with you: each single day, we’ll see some form of malware assault on your computer. On one hand, it’s annoying – you feel it in your pocket, and also you see it flashing in your display screen – it does not get any higher than that. Alternatively, it’s scary because you never know when it may happen.
Keep this in thoughts: because they’re such widespread instruments, each company on the planet is utilizing them for a purpose. Identical to viruses infect your laptop, spyware is designed to get inside your computer system and steal your private data. Coronavirus is not the only problem with them, but it’s probably the most prevalent.
I’m not going to go into element about Coronavirus and its malicious software. But you can make a Google search and find out extra about it. So let’s just say that the largest advantage that it has over most other viruses is that it is in your pc, and it’s received no “security gate” like the Backscatter x-ray imaging does.
It is virus variants have been utilized in spyware attacks in opposition to both enterprise organizations and private computers. It’s also used as a Trojan that sends spam emails to your inbox. All the stuff mentioned above will affect your Computer, so it is a good idea to install some type of antivirus that detects and blocks Coronavirus from infecting your system.
Another method that Coronavirus assaults your system is by opening up energy holes in your router or firewall. Since the Coronavirus virus is designed to journey to different computers by way of the internet, it tips your laptop into opening up a hole, allowing the virus to unfold all through your community.
Viruses are tougher to remove than their recordsdata. They’re small, so if your antivirus removes the file or the browser, you’re still left with the virus in your computer. You may try to manually remove the Coronavirus virus out of your laptop by using an antivirus program.
There are a number of packages obtainable on-line that may remove Coronavirus from your pc – including the newest Coronavirus 4.0 which has a 100% detection charge and more superior removing choices. When you utilize these packages, make sure that you are not downloading the virus instantly from the web – as an alternative, be certain that you purchase the product from a good vendor.
The best anti-virus program can even offer you prime quality protection and a money again guarantee. I personally choose Symantec’s Norton Antivirus as my top alternative for protection, so I’m going to focus my advice on that program for now.
It’s essential configure your Home windows Firewall and restart your computer after putting in the Norton Antivirus program. You must start by enabling “Local Intrusion Safety”. This may block anybody from connecting to your computer if there may be an intruder in your network.
In order for you the total version of the program, you’ll be able to buy it by way of the Norton website. Just observe the instructions within the person manual and let the program do the remainder. The hyperlink is within the Norton Antivirus assist part at the underside of the page.
If you would like to protect your pc from Coronavirus, guantee that you’re using an antivirus that blocks the Coronavirus virus. Don’t even hassle with the free scan protection that your browser is offering, as a result of it won’t make it easier to anyway.
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Canadians and Americans officially diagnosed with a Gluten allergy have an opportunity to claw back at least part of the cost of their special Gluten-free foods from the Tax Man. It’s one of those little-known breaks covered under both the U.S. and Canadian Income Tax Acts…
There are lots of naturally Gluten-free foods out there. But taking full
advantage of this cornucopia will require some major adjustments
to the average North American diet, principally in
the ‘starches’ department…
A recent blog post I just happened across reveals that Celiac Disease (Gluten allergy) sufferers can claim at least some of the cost of their Gluten-free foods as an ‘allowable medical expense’ on their annual Income Tax returns. It took some digging by an intrepid cyber reporter to uncover the break, one of many that exist under the Tax act but are never publicized by the Tax authorities because they want to maximize their revenues. It’s up to the taxpayer to find and exercise their rights. All part of the dirty old Tax Game.
To qualify for the expense claim, you must:
- Get a letter from your doctor officially declaring your diagnosis.
- Be able to produce all the receipts for your Gluten-free food purchases.
- Make a list of those foods showing and the difference in cost between them and equivalent ‘regular’ (gluten-containing) foods.
The blog post notes that Gluten-free foods cost as much as 162 per cent more last year than their ‘regular’ equivalents. But, if you’re affected, you’re already painfully aware of that. Bottom line: The tax credit you can claim, over a whole year of food purchases, should be well worth the trouble of claiming it.
Try naturally Gluten-free foods!
That’s the best way to get around paying more for a Gluten-free diet!
Start with ditching most grains from your diet and replacing them with vegetarian/Asian staples, beans, peas, lentils (any legume, in fact) and rice. And remember the additional benefit of a dish that includes both beans and rice: together, those two foods provide a complete protein without even a hint of meat! Pure, natural Dairy products, Eggs, Potatoes and most whole, natural Spices (not ‘Spice Blends’ or ‘Seasoning Mixes’) are also Gluten-free. Wahoo!
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Words & music: William J. Raskin/George Brown/Fred Fisher Recorded: January 13 1957 Released on single March 22 1957 as the B-side to "All Shook Up".
"That's When Your Heartaches Begin" is a song recorded by Elvis Presley on at least three occasions, most the notably the first time in July 1953, when it was one of the two first songs recorded by Presley at Sun Records for a demo acetate he allegedly gave to his mother as a birthday present.
While the song did not see any fame until Presley's recordings in the 50s, the song was actually written in 1937 by Fred Fisher, William Raskin and Billy Hill. On July 18, 1953, a young Elvis Presley entered Sun Records in Memphis, where he paid $3.98 for enough studio time to record a double-sided acetate single. On the A-side, he recorded "My Happiness", later made famous by Connie Francis in 1958, while he recorded "That's When Your Heartaches Begin" for the B-side.
He would later revisit the song on at least two occasions, the first during the famous Million Dollar Quartet sessions on December 4, 1956, and the second when he re-recorded the song in January 1957 as a B-side to "All Shook Up". ~Source Wikipedia
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Every practitioner knows the importance of collaborating with parents to ensure the best support for children with special educational needs. Working with Parents of Children With Special Educational Needs offers clear strategies for forging successful and lasting relationships with parents and includes:
- Strategies for communicating effectively with parents
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In September, the U.K.’s Department for Digital, Media, Culture and Sport released a consultation document about the future of data protection law in the U.K.
The consultation proposes a raft of changes to the U.K.’s data protection law. Some are small changes and clarifications intended to resolve uncertainties in the EU General Data Protection Regulation’s drafting, while others are fundamental reforms to the operation of the U.K.’s data protection laws and the obligations and protections they bring. All organizations operating in the U.K. should be interested in potential changes to:
- Data subject rights (to make them less burdensome).
- Accountability (potentially burdensome).
- Data transfers (significantly more flexibility).
- E-privacy (possibly helpful, although proposals not clearly articulated).
There are also proposals of significant interest to those involved in research and AI, and reforms on the powers and governance of the Information Commissioner’s Office, the supervisory authority.
The consultation is open to all respondents until Nov 19. The DCMS document sets out structured questions on each of the proposed changes and encourages respondents to provide their own views and experiences on the challenges and possible solutions the U.K.’s current regime presents. Below, we summarize the main changes proposed in the consultation document, with a color coding showing the degree of change to the U.K.’s existing data protection compliance framework. Green means a proposal makes no significant change to existing legal framework, amber a medium change and red a significant change.
Data subject rights
This proposal will be welcomed by controllers in the U.K. Many organizations have felt the burden of “weaponized DSARs” and the introduction of a cost limit would reduce this burden. The suggestion made by DCMS is that this should be based on the existing and well-established regime under the Freedom of Information Act, which allows public authorities to refuse freedom of information requests that cost more than 450 - 600 pounds (depending on the type of organization). Interested parties wishing to respond to the consultation should consider submitting information about what the cost limit should be, or criteria used to establish it. A sliding scale depending on turnover and sector may be a good model.
The departure from the existing GDPR framework for accountability is puzzling. DCMS’s stated reason for the proposed reform is that current accountability obligations place a “disproportionate administrative burden” on organizations, yet its proposals involve replacing existing accountability requirements with other very similar (and no less burdensome) obligations. With the exception of the higher threshold for breach reporting, all other accountability requirements have been replaced with a different compliance requirement, often with the choice of the format left to organizations. This would likely create more work for organizations, which would need to assess whether their existing GDPR documentation matched the new U.K. requirements. For example, there is a suggestion that GDPR data protection officers could not serve as the person responsible for the privacy management program (as the independence they require for GDPR purposes would — implicitly — disqualify them from this new role), so that an organization that chose to retain its DPO would need to appoint an additional data protection professional (164). The proposals seem to diverge from the GDPR without providing any discernible benefit to organizations in the U.K.
In the wake of “Schrems II” and the associated EDPB guidance, transferring data out of the EU and U.K. has been complicated. The consultation proposes a number of reforms to improve the U.K. aspect of this, from encouraging adoption of existing mechanisms (use of codes of conduct) to widening existing mechanisms (such as the derogations under Article 49 GDPR). It also includes a more controversial proposal to allow exporters to make their own decisions about how to protect personal data being transferred out of the U.K., including by using contracts developed by the contracting parties without the ICO’s review or approval. This proposal is based on the approach taken in New Zealand and was possible in the U.K. under the Data Protection Act 1998.
There are also proposals to change the process for the U.K.’s adequacy assessment of third countries (see paragraphs 247-254), which are not assessed in this article as they do not directly affect compliance requirements.
Changes to ePrivacy
The consultation has widely been announced as a reform of the U.K. GDPR, yet a section on the U.K.’s Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations has also been included. Most changes in this area are relatively minor and are likely to be welcomed both by controllers and data subjects. There is an attempt to obtain cross-party support for at least some of the proposals by proposing to exempt political parties from these rules in their entirety, although the consultation document does acknowledge that the prospect of receiving automated calls from political parties may not be welcomed by everyone.
The proposal also includes a call for views on how organizations could comply with the GDPR’s principles of lawfulness, fairness and transparency “without use of the cookie pop-up notices.” This section references browser settings as a possible option but offers no other suggestions, so it is hard to assess the possible impact of this.
Research and reuse of data
In line with the U.K. government’s National Data Strategy, the consultation document pushes for reforms to encourage research in the U.K. The document stresses that data protection laws are complex and difficult to navigate, which discourages researchers from using personal data.
The proposal to consolidate all research-specific data protection provisions may achieve the aim of bringing greater clarity to the area, though it is unlikely to have a strong impact. The proposal also suggests moving a number of research-related recitals into the Articles of the U.K. GDPR to increase legal certainty. As part of this, the U.K. GDPR would define scientific research in law, and the consultation seeks views as to what this should be defined as.
There is also a proposal to include a new legal basis for scientific research under Article 6 U.K. GDPR, to match the condition for processing sensitive personal data for research purposes under Article 9. Currently, researchers would be likely to rely on either research being necessary for a task in the public interest or necessary for a legitimate interest, so it is unclear what benefit this would bring; further, to the extent clarity could help, it could be achieved by guidance instead of primary legislation.
Much of the discussion on research focuses on challenges faced by universities. The private sector is also a critical part of the U.K. research base and it would be advisable for private sector organizations engaging in research to make clear to DCMS that their interests must also be considered.
The consultation includes a number of proposals on how to change the law relating to reuse of data for research purposes. The proposals in this area are not wholly clear and are in some cases contradictory. They include clarifying that a broad consent is permitted when obtaining consent for research and that reuse for research is always compatible with the original purpose, both of which would be welcome but could be achieved by regulatory guidance rather than new legislation. There are also (unclear) proposals to allow further processing for incompatible purposes when this safeguards an important public interest (54). The Data Protection Act 2018 already allows this for the public interest purposes specified in Schedule 2. Allowing a general public interest override to purpose limitation will significantly weaken protections for individuals, so it would be useful to understand the size of the problem that DCMS thinks it is addressing with this proposal.
It is also striking that the consultation does not make any reference to the laws relating to patient confidentiality beyond data protection law. In the authors’ experience, it is the law in this area which is the biggest constraint on research — both as a matter of principle and because of uncertainty in interpretation. No amount of tidying up data protection law will achieve significant benefit unless this is addressed.
DCMS proposes creating a list of legitimate interests for which no legitimate interest assessment would need to be conducted, as the legislation would recognize the processing purposes as always outweighing the interests of the individuals. The proposed list is relatively limited and uncontroversial and would reduce the burden of documentation obligations.
AI & machine learning
The consultation document notes that “currently, an AI practitioner needs to consider each use case individually and work out each time whether the data protection regime permits the activities.” Our view is that this statement not only holds true of any processing activity in any industry but is true of other legal considerations outside of data protection. The application of the law is always based on the relevant facts and consequentially, new projects will require new assessments of the law.
The proposal to reform the law to make the use of sensitive personal data for bias detection and correction easier is likely unnecessary. The existing framework under the U.K. GDPR and Data Protection Act permits this, and the ICO has already provided sector-specific guidance in this area.
The proposal to support the development and use of data intermediaries could be very beneficial to organizations sharing data for research and development purposes. Though the consultation document is very light on detail in this area, the proposal is welcome and could allow for innovative frameworks for data sharing within the existing data protection framework.
The proposal has an interesting discussion of algorithmic “fairness” — it postulates that determination of what is fair should be best left to sector-specific regulators rather than the ICO (79).
It also suggests clarifying when data will be regarded as “anonymous.” The suggestions to write Recital 26 into the text of U.K. GDPR seem to add little to current guidance from the ICO on this topic. More interestingly, DCMS suggests it may stipulate that anonymization should be assessed based on whether it is likely that the controller can identify the data subject. This would be a more permissive test than that set out in the GDPR, which requires one to consider the likelihood of identification by the controller or by another person (i.e., by anyone). In effect, this would be a return to the provisions of the Data Protection Act 1998. The proposal would help to clarify that if party A releases deidentified data to party B but retains the underlying identifiable data, the fact that party A could still identify individuals in the data would not automatically result in the data being personal in party B’s hands. Currently, if data is made accessible to the public at large (rather than a limited group of recipients), it is typical to require a higher standard of deidentification to achieve anonymization, as it is harder to assess the motives and means an unknown actor may have to identify the data. It is not clear how the proposal would protect individuals in this situation.
Reform of ICO
The amendments provide the ICO with stronger enforcement powers and will also change the timelines for enforcement action. The extension of the limitation period for investigations in particular will give the ICO more time to assess whether or not to issue a notice, potentially increasing the number of notices issued. The proposals are not disproportionate and are likely to have a beneficial impact on the regulatory environment in the U.K.
The reform also includes substantial amendments to the ICO’s internal governance and relationship with its sponsoring department, DCMS. These changes, if implemented, would have a big impact on the role and running of the ICO but we have not addressed them in detail in this document as they would not directly impact compliance obligations for data controllers and processors. Highlights of the proposed reforms are:
- The move away from a corporation sole (the Information Commissioner) to a more corporate model, where the commissioner would be the chair of the ICO with a separate CEO.
- ICO to take over the role of the Biometrics Commissioner and the Surveillance Camera Commissioner.
- A statutory framework that sets out the ICO’s strategic objectives (suggested as upholding data rights and encouraging trustworthy and responsible data use) and priorities.
- An express obligation to consider the desirability of promoting economic growth (already relevant under the Deregulation Act 2015), to consider the impact of its activities on competition and on public safety, and a statutory obligation to share data with some other regulators, including the CMA.
- ICO would have to adopt and report against key performance indicators (for those frustrated by delays to binding corporate rules approvals, perhaps this could be suggested?).
- Lessening the obligation on the ICO to deal with low-level complaints and for this to be replaced by an obligation on controllers to have published complaints policies and to to publish information on the number and type of complaints received.
The proposed changes would significantly change the U.K.’s data protection landscape. As we have discussed above, some of this would be welcome while other proposals are problematic or unclear. We encourage organizations to consider which areas of the proposal may be of relevance to them and engage with DCMS on those issues.
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Representing knowledge accurately and extensively for the public is integral to Wikipedia’s mission and that of Wiki Education. Millions of people look to Wikipedia to make political and behavioral decisions in their lives, so we’re taking purposeful steps to improve the site’s coverage of subject areas like public policy, political science, law, history, environmental science, and sociology. Through our Future of Facts initiative, we strive to better represent these topics that are relevant to an informed citizenry. Together, with the work of students, Visiting Scholars, and Wikipedia Fellows, we will empower millions of Wikipedia’s readers to contribute to society and participate in public affairs based on factual and reliable information.
How students are making a difference
We currently support 160 university courses editing Wikipedia articles within Future of Facts topic areas. There are 3,700 students in these courses, who have already added 3.4 million words to Wikipedia since January. These students have improved more than 4,000 articles, 300 of which they created from scratch. And those articles have been viewed more than 180 million times this spring.
Students understand that their work can be accessed by millions, which often motivates them to produce higher quality work than they do in a traditional assignment. A Wikipedia assignment fits well into courses looking to engage in service learning, as it situates course concepts within larger conversations about access to information and the importance of an informed public. Environmental science students in Dr. David Die’s graduate course at the University of Miami, for example, applied course concepts this semester to improve public knowledge of conservation. In total, the 12 student editors in the course added almost 10,000 words to Wikipedia articles that have been accessed 115,000 times since. An integral part of conservation efforts is educating voters about relevant issues and policies. These students are directly participating in making that information more accessible to the public, who ultimately vote and participate in political processes that can bring about positive change.
Not only do students make well-researched information available to a worldwide audience through a Wikipedia assignment, but they gain skills to identify trustworthy information in their own lives as citizens. One student reflected at the end of last term, “A valuable thing I learned that I will use forever is how to assess an article. I had never done anything like this in a previous class, so I do not have something directly to compare it to, but I can say that I learned things that I will hold with me forever. It is so important that instead of just disregarding the site as a whole, we should be working on strengthening it, because people are going to use it no matter what.”
According to a study published by Strada and Gallup this spring, students find their education to be worth the cost when their coursework is relevant to their lives. And according to a study published by the Stanford Graduate School of Education in 2016, students are lacking critical skills when it comes to digital literacy and identifying misinformation online. With a Wikipedia assignment, not only do students learn the ins and outs of a resource they use all the time, they contribute to world knowledge, learn about the importance of access to trustworthy information, and recognize their own information privilege. Students take these skills with them into their personal and professional lives, walking away from the experience of editing Wikipedia as more informed citizens.
How academics are making a difference
Wiki Education’s Wikipedia Fellows program engages scholars in improving Wikipedia using their subject-matter expertise. We often hear from academics that they are looking for better ways to disseminate their research to the general public, and now Wikipedia Fellows provides just that opportunity.
“People are lifelong learners,” says participant Dr. Michael Ramirez, “Sometimes learning is as simple – and as accessible – as looking up an article on Wikipedia. I am more and more compelled to see it as sociologists’ duty to put our knowledge out into the public for the largest audience possible.”
The pilot program, which kicked off in January, was a success. Our partnering associations, the National Women’s Studies Organization (NWSA), the American Sociological Association (ASA), and the Midwestern Political Science Association (MPSA), assisted in identifying participants who could benefit Wikipedia by contributing their knowledge of Future of Facts relevant topics. The Fellows in this group significantly improved 65 articles by adding 29,100 words. These articles have been viewed 5.68 million times.
“I applied for the Wikipedia Fellows pilot because I wanted to improve public access to scientific information,” says participant Madeline Gottlieb. “In an era of ‘fake news,’ I find it more important than ever to reaffirm the value of facts and carefully-cited information.”
The Wikipedia Fellows program is scaling this year to support many more cohorts of scholars, from a wide variety of disciplines. The newest cohorts are looking forward to improving articles related to upcoming midterm elections in the United States.
How Visiting Scholars are making a difference
Our Visiting Scholars program connects academic institutions with experienced Wikipedia editors. The institution grants the Wikipedian virtual access to their databases and collections, and the Wikipedian improves articles of interest to both parties. The program is a way to expand the readership of academic research, while at the same time supporting an editor who can make a big impact on the quality of articles. Gary Greenbaum, or User:Wehwalt, is a good example of how the Visiting Scholars program has directly impacted highly trafficked articles that better inform citizens. Gary brings articles about America’s political history up to Wikipedia’s highest quality standard. One such article, about 27th US president William Howard Taft, has been viewed more than 3 million times since Gary vastly improved it. The Dashboard’s Authorship Highlighting tool shows all that Gary has added to that article here.
Wikipedia is an important avenue for the public to learn about topics relevant to their social and political lives. Students, academics, and Wikipedians are all making strides to ensuring that information on Wikipedia is up-to-date, relevant, and trustworthy. And Wiki Education is here to support them as they do.
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BEIRUT — The medical students disappeared on a run to the Aleppo suburbs. It was 2011, the first year of the Syrian uprising, and they were taking bandages and medicine to communities that had rebelled against the brutal Assad regime. A few days later, the students’ bodies, bruised and broken, were dumped on their parents’ doorsteps.
Dr. Fouad M. Fouad, a surgeon and prominent figure in Syrian public health, knew some of the students who had been killed. And he knew what their deaths meant. The laws of war—in which medical personnel are allowed to treat everybody equally, combatants and civilians from any side—no longer applied in Syria.
“The message was clear: Even taking medicine to civilians in opposition areas was a crime,” he recalled.
As the war accelerated, Syria’s medical system was dragged further into the conflict. Government officials ordered Fouad and his colleagues to withhold treatment from people who supported the opposition, even if they weren’t combatants. The regime canceled polio vaccinations in opposition areas, allowing a preventable disease to take hold. And it wasn’t just the regime: Opposition fighters found doctors and their families a soft target for kidnapping; doctors always had some cash and tended not to have special protection like other wealthy Syrians.
Doctors began to flee Syria, Fouad among them. He left for Beirut in 2012. By last year, according to a United Nations working group, the number of doctors in Aleppo, Syria’s largest city, had plummeted from more than 5,000 to just 36.
Since then, Fouad has joined a small but growing group of doctors trying to persuade global policy makers—starting with the world’s public health community—to pay more urgent attention to how profoundly new types of war are transforming medicine and public health. In a recent article in the medical journal The Lancet, Fouad and a team of researchers looked closely at the conflicts in Iraq and Syria and found that the impact of what they call the “militarization of health care” in modern wars goes far beyond the safety of combat zone doctors, ensnaring even uninvolved civilians, with effects that can persist for years.
Other groups have begun focusing on the change as well. The International Committee of the Red Cross and Doctors Without Borders have documented and condemned disruptions of medical care by combatants. The entirety of the most recent issue of the journal Public Health is dedicated to a critical assessment of the failure of the World Health Organization to adapt to the new realities of conflict.
Fouad and his Lancet coauthors say—reasonably—that any new global policy norms for wartime health care ultimately need to be hashed out in the security and political realms, not by doctors. But doctors, especially public-health specialists, have a crucial role to play: They gather the data and define the issues that drive much of global health policy. And as war has become a free-for-all, dissolving the rules that long protected medical care, Fouad and his coauthors suggest that their own field has been slow to awaken to the importance of that change.
“To be honest, we are stuck in this problem, and we don’t know what to do,” said Omar Al-Dewachi, a physician and anthropologist at the American University of Beirut, and the lead author of the Lancet paper. “The first thing is to start a conversation, and come up with new tools.”
What will replace the current system is far from clear, they say, but it’s time to start figuring it out: Right now, war has a quarter-century headstart.
Until recently, medical care was something of a bright spot in the history of conflict. Major European powers, shocked by the suffering and grisly deaths of their soldiers in the Crimean War, agreed in 1864 to the First Geneva Convention. It granted medical workers a special neutral status on the battlefield, and upheld the right of all wounded to medical care regardless of nationality.
It was the first article of international humanitarian law and became the cornerstone of all subsequent Geneva Conventions. When we talk about “crimes against humanity” and “war crimes,” we’re usually referring to the body of law that arose over the next century and half, built on the narrow foundation of neutral, universal medical care for combatants in the battle zone. There were always breakdowns and violations, but the laws of war were remarkably effective at limiting abuse, establishing taboos, and shaming the worst offenders.
That relative comity disappeared with the end of the Cold War. When the rival superpowers were locked in combat, they had an incentive to promote the laws of war; they didn’t want their own fighters mistreated if there were another world war. But with the United States and Soviet Union no longer in direct armed confrontation, small wars across the globe flared with new ferocity and fewer scruples.
The wars of the 1990s spread in shocking new ways, with widespread torture, starvation, and genocidal murder campaigns. Rather than fighting other soldiers, armed groups often concentrated on battling civilians. The Geneva Conventions barely figured for the combatants in the former Yugoslavia, Somalia, Rwanda, the Congo, and Afghanistan. The United States contributed to that decline after 9/11 when it suspended Geneva Convention protections for prisoners in the “war on terror,” and normalized drone strikes against targets in civilian areas.
The protections around medical care started to collapse as well. Dr. Jennifer Leaning, director of Harvard University’s FXB Center for Health and Human Rights, has worked in conflict zones for decades and has surveyed the eroding conditions of medical care. Increasingly, she found, the biggest victims in armed conflicts weren’t the combatants but the civilian populations suffering in scorched-earth or ethnic cleansing campaigns in which doctors and hospitals became explicit, rather than incidental, targets.
The final strike against medical neutrality, Leaning says, came in the last decade during America’s wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Insurgents targeted anyone connected to the “Western” side of the conflict, even local health care workers treating patients in public hospitals. The CIA used a polio inoculation campaign to gather information in its hunt for Osama bin Laden; ever since, Pakistani mullahs have condemned vaccination workers. By the time civil war broke out in Syria, the equal right to medical care in combat zones existed only on paper.
“What is now happening is the violation of deeply held legal norms that have taken 150 years of work,” Leaning said in an interview. “That is what is appalling.”
It’s been commonplace in the last decade in Iraq and Syria for militias to enter hospitals with guns drawn, and order doctors to treat their comrades instead of civilians. In the early 1990s in Mogadishu, such behavior was an oddity. In Baghdad in 2006, Shia death squads took over entire hospitals and infiltrated the health ministry, denying health care to Sunnis and even hunting down rivals in their sickbeds.
Doctors are also starting to document how a war-torn region’s health problems can continue even when dramatic violence subsides. Once a functioning health care system is destroyed, it can take years or decades to rebuild. Al-Dewachi worked as a physician in Iraq after the 1991 Gulf War, and has had a close view of how a war’s medical impact can persist and spread. With Iraq’s hospital system in shambles and doctors constantly emigrating to safer places, patients have flowed over borders, often seeking medical treatment at great cost in the relatively stable hospitals of Beirut. Even when Iraq is supposedly calm, the stream of patients never abates, he said. “It’s an invisible story of the war,” Al-Dewachi said. “The long-term effects continue even when the fighting stops.”
With the old system broken, what should replace it? This is where it gets hard. Stateless rebels and insurgent groups, by definition, aren’t signatories to any international agreements. And the entire shape of modern warfare looks nothing like the formal battlefields that gave rise to the Geneva Conventions.
“We have to build new tools, new concepts, new institutions, that adapt to this concept of conflict,” Fouad said.
On the ground, under fire, health workers have improvised solutions. One common response has been to withdraw completely, only returning if combatants agree to respect the neutrality of clinics. At various times, groups as tough as Doctors Without Borders and the Red Cross have temporarily shut down operations when they were targeted in vicious conflict zones. Some aid groups have used private diplomacy to negotiate protected, equal access to government and rebel areas.
Leaning notes that some medical-aid groups have resorted to armed guards for clinics and vaccine workers, while other health care workers have evolved to function like military medics, embedded with combat forces and providing care on the run.
As for the longer-term effects, the recent Lancet paper suggests some ways for the public health community to rethink its approach to medical care in war zones—starting with its definition of what counts as a war zone.
Health care is normally a massive undertaking that operates through fixed channels—governments, national budgets, and clinics, with clear borders and supply chains. The paper suggests it’s time to scrap this notion when it comes to war zones: One facet of modern conflict is that it obeys no geographical limits. The researchers suggest that the global health community adopt a notion of shifting “therapeutic geographies” that acknowledges people caught in modern conflicts may change where they live—and where they get health care—from day to day, week to week.
That concept, abstract as it sounds, would mark a significant departure in global public health. The World Health Organization, the single most important international body dealing with health matters, still operates almost entirely through diplomatic channels, dealing only with the sovereign government even in complex, multisided conflicts like Syria’s. That means that when the regime wants to isolate a rebel province, WHO can’t vaccinate people there and other UN agencies might not be allowed to deliver emergency food aid. Health organizations and other humanitarian agencies will have to work with nonstate actors and militias, as well as governments, if they want to be able to operate throughout a war-affected area.
Public health research can also put more energy into measuring the human toll of war beyond the battlefield. Part of the recent Lancet paper is a strong call for doctors to start quantifying the effects of modern war on health, looking broadly at its full impact. “At this point, we need to just pay attention and describe what’s going on,” said Al-Dewachi.
The effects of better data could be political as well as medical, the authors suggest: A clear picture of the full health impact of war might well change the justification for future “humanitarian interventions.”
Today, Fouad’s former home of Aleppo is largely a ghost town, its population displaced to safer parts of Syria or across the border to Turkey and Lebanon. The city’s former residents carry the medical consequences of war to their new homes, Fouad said—not just injuries, but effects as varied as smoking rates, untreated cancer, and scabies. Wars like those in Syria and Iraq don’t follow the old rules, and their effects don’t stop at the border.
The researchers are energized by their quest to reorient the public health field, but they betray a certain world weariness when asked what might replace the current order, and provide better care for the millions harmed by today’s boundary-less wars.
“If I knew,” Al-Dewachi said, “I would be involved with it.”
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Human Rights Watch's Alison Des Forges Award celebrates the valor of individuals who put their lives on the line to protect the dignity and rights of others. Human Rights Watch collaborates with these courageous activists to create a world in which people live free of violence, discrimination, and oppression.
Yara Bader, a journalist and human rights activist, works to expose the detention and torture of journalists, bloggers, aid workers, and human rights activists—including her husband, the prominent activist Mazen Darwish—in war-torn Syria.
Since Syria exploded into conflict four years ago, Bader has experienced first-hand how its security and intelligence agencies brutally crack down on independent voices. In 2012, security forces raided the offices of the Syrian Centre for Media and Freedom of Expression (SCM) and detained Bader and Darwish, its director, as well as 14 other staff members, on charges of disseminating prohibited information. Bader was released but Darwish remains in jail, where he has reportedly been severely tortured.
As acting director of SCM, Bader speaks out on behalf of her husband and so many others who are paying a horrific price for exposing the truth about the Syrian government’s intolerance of dissent, and promotes the work of journalists and defenders of those freedoms. With the international media’s access severely limited and observer missions barred from working in the country, Bader’s work is vital to ensuring that the world does not forget the hundreds of human rights activists, journalists, bloggers, and other independent voices who have been jailed and tortured in their fight for free expression and association.
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General cultural services
The City of Oulu general cultural services are organised as part of the activities of Cultural Centre Valve.
General cultural services support the cultural activities in Oulu and participate in the production of cultural services for the entire Oulu region – taking into account the different target groups. In addition to Cultural Centre Valve and Oulu Culture Centre for Children and Youth, the general cultural services include the development of urban neighbourhood culture as well as arts and well-being.
Urban neighbourhood culture
The person responsible for urban neighbourhood culture services at Valve is the executive producer Ville-Mikko Sikiö (link to contact details).
Support and development
The urban neighbourhood culture facilities provide cultural services and develop opportunities for cultural activities in the different districts of Oulu. Events are organised around the city together with local actors. Networks are created in the city neighbourhoods to organise joint productions and visits and, for example, to spread festivals throughout the city. There is also cooperation with early childhood education and basic education and as part of work with young people and elderly people.
Arts and well-being
Art and culture not only offer experiences and new perspectives, but also promote health, well-being and inclusion. The mission of arts and well-being services is to increase knowledge of the effects of art and culture on well-being and to develop accessibility of services.
The person responsible for arts and well-being at Valve is the executive producer Jaana Potkonen (link to contact details).
In the area of arts and well-being, Valve cooperates closely with various partners in the sectors of culture and well-being, as well as with social and health services, for example. The operations provide customised services for different customer groups and are involved in bringing art and culture to care homes and social and health care units. This way it is possible to reach target groups that would otherwise find it challenging to participate in cultural activities – either because of physical limitations or economic or social barriers.
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Written by Luciara Nardon
Measureable, data driven outcomes are not the only indicators of success in today’s multicultural and globalized workforce. How employees interact with their colleagues and customers is also a significant factor in their career development.
Luciara Nardon draws on her extensive research and international experience to guide employees and managers through the ambiguous and uncertain waters of today’s multicultural workplace. Each intercultural encounter is unique, involving different people, contexts, dynamics, and actions which general cultural protocols are unable to address.
In Working in a Multicultural World, Nardon offers a comprehensive framework for understanding intercultural interactions and developing skills for successful intercultural situations. Numerous examples and exercises, including how to reconcile personal beliefs of equality with a hierarchical workplace and how to respond to perceived aggressiveness in business negotiations, enable employees and managers to embark on reflective processes that will springboard their intercultural competence.
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In mid-January 2014 we undertook a research trip to Banská Bystrica surroundings to focus on implementation of law on social assistance in material need that will come into force in June 2014. We did not select the municipalities accidentally but with special attempt to cover places with low, average, and high electoral success of Marian Kolteba.
2014 is the 70th anniversary of the Nazi German occupation of Hungary in 1944. For the occasion the Hungarian government (coalition of Fidesz and the Christian Democratic People’s Party/Kereszténydemokrata Néppárt – KDNP) initiated the organization of a yearlong series of commemorative events under the framework of the Holocaust Memorial Year.
Obrnice získaly na konci října 2013 prestižní cenu Dosta! Rady Evropy za úspěšné začleňování Romů do společnosti. Obec nebyla oceněna na základě jednoho projektu, ale jako soubor opatření a projektů za přibližně sedmileté období. Při bližším pohledu na odezvu na ocenění vyvstávají některé politováníhodné skutečnosti.
The analysis of German election manifestos showed one significant feature. With the exception of the NPD, the discourses of parliamentary political parties related to national identity are extremely stable. However, the parties mythologize national history rarely. With regard to this topic there are two major fault lines dividing the parties; and one less significant one.
Looking at the election manifestos from broader perspective, one can define two basic cleavages in national identity related issues – the EU, and the perception of populism. However, the election campaign discourse was shaped by different issues that are not reflected in the manifestos. In order to analyse this process properly, Czech national issues must also be analysed. Although the EU was discussed as an issue that divides the parties a lot, none of the mainstream parties (except Hnutí úsvit) strictly oppose the integration process. | <urn:uuid:a10987fb-6751-4f38-9b38-c96d2c52d780> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://ceeidentity.eu/blog?page=2 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571222.74/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810222056-20220811012056-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.693408 | 507 | 1.992188 | 2 |
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Repot both plants into fresh compost, in pots a little larger than the new rootballs.
How to propagate rabbit's foot prayer plant. Take a few prayer plant cuttings and give it. To take cuttings, use sterile snips to take 10 cm of growth from your mother plant, with at least three leaf nodes per cutting. This family is also commonly known as the prayer plant family.
It is also known commonly by the names rabbit tracks and rabbit's foot, amongst others. To give the plant a preview, harvest the ones that already have leaves attached.” contents hide 1 can you grow. Let us guide you through the process.
You can take stem cuttings or simply divide your plant. How do you multiply ferns? You can propagate this plant through stem cuttings.
How to grow and maintain humata tyermannii (white rabbit’s foot fern): When propagating prayer plants, keep in mind that there needs to be at least small part of the stem on the leaves so the piece can take root. The best way to propagate a maranta is by dividing it.
Prayer plant, rabbit tracks , rabbit’s foot, maranta kerchoveana. Check that each clump has a part of the root system. Take a sharp knife or scissors and sterilize their blades.
“if you prefer to start a completely new plant, cut the sections that don’t have leaves. Propagation is not as difficult as it seems. Cuttings should be taken just beneath the nodes that are closest to the bottom of the stem and then placed in a mixture of peat and perlite.
Place it in the soil to have a new prayer plant grow. Most people are familiar with how to grow prayer plants. Maranta arundinacea is a rhizomatous perennial species in the arrowroot family, marantaceae.
You can propagate your stunning prayer plants by either dividing up your larger plants and potting them on, or by taking basal cuttings in the springtime. Propagation is usually accomplished by dividing root offshoots when repotting or through basal cuttings. The best thing about these plants is how easy they are to propagate!
The easiest way to breed a rabbit’s foot fern is to cut off 2 to 3 inch pieces from its rhizomes or “legs”. If you have never propagated a plant before, let us teach you an easy way to do it. It is also known commonly by the names rabbit tracks and rabbit's foot, amongst others.
You can dip the cutting in rooting hormone in you have it, but it isn’t necessary. You can propagate a prayer plant by placing a stem cutting in a glass of water. To propagate a prayer plant through a cutting, take a cutting from an existing plant.
The easiest way to propagate rabbit foot fern is simple. If you prefer to create a completely new plant, trim the parts that do not contain leaves. The rabbit’s foot prayer plant does produce inconspicuous flowers, if it blooms at all, when grown indoors.
To give the plant a preview, harvest the ones that already have leaves attached.” Make sure to cut on the stem just below a node. Whenever you feel like your other rooms need to be adorned with a lovely anthurium pallidiflorum as well, you should try propagating your existing plant instead of buying new ones.
The easiest way to propagate rabbit foot fern is simple. The rabbit’s foot prayer plant does produce inconspicuous flowers, if it blooms at all, when grown indoors. White rabbit’s foot fern or rabbit’s foot fern, silver hare’s foot and bears paw fern.
Prayer plant prefers bright to moderate light, but no direct sun. A mixture of soil, peat, and perlite or coarse sand helps create the perfect type of soil for growing a prayer plant. Wait until the roots are 1” (2.5 cm) long before transferring to a pot.
Propagation is usually accomplished by dividing root offshoots when repotting or through basal cuttings. The baby prayer plant will not take much time to grow into a mature plant during these months. Propagate by seed, division or take basal cuttings
Prayer plants can grow up to 12 inches tall with leaves as long as 5 inches each! Originating from brazil, it typically grows up to 30cm high and is often kept as a house plant for its attractive foliage. Wait until the roots are about an inch long to take the plant out of the water.
This plant is propagated through stem cuttings, but you do not cut the cutting until it grows new roots. This is where the new roots will emerge. When a prayer plant gets too much light, the color in the leaves starts to fade.
Learn what those needs are in this article, including tips for propagating these plants. As mentioned, the growth of your rabbit’s foot will depend on your tlc. Prayer plants are easiest to propagate in the spring, when you are in the process of repotting your plant.
Another method of prayer plant propagation is by dividing the rhizomes. “if you prefer to start a completely new plant, cut the sections that don’t have leaves. Observe the formation of the roots.
A peat based potting mix is suitable for. Originating from brazil, it typically grows up to 30cm high and is often kept as a house plant for its attractive foliage. It thrives best in bright, indirect light but will tolerate lower light conditions.
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The generous working area and power of a new Bruderer BSTA 510-125 high-speed press, installed in April 2011 at the Cirencester factory of Batten & Allen, is proving particularly versatile for the precision stamping specialist.
The 1,250 mm length of the machine's bolster plate allows room for two large progression dies to be mounted in-line for manufacturing complex components in one continuous operation. Alternatively, there is sufficient bed width for two tools to be mounted side-by-side and fed with separate coils. In both cases, production output is doubled.
Furthermore, punching capacity of 51 tons, which provides sufficient power for two tools to be used simultaneously, also enables heavier pressworking of automotive and other parts if one tool is used, expanding the range of industries that Batten & Allen can serve. Stamping speed is up to 1,050 strokes per minute, slower than the lighter duty presses on site but still an impressive 17.5 hits per second.
A 50-ton Bruderer long-bed press, Batten & Allen's first of that size, was installed at Cirencester in 2006. It has been employed continually for fulfilling a long-running contract to make components for the automotive industry. Tools for producing electronic components have been routinely transferred from 30-ton and 50-ton presses on site to the larger machine to utilise its capacity.
Batten & Allen has won additional work to produce 50 million jewellery components annually, which surprisingly also requires the larger bed area of a 50-ton press.
More recently, two further contracts were awarded for producing fly-by-wire throttle system components destined for motor cycles and golf buggies. These parts also need heavier pressworking capability, so managing director Shawn Batten took the decision to install the BSTA 510-125 to provide additional capacity as well as back-up for the first 50-ton press.
However this time, after an in-depth discussion with Bruderer UK's managing director, Adrian Haller, he opted for a package that is substantially different from the original 50-ton machine.
Servo feeds provide extra accuracy and productivity
Apart from having slightly higher tonnage, the press is fitted with a bolster plate that is extended by 150 mm to 1,250 mm, providing extra room for a longer progression tool, or two tools in-line. Bolster width is the same at 650 mm and to take advantage of the wide bed, the option of using two tool / die sets side-by-side was created by specifying twin Bruderer BSV75 servo feed units to push two strips up to 75 mm wide through the dies in parallel. Alternatively they will accept one wide strip. Both the upper and lower feed rollers are driven so that pressure is transmitted evenly to the strip.
Servo feed technology was not new to Batten & Allen, as it ordered a similar unit with a BSTA 300-85B press bought at the end of 2007. Maintenance manager at Cirencester, Alan Gilbert, commented, "Accuracy of feeding is around plus or minus one thousandth of the pitch length, much the same as for mechanical roll or gripper feeds.
"However, the servo gives much more control, as it can be programmed to optimise the timing dynamics on ramp-up, dwell and ramp-down for any given job.
"A soft start, for example, will gradually advance the strip for greater feed length accuracy, with or without pilot release, while the facility to control material advance independently of the machine stroke is particularly beneficial if there is a lot of forming, or if parts are delicate.
"Moreover, unlike with mechanical feeding, pitch length using a servo is infinitely variable and without limit, and is quickly set at the B-Control system on the press, as is material thickness and all other parameters for the job. The entire program can be saved for immediate reuse next time."
Overall, Mr Gilbert said that the first BSV unit has been very reliable and accurate and has led to higher production rates. He also suggests that its ease of use has resulted in a reduction of 10 to 15 minutes in set-up time per job.
Mr Batten confirmed that mechanically driven roll feeds are still good for a majority of stamping work. Nevertheless, with the trend towards ever greater accuracy and complexity of parts, underpinned by statistical process control requirements and PPAP (production part approval process) in the automotive sector, servo feed technology is likely to be the norm for future press installations at Batten & Allen.
First application for the BSTA 510-125
The first job put on the new Bruderer press did not utilise its twin servo feeds, but exploited the long bed to accommodate two existing tools in series that were previously used on separate 25-ton presses. Designed to produce tin-plated brass components for a telecommunications equipment manufacturer, one tool carries out the blanking while the other completes the subsequent forming. All operations are now performed in one continuous process in the 51-ton press.
Mr Batten continued, "This technique results in a substantial saving in unit manufacturing cost, not least through reduced labour content."
He added that parallel stamping while feeding two strips through the press will be similarly beneficial, as they can utilise two existing, separate tool / die sets from other presses to provide extra, high productivity stamping capacity for all components. Increasing use of multi-out progression tools also assists in maximising output.
Tool monitoring is being fitted to the BSTA 510-125 to check for pitch accuracy and double thickness, as well as a vacuum sensor to detect floating slugs and strip lubrication to promote long tool life.
There are currently 24 Swiss-built Bruderer presses on the Cirencester site installed in a temperature controlled, 'closed-door' environment, the latter term apparently having meaning for customers in the medical sector. All machines have pallet decoilers and auto recoilers, as production is predominantly automated, reel-to-reel stamping.
PC-based control speeds changeover
The last seven presses to be installed have been equipped with the Bruderer's PC-based B-Control system, which facilitates exchanging a full set of modular tools in 20 minutes, three times faster than on earlier machines. As data on each new tool is programmed into the CNC system, it is a simple matter during a repeat run to call up the number of the tool, bolt it onto the press and follow the on-screen prompts to load the program and make the initial and fine adjustments.
With a Windows operating system, the CNC system uses easy-to-follow menus on the colour screen and provides process visualisation, press force measurement with tool protection, capacity for 500 records including data not only on the tool but on the order and material as well, and control of up to 10 NC axes.
The design of the press itself features a rigid drive shaft mounted transversely, transmitting power to the ram via two con rods, and a lever system with mass counterbalancing for stability at high speeds. Absence of any lateral forces means that the ram guides are at strip level, avoiding punch deflection due to eccentric loads in the die.
Accurate tools a necessity
In-house design and manufacture of tools at Cirencester is helped by ongoing investment in Agie CNC wire erosion machines to add to the grinders, mills, machining centres and inspection equipment in the toolroom. Accurate tools require the use of top quality pillars and bushes, so Batten & Allen has used Fibro products from Germany since the early 1990s. Also supplied by Bruderer UK, the components are renowned for their quality and precision.
Mr Batten continued, "Our customers' components often stipulate forming tolerances as small as 25 microns. Complex tools are required to hold such tolerances on blanked dimensions, let alone formed features.
"By making our tools in-house using Fibro parts to control the relative positions of tool, stripper plate and die to within close limits, we ensure that each set is manufactured to the highest quality.
"It is in our own interests not to cut corners, as good tools produce longer runs before they need refurbishing, saving costs and maximising the up-time of the Bruderer presses."
At the end of the interview, Messrs Batten and Gilbert agreed that Bruderer equipment has proved very reliable and capable over the years, with some models still working two shifts after 25 years. Support from Bruderer UK was singled out for praise, and so too was the diagnostics package in the B-Control with modem link to the Bruderer factory in Switzerland, which allows software issues to be dealt with immediately.
Bruderer UK Limited, Cradock Road, Luton,
Bedfordshire, LU4 0JF.
Tel: 01582 560300. Fax: 01582 570611.
Web site: www.bruderer-presses.com
Contact: Adrian Haller, Managing Director
THE RIGHT IMAGE Ltd,
PO Box 42, Twickenham, TW1 1BQ.
Tel: 020 8891 0603.
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Article by Allegro Pediatrics
Nutrition can be an overwhelming topic for many parents. There is often concern that children are not getting enough nutrients or aren’t eating a balanced diet. Here are some of our tips for commonly-heard nutrition concerns.
For the most part, we try to prepare healthy and nutritious meals, but many times the snacks that children are offered tend to be less healthy. For snacks, aim to avoid processed foods and focus instead on fruits and vegetables, since many children do not eat enough from this food group. Fresh, colorful foods offer a variety of vitamins and minerals that children need. Try pairing fruits and vegetables with other items like dairy products, lean meats, and whole grains. If you keep healthy foods around the home, children may be less tempted to eat unhealthy options like cookies or chips. Here are some snack ideas from the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP):
It is recommended that less than 10% of your child’s daily calories come from added sugars, and in actuality most children consume around 17% of their daily calories in added sugars. More than half of these added sugars come from what children are drinking, not from what they are eating. Offer water or milk instead of fruit juices, sport drinks, or sodas. This is important because childhood obesity is a prevalent problem and added sugars in the diet can contribute to this problem.
Meals and Media
Don’t do it! When a person eats in front of a TV or other screen such as a phone or tablet, the brain is distracted, leading them to eat more than if they were focusing solely on eating. It is important to teach your child mindful eating so that they can recognize and acknowledge their hunger cues to know when to stop eating due to fullness. This can be accomplished by encouraging family meals without the distraction of a TV or other screen media. Family meals also help to engage your child and enhance their communication skills.
Multivitamins and Supplements
If your child is eating a well-balanced diet, a multivitamin is typically not needed. Vitamin D is a different story though. Studies have shown that most children do not get enough vitamin D, an important vitamin for bone development. Living in the northern United States also puts us at risk because we do not get adequate sunlight. Vitamin D is found naturally in some foods, such as salmon, sardines, tuna, and eggs, while some foods are fortified with vitamin D, such as milk, yogurt, and orange juice. This important vitamin is also synthesized in our bodies when exposed to sunlight. For infants who are breastfed, partially breastfed, or who consume less than 32 ounces per day of vitamin D-fortified formula or milk, supplementation with 400 IU per day of vitamin D is recommended by the AAP. Older children and adolescents who do not get at least 600 IU of vitamin D per day through their diet should supplement with 600 IU of vitamin D per day. Here is a chart of natural sources of vitamin D from the AAP that you can try implementing in your child’s diet:
Drinking too much cow’s milk increases the risk for iron deficiency anemia. Milk is filling and can lead to a decreased consumption of iron-rich foods like green leafy vegetables, beans, and red meat. Milk can also decrease the body’s absorption of iron, furthering the risk for iron deficiency. As a general rule for toddlers, milk intake should be limited to 16-24 ounces per day.
Dieting & Energy Balance
As a physician’s assistant, I’m often asked, “My child is overweight. Do I need to start them on a diet?” The answer is no. Encouraging your child to make healthy food choices and staying active will be much more effective than placing your child on a diet. What we consume in calories (energy in) should equal how much we burn off in calories (energy out). Being healthy and maintaining weight is not just about the foods that we consume. It is also about how active we are and the balance between consumption and expenditure of calories. Being a role model and showing your child that you are partaking in healthy choices will also encourage them to continue these habits as they get older.
I’m also asked about how many calories a child should consume each day and how much of each food from each food group should they be eating. Every child is different and energy needs can change depending on physical activity and growth spurts. The following two tables from the AAP are a general guide:
Balanced meals can help children stay healthy and focused. For example, a healthy lunch should consist of about ½ fruits and vegetables, ¼ grain, and ¼ protein with one serving of dairy.
As a parent, one of the most important things you can do is to help your children develop healthy eating habits. Children need a balanced diet that will help them grow and learn. Whether you have a toddler or a teen, these tips can help form nutritious meals and encourage smart eating habits. To learn more, check out the Educational Resources in the “Nutrition” section of our website.
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Lawsuits Have Consequences: Aloha To Hawaii Sugar
by Robert Thomas, InverseCondemnation, January 8, 2016
When people think of "Hawaii," many of them, me included, think of sugar. Those of us of a certain vintage who were raised in the islands, and whose families were tied to the sugar plantations once so ubiquitous (my mother's family was from the Halawa Plantation and lived on what is now the site of Aloha Stadium), share a certain nostalgia for those days.
But things inevitably change, and most of the sugar and pineapple plantations (ask me about my pre-law days working at "the cannery," a now-defunct summertime ritual for many local kids) are long-gone, save one, Hawaiian Commercial and Sugar's Puunene plantation on Maui.
Earlier this week the other shoe dropped, and HC&S' parent company, Alexander and Baldwin, announced that at the end of the year, Hawaii's sole remaining sugar plantation will be closed. There are a lot of reasons -- labor costs, a dwindling number of second-and-third generation kids who moved up and out, foreign competition, among them -- but factored in somewhere has got to be the law, and lawsuits.
Since about the 1970's, sugar plantations have been legal pariahs, as the law migrated away from being captured by big business, to favoring environmental and other interests. Water law is likely the primary culprit, with Hawaii's public trust doctrine at the epicenter. This transformed all private water rights into public property, and the Hawaii Supreme Court, the ultimate authority on all things water, ranked "commercial" uses of water -- and the big transport systems created to bring the water from the wet sides of the islands to the tillable dry sides -- as the lowest priority among the competing uses. You don't need to be a farmer to know that a reliable source of water is most important when you are in the business of growing things.
Add in a seemingly never-ending stream of lawsuits and the other factors mentioned above, and you've got a recipe for long term decline. So it wasn't really a surprise when A & B made its announcement, which touched off some figurative dancing on the grave by the usual suspects, and this reaction ("Musings: Sugar Blues"), a piece both sad and angry, but which is well worth reading, because it accurately captures the conflicting emotions of those of us who remember a different time. Those times may not have been all that great for those who actually had to live in a single-wall plantation-owned house with a corrugated tin roof and a dirt floor, and they, and those of us who came later, understand that things do change. But please forgive us if we have a moment of nostalgia nonetheless, as we process the unmistakable sign that those days are finally, and irretrievably, gone.
As for those who say that the 660 or so plantation workers who will lose their livelihoods because of this are the necessary eggs broken to make the new sustainable omelet, and that the promised land of small (organic!) farming is now before us, read this and check your privilege: "Big Island farm closing due to rising costs, threat to fruit crop," about a long time family farm that also announced its impending closure. | <urn:uuid:41e646c8-0d66-495c-af95-e73ee6df671c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://hawaiifreepress.com/Articles-Main/ID/16666/Lawsuits-Have-Consequences-Aloha-To-Hawaii-Sugar | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571222.74/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810222056-20220811012056-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.970428 | 686 | 1.78125 | 2 |
TWI Industrial Member Report Summary 1067/2016
By Sullivan Smith
The global automotive sector is in a process of evolution, moving towards; more efficient, less polluting, safer vehicles with greater functionality. One key milestone to achieving this is weight reduction. High volume car manufacturers see the most economical way of achieving future light-weighting requirements to be a multi material strategy incorporating a steel / aluminium body structure.
At present resistance spot welding is the most widely applied automotive joining technology, used intensively by nearly all car manufacturers. So TWI have set out to find a method that allows fast, high volume joining of high strength zinc coated steels to aluminium car body panels using conventional resistance spot welding equipment.
- A resistance spot welding process was developed that was able to join steel to aluminium in combination with a structural adhesive.
- A reliable spot welding process was achieved using a standard resistance spot welding gun.
- In uniaxial tensile testing of weld bonded joints, high failure loads were recorded.
- Welding current ranges large enough for high volume spot welding applications were achieved.
- Multi pulse welding programs were able to produce high quality porosity free welds.
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Bangladesh Rohingya refugee crisis 2017-2019
In late 2017, Bangladesh rapidly became home to the world’s largest population of displaced people, as over 700,000 people from Myanmar’s Rakhine state fled to Bangladesh after an escalation of violence. By the end of 2018, more than 900,000 people from the Rohingya community were living in 34 camps in Bangladesh’s Cox’s Bazar district, including families who arrived before the 2017 influx.
From the beginning of the unfolding emergency in November 2017, BBC Media Action took a leading role in ensuring that Rohingya people in refugee camps had access to information, and that humanitarian agencies and government actors listened to their needs and concerns.
BBC Media Action carried out a variety of projects with different partners and donors to support Rohingya people living in refugee camps. These included:
- Mentoring two local radio stations, Bangladesh Betar (part of the state broadcaster) and Radio Naf (a community radio station that reached the camps) to produce weekly Lifeline programmes. This project was funded by Unicef and began in November 2017. Since then, these programmes have been broadcast to Rohingya audiences four times a week.
- The Common Service for Community Engagement and Accountability project, funded at different stages by the UK Department for International Development, International Organization for Migration and ECHO (European Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations). BBC Media Action worked with Internews and Translators without Borders to help humanitarian agencies communicate with Rohingya communities more effectively through diverse activities including staff training, creating audio-visual content, tracking rumours in the camps, and a weekly bulletin to communicate community needs and priorities to agencies.
- Helping to establish and run information centres in the camps, in collaboration with Action Against Hunger.
- Developing a radio drama tackling gender-based violence issues such as child marriage and intimate partner violence, funded by Norwegian Church Aid and International Organization for Migration.
This case study predominantly focuses on the Lifeline radio programming support funded by Unicef, which has been most robustly evaluated at audience level.
In line with BBC Media Action’s goals relating to this humanitarian emergency, both Lifeline radio programmes Begunnor Lai (on Bangladesh Betar) and Shishur Hashi (on Radio Naf) aimed to provide Rohingya people with critical information to help keep themselves and their families safe, healthy and informed.
RESEARCH AND EVALUATION
Rapid audience feedback exercises were conducted every couple of months to ensure the programmes were engaging, culturally appropriate and met the needs of Rohingya listeners in the camps. These involved in-depth interviews with listeners recruited from listener groups. Production teams used this feedback to make the programmes more relevant to listeners.
Qualitative evaluations involving Begunnor Lai and Shishur Hashi audience members took place in March and December 2018. BBC Media Action researchers, along with local Chittagonian-speaking interpreters, conducted in-depth interviews with some home listeners and listener group members.
A July 2018 quantitative research study as part of the Common Service project measured the radio programmes’ reach among Rohingya people in the camps. As part of other projects, BBC Media Action carried out extensive research to understand more about Rohingya communities’ needs and priorities, as well as their lives and traditions before arriving in Bangladesh. This was to inform BBC Media Action’s programmes, like the Lifeline programmes and the radio drama, and to help humanitarian agencies understand more about the community so they could design appropriate programmes to serve their needs.
Platform – Rohingya refugees’ access to radio was a significant challenge throughout this project. A quantitative study carried out by BBC Media Action in July 2018 found that only 13% of people said someone in their household had listened to the radio in the preceding week. The same study found that 11% of the Rohingya community had listened to Begunnor Lai and 7% had listened to Shishur Hashi. A November 2018 study by Translators without Borders found that radio listenership had increased to 18% following the distribution of 57,000 radios in refugee camps.
In order to increase access to its programming, BBC Media Action set up over 300 listener groups in 21 refugee camps and provided audio content to other NGOs to share in their community-based activities. Qualitative research found that people appreciated the opportunity to discuss and ask questions at these groups. Initial rapid audience feedback found that women were struggling to access listener groups as they were not allowed to leave their homes. Women-only listener groups were set up within residential blocks so they could attend.
Despite these challenges, research participants universally said they shared the information they learned from the programmes with their friends and relatives, suggesting that the programmes’ content spread through the Rohingya refugee community even if their immediate audience was limited.
The July study found that people’s access to information had increased. Nine months into the emergency, 84% of respondents said they had enough information to make good decisions for themselves and their families compared with 23% in a similar study conducted by Internews at the beginning of the emergency. This was likely as a result of multiple initiatives. For example, the July study found that 21% of Rohingya people had visited one of the information hubs, and 26% of people had seen some of the informative audio-visual content.
Content – Due to Bangladeshi government restrictions, the radio programmes had to be broadcast in Chittagonian (the local dialect of Cox’s Bazar), which is similar to the Rohingya language. Listeners repeatedly said they understood the programmes, and they especially mentioned the female presenter of Begunnor Lai, who had learned which Chittagonian words were most similar to the Rohingya language and consciously made the content easier for Rohingya people to understand.
Listeners found the programmes’ content relevant, and their advice practical and useful. They valued the programmes as they learned practical information about how to keep themselves and their families safe.
Listeners were engaged with the programmes as they felt they were made for them, in a language they could understand. They enjoyed hearing Rohingya voices on the radio and hearing Rohingya songs. They recognised that the programmes covered different topics each episode, depending on what the community needed, which kept people engaged.
Having both men’s and women’s voices helped to engage people with the show. Women said they liked hearing women’s voices on the programmes, alongside male voices, and appreciated the female presenters asking questions about issues that particularly affected women. Some said they felt the female presenters helped them understand key issues in a way that men could not.
I like to listen to the voices of men, but I like to listen to the women in the show more. This is because women are speaking about their problems by themselves and so are the men. Both Rohingya women and village women speak in the show and I like that.
Female listener group member, Teknaf, Bangladesh
Listeners trusted the information in both programmes because they found it to be consistent with information from other sources, and many listeners said they had followed some of the advice and found that it worked. The fact that listeners felt the programmes were made for their benefit also contributed to this trust.
I can see that those who don’t follow the good advice have fallen sick. And those who follow or trust this information are living a healthy life. So I trust all the information.
Male Begunnor Lai and Shishur Hashi listener, Kutupalong , Bangladesh
Knowledge and discussion
The programmes made for Rohingya refugees by BBC Media Action’s partners both reinforced listeners’ existing knowledge and taught them many new things. Listeners recalled many topics covered by the shows, but particularly seemed to retain and share information on how to prevent disease through hygiene. They appreciated advice they could implement at home, such as handwashing and purifying water, which they felt helped to keep their families safe.
While some information was totally new to them, listeners said the way the presenters shared information clarified some concepts they previously struggled to understand.
We didn’t listen to this in Burma [Myanmar]. We heard the show and later, many benefits came. Before we didn’t cover our water pots, and flies and mosquitos came on them and we used to drink that water. Then we ate stale food and used to get sick. Now we don’t drink uncovered water. We don’t have stale food any more.
Male Begunnor Lai listener, Teknaf , Bangladesh
All research participants said they shared what they had learned with family members and neighbours, especially on hygiene and cleanliness, and there were many examples of participants encouraging others to take action. Female participants shared information at women-friendly spaces, and one man said he talked about the programme at the tea shop.
I tell everybody to listen to this show, I tell them to go near the radio at 11:30am and if they have no radio then go to someone else’s radio and listen to this. It is more important than what I will tell you.
Male listener, Kutupalong camp, Bangladesh
Motivation and actions
Listeners of both programmes said they felt motivated to take action as a result, particularly in keeping their area and their children clean. Most research participants said they now systematically wash their hands after using the toilet and before cooking, and that they try to make sure their children and other family members do so too. Many also gave concrete examples of non-hygiene actions they had taken as a result of information from the programmes, such as making a saline solution to treat diarrhoea at home, or taking better care of pregnant women.
Listeners highlighted the importance of accurate information about where to find resources or access help. They noted instances when a programme had mentioned water purification tablets or sanitary towels, but not where listeners could access these items, preventing them from taking action.
Before, if a child got diarrhoea we would think that it is a very serious disease and would take him/her to a traditional healer but the child would die on the way. After learning about how to cure diarrhoea, we can now feed the children appropriately.
Female listener, Kutupalong camp, Bangladesh
I have learned from [the programme] that, inside my wife, my child is growing so I should take care of her. I shouldn’t pressure her to do any kind of heavy work and after childbirth, we should look after that newborn. Specifically, we need to protect him/her from the warm and cold. If he/she starts sweating during the warm season, that can cause a sore throat and runny nose. We also learned what a mother should eat [well to be able] to feed her child properly.
Male listener group member, Balukhali camp, Bangladesh
Connecting people and giving them a voice
Listeners felt connected with others through the programmes. They liked to hear the voices of other Rohingya people, particularly those living in other camps, and learn how they were coping with similar challenges.
They also appreciated the phone-in session in Begunnor Lai, but it was not clear how accessible this option was to all listeners, particularly to women who are less likely to have access to a phone. Almost all research participants said they would ask a question on the programme if they had the opportunity, but only two male participants said they had done so.
In the show, Rohingya people are asked questions and I like to hear their voices. I like it because I am able to hear about their problems and their queries. I also like how I can get news from camps like those in Kutupalong, Balukhali. I can learn how they are living too.
Female Listen Again listener, Teknaf , Bangladesh
There was evidence to suggest that both programmes have played a role in improving people’s emotional well-being. Many research participants mentioned feeling happier as a result of listening to the programmes, as a result of hearing Rohingya voices or Rohingya songs. They also mentioned that the programmes made them smile, improved their mood and helped to reduce their pain.
If I don’t listen to the programme, I don’t feel at peace. But after listening to the show I feel peaceful.
Female Listen Again listener, Teknaf , Bangladesh
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I was reading up on the study of whether biologists who accept the evolutionary theory believe in God(s) and other theologistic happenings. Many of them say that they find no conflict between the two whatsoever. How is this possible?
Isn't the theory of evolution itself based on random, natural selection?
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Local government finance is the way and manner local government consolidate funds, manage the funds and control the funds. It involves getting to know the accounting system of the local government, types and methods of book keeping available to them.
Local government authority being the government at the grassroots levels represents the basic unit through which the federal and state government administers the people in the grassroots.
Local government finance is the financial activities of the local government, their source of revenue, how they manage funds, control and consolidate it for the purpose of having a perfect delivery. Local government cannot function without the availability of funds. It is funds that provide the energy to carry out the activities in the local government.
It is the act of raising and spending money in the local government in other to assist them to carry out their statutory functions. All the funds are managed by the financial department known as the treasury department.
In the local government, fund administration and management is the basic function of the treasury department headed by a financial officer known as the treasurer.
The council is the legislative arm of the local government and it is headed by the councilor. The audit department oversees the financial activities of both the treasury department and the council itself.
Sources of Revenue (External Source)
This is mainly grants from state and federal government which are: federal allocation and state allocation, Project grant and non statutory receipts from federal government and agencies, special grants and non receipts.
Sources of Revenue (Internal Source)
- Rent and rates.
Reasons for Allocation of Grants:
- To enable them carry out their developmental project.
- Extension of existing project.
- To carry out new project.
- Also it is given because the fund is now an obligation of the federal government to provide essential services to the people.
Types of Grants
Percentage Grant: this is more common than any type of grant. From the local authority point of view, the advantage is that the expenditure on service increases, this is due to expansion of service or high cost or money inflation, the central government contribution increases proportionally, since it is based on percentage of the expenditure incurred.
From the government point of view, the percentage grant system suffer the disadvantage by increased expenditure by the local authority, maybe due to excessive and unreasonable high rate of percentage and increase.
Unit Grant: this type of grant is normally used where it is possible to identify the unit cost of such services, like building of clinic or child schools. The unit grant is a fixed amount per unit or it might be a fixed amount for a specified number of units.
Like the percentage grant, the unit grant can be promotional. The local authorities know that they can expect a government payment of a fixed amount for every additional unit which is provided under the unit grant.
From the local authority point of view, the unit grant has serious disadvantage unlike percentage grant, it does not automatically allow for increase when the expenditure arises.
Other strategy whereby local government get their revenue
- By entering into small scale business with the hope that the local government will get more money from it.
- Communalization strategy – this is the process whereby the community come together for the purpose of generation of revenue and other things like washing of places and sweeping etc. it is just a self help for the community instead of waiting for the government. It helps the local government to develop.
- They may reduce the actual expenses through cut back by a special approach and go for the essential ones to make sure that their pressing needs are provided.
- Through implementing strategies designed for organizational productivity. To ensure that workers are doing their duty and there are no wastages.
- Local government | Characteristics | Problems
- Sources of revenue for local government
- Reasons for the creation of local government
- How central government controls local government
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A bipartisan group of lawmakers are introducing legislation to repeal the Cyber Information Sharing Act of 2015, which hitched a ride on the omnibus bill at the end of 2015.
A bipartisan group of lawmakers introduced legislation on Jan. 13 to repeal the Cybersecurity Act of 2015, which hitched a ride on the must-pass omnibus bill that was signed into law in December.
"The Cybersecurity Act was negotiated in secret by just a few members of Congress and added quietly to the 2,009-page omnibus to avoid scrutiny," Rep. Justin Amash (R-Mich.) said in a statement. "Most representatives are probably unaware they even voted on this legislation. It’s the worst anti-privacy law since the USA PATRIOT Act, and we should repeal it as soon as possible."
Amash introduced the repeal bill along with Reps. John Conyers (D-Mich.), Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.), Thomas Massie (R-Ky.), Ted Poe (R-Texas), and Jared Polis (D-Colo.).
While the law "includes information that directs companies to scrub information, companies are only directed to scrub personal information if they actually have affirmative evidence that the information is not relevant to a cyber threat," Polis told FCW on Jan. 14. "That's an unrealistic impossible standard because you are asking the company to prove something that doesn't exist."
The legislation increases information sharing between the government and the private sector, something that has always been controversial among privacy groups.
Polis, who sits on the Rules Committee, said the Cybersecurity Act of 2015 was "sneaked" into the omnibus along with four to five provisions that had previously passed in the House. He argued that the law's provisions would not have prevented any of the recent high-profile cyber-attacks, such as the Office of Personnel Management breach and the Sony hack. Those incidents, he said, were possible because the people in charge of managing the cyber networks failed to use best practices on cybersecurity.
And with the current components of the bill, Polis said, information would be shared with agencies such as the NSA and DHS who "time and time again" have broken privacy rules and overstepped legal authorities. "I have no reason to believe they will abide by the privacy protections of this bill either," he said.
Polis said he expects there to be support for the bill to repeal this legislation, but it may not pass as a piece of standalone legislation.
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THE IMPORTANCE OF SOURCE: The Amazon Rainforest
Often we do not think about where our
supplements come from. I think it's vitally important where my foods
and supplements originate. Here's a bit of info about the source
of the Amazon Herbs.
The Amazon River Basin
Most of the herbs in The Amazon Herb formulas come from the pristine
rainforest, far away from sources
of pollution. The rainforest is home to over
200,000 species of plants. It is the most concentrated source of life on the planet.
It is also source for
over 30% of our world's fresh water and the
producer of a large portion of our world's air.
Every year the shores of the Amazon River are flooded and all of the
nutrients from the river wash over the land and feed the plant life.
This is one reason why plants from the rainforest are so nutrient rich and pure.
Learn more about the Amazon Herbs.
Visit my Official Amazon Herb Company Website
to learn more and order online.
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Hot-Mix versus Cold-Mix Asphalt: What's the Difference?
Asphalt is used as the surface layer on roads. However, not all asphalt is the same.
There are different types and grades of asphalt with two main options – hot-mix and cold-mix asphalt.
Hot-mix asphalt is a mixture of aggregates like sand, gravel, and asphalt cement which is then heated before being applied at the target location.
Hot-mix asphalt is used for large-scale projects like roads, parking lots, and driveways. It is durable to withstand heavy traffic loads, and it is flexible, allowing for expansion and contraction during the temperature swings we experience here in Alberta.
Hot mix asphalt is more expensive than cold mix, which can be a barrier to widespread application.
Cold-mix asphalt is easier to work with than hot mix because it doesn’t require heating. It is commonly found on County roads with low traffic volumes and low percentages of heavy truck traffic.
Cold-mix asphalt paving is cost-effective for maintenance. Under the right conditions, it can be remixed and rejuvenated right on site. It can also be used on pothole repairs, crack filling and small-scale patches. As well, it can be used as a temporary pavement when the weather won’t allow for hot mix asphalt installation.
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Four years ago, scholarly experts predicted that cherry trees in Washington DC would begin their blooming process in January.
Last year was the latest start to the blooming season record, with the Potomac frozen over on March 7.
Photo above taken on March 7, 2015
At the end of January 2016, the cherry trees are surrounded by a foot of snow.
“Science is the belief in the ignorance of the experts’
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miR-411-5p (previously called miR-411) is severely involved in human diseases, however, the relationship between miR-411-5p and breast cancer has not been investigated thoroughly. Here, we found that the expression of miR-411-5p was downregulated in breast cancer tissues compared with their matched adjacent non-neoplastic tissues. In addition, the expression of miR-411-5p was also lower in breast cancer cell lines in contrast with MCF-10A. Moreover, we investigated the target and mechanism of miR-411-5p in breast cancer using mimic and inhibitor, and demonstrated the involvement of GRB2 and Ras activation. Ectopic expression of miR-411-5p suppressed the breast cancer cell proliferation, migration and invasion while low expression of miR-411-5p exhibited the opposite effect. Furthermore, GRB2 was demonstrated to be significantly overexpressed in breast cancer tissues compared with normal tissues, and low expression of GRB2 had a longer overall survival compared with high expression of GRB2 in breast cancer. In general, our study shed light on the miR-411-5p related mechanism in the progression of breast cancer and, miR-411-5p/GRB2/Ras axis is potential to be molecular target for breast cancer therapy.
Keywords: Breast cancer; GRB2; Metastasis; Proliferation; miR-411-5p.
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I installed Matlab 2022a with the help of the AUR package and it works perfectly. Do I have to keep said package? Can I uninstall it to save some space?
You don’t mean that you want to uninstall it?
Do you want to remove the package that was build locally on your system?
Then yes, just delete it.
If you mean to uninstall
matlab then uninstall it.
I am sorry but it is not clear what you are trying to do.
You can delete the directory where you’ve cloned and built the package. Matlab will remain installed on your system. If you want to uninstall it (that is, remove Matlab entirely from your system), you can do so with
sudo pacman -R matlab
Also, please don’t post newbie questions about how the AUR works on the AUR page of some package. That’s what this forum is for.
…or if you’re going to ask there (which I don’t recommend, as it’s a good way to get yourself banned), don’t ask here without letting us know that it’s been asked elsewhere. It just unnecessarily multiplies the effort to give you an answer. | <urn:uuid:bbc4c45f-29fd-4e31-a68c-e0903d8b9fd4> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/matlab-aur-package/29859 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571222.74/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810222056-20220811012056-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.93196 | 269 | 1.539063 | 2 |
Mind's Eye Theatre is a system for live action roleplaying (LARPing) in the World of Darkness, based loosely on the Storyteller System. While the setting is identical, the rules are heavily modified for ease of play during live-action play, compared to the Storyteller System's tabletop focus.
The main product lines for Mind's Eye Theatre were Laws of the Night (the LARP adaptation of Vampire: The Masquerade; originally published as The Masquerade) and Laws of the Wild (the LARP adaptation of Werewolf: The Apocalypse; originally published as The Apocalypse). Other Mind's Eye Theatre lines that received multiple sourcebooks were Laws of the Hunt (adapting of the Year of the Hunter books and various general-purpose World of Darkness books), Laws of Ascension (adapting Mage: The Ascension), and The Shining Host (adapting Changeling: The Dreaming). Single-book adaptations included The Oblivion (Wraith: The Oblivion), Laws of the Reckoning (Hunter: The Reckoning), Laws of the Resurrection (Mummy: The Resurrection), and Laws of the East (Kindred of the East).
Two MET books, The Book of Props and Dark Epics, were intended for use in any Mind's Eye Theatre game, although the former was published at a time when The Masquerade was the only regularly published MET game. The Mind's Eye Theatre Journal was a magazine that was published for eight issues from 1999 to 2001; each issue covered various topics for multiple game lines, as well as advice on gameplay, coordination, or costuming that could be applied to any MET LARP.
The line as a whole concluded with Laws of Judgment, which adapted truncated versions of the Time of Judgment scenarios from World of Darkness: Time of Judgment for Vampire, Werewolf, Mage, Changeling, Hunter, Kindred of the East, and Mummy, as well as material from Ends of Empire, the final Wraith sourcebook. A new Mind's Eye Theatre was later developed for the Chronicles of Darkness setting and ruleset, which was at the time titled as the "New" World of Darkness. | <urn:uuid:872e9ad5-4735-4d91-81de-ac54ebaac998> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://whitewolf.fandom.com/wiki/Mind%27s_Eye_Theatre_(WOD) | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570793.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808092125-20220808122125-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.964849 | 430 | 1.5 | 2 |
Discover Kao-mu-t'ou-liang in China
Kao-mu-t'ou-liang in the region of Inner Mongolia is a town located in China - some 136 mi or ( 219 km ) North of Beijing , the country's capital .
Local time in Kao-mu-t'ou-liang is now 12:24 AM (Wednesday) . The local timezone is named " Asia/Shanghai " with a UTC offset of 8 hours. Depending on your flexibility, these larger cities might be interesting for you: Tianjin, Taiyuan, Shijiazhuang, Beijing, and Xiwanzi. When in this area, you might want to check out Tianjin . We found some clip posted online . Scroll down to see the most favourite one or select the video collection in the navigation.
Simatai Great Wall Panoramic View 司马台长城美丽的全景
I took this panoramic shot of a section of the Great Wall between Simatai and Jinshanling on a group camping trip at the end of September 2007. In the background you can hear my friends making fun of ..
Great wall China time lapse
Time lapse of the many people walking on the Great Chinese wall. ..
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Interesting facts about this location
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Animated LEDs in the lobby ceiling, a brilliantly colored mosaic wall, and color-changing light fixtures in the children’s patient rooms are just a few of the details that make the 8-story, 465,000-sq.-ft., Medical and Research Translation (MART) Building at Stony Brook Medicine and Stony Brook Children’s Hospital a welcoming, comfortable, and whimsical place for children to heal.
Winning a global LIT Award in healthcare lighting and an Illuminating Engineering Society Illumination Award of Merit in interior lighting for this project, New York-based Cline Bettridge Bernstein (CBB) Lighting Design delivered multiple notable features on a tight budget.
In lieu of a custom fixture in the main lobby leading to the auditorium, “we chose to have simple (Winona Lighting) glass pendants and (Bruck) metal pendants creating a cascading play of light and shadows at the center of the room, to fill in the oval ceiling pop-up,” explains CBB Principal Francesca Bettridge, fies, iald, lc. “In addition, (Gotham Lighting) recessed downlights with drop glass trims are located right next to the ceiling stepping detail, echoing the central elliptical opening.”
In the MART lobby, CBB worked with the architect Pelli Clarke & Partners to design a dynamic, water-themed ceiling. “Working within a limited budget, inexpensive flexible LED fixtures are mounted to circular metal plates specifically to create rippling water patterns,” explains CBB Associate Principal Michael Hennes, mies, leed ap bd+c. “We went through multiple in-house mock-ups to determine the best LED color and worked within the limited dimensions between the fixtures and the ceiling to create the effect and pattern we wanted to achieve.”
The flexible linear LED fixtures are mounted at different heights within the plenum to further simulate a sense of depth and movement. The LEDs are programmed by an Acuity DMX control system to produce the animated lighting feature.
COLORFUL CHILDREN’S WING: In the children’s lobby, visitors, staff and passersby are treated to an elaborate curved mosaic feature wall with aquatic “bubbles.” To optimally illuminate the wall, CBB specified narrow beam lamps with linear spread lenses. A Starfire surface mounted linear wall grazer with black baffles is placed between each LED PAR20 lamp.
“It is extremely important that this wall is highlighted without seeing fixture brightness, and this fixture did a great job,” reports CBB Senior Associate Nira Wattanachote, mies, well ap.
Inside the children’s patient rooms is a wonderfully popular feature: a handheld remote with DMX programmed colors, enabling the children to select and change the color of the lighting. “It gives the children and their families a sense of being in control of their environment to a certain level,” explains Wattanachote. “These rooms are visible from outside, so it becomes part of night imagery and makes the building come alive every night.” | <urn:uuid:c690eae2-d3b5-453c-a9f5-497c360ea8ab> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.architecturalssl.com/?p=1061 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571056.58/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809155137-20220809185137-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.916488 | 658 | 1.578125 | 2 |
In The Longing for Less author Kyle Chayka searches for a minimalist mindset that isn’t “obsessing over possessions or the lack thereof but challenging our day-to-day experience of being in the world.”
The Guggenheim recently repurposed the term, “decommissioning,” to designate works in its permanent collection that it has “deemed to be non-viable.”
Within the many intersections between cinema and minimalism, there’s a fascinating thread of nonfiction filmmakers depicting air travel.
Ask most programmers about minimalist programming and they invoke the word elegance, yet working with extreme code minimalism often means exposing the chaotic underside of our engagement with logic.
An aesthetic of minimalism in architecture and interior design has been sold to consumers of high design for decades now in the pages of Dwell and the endlessly scrollable interfaces of websites like designboom and ArchDaily.
The stereotype of Japan as a “less-is-more” kind of country is, in fact, quite misleading.
Kyle Chayka’s new book, The Longing for Less: Living with Minimalism, probes the corporate world’s love of minimalist design and what it might mean.
(cover image via Flickr.com/carlos78mx) This week, we explore the notion that less is more as Minimalisms, yes, plural, is the focus of this Sunday Edition. While most people may associate the term “Minimalism” to the modern art movement that originated in 1960s New York, the history of the design tendency for less is more global […] | <urn:uuid:57d7598b-aefc-40f1-a2ec-9d7ab1b66029> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://hyperallergic.com/tag/minimalisms/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571222.74/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810222056-20220811012056-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.938171 | 344 | 1.921875 | 2 |
What to Do and How, when your Car Breaks Down?
A sudden down in the middle of the route is not something new for anyone who has ever owned a car or has ridden in one before. A car breakdown may occur at any time – while one is on the way to work, or to the supermarket, or returning home from somewhere.
Although, this is not a life-threatening situation, but a car breakdown can be an infinite source of irritation. You really cannot foresee such an incident, but if you are reading this article and wondering about what you can do to reduce your level of irritation in case of a breakdown.
Read on to find out more about certain things that you need to keep in mind and need to check about this very specific situation.
Your Car Breaks Down - Now What?A car suffering a temporary breakdown is not uncommon – some minute system error occurs, and your car stops running for some time. In case your engine shuts down, pull the vehicle over on the side of the road and wait for a few minutes before you try to inspect the problem further.
Panicking would not help in such a situation because the problem with your car might just be a simple technical hiccup. The car may require a few moments to reset itself in the case of a system error.
But if your car breaks down and you press the radio button and see that nothing is happening, then the symptoms point towards your car battery dying for some reason
If nothing happens, then the answer is yes. For further evidence, there are two options that you must do to diagnose the problem:
1. Open the hood of the car
You need to have a look at the battery and should try to find out if there is any corrosion at the points of connection and whether the connections are tight enough.
If you find any corrosion, make sure to clean it properly and tighten the cable connector a bit more than its previous state. Unfortunately, if the car does not start, then your battery has died.
2. Contact for Help
If you forgot your phone at home and cannot get in touch with roadside assistance agencies, you need to find a gas station for getting proper support to fix your dead car battery.
Usually, if your vehicle breaks down in the middle of nowhere, finding a gas station becomes a sort of impossibility. In such a case, you need to ask for assistance from cars driving by. Usually, all freeways are patrolled by police vehicles, so keep a lookout for such a car and ask for help from the patrol officer.
If you can remember passing by a rest stop or a home of sort while on your way, and if you feel that the distance is walkable, do so and get your hands on a phone to call for assistance. Often, a car passing by will stop to lend a helping hand if you ask for it. But you need to exercise caution when asking for help from someone else.
If a person stops his or her car and asks you to get in so that he or she can drop you at a gas station, try to avoid it and request the driver to inform any gas station, he or she finds about the breakdown. This sort of safety procedure is not a bad idea.
Do you have any more questions or general queries related to automotive repair?
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GlobalFoundries, the chip fabrication specialist born out of AMD, has announced that it has begun production at its latest Fab 8 facility in Saratoga County, New York.
The first components to roll off the company's production, GlobalFoundries has confirmed, will be based on the 32nm silicon-on-insulator technology jointly developed by members of IBM's Process Development Alliance, itself based on research conducted at the University at Albany's College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering.
Designed, GlobalFoundries claims, to vastly improve performance in the areas of multi-core design and graphics, the same SOI design was used in the chips at the heart of Watson, the supercomputer-cum-expert system that shot to fame as a winning contestant on the US gameshow Jeopardy! early last year.
Based in the Luther Forest Technology Campus, Fab 8 is claimed by GlobalFoundries to be the largest leading-edge semiconductor foundry in the world, with 300,000 square feet of clean-room space and a projected output of 60,000 wafers per month once fully ramped. The company has confirmed that production will concentrate on gate-first High-k Metal Gate (HKMG) manufacturing 32nm and 28nm parts, following the company's Fab 1 facility in Dresden hitting volume production on the same process.
Using gate-first, contrasted with gate-last, manufacturing, GlobalFoundries claims, provides a saving of around 10-20 per cent compared to similar HKMG solutions while providing the full benefit of scaling a design down from a 45nm or 40nm process size.
GlobalFoundries won't be the only company making IBM's new chips, however: Big Blue's facility in East Fishkill, some 100 miles south of GlobalFoundries Fab 8, will also be churning out wafers for the company's latest designs.
"Today's announcement is a natural extension of our longstanding partnership with IBM that includes production of 65nm and 45nm chips at our fabs in Singapore and Germany,
" explained GlobalFoundries chief executive Ajit Manocha. "With the addition of our newest factory in New York, we will now be jointly producing chips with IBM at four fabs on three continents.
The chips, destined for server, storage and supercomputing applications, are also set to feature IBM's embedded DRAM (eDRAM) technology, which boosts on-processor memory performance while reducing component size to a third and standby power to a fifth of traditional SRAM components.
GlobalFoundries commitment to gate-first manufacturing on 32nm and 28nm parts comes despite an announcement from the company in January last year
that it would be moving to a gate-last process for 22nm and 20nm parts, joining the majority of the fabrication world in placing the transistors' gates at the end of manufacturing.
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There are multiple disruptors in the gastroenterology field today. Some are making patient care better, while others will create roadblocks for years to come.
Here are five game-changers in GI, according to gastroenterologists.
1) Insurance companies are dictating covered services and medications. Coverage of specific therapies changes annually, which forces unnecessary pivots in treatment plans. Patients become frustrated because they can no longer access a medication that worked, and the changes can lead to hours of correspondence between providers and insurance companies to gain approval.
2) Digital smartphone apps to assist patients in directly communicating with providers. Some gastroenterologists believe when digital communication is supported by third party payment, there will be 24/7 access to cognitive, diagnostic and therapeutic care. Gastroenterologists and surgery centers stand to benefit by establishing referral relationships with digital platforms.
3) The COVID-19 pandemic and lack of standards around patient treatment during the pandemic is disrupting GI care. ASC owners and operators are debating the safest way to continue care with each new COVID-19 surge, testing standards for vaccinated patients and increased cancellation rates because patients are confused about what they need for care.
4) The cost of technology and data platforms for gastroenterologists and GI practices is going up, and will promote more consolidation. Larger groups can afford more sophisticated datasets that use artificial intelligence and machine learning to support real-time clinical decision-making, predictive analytics and outcomes data to lower the cost of care.
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DATE: May 31, 2019
SNIP: The practice of downsizing, degrading, or eliminating protected lands and waters has been accelerating worldwide, and especially in the United States, a study published Thursday in Science has found.
Just how accelerated? Ninety percent of all proposals the U.S. has ever made to reduce or eliminate protected areas have taken place since 2000. And 99 percent of those proposed rollbacks were associated with industrial-scale development projects, including oil and gas extraction.
And it’s not just America. Globally, 78 percent of downsizing protected areas has happened since 2000, and industrial development was responsible for 62 percent of all rollbacks, according to the study.
The report is one of the most comprehensive efforts yet to track the erosion of protected wilderness areas and national parks around the world. A team of 21 international scientists analyzed 200 years of protected areas data, conducted their own research, and worked with local scientists in each country they analyzed to discover trends in why, and how frequently, public lands are changed or downsized.
The study authors decided to zero in on the United States and the Amazon region in South America because, they said, both regions are undergoing rapid environmental policy change, and are both particularly important to global conservation.
“The U.S is recognized as a global leader in conservation. And when the U.S take steps to scale back the protection of its lands and waters, other countries take notice,” said Michael Mascia, senior vice president of the Moore Center for Science at Conservation International and co-author of the study.
Lead author Rachel Kroner, a social scientist at Conservation International, said the study only adds to the urgent call to action that was the recent biodiversity report.
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LANSING (AP/WWJ) – Michigan health officials say vaccines are safe, and they’re emphasizing the need to keep children’s vaccinations up to date following recent chickenpox outbreaks.
The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services says Tuesday that outbreaks have been reported in recent weeks in Calhoun, Grand Traverse, Muskegon and Wayne counties and have involved mainly unvaccinated children in school settings.READ MORE: Election Denial Probe Looms Over Critical Races In Michigan
Immunization against chickenpox and several other diseases is required for school entry in Michigan. However, parents have the option to waive the requirement.
WWJ’s Dr. Deanna Lites reports some of the affected children were hospitalized.
Also known as varicella, chickenpox is characterized by an itchy, blistery rash. The rash may be preceded or accompanied by fever, tiredness, headache and loss of appetite. Chickenpox is highly contagious, with the virus spreading through coughing and sneezing.READ MORE: Police Search For Suspect In Fatal Shooting On Detroit's West Side
Studies have shown the recommended two-dose series given in childhood is somewhere between 89 percent and 98 percent effective in preventing any mild-to-moderate chickenpox disease and 100 percent effective in preventing severe chickenpox.
[Get more information from the state about vaccinations HERE].
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Zahara and the Lost Books of Light
by Joyce Yarrow
Publication Date: December 13, 2020
Genre: Historical Fantasy
When Seattle journalist Alienor Crespo travels to Granada to apply for citizenship as a descendant of Jews expelled from Spain in 1492, she uncovers her own family story, along with a hidden treasure trove of medieval Hebrew and Arabic books, saved from the fires of the Inquisition.
This “Library of Light” is being protected by a secretive group of literary caretakers. Alienor joins their struggle to safeguard the priceless manuscripts from discovery and destruction by a fanatical group devoted to restoring limpieza de sangre, purity of blood, to the Iberian Peninsula.
Crespo forms mystical bonds with her female ancestors, both Jewish and Muslim, who once faced the same dark forces aligned against her. What began as a routine, freelance assignment becomes front page news in Spain’s growing confrontation with its troubled past.
With a touch of magic realism honoring the mystics of Andalusia, as well as an emerging romance entangled in mystery, this fast-paced novel is rich with conflict and suspense.
Oh my goodness, Friends. Where does one begin, when one comes across such a nuanced novel?
Somehow, Ms. Joyce Yarrow managed to tell a story, create a plot, add in history, weave a little magic and build some memorable characters, all wrapped up in one brilliant book. Alienor Crespo gets the chance of a lifetime when she learns that the Spanish government is allowing citizenship for descendants of the Sephardim. (I am ashamed to say that I was not familiar with that term, and so immediately set out to educate myself. Turns out that in 1492, Spain expelled roughly 3 million Jews. It wasn’t until 2015 that Spain allowed descendants of the Sephardic Jews to have citizenship, once again.) (Sephardic Jew = Jews that lived in Spain and Portugal.) I found this bit of history fascinating and heartbreaking, and grew in admiration towards the author for taking on such an historical happening.
What makes this story even more of a treat is our main character, herself. As Alienor connects with her ancestors (I loved that part so much!) she begins to piece together not only her past, but who she is on a soul-level. Enter in Zahara (think the Atlantis of lost historical knowledge) and Alienor’s role in keeping it safe, and you have yourself a fast-paced, suspenseful and stunningly beautiful novel.
Dear Ms. Yarrow,
I now must own everything you ever write.
Bottom Line: Ever met a book that is “unputdownable?” Allow me to introduce you to Zahara and the Lost Books of Light.
About the Author
Joyce Yarrow is the author of literary novels of suspense that “appeal to readers who enjoy unusual stories with an international setting.” – Library Journal
Her latest offering is a historical fantasy – ZAHARA AND THE LOST BOOKS OF LIGHT – from Adelaide Books in Dec 2020.
A New York City transplant now living in Seattle, Joyce began her writing life scribbling poems on the subway and observing human behavior from every walk of life.
Her published novels include ASK THE DEAD (Martin Brown), RUSSIAN RECKONING – available in hardcover as THE LAST MATRYOSHKA (Five Star Mysteries), RIVERS RUN BACK, co-authored with Arindam Roy (Vitasta, New Delhi).
She is a Pushcart Prize Nominee with short stories and essays that have appeared in Inkwell Journal, Whistling Shade, Descant, Arabesques, and Weber: The Contemporary West and the Los Angeles Review of Books. Yarrow is a member of the Sisters in Crime organization and has presented workshops on “The Place of Place in Mystery Writing” at conferences in the US and India.
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Most days, somewhere in New England, the American Red Cross and other blood banks put out the call for donations — and volunteers offer up their veins for the public good.
At a recent blood drive outside a yarn store in Northampton, Massachusetts, donors paraded in and out of a Red Cross Bloodmobile at a slow but steady space.
As one regular held gauze over his punctured arm, the nurse told him he was free to leave. “Make sure you feel OK,” she said. “Would you like a water?”
“Juice, maybe,” he replied.
A Drop In Demand
These donors don’t get paid for their blood. But while the raw product is free, the process around collecting and distributing the blood is not.
Hospitals pay blood banks for components — like plasma and red blood cells — and blood banks use that income to stay viable, even when donations are down.
But over the past decade, medical advances have had unintended consequences on this delicate balance.
“Every year, we’re seeing less total components transfused,” said Darlene Cloutier, lab director at Baystate Medical Center in Springfield, Massachusetts.
Doctors have learned to perform common surgeries with minimal blood loss, so they rely less on transfusions. Cloutier said that’s allowed them to avoid the risk — albeit low — of exposing someone to another person’s blood. And she said outcomes have improved.
“The patients that were transfused fewer units typically have lower lengths of stay and better recovery,” she said.
This also means hospitals buy less blood from the Red Cross and other private blood banks. Cloutier said Baystate uses about two-thirds as much blood today as it did five years ago, with some coming from its own, in-house donation program.
UMass Amherst business professor Anna Nagurney, who studies the blood supply, said this is typical across the country.
“The demand has gone down,” Nagurney said. “So that’s a huge issue because various blood service organizations now. They have to reduce their prices.”
‘A Very Urgent Situation’
That may be good for hospitals, which are under pressure to cut costs, but it’s not so good for blood banks. Nagurney said nationwide, between 2008 and 2014, blood bank revenue fell from about $5 billion to $1.5 billion.
“We believe this creates a very urgent situation,” said Ziggy Szczepiorkowski, president of the American Association of Blood Banks.
He said a drop in blood bank revenue has led to staff layoffs, less money for research and development and less private investment in innovation or infrastructure.
“If you don’t have money to replace your equipment, your equipment is getting older and older,” he said. “So on a very basic level, you start to see older equipment, which is going to fail more frequently.”
An Unusual Commodity
Many blood banks have merged or consolidated, which may help with short term budgets, but Szczepiorkowski said it doesn’t get at the root of the problem — namely, a payment structure that allows blood to be treated like any other commodity.
“Under normal circumstances, you would think that blood industry would sort itself out, as a market force,” he said. “We don’t believe it’s going to happen without exposing our society to potential very high risks.”
For one, you can’t stock up on blood. It’s perishable. It lasts on a shelf between 5 and 42 days, so it’s tricky to collect just enough to fulfill the orders from hospitals, but not so much that it gets wasted.
And with the downsizing of the industry, Anna Nagurney of UMass worries that, if there’s a sudden demand for blood — say, a natural disaster or terrorist attack — blood banks won’t have the capacity to collect it in a hurry.
Plus, new viruses like Zika both reduce the supply of safe blood and raise the cost of testing it.
Looking For a Blood Safety Net
“Then you get times of great need, for example, like the holiday season,” Nagurney said. “And it’s really challenging, especially now in the winter season, because if you have a cold or flu, you’re not supposed to be donating blood. So that also decreases the supply.”
As a solution, Nagurney would like the blood bank industry to be more deliberate about its mergers and downsizing. Her own research looks at ways to make the blood supply chain more efficient.
“If they were able to, say, cooperate — right now they tend to compete with one another — then there could be some really good synergies,” she said. “We could have supply matching demand better.”
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Again, we’re looking at the Top 10 most-cited papers that were published in the 1950s, 1960s, and so on. This means that while the eleventh most-cited paper from the 1980s might outscore the fourth most-cited paper from the 1950s in terms of cumulative citations, the former does not appear here whereas the latter does. There are some striking patterns. One thing to notice is the rise of articles from the Annual Review of Sociology in the 2000s. Another is the increasing heterogeneity of outlets. Of the top ten papers written in the 1950s or before, seven appear in the American Sociological Review, two in the American Journal of Sociology, and one in Social Forces. (That is SF’s only entry in the list, as it happens.) ASR and AJS rule the 1960s, too. After that, though, there’s more variety. Strikingly, for the 2000s only one of the ten most-cited articles is from ASR and none is from AJS—a complete reversal of the pattern of the ‘50s and ‘60s. You can also see the long shadow of post-war university expansion and “Boomer Sociology”. The most-cited work from before 1970 is not nearly as widely cited as the most-cited work from the ‘70s and ‘80s, despite having been around longer. The drop-off in citation numbers in the Top 10s from the ‘90s and ‘00s is to be expected as those papers are younger. American dominance—or insularity—is also evident, as the only non-U.S. journal to make any of the lists is Sociology, and that was in the 1970s.
Turning to the subject matter of the papers, I think you can see the importance of articles whose main contribution is either a methodological technique or a big idea. There are fewer papers where a specific empirical finding is the main contribution. If you want to hang in there as one of the most-remembered papers from your decade, it seems, give people a good concept to work with or a powerful tool to use. Of course, it’s also true that people tend to have a lot of unread books lying around the house and unused drill attachments in the garage.
It is tempting to connect these two patterns in the data. To speculate: ASR and AJS remain amongst the journals with the very highest impact factors in the discipline. Publishing in them has become more important than ever to people’s careers. Yet the most-cited papers of the last two decades appeared elsewhere. These journals demand the papers they publish meet high standards in methods and ideally also innovate theoretically, along with making an empirical contribution to knowledge. That, together with a more competitive and professionalized labor market, produces very high-quality papers. But perhaps it also makes these journals less likely than in the past to publish purely technical or purely theoretical pieces, even though some papers of that sort will in the end have the most influence on the field.
Outlets like Sociological Methods and Research and Sociological Methodology now publish articles that might in the past have appeared in more general journals. Similarly, big-idea pieces that might once have gotten in at ASR or AJS may now be more likely to find a home at places like Theory and Society or Gender and Society. At the same time—perhaps because the state of theory in the field is more confused than that of methods—theoretical papers may also have been partially displaced by ARS articles that make an argument for some idea or approach, but under the shield of a topical empirical literature review. In a relatively fragmented field, it’s also easier for methodological papers to be more widely cited across a range of substantive areas than it is for a theory paper to do the same.
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by Cathy Huang:
Amy Soh is a freshman enrolled in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at the National University of Singapore. Born and raised in Shenton Way, Singapore, Amy held life-long ambitions to attend NUS to become an international lawyer. Raised in a family of doctors, Amy knows her dreams will demand the utmost focus on her studies. At the mention of Yale University, Amy’s eyes noticeably lit up.
“What a fantastic university! Yale is well known across the world…I’m so excited to hear that Yale is coming to us!”
She was referring to plans to build a liberal arts college based on Yale’s model at the National University of Singapore. Amy is one of the students who will be on campus to see the Yale-NUS collaboration bear fruit in 2014.
With its ambitious motto of “towards a global knowledge enterprise,” the National University of Singapore has, since its founding in 1905, served as a leader in post-secondary education in Asia. Times Higher Education ranked NUS as the 4th best university in Asia and 34th best university in the world. Currently, NUS confers degrees to its 24,000 undergraduates through 13 different faculties, or individual schools that resemble pre-professional programs. But according to Lily Kong, vice president of University Global Relations at NUS and director of the Yale-NUS program, Yale and NUS are now collaborating “to build an educational model that will set the standard for other liberal arts education programs in Asia in the future.” NUS President Tan Chorh Chuan corroborated this optimism in an address to the university, stating that the liberal arts college is part of NUS’s plans for a “bold and highly-strategic investment in education for the future.”
The Yale-NUS College will be an independent entity on the NUS Kent Ridge campus funded entirely by NUS. Yale University President Richard Levin hopes to open the doors to a class of roughly 250 students in the fall of 2014. These students will be taught by 60-70 core faculty members drawn from both universities. As for the curriculum, Haun Saussy, professor of Comparative Literature at Yale and acting member of the Curriculum Committee for the Yale-NUS project, described it as a “global Directed Studies,” referring to the popular freshman program at Yale that stresses multi-disciplinary study. “The program involves intensive reading of works from different disciplines but not just the European canon,” Saussy explained. Humanities-focused classes are far less common in Southeast Asian education models, but Yale-NUS students will study texts from both the Asian and European traditions, while developing and challenging their own ideas.
It remains to be seen how students will respond to a new liberal arts approach to higher education. Kong points out that in Singapore, a greater emphasis is placed on the major as preparation for a career, whereas Yale encourages greater breadth and discourages a pre-professional focus. Also, the majority of students at NUS only live on campus for a year, and Yale hopes to forge closer-knit communities through the introduction of its popular residential college system. While there are no guarantees that NUS will adapt immediately, those involved with the project are excited for change. Casey Nagy, associate secretary to the Vice President at Yale, who has worked on the project since its conceptualization, acknowledged that “whenever one contemplates a partnership with entities that have different traditions and exist in different environments, accommodations will be necessary.” Nagy, who organizes feedback regarding the project from Yale and NUS faculty and alumni, has seen an “overwhelmingly positive” response. In the coming months, Yale hopes to release data to confirm this voiced approval from its faculty and alumni.
The collaboration, however, has not been received without concern. Some fear that Yale stands to lose valuable faculty and resources in this venture. But, while a few Yale professors might teach at NUS for a semester or two while serving as guides, the Yale-NUS faculty will consist mainly of new hires, young PhDs who will have the opportunity to find tenure-track jobs in a stagnant job market. The Hiring Committee at Yale is on a “global search” to find talented teachers. Kong looks forward to welcoming Yale professors but stressed that NUS does not plan on “keeping them.”
Other concerns have focused on the problems the autocratic nature of the Singaporean government might pose for academic freedoms. Etkin Tekin, a Yale junior who spent 10 months studying and working at NUS and who hopes to one day work in Singapore, believes these concerns are unwarranted.
“People see three or four facts about Singapore and immediately dismiss it,” said Tekin. “Maybe their laws wouldn’t work here, because we’ve grown accustomed to our own constitution, but they work there and the people are very happy. I remember when we were studying Machiavelli, my professor cracked a joke about the Singaporean government. People were comfortable laughing although it might have been a dissention from what the government ideally wants from its people. Most of my professors at NUS spoke whatever they felt. It’s a pretty liberal and comfortable classroom setting.”
Kishore Mahbuhani, former Singaporean diplomat at the UN and current dean of the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at NUS, also lamented the misconceptions of his home country. He pointed out that, as a small island country with fewer than five million people, Singapore cannot afford to block any academic discourse because if it “[misunderstands] reality, reality doesn’t suffer, Singapore suffers.” Mahbubani has written several books on the topic of global power shift between the Eastern and Western hemispheres and sees the Yale-NUS project as a valuable opportunity for Yale to establish a “twoway street of learning” with increasingly competitive Asian nations. “With the end of Western domination, we have to step outside Western mental box and see how other cultures think,” he said. “Through this project, we get a combination of the best of the East and the West to create a more stable 21st century.”
The Yale-NUS project undoubtedly fulfills Yale’s quest to obtain a more global reach. Both universities are members of the International Alliance of Research Universities, a group of 10 of the world’s leading research-intensive universities. And while the two already collaborate on research ventures such as natural resource management and biodiversity conservation, this project would allow for an unprecedented yet classic exchange of academic ideas. The hope is that, upon the project’s success in Singapore, academic ingenuity will spread naturally into the surrounding region.
“The goal is for only a small proportion of the students in the college to be Singaporeans. The idea is that they’re going to be drawn from China, India, Malaysia, Hong Kong, the whole area … then, they can circulate back out to their home societies, taking our model with them,” said Saussy. NUS’s long involvement in regionally-organized activities—which include educational collaborations, student mobility programs, and cultural exchanges—makes it the ideal hub for pioneering education in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations. And now, Yale has the opportunity to become a pioneer in the region as well. As a powerhouse of Western intellectualism, Yale is finally stepping outside of this role at an ideal time of rapid globalization and Eastern growth.
But the benefits of the partnership will not be projected immediately in rankings or statistics. It is a partnership rooted in ideas and collaborative influence, and the clearest proof of its success will lie with the first graduating class of the Yale-NUS College. Mahbubani encouraged Yale to maintain enthusiasm. “This is a 100-year, not a one-year or two-year project,” he said.
The Yale-NUS project is still in its nascent stages. In the coming months, the curriculum will be finalized and the faculty solidified. While some Singaporeans and members of the Yale community question the project’s purpose, Saussy stressed that “in a good exchange, both participants are changed by it. That change is the unknown, but it’s also the reward.” The Yale-NUS project has the highly sought-after power of changing post-secondary education. The extent of this power is still unknown, but through its use, new roads in education will undoubtedly be paved.
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Hunters prepare for spring turkey season
Spring wild turkey hunting opens in all 88 Ohio counties on April 18, according to the Ohio Department of Natural Resources, Division of Wildlife.
The season continues through May 15.
Hunters harvested 23,421 wild turkeys during last year's youth and spring turkey seasons, the second highest total ever, according to the ODNR.
Ohio's current wild turkey population is around 200,000. As many as 70,000 licensed hunters, not counting private landowners hunting on their own property, are expected to participate in Ohio’s spring wild turkey season.
Legal hunting hours are one-half hour before sunrise until noon from April 18 to May 1. Hunting hours from May 2-15 will be a half-hour before sunrise to sunset.
Hunters must have a hunting license and a spring turkey-hunting permit and can take one bearded turkey per day. A second spring turkey permit can be purchased allowing hunters to take a limit of two bearded wild turkeys.
Shotguns using shot, longbows and crossbows may be used to hunt turkeys.
A special youth-only turkey hunt for those with a valid youth hunting license and youth turkey permit will be held April 16-17. Young hunters must be accompanied by a nonhunting adult, 18 or older.
The young hunter’s turkey season is open statewide with the exception of Lake La Su An State Wildlife Area in Williams County. Legal hunting hours are a half-hour before sunrise to sunset each day during the two-day youth season.
Hunters must report their harvest of turkeys, but they are no longer required to take their turkey to a check station for inspection. The automated game check can be completed:
• Online at www.wildohio.com or www.ohiogamecheck.com
• By phone at 1-877-TAG-ITOH (1-877-824-4864). This option is only available to those required to purchase a turkey permit to hunt turkeys.
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Ash trees with dieback - credit University of Warwick
Chemical clues in leaves can reveal ash tree resistance to deadly disease
Naturally occurring compounds in ash leaves could be linked to susceptibility of individual trees to the fungal disease ash dieback (ADB), new research shows.
But selecting trees with lower levels of these compounds and breeding for resistance could leave the UK ash tree population open to attack from invading insect pests in the future, the study warns.
Secoiridoid glycosides are naturally occurring compounds found in plant leaves.
Researchers from the universities of Warwick and Exeter looked at the abundance and diversity of secoiridoid glycosides in the leaves of a panel of ash trees known to be resistant and samples from trees known to be susceptible to ADB from both Denmark and the UK.
Previous research had identified five compounds in the secoiridoid glycoside family that were enriched in susceptible Danish trees, but results published today in Nature Scientific Reports show UK ash tree leaves produced 27 different individually identifiable chemicals in the group.
In the paper, entitled "Diversity of secoiridoid glycosides in leaves of UK and Danish ash provide new insight for ash dieback management", researchers have identified particular secoiridoid glycoside compounds that could potentially be used as biomarkers for tolerance or susceptibly to ADB.
Lead author Dr John Sidda, from the School of Life Sciences at Warwick, said: “Ash dieback is an enormous problem for the UK, as ash makes up 5.5% of British woodlands.
"It is the third most abundant tree species in the UK, with numbers exceeding 100 million trees.
"Ash dieback could be devastating to the British landscape and it is estimated it could cost the UK economy up to £15 billion.
"Currently there is no treatment for the disease so it is vital we understand all the possible pathways to developing resistance.
“Our work shows that the small molecules in leaves could give a pretty reliable indication of a tree’s resistance as well as new insight into possible resistance mechanisms.
"Work is already underway to validate our results on a much larger panel of UK trees, and to identify other compounds that contribute to ash dieback resistance.”
Dr David Studholme, Associate Professor in Bioinformatics at the University of Exeter, said: “This work was made possible by partnership, combining Warwick’s expertise and cutting-edge facilities with Dr Christine Sambles’ unique expertise in computational analysis at the University of Exeter.
"It also demonstrates why it is important to understand the molecular mechanisms of disease resistance before embarking on a course action to address the disease."
If potential ADB tolerant ash could be identified via a rapid test, they could be selected for breeding to begin repopulating the UK countryside.
However, there may be another enemy on the horizon.
The Emerald Ash Borer (EAB) beetle is an insect pest of ash which has devastated the ash tree population in North America.
The pest is moving towards Europe and has already been identified in Russia and Ukraine.
At the current rate of spread it will reach central Europe in 15-20 years.
Dr Sidda said: “We know that secoiridoid glycosides play a number of roles in plants, and some of these compounds act as a defence mechanism against herbivorous insect pests.
"In selecting trees with lower levels of these compounds in order to help protect the ash population against ADB, we may run the risk of reducing the UK’s ash trees’ natural defence against the EAB.
“However, our results indicate that there may be higher concentrations of secoiridoid glycosides in UK ash compared to Danish ash, so UK trees might be better protected against future herbivore threats such as EAB.
"There is also much more structural diversity of secoiridoid glycosides in the UK and Danish trees than we first thought.
“Researching and understanding these chemical compounds further will help us plan for protecting the UK ash population over the next few decades.”
Professor Murray Grant, Elizabeth Creak Chair in Food Security at the University of Warwick and report co-author said: “These results are exciting as they reveal an unexpected diversity in this class of chemical compounds between ADB susceptible and tolerant UK trees, and also between Danish and UK ash. These may act as a potential reservoir of protective compounds that contribute to tree health.
“Our ongoing research is focussed on better understanding the biology of these compounds. We are grateful to funding from UKRI that allows us to expand this study to identify other chemical markers that discriminate tolerant and susceptible trees with the goal of developing a screen for ADB tolerant ash.”
The project was funded by BBSRC.
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Spanish legend Casillas says Apollo 11 moon landing didn’t happen
Spanish goalkeeping legend Iker Casillas has cast doubt on the Apollo 11 moon landing by US astronauts in 1969, saying he doesn’t believe the groundbreaking achievement was real.
Casillas, who captained Spain to the World Cup in 2010, conducted a Twitter poll offering social media users the chance to express their attitude to an event he views as a giant fake.
“Next year it will be (supposedly) 50 years after a man stepped on the moon. I'm at a dinner with friends ... arguing about it. I raise the question to the public! Do you think he stepped on [the moon]? I do not!” the former Real Madrid star wrote on Tuesday.
El año que viene se cumplen 50 años (supuestamente) que el hombre pisó la Luna. Estoy en una cena con amigos... discutiendo sobre ello. Elevo la tertulia a público! Creéis que se pisó? Yo no!— Iker Casillas (@IkerCasillas) July 23, 2018
According to the survey results, the majority of Casillas’s followers don’t share his point of view with 58 percent saying the landing really did happen in 1969.
US astronauts Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins took part in NASA’s ambitious expedition which made a scientific breakthrough in lunar exploration.
On July 21, 1969, Armstrong and Aldrin successfully landed Apollo 11 on the lunar surface becoming the first two persons to step onto the moon.
The moon landing is still surrounded by myths and legends, with skeptics insisting the historic event was staged, citing evidence such as the absence of stars in the pictures provided by NASA.
The famous video which shows the unfurled US flag flapping as if caught by the wind is also among the highly debated issues, as there cannot be wind on a body which doesn’t have an atmosphere. | <urn:uuid:378aa471-ce0d-482a-b585-1eed48e4de62> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.rt.com/sport/434214-casillas-moon-landing-fake/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570793.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808092125-20220808122125-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.908273 | 429 | 2.125 | 2 |
Background: the present study aimed to translate the cystic fibrosis questionnaire for adolescents and adults (CFQ-R 14+) into Persian, and assess its validity and reliability.
Methods: In total, 35 patients with cystic fibrosis (CF) completed the Persian version of CFQ-R 14+, and Forced Expiratory Volume in one second (FEV1) and body mass index (BMI) were measured. In addition, the Pediatric Quality of Life inventory (PedsQL) was completed by the subjects. The validity of the CFQ-R 14+ was assessed using the face validity, Content Validity Ratio (CVR), and Content Validity Index (CVI), along with concurrent and know-group validities for checking its construct validity. The scale’s reliability was also estimated by test-retest and Cronbach's alpha coefficients.
Results: After forward-backward translation, the values of the total CVR and CVI and their sub-items were higher than 0.8 and 0.49 respectively. Most of the scales had strong internal consistency (Cronbach's Alpha≥0.70), and the test-retest correlations were within the range of 0.72-0.95, considered significant for all the scales. Moreover, strong correlations were observed between the total CFQ-R and PedsQL 4.0 (r=0.9; P<0.001), as well as moderate-to-strong incomparable domains (r=0.4-0.8). A significant correlation was denoted between the total CFQ-R scale and FEV1 (r=0.42; P=0.01), while a reverse correlation was observed between the total CFQ-R scale and age group discrimination (r=-0.35; P=0.03).
Conclusion: According to the results, the Persian version of the CFQ-R 14+ is a reliable and valid instrument for measuring the health-related quality of life among Iranian adolescent and adult patients with CF. | <urn:uuid:02c0923d-0dc5-441e-81ff-367178940bd6> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://ijp.mums.ac.ir/article_19225.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570793.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808092125-20220808122125-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.953828 | 430 | 1.632813 | 2 |
AAHAR (Food) ‘Monthly Ration Suvidha’
There are a lot of people who struggle to make ends meet and are yet not able to afford a meal for their family we help such people survive and lead a respectful life. We help such senior citizens,physically handicapped, feeding mothers and the less fortunate by donating groceries and other items of need to help them sustain and live a respectable life.
Story of Neeta
It started in April 2018 when we got a call at random from a handicapped lady of 48 years named Neeta , she explained her situation that many NGO’s in the city give ration to only senior citizens and hence she was unable to get any help.
We started collecting Rs 100 from our friends &near by people and it summed up to be a good enough amount for her monthly ration.
It got us thinking and we figured there must be many like her who were not able to ask for help.
This made us start Monthly Ration Suvidha campaign called AAHAR (Food) wherein we collect a small amount of Rs.100/month from an individual which in turn helps us feed a family.
A lot of people have come forward and helped in this noble task by pledging to donate Rs.100/month, this small contribution has helped us make a big change to many families who were able to get nutrition just because of this noble gesture.
We provide monthly ration suvidha to needy citizens irrespective of their age or any other factors. | <urn:uuid:49469c56-910d-40fa-86a4-2c6a3815a0cc> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://yashsewasamiti.org/monthly-ration-suvidha/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571056.58/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809155137-20220809185137-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.977023 | 311 | 1.5 | 2 |
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